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The first in a series on Shakespeare's original texts, including facsimile pages, this version of "Hamlet" is claimed to be, in some ways, the most authentic version of the play that we have. Included are an introduction, notes, and a theoretical, historical and contextual critique. This text has been rejected by scholars as a "bad Quarto" - corrupt and pirated text printed without the permission of the playwright or his company. Nonetheless, it was the first version of the play to be published...

A collection of twenty short scenes from six Shakespeare plays: "Macbeth," "Much Ado About Nothing," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "King Lear," "As You Like It," and "The Taming of the Shrew." Each scene is preceded by a plot synopsis and descriptions of the characters.

A quirky exploration of Shakespeare and his plays, full of facts, figures and trivia to amuse, impress and entertain. If the mere mention of Shakespeare fills you with dread, evoking memories of arduous afternoons spent in stuffy classrooms with eccentric English teachers, it is time to reconsider that far from being three-hour marathons of unintelligible boring rubbish, Shakespeare's plays are in fact exciting, tragic, funny and often downright rude – full of memorable plots, great in...

Paul Wentges arbeitet die unternehmenstheoretischen Wurzeln des Shareholder-Value-Konzepts und des Stakeholder-Ansatzes im Hinblick auf die Corporate-Governance-Thematik heraus und leitet Handlungsempfehlungen fur die Konzipierung von Corporate-Governance-Systemen ab.

Brayton Polka takes both a textual and theoretical approach to seven plays of Shakespeare: Macbeth, Othello, Twelfth Night, All's Well That Ends Well, Julius Caesar, Troilus and Cressida, and Hamlet. He calls upon the Bible and the ideas of major European thinkers, above all, Kierkegaard and Spinoza, to argue that the concept of interpretation, underlying both Shakespeare's plays and our own lives, is the golden rule of the Bible: the command to love your neighbor as yourself.

Benedikt Kohler entwickelt Indikatoren der Transnationalisierung bzw. der "inneren Globalisierung", die anzeigen, in welchem Masse ein Konzern Strukturen, Operationen und Beschaftigung in auslandische Tochterfirmen verlagert. Er legt ausserdem dar, welche strategischen Optionen in Verbindung mit Globalisierungsprozessen wahrgenommen und gewahlt werden.

This study traces the history of the madrigal, chiefly in Italy but also in England and elsewhere in Northern Europe. Emphasizing the musical response of composers to the words of madrigal poetry, the book touches also on the literary background to the genre. The original version of "The Madrigal" was published in 1972, since when much detailed research has suggested new perspectives and insights. Madrigals are much more widely known, furthermore, in both scholarly and performing editions, and t...

Pablo Berger untersucht die generelle Auswirkung der Markteintrittsreihenfolge auf den unternehmerischen Erfolg. Der Autor pruft diesen Zusammenhang anhand einer breiten empirischen Basis aus marktlichen und experimentellen Daten.

Das funfte Buch des Lehrwerks "Betrieb und Steuer" verschafft einen systematischen Uberblick uber das schwer zugangliche Gebiet des Internationalen Steuerrechts. Nach einer einfuhrenden Gesamtdarstellung von Begriffen, Rechtsquellen, Grundtatsachen und Grundprinzipien sowie wichtigen fremdstaatlichen Steuersystemen werden die aussensteuerlichen Anknupfungstatbestande bei den einzelnen Steuerarten aufgezeigt, die wichtigsten Probleme und Ziele des deutschen Aussensteuerrechts vorgefuhrt und schli...