Editore: Palgrave Macmillan US Feb 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1349563447 ISBN 13: 9781349563449
Da: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Inequality in Gifted and Talented Programs examines the relationship between gifted and talented (G&T) education, school choice, and racialized tracking within New York City elementary schools. Roda examines parental attitudes around placing their children in a racially diverse elementary school with segregated G&T and General Education programs. 208 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Palgrave Macmillan US Feb 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1349573876 ISBN 13: 9781349573875
Da: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Throughout film history, war films have been in constant dialogue with both previous depictions of war and contemporary debates and technology. War films remember older war film cycles and draw upon the resources of the present day to say something new about the nature of war. The American Civil War was viscerally documented through large-scale panorama paintings, still photography, and soldier testimonials, leaving behind representational principles that would later inform the development of the war film genre from the silent era up to the present. This book explores how each of these representational modes cemented different formulas for providing war stories with emotional content. 208 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Palgrave Macmillan US Feb 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1349576778 ISBN 13: 9781349576777
Da: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Nocebo Effect documents the transformation of normal problems into medical ones and brings out the risks of this inflationary practice. One notable risk is that people labeled as sick may find themselves living up to their label through the alchemy of the nocebo effect. 288 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Palgrave Macmillan US Feb 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1349567078 ISBN 13: 9781349567072
Da: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book provides an introductory survey of Montesquieu's economic ideas and a fresh examination of the longstanding controversy over the meaning and purpose of Montesquieu's The Spirit of the Laws . No one doubts that Montesquieu helped to formulate the core liberal ideals at the heart of the development of liberal republican traditions on both the European and American continents. Yet, questions remain about Montesquieu's political intentions. In particular, the view of Montesquieu as a conscious proponent of commercial modernity has come under increasing scrutiny. While not ignoring recent scholarly challenges, Bibby moves the debate forward by uncovering the many hidden connections between commerce, liberty, and religion in The Spirit of the Laws . A failure to make these connections, Bibby argues, has led to significant interpretative errors. This book attempts to eliminate one source of the confusion which continues to cloud Montesquieu's political philosophy in obscurity. 244 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Palgrave Macmillan US Feb 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1137591897 ISBN 13: 9781137591890
Da: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Lucretius's long shadow falls across the disciplines of literary history and criticism, philosophy, religious studies, classics, political philosophy, and the history of science. The best recent example is Stephen Greenblatt's popular account of the Roman poet's De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) rediscovery by Poggio Bracciolini, and of its reception in early modernity, winner of both a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. Despite the poem's newfound influence and visibility, very little cross-disciplinary conversation has taken place. This edited collection brings together essays by distinguished scholars to examine the relationship between Lucretius and modernity. Key questions weave this book's ideas and arguments together: What is the relation between literary form and philosophical argument How does the text of De rerum natura allow itself to be used, at different historical moments and to different ends What counts as reason for Lucretius Together, these essays present a nuanced, skeptical, passionate, historically sensitive, and complicated account of what is at stake when we claim Lucretius for modernity. 236 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Palgrave Macmillan US Feb 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1349564206 ISBN 13: 9781349564200
Da: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Italian Academies have typically been studied individually or in the context of specific cities, leaving an important lacuna in the scholarship on Italian culture and early modernity. Cutting across various disciplines, this volume traces the relationships of these Academies and explains how they prefigured networks like the République des letters. 304 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Palgrave Macmillan US Feb 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1349576654 ISBN 13: 9781349576654
Da: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The New Flagship University is an expansive vision for leading national universities and an alternative narrative to global rankings and World Class Universities. The Flagship model explores pathways for universities to re-shape their missions and operational features to expand their relevancy in the societies that gave them life and purpose. 240 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Palgrave Macmillan US Feb 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1349695149 ISBN 13: 9781349695140
Da: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Performing Punk is a rich exploration of subcultural contrasts and similarities among punks. By investigating how punk is made, for whom, and in opposition to what, this book takes the reader on a journey through the lesser-known aspects of the punk subculture. 232 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Palgrave Macmillan Us Feb 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1137489707 ISBN 13: 9781137489708
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - We're often told 'Don't sweat the small stuff' but in customer service, author Kate Edwards reminds us that the small stuff is exactly what customers remember and gives them a reason to become regulars. It all starts with 'Hello,' which not only requires a response but also sparks a conversation and initiates a relationship between the client and the business. Maintaining a quality relationship with your customers involves paying attention to the details: things like uncomfortable chairs, dirty glass doors, and pervasive odors negatively impact the customer experience. Further, this book answers the bigger question of 'what service is' and 'why service is important' and also shares tips and tricks for making a positive impression on your guests and staff. Ultimately, customers want to know that their experience matters, and Edwards offers sound advice about how to convey this message to customers by paying attention to detail and making the little things count. Readers will receive insights, such as the author's concept of 'I Notice = I Care,' which can help transform your team from generally good into generally great service ambassadors. Hello! And Every Little Thing That Matters will inspire you to deliver service that makes a difference and that makes your business come alive.
Editore: Palgrave Macmillan US Feb 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 113754872X ISBN 13: 9781137548726
Da: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germania
Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Global financial markets have transformed over the past three decades - with potentially dangerous results. Growing competitiveness in financial markets has forced banks to adapt - by merging, growing, and innovating. The result has been an unprecedented transformation in the identity of society's borrowers: households and banks are borrowing more, businesses are borrowing relatively less. This 'Great Debt Transformation' has profound consequences: as we shift toward economic growth fueled by consumption and financial investment, instability, indebtedness, and inequality have all risen. This book explains this transformation, why it matters, what caused it, and - most importantly - examines how some countries have restrained the transformation underway. Britain, France, and Germany have taken very different approaches to this transformation - and those approaches have resulted in divergent results. This book aims to turn those different results into lessons to help us make sense of the great economic challenges of our time. 312 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Palgrave Macmillan US Feb 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1349708860 ISBN 13: 9781349708864
Da: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Explores the historical origins of Syria's religious sects and their dominance of the Syrian social scene. It identifies their distinct beliefs and relates how the actions of the religious authorities and political entrepreneurs acting on behalf of their sects expose them to sectarian violence, culminating in the dissolution of the nation-state. 296 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Palgrave Macmillan US Feb 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1137503505 ISBN 13: 9781137503503
Da: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germania
Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Do new technologies mean the end of the university as we know it Or can they be shaped in a way that balances innovation and tradition This volume explores these questions through a critical history of online education. 260 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Palgrave Macmillan US Feb 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1137517557 ISBN 13: 9781137517555
Da: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germania
Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Based on numerous qualitative interviews, this cutting edge book investigates how Hong Kong's economic structure and neoliberal policies have contributed to class inequality in China's global city. Inspired by Bourdieu's approach to class, the author examines class stratification in education, works, and political attitudes and argues that the lack of explicit class identifications among the people does not imply irrelevance of class. Relying upon empirical field data to question the applicability of the reflexive modernization theory, the text debates whether individualization makes class a redundant concept in advanced capitalist societies. 216 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Palgrave Macmillan US Feb 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 134970797X ISBN 13: 9781349707973
Da: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Martin Wight was one of the most influential twentieth-century British thinkers who investigated on international politics and continues to inspire the English school of international relations. Containing a previously unpublished essay by Wight, this book brings this essay, 'Fortune's Banter', to light. 204 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Palgrave Macmillan US Feb 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1349700924 ISBN 13: 9781349700929
Da: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book recovers Aristotle's understanding of the roles of rhetoric and prudence in public leadership, comparing it to the other major political theories of leadership: utilitarianism, as advocated by J.S. Mill, and duty-ethics, as advocated by Immanuel Kant. 220 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Palgrave Macmillan US Feb 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1137448040 ISBN 13: 9781137448040
Da: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germania
Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The desire to be seen as a Very Important Person (VIP) is one of the driving factors behind humankind's professional, societal, and spiritual aspirations. In Being a True VIP, management scholar and author Eric H. Kessler illustrates the nature of importance and how it relates to our success as employees and individuals. Through a clear and focused theoretical framework, he follows the paths that lead to importance, who determines it, and how it affects employee engagement and performance. Readers will be able to understand, personalize, and apply these lessons to manage themselves and others to be true VIPs. 252 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Palgrave Macmillan US Feb 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1349671444 ISBN 13: 9781349671441
Da: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -W. C. Fields was a virtuoso comedian, often called a comic genius, legendary iconoclast, and 'Great Man,' who brought so much laughter to millions while enduring so much anguish. This book explores his little-known, long stage career from 1898 to 1930, which had a major influence on his comedy and screen presence. 292 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Palgrave Macmillan US Feb 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1137548703 ISBN 13: 9781137548702
Da: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germania
Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Writing in response to war and national crisis, al-Samm n, Khal feh, Barak t, and others introduced into the Arabic literary canon aesthetic forms capable of carrying Levantine women's experiences. By assessing their feminism in such a way, this book aims to revive a critical emphasis on aesthetics in Arab women's writing. 216 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Palgrave Macmillan US Feb 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1137501855 ISBN 13: 9781137501851
Da: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germania
Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Over the last few years the Arctic has become a region of growing interest to the international community. Major environmental, economic, social, and security issues are all in evidence within its borders today. Many feel that there is an urgent need to establish an effective governance structure for the area. The Arctic Council has offered a basic forum for circumpolar consultation and cooperation over the past two decades. However, it has not been an easy undertaking and the organization has had to wrestle with a series of internal and external impediments that have hindered its forward progress. This volume explores the efforts of Sweden, a recent Chair of the Arctic Council, to build an enhanced framework for consensus-building and governance within the circumpolar region. It examines its efforts to provide focused leadership for the Arctic Council and to advance the environmental protection and sustainable development missions of the organization. It considers the various means by which Sweden utilized its position as chair of the Arctic Council to promote its program for action in both these areas. It also explores how this leadership position enabled it to foster necessary organizational reform within the body. The book gives new insight into how both the formal and informal 'powers of the chair' can be utilized to facilitate institutional growth and change. It also provides new and useful understanding of how a small country like Sweden can harness key elements of 'soft power' to advance its foreign policy objectives in the Arctic. The author closely followed the undertakings of the Swedish Chairmanship team over its two years at the helm of this emerging Arctic international organization. He witnessed its several successes and a few of its disappointments. The volume offers a behind the scene view of the challenges and opportunities faced by contemporary diplomats as they pursue their efforts at international organization. 204 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Palgrave Macmillan US Feb 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1349558419 ISBN 13: 9781349558414
Da: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Although many scholars and practitioners recognize that development and conflict are intertwined, there is much less understanding of the mechanisms behind these linkages. This book takes a new approach by critically examining how various development strategies provoke or help prevent intrastate violence, based on cases from all developing regions. 340 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Palgrave Macmillan US Feb 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1349674087 ISBN 13: 9781349674084
Da: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Louisa Stuart Costello (1799-1870) was a critically acclaimed poet, novelist, travel writer, historian, and artist. Here, Broom Saunders provides a wealth of extracts from her diverse writings, a rich source of information about the pioneering career of a professional woman writer, and insight into a nineteenth-century writing life. 268 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Palgrave Macmillan US Feb 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1137521228 ISBN 13: 9781137521224
Da: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germania
Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume explores how anthropologists and social scientists in closely allied disciplines and employing qualitative methodologies relate to public intellectuals and others with local knowledge in the field. The editors examine the importance of establishing egalitarian relationships and acknowledging their impact on findings and theories. 276 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Palgrave Macmillan US Feb 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1137515783 ISBN 13: 9781137515780
Da: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germania
Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -World War I had an enormous impact on urban life and the relationship between cities and the federal government that has been almost entirely unexplored until now. This book uses Portland, Oregon to bring to life the transformation of U.S. cities during the first truly national war mobilization effort. This history of a struggle over urban order during an unprecedented crisis is one of people more than institutions and of the grassroots more than elites. The labor movement, at the heart of wartime working-class aspiration, is likewise at the heart of this story. The book also examines how those who lived in rapidly changing war boom cities experienced the era. Hodges captures both extraordinary events, including the internment of enemy aliens and women with venereal disease, and the fascinating everyday dynamics of conflict and cooperation in a novel moment of scarcity and opportunity that changed urban life. 212 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Palgrave Macmillan US Feb 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 113750191X ISBN 13: 9781137501912
Da: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germania
Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This pioneering interdisciplinary book explores the new economic, cultural, and political ties between Australia and Latin America, situating them within the context of broader global transformations, Australia's place in the Global South, and Latin America's increased strategic and economic relevance to the Asia-Pacific region. 256 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Palgrave Macmillan US Feb 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1137565365 ISBN 13: 9781137565365
Da: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germania
Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Now that the Middle East is being shaken by deepening political disorder and intensifying conflicts everywhere, this book provides a unique, non-utopian, proactive approach that makes Middle East peace, at least between Israelis and Palestinians, possible. 228 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Palgrave Macmillan US Feb 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1349556165 ISBN 13: 9781349556168
Da: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Migration has become a defining feature of the contemporary age. It has brought about significant changes in political, economic, social, and religious landscapes. This volume explores a question that has been little considered to date: how are churches being transformed in the face of global migration The book features contributors from diverse national, denominational, cultural, professional, and linguistic backgrounds. Their essays reveal the ways in which migrants and the phenomenon of migration expose longstanding gaps and failings within Christian communities. However, the prevalence of migration and migrants simultaneously opens up fresh possibilities for churches to grow, renew, becoming more authentic, dynamic, and diverse. Church in an Age of Global Migration presents a collage of embodied ecclesial practices, understandings, and realities that have emerged and are continuing to develop in the face of global migration. Committed to transnational and ecumenical dialogue, and to integrating practical and theoretical perspectives, this volume is the first to offer an in-depth analysis of the ways in which churches are being changed by migrants. 276 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Palgrave Macmillan US Feb 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1137578238 ISBN 13: 9781137578235
Da: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germania
Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book explores a series of challenging new perspectives on the origins, development, and legacy of France's 'liberal moment' during the second half of the twentieth century. It surveys a significant shift in interest regarding socio-political philosophy and culture, with the 1970s emergence of a blossoming French curiosity about liberalism and liberal thought. While liberalism had played an important role in French political debate prior to this period, liberal voices were often disregarded. It was not until this newfound fascination with liberalism by French intellectuals-spanning from the second left to the new right-that a French liberal revival truly occurred. In Search of the Liberal Moment addresses this revival, its resultant resuscitation of nineteenth-century authors like Tocqueville and Constant, its relationship with the contemporary rise of neoliberalism in Britain and the US, and how its adherents used liberalism to rethink the past, present, and future of modern democracy. 232 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Palgrave Macmillan US Feb 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1137576022 ISBN 13: 9781137576026
Da: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germania
Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Central European dissidents gained global fame by serving as key protagonists in the collapse of communism in 1989. As writers, philosophers, and artists, they should be remembered for their ideas as much as for their political actions. This book takes the variegated and collected dissident oeuvre and reads their texts as expressions of their existential search for inter-subjective understanding and mutual recognition, showing how their ideas contribute to current conversations in political philosophy about thinking and action.Brinton examines the ways Cold War dissidents in Central and Eastern Europe turned to the past for inspiration in order to change and transcend their present entrapment, contributing to a more general narrative about how to change one's way of acting by altering one's way of thinking. Ideas such as 'living in truth,' the 'parallel polis,' creating 'civil society,' and 'anti-political politics' allowed dissidents to survive totalitarianism, recreate their intellectual universe, and re-humanize themselves amidst dehumanizing political situations. Our conversations about the relationship between philosophy, politics, and dissidence can be deepened by examining this legacy. 284 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Palgrave Macmillan US Feb 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1349566047 ISBN 13: 9781349566044
Da: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book analyzes the way media describe presidential candidates' character and the degree to which this discourse maintains a preference for masculinity in our politics, using content analysis of major print new media outlets. 212 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Palgrave Macmillan US Feb 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1137576081 ISBN 13: 9781137576088
Da: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germania
Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The past several years have seen many examples of friction between secular European societies and religious migrant communities within them. This study combines ethnographic work in three countries (The Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and France) with a new theoretical frame (regimes of secularity). Its mission is to contribute to an understanding of minority identity construction in secular societies. In addition to engaging with academic literature and ethnographic research, the book takes a critical look at three cities, three nation-contexts, and three grassroots forms of Muslim religious collective organization, comparing and contrasting them from a historical perspective. Carolina Ivanescu offers a thorough theoretical grounding and tests existing theories empirically. Beginning from the idea that religion and citizenship are both crucial aspects of the state's understanding of Muslim identities, she demonstrates the relevance of collective identification processes that are articulated through belonging to geographical and ideological entities. These forms of collective identification and minority management, Ivanescu asserts, are configuring novel possibilities for the place of religion in the modern social world. 248 pp. Englisch.