peter lang peter lang mai 2023 (143 resultados)

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Desde finales de los años cuarenta, fue configurándose un cine clásico compartido entre España y Latinoamérica repleto de coproducciones, intercambios de profesionales e intensos diálogos entre culturas nacionales. Nacieron así muchas películas musicales que explotaron la popularidad transnacional de diversas estrellas y formas musicales. Este libro estudia las dimensiones queer y transnacionales de cuatro destacadas estrellas, Luis Mariano, Miguel de Molina, Pedrito Rico y Alfredo Alaria, que desarrollaron sus carreras en España, pero también en otros países, prestando especial atención a sus complicadas relaciones con la dictadura franquista, con cuyo restrictivo y homófobo marco discursivo negociaron la visibilidad de lo queer, abriendo brechas para la expresión no heteronormativa. 226 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The book focuses on the conceptualization of sensory marketing and neurolinguistic programming as potential tools for implementing neuromarketing, as well as the evaluation of its feedback in relation to factors influencing business behavior. The primary objective of the book is to clarify specific aspects of neuromarketing and neurolinguistic programming in the context of business behavior and to compare how subjectively businesspeople and customers perceive these aspects. It is dedicated to experts in the field of scientific research who engage in the study of neuromarketing and neurolinguistic programming in various contexts, especially in connection with sensory marketing in business behavior. Possibilities of using the presented methodologies, as well as theoretical and methodological knowledge, can be found in the preference of people for work, also in the education, coaching, and training of salespeople, employees, and people in general.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 170 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Italy¿s officially joining the China-led Belt and Road Initiative sparked a fierce debate. By analysing five fields of cooperation, the volume sheds light on whether the bilateral agreement has brought about an intensification of bilateral collaboration as wished by the Italian government at the time and whether the concerns around it have materialised. The contributions will show that potential risks coexist alongside unsubstantiated ones.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 168 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -If coherence is the sine qua non of nearly all written communication, why do we not have a comprehensive treatment of it, especially for those who study or teach formal, academic writing Beyond Cohesion: Toward a Theory of Coherence builds on the seminal work of Halliday and Hasan and offers a comprehensive treatment of coherence along three lines¿linguistic, cognitive, and culturally salient¿using close linguistic argument and several illustrative figures. While the main audience is that of graduate studies in rhetoric and composition, those working in linguistics, language and cognition, and artificial intelligence will also benefit from this approach.Beyond Cohesion: Toward a Theory of Coherence is a fascinating, thorough, and highly useful investigation into a rhetorical concept that is often referenced, but rarely systematically studied. Synthesizing theories of coherence from rhetoric and composition, linguistics, psychology, and related fields, Frank Davis provides a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary resource for those beginning their study of coherence or looking to expand it.¿Amanda Sladek, Associate Professor of English, University of Nebraska at KearneyBooks on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 128 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The second edition of Digital Literacy provides a highly focused exploration of key critical concepts in understanding digital media in a clear, engaging, and accessible way for an introductory audience.This updated edition explores a variety of approaches to digital literacy, including prescient work by media theorists, the historical influences of legacy media, the contemporary transformations of the digital environment, and the way our communication ecology is constructed. The book argues for an understanding of the changes in traditional media, the rise of Big Tech, and the challenges these pose to privacy and to democratic ideals.Important themes explored in chapters across the book include digital identity, the internet as infrastructure, the web as a collaborative tool, and domestic and global digital divides. The new edition also explores digital literacy and the pandemic, as well as the growing body of research around the effects and impact of the digital technologies we use every day. Also included are useful Applied Skills Appendices outlining core areas of digital practice.The text is an ideal resource for students and scholars of mass communication, media literacy, digital information literacy, and digital technology courses, as well as for all those wanting to know more about the deep on-going impact of communication technologies on our lives. 250 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Deals in a comprehensive, but succinct way with poets who wrote of sex and love. It covers Greek and Roman poets, the Troubadours of Provence and also Chaucer and Shakespeare, who wrote briefly about the tyranny of sexual desire. Also, in England, Shelley and Byron, who wrote of incest. The book cites a number of Irish Writers from the modern period. These include Eavan Boland, John Montagu and Desmond Egan. The book is a contribution to the history of ideas.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 154 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -From high-tech kitchen gadgets and magazines to the Food Network, the last few decades have seen a huge rise in food-focused consumption, media, and culture. The discourses surrounding food range from media coverage of school lunchrooms and hunger issues, to news stories about urban gardening or buying organic products at the local farmers market. Food is no longer viewed merely as a means of survival.¿International and comprehensive in approach, this volume is the first book-length study of food from a communication perspective. Scholars examine and explore this emerging field to provide definitive and foundational examples of how food operates as a system of communication, and how communication theory and practices can be understood by considering food in this way. In doing so, the book serves to inspire future dialogues on the subject due to its vast array of ideas about food and its relationship to our communication practices.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 488 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Within the past decades, nostalgia has become a misleadingly familiar concept. Whereas popular nostalgia connotes an idealised memory of the past, nost/algia implies a novelty of approach by focusing on the distinction between ¿nostos¿ (the return) and ¿algos¿ (the pain). Discussed with a reference to the pastoral and the Odyssey, the present study examines certain ¿complex¿ deployments of the mode as applied in several autobiographical narratives of two ex-patriate writers, Joseph Conrad and Henry James. The book first traces the history and theory of autobiography and nostalgia. Second, it interprets the nostalgic tensions as complex structures of thought which prompt certain inferences about the writers¿ respective attitudes towards the world and their inner selves. 244 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Was hat die ¿Tropenmedizin' im ¿Globalen Norden' zu suchen Was kann eine Universität, ein ¿Tropeninstitut', im ¿Globalen Norden' zur Verbesserung der Gesundheitssituation im ¿Globalen Süden' beitragen Die Antwort: ¿Tropenmedizin' muss sich zu ¿Globaler Medizin' hin entwickeln. Das heutige Heidelberg Institute of Global Health an der Universität Heidelberg ist diesen Weg von seinen Anfängen als Institut für Tropenhygiene 1962 bis heute konsequent gegangen.Hans Jochen Diesfeld hat diesen Weg aktiv gestaltet und begleitet. Er zeichnet ihn in diesem Band nach und zeigt dabei die verschiedenen Einflussfaktoren und Herausforderungen auf. Er erweist damit all denen Referenz, die über vier akademische Generationen hinweg dazu beigetragen haben. 258 pp. Englisch, Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -«Muir offers a compelling take on the intricacies of religious pluralism in U.S. higher education. Rich portrayals of Protestant, secular, and pluralist dynamics at four unique campuses shed light on their distinctive histories and provide timely implications for leaders and educators seeking to cultivate campus environments where all can flourish.»(Alyssa Rockenbach, Professor & Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor, North Carolina State University)«In his astute analysis of religious life on four North Carolina campuses, Scott Muir finds that, aside from a general pattern of secularization and a gradual increase in religious diversity, Protestant privilege endures, even as campuses accommodate religious pluralism. More important, the author¿s careful, exhaustive research and nuanced analyses of distinctive campus religious climates should make us wary of standard, one-size-fits-all narratives about the slippery slope toward secularism in the academy.»(Randall Balmer, John Phillips Professor of Religion, Dartmouth College)This book illustrates how the university campus has been and continues to be a crucial space where diverse actors who embody Protestant, secular and pluralist forces negotiate the role of religion in a pluralistic society. Through comparative analysis of four distinct institutions in North Carolinäs Research Triangle from the nineteenth century to the present day, we observe how campus religious climates have varied quite significantly within a single metropolitan area ¿ all the more across the vast system of American higher education. Institutional identity factors including race, gender, geographical reach, resource disparities, and denominational affiliations have powerfully shaped the way these universities relate to their Protestant roots amidst growing religious diversity. And these universities, in turn, have accelerated the religious transformation of a region of the American South that is emblematic of widening cultural divides. Protestant Privilege and Pluralism on Campus illuminates a range of challenges to achieving a substantive and inclusive dialogue about meaning and values on campus and beyond.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 246 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -«This dazzling collection of essays draws out the complexity of Ireland¿s connections with British imperialism.¿The volume takes an admirably wide-ranging and generous approach to Irish visual culture, showing how features such as Irish fashion, architecture, and museum display have been affected by empire.¿Those interested in Irish art, in Irish culture, and in the legacies of imperialism more generally will find this book insightful, illuminating, and provocative.»(James Moran, Professor of English, University of Nottingham)¿«Ranging across a broad chronological span, this stimulating collection¿s focus on the role of the British empire within Irish art and visuality is much-needed. This book will be invaluable not just for scholars of Irish culture, but for the study of the crucial significance of the visual in the historical formation of empire more generally.»(Fionna Barber, Reader in Art History, Manchester Metropolitan University)This collection of essays discusses how the British empire resonates in a huge array of visual culture in Ireland from the late eighteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. The book is about the way empire has pervaded and continues to pervade Irish art and visual culture. The collection of essays expands the analysis of things visual in terms of Ireland and the British empire to include a broad range of cultural matter: art exhibitions, museums and their displays, architecture, photography, illustrated books, fashion, public and private performances and entertainments, as well as paintings, sculpture, prints and book illustration. The essays only touch on some of the issues that need to be discussed in relation to Ireland and the visual culture of imperialism, but it is hoped that this volume will spark others to investigate the topic and thus greatly expand Irish visual historiography.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 264 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This carefully researched book offers a dynamic and expansive Deweyan vision for the arts and education. This (re)vision acknowledges the influence on Dewey¿s aesthetics of art collector and educator Albert Barnes, while also exploring the various ways Dewey¿s writings on the arts, in moving beyond Barnes¿ 'scientific aesthetic method,' were an important resource for many innovative twentieth-century American artists, art movements, and arts-related educational institutions. Neither Barnes¿ influence on Dewey nor the features of Dewey¿s naturalistic aesthetics that made his Art as Experience a favorite text of many artists and arts practitioners have been fully and adequately acknowledged in existing literature on Dewey¿s thinking about the arts and education. This book effectively remedies that situation.'Granger clarifies, advances, and augments a broad and open-ended ¿Deweyan vision of the arts and education.¿ Enlivened on almost every page by concrete historical and contemporary examples drawn from the arts, Granger¿s highly readable book is essential for democratic educators, administrators, and policymakers who reject the zombie idea that ¿real¿ academic work is inherently separate from aesthetic consummations.'¿Steven Fesmire, Professor of Philosophy, Radford University; President of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy; Author of John Dewey and Moral Imagination: Pragmatism in Ethics'One of the most vexing characters on the American art scene was Albert Barnes: the self-styled, passionate collector whose good intentions to educate the masses ran amuck with a museum that, like his art theories, proved too rigid to be realistic. Thus, his friendship with John Dewey, whose wide application of art to life has been puzzling¿until now. With Granger, we see that Barnes¿ lessons in how to look, while frozen in a formal analysis of modern French art, nonetheless unleashed in the philosopher an expansive way to think about the aesthetic. As demonstrated here, Dewey¿s dynamic, embodied understanding inspired the evolution of radical art throughout the 20th century, providing insight into making and being in the world still.'¿Mary Jane Jacob, Professor and Director of the Institute for Curatorial Research and Practice, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Author of Dewey for Artists'David Granger¿s valuable book begins by examining the mutually-influential friendship of John Dewey and Albert Barnes, along with significant differences between the two men. In contrast with Barnes¿ comparatively ridged formalism, Granger demonstrates compatibilities and/or relationships between Dewey¿s aesthetics and painters Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock, as well as Black Mountain College artists and educators including John Andrew Rice, John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, and Merce Cunningham among others. Well researched, the book establishes many surprising relations among people, art, and ideas. Granger concludes with a refreshingly original vision of the arts and education.'¿Jim Garrison, Professor Emeritus, School of Education, Virginia Tech; Past-President of the John Dewey Society; Author of Dewey and Eros: Wisdom and Desire in the Art of TeachingLang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 258 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -As a niche field, pilgrimage studies has long been multidisciplinary and draws interest from pilgrims, practitioners, and academic scholars. Despite the burgeoning corpus of pilgrimage literature, there is a gap related to disciplinary-specific publications which reflect how pilgrimage is conceptualised and studied by academics. Moreover, many academic publications assume the reader is familiar with particular research methods and/or theoretical paradigms that inform the work, which is often not the case. The goal of the current volume is to present a foundational text for understanding various disciplines that contribute to the field of pilgrimage studies and to bridge the gulf between academic scholarship and ¿popular¿ pilgrimage literature. To this end, each chapter is organised in a similar format, which includes an overview of the discipline or field of study, a brief history, and the types of questions that are addressed by the discipline. Building on this foundation, the chapters include a section on contemporary literature pertaining to pilgrimage or pilgrimage-like phenomena. Authors further consider theoretical perspectives and methodological concerns. Finally, authors explore recommendations for future research and/or directions for advanced exploration. The volume includes chapters from disciplines formerly silent on pilgrimage phenomena such as public administration, information studies, and digital humanities.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 358 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Synergy: Different Perspectives and Approaches in Postcolonial Studies aims at examining and exploring alternative perspectives to postcolonial studies. Accordingly, in the book, the use of postcolonialism in translation studies in literature, the Gothic, the colonial perspective, the issue of immigration, rewriting, and literary criticism are addressed as the subjects of postcolonial studies. 206 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This collection emerged from a conference held in TU Dublin at a time when the theme of «New Beginnings» seemed particularly apposite. In the few years prior to the gathering, COVID-19 had brought the world to almost a complete standstill. The need to recalibrate, to find new and more effective ways of dealing with the climate crisis, domestic and international politics, literary expression, and technology, was clearly felt by everyone. The fourteen essays deal with literary figures such as Jonathan Swift, George Moore, Colm Tóibín, Richard Murphy, Seamus Heaney, Michael O¿Siadhail, Sally Rooney and Doireann Ní Ghríofa. Other issues broached are the diplomatic work carried out by Seán T. O¿Kelly as Ireland¿s envoy to Paris when an independent Ireland was seeking international recognition; depictions of the AIDS crisis in Irish theatre; the Neganthropocene in the French TV series Zone Blanche; new opportunities for learning through digital archives; strategies to save the rural Irish pub; innovative strategies employed by Ireland on the world stage, and the use of science to manipulate the French public¿s beliefs about COVID-19. The diversity of material and approaches guarantees that New Beginnings will appeal to a large number of readers.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 350 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Digital technologies are revolutionizing global economy, modes of production and consumption, at individual and collective levels. Nevertheless, involved socio-economic models can be often incompatible with major challenges faced by humanity, notably environmental crisis and climate change that warn about the end of a linear growth model which aimed at 'produce, consume and throw away', in order to move towards an economic development that tends to limit the waste of resources and environmental impact. For that purpose, innovation should be responsible and at the service of a more sustainable development.This apparent contradiction between digital production forces and bio-climatic issues can be questioned by the emergence of innovation ecosystems. At their center, new technologies constitute drivers for solving problems of degradation of nature, food, and survival of species. In this perspective, the questions addressed in this book focus on the beneficial interactions between digital technologies and environmental challenges.Both of them shape the edges of a new socio-economic era. The authors of this book detail the paradigm of this new economic, industrial and corporate era that emphasizes investments in innovation, R&D and aggregation of expertise, skills and knowledge through innovation digital ecosystems to supporting digital revolution and ecological transition.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 384 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Understanding WPA Readiness and Renewal examines WPA journeys and journeying.Designed for WPA graduate seminars and professional development workshops, this book addresses two questions:¿ How do people develop readiness to serve as WPAs ¿ How do experienced WPAs find or create renewal opportunities that help them move forward throughout their lives and careers Authors address these questions from their sometimes-intersecting identities as BIPOC scholars, LGBTQ+ people, graduate students, and adjunct faculty, as well as early, mid-, and later-career WPAs.Authors draw on their experience teaching at a range of two- and four-year institutions to analyse the complexities, contingencies, and rewards of short and long-term WPA work. These scholars contend that understanding WPA 'readiness' and 'renewal' involves questioning inherited definitions of those terms and engaging in theorized, self-aware conversations that reflect, and reflect on, understudied fears and desires about WPA work from graduate preparation to preparing for leadership rotation and retirement.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 230 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This is a critical edition of a newly discovered Greek manuscript: a full commentary from Codex 199, Metochion of the Holy Sepulchre, Constantinople, entitled ¿Wisdom of Solomon¿an interpretation of Solomon¿s Book of Wisdom, by Origen, as they say¿. The book includes critical apparatus, commentary, and English translation.The Introduction acquaints readers with the text, as well as its late Byzantine context. In the manuscript both the Biblical text (quoted lemma after lemma) and the commentary are presented in full, which makes the document a valuable one for Old Testament scholars, since it contains not only the full commentary, but also the entire text of the Book of Wisdom, which at points has some interesting variations from all extant codices of the Septuagint.Intriguingly, Origen's name is on the rubric, but as author Panayiotis Tzamalikos demonstrates, the most likely author is Nikephorus Gregoras. Study of Gregoras¿ predecessors, architects of the Palaelogean Enlightenment such as George Acropolites, Theodore Metochites, and George Pachymeres, as well as Gregoras¿ contemporary John Kyparissiotes, sheds further light on how Christian and Greek thought were received and interpreted in the East.This book marks a major contribution to the field of Greek and Byzantine philosophical exegesis, and will be valuable for postgraduate classes on patristics, Biblical exegesis, and Byzantine and Greek philosophy.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 692 pp. Englisch, Neugriechisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -In this volume, six experts from Europe and Africa present new insights from the field about various aspects of Germany¿s colonial rule in Africa, raising doubt about the hitherto interpretations of some important events. The outbreak of violence in Rwanda 1904 was neither an anti-colonial Hutu uprising nor the result of a royal court intrigue against German rule, but instead a response to raids, the White Father missionaries had carried out against the local population. German colonialism in Rwanda was much less benevolent than it is today recalled in Rwanda, because its main edge was directed against the population in the North whose collective memory has been marginalized in the royal abanyiginya narrative, under colonial rule and after the genocide. Other chapters deal with the link between colonial boundaries and ethnic conflict and the counter-intuitive consequences of the German/Namibian settlement about colonial atrocities against the Herero and Nama. 226 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -«Multidisciplinary and comparative, Camps of Transit, Sites of Memory brings new materials and approaches to the study of Fascist, wartime and postwar concentration and transit camps in Italy, as well as their legacies. An essential volume for the continuing study of this complex subject.»(Professor Mia Fuller, University of California, Berkeley)Camps and places of transit assume relevance in certain contexts and in relation to specific events of the contemporary age: from genocide to voluntary or forced migration, from camps for prisoners of war to the management of refugees in conflicts or catastrophes. In the phases of transition to normality that follow such events, places of transit can be used for different, sometimes opposing purposes, such as the control and/or elimination of certain social groups, or as the protection of persons for humanitarian aims.This volume investigates the relationship between camps and places of transit from three main perspectives: the history of transit camps in various countries and times; the relationship between such spaces, whose architectural characterization is fragile and difficult to recognize, and the great memorial and symbolic relevance of them; and, finally, the concepts of transit and camp, and changes in the meaning of such places and the memorial and educational practices related to them.With contributions by Antonis Antoniou, John R. Barruzza, Chiara Becattini, Vando Borghi, Matteo Cassani Simonetti, Francesco Delizia, Robert S. C. Gordon, Ivano Gorzanelli, Hans-Christian Jasch, Borbála Klacsmann, Andrea Luccaroni, Marco Minardi, Roberta Mira, Elena Pirazzoli, Francesca Rolandi, Laurence Schram, Claudio Sgarbi, Andrea Ugolini and Riki Van Boeschoten.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 338 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Since the dawn of humanity, people have traveled in search of meaning and to petition for worldly and otherworldly blessings. In the twenty-first century, the number of people traveling to religious sacred sites on pilgrimage has increased more than at any point in human history. An increased demand for pilgrimage routes and trails with the spiritual rather than the religious walker in mind, has also led various enterprising groups and individuals to develop entirely new pilgrimage routes and trails. This book highlights this new chapter in pilgrimage and trail development with essays by pilgrimage scholars and practitioners working in over ten countries.These include an examination of circular pilgrimage in The Netherlands, weird or «antipilgrimages» in the UK, and the revitalization of ancient trails along the Old Way to Canterbury, in the Baltic States, and on the Kumano Kodo in Japan. Entirely new trails include the Sufi Trail in Turkey, the Western Front Way in Europe, the Abraham Path in Southwest Asia, the Mormon Canadian Trail, and various new religious-themed trails in Lebanon. Human rights pilgrimages include one focused on peace building in Indigenous Australia, another on Indigenous settler pilgrimage protocols in Canada, and an emancipation pilgrimage along the Underground Railroad in the United States.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 320 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -How was it possible for a well-educated nation to support a regime that made it a crime to think for yourself This was the key question for the Stuttgart-based author Anna Haag (1888-1982), the democratic feminist whose anti-Nazi diaries are analysed in this book. Like Victor Klemperer, she deconstructed German political propaganda day by day, giving her critique a gendered focus by challenging the ethos of masculinity that sustained the Nazi regime. This pioneering study interprets her diaries, secretly written in twenty not Elektronisches Buch now preserved at the Stuttgart City Archive, as a fascinating source for the study of everyday life in the Third Reich. The opening sections sketch the paradigms that shaped Haags creativity, analysing the impact of the First World War and the feminist and pacifist commitments that influenced her literary and journalistic writings. Extensive quotations from the diaries are provided, with English translations, to illustrate her responses to the cataclysms that followed the rise of Hitler, from the military conquests and Jewish deportations to the devastation of strategic bombing. The book concludes with a chapter that traces the links between Haags critique of military tyranny and her contribution to post-war reconstruction.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 284 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This volume honours Federica Scarpa, a prominent figure in Translation Studies who has made a major contribution to defining, describing and researching specialised translation. In her body of research, Scarpa has successfully combined insights from a variety of approaches, from functional theories to the cultural turn and, more recently, profession-related aspects. Her approach to the study of specialised translation considers multiple dimensions (discoursal, pragmatic and service-related) and builds an organic model capable of accommodating context-based quality criteria and advances in technology. The chapters collected in the volume develop some of Scarpäs ideas and have been authored by scholars and professionals who have established a direct dialogue with Scarpa or benefited from her insights.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 298 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -As the most important ancient cultural relics in prehistory, rock art have become a direct basis for the reproduction of human history and ideological process. Since the late 1970s, Yinshan rock art have been found in large quantities. In this study, 2842 Yinshan rock art are collected, sorted and classified systematically. The distribution characteristics of rock art in each area and the distribution and change rules of main rock art types are summarized. This book also places Yinshan rock art into the overall framework of Chinese rock art for analysis in order to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the overall characteristics and status of Yinshan rock art, and showcases researches on the chronology are.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 880 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Drawing on inspirational advice from philosophers in ancient China, Lectures on Chinäs Traditional Political Thoughts takes readers through major schools of Chinäs traditional political thoughts, including the Confucian School, the Mohists¿ School, the Daoists¿ School and the Legalists¿ School. Written in exceptionally clear and user-friendly style, this book provides valuable insights into the study of political science, gives a clear, thorough and balanced introduction to the basic characteristics, clues and focuses of ancient Chinäs political thoughts, offers an accurate depiction of ancient Chinese intellectuals and compares different political ideological systems in China and the West. The book also contains a detailed glossary of important terms both in Chinese and English.In China, a country with a vast area, a large and multi-ethnic population, a complex situation and a long history, ancient Chinese political thoughts have left people a wealth of lessons on how to reconcile various contradictions, enable the country to develop steadily and ensure the people to live in peace and work in contentment. The wisdom gathered throughout history is central to the understanding and practice of Chinese people¿s pursuit of universal harmony, which has an increasing cultural impact in the world today. This book is extremely useful as the starting point for understanding Chinäs traditional political thoughts and as a textbook ideal for learners and researchers on courses in Chinäs traditional political thoughts. Readers who may have no previous knowledge will also find the book interesting and illuminating.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 206 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This edited collection expands the applicability of peace journalism research beyond war to present readers with new and unique perspectives on terrorism and radicalization. Flora Khoo curates an expansive range of global case studies on diverse instances of terrorism, extremism and radicalization. Chapters examine news portrayal of war and peace in national and international conflicts, TV and film portrayal of war and peace in the entertainment world, as well as global terrorism, domestic extremism and radical movements. Essays are drawn from global range of locations including Kenya, London, Paris and Orlando, and a variety of organizations including ISIS, Al-Shabaab, Antifa and Army of God to deepen our understanding of peace and war journalism and related issues in new and diverse ways.'Examining Terrorism, Extremism and Radicalization Through a Peace Communication Perspective is a scholarly foundation for those of us who want to enjoy learning about the breadth and depth of peace journalism. This book will arouse interest and generate a complex view of timely case studies spanning four different continents. Readers will enjoy a fresh perspective of peace journalism and its implications and applications in the world today.'¿Shahira S. Fahmy, Professor of Communication, The American University in Cairo; Associate Editor, Journal of Communication; Author, Media, Terrorism & Society: Perspectives and Trends in the Digital Age'This edited volume offers a timely and compelling reexamination of international conflicts and terrorism through the lens of peace journalism. It expands our understanding of peace journalism through an interdisciplinary approach that is not only theoretical in scope and depth, but also highly applied.'¿Seow Ting Lee, Professor of Strategic and Health Communication, University of Colorado BoulderBooks on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 320 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This textbook aims to provide a complehensive and understadable analytical framework of international finance in terms of theory and practice. The book covers three main areas - The International Financial Environment, Determinants of Exchange Rate and Exchange Rate Policy, and Foreign Exchange Derivatives.This book is suitable for every level of learner. Anyone who is curious about international finance topics from college students to their professors can all find something useful from within the rich and varied content presented here. It has been written in an engaging and refreshing way to reward effort over sometimes complex concepts. It stresses learning by example. To explore a theory or method, an example is worked out first, and the (mathematical) principles are explained later. Exercise and solution keys are provided at the end of each chapter to facilitate both self learning and the teaching process.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 674 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Re-thinking the Angelic Doctor is a major new reassessment of the reception of Thomas Aquinas in the work of the twentieth-century American philosopher W. Norris Clarke. Author Aloysius N. Ezeoba explores the question of whether Clarke was engaged in a 'creative retrieval' of Aquinas¿ system of thought ¿ with a focus on the human person ¿ or whether Clarke was forging his own path in attemptting to provide a 'creative completion'. Shedding new light on the workings of two great minds separated by eight centuries, Re-thinking the Angelic Doctor will be of interest to readers who are looking for a timely re-examination of the Aristotelian arguments, especially as they are appropriated by template religious thinkers such as Aquinas. It will also be a valuable resource in graduate courses in medieval and modern philosophy and theology.Readers concerned with understanding how to appropriate St. Thomas Aquinas¿s thinking for the twenty-first century will be greatly assisted in this task by reflecting upon this volume. They will learn much about the last century¿s attempts to rethink St. Thomas from the varied positions of neo-Thomists in movements such as Transcendental and Existential Thomism. They will understand the ways in which thinkers such as Marechal and Phelan, were recrafting or, perhaps, abandoning classical Thomism, and how contemporary thinkers, such as Rev. Christopher Cullen, S.J. were countering with arguments defending traditional Thomism. And, importantly, they will confront the thought of one important figure connected with this appropriation: Rev. Norris W. Clarke, S.J., with whom I had contact in many ways as a fellow faculty member and as a popular lecturer. This book is an analytically precise, thoughtful, fruitful exercise in philosophy. It renders appropriate homage to that important twentieth-century Jesuit philosopher and teacher, and prepares the ground for critical appraisal of other various creative appropriations of St. Thomas Aquinas in the past century.¿William P. Baumgarth, Sr., PhD, Associate Professor of Political Philosophy, Fordham University.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 304 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This research focuses on the period 2003 to 2014, which was exceptional in the history of the Turkish Republic for its radical shift in the official stance adopted towards Kurds. The overall Kurdish policy of the AKP in 2003¿14 was part of a wider agenda of refashioning the nation on an anti-Kemalist, anti-elitist, and essentially pro-Muslim basis. This reconstruction of the nation was built on the populist claim to be ending the varying levels of social and cultural exclusion that the religious masses, Kurds, informal employees, and poorly educated rural masses had been subject to as subaltern groups of the Republic. This policy did not work. The AKP failed to establish Turkish hegemony over Kurds and could not suppress the Kurdish national movement. This book looks for an explanation of the failure of the Kurdish policy of the AKP by considering the limits of its social policy in instituting a compliant, cooperative, submissive Kurdish subjectivity. To do this, it focuses on the persistence of patient dissatisfaction in Hakkâri, a small Kurdish province, during the period despite the very considerable improvements to healthcare provision achieved in these years. The empirical findings of this study show that the persistence of patient dissatisfaction in Hakkâri as a mass phenomenon was essentially a daily symptom of an ethnopolitical resistance to being interpellated by the AKP as citizens-in-the-making who would compare past and present, realize the progress, and thus appreciate the current quality of healthcare provision by tolerating any shortcomings as a minor price to pay for relative material comfort. In short, the limit of the AKP strategy was reached in an attempt to carry out a sort of politics of redistribution that tried to convince Hakkârians to be content with a situation that fell short of full respect to their identity and bodies.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 352 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -«You have done a magnificent study of Julian. The initial chapters are splendidly researched though I missed the Syon Abbey contribution. Then I loved your final chapters where the footnotes keep giving Julian's text. I especially applaud your seeing the Carmelite aspect which I don't think others have.»(Julia Bolton Holloway, Hermit of the Holy Family, Florence)«A new work on Julian of Norwich is always a cause for celebration and Dr Clemmer's book is no exception. The reader is enabled to follow Julian closely before, during and after her unique visionary experience, examining contemporary history and spirituality from many angles. And the story continues right up to Edith Stein in the twentieth century. This book will delight all Julian lovers, as well as others who want to know Julian better and appreciate her in greater depths.»(Sr Elizabeth Ruth Obbard ODC, Quidenham Carmel, Norwich)Julian of Norwich in Her Phenomenology engages Julian¿s primordial religious experience of May 1373; her subsequent definition to its revelation within her spiritual texts; and their hermeneutics made manifest from centuries of historical context. The meaning of Julian¿s experience continued to unfold throughout her life: with its grace, and by insight with her own use of phenomenological method. The historical manifestation of Julian¿s graced experience is given its closest phenomenological expression within her Short Text (Amherst) and in her Long Text (Sloane), with their collective human-Divine collaborations. But first, they arise phenomenally for Julian in the reciprocal gaze exchanged between her God and her soul. It is by God¿s Trinitarian gift of love, and in her grace-filled collaboration with others, that Julian¿s spiritual texts preserve, and guard, her experience of prayer and contemplation grounded in God: namely, with humanity¿s resting in God¿s substance, and with God¿s resting and ruling in her own soul as God¿s homeliest home.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 600 pp. Englisch.