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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -In today¿s public schools, teachers are often discouraged by the restrictions placed on them by the education system: federal mandates such as No Child Left Behind, excessive emphasis on standardized testing, pre-packaged curricula, inadequate funding, overcrowded classrooms, cultural incongruence, and social injustices. Teachers feel thwarted from meeting the unique needs of each student, and students continue to fall between the cracks in the system. This book encourages educators to teach boldly, using wisdom and courage to do what they know is best for their students despite the obstacles. A collection of letters from leading educators and scholars to practicing and future teachers, Teach Boldly! offers advice, encouragement, and inspiration in the form of bold, innovative ideas to ignite teachers¿ passion for their work in the midst of a range of discouraging situations. The book can be used as a resource for practicing teachers or as a textbook in teacher education programs. It is relevant to courses in foundations of education, curriculum studies, issues in education, education policy, critical pedagogy, ethics in education, school reform, and educational leadership.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 264 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Throughout the political spectrum, successful arguments often rely on fear appeals, whether implicit or explicit. Dominant arguments prey on people¿s fears ¿ of economic failure, cultural backwardness, or lack of personal safety. Counterarguments feed on other fears, suggesting that audiences are being duped by emotional smokescreens. With chapters on the political, institutional, and cultural manifestations of fear, this book offers diverse investigations into how insecurity and the search for certainty shape contemporary political economic decisions, and explores how the rhetorical manipulation of such fears illuminates a larger struggle for social control.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 304 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This lively and original book changes the way we see globalization and the knowledge economy. Creativity, exchange and the open flow of ideas have long shaped states, economies and everyday life. But knowledge now has an extraordinary dynamism. The world is crisscrossed by traffic in people, data and images. A world society is emerging, though governance is yet to reflect this. Global Creation shows that global creativity is transforming in two ways. First, global synchrony and convergence are changing the conception, production and sharing of creative work and this is feeding back into the core structures of the social world. Second, the global dimension is itself a human product and one that is continually being created. This book explores acts of imagining, producing and regulating the global dimension of action in the past, present and future. It will interest all intelligent readers, particularly those engaged with the history of ideas, political economy, sociology, innovation, or business organization. It follows Creativity and the Global Knowledge Economy (Peters, Marginson, Murphy 2009), also published by Peter Lang.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 320 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Medieval English Studies Symposium held in Poznä, Poland, in November 2008. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the areas of Old and Middle English language and literature: from language contact and Middle English syntax to manuscript editing and from Old English poetry to Middle English religious and secular literature. 156 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Intercultural and ethical issues are part of our daily lives. They share characteristics that make them particularly sensitive and sometimes volatile. The challenges that increasing diversity brings into education and schools in general are many as can be seen in this volume, for instance, in the Scandinavian countries, Estonia, United States, Canada, Japan and China. There are conflicting interpretations of multiculturalism and interculturalism. Culture plays a key role in different interpretations: North America is more tuned into hybrid aspects of students¿ identities, while in many European countries ethnicity still dominates the discussion. Good teachers make a difference. They have an understanding of the socio-political context of education as well as intercultural competence. The essays in this book portray multicultural, intercultural, and global as well as theoretical and practical approaches to diversity and education. 206 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Music is of paramount importance in Judaism. On the verse, «Hearken unto the song and the prayer which Your servant prays before You this day» (I Kings 8:28), the Gemarrah states that wherever there is song, there shall be prayer; and indeed, in the Temple, song was an inseparable element of the sacrificial services, thereafter finding its position in the prayers and the Torah reading, with its special melody, in the synagogue.Chassidism employed music as one of its main avenues for serving G-d. Music served to bring the individual to a state of awakening and joy, nullifying sadness which was seen as an element that could only lead to negativity. Joy allowed one to reach ever higher levels in the service of G-d, leaving one¿s sorrows behind, as explained by the founder of the Modzits Chassidic court, Rabbi Yehezkel of Kozmir, when interpreting the verse, «with joy you shall go forth» (Isaiah 55) to mean that through joy, we shall go forth from all our difficulties.In this book, Shmuel Barzilai takes the reader on a brief and concise tour of the Chassidic courts and their world of music. It explains the wordless melody (Niggun), which is perhaps even more important than songs having words; the importance of dance; the place of honor given to Shabbat songs; and the role of music in Kabbalah. The book provides an overview of the activities of Rabbis who composed and sang at every opportunity, whether in the synagogue or while conducting the traditional Tisch where Chassidic adherents gathered each Shabbat and Festival to hear their Rebbe explain sections of Torah, sing and interpret sayings on music. Barzilai also discusses melodies ¿ niggunim ¿ that became particularly famous, or derived from non-Jewish sources but underwent a process that allowed them to be adopted by the Admoric leaders and integrated into the Chassidic court¿s repertoire. 230 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The first basic thesis of Anti-Roman Cryptograms in the New Testament: Hidden Transcripts of Hope and Liberation is that the Jesus of history and his earliest and closest followers during his lifetime and during the decades after he had been crucified by the Romans had not only a deep longing for eternal life with God beyond the limits of this world, but also a strong desire for liberation from Roman political, economic, and social oppression. The second basic thesis of Anti-Roman Cryptograms in the New Testament is that within the Christian Scriptures there are more hidden transcripts, coded messages (anti-Roman cryptograms) of hope and liberation, for «freedom now» within this life, than we have realized throughout most of the history of interpretation. Hidden transcripts of hope and liberation are coded so that oppressed people are able to communicate to their fellow oppressed people in ways in which their message and their intent are shielded from the perceptions of their oppressors. These messages by the Jesus of history and by the writers of New Testament and related literature use the language of faith, of salvation, of Deity, and of adversaries of Deity, giving words that are commonly used by the oppressed people new and double meanings. Within interaction with other scholars who are publishing studies of hidden transcripts, this book is an analysis of hidden transcripts within each of the New Testament documents. The book is designed to be used in New Testament Studies courses at undergraduate and/or graduate levels, by study groups, and by all persons who desire a more adequate understanding of the Jesus of history, his closest followers, and their oral and written communications during the first three centuries C.E.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 208 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Dieses Buch zeigt, wie lebendig, (selbst-)kritisch und anregend historische Forschungen in der Pädagogik sind. Es setzt deutliche Akzente gegen das sukzessive Zurückdrängen von historisch-systematischen Themen in Forschung und Lehre. Die Auseinandersetzungen mit den (Dis-)Kontinuitäten in der Geschichte des Faches erhalten immer wieder neue Impulse, auch aus anderen Disziplinen. Moderne Begriffsverwirrungen lassen sich oftmals gewinnbringend durch einen aufmerksamen Blick in die Geschichte klären, und allzu übereilte Reformbestrebungen in der Gegenwart brechen sich in den Erinnerungen an frühere Versuche und Einsichten. Das alles zeigt sich länderübergreifend in Slowenien, Kroatien, Österreich und Deutschland. 184 pp. Englisch, Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This is the first interdisciplinary volume to present a sustained examination of the emergence, reception and legacy of modernism in Ireland. Engaging with the ongoing re-evaluation of regional and national modernisms, the essays collected here reveal both the importance of modernism to Ireland, and that of Ireland to modernism. Central concerns of the book include definitions of and critical contexts for an Irish modernism, issues of production, reception and the marketplace, new dialogues between literature and the visual arts in Ireland, modernism and Catholicism, and Irish modernism¿s relationship with European and Anglo-American modernism. With contributions from established and emerging scholars in both Irish Studies and Modernist Studies, this collection introduces fresh perspectives on modern Irish culture that reflect new understandings of the contradictory and contested nature of modernism itself. 260 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Do people like a movie Are consumers attracted by a broadcast commercial How do voters evaluate the performance of political candidates in a televised debate Traditional study designs measure the effects of those media stimuli after a recipient has been exposed to the entire movie, commercial, or debate. This approach has its limitations. Although we can learn if people like a particular stimulus as a whole we cannot tell which elements of the stimulus are responsible for the overall judgment. Real-time response (RTR) measurement provides this information. By recording individual spontaneous reactions to media messages on a second-by-second basis this technique offers unique insights into human information processing. 216 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Postnational Feminisms: Postcolonial Identities and Cosmopolitanism in the Works of Kamala Markandaya, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Ama Ata Aidoo, and Anita Desai offers a significant contribution to the field of postcolonial and Third World feminist studies. It reevaluates the ways in which Third World women writers interrogate the relationship between woman and nation in the postcolonial context. Hena Ahmad brings forth the concept of «postnational feminism», which she deploys to show how these major writers challenge the role of women as signifiers of national cultures in their works. This innovative concept illuminates the ambivalence of these uniquely positioned writers as Ahmad explores the connection between postnationalism and Third World feminism. 160 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This volume presents the proceedings of a Coimbra Group conference on networking across borders and frontiers in European culture and society that took place at the University of Graz in September 2007. Organised by the Task Force on Culture, Arts and Humanities it brought together researches from ten different European countries and an array of disciplines across the Humanities and Social Sciences spectrum, from Cultural Anthropology, European Ethnology, History, Literary Studies and Fine Arts to Peace Studies, Sociology and Political Sciences. It explores the capacity of the frontier-network binary for describing and analysing historical, cultural and political processes in the formation of European cultures and societies past and present, and across national and disciplinary boundaries. 266 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Die Auswirkungen der unterschiedlichen Gesellschaftssysteme auf das Erziehungs- und Bildungswesen und die gravierenden Veränderungen seit der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts stehen im Mittelpunkt dieses Bandes. Aus der Distanz und im kritischen Rückblick auf eine Epoche lassen sich die Gegebenheiten, aber auch die Irrungen und Wirrungen gelassener und gerechter beurteilen. Konstruktion und Wandel der Kindheitsbilder, bildungspolitische Rahmenbedingungen für Schule und Schulreformen sowie Funktionalisierung und Ideologisierung erziehungswissenschaftlicher Positionen und die allmähliche Normalisierung der Disziplin werden grundlegend, vergleichend, länderspezifisch und -übergreifend analysiert. So entsteht ein differenziertes Bild der zeitgeschichtlichen Pädagogik in Mitteleuropa jenseits von Verdammung oder Beschönigung. 244 pp. Englisch, Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This volume addresses the representation of history and collective memory in Latin American literature. The book presents a variety of novel perspectives on the subject, linked by the common themes of the subjectivity of time and history, literature used as a political tool and the representation of marginalized groups.The collection takes an original approach to viewing national histories as represented in literature by adopting a cross-disciplinary position. While there are other publications addressing some of the issues raised in this collection, this book goes beyond literary representations of history. The essays collected here examine technological, political and social developments as a means of creating, re-structuring and (in some cases) potentially destroying nations.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 320 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This publication was awarded the Jacqueline Ross TOEFL Dissertation Award in 2009.Since its publication in 2001, the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) has been the most frequently-cited performance standard in language testing in Europe. To help test providers and users with score interpretation in relation to the CEFR levels, the Council of Europe published the ¿Manual for relating language examinations to the CEFR¿. Even though the linking process set out in the Manual is primarily based on judgements by trained participants, judgement-making in this context remains largely unexplored. The research presented in this book addresses this issue by employing quantitative and qualitative methods. Despite the judges¿ good understanding of how language ability progresses from lower to higher CEFR levels, it was found that describing test content and examinee performance was not without problems and decision-making was affected by a number of factors that were irrelevant to the judgement task. The results provide a better understanding of judgement-making during the CEFR linking process, which has important implications for examination providers and users of CEFR-aligned test scores. 254 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This case study of the micro nation states in Nigeria shows that the issues involved in interreligious dialogue cannot be analysed in isolation from other various societal variables as some scholars have done in the past. This work demonstrates that religion and theological studies must be rooted in interdisciplinary approach and must pay serious attention to «contexts». These contexts ¿ societal variables including geo-historical, cultural, religious, local, national, artistic and global factors ¿ play an indispensable role and provide the background for understanding, interpreting and evaluating human religious expressions. Given the complexity of these contexts, the author applied the hermeneutic and interdisciplinary approaches to translate both theological and intellectual issues on interreligious encounters between Christianity and Muslims in Nigeria with the issues of local and national social problems. This work opens a new dimension in the studies of interreligious relations. 294 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This theoretical study guides the reader through some of Shakespeare¿s most emotionally turbulent dramatic worlds, offering a close examination of the fascinating emotional rhetoric employed by several key characters. These characters manipulate others ¿ and sometimes even themselves ¿ using a device broadly known in the terminology of rhetoric as ¿emotional appeal¿. Although Shakespeare displays immense interest in the human passions and makes frequent use of the tools of classical rhetoric, this study presents the first systematic inquiry into the emotional component of rhetoric in his drama.The book also offers the reader a broad perspective on Shakespearean drama by highlighting diverse characters who embody the human tendency to worship reason and rationalise reality. In contrast to those ¿emotionally intelligent¿ characters who acknowledge the crucial power of emotion in life and their inability to neutralise it, other characters deny this reality. Ironically, it is precisely those who deny emotion and obsessively seek rationality that eventually fall victim to their own intense passion, in some cases in response to emotional appeals from others.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 332 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -A number of the greatest classics (both old and modern) of English literature, extending from Antony and Cleopatra to A Passage to India, contain a sympathetic portrayal of the East, which connects them to each other in a way that justifies the term «literary orientalism». Literary Orientalism, Postcolonialism, and Universalism describes this clearly discernable tradition and examines certain key texts of oriental literature for the strong impact that they have had on English literature and for the striking manner in which they have been absorbed and appropriated into British culture. The Arabian Nights stands foremost among these works, which include the Maqamat, Ibn Tufayl¿s Hayy Bin Yaqdhan, as well as the oriental sources of courtly love. Literary Orientalism, Postcolonialism, and Universalism then moves from literary orientalism to a discussion of postcolonialism and postcolonial discourse. It argues, principally, that the time has come to go beyond orientalism and postcolonialism to a more universalist approach. The inadequacies of the term «postcolonial», in particular, and the Eurocentric and Westernist perspective it implies, affirm the need for a renewed, modern form of humanism, a new humanist universalism. 150 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Different national varieties of Spanish, for instance Argentinian, Colombian and Mexican, use different address systems, with different numbers of pronouns, and also give pronouns a different social significance. For the first time, this study discusses and analyses these paradigms in the context of inter-varietal contact in a third country, with English as an additional contact language. A multiplicity of data collection methods made it possible to uncover many new insights into address behaviour. New definitions for address pronouns are proposed, and issues arising from address are discussed, such as: awareness, proficiency, avoidance, accommodation, and uncertainty. In addition, some unexpected practices emerged, which call into question all previously accepted norms of usage. 326 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The diagnostic assessment of writing is an important aspect of language testing which has often been neclected in the literature. However, it is an area which poses special challenges to practioners both in the classroom and in large-scale testing situations. This book presents a study which set out to develop and validate a rating scale specifically designed for the diagnostic assessment of writing in an academic English setting. The scale was developed by analysing a large number of writing performances produced by both native speakers of English and learners of English as an additional language. The rating scale was then validated using both quantitative and qualitative methods. The study showed that a detailed data-based rating scale is more valid and more useful for diagnostic purposes than the more commonly used impressionistic rating scale. 322 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Three quarters of what is now considered the corpus of Middle English romances were recovered and edited between the 1760s and the 1860s by a handful of dilettante scholars (from Thomas Percy to Frederick J. Furnivall) whose progress in the understanding of the texts and of the time in which they were written follows paths very different from those of modern textual and philological analysis. The present volume describes and discusses more than one hundred primary sources (collections, editions, dissertations, and marginal writings such as glosses and introductions) in order to provide a picture of the infancy of the study of medieval romance in Britain.The volume is arranged as a chronological review of the amateur scholars and their editorial and critical practices and it was conceived as a reference book, providing a complete list of the romances edited in the period considered and information about single texts and their manuscript and printed versions. The author offers a picture of the first steps towards the gradual rehabilitation of a genre that had been despised for more than two centuries and its inclusion in the literary canon. Her discussion illuminates several aspects of the transmission and reshaping of the medieval culture in the nineteenth century and constitutes a contribution to the desideratum of a history of medieval studies. 256 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book is a collection of engaging, entertaining, and often confronting dialogues with nine thinkers of faith in postmodernity, some of them more prominent than others, all of them possessing the rare quality or gift of thinking rigorously-tentatively-passionately: John D. Caputo, Kevin Hart, Robyn Horner, Richard Kearney, Catherine Keller, Kate Rigby, Mark C. Taylor, Mark I. Wallace, and Merold Westphal. The project was driven by two ambitions: to seek out their thoughts on the question of the gift, which has become a hot topic since the early 1990s in philosophy, theology, and a whole range of academic disciplines, and which was the subject of the interviewer¿s doctoral work; and, more generally, to examine key elements of these thinkers¿ most important works. Hence, the dialogues traverse a splendid range of issues ¿ philosophical, theological, ecological, hermeneutical, biblical, scientific, and more. What¿s more, the dialogical medium has the advantage of casting complex issues in extremely accessible terms, thereby making this collection a must-read for anyone interested in contemporary Continental theory.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 262 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Real and Imagined Women in British Romanticism uses feminist ideology and deconstructive criticism to reconstruct the cultural context embedded in Romantic canonical texts. To achieve this end, the book undertakes a close textual study of these texts and places them in the intellectual context of Mary Wollstonecraft¿s critique of culture. As a result of intellectual contextualizing as well as theoretical applications, the Romantic imagination, as represented by William Wordsworth and John Keats, emerges as the place where gender division and gender certitude break down. This book intervenes in the traditional critical debates about the Romantic imagination to show that the Romantic imagination, as set forth in these texts, registers the vigorous cultural politics of gender and aesthetics that defined the 1790s and continued to exert influence for decades.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 214 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This critical analysis locates Irish curriculum policy and practice in their broader socio-cultural and policy contexts. Such an analysis is particularly necessary at a time when Irish schools are experiencing unprecedented waves of curriculum reform in a context where substantive curriculum debates rarely occur. The book explores the implications of these contextual factors for ¿official¿ understandings of and attitudes towards curriculum, with particular reference to the experiences of the curriculum development agencies, recent curriculum reforms and the nature of Irish curriculum contestation and discourse. Education and curriculum policy-making are considered from the perspectives of economic growth, social inclusion, policy fragmentation and the prevailing representational model of partnership. The study identifies the tensions that inevitably arise in attempting to achieve both quality and equality in education, and offers some alternatives to the prevailing contractual model of accountability. The author draws on his own long experience of curriculum development and evaluation and on interviews with key players in Irish curriculum decision-making.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 448 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This unique study of the theology of the book of Daniel examines the cultic motif within the book as it relates to space and time. Numerous references and allusions to cult are investigated with linguistic, literary, and contextual analyses. The findings are then related to the main theological themes of the book such as judgment, eschatology, kingdom, and worship. It is evident that the idea of cult plays a dominant role in Daniel, and that it demonstrates the intention of the author to present the issue of conflict of two opposing systems of cult and worship. For all who are interested in an exegesis of Daniel that pays dutiful attention to the theology of Daniel, The Cultic Motif in the Book of Daniel is a must-read.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 284 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Considerando la importante contribución de la obra narrativa de la escritora colombiana Albalucía Ángel a las letras hispánicas, este libro examina la dialéctica entre las nociones filosóficas y culturales de permanencia y estabilidad como los «hogares» apropiados para las mujeres y la formación de un agente femenino itinerante. Este volumen analiza el valor literal y metafórico de viajes, regresos, visitas y desplazamientos que hacen las protagonistas como medios a través de los cuales consiguen agencia en espacios excluyentes, represivos y violentos que las confina al silencio y a la locura. Las novelas incluidas en este libro invitan a cuestionar opciones fijas de identidad y pertenencia a un hogar o a una nación. La autora busca propiciar el diálogo académico sobre la obra de Ángel desde una perspectiva fundamentada en las consideraciones de Caren Kaplan sobre discursos posmodernos de viaje y la teoría feminista de pensadoras como Rossi Braidotti y Judith Butler.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 186 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Este libro estudia la transformacíon de la literatura infantil y juvenil (LIJ) en textos multimedia y pretende sistematizar una metodología de crítica a las adaptaciones audiovisuales en español de obras de LIJ inglesas y alemanas y a los productos (pseudo)literarios derivados, cuya proliferación excesiva se acompaña de una preocupante falta de calidad. Para lograr estos objetivos se han seleccionado obras en inglés y alemán dirigidas a niños y jóvenes, y de gran popularidad en la cultura origen y en la meta gracias a la adaptación audiovisual. Primero se analiza el texto literario original y su adaptación al medio audiovisual en sus vertientes técnica y lingüística. Luego se estudia el texto audiovisual derivado (doblaje y/o subtitulación), incluyendo comentarios valorativos con respecto a las estrategias de traducción empleadas. Finalmente, se tratan los productos (pseudo)literarios derivados de las adaptaciones audiovisuales. 150 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Das Mittelmeer rückt in den letzten Jahren nicht nur ins Zentrum politischer Interessen, sondern wird auch von Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften neu entdeckt. Seit mehr als 2000 Jahren treten in diesem transkulturellen Raum Kulturen miteinander in Kontakt, in Form friedlicher Begegnungen oder blutiger Konflikte. Vor dem Horizont neuerer Kulturtheorien begibt sich dieses Buch auf die Suche nach Repräsentationsformen des Mittelmeers und einer ¿Poetik des Mediterran¿. Analysiert werden literarische und filmische Konstruktionen des Mittelmeers aus dem 20. und 21. Jahrhundert. Im Zentrum stehen dabei mittelmeerische Identitätsentwürfe, Geographie und Geschichte als Koordinaten der ästhetischen Darstellung sowie eine spezifische Morphologie des Mittelmeerdiskurses. Dieser Band enthält 15 Aufsätze in deutscher und 4 Aufsätze in französischer Sprache.Ce livre rassemble des études sur les représentations littéraires et filmiques de la Méditerranée. A travers des recherches sur les questions de l¿identité, de la géographie et de l¿histoire se dégagent les contours d¿une « poétique de la Méditerranée » et d¿un discours spécifiquement méditerranéen. Ce volume contient 15 articles en langue allemande et 4 articles en langue française. 318 pp. Französisch, Deutsch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Ayant comme point de départ la corrélation étroite entre les domaines de la subjectivité, de l¿historicité et de la littérature, Faber Suae Fortunae se donne pour objectif d¿analyser les particularités distinctives du processus de l¿autoformation du sujet à partir d¿un corpus de textes littéraires de la fin du dix-septième siècle jusqüau début du dix-neuvième siècle. La lecture des romans de Mme de Lafayette, de Marivaux et de Stendhal révèle par conséquent des modes distincts de subjectivation, c¿est-à-dire différents modes d¿être que les personnages choisissent en vue de « faire ¿uvre de soi », de se constituer comme sujets éthiques. En suivant cette piste, on pourrait ajouter à la définition existante de la notion du moi selon laquelle « le moi désigne le sujet en tant qüil se pense lui-même », un composant conceptuel supplémentaire : le sujet en tant qüil se forme lui-même, qüil s¿engage dans une pratique d¿autoformation.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 182 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) ¿ die gesellschaftliche Verantwortung von Unternehmen ist ein beliebter Begriff. Gerade vor dem Hintergrund der Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise hat das Schlagwort «Unternehmensverantwortung» eine Renaissance erlebt. CSR taucht an vielen Stellen der wissenschaftlichen Literatur, der Medien und der Unternehmenskommunikation auf. Doch genau hier liegt das Problem: Niemand weiß genau, was hinter dem Begriff wirklich steckt. Um dieser Frage für die öffentlichen Unternehmen Europas genauer nachzugehen, hat der Europäische Zentralverband der Öffentlichen Wirtschaft (CEEP) ein Projekt ins Leben gerufen, welches das Ziel verfolgt, CSR zunächst für die öffentlichen Unternehmen Europas zu definieren und das Konzept in einem zweiten Schritt bei diesen zu implementieren. Das Projekt beruht auf einer Initiative der Europäischen Kommission, für die CSR seit einigen Jahren ein besonderes Anliegen darstellt. Verfolgen Sie in diesem Band, wie eine Idee auf europäischer Ebene zunächst emergiert und dann in der Praxis in den Unternehmen und für die Bürger umgesetzt werden kann. 120 pp. Deutsch.