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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book is written for students of English who are interested in the history of the language and would like to read an accessible but also comprehensive and reasonably detailed introduction. Apart from basic information about language change and the Indo-European background of English, it gives an outline of the major periods of the language (Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and Late Modern English), with a brief examination of the perspectives of present-day English. Each period chapter provides information about the socio-historical background, the core areas of linguistic structure, discourse, speech acts and genres, and concludes with study questions and exercises. 218 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -How deep is the impact of the 2008 global crisis on Ecuador, Brazil and Mexico Although having similar experience with the policies of the Washington Consensus, Ecuador, Brazil and Mexico have established different concepts of social and economic development during the last decade. These differences could also be observed during and after the global crisis in 2008. In contrast to the social anti-neoliberal policy implemented in Ecuador and the progressive social and economic policy in Brazil, Mexico has been carrying out the policy of continued neoliberalism. One of the conclusions drawn is that Mexico faces abysmal inequalities and persistence of poverty, which are not only explicated by historical roots, but also by strong applications of neoliberal policies. 78 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This volume launches the first sustained discussion of the need for a queer of color conceptual framework around Black, lesbian female identity. Specifically, this volume addresses the necessity for a more integrated framework within queer studies, in which the variables of race/ethnicity are taken into consideration. This book is unique in that it highlights a triple-jeopardy minority group that has been historically marginalized and concludes with the proposal of a much-needed framework for researchers to begin to create a baseline of knowledge/research under the umbrella of the Black Queer Identity Matrix.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 128 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -By analysing the context of emerging and developing countries, the author explores the private sector perspective on renewable energy diffusion. The evaluation of two technology case studies, namely wind farms (grid-connected renewable energy) and solar home systems (off-grid renewable energy), reveals the perspectives of highly experienced early adopters. Thereby, qualitative and quantitative data sources ¿ including innovative methods such as conjoint analysis ¿ are combined. A key finding is that private sector perspectives, especially of early adopters, are highly relevant for policy makers in their endeavour of designing effective and efficient framework conditions for renewable energy technologies. 120 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Psychometrically relevant population differences may limit the transferability of research instruments between migrants and their source population and may contribute to a low performance of quantitative questionnaires. Based on a review of existing taxonomies, this book develops a comprehensive analytical framework of equivalence that can serve multiple purposes. It allows to examine psychometrically relevant population differences, it can assist in the re-adaptation of questionnaires and it is a valuable tool for cross-group comparative research. The application of the framework is illustrated through the examination of equivalence of the Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R) between chronically ill Turks residing in Turkey and Turkish migrants residing in Germany. 148 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Although parents and teachers are among the numerous socializing agents through which children learn about the world, media, too, has begun to take center stage as a substantial force in children¿s lives. Media characters are some of the people being integrated into the social lives of children, yet very little is known about the implications of these relationships on child development in a mediated society.Through in-depth interviews, this book explores how tween girls relate to media characters past and present, what they value in these relationships, and how these relationships have shaped their own identity and friendships.The characters themselves are also analyzed from a feminist perspective, revealing the shared values of community, agency, and self-determination of the media characters and the girls who call them friends.Through examining the characters and the text in which their stories take place, the book sheds light on what is important to tween girls, about the traits they value in others, and the traits they value in themselves. 134 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Becoming Educated examines the education of young people, especially those from the most ¿disadvantaged¿ contexts. The book argues that because the focus has been obdurately and willfully on the wrong things ¿ blaming students; measuring, testing and comparing them; and treating families and communities in demeaning ways that convert them into mere ¿consumers¿ ¿ that the resulting misdiagnoses have produced a damaging ensemble of faulty ¿solutions.¿ By shifting the emphasis to looking at what is going on ¿inside¿ young lives and communities, this book shifts the focus to matters such as taking social class into consideration, puncturing notions of poverty and disadvantage, understanding neighborhoods as places of hope and creating spaces within which to listen to young peoples¿ aspirations. These are a radically different set of constructs from the worn-out ones that continue to be trotted out, and, if understood and seriously attended to, they have the potential to make a real difference in young lives. This is a book that ought to be read by all who claim to know what is in the best interests of young people who are becoming educated.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 186 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Die Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät der Universität zu Köln veranstaltete im März 2012 in Kooperation mit der Demokratie-Stiftung eine internationale Fachtagung zum Thema Literalität und Partizipation, um einen aktiven Austausch verschiedener Akteure der (politischen) Grundbildung und ihrer Perspektiven zu ermöglichen. Das Anliegen der Veranstaltung war, die Bedeutung schriftsprachlicher Grundbildung für die aktive Teilhabe am gesellschaftlich-demokratischen Prozess herauszuarbeiten. Migration und kulturelle Heterogenität wurden mit Blick auf das herrschende Verständnis von Grundbildung und ziviler Teilhabekompetenz reflektiert. Hierauf folgte die Erörterung von Zielfiguren und didaktischen Konsequenzen für die politische Bildung. 120 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -With drug information rapidly migrating to the Web, the chronically poor standards of drug information available to consumers in the developed and the developing world are being further compromised. This book offers insight into the uncharted waters of prescription drug information and promotion on the internet and suggests how it might be transformed into an unprecedented agent for good. It traces the social and political history of prescription drug information and marketing to Western consumers, offers a social and communicative profile of prescription drug Web sites, and evaluates the most widely used sources of prescription drug information, from government organizations and information companies and TV-related sites, to health service provider sites, manufacturers¿ brand sites, and social media, including YouTube and Wikipedia. The focus throughout is on practical outcomes: How can information for consumer decision making be optimized and how can consumers use it responsibly Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 208 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Reaching into the depths of the collective unconscious, A Sense of Apocalypse explores and re-interprets one of the West¿s primordial fears, namely that of the apocalyptic closure of both cultural praxis and individual experience. Yet, in contrast to popular connotations of the term, apocalypse is viewed here in terms of a transitional narrative locating the subject at the intersection of technological determinism, pop-cultural imagination, postmodern urbanism and digital textuality. All these form the components of a new post-apocalyptic landscape, which not only produces a new identity informed by dissolving post-Enlightenment paradigms, but also conjures up hints at a large number of existential possibilities triggered by late-capitalist technologies and their cultural consequences. 140 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -As we approach the seventieth anniversary of the first appearance of Mary Poppins, interest in P. L. Travers¿ most famous creation is still strong and the time is right for a reassessment of a work that is rich in meaning for child and adult readers alike. This book attempts to analyse some of the reasons behind the longevity and the ongoing appeal of the Mary Poppins material, with particular reference to intertextuality and the presence of what Freud described as «the uncanny». By comparing and contrasting the Mary Poppins material with previous texts, it can be seen that Travers has been drawing, consciously and subconsciously, on the great myths and archetypes of the collective human storytelling experience. The idea therefore emerges that the Mary Poppins stories touch on some fundamental aspect of the psyche ¿ an aspect where the symbiosis of security and fear, the familiar and the unknown, are made manifest to the reader, whether as children finding their way into adulthood or as adults recalling their beginnings. 108 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Youth Community Inquiry offers a detailed look at how young people use new media to help their communities thrive. Chapters address questions about learning, digital technology, and community engagement through the theory of community inquiry. The settings range from a small farming town, to a mostly immigrant community, to inner-city Chicago, and include youth from ages eight to 20. Going beyond works on social media in a narrow sense, the projects in these settings involve the use of varied technologies, such as GPS/GIS mapping tools, video production, use of archives and databases, podcasts, and Internet radio. The development of inquiry-based activities serves as a record of the diverse experiences and a guide to future projects. The book concludes with an overview of a curriculum that readers may adapt for their own settings.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 208 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -In Interrogating (Hi)stories, Audrey Lingley uses a critical constructivist perspective to problematize the absence of the spiritual dimension of human growth from pedagogical models that emphasize responsiveness to developmental psychology. The book investigates this conspicuous absence through critical historiographical research; it is a critical interrogation of the tacit understandings that guide education in general and middle grades reform in particular. The author offers practical, classroom-based implications and culturally respectful language for educators who believe spirituality is a legitimate aspect of human growth and learning in a public school setting.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 268 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Wir lieben unsere Sprache. Aber kennen wir diese scheinbar so selbstverständliche Sache, mit der wir täglich umgehen Wissen wir, welch vielschichtiges Gebilde sie in Wirklichkeit darstellt Ahnen wir die Mannigfaltigkeit und die Feinheiten, die sie offenbart, sobald man die Oberfläche verlässt und den Phänomenen auf den Grund geht Was zum Beispiel ist ein Symbol, und wie unterscheidet es sich von einer Metapher Was versteht man unter Ethnolekt, und was ist seine Beziehung zum Idiolekt und Dialekt Was hat es mit Pidgin auf sich Sprachwissenschaft für den Alltag ist ein Kompendium, das sprachwissenschaftliches Wissen für den Hausgebrauch vermittelt. In dieser dritten, aktualisierten und erweiterten Ausgabe, die gegenüber der zweiten Auflage nochmal erweitert und ergänzt ist, werden über 230 Schlüsselbegriffe erläutert, die das Medium dem Nutzer näherbringen und der Welt der Sprache Profil verleihen. Eine praktische Handreichung für alle, die mit Sprache umgehen und ihre Kenntnisse verbessern möchten. Eine nützliche Lektüre zu einer Zeit, in der es um die deutsche Sprache offenkundig nicht zum Besten steht. 168 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Zum ersten Mal wird in der Politikwissenschaft gezeigt, wie ein Staatenverbund Europa aus vergleichender Sicht strukturiert ist und nicht durch Gewaltenteilung altmodisch, sondern gewaltenverschränkt modern funktioniert. Der Autor liest das Grundgesetz wie eine Navigationskarte und versteht es als deutschsprachige Stimme des EU Verfassungsrechts. Der wiederholt revidierte Text, der ein neuartiges gesellschaftliches Zusammenleben vorstellt, wird als politischer Prozess verstanden, das Deutschland betreffende Europäische Verbundsrecht als System geprüft und eingegrenzt. Das Europäische Verbundsystem kommuniziert und hinterlässt maßgebliche Spuren harmonischer Zusammenarbeit. 122 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Personalentwicklung 2020 informiert darüber, wie sich Gender, Diversität, Quotierung und Individualisierung im Personalmanagement durchsetzen und im Kontext des demographischen Wandels die Personalentwicklung und die Personalführung transformieren. Personalentwicklung 2020 wird vor dem Hintergrund von Megatrends strategisch geplant, in einem systemischen Organisationsverständnis auf Ziele und Ergebnisse ausgerichtet und durch neue Rollen der PersonalentwicklerInnen wirkungsvoller. Genderkompetenz ist eine Metakompetenz in der sozialen Praxis des Personalmanagements und ein Kernelement für Personalführung als Leadership. Der Gegenstand von Personalmanagement und Personalführung sind nicht mehr Personen, sondern ihre Diversität, ihre Potentiale, ihre Interaktion und ihre Kommunikation. Unter Veränderungsdruck korrigieren Organisationen ihr Selbstkonzept, fordern den Nachweis, dass Personalentwicklung effektiv ist und dass Führungskräfte ihre Personalstrategie als Praxis verstehen. An Stelle von best practice gilt für eine zukunftsfähige Personalentwicklung 2020 das Konzept von best fit.BoD - Books on Demand, In de Tarpen 42, 22848 Norderstedt 136 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Eigeninteresse der Akteure und Akteurinnen ist in der zeitgenössischen Ökonomie die zentrale Motivation menschlichen Handelns. Was aber ist Interesse eigentlich Diese Arbeit verfolgt zunächst die Spur des schillernden Begriffs von seinen Ursprüngen über seine vielgestaltige Entwicklung bis hin zum zeitgenössischen Gebrauch anhand von Originaltexten des Jansenisten Pierre Nicole, des französischen Moralisten François de La Rochefoucauld, der schottischen Aufklärer David Hume und Adam Smith sowie des politischen Ökonomen John Stuart Mill. Sie analysiert die Implikationen, die das Konzept birgt, und plädiert für eine klarer umrissene, abgegrenzte Verwendung des Begriffs neben anderen, um der Komplexität der ökonomischen Realität wissenschaftlich gerecht zu werden. 98 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Der Begriff des transkulturellen Lernens steht für ein breites Spektrum neuer Ansätze in der Fremdsprachendidaktik, deren gemeinsamer Nenner ein veränderter Begriff von Kultur, Identität und Differenz ist. Dieser Band versammelt Beiträge der Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer der Konferenz «Transkulturelles Lernen im Fremdsprachenunterricht: Theorie und Praxis», die 2012 an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum stattfand. In ihren Beiträgen zeigen die Autorinnen und Autoren, welche neuen Perspektiven die transkulturelle Öffnung des Fremdsprachenunterrichts der Kultur- und Literaturdidaktik sowie internationalen Begegnungs-, Austausch- und Theaterprojekten eröffnet. Sie leisten damit einen Beitrag zur theoretischen Fundierung und Etablierung des Forschungsfelds des transkulturellen Lernens. 204 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -La traducción hacia el euskera ha sido una actividad vital para el desarrollo de la literatura vasca. Por su parte, la traducción en la direccionalidad opuesta es un fenómeno bastante reciente, aunque cada vez más habitual, y constituye una herramienta vital para la difusión de la literatura vasca. Este libro pretende ofrecer una visión general de la traducción de literatura vasca a otras lenguas. Para ello, ha sido necesario llevar a cabo una primera labor de catalogación y análisis desde varias perspectivas: autores, títulos, lenguas meta, etc.Al tratarse de un sistema literario diglósico y bastante complejo, se han identificado diferentes tipos de traducción en el análisis del catálogo, los cuales se analizarán en la segunda parte del libro. Para ello, se ha limitado el objeto de estudio a un corpus reducido de varias obras de Bernardo Atxaga, mediante el cual se han intentado describir las diferencias existentes entre la autotraducción, la autotraducción en colaboración y la traducción alógrafa, y también realizar una comparación entre traducciones directas e indirectas. La principal hipótesis que planteamos es que cada tipo de traducción ofrecerá un resultado diferente.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 270 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -In der volkswirtschaftlichen Gleichgewichtstheorie herrscht zur Modellierung von Preisunsicherheit die Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie vor. Diese Arbeit verfolgt einen alternativen Ansatz unter Verwendung sogenannter unscharfer Mengen (Fuzzy Sets). Die Untersuchung beginnt mit der Vorstellung einer Entscheidungstheorie auf Grundlage dieser unscharfen Mengen. Im weiteren Verlauf stellt die Arbeit verschiedene Gleichgewichtsmodelle unter Verwendung dieser Entscheidungstheorie vor. Schwerpunkt jedes Modells ist das Herausarbeiten von Bedingungen, die jeweils die Existenz eines Gleichgewichtes sichern. Es stellt sich heraus, dass Risikoaversion in allen Modellen eine wichtige Bedingung ist. 120 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Primo Levi und Ruth Klüger, zwei der wichtigsten Stimmen der Shoah-Literatur, unterscheiden sich stark in ihrer Persönlichkeit, ihrer Bildung und ihren Schreibbedingungen. Beide greifen jedoch auf den Dialog zurück, um sich persönlich mit der Shoah auseinanderzusetzen, sich in dieser Literatur zu verorten und um die Leser zu einem bewussteren Umgang mit der Shoah anzuregen. Erstmalig untersucht diese Studie systematisch die spezifische Funktion, die der Dialog im Leben und Werk beider Autoren aufweist und zeigt, wie er eine einheitliche Strategie der Auseinandersetzung mit der Shoah konstituiert, und somit eine bewusstere Auseinandersetzung damit, sowohl auf privater als auch auf öffentlicher Ebene, anregt. 144 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The first seven articles of the book provide an overview of how Estonian educational scientists, collaborating with colleagues from Finland and Sweden on one of the articles, have empirically studied the quality of learning environment, teachers¿ professionalism and their perceptions of their own teaching as well as their professional role and students¿ coping at school. When dealing with the educational reality, a wholeness-centred educational thinking is represented. Therefore, one of the articles is devoted to the question of how to define youth and interpret the development of the concept of youth. One article deals with creativity in relation to the social field. The last article compares the semantics of the concepts Paideía and lifestyle as expressions of the wholeness-centred educational thinking. 204 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The medical section of the Kit¿b al-Nä¿¿atayn or Book of the Two Pieces of Advice by the medieval author Abd al-Lä¿f ibn Y¿suf al-Baghd¿d¿ (1162-1231) challenges the idea that Arabic-Islamic medicine declined after the twelfth century A.D. Moreover, it offers some interesting insights into the social history of medicine. Abd al-Lä¿f composed his work as a diatribe directed against false knowledge, and employed the framework of Greek medical epistemology to criticize the rationalist physicians of his day and age. He argued that female and itinerant practitioners, relying on experience, were superior to some rationalists, and decried the wickedness and incompetence of certain medical practitioners of his time. In addition, he lambasted contemporaneous medical education because it put too much faith in a restricted number of textbooks such as the Canon of Medicine by the celebrated physician Ibn S¿n¿ (Avicenna), or chiefly relied on imperfect abridgments. The medical section of the Book of the Two Pieces of Advice is translated here for the first time in a modern language. It is preceded by a lengthy introduction that highlights Abd al-Lä¿fs complicated relation to both medicine and alchemy. The present study also contains the first full bibliography on Abd al-Lä¿f ibn Y¿suf al-Baghd¿d¿ and his milieu. 204 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Change and transition are prominent buzzwords in the discourse upon adult education. International conferences like the European ESREA triennial research conference 2013 in Berlin focused on these terms. But is to deal with change and transitions really something new for adult education What is new What has changed Which kind of transitions do we experience and how can we systematically observe and analyse them as researchers nowadays This anthology wants to stimulate an exchange beyond buzzwords and European perspectives and investigate what these terms could mean for research in terms of institutionalisation and professionalization in adult education in different national contexts. Therefore, distinguished scholars were invited to contribute to this anthology. 248 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The book consists of articles from East European Politics and Societies, a journal published in the United States that first appeared in 1987. This selection is composed of papers written by the journal¿s founders and early authors, among them Zygmunt Bauman, Tony Judt, Katherine Verdery, Vladimir Tismaneanu, Elemer Hankiss, Vesna Pusic, Maria Todorova. The first section Before the Change consists of texts written in the late 1980s; its authors tried to identify the cracks that would undermine or reform the existing system. In the second part of the book Alternative Futures contributors sketched the directions of the changes as they were just getting underway. The authors hoped that politics, economics, and societies were now free to reinvent themselves. The texts in the third section, Legacies of the Past, written before, during, and after the time of most drastic changes, show how the shadows cast by the histories of individual nations and the region as a whole continued to burden political strategies as well as daily lives. 304 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -From today¿s perspective, Charles Dickens seems to continue a British tradition in which dynamism and movement are central. This serves as a starting point for a bicentenary conference held by the English Department of Leipzig University in October 2012. The contributions united in this volume cover the three categories of geography, adaptation and reception of Dickens¿ works. Whether in a physical, imaginary or virtual sense, notions of space, time and change are fundamental to all of these fields. They inform both Dickens¿ narrative and his biography, in which acts of movement, exchange and transformation are perpetually performed. Articles discuss Dickens¿ travels in London and abroad, but also Chesterton¿s Dickens or his reception in Australia and New Zealand. 194 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This engaging collection of essays considers the cultural complexities of the Franco-Irish relationship in song and story, image and cuisine, novels, paintings and poetry. It casts a fresh eye on public perceptions of the historic bonds between Ireland and France, revealing a rich variety of contact and influence. Controversy is not shirked, whether on the subject of Irish economic decline or reflecting on prominent, contentious personalities such as Ian Paisley and Michel Houellebecq. Contrasting ideas of the popular and the intellectual emerge in a study of Brendan Kennelly; recent Irish tribunals are analysed in the light of French cultural theory; and familiar renditions of Franco-Irish links are re-evaluated against the evidence of newspaper and journal accounts. Drawing on the disciplines of history, art, economics and literature, and dipping into the good wines of France and Ireland, the book paints a fascinating picture of the relationship between the two countries over three dramatic centuries.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 286 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -In the early 1970s, the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) began to revise its trade policy towards the outside world. It needed to counter the European Community¿s bid to implement its Common Commercial Policy and thereby change East-West trade practices. Foreign trade priorities became at once a crucial issue on the socialist countries¿ political agenda. The key question was whether they would have to open their system to the global economy ¿ and bear the consequent pressures and competition that this decision entailed. Based on newly declassified archival sources, this study shows how the East European states were able to lobby their positions towards the USSR within the CMEA. The pressure from its allies forced the Soviet leadership to accept the CMEA¿s opening towards the EC. 224 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The author reclaims the patristic Christological use of perichoresis by showing how in bringing together different entities, such as God and Nature in unity as the one person of Christ, we can acknowledge the perichoresis between divine human and nature. Christological perichoresis supports the idea that the whole creation is included in God¿s recreated cosmos, in response to the redeeming power of Christ who entered the web of life as a creature. Trinitarian relationships bear a Christological message for intentional openness towards the «other». Thus ecofeminism can be considered from a Christian view, realizing Christ¿s «cosmic» role in the salvation of the entire cosmos. 262 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This commentary demonstrates that the Gospel of Mark is a result of a consistent, strictly sequential, hypertextual reworking of the contents of three of Paul¿s letters: Galatians, First Corinthians and Philippians. Consequently, it shows that the Marcan Jesus narratively embodies the features of God¿s Son who was revealed in the person, teaching, and course of life of Paul the Apostle. The analysis of the topographic and historical details of the Marcan Gospel reveals that they were mainly borrowed from the Septuagint and from the writings of Flavius Josephus. Other literary motifs were taken from various Jewish and Greek writings, including the works of Homer, Herodotus, and Plato. The Gospel of Mark should therefore be regarded as a strictly theological-ethopoeic work, rather than a biographic one. 242 pp. Englisch.