This book is a study of British official attitudes towards the Danubian countries (Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Yugoslavia) from Hitler’s rise to power in 1933 to the year 1941, a period that marked serious but fruitless British political and economic efforts to unite this unruly part of Europe against Nazi ascendancy. Set against an international backdrop of regional revanchist, revisionist and irredentist tendencies, particularly in Hungary and Bulgaria, the book explores how the...

The contributors to this volume, like many others concerned with medical education have for a long whilebeen conscious of the fact that in the training of medical students and in the practice of medicine too little attention is being paid to the psychological aspects of illness and to the use of psychotherapy in patient care. In an attempt to fill this gap medical students at University College Hospital, London, have since 1958 been given the opportunity on a voluntary basis to treat a pa ...

Do you think of your company's talent as an investment to be managed like a portfolio? You should, according to authors Becker, Huselid, and Beatty, if you're interested in strategy execution.Many companies fall into the trap of spending too much time and money on low performers, while high performers aren't getting the necessary resources, development opportunities, or rewards. In The Differentiated Workforce, the authors expand on their previous books, The HR Scoreca...

Creating Reality in Factual Television analyzes the uneasy interaction between economics, culture, and professional ethics in reality and documentary television storytelling. Through the "frankenbite," an editorial tool that extracts and re-orders the salient elements or single words of a statement, interview, or exchange into a revealing confession or argument, the book explores how and why editors manipulate truth in factual television.The author considers how the editin...

This book is a revised updated edition of the second edition which appeared 1974.The work described in this publication was initiated at the General Electric Company's Electronics Laboratory, Syracuse, N.Y., U.S.A. The author would like to take this opportunity to express his gratitude to the Electronics Laboratory for its support and encouragement in this work. Thanks are in particular due to Dr. J.J. Suran for his continued interest and help. It is impossible to acknowledge all the help ...

Evil and Givenness: The Thanatonic Phenomenon provides a phenomenological study of evil in its conceptual integrity.Describing a phenomenological situation exclusive to evil in its distinct mode of givenness and manners of manifestation, the account of evil in this book centers on the thanatonic as that phenomenality proper to evil. Although situated within a phenomenology of givenness via Jean-Luc Marion, the thanatonic is distinguished from saturated phenomena by giving itself in a paras...

Achieving a common purpose begins with diverse ideas and opinions. This book guides managers through a five-step process to transform productive controversy into unified action. Mastering these steps helps managers stay grounded and effective, even in turbulent times. Learn to handle difficult candidates, manage rivalry and hierarchy, and navigate chaotic discussions. The author introduces innovative concepts on hierarchy, authority, and leadership styles. The message of the book emphasize...

Author Armin W. Becker was just six years old when his kindergarten class witnessed the destruction of the Jewish synagogue in his hometown of Falkenburg, Germany, in 1938. At the time, he was too young to understand the motivations behind the act or grasp what the future might hold for his family, his town, and his country. In A Lucky Survivor from a Lost Land, Becker recounts his life storyhis birth in Germany in a town just forty-five miles from the Polish border, his experience of the ...

Besides the mortality rate the value of an operative procedure is measured against the incidence and the degree of undesirable postoperative sequelae. In the surgical treatment of gastroduo denal ulcerations vagotomy is now competing with the success fully established resection therapy. Since this latter method has been further developed during the last years and late results are rare, a comparison between both types of operation is difficult. Meritoriously, the authors have tried to perfo...

Do you think of your company's talent as an investment to be managed like a portfolio? You should, according to authors Becker, Huselid, and Beatty, if you're interested in strategy execution.Many companies fall into the trap of spending too much time and money on low performers, while high performers aren't getting the necessary resources, development opportunities, or rewards. In The Differentiated Workforce, the authors expand on their previous books,

When a painting of Mount Ranier is purchased by young and attractive Erika Stevens, St. Louis police discover a coded message intended for a global gang of thieves and assassins. Police detective Marc Edwards finds himself enmeshed in the gangs illegal activities covering all of Europe and North America. Protecting Erika from certain murder, and attempting to question her at the same time, the two of them fall in love. Called to London and hired by Scotland Yard, the duo work with Interpol...

When Army Bombardier Capt. Robert Marsden crashes his B-17 in France during World War II, he doubts hell survive.The Nazis have already occupied the country, but good fortune smiles on him: Lisa Jardin, an attractive nursing student, brings him back to health. At first, he wonders if shes real or if shes a figment of his imagination.Not only is she real the two fall in love. Marsden joins the French Resistance in the little village of St. Liseau, carrying out sabotage missi...