Learning to Compete in European Universities: From Social Institution to Knowledge Business
This book addresses the critical issue of how and why European universities are changing and learning to compete. Anglo-Saxon universities particularly in the US, the UK and Australia have long been subject to, and responded to, market-based competition in higher education. The authors argue that Continental and Nordic universities and higher education institutes are now facing similar pressures that are leading to a structural transformation of the university sector.
The Multilingual Dictionary of Real Estate: A guide for the property professional in the Single European Market
This is a book for the Single European Market and for the real estate professionals operating within it. The real estate industry is europeanising rapidly in anticipation of the SEM, with potentially even greater European integration under the provisions of the Maastricht Treaty of European Union.
As a leading provider of language testing procedures,TELC is a recognised authority in the field of language certificates and test systems in most European countries. telc represents the most comprehensive system of language tests in Europe, offering communication-based examinations in the major European languages including English and French, Italian, Czech, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish – and of course for German. Book reuploaded. Thanks to teschnerv
This comprehensive examination of tense and grammatical aspect provides fascinating insight into how languages indicate distinctions of time. Providing an in-depth survey of the scholarship from the ancient Greeks through the 1980s, Time and the Verb explains and evaluates every major issue and theory, concentrating on familiar Classical and modern European languages. An invaluable reference tool as well as a major contribution to the history of linguistic sciences, this book will be the standard against which future work on tense and aspect is measured.
The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream
The American Dream is not dead, says Rifkin, but it's showing its years. Contrasting definitively American fantasies of individual autonomy, material wealth, and cultural assimilation with an emerging European vision of community relationships, quality of life, and cultural diversity, Rifkin argues that the great bloodshed of the twentieth century liberated Europeans from their past, better preparing them for global citizenship in the twenty-first century.
