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We present during this event a handful of authors who appeared on our show, and who have expressed an interest in selling the international rights to their work.
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Social democratic parties struggle to appeal to a divided electorate. Particularly prescient is the clash between working-class voters thatare socially conservative and middle-class voters who are liberally inclined but economicallyleft. Are politics and policies that appeal to both even a possibility? Nowhere is thatdebate more acute than in European cities, yet in no other political space are answers more likely to be found.Where urban voters turn left, they are increasingly attracted by radical and green alternatives to social democracy.Social democracy and urban politicsdelves into the changing relationship between these three party families on the urban scene. Mapping electoral geography, governing strategies and the interface between parties and social movements on the left, the authors reflect upon the formation and dilemmas of a broader progressive alliance.
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Die Großen machen sich ständig über Nik lustig, weil er langsamer ist als die anderen. Eines Nachts träumt er davon, ein rasend schneller Luchs zu sein und es ihnen zu zeigen… Moment mal, war das gar kein Traum? Die Leselöwen für die zweite Klasse machen Kinder zu Leseprofis: Beliebte Erstlese-Themen für Mädchen und Jungen sorgen für Spannung und Spaß. Dank eines ausgewogenen Text-Bild-Verhältnisses und großer Fibelschrift können Kinder ab 7 Jahren den Inhalt spielend leicht erfassen. Durch die begleitenden Informationen und Erklärungen vertiefen sie darüber hinaus ihr Allgemeinwissen.
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Tilda findet sich widerwillig in der verrückten Welt der Reality-TV-Dating-Shows wieder, als sie ihrer Zwillingsschwester Maxime einen großen Gefallen tut. Maxime, die sich unerwartet in den charmanten Junggesellen Florian während ihrer Teilnahme an "The Dating Game" in Portugal verliebt hat, muss überraschend zurück nach Deutschland und überredet Tilda, in der Show ihre Rolle einzunehmen und Florian für sich zu gewinnen. Trotz ihrer anfänglichen Abneigung gegen das Vorhaben – und dem Fakt, dass sie ihr Jurastudium und den Job in einer Kneipe hat – lässt Tilda sich auf das Abenteuer ein, getrieben von der Enttäuschung über ihren Mitbewohner Nik, mit dem sie eine leidenschaftliche Nacht verbracht hat, der nun jedoch andere Frauen datet. Die Teilnahme an der Show entpuppt sich als ein Spießrutenlauf voller Täuschungen und Emotionen, vor allem, da Tilda ständig in Gefahr läuft, enttarnt zu werden – nicht zuletzt durch den aufmerksamen Kameramann Ben, der ihr Lügengerüst gefährlich ins Wanken bringt. Während sie versucht, Florian zu umgarnen, findet Tilda sich in einem Wirbel aus Gefühlen, Lügen und der bedrohlichen Nähe der ständigen Überwachung durch Kameras wieder. Die Herausforderung, sich als ihre Schwester auszugeben, führt sie nicht nur zu unerwarteten Einsichten über sich selbst und das, was sie wirklich vom Leben will, sondern stellt auch ihre Gefühle, ihre Werte und letztlich ihre Entscheidungen über Liebe und Loyalität auf die Probe. Turbulente emotionale Achterbahnfahrt, die Tilda vor die Herausforderung stellt, ihre Identität zu verbergen, während sie von Kameras umgeben ist und ständig Gefahr läuft, entlarvt zu werden. Tauche ein in die Welt des Reality-TV, wo Tilda nicht nur mit der Aufgabe kämpft, Florian für sich zu gewinnen, sondern auch mit ihren eigenen Gefühlen und der Enttäuschung über ihren Mitbewohner Nik konfrontiert wird. Geschichte voller Humor, Herz und der Suche nach der wahren Liebe, die zeigt, wie weit man für Geschwister und für die Chance auf Glück zu gehen bereit ist. Entdecke in diesem romantischen New-Adult-Liebesroman wie Tilda durch ihre Teilnahme an der Show wichtige Erkenntnisse über sich selbst, das Leben und die Liebe gewinnt, während sie versucht, das Lügengerüst vor dem kritischen Blick des Kameramanns Ben zu schützen.
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The moral problem of authority is the challenge of reconciling legitimate authority (the right to rule) with the demands of freedom and rationality. In this book, I argue that authority can have legitimacy, but when it does it generates a moral dilemma, where the obligation to obey comes at some cost to freedom and reason. Hence, not only do I depart from the views of those who insist that authority can never have legitimacy, but also those who maintain that insofar as authority is legitimate it simply satisfies the demands of freedom or rationality. My focus here will be on both what it is that justifies authority (in particular focusing on membership, and the goods of membership) as well what type of reason an authoritative directive is, how it can come into conflict with others reasons, and how those conflicts are resolved.
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Since the mid-2000s, the harsh reality of call centre employment for a generation of young workers in Portugal has been impossible to ignore. With its endless rows of small cubicles, where human agents endure repetitive telephone conversations with abusive clients under invasive modes of technological surveillance, discipline and control, call centre work remains a striking symbol of labour precarity, a condition particularly associated with the neoliberal generational disenchantment that 'each generation does better than its predecessor'. This book describes the emergence of a regime of disciplined agency in the Portuguese call centre sector. Examining the ascendancy of call centres as icons of precarity in contemporary Portugal, this book argues that call centre labour constitutes a new form of commodification of the labouring subject. De Matos argues that call centres represent an advanced system of non-manual labour power exploitation, due to the underestimation of human creativity that lies at the centre of the regimented structures of call centre labour. Call centres can only guarantee profit maintenance, de Matos argues, through the commodification of the human agency arising from the operators' moral, relational and social embedded agentive linguistic interventions of creative improvisation, decision-making, problem-solving and ethical evaluation.
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Local government in the UK is in crisis. It is now neither local in terms of the geography and populations of its principle units, nor does it truly govern in these areas. As this book reveals, over the previous 200 years local government has moved from a system in which local interests held governance over localities to one in which central government and national and multi-national agencies such as corporate businesses hold governance over local and community decision-making. These changes seriously undermine the important role that local government can play in liberal democracy in the UK. The book explains the nature of local government today and asks if there is any possibility of change.
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James VI of Scotland and I of England participated in the burgeoning literary culture of the Renaissance, not only as a monarch and patron, but as an author in his own right, publishing extensively in a number of different genres over four decades. As the first monograph devoted to James as an author, this book offers a fresh perspective on his reigns in Scotland and England, and also on the inter-relationship of authorship and authority, literature and politics in the Renaissance. Beginning with the poetry he wrote in Scotland in the 1580s, it moves through a wide range of his writings in other genres, including scriptural exegeses, political, social and theological treatises and printed speeches, concluding with his manuscript poetry of the early 1620s. The book combines extensive primary research into the preparation, material form and circulation of these varied writings, with theoretically informed consideration of the relationship between authors, texts and readers. The discussion thus explores James's responses to, and interventions in, a range of literary, political and religious debates, and reveals the development of his aims and concerns as an author. Rickard argues that, despite the King's best efforts to the contrary, his writings expose the tensions and contradictions between authorship and authority. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of the reign of James VI and I, the literary and political cultures of late sixteenth-century Scotland and early seventeenth-century England, the development of notions of authorship and the relationship between literature and politics. ;
