Peter Lang Ag Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften imprint: 959 books
WTO Dispute Settlement: a Check-up
Time to Take Stock
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
The dispute settlement system of the World Trade Organisation has been referred to as the jewel in the crown of the WTO. Reviewing more than
twenty years of the system’s operation, this volume takes stock by providing an in-depth analysis of key issues that have emerged. The book collects and updates...
The Strength of Culture for Development
Why Culture Matters in International Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
On the global scale, the challenges surrounding development are massive and complex, as inequalities in living conditions between the richest and poorest countries become greater. Development is a global challenge on a par with the financial crisis and environmental concerns. The participation of...
Network Neutrality
Switzerlands role in the genesis of the Telegraph Union, 18551875
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
This book uses new sources to indepth the early history of the Telegraph Union (today the International Telecommunication Union) and focuses on the key role – political, diplomatic, economic and technical – Switzerland played in promoting its birth and managing its structures during the ten years...
Winning Through Boundaries Innovation
Communities of Boundaries Generate Convergence
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
At present, many companies consider «knowledge» the most important element and the benchmark for maintaining an enduring competitive advantage. The process of strategically acquiring both new boundaries knowledge and convergence knowledge to generate boundaries innovation becomes an important element...
How Pilots Live
An Examination of the Lifestyle of Commercial Pilots
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
This book paints a detailed picture of the commercial pilot lifestyle, from the struggle to pay for training to time spent down route to thoughts of retirement. Once a glamorous occupation, commercial flying is today more of a job than a vocation with many pilots working the maximum permissible hours...
Le DRH innovateur
Management des ressources humaines et dynamiques dinnovation
Language: French
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Concepteurs et gestionnaires créatifs de la fonction RH, les managers RH peuvent, en interaction avec d’autres acteurs, jouer un rôle essentiel dans les innovations économiques, en agissant sur la production des idées et en instaurant une culture de l’innovation, que ce soit dans le cadre...
Developing Intra-regional Exchanges through the Abolition of Commercial and Tariff Barriers / Labolition des barrières commerciales et tarifaires dans la région de lOcéan indien
Myth or Reality? / Mythe ou réalité ?
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
This book is related to the development of intraregional commercial exchanges in the region of the Indian Ocean. This issue is addressed from an economic as well as from a legal point of view. The contributions, in English and French, aim to present an overview of the economic, customs-related, technical,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Despite being one of the main pillars of the insurance industry, reinsurance is little known by the general public and is rarely the focus of academic study. In this book, the authors – economic historians and experts in the field from across Europe and Japan – seek to address this by shedding...
Translating German Novellas into English
A Comparative Study
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Translation of fiction is always interpretation. This book discusses the challenges facing translators of fictional works from German into English using as examples English translations of canonical German novellas by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Theodor Storm, Gerhart Hauptmann, Thomas Mann and Franz...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Les sites de production de pétrole ne correspondant pas la plupart du temps aux lieux de consommation, le pétrole fut dès l’origine un produit transporté sur de longues distances, soit par voie maritime, soit par oléoducs.
Parce que les routes du pétrole (et de plus en plus souvent du gaz)...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Initiative inédite, motivée par l’expression des attentes et besoins concrets des doctorants, cet ouvrage s’est fixé comme objectif de donner aux doctorants en sciences humaines et sociales de fin de 1ère année (et au-delà), un ensemble construit d’outils transversaux, théoriques, méthodologiques...
The Balotelli Generation
Issues of Inclusion and Belonging in Italian Football and Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Sports governing bodies, governments and European institutions highlight the inclusive power of sport and its capacity to foster a sense of belonging among youth of immigrant background. At the same time, sport at youth and grassroots level can be as much an exclusionary as an inclusive experience....
Loneliness and Solitude in Education
How to Value Individuality and Create an Enstatic School
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Analysing loneliness and solitude in schools and exploring how to deal with them is a vital task. In recent research for the author’s Spirit of the School project, a number of pupils, teachers and headteachers described times when they felt lonely and times when they felt the need for healthy solitude....
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Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
This volume brings together a number of corpus-based studies dealing with language varieties. These contributions focus on contemporary lines of research interests, and include language teaching and learning, translation, domain-specific grammatical and textual phenomena, linguistic variation and...