peter lang peter lang jan 2014 (246 resultados)

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Subjetividad significa, desde el primer momento, intersubjetividad. En esta obra partimos de esta premisa central de la Fenomenología filosófica e intentamos demostrar que la intersubjetividad constituye el elemento fundamental que origina y caracteriza las condiciones trascendentales bajo las que el sujeto actúa en una situación normal de comunicación, es decir, bajo las que el sujeto actúa como hablante. Desde este punto de vista, las actividades de conceptuación y codificación gramatical que realiza el sujeto durante un evento comunicativo llevan siempre en cuenta la presencia y la perspectiva del otro. Esto es, no se dirigen tan sólo al otro, sino que parten también de la presencia y la perspectiva del otro como elementos fundamentales de su génesis. De ello se desprende, como consecuencia teórica de importancia cardinal, que toda construcción gramatical codifica una determinada configuración de intersubjetividad. 120 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The book covers the topic of experimental instrumentation at the turn of the 20th century. The authors introduce the role of instruments in the process of establishing psychology as a science. They concentrate on identifying historical devices and problems with rediscovering their functionality. The core of the book consists of a categorized list of instruments with a description of their purpose and mechanical design. The categorization covers recording and time measuring devices, instruments designated for the research of human senses, memory and learning, and devices for physiological measurement. The publication also includes a companion website with short videos demonstrating selected instruments in action. 140 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book sheds light on the work of one of the 20th century's foremost critical educators, the Italian Lorenzo Milani (1923-1967), on the 90th anniversary of his birth. It provides an exposition and critical analysis of the ideas contained in his writings, ideas that emerged from his experiences in two Tuscan localities. The work of Milani and the School of Barbiana that he directed provide signposts for a critically and sociologically engaged pedagogy. Important themes include education and class politics; education and imperialism; education and the culture of militarization; the collective dimensions of learning and writing; peer tutoring; critical media literacy; and reading history against the grain. These ideas are analyzed with reference to similar and contrasting ideas by other international educators, scholars and thinkers. As the book argues, Milani's oeuvre contains important ingredients for a social justice-oriented critical pedagogy. The spirit for this pedagogical approach is captured in the School of Barbiana's motto 'I care.'Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 142 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -African Americans in the History of Mass Communication offers a variety of stories focusing on how African Americans use the media to educate, advocate, empower, and serve others. Stories ranging from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Era, which include different forms of media from cinema and music to newspapers and public relations, offer perspectives that have yet to be told. The book¿s concluding chapter includes personal accounts from several of its contributing authors detailing how they researched their chapters. These accounts offer questions designed to generate thought about scholarship and history. Students may use these anecdotes as guides for their own research.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 188 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This is a book about parliamentary elections in Romania in the two decades that followed the collapse of the one-party rule. It charts how the electoral rules developed, it looks at how people voted, and takes stock of the long term effects of the electoral system. Despite commotion and experimentation in the electoral rules and stir in the political arena, the Romanian election outcomes over the past two decades are surprisingly monotonous. Twenty years after they entered the first electoral cycle in 1990, the Romanian political parties and partisan groups were about in the same condition: quarters united against themselves. 136 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Despite the widely recognized toll of tobacco and increasing action to curb tobacco use (e.g., increased excise taxes, smoking bans), smoking continues. Numerous messages about tobacco, smoking, and health circulate throughout society, but in spite of the prevalence of such messages and the importance of how they are constructed and interpreted, too little communication research has been dedicated to understanding and assessing tobacco-related messages. Talking Tobacco addresses the shortcoming. Featuring the work of top communication scholars, the volume advances theoretical knowledge, reviews state-of-the-art research, and shares new findings and insights on a variety of tobacco-related areas ranging from tobacco control efforts to corporate representations.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 266 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Every century has witnessed the birth of a few world-transcending intellectuals as well as talented emerging scholars. Noam Chomsky and Pierre W. Orelus are no exception. Using dialogues exchanged over the course of nine years, combined with heartfelt critical essays, Chomsky and Orelus analytically examine social justice issues, such as unbalanced relationships between dominant and subjugated languages, democratic schooling, neoliberalism, colonization, and the harmful effect of Western globalization on developing countries, particularly on the poor living in those countries. On Language, Democracy, and Social Justice offers a unique perspective on these issues. Educators and scholar-activists interested in challenging the long-standing status quo to inspire transformative social, educational, and political change must read this book. 200 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Research Methods in Africana Studies is a major contribution to the discipline of Africana studies and social science involving people of African descent in general. This textbook is the first of its kind, offering instruction on how to conduct culturally relevant critical research on Africana communities in the American context, in addition to the African diaspora. It contains a collection of the most widely used theories and paradigms designed for exploring, explaining, and advancing Africana communities through science. The relevance, strengths, and weaknesses of every major method of data collection are explained as they relate to the lived experiences of the Black world. It stands alone as the only textbook that details empirical methods in the service of the collective advancement of Africana peoples.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 362 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This volume is an up-to-date account of communication theories from around the world. Authored by a group of eminent scholars, each chapter is a history and state-of-the-art description of the major issues in international communication theory. While the book draws on an understanding of communication theory as a product of its socio-political and cultural context, and the challenges posed by that context, it also highlights each author¿s lifetime effort to critique the existing trends in communication theory and bring out the very best in each multicultural context. 340 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Curriculum and the Culture Wars offers a fresh perspective on perennial debates about the role of religion in public schools, focusing on the intersection of religion and curriculum. This debate has been renewed in part due to the growth of elective Bible courses in public schools in many parts of the country. The first half of the book presents new scholarship on the use of the Bible in schools, including a historical analysis of what the Founders had to say about the use of the Bible in public education, a more current assessment of the politics behind the elective Bible class movement in the early twenty-first century, and a critique of such educational programs from constitutional and pedagogical perspectives. This edited volume also offers new insights into long-standing battles that pit religious and secular advocates against one another in the areas of evolution and sex education and considers whether school choice programs that would allow parents the right to send their children to sectarian schools are an affront to promoting the goals of a liberal democracy.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 230 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -It is time for academics to embrace the fact that nothing is more appealing to readers ¿ especially to our students ¿ than personal stories with meaning-making implications that can touch all lives. No matter the age or stage in life, the personal or collective identity, everyone deals with meaning-making issues that challenge them ¿ and others ¿ throughout their lifetimes. And everyone we know finds that when encouraged to write their stories in the academy, they find meaning, wholeness, and healing.How Stories Heal illustrates the value of personal narrative writing. Referring to this type of writing as the «turn to the subjective I» or to «me-search research», this is a book about Scholarly Personal Narrative (SPN) writing, actually written in an SPN style. This book will satisfy a huge need in higher education and scholarship, particularly for students who are writing undergraduate and graduate theses and doctoral dissertations; and also for junior and senior faculty who are looking to construct alternative forms of scholarship for publication.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 206 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The «gay agenda» is a rhetorical strategy deployed by the religious right and other social conservatives to magnify fear and hostility of queers. Queers are accused, among other things, of strategizing to recruit children into sexually deviant lifestyles; dismantling family and marriage as cornerstones of civilization; and forcing the entertainment industry and court systems to do their bidding. Queers certainly do have an agenda but it is not the one that the religious right claims it is. It is to assert their presence in the public space; claim and name their identities; and strategize for social justice in law, schools, and workplaces. The Gay Agenda: Claiming Space, Identity, and Justice claims and reclaims the language of «agenda» and turns the rhetoric of the religious right on its ear. The contributors provide insightful and sharp commentary on gay agendas for human rights, marriage and family, cultural influences, schooling and education, and politics and law.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 368 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -A principios del siglo pasado una expedición compuesta por profesores y estudiantes universitarios de Suiza y Alemania visitó Canarias. Basándose en el estudio de fuentes documentales, este libro analiza las circunstancias que rodearon aquel viaje de estudios que, por diferentes razones, culmina una larga serie de viajes científicos procedentes del ámbito germano a las Islas en el siglo XIX. La tipología y evolución histórica del Studienreise (viaje de estudios), la implicación de la Escuela Politécnica Superior de Zúrich en aquel evento, los itinerarios de la expedición, las personas que participaron en el viaje así como su percepción de España y, en especial, de Canarias y su gente conforman aspectos centrales que el lector encontrará en este libro. 370 pp. Spanisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Die Goethezeit gehört zu den glanzvollsten Epochen der deutschsprachigen Literaturgeschichte. Dieses Studienbuch vermittelt Studierenden der germanistischen Literaturwissenschaft übersichtlich und klar strukturiert die Epoche der Goethezeit. Auf der Basis der aktuellen Forschungslage wird die Epoche der Goethezeit in ihrer ganzen Vielfalt und Komplexität dargestellt. Die grundlegenden Themen und kulturgeschichtlichen Entwicklungen der Epoche werden präzise herausgearbeitet. Deutlich wird dabei, welche Bedeutung die Goethezeit innerhalb der germanistischen Literaturgeschichte einnimmt. Auf diese Weise ermöglicht der Band einen vertieften Einblick in die Entwicklungsprozesse der Goethezeit und enthält zugleich einen Überblick über die wesentliche Forschungsliteratur, der zur weitergehenden Beschäftigung mit der Epoche anregen soll. 116 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book studies the different roles that jazz played in Poland in the course of the 20 century, from its implementation in the 1920s, through World War II to the Third Polish Republic. The author, sociologist and jazz musician, depicts how jazz was forbidden under Stalin, accepted and even supported in the Polish People¿s Republic and then welcomed in the open market of the Third Republic. The discussion of jazz in this work covers several levels: political, symbolic, cultural, and economic. The main point of the presented analysis are changes within jazz music itself, within the community of jazz musicians and relations between the field of jazz and the field of politics. 158 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Kulturen bzw. Gesellschaften in ihrer spezifischen Prägung haben systemischen Charakter und bedürfen einer ganzheitlichen Betrachtung. Im Zuge entwicklungspolitischer Maßnahmen erfolgen Wissens- und Technologietransfer untrennbar vom Kulturtransfer. Eine Nahtstelle dieses Geschehens ist der Bildungsbereich. Aus einem anders gearteten kulturellen Kontext in einen bestimmten traditionellen Gesellschaftstypus hineinwirkende Maßnahmen zwischenstaatlicher Entwicklungshilfe stellen eine Intervention in ein fremdes sozio-kulturelles Milieu dar. Die skizzierten Zusammenhänge werden am Beispiel des Projektalltages an der deutsch-äthiopischen Modellhochschule, der Adama University, aufgezeigt. 146 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Im Zentrum des Buches steht der Film Lisbon Story (1994) des Regisseurs Wim Wenders. Der Film wird als eine Darstellung des Gedächtnisdiskurses gelesen und in den Zusammenhang von Intertextualität und Gedächtnis gebracht. Das Thema Erinnerung wird in Lisbon Story über Zitate, durch Farbgestaltung, Geräusche und Medialität motivisch und thematisch in den Vordergrund gestellt. Die Studie weist die in den Film eingelagerten Referenzen an die Filmgeschichte ¿ insbesondere die Regisseure Dziga Vertov und Manoel de Oliveira ¿ und die intertextuellen Bezüge auf das Werk des portugiesischen Dichters Fernando Pessoa nach. Zusätzlich zeigt sie, dass in Lisbon Story die Stadt Lissabon als Erinnerungsraum inszeniert wird, der seine Geschichte erzählen will. 134 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) was implemented in 2003 in response to the poor state of health care in rural China. It holds the primary objective of insuring rural residents against catastrophic health expenses, protecting them from impoverishment caused by medical expenses. The objective of this study, therefore, is to explore variation in the determinants of household enrolment in this scheme and the impact of enrolment on health care utilization and medical expenditures in three large geographic regions in China and further to simulate the reimbursement package design in order to achieve better financing protection and policy effectiveness. 168 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book seeks to investigate gender differences in final year undergraduates¿ employment expectations of their starting jobs, including salary, occupational and working region expectations, and to identify factors that have contributed to gender differences in these expectations. It employs an on-site self-completion questionnaire survey and a follow-up semi-structured interview carried out in a university in Central China. The study adopts the conceptual perspective of ¿choice and constraint¿, which means that male and female final year undergraduates are able to make their own choices towards employment expectations; however, their choices of employment expectations are limited by a number of constraints. Empirical studies find that there are gender differences in employment expectations. This study further reveals the influence of gendered economic roles, experienced or perceived sex discrimination in Chinäs graduate labour market job preferences and parents¿ expectations on those gender differences in employment expectations.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 252 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -A kinship term is defined as a lexical item which is used to name a person who is connected by certain blood relations with other persons or a group of persons. Kinship term systems were first studied scientifically in the latter half of the 19th century by the American anthropological school, whose scholars researched the culture of inhabitants of the North American continent, often drawing on linguistic data from many Indian tribes. This book presents an analysis of structural and semantic peculiarities of kinship terms in forty languages belonging to ten families. It suggests general typological classification of kinship terms and semantic classification of reciprocal kinship terms. A number of typological generalizations ¿ universals ¿ of a probabilistic nature are formulated regarding the structure and semantics of kinship terms. 228 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Many of the world¿s 7000 documented language groups are endangered due to falling rates of language and culture transmission from one generation to the next. Some endangered language groups have been the focus of efforts to reverse patterns of linguistic and cultural loss, with variable success. This book presents case studies of endangered language groups from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Pacific (including Bisu, Iban, Iquito, Quechua, Wawa, Yi and sign languages) and of their associated knowledge and belief systems, to highlight the importance of preserving linguistic and cultural diversity. Issues of identity and pride emerge within the book, alongside discussion of language and culture policy. 168 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The book offers an interdisciplinary but very grounded look at the question of memory politics in contemporary Poland. It describes the conflicting ways in which two groups of people ¿ the former anti-communist activists and the former officers of the repressive regime ¿ have actively engaged in representations and claims about the communist past in the contemporary reality of one Polish town. The material is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted during the years 2006-2008. The author focuses on the processes of reconstruction of memories and subjectivities taking place at the intersection of individuals, civic society, state bureaucracy and politics. The book focuses on the beliefs, hopes and fears of people who became the subjects of historical policy during their lifetimes. 254 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Der von der Gesellschaft für arabisches und islamisches Recht herausgegebene Band enthält die Vorträge, die auf der Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft 2012 in Heidelberg gehalten wurden. Ergänzt werden diese durch eine Reihe von Vorträgen, die ebenfalls die Veränderungen der rechtlichen Strukturen nach dem Arabischen Frühling in den betroffenen Ländern und im gesamten Rechtskreis islamisch beeinflusster Rechtsordnungen zum Gegenstand haben. Die Beiträge spannen dabei einen Bogen von den islamischen Einflüssen auf die ägyptische Verfassung über Chancen der Rechtsentwicklung im Arabischen Frühling und Strukturen des Vereins- und Versicherungsrechts bis hin zu aktuellen Fragen der Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit in Saudi-Arabien. 196 pp. Englisch, Deutsch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The book offers a novel attempt at recapitulating Gombrowicz¿s aesthetics in the postmodern Anglo-American context. The research extends to English and American literary traditions in order to account for the ways the writer¿s version of existentialism is interpreted in diverse contexts, generating alternative interpretations of his peculiar philosophy. Furthermore it demonstrates the ways in which textual indeterminacy and the nebulous notion of the Other underpin Gombrowicz¿s text of existence. The final chapter undertakes to pair up the process of translation with the liminal act of participation. The translations of Gombrowicz¿s selected works are juxtaposed to argue the extent to which his master tropes (fail to) preserve their otherness when translated into English, as well as to test the ways translation as a self-reflexive act responds to the otherness of texts determined by different hermeneutic conditions. This study intends to fill, if partially, some lacunae on the map of Gombrowicz¿s Translation Studies and to inspire further debates on the related aspects of postmodern existentialism of his works. 210 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Cet ouvrage propose une étude de la question du genre dans l¿¿uvre d¿Agota Kristof, écrivaine suisse francophone d¿origine hongroise. La prépondérance des narrateurs masculins dans sa prose suggère la supériorité du masculin; ceci se reflète aussi sur le plan du contenu de son ¿uvre, car les personnages féminins sont plutôt marginalisés et relégués à la sphère domestique. Néanmoins, les thèmes de la violence contre les femmes, de leur folie et de la prostitution démontrent un souci de présenter leur condition dans la société. Pour élucider cette contradiction, l¿analyse détaillée des textes rend compte des différentes stratégies que l¿auteure emploie pour représenter les personnages et leurs relations sexuées. Notamment, mettre l¿accent sur la voix narrative permet d¿étudier l¿accès des personnages à la parole et leurs attitudes à l¿égard de l¿idéologie du genre. L¿étude se concentre non seulement sur la fameuse trilogie mais également sur le roman Hier, les nouvelles, les pièces de théâtre et l¿autobiographie. Première analyse de ce type, ce livre propose d¿élargir l¿approche interprétative des oeuvres de Kristof et d¿apporter une nouvelle perspective à l¿étude des ¿uvres littéraires de l¿espace francophone européen. 276 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The economic integration between the European Union and Mexico is of strategic significance to both parts. The EU is Mexicös second most important trading partner and an integral piece in the diversification of its economic dependence from the United States. Besides, as Mexico is part of the North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA and due to its geographical proximity to the United States, it has become of major geopolitical interest to the European Union. This multidisciplinary book analyzes the integration between Mexico and the European Union by economic, legal, and business management aspects, trying to contribute to a profound understanding of their relations. 242 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Central-Eastern Europe, in the mid-20th century, was a scene of Holocaust, mass killings, war, deportations and forced resettlements under the competing totalitarian invasions and afterwards. It was also the area where churches, politicians and citizens were engaged in reconciliation between antagonized religions and nations. This book presents several attempts to heal relations between Poles, Jews, Germans, Czechs, Ukrainians, Russians and Latvians as well as between Catholics, Protestants and Mariavites. Re-conciliatory practices of John Paul II and other Catholic leaders as well as Protestant churches are analysed in the first part of the book. Most of the remaining studies are focused on particular localities in Upper Silesia, Cieszyn Silesia, former Polish Livland and on the Polish-Ukrainian borderland. These detailed contributions combine sociological methods with anthropological insight and historical context. The authors are sociologists, psychologists and theologians and this leads to a fully interdisciplinary approach in the assessment of the recent state of inter-group relations in the region as well as in the proposed theory of peacebuilding and reconciliation. 354 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Uniquely amongst the numerous publications to appear on the work of the French social theorist Pierre Bourdieu, this book deals with data analysis, examining a range of techniques and instruments. After an introductory chapter outlining the key principles of Bourdieüs theory, the book presents detailed examples of data being collected and analysed in a Bourdieusian way across various social science contexts. Both qualitative and quantitative methods are addressed, including analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of each method, as are common data collection procedures such as interview, observation and questionnaire. Examples of Multiple Correspondence Analysis are an important feature of the book, since this was an approach particularly favoured by Bourdieu. In each case study, the pros and cons of different approaches are highlighted and the qualitative/quantitative debate is thoroughly explored. Overall, the book offers readers a blueprint to develop their own methodological plans for using Bourdieu in research practice.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 344 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Current theories of leadership, spirituality and ethics are inadequate for the global, rapidly changing and complex environment in which leaders work today. Emerging from this book¿s critical analysis comes a new theory of leadership: co-charismatic leadership. This does not mean leadership focused in ¿charismä, or the special qualities or charm of an individual. Charisma originates from the Greek word for gift or grace. Rather it emphasises the relational nature of charisma, as both shared throughout the community and dependent upon mutual relationships within the community. The charismata are in effect virtues, to be practised in the community by all members, hence the ¿cö in the title.The authors argue for a leadership that enables virtues, informed by the ongoing narrative of and dialogue in the community, to be practised in the community and beyond. These virtues enable the practice of responsibility, and taking that responsibility for ideas, values and practice is itself central to leadership. Through the practice of responsibility everybody in the organisation becomes a leader in some way. The task of the authorised leader is to enable all this.This book will appeal to both practitioner and academic audiences alike as it provides an engaging mix of theory and practical application which tests and applies the concepts explored in a range of practical case studies.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 338 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book is written to satisfy the individual¿s desire for intellectual stimulation, to sow in the mind the seed of new ideas, and involve the reader in productive debates. It covers culture, history and the future, raising questions, presenting arguments and engaging the enquirer in reflection. It illustrates the relationship between past history and current social practices, proposing the concept of compartmentalization of behaviour, where history is understood to contribute to why there are so many displaced excesses amongst the English, alongside an ethos of moderation ¿ why, in a country with such high civility, there is hooliganism, why riots in English cities can be particularly violent, why the country has the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in Europe, why it lags behind many others in the early diagnosis of cancer ¿ and what can be done about this.The book also explores what affects us all globally ¿ the making of history, the psychology of dictatorships, the unconscious in history, the development of new democracies, the emerging psychosocial trends in the world to come, the cognitive, emotional and identity-ethos of the evolving century and the «future» of history. Finally, it identifies history¿s foundations and the fundamental human tendency which, beyond the class interests of Marx and the search for recognition of Hegel, motivates and perpetuates history itself.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 288 pp. Englisch.