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"This book recounts the surprising origin story of the "midlife crisis." Before becoming a gendered cliché, the midlife crisis gained traction as a feminist concept with the publication of journalist Gail Sheehy's best-selling Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life. Coined by psychoanalyst Elliott Jaques in the 1950s, the term was largely neglected until Sheehy re-invented it as a feminist idea that challenged the double standard of middle age. Widely popular, 'midlife crisis' was subsequently appropriated and redefined as a masculinist concept by psychological and psychiatric experts. Susanne Schmidt's telling reveals the midlife crisis' remarkable role in modern American life: first to valorize the emergence of female breadwinners and dual-income families, then to reassert gender order in times of social change. A must-read"--

Developmental psychology --- United States --- Midlife crisis --- Feminist psychology --- Psychology --- Crisis, Middle age --- Crisis, Midlife --- Mid-life crisis --- Middle age crisis --- Middle age --- History --- Psychological aspects --- Sheehy, Gail. --- Behavioral sciences --- Mental philosophy --- Mind --- Science, Mental --- Human biology --- Philosophy --- Soul --- Mental health --- United States of America --- Feminism --- Gender --- Middle-aged --- Popular culture --- Book

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Labour market --- Adult education. Lifelong learning --- European Union --- Manpower policy --- Training needs --- Occupational training --- Vocational qualifications --- Emploi --- Formation professionnelle --- Qualifications professionnelles --- Politique gouvernementale --- Analyse des besoins --- Labor supply --- 262 Europese economische en monetaire politiek --- Needs, Training --- Job training --- Manpower development and training --- Manpower training programs --- Vocational training --- Education --- Training --- Education and training services industry --- Practice firms --- Labor force --- Labor force participation --- Labor pool --- Work force --- Workforce --- Labor market --- Human capital --- Labor mobility --- Manpower --- Training needs - Europe - Congresses. --- Labor supply - Europe - Congresses. --- Occupational training - Europe - Congresses. --- FORMATION PROFESSIONNELLE --- EUROPE

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The European Court of Justice is one of the most important actors in the process of European integration. Political science still struggles to understand its significance, with recent scholarship emphasizing how closely rulings reflect member states’ preferences. In this book, I argue that the implications of the supremacy and direct effect of the EU law have still been overlooked. As it constitutionalizes an intergovernmental treaty, the European Union has a detailed set of policies inscribed into its constitution that are extensively shaped by the Court’s case law. If rulings have constitutional status, their impact is considerable, even if the Court only occasionally diverts from member states’ preferences. By focusing on the four freedoms of goods, services, persons, and capital, as well as citizenship rights, the book analyses how the Court’s development of case law has ascribed a broad meaning to these freedoms. The constitutional status of this case law constrains policymaking at the European and member-state levels. Different case studies show how major pieces of EU legislation cannot move beyond case law but have to codify its principles. Judicialization is important in the EU. It also directly constrains member-state policies. Court rulings oriented towards individual disputes are difficult to translate into general policies, and into administrative practices. Policy options are thereby withdrawn from majoritarian decision-making. As the Court cannot be overruled, short of a Treaty change, its case law casts a long shadow over policymaking in the European Union and its member states, undermining the legitimacy of this political order.

Judge-made law --- Case law --- Judicial law --- Judicial legislation --- Law, Judge-made --- Common law --- Judicial power --- Judicial process --- Lacunae in law --- Law --- Legislation --- Legislative power --- Interpretation and construction --- Court of Justice of the European Communities. --- Court of Justice of the European Union. --- European Union. Court of Justice of the European Union --- CJEU --- Gerichtshof der Europäischen Union --- Cour de justice de l'Union européenne --- Curia (Court of Justice of the European Union) --- Európai Unió Bírósága --- Trybunał Sprawiedliwości Unii Europejskiej --- CJUE --- Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea --- Hof van Justitie van de Europese Unie --- Court of Justice of the European Communities --- Cour de justice des communautés européennes --- Gerichtshof der Europäischen Gemeinschaften --- Corte di giustizia delle comunità europee --- Dikastērion tēs Europaikēs Oikonomikēs Koinotētos --- Hof van Justitie van de Europese Gemeenschappen --- Tribunal de Justicia de las Comunidades Europeas --- GHEG --- European Atomic Energy Community. --- European Economic Community. --- European Court of Justice --- Europäischer Gerichtshof --- Curtea de Justiție a Comunităților Europene --- Ōshū Shihō Saibansho --- G.H.E.G. --- Tribunal de Justiça das Comunidades Europeias --- Sud evropeĭskikh soobshchestv --- Avrupa Toplulukları Adalet Divanı --- Tribunal de Justiça das Comunidades --- Curia Communitatum Europaearum --- Eurōpaiko Dikastērio --- Dikastērio Eurōpaikōn Koinotētōn --- DEK --- EuGH --- ECJ --- D.E.K. --- Europejski Trybunał Sprawiedliwości --- ETS --- Dikastērio tōn Eurōpaikōn Koinotētōn --- CEJ --- European Union. --- Európai Bíróság --- European Coal and Steel Community. --- Court of Justice of the European Union --- European Court of Justice, judicialization, EU policymaking, case-law development, the power of the ECJ, constitutionalization

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This book presents a guide of optical mineralogy for beginners and microscopists who need to brush up their knowledge. It allows the fast identification of common rock-forming minerals in a thin section using a polarized light microscope and transmitted plane and cross polarized light. The book summarizes essential principles of optical mineralogy in numerous schemes. It explains, with the aid of more than 1000 microscopic images, how to determine the diagnostic optical characteristics of a mineral in a thin section. Seventy-two mineral plates of sixty-five common rock-forming minerals comprising typical microscopic images in plane and cross polarized light illustrate the most important optical and crystallographic parameters and their diagnostic characteristics and typical appearance in various geological settings. The original approach of the book is to facilitate mineral identification by mineral plates organized according to color in transmitted plane polarized light and, in each color category, according to decreasing maximum birefringence in cross polarized light. In addition, two chapters are devoted to the classification of magmatic and metamorphic rocks and their common mineral parageneses and textures. The book reflects the author's experience of teaching optical mineralogy in the most efficient way possible to generations of students at the Universities of Heidelberg (Germany), Basel (Switzerland), and Geneva (Switzerland).

Theoretical spectroscopy. Spectroscopic techniques --- Chemical and physical crystallography --- Rocks. Minerals --- Geology. Earth sciences --- kristallografie --- spectroscopie --- geologie --- kristallen