peter lang jun 2020 (242 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Last year when Garry Hynes asked me to edit a book on Synge, I realised that a great seachange had taken place in relation to his work. Once, he would have been viewed by many readers and writers as an old-fashioned figure whose influence was harmful, whose stage-Irishness was not to be taken seriously. Now, he has become a fascinating and ambiguous genius, whose language is rich with wit and nuance and unpredictability. He worked, as Yeats said, with a living speech, and the way he worked, his ingenuity, his style, has come to mean a lot to contemporary writers. The gap between his own shyness, his quietness and the noise his characters make is a great example of the gap between the being who suffers and the mind which creates. Although he was mild-mannered, he had no respect for current pieties, and he made this part of the fierce and uncompromising energy of his plays. Also, his book on the Aran Islands, so careful, watchful, respectful, is understood by all of us to be a masterpiece. Thus it was not hard to approach writers to contribute a piece on Synge, to help produce a book as varied and unpredictable as Synge's own work. The brief was open ¿ use any form, any length, to pay homage to Synge, or argue with him, or conjure up the writer who has become our contemporary. It meant a lot that we were doing this for the Druid Synge Season ¿ when all six major plays will be presented in repertory for the first time ¿ because the Druid Synge productions over the past quarter century have, more than anything else, been responsible for our fresh understanding of Synge's genius.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 182 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -El Acuerdo de Paz suscrito por el gobierno colombiano y las FARC en diciembre de 2016 materializa los esfuerzos locales y transnacionales porque el 'género cuente' en la transición. Este libro enriquece el panorama académico reconstruyendo y reflexionando sobre lo que el género ha significado para la construcción de la transición, y sobre lo que la transición ha significado para la construcción del feminismo colombiano. Así, el libro hace tres aportes al debate sobre el género en la transición. En primer lugar, el libro proporciona datos recientes de lo que 'les ha pasado de verdad' a las mujeres en los procesos de investigación, reparación y judicialización de los crímenes de los que fueron víctimas. En segundo lugar, el libro aporta herramientas teóricas para pensar los desencuentros entre el discurso de la transición, o la transición deseada, y la realidad de la transición para las mujeres. Finalmente, el libro recupera la voz de las mujeres en estos procesos, tanto en cuanto constructoras de las negociaciones, como en cuanto contradictoras, narradoras y productoras. Una cosa es el fracaso de esquemas que finalmente no podemos reivindicar completamente como propios pues siempre representan compromisos entre distintos puntos de vista. Otra cosa distinta es que no estemos intentando transformar las realidades en las que vivimos. Este mismo libro es testimonio de las voces de las mujeres en la academia colombiana. Los equipos de violentólogos colombianos han tenido pocas mujeres en sus filas hasta ahora. Este es un libro escrito en su totalidad por mujeres académicas, profesoras de tiempo completo, trabajando en red para resignificar los relatos masculinos.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 324 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Two fundamental and underlying principles drive White Evolution. The first is that evolution means constant movement in the fight against the virus of White supremacy. If the virus is evolving rapidly, then our critical consciousness needs to evolve faster in order to outpace the supremacy. The second is that this evolution is not an individual act¿it must be done in community. The genetic makeup of human beings points to the necessity of interdependence. Growth and development do not lead to a solitary life so much as to being a dependable person rooted in community. The origin of White supremacy, on the other hand, is in reproducing uniformity and eradicating diversity. In an ecological framework, uniformity and monoculture is harmful to an ecosystem that needs diversity of thought, creativity, culture, perspective, history, and economy to survive. The White supremacy intended to 'preserve the race' has created an enduring system of violence against people of color and is simultaneously hurting the endurability of humanity in exchange for the immediate gains of supremacy.The book, White Evolution, recounts the historical movement toward supremacy and casts the possibility of a White evolution toward racial justice through collective critical consciousness. The constant struggle for racial consciousness has no arrival point. White consciousness will never be woke because there is no past tense and no plateau. When privilege and supremacy are akin to a constantly evolving and insidious virus (Whitefluenza), and the antidote is to outpace White evolution for supremacy with a White evolution for racial justice. This is not an individual task, but rather a systemic redesign and reconstruction of social systems and requiring the cultivation of a collective critical consciousness. White Evolution covers a great deal of historical detail and contemporary examples to explain and explore new possibilities for recognizing the importance of interdependence of humanity.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 208 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book explores the impact of neoliberal managerialism, framed by the language of bullshit, on higher education in Australia. The book explores the figured world of management, leadership and followership in seeking to understand the changes that have shaped a sector characterised by unacceptably high rates of bullying, disrespect, lack of trust, micromanagement and poor health and wellbeing. In a world context where post-truth rules, the role of the higher education sector in creating citizens unable (or unwilling) to deconstruct the post-truths to which they are exposed is foregrounded. Quality education, increasingly defined as that which transmits the values and ¿truths¿ of the privileged, has become a tool designed to create a compliant neoliberal citizenship willing to accept their allocated status in life. Critical thinking is discouraged despite bullshit words that parody its importance. University staff are de-professionalised, disrespected and disregarded and managers increasingly define themselves as ¿the university.¿ Democracy is dead. Do we join the chorus shouting 'long live the autocracy' or do we fight 206 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Mass communication theories were largely built when we had mass media audiences. The number of television, print, film or other forms of media audiences were largely finite, concentrating people on many of the same core content offerings, whether that be the nightly news or a popular television show. What happens when those audiences splinter The Rise and Fall of Mass Communication surveys the aftermath of exactly that, noting that very few modern media products have audiences above 1¿2% of the population at any one time. Advancing a new media balkanization theory, Benoit and Billings neither lament nor embrace the new media landscape, opting instead to pinpoint how we must consider mass communication theories and applications in an era of ubiquitous choice.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 184 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The digital revolution we are now entering as educators is an unchartered sea pregnant with wondrous possibilities but laden with a minefield of unforeseen consequences. A pedagogy that overlooks or downplays the disruptive and often dangerous influence of digital media on childhood development is necessarily a very shortsighted one.More than just highlighting our misgivings about digital media, however, this book has a purpose far more ambitious and infinitely more useful. Based upon 45 years of work with young people in Jersey City classrooms, day camps, housing projects, libraries, church basements and community centers, the authors propose a pedagogical strategy that uses hands-on experiences in the arts as a strategy to offset and counterbalance the dominance of digital media in the lives of children.Rather than call for the elimination of digital mediäclearly an impossibility even if it were desirable¿the authors maintain that children need to be exposed to non-digital, non-electronic experiences that cultivate alternative ways of thinking, feeling, and being in the world. In sum, the book does not call for an end to the digital, but outlines ways in which the arts and creative forms of play help to establish a balance in the education and socialization of children as we enter more deeply into the Digital Age.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 182 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -More than a book about Illich, this is a conversation with Illich¿s work as we enter the third decade of the 21st century, just under twenty years after his passing, and almost ¿fty years since his Deschooling Society was ¿rst published. As Illich is beati¿ed and demonised in equal measure, Educing Ivan Illich chooses to focus on the relationship between reform, contingency and disestablishment. As reform stands for a plurality of reiterations that seek effective forms of accordance, in our recognition of contingency we freely claim that even as we might recognize the presence of universality in how everything appears on a shared horizon, we are not denied the existence and dynamic reality of plural possibilities in their inherent contradictions. In this bargain of synchronicity, we ¿nd that disestablishing the rei¿ed universe by which we have, for so long, traded, staked and even lost our freedom and intelligence, is not just a desire but it becomes a must. Unlike other commentators of Illich¿s work, Baldacchino argues that what is radical about Illich is not a freestanding concept of deschooling but in how, in disestablishing social life, he exits the walls of the polis by upholding tradition as a disruptive force. In such light Illich¿s work is read in what remains overdue. Odd though it may sound, this is an urgent need for anyone interested in Illich¿s unique and irreplaceable contribution. To that end, Educing Ivan Illich has far more to offer than is usually expected from a commentary on someone else¿s work.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 198 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Cultural heritage and illicit trafficking in the Middle East are two key topics of our time. The book sheds light on both aspects, and identifies the need to democratize cultural heritage, by giving greater control to local communities. It also investigates the link between local hotbeds of conflict and violence in countries such as Syria and Iraq, as well as war economics, transnational criminal networks and the politics of deliberate destruction and theft of cultural heritage. Finally, the chapters analyze the impact of non-violent and violent non-state actors, fragile states, forced migration, environmental degradation, as well as how local and international institutions have reacted to the dramatic events which the region and its inhabitants have experienced in recent yearsBooks on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 174 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -La realidad lingüística del Perú se percibe a través de una coexistencia asimétrica entre la lengua hegemónica y las demás lenguas que prevalecen conforme a su estatus político, social y geográfico. Sin embargo en la región Cuzco el quechua es denotado por medio de un conjunto de sentimientos involucrados en un todo que convierte en una simbiosis la religión, el folclore y la tradición como parte de la identidad. En tal sentido la lengua quechua tiene presencia viva pero ambivalente en una sociedad compleja donde la identidad cultural se manifiesta en costumbres, creencias y prácticas sociales. Estas últimas constituyen una forma peculiar de fusionar e interpretar diversos conceptos de la sociedad andina. El contenido que nos presenta la autora trata de la hegemonía lingüística del castellano sobre el quechua cuzqueño. El libro es el resultado de una investigación analítica con enfoque en la lengua y sus múltiples expresiones en el plano subjetivo dentro del marco lingüístico. 264 pp. Spanisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Este libro aborda la producción cultural en España y Latinoamérica en los años noventa del siglo XX, desde una variedad de perspectivas históricas y metodológicas. Este es un periodo decisivo para discernir la configuración socio-histórica contemporánea dado que el mundo en que vivimos es, en gran parte, heredero de los cambios que se produjeron durante esta década.El volumen se divide en tres partes. La primera, ¿Flujos transnacionales de producción, representación y consumö, explora una serie de conexiones entre el audiovisual europeo y el latinoamericano; la segunda, ¿Cine comercial, independiente y documental: teoría y praxis¿, estudia diferentes aspectos del panorama cinematográfico español; la tercera, ¿Televisión, música y cultura popular¿, aborda cambios sustanciales en diversos ámbi-tos culturales en España y Brasil, y analiza una serie de artefactos contemporáneos que reevalúan los años noventa 304 pp. Spanisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Se recogen en esta monografía quince contribuciones acordes con el título del volumen: Estudios de literatura y traducción: Teoría y práctica. Preside el libro un Prólogo de los editores, en el que se explica con precisión y brevedad tanto la importancia como el contenido de la obra. Las colaboraciones se han repartido en dos apartados: I Teoría (tres artículos) y II Práctica (doce apor-taciones). En la parte teórica se atiende a la compleja actividad lingüístico-semiótica, cognitiva y cultural de la traducción; al salto cultural en ocho nuevas traducciones de clásicos del teatro europeo de los siglos XVI y XVII; y al análisis de algunos paralelismos entre traducción y edición. Los doce artículos que conforman el apartado práctico brindan una óptica heterogénea y variada al lector interesado en los estudios de traducción. Hay análisis y traducciones de obras de autores ingleses, franceses, traducciones de obras españolas a otras lenguas; incluso análisis de versiones cinematográficas y traducciones literarias en publicaciones periódicas. El conjunto comprende una variada miscelánea sin otra intención académica que la de posibilitar y abrir nuevas orientaciones y líneas de trabajo a los jóvenes investigadores. 340 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -La formation des étudiants à l¿enseignement primaire de la lecture et de l¿écriture ne peut séparer les approches cognitives des approches linguistiques et littéraires, suivant la position de Dominique Bétrix, à qui ce volume rend hommage.L¿accent est mis sur la convocation de certains savoirs théoriques, sur la présentation de dispositifs didactiques éprouvés, ainsi que sur la description de situations de formation et celle de gestes professionnels à acquérir.Unir la tê te et le texte en situation de formation initiale au lire-é crire, c¿est ouvrir à une perspective professionnelle soucieuse de la vie mê me de la litté racie en contexte scolaire.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 242 pp. Französisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Do technologies advance our self-identities, as they do our bodies, cognitive skills, and the next developmental stage called postpersonal Did we already manage to be fully human, before becoming posthuman Are we doomed to disintegration and episodic selfhood This book examines the impact of radical technopoiesis on our selves from a multidisciplinary perspective, including the health humanities, phenomenology, the life sciences and humanoid AI (artificial intelligence) ethics. Surprisingly, our body representations show more plasticity than scholarly concepts and sociocultural narratives. Our embodied selves can withstand transplants, bionic prostheses and radical somatechnics, but to remain autonomous and authentic, our agential potentials must be strengthened ¿ and this is not through ¿psychosurgery¿ and the brain¿computer interface. 242 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Este libro comprende un análisis sociolingüístico del género gramatical a lo largo de dos siglos de historia de la lengua española. Se trata de un estudio diacrónico llevado a cabo sobre un corpus que se basó en publicaciones pe-riódicas de la opinión pública de los siglos XVIII y XIX, gracias a los hablantes de dicha época que nos dejaron testimonios explícitos e implícitos sobre el género gramatical y su estrecha relación con la categoría óntica «sexo» del espacio extralingüístico. Asimismo, en este trabajo se han descrito nuevos mecanismos teóricos y sociolingüístico-cognitivos con el objetivo de entender cuándo el hablante activaría en su conciencia los rasgos de sexo, esto es, cuándo, cómo y por qué se produciría la injerencia del sexo en el español hablado y escrito a través de estructuras gramaticales concretas. 356 pp. Spanisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -El Acuerdo de Paz suscrito por el gobierno colombiano y las FARC en diciembre de 2016 materializa los esfuerzos locales y transnacionales porque el 'género cuente' en la transición. Este libro enriquece el panorama académico reconstruyendo y reflexionando sobre lo que el género ha significado para la construcción de la transición, y sobre lo que la transición ha significado para la construcción del feminismo colombiano. Así, el libro hace tres aportes al debate sobre el género en la transición. En primer lugar, el libro proporciona datos recientes de lo que 'les ha pasado de verdad' a las mujeres en los procesos de investigación, reparación y judicialización de los crímenes de los que fueron víctimas. En segundo lugar, el libro aporta herramientas teóricas para pensar los desencuentros entre el discurso de la transición, o la transición deseada, y la realidad de la transición para las mujeres. Finalmente, el libro recupera la voz de las mujeres en estos procesos, tanto en cuanto constructoras de las negociaciones, como en cuanto contradictoras, narradoras y productoras. Una cosa es el fracaso de esquemas que finalmente no podemos reivindicar completamente como propios pues siempre representan compromisos entre distintos puntos de vista. Otra cosa distinta es que no estemos intentando transformar las realidades en las que vivimos. Este mismo libro es testimonio de las voces de las mujeres en la academia colombiana. Los equipos de violentólogos colombianos han tenido pocas mujeres en sus filas hasta ahora. Este es un libro escrito en su totalidad por mujeres académicas, profesoras de tiempo completo, trabajando en red para resignificar los relatos masculinos.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 324 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Since the invention of the telephone in 1876, publicity has been central to the growth of the industry. In its earliest years the Bell company enjoyed a patent monopoly, but after Alexander Graham Bell¿s patents expired, it had to ¿ght competitors, the public, and the U.S. government to maintain control of the telephone network. It used every means its executives could imagine, and that included constructing one of the earliest and most effective public relations programs of its time. This book analyzes the development of public relations at AT&T, starting with a previously forgotten publicist, William A. Hovey, and then including James D. Ellsworth and Arthur W. Page, who worked with other Bell executives to create a company where public relations permeated almost every aspect of work, leveraging employee programs, stock sales, and technological research for PR. Critics accused it of disseminating propaganda, but the desire to promote and protect the Bell monopoly propelled the creation of a corporate public relations program that also shaped the legal, political, media, and cultural landscape.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 254 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Over the last two decades, philosophers have been increasingly inclined to consider science fiction films as philosophical exercises that center on the nature of human consciousness and existence. Albert Camus¿ philosophy of the absurd, however, has almost never been employed as a constructive perspective that can reveal unexplored aspects of these films. This is surprising, since science fiction films seem to be packed with visions and dialogues that echo the Sisyphean universe.Cosmos and Camus endeavors to set foot in this uncharted terrain. Its first part introduces the main components of Camus¿ absurdity so that it can be easily applied to the analysis of the films later. Equipped with these Camusean essentials, the book delves into an indepth analysis of two first-encounter films (Contact and Arrival) and two A.I. films (A.I. and Her). These analyses yield more than an insightful reflection of the absurd contents in science fiction film. Indeed, imaginative collisions with nonhumans seem to tell us a lot about the nature of the absurd in the human condition, as well as raising the question of whether absurdity is exclusively a human matter. Ultimately, the interpretation of the films illuminates the films themselves just as much as it illuminates, challenges, and expands Camus¿ concept of absurdity.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 160 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The book presents a record of oral accounts given by liquidators who participated in minimizing the effects of the Chernobyl disaster. The main research goal was to present the circumstances of actions taken in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in 1986¿1988 from the perspective of direct participants of the events in question. The overall work is complemented with archival, press materials and other documentation never published before, as well as materials from the private archives of the survivors. The book presents the reality of the clean-up operations undertaken in the area of the catastrophe and shows the community of liquidators, their living conditions and everyday life in the Chernobyl Zone, as well as the reality in which Chernobyl veterans lived after returning to their homeland. 142 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Ambient intelligence and the profiling activities authorized by modern technologies oblige us to renew our legislation in different directions. Traditionally, data protection law considers only the relationship between data controllers and data subjects positioned as independent entities. However, in the ambient intelligence reality where profiling activities proliferate, enabled by more and more sophisticated software algorithms, their societal impacts have to be taken into consideration by legislative bodies. 212 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book focuses on Doris Lessing¿s social and political reappraisal of the family. It looks at how her fiction both critiques traditional patriarchal family structures and explores alternative and non-normative configurations of family. The continuation of traditional ideas about family suggests that Lessing¿s fiction remains meaningful and relevant today.Kinship Reimagined: Family in Doris Lessing¿s Fiction is a thoroughly researched, original and interesting contribution to both the study of Doris Lessing¿s work and the study of the family, as it is represented in twentieth-century fiction. Senturk¿s argument ¿ that Lessing¿s work develops from a critique of the family towards a resignification of it ¿ is clearly argued, well structured, and engaging to read.Susan Watkins, Professor in Cultural Studies and Humanities, Leeds Beckett University, UKSelcuk Senturk¿s monograph is a valuable contribution to the study of one of the twentieth century¿s most important authors. Senturk analyzes with great insight the ways that Doris Lessing first resisted, then reconsidered, and finally reimagined family roles and kinship structures, as well as gender norms, during her prolific career. In Senturk¿s work, the family emerges as not just a theme in Lessing¿s writings but a key critical concept for understanding their import. Drawing expertly on such current critical discourses as feminism and eco-criticism, Senturk makes clear the enduring relevance of Lessing¿s novels, showing how they continue to speak to the urgent problems of our time.Dr Cornelius Collins, Co-editor in Chief in Doris Lessing Studies, Fordham University, USA.Selcuk Senturk provides informed, systematic interpretation of the Western family across the corpus of Lessing¿s novels. This insightful, sustained analysis reaches original and revealing conclusions, especially concerning lesser studied works, such as Mara and Dann and The Sweetest Dream.Sandra Singer, Associate Professor in the Department of English and Theatre Studies, University of Guelph, CA 220 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Universities are pressed to compete within the global scene of international higher education. What is the status of the national or local language in higher education when the dominance of English in the academic world increases Universities have become an interesting field for research on sociolinguistic and language policy aspects. How can the global edge and the local function of universities be effectively combined This book combines case study contributions from countries within and outside Europe in order to underline the key language policy challenges universities around the world face in their attempt to remain nationally leading and interna-tionally competitive institutions. The grouping of different countries and contexts leads to the scrutiny of a variety of scopes that complement each other. 190 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The British context has been a controversial area for those involved in Irish literature and Irish studies. Behind the present volume lies a search for a view from which the frame of the British context as well as the dichotomy between British and Irish literature can be dismantled and disrupted in a most creative sense. It addresses the question of Irish literature¿s intrinsic openness by first focusing on the British context that affected Irish literary production through three centuries and then looking beyond it towards the European or global context that lay behind Irish modernism. The book further extends its research to modern Irish poetry and discusses three prominent poets after W.B. Yeats whose works are in and beyond the British context in each different way. Providing unique and new perspectives that have been evolved mostly from an international conference held in Kyoto, Japan, this collection attempts to reassess and explore the values of Irish literature in a global context.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 250 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book offers an interdisciplinary conversation on utopia clustered around cultural and communication practises in terms of political and ethical projects. It sheds light on cultural and discursive aspects characterising the polysemous concept of utopia conceived as an ongoing process that is put into practice in the present. Against this backdrop, the book raises questions for intellectual work, seeks out an enlightening breach in academic field boundaries, invites a revision of the forms of knowledge production, and encourages pedagogical actions for the development of critical thinking. 244 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book presents the results of the MIDA-project ¿ the impact of labour migra-tion from the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries to the Danish labour market. In addition, it includes chapters that focus on labour mobility in other EU countries. The project stems from collaboration between researchers from the former CoMID (the Research Center for the Study of Migration and Diversity) at Aalborg University and the Department of Occupational Medicine at the Regional Hospital West Jutland. 234 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book examines approaches and responses to working with the asylum-seeking, refugee and migrant communities in Ireland. Through their experiences, analyses and activist accounts, contributors name direct provision as a system that facilitates the marginalization and dehumanizing of people. In making visible some of the undocumented challenges to direct provision, the co-operation and engagement between local and migrant communities, and the very real and moving experiences of living in such conditions, this publication forms a part of the ongoing challenge to direct provision. It calls for a reconsideration of the infallibility of the reductionist-dominant narrative that reduces responsibility to care and protect human life, to narrow economic considerations, and calls on the State to recognize its duty of care in its fullest conceptualization. While analysing through the lens of care, the reductionist and repressive State policies and practices are revealed. Most emphasis is placed on the reactions and resilience of the asylum¿seeking community, through their numerous acts of resistance, supported by a significant cohort of friends and activists within and outwith the direct provision system. 498 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -From the beginning, kings ruled Rome; Lucius Brutus established freedom and the consulship. So wrote the Roman historian Tacitus in the second century AD, but the view was orthodox. It is still widely accepted today.But how could the Romans of later times have possibly known anything about the origins of Rome, the rule and subsequent expulsion of their kings or the creation of the Republic when all those events took place centuries before anyone wrote any account of them And just how useful are those later accounts, those few that happen to survive, when the Romans not only viewed the past in light of the present but also retold stories of past events in ways designed to meet contemporary needs This book attempts to assess what the Romans wrote about the early development of their state. While it may not, in the end, be possible to say very much about archaic Rome, it is certainly possible to draw conclusions about later political ideas and their influence on what the Romans said about their past, about the writing of history at Rome and about the role that stories of past events could play even centuries later.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 248 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -According to St Basil, the monk¿s whole life should be a season of prayer, both public prayer and private prayer. That is what the monks of Mount Athos are there to do. That is the basis of their entire way of life. Athos is sometimes called ¿the mountain of silence¿, but as one living Athonite has written, ¿here you can hear the hum of unceasing prayer.¿ The book explores all dimensions of this mystery, beginning with the deceptively simple question ¿what is prayer ¿ Subsequent papers consider various aspects of prayer as practised on Athos both in public and in private: the prayer of the church and the prayer of the cell, prayer when working, prayer when painting icons, the musical tradition of prayer and the poetic tradition, culminating in the Jesus Prayer or prayer of the heart which is the foundation of the current renewal of monasticism on Athos. Most of the papers in this book were delivered at a conference held by the Friends of Mount Athos in Cambridge in March 2019. 170 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book analyzes current security challenges in Asia (understood in its broader IndöPacific sense) with the aim of capturing the major shifts in the balance of power involving regional actors. Through the lenses of IR theory, this book seeks to provide insights into the consequences of the transition of power from the United States to China. The growing power of China and its impact on both neighboring countries and the international system as a whole, as well as its reception by the United States, have been of key importance to the development of security and international studies. By presenting the case studies of regional security challenges from a multidimensional perspective, this book analyzes both the stages of the maturity of powers and their satisfaction within the existing system. 228 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The book attempts to assess the role of three economic areas in creating power in international relations, i.e. energy sector, internationalization of currency and technologies with a military significance, which might potentially become ¿fuel for dominance¿ and an instrument to gain geopolitical advantages of great pow-ers. The book focuses on the policies of chosen countries (USA, China, Germany, and Russia) as well as the European Union in these three economic areas. The purpose is to research the manner and conditions in which the above-mentioned policies can cause the power to grow. 506 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The book investigates the effectiveness of long-term strategy training on how successfully and efficiently students listen to lectures and take notes. It is centered around a longitudinal study designed to measure to what extent a specially designed course allows 1st year undergraduate students to improve their academic skills. The research presented is grounded in theoretical perspectives on general listening comprehension, discourse processing, and teaching second language subskills. The book will be of interest to anyone interested in tertiary education and providing college and university students with courses useful in their academic performance. The readers might also gain insights into long-term research methodology of which the book gives a detailed account. 278 pp. Englisch.