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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - These reminiscences of a friendship between Graham Greene and the author over two decades offer several original and significant additions to the knowledge of Greene's beliefs, experiences and involvements throughout his long and turbulent life. It is a brilliant illustration of the multiple connections of Graham Greene with Ireland, many of which would not be known to historians, literary critics or the general public. The relationship of Greene with Irish soldiers, writers and politicians as different as Ernie O'Malley, Seán O'Faoláin, Conor Cruise O'Brien and Gerry Fitt throw light on his deep interest in Irish history, literature and politics.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In this volume, scholars analyze contemporary Black British and American women¿s fiction that tackles issues of violence and its representations. The book gives readers a wide perspective about recent research on the history of Black women who have been subjected to physical and psychological violence, which defines the identities of those women who suffer it. The psychosocial and emotional consequences of violence leave traces that speak of vulnerability, but they also activate resistance and resilience mechanisms as suppliers of identity and personal agency, as reflected on the female characters and authors studied through this volume. The essays aim at publicizing less known writers who denounce abuse, trauma and discrimination, reflecting resilience and resistance mechanisms and taking the ethical rethinking of how we are building our social and culture relations. 188 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The Gravitational Pull Hypothesis is an attempt to provide a cognitive account for features of translated language. It assumes that translated and non-translated texts in the same language exhibit distributional differences that can be regarded as translational effects. This book presents a number of studies aiming to test that hypothesis on five linguistic items: passive construal of events, diminution, verbal aspect, light verb constructions and adjective position. The studies draw on data from the COVALT corpus as well as elicitation and translation tasks performed by professional translators. The results shed light not only on the hypothesis itself but also on the mixed-methods approach adopted in the book.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 250 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book deals with various contributions on innovation and knowledge from an educational perspective. Throughout the various chapters, empirical research, reflections and bibliographical studies from different areas of education are presented. All of this is articulated with the aim of forming a compendium of studies based on the knowledge generated in today¿s society. In short, this book is an indispensable tool for educators, researchers and students interested in the latest trends in education, offering didactic guides, case studies and analysis of methodologies to promote meaningful learning. 366 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Cet ouvrage collectif questionne l'articulation entre les conceptions théoriques de la mobilité et les pratiques institutionnelles de celle-ci dans les instituts de formation des enseignant.e.s en Suisse.Unter anderem werden folgende Fragen diskutiert: Wie werden Mobilitäten in der schweizerischen Lehrer:innenbildung typisiert Inwiefern finden grundlegende Konzepte, Begriffe und Epistemiologien Eingang in die Curricula Quelles sont les limites et les perspectives Chaque contribution apporte un éclairage situé institutionnellement aux questionnements communs, wobei Einblicke in bestehende Praktiken, das zugrunde liegende wissenschaftliche Verständnis und damit verbunden didaktische oder institutionelle Herausforderungen aufgedeckt werden.L'ouvrage réunit des contributions en français, en anglais, en allemand et parfois combinant plusieurs de ces langues, wie diese Synopsis.Peter Lang Group AG Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaft, Place de la gare 12, 1003 LAUSANNE 198 pp. Französisch, Deutsch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Die vorliegende Studie untersucht, wie die jesuitischen Japan-Missionare in der frühen Neuzeit christliche Inhalte in einen fremden Kontext übertragen und übersetzt haben. Dies geschieht anhand von zwei japanischen Quellen: einem ¿ ins Japanische übersetzten ¿ portugiesischen Katechismus sowie einer Sammlung biblischer Geschichten, die japanische Christen während der beinahe dreihundertjährigen Verfolgungszeit im Untergrund bewahrt und weitergegeben haben. Teile dieser Quellen werden zum ersten Mal übersetzt.BoD - Books on Demand, In de Tarpen 42, 22848 Norderstedt 220 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Der Begriff ¿Zugang zum Recht' gewinnt zunehmend an Aufmerksamkeit. Die Bedeutung dieses Begriffs bleibt aber oftmals ebenso unklar, wie die praktischen Auswirkungen, die daraus resultieren können. In diesem Werk erarbeitet der Autor eine eigene Definition des Begriffs und wendet diesen auf die arbeitsrechtliche Realität in Deutschland und Hongkong an. Hierbei verdeutlicht er regulatorische und faktische Umstände, die die Rechtsdurchsetzung durch Arbeitnehmer beeinflussen und bewertet unterschiedliche Wege, die Effektivität des Zugangs der Arbeitnehmer zum Recht zu erhöhen. 232 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Der Rückblick auf die Jahre des Ersten Weltkrieges würde unvollständig bleiben, wenn man das Landvolk, das damals noch überall die Bevölkerungsmehrheit ausmachte, nicht berücksichtigen würde. Diesem Thema widmet sich der vorliegende Sammelband, der aufzeigt, wie sehr sich die Lebensumstände der ländlichen Bevölkerung drastisch änderten und eine Fülle von Emotionen aufkommen ließen. Der Schwerpunkt der Beiträge liegt auf dem Alpen-, Donau- und Karpatenraum, doch kommt auch die Westfront (Frankreich/Belgien) zur Sprache. 356 pp. Englisch, Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Wie effektiv können völkerrechtliche Verpflichtungen durchgesetzt werden Diese Fragestellung ist ein stets aktuelles Thema in der völkerrechtlichen Literatur und Praxis. Gegenstand der Arbeit ist die Betrachtung und Analyse der Effektivität dieser Durchsetzung. Hierbei werden die Durchsetzung völkerrechtlicher Verpflichtungen vor dem Internationalen Gerichtshof und im Rahmen des Paris Agreement zum Klimaschutz bewertet und vergleichend gegenübergestellt.BoD - Books on Demand, In de Tarpen 42, 22848 Norderstedt 288 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Die Beiträge des Sammelbands behandeln innovativ und vergleichend Fragen zu zeitgebundenen Phänomenen der periodischen Presse. Der zeitliche und mediale Rahmen spannt sich von Andreas Gryphius¿ Perikopendichtung über Zeitschriften und Kalender sowie das im Mittelpunkt stehende Zeitungswesen des 18. Jahrhunderts bis zum Feuilletonroman des Vormärz. Geographisch liegt der Fokus auf Mitteleuropa, dessen periodisches Pressewesen im behandelten Zeitraum eine wesentliche Ausweitung und Differenzierung erfuhr. Vor allem die Berichterstattung wird im Hinblick auf zentrale Phänomene wie Nachrichtenübermittlung, Aktualität, Periodizität, Beschleunigung und Entschleunigung in ihren materiellen und immateriellen Dimensionen untersucht, aber auch Wissensvermittlung und Räsonnement sowie das Anzeigenwesen und Paratexte kommen ins Blickfeld. Soweit auffindbar, werden auch archivalische Quellen in die Analysen einbezogen. Im Dreischritt Produktion, Distribution und Rezeption dominiert die erste Etappe. 340 pp. Englisch, Deutsch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Die vorliegende Arbeit widmet sich der aktuellen Fragestellung, wie ethische Prinzipien rechtlich normiert werden können. Die Institution des Klosters bietet dafür einen aufschlussreichen Untersuchungsgegenstand, da Mönche innerhalb eines Klosters nach klar definierten Werten in einer Gemeinschaft leben. Das Kloster, als historisch gewachsene Institution, hat seinen Ursprung im Osten und wurde im Laufe der Zeit im Westen übernommen. Eine Schlüsselfigur dieses wichtigen Kulturtransfers ist Johannes Cassian. Seine Spiritualität, Gebetspraxis und Ethik haben die Herausbildung und Entwicklung des Klosters im Abendland entscheidend mitgeprägt. Dieser Einfluss spiegelt sich auch bei Benedikt von Nursia, der sich bei der Ausarbeitung seiner berühmten 'Regula Benedicti' für das Kloster Montecassino auch von Johannes Cassian hat inspirieren lassen. Das benediktinische Kloster gewann beträchtliche Anziehungskraft und strahlte nach aussen, so dass es als Modell für andere Institutionen diente. Einzelne Prinzipien der 'Regula Benedicti' finden sich auch im modernen Verfassungsrecht.BoD - Books on Demand, In de Tarpen 42, 22848 Norderstedt 374 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -These reminiscences of a friendship between Graham Greene and the author over two decades offer several original and significant additions to the knowledge of Greene's beliefs, experiences and involvements throughout his long and turbulent life. It is a brilliant illustration of the multiple connections of Graham Greene with Ireland, many of which would not be known to historians, literary critics or the general public. The relationship of Greene with Irish soldiers, writers and politicians as different as Ernie O'Malley, Seán O'Faoláin, Conor Cruise O'Brien and Gerry Fitt throw light on his deep interest in Irish history, literature and politics. 134 pp. Englisch.

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book deals with various contributions on innovation and knowledge from an educational perspective. Throughout the various chapters, empirical research, reflections and bibliographical studies from different areas of education are presented. All of this is articulated with the aim of forming a compendium of studies based on the knowledge generated in today's society. In short, this book is an indispensable tool for educators, researchers and students interested in the latest trends in education, offering didactic guides, case studies and analysis of methodologies to promote meaningful learning. 366 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -These reminiscences of a friendship between Graham Greene and the author over two decades offer several original and significant additions to the knowledge of Greene's beliefs, experiences and involvements throughout his long and turbulent life. It is a brilliant illustration of the multiple connections of Graham Greene with Ireland, many of which would not be known to historians, literary critics or the general public. The relationship of Greene with Irish soldiers, writers and politicians as different as Ernie O'Malley, Seán O'Faoláin, Conor Cruise O'Brien and Gerry Fitt throw light on his deep interest in Irish history, literature and politics.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 134 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book probes the mythic underpinnings of U.S. war culture, asking how myth can be reconfigured to foster a discourse more conducive to a culture of peace. It breaks with an imperial mindset of endless warfare and places myths creative potential into productive relationship with rhetorics democratic vocation to foster an attitude of tolerance and interdependence and resist the violence of alienation. Drawing on the archetype of coyote and manifestations of a peoples better angels, the book examines both the resistance of imperial orthodoxy to critique and susceptibility to cultural change. It locates Barack Obamas presidency and rhetorical juggling at the threshold of a shifting hemispheric consciousness and explores the prophetic voice of veterans opposed to war, a voice that prefigures the possibility of conversion to a culture of peace. The book culminates in consideration of democracys renewal by means of rhetorically adept dissent to enable deliberation amidst conflict. After Empire chronicles Americas addiction to war-in-the-name-of-peace, wherein the military-industrial complex entwines with crippling national mythologies. Drs. Ivie and Giner argue that by seeing the world as a series of threats, our imaginations have shriveled, leaving us rotating from self-righteous exceptionalism to other-fearing doubts. Moving past that dynamic, the authors plot a 'passage to democracy,' where the nation grows out of imperial hubris and into mature, deliberative democracy. Stephen J. Hartnett, Professor, Department of Communication, University of Colorado, Denver In After Empire: Myth, Rhetoric, and Democratic Revival, Robert L. Ivie and Oscar Giner unpack the way that contemporary American myths of war have played a role in legitimizing war and creating an American empire built around a militarized society. They show that creation of an alternative mythology privileging dissent is essential to rebuilding American democracy. The book is cogently argued, based on groundbreaking research on myth and militarism, and a genuine pleasure to read! Robert C. Rowland, Professor, Department of Communication Studies, University of Kansas After Empireoffers both an analysis of contemporary US war culture and an intervention into it in the hope of making the US a healthier democracy. Focusing on the intersection of politics, popular culture, and myth, and deftly integrating theory, method, and substantive content, Ivie and Giner provide a map of the current US public sphere in ways that will interest academics as well as practitioners and prove useful for courses in rhetoric, history, and political science. Mary E. Stuckey, Edwin Erle Sparks Professorof Communication Arts & Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University ParkLang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 168 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Cet ouvrage collectif questionne l'articulation entre les conceptions théoriques de la mobilité et les pratiques institutionnelles de celle-ci dans les instituts de formation des enseignant.e.s en Suisse.Unter anderem werden folgende Fragen diskutiert: Wie werden Mobilitäten in der schweizerischen Lehrer:innenbildung typisiert Inwiefern finden grundlegende Konzepte, Begriffe und Epistemiologien Eingang in die Curricula Quelles sont les limites et les perspectives Chaque contribution apporte un éclairage situé institutionnellement aux questionnements communs, wobei Einblicke in bestehende Praktiken, das zugrunde liegende wissenschaftliche Verständnis und damit verbunden didaktische oder institutionelle Herausforderungen aufgedeckt werden. L'ouvrage réunit des contributions en français, en anglais, en allemand et parfois combinant plusieurs de ces langues, wie diese Synopsis. 198 pp. Französisch, Deutsch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -'An admirable undertaking, as impressive for its scholarship as its sympathy. Heaney is presented here at the centre of a worldwide network of correspondents, and what emerges is a vivid sense of both the great writer and the living man.' (Seamus Perry, Fellow of Balliol College and Tutor in English Literature, Professor of English, University of Oxford) 'I just finished reading it. I found it very touching; Heaneys influence on such a wide circle of correspondents comes through with great force.' (Professor Marc Mulholland, Senior Tutor, St Catherines College, Oxford) Seamus Heaney wrote hundreds of letters and postcards in long hand, answering almost all the letters he received from friends, fellow poets, university professors, arts councils and of course from ordinary fans. He was not only a master of English prose and poetry, but was also highly skilled in the art of writing letters. The author has selected fragments and parts of this vast correspondence to show how we can see the portrait of the man himself from the way in which he interacted with others.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 82 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book provides concrete examples of humanizing collectivist critical pedagogy, which creates a learning space with students, values their mutual-agency, and invites them to play a leading role in remaking higher education. It redefines student success to include an understanding of positionality, macro social structures, and agency. Each class activity shared in this book is grounded in deep interdisciplinary theory and has been tested in community collegesome of the most diverse humanities classrooms in the U.S. The contributing authors present their teaching praxis with examples of program administration, extracurricular programs, and pedagogical professional development that further extend their pedagogy beyond the classroom. We hope to help administrators, staff, faculty, and students of all levels in higher education take what the authors have learnt, build upon it, and adapt pieces of it to fi t their institutional environment and structures. Given the manner in which the debilitating structures of schooling continue to reinforce the dehumanization and alienation of students worldwide, Humanizing, Community-Based, Critical Pedagogy offers educators powerful insights into how they can enact a praxis of empowerment and transformation. The volume is truly an outstanding addition to the critical pedagogy literature. Antonia Darder, Professor Emerita of Ethics and Moral Leadership, Loyola Marymount University This invaluable book offers a range of essays in support of an engaged pedagogy designed to help students, and especially students of color, have the tools they need for agency, critical thinking, and empowerment in a world where those are necessary life skills. The combination of theory and practical advice will be invaluable to any instructor and especially those in community colleges. Cathy N. Davidson, Author of The New Education and, with Christina Katopodis, The New College ClassroomLang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 228 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This edited collection brings together theories and lived experiences in teaching and learning Nature through multiple ways of coming to know. Showcasing the experiences and ideas from diverse stakeholders in the field of education, this book includes work from researchers, teacher-educators, teachers, outreach workshop facilitators, and Indigenous youth. Focusing on the importance of relationalities in teaching and learning, this book offers candid accounts and innovative ideas on bringing diverse perspectives into Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) Education.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 264 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This edited volume employs a case study approach to examine communication surrounding the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. The text is accessible to upper-level undergraduates and graduate students, while also useful for scholars teaching and research. The chapters are written by a diverse group of scholars and experts in a wide-array of communication contextsfrom public relations and advertising to health, organizational, and political communication, and beyond. The chapters focus on the many ways professionals and laypersons employed crisis communication. This text is valuable in that it includes perspectives on crisis communication in the initial onset, crisis mitigation and long-term recovery stages of the crisis communication cycle. Examining a crisis in the mitigation and long-term recovery stages provides a lens into the process of crisis messaging and sensemaking. These case studies provide context not only for how professionals and laypersons handled COVID-19, but also how to approach other long-term, or prolonged, crises in the future.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 414 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Most books about presidential rhetoric focus on the United States. Few American communication scholars concentrate on Central and Eastern Europe. Media pundits and scholars alike framed this region as a place used for the United States or Russias Cold War endseven after the Cold War ended. Beyond the Cold War: Presidential Rhetoric in Central and Eastern Europe brings scholars from Central and Eastern Europe and the United States together to study presidential rhetoric to make a compelling case for treating the leaders of the region with their own agency, rather than as agents of others. As postcolonial agents, leaders in the region have taken contrasting positions, avoiding the influence of post-Soviet politics and the pull toward westernization. Chapters offer insight into the connections and influence of presidential rhetoric in Central and Eastern Europe to contextualize and better understand how the rhetoric has either helped or hindered the development of democratic principles in the region many decades past the period of the 'transition.' This book contributes to the understanding of international rhetoric by studying leaders and exchanges in which they meetin state visits or as candidates debating. This book will be an invaluable resource for students of rhetoric and scholars interested in the communication of presidents in Central and Eastern Europe. 'Beyond the Cold War lives up to its title. This collection of smart, insightful, and liberatory studies of Eastern Europe in the rhetorical imaginary of assorted presidents dispenses with outdated frameworks and, instead, takes these nations on their own terms. As these nations assert an ever more important role in international affairs, this book will become indispensable to those who want to understand their history and discourse.' John M. Murphy, Professor, Dept. of Communication, University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignLang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 346 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 210 pp. Englisch.

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 152 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Criticized as parsimonious and cruel in the later 1800s, the Poor Law for Scotland was first passed in 1845 as a frankly humanitarian measure in response to desperate poverty on display in Paisley and elsewhere in the early 1840s. Poor Law Inspector James Shaw Brown of Paisley Burgh Parish, a compassionate, detail-oriented bureaucrat, was charged with alleviating suffering while limiting expense. In his four-decade career he served the poor, the parochial board, and rate payers of the parish, weaving their conflicting needs and demands though the arcane rules of the law. Inspector Brown and colleagues across the nation interpreted and debated the meaning of the law in correspondence and the courts for decades before it approached its final form. This book delves into Inspector Browns life and records to reveal how poverty and the poor law shaped life experiences for tens of thousands of ordinary Scots in the middle years of the nineteenth century.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 232 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -'This reader-friendly study of some of Ciaran Carsons major translations provides fascinating illuminations of his techniques as a translator and author. Anne Raineys close readings, buoyed by selected theory, show how Carsons aesthetics and imagination were fuelled by linguistic and cultural pluralism.' (Dr Frank Sewell, Poet, Translator, Senior Lecturer in Irish Literature and Creative Writing at Ulster University) 'For Ciaran Carson, translation was embedded deep in his DNA. He was fascinated above all else by the shared musicality of words across languages so that translation for him was like a resonance chamber, always sounding, always musical. This book is timely and important, because it offers us a detailed and always sensitive account of how translation was not simply something that Ciaran did, but was an experience central to how he felt about and used language as a writer.' (Professor David Johnston, Literary Translator, Professor of Translation at Queens University, Belfast) Ciaran Carson viewed translation as integral to hisoeuvre.Heimbues his versionof Dantes acclaimedInfernowith modern socio-political concerns,placingitin a partly Irish context, beyond any border. Like Dante, he shows his regard for vernacular speech and provides dizzying perspectives switching from courtly love language to quotidian banter. In his translation of Rimbaud, Carson completely dismantles the nineteenth-century texts before newly assembling them in translation. He employs dictionaries, musical rhythms and modern Hiberno-English slang to create Alexandrine sonnets and rhyming couplets forging Rimbaudsfin de siècleFrench into a new cultural rendering. Carsons quick-witted and emotionally charged translations call for an original analytical framework. This book contributes to Translation Studies by presenting an original Hybrid Gricean Theory melding Gricean and neo-Gricean linguistic theories with pertinent translation theories to elucidate Carsons techniques.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 338 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -'A piercing critique of imperial culture and climate doomism. Alberros Terrestrial Ecotopias is a compelling and penetrating corrective, sketching an ecology of hope beyond the Capitalocene.' (Jason W. Moore, author, Capitalism in the Web of Life) 'Utopia is here and now, with our feet on the ground alongside paws, claws and roots. Heather Alberro brings together eco-fictional, radical environmental activist, and Indigenous struggles for an urgent appeal to jointly build better, more-than-human tomorrows starting today. Artfully weaving intricate analysis and sweeping connections into a passionate book brimming with life, Terrestrial Ecotopias provides us with the blueprints we need for bringing multispecies flourishing into the world through stories and action.' (Christoph Rupprecht, Associate Professor in Sustainability and Global Environmental Studies, Ehime University, co-editor of Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures and Solarpunk Creatures) This book offers transdisciplinary critical analyses of select contemporary manifestations of ecotopianism, asking in particular: whither the otherthan- human To what extent do these visions and strivings for ecologically sustainable futures actively foreground the needs and wellbeing of our terrestrial kin rather than consign them to a mute backdrop overshadowed by a predominantly human drama Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 304 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -'This relevant, clearly defined study isnt constricted by its primary focus on late nineteenth-century American utopias, written when inequality flourished. Morris enriches this focus with chronological comparisons to well-known and lesser-known American utopias in other periods; international contexts from non-American authors; and interpretive perspectives by utopian specialists, political scientists, philosophers, and sociologists. But the books most striking quality is the variety of reforms identified and discussed. This variety greatly enhances our understanding of utopists war on inequality.' (Kenneth M. Roemer, Emeritus Fellow, University of Texas System Academy of Distinguished Teachers. Author of The Obsolete Necessity, Utopian Audiences, and (ed.) America as Utopia 'Utopian alternatives to current, persistent and increasing inequality matter: as William Blake said, What is now proved was once, only imagind, and so Donald Morris examines a wealth of possibilities, some outlandish, but all conceivable, and many eminently feasible, from a tradition of literary and imaginative forms of political and social theory. A hopeful and invigorating read.' (Tom Boland, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University College Cork) This work explores what utopian writers have said about economic inequality. Its transdisciplinary focus is literary utopiasnovels of social theoryby authors seeking solutions to the problems of economic inequality. The work challenges our moral assumptions about economic inequalityits potential for resolutionor its inevitability and the ultimate bifurcation of society. It is not an economic treatise but an exploration in social philosophy in its utopian expressions. Economic inequality sets arbitrary limits on whose contributions will benefit society, thereby squandering talent, limiting opportunities, and stifling competitioncapriciously restricting the pool of competitorsby class or gender or race. As utopian writers envision a future where the extremes of poverty and wealth have been tempered, it is instructive to explore the instruments they employ; by what measures have they defeated poverty or diminished the threats boundless fortunes pose, thereby revitalizing society Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 368 pp. Englisch.