Springer nature jul 2007 (76 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This volume addresses issues that have arisen in post-Gricean pragmatic theory. Among the specific topics covered are scalar implicatures, lexical semantics and pragmatics, indexicality, procedural meaning, the semantics and pragmatics of negation. The volume includes both defences and crit…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book applies the concept of synchronization to security of global heterogeneous and hetero-standard systems by modeling the relationship of risk access spots (RAS) between advanced and developing economies network platforms. The propo…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book offers a clear, accessible exploration of lifelong learning and educational opportunities for women in higher education. It has been developed from work undertaken by members of the Women in Higher Education Network with chapters…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book brings together experts on national history writing from all five continents to discuss the role of history in the making of national identities in a transnational and comparative way. The institutionalization and professi…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This title offers insight into a range of art and performance practices that have emerged as a result a more technological world. These practices are integral to alternative and mainstream performance culture and the author explores…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Spain Transformed addresses a major gap in the historiography of modern Spain: the late Franco dictatorship. Although Spain took the leap from an agricultural to an industrial economy and underwent a social and cultural revolution i…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book examines general Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) roles and comparative advantages in the broad fight to end global poverty, as well as roles and opportunities specific to particular Millennium Development Goals sectors. 227…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Despite the inroads made by women in the professions, the glass ceiling remains a persistent barrier to their career progression. Using a range of interactional sociolinguistic data this publication investigates the crucial role that gende…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book explores the intersections of film, justice, and the state in comparative perspective across a range of major Asian countries, including India, China, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, and Vietnam. The contributing authors cross the…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Drawing on case studies, this collection offers international perspectives on how community media serves their audiences. The contributors present perspectives on the ever-burgeoning area of grassroots. Their research represents participan…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. It provides in-depth coverage of a wide range of canonical American authors from the American Renaissance onw…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book stages a series of interventions and inventions of urban space between 1880 and 1930 in key literary texts of the period. Making sharp distinctions between modernity and modernism, the volume reassesses the city as a series of si…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -A new and original analysis of the mission undertaken by FDR's Secretary of State during the Phoney War, Rofe's work explains the motivations and goals of Roosevelt through an analysis of the president's foreign policy and of the nature of…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This is a literary and anthropological analysis of historical narratives that illuminate regional notions of cosmological kingship, cosmopolitan notions of Islamic law and mysticism, and global notions of the modern bureaucratic state. The…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This bold new reading of Orwell's work focuses upon his representation of communities and the myths that shape them. It analyzes his interpretations of class, gender and nationality within the context of the period. The book uses a range o…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Sharing a commitment to the theory of communication to Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action , Grant here issues a range of challenges to it. He critiques theories of dialogism and intersubjectivity, proposes a rethinking of the communi…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The regime of Primo de Rivera in Spain was one of the major dictatorships of the interwar period. Making Spaniards examines how the military regime created nationalist doctrine, rituals and symbols and how these were transmitted throughout…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The book is an interdisciplinary collection of fifteen essays, with an editorial introduction, on a range of territories in the Commonwealth, Francophone, and Hispanic Caribbean. The authors focus on land and development, providing fresh p…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Why is Shrek one of the greatest selling DVDs of all time Why are shampoo advertisements based on Sleeping Beauty Why is it that the same simple stories keep being told This study attempts to explain why fairy tales keep popping up in the…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Despite the inroads that women have made into the professions in recent years, the glass ceiling is just as persistent as ever. Gendered Discourse in the Professional Workplace aims to investigate the crucial role that gendered disc…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In this timely book, leading authors explore the technologies that might help us to develop a sustainable energy future, emphasising renewable energy and the political and economic context needed for them to prosper. This collection…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book looks at U.S.-Korea relations and argues that military alliances depend upon a combination of power distribution, material assets, and identities. The author asserts that beyond being mere tools of power balancing, alliances are…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This collection is the result of a five-year-long collaboration of sociologists in Sweden, Spain and the United States. In-depth, extended interviews with couples explore their daily lives and provide insights into the impact of modernity,…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Uses new research to examine performance implications of different employee relations in German firms in the UK, Are they using the liberal institutional system for employee relations in the UK to escape the heavily regulated system in Ger…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Social researchers are increasingly aware of their obligations to the 'hard to reach' communities they research. This book identifies the issues associated with researching these communities and offers both conceptual analyses and practica…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This tells of twenty-four couples negotiating the emotional and practical journey of parenting their learning 'disabled' child. The author, a researcher, sociologist and mother of a learning disabled daughter, questions the weak inclusive…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This collection offers a comprehensive account of the relation between diaspora and media cultures. It analyses the politics of transnational communication, the consumption of media by diasporic communities, and the views of non-government…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume brings together contributions by leading researchers of the social interactional and socio-cultural approaches to language learning and teaching. It provides both an introduction to this important growth point and also an overv…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Using rigorous economic analysis backed by solid data and accounts of real life experiences, this book twists conventional wisdom to drive the thinking about China 'outside the box'. It dispels China's economic myths and probes deep into t…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book considers how white U.S.-Americans may participate in racial justice-making, and shows how 'white' identities embody problematic moral realities, arguing that reparations for people of African descent and sovereignty for Native p…