peter lang peter lang feb 2009 (178 risultati)

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This translation of Platös Sophist conveys the peculiar nature of the doctrines expressed in the Greek text, and it includes an introduction that attempts ¿ without recourse to contemporary technical philosophical ideas ¿ to explain these doctrines from the perspective of how Platös philosophy was understood by Aristotle and the ancient Platonists. For this reason the book is especially suitable for use in undergraduate courses on Plato and in introductory courses on the history of ancient philosophy. 158 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In recent years, information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been linked with socioeconomic development with the assumption that they can be harnessed for economic growth in developing countries and facilitate integration into the global information society. However, very few studies in the ICT-for-development field examine the direct connections between ICTs and socioeconomic growth. Information and Communication Technologies in Nigeria: Prospects and Challenges for Development is a compelling account of the development of ICTs in Nigeria. It examines the ICT policy framework and the societal context within which application of the technologies emerged and highlights the potentials of ICTs in socioeconomic development. However, this book also demonstrates, through interviews and case studies, that ICTs are not the panacea to underdevelopment; constraining factors in different countries can limit their capacity to succeed. The author employs a rare multidisciplinary approach that makes the book appealing and accessible to a diverse range of readership. 228 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book provides an analysis of binding phenomena in Bulgarian with a strong emphasis on pragmatic issues. In the ¿morphology after syntax¿ approach it is assumed that the morphosyntactic objects are spelled out in an increasing order of markedness: the most specific structural description is the first to be spelled out and the least specific one is the last. It is further investigated that the use of overlapping forms in the local domain results from discourse factors. 146 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The process of health care reforms must be based on demographic, epidemiological and economic evidence if it is to achieve the fundamental target of affordable, sustainable and efficient health care services for the entire population. Consequently, costing of health care services has become a frequently used element of health care reforms. This book presents the essentials of costing in a health economic framework and gives examples from successful costing studies done by the author in Tanzania, Vietnam and Burkina Faso. Based on these examples it demonstrates the importance of costing information for the planning and decision-making process in the field of budgeting, resource allocation, setting an insurance premium and strategic planning. The main message of this book is that costing of health care services is a valuable instrument in the fight for better ¿health for all¿. 192 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -What does learning a language involve Obviously, a rapid and definitive answer cannot be provided for this question since the aspects and situations affecting language learning are many and varied. From the role of culture to the use of new technologies in foreign language learning, this work aims to offer its readers some of the current research being carried out in different areas relevant to the topic.A long developing project has become reality thanks to the work of several researchers who are also experienced teaching professionals. In this sense, it is worth mentioning that most chapters of the book relate to different aspects of language learning within the classroom context which has resulted in realistic approaches to foreign language learning that can be of great help to those involved and/or interested in this field.Moreover, the clear division into sections allows readers to make their choice on how to proceed with the reading of the book depending on their thematic interests. Five sections make up this practical work: culture and language learning, human resources in language learning, language learning strategies, language learning software and language learning web resources. 308 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The development from a synthetic to an analytic language is one of the most important topics in English historical syntax. This development is reflected in the gradual decrease of case-forms and the replacement of their functions with equivalent prepositional constructions. Focussing on the Old English period, when case-forms and prepositional constructions overlapped in various functions, this book aims to answer an unresolved question: was there a significant change in the use of case-forms and, alternatively, in the use of prepositions plus case-forms in contexts where both types were possible The author makes a statistical comparison between prose texts written in the early Old English period and texts of the later Old English period; she also takes into account stylistic features of individual texts. Thus, this book addresses this Old English syntactic issue both from a historical and a stylistic perspective and shows the stages of development during the Old English period.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 242 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Pourquoi enseigner la grammaire Quelle grammaire enseigner en classe de français Cet ouvrage analyse l¿enseignement de la grammaire rénovée dans quatre classes de sixième primaire en Suisse. Le cadre théorique combine les principes d¿une théorie de l¿activité langagière avec des concepts didactiques comme ceux de temps didactique, concrétisé au travers des indicateurs d¿avancement des activités scolaires, et de contrat didactique, conçu comme régulateur du partage des responsabilités, entre l¿enseignant et les élèves. La théorie de la transposition didactique fournit les critères pour définir les objets enseignés en relation avec les objets inscrits dans les programmes. Les résultats montrent que les formes et le sens des objets enseignés sont en décalage par rapport à ce qui est préconisé par l¿école. L¿analyse critique permet une première interprétation de ce décalage. Le livre contribue ainsi à clarifier les relations entre les objets enseignés et appris et le contexte du travail en classe.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 274 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Die Jugendszene der Skinheads, welche in den Medien oft pauschal mit rechtsextremistischen Schlägern gleichgesetzt wird, existiert nun seit 40 Jahren. Von Anfang an verstanden sich diese Jugendlichen als Mitglieder der Arbeiterschicht und so pflegten sie den Mythos, die Jugendszene der Arbeiterschicht zu sein. In diesem Werk untersucht Frank Lauenburg vordergründig die Sozialstruktur der Mitglieder dieser Jugendszene, um diesem Mythos nachzugehen. Zur Erklärung werden aber auch die spezifischen Stilmerkmale, Verhaltensweisen und die Geschichte der Skinheads untersucht und nachgezeichnet. Gleichzeitig wird mit diesem Werk die neue Reihe «Mythen in Jugendszenen» begründet.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 110 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Mit der Differenzbesteuerung ( 25a UStG) wurde eine Sonderregelung in das Umsatzsteuergesetz eingeführt, die abweichend von den Regelvorschriften eine privilegierende Besteuerung für bestimmte Umsätze sogenannter Wiederverkäufer vorsieht. Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der steuersystematischen Rechtfertigung und dem Anwendungsbereich der Differenzbesteuerung. Insoweit werden praxisrelevante Probleme und Unklarheiten aufgezeigt und einer Lösung zugeführt. An den relevanten Stellen wird der Anwendungsbereich der Differenzbesteuerung durch Auslegung der nationalen Vorschrift im Lichte der europäischen Vorgaben definiert. Dort, wo der Anwendungsbereich der Differenzbesteuerung endet, aber eine ähnliche Interessenlage besteht, wird schließlich noch auf alternative Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten zur Erreichung systemkonformer Ergebnisse eingegangen. 118 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Nicht nur in der juristischen Diskussion wird das Schlagwort «Privatisierung» teilweise synonym für Wirtschaftlichkeit und Fortschrittlichkeit verwendet. Die Autorin geht der Frage nach, ob und inwieweit im grundrechtsempfindlichen Bereich des Strafvollzuges Privatisierungsmöglichkeiten bestehen. Sie entwickelt hierbei ein allgemeines Schema hinsichtlich einer aus dem staatlichen Gewaltmonopol abgeleiteten und im Grundgesetz verwurzelten Privatisierungsschranke. Die Verfasserin legt dar, daß die Bundesrepublik Deutschland als Verfassungsstaat auf die effektive Behauptung des Gewaltmonopols angewiesen ist. Sie kommt zu dem Ergebnis, daß ¿ auch vor dem Hintergrund der betroffenen Grundrechte der Inhaftierten ¿ im Bereich des Strafvollzuges nur äußerst wenige Funktionen auf Private übertragen werden können. 244 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Das Grundgesetz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland garantiert in seinem Art. 7 III allen Religionsgemeinschaften das subjektive Recht, für diejenigen Schüler, die ihrem Bekenntnis angehören, an öffentlichen Schulen Religionsunterricht abzuhalten. Neben den großen christlichen Religionsgemeinschaften macht mittlerweile auch eine Vielzahl kleinerer Religionsgemeinschaften in zahlreichen Bundesländern von diesem Recht Gebrauch. Während aber sowohl der Religionsunterricht der beiden deutschen Großkirchen als auch der mittlerweile in einigen Bundesländern eingeführte muslimische Religionsunterricht bereits Gegenstand zahlreicher Abhandlungen in der juristischen Fachliteratur in Deutschland waren, wurde zum Religionsunterricht durch andere kleinere Religionsgemeinschaften bislang nur wenig veröffentlicht. Diesen Mangel versucht die Untersuchung zu beheben, indem sie zum einen die aktuelle Situation hinsichtlich des Religionsunterrichts kleinerer Religionsgemeinschaften an öffentlichen Schulen in Deutschland darstellt und zum anderen die zu diesem Zwecke zwischen Kultusministerien und Religionsgemeinschaften getroffenen Vereinbarungen einer rechtlichen Würdigung unterzieht. 432 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -An den Außengrenzen der Europäischen Union sterben Jahr für Jahr Tausende irregulärer MigrantInnen. Das EU-Grenzregime schützt die Exklusivität des europäischen Territoriums. Warum ist dies so normal Dieses Buch zeichnet die historische Entwicklung der territorialen Staatlichkeit nach und untersucht die medialen, kartographischen und sozialwissenschaftlichen Diskurse, durch die territorialstaatliches Denken reproduziert und normalisiert wird. Es analysiert ferner wie gegenwärtig das Territorialitätsprinzip auf die europäische Ebene übertragen wird. Einerseits wird Europa durch einen institutionellen und diskursiven Konstruktionsprozess als normale politisch-territoriale Einheit etabliert und nach außen abgegrenzt. Andererseits bleiben die Grenzen Europas ambivalent und unscharf; die entstehende Territorialität Europas trägt postmoderne Züge.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 420 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Mit dem Ziel der Qualitätsentwicklung der Einzelschule wird in den Bundesländern derzeit eine Vielzahl von Modellen erprobt. Das Handbuch fokussiert drei Fragen: Welches Wissen wird für die Erstellung, Implementierung und Verstetigung dieser Modelle genutzt Inwieweit sind die verwendeten Modelle empirisch gesichert Welche Perspektiven für die Zukunft zeichnen sich ab Die Beiträge dieses Bandes, verfasst von Autorinnen und Autoren aus so unterschiedlichen Bereichen wie Schulleitung, Landesinstitut und (Berufs-)Bildungsforschung reichen vom Rückblick auf die Geschichte der schulischen Qualitätsentwicklung über die Diskussion grundlegender Fragen zu Schulqualität, Steuerung und Finanzierung über Analysen zu schulischen Tätigkeitsfeldern wie Schulprogrammarbeit, Schulmanagement, unterrichtliche Lehr-Lern-Prozesse bis hin zu Berichten über internationale Erfahrungen. 652 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Das Grundgesetz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland garantiert in seinem Art. 7 III allen Religionsgemeinschaften das subjektive Recht, für diejenigen Schüler, die ihrem Bekenntnis angehören, an öffentlichen Schulen Religionsunterricht abzuhalten. Neben den großen christlichen Religionsgemeinschaften macht mittlerweile auch eine Vielzahl kleinerer Religionsgemeinschaften in zahlreichen Bundesländern von diesem Recht Gebrauch. Während aber sowohl der Religionsunterricht der beiden deutschen Großkirchen als auch der mittlerweile in einigen Bundesländern eingeführte muslimische Religionsunterricht bereits Gegenstand zahlreicher Abhandlungen in der juristischen Fachliteratur in Deutschland waren, wurde zum Religionsunterricht durch andere kleinere Religionsgemeinschaften bislang nur wenig veröffentlicht. Diesen Mangel versucht die Untersuchung zu beheben, indem sie zum einen die aktuelle Situation hinsichtlich des Religionsunterrichts kleinerer Religionsgemeinschaften an öffentlichen Schulen in Deutschland darstellt und zum anderen die zu diesem Zwecke zwischen Kultusministerien und Religionsgemeinschaften getroffenen Vereinbarungen einer rechtlichen Würdigung unterzieht. 432 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Der Nationalsozialismus gehört zu den besterforschten Epochen der Zeitgeschichte. In den Lehrplänen für fast alle Schulformen sind die Themen Nationalsozialismus und Holocaust curricular verankert. Zugleich aber belegen Studien seit den 1950er Jahren, dass mancher Schulunterricht zur Verharmlosung, Überdruss oder Abwehr gegen «das Thema» beiträgt. Die Studie greift diese Problemlage auf. Aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive kommt dabei die intergenerative Tradierung von Nationalsozialismus und Holocaust in den Blick. Schließlich wird mit Methoden qualitativer Unterrichtsforschung der Frage nach der «Gegenwart der Vergangenheit» nachgegangen. Hier steht das Rezeptionsverhalten von Schülerinnen und Schülern zu den Themen Judentum, Nationalsozialismus und Holocaust im Mittelpunkt. Im Hinblick auf eine Religionspädagogik nach Auschwitz wird somit auch eine Antwort möglich auf die Frage: «How to teach the Holocaust » 416 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Computer games are increasingly prevalent, and cause both curiosity and concern in the general public, so understanding these games and play is important. Game researchers need to work quickly to document, report, and analyse the effect on our modern society as an increasing amount of people make new and drastically different choices in how they spend their time. Perceiving Play: The Art and Study of Computer Games looks at the directions and findings of this research, and examines how game research integrates the studies of social science, ethnography, textual analysis and criticism, economy, law, and technology. 186 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Subject of Childhood is a collection of essays on early childhood education/childhood studies that brings critical psychological, psychoanalytic, and cultural studies perspectives to bear on understanding the lives children live. Central concerns running through these essays are the emergence of subjectivity in the child; the complexity of conceptualizing the relationship between external cultural and social forces; and the internal sense of agency that we know that each child possesses. Together, the volume is a blending of interdisciplinary theoretical writing, personal autobiographical inquiry, and concrete examples from the author's work with teachers in schools and from his clinical practice as a child psychoanalyst. Written for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and professionals across the English-speaking world in early childhood education, childhood education, educational foundations, and cultural studies in education, this book functions as a core text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in child development, child psychology, sociology of education, childhood studies, and early childhood education. 263 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This translation of Plato's Sophist conveys the peculiar nature of the doctrines expressed in the Greek text, and it includes an introduction that attempts - without recourse to contemporary technical philosophical ideas - to explain these doctrines from the perspective of how Plato's philosophy was understood by Aristotle and the ancient Platonists. For this reason the book is especially suitable for use in undergraduate courses on Plato and in introductory courses on the history of ancient philosophy. 158 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book documents a systematic investigation into various aspects of policing in the People's Republic of China, including its scholarship, idea, origin, history, education, culture, reform, and theory. It approaches the study of Chinese policing from an indigenous perspective, informed by local empirical data. In proposing an innovative theory of community policing entitled 'Police Power as a Social Resource Theory', the book seeks to look at crime as a personal problem, and police as a social resource, from the perspective of the people and not the state. 263 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Bloggers around the world produce material for local, national and international audiences, yet they are developing in ways that are distinct from the U.S. model. Through case studies of blogs written in English, Chinese, Arab, French, Russian, and Hebrew, this book explores the way blogging is being conceptualized in different cultural contexts. The authors move beyond the most highly trafficked sites to shed light on larger developments taking place online, calling into question assumptions that form the foundation of much of what we read on blogging and, by extension, on global amateur or do-it-yourself media. This book suggests a more nuanced approach to understanding how blogospheres serve communication needs, how they exist in relation to one another, where they exist apart as well as where they overlap, and how they interact with other forms of communication in the larger media landscape. 216 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Why does the secret agent never seem to die Why, in fact, has the secret agent not only survived the Cold War - which critics and pundits surmised would be the death of James Bond and of the genre more generally - but grown in popularity Secret Agents attempts to answer these questions as it investigates the political and cultural ramifications of the continued popularity and increasing diversity of the secret agent across television, film, and popular culture. The volume opens with a foreword by Tony Bennett, and proceeds to investigate programs, figures, and films such as Alias, Austin Powers, Spy Kids, the «new» Bond Girl, Flint, Mission Impossible, Jason Bourne, and concludes with an afterword by Toby Miller. Chapters throughout question what it means for this popular icon to have far wider currency and meaning than merely that of James Bond as the white male savior of capital and democracy. 198 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Focusing on the technoculture of everyday life, this book attempts to zero in on the simplicity and the habitual character of the interaction between humans and material objects, which is often assumed or taken for granted. Because objects are always meaningful in the pragmatic use to which they are directed, the material world of everyday life can be seen as a technoculture of its own - one made of behaviors as simple, and yet as significant, as using a lawnmower, or decorating one's body. In discussing the unique methodological components of the ethnography of the technoculture of everyday life, this book begins a dialogue on how we can examine - from the participants' perspective - the interconnections between social agents, their technological/material practices, their material objects or technics, and their social and material environment. 256 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book introduces literary métissage as a way to research, teach, and live ethically «with all our relations» in our precarious times. The authors theorize and perform literary métissage through the praxis of life writing, braiding their autobiographical texts, in various (mixed) genres, into seven themes. Life Writing and Literary Métissage as an Ethos for Our Times explores this writing praxis, with its more inclusive and generative notions of knowledge and knowledge practices, as a tool for creating more just societies and schools. 278 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Surpassing Standards in the Elementary Classroom outlines a new theoretical and practical approach to classroom instruction and student achievement in language arts and social studies. This inspirational guide provides elementary classroom teachers with comprehensive, easy-to-implement lesson plans and specific activities that engage and integrate emotional intelligence skills in order to empower intellectual understanding within the academic curriculum. The book would be an asset for undergraduate or graduate courses or teacher training programs that deal with elementary education, educational theory and practice, curriculum development, content and instructional styles, and is a valuable tool for elementary school teachers and counselors, administrators, staff developers, college students training to be teachers, and professional development and staff training seminars. 234 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Virtual worlds are most often three dimensional locales, where people create virtual personae (called avatars) who come to play, socialize, and work. This edited collection of groundbreaking research on virtual worlds offers a wide-ranging look at the sociology, politics, and communication practices in virtual worlds from a group of scholars in the United States and abroad. 310 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In recent years, information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been linked with socioeconomic development with the assumption that they can be harnessed for economic growth in developing countries and facilitate integration into the global information society. However, very few studies in the ICT-for-development field examine the direct connections between ICTs and socioeconomic growth. Information and Communication Technologies in Nigeria: Prospects and Challenges for Development is a compelling account of the development of ICTs in Nigeria. It examines the ICT policy framework and the societal context within which application of the technologies emerged and highlights the potentials of ICTs in socioeconomic development. However, this book also demonstrates, through interviews and case studies, that ICTs are not the panacea to underdevelopment; constraining factors in different countries can limit their capacity to succeed. The author employs a rare multidisciplinary approach that makes the book appealing and accessible to a diverse range of readership. 228 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Acadians remain one of the few North American historical minorities which has been able to survive as a distinct ethno-cultural and linguistic group. This fact is all the more striking since this people suffered a deportation and dispersion, and it does not possess its own territory, nor does it have a government of its own. Acadians therefore have continually had to face the issue of autonomy in all its varied forms. The central issue addressed by this book is an inquiry into the nature of the process which has maintained the unique Acadian minority in existence right up to the present day. This study differs from other multidisciplinary analyses of this community principally because it studies the historical continuity of the dynamic of autonomy that has evolved since the beginning of Acadia. The research for this complete chronological framework encompasses a number of intersecting disciplinary approaches at the historical, political, socio-cultural and existential levels. These differing perspectives are harmonized by their common objective of defining the process of autonomization, and the counter-process of heteronomization, which lie at the heart of each of the periods studied. These approaches allow critical openings between the framework of social history, power relationships and the fundamental aspirations of the minority. 183 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book provides an analysis of binding phenomena in Bulgarian with a strong emphasis on pragmatic issues. In the 'morphology after syntax' approach it is assumed that the morphosyntactic objects are spelled out in an increasing order of markedness: the most specific structural description is the first to be spelled out and the least specific one is the last. It is further investigated that the use of overlapping forms in the local domain results from discourse factors. 146 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The burgeoning field of trauma and cinema is an exciting development within contemporary trauma studies. The author of this book describes the complex relationship between cinema and the trauma of defeat in war. An asymmetric and non-binary comparison of two test cases, post-World War II New German Cinema and post-Vietnam War American cinema, illuminates the indirect and intriguing ways these societies have dealt with the enormous psycho-cultural difficulty of acknowledging their defeat and understanding its manifold meanings. This book draws on psychoanalysis, masculinity studies, and corporeal feminism to explore the bodily experience of defeat. It examines themes and representations of body and sexuality to create a theoretical framework that reveals anew the link between defeated masculinity and nationalism. Building on an original analysis of such varied films as The Deer Hunter, Full Metal Jacket, The Tin Drum, and Paris Texas, the author suggests new criteria that highlight the characteristics of post-traumatic cinema. 294 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Visual Genesis of Japanese National Identity offers an entirely new perspective on the concept of constructing nation-states. The book explores the nature of national identity constructs produced in pre-modern Japan by examining two aspects of its cultural production, the sphere of fine arts and the sphere of literature intertwined with a genre of poetry pictorialization. The discussion is centered on the artistic practice of Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) and contextualizes his woodblock print series entitled Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki in a wider perspective of Japanese historical, political, social, cultural and artistic phenomena emerging prior to the birth of the modern Japanese nation. Hokusai's work, oscillating between the domain of text and the domain of image, transposes the classical Japanese poetry into late Edo period (1603-1868) popular culture. Machotka argues that in the process of text/image translation Hokusai projected a new image of «Japaneseness», thereby contributing to the development of national identity prior to the emergence of Japan as a modern nation-state. 260 pp. Englisch.