In Anthropological Futures, Michael M. J. Fischer explores the uses of anthropology as a mode of philosophical inquiry, an evolving academic discipline, and a means for explicating the complex and shifting interweaving of human bonds and social interactions on a global level. Through linked essays, which are both speculative and experimental, Fischer seeks to break new ground for anthropology by illuminating the field s broad analytical capacity and its attentiveness to emergent cultural systems.

Fischer is particularly concerned with cultural anthropology s interactions with...

The book presents both strategic and operational dimensions of procurement management. Supplier management is explained intelligently and practically as a multi-departmental corporate process, and the process of supplier management is presented in precise detail. The example of the AUDI AG's system is used to show how such a concept can be implemented. The 3^rd edition has been expanded with a chapter on front-loading.

Die Biographie des um die Jahrhundertwende geborenen Bildungsbürgers, deutschnationalen Konservativen, Wissenschaftlers und Offiziers Dr. phil. habil. Hans Jüngst (1901-1944) umfasst ziemlich genau den Zeitraum des "deutschen Zeitalters der Extreme" (Hans-Ulrich Wehler). Ihr zu Grunde liegt ein in mentalitätsgeschichtlicher Hinsicht eindrucksvoller Quellenbestand aus dem Nachlass von Hans Jüngst: Privat-, Kriegs- und Feldpostbriefe, Tagebücher, Notizen und Dokumente aus der gesamten ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Durch diesen Nachlass ließ sich in der vorliegenden biographischen...