Peter lang group ag sep 2026 (10 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -'Sally Watson has written a deeply humane and courageous book that asks us to face the enduring imprint of war, while still daring to hold onto the possibility of peace. Drawing on lived experience, it reveals how trauma lingers within individuals and communities, shaping the conflicts we struggle to resolve. What resonates most is the connection between our inner wounds and the violence in the external world. Ultimately, it is a moving and hopeful invitation to reimagine peace as something we must live, nurture, and embody together.'- Simon Western, PhD, CEO Eco-Leadership Institute'Based on a valuable combination of personal histories and broader research, Sally Watson's book invites the reader to reflect upon the brutality of modern warfare. It questions assumptions over how war is justified and presents evidence of the long-term impact of war crimes and their traumatic legacy. The book provides a vital antidote to those who seek to glamorize war or present its conduct in more abstract terms. This volume marries the reflections of those who suffered to analysis of how future conflicts might be averted. As such, it ought to be read by policymakers, pundits, scholars and students alike.'- Jon Tonge, Professor of Politics, University of LiverpoolOne of the common features of contemporary wars and violent conflicts is the long-term impact of war trauma on both individuals and their communities. There is rarely a clean break from past conflicts, or a healthy reset in relationships despite peace processes. In many parts of the world there are communities who have been directly or indirectly exposed to violence for decades. The impact of violent conflict on human beings has an accumulative effect from one generation to another and this includes serving military, veterans, and civilians. This is a major inhibitor to sustainable peace.The book uses a timeline of wars since 1945 to illustrate that the political vision of 'never again' has become hollow rhetoric. Warfare has evolved from the global, conventional violence of two world wars to localized conflicts and brutal civil wars across the world. The human consequences of modern wars include civilian casualty rates, now a shocking 90%, and a gradual normalization of war crimes. The military technology of today's world includes precision bombing, but the world's leaders fail in their international responsibility to protect non-combatants. 138 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware 146 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Geoengineering and terraforming are modes of planetary adaptation that were first imagined in science fiction. These rich concepts have become implicated in ideas about climate change in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries.This book examines geoengineering and terraforming stories by Kim Stanley Robinson, Neal Stephenson, N. K. Jemisin, Jane Killick and M. Darusha Wehm (Terraforming Mars board game novelizations), Adrian Tchaikovsky and Annalee Newitz to understand how twenty-first-century science fiction uses these concepts to analyse and critique the dimensions of our contemporary climate context and our responses to its effects.Understanding science fiction as generative of models that inform thinking about substantive contemporary concerns, this book ultimately argues that science fiction presents a diverse and dynamic creative field that can and should be used to shape public engagement and policy about climate change and climate change mitigation and adaptation. 132 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The 21st century has exposed the limitations of Modernist dualist logic in addressing the complexities of contemporary life. Entities like COVID-19 and the environmental crisis exemplify 'dualism-busting assemblages of the Capitalocene,' presenting humanity with wicked problems that defy traditional ontologies. In this context, phronetic science-rooted in practical wisdom and morally guided praxis-offers an alternative approach to navigating equivocal circumstances for the common good. Western Modern Science has long dominated curriculum, teaching, and research, yet emergent science education scholars must now grapple with issues of equity, identity, and justice. This requires engaging with critical, feminist, Indigenous, decolonial, post-humanist, and other transformative perspectives. These alternative epistemologies and ontologies challenge hegemonic paradigms, urging new ways of conceptualizing research in science teaching and learning that are more inclusive, ethical, and responsive to the diverse realities of our interconnected world. 186 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware 322 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book presents a pioneering linguistic study of modality in the Qur an. Although there is considerable research on modal expressions in modern Arabic, modality in Classical Arabic and the Qur an in particular have not been examined in a systematic linguistic framework. This volume helps fill this gap.Drawing on contemporary linguistic theories and implementing a textual-linguistic approach, this volume explores how modal meanings are expressed in the Qur an through verbs, particles and syntactic constructions. It focuses on the epistemic, deontic and dynamic modalities and traces how each function in the Qur an.The analyses show how modal expressions are used differently depending on whether the speaker is divine or human, and how meanings shift across contexts and discourses. 200 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Colonialism was once viewed as a way to spread Enlightenment ideas globally. In reality, colonisers worldwide were highly oppressive, relentlessly exploiting their subjects, with British rule in India being no exception. Colonialism often distorted the values and ideals of care, compassion and empathy, the principles they supposedly aimed to advocate to promote human well-being. However, these very ideals of Enlightenment philosophy enabled colonial subjects to scrutinise and challenge their rulers, revealing their failure to uphold professed values. Indian nationalists used Enlightenment ideals as a tool in their fight for independence. Built on this backdrop, this argumentative text emphasises the contribution of British colonialism in the shaping of India's primary politico-ideological priorities. The book reveals that constitutional liberalism evolved naturally in India, presumably because it was never regarded as an alien conceptual framework, even by the nationalists who fought fiercely to end colonialism. 304 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Scottish painter Erskine Nicol (1825-1904) produced more than 600 scenes of Irish life. This book investigates the reasons for their success in Edinburgh, London, Paris or New York, using concepts in cultural studies. Nicol adapted Victorian prejudices, as well as anti-Irish clichés, in his pictures of Ireland. Thus, he painted caricatures suggesting that he complied with prevalent imperialist ideas. Yet, some of his canvasses are ambivalent, as they highlight the injustices generated by the British regulation of Ireland's agricultural system. This questioning of British authority through painting, a highly codified artistic genre, was enabled by Nicol's style, inspired by Dutch Old Masters, the Scottish School of Art and Social Realism. However, his realism was limited because such pictures were difficult to sell. So, this volume explores his motivations, to see if they came from his fondness for stereotypes, his compassion for the Irish or his commercial ambitions. 622 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -What potential relevance does the experience of Graeco-Roman Antiquity have to the vastly expanding field of the Medical Humanities and its contribution to 'humanizing' contemporary medicine and healthcare And again, how can the insights from the relatively young Medical Humanities enhance our understanding of the ancient Greek and Roman past, a past often still surprisingly relevant today In an attempt to critically and creatively approach these two complementary questions, the central aim of this book is to promote a constructive dialogue between the disciplines of the Classics (Classical Studies), on the one hand, and the broadly defined Medical Humanities (or Health Humanities), on the other. Much of the effort of the contributions gathered in this volume goes to putting past and present into conversation, in order to discover continuities and contrasts with present-day perspectives while looking for the contemporary relevance and meaning of the ancient materials. 440 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The 21st century has exposed the limitations of Modernist dualist logic in addressing the complexities of contemporary life. Entities like COVID-19 and the environmental crisis exemplify 'dualism-busting assemblages of the Capitalocene,' presenting humanity with wicked problems that defy traditional ontologies. In this context, phronetic science-rooted in practical wisdom and morally guided praxis-offers an alternative approach to navigating equivocal circumstances for the common good. Western Modern Science has long dominated curriculum, teaching, and research, yet emergent science education scholars must now grapple with issues of equity, identity, and justice. This requires engaging with critical, feminist, Indigenous, decolonial, post-humanist, and other transformative perspectives. These alternative epistemologies and ontologies challenge hegemonic paradigms, urging new ways of conceptualizing research in science teaching and learning that are more inclusive, ethical, and responsive to the diverse realities of our interconnected world. 186 pp. Englisch.…