• den Anwendungsbereich des KAGB anknuepfend an den Begriff des Investmentvermoegens
• die Abgrenzung zwischen offenen und geschlossenen Fonds
• zulaessige Vermoegensgegenstaende fuer offene und geschlossene Fonds einschliesslich der neuen Regelungen fuer Kreditfonds
• zulaessige Rechtsformen fuer offene und geschlossene Fonds
• Anforderungen an die Verwahrstelle
• Organisations- und Verhaltenspflichten fuer Kapitalverwaltungsgesellschaften einschliesslich deren Verguetungssysteme
• Bewertungs- und Rechnungslegungsvorschriften
• Vertrieb in- und auslaendischer Fonds

• Durchfuehrungsverordnungen der EU Kommission
• Technische Regulierungsstandards der EU Kommission
• Leitlinien der ESMA
• Verordnungen, Auslegungsentscheidungen und FAQ der BaFin

• umfassende Kommentierung des KAGB und der massgeblichen EU-Verordnungen
• BaFin Verwaltungspraxis im Blick

Ben Peterson explores the erosion of communal self-governance in contemporary American society and its consequences: rising social disorder and increased dependence on formal institutions such as policing and incarceration.
Drawing on thinkers such as Elinor and Vincent Ostrom, Russell Kirk, Glenn C. Loury, and James Q. Wilson, Peterson investigates the concept of the "social commons"-the shared moral and relational space we inhabit and shape through norms and actions. Arguing that restoring the social commons requires informal mechanisms of governance that cultivate virtue and mutual accountability, Peterson critiques both abolitionist and punitive paradigms, advocating instead for a middle path rooted in a character-centered approach to community life. He highlights the unique role of religious communities-especially Christian congregations-as vital sanctuaries of moral order capable of renewing the social fabric and offering hope amid chaos.
Listen to the author discuss the book with Dr. Glenn Loury on the Glenn Show here: https://tinyurl.com/3534j8xh.

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Siblings are everywhere in film, but their place in cinema has largely gone unstudied. This book turns attention to the brother-sister dynamic on screen and the many ways it shapes how stories are told.

Screening Siblings in Contemporary American Film offers the first sustained analysis of how sibling relationships have shaped some of the most influential films of the twenty-first century. Exploring popular films such as Bring it On (2000), Legally Blonde (2001), Frozen (2013), Jurassic World (2015), and Black Panther (2018), Katie Barnett uncovers how contemporary cinema uses sisters and brothers to explore gender, family, grief, and identity. She shows how teen movies use siblings to construct 'safe' romances for girls while reinforcing older brother gatekeepers, how depictions of sororities both challenge and reproduce dominant ideas of femininity, and how on-screen fraternities reveal anxieties around troubled masculinity.

Barnett also explores how siblings, particularly twins, are utilized in contemporary horror to explore parental failure, grief and disturbed identity, and how representations of dysfunctional adult siblings are used to address loss and the impact of family identity on the self.

As the climate crisis intensifies, contemporary literature has emerged as one of the most potent arenas for legal imagination. Legal Drafts in Anthropocene Literature examines how fiction set in the Anthropocene - ranging from cli-fi novels to experimental poetry - anticipates, critiques and actively shapes the development of legal frameworks aimed at addressing environmental destruction.
Building on the key idea that literature acts as a 'seismographic' indicator of legal change, this volume brings together Alexandra Juster, Justine Scarlaken, Matthew Birkhold, and Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi, who analyse works by John Ironmonger, Gaspard Koenig, Jean Giono, Camille de Toledo, Baptiste Morizot, Jessie Kleemann, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Indra Sinha. The authors reveal how fictional narratives generate what the volume terms 'legal drafts' - implicit or explicit proposals for new legal concepts, instruments, and responsibilities that are urgently needed in the Anthropocene era.
The volume addresses the most pressing legal questions of our time: How can individuals and collectives be held accountable for climate damage? Should nature be granted legal personality? What would an 'ecocide' prosecution entail, and how can narratives render such an unthinkable crime imaginable? How does poetry expose the epistemological limits of law when confronted with slow violence and planetary interdependence?
The contributions collectively demonstrate that literature does not merely reflect legal reality - it actively generates it, from river parliaments and beaver diplomacy in contemporary French literature to Greenlandic poetic testimony as a speculative lawsuit against ice melt and the narrative jurisprudence of climate governance fiction.

This book examines how climate change significantly impacts the public interest of national states, affecting a wide range of human rights, economic activities, development projects, and security. This book highlights the complexity of the legal discipline of climate change, which is a polycentric phenomenon because its causes and possible responses are subject to various decision-making levels and are cumulative over time. Additionally, this book addresses the need for norm creation in a scenario of risk and scientific uncertainty, as well as the socio-political conflicts generated.

Given these factors, this book emphasizes the role of national states in the legal regulation of climate change, as, although it is a global problem, they are the ones who set emission reduction targets and regulate the behavior of individuals and corporations to achieve them. In recent years, various climate laws have been created or amended in several countries, indicating a push for juridification around the issue.

Considering this context, this book argues that the legal discipline of climate change in Brazilian law requires the legislative structuring of a national policy compatible with the constitutional foundations and international commitments undertaken by Brazil, capable of dealing with the problem in a crosscutting manner and covering various economic sectors. This book analyzes the bases for formulating this climate policy, consisting of the foundations that should underpin it.

Firstly, this book highlights that the justice aspects involved are relevant to guide the definitions of the distribution of the impacts of climate change and the measures to mitigate them. Secondly, this book addresses the protection of fundamental rights to which the state is bound, creating a duty for it to structure measures to make them effective - including regulating the behavior of individuals and corporations - and enabling judicial control in the event of violations of these duties. Lastly, this book emphasizes that the principles of environmental law must underpin the instruments of a climate policy and the interpretation of its rules.

Reveals how trust-built, broken, and rebuilt-shapes the everyday work of frontline public servants and the quality of the relationship between citizens and the state.

Trust at the Ground Level of Government moves beyond abstract theory to show how trust is built, lost, and rebuilt in real-world settings. Drawing on rich narratives and interviews, Maayan Davidovitz and Nissim Cohen demonstrate how trust influences service delivery, client treatment, and the ways frontline, street-level bureaucrats cope with pressure and uncertainty. The book underscores that their trust in those within their work environment may define and shape the delicate relationships between public servants on the front lines and the citizens they serve. The resulting attitudes on both sides may have far-reaching consequences for the fragile relationship between the state and society. Based on six years of fieldwork in Israel, Trust at the Ground Level of Government offers a unique look into the emotional and professional challenges facing these frontline civil servants. It reveals how trust, often taken for granted, can shape decisions, relationships, and ultimately the success or failure of public policies. Whether you are a policymaker, public servant, scholar, or concerned citizen, this book provides new insights into how government functions on the ground and why trust is at the heart of it all.

Master the newest methods, tools, and strategies in supply chain management

In The Supply Chain Playbook: How to Transform Planning, Inventory, and Execution into Competitive Power, supply chain planning and transformation expert Marcia Williams, delivers a practical, planning-first guide to transforming supply chain decision-making and execution to move from a largely reactive supply chain management strategy to one that anticipates and responds to challenges before they disrupt business performance.

Williams draws on more than two decades of supply chain experience to provide expert advice for leaders interested in transforming their organizations' supply chains, strengthening cross-functional collaboration and alignment, structuring core planning roles, improving forecasting and demand planning, strengthening supply, inventory, and capacity planning, and more. She explains how to optimize supply, inventory, and materials planning, effectively use existing planning tools, and track useful metrics.

Inside the book:

• Comprehensive discussions of the foundations of traditional supply chain planning and how recent developments - especially those that occurred during the Covid-19 pandemic - have changed the fundamentals
• Detailed walkthroughs of demand planning and forecasting as well as supply planning, inventory management, capacity planning, and materials planning
• Advice for implementing the latest technological developments in your organization's approach to supply chains, including analytics, machine-learning-based demand forecasting, and AI-enabled tools that support better planning decisions
• A clear, practical roadmap for implementing S&OP and S&OE, linking long-term planning decisions with short-term execution through well-defined roles, metrics, and operating cadence.

Filled with detailed case studies and step-by-step strategy guides for working supply chain professionals, The Supply Chain Playbook is a must-have resource for navigating the latest disruptions, opportunities, and technologies that will define the future of supply chain management.

A unique interpretation of Plato's account of moderation and the contemporary relevance of Plato's ethical thought.

Sophrosune is one of the four moral virtues-along with wisdom, courage, and justice-that Plato discusses most frequently, though it is perhaps the most difficult one for modern readers to understand. While this Greek term is often translated as "moderation," it is widely acknowledged that English does not have a suitable match for it. This book interprets Plato's masterful reflections on sophrosune in two of his dialogues, Gorgias and Phaedrus. Author Kristian Sheeley demonstrates that Plato depicts Socrates customizing his accounts of sophrosune for the sake of motivating his interlocutors to cultivate it in their own souls. By depicting Socrates attempting to turn his interlocutors toward the pursuit of virtue, Plato aims to make a similar impact on his readers. In addition, the book periodically reflects on the contemporary relevance of Plato's ethical discussions as they pertain to fundamental philosophical problems that continue to confront us today. Plato's writings on sophrosune and related issues contain powerful insights that offer us invaluable guidance.

Packaging policy is an integral policy field of circular economy politics in a globalized world. International treaties deliver a common ground for regional and national legislation, which needs to be implemented according to the legislative agenda. The European Union aims to take over global leadership in this field and has hence articulated it's strategy through the European Green Deal. Circular economy is set out to transform under this approach. As a part of the transformation process, European packaging law is a perpetually evolving policy field, including the revision and replacement of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive (PPWD) by the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR). Considering the pecularities and entanglements of packaging policy under the European Green Deal, the book gives a compact introduction to the cornerstones of European packaging policy and delivers a systematic overview over it's important elements.

A cultural history of the relationship between music and trance in America, from the early colonial era to the Jazz Age.

Counterpoints of Ecstasy provides an engaging exploration of the relationship between music and self-transcendent experiences in America from the 1620s to the 1920s. It investigates how diverse Americans-from Puritan settlers to vaudeville entertainers-used music to find meaning in ecstasy, trance, and other mystical experiences that drastically altered their senses of subjectivity. These moments of profound transformation unfolded in settings as diverse as revival tents, concert halls, parlors, and movie theaters. The book introduces four distinct modes of self-transcendent experience-supernatural, natural, internal, and equivocal-demonstrating how various interpretations of ecstasy evolved out of and alongside each other. Blending historical analysis with cultural theory, the book integrates traditional narratives of disenchantment and re-enchantment, offering a richly textured account of music's power to dissolve boundaries and foster connection. A vital contribution to the histories of religion, spirituality, music, and American culture, Counterpoints of Ecstasy invites readers to reconsider the profound, sometimes paradoxical, role that music played in the quest for meaning beyond the self.

Explaining how the cultural practices of a community can be used as the vehicle for learning its language, this book shows how two apps have been developed to deliver language learning while users are carrying out real-life cultural activities.

Many people are motivated to learn foreign languages by their interest in foreign cultures, cuisines and activities such as origami, Hallowe'en pumpkins or cooking a meal from the target culture. This book shows how these motivations can be integrated into the way we learn languages using the latest digital technology: the Linguacuisine and ENACT apps.

Written by experts in education, educational technology and applied linguistics, the book introduces the concept of the cultural task and provides a model, principles and procedures, enabling professionals in any area - including teachers and community workers - to adapt the apps to their own environment. Video tutorials on the accompanying website give users a hands-on introduction to using the apps and authoring their own cultural tasks in their own language for use by others. As such, the apps constitute a rich online repository of Open Educational Resources (OERs).

The chapters offer in-depth descriptions of how the apps were implemented in 5 different countries, with 9 different languages and cultures, and clear research evidence of the learning of cultural practices and languages through varied data sources including photographs of app use and cultural artefacts produced by users.

The editors won the 2025 ReCALL Annual Article Prize for their article Migrants' digital skills development: Engaging with and creating digital cultural activities on the ENACT web app.

Recent events have shown how uncivil communication by political elites on social media can spread through networked publics and contribute to real-world disruption. To explain the upstream dynamics of these processes, this book introduces the Spiral of Political Incivility on Social Media (SPIN), a model that conceptualizes incivility as a dynamic, three-stage process: the production of norm violations by political actors, their perception shaped by platform affordances and national contexts, and user reactions that may reinforce or dampen the original cues.

Drawing on a most-different-systems design, the study combines computational text analysis of 37,152 campaign posts across Facebook, Twitter, and Telegram in Brazil, Spain, and the United States, representative surveys (N = 2,337), and an analysis of 13.6 million user comments. The findings reveal three ideal-typical trajectories-reinforcing, reactive, and dampened spirals-demonstrating that political incivility online is not random noise but a context-dependent process shaped by the interaction of actors, platforms, and users. By identifying where these spirals accelerate or stall, the study highlights key leverage points for mitigating the diffusion of incivility in digital democracies.