peter lang peter lang mai 2004 (180 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book documents a high school ecology class that employs currere, William Pinar¿s idea for curriculum as autobiographical text, and analyzes the course¿s success from the author¿s point of view as both the practitioner and the curriculum developer. Discussing individual students¿ responses to currere in a project termed the Environmental Autobiography (EA) ¿ a twist on currere that emphasizes environmental experience ¿ this book examines how ecology is taught in high schools; how ecologists are produced, along with the importance of ecology in school curriculum today; the necessary preparation of the classroom and the students for the currere process; and the five themes that recur frequently in the EA project: caring, insecurity and gender issues, egocentrism, politicization, and definitions of success. ¿Currere¿ and the Environmental Autobiography illustrates how the currere project brought an unprecedented richness and intensity to the ecology class, moving the students from «I know», to «I care», to «I want to do something about this». 218 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book centers on the uses and abuses of language in early English drama. It examines a number of plays alongside classical and sixteenth-century rhetorical treatises and focuses on the appearances of one stock character, the Vice figure, to determine how he uses language to dupe, implicate, and control others in the plays. The Vice figure is usually very skilled in the use of rhetoric and, in many cases, seems to be so persuasive and entertaining that the moral aims of the drama appear to be jeopardized. Douglas W. Hayes investigates the moral and rhetorical ambivalence of the Vice figure not only in Medieval morality plays and Tudor interludes, but also in the language of later characters related to the Vice such as Marlowe¿s Mephastophilis and Shakespeare¿s Falstaff and Iago.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 168 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Image, Text and Audience is the first book dealing with paintings related to Taishokan, the most popular ballad-drama of the 16th century. Key narrative elements in the story include the transmission of a magic jewel from China to Japan and the succession of the Fujiwara family. The narrative provided motifs for historical accounts, Buddhist proselytising texts, a nô play, puppet theatre plays, and satirical novels of the 18th century. This lavishly illustrated book is of interest to scholars of various disciplines including art history, literature, and religious studies. It offers the first annotated translation of the 1632 printed edition of the Taishokan and analyses painted versions on screens, scrolls, fans and manuscripts based on critical concepts and methodologies. The importance of the painting medium in shaping the visual content of each work is a pivotal aspect discussed in the book, along with questions of patronage, reception and gender. 382 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -La autobiografía es un género literario que ha generado gran interés en los últimos años, tanto en el ámbito académico como en el del público lector. Este trabajo sostiene que las autobiografías constituyen un caso particular de discurso en el que la historia personal encarna la de otros y en el que la política y la historia se aúnan y justifican la existencia de la escritura misma. Lo personal deviene una estrategia literaria que permite dar visibilidad a lo ideológico y asegurar el impacto intelectual en el lector.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 138 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Au début de l¿an 2000, la constitution d¿un gouvernement autrichien incluant des ministres d¿un parti populiste de droite aux caractéristiques extrémistes allait susciter une commotion démocratique, non seulement dans le pays mais également à travers l¿Europe.Les réactions vives des autres États européens paraissaient alors révélatrices de la gravité de la transgression. Cependant, depuis lors, d¿autres coalitions gouvernementales transgressant les mêmes interdits démocratiques ont accédé au pouvoir dans plusieurs États européens, sans provoquer ne serait-ce que l¿esquisse d¿une réaction européenne.Le caractère unique de cette «affaire autrichienne» est ainsi révélateur du défaut d¿une culture politique européenne. Les scènes politiques en Europe sont encore largement nationales et les réflexes démocratiques divergent sensiblement d¿un pays à un autre. Dans le même temps, le projet d¿intégration européenne affecte et affaiblit les débats démocratiques nationaux, alors que l¿Europe en chantier n¿est pas encore parvenue à générer un véritable espace politique commun à même de constituer un lieu de légitimation.Cet ouvrage examine un épisode récent de l¿histoire européenne comme le révélateur de cette double crise des cultures politiques nationales, autrichienne en l¿espèce, et européenne. 246 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Österreich fasziniert durch seine Landschaftsbilder. Die Natur ist denn auch ein stets wiederkehrendes und facettenreiches Thema in der Literatur. Das Centre de Recherches sur l¿Europe Littéraire (CREL) der Université de Haute-Alsace hat sich mit dieser Thematik in einem Kolloquium (15.-17. Mai 2003) befasst. Die Beiträge analysieren die Funktion von Natur und Landschaft in der österreichischen Literatur vom 19. Jahrhundert bis heute.L¿Autriche fascine par ses paysages «éternels». La littérature n¿y échappe pas et la nature y est un formidable sujet récurrent et changeant. C¿est sous cette thC¿est sous cette thématique de la nature et des paysages dans la littérature autrichienne qüont eu lieu les travaux du colloque organisé par le Centre de Recherches sur l¿Europe Littéraire (CREL) de l¿Université de Haute-Alsace du 15 au 17 mai 2003. Les contributions de ce volume reflètent les travaux d¿analyse de cette thématique à travers la littérature, prose et poésie, en constituant une rétrospective de leur place et fonction dans la littérature autrichienne du début du XIX siècle à nos jours. 370 pp. Französisch, Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Clara Viebig (1860-1952), im ersten Drittel des 20. Jahrhunderts unbestritten eine der meistgelesenen deutschen Schriftstellerinnen, hörte kurz nach Hitlers Machtergreifung mit dem Schreiben auf und geriet deshalb weitgehend in Vergessenheit. Die Zahl der Arbeiten, die sich mit ihr befassen, ist gering, auch wenn sich seit den 90er Jahren ein Zuwachs an Interesse abzeichnet. Aus Anlass ihres 50. Todestages hat die Clara-Viebig-Gesellschaft ein internationales Kolloquium veranstaltet, das vom 4.-6. Oktober 2002 in Bad Bertrich stattfand. Dieser Band vereint die Beiträge dieses Treffens, in dessen Rahmen die verschiedensten Aspekte eines erzählerischen Werkes erörtert wurden, das zwar historisch geworden ist, aber nichts von seinem Interesse eingebüßt hat. Die landschaftliche und zeitliche Vielfalt ihrer Erzählungen, die Bedeutung, die sie der sozialen Frage sowie der weiblichen Psychologie beimißt, ergeben ein perspektivisch reichhaltiges Werk ¿ eine der Erklärungen für die Schwierigkeiten bei seiner literaturgeschichtlichen Einordnung.Clara Viebig (1860-1952), qui fut sans conteste l¿un des auteurs allemands les plus populaires au cours du premier tiers du XXe siècle, a cessé d¿écrire peu après l¿avènement du «Troisième Reich» et est depuis largement tombée dans l¿oubli. Les travaux qui lui ont été consacrés sont peu nombreux, même si depuis les années 1990 elle semble connaître un regain d¿intérêt. Le cinquantième anniversaire de sa mort était donc l¿occasion de réunir des spécialistes de cet auteur afin de faire le point sur l¿état de la recherche à son sujet au cours d¿un colloque international qui s¿est tenu à Bad Bertrich du 4 au 6 octobre 2002, sousÿoctobre 2002, sous l¿égide de la Clara-Viebig-Gesellschaft. Ce recueil constitue les actes de cette rencontre qui a permis d¿aborder des aspects très variés d¿une ¿uvre narrative historiquement datée, mais qui n¿a rien perdu de son intérêt. La diversité des cadres géographiques et temporels, la place dévolue dans ses récits à la question sociale, mais aussi à la psychologie féminine, composent une ¿uvre aux perspectives multiples, qui explique sans nul doute la difficulté qüont les historiens de la littérature à la classer dans une rubrique précise. 308 pp. Französisch, Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Diese Untersuchung widmet sich der Aufarbeitung folgender Fragestellungen: Wie muß Schule eingerichtet werden, damit sie die Schülerinnen und Schüler auf die Zukunft vorbereitet Wie sieht eine Schule für die Zukunft aus Helfen Utopien oder Prognosen, die Schule für die Zukunft zu gestalten Oder verläßt man sich auf Schlüsselqualifikationen Liegt die Zukunft der Schule im Einsatz innovativer Medien Soll sich Schule an Europa orientieren ¿ oder gleich an globalen Maßstäben Und wie mißt man die Zukunftsfähigkeit von Schülern Mit dem Instrument, das PISA benutzt 146 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Diese international angelegte Literaturstudie befasst sich mit der Stellung der Pädagogik in der Ausbildung der Lehrpersonen. Aktueller bildungspolitischer Anlass hierzu war der Aufbau von pädagogischen Hochschulen in der Schweiz. Obwohl Pädagogikunterricht an Lehrerbildungsanstalten eine lange Tradition hat, existiert bis anhin keine berufsfeldorientierte Fachdidaktik Pädagogik.Ausgehend vom Berufsauftrag der Primar-Lehrpersonen in einer pluralistischen Demokratie vertritt der Autor die These, dass Pädagogik wesentlich «normativ» und daher im Fächerkanon der Lehrerbildung unverzichtbar ist. Weiter werden Lehrplanprobleme des Faches Pädagogik reflektiert. Es wird gefragt, über welches pädagogische Wissen, Können, aber auch über welche professionsethischen Tugenden eine Lehrperson verfügen muss. Schliesslich wird eine Didaktik der Pädagogik bestehend aus Zielen, Inhalten, Mitteln und Methoden entworfen.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 510 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book documents a high school ecology class that employs currere, William Pinar's idea for curriculum as autobiographical text, and analyzes the course's success from the author's point of view as both the practitioner and the curriculum developer. Discussing individual students' responses to currere in a project termed the Environmental Autobiography (EA) - a twist on currere that emphasizes environmental experience - this book examines how ecology is taught in high schools; how ecologists are produced, along with the importance of ecology in school curriculum today; the necessary preparation of the classroom and the students for the currere process; and the five themes that recur frequently in the EA project: caring, insecurity and gender issues, egocentrism, politicization, and definitions of success. 'Currere' and the Environmental Autobiography illustrates how the currere project brought an unprecedented richness and intensity to the ecology class, moving the students from «I know», to «I care», to «I want to do something about this». 218 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -A Long Way to Go: Conversations about Race by African American Faculty and Graduate Students highlights the experiences and coping strategies of faculty members and graduate students pursuing Ph.D.s who have successfully navigated the academy despite hostile environments and hurdles that cause many to avoid or leave the academy. African American students and faculty often face problems such as isolation within a white environment, the misinterpretation of confidence as aggressiveness, and the need to work twice as hard as white peers in order to be taken seriously in their chosen careers. This book will assist both doctoral students and junior faculty in successfully completing the graduate school experience and transitioning into tenure-track positions, and will be of great interest to all higher education faculty and administrators who must address the complex issues of diversity in recruiting and retaining graduate students and faculty. 278 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book, a concise examination of U.S. policy in contemporary Africa, delineates various aspects of the role that the U.S. played in exacerbating and/or resolving violent conflicts in postcolonial Africa and provides a succinct historical overview of these armed conflicts. F. Ugboaja Ohaegbulam devotes considerable attention to four specific conflicts in Ethiopia-Somalia, the Western Sahara, Angola, and Rwanda and to the Clinton administration's African Crisis Response Initiative and its sequel under George W. Bush. The book concludes that lack of congruence between local forces in conflict in Africa, as well as U.S. aims in those conflicts, was only one of the constraints on the United States in its attempts at conflict resolution. America's counterproductive Cold War policies also defined relations with African states for far too long. Hence, the conflicts in postcolonial Africa became part of the legacy of those policies even as African problems continued to be low-priority concerns for the U.S. government. Libraries, advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and professors of African studies, as well as the general reader, will find this book useful. 296 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Designed to cater for the growing interest in French studies, this volume assembles contributions about various aspects of change in a number of contemporary French-speaking societies. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the book expands on the traditional concepts of French studies focusing on language and literature and embraces politics, economics and cultural studies. The volume is divided into four parts and includes contributions from leading European specialists. Collectively, the contributions span the broad fields of Politics and Society, Arts and Culture, the French Language, and Francophone Literatures. Individual chapters review and analyse contemporary issues, debates and developments in the contributors' specialist areas. The contributions address the many requirements of undergraduate and postgraduate students in French Studies which makes this collection of essays of considerable value to the specialist reader as well as to those looking for a more general understanding of key contemporary issues in French Studies. 421 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Platonic Architectonics: Platonic Philosophies & the Visual Arts examines philosophical structures of Plato in their structural, spatial, and architectonic implications. It examines elements of Plato's philosophical systems in relation to other philosophical systems, including those of Anaximander, Plotinus, Proclus, Nicolas Cusanus, Marsilio Ficino, Georges Bataille, Jacques Lacan, and Jacques Derrida. It also examines Plato's philosophy in relation to architectonic conceptions in the arts, including the work of Leon Battista Alberti and Piero della Francesca in the Renaissance, Paul Cézanne, and the Cubists and Deconstructivists in the twentieth century. Platonic Architectonics presents new interpretations of philosophical texts, artistic treatises, and works of art and architecture in Western culture as they are interrelated and related to Platonic and Neoplatonic philosophical structures. It demonstrates the importance of philosophy in the production of the visual arts throughout history and the importance of the relation between the work of art and the philosophical text and artistic treatise. 283 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Why should one attempt to write anything more on Salman Rushdie, one of the most controversial writers of post-colonial and postmodern literatures in English Is it possible to say anything new about an author whose works have been discussed very thoroughly This study does so by revealing the fairytaleness of Rushdie's fiction: it shows how Western fairytales contribute to a map Rushdie has been charting in order to navigate across multiple religious, political, economic and cultural territories. This element of Rushdie's literary output has not been frequently discussed and it both completes the existing analyses and opens avenues for further research. The study involves diverse methodologies relevant both to the contemporary complexity of the fairytale and the multiple stratums of fairytaleness in Rushdie's work and consists of two carefully argued parts. Part one deals with the postmodern aspect of the fairytale-poetics of Rushdie's fiction. Part two focuses on the post-colonial themes expressed by Rushdie through fairytales. Such a synthesis of fairytale elements in Rushdie's works results in a systematic typology and alternative critical reflection on his oeuvre in counterpoint to purely post-colonial or postmodern readings. The monograph is completed with the thematically ordered and detailed bibliography. 200 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Neoplatonic Aesthetics: Music, Literature, and the Visual Arts explores the idea of a Neoplatonic aesthetic, a philosophy of the arts based on the writings of Plato and the Neoplatonists - principally Plotinus, Proclus, Pseudo-Dionysius, Nicolas Cusanus, and Marsilio Ficino - and more contemporary philosophers - Stephen MacKenna, Iris Murdoch, Denman Ross, Jacques Derrida, and Hans Georg Gadamer. This book examines the artistic production of figures such as Gioseffe Zarlino, Fra Angelico, Leon Battista Alberti, Sandro Botticelli, Michelangelo, and Giorgio Vasari, and it formulates theoretical approaches to contemporary production based in the Neoplatonic philosophies. 302 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book centers on the uses and abuses of language in early English drama. It examines a number of plays alongside classical and sixteenth-century rhetorical treatises and focuses on the appearances of one stock character, the Vice figure, to determine how he uses language to dupe, implicate, and control others in the plays. The Vice figure is usually very skilled in the use of rhetoric and, in many cases, seems to be so persuasive and entertaining that the moral aims of the drama appear to be jeopardized. Douglas W. Hayes investigates the moral and rhetorical ambivalence of the Vice figure not only in Medieval morality plays and Tudor interludes, but also in the language of later characters related to the Vice such as Marlowe's Mephastophilis and Shakespeare's Falstaff and Iago. 168 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The essays in this book represent ten years of the work of the Centre for the Study of Literature, Theology and the Arts in the University of Glasgow. Seemingly diverse, they are bound together by a common belief that theology flourishes in an interdisciplinary and transcultural environment. It cannot be an abstract concern, but is rooted in political circumstances, and responds to developments in society and the arts. That is why there are essays on film and contemporary artists like Mona Hatoum, as well as more traditional studies of theology read through and in literature. The Centre has always been an international meeting place, and contributions range well beyond the Western Christian, seeking new roots for theological thinking in the arts and culture of a postmodern world. 248 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The young political states of Central and Eastern Europe are still at the very beginning of their economic development. Against this background, the focus of these countries should clearly be on building up their economies. And within this context some key mistakes, that may be very difficult to revert under certain conditions, need to be avoided from the start. Eastern Europe should concentrate on the future and learn from the economic past of Western European countries, so that mistakes formerly made will not be embraced and cultivated. But moreover, even at this point we are faced with the question if the classic model of the social market economy can still be considered valid in the light of some promising new concepts and approaches, which offer detailed propositions. 152 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Global trade liberalization with regard to the readymade garments industry is a topic of highest relevance for the Bangladeshi economy and linked very strongly to its changing social structure. Garment industry actually is a very new, export-oriented sector of the Bangladesh economy. It was only some twenty years ago that this sector was fully established in Bangladesh. Today it has grown to the number eighteen exporter world-wide, employing some 1.8 million people directly, of whom most of them are women, and another 10 million indirectly. The main markets are the EU and NAFTA. The development of Bangladesh garments industry was facilitated by the different Multi Fibre Arrangements. Therefore - as many other new competitors have grown over the last couple of years, namely South and East Asian including China, the ASEAN, Mexico and 24 Caribbean countries - Bangladesh's garment industry will face a difficult period after 2004. 266 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -While stopping globalisation no longer seems to be a valid option, the task of shaping it has gained priority. But who can effectuate good global governance The ability of international institutions to provide reliable international structures seems challenged by the recent developments in international politics. What are the implications of the war in Iraq for international law and future global policy How can governmental and non-governmental actors frame global governance And what are the prospects of global development policy These complex questions can only be addressed effectively in an interdisciplinary forum. On October 9th and 10th, 2003, the Institute for Legal Policy at the University of Trier invited notable experts from the disciplines of law, political and economic science to discuss and reflect on these issues. This volume embodies the results of that interdisciplinary workshop on global governance. 200 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -What explains the similarity among the conversion accounts of so many 'barbarian' rulers of the Byzantine Near East Royal adoptions of a new religion, whether Christianity, Judaism, or Manichaeism, appear to draw on a common literary topos. King Abgar of Edessa's conversion became the subject of several early Christian legends. This analytical comparison of various conversion accounts argues that they played a significant role in fashioning the diverse local ethnic groups in the Near East into 'Romans'. The Abgar legend formed part of a larger literary movement which disseminated often similar accounts of royal conversion within and beyond the borders of the Empire. The conversion stories contain both received and invented traditions which reveal popular and common cultural patron-client patterns. Significantly, various ethnic groups translated these general themes to their unique circumstances. Mirkovic's examination of this tangled web of ethnicity, religion, culture, and politics in the fourth century reveals the historical and literary significance of these legends. 186 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book deals with the nature of translations as texts, concentrating on English and German. Its focus is on texts rather than on sentences, on embeddedness in contexts rather than on decontextualized examples, and on units of meaning rather than on items of form. While this orientation may set the book apart from linguistic approaches of a more formalist and more narrowly structuralist leaning, it does insist on a focus on language. The argumentation presented here shows a high regard for details of linguistic realization, rather than a discourse exclusively situated on higher semiotic levels. Although the author subscribes to a basically socio-semiotic and functionalist orientation, the specific contribution attempted here to the socio-semiotic enterprise is that of the linguist and translation scholar, rather than that of the literary studies or cultural studies specialist. The approach seeks to consider translations and related forms of texts on macro- and micro-levels, offering tools for the language professional and for the researcher. 194 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The art of posing riddles is possibly as old as mankind and spans two apparent extremes which, nevertheless, converge in the riddlic form: that of wisdom and that of play. With this perspective in mind, the author examines the poetic enigmas present in the culture of Anglo-Saxon England, exploring both the Anglo-Latin riddles of Aldhelm and those recorded in the Exeter Book. His study investigates the Old English riddlic texts from a variety of angles, arguing for the possibility of establishing patterns of Anglo-Saxon riddlic composition as such. Rafal Boryslawski intends to prove that both the Exeter collection and the Aenigmata of Aldhelm are constructed on the grounds of an identifiable structure of interrelations and interdependencies. Additionally, he argues that the riddlic mode of literary representation is also visible in other Anglo-Saxon poetic compositions. The analysis of such an assumption leads to the conclusion that the predilection for the riddle form in Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Saxon poetry results from an Old English vision of the Christian world. 224 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book offers an extensive introduction to the philosophical work of Catharine Macaulay, as expressed in her Letters on Education (1790). It traces the theme of gender and education comparing Macaulay's ideas to those of her contemporaries, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Hester Chapone, and Stéphanie de Genlis. In the process, it presents a clear picture of the eighteenth-century quarrel that debates the interassociation among gender, education, and intellectual attainment. This book intends to initiate an informed conversation with contemporary readers about Macaulay's work on education within its own historical context so that fair assessments of her work can be made. It also argues that any complete history of the philosophy of education must include Macaulay's work.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 190 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book is an optional module within the scope of a European Master Course of study about European perspectives on social inclusion. Written from a European point of view and containing perspectives from Germany, Sweden and Hungary, this book focuses on concepts, theories and research dealing with the social context of drug use; concepts and theories as historically and culturally bound entities, multicultural aspects of different approaches throughout Europe, the introduction of appropriate working methods (prevention and treatment), and the development of a sensitive and human approach to the problems associated with drug use. Das Buch ist ein optionales Modul im Rahmen eines europäischen Magisterstudiengangs zu europäischen Perspektiven sozialer Inklusion. Aus europäischem Blickwinkel verfasst und mit Beiträgen aus Deutschland, Schweden und Ungarn, beschäftigt sich das Buch mit Konzepten, Theorien und Untersuchungen im sozialen Kontext des Drogenmissbrauchs, Konzepten und Theorien als kulturabhängige Phänomene, multikulturellen Aspekten verschiedener Ansätze in ganz Europa, der Verankerung geeigneter Methoden bei Prävention und Behandlung, der Entwicklung eines einfühlsamen und menschlichen Umgangs mit den Problemen, die mit Drogenabhängigkeit einhergehen.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 212 pp. Englisch, Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book aims to offer insights into cognitive, sociocultural and pedagogical aspects of foreign language learning and teaching. It focuses on different competences, such as communicative competence, intercultural competence and the autonomy of the language learner. A significant feature of this volume is that it bears the fruit of collaboration between researchers and practitioners on both sides of the Atlantic and, therefore, offers a variety of perspectives. The book is divided into four parts, focusing on the following four areas of research: sociocultural theory, communicative language teaching, intercultural competence and learner autonomy. The first chapter of each part covers theoretical issues by outlining the origins and development of a theory and explaining its core concepts. In the second chapter, theoretical, empirical and applied research is reviewed, and the implications for foreign language learning and teaching are discussed. The third chapter of each part is devoted to the application of the theories in focus. It presents either an example of a research project or an application of the theory in terms of developing materials and/or giving suggestions for good practice in the foreign language classroom. 242 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book analyses the relationship between Presbyterians and Catholics in eighteenth-century Scotland. The author considers the weapons wielded against the Scottish Catholic Mission by the state and by the Church of Scotland - penal laws, Royal Bounty missions and SSPCK schools. Once the government no longer saw Catholics as a threat to the safety of the state, Presbyterians were left to fight their crusade on their own. Convinced as they were that the best strategy in order to stamp out Catholicism was to eradicate ignorance, Presbyterians seemed to give pride of place to education. The author, however, argues that - for all their criticism of the attitude of the Church of Rome in Catholic countries - Presbyterians used similar strategies to try and improve their standing in the Highlands. 232 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book, a concise examination of U.S. policy in contemporary Africa, delineates various aspects of the role that the U.S. played in exacerbating and/or resolving violent conflicts in postcolonial Africa and provides a succinct historical overview of these armed conflicts. F. Ugboaja Ohaegbulam devotes considerable attention to four specific conflicts in Ethiopia-Somalia, the Western Sahara, Angola, and Rwanda and to the Clinton administration¿s African Crisis Response Initiative and its sequel under George W. Bush. The book concludes that lack of congruence between local forces in conflict in Africa, as well as U.S. aims in those conflicts, was only one of the constraints on the United States in its attempts at conflict resolution. Americäs counterproductive Cold War policies also defined relations with African states for far too long. Hence, the conflicts in postcolonial Africa became part of the legacy of those policies even as African problems continued to be low-priority concerns for the U.S. government. Libraries, advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and professors of African studies, as well as the general reader, will find this book useful.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 296 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book investigates the concept of the heroic, questions what it is that makes the national hero an indispensable appendage to any possible interpretation of national identity, and asks why scholars stop short before coming to terms with this elusive phenomenon. It finds answers by following heroic traditions in Scotland, Norway and Lithuania from the early modern period to the twentieth century. The book argues that heroic traditions - prevailing trends in situating heroes in national history - owe much to the early modern state. Both national heroes and the nation state had been conceived with a similar moral political mindset that looked for new ways to identify sources for commonality. The confluence of political theory and Realpolitik attested to three classical types of polities, i.e. civitas popularis (democracy), regnum (kingship), and optimatium (aristocracy), as found at that time in Scotland, Norway and Lithuania respectively. The author shows the varied impact these patterns had on heroic traditions. The long record of national heroes in Scotland is explained as a vestige of the legacy of civic humanism, the continuing traditions of the heroic king-lines in Norway are seen as a result of long-standing absolutism, while the belated arrival of national heroes in Lithuania is excused by the country's aristocratic if at times oligarchic past. 320 pp. Englisch.