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For many of us, connecting with people across the world is now easy and commonplace. But coming into contact with different ways of doing things means losing our superpower of giving meaning to what is happening around us, interacting skilfully and building rapport.In the first part of this book, Sierk Horn shows how intercultural interactions set in motion psychological processes. The second part deals with the behavioural determinants of intercultural communication. The third part examines our social environment and how we deal with cultural differences. The book wants to make you curious about intercultural leadership. It invites you to explore humanistic perspectives in everyday communication. A wealth of exercises will accompany you on your learning journey.

How do humans interact with their environments? How do their actions influence biodiversity loss, climate change and pollution? And how do differently situated people respond to these transformations in specific ways?This book serves as an introduction to the research and practice of environmental anthropology. It presents current concepts and debates, and highlights key social-ecological issues. Readers will learn about the origins of the field, and about recent approaches to landscapes, infrastructures, Anthropocenes and ontologies. They can delve into environmental-anthropological research on water, plants, animals and human bodies, and are invited to explore issues around climate change, disasters, extractivism, conservation and environmentalism.

Whatever kind of high-level language user you are ¿ university student, serving language teacher, or advanced school learner ¿ A Student¿s Advanced Grammar of English (SAGE) offers you support, information, and further training. SAGE is a reference work as well as a programmed refresher course with exercises on the accompanying website, and a structured teaching aid. It serves as a spot-check in specific cases of uncertainty. But it also answers broader queries and provides comprehensive insights into the major structural areas of English. Its concern is not simply grammar, but above all usage.SAGE is easy to comprehend and non-specialist in method. All grammatical terminology is explained in a simple and straightforward manner. On the other hand, SAGE takes account of current research in language studies. In catering especially for the user with a native German background, SAGE treats many areas of English from a contrastive point of view, highlighting those phenomena which cause typical problems in a German-based learning context.The second edition has been thoroughly revised.

Dieses Werk hat die Welt verändert. Der im abendländischen Rechtsdenken selbstverständlich gewordene Grundsatz der Gewaltenteilung ist in erster Linie auf dieses Werk zurückzuführen. Montesquieu stellt in diesem Buch die drei Staatsformen Demokratie,Monarchie und Despotie in ihrer jeweiligen Abhängigkeit von den natürlichen und gesellschaftlichen Bedingungen dar.

The term ¿storytelling¿ is gaining prominence both in academia and industry ¿ rightly so ¿ because narrative techniques allow for particularly effective and sustainable communication. Stories are what catch our attention, move us, teach us to empathise, and create strong memories. This introduction to the strategies of storytelling uses fundamental scientific texts as well as dramaturgical guides and practical examples. Dr. Joachim Friedmann, professor and writer of scripts for tv, comics, and games, presents a both theoretically-sound and practically-applicable guide for the analysis and design of narratives in various media, not only for students, but for everyone who wants to understand how stories are created.

Diese praxisorientierte Einführung in die Englische Sprachwissenschaft besticht durch leicht verständliche Erklärungen, zahlreiche Beispiele, Abbildungen und Übungen mit Lösungen. Dadurch eignet sie sich hervorragend als Grundlage für Einführungskurse sowie zu Selbststudium und Prüfungsvorbereitung. Für die fünfte Auflage wurden der Text, die Aufgaben und die Literaturhinweise überarbeitet und aktualisiert.- Abbildungen und Grafiken veranschaulichen den Lernstoff.- Prüfungsfragen mit Lösungen fördern das Verständnis.- Ideal für die Prüfungsvorbereitung im Haupt- und Nebenfach.

This collection of pivotal issues about syntactic analysis bridges the gap between two extremes: Quirk et al.¿s classic, yet voluminous standard grammar (CGEL) and slim booklets with sample solutions. Written for students and teachers alike, this textbook introduces basic concepts, deepens preexisting knowledge, prepares students for various exam contexts and provides hands-on teaching material. Each chapter offers theoretical explanations, which are immediately illustrated by numerous complete sample analyses of sentences taken both from the CGEL as well as from more recent British and American news articles. The final part of this textbook offers a comprehensive practice section for selfstudy using sentences which are divided into three levels of difficulty and come with model solutions.

Following the tradition of the St. Gallen management models, this textbook explores management as a function and as an activity. It covers the key concepts of management, decision theory, strategy, leadership, organization and governance. It focuses on the central fields of tension in management and includes various illustrative models.

Comprehensive, competent, and up to date, this textbook dealing with the fundamentals of functional business valuation presents the prevailing doctrine in the theoretically well-founded German-language literature. The book critically assesses the suitability of all important valuation methods and assigns them to the relevant function of business valuation. Breaking down business valuation into three stages is a major step toward improving the transparency of the process. The steps introduced in this book are 1. Determination of relevant data acquisition, 2. Transformation of elevant data in a value, 3. Use of the determined value. A key aspect of this textbook is its analysis of the valuation process from the perspective of both buyer and seller. Ultimately, the book will present readers with the key principles of functional business valuation, which if it had been applied more widely, the authors argue, could have mitigated the severity of at least some recent financial crises.

An introduction to academic skills which leaves nothing to be desired - designed for students of English and American Studies, this companion will guide you through research, presentation, quoting and style, as well as the composition of essays and term papers. Acquiring these competences will not only equip you for the expectations of university studies but will also enhance your communication skills and promote your ability to think critically and independently.The book is rounded off by strategies for exam preparation and plenty of practice exercises complete with solutions.

How does academic writing work in English linguistics and in English literary and cultural studies? This book serves as a student guide to the conventions of writing in these disciplines. It introduces how linguistic and literary and cultural researchers think and write in their fields. Vivid examples and quotations from student papers show elegant solutions for approaching structure and formulation in academic writing. In this way, this volume makes the composition of university papers more accessible.

Success in science depends nowadays on effective communication in English. This workbook is specifically designed to give under- and post-graduates confidence in writing scientific English. Examples and exercises show how to avoid common errors and how to rephrase and improve scientific texts. The generation of a model manuscript enables the reader to recognise how scientific English is constructed and how to follow the conventions of scientific writing. Guidelines for structuring written work and vocabulary lists should encourage young scientists to develop a concise and mature style.The workbook is accessible to students of many fields, including those of the natural and technical sciences, medicine, psychology and economics.The third edition contains several new exercises and manuscripts and contains summaries of the most common corrections that students of scientific writing need to make. An on-line resource of short scientific presentations accompanies the book.

Reading and discussing literature is a central topic for advanced learners of English in schools. This book offers future English teachers a comprehensive introduction to this area. It is easy to read and the author explains all the scientific terms you need to know in order to pass an exam on teaching English literature. Thought provoking questions, a wealth of extracts from literary sources and illustrative diagrams ensure that the essential contents can be quickly learned and easily remembered.