Cosmopolitans... - it is reasonably easy to define what it means; it is increasingly the case that we come across them. But it may be rare to see reflections that are both, sociologically well informed and at the same time entertaining - a Turkish friend from Australia suggested to the author of the present notes to call it sociotainment... - though she admitted that she got the term from her husband from India... Sometimes it's easier to find oneself while being lost. And the present volume invites to get lost, offering the reader the opportunity to think about her and his place. These are...

Der Band versammelt Beitrage von Peter Herrmann, einem der international fuhrenden Epigraphiker des 20. Jahrhunderts. Die zum Teil an entlegenen Orten erstveroffentlichten kleinen Schriften sind vor allem den Forschungsschwerpunkten Herrmanns, dem antiken Kleinasien, und hier in groerer Zahl den epigraphischen Zeugnissen Lydiens und Milets, gewidmet und geben Einblick in alle Aspekte des griechisch-romischen Alltags.

Social Policy research and respective debates have become over time distinct as matter of gaining their own frame of reference or the other way round: emerging as some kind of policy modern moral , without maintaining their genuine and explicit reference to the wider economic and regulative system of society. This surely takes different national shapes but can nevertheless be seen as general developmental trend. Paradoxically this development means at the same time that social policy is most fragile and open to influences from external requirements, demands and perhaps more importantly...