peter lang feb 2018 (150 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Five years after the first edition of Millennials, News, and Social Media: Is News Engagement a Thing of the Past was published, a focus on the Millennial generation¿s relationship with news is more important than ever. This revised and updated book reports the results of a new survey that reveals changes in news consumption habits and attitudes while painting a detailed portrait of Millennials in a news media landscape now dominated by social media and mobile devices. Generational, racial, ethnic, and gender differences in news engagement and social media use are examined and so is the historic presidential election that the oldest and youngest Millennials experienced. How Millennials voted, the issues that mattered, and the relationship between their political identity and news is also explored. The spread of fake news, attacks on the press, and the need for news literacy are also discussed. Since the publication of the book¿s first edition, Snapchat and digital subscriptions have emerged and social media sites have become popular platforms for news. How Millennials have responded to these changes in the media landscape is also examined. Finally, recommendations for further improvement of news coverage of Millennials are proposed. Plus, the book underscores how all segments of society, including news organizations, journalism schools, and tech companies, can work toward a more informed and news literate society, a requirement for viable democracies. This revised and updated book will appeal to students, scholars, journalists, and everyone who cares about informed and civically engaged citizens and a strong democracy. 236 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Riot grrrls, punk feminists best known for their girl power activism and message, used punk ideologies and the literacy practice of zine-ing to create radical feminist sites of resistance. In what ways did zines document feminism and activism of the 1990s How did riot grrrls use punk ideologies to participate in DIY sites In Writing a Riot: Riot Grrl Zines and Feminist Rhetorics, Buchanan argues that zines are a form of literacy participation used to document personal, social, and political values within punk. She examines zine studies as an academic field, how riot grrrls used zines to promote punk feminism, and the ways riot grrrl zines dealt with social justice issues of rape and race. Writing a Riot is the first full-length book that examines riot grrrl zines and their role in documenting feminist history.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 218 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Our society is highly effected by the digital revolution. This book describes with examples and new concepts the discrimination created by the Digital World at different layers of the society. The author analyzes the new technological ecosystem with components like the Digital Ghetto and describes the measures which need to be taken in the future. He evaluates this new digital world focusing on several aspects of social relations and lifestyles. The book also analyzes the mistakes made while entering the Information Age. Furthermore, the author answers the question if human society is ready for the amenities of services like Social Media, e-learning, energy and self-driving cars or if they actually make our lives more difficult and complicated.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 149 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Il commento per «c.m.» 25 nasce dal desiderio di studiare l¿epitalamio meno noto di Claudiano e di attribuirgli un ruolo nel «corpus Claudianeum». L¿interpretazione del carme alla luce della tradizione letteraria precedente è alla base di questo studio che, servendosi del metodo intertestuale, rivela un risultato inaspettato per quanto riguarda la combinazione di nuovi elementi e l¿accentuazione del carattere panegirico. L¿apparato mitologico suscita interesse e simpatia nelle figure di una Venere pronuba, oziosa e sensuale e un Imeneo poeta bucolico. Claudiano, che in c.10 era vincolato da ragioni politiche, può soddisfare qui le sue esigenze poetiche e affrontare, in occasione delle nozze di Palladio e Celerina, il tema del matrimonio da un punto di vista diverso da quello tradizionale. 230 pp. Italienisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The Shifting Landscape of the American School District offers a new perspective on the American school district. The educational system of the United States has long been characterized by its tradition of local control, and the district has symbolized community involvement in education. Scholars have written insightful studies on individual city systems and school districts, but rarely has the district-as an organizational form itself-been the subject of scrutiny, and Americans have continued to take the district for granted as the primary unit of local schooling. In recent years reformers have also built many of their innovations upon the belief that it is the traditional, bureaucratic, hierarchical district that requires overhaul. The Shifting Landscape of the American School District seeks to challenge that perception. The editors argue that the pervasive view of district history-the notion that the school district is a holdover from the progressive reforms of the early twentieth century-has shrouded a fascinating story of the ways in which districts have evolved, innovated, and reacted in response to state and federal mandates, national reform movements, demographic shifts, desegregation, structural/organizational changes, and a shifting political climate. The chapters in this volume offer compelling evidence of the many ways that districts have expanded, contracted, integrated, consolidated, reorganized, and been torn apart over the past century. By covering a wide range of time periods, the authors are able to draw fascinating parallels between the past and present. 266 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Throughout much of the 20th century, literary theory came to be considered the queen discipline of literary studies. It failed, though, to deliver the promises it carried from its onset as an academic field of inquiry and, came to be shrunk and side-lined in the last three or four decades. The author describes and discusses 20th century literary theory and its appeal to scientific methodology. His aim is to depict the intrinsic motives of its downfall. The book focuses on the appeal to scientific methods and epistemology, the status and nature of literary meaning and the role of authorial intention in interpretation. 130 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Drawing on a wealth of archival material, this book investigates work and life of Dorothy Thompson, the eminent journalist who in 1928 married American novelist Sinclair Lewis. In the following decade she became the most influential American woman next to Eleanor Roosevelt. Thompson's extensive network of friends and collaborators included prominent personalities on both sides of the Atlantic: Hamilton Fish Armstrong, Lion Feuchtwanger, Marcel Fodor, Ben Huebsch, Annette Kolb, Fritz Kortner, Thomas Mann, H. L. Mencken, Helmuth James von Moltke, Eugenie Schwarzwald, Christa Winsloe, and Carl Zuckmayer. Her prolific public engagement against Hitler and on behalf of refugees and exiled writers was based on the conviction that one was not possible without the other. A fierce opponent of isolationism, she declared that indifference towards totalitarianism or the refugee crisis would destroy democracy not only abroad but also in the United States. 300 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This volume brings together a range of papers that fruitfully engage with the theme of the 2017 Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, held in San Diego, California: Interventions. Here 'intervention' points to a range of communication practices that engage with a political event, social phenomena, industrial or socio-cultural practice, in order to alter and disrupt events and the norms and practices that contribute to their occurrence.¿ Interventions prohibit events from proceeding in a 'normal' course. Interventions approach or critique practices and phenomenon resulting from tensions or absences occurring in: events, structures, (institutional governmental, media industry), discourses, and socio-cultural and subcultural events. Intervention presents the opportunity to explore boundaries, assumptions and strategies that appear to be different or irreconcilable, viewing them instead as possibilities for productive engagements. Communication interventions¿in both research and practice¿insert insights from diverse voices, marginal positions, emerging organizational practices and digital technologies, to broaden and enrich dialogue. Interventions bring complex reframings to events and phenomenon. Interventions seek to alter a course and effect changed practices in a range of spheres: governmental and social institutions, cultural and nongovernmental groups; industry and organizational life, new media and digital spaces, socio-cultural environments, subcultural groups, health environments, affective and behavioral life, and in everyday life. 302 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Winner of the 2019 Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Book Award presented by the Interpersonal Communication Division of the National Communication Association (NCA). Interpersonal Arguing is an accessible review of scholarship on key elements of face-to-face arguing, which is the interpersonal exchange of reasons. Topics include frames for understanding the nature of arguing, argument situations, serial arguments, argument dialogues, and international differences in how people understand interpersonal arguing. This is a thorough survey of the leading issues involved in understanding how people argue with one another.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 324 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Adolescents and emerging adults today spend an estimated seven hours daily attending to media. The media teens attend to commonly present relationships between men and women as a 'game' or 'competition' in which women seduce through their physical appearance and the masculinity of men is defined through sexual conquest. A growing body of research suggests that viewing this sexualized media may contribute to adolescents¿ and emerging adults¿ understanding of and behaviors around romantic and sexual relationships. Using social cognitive theory of gender development, scripting theory, and heterosexual script theory as a framework, Scripting Adolescent Romance presents methods and analyses of data from in-depth interviews with 16 high school and young college students, and focus groups with over 100 individuals in this age group. Findings provide a rarely seen view inside youths¿ private spaces¿their bedrooms and their social media spaces. In often highly-personal conversations, youth provide in-depth information about how they understand and navigate virginity, romantic relationships, sexual situations, and interpersonal violence. Their discussions of 'Netflix and chill,' Facebook stalking, and the scorecard script illuminate aspects of romance and sex that may be uniquely characteristic of today¿s young people. This book is a must-read for parents of adolescents, and promises to be an enjoyable, insightful text for classes about media effects, adolescent development, gender roles, and sexual health. 260 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Living on the Edge: Rethinking Poverty, Class and Schooling, Second Edition confronts one of the most enduring and controversial issues in education¿the nexus between poverty and underachievement. This topic stubbornly remains a key contemporary battleground in the struggle to raise standards. Living on the Edge maps and compares a number of competing explanations, critiques inadequate and deficit accounts and offers a more convincing and useful theory. The authors challenge the view that problems can be fixed by discrete initiatives, which in many instances are deeply rooted in deficit views of youth, families and communities. The book systematically interrogates a range of explanations based outside as well as inside schools. It draws upon positive examples of schools which are succeeding in engaging marginalized young people, providing worthwhile forms of learning and improving young lives. This second edition contains two expansive case studies that exemplify, explain and illustrate the themes coursing through the book. Living on the Edge's second edition remains a 'must read' for anyone concerned about or implicated in the struggle for more socially just forms of education. 328 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Justice in Search of Leaders: A Handbook for Equity-Driven School Leadership is a guide for educators who are committed to equity-driven teaching, leading, and policy-making, and would like to operationalize socially just school practices for all children. Moving beyond a heroes and holidays approach to addressing racism, bias, injustice, and a cluster of isms, it provides a deeper understanding of the causes of structural inequities in schools, and suggests approaches for deconstructing them. The book includes a frank discussion of race, racism, social dominance, and implicit bias, and encourages both objective and subjective analyses of how they infect school practice.Americäs ambivalent response to race, racial identity development, the nature of prejudice, and how humans form values and develop belief systems is explored in some depth. There is also a critique of Whiteness as a socio-political concept as it relates to power and privilege, and as a demographic reality as it relates to institutional discrimination in schools. The book is not a critique of white people, and it is important that readers make that distinction. This leads to a discussion of the tricky and challenging process of changing beliefs, values, and attitudes as they relate to school leadership and teaching, and how all of this is connected to the power dynamics in schools.Justice in Search of Leaders: A Handbook for Equity-Driven School Leadership encourages educators to acknowledge that we all have racial identities and biases that inform professional practice, and to reflect on the significance of this. It means thinking deeply about socially abhorrent subjects which make us uncomfortable and cause us to retreat to the safety of our comfort zones. This is necessary because for most under-served students, there is no retreat and no safety; there are only discomfort zones.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 344 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Researching the Writing Center is the first book-length treatment of the research base for academic writing tutoring. The book reviews the current state of writing center scholarship, arguing that although practitioner-researchers continue to value anecdotal and experiential evidence, they must also appreciate empirical evidence as mediating theory and practice. Readers of this revised edition will discover an evidence-based orientation to research and be able to evaluate the current scholarship on recommended writing center practice. Chapters examine the research base for current theory and practice involving the contexts of tutoring, tutoring activities, and the tutoring of specific populations. Readers will investigate the sample research question 'What is a ¿successful¿ writing consultation ' Researching the Writing Center concludes with an agenda for future questions about writing center practice that can be researched empirically. This revised edition of the text is intended for writing center professionals, researchers, graduate students in English, composition studies, and education, and peer tutors in training. It is also suitable for courses in writing center theory and practice, learning center theory and practice, composition studies, education, and learning assistance. 366 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The second edition of What Schools Teach Us About Religious Life continues to explore the ways in which private education in the United States mirrors the growing complexity and fluidity of religious life in the United States. Through the study of ten different private schools¿representing a wide variety of religious traditions as well as some secular institutions¿a picture of contemporary culture, and the place of religious belief within the culture, emerges. Each chapter of this second edition of What Schools Teach Us About Religious Life contains a different picture of how individual schools then address that culture.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 188 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -¿La polysémie du terme même de professionnalisation ne permet pas de s¿accorder sur un angle d¿approche à privilégier. Une telle thématique est source de tensions dans la mesure où elle est le point nodal d¿un rapport de forces entre deux systèmes dont les objectifs diffèrent : le marché du travail d¿un côté, l¿offre éducative de l¿autre. Positionner le processus de professionnalisation comme objet central d¿un ouvrage en sciences de l¿éducation rend possible une lecture plurielle d¿une problématique qui interroge le système éducatif en tant qüil se transforme malgré lui pour répondre à des injonctions parfois paradoxales. Les auteurs ont développé des expertises dans les différents champs concernés ici : enseignement, formation, travail social. On trouvera dans cet ouvrage un effort définitionnel qui montre combien la professionnalisation est perçue à la fois comme un processus d¿homogénéisation des pratiques à l¿intérieur des groupes professionnels, mais également comme une injonction à modifier le contenu des savoirs transmis, pour répondre aux demandes du secteur productif en termes de compétences professionnelles ; ensuite une description des mécanismes de professionnalisation en termes de mise en oeuvre de dispositifs, d¿ingénierie de diplôme, de modalités de financement et d¿outillage des établissements d¿enseignement supérieur et de ses acteurs ; enfin une réflexion sur les cadres théoriques ou idéologiques sous-jacents à ce processus de professionnalisation et les risques que cette évolution engendre sur le marché du travail et les systèmes de formation.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 208 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Critical Pedagogy, Sexuality Education and Young People presents cutting-edge empirical and theoretical research on the role of critical pedagogy in transforming sexuality education. Featuring the work of scholars from around the globe, including the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina and Finland, this unique collection of work expands the meaning of pedagogy in the field of sexuality education by augmenting young people¿s voices and agency, and by emphasizing a democratic and civic focus. This volume identifies and interrogates theoretical frameworks based on critical theory and critical pedagogical discourses, cross-cultural studies and critical literacy to offer new ways to conceptualize critical pedagogy in sexuality education. Many of the practical classroom applications presented will engage educators and classroom teachers in the areas of curriculum design, classroom pedagogies and institutional reform. They can also be applied to the formulation and implementation of more effective policies for sexuality education involving schools, community groups and students. The chapters in this volume interrogate texts, institutions, social relations and ideologies impacting contemporary sexuality education policies and pedagogical practices, prompting a consideration of alternative models of sexuality education for today¿s globalized age.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 224 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Le colloque organisé les 2-3 mai 2014 à l'Université de Genève avait pour but de donner une vue d'ensemble des connaissances sur les rites liés aux portes ou la ritualisation des passages à travers les portes dans l'Antiquité, plus précisément en Egypte, en Mésopotamie, en Anatolie, en Grèce et dans le monde biblique. Conçu sur deux journées, le colloque donnait d'une part la parole aux jeunes chercheurs de l'Université de Genève, d'autres part à des spécialistes internationaux.Qu'on les traverse, qu'on les construise, qu'on cherche à les protéger, il existe tout un ensemble de pratiques rituelles spécifiques aux portes que les différentes contributions du recueil vont aborder. Il offre donc diverses réflexions tant sur les génies des portes que sur les rites de passage qu'on traite des portes urbaines, des portes de temples ou des portes de tombes. 134 pp. Englisch, Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book presents a collection of papers by researchers from several different institutions on a wide range of globalization issues. Globalization is a phenomenon that affects many areas of life. Global change brings about positive and negative effects in political, cultural and economic fields in Turkey as well. The changes which are deeply affecting social life, exist in various forms. 372 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This monograph is a pioneering discourse-oriented study on gambling. Adopting the approach of critical discourse analysis (CDA), it analyzes how gamblers¿ identities are constructed through discourse by social institutions. The data consist of newspaper forum letters, gamblers¿ monologues released by a state gambling regulatory agency, and materials on problem/pathological gambling published by medical professionals. Incorporating a variety of analytical frameworks from prior researchers into the study, the author offers concrete linguistic evidence on the essential complementary ontological presence of institutional power holders and the «docile bodies» (Foucault, 1977) for societal functioning and the maintenance of social stability. 240 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This Yearbook of the Central and Eastern European Forum of Young Legal, Political and Social Theorists is devoted to the analysis of the consequences of the Central and Eastern European transition. The volume focuses on understanding the constantly evolving process of democratization. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union democratic transitions took place all over this region and the new democracies had different shapes. All states, however, wished to become a western-type democracy. The authors evaluate the ongoing struggle in the region to understand and to make others understand the peculiarities of these seemingly western-type, but somewhat different democratic regimes. 248 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -L¿objectif de cet ouvrage est triple : il pose d¿abord la question du rôle de la qualité, comme concept et outil, et des ressources territoriales dans le développement local et l¿aménagement rural. Il permet ensuite, à travers les questions de l¿enjeu de l¿alimentation, de la gestion des espaces ruraux et du foncier, d¿interroger les instruments de la qualification territoriale à partir de l¿exemple des Appellations d¿Origines Protégées (AOP) et les Indications Géographiques Protégées (IGP). Ces instruments offrent des opportunités de dynamisation des territoires et interrogent les nouveaux enjeux de l¿aménagement du territoire rural en France et en Europe. Enfin, il met en débat un cadre théorique sur la qualification territoriale par croisement des diverses politiques rurales de la qualité.Ce livre aborde successivement les questions des trajectoires de la qualification et des ressources territoriales à partir de terrains français « englobés » pour partie dans des logiques métropolitaines. Plus largement, l¿action publique locale montre que la qualité est aujourd¿hui attendue et réclamée par la société et conditionne souvent la mise en ¿uvre de solutions spécifiques d¿aménagement des espaces. Tout en mobilisant une approche interdisciplinaire, cette étude contribue à élargir le champ de l¿aménagement de l¿espace en incluant les questions de la connaissance, mais aussi de la cognition spatiale à travers différents statuts de l¿espace rural, dans des contextes économiques et géographiques variées.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 282 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -La Guerre de 1914-1918, par son caractère global, ses innovations technologiques, ou encore son degré de violence, marque une étape significative de l¿histoire contemporaine. La Belgique, premier pays du front Ouest à être envahi, se situe aux premières loges de cette nouvelle phase historique. La neutralité « perpétuelle, permanente et garantie » de ce territoire est violée, en transgression du droit international public. Ce point d¿ancrage semble propice à l¿étude d¿un milieu ayant peu attiré l¿attention des historiens¿: les juristes belges de droit international. Cette étude est à même de mieux nous informer sur les caractéristiques de ce milieu professionnel en soi, concerné au premier chef par l¿acte inaugural de la guerre, sur ses pratiques, ses codes, ses réseaux internationaux, le positionnement des juristes, mais aussi, en négatif, de nous renseigner sur un aspect méconnu de l¿image de la Belgique et de sa position dans la hiérarchie internationale, à savoir sa contribution au droit international. L¿évolution de ce milieu et de ce qüil représente, à l¿aune de la Guerre de 1914-1918, reconnue pour avoir accéléré la juridicisation des relations internationales, constitue l¿essentiel de l¿angle d¿approche adopté par notre recherche. Ces réflexions nous mènent à la problématique générale de cet ouvrage, que l¿on peut énoncer comme suit : dans quelle mesure les juristes belges de droit international public, de 1914 à 1940, ont tissé des réseaux internationaux, ont été des indicateurs de l¿évolution de la Belgique dans la hiérarchie internationale et, surtout, ont été influencés par l¿expérience de la Guerre de 1914-1918, en tant que génératrice d¿une mémoire influant sur les modes d¿expressions et de représentations de ce groupe social Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 250 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Focusing on crucial issues in higher education, this book challenges readers to go beyond taken-for-granted assumptions about Americäs colleges and universities and instead critically examine important questions facing them in today¿s troubled world. Each chapter presents divergent perspectives, that is, 'pro' and 'con' views, in the hope of stimulating reasoned dialogue among students, faculty, administrators, and the public at large. Readers will explore how internal factors in the academic community often interact with external social, economic, and political influences to produce conflictual results. They will see that academe is hardly value-neutral and inevitably political. This book urges them to transcend strident political persuasion and instead engage in the careful analysis needed to make colleges better. The text provides in-depth appraisal of key topics of controversy: the purposes of higher education, liberal education, academic freedom, political correctness, tenure, shared governance, faculty workload, admissions tests, student learning, Greek life, the worth of college, equity and social justice, athletics, student entitlement, technology and distance instruction, and college amenities. The book will appeal to students, faculty, staff, and all those interested in the future of higher education. It is especially useful for courses in contemporary issues in higher education, foundations of higher education, higher education and society, college student development, and the organization and administration of higher education. 544 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -While migrant workers become the backbone of Chinäs fast growing economy, internal migration and its impacts on various aspects of social life in China have been an increasing concern of both the Chinese general public and the academics. It is timely, therefore, that identities of and stances towards migrant workers represented in Chinäs media are subject to discourse analysis and sociolinguistic research. This book examines how identities of and stances towards migrant workers have been constructed, transformed and mediated in Chinäs media discourse, and it investigates the media strategies and practices constructing these media products. This book provides a comprehensive study of how the media representation of migrant workers is interacting with the sociocultural transformation in China. The findings and discussions of the book offer critical insights into media discourse and practice in contemporary China which will be of interest to scholars and research students in discourse studies, sociolinguistics, media and communication studies, and China studies.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 198 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book chronicles Greece¿s turbulent history during the first half of the twentieth century as it both shaped and was shaped by one of its most distinguished political figures, Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza. Written by his daughter, the book is part historical biography, part coming-of-age novel, part memoir. It draws extensively on Averoff¿s prolific literary oeuvre and personal archives, while weaving seamlessly back and forth from past to present in a voice all its own. We follow the protagonist from his birth in 1908, when Greece was still a monarchy reeling from the losses of the Greco-Turkish War of 1897, to the late 1940s and the Civil War, by which time Averoff had become a seasoned, cosmopolitan politician. In the interim, as the protagonist contends with the vagaries of history and a captivating cast of supporting characters, we see him grow into a living, breathing person, endowed with the complexity and humour so often denied the one-dimensional figures of official history. A labour of love and a meditation on loss and transcendence, the book celebrates the raw pain, passion, ambition, love and, at times, sheer luck that shape who we are.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 408 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Vingt ans après la sortie du premier tome, l¿univers des Harry Potter est toujours présent en librairie, au cinéma et sur Internet mais également, depuis l¿été 2017, sur une scène de théâtre londonienne. Cet ouvrage analyse les processus d¿écriture et de réécriture à l¿oeuvre à l¿intérieur et autour de cet univers de fiction. En effet, les choix stylistiques et littéraires de l¿auteure encouragent une lecture à la fois captive et distanciée qui peut expliquer, en grande partie, la projection des lecteurs dans ce monde et leur envie de le retrouver et de le prolonger à travers de multiples médias.Ce livre porte premièrement sur les formes d¿écrit présentes dans l¿oeuvre et les jeux mis en place autour de l¿écrit dans les intrigues, ceux-ci étant classés selon les genres littéraires dans lesquels s¿inscrit le texte de Rowling.Il aborde ensuite la question des jeux proposés par la romancière à ses lecteurs, développe une analyse de son écriture, qualifiée de ludique, visuelle, réflexive et manipulatrice, et explique en quoi cette oeuvre transgénérationnelle propose plusieurs niveaux de lecture. En s¿appuyant sur les théories de la réception, cette étude s¿intéresse particulièrement aux façons de solliciter la mémoire, l¿esprit de déduction et la culture des lecteurs.Enfin, ce livre traite des réécritures des romans de J.-K. Rowling dans les médias ou sous forme de traductions, de parodies ou de copies publiées. Il présente également les pratiques transfictionnelles et transmédiatiques qüa inspirées et inspire toujours l¿heptalogie. Ces dernières se déclinent en livres, films, jeux vidéo, fanfictions ou encore en productions théâtrales mais proposent aussi d¿autres formes de réappropriation de l¿oeuvre dont le tatouage féérique est un exemple significatif.C¿est en analysant de plus près tous ces phénomènes que cet ouvrage permet de mieux comprendre en quoi Harry Potter est un phénomène culturel sans équivalent.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 354 pp. Französisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book presents contributions from migration sociologists inspired by Florian Znaniecki¿s theory and the results of his studies to conduct their own research in countries like Austria, China, Greece and Poland. The authors evaluate today¿s migration phenomena with reference to a coherent theoretical system. The book can be used as a manual presenting the tools for examining the migration experience from many angles: a sense of national identity (ethnic and civic), family ties, the importance of the social environment in the process of an individual¿s integration with the society or an evolution of entire social systems within which the migrants operate. 250 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book analyses how deeply Finnish and Polish second-home owners are integrated into the community¿s economy. It evaluates second homes considered as a dynamically growing constituent of rural landscape in Europe. The author examines what the key drivers of the consumer¿s behaviour are, and what the impact of their spending is on the local economy. He utilizes a variety of analytical methods, i.e. classification trees, cluster analysis, regression models, Engel curves and statistical tests. His analysis is nested in microeconomic and consumer theories, tourism and rural studies. The research findings lead to the general conclusion on the consumption convergence that despite contrasting cultural, social and economic backgrounds as well as clear differences in the second home functioning, Finnish and Polish second-home owners are similar to a large extent, in terms of consumer behaviour. «The monograph is well positioned at the outset with respect to rural social and economic change. This is a solid piece of research that significantly furthers the understanding of economic linkage of second homes in Poland and Finland, and should be valued for its potential contributions to policy and regional development.» «Professor C. Michael Hall, University of Canterbury» «The book comprises a thorough investigation of the economic relationship between second homes and rural areas at the local level. The study, for the first time, provides a detailed analysis of informal purchasing in the context of second homes. This significant finding should be taken seriously by rural developers and policy makers in both countries.» «PhD, Kati Pitkänen, Finnish Environmental Institute» «This work is very useful in empirical, descriptive, analytical, methodological and practical terms. The monograph provides comprehensive and detailed characteristics of the widespread second-home phenomenon in two European countries as well as the assessment of its impact on the local, mostly rural, economy.» «Professor Jerzy Wilkin, Institute of Rural and Agricultural Development, Polish Academy of Sciences» 344 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The authors of this book explore various areas of phonology and morphology. They cover a wide range of theoretical and methodological themes, among them phonological representation, allomorphy, opacity, contrast preservation, markedness, frequency of use, the interface of morphology and phonology, domains, sound change, synchronic and diachronic perspective, phonetic grounding and metrical structure. The analyses are couched in theoretical frameworks, including Optimality Theory, Derivational Optimality Theory and Government Phonology. Other than English, also Polish, Ukrainian, Belarusian, and West Slavic languages are analysed. This collection of papers is published in honour of Jerzy Rubach to recognise his contribution to the field of phonology. 276 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Ce volume s¿attache aux acceptions théoriques et aux enjeux institutionnels de l¿inter- et de la transdisciplinarité, qui rencontrent un succès croissant dans les domaines des Lettres et Sciences humaines en ce premier quart du 21e siècle. Il interroge tout d¿abord le concept de discipline, les questions identitaires et les conflits de territoire qui lui sont liés dans la construction de la connaissance. Il étudie ensuite les problèmes pratiques et éthiques résultant de l¿émergence de nouveaux paradigmes de recherche ainsi que les modes de leur application à des projets collectifs. Il s¿intéresse enfin à des parcours indisciplinés qui conduisent les chercheurs hors des voies tracées par l¿institution académique. 282 pp. Französisch.