peter lang sep 2016 (254 resultados)

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Este volumen es el resultado de un proyecto sobre temas verbales realizado en el Departamento de Lingüística Románica de la Universidad Técnica de Aquisgrán, inspirado en las experiencias obtenidas en los cursos de lingüística y de práctica del idioma. El libro pretende ser un instrumento útil para el no iniciado ofreciendo un acercamiento didáctico a importantes temas de la gramática española y francesa. Intenta dar explicaciones de fenómenos sincrónicos que permitan ampliar y profundizar los conocimientos sobre los diferentes temas lingüísticos tratados. Ce volume est le résultat d¿un projet sur les thèmes verbaux réalisé à l¿institut de la linguistique romane de l¿université technique d¿Aix-la-Chapelle. L¿ouvrage est inspiré des expériences faites pendant des cours de linguistique et de pratique de la langue. Le but de ce volume est de présenter la grammaire sous une forme accessible et de familiariser les étudiants avec une approche des structures grammaticales en question. Le livre est un instrument utile pour les étudiants, il leur offre une approche didactique aux grands thèmes de la grammaire française et espagnole. En outre, le livre permet d¿augmenter et d¿approfondir les connaissances déjà acquises, en fournissant des explications concernant des phénomènes au niveau synchronique. 202 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Reescribir la violencia supone un acercamiento al conflicto armado en Colombia desde la obra de escritoras que narran las experiencias de víctimas de la guerra. Diarios, autobiografías, historias de vida, entrevistas y narrativa testimonial serán los cauces de expresión más idóneos para la perpetuación de la memoria de mujeres asediadas por la violencia.El presente volumen recoge un análisis de la obra híbrida, entre el periodismo y la ficción, de Silvia Galvis, Patricia Lara, Elvira Sánchez-Blake y Laura Restrepo, basado en la manera en la que estas escritoras llevan a cabo la resemantización de eventos históricos y el rescate del olvido de experiencias individuales, desde una perspectiva diferente a la oficial. 206 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Die Umfrage unter mehr als 1.200 Experten gewährt wesentliche Einblicke in die Vertragsabschlusspraxis deutscher Unternehmen. In ihrem Mittelpunkt steht die Frage, welche Bedeutung vertragliche Haftungsbeschränkungen haben und wie die Beteiligten in diesem Zusammenhang mit den Beschränkungen der 305 ff. BGB umgehen. Das beinhaltet unter anderem Informationen zum Verfahren des Vertragsschlusses (z.B. Dauer der Verhandlungen), aus denen sich ableiten lässt, in welchem Umfang die Vereinbarungen gegebenenfalls als Individualvereinbarungen der Inhaltskontrolle entzogen sind. Darüber hinaus liefert die Studie aber auch Daten zu grundlegenden Fragestellungen wie beispielsweise der Verbreitung von Rechtsabteilungen oder dem Anteil grenzüberschreitender Vertragsschlüsse. 104 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Sports governing bodies, governments and European institutions highlight the inclusive power of sport and its capacity to foster a sense of belonging among youth of immigrant background. At the same time, sport at youth and grassroots level can be as much an exclusionary as an inclusive experience. As a country of relatively short immigration history and with a great passion for sport, particularly football, Italy makes a compelling case on which to situate an analysis of sport participation of youth of immigrant background and issues of representation in relation to national identity. The book originates from 40 in-depth interviews with young players aged seventeen to twenty-three, born in Italy to immigrant parents or raised in Italy since their childhood. It further collates over thirty interviews and conversations with coaches, club and league administrators, educators, and migrants¿ rights activists. Analysis of official documents and media analysis further contribute to the construction of a specific body of knowledge which sheds an unprecedented light on issues which are at the forefront of policy discussions and media discourses across Europe.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 214 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Tras décadas de estudio, las investigaciones llevadas a cabo en torno a las denominadas construcciones con verbos funcionales o «Funktionsverbgefüge» en alemán y español no han convergido en una concepción homogénea del fenómeno lingüístico. Dentro del ámbito de estudio de la lingüística contrastiva, este libro ofrece una visión amplia y sistematizada del tratamiento teóricoconceptual de construcciones como in Gang setzen o poner en marcha en la tradición lingüística alemana y española mediante una cuidada selección de propuestas metodológicas, para, finalmente, concluir con una reflexión sobre los lugares comunes. Este trabajo está dirigido a germanistas e hispanistas interesados en el estudio de este tipo de construcción verbonominal desde un enfoque contrastivo. 222 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Fruit d¿un colloque international qui s¿est tenu en septembre 2015 à l¿Université de Neuchâtel, cet ouvrage analyse le supportérisme comme pratique militante. Les contributions portent notamment sur le Brésil, l¿Egypte, la France, la Russie, la Turquie et l¿Ukraine. Mais au-delà de l¿aire géographique ou culturelle, il s¿agit de comprendre les ressorts de l¿extension du supportérisme dans l¿espace public et les liens que les supporters entretiennent avec d¿autres formes de mobilisations ou d¿actions collectives. L¿interrogation dépasse le cadre restreint du stade en cherchant à comprendre comment des individus et des groupes qui consacrent une part importante de leur temps au soutien d¿une équipe de football en viennent à défendre des causes politiques. Cet ouvrage constitue ainsi une nouvelle étape dans la construction d¿une sociologie des pratiques européennes et transnationales du supportérisme.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 174 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Coincidiendo con el ochenta aniversario del comienzo de la Guerra Civil Española, la publicación La memoria transgeneracional se plantea observar la transmisión transgeneracional, en España, de la memoria del conflicto de 1936¿1939, a través de la mirada proporcionada por la literatura de tercera generación. Su primera sección se centra alrededor de un acercamiento interdisciplinar a la «memoria» como objeto de estudio, y de la contextualización de la memoria traumatizada en España a partir del año 1939. Por medio de la observación de un corpus de novelas recién publicadas (entre las cuales se ha dedicado un análisis específico a La voz dormida de Dulce Chacón, El corazón helado de Almudena Grandes, ¡Otra maldita novela sobre la guerra civil! de Isaac Rosa, y Ayer no más de Andrés Trapiello), el objetivo principal de la investigación es la formulación de pautas interpretativas que ayuden a parcelar la rápida evolución del panorama literario de la España actual en lo que se refiere a la representación del pasado conflictivo de la nación.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 400 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Wie der Erstdruck vermerkt, vertonte Robert Schumann im Jahr 1849 die Ballade ¿Schön Hedwig' op. 106 ¿für Declamation mit Begleitung des Pianoforte'. Unter derselben Besetzungsangabe wurden drei Jahre später die ¿Ballade von Haideknaben' und ¿Die Flüchtlinge' op. 122 publiziert. Die Autorin untersucht die zeitgenössischen positiven Äußerungen zu Schumanns Werken, die in einem Umfeld der grundsätzlichen Ablehnung des Melodrams markant hervortreten. Sie zeigt, wie vor allem die Konzertmelodramen tiefgreifende Einblicke in seine Musik- und Gattungsästhetik ermöglichen: Mit dem Melodramatischen als Vertonungsstrategie betrat der Komponist ¿ trotz einer über siebzigjährigen Gattungstradition ¿ musikalisch neues Terrain. 132 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Este volumen constituye la primera monografía que aborda el haz entero de construcciones en las que, a lo largo de la historia, ha participado el auxiliar más conocido del español, HABERE > haber. Catorce especialistas de universidades europeas y americanas trazan, desde muy diversas ópticas teóricas (lingüística de área, gramática formal, gramática de construcciones, sociolingüística, dialectología o gramaticalización), una perspectiva de conjunto, exhaustiva en los detalles y novedosa en sus hipótesis, sobre los distintos caminos que históricamente ha emprendido el verbo ¿haber¿ y hoy caracterizan su comportamiento en español (y otras lenguas románicas aquí abordadas: catalán, francés, portugués.), adentrándose igualmente en aspectos generales de la variación y el cambio morfosintácticos. 506 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Ist der Islamische Staat (IS) ein Terrornetzwerk, eine Guerillaorganisation oder doch ein Staat Dieses Buch beantwortet die Frage, indem es hinter die Fassade des Kalifats blickt: Es zeigt auf, wer die Entscheidungsträger des IS sind und nach welcher Ideologie und Strategie sie denken und handeln. Zudem betrachtet es den Aufbau der Organisationsstruktur und der transnationalen Vernetzung. Auf Grundlage der Ergebnisse diskutiert diese Studie am Ende ebenfalls potentielle Gegenmaßnahmen. Durch eine systematisch-kritische Analyse und Auswertung der wichtigsten Fachliteratur zum IS filtert dieses Werk die zuverlässigen Informationen über den Akteur heraus, sodass am Ende ein umfangreiches Gesamtbild präsentiert wird. Vor dem Hintergrund der Terrorismusforschung verortet die Studie den IS als einen Hybrid aus Terror-und Guerillaorganisation. 136 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -El lenguaje jurídico y administrativo en el ámbito de la extranjería: estudio multilingüe e implicaciones culturales, coordinado por Mercedes Eurrutia, contribuye a colmar el vacío existente sobre estudios científico-filológicos que conjugan la caracterización del lenguaje jurídico administrativo con las implicaciones socioculturales de las migraciones internacionales, desde un enfoque multilingüe. Partiendo de la compilación y sistematización de corpus lingüísticos formados por documentos jurídico administrativos de uso obligado para los ciudadanos extranjeros en diferentes países (Italia, Francia, Chinä), este libro constituye una aproximación analítica contrastiva a las diferentes tipologías discursivas recopiladas, basada en el análisis de aspectos terminológicos, fraseológicos y discursivos de este lenguaje de especialidad, tomando como lengua de referencia el español. El estudio efectuado contribuye a perfilar la identidad cultural de administradores y administrados, definiendo la condición del extranjero en cada sociedad e incentivando el debate sobre la solidaridad desde la perspectiva lingüística.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 418 pp. Spanisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Este volumen cubre lagunas en la investigación lingüística sobre el español del siglo XVII, ceñido hasta ahora fundamentalmente a obras literarias y autores prestigiosos, en conjunción con el XVI. Tomando como eje transversal a Cervantes y su legado, estos trabajos comparten la idea de la existencia de un modelo lingüístico distinto, que va transformándose, no solo en el plano morfosintáctico, sino también en el discursivo, y desemboca en el 'español moderno'. La lengua de este periodo se analiza desde perspectivas de análisis diferentes y una gran variedad de corpus, que logran aproximar al lector a la complejidad del espacio variacional de la época a ambos lados del Atlántico y a las concepciones teóricas sobre la lengua del XVII, subyacentes a la codificación normativa. 406 pp. Spanisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Este libro adopta un enfoque semántico-funcional en el estudio de la imperfectividad en el español. La imperfectividad, como categoría semántico-funcional, encuentra afinidades con otras funciones semánticas, donde el valor de verdad de una situación se presenta como indeterminado o impreciso como, por ejemplo, en la reproducción de citas y distanciamiento del hablante frente a lo dicho; de manera que la imperfectividad se solapa con la modalidad y evidencialidad. Asimismo, se analizan las funciones secundarias de la imperfectividad relacionadas con la modalidad epistémica y evidencialidad indirecta en la prensa española. En todos los casos, los textos analizados proceden de corpus reales del español (CREA, Corpus del Español y GlossaNet). 624 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Winner of the 2017 Society of Professors of Education Book AwardWinner of the 2017 American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice AwardBorder Crossing «Brothas» examines how Black males form identities, define success, and utilize community-based pedagogical spaces to cross literal and figurative borders. The tragic deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Tamir Rice in Cleveland, and numerous others from Brooklyn, Britain, and Bermuda whose lives have been taken prematurely suggest that negotiating race, place, and complex space is a matter of life and death for Black males. In jurisdictions such as the U.S. and Bermuda, racial tensions are the palpable and obvious reality, yet the average citizen has no idea how to sensibly react. This book offers a reasonable response that pushes readers to account for and draw on the best of what we know, the core of who we are, and the needs and histories of those we serve.Drawing on the educational and socializing experiences of Black males in Bermuda ¿ a beautiful yet complex island with strong connections to the U.S., England, and the Caribbean ¿ this book offers educators and leaders new language for postcolonial possibilities and emancipatory epistemologies related to Black male identities and success in a global context. Intriguing findings and fresh frameworks grounded in understandings of race, class, ability, transnationalism, culture, colonialism, and the construction/performance of gendered identity emerge in this book.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 242 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Purposeful Engagement in Science Learning provides a blueprint of how teachers and their students can engage in science learning that mirrors the way science is practiced. It is written for K¿16 science educators as well as those in the informal science education sector. The framework for this book is based on the project cycle, which is consistent with the process of scientific inquiry. Chapter One reviews the historical, philosophical and psychological foundations of project-based scientific inquiry (PBSI) and the evolution of this approach in the U.S. Chapter Two examines and synthesizes the research on PBSI. Chapter Three explores how to plan PBSI and offers practical strategies for veteran and novice science educators alike. Chapter Four presents different strategies for implementing PBSI with particular emphasis on factors to consider, including the roles and responsibilities of teachers and students. Chapter Five provides selected case histories of successful PBSI. Chapter Six deals with the different methods of evaluating and assessing students¿ learning in PBSI environments and provides examples of performance-based assessments suitable for evaluating students¿ learning. Chapter Seven examines the relationship between PBSI, after-school programs and community involvement. Finally, Chapter Eight identifies and describes relevant resources that could be used to support and enhance PBSI. This book is organized in a way that allows science educators to address the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), while at the same time, helping students learn science in ways that are relevant to their lives.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 218 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Cet ouvrage part du postulat que le degré d¿effervescence mémorielle est proportionnel au degré de violence subie dans le passé ou de silence imposé et perçu comme une injustice non réparée. Les mobilisations mémorielles autour d¿un devoir de mémoire prennent souvent la forme violente de « guerres de mémoire ». Leur violence symbolique (ou autre) est en corrélation avec la violence des conflits passés : violence résultant de la conquête de territoires, violence politique des régimes dictatoriaux, violence des vainqueurs envers les vaincus, violence des empires à l¿égard de leurs sujets, violence de guerres civiles et de luttes de libération nationale¿ Querelleuses, les mémoires de conflits alimentent des tensions politiques, susceptibles de déclencher de nouveaux conflits. Comment ces revendications à caractère purement mémoriel deviennent-elles un enjeu de lutte sociale et politique Quelle est l¿attitude de l¿État face aux visions alternatives, non officielles du passé Ces dernières parviennent-elles toujours à modifier le paradigme du grand récit national À quelles conditions peut-on arriver à un apaisement mémoriel durable Quelles sont les stratégies pour le rapprochement entre deux nations, autrefois belligérantes, ou pour la recherche d¿une cohésion au sein d¿une société divisée Un devoir de mémoire ne devrait-il pas s¿accompagner d¿un devoir de vérité pour toutes les parties impliquées dans le conflit C¿est à ces questions, d¿ordre d¿abord éthique, que tentent de répondre les auteurs de cet ouvrage. 288 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The book presents Henry Totting of Oyta (d. 1397), a late medieval intellectual who was active in Erfurt, Prague, Paris, and Vienna. In spite of the fact that he is a well-known figure, the majority of his works remain unedited in manuscripts. The authors analyse and provide the first editions of three of his sermons: On the Passion, On the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and On the Nativity of John the Baptist. Totting wrote each of them at a different point in his career, for a different audience and in a different style. They contribute to our knowledge about late medieval devotion and illustrate the transformation of late medieval intellectual life in Central Europe. 194 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The purpose of this book is to encourage the use and exploration of imagination, intuition and insight as essential ingredients for scientific, educational and civic endeavors. This groundbreaking book is a kind of intellectual provocation, but also an antidote for our current crises in education. It is a dizzying, transdisciplinary and morphing romp through fields as disparate as complexity theory, quantum physics, neuroscience, political sciences as well as the innovative uses of games. 130 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Der Band enthält die auf der Jahrestagung der «Gesellschaft für Arabisches und Islamisches Recht» (GAIR) im Oktober 2015 an der Universität Göttingen gehaltenen Vorträge. Thema der Tagung war «Genderforschung und Genderfragen im islamischen Recht». Die Vorträge werden ergänzt um zwei weitere, themenrelevante Fachbeiträge. Die Autoren gehen in den Beiträgen zum einen der Frage nach, welche Rolle und Bedeutung die Geschlechterforschung im Recht hat. Zum anderen wird anhand empirischer Beispiele die Geschlechterstellung im deutschen Recht und im islamischen Recht ¿ in Deutschland und in der muslimischen Welt ¿ definiert und diskutiert. 154 pp. Englisch, Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The book assesses the role of three pro-European pressure groups (the European Union of Federalists, the Socialist Movement for the United States of Europe and the European League for Economic Cooperation) and their impact in fostering new relations between Europe and the colonies between 1947 and 1957. It argues that the association of the overseas territories into the European Economic Community in 1957, the founding stone of today¿s European policy for aid and development, was to a large extent the result of the intense intellectual activity that took place in these transnational groups upstream of the signature of the Treaty of Rome. A transnational approach of these groups uncovers the broader objectives of the European policy: that the association would in the long run revive the declining links between Europe and its overseas territories. On the one hand, part of the influential British and continental pro-European elites wanted to create a European Commonwealth which would establish new preferential and intergovernmental links between countries of the Council of Europe, the British Dominions and the European colonies. On the other hand, a number of French and Belgian pro-Europeans wanted to create a Eurafrican community, a federation linking Europe and Africa economically and politically. Both the European Commonwealth and the Eurafrican community were designed in response to postwar challenges: the dollar gap, the communist threat in the Third World, the rise of new African and Asian nationalisms or the position of European powers in a new globalised world. 238 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This volume is a collection of essays published between 1999 and 2015 in the review The Federalist Debate. The book highlights the issue of federalism intended as a theoretical paradigm to interpret the major problems of our age, and in particular the issues of peace and war in a world characterized by an uncontrolled globalization. 468 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Empire and Education in Africa brings together a rich body of scholarship on the history of education in colonial Africa. It provides a unique contribution to the historiography of education in different African countries and a useful point of entry for scholars new to the field of African colonial education. The collection includes case studies from South Africa, Ethiopia, Madagascar, French West Africa (Afrique Occidentale Française) and Tanzania (then Tanganyika). It will therefore prove invaluable for scholars in the histories of French, British and German colonialism in Africa. The book examines similarities and differences in approaches to education across a broad geographical and chronological framework, with chapters focusing on the period between 1830 and 1950. The chapters highlight some central concerns in writing histories of education that transcend geographic or imperial boundaries. The text addresses the relationship between voluntary societies¿ role in education provision and state education. The book also deals with ¿adapted¿ education: what kind of education was appropriate to African people or African contexts, and how did this differ across and between colonial contexts Finally, many of the chapters deal with issues of gender in colonial education, showing how issues of gender were central to education provision in Africa. 348 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Learning to Teach in the Digital Age tells the story of a group of K¿12 teachers as they began to connect with digital making and learning pedagogies. Guiding questions at the heart of this qualitative case study asked how teaching practices engaged with and responded to the maker movement and digital making and learning tools and materials. Over the course of one school year, Sean Justice attended to the ebb and flow of teaching and learning at an independent K¿12 girls school the northeastern United States. Teachers and administrators from across grade levels and academic domains participated in interviews and casual conversations, and opened their classrooms to ad hoc observations. In conducting the study, Justice interwove a sociomaterial disposition with new materialism, posthumanism, and new media theory. Methods were inspired by narrative inquiry and actor-network theory. Findings suggested that digital making and learning pedagogies were stabilizing at the school, but not in a linear way. Further, Justice suggests that the teaching practices that most engaged the ethos of twenty-first-century learning enacted a kind of learning we hear about from artists, writers, scientists, and mathematicians when they talk about what innovation feels like, leading to the proposition that a different kind of language is needed to describe the effects of digital materialities on teaching practice.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -With particular focus on the first-hand narratives of two desegregation pioneers¿their stories, sufferings, and pedagogy of survival¿this book gives voice to unsung heroes and the often overlooked view of the adolescent perspective to address the question of how one can endure and thrive in the midst of hardship and tragedy. While enduring her own personal trauma, the author wrestled with the question, ¿How will I survive ¿ The answer, she discovered, was in the actual act of surviving and in the navigational strategies she employed and witnessed in the lives of others. In Pedagogy of Survival, the author uses the narratives of ordinary people to highlight extraordinary lessons of perseverance. The integration of historical and present-day change agents challenges readers to examine their own lives and see that they, too, have the ability to not merely withstand trials, but to become agents of change. Everyone has a story that matters and can serve as a lesson for someone else. So what is your story How will you use it to help others Ultimately, what is your pedagogy of survival Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 240 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book addresses the needs of diverse urban students for a new kind of teacher, classroom learning context, curriculum, and pedagogy in order to effectively learn, perform, and achieve. Drawing on the African concept of Ubuntu as a fundamental framework for enacting a humanizing pedagogy, the text invites teachers, students, and families to enter into an interdependent and interconnected relationship for education. This book is uniquely transformative as it elevates the centrality of student humanity and models the integration of emergent theories and practices, utilizing real-life stories to enlighten and illuminate. Emphasis is placed on Ubuntu pedagogy as a model to emulate, anchored on five ethical dimensions: humanism and Ubuntu competence, relationship and learning community, humanism in the curriculum, pedagogical and instructional excellence, and collaboration and partnership. Particularly valuable for teachers learning to cultivate the spirit of Ubuntu that undergirds their ability to be humane, responsive, socially- just, efficacious, and resilient, this book is a cutting-edge resource for effectively addressing the persistent academic achievement of diverse urban students.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 266 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The Italian Yearbook of Human Rights 2016 provides a dynamic and up-to-date overview of the measures Italy has taken to adapt its legislation and policies to international human rights law and to comply with commitments voluntarily assumed by the Italian Government at the international level. The 2016 Yearbook surveys the activities of the relevant national and local Italian actors, including governmental bodies, civil society organisations and universities. It also presents reports and recommendations that have been addressed to Italy in 2015 by international monitoring bodies within the framework of the United Nations, the Council of Europe and the European Union. Finally, the Yearbook provides a selection of international and national case-law that casts light on Italy's position vis-à-vis internationally recognised human rights. 'Italy and Human Rights in 2015: Universal Ethics, Good Governance and Political Realism' is the focus of the introductory section of the Yearbook. Starting with the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, international human rights law plunged onto the world stage with very specific principles and rules, which represent so many points that are essential not only for the legality but also for the sustainability of the political agenda. The universal code of human rights, widely ratified by Italy, presses for a continuous commitment to perfecting the legal order, which has immediate significance for the good governance agenda. The Italian Agenda of Human Rights 2016 represents an updated orientation tool with regards the main initiatives to be undertaken on the legislative, infrastructural and policy-making fronts in order to strengthen the Italian system for promoting and protecting human rights. 290 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book examines the English Lingua Franca (ELF) uses in a corpus of online and scripted video-game interactions. While research generally explores the playful and technological aspects of computer-mediated communication, this study focuses on the strategies of cooperation, language simplification and authentication, lexical creativity and meaning negotiation that are generally activated within the «community of practice of gamers» to facilitate cross-cultural conversations. The scripted exchanges, instead, are examined by means of the ALFA Model (Analysis of Lingua Franca in Audiovisual texts), which is devised to enquire into the extent to which the non-native participants¿ language variations are part of the multimodal actualisation of the cognitive construct of «non-native speakers», to which authors resort in order to prompt specific reactions on the part of the receivers. Finally, since the participants¿ turns in both online and scripted interactions are visually represented as written messages on screen, this research also contributes to the development of the description of written ELF variations, so far not thoroughly explored in the literature.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 158 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Best known for his Gothic masterpiece Uncle Silas and the vampire story Carmilla, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was a prolific writer whose extensive body of work included historical, sensation and horror novels, poems and ballads, numerous stories of the supernatural, journalism and a verse-drama. While his name is well known to aficionados of the horror genre, much of his work still remains in the shadows. Indeed, despite his vampire creation, Carmilla, being the best-known female blood-sucker in the world, and despite an enormous scholarly and popular interest in the novella in which this character first appeared (an interest evident in the very large number of cinematic, televisual and even new media adaptations of the story), Le Fanu himself is almost completely unknown outside of the world of Irish Gothic scholarship, and most of his fiction remains difficult to obtain or is out of print.To celebrate the bicentenary of Le Fanüs birth, this collection brings together established scholars and emerging researchers in order to shed new light on some of his less famous fiction and celebrate his influential contribution to the Gothic genre. The main aim of the collection is to read Le Fanu in the round, expanding the critical focus away from its current obsession with a small proportion of his work and taking account of the full extent of his writing, from his other Gothic novels, The Rose and the Key, Haunted Lives and A Lost Name, to his short stories and journalism. The collection also considers Le Fanüs relationship to Victorian Ireland and especially Dublin from a number of different angles, as well as addressing his status as an ¿Irish¿ writer of substance.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 260 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -À partir des années 1880, l¿électricité est progressivement devenue une technologie centrale, qui va procurer des biens et assurer des services nouveaux, bouleversant ainsi la production industrielle, l¿économie et les pratiques sociales et culturelles. De confidentiel, son usage ne cessera de s¿étendre, devenant massif et planétaire, et aujourd¿hui indispensable jusqüaux détails de la vie quotidienne. Pour fonder et déployer un système de production, de transport et de distribution efficaces de l¿électricité dans tous les pays, pour concevoir, fabriquer et diffuser les machines, outils et objets divers fonctionnant par ce moyen, en somme pour former un monde nouveau, il faut former un corps de techniciens spécialisés : ce seront les ingénieurs électriciens, pour lesquels seront élaborés et mis en ¿uvre des cursus dédiés. Cet ouvrage retrace la naissance et la croissance de ces formations, à partir de la fin du XIXe siècle, en Europe et sur le continent américain, et leur rôle dans le développement des différents États. Issu des travaux d¿un colloque international tenu à Prague, il rassemble les contributions de 28 historiens portant sur 15 pays.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 548 pp. Englisch, Französisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The concept of bilingualism has been analyzed for a very long time. Its definitions range from native-like competence in two languages to a minimal proficiency in a second language. Hence one might question why no consensus has been reached in this matter. The authors of this volume imply that there exists a number of theoretical and methodological difficulties raised by older definitions. The notion of bilingualism has to be investigated from different perspectives reflected by the dimensions each individual intends to diagnose. The aim of the book is to review critically the state of the art in the field of bilingualism. The volume reveals the details of empirical studies conducted by scholars from Europe, America and Australia. It depicts a truly interesting spectrum of research topics starting with the educational aspects of bilingualism, such as: bilingual acquisition, bilingual parenting methods and bilingual kindergartens, to reveal various issues of sociolinguistics and even bilingual literature. 230 pp. Englisch.