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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book focuses on Foucault¿s later work and his (re)turn to ¿the hermeneutics of the subject¿, exploring the implications of his thinking for education, pedagogy, and related disciplines. What and who is the subject of education and what are the forms of self-constitution Chapters investigate Foucault¿s notion of ¿the culture of self¿ in relation to questions concerning truth (parrhesia or free speech) and subjectivity, especially with reference to the literary genres of confession and biography, and the contemporary political forms of individualization (governmentality).Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 238 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This work focuses on the Catholic Bohemian German dialect of Ellis County, Kansas, in the United States. It is a unique Bavarian dialect spoken by descendants of settlers to this area in west central Kansas from Bukovina, then an Austrian province. The Catholic Bohemian Germans were one of two distinct groups of Bukovina immigrants to the Ellis area as early as the 1880s. They found their way to the United States and Kansas via Bukovina from the Bohemian Forest, today situated in the Czech Republic. Their German dialect faces its linguistic demise. This study documents the grammar and the lexicon of the Catholic Bohemian German dialect, based on dialect interviews. In addition it sheds light on its geographical origin in the Bohemian Forest.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 152 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The call by German Early Romantic writers for a new mythology is one of the boldest and most unusual demands by any literary theorist. This study asks how an age which variously saw mythology as a historical phenomenon or a collection of artistically useful images came to see the need for its renewal at all. The author traces the evolving role of mythology in the writings of Winckelmann, Herder, Moritz and Schiller and argues that the late eighteenth century saw the emergence of a new conception of mythology which depended less on an established iconography and cultural context and more on the poetic and linguistic functions of mythology. This dehistoricized view of mythology formed the basis of the Romantic project and the author examines the works of Friedrich Schlegel and Schelling as well as the Älteste Systemprogramm des deutschen Idealismus against that background. 230 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The empirical analysis of poverty over time is still severely constrained by the available survey data in developing countries. In the past, this has led to a neglect of certain aspects of poverty dynamics or even biased assessments of poverty dynamics. This book explicitly takes into account the present data limitations, proposing alternative methods for the empirical analysis of poverty dynamics. The work addresses both the problems related to limited data in the analysis of macro-level (or national) as well as micro-level (or household) poverty dynamics. The proposed methods are applied to survey data from various sub-Saharan African countries. As these countries do not only have the most limited economic survey data but also show the highest poverty rates in the world an accurate understanding of the underlying poverty dynamics seems to be most important for these countries. 180 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The book investigates user satisfaction with mobile services, the perceived quality of m-commerce products, and the loyalty towards service providers. After introducing the m-commerce value chain and emerging mobile services, the first part examines relevant theories from diffusion of innovations and service quality to mobile services, and identifies new trends in the mobile communication market. The book demonstrates to what extent service quality and adoption theories of consumer behavior literature explain the (repeated) usage of mobile services, and how the results differ by user segments. A-priori and a-posteriori segmentations provide detailed insights. The results indicate that it is important to consider (un)observed heterogeneity in explanatory models. 204 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Communicating with the Multicultural Consumer highlights demographic changes impacting the consumer marketplace in the United States. Growing multiculturalism creates both new opportunities for marketers as well as new challenges. With a balance of theoretical and practical perspectives, this text explores how to develop successful campaigns targeting Hispanic Americans, African Americans, and Asian Americans. Complete with current examples and case studies, it addresses the key issues that must be kept in mind when creating effective communications programs for ethnic consumers ¿ from marketing mix elements to cultural norms and values. Communicating with the Multicultural Consumer is an ideal text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in specialized courses dealing with ethnic advertising or marketing. It is also an effective supplementary text for introductory advertising, marketing or mass communication courses, and would be useful to advertising practitioners ¿ whether on the client side or within the advertising agency.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 350 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The essays contained in this collection focus on the early H. G. Wells, the scientific romancer, the comic novelist and the young author discovering the literary élite. Written at the crossroads of a new century, the authors of these essays use their own fin-de-siècle experiences to look back one hundred years and critically assess the writings of an earlier fin-de-siècle. With seven chapters dealing with The Time Machine, The Wheels of Chance, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The War of the Worlds, Tono-Bungay and The History of Mr Polly, readers receive a detailed overview of Wells's literary output between 1895 and 1910. Two further chapters treat Wells's literary friendships, assessing his personal and professional relationships with the Victorian realist, George Gissing, and the pioneering modernist, Joseph Conrad, while the final chapter reveals Wells as a 'time traveller', employing poststructuralist techniques fifty years before that expression was coined. 160 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In über fünf Jahrzehnten hat Günter Grass das Essen immer wieder zum Gegenstand seiner künstlerischen Arbeit gemacht. Von Die Blechtrommel über Der Butt und Gedichte wie Die Schweinekopfsülze bis hin zum autobiographischen Text Beim Häuten der Zwiebel sowie in zahlreichen Grafiken und Skulpturen seit Anfang der fünfziger Jahre hat Grass die anthropologische wie die künstlerische Bedeutung des Essens gestaltet. Ebenso spielen im Gesamtwerk von Günter Grass die Figuren des Kochs und der Köchin eine wichtige Rolle. Dabei hat der sich politisch engagierende Zeitgenosse unermüdlich die Voraussetzung aller Kochkunst, den Sieg über den Hunger der Welt, eingefordert. So bilden Hunger und Kochen, Kochen und Kunst die zentralen Themen der in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge. 140 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Written during the vibrant crisis years of the Weimar Republic, Alfred Döblin¿s Berlin Alexanderplatz is a fascinating examination of the gradual disintegration of Germany in the aftermath of the Great War and in the shadow of a nascent National Socialism. This study engages the seminal image of the prostitute, the commodified woman, as a central and dominant motif in Döblin¿s work. Through this intersection of sex, gender and economics, the author scrutinizes the larger perspective of German culture through the lens of its suppressed underclasses and considers how the politics of language both construct and constrain woman¿s identity in this society. The true history of the Weimar Republic, therefore, is read through Döblin¿s portraits of prostitutes and petty criminals, homosexuality and Lustmord. 214 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -¿Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; ¿ they are the life, the soul of reading¿. So declared Laurence Sterne in his Tristram Shandy, the greatest of all monuments to digression. The modern Italian novel was not slow to pick up on Sterne¿s lesson. This book examines the workings of digression in the novels of five major Italian authors ¿ Manzoni, Dossi, Pirandello, Gadda, and Calvino ¿ from the birth of the modern novel in the early 19th century to the era of postmodernist experimentation. Digression is shown to play a role in defining not only the poetics of the five authors, but also their underlying world-views, their cognitive and philosophical dispositions. The book explores the tensions digression engenders in narrative texts, by creating extra time within narration, disrupting the readers¿ expectations, and generating an act of reflection upon the narrative process itself. What emerges is a sense of the vitality and flexibility of the device of digression in the Italian tradition, both within the canonical novel and the anti-novel, as well as an illuminating and original web of relations between the five authors under analysis. 262 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book is concerned with the presence of familiar objects in unfamiliar places. It examines the literary practice of inserting imaginary photographs of art, architecture, and people into novels and short stories. These photographs are fictive objects, although some, especially those of art and architecture, have equivalents in real life. The book examines the presence of invented photographs in the writings of six authors who made extensive use of this practice. The ¿rst part of the book concentrates on E. M. Forster, while also including some discussion of imaginary photographs in Sinclair Lewis¿s novel Main Street. The second part of the book analyses the uses of photographs in the writings of Forster¿s near contemporaries, with separate chapters being devoted to Henry James, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf. An epilogue touches on Christopher Isherwood, a member of the next generation of British writers. The book focuses upon largely unexplored areas in the writings of these authors ¿ what Virginia Woolf in ¿Modern Fiction¿ styled ¿un-expected places¿. 260 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -From 1937 to 1944 the National Socialist regime organized a series of high-profile art exhibitions at the purpose-built Haus der Deutschen Kunst in Munich. Boasting huge numbers of participants and visitors and high sales figures, the Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung became the most important showcase of National Socialist art. Adolf Hitler played a crucial role in determining all aspects of the exhibition, most notably the selection of artworks. His vast purchases from the Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung contributed to the inflation in the market for contemporary art and led to the establishment of a group of favoured painters and sculptors which can be compared to the court artists of early modern times.This book traces the history of the Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung, characterizes the artists and artworks shown and investigates how the local Munich tradition of displaying art was reinvented for national purposes. It examines the social policies for artists in the Third Reich, highlights Hitler¿s role as a patron for the exhibition and points out some of the contradictions and inconsistencies in National Socialist art policies. 342 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Questo è il primo tomo di una trilogia: I. Differenziazione, non linearità, equilibrio; II. Costanti dell¿azione; III. Variabili dell¿azione. Il volume tratta dell¿economia paretiana e specialmente della sua sociologia economica. La disposizione dei capitoli segue l¿evoluzione dello stesso pensiero paretiano nella sua prima fase. Infatti, l¿ultimo capitolo si conclude con l¿esposizione dei concetti di azione logica e non logica e di residuo e derivazione, che costituiranno poi l¿oggetto dei successivi volumi. Si dimostra come Pareto in realtà si occupasse della mente, del soggetto che decide, che sceglie, le cui scelte aggregate a quelle di altri soggetti assumono valenze diverse con effetti emergenti o perversi, comunque quasi sempre non lineari e non logici. La loro dinamica ricorrente variata produce fluttuazioni e turbolenze nei sistemi studiati dalla sociologia altamente regolati e autoregolati, come dimostrato dalla paretiana teoria deduttiva dei residui e delle derivazioni. È quanto si vuole mettere in risalto con l¿insieme del lavoro, nella speranza di suscitare ulteriori studi sul pensiero paretiano e proficui confronti e sfide con le recenti discipline della mente. 488 pp. Italienisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Au moment où les Vingt-Sept préparent un traité sur le fonctionnement de l¿Union européenne pour remplacer le projet de constitution rejeté par certains États membres, il convient de retracer et d¿analyser les nombreuses mutations qüont connues les institutions européennes dans le passé.Ainsi, dès 1949 et la création du Conseil de l¿Europe, la coopération intergouvernementale pratiquée par celui-ci déçoit. Six pays d¿Europe occidentale inventent alors les Communautés supranationales, à partir de 1950. Très vite après l¿entrée en vigueur du traité de Rome de 1957, et plus encore dans les décennies suivantes, le système communautaire connaît de multiples adaptations et innovations afin de rendre le processus décisionnel plus efficace et plus démocratique.Ces aménagements, imaginés par des Européens déterminés, sont liés à la fois au contexte international, politique et économique, et aux perceptions de l¿intérêt national des États membres de plus en plus nombreux. Au fil des études rassemblées ici, l¿on comprendra que les options prises en matière institutionnelle ne relèvent pas uniquement de choix techniques ou juridiques mais que, au contraire, elles mettent en lumière les enjeux politiques fondamentaux de la construction européenne. 322 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Eines der wichtigsten Ereignisse auf dem Glücksspielmarkt in Deutschland war sicherlich das Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts vom 28. März 2006. Die obersten Bundesrichter in Karlsruhe entschieden, daß das Monopol des staatlichen Sportwettenanbieters Oddset in seiner derzeitigen Form verfassungswidrig ist. Es ist in einer Art und Weise ausgestaltet, die eine effektive Suchtbekämpfung, die den Ausschluß privater Veranstalter rechtfertigen könnte, nicht sicherstellt. Der Gesetzgeber hat nun bis Ende 2007 Zeit, einen verfassungsgemäßen Zustand herzustellen. Dieser Konferenzband der Forschungsstelle Glücksspiel widmet sich ganz der geschilderten Thematik und gibt anhand der Beiträge zum Symposium 2006 eine Bestandsaufnahme der Bedeutung des Glücksspiels und der Wetten aus Sicht der Marktlehre, der Finanz- sowie der Steuerpolitik. Des weiteren findet der Leser in diesem Band einen Gesamtüberblick über alle wichtigen Ereignisse im Jahr 2006. 92 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book combines a social constructionist view of academic writing with a pedagogical orientation seeking to explore the dialogic relationship between the culture of academic discourse communities and their rhetoric, and provide a comprehensive analysis of variation across disciplines, genres and national intellectual cultures. The analysis focuses on the rhetorical organisation of research genres and the resources that convey authors¿ epistemic and attitudinal stance. The findings form the basis for the design of socio-culturally oriented learning materials for the teaching of writing in the disciplines and the development of academic literacies. 306 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Divorce is a conspicuous character trait of modernity, commonly portrayed in texts and on screen, with its moral and social rationalisation firmly rooted in Enlightenment and Romantic thought. The aim of this volume is to bring into focus this contemporary cultural fascination by assembling the variety of academic responses it has started to create. Bringing together the reflections of scholars from the UK and North America who have worked in this domain, this study offers for the first time a genuinely wide-ranging account of the depiction of divorce across the northern hemisphere in a number of media (fiction, journalism, film and television). It reaches historically from the intellectual and legal aftermath of the Enlightenment right up to the present day. As such, the collection shows both the roots of this apparently contemporary phenomenon in nineteenth-century literary practice and the very particular ways in which divorce characterises the different narrative media of modernity. 300 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Borges 2.0: From Text to Virtual Worlds analyzes Jorge Luis Borges¿s «The Library of Babel», «The Garden of Forking Paths», and «The Intruder» from a tripartite perspective that encompasses literature, science, and technology. This book underscores developments in chaos theory during the 1980s and their intricate connections with Borges¿s works and the digital world. Without losing sight of this critical framework, this study also takes into account Deleuze and Guattari¿s rhizome theory and Umberto Ecös theory on labyrinths. Borges 2.0 is unique in its analysis of how Borgesian texts relate to science and technology at the same time that science and the virtual world illuminate Borges¿s texts to provide a new reading of his work.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 136 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The international right to self-defense was subject to legal and political controversies long before September 11, 2001. On several occasions, states resorted to defensive military force against different internationally operative armed groups. This work seeks to show the precise conditions for self-defense against non-state actors as indicated by state practice since 1945. Based upon a detailed evaluation of almost 20 relevant conflicts, it is argued that state practice does not warrant limiting Article 51 of the U.N. Charter to armed attacks by states and ignoring non-state attackers. In fact, states almost never contended that already the formal legal nature of a non-state attacker excludes the possibility of military self-defense. The current view of the International Court of Justice is insofar not consonant with state practice. 268 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In June 2006 delegates from eight countries representing six French, US, and British-based learned societies met at St Catherine¿s College, Oxford, for a conference on the French long seventeenth century entitled ¿Modernités/Modernities¿. Nineteen of the best papers on theatre, fiction and poetry were selected for this volume, and they present new perspectives on novels as different as L¿Astrée and Le Roman bourgeois, comedy and tragedy, actors¿ practices, the ballet de cour and the burgeoning genre of opera, and a time span from Du Bellay to Mme de Gomez. The cardinal feature of this wide range of topics lies in the unifying factor of vibrant modernity.En juin 2006 un colloque sur le thème de la modernité pendant l¿âge classique a réuni à St Catherine¿s College, Oxford, des spécialistes venus de huit pays pour représenter six sociétés savantes dont quatre françaises, une américaine, et une britannique. Dix-neuf communications sur le théâtre, le roman et la poésie choisies parmi les meilleures sont recueillies dans le présent volume, qui fournit de nouvelles perspectives sur des romans aussi divers que L¿Astrée et Le Roman bourgeois, la comédie et la tragédie, le jeu des comédiens, le ballet de cour et le genre naissant de l¿opéra, sur une période qui va de Du Bellay à Mme de Gomez. L¿aspect capital de cette envergure réside dans la vitalité cohésive de la modernité. 324 pp. Englisch, Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The future of Southeastern Europe and connected EU policies are a much more important issue than just guaranteeing regional stability and sustainable modernization in the «backyard of Europe». The credibility of the EU, as a global «soft power» is at stake, with far reaching consequences on the future of the European integration, affecting both further enlargement and urgently needed deepening. The strategy oriented analysis commissioned by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation Budapest is based on an interdisciplinary approach with clear emphasis on economic issues, such as global, EU-related and intra-regional trade, foreign direct investments, labour market, migration and financial transfers. Domestic developments and EU relations of the individual Southeastern European countries are compared to each other and to the experience of other transforming countries of Central and Eastern Europe, already full members of the European Union. Special attention is paid to conditionality requirements, recent changes and ongoing dilemmas of the EU¿s strategy towards the Western Balkans in a critical period of the region, both regarding their different speed and quality of preparing for full-fledged membership and the potential consequences of the future status of Kosovo. 418 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Die weltumfassende Vernetzung von Kommunikation und die Auswirkungen globaler Migrationsströme bewirken einen tief greifenden Strukturwandel europäischer Öffentlichkeit. Sie erfordern vom Einzelnen erweiterte Kompetenzen der Wahrnehmung und der handelnden Verarbeitung von Wirklichkeit. Diese Kompetenzen werden mit dem Begriff «Multiliteralität» bezeichnet. Er umfasst so komplexe und vielfältig miteinander verwobene Aspekte wie Mehrsprachigkeit und Identität, Kommunikations- und Medienkompetenz, lebensweltliche und schulische Erwerbsprozesse. Deren fremdsprachendidaktische Facetten beleuchtet das Buch. Es vereinigt ausgewählte Beiträge der internationalen Tagung «Multiliteralität und der europäische Bildungsauftrag», die im Juni 2006 in Bremen stattfand. 332 pp. Englisch, Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In June 2006 delegates from eight countries representing six French, US, and British-based learned societies met at St Catherine¿s College, Oxford, for a conference on the French long seventeenth century entitled ¿Modernités/Modernities¿. Twenty of the best papers on religion, ethics and history were selected for this volume, and they present new perspectives on topics as diverse as devotion and pornography, artifice and the pursuit of truth, Bruscambille and Pascal, historiography from the sixteenth century to Voltaire, and, of course, the Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes.En juin 2006 un colloque sur le thème de la modernité pendant l¿âge classique a réuni à St Catherine¿s College, Oxford des spécialistes venus de huit pays pour représenter six sociétés savantes dont quatre françaises, une américaine, et une britannique. Vingt communications choisies parmi les meilleures sont recueillies dans le présent volume, sur des sujets aussi divers que la dévotion et la pornographie, l¿artifice et la recherche de la vérité, Bruscambille et Pascal, l¿historiographie tant du seizième siècle que de Voltaire et, bien entendu, la Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes. 350 pp. Englisch, Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book explores the relationship between ancient Greek sculpture and modern Greek poetry between 1860 and 1960. It examines in some detail poems by Vasileiadis, Rangavis, Palamas, Cavafy, Sikelianos and Seferis, and shows how these poets appropriate the art of sculpture and in what ways this contributes to our understanding of each poet's poetics. Ancient Greek sculpture and sculptural imagery related to it are inevitably associated with the Classical heritage and bring the issue of ancient tradition and its relation to the modern artist into a prominent position. What is more, sculpture is particularly important for the erotic dimension through which the poets perceive their relation with art, and each poet systematically uses the image of the sculptor to define his perception of the artist. In both cases the myth of Pygmalion may be seen as successfully embodying each poet's relation with art and tradition. 344 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book examines the responses of visual artists, including architects, designers and photographers, to the technological and social modernisation of Germany during the first three decades of the twentieth century. It investigates how these aspects of the modernising process inform both the subject matter and formal innovations of their work. The study analyses how these visual practices were not just the concerns of isolated and enclosed art worlds but had wider social resonances, ranging from the debates concerning the reformist objectives of the Deutscher Werkbund (1907) to the National Socialist ideological onslaught on modernist culture culminating in the Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art) exhibitions of 1937. Many of the artists encountered here were radicalised by the First World War, the Russian Revolution and the November 1918 Revolution in Germany, experiences which effected change in their conceptualising of cultural production and its social function: their modes of working, however, would also set challenging markers for what forms art might take for the twentieth century. The book is, therefore, both a study of art in complex political and sociocultural contexts and a reflection on how engagement with a social imagination can challenge a tradition based on the assumptions of individual imaginings. 354 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The Greek grammarian Epaphroditus, trained in Alexandria and prominent as a teacher in Rome of the Neronian-Flavian era, continued the tradition of Hellenistic scholarship in his study of Homer, the Hesiodic Shield of Herakles, and the Aitia of Kallimachos as well as in his treatise on etymology and in the compilation of a glossary of unfamiliar words. Numerous fragments from these works have been preserved in the Ethnika of the sixth-century grammarian Stephanos of Byzantium, the scholia on Homer and other authors, and, notably, in Byzantine etymological lexica, not all of which are fully accessible in print. The present edition presents a critical text of the fragments within the broader context in which they have been transmitted. Each text is supplied with a critical apparatus and a list of the more important parallels. To make the edition more easily accessible to non-specialists an English translation has been given not only of the fragments but also of longer texts quoted in the notes, features which should be of use to specialists as well. After each fragment a short commentary summarizes the results. An extensive introduction presents the life, works, and scholarship of Epaphroditus and explains the reasons for the classification of the fragments. A concordance to the edition of Lünzner (1866), a full bibliography, and indices facilitate the use of the work. The aim of the edition has not only been to set the grammarian in his rightful place in the history of scholarship but to encourage further work in this neglected field by demonstrating its intrinsic interest and by explaining methods and technical terms which are often taken for granted in specialist works.Edited and Translated with Introduction, Notes, and Commentary. 458 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This interdisciplinary volume centers on the interrelations of storytelling and various manifestations of cultural identity, from written to oral and from autobiographical to regional and national. Indigenous storytelling, as well as storytelling for and by children and the elderly, are the main focus of these essays. Together, these fifteen texts make a significant contribution toward a deeper understanding of various aspects of textual and oral narrative: they broaden the lines of inquiry into multidisciplinary and multicultural interests, particularly those centering on the construction, expression, and contextualization of various types of identity; and they illustrate the deployment of storytelling not only as testimony, contestation, and subversion ¿ but also as peacebuilding. Many countries, languages and cultures are herein represented ¿ from the United States and Canada to Japan, Singapore, and Malaysia, from English to Japanese to Greek to Italian to the languages of indigenous peoples of Latin America and the Philippines. 330 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Ohne Wasser gäbe es kein Leben auf der Erde. Aber besteht auch ein Menschenrecht Wasser Der Band gibt aus Sicht der politischen Philosophie und der Völkerrechtswissenschaft eine bejahende Antwort. Problematisch sind aber Inhalt und praktische Bedeutung dieses Rechts. Hierzu nehmen Wissenschaftler/innen und Praktiker/innen, v. a. aus der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und der Menschenrechtsarbeit, Stellung. Schwerpunkte sind die Privatisierung der Wasserversorgung, insbesondere in Entwicklungsländern, die aus medizinischer und entwicklungspolitischer Sicht bestehende Notwendigkeit integrierten Trink- und Abwassermanagements, Wasser als Potential für zwischenstaatliche Konflikte und Kooperationen sowie die Vorteile und Gefahren einer auf Menschenrechten basierenden Entwicklungspolitik. 208 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Communicating with the Multicultural Consumer highlights demographic changes impacting the consumer marketplace in the United States. Growing multiculturalism creates both new opportunities for marketers as well as new challenges. With a balance of theoretical and practical perspectives, this text explores how to develop successful campaigns targeting Hispanic Americans, African Americans, and Asian Americans. Complete with current examples and case studies, it addresses the key issues that must be kept in mind when creating effective communications programs for ethnic consumers ¿ from marketing mix elements to cultural norms and values. Communicating with the Multicultural Consumer is an ideal text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in specialized courses dealing with ethnic advertising or marketing. It is also an effective supplementary text for introductory advertising, marketing or mass communication courses, and would be useful to advertising practitioners ¿ whether on the client side or within the advertising agency. 352 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Die Eingehung der Ehe und die Begründung der Lebenspartnerschaft erfordern zwei korrespondierende Willenserklärungen der Ehegatten / der Lebenspartner. Besteht bei einem oder beiden Partnern bei der Erklärung ein Willensmangel, so ist die Ehe / die Lebenspartnerschaft aufhebbar. Zwar ist die Anzahl der Eheaufhebungen im Vergleich zur Zahl der Ehescheidungen gering, die unterschiedlichen Rechtsfolgen und Verfahrensvorschriften rechtfertigen jedoch die Beibehaltung der Eheaufhebung neben der Scheidung. Besondere Aktualität gewinnt das Thema auch aufgrund des gesetzgeberischen Vorhabens, die Vorschriften über die Eheaufhebung durch das Zwangsheirat-Bekämpfungsgesetz zu modifizieren. Die Vorschriften über die Aufhebung der Lebenspartnerschaft wegen Willensmangels wurden im Jahr 2005 in das LPartG eingefügt. Diese verweisen grundsätzlich auf die Vorschriften des BGB, jedoch bestehen insbesondere auf der Rechtsfolgenseite erhebliche Unterschiede zwischen der Aufhebung der Ehe und der Aufhebung der Lebenspartnerschaft wegen Willensmangels. Diese Unterschiede sind aus rechtspolitischer Sicht nicht zu rechtfertigen. 186 pp. Deutsch.