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UNINA9910479948503321 |
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The best Australian business writing 2012 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Andrew Cornell |
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Sydney, : NewSouth Pub., 2012 |
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1-74224-132-8 |
1-74224-620-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (270 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Business writing - Australia |
Technical writing - Australia |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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""CONTENTS""; ""Advisory panel""; ""Contributors""; ""Foreword: Business is written into our lives""; ""Introduction: Humanity in a balance sheet and P&L""; ""Bobby Kennedy and the wealth of nations and corporations ""; ""Love for sale""; ""From the tyranny of distance to the power of proximity ""; ""Occupy's big no was a big yes to something else""; ""Gravity's revenge""; ""Time for radical bank reform""; ""The real cost of 'security'""; ""Port's pain isn't limited to the field""; ""Women should act more like men (and they are their own worst enemies)""; ""Hold your fire!"" |
""The great convergence""""Is this the man for the future?""; ""Who knew what when?""; ""Middle Kingdom just wants to be middle class""; ""Making sense of productivity""; ""Biz-bashing rewards Abbott""; ""The millionaire's malaise""; ""Turning dirt into soil: Killing two birds with one carbon stone ""; ""Curator superstar""; ""Clubs already have their own licence""; ""The dispossessed: The decline of a coastal Koori community ""; ""Big bash theory""; ""The Sun King""; ""Why GDP doesn't count""; ""Fair Share: Country and city in Australia""; ""Google world""; ""World Series Cricket: Set up"" |
""Eye on the money""""Back to work, baby boomers""; ""In search of a |
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better death""; ""Tower of babble""; ""Acknowledgments"" |
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Have Baby Boomers been forced back to work since the GFC? Why do we rely on the arbitrary and illusory numbers of double-entry book-keeping to direct our policies, institutions, economies and societies? Will pre-commitment cards for poker machines coerce the addicted gambler to think before he or she acts? Is airport security a waste of time and money? Not just a series of numbers and facts, good business writing is informative, provocative, funny, even moving. In this first edition of a new annual anthology showcasing the best of Australian business writing, editor Andrew Cornell shows just h |
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UNINA9910782570803321 |
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Autore |
Mani B. Venkat |
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Cosmopolitical claims [[electronic resource] ] : Turkish-German literatures from Nadolny to Pamuk / / B. Venkat Mani |
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Iowa City, IA, : University of Iowa Press, c2007 |
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1 online resource (263 p.) |
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German literature - Turkish authors - History and criticism |
Culture conflict in literature |
Intercultural communication in literature |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-238) and index. |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Cosmopolitical Claims; 1. Thus Spake the Gastarbeiter; 2. Slouching Histories, Lurking Memories; 3. Authentic Hybrid? Feridun Zaimogblu's Abschaum; 4. Turkish-German Reattachments; 5. Minorities, Literatures, and Recursive Leaps of Faith; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Cosmopolitical Claims is a profoundly original study of the works of Sten Nadonly, Emine Sevgi OĢzdamar, Feridun Zaimoglu, and 2006 Nobel prize in literature recipient Orhan Pamuk. Rather than using the proverbial hyphen in "Turkish-German" to indicate a culture caught |
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between two nations, Venkat Mani is interested in how Turkish-German literature engages in a scrutiny of German and Turkish national identity. |
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