peter lang jun 2014 (298 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -What makes for peace as lived What images of peace issue from examination of daily experience What can be gleaned from reflection upon the topic for the meanings and makings of peace in our world Considering that to work for peace, we must begin with ourselves and with our children, Molly Quinn addresses these questions through her own life and work. She does so with those who would, and do, teach children, and with the children they teach. The text is rooted in inquiry with aspiring elementary teachers through a university social studies course in New York City, where East Harlem first-graders engage peace curriculum, and in the South Bronx, where fourth-graders attempt to understand and respond to neighborhood violence. The author seeks to elucidate educational possibilities for dreaming peace anew, and passionately living and laboring, singularly and together, for its realization among us.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 180 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is an established approach to support multilingualism in Europe by teaching various school subjects in an additional language. The practices used, however, vary considerably. Our book considers this diversity by looking at CLIL scenarios, defined as learning environments supporting content learning, language learning and skill development in task-based learning settings, with a strong focus on interaction in different curricular contexts (primary and secondary school and CLIL teacher education at university) and at various levels of proficiency (primary, secondary, tertiary). CLIL by Interaction is understood here both as negotiation of meaning and form as well as discourse to empower CLIL learners to participate in social interaction. 122 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The book defines and describes the relationships between Chopin¿s music and one of the oldest but still used monastic rules, the Rule of Saint Benedict. Its goal is to construct bridges between music and spirituality. Since these two realms both refer to human life, the chapters of the book deal with current and existential issues such as beginnings, authority, weakness, interactions, emotions and others. The Rule of Saint Benedict and Chopin¿s music appear to belong to the same stylistic category of human culture, characterized by nobleness, moderation and high sensibility. In this way two seemingly incompatible realities reveal their affinity to each other, and the one may explain the other. The book is situated at the boundary of musicology and theology. Its discourse is illustrated by many examples, carefully chosen from Chopin¿s music. 144 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Although Louis de Bernières is a famous and important contemporary novelist, and his work Captain Corelli¿s Mandolin has been translated and sold all over the world as a best-seller, there are few academic studies that focus methodologically and theoretically on it. The book attempts to partially overcome this handicap by focusing on various thematic and structural aspects which have been practically ignored so far by this line of criticism. It targets experts and students in literary studies whose concerns are ancient myths and their contemporary revival and reimagining, and who are familiar with goals and methods of myth criticism and archetypal critical discourse, and especially with their current postmodern and postmodernist perspectives. 120 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -What can philosophy tell us about privacy Quite a lot as it turns out. With Privacy and Philosophy: New Media and Affective Protocol Andrew McStay draws on an array of philosophers to offer a refreshingly novel approach to privacy matters. Against the backdrop and scrutiny of Arendt, Aristotle, Bentham, Brentano, Deleuze, Engels, Heidegger, Hume, Husserl, James, Kant, Latour, Locke, Marx, Mill, Plato, Rorty, Ryle, Sartre, Skinner, Spinoza, Whitehead and Wittgenstein, among others, McStay advances a wealth of new ideas and terminology, from affective breaches to zombie media. Theorizing privacy as an affective principle of interaction between human and non-human actors, McStay progresses to make unique arguments on transparency, the publicness of subjectivity, our contemporary techno-social condition and the nature of empathic media in an age of intentional machines.Reconstructing our most basic assumptions about privacy, this book is a must-read for theoreticians, empirical analysts, students, those contributing to policy and anyone interested in the steering philosophical ideas that inform their own orientation and thinking about privacy.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 186 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Feature films are jam-packed with political messages. This volume provides the tools for analyzing the politics embedded in films. Contributors reveal how subliminal messages are a clue to how the public perceives political reality through otherwise entertaining feature films.The volume is divided into two parts: Part One focuses on defining political films while Part Two looks at how «politics» is defined within films. Contributors find several ways of defining «political films», but agree that while the messages in films may often seem progressive, they are usually quite conservative, with the aim of making as much money as possible for the people financing the films.The book provides a history of political film and identifies several hundred films with specific political messages. 206 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -How do social scientists study the impact of social networking sites on racial identity formation How has the Internet impacted the accumulation of social and cultural capital By synthesizing insights across a variety of disciplines, this book builds an original theoretical perspective through which these and other questions about core social processes can be addressed. Three case studies of how African Americans use information and communication technologies (ICTs) are used to illustrate this theoretical perspective. They show how groups can leverage ICTs to overcome historical inequalities. The book argues that the lenses through which scholars and society¿s leaders think about new technology place too much emphasis on the technological and economic aspects of ICTs, and not enough on the impact of ICTs on social processes at the everyday level. 172 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book explores and analyzes the problems and challenges that have resulted from the Civil War, Reconstruction, slavery, and segregation in North America. These painful chapters in American history have continued along racial and regional lines and are of particular interest today when the USA are for the first time governed by an African American president. The postscriptum extends the main narrative by focusing on selected writers¿ activities and fiction during the Civil War and Reconstruction. 150 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The starting point for this book was the author¿s experience that much of what happens in sales happens randomly and incidentally. While searching for a proven structure he discovered the Rule of St Benedict, and transferred the content of these rules to sales. At first glance the undertaking seems a little ambitious, but it does succeed in delivering convincing results and practical benefits for the streamlining of sales processes. The central chapter of the book offers a sales structure which can be easily adapted for sales in all sectors. 168 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Shifts in Americäs socioeconomic geography have been documented since the 1960s, demonstrating the reversal of white flight and the reshaping of a nation, evidenced by the growing divide between underprivileged citizens and the wealthy. As state and local governments continue to scale back social services that impact health and well-being, how will disenfranchised groups fare in this expanding, market-driven global society Uprooting Urban America addresses this query by examining the social consequences of policies that change urban landscapes during the process of gentrification. In this book, junior and senior scholars present contemporary research findings and innovative strategies within the fields of education, healthcare, geography, sociology and policy studies. The book is ideal for graduate and advanced graduate level courses in the disciplines of education, sociology, cultural studies, political science, public policy, urban planning, social justice education and health care and human services.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 328 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The second volume of Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives seeks to build upon the agenda set in motion by the first volume, namely by: Offering an overview of key developments in citizen journalism since 2008, including the use of social media in crisis reporting; Providing a new set of case studies highlighting important instances of citizen reporting of crisis events in a complementary range of national contexts; Introducing new ideas, concepts and frameworks for the study of citizen journalism; Evaluating current academic and journalistic debates regarding the growing significance of citizen journalism for globalising news cultures.This book expands on the first volume by offering new investigations of citizen journalism in the United States, United Kingdom, China, India and Iran, as well as offering fresh perspectives from national contexts around the globe, including Algeria, Columbia, Egypt, Haiti, Indonesia and West Papua, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Myanmar/Burma, New Zealand, Norway, Palestine, Puerto Rico, Russia, Singapore, Syria and Zimbabwe.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 420 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The author undertakes an intellectual journey into the hidden past of the Polish history after 1939. He deals with Holocaust, collaboration, totalitarian rule, crisis of communism in Eastern Europe as well as Polish-Jewish relations during the war. The author is a founding father of a new approach in Holocaust research in Poland in which he has taken it from out of its intellectual ghetto as a strictly Jewish subject and repositioned it at the center of Poland¿s wartime history. Among other topics, the collection of essays deals with Jewish community in the Soviet annexed territories on the eve of the Holocaust, opportunistic killings and plunder of Jews by their neighbors and Poland¿s development from a civil society to a political nation. 172 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The Book of Margery Kempe (ca. 1438) offers an illuminating account of late medieval female spirituality, affective devotion and subversion. This study approaches Margery Kempe¿s roles in her earthly, heavenly and spiritual families from an interdisciplinary perspective. It details the tension between the domestic and spiritual life of the eccentric visionary and examines the intense agony and ecstatic pleasure imposed on her by the divine. Extensive research is devoted to late medieval female mysticism and the complex question of authorship and genre of The Book of Margery Kempe. In addition to a meticulous textual analysis, contemporary socio-religious, historical, medical and legal sources yield profound insights into the emotional and spiritual climate of the late Middle Ages. 176 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Le sociologue américain Harvey Sacks (1935-1975) a apporté une contribution décisive au développement de l¿ethnométhodologie en fondant l¿analyse de conversation et l¿analyse des catégorisations. Il a renouvelé l¿étude du rapport entre langage et action sociale en élaborant une démarche empirique originale fondée sur le recueil, la transcription et l¿analyse détaillée d¿échanges langagiers. L¿engouement pour les démarches pragmatistes que connaissent aujourd¿hui les sciences sociales confère une grande actualité à cet explorateur de la première heure de l¿organisation endogène des pratiques sociales. Le lecteur trouvera ici une introduction circonstanciée à son ¿uvre et une invitation à poursuivre de manière critique et innovante le type d¿enquête qüil a initié. Quatre textes de Sacks inédits en français sont suivis de cinq textes originaux qui entrent en dialogue avec sa démarche singulière. Ces contributions examinent la dimension sociologique de l¿¿uvre, aux niveaux épistémologique, analytique et méthodologique. Elles mettent également en évidence ses apports au traitement d¿objets tels que la socialisation, les structures sociales et les identités individuelles et collectives.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 236 pp. Französisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Cooperation is the fundamental feature of intelligent beings. It makes them able to evolve complex social behaviors and to better resolve practical issues. Humans have evolved a very powerful form of cooperation, which is spread anywhere in the everyday life: norms, institutions, states, hierarchies, ordinary relationships, etc., are deeply determined by the original notion of cooperation. This book addresses the conditions of the human cooperative activities in order to focus on their common roots and to bring them back to an unitary origin. It is profoundly animated by the task of understanding how cooperative skills are able to evolve the plurality of the cooperative activities from the spontaneous to the institutional ones and to find a common denominator for joint actions. It also explores the social-political aspects related to joint activities and deals with the notion of intersubjective freedom. 186 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Although published in 1986, Demand the Impossible was written from inside the oppositional political culture of the 1970s. Reading works by Joanna Russ, Ursula K. Le Guin, Marge Piercy, and Samuel R. Delany as indicative texts in the intertext of utopian science fiction, Tom Moylan originated the concept of the «critical utopia» as both a periodizing and conceptual tool for capturing the creative and critical capabilities of the utopian imagination and utopian agency. This Ralahine Classics edition includes the original text along with a new essay by Moylan (on Aldous Huxley¿s Island) and a set of reflections on the book by leading utopian and science fiction scholars.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 362 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In response to the recent surge of interest in studying epistemic transfers and changes, this volume assembles an interdisciplinary range of articles that look at the production, consumption and dissemination of knowledge in East Asia, centering on Korea, under the paradigm of knowledge circulation. Applying this heuristic tool offers new perspectives on pre-modern Korea and beyond. It allows for flexibility of scale and thus facilitates the identification of shared processes of appropriation, digestion and re-distribution of ideas, regardless of whether the exchanges take place between states and nations, between social groups, or even between individuals. The articles in this volume stress the spatial and social aspects of the process of knowledge circulation in particular: the role of location and of social networks in the production, evaluation and dissemination of new knowledge. 162 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The essays collected in this book provide profound insights into the wide-ranging topic of the fashionable queen: the manifold implications and effects that the combination of body, power and gender can have are examined by using different approaches and a variety of theoretical frameworks. By addressing queenly appearances in the past and the present, in politics and the media, in royalty and the middle-classes, in the arts and in popular culture, this book offers a new way of thinking of publically significant women, who exert, and at the same time subvert, their power through their attires and thereby negotiate notions of gender, class, power and media representation. 254 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Obwohl sich zahlreiche pädagogische Projekte unter dem Namen Lernwerkstatt firmieren und der Übergang vom Kindergarten in die Grundschule zu den meistdiskutierten erziehungswissenschaftlichen Themen der letzten Jahre zu zählen ist, gibt es nur wenige Untersuchungen, die sich mit der konkreten pädagogischen Arbeit in diesen Feldern auseinandersetzen. Der Autor geht diesen Desiderata nach und beleuchtet in seiner Studie die praktische Gestaltung des Übergangs in die Grundschule in einem institutionenübergreifenden Lernwerkstattprojekt. Die Bildungsprozesse zwischen Kindergarten- und Grundschulkindern in Auseinandersetzung mit ihrer räumlich-materialen Umwelt stehen dabei im Zentrum. Zudem kann nachgewiesen werden, wie Kinder in pädagogischen Räumen als kleine ForscherInnen adressiert werden. 130 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Aktuelle Lehrerbildungskonzepte legen den Akzent zunehmend auf personale Kompetenzen und relativieren damit die Bedeutung des Unterrichtsgegenstandes für die Gestaltung von Unterricht. Durchsetzungsvermögen und strategisches Handeln sollen das fehlende sachliche Argument kompensieren. Demgegenüber kann die Allgemeine Pädagogik zeigen, dass es im Unterricht nicht um die Durchsetzung einer Sache, sondern um ihren Geltungsanspruch geht. Diesen prüfen zu lernen ist Gegenstand des Unterrichts. Dieser grundlegende Zusammenhang wird von den Autoren des Bandes unter verschiedenen Aspekten entfaltet. Damit wollen sie zugleich an Jürgen-Eckardt Pleines erinnern, der die philosophische Fundierung der Lehrerbildung immer wieder angemahnt hat. 130 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The eruption of rural distress in Ireland and the foundation of the Land League in 1879 sparked a number of novels, stories and plays forming an immediate response to what became known as the Irish Land war. These works form a literary genre of their own and illuminate both the historical events themselves and the material conditions of reading and writing in late nineteenth-century Ireland. Divisions into ¿us¿ and ¿them¿ were convenient for political reasons, but the fiction of the period frequently modifies this alignment and draws attention to the complexity of the land problem.This collection includes studies of canonical land war novels, publication channels, collaborations between artists and authors, literary conventions and the interplay between personal experience and literary output. It also includes unique resources such as a reprinted letter by the author Mary Anne Sadlier and a reproduction of Rosa Mulholland¿s little-known play Our Boycotting. The book concludes with a detailed bibliography of land war fiction between 1879 and 1916, which should inspire further reading and research into the genre.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 244 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The end of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries have involved much discussion on overhauling and refining a scholarly understanding of the verbal system for first-century Greek. These discussions have included advances in verbal aspect theory and other linguistic approaches to describing the grammatical phenomena of ancient languages. This volume seeks to apply some of that learning to the narrow realm of how prohibitions were constructed in the first-century Greek of the New Testament. Part 1 «The Great Prohibition Debate» seeks to demonstrate that verbal aspect theory has a better explanation than traditional Aktionsart theory for authorial choices between the negated present imperative and the negated aorist subjunctive in expressing prohibitions in the Greek New Testament. Part 2 «All the Prohibitions in the Greek NT» continues to examine prohibitions, but is more of an exercise in functional linguistics. That is, rather than apply verbal aspect theory to the grammar of prohibition constructions, Part 2 seeks only to survey the (initially surprising) wide variety of ways prohibitions can be expressed in koine Greek: more than a dozen different constructions. To do this, the NT prohibitions are grouped in their varying grammatical-syntactical and/or pragmatic constructions, all of which function ¿ in varying degrees ¿ in a prohibitory fashion. This taxonomy may prove to be the beginnings of further investigations into how biblical Greek communicates commands. 596 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Es besteht weitgehend Einigkeit darüber, dass die Bioethik während der 1960er Jahre in den USA ihren Anfang nahm. Dass dieser Begriff aber schon wesentlich früher etabliert wurde, belegen die Arbeiten des protestantischen Theologen Fritz Jahr (1895¿1953) aus Halle (Saale), der bereits 1926 den Begriff Bioethik in seinem Artikel Wissenschaft vom Leben und Sittenlehre definierte und ihn ein Jahr später in dem Artikel Bio-Ethik ¿ Eine Umschau über die ethischen Beziehungen zu Tier und Pflanze näher ausarbeitete. Der von Jahr vorgeschlagene bioethische Imperativ lautet dabei: «Achte jedes Lebewesen grundsätzlich als einen Selbstzweck und behandle es nach Möglichkeit als solchen!» In diesem Tagungsband werden die Perspektiven dieser Thesen Jahrs näher untersucht. Dieses Buch enthält Beiträge in deutscher und englischer Sprache. 234 pp. Englisch, Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book presents an empirical approach to virtual communication. Based on the socio-cultural arguments of the postmodern paradigm, it demonstrates the necessity of analyzing the media pedagogy concept, both epistemologically and praxiologically. The concept of media competency is made operational by creating a system of communicational and informational competencies specific to the teaching personnel. To this end, the Mixed Standard Rating Scale is elaborated to rate and assess the media competencies of the secondary education teaching personnel. We have also proposed long life training programmes in the field of media pedagogy. These might be the answers identified against the challenges of virtuality as a mediatic and informational pressure. 210 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The purpose of this volume is to present the scientific background of the Children¿s Literature and Translation research group, which was established in 1992 at the University of Vigo. In 2006 it was awarded the category of Excellence Research Group. The scientific activities of members over the twenty years it has been in existence have contributed to improving and intensifying research into children¿s literature in Spain and also to raising its scientific status. The group has strengthened collaboration with other Spanish universities and opened fruitful cooperation with foreign research centres. This book shows some new research lines we are focussing on and reflects current research trends in Children¿s Literature in Spanish universities. 244 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book is the result of a shared conviction of the necessity to advance the international discourse on criticism. What originated in ancient curiosity and developing self-reflexion became the critical thought of the modern era and then developed into a program of constant intellectual contestation and struggle allied with various ideologies to subsequently become an integral part of post-structuralist culture theory and recently the New Humanities, also known as post-theory. The book positions itself within contemporary considerations of the theory and practice of criticism and presents texts by established and rising scholars and provides greater insights into various aspects of Polish intellectual culture during the past decades. The publication constitutes an important voice in the discussion on criticism by demonstrating the specific theoretical and pragmatic perspective of the debate in Poland in relation to Europe and the rest of the (post)modern world. 222 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Methods for studying writing processes have significantly developed over the last two decades. The rapid development of software tools which support the collection together with the display and analysis of writing process data and new input from various neighboring disciplines contribute to an increasingly detailed knowledge acquisition about the complex cognitive processes of writing. This volume, which focuses on research methods, mixed methods designs, conceptual considerations of writing process research, interdisciplinary research influences and the application of research methods in educational settings, provides an insight into the current status of the methodological development of writing process research in Europe. 248 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book primarily examines verbal prefixes expressing aspectuality in the Old and Middle English periods, but it also takes a look at the post-verbal particles in the subsequent periods of English. Verbal prefixes are also known as preverbs such as ge- in the Old English verb gegladian «cheer up» or ¿- in the Old English verb ¿streccan «stretch out». Prefixed verbs in Old English are said to be the functional equivalents and predecessors of phrasal verbs in Modern English. One of the aims of the research presented in this book was to consider how no longer productive Old English verbal prefixes such as ge-, ¿- and for- were used in the past to express verbal aspect. In this study two avenues of research converge, one covering aspect, the other covering verbal prefixes and particles. 208 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This data-oriented study aims at providing an onomasiological account of the historical synonyms of the term fallen woman from Old English up to Early Modern English. It focuses on linguistic mechanisms which are at work in the formation of euphemisms and dysphemisms semantically linked to the conceptual category Fallen Woman. Additionally, the book highlights the historical and cultural variations in the approach to sex relations in different parts of the world and in different epochs. The cognitive methodological apparatus is the core of the analytical part of the work. The results of the axiologically oriented analysis point to the prevailing tendency of female-specific lexical items to undergo the process of pejoration with the passage of time. 228 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The swimming pool frequently appears in film not merely as a setting but as a dynamic site where social, political, cultural and aesthetic forces converge. What is it about this space that has so fascinated filmmakers and what kinds of cinematic investigations does it encourage This collection features essays by an eclectic, international range of film researchers. Amongst the works analysed are classics such as The Cameraman (1928), The Philadelphia Story (1940) and La Piscine (1969); cult hits such as The Swimmer (1968) and Deep End (1970); and more recent representations of the pool in Water Lilies (2007), Sea Point Days (2009) and Ausente (2011). The pool is considered as a realm where artifice meets nature, where public meets private, where sexualities morph and blend; and as a space that reconfigures the relationship between architecture and narrative, in which themes of pollution, spectacle and reflexivity find unique expression. Approaching the swimming pool from a wide range of methodological perspectives, the essays in this collection stake a claim for the enduring significance of this exciting cinematic space. 249 pp. Englisch.