peter lang okt 2021 (198 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -La literatura ha sido siempre un firme aliado del cine: le ha dado argumentos, guiones, personajes, ambientes líricos o épicos, ha implicado a escritores, dramaturgos, músicos, intelectuales, críticos literarios. En este libro pretendemos dar cuenta, en primer lugar, de todas esas combinaciones entre el cine y la literatura desde lo que esta ha aportado a aquel, aludiendo a novelas, textos poéticos, obras teatrales y demás manifestaciones literarias, que han contribuido a enriquecer al cine cubano. Hemos hecho referencia asimismo a los mejores textos críticos que se han escrito sobre el particular. Los tres primeros capítulos completan la sección del 'acercamiento histórico' que recorre todas las etapas del cine cubano, desde los comienzos del siglo XX hasta 2020.La segunda sección de este ensayo propone un 'acercamiento analítico', desde el punto de vista del aprovechamiento que el cine ha hecho de los recursos y los protagonistas de la literatura cubana, y centrado sobre todo en tres figuras: Alejo Carpentier, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea y Humberto Solás. Se describe, para comenzar, la estrecha relación del autor de El reino de este mundo con el ámbito del cine, las adaptaciones de sus obras, y su huella en el cine actual. Más adelante, se estudian dos aspectos de las obras maestras de Tomás Gutiérrez Alea: Memorias del subdesarrollo y Fresa y chocolate. El primero consiste en una comparación entre las adaptaciones de las dos novelas de Edmundo Desnoes, y el segundo trata la figura del intelectual en Cuba a través de las adaptaciones de Memorias¿ y del cuento de Senel Paz. Finalmente, se cierra este ensayo con el análisis de los personajes femeninos en tres adaptaciones literarias realizadas por Humberto Solás: Cecilia, Amada y El siglo de las luces.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 200 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, gun-related deaths have reached epidemic proportions in the Unites States, snuffing out the lives of well over 30,000 people (with 1/3 homicides and the remainder suicides and accidents) and wounding many more annually. Everytown organization found that on average, 96 people are killed by guns every day, and for every person killed by a gun, two more are injured. Seven children and teens are killed on average daily. Many of the guns used in these killings reach military-level weapons power, guns which currently remain legal to purchase. Today in the United States, there are approximately 120.5 firearms per 100 people. The Unites States ranks high when compared with 22 other wealthy industrialized nations in per capita gun-related deaths with 3.85 per 100,000 residents, compared, for example, with the United Kingdom at 0.07, Japan at 0.04, Germany at 0.12, Indonesia at 0.10, and Oman at 0.06.This book covers issues of firearms violence and efforts at common sense reform from multiple perspectives, including a culture and climate of firearms addressed from a historical, social, governmental, legal, and psychological perspective; political activism and organizing strategies; and options for reform. It is written in a clear and accessible style from a progressive political perspective.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 240 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Datafied Childhoods examines the multiple ways in which datafication, algorithms, and artificial intelligence (AI) transform the contexts for children: at home, school, and in peer and parent-child relationships. The COVID-19 pandemic provides an important moment for reimagining how data are repurposed for the social good and best interests of children.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 216 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The aim of the volume is to show in which sense the study of culture, literature and the arts can contribute to a better understanding of human cognition. The collection of essays is questioning whether culture is exclusively human and discusses evolutionary substrates of narrative and the interfaces between culture, stories and cognition. The contributions examine the cognitive strengths and weaknesses of literary reading and analyse other techniques of sense-making in the arts through imagined dialogues and the experience of ambiguity. The final contributions are dealing with musical cognition, the relation between music, aesthetics and cognition. 132 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Jossi Wieler ist einer der prägendsten Schauspiel- und Opernregisseure im deutschsprachigen Raum. Kreation im Dialog und tiefgründige Erkundungen eines Stoffs auf seine gesellschaftspolitische Relevanz für die Gegenwart zeichnen sein Schaffen aus. Mehrstimmig gibt der vorliegende Band Einblick in seine Arbeitsweisen, die wechselseitige Inspiration im Probenprozess und die Ethik seiner Ästhetik.Jossi Wieler est l¿un des metteurs en scène de théâtre et d¿opéra les plus influents de l¿espace germanophone. Son art repose sur la création en dialogue et sur une exploration des pièces et partitions à la recherche de leur pertinence pour le monde d¿aujourd¿hui. A plusieurs voix, cet ouvrage met en lumière sa démarche, l¿inspiration mutuelle dans le processus de répétition, et l¿éthique de son esthétique.Jossi Wieler è uno dei registi teatrali e d¿opera più apprezzati nel mondo germanofono. La creazione in dialogo e lo scavo nelle pièce e partiture al fine di estrapolarne la rilevanza per il presente caratterizzano il suo lavoro. A più voci, questo volume mette in luce il suo approccio, l¿importanza dell¿ispirazione reciproca nel processo creativo, e l¿etica della sua estetica.As one of the defining theatre and opera directors in the German-speaking world, Jossi Wieler has developed his signature style by creating ideas through dialogue and dissecting works for their socio-political relevance for present-day audiences. In this volume, a range of voices shed light on his working methods, the significance of reciprocal inspiration in the creative process and the ethics of his aesthetic.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 344 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -La consolidación del turismo como una de las principales formas de ocio ha obligado a los destinos a ofrecer nuevas actividades para permanecer en un mercado tan competitivo. Dentro de la nueva oferta se encuentran las propuestas culturales relacionadas con la literatura, que son analizadas en este libro desde los relatos de viaje hasta la ficción literaria, con especial atención a las obras que representan Canarias, un archipiélago eminentemente turístico que posee un rico y variado patrimonio literario y artístico que puede ser explotado desde una perspectiva turística.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 252 pp. Spanisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Este libro responde a la pregunta: ¿es viable que una comunidad de habla vuelva a separar fonológicamente dos unidades que se habían fusionado previamente por completo A lo largo de la investigación, surgen nuevas hipótesis, tales como la posibilidad de una variedad lingüística conformada por una única variable fonológica que actúe como núcleo, la existencia de una variación paramétrica individual en el proceso de escisión o la constatación de una disociación acústico-perceptiva, entre otras. Como principal aportación original, se propone un nuevo modelo de cálculo de distancia acústica basado en 8 parámetros acústicos mediante la técnica de las coordenadas polares, que permite cuantificar la distancia fonética que un informante realiza de manera media en función de dos series léxicas distintas. 230 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Unsere Gegenwart ist eingebettet in Vergangenheit und Zukunft. Dem Leser wird hier eine Zusammenschau auf die sich ständig verändernden globalen Strukturen und Ereignisse geboten, jeweils mit einem Blick zurück auf die vergangenen Jahre und mit einem Blick nach vorne auf mögliche künftige Entwicklungen. Neben der Untersuchung von allgemeinen Weltproblemen wie Bevölkerungsexplosion, Klimawandel und Globalisierung wird der Fokus insbesondere auf die regionalen und überregionalen Machtzentren bzw. Krisenzentren gelegt und diese nach den Kriterien Politik,Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft untersucht. 202 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Este trabajo reúne una selección de términos filológicos en escolios y comentarios latinos tardoantiguos. Es precedido por una introducción al corpus, constituido por los escolios y comentarios de Pseudo-Acrón y Porfirión a Horacio, de Elio Donato a Terencio, de Servio y Tiberio Claudio Donato a Virgilio, y otros cuya autoría es más dudosa: Escolios Veronenses y Bernenses a Virgilio; Escolios antiguos a Juvenal; Escolios de Pseudo-Asconio, Bobienses a Cicerón; Comentarios de Lactancio Plácido a Estacio; Comentarios Bernenses, Anotaciones a Lucano; Comentario de Cornuto a Persio y Suscripciones en los manuscritos latinos clásicos. A través del estudio de este vocabulario, se pretende profundizar en la aportación de gramáticos y comentaristas en el proceso de transmisión textual. 330 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The field of moral development and moral education has witnessed a relatively huge and differentiated growth in the recent decades both in the area of empirical research and theory and in the area of school practice. In this context, key questions about the importance of «the other» and «interpersonal relationship» in regard to the development of abilities to realise one¿s life in a truly human way arise. In this book, an international team of researchers examines if and what kind of a relationship with the other is necessary for morality development and vice versa, what kind of relationality is required by specific models of morality. These and other relevant questions are not related only to a strictly philosophical framework, but there is a significant pedagogical overlapping. 166 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -British representations of Spain and Portugal have often relied on persistent ideological biases, prejudices, and interpretations. This volume aims to offer a broader, more nuanced outlook on the last five hundred years of Anglo-Iberian relations. The chapters focus on relatively little-known episodes and figures in Anglo-Iberian history and cover a wide temporal span: from the sixteenth to the mid-twentieth century. They aim to look beyond the clichéd dichotomies, received ideas, and normative voices that have often charac-terised mainstream studies. Ultimately, the book seeks to expose and transcend stereotyped narratives emphasising Anglo-Spanish acrimony and contribute to mutual understanding. 192 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The examination of the transcendentals of truth, beauty and the good in this book stems from the perspective of Christian humanism, transcending ourselves in moral psychology, and perfecting ourselves to attain the good life. These critical approaches are each pertinent to the search for meaning in our lives which the transcendentals augment. From such a perspective, the book engages in an exploration of the philosophy of culture and religion which at key points in the discussion draws upon ritual, works of high and especially popular culture. The truth that moves us closer to discovering meaning and a fuller humanity is largely found in the world and culture that surrounds us and is related to wisdom, which is something that concerns us all. 130 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book explores Latin American inequality broadly in terms of its impact on the region's development and specifically with two country studies from Peru on earnings inequality and child labor as a consequence of inequality for child labor. The first chapter provides substantial recent undated analysis of the critical thesis of deindustrialization for Latin America. The second chapter provides an approach to measuring labor market discrimination that departs from the current treatment of unobservable influences in the literature. The third chapter examines a much-neglected topic of child labor using a panel data set specifically on children.The book is appropriate for courses on economic development and labor economics and for anyone interested in inequality, development and applied econometrics.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 114 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Bajo el gobierno del MAS el movimiento indígena boliviano logró emanciparse políticamente, penetrando las estructuras del poder estatal, pero al mismo tiempo pasó por su crisis, desmovilizándose paulatinamente. El objetivo del libro es explorar la relación entre la institucionalización del movimiento y su siguiente desmovilización. Aplicando el método 'process tracing', el libro infiere primero que el impacto de la institucionalización en la dinámica del movimiento es condicionado por su carácter, así el movimiento se pacifica cuando goza de la política favorable y representación gubernamental más bien que parlamentaria; segundo, una vez el movimiento sea la parte de la maquinaria estatal, su disidencia potencial causa dilemas estratégicos para el gobierno que reacciona con estrategias para suprimirlo. 290 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Small towns are continuously overlooked and under-researched, although they represent a type of urban settlement present in large numbers, especially in Europe. Questions regarding the resilience of small towns are an important issue acknowledged in the EU policy of regional development. This volume is written by an international and interdisciplinary team of scholars who are convinced about the importance of small towns as a research topic. It looks at how towns approach heritage, its instrumental use and its commodification in support of its survival, asking about towns' strategies to achieve resilience to external pressure. The chapters present cases from Europe and beyond. It represents various types of situations and approaches of urban communities, but it is not limited to success stories. The authors deal with places that are undervalued, not fully exploited or in danger because of lack of appreciation. They explore a wide range of strategies in the fields of revitalization stabilization, stagnation, decline or desertification, considering the possible role of heritage, as well as small towns' creativity in networking initiatives. 326 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Le droit de l¿intégration économique régionale en Afrique s¿est considérablement densifié depuis la décennie 1990, car à ce moment la situation institutionnelle et juridique des organisations a radicalement changé. Pour autant, force est de constater que ces réformes n¿ont pas nécessairement produit les effets escomptés, le bilan de l¿intégration montrant un décalage entre l¿« infrastructure juridique » déployée dans les différentes organisations, et la réalité quotidienne qüelle est appelée à façonner. Le problème ne serait plus l¿existence des mécanismes et institutions juridiques, mais résiderait plutôt dans les caractéristiques mêmes de ces mécanismes et institutions. D¿où une optique d¿analyse différente, celle de l¿adéquation desdits mécanismes (et de l¿objet même qüils servent) au contexte dans lequel ils sont appelés à passer du stade d¿objectif conventionnel d¿intégration à celui de réalité sociale. Une intégration « appropriée ».C'est à cette analyse que s'emploie le présent ouvrage, en s'appuyant sur le concept d'appropriation qui, de la philosophie de Jean-Paul Sartre à la psychosociologie de Gustave-Nicolas Fischer, en passant par la mercatique de Russel W Belk, vise la dimension à la fois conceptuelle et opérationnelle de la relation entre un sujet et un objet. En impliquant tous les acteurs et bénéficiaires dans la conduite du processus d¿intégration, l¿appropriation opérationnelle renforce une intégration par soi. Et par une appropriation conceptuelle, l¿intégration devientpour soi. L¿ouvrage propose donc des éléments théoriques permettant de donnerà l¿intégration régionale africaine sa dimension réellement effective.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 156 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -El presente volumen es fruto del trabajo de catorce lingüistas de la Universidadde Granada y supone una contribución fundamental al estudio sociolingüísticodel español hablado en esta ciudad andaluza. Los trabajos, distribuidos en cuatroapartados (Fonética, Gramática, Léxico y Pragmática), están elaborados, biensobre materiales orales de una muestra de hablantes representativa de la ciudadde Granada, recogidos de acuerdo con la metodología del proyecto PRESEEAbien sobre muestras orales de inmigrantes residentes en Granada. El objetivo esdoble: por un lado, ofrecer un panorama global de la distribución sociolingüísticade diversos fenómenos en esta variedad urbana y, por otro lado, estudiar losprocesos de acomodación a la norma urbana de inmigrados de otras comunidadesde habla.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 460 pp. Spanisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Convention and Contravention in Ben Jonson¿s Three Comedies: Volpone, TheAlchemist, Bartholomew Fair is a book about Jonson¿s convention of comedy thatis a disguise for the realities of life. The book aims to show the importance of thetruths that are generally away from the human eye in Jonson¿s time through scrutinyof Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair. Selected plays are in a dialoguewith Shakespeare¿s As You Like It, Measure for Measure, and Twelfth Night, andclose analysis of the texts of the plays offers the reader a detailed study of the upsidedown world of the comedic, carnivalesque period that enables characters freethemselves of their responsibilities. The plays end in harmony, taking all scatteredparts of the disarray of the carnival time back to its normal. Madness, lack of moralitydeceitfulness, confusion, misunderstandings, and disguise are common elements inall the plays discussed in the book. Ben Jonson takes the opportunity and presents acritical viewpoint about the Elizabethan and Jacobean laxity and leniency, making thecarnivalesque spirit central to his criticism. This book intends to immerse into ways inwhich characters create chaos within themselves in the selected plays. Shakespeare¿sselected plays are supplementary texts that richly add layers, branches, and offices tothe reading of Jonson¿s society rather than just enriching the comedic impact of theperformances. 192 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The aim of the book is to reveal the changes and developments in the field of communication with the Coronavirus process. With the epidemic, many things have changed ¿ from education to politics, from social media use to advertisements, from consumption habits to eating habits and also all daily habits. Articles discussed are effects of Covid-19 on social networks, political communication, advertisment, crisis and marketing. There are not only theory but also samples from different areas in this book. 246 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The problem of preventing mass human-rights violations and atrocity crimes is one of the key issues in international relations. The book presents the capacity of the international community in the field. The available instruments of early warning, preventive diplomacy as well as legal, economic, and military measures of prevention are included. Cases of Chechnya, Rwanda, Côte d'Ivoire and Libya allowed the analysis of international engagement in typical situations involving mass human-rights violations and atrocity crimes related to self-determination, ethnic tensions, power struggles and attempts to overthrow a dictatorship. They show that although the international community has significantly increased its capacity to prevent, it has not created a coherent system of prevention. 244 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Juvenile Justice Systems outlines options for shaping the juvenile liability models, in the form of model-patterns: the welfare model, the justice model, the rehabilitative treatment model, the restorative justice model, and different mixed models, especially the so-called ¿4xD formula.¿ This comparative work consists of 4 parts, describing the general issues of juvenile criminal liability and characterizing three mixed models: the Polish, the Brazilian and the Portuguese. The comparison of three systems severely influenced by welfare ideas is seen as an innovative element of the presented work. The critical, theoretical analysis contributes to the reflection on the modelling of juvenile justice systems. Therefore, it may be of particular interest to legal researchers and practitioners. 192 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The aim of this book is to present the conditions under which the positive role of supervision over courts and judges can be performed, and to shed light on what conditions have to be fulfilled in order to achieve the goal of creating an impartial and professional judiciary system. The analysis has normative and sociological nature, and is presented from various points of view, including international and national legal systems such as Austria, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Slovakia and Sweden. The research has come to the conclusion that administrative supervision may be used as a feasible instrument for making the courts¿ activity more effective. It can improve the organization of the courts¿ adjudication and may lead to an increase in the quality of jurisprudence. 236 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The aim of this book is to discuss the most important aspects of women¿s status at thebeginning of the twentieth century by drawing a parallel between Romanian and Britishfeminism.The novelty of this book resides in the fact that it discusses the ideas of genderand politics in the novels of some of the most important Romanian modernist writers.The documents (Romanian old journals, articles, diaries and declarations, modernistliterary texts from well-known Romanian authors such as Camil Petrescu, HortensiaPapadat-Bengescu, or Anton Holban) as well as the period of time analysed in this bookare highly relevant to the way Romanian feminism has evolved over the years. 216 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -What do druglords, corrupt politicians, failed states and distopias, mental disorders, scamming practices and feminism have in common They all are actors and products of the complex intersections between money and crime that not only permeate our daily lives, but also produce worlds and narratives within their respective cultural products. From Hollywood dystopias to Netflix and TV series about Wall Street and Brazilian and Mexican politics, to fetishism and conspiracy to mental disorders in the workplace, the contributions to this volume explore the complex relations of neoliberalism and crime. The main objective of the publication is to examine such cultural and medial productions in order to differentiate the discourse about them and to enable a concrete picture of the underlying constituents. 246 pp. Englisch, Spanisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The book is based on long-term ethnographic research in the Polish-Belarusian borderland. It examines the dynamics of symbolic boundaries between the Catholic and Orthodox believers in their everyday lives. By analyzing the space of local cemeteries, rituals, and attitudes related to death, eating practices, and food sharing, the author points to the changing sense of ethnic identity and the feeling of familiarity and otherness. Confessionally mixed neighborhoods and families enable different forms of religious bivalency and become a crucial factor in bridging and crossing ethnic boundaries. Socio-cultural norms and social relations shape the ethnic identity of the borderland¿s residents more than the institutional frames of both churches. 252 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Based on the theory and methodology of transcultural memory, this book describes and analyzes the fictional representations of memory and forgetting and the multiple roles they play in identity construction of immigrants and exiles. It focuses on fiction by contemporary American writers of East-Central European descent: Askold Melnyczuk, Domnica Radulescu, and Aleksandar Hemon. The analysis of selected novels highlights a distinct historical slant with elements of generational memory, memory of places, rememory, and postmemory. The author introduces and develops the concept of post-immigrant ethnic fiction and identifies a mnemonic pattern characteristic of American post-immigrant ethnic and exile writing. 178 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book gives explanations for the growing gap in wealth and income and the rise of anti-democratic movements. The power of the elites today is supposedly founded on merit (education, intelligence etc.), but a closer look shows that a well-marked-out pool is just self-re-producing. The power these in-groups wield often leads to moral insensibility, made worse by a condescending attitude towards people further down the food chain. The pre-dominance of the model of the nation-state, with its centralism and top-down structure, is one of the roots of this problem, as is the lack of comparisons and value judgements; examples from transport and urbanism show that they are possible. The deplorable situation is made worse by the ¿anti-¿social-media scuppering open and productive discussions. 220 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The present volume is a monographic study devoted to selected aspects of English historical phonology, orthography, syntax, morphology and semantics. It is the result of international cooperation of scholars affiliated with various academic institutions around the world, such as the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA; the University of Edinburgh, UK; the University of Westminster, UK; the University of Tours, France, the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands; the Boris Grinchenko University in Kiev, Ukraine; the South-West University ¿Neofit Rilski¿, Bulgaria; the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland; the University of Silesia, Poland; the Silesian University of Technology, Poland. 248 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The book provides the first comprehensive study of love and ethics in Middle English and Middle Scots poems written at the close of the Middle Ages by Geoffrey Chaucer, James I, Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, and Gavin Douglas. It shows that medieval poems often reveal a pattern in which an individual moves from selfish to selfless concerns, and how this movement is incited by love, while fulfilled through virtue. By taking into account the English and Scottish cultural contexts, as well as other traditions of writing, the book shows how the ideas on human well-being were disseminated and adjusted to meet cultural changes. In this, the book contributes to a discussion on what constitutes ¿mindful¿ or ¿virtuous¿ living, a discussion that is as relevant today as it was in the Middle Ages. 238 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book is a selection of papers presented at the 11th International Conference on Middle English (ICOME11), held at the University of Florence, Italy from 5 to 8 February 2019. The papers, organised under three headings ¿Textual Interlacing,¿ ¿Borrowing and the Lexicon,¿ and ¿Language at Different Levels,¿ interface different fields of linguistics, literature and philology in the context of Medieval England and offer a holistic view of current research within Middle English studies. The contributors employ a wealth of different new and traditional approaches and methodologies, and deal with materials ranging from canonical literary works to scientific and practical texts, including electronic corpora and databases. 308 pp. Englisch.