peter lang nov 2016 (251 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book examines the financial performance of Turkish firms that were privatized by way of IPOs (Initial Public Offerings). The author uses event study methodology to empirically evaluate the financial efficiency of privatized firms. She also compares the equity returns of state firms to the returns of private sector firms that were listed in the same period or in the same sector. The pre-and-post privatization performance is tested using the Wilcoxon signed-rank test involving accounting data and financial ratios of the privatized firms. Empirical findings of post privatization analysis indicate improvements in firm performance in regard to real sales, leverage and capital expenditures. 120 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The book analyzes the methods used in the construction of the grounded type of sociological theory. It provides an overview of examples of qualitative research which are used for delineating the principal characteristics of methods employed in the construction of the grounded type of theory. Subject to explication are the characteristics of concepts, categories, and properties of categories employed in this type of theory, as well as the main steps involved in the construction of a grounded type of theory. These steps are explicated by applying the modern logical and methodological treatment of induction, deduction, and abduction. 110 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Since 1991, Kyrgyzstan¿s leaders have pursued a post-Soviet national identity. Their concepts failed to consolidate the country¿s multi-ethnic society, and continuously antagonize civic values and ethnic myth. The author applies international relations theory to frame Kyrgyzstan¿s identity crisis: The ruling elite has to manage tensions between their strong dependency on Russia as main donor and security provider and domestic challenges in their pursuit of a national identity. A legitimate national identity must represent both the foreign policy interests of the country and the demands of the Kyrgyz majority and ethnic minorities for representation. The Kyrgyz case unveils the complex dialectics of domestic pressure and external interests that have defined post-Soviet nation building in Russiäs near abroad. 144 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Much has been written about the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, but one story remains untold: that of the grassroots activism that maintained local communities in the face of violence. This book speaks through the voices of the activists themselves, drawn from both sides of a divided society. It records their memories of community organising and work on social issues, as well as their insights into surviving the politics of the period and contributing to peacebuilding. Providing a vivid account of how politics touched people¿s lives, the book celebrates the energy, imagination and determination of community activism. It also examines the challenges faced by policymakers struggling to make sense of conflicting community narratives and official government positions.There are vital lessons here for organisers, activists and policymakers working in any contested society, particularly those operating at the interface between social need and peacebuilding. Informed by an oral history approach, this book argues that conflict transformation is possible and that community activism has a major contribution to make in creating alternatives to violence.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 342 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book discusses how judges qualify their activities as objective. The data for this project was retrieved from a large sample of cases using Langacker¿s methodology. The sample included over a thousand decisions from Brazil, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Romania and the UK. The decisions considered allegations of judicial bias, unfairness, and injustice. Pre-judices are shared cognitive methods that legal practitioners perceive as necessary. The results of the study directly confirm Pierre Legrand¿s claims of pre-judices in legal discourse, and as corollary, Jules L. Coleman and Brian Leiter¿s idea of modest objectivity in law. 136 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Education is a major political issue and a major focus of country attention. The fact that the development and knowledge brought forth by an information society is constantly being questioned and has made development and innovation in education inevitable. Education is also seen as a crucial factor in ensuring economic productivity and social development. This book examines the educational policies and results in Turkey. It states that basic problems of the Turkish education system are inequality, quality and a lack of planning. Centralized structure affects autonomy negatively in schools. The problem with education policies of the Ministry of National Education is also the lack of vision. This volume develops needed paradigms to balance the opinions of the decision makers, administrators and teachers with the preferences of the student body in Turkey. 204 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -While the importance of the role of storytelling can hardly be overestimated, the impact of digitalization on this role is more ambivalent. In this second book-length publication of the programme Media and Education in the Digital Age ¿ MEDA, the authors take a critical stance towards the alleged emancipative affordances of digital storytelling in education. The collection is inspired by the effort of making professional educators aware of the risks of the digital turn in educational storytelling but also of the opportunities and the conditions for critical engagements. Based on their research and field experience, fifteen scholars discuss in nine chapters these risks and opportunities, providing ideas, evidence, references and inspiration to educators and researchers. 192 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Schistosomiasis is one of the most prevalent parasitic diseases worldwide and continues to be a public health concern in many countries. China made huge progress in the control of Schistosomiasis japonica, aiming at the elimination of the disease from many previously endemic areas. This book presents a scientific investigation into the practical implementation of the Chinese national control strategy at the grass root level. It focusses on availability and composition of human resources for control and on performance of sero-diagnostic tests needed for case detection and surveillance. The main message of this book is that effective control and elimination of Schistosomiasis are feasible, but high levels of support for control need to be sustained to prevent resurgence of this disease. 200 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book focuses on the relationships between the creative city principles and the planning approach introduced by the European Landscape Convention in order to identify best practices for the development of innovative cultural policies and new urban regeneration tools. The research is characterized by a cross-cutting approach to cultural heritage. It proposes a new model for the design of advanced cultural districts consisting of a benchmark methodology and a 'toolbox' of spatial, economic and social indicators that can be used to build the necessary knowledge. Finally, having Sardinia Region (IT) as reference, the book offers a picture of programs and plans to which the methodology and the toolbox can be applied, outlining their potential impacts within cultural and spatial planning. 204 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book focuses on Free Church pastors in Germany and their perceptions of spirit possession and mental illness. To explore Free Church pastors¿ understanding of spirit possession and mental illness is critical in light of the overlap of symptoms. Misdiagnosis may result in a client receiving treatment that may not be appropriate. Interviews with Free Church pastors were conducted. The results were analysed and four themes were identified. Based on these interviews conclusions could be drawn which ultimately made it clear that the German free church pastors¿ theological training needs to be supplemented in the area of psychology and that the pastors are unable to cope in the area of «spirit possession or mental illness». 148 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Alexander Lyon presents 31 case studies in organizational communication that explore issues of courageous communication. Through case studies on many well-known organizations such as Google, the Miami Dolphins, NASA, Comcast, the Boy Scouts of America, Netflix, Taco Bell, Massachusetts General Hospital, Merck Pharmaceuticals, and others, the book articulates a communication-based model of courage around four themes: Courageous communication is collaborative, upward, transparent, and engaging. The book presents both effective and cautionary portraits of organizations as they responded to complex issues. It situates the case studies in existing literature and provides practical guidance for enacting courageous communication in professional settings. 360 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Bridging two «camps» in the field of international public opinion ¿ nation branding and public diplomacy ¿ this book presents a first-of-its-kind cohesive framework with which readers can better research, teach, practice, and understand the field. At its core is the introduction of the Model of Country Concept, which illustrates the array of factors, including hard- and soft-power initiatives, that shape how global citizens form their opinions about other countries.Each chapter applies the Model of Country Concept across a wide geographic, methodological, and disciplinary range of qualitative and quantitative research studies. They include traditional and social media content, international educational exchange programs, tourism, government-sponsored programs, and entertainment. By way of definitions, prior research findings, professional best practices, and published theories and models, the book offers a framework for future positioning of both practice around and research about nation branding and public diplomacy.Written for practitioners, researchers, teachers, and students of public diplomacy, international relations, media/journalism, and strategic communication, among others, the book offers a comprehensive yet approachable solution for framing a conversation about the heterodox nature of nation branding and public diplomacy, and advances the field through original research. 292 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Das Buch analysiert die Kriegs- und Reiseberichte des Reisejournalisten und -filmemachers Colin Roß (1885¿1945). Roß galt in der Weimarer Republik als einer der populärsten Vertreter der geopolitisch interessierten Reiseberichterstattung. Als höchst relevant erweist sich dabei der Umgang von Roß und seinem Publikum mit dem reiseliterarisch geprägten Topos des Abenteuers sowie der Gattung des Kriegsberichts. Durch die jeweilige Adaptierung seiner Kriegserfahrung und des Abenteuer-Elements konnte Roß seine Werke für ideologisch und kulturell unterschiedlich orientierte Publika aufbereiten. Die Autorin vergleicht die deutschen und österreichischen Produktions- und Rezeptionsbedingungen und gibt Aufschluss darüber, wie sich diese Kultfigur einen festen Platz in der Öffentlichkeit sichern konnte. 104 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The merchants of the medieval Hanse monopolised trade in the Baltic and North Sea areas. The authors describe the structure of their trade system in terms of network organisation and attempts to explain, on the grounds of institutional economics, the coordination of the merchants¿ commercial exchange by reputation, trust and culture. The institutional economics approach also allows for a comprehensive analysis of coordination problems arising between merchants, towns and the ¿Kontore¿. Due to the simplicity and flexibility of network trade the Hansards could bridge the huge gap in economic development between the West and the East. In the changing economic conditions around 1500, however, exactly these characteristics proved to be a serious limit to further retain their trade monopoly. 196 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book deals with the feasibility analysis of market-oriented Higher Education Institutions based on the data of international field survey. The topics under examinations require the use of qualitative methods: guideline-oriented open expert interviews in different countries for data collection, content analysis of the survey data, and proposal of a Balanced Scorecard application in the Higher Education Institution management. Based on the elements of New Public Management methodology the author elaborates a detailed development plan usable as a model to restructure a Higher Education Institution to cope with the challenges of the Future. 196 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The book contains comparative analyses of the development of litanic verse in European poetry, from medieval to modern times. Litanic verse is based on different syntactic devices, such as enumeration, parallelism, anaphora and epiphora. However, it is not to be seen merely as a convention of versification as the popularity of different variants of the verse in Europe reflects the religious, intellectual, social and political history of various European regions. The essays in the second volume focus on litanic verse in the Germanic languages. They discuss predominantly the literatures of Protestant countries (Great Britain, Denmark, Germany, Norway), but also Austrian poetry. 270 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Although he committed suicide at the age of twenty-five, Mário de Sá-Carneiro left behind a rich corpus of texts that is inventive, playful, even daring. The first collection in English to be dedicated to his work, this volume brings together scholars from Portugal, Brazil, and the USA to reassess Sá-Carneirös contribution to Portuguese and European Modernism(s). In the book, established researchers and younger scholars delve into the complexities and paradoxes of his work, exploring not only the acclaimed novella Luciös Confession, but also his poetry, short fiction, and correspondence. Each essay engages in the necessary task of placing Sá-Carneirös work in a wider literary and artistic context, bringing back to his texts the creative energy of early twentieth-century Europe. Plural in their methods, the essays propose multiple lenses through which to tackle key aspects of Sá-Carneirös ¿uvre: his aesthetic and artistic influences and preoccupations; his negotiations/performances of identity; and the ways in which his work emerges in dialogue with other Modernist authors and how they in turn engage with his work. Though he is sometimes overshadowed by his more famous friend and artistic comrade, Fernando Pessoa, this collection shows just how much one misses, if one overlooks Sá-Carneiro and other writers of the Orpheu generation.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 208 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book is related to the development of intraregional commercial exchanges in the region of the Indian Ocean. This issue is addressed from an economic as well as from a legal point of view. The contributions, in English and French, aim to present an overview of the economic, customs-related, technical, legal and cultural restraints that hinder the creation of a free trading area. Cet ouvrage est consacré au développement des échanges commerciaux intrarégionaux dans la région de l¿Océan Indien. Cette question est examinée sous un angle politique, économique et juridique. Les différentes contributions, en anglais et en français, visent à établir un état des lieux des freins économiques, douaniers, techniques, juridiques et culturels à la création d¿un espace de libre échange. 446 pp. Englisch, Französisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia, formerly Timothy Ware, is unquestionably the best-known Orthodox theologian in the Western world today. The papers collected in this volume are designed to demonstrate the spread of his own interests and concerns and therefore range from the Desert Fathers to modern church dialogue, from patristics to church music, from the Philokalia to human «priesthood». In the course of a long career he has touched the lives of many people and there is a section of tributes concerned with his role as spiritual father, teacher, writer, pastor, theologian, and monk. In the epilogue the Metropolitan himself reflects on his many years as a pilgrim to Mount Athos. Most of the papers included in this volume were delivered at a conference convened by the Friends of Mount Athos at Madingley Hall, Cambridge, in 2015 in honour of Metropolitan Kallistos¿s eightieth birthday.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 278 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The comparative gesture performs both the act and the question of transition between the terms compared. Understood as an intercultural practice, comparative literature may thus also be understood as both a transitive and a transnational process, creating its own object and form of knowledge as it identifies and analyses lines of relation and exchange between literary cultures. When navigating between languages, the discipline becomes critically engaged with the possibility and methods of such navigation. Interdisciplinary and intermedial versions of comparative studies likewise centre around transitions that may themselves remain under-analysed.This collection of essays, with contributions ranging from medieval literature to digital humanities, seeks to illuminate and interrogate the very diversity of comparative situations, with their attendant versions of comparative discourse. The volume as a whole thereby reflects, however fragmentedly, a field of study that is itself faced with the reality of transition. As both a thematic and formal concern in comparative work, transition emerges, within any historical period or other configuration in which it is charted and analysed, as key to the renewed relevance of comparative literary scholarship and study today.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -English-medium instruction (EMI) is a complex educational innovation and a prerequisite for active participation in the process of internationalizing academia. Given its impact on today¿s universities, it is crucial that EMI should be effectively and responsibly implemented.This book draws on a range of theoretical and empirical insights to explore the implications of EMI for stakeholders and describe the measures that should be taken to capitalize on its strengths and respond to its challenges. Using questionnaires, interviews and classroom observation, the authors investigate two academic communities ¿ one that has undertaken instruction in English and one that has not ¿ to weave together teacher and student attitudes, experiences, expectations and needs, along with comparative findings from classroom practice in Croatian and English.By analysing EMI in a local academic context against the backdrop of the global higher education landscape, this book offers a glocal perspective and opens up new avenues for reflection and action that will be relevant toeducational institutions undergoing change. 152 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The book is an intellectual and political response to Thomas Sankaräs challenge to the African people to dare to invent their own future, an echo of Patrice Lumumbäs call for them to write their own history. Exploring the history of Africäs underdevelopment and the short-circuiting of the Pan-African movement, it argues for the revival of Pan-Africanism as a force for change and calls for a worthy successor to the Fifth Pan-African Congress.As a background to this argument and call, the book revisits Pan-Africanism¿s history and founding ideals and conducts ruthless forensic examinations of the de facto Bantustanization of much of Africa and parts of the Caribbean, the ¿alternative development¿ fiascos of the late twentieth century, the contemporary ¿globalization¿ and ¿democratization¿ of African projects by imperialist interests, the ¿Pan-Africanisms¿ of imperialism¿s active collaborators and other obstructions to the decolonization of Africa and African development.Finally, recognizing that the plights of many Afro-Latinos, Afro-Indians, Afro-Arabs and other ¿lost¿ or neglected ¿tribes of Africä ¿ as well as those of the victims of ¿black-empowered¿ predators ¿ call out for urgent Pan-Africanist responses, the book contains numerous start-up project ideas for action-oriented Pan-Africanists.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 300 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory presents the latest research from Irish studies scholars across a variety of disciplines, including history, literature, theatre, photography and folklore, and generates new and challenging insights into the dynamics of cultural remembrance in Irish society. Featuring contributions by leading researchers in the field such as Guy Beiner, Graham Dawson and Emilie Pine, this collection demonstrates how the examination of Irish cultural legacies can illuminate our understanding of processes of identity formation, heritage policies, canonization, musealization and the transgenerational and transcultural inflections of the past. Investigating topics such as trauma, contested politics and commemorative practices, and exploring recent theoretical developments, the volume offers an interdisciplinary overview of the recent cross-fertilization between memory studies and Irish studies.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 360 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The Critical Black Studies Reader is a ground-breaking volume whose aim is to criticalize and reenvision Black Studies through a critical lens. The book not only stretches the boundaries of knowledge and understanding of issues critical to the Black experience, it creates a theoretical grounding that is intersectional in its approach. Our notion of Black Studies is neither singularly grounded in African American Studies nor on traditional notions of the Black experience. Though situated work in this field has historicallygrappled with the question of «where are we » in Black Studies, this volume offers the reader a type of criticalization that has not occurred to this point. While the volume includes seminal works by authors in the field, as a critical endeavor, the editors have also included pieces that address the political issues that intersect with ¿ among others ¿power, race, class, gender, sexuality, religion, place, and economics.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 296 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book examines how cloud-based services challenge the current application of antitrust and privacy laws in the EU and the US. The author looks at the elements of data centers, the way information is organized, and how antitrust, competition and privacy laws in the US and the EU regulate cloud-based services and their market practices. She discusses how platform interoperability can be a driver of incremental innovation and the consequences of not promoting radical innovation. She evaluates applications of predictive analysis based on big data as well as deriving privacy-invasive conduct. She looks at the way antitrust and privacy laws approach consumer protection and how lawmakers can reach more balanced outcomes by understanding the technical background of cloud-based services. 254 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In dieser Studie stellt der Autor Fausts Werdegang vom Gelehrten zum Ökonomen, Landesplaner und Unternehmer dar und zeigt durch die innovative «geographische Deutung» des fünften Akts, inwiefern durch Fausts Neulandgewinnung eine blühende Kulturlandschaft hat entstehen können. Bislang bestand in der Faust-Forschung weitgehend Konsens darüber, dass Faust am Ende des Dramas ein Egomane und ein Illusionist ist und dass dessen Neulandprojekt scheitern wird. Der Autor zeigt hier, dass ganz im Gegenteil Fausts wirtschaftliches Wirken und damit sein ganzes Leben (trotz so mancher Schattenseiten) von Erfolg gekrönt ist. Durch diese neue Sichtweise weist das Buch den Weg zu einem positiven Faust-Bild. 132 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Cet ouvrage montre que le métier de directeur d¿établissement scolaire ou socio-sanitaire, souvent présenté comme une fonction, est aussi un travail, susceptible d¿une observation et d¿une mesure. Il se compose d¿une « foule de petites choses à faire » presque invisibles et d¿un organigramme complexe de dossiers ouverts, d¿actions à mener et à justifier. Le métier consiste aussi à accepter des décalages entre ce travail réel, souvent prosaïque, et l¿imaginaire du rôle. Enfin, il implique des expériences professionnelles marquées par des épreuves subjectivement et objectivement vécues, reliées aux évolutions politiques et économiques autant qüaux difficultés à répondre aux besoins et aux ambivalences des interlocuteurs : collaborateurs, usagers, familles, supérieurs hiérarchiques.Fondé sur une importante enqu ête menée en Suisse Romande, ce portrait collectif des directeurs au travail interpellera l¿ensemble des acteurs du domaine étudié. Bien au-delà, il offre matière à réfléchir à tout professionnel occupant une fonction de direction, de formation et de prise décision.BoD - Books on Demand, In de Tarpen 42, 22848 Norderstedt 332 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Qüil s¿agisse des mobilités étudiantes, des migrations de population, des exportations de modèles d¿enseignement et de manuels, de formation à distance des professeurs, etc. la didactique des langues contribue aux processus des échanges internationaux. L¿école, dans toutes ses dimensions curriculaires, y joue un rôle déterminant. Les relations complexes entre langues secondes et langues nationales y sont souvent des moteurs de changement et de contradiction. Cet ouvrage entend contribuer à une meilleure compréhension des phénomènes liés à la synchronie du double processus de mondialisation et de contextualisation des méthodologies, et du rôle de la didactique des langues dans diverses cultures et contextes éducatifs. Il s¿agit ainsi de comprendre les contradictions et les continuités observables au niveau des politiques linguistiques et éducatives ainsi que les décalages avec les approches scientifiques et méthodologiques qui sont préconisées. La question d¿une culture didactique de type « universel », telle que peut la proposer de manière théorique le CECRL, se repose donc ici. 252 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Nature, a topic central to art history, is concurrently a dominant concept in contemporary art, art theory and its related disciplines such as cultural theory, philosophy, aesthetic theory and environmental studies. The project Naturally Hypernatural questions lines of tradition and predetermined categories that coexist with the topic of nature. Currently, nature in art surpasses the simple depiction of art as a material or object. To clarify and analyze the interrelations between nature and art is the aim of the project Naturally Hypernatural. Concepts of Nature ¿ the first volume of this project ¿ argues that contemporary art is predominantly concerned with concepts of nature regarding the depth of their implications in order to reveal and analyze their internal structure.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 214 pp. Englisch, Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book addresses the question of human rights education in a world that is witnessing a resurgence of religion in public life, and a continuation of religion across much of the globe, long after secularization theories predicted its decline. Promoting a universal vision of human rights while acknowledging religious diversity is a challenge for schools. This book starts with the basic premise that human rights are grounded in a belief in the dignity and ultimate worth of the human person. Drawing on key philosophical and theological sources for understanding dignity, it builds a vision of human rights and religious education that seeks to square the impossible circle of universal human rights education in a religiously diverse world.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 314 pp. Englisch.