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Published by Peter Lang Okt 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 3631654367ISBN 13: 9783631654361
Seller: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In der Geschichte der Dänischen Literatur von Hanne Marie und Werner Svendsen wird Johannes V. Jensen (1873-1950) als tonangebende Gestalt des neuen Jahrhunderts gepriesen, ja geradezu dessen Dolmetsch. Seine Werke waren dreißig Jahre lang in Kopenhagen und Berlin sehr beliebter Lesestoff. Gegen Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs wurde ihm in Anerkennung seiner Verdienste als sprachbildender und querdenkerischer Schriftsteller und Dichter der Nobelpreis für Literatur verliehen. Unter allen seinen Übersetzern ins Deutsche ragt Julia Koppel (1876-1937) heraus. Von 1907 bis 1934 hat sie achtzehn seiner Titel übersetzt. In dieser Studie werden Jensens Hauptwerke als künstlerische Sprachexperimente untersucht und als neuartige Gattungsexperimente in Bildern gewürdigt. Auf gattungspoetische Weise werden die deutschen Übersetzungen seiner Erzählungen, Novellen, Romane und Mythen neben seinen fast nur auf Dänisch veröffentlichten Gedichte gestellt. So werden den Leserinnen und Lesern neue Genres und Zusammenhänge der Gattungen Jensens in seiner Schaffenszeit verdeutlicht. 84 pp. Deutsch.
Published by Peter Lang Okt 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 3631651864ISBN 13: 9783631651865
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Do cognitive/metacognitive abilities favour recognition of sense in life or not Based on a sample of more than one thousand secondary schools students in Japan and Germany, the correlation between intelligence and perception of sense in life has been empirically examined. The study draws the conclusion that there is no clear correlation between cognition and sense. Finding sense in life seems to be independent from the level of thinking and to be independent as well from particular areas of commitment (e.g. science, technology, art and religion). The main factor discovered so far is a cultural/national one: The majority of Japanese students approve of the idea of sense in life whereas the majority of German students do not. The book discusses the different historical background of the two peer groups as a possible explanation and draws conclusions with respect to education. 120 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang Okt 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 363165538XISBN 13: 9783631655382
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -«Wie gern möchte ich nur einmal Humboldten erzählen hören», so ein Seufzer Ottilies in Goethes Wahlverwandtschaften. Aber auch die anderen großen Lateinamerika-Reisenden und Weltumsegler seiner Zeit waren Goethe bekannt. So zum Beispiel Georg Forster, der die zweite Weltumsegelung Kapitän Cooks mitgemacht hatte, oder auch der Vater des brasilianischen Bergbaus Wilhelm von Eschwege und berühmte Brasilienforscher wie Prinz Wied zu Neuwied oder die Bayern Spix und Martius. Diese Entdecker verführten ihn fast zu einer Auswanderung, es blieb jedoch bei Gedankenreisen nach Lateinamerika und in die Südsee - Träume, die sich auch in seinem Werk widerspiegeln. Mehr noch: Der Reisende und Wanderer Goethe ist mit seiner Begeisterung für die Neue Welt in Werken späterer Schriftstellerkollegen selbst zur literarischen Figur geworden. 118 pp. Deutsch.
Published by Peter Lang Okt 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 3631655355ISBN 13: 9783631655351
Seller: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In dem 2010 erschienenen Roman Los topos des argentinischen Gegenwartsautors Félix Bruzzone macht sich der Protagonist auf die Suche nach seinem während der argentinischen Militärdiktatur verschwunden geglaubten Bruder, die in der Suche nach der eigenen Identität gipfelt. In aller Radikalität betont Bruzzone die Tradierung der Gewalt bis in die Gegenwart. Der Roman stellt einen bedeutenden Beitrag zur gegenwärtigen Memoria-Debatte dar, indem er die konventionelle Verteilung von Täter- und Opferrollen in Frage stellt. Anhand von Methoden aus der kulturwissenschaftlichen Gedächtnisforschung wird Bruzzones literarische Inszenierung von Erinnerung und Identität im Kontext der argentinischen Gegenwartsliteratur mit Hinblick auf den aktuellen Gedächtnisdiskurs analysiert. 104 pp. Deutsch.
Published by Peter Lang Okt 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 1433115514ISBN 13: 9781433115516
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Offering a comprehensive analysis of mediated representations of global pandemics, this book engages with the construction, management, and classification of difference in the global context of a pandemic, to address what it means - culturally, politically, and economically - to live in an infected, diseased body. Marina Levina argues that mediated representations are essential in translating and making sense of difference as a category of subjectivity and as a mode of organizing and distributing change. Using textual analysis of media texts on pandemics and disease, she illustrates how they represent a larger mediascape that drafts stories of global instabilities and global health. Levina explains how the stories we tell about disease matter; that the media is instrumental in constructing and disseminating these stories; and that mediated narratives of pandemics are rooted in global flows of policies, commerce, and populations. Pandemics are, by definition, global crises. 166 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers Okt 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 1433126109ISBN 13: 9781433126109
Seller: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book spotlights six themes or «lenses» for understanding and analyzing education and its relation to oppression and anti-oppressive transformation. It brings together multiple perspectives on anti-oppressive education from various contexts, including K-12 schools, teacher education programs, postsecondary institutions, and community-based organizations. The book provides an array of practical and theoretical resources for educators to explore and innovate ways to confront and dismantle racism, sexism, classism, heterosexism and other forms of oppression in education. Significantly, this 2nd edition boasts ten new chapters as well as new or considerably revised Conversations for each of the six Parts. The chapters provide readers with diverse perspectives for considering anti-oppressive education from a range of content areas in K-12, postsecondary, and community contexts; student and educator populations; social differences; activities; and research methodology. In addition, this new edition significantly amplifies the perspectives and experiences of youth, including those from Southeast Asian, South Asian, and African American communities. 332 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang Okt 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 1433118386ISBN 13: 9781433118388
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Latino/a diaspora is undoubtedly transforming the demographics and cultural geographies of the United States. Diaspora Studies in Education advances an active use of the concept of «diaspora», focusing on processes that impact the diasporization of the Latino/a population, and more specifically, examining those diasporization processes in the arena of education. Focusing on the education of Puerto Ricans, the second largest Latino/a subgroup, the authors of this volume elucidate themes that are useful not only for those concerned with the education of Puerto Rican youth but also applicable to the study of other diasporic communities. The book is useful as a text in a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses, including foundations of education, multicultural education, anthropology of education, and introductory courses in Latino and ethnic studies departments. 224 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers Okt 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 1433126443ISBN 13: 9781433126444
Seller: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book challenges social science to address the most important social change since the industrial revolution: the mediated communication order. More of our everyday lives and social institutions reflect the compelling media logic that resonates through conversation, interaction, marketing, as well as social programs, issues and foreign policy. We are beyond the time when people take into account media matters; rather, media matters are now incorporated as a kind of social form in routine and extraordinary activities. This thesis was first laid out in 'Media Logic', co-authored with Robert P. Snow in 1979. Thirty-five years on, Altheide discusses his recent thinking about how media logic and mediation is a basic element in constructing social reality. From the internet to the NSA, he shows how media logic has transformed audiences into personal networks guided by social media. He argues that we have reached the media edge as social media have all but eviscerated the audience as a significant factor in the communication equation; mediated communication is increasingly about media performances and individual selection to promote identity. 200 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang Okt 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 363158234XISBN 13: 9783631582343
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -China gehört heute zu den wichtigsten Handelspartnern und Investoren in Lateinamerika. Die Wirtschaftsbeziehungen illustrieren die konsequente Umsetzung der chinesischen Going Out-Strategie. Gewachsen sind dabei auch Abhängigkeiten und Spannungen. Hinter dem Engagement Chinas stehen neben dem Bedarf an Ressourcen und Absatzmärkten ein selektiver Multilaterismus mit geopolitischen Ambitionen und der diplomatische Wettbewerb mit Taiwan. Dieser Band gibt aus chinawissenschaftlicher Perspektive eine umfassende Übersicht über die Entwicklung der sino-lateinamerikanischen Beziehungen zwischen 1990 und 2010. Er geht der Frage nach, welche Prioritäten Peking setzt, welche Strategien und Theorien das Engagement leiten und welche Optionen sich daraus für die Zukunft der Beziehungen ergeben. 154 pp. Deutsch.
Published by Peter Lang Okt 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 1433119471ISBN 13: 9781433119477
Seller: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book examines the ways that hatred comes alive in language and discourse. It asks whether much of the discourse on the political right - that which attacks their enemies - is hate speech. Extending Michael Waltman's previous work on hate speech, this book examines the discourse and language produced by a variety of right-wing groups and attempts to determine the homology that exists among their discourses. These groups, which include the racist right wing, the political right wing, the Christian right wing, and the paramilitary right wing, are examined respectively through the lenses of the film White Apocalypse, the book Atlas Shrugged, the Left Behind trilogy of movies, and the web pages maintained by the Republic of the United States of America and the National Rifle Association. The author looks at the discourses of hate produced in these seminal texts in order to identify a homology of exclusion that unites the forms of right-wing extremism, giving them a common frame of reference when confronting social and political challenges. 264 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang Okt 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 1433113503ISBN 13: 9781433113505
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Critical Multicultural Perspectives on Whiteness Reader aims to help us rethink 'race,' racism, and whiteness as narratives with deep roots in the past that contribute to the current social order, and function to reproduce the social hierarchy in which we live. The reader includes several brilliant iconic essays that address the social construction of whiteness and critical resistance, as well as excellent new critical perspectives. It is a compilation that offers new and intermediate readers in critical whiteness theory a valuable and diverse overview of the subject. It also serves as a refresher to those who have themselves contributed to this field. 242 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang Okt 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 1433123711ISBN 13: 9781433123719
Seller: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Language, Nation, and Identity in the Classroom critiques the normalizing aspects of schooling and the taken-for-granted assumptions in education about culture, identity, language, and learning. The text applies theories of postmodernism, postcolonialism, and other critical cultural theories from disciplines often overlooked in the field of education. The authors illustrate the potential of these theories for educators, offering a nuanced critical analysis of the role schools play in nationalistic enterprises and colonial projects. The book fills the current gap between simplified, ahistorical applications of multiculturalism and critical theory texts with only narrow applicability in the field. This clearly written alternative offers both an entry point to rigorous primary theoretical sources and broad applications of the scholarship to everyday practice in a range of PreK-12 classrooms and adult education settings globally. The text is designed for educators and advanced undergraduate or graduate students in the growing number of courses that address issues of cultural diversity, equity in education, multiculturalism, social and cultural foundations of education, literary studies, and educational policy. 216 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang Okt 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 1433125412ISBN 13: 9781433125416
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Conscientization and the Cultivation of Conscience constitutes a major contribution to the international literature on the work of Paulo Freire, one of the most influential educationalists of all time. It provides a fresh perspective on the Freirean notion of conscientization, rethinking this pivotal concept in the light of the history of ideas on conscience. The author offers a holistic, philosophical reading of Freire's texts and argues for the cultivation of conscience through love and dialogue. Such a reading, he suggests, allows us to better respond to the moral crises that face us in the age of global capitalism. The ideas advanced in this book have important implications for philosophical and cultural understanding and for educational theory and practice. 204 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang Okt 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 1433125102ISBN 13: 9781433125102
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book has won the «O.L. Davis, Jr. Outstanding Book Award» 2015 from the American Association for Teaching and Curriculum (AATC) Curriculum as Spaces: Aesthetics, Community, and the Politics of Place can be viewed as a holistic approach to education, conservation, and community development that uses place as an integrating context for learning. It argues that curriculum and place is a much deeper subject, with roots in aesthetics, community, and politics that go beyond the individual and profoundly address the formation of our current belief system. Despite the unique efforts described in this book to address the curriculum of space, major issues persist in our educational system. First, the rigor of curriculum studies is not usually applied to this complex field that encompasses philosophy, aesthetics, geography, social theory, and history. Second, the conflict caused by studying the place without contextualizing it within the larger social milieu ignores the nuances of our intimately global social network. Third, current responses ignore the uncritical assessment of underrepresented groups within the theoretical landscape. With these problems in mind, Curriculum as Spaces introduces foundational principles that ask us to imagine the full realization of curriculum spaces and show us how to examine the philosophical and cultural roots of these most essential principles. 146 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang Okt 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 1433125617ISBN 13: 9781433125614
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The symbols, signs, and traces of copyright and related intellectual property laws that appear on everyday texts, objects, and artifacts have multiplied exponentially over the past 15 years. Digital spaces have revolutionized access to content and transformed the ways in which content is porous and malleable. In this volume, contributors focus on copyright as it relates to culture. The editors argue that what «counts» as property must be understood as shifting terrain deeply influenced by historical, economic, cultural, religious, and digital perspectives. Key themes addressed include issues of how: - Culture is framed, defined, and/or identified in conversations about intellectual property; - The humanities and other related disciplines are implicated in intellectual property issues; - The humanities will continue to rub up against copyright (e.g., issues of authorship, authorial agency, ownership of texts); - Different cultures and bodies of literature approach intellectual property, and how competing dynasties and marginalized voices exist beyond the dominant U.S. copyright paradigm. Offering a transnational and interdisciplinary perspective, Cultures of Copyright offers readers - scholars, researchers, practitioners, theorists, and others - key considerations to contemplate in terms of how we understand copyright's past and how we chart its futures. 406 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers Okt 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 3631656114ISBN 13: 9783631656112
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Today the relations between Arab audiences and Arab media are characterised by pluralism and fragmentation. More than a thousand Arab satellite TV channels alongside other new media platforms are offering all kinds of programming. Religion has also found a vital place as a topic in mainstream media or in one of the approximately 135 religious satellite channels that broadcast guidance and entertainment with an Islamic frame of reference. How do Arab audiences make use of mediated religion in negotiations of identity and belonging The empirical based case studies in this interdisciplinary volume explore audience-media relations with a focus on religious identity in different countries such as Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Great Britain, Germany, Denmark, and the United States. 150 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang Okt 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 1433120461ISBN 13: 9781433120466
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Demographers have repeatedly confirmed that the nuclear family is on the decline. Yet when Americans are asked about their ideal family, the nuclear family emerges as the most valued kind of family. Members of families that do not match this cultural ideal face a discursive burden to legitimate their identity as a «family.» This volume gathers together communication scholars who are working on the many kinds of alternative family forms, from, among others, grandfamilies, diasporic immigrant families, and military families to in (voluntarily) childless families and stepfamilies. The organizing question for the volume focuses on resistance, reconstruction, and resilience: how is it that alternatives to the traditional family are constructed and sustained through communicative practices Several chapters adopt a global perspective, thereby framing the issue of legitimation of «family» in a broader cultural context. None of the family forms described in this volume meets the ideological «gold standard' of the nuclear family, and in this sense they all represent a remaking of the family in profound ways. 326 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers Okt 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 2875742108ISBN 13: 9782875742100
Seller: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Les crises alimentaire et financière ayant marqué la fin des années 2000 ont précipité l'acquisition massive de terres par des investisseurs étrangers dans de nombreux pays du Sud. Ces formes souvent spectaculaires d'accaparement de terres ne constituent cependant qu'un aspect des transformations locales et globales des modes d'accès aux ressources naturelles.Réunissant des auteurs d'origines géographique et disciplinaire variées, Au-delà de l'accaparement explore ces transformations à partir de terrains d'enquête en Asie, en Afrique et en Amérique Latine. En rupture avec une représentation réductrice du ' land grabbing ', il invite à replacer ce phénomène dans le temps long et à mettre en évidence la diversité des dynamiques à l'oeuvre, au-delà des seules acquisitions à grande échelle. Il propose également une réflexion originale sur les alternatives mises en place pour contrer les dynamiques d'exclusion des populations rurales. Cette mise en perspective donne à voir de multiples tensions : entre la formalisation de droits individuels et la défense des ' communs ' ; entre légitimités autochtones et revendications paysannes ; entre approches institutionnelles et mobilisations locales pour la réappropriation des territoires. Se révèle alors toute la complexité des relations entre enjeux fonciers et modèles de développement agricole. 244 pp. Französisch.
Published by Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers Okt 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 2875742051ISBN 13: 9782875742056
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Da alcuni anni, numerosi convegni, pubblicazioni e mostre nel campo della letteratura italiana rivelano un'attenzione crescente verso il tema della famiglia. I rapporti di natura familiare determinano dinamiche particolari tra i personaggi di opere narrative e amplificano il senso generale del loro confronto con la vita. Armonia e conflitti non sono che i due poli delle variegate situazioni che emergono nella trama di romanzi e racconti moderni e contemporanei. Le relazioni tra genitori e figli, il legame tra mariti e mogli, il vincolo tra fratelli e sorelle costituiscono il centro di un sistema di rapporti che prendono forme diverse. Nel volume ogni contributo, analizzando la natura dei problemi familiari presenti nei vari autori trattati e interpretandoli come ingresso privilegiato nei rispettivi universi, aggiunge un tassello allo studio di questo affascinante snodo tematico. Giancarlo Alfano, Daniele Comberiati, Fabio Danelon, Ilaria de Seta, Claudio Gigante, Monica Jansen, Matteo Palumbo, Mara Santi, Sebastiano Triulzi, Bart Van den Bossche e Franco Zangrilli ci introducono in questo viaggio. Distribuiti in due parti, Tra Otto e Novecento e Dal secondo dopoguerra a oggi , i capitoli sono dedicati in parte ad autori grandi e immancabili e in parte ad autori da ri-leggere: Manzoni, Pirandello, Tozzi, Svevo, Martini, Landolfi, Berto, Fallaci e Muratori. 187 pp. Italienisch.
Published by Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers Okt 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 3034302908ISBN 13: 9783034302906
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Hailed by General Sir Ian Hamilton as 'a slashing man of action', Aylmer Hunter-Weston began the Great War as one of the British Army's rising stars. By its close, his reputation was very different. Branded by some contemporaries as a 'butcher' and a 'mountebank', he has also been criticised by modern military historians both for his role in the Gallipoli campaign and also at the Somme, where his corps suffered the worst losses of any engaged on the first day of the battle. Drawing on original archival research, this is the first full-length study of his colourful and controversial career. It explores how he gained his sanguinary reputation, and asks how far this was actually deserved. Rejecting a simplistic 'butchers and bunglers' approach, it argues that Hunter-Weston was an intelligent and highly professional soldier, whose failures can best be understood by reference to the structural challenges of modern war on a mass scale. There is no doubt that his personal flaws and idiosyncrasies contributed to his woeful image, but he also emerges as a transitional figure, frustrated by a battlefield in which managerial skills had become more important than heroic personal leadership. Indeed, his career offers valuable glimpses into the practical business of generalship, including the under-researched 'political' role of senior officers. While not one of Britain's great commanders, 'Hunter-Bunter' remains one of the most compelling. 336 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang Okt 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 1433170760ISBN 13: 9781433170768
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In this revised edition, Linda Wagner-Martin offers a compelling study of African American writer Toni Morrison's work, beginning with The Bluest Eye in 1970 and continuing through her 2015 novel God Help the Child. Wagner-Martin describes Morrison as an inherently original novelist who was shaped throughout her career by her role within families. Her study focuses on Morrison's use of family in her narratives, particularly on the roles of mother and child. Beginning with the paradigm of a good mother (Mrs. MacTeer) in The Bluest Eye, set against women who are found wanting in their mother roles, Morrison concentrates in various ways on emphasizing these mother characters. Sometimes those roles are peripheral; more often, they are central. In Sula, for example, the title character has no interest in mothering, but she shows herself to be the product of family disinterest; in Song of Solomon Morrison creates what she terms an ancestor figure to give guidance to the young; in Tar Baby Marie Therese continues that role. Beloved tackles many dimensions of a mothers role. As Morrison continues to write her varied and powerful novels, from Jazz and Paradise through Love, A Mercy, and Home, the attention to judging the efficacy of mothering grows. Finally, in God Help the Child, she attends to little else. In Morrison's fictional world, drawing from the human and spiritual forces in both Africa and the United States provides some hope of a truly satisfying existence. 250 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers Okt 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 1433108895ISBN 13: 9781433108891
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -A leader in twentieth-century education, Henry Chauncey (1905-2002) introduced large-scale assessment into the lives of individual Americans. This first full-length educational biography examines Chauncey's education at Groton School, Ohio State University, and Harvard College, his position as a teacher at William Penn Charter School, and his role as founding president of the Educational Testing Service. Documenting a career extending from the Great Depression through the end of the Cold War, this book provides an interpretative history of educational measurement through the careers of Chauncey and his contemporaries. As researcher, administrator, and writer, Chauncey dealt with topics central to the history of schools and schooling: the role of accountability in education; the value of individual difference; the identification of talent; the necessity of international perspectives; the resonance between technology and learning; and the impulse for social justice. This biography provides insight into the multidisciplinary factors that shaped the social enterprise of American education. 336 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang Okt 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 3631595875ISBN 13: 9783631595879
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -En esta monografía se pretende realizar un acercamiento sistemático a uno de los elementos más característicos y determinantes de la traducción médica, la terminología específica del ámbito biosanitario, en este caso, en inglés y en español. En esta obra, escrita desde una perspectiva traductológica aplicada (y aplicable) a la enseñanza de la traducción o la terminología médicas (en programas de Grado o de Posgrado Universitario), e, indirectamente, a la mejora de la práctica profesional de la traducción, se abordan los siguientes temas: Formación tradicional de términos médicos a partir de formantes clásicos, diferencias y similitudes en inglés y en español, formación o adopción de términos médicos en español, motivada por la situación preeminente del inglés, entendido como lingua franca de la comunicación biosanitaria a escala internacional, diferencias terminológicas existentes, motivadas por la influencia ejercida por las comunidades científicas de referencia (anglófona e hispanohablante) en la construcción de textos médicos, estrategias adoptadas (o adoptables) en la traducción de la terminología médica (de inglés a español) en encargos de traducción. 170 pp. Spanisch.
Published by Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers Okt 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 3631658435ISBN 13: 9783631658437
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Vom 24. bis 26. Januar 2014 fand das erste Symposium zum japanischen Recht für Nachwuchswissenschaftler an der Universität Augsburg statt. Neun Wissenschaftler aus unterschiedlichen juristischen Fachgebieten, die sich mit dem deutsch-japanischen Rechtsvergleich beschäftigen, stellen in diesem Band die Erkenntnisse ihrer Arbeit vor. Die Themenbereiche sind breit gestreut und reichen vom Eisenbahnrecht bis zum Strafrecht. Durch diesen Ansatz treten die Unterschiede wie auch die Bezüge zwischen den beiden Rechtsordnungen deutlich hervor. 147 pp. Deutsch.
Published by Peter Lang Okt 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 3631654731ISBN 13: 9783631654736
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In Balancing the World, the author illuminates what an ajq¿ij, or «daykeeper», is by presenting material he collected in a series of interviews with practitioners of Maya spirituality. Frequently labeled as Maya priests, shamans, spiritual guides, or even witches, the men and women called ajq¿ijab do a variety of work to help their visitors, their ancestors, the spirits and the world itself. Nine interviewees from the Quetzaltenango area in the Guatemalan highlands tell about how they cure and avert illness, perform divinations, communicate with the ancestors and do their part in balancing the world. Most of them agree that they have been chosen for this responsibility and they see it as both a gift and a burden. 156 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang Okt 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 3631655770ISBN 13: 9783631655771
Seller: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Dieser Band thematisiert die Religionen, und insbesondere den Islam, im Kontext des Globalisierungsprozesses bezüglich der religiösen Kollektivität, Handlung und Bildung. Die Weltreligionen waren schon global, bevor die Globalisierung im heutigen Sinne anfing. Mit dem Beginn der Menschheitsgeschichte fanden sie sich auf dem Weg, wanderten über die geographischen und geistigen Grenzen. Ihre Verbreitung schulden sie sogar dieser Wanderung. In der heutigen Zeit der Globalisierung gewinnen die Religionen auch eine strategische Bedeutung, weil sie geistige Grenzen mitmarkieren, globale Identitäten mitdefinieren und Massen mobilisieren können. 144 pp. Deutsch.
Published by Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers Okt 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 2875742086ISBN 13: 9782875742087
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This bilingual collection of essays (in English and French) looks at entomology and representations of insects from a scientific, historical, philosophical, literary and artistic viewpoint. The contributions illustrate the various responses to the insect world that have developed over centuries, concentrating upon the alien qualities of insects - a radical otherness that has provoked admiration and fear, or contributed to the debates over humans' superiority over animals, especially during the evolutionary theory controversy, or in today's ecological debates. Insects not only helped shape new discourses on nature and on the natural world, but their literary and artistic representations also reveal how humans relate to their environment. 260 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers Okt 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 3631606621ISBN 13: 9783631606629
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Scientific advances in genetics, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence signal the end of our traditional concept of the human being. The most vigorous movements dealing with this ongoing crisis of humanism are posthumanism and transhumanism. While posthumanism reconsiders what it means to be human, transhumanism actively promotes human enhancement. Both approaches address the posthuman condition in the technological age. In 20 articles, written by leading scholars of the field, this volume provides the first comprehensive introduction to debates beyond humanism. 313 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang Okt 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 3631657528ISBN 13: 9783631657522
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Cosa succede dopo la morte Risorgeremo In che modo Quale sarà la condizione dei risorti Nella catechesi che Agostino di Ippona sviluppa nei sermoni 361 e 362 cerca di rispondere a queste domande. L'articolazione dei due discorsi rivela la fatica dei cristiani a credere nella risurrezione e l'impegno del vescovo di Ippona a formare adeguatamente i suoi ascoltatori. Agostino offre una presentazione esaustiva e organica delle ragioni che fondano la fede nella risurrezione anche contro le obiezioni di quanti negano la risurrezione o affermano solo una risurrezione spirituale escludendo il corpo. Lo studio analizza la struttura argomentativa e teologica della catechesi con particolare attenzione ai fondamenti scritturistici proposti da Agostino. 168 pp. Italienisch.
Published by Peter Lang Okt 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 3631646070ISBN 13: 9783631646076
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Dieses Buch stellt die wichtigsten Vorüberlegungen und Entscheidungen zur Herstellung eines deutsch-italienischen Online-Fachwörterbuches der Linguistik (DIL) dar. Dazu werden die nach derzeitigem Forschungsstand (Lexikographie und Fachlexikographie) geltenden Hauptmerkmale eines Fachwörterbuches festgelegt. Es gibt einen Überblick über die lexikographische Arbeit im linguistischen Bereich (sowohl im Print- als auch im Online-Medium) in Deutschland und Italien und die Vor- und Nachteile des Online-Mediums werden aufgezeigt. Nach einer detaillierten Vorstellung des Projektes (u.a. verwendete technische Mittel, Rezipientenkreis, hypothetische Funktionen, lexikographische Kriterien und Eingrenzung des Lemmabestandes) werden Entscheidungen zur Makro- und Mikrostruktur begründet und durch Screenshots vorgestellt. Status quo des Projektes sowie Zukunftsperspektiven und Desiderata schließen die Arbeit ab. 166 pp. Deutsch.