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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -From Information to Transformation is about remembering what matters in education and in life. In many ways, it concerns who we are and how we know. Drawing from the wisdom traditions, transpersonal psychology, consciousness studies, and pedagogy, a map of the depths of knowing and learning is constructed that unfolds through six interrelated layers: information, knowledge, intelligence, understanding, wisdom, and transformation. This provides both a process and a direction for education that can prepare students for the extraordinary demands of the twenty-first century. Entering into these depths offers an education that is both practical and remarkable, one that replaces radical disconnection with radical amazement. This integrated approach includes the education of the mind and the heart, balances intuition with the analytic, mastery with mystery, and emphasizes developing wisdom over the mere accumulation of facts.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 212 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This second edition of «The Supremes» introduces readers to the Supreme Court¿s newest members, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, with vivid biographical sketches and riveting accounts of how they successfully navigated the politics inherent in judicial appointments. Compelling portraits of all nine justices are completely updated, with clear explanations of their votes and opinions in landmark cases involving free speech, religion, capital punishment, gun control, affirmative action, privacy, abortion, and terrorism. Never has the Supreme Court¿s story been so lively or so relevant!Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 176 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Multicultural teacher education does not work without attending to the inner landscapes of learners. This collection of essays depicts a journey of unlearning deeply cherished assumptions, and gaining new, difficult understandings of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, and global issues in teacher education. Foregrounding learners¿ own voices and highlighting those intimate moments of awakening through a process-oriented and dialogic approach, this book, in its profoundly moving narrative and critically reflective voices, speaks directly to pre-service and in-service teachers and informs teacher educators¿ multicultural pedagogical theory and practice. Demonstrating the power of multicultural education through the learner¿s lens, this compelling and inspirational book is a much-needed text for undergraduate and graduate courses in teacher education, multicultural education, curriculum studies, and social foundations of education.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 244 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -With the passage of Public Law 94-142 in 1975, the learning disability construct gained national legitimacy. Feeding that political achievement, behind the very idea of a learning disability, was the development of a science that blended neurology, psychology, and education. This book tracks the historical creation of the science of learning disabilities, beginning with the clinical research with brain-injured World War I soldiers conducted by German physician Kurt Goldstein. It traces the growth of the two primary research traditions, the psycholinguistic theory of Samuel Kirk and the movement education of Newell Kephart, exploring how specific scientific orientations, theories, and practices led to the birth of the learning disability in the United States.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 312 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book is a compilation of new scholarship in the field of global education. Previously unaddressed or barely touched upon topics include: the historical evolution of the global education movement; the development of a foundation for the formation of a philosophy of global education; an analysis of the competing orientations of global education and multicultural education; mentorship in global education pedagogy based on the master apprentice model; and the latest research of the impact of national policies in education on global teacher education practice. A unique contribution captures the complexities and geopolitical context during Russiäs early hours of democracy in integrating global education in Russian education. Written by internationally acclaimed scholars, this book is at the cutting edge of new creative scholarship in global education. Visions in Global Education is a must-read for teachers in every stage of their careers, and will be useful in a variety of classrooms addressing global education.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 376 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The book contains the latest results of the research on the foundations of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), done by Professor Wallner from Vienna and a group of leading TCM specialists. The research on TCM does not deal with single medical concepts, but concentrates on its foundations, the structure and form of this medical science. It discusses the relation of TCM and Western Medicine, a concept of science, their peculiarities and differences, the problems of a thoughtless mixture. The book mainly presents five lectures by Professor Wallner about his latest research on the structure of TCM. Additionally, the book contains contributions from TCM specialists as Zhang Weibo, Lan Feng-Li, and Günter Gunia. 102 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Does the Christian church replace the nation Israel in the plan of God The doctrine of supersessionism answers this question in the affirmative. But is supersessionism a biblical doctrine Michael J. Vlach offers a detailed examination of the view that the church is the new Israel that permanently takes the place of the nation Israel. He surveys the supersessionist view in church history and then examines its hermeneutical and theological arguments. He also presents a case against supersessionism. In a unique way, he lays out the arguments of both supersessionism and non-supersessionism and then offers his analysis of why supersessionism is not consistent with the biblical witness. 224 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -New historicism has profoundly altered the way historiography is perceived by academics as well as the public and novelists have seized the resultant opportunity to render historical events through their artistic lenses. This book analyses the oeuvre of the British-born, Kenyan novelist Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye, one of the best-known Kenyan writers today. Macgoye¿s work traces Kenyäs recent history and the nation building process, transcending cultural and literary categories. Part of her achievement is the advancement of a new concept of identity, which rejects an essentialist model. Bittner shows how Macgoye amalgamates different literary genres, creating the story of Kenya in an effort to forge a national identity among members of this young state. Using analytical tools provided by post-colonial as well as Western theory and adapting them to the specificities of the Kenyan context, Bittner¿s study proposes original parameters through which Macgoye¿s work can be interpreted. These criteria permit a new reading of identity in the post-colonial national context and open up avenues of investigation for the still evolving field of East African literature. 184 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The Helsinki Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) is usually overlooked in the literature on the Cold War and presented as the seal of détente. The Final Act came to be considered as the mere official recognition of the European balance for the sake of a fictitious dialogue and vague statements on the freer circulation of ideas, people and information. The emerging human rights movements in Eastern Europe then came as the unintentional consequence of a complete diplomatic and political failure.It is the opinion of the author that the West neither limited its action to a passive acceptance of a long-sponsored Soviet proposal nor sold out half a continent.The author carefully traces back the roots of the CSCE and argues that the Helsinki conference was also the result of the development in Western positions and a thoroughly conceived action, especially as far as the EC member states were concerned. She analyses the internal dynamics of the Western caucus and reveals the divergences on ideas, attitudes and goals that emerged between the United States and the European allies. In such a connection the author argues that the Hague Summit and the creation of the European Political Cooperation gave a boost to an active role of the EC states and the starting of serious pan-European talks.The author offers not only a thorough analysis of the Western experience at Helsinki, but also new seminal interpretations in the fields of Cold War history, transatlantic relations and the history of the European integration. By examining and reconciling all these aspects in a common context, this book contributes to more complete understanding of both détente and the CSCE. 254 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book explores the evidence for paradigm shifts in the context of science education. The articles draw attention to areas where there is a perceived need for a paradigm shift in post-Soviet countries if science education is to meet the goal of enhancing scientific literacy. Estonia, as an example of a faster developing country from those in the post-Soviet block, recognised the need to change its System when the economy allowed. Its first focus was in the area of technology. It was seen as vital to generate interest towards science for students studying in compulsory education. Inevitably scientific thinking plays an important role in the development of a society, and where post-Soviet countries are part of the European Union they also will need to see an important role of school science in preparing adults for a knowledge-based society. The paradigm shifts are thus seen in this light. 284 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -In this posthumous volume Jill Anne Kowalik analyzes pathological grief in 17th and 18th-century Germany. Early chapters outline the methodological prerequisites and the main theoretical underpinnings for her multidisciplinary study of mentality and give an overview of the theories and practices of consolation in the Western tradition. She traces the origins of pathological grief to the trauma of the Thirty Years War, and analyzes mourning practices as evidenced by funeral sermons for their punitive theological content. Rather than helping, these practices actually intensified the trauma of loss. The second part of the volume addresses the work of German writers such as Moritz, Nietzsche, Freud, and Goethe for their psychologically acute depiction of the effects of pathological mourning. 188 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This volume presents recent international research results of Old Testament studies and related fields. The topics of the individual contributions vary widely and are concerned with exegetic and literary questions, historical and religious problems, as well as central questions of Theology of the Old Testament. In den Beiträgen dieses Bandes werden neueste Forschungsergebnisse dargelegt, die weltweit mit der wissenschaftlichen Arbeit am Alten Testament sowie in den mit ihm in Verbindung stehenden Wissenschaftsgebieten erzielt wurden. Die Themen der einzelnen Aufsätze sind breit gefächert; sie betreffen sowohl exegetische und literarische Fragen als auch historische und religionsgeschichtliche Probleme sowie zentrale Fragen der Theologie des Alten Testaments. 216 pp. Englisch, Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The human body is a recurrent theme in contemporary literatures in English. The aim of this collection of essays is to explore its multiple representations and functions within a wide range of texts drawn together from various Anglophone cultures. For thematic coherence, this volume is divided into four parts: Diseased Bodies, Invented Bodies, Gendered and Transgender Bodies, and Fragmented and Mutilated Bodies. By adopting multi-disciplinary perspectives, each group of essays illustrates the different ways in which these become multiply signifying sites of cultural and political representation, whether the mode is realistic or daringly speculative and fantastic, as in the case of genetically designed bodies, monstrous and machine bodies. This book contributes to understanding the body as a culture-specific construct. 208 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book focuses on vocabulary acquisition in the areas of English language learning either in a foreign or a second language environment. Starting from the social phenomenon that a large number of Mainland Chinese students obtain their further education in Western universities, the author carries out a longitudinal study by using instruments of vocabulary levels tests, questionnaires and interviews. On the basis of an in-depth investigation of vocabulary strategy usage by Chinese learners in widely differing environments, the author develops a model of vocabulary acquisition. This is the first model to combine both linguistic and non-linguistic strategies, motivation, and the stages of vocabulary learning into one comprehensive representation of vocabulary acquisition. The book not only offers a solid data base but also suggests effective strategies to enhance English language teaching and learning.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 278 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -By the mid-twentieth century the various Australian states began changing their approaches to Aboriginal peoples from one of exclusion to assimilation. These policy changes meant that Aboriginal people, particularly those identified as being of mixed heritage, were to be encouraged to become part of the dominant non-Aboriginal community ¿ the Australian nation.This book explores this significant policy change from a cultural perspective, considering the ways in which assimilation was imagined in literary fiction of the 1950s and 1960s. Drawing on novels from a range of genres ¿ the Gothic, historical romance, the western and family melodrama ¿ it analyses how these texts tell their assimilation stories.Taking insights from critical whiteness studies the author highlights both the pleasures and anxieties that the idea of Aboriginal assimilation raised in the non-Aboriginal community. There are elements of these assimilation stories ¿ maternal love, stolen children, violence and land ownership ¿ that still have an impact in the unsettled present of many post-colonial nations. By exploring the history of assimilation the author suggests ideas for a different future. 260 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Financially and politically, old age pensions are one of the cornerstones of modern welfare states, with a long history behind them. Pension systems and pension reforms have not only commanded the special attention of welfare researchers. Over the past few years, politicians throughout most of Europe have discovered that pension reforms can be both a difficult and a hazardous venture. In this book a number of researchers analyse the historical political development of European pension systems as well as present-day political and economic challenges. The authors comprise economists, political scientists and historians. The multi-disciplinary approach of the book combined with its comparative and historical perspective make possible a finely graded presentation of public pension systems and the challenges facing them.Peter Lang Group AG Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaft, Place de la gare 12, 1003 LAUSANNE 228 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The book discusses various arguments for and against Critical Period Hypothesis for the acquisition of foreign language native-like pronunciation. The research described in the book encompassed adult learners of English and Polish, some of whom mastered the pronunciation in such a way that they managed to pass off as native speakers of the target language. Various factors were examined in order to show their contribution to the ultimate success of the learners such as a learning setting, a length in learning and a training in foreign language phonology/phonetics. 264 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -How does the focus on human rights change the study of population governance What, if any, new insights, perspectives and challenges do human rights bring to population policies How, if at all, can protection and respect for human rights be integrated with national and global problems of population management These questions are looming in light of contemporary recognition that dealing with the world's population is an increasingly urgent, challenging and complex issue of global governance. Cutting across standard academic disciplines and often challenging the divide between social theory and practice, this collection brings together contributions from experts in the area of population studies and human rights. Drawing upon cases from different parts of the world (China, India, Tanzania, Nigeria, Germany, Iran, Cuba, Poland, Israel, Peru and Australia) the contributors address questions of the often strained relationship between national population governance and global human rights discourses within four mutually connected thematic clusters: global developments, paradoxes of social engineering, religious and nationalist influences on reproduction, and minority politics. 328 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Exegesis and Hermeneutics in the Churches of the East contains the proceedings of the Bible in the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Traditions unit of the Society of Biblical Literature¿s (SBL) 2007 meeting in San Diego, California. Biblical professors and scholars from the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox traditions (the latter including Aramaic, Syriac, Armenian, Arabic, Georgian, and Coptic, among others) gathered to engage in critical study of the role of the Bible in eastern Christianity, past and present. The collection of articles in Exegesis and Hermeneutics in the Churches of the East examines the latest scholarly findings in the field of the utilization and interpretation of the Bible in the Christian communities in the East during the first five centuries of Christianity. They offer critical evaluations of the early church¿s hermeneutical and exegetical tools and methodologies.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 184 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book attempts to analyse irony, paradox, oxymoron, overstatement, understatement, euphemism, and dysphemism from the point of view of both Cognitive Linguistics and Pragmatics. In order to do so, we have regarded each trope as a cognitive model, and observed that the various ICMs that resulted from this approach had in common an essential feature: they were all constructed around the creation of contrasts. Also, we have developed a common processing model for these ICMs, which shows that these so-called figures of speech can be fully considered conceptual mechanisms of meaning creation and derivation. Apart from determining which specific pragmatic implications these models bring about and studying their underlying cognitive operations, we have argued that they should be described in terms of the contextual effects they produce. Therefore, a new classification and definition of these tropes is provided. 296 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book examines Duras¿s contribution to contemporary cinema. The ¿dark room¿ in the collection¿s title refers to one of Duras¿s metaphors for the writing process, la chambre noire, as the solitary space of literary creation, the place where she struggles to project her ¿internal shadow¿ onto the blank page. The dark room is also a metaphor for the film theater and, by extension, for the filmic experience. Duras rejected conventional forms of cinematic address that encourage the spectator to develop a positive identification with the film¿s diegesis and narrative. Her films create unusual rapports between image and sound, diegetic and extra-diegetic elements, and textual and intertextual dimensions of cinematic representation. In doing so, they allow the film spectator to establish new connections with the screen.This collection focuses on the aesthetic, conceptual, and political challenges involved in Duras¿s innovative approach to cinematic representation, from an interdisciplinar perspective including film and literary theory, psychoanalytic analysis, music theory, gender studies, and post-colonial criticism. The book opens with a theoretical introduction to Duras¿s cinematic practice and its peculiar position in contemporary cinema and contemporary film theory and is divided into five parts, each one devoted to a specific aspect of Duras¿s films: the interaction between literature and cinema (Part One); the reconfiguration of the cinematic gaze (Part Two) and of the image/sound relation (Part Three); the representation of history and memory (Part Four) and of cultural identity (Part Five).Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 384 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Globalization and information technology are driving the world into a new era. Is it the responsibility of business to pursue the common good - and more precisely, to participate in the construction of the global common good This book brings together contributions from various disciplines, written by scholars who are at the forefront of this debate. It provides multiple insights into a tripartite relationship: business, globalization and the common good. It helps explain why the business sphere will probably not be in a position to ignore the common good much longer, and why this latter concept, widely ignored in today's management realm, is likely to become part of tomorrow's corporate policies and practices in the global context. Finally, this work opens up a plethora of avenues for future research, calling for the development of transdisciplinary approaches and for the elaboration of a research program embracing theoretical, empirical and spiritual perspectives to tackle this complex issue.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Systematics presents a revolutionary, qualitative and rigorous endeavor (from elements to system space) in searching for the unifying understandings of all entities existing in the universe. In light of systematics, the economies of the world embedded in the labyrinth of technologies, politics, social conditions, and cultures are studied, with general models (i.e., the West and the East) presented and with focal points provided to establish solid foundations for predicting the possible catching-up of the United States by China in a finite time. For the readers of humanities, there are a few bonuses: a new frontier framework for studying philosophical systems and initially constructed systems of literature and history. 558 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -With the passage of Public Law 94-142 in 1975, the learning disability construct gained national legitimacy. Feeding that political achievement, behind the very idea of a learning disability, was the development of a science that blended neurology, psychology, and education. This book tracks the historical creation of the science of learning disabilities, beginning with the clinical research with brain-injured World War I soldiers conducted by German physician Kurt Goldstein. It traces the growth of the two primary research traditions, the psycholinguistic theory of Samuel Kirk and the movement education of Newell Kephart, exploring how specific scientific orientations, theories, and practices led to the birth of the learning disability in the United States.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 301 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Este estudio analiza las estrategias ensayísticas y ficcionales de Ricardo Piglia, uno de los escritores vivos en lengua española más aplaudidos por la crítica actual. Enfoca por vez primera el conjunto de la obra pigliana desde perspectivas integradoras e interdisciplinares, con la literatura comparada y los parámetros críticos de Gerard Genette como herramientas básicas para trazar genealogías novedosas. Aborda tanto sus textos centrales como breves prólogos, epílogos y «notas al margen» hasta ahora desatendidos por los estudiosos, pasando por otras propuestas insólitas que invitan a repensar los límites de la experimentación narrativa.Temas como la fragmentación del yo literario, el empleo de citas falsas o la movilidad de las fronteras entre géneros desfilan por las páginas de un libro que lanza preguntas al aire: ¿Cómo se entrecruzan el crítico, el creador y el diarista ¿Cuáles son los umbrales de lo narrable ¿Qué trampas sutiles se le pueden tender al lector ¿Qué significa escribir desde una narrativa «futura» ¿Qué implicaciones tiene la reescritura como recurso ¿En qué medida puede ser Piglia considerado un postmoderno A estas y otras interrogantes da respuesta este análisis, complementado además por entrevistas y una actualizada bibliografía sobre el autor argentino.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 312 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -« Je vous ai parlé de langue et de rêve, puis d¿une langue rêvée, puis d¿une langue de rêve » (Jacques Derrida, Fichus). Quelle est cette « langue de rêve » qui fait l¿objet de l¿écriture de Fichus Est-ce la langue que Derrida rêve de parler Est-ce l¿à-venir rêvé de toute langue Quelle est la relation que l¿¿uvre du philosophe entretient avec le langage du rêve En questionnant les traits idiomatiques de l¿écriture derridienne l¿auteur étudie son rapport à l¿héritage freudien, sa libération du joug épistémologique, son penchant poétique et l¿impossibilité de sa reproduction.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 394 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Ein Thema des Jahrbuchs ist die Stellung der Frau zur Zeit des Wilhelminismus (Helene Böhlau), des Existentialismus (Marlen Haushofer) und in der DDR (Monika Maron). Ein Aufsatz beschäftigt sich mit dem Thema Liebe, Verrat und Tod bei Brecht. Ein weiterer Schwerpunkt befasst sich mit Problemen der «Interkulturalität»: mit einem Kolonialroman aus Kamerun, Peter Höners kenianisch-Schweizer Krimitrilogie, mit einer Debatte zur muslimischen Kultur in den Schweizer Medien und mit der Lyrik eines «deutsch schreibenden Spaniers» (José F. A. Oliver). 144 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Carl Schmitt begreift Politik als die Entscheidung des Souveräns über die Ausnahmesituation. Eine Entscheidung, die immer dieselbe Frage stellt: Freund oder Feind Ganz anders Hannah Arendt. Arendt versteht Politik als das gemeinsame Handeln der Menschen in einem öffentlichen Raum. Philipp zum Kolk versucht dennoch Gemeinsamkeiten zu finden. So entwickelt Arendt ihr Politikverständnis aufgrund der Auseinandersetzung mit Ausnahmesituationen wie dem Totalitarismus oder der Amerikanischen Revolution. Auch das Verhältnis von Politik und Staat scheinen beide Denker ähnlich zu begreifen. Schmitts Begriff der Politik richtet sich gegen den Staat und auch Arendt denkt Politik als eine vom Staat unabhängige Sphäre. 128 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Nur ein Unternehmen, das das Wissen und die Kreativität seiner Belegschaft optimal nutzt sowie von dem Wissen externer Akteure profitiert, kann in einer globalen Wissensgesellschaft langfristig erfolgreich sein. Darin besteht die Intelligenz eines Unternehmens, als Fähigkeit zum effizienten Handeln, Problemlösen und Lernen. Allerdings ist die Unternehmensintelligenz wegen ihres kollektiven Charakters schwer zu nutzen. Das Konzept eines ganzheitlichen Ideenmanagements, das die Erschließung der Wissens- und Kreativitätspotenziale interner und externer Akteure sowie die Gestaltung der praktischen Wissensarbeit erläutert, zeigt den Weg zu einem intelligenten Unternehmen. Die theoretischen Konzepte werden von zahlreichen Praxisbeispielen und Handlungsempfehlungen untermauert. Das Buch wendet sich an Führungskräfte in Unternehmen, Unternehmensberater sowie Dozenten und Studenten im Bereich Management. 260 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Außenseiter sind die Protagonisten nordamerikanischer Independent-Filme, in denen individueller Verlust und kollektiver Zerfall virulent sind. Anders als bei den Rebellen des New Hollywood ist ihr Protestschrei kein Aufruf zur Revolte und Gegenkultur, kein Zeichen der selbstgewählten Abgrenzung, sondern der verzweifelte Versuch, die Ausgrenzung zu durchbrechen und in den Schoß der Gemeinschaft zurückzukehren. Im hilflosen Rekurrieren auf konservative, religiöse, patriarchale Strukturen müssen die Filme und ihre Figuren die Aussichtslosigkeit des Unterfangens erkennen. Individuelle und übergeordnete Schuld zieht sich strukturell und motivisch durch die Zerfallstudien, lässt sich nicht tilgen. Das Verlustmuster kulminiert im Zerfall der Twin Tower. Regisseur Sean Penn fasst die Tragödie als Zäsur, der weichende Schatten des World Trade Center legt Verborgenes frei, ermöglicht eine neue Perspektive. Schmerz und Verlust auf semantischer Ebene gehen einher mit der grundsätzlichen Skepsis, Geschichten linear und ohne Brüche erzählen zu können. 140 pp. Deutsch.