peter lang peter lang jun 2010 (379 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book provides an overview of basic syntactic categories, analytical methods and theoretical frameworks that are needed for a comprehensive and systematic description and analysis of the syntax of English as it is spoken and written today. It is therefore useful for students of the English language but also for teachers who are looking for an overview of traditional syntactic analysis. In addition, the book explores various related aspects, such as syntactic variation, the relation between syntax and semantics, and psycholinguistic approaches to syntax. One focus throughout is to introduce the reader to the ¿art¿ or science of syntactic argumentation. Almost all of the examples that are found in this book are drawn from language corpora ¿ each syntactic concept, therefore, is exemplified by authentic language data. 274 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Focusing on the wildly successful Twilight series, this collection of scholarly essays examines the phenomenon from diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives. Particular attention is paid to cultural, social, and economic aspects of the series and to the recurrent messages about youth, gender roles, romance, and sexuality. Essays discuss race and religion, and provide audience analyses of young adult, adult, anti-, and international fans. Other chapters are political-economic examinations into celebrity, tourism, and publishing. With new research by established and rising scholars, this volume is a significant contribution to the growing field of youth studies and complements existing feminist cultural analyses of media texts.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 312 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -What happens to indigenous culture and identity when being rooted in a fixed cultural setting is no longer necessary ¿ or even possible Does cultural displacement mean that indigeneity vanishes How is being and becoming indigenous (i.e., indigeneity) experienced and practiced along translocal pathways How are «new» philosophies and politics of indigenous identification (indigenism) constructed in «new», translocal settings The essays in this collection develop our understandings of cosmopolitanism and transnationalism, and related processes and experiences of social and cultural globalization, showing us that these do not spell the end of ways of being and becoming indigenous. Instead, indigeneity is reengaged in wider fields, finding alternative ways of being established and projected, or bolstering older ways of doing so, while reaching out to other cultures.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 234 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This collection of essays introduces multiple social theories through discussions of ideas across national borders. In each of the nine sections, the first chapter introduces a theory in a context outside of the United States. The second chapter then responds to the first by refocusing the discussion inside the United States. It has long been understood that it is difficult to perceive one¿s own context as contingent on culture and history, thus, exploring social phenomena in a different context assists in perceiving the dynamics at play. Ultimately, though, social theory should be used to analyze one¿s own environment and understand how class, race, gender, sexuality, religion, etc., inform one¿s own culture. Examining Social Theory: Crossing Borders/ Reflecting Back brings together diverse perspectives on similarities and differences across borders and cultures, and provides a structure in which they juxtapose, align, contrast, and reverberate ¿ the better for us to study, discuss, and understand.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 312 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The chapters in this edited collection examine how the culture of masculinity intersects with issues of health, homophobia, and the suppression and silencing of anxieties about body image among men and boys. Examining the bodily dividends and trade-offs associated with male participation in physical activity is central to understanding how educators in particular might better engage all boys in healthy life practices, not only those privileged by muscularity and physicality. Contributions explore evidence of intimidation and body fears that is largely unheard and unexplored in locker rooms and classrooms. Introducing critical perspectives emerging from current evidence-based international research to shed light on curricular and policy initiatives aimed at producing healthy children, this book will powerfully inform and provoke discussion.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 256 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Literature in English is a term that has recently appeared to include both English literature in the traditional sense of the word and all the newly emerging literatures written and published in English whose authors may represent various ethnic and cultural backgrounds. This series as well as our yearly Literature in English Symposium (LIES) organized by the Department of English Literature and Literary Linguistics, the School of English at Adam Mickiewicz University Poznä (Poland), respond to the current interest in wider mapping of English literature. Each year the symposium is devoted to a particular topic linked with the interests of an invited writer, whose presentation we also publish. This volume is devoted to the issue of self-fashioning and self-representation as it is the main area of interest of Andrew Miller. 118 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This is a collection of essays on the arts, new media, popular culture, and technologies as they influence practices of curriculum development and teaching. The authors ¿ artists, educators, scholars, and researchers with both scholarly and practical expertise ¿ share their teaching practices and curriculum knowledge, and reflect upon challenging issues in contemporary art, popular culture, new media, and technology. Each chapter proposes pedagogical structures and curriculum resources that can be adapted to diverse school contexts and technical resources. The perspectives gathered in this book reflect ideas drawn from several disciplines, including contemporary art, histories of the arts, culture and technology, cultural studies, and media studies, as well as various approaches to the study of technologies; authors also incorporate a range of educational theories and instructional practices, mainly from the visual and performing arts. At times explicit and at others implicit, these wide-ranging conceptual influences inform the varied curriculum and teaching practices described here. Together, these essays and their companion DVD, which illustrates many of these diverse perspectives, provide a comprehensive and thoughtful look at arts-based approaches to new media. 256 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In the thirty years since CNN launched the first 24-hour television news service, an ever-growing army of dedicated channels has arrived on the scene. This groundbreaking edited collection is the first to explore the genre of rolling television news channels. Coverage in and of key regions of the world ¿ including North and South America, Europe, Australia, China, India, and the Middle East ¿ is examined by leading international scholars. The Rise of 24-Hour News Television invites readers to explore the diverse ways in which round-the-clock news channels have reshaped the genre of news and, in a broader sense, the impact they have had on democracy itself.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 360 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Richard Ford and the Fiction of Masculinities demonstrates how contemporary U.S. novelist Richard Ford, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for literature, rewrites gender, and in particular masculinity, from highly subversive and innovative perspectives. Josep M. Armengol analyzes the construction, as well as the de-construction, of masculinity in all of Ford¿s major fictional texts to date, ranging from A Piece of My Heart to The Sportswriter to The Lay of the Land. Given its simultaneous critique of traditional masculinity and its depiction of alternative models of being a man, Ford¿s fiction is shown to be particularly interesting from a men¿s studies perspective, which aims not only to undermine patriarchal masculinity but also to look for new, non-hierarchical, and more egalitarian models of being a man in contemporary U.S. culture and literature.By framing Ford¿s contemporary representations of masculinity within a more general context of American literature, this book reveals how his texts continue along a trajectory of earlier American fiction while they also re-examine masculinity in new, more complex ways. Richard Ford and the Fiction of Masculinities contributes to the much-needed revision of men and masculinities in U. S. literature, and especially Richard Ford¿s fiction, where constructions of gender and masculinity remain, paradoxically enough, largely unexplored.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 154 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Chinese Medicine is an outstanding scientific proposition system with its own structural, methodological and theoretical prerequisites flowing into the specific practices that make Chinese Medicine popular in the Western world. However, we should be aware of the fact that Chinese Medicine is challenged in its existence because it is widely unknown. Fostering the understanding of Chinese Medicine in various aspects is, hence, the main aim of this book that gives interesting insights into the discussions on current developments in Chinese Medicine research. 130 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Mit der Expansion des internationalen Glücksspielmarkts gewinnen zunehmend Handlungsstrategien an Bedeutung, die der Prävention der Glücksspielsucht dienen. In diesem Zusammenhang verkörpert die Spielsperre eine Erfolg versprechende Interventionsform, die weltweit in verschiedenen Marktsegmenten zum Einsatz kommt. Vor dem Hintergrund des Mangels an evidenzgestützten Aussagen verfolgt diese Untersuchung das Ziel, erstmals im europäischen Kontext empirische Erkenntnisse über den Personenkreis gesperrter Spieler zu gewinnen. Neben Querschnittsanalysen soll die Frage beantwortet werden, welchen Nutzen die Spielsperre im Zeitverlauf mit sich bringt. Ausgehend von quantitativen und qualitativen Befunden werden Optimierungsvorschläge für die Sperrpraxis im Casino- und Internetbereich aufgezeigt.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Mit der Expansion des internationalen Glücksspielmarkts gewinnen zunehmend Handlungsstrategien an Bedeutung, die der Prävention der Glücksspielsucht dienen. In diesem Zusammenhang verkörpert die Spielsperre eine Erfolg versprechende Interventionsform, die weltweit in verschiedenen Marktsegmenten zum Einsatz kommt. Vor dem Hintergrund des Mangels an evidenzgestützten Aussagen verfolgt diese Untersuchung das Ziel, erstmals im europäischen Kontext empirische Erkenntnisse über den Personenkreis gesperrter Spieler zu gewinnen. Neben Querschnittsanalysen soll die Frage beantwortet werden, welchen Nutzen die Spielsperre im Zeitverlauf mit sich bringt. Ausgehend von quantitativen und qualitativen Befunden werden Optimierungsvorschläge für die Sperrpraxis im Casino- und Internetbereich aufgezeigt. 218 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Many foreign-born students show weak performances in Europe, educational hurdles for them seem virtually insurmountable. It is frequently claimed that the disadvantaged socio-economic situation of their families and lack of fluency in local languages are the main causes. What is frequently overlooked, though, is the role of teachers, schools, and educational systems in general. The latter effects are the main focus of this book which reviews theoretical and empirical work focused on educational inequalities and migration, and offers new insights following empirical investigation. With a major focus on Luxembourg and Switzerland, the study analyses the situation in Europe and compares it to that of immigration countries like Canada, Australia, and the USA. This book is of interest to students and scholars, practitioners and decision-makers working in the field of social inequalities, education, and immigration. 246 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book provides a comprehensive overview of the scientific literature on children¿s film in Europe since the year 2000. An intensive research using online sources, library catalogues, websites complemented by expert interviews was conducted as basis for this literature review. The analysis covers 42 European countries investigating three dimensions: children¿s film funding, children¿s film production and distribution and children¿s film culture, and systematizes the sources on a European, transnational and national level. The distribution of available sources varies strongly depending on the region, country, and dimension analyzed. In addition, recommendations for future research and collaborative efforts are provided. 176 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book offers interpretations of different forms of political opposition in political theory and also in the contemporary development of politics and government in Central Europe. The problem is analyzed through a comparative approach. The first part of the book targets the question of definitions and typologies of political opposition, above all, in democratic, but partly also in non-democratic regimes. The second part deals with the question of models of political opposition in Central Europe after the fall of communism in the late twentieth century and in the present. 194 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The concept of national interest belongs among the most widely used and abused concepts in the foreign policy debate. This volume illustrates how the term can be used as a meaningful analytical tool. It introduces three criteria (relevance, domestic consensus, and external acceptance) which serve to identify national interest. The authors apply these criteria to Czech foreign policy making and provide some interesting findings concerning a country¿s possibilities to define and pursue its national interest. Since the authors use four different methodologies (case studies, discourse analysis, grounded theory, and ethnography), the volume also shows the variety of possible ways to analyse national interests. 210 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -When state A, in which an arbitral award was rendered, decides to annul the award in accordance with its national laws, it does not necessarily mean the award is effectively null and void. Rather, the initially prevailing party X may still be granted enforcement of the award in state B. The situation gets even worse, if a second arbitration is conducted in state A, this time rendering an award in favour of the former underlying party Y. Now party Y may in turn ¿ successfully ¿ seek the enforcement of the second award. This book aims to analyse the legal framework and the national case law resulting in such out-comes and gives recommendations how legal certainty may be assured ¿ de lege lata and de lege ferenda. 216 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Nel suo pionieristico lavoro Conditions in Königsberg and the Making of Kant¿s Philosophy, Giorgio Tonelli lamentava l¿assenza di un¿indagine approfondita sul contesto intellettuale di Königsberg e sull¿eventuale influenza che esso esercitò su alcuni aspetti del pensiero di Kant. Questo libro vuole colmare questa lacuna prestando particolare attenzione alla tradizione aristotelica, alla Schulphilosophie, e alla corrente dell¿eclettismo, che dominarono l¿ambiente regiomontano sino all¿avvento della filosofia critica kantiana. Il lavoro mostra come dai fallimenti dei progetti logici e metafisici precritici, legati alle influenze ricevute dall¿ambiente di Königsberg, Kant abbia tratto le idee e gli spunti per la stesura della Kritik der reinen Vernunft. 254 pp. Italienisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book presents new translations of the earliest known studies in Social Policy. Juan-Luis Vives¿s De Subventione Pauperum (On the Relief of the Poor) is an academic report on the organisation of social welfare, prepared for the senate of Bruges and published in 1526. Forma Subventionis Pauperum (The government of poor relief), published in 1531, is an anonymous evaluation report. It reviews the system of poor relief in the city of Ypres, five years after the policy was introduced.These reports lay out methods and approaches for the delivery of social services within their cities. Unemployed people should be found work or helped to start a business. People with disabilities or mental illness should be treated seriously and recognised for what they can do. Migrants should be helped, even if it is not possible to assist everyone. Special efforts should be made to help people who are reluctant or too proud to claim. Services have to be properly organised, records have to be kept and the use of funds has to be publicly accountable and subject to audit.The sophistication of the arguments developed in these studies will surprise many readers. They deserve to be read by everyone with an interest in social policy or public administration.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 186 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -De nombreux enfants dans le monde sont scolarisés dans plusieurs langues. Cet ouvrage explore plusieurs exemples d¿éducation multilingue et plurilingue dans divers contextes d¿enseignement, et propose, selon une perspective critique et engagée, une analyse des défis que la pluralité des langues et des cultures pose aux enseignants dans leur classe.Across the world, many children are being educated in more than one language. In looking at examples of multilingual and plurilingual education from different countries, this book explores the diverse contexts within which this education takes place, and the challenges facing teachers in responding to this diversity, from critical and socially engaged perspectives. 254 pp. Englisch, Französisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Embodying Pragmatism is the first monograph in English devoted to Richard Shusterman, an internationally renowned philosopher and one of today¿s most innovative thinkers in pragmatism and aesthetics. The book presents a comprehensive account of Shusterman¿s principal philosophical ideas concerning pragmatism, aesthetics, and literary theory (including such themes as interpretation, aesthetic experience, popular art, and human embodiment ¿ culminating in his proposal of a new discipline called «somaesthetics»). As Shusterman¿s philosophical writings involve a dialogue with both analytic and continental traditions, this monograph not only offers a critical vision of contemporary pragmatist thought but also situates Shusterman and pragmatism within the current state of theory. 204 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In diesem Buch werden die Ursachen für den rasanten Absturz des Kapitalismus dargestellt und ebenso mögliche Lösungsansätze anhand wirtschaftsethischer Überlegungen aufgezeigt ¿ das verantwortungsvolle Handeln der «Big Bosses» ihrer Umwelt gegenüber steht hierbei an oberster Stelle. Das Streben nach immer mehr Kapital findet stets sein jähes Ende, gleichsam einer Seifenblase, die plötzlich platzt. Erst danach stellt man sich die Frage, wie die Folgen bekämpft werden können, anstatt im Vorhinein darüber nachzudenken, wie diese zu verhindern gewesen wären. Die Folgen der Krise sind schwerwiegend, tausende Firmen gehen weltweit bankrott, tausende Mitarbeiter werden entlassen und die Jobaussichten am Arbeitsmarkt gehen gegen Null. Die große Frage, die gestellt werden muss, ist, ob sich die Wirtschaft so bald überhaupt wieder erholen kann und ob es dann nicht wieder nach einiger Zeit zur Krise kommt. All diese Faktoren werden hier beleuchtet und ebenso als einziges mögliches Lösungskonzept an die Vernunft des Menschen appelliert: das ethisch und verantwortungsvolle Handeln der eigenen Umwelt gegenüber. Nur die Vernunft des Menschen kann dazu beitragen, weitere Krisen zu verhindern. 118 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book explores the extraordinarily violent and abusive nature of Stephen Donaldson¿s male protagonists. Thomas Covenant of The Chronicles is a leper, rotten and physically collapsing. In Mordant¿s Need and The Gap series the male characters are moral lepers. The Gap offers a Janus-faced male lead in the form of two men who are both multiple rapists. The male hero in Mordant¿s Need is outwardly socially acceptable but his alter egos are overly corporeal and sexually obsessed. In spite of their unappealing condition, all these protagonists yearn to be loved. Using the psychoanalytical theories of Julia Kristeva, this book identifies reasons for Donaldson¿s derogatory characterization and provides an insight into why these novels cannot allow their male protagonists to establish viable love relationships. This study also explains why maternal characters are jettisoned from the narratives, considers the problematic nature of father figures and examines the incipient undertow of psychosis.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 238 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Due to increasing complexity in new product development multi-organization, multi-team (MOMT) projects are becoming more common. They are formed in different industries like computer, automotive, aircraft, and space research. Since many of these projects still fail, more knowledge on the influences on performance in and of such projects is required in order to be able to manage them successfully. The author examines the influences of communication within and between teams on team and project performance, which in turn depends on applied design principles that structure and facilitate that information flow. Quantitative and qualitative analyses reveal that there are differential relations on the team and project level as well as for effectiveness and efficiency. Managerial implications are given of how to structure MOMT projects and the design problem-solving process and thereby facilitate the information flow within and between teams in order to make the teams and projects successful. 188 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -England war im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert mehr als nur ein Königreich am Rande Europas: Es war das Land der «Industriellen Revolution», fortschrittlich im Technischen, vorbildlich im Politischen, mit einer Weltmetropole zur Hauptstadt. Für viele deutsche Intellektuelle verkörperte es daher nicht nur ein «Anderes», sondern die Zukunft der Moderne überhaupt. Diese Arbeit geht der Frage nach, wie die Englandreisenden Lichtenberg, Heine und Fontane die Umbrüche am Beginn der europäischen Moderne sprachlich inszenieren und reflektieren. Sie zeichnet dabei vor allem auch den nach der Französischen Revolution einsetzenden kultur- und mentalitätsgeschichtlichen Wandel nach von einem anglophilen Fortschrittsoptimismus hin zu einer Kritik des englischen Weges in die Moderne und seiner, vor allem sozialen, Unkosten. 126 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Que se passe-t-il entre le moment où un enseignant prépare son enseignement et le moment où il sort de sa classe Quels évènements sont venus renforcer ses convictions de départ, ou transformer ses prévisions Cet ouvrage tente de lever le voile sur quelques situations d¿enseignement de langue française, dans quelques pays francophones et dans un pays non francophone, pour les décrire dans leur dynamique et leur identité propres. C¿est dans cette description microscopique d¿évènements didactiques, dans cette mise en lien du contexte social avec les réalités de la classe, que peut se prendre, paradoxalement, toute la distance nécessaire pour rendre une expérience unique transférable et donc utile à tous.C¿est du moins l¿ambition des auteurs de ce livre, qui doit son origine à la rencontre de didacticiens d¿horizons divers venant de la Belgique, de la Suisse, de la France et du Viêt-Nam, tous ayant pour toile de fond, la formation des enseignants.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 276 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Translations of Cervantes¿ Don Quijote (1605) take pride of place among foreign literature in China. Despite the contrasts between the two cultures and the passage of four centuries the adventures and misadventures of the Castilian hero have always been popular with Chinese readers.In this book a corpus-based stylistic study is used to explore two contemporary Mandarin Chinese translations of Don Quijote: those by Yang Jiang (1978) and Liu Jingsheng (1995). Utilising a micro-structural perspective this study suggests explanations for the surprising popularity of Don Quijote in China.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 254 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Un ricco repertorio a sostegno delle buone ragioni ¿ giuridiche, morali e sociali ¿ della satira costituisce la premessa di questo confronto tra satira televisiva tedesca e italiana. La satira è un diritto costituzionalmente sancito sia in Germania che in Italia, ma è una vera cenerentola. In Italia a causa della crescente concentrazione di potere politico e mediatico e dell¿intolleranza verso qualsivoglia contaminazione tra satira e informazione. In Germania a causa dell¿estrema commercializzazione e dispersività del panorama televisivo. Dall¿analisi comparativa di due trasmissioni satiriche ¿ Extra 3 e Glob. L¿osceno del villaggio ¿ emerge come la satira tedesca sia più libera e autentica, mentre quella italiana sia più ¿furbä, perché costretta ad ammiccamenti e allusioni per sfuggire agli interventi censori del potere. La ricerca è stata insignita con il ¿Premio Zac per la satira politicä nell¿ambito del 37° Premio Satira Politica organizzato dal Museo della Satira di Forte dei Marmi. 414 pp. Italienisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This volume compares and analyses the national civil services and the most important reform trends in the 27 Member States of the European Union. The authors first examine the reform processes concerning civil servants¿ legal status, organisational changes, recruitment policies, remuneration, decentralisation of human resource responsibilities, job security and ethics. They consider in what ways similarities and differences can be detected amongst the 27 Member States and whether and to what extent the national civil services move away from traditional bureaucratic structures. Finally, the authors discuss the main outcomes of the reform processes and the future of the classical civil service. This publication contrasts with the many popular and speculative statements that too often capture the headlines on the future of the civil service and the different human resource management reforms. Instead, it is a measured conclusion about emerging trends and developments in this important policy area. The authors argue that the reform of the public sector will not, as many have predicted, be characterised by clear changes and progress in the area. Instead, the outcomes of the reform reveal a more complex picture of piecemeal and paradoxical patterns of change. 296 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Language learning materials development remains a surprisingly under-supported aspect of language teaching. This book constitutes a much-needed resource in the area, aiming to support and advance the craft of materials design. The volume offers a snapshot of the contemporary influences on language learning materials development from diverse perspectives around the globe. These influences include the demands of teaching ESOL in Britain and Ireland, the impact of Corpus Linguistics, the needs of young learners and of diverse worldwide audiences, the development of intercultural competence, as well as the integration of L2 acquisition research. Contributors to the volume are drawn from a broad range of teaching, research and materials development backgrounds. The book includes some chapters based on papers given at the MATSDA (Materials Development Association) 2008 conference. 296 pp. Englisch.