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Die moderne Ökonomik sieht sich als eine wertfreie Wissenschaft, die sich vor allem mit der Entwicklung von Märkten beschäftigt. Dieses Selbstverständnis reicht bis in die praktische Philosophie der Antike zurück. So standen zu Beginn der ökonomischen Reflexion in Antike und Mittelalter normative Fragen des richtigen Verhaltens im Vordergrund. Erst mit der Aufklärung löst sich die Ökonomie als eigenständige Wissenschaft allmählich von ihren philosophischen Wurzeln, entwickelt eigene Fragestellungen und entsprechende wissenschaftliche Methoden. Der vorliegende Band spürt den philosophischen Wurzeln des ökonomischen Denkens nach. Anhand ausgewählter Autoren und zentraler Theorieentwürfe zeigt er die historischen Veränderungen der gesellschaftlichen Bedeutung wirtschaftlicher Fragestellungen auf und zeichnet die theoriegeschichtliche Genese der Ökonomie als eigenständige Wissenschaft nach.

Der Band vermittelt die juristischen Grundkenntnisse, die beim Ein- und Verkauf von Rechten zur Vermarktung von Verlagsprodukten erforderlich sind. Ziel ist der kompetente Umgang mit Verlagsvertragen aller Art. Schwerpunkte bilden das klassische Urheber- und Verlagsrecht auf Basis des neuen Urhebervertragsrechts, die Rolle der Verwertungsgesellschaften, Fragen der Nebenrechte und ihrer Verwertung sowie Fragen des Honorars.

The Internet has become mobile: the iPhone and the iPad have set off a wave of new developments, with eBooks, eJournals, and apps spearheading a new mass market. This volume contains practical instructions for the design and realization of products for the mobile publishing market. Starting from an analysis of how the market has developed, the authors use case examples to present the step-by-step course of product development. The presentation begins with a discussion of target group analysis and a consideration of suitable carrier media and product forms, and continues through marketing, a description of existing technologies, and a discussion of possible business models.

Das Buch bietet eine neuartige Erklarung des biographischen Selbstverstandnisses, die bei den psychischen Grundlagen ansetzt. Personen schreiben sich u.a. Personlichkeitsmerkmale zu, indem sie sich ihre Lebensgeschichte vor Augen fuhren - und diese interpretieren. Individuelle Vorstellungen, soziale Normen und Erwartungen beeinflussen die Konstruktion von Geschichten, uber die Personen definieren, wer sie sind oder sein wollen. Was aber genau heit es, ein biographisches Selbstverstandnis zu haben? Um diese Frage zu beantworten, wahlt die Autorin einen integrativen Ansatz, der mentale Eigenschaften und Fahigkeiten von Personen in den Blick nimmt und hinsichtlich ihrer Funktion fur das biographische Selbstverstandnis analysiert. Im Zentrum der Untersuchung steht daher ein multidimensionaler Begriff des Selbstbewusstseins, der verschiedene Formen und Ebenen von Selbstbezugnahmen unterscheidet. In den Fokus genommen werden bestimmte Strukturmerkmale wie etwa Zeitbewusstsein, zeitubergreifende Einheit sowie das Gefuhl der Urheberschaft von Handlungen.

Wittgenstein's thought is reflected in his reading and reception of other authors. Wittgenstein Reading approaches the moment of literature as a vehicle of self-reflection for Wittgenstein. What sounds, on the surface, like criticism (e.g. of Shakespeare) can equally be understood as a simple registration of Wittgenstein's own reaction, hence a piece of self-diagnosis or self-analysis. The book brings a representative sample of authors, from Shakespeare, Goethe, or Dostoyevsky to some that have received far less attention in Wittgenstein scholarship like Kleist, Lessing,or Wilhelm Busch and Johann Nepomuk Nestroy. Furthermore, the volume offersmeans for the cultural contextualization of Wittgenstein's thoughts. Unique to this book is its internal design. The editors' introduction sets the scene with regards to both biography and theory, while each of the subsequent chapters takes a quotation from Wittgenstein on a particular author as its point of departure for developing a more specific theme relating to the writer in question. This format serves to avoid the well-trodden paths of discussions on the relationship between philosophy and literature, allowing for unconventional observations to be made. Furthermore, the volume offersmeans for the cultural contextualization of Wittgenstein's thoughts.

Following the pattern of the first volume, the second volume of Libraries in the early 21st century: An international perspective extends the range of countries covered. Each chapter covers a different country and describes the modern history, development of libraries and library technology. The careful selection of countries achieves good representation of professional library work on all continents.This two-volume work represents an excellent contribution to international librarianship and allows comparative studies both at graduate and professional level.

The scope of this volume will encompass a collection of research papers related to indexing and retrieval of online non-text information. In recent years, the Internet has seen an exponential increase in the number of documents placed online that are not in textual format. These documents appear in a variety of contexts, such as user-generated content sharing websites, social networking websites etc. and formats, includingphotographs, videos, recorded music, data visualizations etc. The prevalence of these contexts and data formats presents a particularly challenging task to information indexing and retrieval research due to many difficulties, such as assigning suitable semantic metadata, processing and extracting non-textual content automatically, and designing retrieval systems that "speak in the native language" of non-text documents.

The Romanistische Arbeitshefte (Romance Studies Workbooks), edited by Georgia Veldre-Gerner and Volker Noll since 2004, have been constant and reliable companions for studentsof Romance Studies for over forty years. In their conception, they are designed as a reflection of the present state of research with an orientation towards application andthespecificneeds and difficulties of students. Thus they provide a reliable instrument for getting to grips with various areas of Romance linguistic studies and encourage students to utilise their newly-acquired knowledge with integrated exercises.

This book questions our beliefs in the role of the information profession and tells us how to become information workers of the future by providing advice on overcoming the challenges facing the library profession. It develops the idea of the knowledge culture and knowledge work and goes on to expand how information needs to be shared and not hoarded as in the traditional role of libraries as keepers of knowledge. This second edition provides a clear and very accessible practical framework for knowledge work.

This unique volume gives a truly international overview over the modern history and development of libraries and library technology in selected countries of the world. The careful selection of countries achieves good representation of library work on all continents, covering examples of both the developed and the developing world. A further volume with further national profiles is planned for 2012. This multivolume work represents an excellent contribution to international librarianship and allows comparative studies both at graduate and professional level. Many of the contributors are well-known authors; closely involved in the work of IFLA or their own national library associations.

This book is a must for librarians with international interest in access to knowledge. It includes a collection of 15 chapters written by authors from all over the world and covers different approaches to the vital role of libraries driving access to knowledge. There are chapters that offer solutions and ideas to enable libraries to become the knowledge engine in society. Other chapters discuss the conceptual part of the subject and related services. The book was compiled as part of the presidential theme of Ellen Tise, IFLA President 2009-2011, with the aim of offering the reader a good portrait of the opportunities and challenges that libraries have in driving access to knowledge.ess to knowledge.