peter lang peter lang feb 2021 (205 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The cradle of the Church of the East was in Mesopotamia (between the Tigris and the Euphrates), where it developed its first centre at Seleucia-Ctesiphon, then the capital of the great Persian Empire and today an archaeological site to the south of Baghdad. From the very beginnings of Christianity until the fourteenth century, this Church experienced a remarkable expansion in Asia, its missionaries carrying the Gospel from Persia to India, via the Persian Gulf, and even as far as China. The Church of the East reached China as early as the seventh century via Central Asia and the celebrated Silk Road that linked China to the Mediterranean world. Much later, in the late fourteenth century, the invasions of the Mongol conqueror, Timur Lang (Tamerlane), across Asia brought about a great decline of the Church of the East. Eventually, after the genocide suffered by Christians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915, and the massacres that followed in Persia, the Church of the East and its people were on the verge of extinction. In 1940 the patriarchal seat was moved to Chicago (in the United States) and then in September 2015 to Erbil (in northern Iraq). Many of the faithful have left the Middle East and have formed diaspora communities throughout the world. The history of Christianity in the Middle East and well beyond, in Central and Eastern Asia, is very little known. In this book, the reader is invited to travel in time and space and undertake the fascinating discovery of a very ancient apostolic Church, the Church of the East, whose two-thousand year history constitutes an indispensable chapter in the history of the universal Church. 210 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Lo que encontramos en esta publicación es una aproximación al cine de David Lynch desde el pensamiento cinematográfico de Gilles Deleuze. La conjunción de estos dos autores, en apariencia muy distantes, permite la creación de un diálogo entre filosofía y creación audiovisual que tiene el fin de reflexionar sobre la naturaleza propia de las imágenes cinematográficas. A través de dos películas del director norteamericano, Carretera Perdida (1997) y Mulholland Drive (2001), se ponen en juego imágenes pensadas por Deleuze como la imagen-recuerdo, el «sueño implicado», la imagen-sueño o la imagen-cristal. 128 pp. Spanisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Dans le monde francophone, Mai 68 continue à être envisagé comme un événement s'inscrivant dans une temporalité et une spatialité bien délimitées : Paris, France, notamment les 5è et 6è arrondissements du 22 mars au 30 juin 1968, du début des manifestations à Nanterre avec l'émergence de Daniel Cohn-Bendit, leader du mouvement, jusqu'au second tour des élections législatives qui entérine la victoire de la droite. Peu de recherches ont été effectuées jusqu'à ce jour sur les répercussions de cet événement dans la sphère francophone. Ce livre explore cet événement et ses vies ultérieures entre Paris, Montréal et l'Acadie. 126 pp. Französisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Este volumen pretende contribuir a mejorar el conocimiento de la literatura de corte erótico en español de la primera mitad del siglo XX. La reflexión sobre el eros induce, de diferentes formas, a todos los escritores y todas las escritoras (Augusto d¿Halmar, Álvaro Retana, Pedro Badanelli, Rosa Chacel, Josefina de la Torre, Eunice Odio, Agustín Espinosa y César Moro, entre otros) incluidos en este volumen a cuestionar y a autoafirmar su identidad, desarrollada al margen y en contraposición a los roles socialmente establecidos. 178 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The cradle of the Church of the East was in Mesopotamia (between the Tigris and the Euphrates), where it developed its first centre at Seleucia-Ctesiphon, then the capital of the great Persian Empire and today an archaeological site to the south of Baghdad. From the very beginnings of Christianity until the fourteenth century, this Church experienced a remarkable expansion in Asia, its missionaries carrying the Gospel from Persia to India, via the Persian Gulf, and even as far as China. The Church of the East reached China as early as the seventh century via Central Asia and the celebrated Silk Road that linked China to the Mediterranean world. Much later, in the late fourteenth century, the invasions of the Mongol conqueror, Timur Lang (Tamerlane), across Asia brought about a great decline of the Church of the East. Eventually, after the genocide suffered by Christians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915, and the massacres that followed in Persia, the Church of the East and its people were on the verge of extinction. In 1940 the patriarchal seat was moved to Chicago (in the United States) and then in September 2015 to Erbil (in northern Iraq). Many of the faithful have left the Middle East and have formed diaspora communities throughout the world. The history of Christianity in the Middle East and well beyond, in Central and Eastern Asia, is very little known. In this book, the reader is invited to travel in time and space and undertake the fascinating discovery of a very ancient apostolic Church, the Church of the East, whose two-thousand year history constitutes an indispensable chapter in the history of the universal Church. 210 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Following on from the phenomenal success of the Peter Lang publication ¿Autism from the Inside Out¿, ¿Leading inclusion from the Inside Out¿ is the first book to focus on providing Irish parents, early childhood teachers in early learning and care, primary and special school settings with practical and effective strategies for supporting the inclusion of all children at this critical phase of their education journey. With a foreword by Prof Seamus Hegarty, University of Warwick/University College Dublin, and emerging from the experiences of the authors during the delivery and evaluation of the multi-award winning Leadership for INClusion in the Early Years (LINC) Programme, the book is located in contemporary research on inclusion. The volume is presented in three interconnected sections focused on placing the child at the centre of a bioecological framework; realising inclusive pedagogy and cultivating effectiveleadership for including all children.Believing that language is a significant contributor to progressing an education system where all children are valued equally, the authors have directed specific attention to the use of terminology that communicates a philosophy of universality, within which difference and diversity are embedded, rather than disability and uniformity. In essence, the publication looks towards a new era, where leading inclusion from the inside out progresses to leading early childhood education from the inside out and advocating for inclusion is relegated to history. 346 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Dans le monde francophone, Mai 68 continue à être envisagé comme un événement s¿inscrivant dans une temporalité et une spatialité bien délimitées : Paris, France, notamment les 5è et 6è arrondissements du 22 mars au 30 juin 1968, du début des manifestations à Nanterre avec l¿émergence de Daniel Cohn-Bendit, leader du mouvement, jusqüau second tour des élections législatives qui entérine la victoire de la droite. Peu de recherches ont été effectuées jusqüà ce jour sur les répercussions de cet événement dans la sphère francophone. Ce livre explore cet événement et ses vies ultérieures entre Paris, Montréal et l¿Acadie. 126 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Christine L. Nystrom¿s provocative work offers up a fresh approach to ongoing¿and increasingly urgent¿questions about the role of symbols and technology in shaping human experience. In lucid, lively, and always-accessible prose, she examines an eclectic range of topics¿from Hopi grammar to the etiquette of beach-going to the primal allure of the horror film¿to uncover the principles that structure the way we make meaning of our world. A cross-disciplinary tour de force, The Genes of Culture integrates insights from philosophy, the physical sciences, social psychology, and cultural criticism to pose challenging questions for today¿s students of media. This book is an exemplary foundation reader for graduates or undergraduates in communication and media studies.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 200 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book presents educational strategies for combating the harmful effects of hegemonic masculinity in the college classroom. The critical pedagogy presented in this book challenges some of the heteronormative tendencies present in the fields of media studies, literary studies, linguistic studies, philosophy, and critical thinking.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 224 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -In banking education where the focus of curriculum is producing legitimate knowledge to maintain the sociocultural arrangements, the subjectivity of students and teachers is simply taken for granted. Once credentialized, students can find the source of unease within as public education¿centered on conformity and competition¿has overlooked their individuality. To contribute to their self-understanding and self-love, self-education starts from reconstructing student and teacher educational experiences. Once students and teachers reflect on their educational experience using autobiographical writing, they can reconstruct their understanding of their self and their education. Using emancipatory and transformative writing to liberate self through autobiographical method of Currere, this book takes a psychoanalytical and hermeneutic journey into student and teacher inner world. Once false self gets shattered following the synthetic phase of the method, students and teachers can reconnect to their true self disguised by non-egöcurriculum. As the source of aesthetic creation and inspiration, true self will connect students and teachers to their deeper layers of self-understanding and self-value using which they can recreate their lifeworlds and reconstruct their social and political spheres. Using hermeneutic dialogue following their rebirth, students and teachers will transfer their transformative and liberating understanding of lifeworld to their circumstances to reconstruct education.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 196 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -¿Cuál es la actualidad del pensamiento de Levinas en filosofía política La pregunta tiene dos respuestas. La primera se relaciona -siguiendo a Foucault- con la ampliación de la pregunta por el ¿poder¿ a los campos de normalización social, lo que muestra una coincidencia con la preocupación levinasiana por identificar en la metafísica un movimiento totalizante. Por otra parte, dicha actualidad también corresponde a una necesaria renovación de la filosofía política en el contexto de la destrucción de la historia de la metafísica. La sagacidad de Levinas fue la de haber comprendido la pregnancia de las formas de dominación asociada a la ontología, de tal forma que la política no puede seguir siendo ser pensada como lo había sido hasta entonces sin traicionar su mismo potencial emancipatorio. 208 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The controversial issue of secession has received little attention from experts of federalism. The best federal studies either evade it or dismiss it in a few lines. However, the issue of secession has been present throughout the history of federations. This book is one of the first to explore the complex relationship between federalism and secession.The authors whose work is presented here recognize the potential of federalism as a way to organize relations between several different states, peoples, nations or territories under the same government. However, they are not naïve or idealist about the ability of the federal idea to succeed in the complex situations in which it is applied. In some cases success seems assured (the United States, Switzerland, Germany, etc.), and the merits of federalism can be showcased. But there are also failures (the former Yugoslavia, or more recently Brexit) and semi-failures that have generated turbulence in recent years in devolutive systems (Scotland in the United Kingdom, Catalonia in Spain) or federative systems (Québec in Canada).This book provides a nuanced portrait of the issue of secession in federal contexts and lays the groundwork for questioning the still too fragile legacy of the great thinkers of federalism.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 198 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This study brings us closer to understanding the relationship between fashion and literature. The book focuses on how the irony present in Machado de Assis¿ Dom Casmurro is also evident in the fashion portrayed in the novel. It reveals that fashion can be seen from Machadös perspective as a literary strategy while also participating in the construction of the characters in the plot of the narrative. In the first appearance of the protagonist of Dom Casmurro, Capitu has simple ¿cloth shoes¿ sewn by herself. In this little description by Machado, a whole world is hidden, in the same way that in each garment, costumes and props of the characters hide literary games ¿ the games of light, shadow and irony that can be seen in the novel. Through the descriptions of the garments, it is possible to perceive the first steps towards global capitalist expansion at the end of the nineteenth century, when consumer society was still forming. This book gives insight into Brazilian society in transition at the end of the nineteenth century, as observed by Machado de Assis. 190 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The value of global cashless payments has been radically increasing worldwide. Despite cash being the most used payment instrument in the world, technological innovation and new consumer preferences are decisively transforming the way consumers pay and manage money. The COVID-19 pandemic may also have been an accelerator of the cashless mega-trend. Private players currently dominate the digital payment ecosystem, urging central banks to seek solutions to ensure public access to legal tender if cash is phased out. In this context, the idea of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) is gaining momentum. Nevertheless, there is a need to better understand the implications in terms of risks, benefits and potential costs of CBDCs. From privacy concerns to macroeconomic effects, these implications blur the boundaries of the payment and financial systems, challenging the core functions of our economy and society.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 202 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book seeks to answer how we can reposition the geopolitical situation of the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region in the 21st century. CEE region defined by the socialist past has transformed in the 21st century. Within geopolitical thought we must abandon the paradigms of the Cold War period. The role of a gateway zone to entail links between the great powers. In the CEE region it is possible to bound four gateway regions along the north-south Baltic-Adriatic axis (Baltic, North Adriatic, Central European and Eurasian) and two gateway regions along the southeast-east European axis (Mediterranean and Black Sea). The key question of the 21st century is whether a new gateway zone of the present forming World-Island can be developed along a north-south Baltic-Adriatic axis. 242 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Este libro argumenta que el apogeo del género policial en Cuba a partir de 1971 está ligado a la redefinición cultural y política que tuvo lugar en las primeras décadas de la Revolución. La proliferación de novelas policiales, sus masivas tiradas y su promoción por organismos oficiales no es un fenómeno meramente literario y editorial, y debe analizarse en relación con la política cultural del largo Quinquenio Gris.Este libro argumenta también que la decadencia de la novela policial revolucionaria, y el desarrollo del neopolicial en los noventa, son reflejo de cambios en el contexto sociopolítico cubano. La gradual apertura en los ochenta, la desaparición de la Unión Soviética y el inicio del Periodo Especial, hicieron del tono épico del policial revolucionario un producto trasnochado, posibilitando un policial que cuestionaba cuanto antes se consideraba irrefutable.Finalmente, este libro argumenta que el análisis del policial cubano debe incorporar las teleseries policiales. La Revolución instrumentalizó la television para la educación masiva en los principios revolucionarios, un proyecto educativo como parte del cual pronto comienzan a retransmitirse programas centrados en la nueva legalidad revolucionaria. Las teleseries policiales han desempeñado un papel paralelo al de la narrativa que se analiza aquí por primera vez. 262 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -A challenging journey for managers to succeed by following 13 paths. Visionary and curious academicians sailing to new horizons.Yes! The journey is long, tiring but how success is easily achieved There is no change without pain! Management on the Go covers different aspects of today's management which can be both used as a handbook by executives who want to keep up with the pace of scientific advancements, as well as a road map for academics to turn towards innovative management systems. You are invited to embark on a journey from topics that have become outdated in the literature to approaches that will arouse excitement and curiosity about future. Each chapter is written based on sector experiences by 13 academicians located in 5 different universities in Turkey and now reaches you dear readers. 194 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Jouir d¿un jugement adéquat au long de la vie grâce à une véritable éducation de la pensée, si possible dès l¿enfance et, par conséquent, pouvoir décider de façon efficace, représente le but essentiel de l¿auteur. Cela est particulièrement important pour préserver la démocratie par la compétence d¿une citoyenneté lucide et responsable.Mais c¿est par une histoire à la fois réaliste et merveilleuse, suite directe de Pixie, que Lipman nous plonge dans les questions les plus actuelles¿: une éducation appropriée à l¿action, des relations positives avec la nature et les animaux, la solidarité dans les épreuves, la reconnaissance de l¿autre, le dialogue des générations, la préservation de l¿imagination et de la créativité, etc. Notre avenir humain en dépend. Il faut donc s¿y appliquer car «¿l¿éducation morale bien menée est tout, sauf facile.¿»Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 312 pp. Französisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -En este libro se da cuenta de la presencia del cine mexicano en Buenos Aires desde la exhibición de las primeras películas de esa procedencia en 1934, hasta el afi anzamiento de la esfera de la distribución y el arraigo entre los espectadores porteños de algunas fi guras populares, diez años después.La narración, ordenada de forma cronológica, aborda la distribución, la exhibición y la recepción de las películas mexicanas, así como las visitas que hicieron a la ciudad actores, directores y otros profesionales del cine mexicano para acompañar el lanzamiento de producciones, participar en cintas locales o considerar la realización de proyectos.La obra ofrece así conocimiento sobre un periodo poco estudiado, en el que se sentaron las bases de expansión de los llamados 'cines clásicos'. También, desde una perspectiva transnacional, pone en juego una discusión acerca por un lado de la producción, la distribución y el consumo de objetos culturales, y por otro de los intercambios industriales y profesionales.Los principales destinatarios del libro son quienes, en el ámbito universitario, se interesan en la historia de las cinematografías latinoamericanas. En este sentido, es un volumen que puede incorporarse a bibliotecas de instituciones que ofrezcan licenciaturas o posgrados de historia, cine o humanidades relativos a América Latina. Pero por los temas que trata y su narración amena y clara, la obra también puede resultar interesante a lectores que, fuera del mundo académico, se sientan atraídos por el conocimiento del cine, la música, la literatura y la cultura general del continente.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 196 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Der Verein ¿Fundare e.V., Gemeinnütziger Verein zur Förderung des Stiftungswesens' hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, zu einer aufblühenden Stiftungskultur in Deutschland beizutragen. Dazu sollen insbesondere die wissenschaftlichen und praktischen Grundlagen des Stiftens erforscht werden. Der Erfüllung dieser Aufgabe dient die Zeitschrift Die Stiftung ¿ Jahreshefte zum Stiftungswesen. Sie beinhaltet in ihrer vierzehnten Ausgabe die Vorträge, die auf dem von Fundare e.V. veranstalteten 14. Stiftungsrechtstag an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum unter dem Globalthema ¿Stiftung und Aufsicht' gehalten wurden. Darüber hinaus haben noch weitere Beiträge Aufnahme gefunden. Es werden nicht nur eingehend zivilrechtliche, sondern auch verwaltungs- und steuerrechtliche Problematiken des Stiftungsrechts beleuchtet, wobei die aktuellen Themen im Stiftungs- und Stiftungssteuerrecht nicht vernachlässigt werden. 124 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -En 1943 se filmó la película Distinto amanecer, basada en la obra teatral La vida conyugal, de Max Aub. A partir de entonces, el escritor trabajará en la industria cinematográfica mexicana, que experimentaba un notable desarrollo, una verdadera 'época de oro', y será una de sus principales fuentes de ingresos con las que subsistir en su vida de exiliado republicano. Las tensiones resultantes de la primera relación con esa industria tendrán consecuencias sobre su posterior inserción en el ámbito cultural del refugio. Revisar esas tensiones ayuda a comprender los primeros tiempos de Aub en México tanto como a vislumbrar rasgos del mundo intellectual en el que desenvolvió su trabajo. La película, en fin, permite hilar una compleja red de nexos entre la política, la industria cultural y la esfera artística, para mostrar una imagen no siempre perceptible a simple vista. Dado que la adaptación de la obra teatral al film generó una serie de conflictos entre Aub y el director, Julio Bracho, se estudia aquí esa polémica, a partir no sólo de los documentos rescatados por diversos investigadores, sino también, por primera vez, del guion original de la película. Este guion, olvidado desde 1943, es un interesante testimonio que echa luz sobre los objetivos y pretensiones de una producción con la que, a pesar de todo, Aub comenzaba su extenso vínculo con el cine mexicano.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 222 pp. Spanisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book is above all an example of philosophical reflection in Africa, refuting traditional commonplaces concerning the continent. The texts comprising this volume disprove the misconceptions that Africa has never understood itself and has never contributed to the enrichment of knowledge, the development of rational thought, philosophy, the arts, science and technology as well as civilization. For the members of the recently established network Africa In-The-World, the contributions dealing with musical rhythms, dances and the continental humanist philosophy confirm that Africanisation is a process that continues unabated to this day. The multiple and significant African contributions are often difficult to see because they have long since been adopted and integrated into the heritage of humanity. Africa In-The-World is working toward the construction of a universal humanity ¿ one conceived in terms of a 'give and take mentality.' 172 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book focuses on the constitutive function of feminist rhetoric, i.e. the process of creating and justifying the movement¿s existence and the role of power. Feminism, like other ideologies, can often exist rhetorically only in opposition to or at war with something that constitutes a vital ideograph of the movement. How this enemy is created and fought is fundamental for the constitutive feminist rhetoric. The enemy is inseparable to the concept of power and dominance, the latter being a key tool of mental control, which creates possibilities for changing the existing reality or establishing an alternative one. Feminist rhetoric is often based on opposition ¿ a war against something, and (re)constructing an alternative reality on the victory ¿ in the opposition to that enemy. 156 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -A challenging journey for managers to succeed by following 13 paths¿ Visionary and curious academicians sailing to new horizons¿Yes! The journey is long, tiring but how success is easily achieved There is no change without pain! Management on the Go covers different aspects of today¿s management which can be both used as a handbook by executives who want to keep up with the pace of scientific advancements, as well as a road map for academics to turn towards innovative management systems.You are invited to embark on a journey from topics that have become outdated in the literature to approaches that will arouse excitement and curiosity about future. Each chapter is written based on sector experiences by 13 academicians located in 5 different universities in Turkey and now reaches you dear readers. 194 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Relational sociology draws attention to non-utilitarian aspects of sociality that reach beyond instrumental rationality, and presents the problem of relational reason. Shaping a civil society under cultural plurality requires reflection upon relational rationality. This book focuses on relational goods as an emergent effect of social relations, focusing on the issue of good life and the Good Society.The relational approach involves viewing social relations neither as an expression of the system nor as an individual action, but as a human reality in its own right, based on reciprocity.The authors explore the moral dimensions of sociality in various areas of social life. The aim is to enrich the understanding of relationality and of the significance of the relational theory of society. 250 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This study focuses on presenting the techniques of reworking and incorporating intertextual material into contemporary British fiction. Analysing emblematic intertextual strategies: adaptation, pastiche, transworld identity, and historiographic metafiction, the study provides a good insight into how the intertextual impulse can be inscribed not only in the structure and semantics of a given text but also in the narrative plane. Adopting Gerard Genette¿s and Boris Uspensky¿s theoretical models, the book aims to demonstrate how the discussed intertextual strategies transform a source text, genre, or literary component and how these creative decodings function on different planes of a literary text. 178 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The volume discusses a multitude of ways in which CALL can serve to develop and support broadly conceived issues-of background in language education. The individual chapters explore a number of areas in which CALL techniques and tools enhance language instruction. The issues reported on comprise working with mature language learners, developing civic education, ICT affordances for ESP, professional training for translators, interpreters and crowdsourcing opportunities. Other contributions center around CALL-related resources, CAPT metacompetence and blended-learning paradigms as well as exploring cultural and linguistic issues in online exchanges. 192 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The book deals with manifestations and relics of magical thinking in the narrative folklore of Cieszyn Silesia (Teschen Silesia, T¿¿ín Silesia). The point of departure is a phenomenological and social constructivist approach to human cognition. The author follows the cognitive dimensions of pre-modern folklore and popular texts in general. They are conventional in the sense that they are repeated in many variants inside one communicative group. Habituation based on more or less accurate reproduction of stereotypes (and corresponding experiences), motives, action scenarios, rationalizations, and motivations, is the source of relatively stable world image. The key concept developed in the book is redefined categorization understood as the simplification and stabilization of too complex and changing reality through shared narratives.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 218 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Politics of symbolization affects the semantics of identities and power relations between various subjects, and encompasses the changing meanings of social spaces, times, historical narratives, as well as modalities of collective memory. The volume focuses on politics of symbolization across Central and Eastern Europe understood as complex spaces of semiosis that are rife with similarities and differences. Politics of symbolization consists of various strategies of referring to past collective experiences from the perspective of projected visions and representations of the future. The European Union and its politics of symbolization is relevant in this respect. The volume facilitates understanding of the problems associated with politics of symbolization in Central and Eastern Europe. 304 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Manifestations and causes of failed leadership have attracted little systematic scientific reflection. This collection of articles brings readers¿ attention to ¿failed leadership¿ aspects encompassing business, political, social, philosophical, psychological and historical perspectives presented. An international group of authors, ranging from academicians to business practitioners. The reader will find both advanced theoretical analyses as well as descriptions of real-life cases of failed leadership across time and different geographies. The publication revolves around critical questions, including: ¿Is failure a flip side of success ¿, ¿How to measure failure ¿, ¿How much does it depend on historical, cultural or situational contexts ¿, or ¿Is failure recoverable ¿ 252 pp. Englisch.