peter lang jun 2021 (152 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Este libro ofrece una introducción a la diversidad lingüística del mundo hispano. Viajamos de manera virtual desde España a América para conocer los principales rasgos lingüísticos de cada región y país. En cada capítulo, el lector puede aprender sobre la pronunciación, la gramática, algunas palabras típicas y todo lo que hace, lingüísticamente hablando, diferente a cada país hispano. Generalmente, el español se ve como una sola entidad, destacándose mayormente el español de España, y olvidándose de la enorme riqueza lingüística que ofrece cada país y región hispana. Asimismo, en este libro introducimos algunos términos básicos del estudio de la variación lingüística, la dialectología y la sociolingüística.Además de la parte teórica, este libro incluye una variedad de ejercicios prácticos e información sobre recursos adicionales disponibles en la red. Está escrito en un español apropiado para hablantes de español intermedio alto, avanzado o superior (idealmente de tercer año de carrera en EE. UU.) y para aquellos con o sin conocimientos previos de lingüística.Este libro es el perfecto compañero de viaje a España o cualquier país de Hispanoamérica.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 212 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -La independencia de las Trece Colonias y la Revolución Francesa han ocupado un lugar privilegiado en el estudio de la Era de las revoluciones. Los nueve capítulos de este libro plantean colocar a la revolución liberal española, al liberalismo hispánico y a las independencias hispanoamericanas en un lugar destacado en el estudio de dicha era. Esto lo hace el autor mediante un análisis de varios aspectos políticos e intelectuales del mundo hispánico del primer cuarto del siglo XIX que muestran su riqueza, su peculiaridad, su complejidad y sus aportaciones a la historia de las ideas en Occidente. En resumen, el libro que el lector tiene en sus manos proporciona argumentos para concluir que no se puede seguir ignorando a las revoluciones hispánicas cuando se escribe historia política o historia intelectual sobre la Era de las revoluciones.Fuera de algunos especialistas, muy pocas personas saben que el término 'liberal' con una connotación política surgió en el mundo hispánico al final de la primera década del siglo XIX. Concretamente, en las Cortes de Cádiz, una asamblea de representantes españoles e hispanoamericanos que se reunieron en ese puerto español entre 1810 y 1814. Esa asamblea bi-continental y la constitución que elaboraron (la Constitución de Cádiz o Constitución de 1812) consideraron como ciudadanos a los indígenas de América y el documento era el más abierto que hasta entonces se había redactado en términos de participación electoral. Además, tuvo repercusiones sobre varias regiones italianas, Portugal, Rusia y Noruega, así como, por supuesto, sobre los territorios hispanoamericanos, los cuales pronto extendieron la revolución hispánica al Nuevo Continente y optaron por una vía propia hacia la modernidad política que surgió en Occidente durante la Era de las revoluciones.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 232 pp. Spanisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Cuba: realidades e imaginarios lingüísticos profundiza en las creencias, percepciones y actitudes de los hablantes cubanos sobre la lengua española. Estas se van tejiendo, por un lado, con postulados lingüísticos de diferentes disciplinas y, por otro, con el contexto histórico, político y social particular de la Cuba de las últimas décadas. Los datos en los que se basa el análisis se han tomado de los cuestionarios aplicados en la capital cubana como parte del proyecto panhispánico Linguistic Identity and Attitudes in Spanish-Speaking Latin America (Proyecto LIAS) y de la tesis doctoral 'Actitudes lingüísticas en el Caribe insular hispánico'. De ellos se derivan reflexiones encaminadas a descifrar y legitimar la subjetividad lingüística de los cubanos, comprender sus motivaciones y apuntar sus implicaciones en cuestiones de lengua e identidad. 184 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -2021 Bram Stoker Awards(R) Nominee for Superior Achievement in Non-FictionFrom the short story «The Lottery» to the masterworks The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson¿s popular, often bestselling works experimented with popular generic forms (melodrama, folktale, horror, the Gothic, and the Weird) to create a uniquely apocalyptic vision of America and its contradictions.With a Foreword by award-winning Jackson biographer Ruth Franklin, this collection features comprehensive critical engagement with Jackson¿s works, including those that have received less scholarly attention. Among these are the novels The Road Through the Wall, The Bird¿s Nest, and Hangsaman, as well as Jackson¿s historical study, The Witchcraft of Salem Village. Also included are essays on Jackson¿s darkly humorous collections Life Among the Savages and Raising Demons, on Stephen King¿s «literary friendship» with Jackson, on the little-known film adaptations Lizzie (1957) and Hosszú Alkony (Long Twilight) (1997), and the first-ever extended analysis devoted to Jackson¿s unpublished satirical cartoon sketches.The collection¿s five sections focus on Jackson¿s style, key themes, and influence; her politics and poetics of space; her treatment of the «monstrous» mother and monstrousness of motherhood; her representations of outsiders and minorities; and moving-image adaptations of her work. 346 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This publication focuses on the characterization of the Slovak party system and its analysis from the perspective of cleavages and emerging government groups. The monograph also includes a description of the individual types of emerging government coalitions and their politological analysis on the basis of the RILE index (right-left positioning). The said index is used to specify the programmatic differences of the emerging coalition governments and the impact of the development of the party system in Slovakia on their nature in the period from 1990 to 2012. The work is focused on the development trends of the Slovak party system on the background of programmatic heterogeneity of the individual coalition groups and the overall development of the variable tensions in the party system. The categorization of the government groups is based on the positional and programmatic orientation of the parties, which was published in the framework of the international database CMP (Comparative Manifestos Project). The Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) database processes, inter alia, the data relating to the political programs of the parties within the framework of their comprehensive ideological orientation. The Center for Social Research in Berlin thus contains relevant internationally acceptable comparisons of the party systems and their development. The aim of this publication is to characterize the format and type of the party system in Slovakia, its consolidation and the resulting operational problems between the election system and party system. The aim is also to extend the analysis of the Slovak party system to the specification of positional values and programmatic orientation of the parties in Slovakia based on the internationally accepted database and the RILE criteria. The publication also contains the tables with data on the proximity of variable tensions in the party system after each parliamentary elections and the relevant quantification on the RILE scale. The RILE scale will help us assess the programmatic heterogeneity of the government coalitions also in view of the political discourse on this issue. The work will also verify the hypothesis that the programmatic convergence of the parties in the left-right spectrum creates space for the emergence and establishment of extremist and antisystemic parties in the parliamentary establishment. 126 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -«Questo volume [¿] non si limita a descrivere, ma ricompone un quadro finora assente. I 37 capitoli che compongono questo volume-monstre dettagliano aspetti, figure, momenti spesso messi da parte nel dibattito.¿¿¿Attraverso i diversi capitoli il lettore percepisce la pervasività [dell¿industria] che si fa ideologema, le sue diverse realizzazioni e simbolizzazioni artistiche (cinematografiche e letterarie), e si rende conto che non si tratta solo di una «moda» o un momentaneo interesse dovuto a qualche intellettuale innamorato degli operai.»(Carlo Tirinanzi De Medici, University of Pisa, in SigMa 6 (2022))«Il libro rappresenta senza dubbio un¿indagine preziosa sulla rappresentazione del lavoro e dell¿industria nell¿Italia del dopoguerra. Molte sono le piste che esso ha il merito di aprire, così come le domande e le questioni che mette in gioco.»(Federico Pierotti, University of Picardie Jules Verne, in SigMa 6 (2022))«L'autorevolezza del volume risiede principalmente in tre ragioni: la cornice teorica chiara ma al tempo stesso originale; il contributo e l¿apporto dei maggiori esperti sul tema; la capacità di riflettere sulla letteratura industriale non solo a partire dalla cornice cronologica «classica» di questi saggi (che vanno grosso modo dall¿inizio del boom economico alla fine degli anni Settanta), ma inserendola in un discorso che porta ai giorni nostri rendendo così tale letteratura una specificità nel contesto letterario italiano.¿¿¿Un coraggioso tentativo di creare un canone letterario e cinematografico delle produzioni culturali industriali italiane.»(Daniele Comberieti, Paul Valéry University Montpellier 3, in Annali d¿Italianistica 40 (2022))«¿uno dei volumi più autorevoli sulla letteratura industriale.»(Daniele Comberieti, Paul Valéry University Montpellier 3, in Annali d¿Italianistica 40 (2022))This book explores the representation of industrial labor in Italian literature and film from the 1950s through the 1970s. The first article of the postwar Italian Constitution states that the Republic is founded on labor. Forces across the political spectrum, from Catholic to communist, invested labor with the power to build a new national community after Fascism and war. The 1950s-1970s saw dramatic transformations, in economic, social and cultural terms, as labor moved from agriculture to industry and a whole generation of Italian writers and filmmakers used literature and cinema to interpret ¿ and influence ¿ these changes and to capture the new experiences of industrial labor. The essays in this book offer a comprehensive panorama of this generation¿s work, examining key questions and texts, set against the context of history and theory, gender and class, geography and the environment, as well as their precursors and present-day successors.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 568 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -McLuhan in Reverse proposes two new and startling theses about Marshall McLuhan¿s body of work. The first argues that despite McLuhan¿s claim that he did not work from a theory, his body of work in fact constitutes a theory that Robert K. Logan calls his General Theory of Media (GToM). The second thesis is that McLuhan¿s GToM is characterized by a number of reversals, including his reversals of figure and ground, cause and effect, percepts and concepts; and the medium and its content as described in his famous one-liner 'the medium is the message.'While McLuhan¿s famous Laws of Media are part of his GToM, Logan has identified nine other elements of the GToM. They are his use of probes; figure/ground analysis; the idea that the medium is the message; the subliminal nature of ground or environment revealed only by the creation of an anti-environment; the reversal of cause and effect; the importance of percept over concept and hence a focus on the human sensorium and media as extensions of man; the division of communication into the oral, written, and electric ages along with the notions of acoustic and visual space; the notion of the global village; and finally, media as environments and hence media ecology.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 164 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Games enable children to practice emotions in spaces that are free from actualized consequences. With thoughtful guidance, games can help children manage emotions, perspective-take, demonstrate empathic concern, and exhibit prosocial behaviors.Emerging research suggests that these competencies¿also known as social and emotional learning (SEL) skills¿are, in fact, teachable. In Gaming SEL: Games as Transformational to Social and Emotional Learning, Matthew Farber investigates the rich opportunities games have in supporting SEL skill development. Experts from the fields of education, game development, and SEL¿including folks from CASEL, the Fred Rogers Center, Greater Good in Education, iThrive Games, Minecraft Education, and UNESCO MGIEP¿share advice.Games themselves cannot be responsible for children¿s learning. Having a supportive educator or caregiver guiding experiences can be crucial. This book also includes recommendations for embedding games in classrooms in ways that support meaningful SEL skill development. Regardless of your experience, content area, or grade level, this book is for you!Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 220 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -How do we think and imagine cultural and art institutions nowadays How they need to be transformed to meet the needs of the artists and professionals in the field This book examines the theoretical and practical tensions and questions related to cultural and art institutions in the context of North Macedonia and the wider region of former Yugoslavia. The author explores the needs in the art field of contemporary performing arts (post-dramatic theatre, dance, performance, choreography, etc.) and offers approaches to modelling and governing contemporary performing art institutions from the perspective of the independent cultural and art sector. The book proposes a post-modern cultural and art institution, or a co-institution, based on co-curation and shared leadership as opposed to the traditional or standard model of institution of arts and culture. The author offers an activist, self-organized and horizontal approach to governing, instead of vertical or top¿bottom, and modelling based on shared policies and a participative approach, instead of authoritarian partocratic policy-making.'Innovative and challenging analysis of the changing realities of the institutional cultural system. Conceptually sophisticated, compelling and with imaginative and ethically relevant solutions, this book is the timely response to the crucial issues in cultural management and cultural policy.' Milena Dragi¿evi¿ ¿e¿i¿, prof. emerita, University of Arts BelgradeBooks on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 226 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Esta monografía colectiva profundiza en las fórmulas de saludo y de despedida en diferentes lenguas románicas. Los dieciséis capítulos que constituyen el libro ofrecen novedosas aportaciones sobre el funcionamiento de estas unidades discursivas ¿en principio, rutinarias¿ en latín, español, friulano, francés, italiano y rumano desde varios puntos de vista: sincrónico, diacrónico, diatópico, diafásico y diastrático. Asimismo, se tiene en cuenta su aplicación a la enseñanza y al aprendizaje de las citadas lenguas romances como idiomas extranjeros.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 298 pp. Englisch, Französisch, Spanisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Memories contribute to the construction of the image or interpretation of the past and the present. This book focuses on the topic of memory in the Middle and Far East societies by highlighting non-European cases of practicing collective and historical memory.The Far East cases include the memory of the Japanese occupation of Korea, issues of Japanization policies within the Taiwanese society, the role of museums in Chinese patriotism, the issue of contemporary Japanese nationalists, and public memory evaluation in India.The Middle Eastern contexts concentrate on the impact of the Arab Spring, historical memory in the politics of Muslim movements and interpreting aspects of heritage. 142 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Security relations between Japan and its East Asia neighbors have been complicated for decades. Entering the third decade of the 21st century, Japan will have to face new security challenges posed by COVID-19 and manage its current relations with the United States, China and South Korea. Mitigating local and global security threats will be one of the most critical challenges for the future. This book focuses on internal and external factors that are influencing current Japanese security policy and analyses the security issues from numerous perspectives, including social issues and their effect on security policies, bilateral relations between Japan and its partners in Asia, and the significance of the U.S.-Japan Alliance. 196 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Este volumen pretende hacer visible el valor literario y cultural de la obra del escritor colombiano Fernando González Ochoa, sus méritos estéticos y la vigencia de su contribución a la literatura hispanoamericana. De manera especial, se aborda el estudio filológico de su creación desde diferentes perspectivas que recogen el análisis de la recensio en trece de sus obras, las cuales presentan todo tipo de inconsistencias y variantes en su historia de transmisión textual. Por lo tanto, es necesario revisar el devenir histórico de toda la obra de González para alcanzar una edición definitiva de la misma siguiendo los procedimientos conceptuales de la crítica textual y de la crítica genética, con el propósito de preservar la última voluntad del autor en el momento de la fijación textual del corpus y, de esta forma, contribuir con la realización de la edición crítica de su obra completa. 304 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Now that remote education has become mainstream, how can we best use mobile technology to promote learning How can we personalise our assessment of learning remotely This book explores these questions and more, considering strategies for using mobile devices for more personalised teaching. The proliferation of mobile technology provides a unique opportunity to enable a wider variety of learning and assessment opportunities for students to help them achieve learning outcomes. The research in this book indicates that students¿ proficiency with and awareness of the affordances presented by mobile technology for both learning and assessment outweigh that of educators, and this book seeks to redress this balance.Originally focused on two further and higher education colleges in Northern Ireland, the strategies for teaching and assessment presented here have wider generalisability for educators in any sector, whether that be in education or specialist training. 184 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Cet ouvrage étudie la programmation et la mise en ¿uvre de la politique de cohésion communautaire en Région Sicile en analysant particulièrement son volet culturel. Une approche au plus près du terrain, nourrie de nombreux entretiens réalisés de Bruxelles à Palerme, a mis à jour un cadre d¿intervention inopérant. Caractérisée par son extrême complexité, la politique de cohésion s¿articule difficilement avec la politique de développement des régions et pays concernés et sa mise en ¿uvre révèle de lourds dysfonctionnements. La culture est reconnue dans ce cadre pour sa contribution au développement du tourisme autour du patrimoine, pourtant cette vision centrée sur son impact économique est réductrice et trompeuse. Le principe du partenariat promu par cette politique suppose l¿implication des parties prenantes du territoire, or la Région Sicile mobilise la majorité des financements disponibles, au détriment d¿un secteur culturel qui reste globalement exclu. Enfin, la politique de cohésion apparaît comme un révélateur des crises politiques sicilienne et européenne : certains acteurs institutionnels insulaires privilégient l¿inertie, tandis que la faible réaction des institutions communautaires pourrait traduire l¿absence de volonté d¿¿uvrer pour une réelle cohésion européenne.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 234 pp. Französisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Este libro investiga las posibilidades de las mujeres latinoamericanas que participan en el festival dominicano e internacionalmente difundido 'Grito de Mujer', de confrontarse a través de sus versos con varios desafíos de las sociedades neocoloniales de hoy día. Intenta analizar este tipo de activismo poético, desde la perspectiva de los avances poscoloniales, feministas ¿o sea sociopolíticos¿ y de la crítica literaria. Así, la poesía resulta como lugar de enuncianción múltiple contra cada esfuerzo de subalter-nización ¿racismo, clasismo, (hetero)sexismo, etc.¿ y también como lugar de afirmación del sujeto que escribe. Es decir, se manifiesta como acto político, una poiesis que cuestiona las estructuras hegemónicas, sirviendo asimismo como lugar de encuentro plural (plaza) y diálogo incesante. 426 pp. Spanisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -La enseñanza moderna de masas se consolidó definitivamente en el siglo XIX. Los viejos sistemas de instrucción estaban desprestigiados. En este contexto, el sistema de enseñanza mutua, sistematizando la idea de que unos niños instruyeran a otros, emergió en Inglaterra hacia el 1800. La promesa de una enseñanza racional, barata y eficaz motivó a grupos influyentes en los cinco continentes a adoptar esta forma de organización escolar. Enfrentados al desafío común de escolarizar a un gran número de niños, educadores alemanes y españoles adoptaron la enseñanza mutua con diversa suerte. La historia comparada de la importación y transformación de este sistema muestra la existencia y efectividad de culturas diferenciadas de la enseñanza en la época de institucionalización de la escuela-mundo. 464 pp. Spanisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -A lo largo de su casi milenaria historia, la Orden de San Juan de Jerusalén ha procurado, según dice su tradicional oración, 'promover la gloria de Dios, la paz en el mundo y todo lo que sea provechoso para la Orden'. Desde luego, en diferentes épocas estas palabras adquirían diferentes matices. El presente libro tiene como finalidad realizar un estudio de caso de su puesta en práctica en el priorato de Navarra durante el gobierno de frey Martín Martínez de Olloqui (1383¿1435).El libro trata de explicar diferentes aspectos, sociales, económicos, institucionales, políticos y culturales que dieron forma al priorato navarro bajomedieval, partiendo del eje de uno de sus priores más destacados de la época. El análisis ha sido elaborado desde un enfoque situacional: ¿Cómo el priorato navarro, una organización en sí, pero al mismo tiempo parte de una orden internacional, manejó los diferentes recursos (humanos, económicos, políticos) en las complicadas circunstancias del tránsito entre los siglos XIV y XV Aunque se trate de un recorte del pasado de los sanjuanistas muy concreto en cuanto al tiempo y al espacio, éste trasciende fácilmente este marco cronológico-espacial. Si el carisma del Hospital ha podido sostenerse durante los últimos 900 años, ha sido gracias al carisma de las personas que lo han compuesto, a la solidez institucional, al mandato del buen gobierno, a la responsabilidad por el interés colectivo y a la capacidad de fomentar la movilidad social. Un legado medieval siempre actual.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 350 pp. Spanisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Las investigaciones que articulan este volumen se vinculan con todo aquello que se refiere al monacato femenino en América y en la península ibérica. La pluralidad de perspectivas, que abarcan multitud de disciplinas humanísticas (arte, archivística, arquitectura, cine, historia, literatura, etc.), es el componente esencial de la selección de los trabajos que configuran Desde el clamoroso silencio. Asimismo, la gran variedad de temas abordados revela su importancia aun desde una perspectiva cronotópica, puesto que se analiza el monacato femenino en América, España y Portugal, desde la Edad Media hasta la actualidad. El contenido de este monográfico, pues, evidencia la relevancia y el valor que la vida monacal suponía para las mujeres del ámbito luso-hispano. 1002 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -De l¿occupation latine à la chute de Constantinople, l¿Empire byzantin a connu un éclatement territorial. L¿indépendance des peuples qui autrefois étaient sous l¿autorité de Byzance, la présence des Latins et l¿avancement des Ottomans ont forgé de nouveaux points de repère et créé des interactions dans tous les domaines.Cet ouvrage, issu d¿un colloque organisé avec le soutien du LabEx EHNE, de Sorbonne Université et du Centre André Chastel, étudie et contextualise les productions artistiques et culturelles des centres géopolitiques sous l¿autorité de l¿Empire byzantin. Chaque partie vise à mettre en lumière une face différente de créativité et de transformation ou de nouveauté qui résulte de la profonde mutabilité de cette période, définie par l¿affrontement et les échanges entre les différentes entités sociopolitiques dans toute la Méditerranée.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 280 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The Picture Postcard, a new window into Edwardian Ireland uses the material culture of the picture postcard as a lens through which to examine life on the island of Ireland during the Edwardian period (1902-10). Picture postcards became extremely popular worldwide at the start of the twentieth century, when literally hundreds of billions of them were produced and sold.This book draws on postcard collections to access the everyday lives of people who rarely make it into conventional historical narratives, and to make connections in an Irish context between their «small histories» and broader, well-studied discourses such as identity, nationalism, empire, modernity, emigration, tourism and the roles of women.¿Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 282 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The monograph is focused on three essential research problems identified by the key terms used in its title. The analysis covers concepts that previously were not subject to in-depth research projects: the MediaPolis, a MediaEgo and evolution of the political communication paradigm, observed and analysed on the political scene in Poland. Evolution of the public sphere and the media requires consideration of the causes of ongoing changes and of forecast transformations initiated by those changes. Hence, the research project focused on the sphere that emerged in an intersection of known discourse areas ¿ public, political, meta-political and media discourses. The monograph summarizes years of research into the proposed concepts of a MediaEgo politician and the MediaPolis public sphere. 304 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Biomedical translation is a complex activity that goes far beyond finding equivalent terms in another language. Communication and safety problems may occur in scenarios such as the following: (i) if translators are unaware of the conceptual, lexical, and pragmatic complexities of medical translation; (ii) if they do not possess advanced translation competence; or (iii) if they are not familiar with standards and workflows of the sector, or with documentation techniques. They should also be aware of the terminological and technological tools commonly used in the healthcare industry. This book provides viable solutions for English-Spanish medical translators who face such problems. It also integrates widely accepted theoretical paradigms and presents the most up-to-date resources and tools. 230 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The book describes an empirical study which inquired into the involvement of secondary school learners in the planning, preparation and enactment of two happenings. The study took the form of particpatory action research and used a data collection strategy based upon bricolage and the rhizome. Analysis was made of photographs, artefacts and posts from a blog, resulting from happening project sessions. Data was also gathered using auto-narrative, autobiographical interviews and group discussions. The data was interpreted in connection with educational discourses: critical pedagogy, teaching as a liminal practice and creative pedagogy. The research showed the learners were personally and actively involved in the happening project in contrast to what normally occurred in school lessons. 234 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The book deals with the philosophy of the human person as worked out by Karol Wojty¿a. It presents a number of fundamental issues necessary to understand Karol Wojty¿äs personalism. Thus, first it undertakes Wojty¿äs move from the philosophy of the human being to the philosophy of the human person; second, it presents Wojty¿äs epistemological approach to the person against the background of other philosophies concerned with the human person; third, it describes the metaphysical structure of the person; four, it analyses the person¿s selected faculties (consciousness, emotions); five, it presents some aspects of the action of the person (a person¿s causation, or their role in dialogue); and finally, it tries to sketch the problem of personal dignity. 196 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The monograph deals with chosen aspects of modern drama based on the output of three playwrights. It discusses the works of Beckett, Pinter and Stoppard in reference to their employment of the grotesque and the theatre of the absurd. Elements of the grotesque appear in political dramas of all three playwrights. While Beckett does not shy away from absurdity in his plays, some of the early dramas of Pinter and Stoppard present a general existential condition of man, even though their strictly political plays are basically realistic in respect to form, yet satirical in their content. Most of the political plays discussed portray the absurdity of totalitarian countries, stemming from the tragicomic discrepancy between what the authorities are saying they are doing and their actual actions. 234 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Commodities of one type or other have been produced, transferred and consumed in the economic life of humanity through every epoch of its development and forms of sociocultural organization, but are pervasive in the varieties of capitalism dominating contemporary world economies. Even labor, a necessary element in all forms of commodity production, has itself been commoditized. Embodying three kinds of potentially realizable value ¿ use, exchange, and symbolic ¿ commodities reflect and affect various facets of humanity¿s sociocultural life. They have been investigated by knowledge producers ranging from Aristotle and Ibn Khaldun through Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and Karl Marx down to a whole host of twentieth-century economists and others like the anthropologist, Bronislaw Malinowski, and the storyteller, B. Traven.In this book noted economic anthropologist Scott Cook draws on many decades of fieldwork in the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Tamaulipas to take on the challenge of crafting an academic memoir designed to provide insights into the role of commodities in his own life and times and especially in his anthropological career. He undertakes this project in conjunction with a running interpretation of the contrasting approaches of Malinowski and Traven to the topic of commodity production and exchange in Mexico. 256 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book is an exploration of the way in which the characters in Rudyard Kipling¿s short stories use superior knowledge, which often involves deception and the playing of practical jokes. There was early critical hostility to the stance adopted by Kipling¿s characters, that of a superior knowledge acquired by friendship with a small male circle. This book engages with a long-standing critical tradition which treats the jokes as acts of vicarious revenge or symptoms of supposed defects in Kipling¿s personality, instead setting his use of the practical joke in the wider social context of his time.In this book Kipling¿s writing is examined for what it reveals about a complex, self-conscious but powerful range of values rather than what it is supposed to disguise or conceal. Although he endorsed British colonial rule, Kipling was frank about the slackness, endemic rule-breaking and second-rate nature of British rule in India. He also criticised some of the widespread cultural, religious and moral phenomena of his time, which he thought harmful. Many of his short stories contain an implied but serious criticism of Victorian beliefs, from attitudes to death-beds, and schoolboys to Positivism. 292 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The Catholic Church has recently issued a call for «educating to fraternal humanism» ¿ most notably through the encyclical letter of Pope Francis, Fratelli Tutti. Fraternal humanism envisions a pluralist society in which all voices are to be heard and this contrasts with previously held positions of outright rejection of pluralist societies (Augustinian Thomism) or Christianisation of such societies (Whig Thomism). This book proposes an alternative, Dominican Thomist vision of a procedurally secular society that comprises three realms, namely sacred, secular and profane. Such a Dominican Thomist enterprise is founded upon human reasoning whereby Catholic and liberal thinkers collaborate to build this society of three realms in which a fortified secular realm operates as a porous buffer against the sacred and profane realms. In such a society, the public sphere is pluralist and open to all voices. Derived from experience and classroom research into dialogic RE interventions; a socially productive pedagogy is advocated as a starting point for the development of a procedurally secular society. In particular, it identifies a common ground pathway that supports both critical RE from liberal education and critical faith pedagogy from the Catholic tradition.¿Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 272 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The Italian Yearbook of Human Rights 2020, marking the 10th edition of this publication, offers an up-to-date overview of the measures Italy has taken to adapt its legislation and policies to international human rights law and to comply with commitments voluntarily assumed by the Italian Government at the international level on the subject of fundamental rights. It surveys the most significant activities of national and local Italian actors at the domestic and international levels, including civil society organisations and universities. It also dedicates space to recommendations made by international monitoring bodies within the framework of the United Nations, OSCE, the Council of Europe, and the European Union. Finally, the Yearbook provides a selection of international and national case-law that casts light on Italy's position vis-à-vis internationally recognised human rights.'Italy and Human Rights in 2019: Back on Track ' is the title of the 2020 Yearbook introduction. The in-depth analysis on a human rights theme offered in this edition concerns Italy¿s behaviour in the context of the Third Universal Periodic Review at the United Nations Human Rights Council.As in the previous years, the Italian Agenda of Human Rights 2020 updates on the legislative, infrastructural and policy-making fronts where action is required to strengthen the Italian human rights system.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 446 pp. Englisch.