peter lang peter lang nov 2008 (194 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Lost Intimacies: Rethinking Homosexuality under National Socialism uses queer theory as a hermeneutic tool with which to read against the grain of heterotextual narratives of the Holocaust and as a way of locating alternative pathways of meaning in dominant Holocaust research. Specifically addressing the racialization of sexuality, the book asks how the politics of sexuality can be more explicitly and systematically theorized, along with state-sanctioned homophobia under Nazism, with a clear recognition that homophobia seldom operated alone, but worked in conjunction with other axes of power, including race, gender, eugenics, and population politics. In theorizing gender and sexuality as entangled axes of analysis, the book allows the specificity of lesbian difference to emerge and challenges the received wisdom that lesbians were not as systematically persecuted under National Socialism. William J. Spurlin questions the wisdom of received scholarship that reduces Nazi fascism to latent homosexuality, and examines the possible implications of Nazi homophobia, and its imbrication with other deployments of power, for the study of contemporary culture where the homophobic impulse continues to reverberate, thereby challenging understandings of history steeped in notions of progressive modernity. 166 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Sport, Beer, and Gender: Promotional Culture and Contemporary Social Life brings together a group of esteemed international scholars to focus on the important, complex, and mutually reinforcing relationships between sport, beer, and gender in fashioning promotional strategies and shaping global cultures of consumption. Collectively, the book examines a well-known social constellation that has received little specific scholarly attention although it sits at the axis of many lines of expanding inquiry in sport studies, media studies, gender studies, cultural studies, consumer studies, and the study of alcohol and substance abuse. The essays gathered here interrogate and trace beer as a commodity as it circumnavigates the circuit of commodification including: (1) institutions and production, (2) texts and representation, and (3) consumption and reception; they explore how it moves from concept to reality, from the private to the public realm, and ultimately its effects on contemporary gendered identity.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 332 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Racially Equitable Teaching is a call to action for early childhood professionals dedicated to closing the achievement gap. Using a critical race theory lens, the book presents outcomes that exist among current professional development paradigms, ideology and public education, specifically looking at how racial ideologies are used as tools to maintain the over-empowerment and privileging of Whites. Beyond theory, Racially Equitable Teaching provides practical classroom applications for teachers and administrators in an effort to move towards racial authenticity, racial balance, and positive racial in-group messaging, challenging the current reproduction of White racial hegemony in United States public schools. 192 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The Internet has transformed higher education by changing the way universities and colleges teach students. As a result, many institutions are struggling to understand how the next generation of Internet technologies, including Web 2.0, multimedia, virtual presence, gaming, and the proliferation of mobile devices, will impact their students and infrastructures. .edu: Technology and Learning Environments in Higher Education discusses how higher education institutions can use these technologies to enable learning environments. In the future, students will have complete access to any higher education resource, including expert scholars, lectures, content, courseware, collaborative dialogues, information exchanges, hands-on learning, and research ¿ no matter where they are located. If fully enabled, this new learning environment will blur the lines between on- and off-campus experiences and remove barriers to learning and research ¿ greatly improving the quality of education for students globally.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 226 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book questions whether technologies are the rational, tangible, scientific, forward-thinking, neutral objects they are so often perceived to be, exploring instead how powerful, mythic ideas about technologies drive our social understanding and our expectations of them. Against a rising tide of information, we encounter significant technological, scientific, and medical advances which promise to create an educated, humane, and equal world. This book explores that promise, deconstructing technologies to conclude that though they do afford us significant and empowering advances, they remain largely cloaked in mystery, and often promise more than they can deliver. Contributors from diverse intellectual backgrounds and political and epistemological stances ¿ spanning sociology and psychosocial investigations, innovation studies, and scientists ¿ combine philosophical inquiry and empirical case studies to create a book which is at once provocative, innovative, and exciting in the challenges it poses.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 246 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Shelton Jackson «Spike» Lee is one of the most culturally influential and provocative film directors of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Bringing together seminal writings - from classic scholarship to new research - this book focuses on this revolutionary film auteur and cultural provocateur to explore contemporary questions around issues of race, politics, sexuality, gender roles, filmmaking, commercialism, celebrity, and the role of media in public discourse. Situating Lee as an important contributor to a variety of American discourses, the book highlights his commitment to exploring issues of relevance to the Black community. His work demands that his audiences take inventory of his and their understandings of the complexities of race relations, the often deleterious influence of media messages, the long term legacy of racism, the liberating effects of sexual freedom, the controversies that arise from colorism, the separatist nature of classism, and the cultural contributions and triumphs of historical figures. This book seeks to stimulate continued debate by examining the complexities in Lee's various sociopolitical claims and their ideological impacts. 450 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Genre aux frontières improbables, la chanson contemporaine est multiforme: elle est littérature, danse, vidéo et graphisme. Et dans un paysage culturel français en pleine mutation, elle représente également un enjeu républicain majeur.Ce volume est issu d¿une rencontre internationale de chercheurs organisée au Frankoromanistentag à Halle en 2006. De nombreuses approches différentes élucident le système culturel complexe qüest la chanson dans de nombreuses perspectives inattendues. Regards linguistiques, littéraires, sociologiques et new historicisants ouvrent un panorama aussi divers que passionnant de ce genre encore trop souvent méconnu. Décidément, cette chanson dans tous ses états n¿a pas fini de nous surprendre.Das zeitgenössische französische Chanson zeichnet sich durch seine Vielfalt an Ausdrucksformen aus. Es manifestiert sich im Tanz, in Clips sowie in der graphischen Kunst. Dieser Reichtum an Formen macht es zu einem Genre, dessen Konturen ständig neu definiert werden. Überdies ist das französische Chanson stets Gegenstand kulturpolitischer Debatten. Der vorliegende Band ist das Ergebnis einer Sektion auf dem Hallenser Frankoromanistentag des Jahres 2006. Er vereint literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Konzepte mit soziologischen Ansätzen und Fragestellungen aus dem Bereich des New Historicism. Durch die methodische Pluralität des Bandes werden neue und unerwartete Blicke auf das Genre Chanson offengelegt. 236 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Problem-solving in mathematics is seen by many students as a struggle. Since the capacity to count and understand basic arithmetical concepts (adding, taking away, etc.) is innate and emerges effortlessly in childhood, why does this negative perception and fear of problem-solving exist This book counteracts this perception by providing a semiotic analysis of problem-solving and, from this analysis, constructing a pedagogical framework for teaching problem-solving that is consistent with the psychology of how humans learn to use signs and symbols. It is based on an experimental math course designed to impart fluency in problem-solving through semiotic training. The positive results of that course inspired the writing of this book. 246 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Voices of Marginality is theoretically grounded in the theology of the diaspora, which according to Fernando F. Segovia has been forged in the migratory experience of American Hispanics. This theological perspective views Judean exiles (587 B.C.E.) and contemporary Mexican migrants as part of a recurring diasporic human experience. The present analysis «reads across» from the exile and return envisioned in the poetry of Second Isaiah (40-55) to the corridos (ballads) about Mexican immigration to the United States. More specifically, the diasporic categories of exile and return in Second Isaiah inform our reading of exile and return in the Mexican immigrant corridos. Conversely, the rhetorical ability of these corridos to transmit a collective Mexican identity for immigrants in the United States provides a compelling lens for understanding the images of exile and return in Second Isaiah. Ultimately, both literary productions reflect voices of marginality. 184 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Helen Garner's The First Stone (1995), a 'non-fictional' book about a sexual harassment case at a University of Melbourne residential college, captured and maintained the Australian media's attention in an unprecedented way. Its publication sparked extensive media commentary regarding an alleged generational war within Australian feminism. While talkback radio, current affairs television, and cultural events such as literary festivals and forums all took part in this heated public contest over the meanings of feminism, this book reconsiders how the debate played out in the Australian print media. Analysing texts as diverse as feature articles and opinion pieces, non-fiction by young feminists, letters to the editor, celebrity feminist profiles and articles, as well as The First Stone itself, this book offers the first in-depth analysis of this debate as a 'media event'. Refusing to adopt either a condemnatory or celebratory approach to the complex relationship between feminism and media culture, it argues that the First Stone media event is indicative of the limitations and the opportunities proffered by the mediatisation of contemporary feminism. Mediating Australian Feminism provides insights that will be valuable to scholars interested in feminism, journalism and news culture, literary reception, and the politics of media representation. 268 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The intensification of bilateral relations between the European Union and Japan has been remarkable seventeen years after they adopted the Joint Declaration in 1991. This volume, which is the result of a unique long-term research project carried out by European and Japanese universities, offers a wide range of topical and comparative studies regarding Japan-EU relations and cooperation within the context of global governance. It focuses mainly on two dimensions: on the one hand, the impact of global economic transformations and knowledge society on both actors and their interaction; and on the other hand, the universal and regional security and development challenges. 320 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Once a country of emigration and diaspora, in the 1990s Ireland began to attract immigration from other parts of the world: a new citizenry. By the first decade of the twenty-first century, the ratio between GDP and population placed Ireland among the wealthiest nations in the world. The Peace Agreements of the mid-1990s and the advent of power-sharing in Northern Ireland have enabled Ireland's story to change still further. No longer locked into troubles from the past, the Celtic Tiger can now leap in new directions. These shifts in culture have given Irish literature the opportunity to look afresh at its own past and, thereby, new perspectives have also opened for Irish Studies. The contributors to this volume explore these new openings; the essays examine writings from both now and the past in the new frames afforded by new times. 292 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -British economic and industrial policy since 1979 is examined using a wide range of sources. Was this really «new», revival of earlier approaches or a rigorous extension of the IMF-imposed policies on the 1974-79 Labour Government The question is asked: Was the creation of a large pool of unemployed labour necessary for reshaping the economy or was the aim to secure fundamental changes in the relations between capital and organised labour Due to setbacks suffered by trade unions in the 1980s with factory closures and major job losses, the author questions Labour¿s motives in softening any meaningful opposition to the Conservatives, supporting ERM in 1990, reducing the role of trade unions in the Party itself and retaining key policies of the Thatcher era especially its trade union laws. 306 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This interdisciplinary collection of essays advances the study of anagnorisis («recognition»), a quintessential concept in Aristotelian poetics. This book explores narrative structure and epistemology by examining how anagnorisis works in narrative fiction, music, and film. Contributors hail from the fields of cinema; opera; religion; medieval and modern English, German, and French literatures; comparative literature; and Indian (Sanskrit) and Islamic (Arabic) literatures, both classical and modern. 276 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book explores what happens with ethnic and national identifications built on the same ethnocultural grounds, but under different socioeconomic circumstances. Territorial and non-territorial minorities have traditionally been considered not susceptible to comparison because it was assumed that groups organized on different grounds were distinctively separate phenomena. In this study, the comparative method is used to throw new light on how ethnic and national identifications are constructed, negotiated, and re-constructed in territorial and non-territorial minority contexts. The author investigates whether the ethnic and national identification and articulation processes of Hungarians in Slovakia and Hungarians in Sweden constitute different types of Hungarianness. Drawing on extensive interview material the empirical focus is on the interaction of self-narratives and public narratives. The author seeks to challenge the notion that national minorities and diaspora communities are fundamentally different in their understanding of nationhood and their relationship to an external national homeland. 316 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book is a detailed study of salient examples of Mexican travel writing from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. While scholars have often explored the close relationship between European or North American travel writing and the discourse of imperialism, little has been written on how postcolonial subjects might relate to the genre. This study first traces the development of a travel-writing tradition based closely on European imperialist models in mid-nineteenth-century Mexico. It then goes on to analyse how the narrative techniques of postmodernism and the political agenda of postcolonialism might combine to help challenge the genre's imperialist tendencies in late twentieth-century works of travel writing, focusing in particular on works by writers Juan Villoro, Héctor Perea and Fernando Solana Olivares. 214 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Scholars in Media Studies increasingly take the view that our understanding of the history of the discipline is deeply inadequate. It is now widely recognised that a large number of important media analysts have simply been omitted from the standard histories. This book aims to fill in some of the gaps by examining the work of eleven neglected writers, each of whom has made a seminal contribution to the analysis of the media but whose work rarely appears in student textbooks, anthologies and readers. In keeping with the interdisciplinary ambitions of contemporary Media Studies, the selected thinkers are drawn from a wide range of historical periods and intellectual backgrounds. There are chapters on sociologists, creative writers, cultural theorists, art critics, journalists and even ancient Greek philosophers. The aims of the book are by no means purely antiquarian. The contributors believe that a revival of interest in the work of their chosen writers can go a long way towards revitalising Media Studies, especially by (1) drawing attention to a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches which have yet to be adequately exploited, (2) suggesting new areas of research, and (3) transforming our understanding of the historical development of Media Studies. 322 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Cet ouvrage est consacré à l¿¿uvre d¿Albert Cossery, auteur de huit romans parus entre 1941 et 1999. Après un bref descriptif des ¿uvres de Cossery, sont analysés successivement les personnages, les structures de l¿intrigue qui sert de prétexte à un foisonnement d¿historiettes, l¿évolution des idées de l¿auteur et son « égyptianité ». Si les personnages des premiers récits de Cossery croient encore à la possibilité de l¿action politique, allant jusqüà esquisser des gestes révolutionnaires, ceux de la maturité, joyeux drilles et généralement marginaux, correspondant à divers archétypes qüon retrouve sous des noms différents tout au long de son ¿uvre, pratiquent l¿« abstentionnisme » politique, se refusant à toute collaboration avec les hommes de pouvoir, qüon ne peut combattre que par la dérision. Il s¿agit d¿une « philosophie » anti-révolutionnaire et humaniste à la fois : c¿est en effet dans l¿amitié et dans les plaisirs du quotidien que l¿on trouve une raison d¿être. L¿intrigue des romans de Cossery conduit rarement à un dénouement, au sens classique du terme ; c¿est le parcours qui prime sur l¿aboutissement et c¿est en cela que le récit a du charme. Âgé de 94 ans, il s¿est éteint à Paris le 22 juin 2008, après une vie exemplaire passée à recréer par les mots et en français, son Égypte natale. 166 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Based on new and existing archival documentation, this book provides a detailed analysis of the British attitude to Bonn¿s Eastern and inner-German policies during the period of détente and the CSCE. Each chapter analyses the evolution of British policy on a particular issue area, making detailed comparisons of British and West German archival sources and outlining the main aspects of the British view of West Germany¿s relations with the Soviet bloc states and the German Democratic Republic. Drawing upon the archives of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and of the West German foreign ministry, this book sheds new light on some of the more occult aspects of the British attitude to the German question and reveals the problems faced by British decision-makers in seeking to maintain Britain¿s close ties with Bonn, while being hardly enthusiastic about the long-term prospect of German reunification. This volume addresses issues of East-West and Anglo-German relations, the role of NATO, and the debate among the Western allies on relations between the two German states during the period of détente. 270 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -'Gender equality is a fundamental right, a common value of the EU, and a necessary condition for the achievement of the EU objectives of growth, employment and social cohesion.' (European Commission: Roadmap for Equality between Women and Men). 2007 has been designated as 'European Year of Equal Opportunities for All'. What are the challenges of gender equality policy in a wider Europe of 27, with a combined population of 500 million A two-days conference on 'The Role of Women in Central Europe after EU Enlargement' organized by the Austrian Cultural Forum Milan together with Milan State University tried to assess the history, culture, economic situation and international relations of one «female half» of Europe that sees the Western world with new eyes and may indicate to us the way to a better future. 272 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book is the outcome of collaboration between medical and theological writers from within the Christian tradition. Its aim is to explore ways in which medicine and theology can be complementary and to counter the frequent examples of the two disciplines being in disagreement. The subjects chosen for discussion are selective and are grouped under three headings: Theological Background, Moral Boundaries, and Regulation and Policy. This enables the discussion to proceed from theology to specifics in medicine with a concluding emphasis on the practicalities of regulation and policy.The book can, therefore, be read as an essay in applied ethics. It seeks to discover how cherished theological beliefs can work themselves out in relation to some of the specific questions raised by modern medical technologies. The argument throughout shows why theology has to listen carefully to medicine and how theology can then be of practical benefit, in enabling medicine to exercise its social responsibilities. 290 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The integration of non-EU migrants is one of the most salient issues in contemporary European politics and social scientists have dedicated significant attention to this question. Even though this field is generally characterized by its richness, its weakness has been its focus on specific aspects of immigration, such as political participation, immigrant entrepreneurship, models of citizenship, etc. This book addresses migrant integration in its complexity. First, it compares and analyzes local integration regimes because levels and modes of integration vary throughout Europe, all the way to the sub-national level. Second, the book discusses integration issues in various arenas, including political party systems, welfare regimes, social movements, civil society, economic sectors, housing, urban planning, and crime. In doing so, the study addresses the relationships between integration in various spheres, thus embracing the complexity of integration processes. Finally, the book attempts to explain the links between political, economic and social integration through interdisciplinary analysis based on power, class and status. 340 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -For nearly fifty years, Cyprus has attracted considerable international attention. However, while numerous volumes have been written on the causes and consequences of the conflict between the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities and the many efforts to reunite the island, very little work has been done on the domestic politics and society in the Republic of Cyprus. This volume addresses this major gap in the literature by providing the first comprehensive examination of the institutions of governance and the political environment in Cyprus. As well as focusing on issues such as the presidency, parliament, the legal system, local government and civil society, it also analyses and explains the historical development of politics in Cyprus and the ways in which the conflict between the two communities, the division of the island and, more recently, European Union accession have all affected the conduct of politics and system of government.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 294 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Traditionnellement centrée sur les branches professionnelles, dans un cadre national, la négociation collective s'est déplacée vers d'autres lieux : l'entreprise d'abord, dès les années 1980 et, plus récemment, l'Europe et les territoires. Cette diversification des espaces de négociation et de dialogue social s'accompagne de profonds changements qui concernent aussi bien les acteurs impliqués que les objectifs, les modalités et le contenu des régulations. Introduisant de nouvelles dynamiques dans les relations professionnelles, elle questionne l'articulation entre les différents niveaux ou les scènes où ces régulations prennent place. C'est à l'étude de ces déplacements et de leurs conséquences sur les relations professionnelles nationales et européennes qu'est consacré cet ouvrage. Construction et mobilisation des nouveaux cadres du dialogue social sont analysées à partir de trois terrains : le dialogue social territorial, appréhendé à la fois historiquement et à travers une comparaison internationale contemporaine ; le dialogue social sectoriel, étudié dans le secteur des télécommunications aux niveaux national et européen ; le dialogue social transnational dans les entreprises enfin, examiné à travers l'expérience des comités d'entreprise européens. Partant de travaux empiriques originaux et approfondis, les analyses développées mettent en lumière des sujets encore très mal connus, tout en proposant une réflexion commune et novatrice sur les formes de régulation qui émergent dans l'espace européen et sur la reconfiguration des relations professionnelles qui en découle aujourd'hui. 270 pp. Französisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Interpreting religion poses a dilemma: realist interpretations of religion face the philosophical problem of religious diversity and irrealist interpretations of religion are revisionary. The author explores the implications of this dilemma and also clarifies the confusions caused by two abiding problems: those stemming from, first, the concern over which religious beliefs are true rather than attending to what it means for a belief to be true, and, second, the failure to acknowledge two fundamentally different forms of religious irrealism, anti-realism and non-realism. Providing critical assessment of the relevant works of John Hick, William Alston, Alvin Plantinga, Peter van Inwagen, and Ludwig Wittgenstein and his followers, this book is appropriate for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in philosophy of religion and religious theory.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 178 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Aus dem Inhalt/Contenu : Joseph Willimann: Vorwort - Préface ¿ Philippe Albèra/Georges Starobinski : Béla Bartók - La décennie 1915-1925 ¿ János Kárpáti : Sources ethniques et pensée dodécaphonique dans le Quatuor no 2 de Béla Bartók ¿ Judit Frigyesi: Surface musical process versus background structure: two instances of last-minute corrections in Bartók¿s works ¿ Elliott Antokoletz: From «Folksong Arrangement» to «Composing with Folk Tunes» in Bartók¿s Eight Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs, Op. 20, and his move toward greater abstraction in the Three Etudes, Op. 18 ¿ László Somfai: The two Sonatas for Violin and Piano (1921-1922): Avantgarde Music à la Bartók ¿ Péter Laki : Les mélodies op. 15 et 16 de Bartók ¿ Georges Starobinski : Le métronome passionné. Tempo et agogique dans les Cinq mélodies op. 16 de Béla Bartók ¿ Malcolm Gillies: A Creative Cul-de-Sac Bartók¿s Wooden Prince and Miraculous Mandarin ¿ Rudolf Bossard: «¿ prendendo quasi ogni sera il divertimento delle opere in Musica ¿» Streiflichter auf die Opernstagione des Winters 1682/83 in Venedig ¿ Thomas Järmann: Vom Übungsstück zur kunstvollen Eröffnung: Die formale Idee hinter J. S. Bachs Präludium in C-Dur BWV 846 aus dem Wohltemperirten Clavier I ¿ Wolfgang G. Vögele: «¿ ein tiefes Bedürfnis, das mich zu Ihnen treibt.» Zum Verhältnis Felix Weingartner - Rudolf Steiner. 296 pp. Englisch, Französisch, Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -On the occasion of Gerhard Kubik's 70th birthday scholars from most diverse disciplines and different cultures were invited to take part in an international symposium. This symposium was held at the Institute of Musicology of the University of Vienna in December 2004. The participants whose lectures are published in this book, came from various European countries and the USA, as well as from Japan and Africa. The symposium was dedicated to the work of Gerhard Kubik. The scholar who was born in Vienna, is one of the leading and most estimated ethnomusicologists of our time. His diversified cultural approach and his decidedly intra-cultural working method have always met with highest international approval. In the course of the past four decades Gerhard Kubik has undertaken extended field research every year which up to now has lead him to eighteen African countries, to Brazil and the USA. African Perspectives presents the scientific results of his friends and colleagues as well as the research activities of Gerhard Kubik. 374 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Doing Good, Departing from Evil: Research Findings in the Twenty-First Century emphasizes that goodness must be actively enacted, not abstractly discussed, that evil is present and must be fought, and that in-depth research into problems provides wisdom to proceed with that battle in the new century. Eleven scholars investigate problematic topics and offer potential guidance about racism, propaganda, marital tensions, educational inequities, college dropouts, elders¿ depression, neglect of the disabled, and even peacemaking between faith-based and secular social work agencies as well as Israelis and Palestinians. This collection offers no easy answers to complex problems, but points the way to potentially positive modes of mending the world, and invites readers to share in this challenging task.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 264 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The choice of a pronunciation model for the 21st century learner has become a major issue of debate among applied linguists concerned with teaching English. The standard pronunciation models ¿ Received Pronunciation and General American ¿ have recently been confronted with a new proposal of a Lingua Franca Core (LFC) or English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), put forward as a didactic priority in teaching English pronunciation to foreigners. This volume, which includes selected contributions from the Poznä Linguistic Meetings of 2003 and 2004, does not intend to present yet another model, but sets out to place the teaching and learning of English pronunciation in the context of the 21st century. As the needs of English users are clearly changing fast in the globalizing world, the question is to what extent, if at all, models of pronunciation have been able to keep up with them, and whether they in fact should do so. Thus, key issues in the integration of pronunciation into English as L2 curricula are explored.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 488 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -La répétition dont traite Elfriede Jelinek est d'abord celle de l'histoire. Dans les deux pièces évoquées, Jelinek rapproche en effet les tragédies : celle de la construction de Kaprun et des victimes anonymes, refoulée et transfigurée en mythe fondateur par la mémoire collective ; et celle, absurde, des touristes, venus chercher une nature « vierge » et victimes d'un incident technique. Elle y intègre l'histoire de l'alpinisme qui est l'histoire de l'exclusion des juifs. La nature, la technique et le travail, voilà les trois axes autour desquels Jelinek organise son matériau. Les textes réunis ici se confrontent à cette chorégraphie textuelle spécifique. Ils explorent cette fascination/irritation provoquée par la répétition toujours dérivée et en même temps par la volonté de s'extraire de celle-ci et d'aller vers une articulation du politique et de la structure, qui serait peut-être le lieu d'une libération. Die Wiederholung, mit der sich Elfriede Jelinek befaßt, ist zunächst die der Geschichte. In beiden Stücken rückt sie Tragödien zusammen: die des Baus des Kraftwerks Kaprun und der namenlosen Opfer, die vom kollektiven Gedächtnis verdrängt und in einem Gründungsmythos verklärt wurden; und die absurde Tragödie der Touristen, die eine «unberührte» Natur finden wollten und einer technischen Panne zum Opfer fielen. Jelinek integriert auch die Geschichte des Alpinismus, die die Geschichte der Ausgrenzung der Juden ist. Natur, Technik und Arbeit, um diese drei Achsen ordnet sie ihr Material an. Die hier zusammengestellten Texte konfrontieren sich mit dieser textuellen Choreographie. Sie erforschen die Faszination/Irritation, die von der immer wieder variierten Wiederholung ausgeht wie auch von dem Willen, aus ihr herauszutreten und sich auf eine Verbindung von Politik und Struktur zuzubewegen, die der Ort einer Befreiung sein könnte. 246 pp. Französisch, Deutsch.