Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1 Introduction; Changes in the meaning of risk; Contemporary concepts of risk; Risk anxieties and late modernity; The aim of this book; 2 Theorizing risk; The technico-scientific perspective; Cognitive psychology; Sociocultural perspectives; Social constructionist positions; Concluding comments; 3 Risk and culture; The importance of culture; Purity, danger and the body; Risk and blame; The grid-group model; Concluding comments; 4 Risk and reflexive modernization; Beck and the 'risk society'; Reflexive modernization; Individualization; World risk society and cosmopolitanism Giddens' perspectives on risk; Risk and trust; Concluding comments; 5 Risk and governmentality; Governmentality; From dangerousness to risk; Contemporary risk strategies; Precautionary risk and the crisis of neo-liberalism; Concluding comments; 6 Risk and subjectivity; Risk knowledges and reflexivity; Social structures and power relations; Aesthetic, affective and habitual dimensions; Concluding comments; 7 Risk and Otherness; Conceptualizing Otherness; Embodiment and Otherness; Hybridity and liminality; The psychodynamics of Otherness; Spatiality and Otherness Concluding comments; 8 Risk and pleasure; Escape attempts; Edgework; Risk-taking as gendered performances; Desire and transgression; Concluding comments…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Austin -- Wagner, poetry and music / Théodore de Banville -- An American at Mallarmé's salons, 1889-92 / The evolution of literature (1891) [Interview with Jules Huret] / Stéphane Mallarmé -- Impressionism and after / Paul Gauguin -- Suggestive ert / Odilon Redon -- Decadence and Neo-traditionalism / Maurice Denis -- Notes on Debussy's conversations with Ernst Guiraud, 1890 / Maurice Emmanuel -- Letters to Ernest Chausson / Claude Debussy -- The "First stage" of the fau / Raymond Bonheur -- The first performance of the Faun / Gustave Doret -- Letter to Debussy, December 23, 1894 / Pierre Louÿs -- The circle is now complete, 1913 / Francisc Grierson -- Seeking the exceptional / Alfred Bruneau -- A style of his own, 1895 / Gustave Robert -- Letter to Maurice Emmanuel / Camile Saint-Saëns -- Reviews of Debussy's music / Paul Dukas -- A Jewel among masterpieces / Ernst Decsey -- Modern music begins / Pierre Boulez -- An experiment crowned with success, 1962 / Jean Barraqué -- Bibliography…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Preliminary Material / Royal Courts In Dynastic States And Empires / Pride, Pomp And Circumstance: Palace, Court And Household In Assyria 879–612 BCE / Hellenistic Court Society: The Seleukid Imperial Court Under Antiochos The Great, 223–187 BCE / The Roman Imperial Court: Seen And Unseen In The Performance Of Power / Court And State In The Roman Empire—Domestication And Tradition In Comparative Perspective / Court And Capital In Byzantium / A King On The Move: The Place Of An Itinerant Court In Charlemagne’s Government / Court Historiography In Early Tang China: Assigning A Place To History And Historians At The Palace / To Be A Prince In The Fourth/Tenth-Century Abbasid Court / Ceremonies And The City: The Court In Fourteenth-Century Constantinople / The Pope’s Household And Court In The Early Modern Age / The Monarch And Inner-Outer Court Dualism In Late Imperial China / Turks in the Ottoman Imperial Palace / The Mughal Audience Hall: A Solomonic Revival Of Persepolis In The Form Of A Mosque / Royal Weddings And The Grand Vezirate: Institutional And Symbolic Change In The Early Eighteenth Century / Versailles, Vienna And Beyond: Changing Views Of Household And Government In Early Modern Europe / Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Institutions and economic performance: Ghana's experience under the Fourth Republic, 1992-2002 / Nicholas Amponsah -- Chapter 6. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments / Table Of Contents -- Introduction: Imagining Human Rights / The Sacredness of the Person or The Last Utopia: A Conversation about the History of Human Rights / Section One: Claiming Human Rights -- The Progressive Potential of Human Rights / The More Who Die, the Less We Care Psychic Numbing and Genocide / On Invoking Human Rights When There Aren't Any / The Cosmopolitics of Parrhesia: Foucault and Truth-Telling as Human Right / Imagining Threatened Peoples: The Society for Threatened Peoples (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker) in 1970s West Germany / Neoliberal Charity: German Contraband Humanitarians in Kenya / Section Two: Human Rights In Imagination -- Poetic Anarchy and Human Rights: Dissensus in Georg Büchner's Danton's Death and Peter Weiss's Marat/Sade / The Aesthetics of Human Rights in Franz Werfel's The Forty Days of Musa Dagh / The Right To Tell That It Hurt: Fiction and Political Performance of Human Rights in South Africa / Embodiment and Immigrant Rights in Alejandro González Iñárritu's Biutiful -- Why Them and Not I? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: the cinema papers -- La Haine: Banlieue and police -- Paris is burning: gender, sexuality, and race's performativity -- Coriolanus: state of exception -- World War Z: the zombie is a human you have the right to kill -- The act of killing: what constitutes the act of killing? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Reading through Deafness: Francis Galton and the Strange Science of Psychophysics -- 6. Performing Phonographic Physiology -- 7. "So Extraordinary a Bond": Mesmerism and Sympathetic Identification in Charles Adams's Notting Hill Mystery -- 8. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Baroque Tragedies and Ambiguities Concerning Dominium and Torture / Grotius among the Dagonists: Joost van den Vondel’s Samson, of Heilige Wraeck, Revenge and the Ius Gentium / Performing the Medieval Past: Vondel’s Gysbreght van Aemstel (1637) / Political Martyrdom at the English College in Rome / Historical Tragedy and the End of Christian Humanism: Nicolaus Vernulaeus (1583–1649) / The Baroque Tragedy of the Roman Jesuits: Flavia and Beyond / Mortal Knowledge: Akrasia in English Renaissance Tragedy / A fabulis ad veritatem: Latin Tragedy, Truth and Education in Early Modern England / The Political Theater and Theatrical Politics of Andrea Giacinto Cicognini: Il Don Gastone di Moncada (1641) / French Tragedy during the Seventeenth Century: From Cruelty on a Scaffold to Poetic Distance on Stage / German Trauerspiel and Its International Nexus: On the Migration of Poetic Forms / The Politics of Mobility: Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, Jan Vos’s Aran en Titus and the Poetics of Empire / French Classicism in Jesuit Theater Poetics of the Eighteenth Century / Scenario of Terror: Royal Violence and the Origins of Russian Tragic Drama / Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Management Practices and Performance Improvement in Manufacturing Enterprises: The Case of Kaizen Adoption in Ghana -- 13. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Markets, Discipline, Students: Governing Student Conduct and Performance in the University -- 10. 'Selling the dream': Law School Branding and the Illusion of Choice -- 11. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Elicitation of Knowledge -- Essentials of Computer-Based Diagnostics of Learning and Cognition -- A Functional View Toward Mental Representations -- Mental Representations and Their Analysis: An Epistemological Perspective -- Multi-decision Approaches for Eliciting Knowledge Structure -- The Problem of Knowledge Elicitation from the Expert’s Point of View -- Aggregation and Classification of Knowledge -- Automated Knowledge Visualization and Assessment -- Deriving Individual and Group Knowledge Structure from Network Diagrams and from Essays -- A Self-Organising Systems Approach to History-Enriched Digital Objects -- Performance Categories: Task-Diagnostic Techniques and Interfaces -- Comaprison and Empirical Testing Strategies -- Graphs and Networks -- Abductive Reasoning and Similarity: Some Computational Tools -- Scope of Graphical Indices in Educational Diagnostics -- Complete Structure Comparison -- Application of Obtained Results -- Computer-Based Feedback for Computer-Based Collaborative Problem Solving -- Modeling, Assessing, and Supporting Key Competencies Within Game Environments -- A Methodology for Assessing Elicitation of Knowledge in Complex Domains: Identifying Conceptual Representations of Ill-Structured Problems in Medical Diagnosis -- Selection of Team Interventions Based on Mental Model Sharedness Levels Measured by the Team Assessment and Diagnostic Instrument (TADI)…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 15 - Managing Cultural Diversity at WorkChapter 16 - Performance Review; Chapter 17 - Quality Management Systems; Chapter 18 - Quality Management System for Pharmacy Practice; Chapter 19 - Audits and Reviews; Chapter 20 - Dispensing Errors and Near Misses; Chapter 21 - Patient Complaints; Appendix A: Policy Manual; Appendix B: Sample Products and Services Department; Appendix C: Sample Procedures Manual; Appendix D: Dispensing Procedure; Appendix E: Standard Operating Procedures; Back Cover…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 5: Minimizing Risk When Moving to Azure Cloud ServicesChapter 6: Authenticating and Authorizing Service Users; Chapter 7: Optimizing the Scalability and Performance of Azure Tables; Chapter 8: Messaging with Azure Queues; Part III: Tackling Advanced Azure Services Techniques; Chapter 9: Authenticating Users with .NET Access Control Services; Chapter 10: Interconnecting Services with the .NET Service Bus; Chapter 11: Exploring .NET Service Bus Queues and Routers; Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…THE ROLE OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING; 1. Improving the performance of education; 2. Changes in educational attainment; 3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Foreword; Table of Contents; Part I - Looking Ahead; Chapter I - Financing development; List of Charts; List of Tables; List of Boxes; Chapter II - The Challenge of Policy Coherence; Part II - Reviewing Donor Efforts; Chapter III - The Supply of Aid: A Thirty-Year Retrospective; Chapter IV - Policies and Efforts of Individual DAC Members and Other OECD Member Countries; Part III - Implementing the 21st Century Strategy; Chapter V - Partnership and Co-ordination; Chapter VI - Assessing Aid Effectiveness and Performance: An Overview of Approaches; Annex: Current DAC Work…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Public-private partnerships -- Internal audit -- Introduction -- Reader's guide -- Accounting -- Reporting -- Executive summary -- Women in general government -- Preface -- Contextual factors -- Composite indexes budget practices -- Foreword -- Public sector employment -- Methodology and additional notes on compensation of government employees -- Special feature: Fiscal revenues from non-renewable natural resources in Latin America -- General government balance and debt -- Special feature: Sustainable public procurement -- E-procurement -- Anti-corruption measures in public procurement -- Government investment spending -- Revenues and expenditures structure by level of government -- Fiscal rules -- Compensation of secretarial staff in central government -- Compensation of professionals in central government -- Compensation of middle managers -- Compensation of senior managers -- Glossary -- Women in politics -- Earmarked funds -- Legislative capacity to ensure transparency in the budget process -- Budget transparency -- Performance budgeting -- Executive budget flexibility -- Efficiency of tax administration -- General government tax revenues -- Medium-term expenditure framework…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Assessing International Strategies; PUTTING EUROPE TO WORK; IMPLEMENTING THE OECD JOBS STRATEGY: ASSESSING PERFORMANCE AND POLICY; A COMMENT; Part 3. Experiences in selected countries; NEITHER TOO HOT NOT TOO COLD: THE U.S. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- OECD Environmental Performance Reviews -- OECD work on Individual Travel Behaviour -- Australian experience -- Public information campaigns in the Netherlands -- Economic instruments -- Ecolabelling -- 5. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Table of contents; Basic statistics of Ukraine; Executive summary; Chapter 1. Macroeconomic performance and policy: the challenge of sustaining growth; An impressive recovery, but uncertain prospects; The contribution of macroeconomic policies to growth; Moving to an investment-led growth path; Notes; Bibliography; Annex 1.A1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…REGULATORY GOVERNANCE CHALLENGES FACING SEE COUNTRIES -- 1.4. CURRENT PERFORMANCE OF REGULATORY POLICIES AND GOVERNANCE -- 1.5. …”