peter lang jan 2012 (200 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Higher education in the U.S. has traditionally prepared students for work and social success, but with families, work, and society itself undergoing revolutionary change, is this preparation sufficient to develop the 21st-century workforce This book explores how evolving family structures, new ways of balancing work and personal lives, and rapid technological advancements will transform the ways that U.S. colleges and universities develop well-educated, career-oriented citizens. Society 3.0 will help higher education providers and industry leaders understand these potentially disruptive variables and design appropriate programs and career paths for tomorrow's workers. The book presents and explores the following insights:¿ A wider range of family members, not just older children, now attend college, a decision that shapes ¿ and is shaped by ¿ 21st-century demographics.¿ Older students, recognizing degrees as vital for competing in the global workforce, now outnumber those entering college before starting careers.¿ Today¿s workers are increasingly likely to be women, working outside the office or self-employed, or applying their education to innovation and entrepreneurship as small business owners.¿ Technology is remaking the campus experience via smartphone learning apps, social networking among professors and students, and immersive engagement in virtual worlds ¿ and even games.Society 3.0 will provide higher education and industry stakeholders a guide for understanding the emerging societal forces that are shaping the future.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 206 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -El presente libro se aproxima a la obra de Pío Baroja combinando los estudios literarios con la Estética. Esta aproximación novedosa permite formarse una idea más completa de su pensamiento y de su concepción de la novela, incidiendo en la estrecha relación que existe entre ambos aspectos.Por una parte, esta perspectiva muestra con claridad hasta qué punto el pensamiento barojiano trasciende ese pesimismo nihilista con el que siempre se lo ha identificado. Por otra, permite comprender mejor su concepto de la novela, donde se alteran profundamente todos los elementos de las formas narrativas heredadas para orientarse hacia la búsqueda de una novela abierta. Finalmente, el presente estudio se detiene en una parte esencial pero algo olvidada de la obra barojiana: sus numerosas novelas de aventuras. A través de ese género menor desarrolló Baroja de manera muy libre sus presupuestos estéticos y perfiló los aspectos más positivos de su pensamiento.Todos estos temas sirven para destacar la enorme coherencia estética de la obra barojiana y para insertarla en su contexto (la proximidad a la estética del 98 y las diferencias con Ortega, que superan la conocida polémica sobre la idea de novela), destacando igualmente su importancia en la literatura posterior.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 170 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The second edition of Rhetoric Online: The Politics of New Media has been extensively revised and expanded in order to systematically examine how rhetorical theory can be applied to political activity across a wide range of new media technologies. Warnick and Heineman study the web as a public sphere, touching on how websites, social media, smartphone applications, blogs, viral video, and web-based anti-institutional practices such as hacktivism impact everything from electoral politics to activism. Furthermore, they provide critical insight into how rhetoricians might consider existing theories of persuasion, identity, narrative, intertextuality, social movements, and more in the context of evolving new media technology. This edition contains completely new chapters on viral video, social identity and social media, and anti-institutional politics online.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 182 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Our Children ¿ Our Responsibilities walks the reader through the social, psychological and theological dynamics and rationale for a step-by-step whole systems change model designed to address issues plaguing the African American community and youth gravitating to gang environments. Drawing upon an expansive audience of scholars and practitioners to support its propositions, the book moves away from talking about the problems to conveying a well designed multi-disciplinary and detailed change strategy. It challenges traditional beliefs, praxes and strategies that typically start with a focus on youth as the central point and boldly addresses the multitude of inter-related issues that plague the African American community. The model is expanded to a global context, which is a critical perspective since every continent has a gang problem and/or community-based issues that give rise to youth gravitating to gangs.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 240 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -These are the stories of four arts practitioners from Trinidad and Tobago ¿ a lighting designer, a dancer, a jazz musician and a choreographer ¿ who have made names for themselves internationally. The book centers on their role as educators in their fields; their unique and individual journeys exemplify the classic role artists have (always) played as teachers. Artful Stories is a timely and profound work that captures the teacher-student dynamic. It fills a void by recognizing the contributions of Caribbean artists to U.S. and European artistic scholarship. This book will be a valuable asset for teachers and professors as well as an excellent textbook for undergraduate and graduate classrooms.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 176 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book comes at a time of increasing anxiety about the repercussions of financial instability and the probability of widespread market volatility. The educators and researchers whose work is collected here have considered these factors deeply when constructing their responses to prevailing financial conditions. These views guide the reader through economic crises as a mode of survival and as a means to deploying education at its most meaningful and intense. The approach aligns practice with theory and takes the empirical evidence from these studies as a means to determining the economic influence on education. This book will be a valuable asset for teachers and professors, as well as an excellent textbook for undergraduate and graduate classrooms.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 284 pp. Englisch.

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Teaching about Frederick Douglass will stimulate conversation among liberal arts and education professionals as well as inform public school teachers about the life and times of Frederick Douglass. Tension exists at many institutions of higher education between liberal arts faculties who do not completely understand the function of education professors and school of education faculties who feel that there is a misunderstanding about what a teacher candidate needs to learn before entering the teaching profession. This book facilitates conversation, addressing the liberal arts professor¿s concern with content and the education professor¿s concern with pedagogy. By providing both current scholarship and lesson plans for elementary, middle school, and secondary school classes, this book serves as a vital resource for scholars on multicultural issues and provides classroom ideas for public school teachers.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 222 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Culturally Relevant Teaching centers hip-hop culture as a culturally relevant form of critical pedagogy in urban pre-service teacher education programs. In this important book, Darius D. Prier explores how hip-hop artists construct a sense of democratic education and pedagogy with transformative possibilities in their schools and communities. In a postmodern context, students¿ critical street narratives challenge educators to rethink where «public education» can happen, and the political and empowering purposes to which Black popular culture can serve social justice ends for youth in urban education. This book provides educational leaders in the academy and public schools with new cultural contexts that connect teaching and learning with music and popular culture in relation to race, class, gender, culture, and community.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book won the 2014 AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award.We are living, learning, and teaching by questioning how to address race in a society that consistently prefers to see itself as colorblind, a society claiming to seek a «post-racial» existence. This edited volume offers evidence of the evolving significance of race from a diverse group of male and female contributors selfidentifying as Black, Latino, Asian, White, Gay, Lesbian, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim. Our attempts to provide every child and adult learner with what they need ¿ equity ¿ to make the most of their educational experiences ¿ excellence ¿ are still consciously and unconsciously thwarted by the ingrained nature of racism in our society. This point becomes obvious when we begin teaching those audiences that represent diverse lived experiences of race about the changing significance of race and how to develop a more critical, reflexive lens focused upon the politics of race. This book invites readers to co-construct and implement a critical race pedagogy that reflects both an acknowledgment of the evolving significance of race and opportunities for hope via education.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 332 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Public relations experts and crisis management personnel have done an excellent job over the years of drawing attention to the grand scope of risks associated with crisis. Particularly in the present challenging economic conditions, organizations have become aware of the costs of crises and are willing to put forth effort and resources in crisis prevention. In this book, the editors and contributors offer significant insight into the critical considerations of crisis preparation as well as the importance of anticipation and pre-crisis planning.Pre-crisis planning has been a part of crisis management ever since scholars and practitioners began researching it. This book presents some of the most detailed and thorough insights published to date and serves as an example of where future research can go. 362 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Stationarity has always played an important part in forecasting theory. However, some economic time series show time-varying autocovariances. The question arises whether forecasts can be improved using models that capture such a time-varying second-order structure. One possibility is given by autoregressive models with time-varying parameters. The author focuses on the development of a forecasting procedure for these processes and compares this approach to classical forecasting methods by means of Monte Carlo simulations. An evaluation of the proposed procedure is given by its application to futures prices and the Dow Jones index. The approach turns out to be superior to the classical methods if the sample sizes are large and the forecasting horizons do not range too far into the future. 140 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Building on past research that includes prosocial-antisocial communication, positive psychology, as well as complementing the dark side of interpersonal communication, this groundbreaking volume brings together veteran interpersonal communication scholars to examine the bright, positive sides of communication in human relations. Together, they begin to frame a conceptual foundation for studies on the «positive» side of interpersonal communication, or in general terms, relational communication that promotes happiness, health, and wellness. In the process they examine moments of relational beauty, laughter and play, positive emotion, relational support, understanding, and forgiveness, as well as facilitation of positive character traits and positive relational communication values. The Positive Side of Interpersonal Communication is intended to serve as a starting point for future research as well as inspiring new areas of interpersonal communication scholarship.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 376 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Dieses Buch widmet sich der Frage, wie die Ausbildung von Mediation und Mediativer Kommunikation (insbesondere im universitären Kontext) einen wesentlichen Beitrag zur Etablierung von sogenannten Schlüsselkompetenzen leisten kann. Die mit der These «Mediation für interkulturelle Kompetenz» zusammengefassten Untersuchungsergebnisse zur Wirksamkeit einer Mediationsausbildung bestätigen: Die Kompetenzerweiterung zum Umgang mit Diversität als eine klassische Überschneidungssituation liegt im gleichstellungsorientierten Reflektieren und dem allparteilichen Wertschätzen der emotionalen und sozialen Bindung an den jeweiligen kulturellen und personenimmanenten Hintergrund. Mediationsausbildung trägt dazu bei, die Ambiguitätstoleranz zu stärken, Toleranz und Souveränität im Umgang mit schwierigen und in konfliktreichen Situationen zu fördern. 124 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Twenty-two years after his death, Thomas Bernhard¿s work continues to fascinate, irritate, and please readers. This book analyzes Bernhard¿s writings in the light of post-war Austrian history, challenging the prevailing formalist and psychological reception of his work. It does so by revealing the close connection between individual texts and contemporaneous economic and political events, such as the relationship of the 1969 story Watten. Ein Nachlass to the incipient decline of the social-partnership state, or the connection of the 1970 novel Das Kalkwerk to the shifting balance of power between bourgeoisie and proletariat. Furthermore, the book argues that much of Bernhard¿s engagement in public life was an attack on the «pseudo-socialism» of the Austrian socialist party and especially of Bruno Kreisky. Bernhard¿s critique is effected through what the author terms a «comic materialism» ¿ an unrelenting focus on the material aspects of life ¿ evident in his protagonists¿ ludicrously obsessive fixation on the objects of everyday life and in his comic critique of Viennese society.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 212 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The writing of mathematical histories has a long history, one which has seldom received scholarly attention. Mathematical history, and mathematical biography, raise distinctive issues of method and approach to which different periods have responded in different ways. At a time of increasing interest in the history of mathematics, this book attempts to show something of the trajectory that history has taken in the past. It presents seven case studies illustrating the different ways that mathematical histories have been written since the seventeenth century, ranging from the ¿historiä of John Wallis to the recent re-presentation of Thomas Harriot¿s manuscripts online. It considers both the ways that individual reputations and biographies have been shaped differently in different circumstances, and the ways that the discipline of mathematics has itself been variously presented through the writing of its history.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 194 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Der Verfasser beschreibt in lebendiger Weise das Werden seiner «philosophischen Existenz», wobei er besonders Ereignisse schildert, die ihm auf der Suche nach Sinn wichtig sind. So profiliert sich in immer wieder neuen Abwandlungen die Erfahrung, dass, wenn man sich einer Aufgabe zur Verfügung stellt und sich von Widerständen nicht bestimmen lässt, sondern «aus sich heraustritt», sich die Dinge fügen und zu einer ungeahnten positiven Wirkung führen können. Darin zeigt sich, dass das Seiende darauf angelegt ist, laufend aus sich herauszugehen, zu «ek-sistieren», um in dieser Auseinandersetzung tiefer zu sich selbst zu kommen. Diese philosophische Autobiographie gliedert sich nach den vier Lebensetappen: Kindheit, Jugend, berufliche Aktivität, Seniorenalter. Den Band beschließt eine Skizze der Grundzüge der Philosophie des Autors, zu der die vorausgegangene Lebensdarstellung einen existentiellen Zugang ermöglicht; umgekehrt gewinnt so die Aussage des Lebens eine philosophische Fundierung. Das Buch leistet von einer neuen Seite her ¿ einer philosophisch reflektierten Lebenserfahrung ¿ einen aktuellen Beitrag zur geistigen Auseinandersetzung. Es vermittelt zugleich eine Ermutigung zum Wagnis menschlicher «Ek-sistenz».Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 163 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Publius Quinctilius Varus ging aufgrund seiner Niederlage im Teutoburger Wald als Versager in die Geschichte ein. Bei den antiken Historiografen wird das Bestreben sichtbar, einen Schuldigen für die Katastrophe finden zu wollen. Indem sie Varus zum Sündenbock erklärten, versuchten sie, den Misserfolg des mächtigen Imperiums gegen die germanischen Stämme erklärbar zu machen. Von Velleius Paterculus zu einem inkompetenten, habsüchtigen Beamten degradiert, diente Varus den Humanisten als Verkörperung der römischen Kirche und den deutschen Gelehrten des 19. Jahrhunderts als Sinnbild der französischen Besatzungsmacht. Obwohl heute Historiker, wie Dieter Timpe oder Klaus-Peter Johne, eine weitgehend objektive Bewertung des Feldherrn bieten, bleibt er in den Augen der Nachwelt ein Verlierer. 136 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Die Studie beleuchtet das politische Engagement der hohen böhmischen Aristokratie während der ersten Jahre nach der Entstehung konstitutioneller Parlamente in der Habsburgermonarchie. Auf der Basis von Tagebüchern, Korrespondenzen, politischer Publizistik und den Protokollen der Verhandlungen von Landtag und Reichsrat wird untersucht, welche Strategien adlige Politiker entwickelten, um ihre Interessen zu behaupten und eine aristokratische Identität zu bewahren.So werden die Positionen der Aristokraten in nationalen Auseinandersetzungen und Verfassungskonflikten, ihr Verhalten in Wahlkämpfen, ihr Umgang mit der Presse sowie ihre Taktiken in Debatten und Abstimmungen thematisiert. Das Spannungsfeld zwischen der Anpassung an neue Spielregeln im Feld der Politik und dem Festhalten an vertrauten Handlungsweisen steht dabei im Mittelpunkt. Indem politik- und kulturgeschichtliche Fragestellungen miteinander verknüpft werden, gelingt es, neue Perspektiven auf die Geschichte Böhmens und den Elitenwandel im Europa des 19. Jahrhunderts zu gewinnen.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 346 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2013.With germinal texts, new writings, and related art, Sexualities in Education: A Reader illuminates a broad scope of analysis and organization. Composed of a framing essay and nine sections edited by established and emerging scholars and addressing critical topics for researchers and students of sexualities and education, the text provides a timely overview of sexualities considered through a variety of educational lenses and theoretical frameworks. Threads woven throughout include visual, literary, and performing arts; youth perspectives; and an emphasis on justice work in education. The volume provides entry points for students and practitioners at a range of levels. Research-based articles, essays, interviews, poetry and ready-to-reproduce visual materials from the Americas, Europe, and Asia are linked to a resource section to facilitate deep learning, on-going investigation, and informed action.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 448 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Since the end of the Cold War, the consolidation of peace and security in south-eastern Europe has been one of the most complex and troublesome issues facing the international community. The sequence of conflicts in the Balkans has resulted in serious loss of life, economic collapse, and a number of controversial interventions, leading contemporary scholars to reconsider old perceptions about violent ethnic conflict. Drawing on a wealth of theoretical and empirical sources, this book tackles some of the prevailing questions on the root causes and management of ethnic conflict. Under what conditions do ethnic minorities become violent How credible are the theories of «relative deprivation» and «greed» in explaining the outbreak of conflict Is the use of coercive diplomacy a superior alternative to direct military forms of intervention This book provides an analytical account of the socio-economic roots of ethnic conflict, the opportunities for violent mobilization and the success of strategic coercion in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and it also examines related developments in Kosovo and the Balkans.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 282 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Intertextual Dialogue with the Victorian Past in the Contemporary Novel examines the revival of the Victorian age in several novels representative of the prominent neo-Victorian (or Victorianist) trend in recent English fiction. The aim of this book is to categorise the new genre by using concepts derived from the theory of intertextuality. The novels selected for analysis are predicated on the interaction of contemporary and Victorian texts. First, the book charts the evolution of attitudes to the Victorian age and investigates possible reasons for the current creative engagement with Victorianism. In the second part it offers a schema for the classification of Victorianist fiction, whereas it finally presents detailed analyses of the chosen novels. 268 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The Mexican Crisis of 1994/5 was the first financial crisis that spilled over into the real sector. This thesis explores three unconventional research strands. The first is the assessment of the Mexican trade structure to evaluate possible impulses from the real to the monetary sector, which can be discarded. However, a structural weakness, an export structure based largely on pre-imported inputs (and oil) contributes significantly to current account deficits. The second is the triggering role of domestic investors, and not foreign capitals, in the financial stampede that elicited the crisis. The last strand highlights the role of OTC financial derivatives and the thereof resulting «synthetic capital flows», which reached in Mexico 4.9% of GDP in 1994. These transactions were crucial to underpin currency appreciation, to the development of a credit boom and external imbalances and finally determined the emergence of the crisis. 242 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This study aims at contributing to the international marketing debate by investigating the issue of standardisation based on the experiences of German firms operating in the US market. The sample was chosen on the basis of research indicating that studies on German firms operating in the US market are rare. Their experiences can provide useful insights as to how companies in this large market can successfully operate. Therefore, the main objective of this research is to examine the degree of marketing standardisation which the studied firms employed in the US market, and to identify the factors of significant impact on the selection of a standardised marketing strategy as experienced by German firms operating in the US in order to provide implications for companies seeking to enter this market. Finally, through statistical analyses it was examined which internal and external environmental factors are key in standardising or adapting the particular elements to a certain degree to achieve an impact on performance. 220 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -In the enterprise software industry, large platform vendors have established partner networks with smaller providers of complementary solutions. This study takes the perspective of these complementors. How do they coordinate their partnerships with platform vendors What are the circumstances under which different coordination mechanisms lead to partnership success Based on existing theories and the findings from extensive qualitative research, a new explanatory model is developed. The study contributes to theory building efforts in the Information Systems discipline as well as in adjacent fields by providing a better understanding of partnership coordination and success. The implications for successful partnership management are highly relevant for practitioners. 260 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book contains discussions of a broad range of issues of the relation between language and cognition, inspired mainly by recent developments in Cognitive Linguistics. The individual texts discuss, from various perspectives, conceptual strategies, verbal memory, syntax, semantics, linguistic segmentation, non-verbal communication, linguistic categorization, language learning, speech disorders, as well as applications of Cognitive Linguistics to the study of literature. The volume is a fresh contribution to the growing body of research in Cognitive Linguistics and the study of various cognitive processes in language. 270 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book presents essential learning approaches. It introduces educational and training activities, as well as various innovative methods aiming at the development of practical skills, in order to strengthen the continuous process of environmental education, and in particular the education for sustainable development (ESD). In doing so, it focuses on three dimensions (social, economic and environmental) as a means of achieving an effective change of behaviour and «tries to bridge the gap between science and environmental education by describing a set of projects, initiatives and field activities». A special emphasis is put on teacher training programmes, conception, and implementation, highlighting the problems and barriers, which prevent development as far as integration of sustainability issues in higher education is concerned. 434 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The (Dis)information Age challenges prevailing notions about the impact of new information and media technologies. The widespread acceptance of ideas about the socially transformative power of these technologies demands a close and critical interrogation. The technologies of the information revolution, often perceived as harbingers of social transformation, may more appropriately be viewed as tools, capable of positive and negative uses. This book encourages a more rational and even skeptical approach to the claims of the information revolution and demonstrates that, despite a wealth of information, ignorance persists and even thrives. As the volume of information available to us increases, our ability to process and evaluate that information diminishes, rendering us, at times, less informed. Despite the assumed globalization potential of new information technologies, users of global media such as the World Wide Web and Facebook tend to cluster locally around their own communities of interest and even around traditional communities of geography, nationalism, and heritage. Thus new media technologies may contribute to ignorance about various «others» and, in this and many other ways, contribute to the persistence of ignorance.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Der Arzthaftungsprozess wird von spezifischen Beweisnöten geprägt, die für beide Parteien bestehen. Daher kommt der Beweislastverteilung eine große Bedeutung zu. Vor diesem Hintergrund zeigt die Autorin zunächst die von der Rechtsprechung entwickelten Beweislastsonderregelungen auf. Sodann geht sie der Frage nach, inwieweit die Rechtsprechungspraxis in Bezug auf die Beweislastsonderregelungen bei mangelhafter Befunderhebung und -sicherung durch zwei BGH-Entscheidungen aus dem Jahr 2004 beeinflusst wurde und wie sich diese Beweisfigur von anderen Beweislastsonderregelungen unterscheidet. Ferner wird die Beweisfigur bei mangelhaften medizinisch-technischen Geräten im Rahmen einer ärztlichen Untersuchung bzw. Behandlung untersucht. 160 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book begins with a survey of R. F. Delderfield¿s knowledge of Napoleonic history as revealed in his three Napoleonic-era novels. Two commentaries follow: the first on English attitudes and actions in a London suburb during the Interbellum (1918-1939) in his novels The Dreaming Suburb and The Avenue Goes to War, and the second on his Craddock trilogy, set in Devonshire, dramatizing the English experience from the Boer War until the late 1960s. 324 pp. Englisch.