peter lang peter lang feb 2006 (145 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Antonio Benítez Rojo es uno de los escritores más reconocidos del exilio cubano. Este estudio busca llenar un vacío crítico entorno a su obra con un análisis que incluye su famosa trilogía El mar de las lentejas (1978), La Isla que se repite (1990), Paso de los vientos (1998) y su última novela histórica Mujer en traje de batalla (2001). Se centra en el desarrollo de Benítez Rojo como escritor y pensador de América Latina relacionando su labor intelectual con la realidad socio política que ha vivido. El estudio va acompañado por dos entrevistas inéditas realizadas en dos momentos distintos de la investigación. Su inserción en apéndice constituye un momento de revelación de un escritor que ha alcanzado la independencia y la libertad que muchos en las mismas circunstancias no han podido lograr y que le ha permitido levantar la mirada hacia un entorno socio-cultural caribeño. 176 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -James Carey is arguably the founder of the critical cultural study of communication and media in the United States. This volume brings together top communication and media scholars to revisit and engage key themes in Carey¿s groundbreaking work. This lively assortment of cutting-edge research provides a timely overview of Carey¿s impact on current scholarship in communication, cultural studies, and U.S. history. Also included is a wide-ranging two-part interview by Lawrence Grossberg in which Carey discusses his intellectual biography, revisits his classic essays, and argues for the urgent need for democratically motivated scholarship in the contemporary United States.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 244 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Based on extensive original research, Shoot First and Ask Questions Later provides a comprehensive analysis of media coverage of the war in Iraq in 2003. The authors look closely at the main actors involved through a broad range of interviews with journalists (both embedded and non-embedded), news editors, news heads, and with key planners at the Pentagon and the UK Ministry of Defence. This book also investigates how the war was represented on television, employing both a systematic content analysis of the broadcast news coverage of the war and a series of case studies that unravel key moments of good and bad reporting during the war. Finally, it examines how people responded to and interpreted the information they received from the media, drawing upon both large-scale surveys and focus groups. What emerges, for all its blemishes, is a picture of a sophisticated, military public-relations campaign ¿ one that had less to do with censorship than with promoting certain kinds of coverage. At the heart of this was the embedded journalists program, which has clearly changed the way war is reported. In future, the authors argue, journalists need to understand their role in this public relations effort, and to ask questions not only when access is denied, but also when it is granted.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 220 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book examines the pedagogy of white supremacy in the United States, the American Colonization Society, and the eugenics movement during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Both education and the larger society promoted the idea of the sacred mission of Anglo-Christians, who were seen as God¿s chosen people. Public policy and education were used to teach whites that black people were inferior and unsuitable for citizenship. Federal, state, and local governments, as well as religious leaders in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, argued for the removal of all black people from the United States. Others used education as a means of discrediting the intelligence of African Americans while, at the same time, miseducating and deculturalizing African Americans to artificially create a homogenous society.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 210 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -In this book, scholar-practitioners offer alternatives to the traditional five-chapter thesis format. As authors of meritorious and award-winning dissertations, they provide insights into the challenging process of crafting interpretive methods of dissertation inquiry. In addition, they relate their struggles to claim for themselves the authority to imagine creative representations of their research. Faculty and students who are looking for theoretic principles as well as good examples of interpretive dissertations will find this book invaluable.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 256 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -In this provocative and original exploration of racial subjugation and its aftermath, Carlyle Van Thompson illumines the racialized sexual desire that reduces Black people to commodities for consumption. Eating the Black Body examines the often-sadistic forms of sexual violence during the period of slavery and its aftermath. By looking at one poem and three novels ¿ Richard Wright¿s Between the World and Me, John Oliver Killens¿ Youngblood, Gayl Jones¿ Corregidora, and Octavia Butler¿s Kindred ¿ that examine slavery and the Jim Crow period, Thompson investigates a wide variety of Black bodies as sites of miscegenation and sexual desire. Thompson also examines a horrific case of White male police brutality in New York City in which a Black man was sodomized. Bold and persuasively argued, Eating the Black Body will engage readers in a broad range of literary, historical, and cultural studies. 246 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Since the mass proliferation of the Internet, music has been the one art form that has seen the most attention online. This volume culls together essays that examine the cultural aspects of music existing online. More than just the notion that «people download,» Cybersounds is the first collection that critically looks at this issue, ultimately presenting new ideas and directions for exploring this field. 294 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 on the United States provoked a significant shift in thinking about peace and security, and much has since been written about new security threats and challenges.This collection of essays revisits some of the more traditional concepts of peace and security that remain valid and pertinent today, despite having ceded much of the limelight to the major security preoccupations of the current era: international terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, rogue states and related phenomena.The book covers numerous salient topics, from arms production, monitoring and control, to disarmament and conversion through to peacekeeping and conflict prevention. The contributions differ in scope, form and analysis ranging from historical and philosophical to contemporary and political perspectives and approaches to peace and security. 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book contains papers written by international scholars concerned with the works by the Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee. The papers cover a wide range of topics from the introduction to South African English literature through J.M. Coetzee¿s autobiographical works to his most controversial Booker Prize winning novel Disgrace. 152 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Architecture and Psychoanalysis is an analysis of the relation between psychoanalytic theory and compositional strategies in architecture. In psychoanalysis it focuses on the writing of Jacques Lacan as well as theories of the structure of the psyche, linguistics, and perception. In architecture it focuses on the writings and projects of Peter Eisenman. There are extended discussions on the thought of figures such as Sigmund Freud, Ferdinand de Saussure, and Jacques Derrida, and of the architecture of figures such as Leon Battista Alberti, Francesco Borromini, Giuseppe Terragni, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 262 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This new assessment of the literary development of Irmtraud Morgner (1933-1990) liberates her from a critical straitjacket that has seen her early and middle-period works as essentially constrained and thwarted by state prescriptions. The author demonstrates that Morgner always had an organically evolving literary programme of her own. He uncovers a writer with a vision of ideology and democracy as humanised, intimate and personal. Morgner¿s diaries are called upon to demonstrate how she rechannelled into her later work material that had been banned by the censor. Morgner emerges as a figure whose work is deeply pertinent to our twenty-first-century preoccupations, be they in the West or East. The author advances powerful arguments for the value of six of her novels as key illustrations of her trust in the individual¿s capacity to give meaning to life without recourse to established ideological structures. 282 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -L¿évaluation des politiques jette un regard objectif sur la conduite de l¿action publique. Elle informe les décideurs politico-administratifs et les citoyens, concernés par le fonctionnement de l¿État, sur les effets induits par la mise en ¿uvre des politiques.À travers une comparaison détaillée de situations observées dans quatre pays, cet ouvrage présente les configurations institutionnelles mises en place pour favoriser l¿essor de la pratique évaluative. La compréhension des facteurs explicatifs des différences entre les cas étudiés s¿attache aux principales caractéristiques du système politique et administratif, ainsi qüaux éléments de nature conjoncturelle tels que la lutte contre les déficits publics ou la volonté de renforcer la légitimité des institutions publiques.En plus d¿offrir une des premières analyses comparées en la matière, cet ouvrage éclaire, sous un angle nouveau, les théories institutionnalistes et d¿analyse des organisations en s¿appuyant sur une recherche empirique approfondie. 276 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Set around the events of the succession struggle of 1142 in medieval Bohemia the main character, Witiko, the traditional founder of the Rosenberg Family, searches for the Right, finds it and his beloved, while never losing touch with the common folk. His quest is amid the panoramic backdrop of national Bohemian politics and history, with his fate paralleling that of the acknowledged rightful duke, Wladislaw, who is also seeking the path of justice. Witiko is considered one of the most significant German historical novels of the Nineteenth Century.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 596 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Plus dynamique que jamais, le régionalisme en Bretagne invite à interroger les analyses actuelles sur la recomposition ascendante des territoires en Europe. Les mobilisations régionales contribuent en effet à institutionnaliser un ordre territorial propre face au retrait de l¿État et à l¿internationalisation des marchés. Pourtant, leurs formes spécifiques sont mal expliquées par les modèles d¿interprétation du néo-régionalisme ou du néo-localisme.Pour évaluer en rigueur cette recomposition, cet ouvrage privilégie une analyse longitudinale des mécanismes d¿institutionnalisation dans trois secteurs du territoire régional : la culture, la politique et l¿économie. Il s¿attache à nuancer l¿homogénéité apparente du « régionalisme » au profit de la diversité des trajectoires de chaque type de mobilisation régionaliste.Parallèlement, cet ouvrage solide envisage leur combinaison synchronique selon un cadre d¿analyse propre, qui fonde la construction d¿un ordre territorial sur une forte capacité de mobilisation en présence d¿un État englobant puissant. 256 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Cet ouvrage aborde de manière inédite le rapport des écrivains symbolistes à la critique d¿art. Il examine en détail l¿hypothèse d¿une critique d¿art symboliste qui s¿est voulue elle-même art autonome, refusant le rôle ancillaire de commentaire objectif et explicatif.La critique de la peinture se présenterait comme une réponse poétique aux questions que pose le statut du symbole dans la poésie symboliste. Peut-on dire alors que l¿originalité de la critique d¿art symboliste réside dans sa capacité à répondre à la crise de la littérature symboliste, à la question de la constitution du symbole en littérature Si tel est le cas, il devient possible de considérer la critique comme l¿achèvement d¿un progrès dans l¿art de la suggestion : l¿autonomisation de la critique d¿art vis-à-vis du référent pictural est en effet analogue à celle du langage poétique vis-à-vis de l¿univers référentiel.En reproduisant ainsi le passage de la mimesis à la poesis, la critique d¿art devient le lieu privilégié du langage poétique. C¿est précisément ce langage poétique au carré, transposant une réalité déjà symbolique, qui formera l¿objet de cette étude. 402 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the Conference on Historical News Discourse (CHINED) that was held in Florence (Italy) on 2-3 September 2004. The aim of the Conference was to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of recent research in the field of news discourse in early modern Britain. The first section of the volume focuses on news discourse in serial publications while the second part examines aspects of news language in non-serial works. Contributions include synchronic and diachronic analyses of reportage, polemic, propaganda, review journalism and advertisements in a wide range of texts including newsletters, pamphlets and newspapers. Each section is structured chronologically so that the reader can appreciate aspects of the general historical development of news discourse. The variety of topics and methodologies reflects some of the most interesting research being carried out in the field. 310 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Liebe wird durch Biologismus und Psychologismus gerne als ein Epiphänomen von Lust ausgegeben. Freud ging sogar so weit, die Liebe als zielgehemmte Strebung in Richtung Triebbefriedigung zu bezeichnen. Im Sinne Max Schelers und Viktor Frankls wird die Liebe als menschliches Ur-Phänomen dargestellt. Biologische und psychologische Vorgänge werden in den Bereich der Epiphänomene verwiesen. Dadurch entsteht die Möglichkeit ¿ und damit auch die Herausforderung ¿ Sexualpädagogik ontisch, im Rahmen einer Ontologie, durch eine Pädagogik der Liebe dimensional zu überbauen. 196 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Der neue Jahrgang, Simpliciana XXVII, dokumentiert die jüngst wieder aktuell gewordene Suche nach einem Porträt Grimmelshausens, die schon vor der Tagung in der überregionalen Presse für Aufsehen sorgte, auf der Tagung in Münster (Mai 2005) kontrovers diskutiert wurde und in der Folge zu ergänzenden Forschungen und Stellungnahmen Veranlassung gab. Neben weiteren Beiträgen zum Simplicissimus-Roman und dem simplicianischen Zyklus bringt der Band auch Neues zum regionalen Umfeld Grimmelshausens: den zweiten Teil der Dokumentation des elsässischen Historikers Louis Schlaefli zum Pfarrklerus der Ortenau (14.-17. Jahrhundert) und zu Grimmelshausens Nachbarn, dem Pfarrer und Dichter Quirin Moscherosch, ferner Rezensionen zu wichtigen Neuerscheinungen. 340 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Die Studie geht der Frage nach, ob, wie und wodurch unternehmensnahe Stiftungen angesichts ihrer geringen volkswirtschaftlichen Leistungskraft im Feld der Bildungs- und Sozialpolitik soziale Innovationen hervorbringen können. Im Kern des Untersuchungsinteresses steht eine fallspezifische Überprüfung der wiederkehrend behaupteten Innovationsfunktion von Stiftungen in staatsnahen Regelungsfeldern, auf die sich angesichts einer öffentlich als abnehmend wahrgenommenen staatlichen Leistungsfähigkeit und Problemlösungskompetenz Modernisierungserwartungen aus Selbst- und Fremdsicht richten. Die Autorin arbeitet ein innovationstheoretisch gestütztes Bedingungsgefüge zur voraussetzungsreichen Leistungsfähigkeit von Stiftungen als Innovationsagenturen heraus und wendet dieses Verstehensmodell exemplarisch auf die Analyse der Innovationskraft einer professionell agierenden, kleineren Stiftung mit internationaler Reichweite und strategischer Ausrichtung an, die 1984 von GesellschafterInnen des Familienunternehmens Freudenberg im badischen Weinheim gegründet wurde. 396 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Erstmals ist den Kunstausstellungen in Deutschland zwischen 1945 und dem Beginn der 60er Jahre eine umfassende Studie gewidmet. Auf der Basis der politischen, gesellschaftlichen und ideologischen Grundlagen der Kulturpolitik in den vier Besatzungszonen und in den beiden deutschen Staaten werden jeweils deren konkrete Auswirkungen auf das Ausstellungswesen und die Kunstvermittlung untersucht. Der Ansatz, die Kunstvermittlung in eine Analyse kultureller und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhänge einzubeziehen, ist dabei völlig neuartig. Aufgrund der ca. 2600 Ausstellungen, die für den Bearbeitungszeitraum zusammengestellt wurden, und der gesamtdeutschen Ausrichtung, stellt diese Studie ein repräsentatives Nachschlagewerk dar, das sowohl für den Fachmann wie auch den interessierten Laien unverzichtbar ist. 426 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -News in Public Memory brings together a team of international experts to investigate the media-transmitted history of the twentieth century as it exists in the memories and minds of people living in diverse cultures across the globe. This book compares media-related childhood memories across three generations in nine countries. Results reveal that events of the past century are not only historical 'facts' but have become substantial elements of a new global collective memory that has been integrated into generational identity worldwide. The global approach of this research encourages the idea that the world is an interconnected whole, but it also helps to advance a better understanding of the different perceptions of global and local news as they emerge from various cultural angles and geographical regions. 310 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The sturm-und-drang quality of educational reforms in the United States and England has prompted educators to ask how curriculum changes will affect teaching and learning. Central government in England and state agencies in the United States increasingly control curriculum development by writing the standards, monitoring teaching, and assessing standards' impact on students' achievements. But how does increasing government regulation of education impact teachers' professionalism and morale In arguing that teachers need to retain significant control over what and how they teach, Quiet Wisdom addresses this question for elementary- and secondary-level English teaching. Quiet Wisdom should be read by every preservice and inservice English teacher in graduate-level teacher education courses. This book is also written for a wider audience of administrators, curriculum planners and policy makers. 260 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -No twentieth-century woman/teacher has provoked as much interest and perplexity as Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1908-1984). Her life reveals the fascinating dilemmas of classroom erotics, the dangers of intimacy in teaching and learning, the difficult and ambiguous nature of post-heterosexual attachments in women's biographies, and the powerful fantasy that the objects of teaching lives are other than our own teaching selves. Provocations: Sylvia Ashton-Warner and Excitability in Education provides a groundbreaking and timely feminist re-visioning of Ashton-Warner. This book speaks not only to her enigmatic survivals, but also to education's own submission to excitability and provocation. 216 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The author provides an overview and comparison of software protection law in two countries whose technological expertise had important influence on the digital information age - the United States and Germany. The book shows software protections under trade secrets, copyright law and patent law in the USA and Germany and also the interaction of these laws in both countries. It is a contribution to the field of comparative computer software law and will be helpful to lawyers who advise software owners and developers for the German and American markets. It is also helpful to lawyers unfamiliar with intellectual property law in general, who wish to understand the fundamental concepts of these laws for computer software.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 116 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Die Missa hebraica von Hans Darmstadt ist in den Jahren 1994 bis 2004 in Kassel entstanden und wurde als Ganzes im Oktober 2005 uraufgeführt. Die Dokumentation gibt Aufschlüsse über den Entstehungsprozeß (Hans Darmstadt und Corinna Dahlgrün), sie hält Rezeptionseindrücke aus musikalischer und theologischer Perspektive fest (Herbert Glossner, Volker Stümke, Christfried Brödel, Albert Gerhards und Peter Zacher), gibt Erfahrungen von Mitwirkenden wieder (Norbert Laude und Helmut Kornemann) und reflektiert über den Einsatz der Messe im schulischen Religionsunterricht (Johannes Goldenstein). Außerdem enthält sie den vollständigen Text der Missa sowie die Programmheft-Kommentare des Komponisten zu den einzelnen Sätzen. Die CD mit einem Live-Mitschnitt der Uraufführung (hr2) ist diesem Band beigelegt. 176 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -China besitzt den größten Bildungsmarkt der Welt, wobei die Zahl seiner Schüler und Studenten mit mehr als 320 Mio. größer ist als die Bevölkerung der USA und Kanadas zusammen. Dieser riesige Markt lockt seit nunmehr fast drei Jahrzehnten Bildungsträger nach China und hat zu einer Vielzahl unterschiedlichster Kooperationen geführt. Doch wie umfassend ist das Wachstum des chinesischen Bildungsmarktes tatsächlich, und auf welchen Sektoren ist es besonders stark ausgeprägt Wie können deutsche Bildungsanbieter in Anbetracht gesetzlicher, finanzieller und interkultureller Herausforderungen die enormen Chancen nutzen Wo liegt der spezielle Bildungsbedarf in China, und welche Aspekte des deutschen Bildungssystems sind für Chinesen von besonderem Interesse Diesen und weiteren Fragen geht die Tagungsdokumentation im Rahmen der drei Schwerpunktbereiche Schulen, Hochschulen und Weiterbildung nach. Das Buch schließt mit einem umfangreichen Verzeichnis von Anschriften und Internetadressen Deutsch-Chinesischer Bildungseinrichtungen.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 228 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -We all are users of technology and services, but the way we use them strongly depends on who our 'interlocutor' is: a machine, a software application or a person. The contributions of this volume look at the concept of the user from various perspectives and continue to discuss the theme started in volume three on the user of the artificial. Topics include: man-machine relations such as the user and the virtual world of the internet or users in various cultural contexts of the artificial. The second part of the book focuses on man-nature relations and introduces the Japanese concept of Kyosei (symbiosis) in the context of technology and the environment. 216 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book entails a close reading, in terms of text as well as context, of two Afrikaner theologians, F.J.M. Potgieter and B.J. Marais. They were both active during most of the apartheid era and supported this system, Potgieter for theological, Marais for purely practical reasons. A second so-called contrast reading is done with the help of two methodological concepts or phenomena, i.e. fundamentalism and deconstruction. Both readings reveal two theologies in conflict and contrast. 325 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Software development is inherently difficult because of the complexity of the task and the high level of change that occurs during its lifecycle. Attempts to solve these problems have raised the level of abstraction dramatically. Nevertheless, recent propositions have generated much skepticism. Approaches such as visual languages or CASE tools have not fundamentally changed the state of the practice in software development, mostly due to the cost involved in producing the code generation modules. In this book, this problem is analyzed and a new extension mechanism for UML is presented. More suitable than UML Profiles to allow the creation of hierarchical domain extensions, it can be used to facilitate domain-specific model-driven development and thus reduce the total development cost. This book is both an introduction to the core concepts of metamodeling and a detailed analysis of the inherent weaknesses of the light-weight UML Profile extension mechanism. A new, hierarchical solution for UML extensions called OMEGA is proposed and explained using an example from the Web Application domain.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 224 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Public demand for comedy has always been high in the German-speaking countries, but the number of comic dramas that have survived is relatively small. Those which are still read or regularly performed all have a serious purpose, and this collection of fourteen essays on the most distinguished of them shows how laughter can be exploited to treat personal, moral, and social problems in a way that would not be possible in tragedy. The texts range from the seventeenth to the late twentieth century, and no fewer than half of them are by Austrian writers. The contributors show how these plays are often subversive, regularly arousing an uncomfortable, self-challenging laughter, and how they treat such widely ranging subjects as language and communication, the complications of the sex drive, the inflexibility of the Prussian mind, and the behaviour of Austrian celebrities during the Third Reich. The essays are all written by specialists in the field and were originally delivered as lectures in the University of Cambridge. 248 pp. Englisch.