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The Whig Party: The History and Legacy of the Influential Political Party in 19th Century America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 85min
When President Thomas Jefferson went ahead with the Louisiana Purchase, he wasn’t entirely sure what was on the land he was buying, or whether the purchase was even constitutional. Ultimately, the Louisiana Purchase encompassed all or part of 15 current U.S. states and two Canadian provinces, including Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, parts of Minnesota that were west of the Mississippi River, most of North Dakota, nearly all of South Dakota, northeastern New Mexico, northern Texas, the portions of Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado east of the Continental Divide, and Louisiana west of the Mississippi River, including the city of New Orleans. In addition, the Purchase contained small portions of land that would eventually become part of the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. The purchase, which immediately doubled the size of the United States at the time, still comprises around 23 percent of current American territory. With so much new territory to carve into states, the balance of Congressional power became a hot topic in the decade after the purchase, especially when the people of Missouri sought to be admitted to the Union in 1819 with slavery being legal in the new state. While Congress was dealing with that, Alabama was admitted in December 1819, creating an equal number of free states and slave states. Thus, allowing Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state would disrupt the balance. It was against that backdrop and the election of Andrew Jackson that the Whigs emerged as opponents to the Jacksonian Democrats during a period of American history known as the Second Party System (1828-1854). Initially, the conflict was rooted not only in different visions for the United States - the Whigs believed in a strong central bank and federally funded infrastructure projects (known as “internal improvements”) - but also in opposition to one man: Andrew Jackson. When it first formed, the Democratic Party coalesced around ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gregory T. Luzitano. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/223125/bk_acx0_223125_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 498min
The Berlin Wall was erected in 1961 to end all traffic between the city’s two halves: the democratic west and the communist east. The iconic symbol of a divided Europe, the Wall became a focus of western political pressure on East Germany; as Ronald Reagan’s famously said in a 1987 speech in Berlin, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” But as award-winning historian Mary Sarotte shows in The Collapse , the opening of the Wall on November 9, 1989 was not, as is commonly believed, the East German government’s deliberate concession to outside influence. It was an accident. A carelessly worded memo written by mid-level bureaucrats, a bumbling press conference given by an inept member of the East German Politburo, the negligence of government leaders, the bravery of ordinary people in East and West Berlin - these combined to bring about the end of nearly 40 years of oppression, fear, and enmity in divided Berlin. When the news broke, Washington and Moscow could only stand by and watch as Tom Brokaw and other journalists narrated the televised broadcast of this critical moment in the thawing of the cold war. Sarotte opens her story in the months leading up to that fateful day. Following East German dissidents, she shows how their efforts coalesced around opposition to the regime’s restrictions on foreign travel. The city of Leipzig, close to the border with Czechoslovakia, became a hothouse of activism, and protests there quickly grew into massive demonstrations. The East German Politburo hoped to limit its citizens’ knowledge of these marches, but two daring dissidents, East Berliners Aram Radomski and Siegbert Schefke, managed to evade the Stasi and film the largest of them from a church tower. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Elisabeth Rodgers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019405/bk_adbl_019405_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Human Resource Management: A Very Short Introduction (eBook, ePUB)
The way in which organizations manage their people has always been pivotal to their performance, long before formal human resource management coalesced into a definable and somewhat fashionable discipline in the mid-1980s. Earlier campaigns for worker welfare in the 18th and 19th century were driven by a mix of humanitarian, religious, philanthropic, and business motives, and sought workplace amenities such as medical care, housing, and libraries. At the same time functionaries and departments specialising in HR processes such as hiring, payroll, and record keeping emerged. This Very Short Introduction describes how the key players and watershed moments in labour history shaped the state of human resource management today. In our era of globalization human resource management has to contend with a number of new and increasingly complex factors, such as global sourcing, regional trade agreements and labour standards, remote working, strategic alliances, and innovation driven by competition. As traditional sources of competitive advantage such as access to capital, protected markets, or proprietary technologies evaporate, firms increasingly look to human resource management to offer a competitive edge. In the 'laboratory' of university departments or in the gritty and sweaty reality of the shop floor, there is no single model of human resource management. Instead human resource management today is as able to impact everything from small owner-managed shops in Brick Lane to the high tech behemoths of Silicon Valley. Adrian Wilkinson shows how human resource management covers the relations between employees and their employers, and explores the range of HR practices, processes, and line management activities. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.- Shop: buecher
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Northwest passage (remastered)
In the year leading up to the making of Northwest Passage Stan had toured extensively through Canada s western provinces and he had soaked up the stories of the farmers and ex-pat Maritimers working the Alberta oil rigs. Those stories coalesced into many of the songs on this album. However certainly the best known song from the album is the title track Nothwest Passage which has gone on to become a Canadian anthem sung far and wide across the country. TRACKS: 1. Northwest Passage 2. The Field behind The Plow 3. Night Guard 4. Working Joe 5. You Cant Stay Here 6. The Idiot 7. Lies 8. Canol Road 9. Free In The Harbour 10. California- Shop: odax
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My Vote De Count
Die Kernmitglieder trafen sich in London in der afrikanischen Szene in den 1990ern und studierten mit Meistermusikern aus Afrika, Brasilien und den USA.Formed in Brixton, the core members met on the London African drum and dance scene in the 1990s where they studied with master musicians from Africa, Brazil and the USA. Inspired by a musical love of all African and in particular of Ghana, the collective coalesced and with numerous, dynamic live performances plus an acclaimed debut album under their belt, they are now a pivot of the triving UK-African scene. On My Vote Dey Count, their 2nd album, finds the group in fine form and drawing upon the rich pool of London-based musicians, it cover all aspects of this proudly-indepenedent scene. Afrobeat, Hi-Life and Solid African Funk! Die Kernmitglieder von Yaaba Funk trafen sich in London in der afrikanischen Drum und Dance Szene in den 1990ern und studierten mit Meistermusikern aus Afrika, Brasilien und den USA. Inspiriert ist ihre Musik durch die Liebe aller Afrikaner, spziell der Ghanaer. Die kollektive Verschmelzung verkörpern sie in ihren zahllosen, dynamischen Live Auftritten. TRACKS: 01. GYAE ME NA MENDWEN (JAMES BROWN) 02. POOR MAN'S TALE 03. GHANA A-Z 04. TEKYEREMA DA MA NUN (MY VOTE DEY COUNT) 05. POLITICAL WAR 06. BLACK TO WHITE 07. VOLTA BLUES 08. GYAE ME NA MENDWEN (ISHFAQ'S VOODOO REFIX) 09. GYAE ME NA MENDWEN (RENERGADES OF JAZZ REMIX)- Shop: odax
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