peter lang feb 2022 (179 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Sedirse Bodley is one of the best-known senior figures of contemporary music in Ireland. This book seeks to examine his engagement with the poetry of Micheal O'Siadhail and the making of these song cycles. It assesses the joint contribution to Irish art song and seeks to understand its roots in and departure from European tradition.This apograph is the first publication of Bodley's O'Siadhail song cycles and is the first book to explore the composer's lyrical modernity from a number of perspectives. Lorraine Byrne Bodley's insightful introduction describes in detail the development and essence of Bodley's musical thinking, the European influences he absorbed which linger in these cycles, and the importance of his work as a composer of Irish art song. She asks an array of questions: Does song play a new role in twentieth-century music or was this the age, as many have insisted, that bears witness to the «death of song» How does contemporary Irish art song inscribe individual concerns and mirror the influence of dominant social trends through its music and its texts She demonstrates that the answers to such questions illuminate the context in which these cycles were created, and how they were valued and viewed. Through a blend of close analysis of Bodley's songs and wide-ranging engagement with both poetry and music, this book sheds new light on Bodley's integral part in fashioning Irish art song. It analyses the way Bodley's song has been harnessed both to legitimate and to challenge national art song. And it identifies elements of Bodley's musical style which are shaped by European tradition.Beyond such musico-poetic analysis, Lorraine Byrne Bodley's reading of the threefold roles of continuity, gradual change, and revolution opens up a «braided history» of Irish art song, where song is not an aesthetic given but a means to understanding the changing patterns of life. She argues convincingly that an understanding of the way in which Irish society has perceived song in recent centuries is available through a consideration of song as social document, and in her appraisal of Bodley's O'Siadhail settings she considers the importance of these song cycles as a reflection of Ireland's rich cultural history.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 132 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Whereas the diagnosis, explanation, and treatment of physical illness are scientifically sound, this is not true of psychiatric care of mental disorder. Depression, the #1 psychiatric diagnosis, illustrates this failure and it is the subject of Grifting Depression: Psychiatry¿s Failure as a Medical Science. Psychiatry¿s current form of medicalization began in 1980 with publication of DSM-III, the diagnostic manual that became the basis for the chemical imbalance theory, psychiatry¿s explanation for depression, and for reliance on antidepressant drugs to treat depression, 'revolutionizing psychiatric care.' DSM-III became the model for all the DSM manuals that followed. However, unlike other medical diagnostic manuals, the DSM fails to meet scientific and medical standards of reliability and validity. The chemical imbalance theory is based on research that violates basic tenets of the scientific method. Tests of the theory contradict it. In addition, tests of treatment effectiveness find antidepressant drugs to be no better than placebo. Studies show that the benefit attributed to antidepressant drugs is a placebo effect, but unlike placebos, the chemicals in these drugs are harmful to many. Research strongly supports an alternative theory, a behavioral explanation (psychological rather than biological) for most of the mental disorders listed in the DSM, including most cases of depression. Moreover, although it has not been recognized as the treatment of choice for depression, outcome studies convincingly show behavior therapy is more effective than drug treatment and it is safe. Conflict of interest, not science, is determining psychiatric care.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 306 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -«It was a great pleasure both to host and to participate in an international conference that brought together musicologists, composers, performers, and literary artists in stimulating and thought-provoking discourse. The collaboration of our colleagues from Queen¿s University, Belfast, was particularly welcome and appreciated; they, together with distinguished international Goethians, contributed much to what was a unique 36 hours of intellectual and artistic dialogue.»Professor Gerard Gillen, Chair of Music, National University of Ireland Maynooth & Titular Organist of Dublin¿s Pro-Cathedral«Goethe¿s influence on the musical world is far reaching. While it seems impossible to grasp the full extent of his legacy, a sense of optimism was in the air at the Maynooth conference where we were entertained by a series of highly stimulating papers and concerts, exploring some fascinating details of Goethe¿s world and his unique contributions to music. It was indeed a rare opportunity to have had such a wonderful mix of scholarly exchanges on a literary giant, Goethe, who continues to enrich our lives through his creative output.»Dr Yo Tomita, Reader in Music, Queen¿s University Belfast«I have long been conscious of the modernity of much of Goethe¿s writing and aware of the very direct message it can deliver to a 21st century man or woman. In particular the characters of both Mignon and the Harper in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre speak to us of an all-too-familiar sense of fractured identity. It was therefore with especial pleasure that I undertook the musical setting of Goethe¿s poems associated with these two vivid characters for performance at the conference. What a wonderful opportunity was afforded me to present a first performance of Goethe settings before an audience that included so many distinguished scholars of the great German writer!»Seóirse Bodley, Composer and Emeritus Professor of Music, University College Dublin«Musical performance is a fundamental part of human existence, yet years of learning and preparation lie behind it. The interpretation of music requires decisions ¿ conscious and/or intuitive ¿ about the meaning of musical features as well as knowledge of the historical context in which the music was written. The unique interaction of theory and practice in this conference offered scholars and performers an opportunity to unravel the complexities of performance together, and to bring to light aspects of learning and playing. Each of the authors in this volume is a leading expert in the field, and the performers, who illustrated their lectures with recitals, were of considerable experience and renown. All of these factors ensure that the essays in this volume are vital, cogent, and musically challenging.»John O¿Conor, Pianist and Director of the Royal Irish Academy of Music«Goethe was interested in, and acutely aware of, the place of music in human experience generally ¿ and of its particular role in modern culture. Moreover, his own literary work - especially the poetry and ¿Faust¿ ¿ inspired some of the major composers of the European tradition to produce some of their finest works. What is it about Goethe¿s texts that invites a transformation into music Perhaps it is his extraordinary combination of emotional immediacy and intense reflectivity. To that combination, and to the perennially fascinating question of what happens in the interplay between words and music, this volume of essays bears abundant witness.»Martin Swales, Emeritus Professor of German, University College LondonBooks on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 410 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Fight the Power: Breakin Down Hip Hop Activism, co-edited by provocative and Fiercely intelligent Hip Hop heads Arash Daneshzadeh, Anthony J. Nocella II, Chandra Ward, and Ahmad Washington, is a fresh thought-provoking book that engages in social justice, Black Lives Matter, Hip Hop, youth culture, and current affairs. This must-read is a timely and powerfully engaging collection of interviews by outstanding, brilliant BIPOC Hip Hop activists from around the United States. Their stories are a poignant testimony for what is happening in the streets against racism, classism, police brutality, prisons, hate groups, and white supremacy. This dope-ass book that screams loud FTP is perfect for any reader at any age.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 112 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This powerful intersectional social justice book examines animal, disability, and environmental oppression and justice. Located in disability studies, sociology, environmental justice, food justice, and critical animal studies, this book engages the reader in an intersectional ecological manner for an inclusive interdependent global community. This outstanding collection of original articles by scholars from around the world discusses the need to acknowledge the relationships among nonhuman animals, those with disabilities, and the environment. Adaptive sports from mountain biking to rock climbing is saving the lives of those with disabilities from extreme depression and suicide at the same time those with disabilities are becoming some of the most loyal advocates for defending the environment from human destruction. Those with disabilities are being welcomed into the animal rights movement and also introduced to nonhuman animals not as merely service animals, but as friends, allies, and companions.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 122 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Emerging New Voices in Critical Animal Studies: Vegan Studies for Total Liberation, co-edited by Nathan Poirier, Anthony J. Nocella II, and Annie Bernatchez of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies, is a brilliant radical engaging intersectional book promoting total liberation from new fresh critical animal studies voices throughout the world. This captivating critical animal studies collection, influenced by historical and ongoing radical movements such as green anarchism, Black liberation, prison abolition, feminism, Queer liberation, disability rights, and decolonization, is one of the most powerful texts in the last decade within the animal liberation movement. We must begin to listen to new and young scholars for social justice to evolve in order to end speciesism and all forms of oppression. Read, share, reflect and act on this interdisciplinary collection of scholar-activists from sociology, anthropology, criminology, economics, philosophy, cultural studies, eco-theology, environmental studies, and education that will transform the global movement for radical social justice and propel total liberation forward.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 150 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -In this musical collection, Lorraine Byrne Bodley reflects upon composer Seóirse Bodley's musical settings of Goethe's poetry by examining the cultual and poetic contexts key to their construction.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 160 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Strongly affected by modern history and facing dilemmas of modernity, Central and Eastern Europe has been healing fresh wounds for the past 30 years. The present volume analyzes the contemporary challenges related to the heritage of 1989. The peaceful revolution brought substantial socio-cultural, institutional and strategic transformations, setting a long-term course for Central and Eastern European policymaking. Recently, however, these legacies, namely the geopolitical aspects of the transformation, the policies of collective memory, and even intrasocietal issues, have been questioned more than ever. It seems the region is approaching the end of a revolutionary cycle of transition. This volume tries to investigate this phenomenon as it unfolds. 228 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The book introduces readers to the basic knowledge about changes in the political party system, which started to take place after the parliamentary elections in 2010.The introductory part introduces the basic development of the political party system in the Czech Republic, discusses the characteristics of new actors and described the two concepts used, i.e. the business firm-party and the far-right populist parties. On the basis of this introductory chapter, new political parties are introduced in more detail, namely Public Affairs, the Dawn of Direct Democracy and Freedom and Direct Democracy (associated with Tomio Okamura) and Andrej Babi¿¿s ANO movement. 158 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Translanguaging pedagogy values the dynamic interaction of languages. In doing so it promotes creative forms of learning in which critical literacy can develop in a trans-systemic approach. Thanks to the creation of translanguaging spaces, secondary school learners are engaged in plurilateral and multidirectional meaning making processes. While they are enquiring topical as well as socially and culturally relevant issues, they can develop critical engagement and civic empathy.The present volume provides a theoretical framework with descriptors for multilingual critical literacy. In addition, it showcases lesson-plans on rap-literature(s) in more languages (German, Italian, English, Spanish) and other multimodal and plurilingual inputs, as well as translanguaging tasks. 160 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This study focuses on theatricality and melancholia in John Berryman's The Dream Songs, and proposes to view them as inherent in the American cultural experience. It discusses Berryman's work in the context of a larger debate on the significance of loss in the process of subject formation and its relation to language, with a commentary on the presences and absences found in the Polish translations of the poem. Revealing the mechanisms of staging the Self after loss, the Songs provide insight into the theatrical and dialogue-driven, context-dependent, intertextual and continuously rewritten character of the American subject. 158 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book draws the limits of our thoughts and consciousness between the mind andmind-independent reality by using mathematical logic with the support of neurology.Diagnosing the limits between immanence and transcendence of the consciousnessdepends on dening some transcendental a priori categories in between as somebasic axioms of the mind. Although this is a paradoxical attempt every philosopherfalls into, the author non-paradoxically identies these non-intentional cognitivecategories by using mathematical category theory. e author denes the intentionalcategories of consciousness by using mathematical set theory and obtains a selfrepresentationalhigher-order theory of consciousness (SHOT). Finally, he combinesthe intentional and non-intentional categories with an algebraic topography andobtains a model of the mind. 184 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -It is being said that we should all be proud of the way we are confronting the Covid-19 pandemic. Rather than privileging profits and trade, Western societies have made the noble decision to save lives at all costs. Indeed, the logic that has prevailed is that accepting any trade-off between saving lives and saving the economy is an unacceptable and monstrous idea, which is why liberal democracies worldwide have chosen to shutter businesses and force people to self-quarantine in their homes as much and for as long as possible. A vast majority of citizens and political leaders deemed that acting otherwise would have been nothing else but pure moral bankruptcy.Is it, however, possible that Western societies have gone the wrong way by embracing this inherently basic and impoverished version of life The reason why a significant majority of us are unable to see this truth is because of our refusal to accept death and the tragic essence of human life which is the result of the various cultural parameters we have grown accustomed to over the past decades that followed WWII. The Covid-19 pandemic has simply been the triggering factor that has allowed these factors to reinforce the full strength they wield on our understanding of life. Defined primarily by a fear of death, the desire to prolong life as much as possible and minimize the hurdles individuals have to face during their existence has created a beast that is, in appearance, reassuring to the fearful creatures we have become.This beast has asepticized societies that refute the tragic nature of life and are willing to hinder individuals¿ freedom and what makes our existence inherently humane. However, without realizing it, this Leviathan that now takes the form of a 'nanny state' has altered our nature from individuals able and encouraged to enjoy life to people whose only destiny is to simply survive for as long as possible, without any other purpose than to avoid anything that might jeopardize this objective.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 90 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This edited book explores the origins and evolution of the early childhood education and care (ECEC) system on the island of Ireland since the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1921. While the book acknowledges and celebrates the role of parents in caring for and educating their young children within the home, the key focus is on the provisions outside the home for children from birth to six years. It critiques the historical and contemporary provision under a number of key themes including curriculum, the policy and legislative landscapes, inspection and regulation, Irish language provision and professionalisation. Written by key experts and actors from the sector, it makes a unique contribution to the existing literature by bringing together in one collection a critical analysis of the key themes relating to the development of ECEC in Ireland. Moreover, signposts and signals for the future development of the sector are integral to the book.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 298 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The book deals with Gerbert of Aurillac (Pope Sylvester II) and his investigations in the field of theoretical (philosophy of numbers) and practical (counting) arithmetic. The book represents the comprehensive inquiry of both these aspects of arithmetic in his thought. The analysed sources are Gerbert¿s so-called scientific letters written to his friends, colleagues or pupils, and also including some of his other texts. On this basis, attention is paid to arithmetic as the mother of all sciences and as the path to wisdom (e.g., the so-called Saltus Gerberti, relation between arithmetic and other disciplines of the quadrivium, etc.) and also to practical arithmetic (e.g., the introduction of Hindu-Arabic numerals and the re-introduction of a new form of abacus to the Latin Christian West). 242 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Transformation of the Industry in a Brand New Normal: Media, Music, and Performing Arts is a collection of contemporary research and interpretation that aims to discover the industrialtransformation in media, music, and performing arts. Featuring coverage of a broad range of topicsincluding film studies, narrative theory, digital streaming platforms, subscription video-on-demandservices, marketing, promotional strategies of video games, distant music practices, music ecosystemscontemporary orchestras, alternative music scenes, new voice-over techniques, changingconservatory education methods, and visual arts, this manuscript of selected chapters is designedfor academics, researchers, media professionals, and students who intend to enhance their understandingof transformation in media, music, and performing arts. 236 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The main purpose of the book is to create a model of the presidential election campaign in South Korea. The research questions included both those regarding the content of the campaign itself and, more broadly, its organization. The collected materials, posted on Facebook and Twitter accounts by the three most important candidates in the campaign, were analyzed using mixed (qualitative and quantitative) research methods. In addition to describing the results of empirical research, the book provides a broader context regarding political communication in the Republic of Korea. Because of that, the work can be useful for students of political science, international relations, communication studies, as well as Korean studies. 220 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -All texts in this volume give an opportunity to reflect in-depth on the opportunities, challenges and difficulties associated with the continuous transformation of higher education and scientific activities. In this context, the concept of ¿scientific excellence¿ has been perceived as a guiding idea in the scholars¿ efforts. At the same time, it can be seen as an ideal that can never be achieved but towards which one ought to strive persistently. Additionally, the pursuit of perfection is accompanied by paradoxes, which have been pointed out many times in the history of human thought. The volume embodies the belief in the existence of an invisible college understood as a research community embodied by young scientists starting their academic path inspired by recognized professors. 304 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The book by Monika Talarczyk is devoted to the life and work of Wanda Jakubowska (1907¿1998), author of The Last Stage (1948), an icon of women¿s cinema, said to be the Mother of All Holocaust Films. The author discovers previously unknown facts in Jakubowskäs biography from the period of her childhood in Russia and her youth, associated with Polish socialists. She also provides a closer look at the director¿s activity in post-war production culture as a chairwoman of the film units and a teacher at the £ód¿ Film School. Talarczyk presents Jakubowskäs works in the context of Holocaust studies as well as women¿s cinema. The publication includes Jakubowskäs descriptive filmography. The director¿s achievements are illustrated by previously unpublished photos from film sets as well as film stills from Jakubowskäs private archive. 198 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -A world religions textbook spotlighting global missionary activityThis comparative introduction explores the mission obligation as it is expressed across seven traditions: the Bahá¿í Faith, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Mormonism, and nonreligion.In a structure that facilitates side-by-side comparison and contrast, the book examines the philosophies, practices, and texts that inspire the worldwide propagation of a plurality of religious and nonreligious teachings.Topics explored include proselytization, conversion, translation, religious education, colonialism, cultural adaptation, humanitarianism, interfaith encounter, secularism, and transnational growth.The first edition of World Religions and their Missions was fundamental in establishing comparative mission studies. This revised second edition features expanded chapters, updated data, and entirely new chapters. 350 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Over the last twenty years Deirdre Kinahan has emerged as a significant and original female voice in Irish theatre, with her plays produced in Ireland, the UK, the USA and across mainland Europe. Her work explores issues of personal and communal identity, bringing forward the difficulties that arise for individuals when accepted narratives of identity diverge from contemporary experience. In this collection of ten original essays, and an interview with the playwright, the authors address the ways in which Kinahan¿s plays interrogate and seek to renegotiate value systems of family, class, ethnicity, age and gender in the 21st century neoliberal, secular state, with an emphasis on experimental forms and the renewal of the genre of the family play. Theoretical frameworks rely on feminism, intersectionality, genre studies, and age studies, among other approaches, by authors from Ireland, the UK, Hungary, the USA, Nigeria, Canada and Taiwan.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 316 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Whither the seminal thinking and practice of Paulo Freire in contemporary times If Covid 19 is the most seismic health crisis in living memory, it is also just as much an unprecedented crisis for education and society. While Paulo Freire¿s work so often calls attention to the deprivations and exploitations suffered by the weakest in our society, at no stage does Freire¿s work succumb to a negativism or a pessimism about the possibilities of transformation. To the contrary, Freire¿s work is always animated by a strong and fundamental affirmative spirit which calls on people to join together to make change, as opposed to simply waiting around for it to happen.This text on Freire¿s contemporary importance thus seems a timely intervention. Originally a conversation between engaged interlocutors at a University of Catania symposium, this discussion then broadens out to include connection to the particular rendering of these issues across different national and international contexts.Including essays by established and new thinkers in the Critical Pedagogy perspective, the book also includes up to date and exciting interviews with contemporary practitioners of Theatre of the Oppressed and related social-therapeutic approaches in Italy.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 216 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Korea as a ¿middle power¿ in the last decades saw a growing importance, partly through greater economic clout, partly through greater cultural and soft power (¿K-pop¿), and partly through collective action in institutions like G 20. However, recent instability in Northeast Asia, plus growing trade conflicts and political conflicts in the region and worldwide, endanger this position. Moreover, the tremendous rise of China in economic, geo-political and cultural terms overshadowed the Korean development. However, also here the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative seems to dominate the headlines, as well as the policy fora and practical business decisions. Therefore, this book discusses an urgent, indeed pressing topic: how can middle powers like South Korea and Germany benefit from closer economic and political linkages across the Eurasian landmass, in particular the Belt and Road Initiative dominated by China. Should they rather jump on the bandwagon or should they follow distinct own initiatives, either in their region or inter-regionally 236 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This volume presents a collection of papers from the 1st edition of the InternationalConference for Young Philological Researchers on New Methodological Directionsand Perspectives in Literary and Linguistic Studies, held at ¿Lucian Blagä Universityof Sibiu, Romania, in May 2020.In thirteen selected papers, authors have tackled Otherness in terms of Representationsof the Other; Grammars of Otherness; Otherness in Literature; Discourses onSelf/Other; Voices, Arts and Metaphors of Self and Other; Sameness and Otherness;Otherness in Education; (In)(di)visibility and Translatability of Otherness, etc. Thevolume spans a variety of fields, from linguistics, cultural theory, and philosophy toliterature, psychology, and art, and each is concerned with not only otherness butalso with representation. 228 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This is the first book to analyse the Mozambican modern ghost story, establishing the genre¿s unique characteristics, situating it in a transnational context, and distinguishing it from other supernatural traditions. The study discusses why it emerged in different historical moments in Mozambican literature and how it was adapted in the process.Relying on a combination of short and close readings, this book offers a large scope spanning almost two centuries. It examines works of prominent and less prominent Mozambican authors ¿ including Campos de Oliveira, Orlando Mendes, Mia Couto, Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa, and Paulina Chiziane ¿ to discuss the relation of the Mozambican modern ghost story to colonial capitalism, the neoliberalism of the 1980s, and the globalization and world-literature debates of the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 232 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -How can the afterlives of anticapitalist and antidictatorship resistance enliven contemporary imaginaries of social justice Where can the legacies of authoritarianism be spatially located and challenged And what roles can film play in reckoning with these spectral inheritances Picturing Ghosts addresses these questions in relation to postdictatorship Chile, a country that has become a nodal point in global geopolitical narratives about the obsolescence of socialism, the birth of neoliberalism and «the end of history». Exploring how the Chilean «transition to democracy» has been narrated in film, the book focuses on stories of haunting and rebellion that unsettle hegemonic temporalities and frameworks of memory. Engaging with the idea of haunting as a trope, a conceptual metaphor and a structure of feeling, it considers different approaches to reckoning with the present past as an emancipatory presence ¿ a multiplicity of unfinished projects and unanswered questions that the cultural imaginary of late capitalism hastens to smooth over.Through a cartographic approach to analysis, this study looks beyond established landscapes of memorialisation in Chile, encountering rebellious subjects and stories in houses and haciendas, poblaciones, the presidential palace, the Atacama Desert, shopping malls, public schools and university campuses. In doing so, it contributes to an emerging field of research that problematises the dominant spatial and temporal imaginaries of «post-conflict» transitions, striving to construct more inclusive and transformative conceptions of truth, justice and emancipation.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 250 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This volume is the outcome of a co-ordinated effort of a group of scholars who set themselves the task of reconsidering nineteenth-century Latvian literary history. We are seeking to pluralize literary history studies by looking for novel insights into Latvian literature and contributing to the research of East-Central European literary cultures. Scholars from diverse but related research fields (literature, history, art history, and folklore studies) scan the nineteenth-century cultural scene from various intersecting perspectives, taking into account important links between literature, oral culture and visual art, changes in reading practices, periodicals, and the book market as well as the complex interactions between social transformations and aesthetic developments.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 278 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -El presente volumen aborda la traducción e interpretación institucional con un triple enfoque: a) su aplicación social; b) las tendencias profesionales; y, c) la innovación didáctica en la enseñanza universitaria.Respecto a su aplicación social, los primeros capítulos tratan la traducción e interpretación como una herramienta esencial que permite superar barreras tanto lingüísticas como culturales en situaciones de emergencia y acceder a derechos fundamentales mediante el empoderamiento de las mujeres en procedimientos de asistencia y atención en contextos de violencia de género.El posterior análisis y descripción de diversos entornos profesionales en contextos institucionales permiten detectar y extraer las competencias que los profesionales necesitan para poder hacer frente a los nuevos desafíos a los que se enfrentan en el nuevo paisaje profesional dibujado por los acontecimientos históricos de los últimos tiempos.En cuanto a la innovación didáctica, el volumen presenta nuevas metodologías docentes y acciones formativas que incluyen, entre otras, el empleo de la música y el mindfulness en el aula de interpretación, el uso de las nuevas tecnologías para la formación de intérpretes a distancia y la posedición como herramienta didáctica en el aula de traducción.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 348 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The role of teaching reading, spelling, and writing in two languages at primary school has become more important over the last few years. Current research therefore needs to answer more specific questions than ever before and, e.g., explore the challenges of developing literacy skills in a foreign language, appropriate teaching approaches and innovative assessment procedures. This volume features contributions on theoretical and methodological aspects, teachers¿ diagnostic skills and issues in educational policy. Researchers from Germany, Great Britain, Portugal, and Switzerland share their findings with the objective of improving foreign language teacher education at university level and primary school classrooms of English, French and Spanish as a foreign language. 296 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Otto Dix (1891¿1969) was a leading figure of the Neue Sachlichkeit movement in painting in 1920s Germany. This groundbreaking study analyses for the first time in depth the relationship between Dix¿s verist-realist portrait paintings and the rapidly expanding mass media culture of the Weimar era.Focusing on a selection of portraits created in the first half of the 1920s, the book explores four specific aspects: the way in which Dix engaged with fashion and celebrity culture; how he responded to the challenge posed by photography; how he dealt with a situation where black-and-white reproductions were the most common medium through which diverse audiences encountered his work, and the ways in which Dix¿s career development ran in parallel with the commentary on his artistic production in journalistic and specialist media publications. Temporality, medium-specificity and reproduction are identified as concerns that drove his aesthetic responses to a historically specific environment.New archival material, letters and interviews by the artist, and a wide range of publications by art critics, cultural theorists and art historians of the Weimar era are drawn on to reveal new information about key paintings such as Self-Portrait with Nude Model (1923) and Portrait of the Dancer Anita Berber (1925).Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 332 pp. Englisch.