peter lang jan 2019 (222 resultados)

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This edited collection of essays aims to acquaint the reader with different aspects of the contemporary philosophy. The contributors to this book provide a genuinely scholarly basis for the understanding of the philosophical issues on epistemology, ethics and political philosophy. Each author provides an in-depth analysis of various aspects of the problems, such as democracy, ground of the law, epistemology of ignorance, public and private sphere distinction. 144 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Imagined interactions (IIs) can be used as a type of self-therapy when dealing with stress and trauma. We often have IIs in terms of flashbacks as portrayed in movies. It is hoped that this volume will inspire some people to use IIs as a type of self-therapy and to realize that having IIs in everyday life is a normal part of daydreaming and mental imagery. IIs can be used productively as well as dysfunctionally. Hence, it is up to the individual to decide how they use IIs to deal with stress and trauma. Benefits of IIs include helping people rehearse strategies, reduce primary tension (which occurs before or at the beginning of interactions), and gain others' viewpoints. Even though, you can think positively or negatively, thinking positively may be easier said than done. Human survival and mental health require a balance between optimism and pessimism. Individuals gain more self-understanding by thinking about interactions. It is a process called self-perception that clarifies feelings about people and topics. IIs can improve mood by reducing tensions through the catharsis function. They help us understand our beliefs. The book is divided into three sections. Section 1 discusses how IIs can deal with teasing, bullying, abuse, and conflict. Section 2 covers physical, emotional, and material loss. Section 3 is concerned with policy concerns including hurricane evacuations, environmental concerns, police encounters, and presidential politics. 200 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Humour claims no ideological affiliation ¿ its workings merit inspection in any and every individual case, in light of the who, what, where and when of a joke, including the manner of performance, the socio-cultural context, the dynamic amongst participants, and who knows how many other factors particular to the instance. There are as many insights to be gained from the deployment of humour in performance as people to think about it ¿ so herein lie a healthy handful of responses from a variety of perspectives.For the Sake of Sanity: Doing things with humour in Irish performance assembles a range of essays from practitioners, academics, and journalists, all of whom address the attempt to make an audience laugh in various Irish contexts over the past century. With a general emphasis on theatre, the collection also includes essays on film, television and stand-up comedy for those insights into practice, society and culture revealed uniquely through instances of humour in performance.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 244 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Thomas Kilroy¿s long and distinguished career is celebrated in this volume by new essays, panel discussions and an interview, reconsidering the work of one of Ireland¿s most intellectually ambitious and technically imaginative playwrights. Contributors are drawn from both the academic and theatrical spheres, and include Nicholas Grene, Wayne Jordan, Patrick Mason, Christopher Murray and Lynne Parker. This volume follows Kilroy¿s own practice of connecting the creative and the critical, and publishes for the first time an extract from his play «Blake». Illustrated with photographs from major productions, this book also reproduces previously unseen materials from the Thomas Kilroy Collection held in the James Hardiman Library, NUI Galway.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 138 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The year 2009 was the centenary of the death of John Millington Synge, one of the world¿s great dramatists. To mark the occasion, this book gathers essays by leading scholars of Irish drama, aiming to explore the writers and movements that shaped Synge, and to consider his enduring legacies. Essays discuss Synge¿s work in its Irish, European and world contexts ¿ showing his engagement not just with the Irish literary revival but with European politics and culture too. The book also explores Synge¿s influence on later writers: Irish dramatists such as Brian Friel, Tom Murphy and Marina Carr, as well as international writers like Mustapha Matura and Erisa Kironde. It also considers Synge¿s place in Ireland today, revealing how The Playboy of the Western World has helped to shape Ireland¿s responses to globalisation and multiculturalism, in celebrated productions by the Abbey Theatre, Druid theatre, and Pan Pan theatre company.Contributors include Ann Saddlemyer, Ben Levitas, Mary Burke, Paige Reynolds, Eilís Ní Dhuibhne, Mark Phelan, Shaun Richards, Ondvrej Piln¿y, Richard Pine, Alexandra Poulain, Emilie Pine, Melissa Sihra, Sara Keating, Bisi Adigun, Adrian Frazier and Anthony Roche.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 344 pp. Englisch.

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Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Después de más de cinco décadas de conflicto social y armado, el gobierno de Colombia y las FARC firmaron en noviembre del año 2016 un acuerdo para poner fin a la confrontación militar que causó casi seis millones de víctimas. Este proceso de paz reúne a muchas organizaciones y personas que han experimentado el conflicto de diferentes maneras y quieren contribuir a su fin. Con el multifacético posconflicto, comienza la fase frágil de la consolidación. Las actas del Simposio de Frankfurt presentan este proceso a nivel transnacional en diálogo germano-colombiano. Desde perspectivas interdisciplinares personajes renombrados de Colombia y Alemania, en su mayoría participantes en el proceso de paz, analizan los siguientes aspectos transversales del (pos)conflicto: las negociaciones de paz, la genealogía, los actores y las víctimas; la construcción de la memoria histórica y la memoria colectiva, la justicia transicional, la pobreza y la desigualdad social como causas principales de la guerra; las iniciativas de la sociedad civil, la migración y la memoria, así como el papel social de la literatura y el cine. 276 pp. Spanisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Este libro reúne un conjunto de análisis críticos sobre novelas latinoamericanas pertenecientes a diferentes autores, publicadas en la primera y segunda décadas del siglo XXI. El objetivo del estudio consiste en mostrar, entre distintos tipos, la existencia de lazos temáticos, disimilitudes morfológicas y diferencias en cuanto a la naturaleza estructural y formas discursivas. Si bien los estudiosos de la nueva narrativa latinoamericana han investigado sobre el género novela y las variadas clases con sus marcados rasgos distintivos, pero, también con sus fronteras difusas, esta recopilación de ensayos viene a dar cuenta del fenómeno de la hibridez textual y del diálogo temático que contribuyen a desdibujar los límites, en principios rígidos, según los cuales, los textos han sido clasificados. El análisis de los textos se hace desde un locus que privilegia lo espacial y emplaza a personajes que deambulan por escenarios cuyos topónimos remiten a París, Caracas, Cartagena de Indias, México y Bogotá. 164 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Since its foundation in 1991, Blue Raincoat Theatre Company is Ireland's only full-time venue-based professional theatre ensemble and has become renowned for its movement, visual and aural proficiencies and precision. This book explores those signatures from a number of vantage points, conveying the complex challenges faced by Blue Raincoat as they respond to changing aesthetic and economic circumstances. Particular consideration is given to set, costume, sound and lighting design.Influenced and informed by renowned international theatre makers such as Étienne Decroux, Jacques Copeau, Roy Hart and Anne Bogart, Blue Raincoat productions are generally non-natural in their sensibility, with a few notable exceptions. Productions such as the stage adaptations of Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman, At Swim Two Birds and The Poor Mouth, Samuel Beckett's Endgame and Eugène Ionesco's The Chairs speak to the artifice of the theatre itself, where actors and designers work collaboratively to reveal the function of the performance. W.B. Yeats's one act ritual dramas demand physical, vocal and technical rigour and flexibility. This book explores the marvellously textured and complex nature of Blue Raincoat's work, revealing the magic that results from their unique style of theatre making.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 208 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Throughout the twentieth century, Irish theatre was fully engaged with the pressing questions of independence - how to achieve it, and how the gap between what was desired and what was settled for might be addressed. In Because We Are Poor, Victor Merriman reads Ireland's postcoloniality as a state of critical desire for a postponed project of decolonization in Independent Ireland. He develops insights from Awam Amkpa, Luke Gibbons, Peadar Kirby, Joe Lee, David Lloyd and others to argue that Irish theatre is staged in a neo-colonial social order, dominated by economic analyses and public policies designed to secure the position of indigenous elites, usually at the expense of the majority of Irish people. Theatre emerges as a key site in which the contradictions arising from frustrated but enduring desires are embodied, enacted and enabled. During the 1990s, the state's monopoly on public discourse in Independent Ireland comes under severe pressure, with hitherto marginal concerns appropriating public space and demanding to be heard. Irish theatre responds to the range and diversity of those voices, to the extent that the Review of Theatre in Ireland (1995-1996) envisages a National Theatre in dialogue with a Theatre of the Nation. The expanded theatrical activity of the 1990s is the focus of Because We Are Poor, and the author's intimate involvement in that moment, as scholar, practitioner, and policy-maker makes the analysis offered here especially compelling. This book brings together concerns which the author has worked to articulate in Irish theatre criticism. It critiques contemporary appropriations of the postcolonial, or post-colonial, among scholars of Irish drama, and proposes a nuanced postcolonial critical practice, challenging critical vocabularies applied to Irish drama. The book addresses the role, crises and potential of Irish theatre, as the cultural and political consequences of globalization manifest themselves.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 280 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Normative democratic theory does not lie securely above societal argumentation but is rather part of it. We need to know not just how the public should ideally reason, but how it actually does or could in better foreseeable circumstances. For the health and the necessary extension of democracy, given general societal and cosmopolitan challenges, fundamentally depends on the reasoning capacities of publics. The concept of the public sphere is intrinsic to understanding this process, but it has long been limited by its division into the twin approaches of normative argumentation in democratic theory and empirical-theoretical application in the social sciences. This book aims to go beyond this entrenched divide to show how democratic theory can become empirically applicable and the social sciences normatively relevant. It does this by linking democratic theory to the theory of society and relating both to a cognitive-communicative account of public culture. The book contributes significantly to exchanges within and between sociology, philosophy, cultural and communication studies, political science, and cognate disciplines. It also addresses a long-established concern of critical theory to combine empirical and normative perspectives to advance the goal of a better society.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 522 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Moving Sounds explores the unique animating symbiosis that develops whenever previously unrelated technologies become intertwined and form a mutually invigorating relationship. When 'car' and 'radio' became permanently inculcated, it changed how both cars and radio were designed and experienced. Moving Sounds is the first book-length study exploring the relationship between the car and the radio. While much scholarship has been devoted to the general history of radio, radiös unique relationship with the open road has been largely overlooked. The nascent interconnectivity between the early car and radio developers, and what they did to help each other, is another aspect of cultural history that is explored in Moving Sounds.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 204 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Previous critics have documented the damaging effects of the current exploitative sporting and education structures in the United States on Black males and the broader Black community. However, largely missing from scholarly literature and popular discourses on this topic is a comprehensive analysis of the heterogeneity among Black male athletes¿ lived experiences and outcomes over their lifespans. From Exploitation Back to Empowerment: Black Male Holistic (Under)Development Through Sport and (Mis)Education by Joseph N. Cooper addresses three major issues: (1) the under theorization of Black male athletes¿ socialization processes, (2) the preponderance of deficit-based theories on Black male athletes, and (3) the lack of expansive analyses of Black male athletes from diverse backgrounds. Grounded in empirical research, this text outlines five socialization models of Black male holistic (under)development through sport and (mis)education. The five socialization models include: (a) illusion of singular success model (ISSM), (b) elite athlete lottery model (EALM), (c) transition recovery model (TRM), (d) purposeful participation for expansive personal growth model (P2EPGM), and (e) holistic empowerment model (HEM). Using ecological, race-based, gender-based, psychological, and athletic-based theories, each of the proposed models incorporates critical sociological insights whereby multi-level system factors (sub, chrono, macro, exo, meso, and micro) along with various intersecting identities and additional background characteristics are taken into account. In addition, historical, sociocultural, political, and economic conditions are examined in relation to their influence on Black males¿ socialization in and through sport and (mis)education. This nuanced analysis allows for the development of a systematic blueprint for Black male athletes¿ holistic development and more importantly collective racial and cultural uplift.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 354 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Los verbos sintagmáticos italianos son una categoría que goza de una notable productividad en italiano, mientras que en español este tipo de construcciones son poco frecuentes y presentan características menos homogéneas. Tras ofrecer una revisión pormenorizada de los principales estudios ya realizados sobre el tema, esta obra ofrece un análisis exhaustivo, tanto cuantitativo como cualitativo, de los verbos de este tipo, a partir de un extenso corpus paralelo de 21 obras literarias italianas con sus correspondientes traducciones españolas. Mediante un enfoque contrastivo se presta atención a los mecanismos lingüísticos empleados en las traducciones para trasladar al español los verbos sintagmáticos italianos, a su frecuencia y a los errores de traducción más comunes. 302 pp. Spanisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Das Anliegen des Werks ist es, die kulturübergreifende Bedeutung der Aristotelischen Philosophie in der islamisch-arabischen Kultur nachzuweisen. Die arabische Sprache ist nicht nur die Sprache des Koran, sondern sie ist auch die universale Sprache der Wissenschaft und Philosophie. Und es waren die arabisch schreibenden Autoren des Mittelalters, welche nicht nur die Aristotelischen Schriften ins Abendland überlieferten, aber auch in ihren Kommentaren weiterentwickelten. Das gilt sowohl für die naturwissenschaftlichen als auch für seine philosophischen Werke des Aristoteles, vor allem für seine Logik und Erkenntnistheorie. 108 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Wajdi Mouawad occupe une place centrale dans la production théâtrale contemporaine. Sa personnalité a su s¿imposer dans le panorama international, à la fois par la portée foncièrement poétique qui inspire ses pièces, par la hardiesse de ses expérimentations dramaturgiques et stylistiques, et par la saisissante actualité des thèmes dont il traite.Articulé en six essais, portant sur différents aspects de la production théâtrale et romanesque de l¿écrivain libano-franco-québécois, le présent volume constitue une contribution originale à la connaissance de cet auteur, à travers la prise en compte des thèmes majeurs qui émergent de son ¿uvre, encore en train de se construire.Parmi ceux-là, l¿attention portée à la rencontre avec l¿Autre est sans aucun doute capitale dans la vision anthropologique de Mouawad, qui a su la décliner aux niveaux dramaturgique et stylistique, dans un souci de cohérence permanente et totale. Il réalise ainsi ce dialogue entre ethnies, races et cultures diverses qui constitue le fondement d¿un humanisme nouveau.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 188 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Information and communication technology (ICT) has boosted economic development in China. To understand Chinäs modernization, it is therefore necessary to consider the development of ICT. The book reflects how a catch¿up country with a fast modernization process develops into a relatively modern country and the consequences of the fast development. It focuses on the development of media in China by examining the diffusion of ICT and providing a case study in an indigenous place to explore the modernization process. The book offers a new perspective to understand modernization and contributes knowledge to understand Chinäs media, technology diffusion, indigenous culture transformation into modern culture and social changes.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Celebrity and Youth: Mediated Audiences, Fame Aspirations, and Identity Formation makes an examination of contemporary celebrity culture with an emphasis on how young celebrities are manufactured, how fan communities are cultivated, and how young audiences consume and aspire to fame. This book foregrounds considerations of diversity within celebrity and fan cultures, and takes an international perspective on the production of stardom. Chapters include interviews with professional athletes in the United States about their experiences with stardom after coming out as gay, and interviews with young people in Europe about their consumption of celebrity and aspirations of achieving fame via social media. Other chapters include interviews with young Canadian women that illuminate the potential influence of famous feminists on audience political engagement, and critical analysis of media narratives about race, happiness, cultural appropriation, and popular feminisms. The current anthology brings together scholarship from Canada, the United States, Spain, and Portugal to demonstrate the pervasive reach of global celebrity, as well as the commonality of youth experiences with celebrity in diverse cultural settings.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 244 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Las transiciones democráticas en la península ibérica y el Cono Sur durante las décadas de 1970 y 1980 forman una gran parte de las memorias colectivas en ambos lados del Atlántico. Sin embargo, estas memorias no son sólo nacionales, sino que confluyen en un espacio memorialístico transnacional, que invita a miradas transatlánticas desde España y desde el Cono Sur. El presente libro ofrece una comparación de estas dos regiones y describe la emergencia de un espacio transatlántico de memoria, con sus dinámicas artísticas y discursivas. Como el tema de la memoria es un campo intrínsecamente transdisciplinar, los estudios reúnen aspectos historiográficos, político-jurídicos, la creación literario-artística y fílmica, así como también las prácticas culturales y lingüístico-discursivas.Peter Lang Group AG Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaft, Place de la gare 12, 1003 LAUSANNE 362 pp. Spanisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Las actuales dinámicas lingüístico-culturales de las sociedades andinas se caracterizan por corrientes parcialmente contradictorias. Por un lado, diversas formas de expresión circulan en un 'hiperespacio global', por otro se enfatiza lo local que se manifiesta en una creciente conciencia emancipadora de la propia identidad andina. El volumen reúne estudios de distintos enfoques bajo el concepto cultural turn en los que se intenta comprender, analizar y valorar esta acelerada dinámica lingüístico-cultural. El compromiso especial de las editoras es presentar no solo el análisis de las lenguas y las culturas de la región andina, sino también contribuciones escritas en lengua quechua con traducción española. Esto es un comienzo y una aventura con el fin de estimular la comunicación inter y transcultural. 374 pp. Spanisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Este libro forma parte de un proyecto de refundación conceptual del pensamiento en América latina y que ha sido realizado en cuatro partes. La cuestión periférica. Heidegger, Derrida, Europa (en prensa) es la primera parte en donde se establecen las cuestiones y problemáticas básicas. El fin de la naturaleza. Fallo y propósito en la especulación. Antropología de la naturaleza en la periferia (en prensa) es la segunda parte en donde dichas problemáticas básicas son reformuladas en términos de porvenir. El presente volumen, tercera parte del conjunto, es el desarrollo y expansión argumentativa en términos de mundo de dicha base conceptual y problemática. Y, por último, El pensamiento basura. Transitoriedad, materia, viaje y mundo periférico (2017) constituye la cuarta entrega que explora, basándose en un leading case, los alcances de los precedentes planteos a partir de los significados que el concepto de especulación posee en los colectivos humanos contemporáneos de la periferia. El propósito de este proyecto, del cual además este libro es su ilustración más extensa y variada, es establecer las bases de la noción de ámbito periférico como ecología/ambiente epistémico indispensable a la reflexión intelectual. Y por lo mismo como forma de entendimiento de lo especulativo con lo biosférico.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 1044 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -In a time of great U.S. and global social unrest and unravelling, Systemic Collapse and Renewal presents a blueprint for how Americans can respond to that unrest by reclaiming and rebuilding our democracy. Part I of the book traces the deep, underlying sources of the disintegration and collapse. Through storytelling, case history, and ethnography, it examines how a small group of 'elites' used ethnic diversity resulting from global migration to the U.S. as a distraction while they implemented a planned, behind-closed-doors strategy to seize the democracy and ruin the middle class. With the former representative democracy hijacked by these moneyed interests, this book demonstrates that it remains quintessentially American to believe that there is always a way out, and that the encroaching acts of fascism by 'elites' can be pushed back and defeated. Tapping into this optimism, Part II of Systemic Collapse and Renewal sets forth a path for democratic rebirth. That path begins by examining that which was taken away: the shared meanings (cultural norms, beliefs, and behaviors) that are deeply American and can be re-taught, celebrated, and once again used by Americans to build social cohesion as a country. Part II also urges a new U.S. educational and social movement based on mutual reliance¿and on the healing of wounds¿for an increasingly diverse country. Democratic renewal begins with the simple step of sharing our stories and our dreams about how to make a better world.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 274 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -In this book the authors present and, more importantly, give their own assessment of judicial decisions interpreting the Criminal Code provisions currently in force on self-defence and the transgression of its limits. The authors have critically verified the empirical material of 88 Supreme Court, 194 Court of Appeal and 34 District Court decisions in which an adjudicating body ruled on the merits with reference to the components and functions of self-defence or the transgression of its limits. The ultimate aim of this study is to answer the question if the present wording of relevant provisions is optimal, especially as judicial decisions are dominated by certain interpretative directions of these provisions that have an overwhelming impact on positions taken by courts in matters of detail. The present study, therefore, will not only reflect on legal dogmatics, by analysing the law as it stands now and the way it works in practice, but will also attempt to suggest amendments to the law. 136 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book theoretically analyses the characteristics of (partner) collaboration and the relationship between the school and the community, emphasising the joint efforts they undertake to further the child¿s development and learning. The diversity of experiences that such cooperation offers benefits all partners. The second aspect presented in the book pertains to the findings of a quantitative and qualitative empirical research study on cooperation between primary schools and various partners in the community. Our research findings indicate a variety of intertwined forms of cooperation between the school, school counsellors, parents, individuals and institutions in the community. Examples of good practice suggest that it is possible to establish quality cooperation in many different ways. 196 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Das UNESCO Welterbe-Übereinkommen besitzt mit 193 Vertragsstaaten weite Akzeptanz und mit über 1.000 Welterbestätten große Popularität. In den letzten Jahren stiegen jedoch die Problemfälle in Welterbestätten und die Frage der rechtlichen Bindungswirkung rückt in den Mittelpunkt. Die Autorin des Buches geht dem auf den Grund: Sie stellt die Rechte und Pflichten der Vertragsstaaten überblicksmäßig dar und prüft insbesondere, ob eine Pflicht zum innerstaatlichen Schutz besteht und welche Rechtsqualität diese besitzt. Sie analysiert Verpflichtungsart und Verpflichtungsgrad, Schutzgegenstand und Schutzmaßnahmen. Dann beleuchtet sie die Umsetzung des Übereinkommens in Österreich, zieht Schlussfolgerungen hinsichtlich der auftretenden Konflikte und bietet einen Ausblick samt Lösungsansätzen. 140 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Erstmalig befasst sich eine Monographie in deutscher Sprache mit der spanischen Konkordatsehe. Das Werk erläutert nach einem historischen Überblick umfassend die rechtlichen Grundlagen der zivilen Wirkung von kanonischen Eheschließungen sowie die zivilen Anerkennungen von kanonischen Ehenichtigkeitsurteilen und -auflösungen (Exequatur) durch den spanischen Staat. Ausgangspunkt ist für das geltende Recht die Vereinbarung zwischen Staat und Kirche vom 3. Januar 1979 (Acuerdo sobre asuntos jurídicos). Aus dem Ineinandergreifen von zivilem und kirchlichem Ehe- und Prozessrecht ergeben sich zusätzliche Herausforderungen. Die Thematik ist auch für die anderen EU-Staaten von Bedeutung, die kirchliche Urteile, die der spanische Staat anerkennt, ebenfalls anzuerkennen haben. 130 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book investigates the nature and consequences of universal principles in four major grammar components, i.e. syntax, phonology, morphology and semantics. Language specific parameters are held responsible for the attested variation. The papers collected in this book analyse selected phenomena from English, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, and Polish, and shed new light on the interaction of universals and parameters in the structure of individual language systems. The generative framework is adopted as the theoretical model in the majority of contributions. 256 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The collection of articles chosen by the editors presents a broad variety of issues connected with Jewish languages (Judeo-Spanish, Yiddish) and co-territorial languages used by Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews in different places and periods. Thus, the book contains both strictly linguistic and sociolinguistic descriptions (including the aspects of evaluating language, language in contact or linguistic identity), the presentation of languages in literary works (and their translations) from different periods, as well as lexicographical and cultural observations. This thematic variety shows opportunities for the research into the languages of both Jewish groups and inspires other scientific projects in this field. 180 pp. Englisch, Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This edited collection explores ways to better understand the rhetorical workings of political executives, especially the United States president. Scholars of the presidency, rhetorical theorists and critics, and various authors examine the ways in which presidents use the institution, the media, and popular culture to instantiate, expand, and wield executive power.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 356 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book is the first to focus specifically on the highly original contribution to the field of Critical Pedagogy made by the sometimes «irritable» French philosopher Jacques Rancière. The book represents a significant addition to the growing body of work on Rancière as well as to the field of Critical Pedagogy. While introducing and contextualising Rancière for those unfamiliar with him, the book also develops an understanding of the singularity of his conception of pedagogy for those already acquainted with his work. Central to the book is Rancière¿s vision of education as a «practice of equality» ¿ a method grounded in an assumption of intellectual equality between students and teachers. Throughout the chapters of the book, the contemporary relevance of this vision is drawn out for educators in schools and universities, adult and popular educators, as well as for political activists. For anyone and everyone with an interest in teaching and learning, this book contains vital insights for the survival and development of education as a democratic, critical and emancipatory project.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 206 pp. Englisch.