An unswervingly loyal, highly disciplined militant force is as essential to the establishment and maintenance of a dictatorship as the dictator himself. Many factors contributed to the emergence of the Third Reich, and prominent among them were the actions of Hitler’s earliest paramilitary force, the Sturmabteilungen (SA, Storm Troops), and the men chosen by the Führer to lead it. Although Hitler ultimately culled the SA of its most revolutionary elements, there remained within it and the ...

Two hundred scores lie on the desk. The calendar holds twelve nights. That, at its core, is the whole story – everything else is negotiation.An opera house can put every production on stage immaculately – on time, on budget, to a standing ovation – and still fail, because it staged the wrong operas. Companies and public bodies manage exactly the same feat: every project on the dashboard glows green, and year after year the organisation counts for less. What decides success is not h...

What if the shortest path is a double curve?This book celebrates the productive side-glance: the quiet resistance of the everyday, the cheerful reordering of things, and the "aha" moment waiting just around the next bend. Instead of grand theories, these stories offer small shifts in perspective that open new doors—focusing on attitude rather than recipes, on awareness rather than alarm.It is a collection where order and chance find a way to cooperate. Every...

Have you ever noticed how trains run more smoothly the moment onboard bistro runs out of coffee? Or how your carbon footprint suddenly goes feral—just because you dared to check a suitcase?In Double Curve (Volume 2), Andreas Schulz takes you on a tour through the absurdities of modern mobility. Meet a train driver who sacrifices the timetable for a cigarette—and accidentally becomes a hero. Join a couple on a cruise that goes slightly differently than advertised… a...

Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Pedagogy - Higher Education, grade: 2, University of Vienna (Soziologie), course: Class Relations in the Global Digital Economy, language: English, abstract: The following paper shall examine the processes of commodification in the German speaking academic context and illustrate the “state of the art” of research of the commodification of academic labor on several dimensions: (i) by university research institutions and (ii) by student organiz...