Product Description: Unternehmen sind historisch gewachsene Bausteine der modernen Welt. Ihre Leistungskraft entscheidet uber die Wettbewerbsfahigkeit von Landern und den Lebensstandard ihrer Burger. Unternehmen sind zugleich politische Akteure, die auch soziale und kulturelle Zusammenhange stiften...read more

Product Description: Entrepreneur and Nazi functionary Fritz Kiehn lived through almost 100 years of German history, from the Bismarck era to the late Bonn Republic. A successful manufacturer, Kiehn joined the Nazi Party in 1930 and obtained a number of influential posts after 1933, making him one of the most powerful Nazi functionaries in southern Germany...read more

Product Description: At the end of the twentieth century, tourism is the world's largest single industry. Tourism, however, is not only an economic and social phenomenon but can be 'read' in semiotic terms centred around dreams of alternatives to everyday life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)