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This book offers an in-depth analysis of the roles and strategies of subsidiaries of American multinational companies (MNCs) in Taiwan’s IT industry. Based on semi-structured interviews with 16 managing directors of the different foreign-owned subsidiaries and 100 functional unit managers, the authors investigate (1) the roles of functional units in evaluating strategy formulation and change in foreign subsidiaries; (2) the factors that determine strategy formulation and change in foreign subsidiaries and their functional units; and (3) the linkages between cross-functional units. The research underscores the view that MNCs’ strategies are composed of assorted heterogeneous elements.

The anthology „Lyra’s LAMENT„ is the unabridged text of the three original volumes „ Environment“, „War“ and „Arrived“. Lyra’s grandmother Elisabeth, born in 1859, deceased 1932, visits her granddaughter Lyra 2010 in a dream and takes her on a trip into the world hereafter. She knew that Lyra was searching for the missing links of her family chronicle. Now Lyra was herself one of them, an immortal shadow, she hovered with and among them, being able to transfer herself into any time and event. But she was obliged to also report the distress on earth. Her journey went back as far as 79 AD and looked at subjects such as environment and war, as both of these issues can’t be isolated from her family’s history. Lyra’s access to immortal shadows already exists a long time, as a young woman she had first experienced contacts. As well, she experienced help in painting. A series of surreal artworks originated, among them the book coversof the German editions of the Series “Lyra’s Lament” and also “Where will you go”.

There is a development between expectation for the rebuilding of the New Jerusalem/Temple in the Old Testament and the coming of the New Jerusalem/Temple in Revelation. In Revelation, there is a dynamic relation between the New Jerusalem and the Heavenly Jerusalem: the New Jerusalem is the descent of the Heavenly Jerusalem. Moreover, there is no Temple building which was expected as the eschatological promise in the Old Testament but rather God and the Lamb is the Temple. How can this shift be explained? Pilchan Lee examines the exegetical tradition which existed between the Old Testament and Revelation. He assumes that as the exegetical tradition, the early Jewish (apocalyptic) literature functions as a key element for forming the idea of the New Jerusalem in Revelation. John's main argument is that the church (which is symbolized by several images) is placed in heaven now (chapters 4-20) and the church (which is symbolized by the New Jerusalem) will descend to the earth from heaven in the future (21-22).

In September 1939 part of Eastern Poland was incorporated into the Soviet Union under the terms of a secret protocol drawn up between Molotov and Ribbentrop. A central issue in this crucial episode of East European history is the extent to which the Jews in the area collaborated in the imposition of Soviet rule, how they learned to live under a new system, and how a new culture evolved. But in the summer of 1941 the Red Army retreated from the region in the face of German invasion, and close behind the German army came the Einsatzgruppen, the mobile death units. This is an important moment in the history of the Holocaust which is subjected to detailed examination in Ben-Cion Pinchuk's book.