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Published by Peter Gmbh Lang Feb 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 3631635451ISBN 13: 9783631635452
Seller: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Ausgehend von der «Kritischen Patriarchatstheorie» wird die Gabe als Paradigma und als zwischenmenschlicher Akt untersucht. Es handelt sich dabei um einen ersten Versuch, politische, ökonomische, kulturanthropologische sowie spirituelle Aspekte zu vereinen und das vielschichtige und bedeutende Phänomen der Gabe transdisziplinär zu beleuchten. Auf der Suche nach einer Politik, Kultur und Ökonomie der Gabe werden Forschungsergebnisse der Matriarchatsforschung sowie der «Kritischen Patriarchatstheorie» vereint, um erste Ansätze einer neuen Theorie der Gabe vorzulegen, und diese im Kontrast zu den gängigen Theorien zu diskutieren. Im Ausgang von Genevieve Vaughan wird gezeigt, dass gerade in Zeiten der Krise die Frage nach der Alternative zum scheinbar alle Lebensbereiche durchdringenden Tausch-Paradigma mehr denn je an Bedeutung gewinnt. Wir erfahren, dass es sich dabei nicht um eine Utopie handelt, sondern um eine immer schon vorhandene, konkrete, in Zeiten des kapitalistischen Patriarchats jedoch verborgene Alternative, die es wieder- bzw. neu zu entdecken gilt. 144 pp.
Published by Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers Feb 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 3631630352ISBN 13: 9783631630358
Seller: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The book investigates empirically mechanisms behind the recent widespread use of employee stock options and share repurchases in corporate financial management. Exploring through econometric models a sample of large U.S. technology corporations in the period between 1997 and 2005, it documents complex links between stock option plans, payout policy and other key financial characteristics of these firms. The models highlight the interplay between the interests of long-term shareholders, optionholders and speculative investors and provide estimates of joint effects of option dynamics and repurchases on stock returns, undervaluation and option plans on payout policy as well as risk taking and revenue growth on payoffs to shareholders and optionholders. 105 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers Feb 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 1433100606ISBN 13: 9781433100604
Seller: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Hogwarts and All explores modern children's literature from its origins in the nineteenth-century cult of childhood, a cultural movement inseparable from Christian theology. From the Kunstmärchen (adult fairy tales) of late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century German romanticism through Charles Dickens, J. R. R. Tolkien, and J. K. Rowling, this genre, like all gothic arts, has served as an alternative cultural perspective to that of scientific materialism. Its benignly subversive message is that a civilization that abandons its commitment to the childlike values of wonder, trust, sacrificial love, spontaneity, vulnerability, and faith in radical possibilities for peace, social justice, and human happiness - all qualities endorsed by Ray Bradbury, Susan Cooper, Madeleine L'Engle, and other authors discussed in this volume - is a civilization at risk. 236 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers Feb 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 1433113414ISBN 13: 9781433113413
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Seminary of Virtue explores the history of penal education programs, demonstrating that America's prisons have historically been educational (as well as punitive) institutions. This volume argues that Eastern State Penitentiary's extensive and aggressive educational program reflected a general American belief that correctional institutions should educate inmates as a way of reducing recidivism and thereby «reforming» them. No mere case study, Seminary of Virtue demonstrates that for the last two hundred years penologists have believed that educational programming was one of the keys to lowering recidivism and «reforming» inmates. Seminary of Virtue also reveals the historical amnesia that hindered American penal reform over the same time period as each succeeding generation believed that their particular penal reforms were revolutionary. 201 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang Feb 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 3631616589ISBN 13: 9783631616581
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This work provides different studies of how econometric evaluation of monetary policy based on forward-looking Taylor rules is conducted. The first part discusses theoretical results regarding the Taylor principle and can be used as a guideline for the evaluation of the following three empirical applications based on survey data of Consensus Economics. The first application deals with the question whether the introduction of inflation targeting affects monetary policy. The second application investigates the consequences of oil price movements for monetary policy. The third application analyzes monetary policy conditions in Spain before and after the changeover to the Euro by estimating forward-looking Taylor rules. 120 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang Feb 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 3631614535ISBN 13: 9783631614532
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Diese Arbeit nutzt Konzepte aus dem Repertoire der Performanztheorien zur Analyse des afro-brasilianischen Kampftanzes Capoeira Angola. Ungewöhnlich ist dabei die Rolle der Verfasserin, die sowohl als Ethnologin als auch als Lernende (und inzwischen Lehrende) der Capoeira in ihrer Person Innen- und Außensicht auf den Gegenstand verbindet. Sie versucht durch ihre 2008 durchgeführte Feldforschung den Widerspruch zwischen klaren Regeln und definierten Kontexten einerseits und der Förderung von Improvisation, Reflexion und Handlungsbevollmächtigung andererseits aufzulösen. Um dieses Phänomen der Bewußten Inkorporation zu verstehen, bedient sie sich der Konzepte verschiedener Performanztheorien. Dabei befaßt sich die Arbeit mit der Capoeira in Europa, jedoch unter einem anderen Gesichtspunkt als die bisherige ethnologische Literatur. Es geht der Verfasserin weniger um den sozialen Kontext Barcelonas, als um das Verstehen der geistigen und körperlichen Techniken, durch die der Meister (Mestre China) seine Botschaft vermittelt. 148 pp. Deutsch.
Published by Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers Feb 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 1433114933ISBN 13: 9781433114939
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Invisible Girls is an examination of twenty-four at-risk adolescent girls' writing practices in a Third Space setting located within a school but outside of the confines of a regular classroom. Through a description of the girls' writing over a three-and-a-half-year period in this setting, Mellinee Lesley details phenomena that both support and suppress at-risk adolescent girls in their quest to achieve academic success through their writing practices. This book offers educators insights into teaching writing to adolescent girls who are falling through the cracks of the public education system in the United States. Much more attention needs to be given to the literacy practices and pedagogical needs of this considerable population of learners. As such, this book is poised to fill a void in the field of literacy for educators who want to prevent the intellectual abandonment of girls drifting invisibly along the corridors of schools. 152 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang Feb 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 3631622589ISBN 13: 9783631622582
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Die polnischen Kreditsicherungsmittel und deren Untersuchung im Hinblick auf ihre Praktikabilität sind Gegenstand dieser Arbeit. Besonderes Augenmerk wurde auf die Durchsetzbarkeit und die Kosten des jeweiligen Kreditsicherungsmittels gelegt, um für den Leser einen echten Mehrwert zu erzielen. Durch intensive Literaturrecherche sowie der Befragung mehrerer namhafter Dozenten der Jagiellonen Universität Krakau konnten sehr viele praktische Informationen in die Untersuchung einfließen. Der Leser erhält durch die Arbeit einen erstmaligen Überblick über die praktische Handhabung der Kreditsicherungsmittel in Polen und ihre Vor- und Nachteile. Die Untersuchung zeigt auf, welche Kreditsicherungsmittel in welcher Situation sinnvoll und vereinbar sind, und ist für Unternehmen und deren Berater, die in Polen aktiv sind oder werden wollen, eine wertvolle Informationsquelle. 122 pp. Deutsch.
Published by Peter Lang Feb 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 1433114747ISBN 13: 9781433114748
Seller: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This anthology - the first of its kind in eight years - collects some of the best and most current research and reflection on the complex interactions between religion and computer-mediated communication (CMC). The contributions cohere around the central question: how will core religious understandings of identity, community and authority shape and be (re)shaped by the communicative possibilities of Web 2.0 The authors gathered here address these questions in three distinct ways: through contemporary empirical research on how diverse traditions across the globe seek to take up the technologies and affordances of contemporary CMC; through investigations that place these contemporary developments in larger historical and theological contexts; and through careful reflection on the theoretical dimensions of research on religion and CMC. In their introductory and concluding essays, the editors uncover and articulate the larger intersections and patterns suggested by individual chapters, including trajectories for future research. 340 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang Feb 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 143311125XISBN 13: 9781433111259
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -What does it mean to be Black in the Obama era In Reading African American Experiences in the Obama Era, young African American scholars and researchers and experienced community activists demonstrate how to encourage dialogue across curricula, disciplines, and communities with emphases on education, new media, and popular culture. Considering what this historic moment means for Black life, letters, and learning, this accessible yet scholarly volume encourages movement toward thoughtful analysis today. 296 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang Feb 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 1433105993ISBN 13: 9781433105999
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The volume addresses the ways that the field of adult basic education has already been impacted by changes in technology and what needs to happen for learners and teachers to take full advantage of newly developing resources. The analysis is organized around three main themes: Learning, Teaching, and Organizing. Each section reviews relevant research and sample instructional resources, drawing on work done from around the world. A key concern is moving beyond the hype to look for the specifics of practice - what exactly is new about contemporary adult basic education Rather than a celebration of technology for technology's sake, the analysis asks a series of questions. What do we want learning to look like What do teachers expect of themselves as professionals and learners Finally, how is technology being used to shape the field, and how can we use it to work for changes we believe in This book is essential reading for pre-service and in-service teachers, as well as instructors in a variety of fields relating to technology and learning. 168 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang Feb 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 1433110067ISBN 13: 9781433110061
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -(Un)knowing Diversity tells the powerful stories of five minoritized American youths' school experiences. In their own words, we learn what it is like to go to school, what helps, what does not, and who these students are becoming. The author outlines the practice of testimonio work, then interprets each narrative, identifying the fixed, fluid, concurrent, and dynamic processes that serve to both map and unmap youth in schools - offering the possibility of decolonization. She identifies postcolonial and neocolonial concepts such as hybridity, nationalism, authenticity, ambivalence, transnationalism, and surveillance. The volume, which includes a study guide with questions and assignments suitable for undergraduate and graduate coursework, will be useful in qualitative methods courses, multicultural foundations courses, and courses in education and sociology. 192 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang Feb 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 1433108062ISBN 13: 9781433108068
Seller: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -How do classroom teachers envision new technologies within their practice In the conversation on incorporating new technologies into classrooms, teachers are often sidelined. Envisioning New Technologies in Teacher Practice looks at the complex ways in which teachers move forward to embrace change as well as how they circle back, continually revising their practices while subtly resisting change. In addition to examining how teacher identities change over time, the book also reveals how they can be changed. Co-authored by a university research team - four teachers, a principal and LWL's pedagogical leader - the book discusses the professional development model that emerged and foregrounds how a teacher action research component contributed to teachers' - and students' - learning. 264 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang Feb 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 143311285XISBN 13: 9781433112850
Seller: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book provides practitioners and scholars with a number of practical tools for studying and implementing democratic learning processes within schools, and theorizes these tools in relation to current developmental learning and democratic theory. Three dimensions of knowledge are framed - foundational, expert, and personal - and the place of each in the construction of democratic classroom understandings is explored. Based on a two-part analysis of the roles students played in a number of pedagogically diverse classroom discussions, three different forms of learning experience are then presented - teacher-led, student-led, and co-led learning. While all three forms of learning experience are seen as valuable to a fully realized democratic pedagogy, each form is shown to possess a distinctive set of affordances and constraints in relation to the many varied challenges involved in fostering children's academic growth and learning. 232 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers Feb 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 1433116308ISBN 13: 9781433116308
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Urban education is an interdisciplinary field, characterized by introducing many perspectives to research pertaining to educational policy and to the practice of educating youth whose lives unfold in densely populated urban metropolitan areas. This book celebrates Constance Clayton's eleven-year tenure as superintendent of the School District of Philadelphia, ending in 1993, following which an endowed chair was established in Dr. Clayton's honor at the University of Pennsylvania, and later, the Clayton lecture series was inaugurated. The chair was the first named for an African American woman at a predominantly White, Ivy League U.S. university. The lecture series, upon which this book is based, provides a forum for teachers, researchers, and scholars to evaluate and discuss key concepts and issues in urban education. Collectively, the lectures summarize important developments in a post-Brown vs. Board of Education era of educational thought (1998-2010) about what is in the best interests of urban youth. 233 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers Feb 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 1433113783ISBN 13: 9781433113789
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Dialectics of African Education and Western Discourses addresses how continental Africans who have worked or are currently working in the Canadian academy address their dual legacy of African and Euro-American knowledge paradigms. Reflecting a range of approaches to hegemonic Euro-American paradigms that can be summarized as «appropriation, ambivalence and alternatives,» the authors bring African indigenous knowledge and praxes into play in addressing issues in various sub-fields of education from philosophy and gnosis to teacher education and classroom practice, memory work and storying to higher education policy and development studies, language and mathematics pedagogy to giftedness and special education. By simultaneously engaging Western and African worldviews, theory, policy and practice, the twelve essays provide an intervention in and contribution to critical approaches to education as a comprehensive global field and as an aspect of African studies. 206 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers Feb 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 9052017832ISBN 13: 9789052017839
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -L'intégration économique entre le Canada et les États-Unis remonte à la guerre de 1939-1945 alors que les deux gouvernements ont conclu des arrangements pour gérer au mieux les effets du conflit mondial sur leurs économies. Depuis quelques années maintenant, on s'interroge sur l'avenir de l'intégration nord-américaine. Dans le domaine de la sécurité, par ailleurs, on observe aussi une tendance historique à la coordination des politiques entre les deux pays.L'évolution récente de la dynamique nord-américaine en général et le nouveau contexte des relations Canada - États-Unis en particulier influencent naturellement les politiques des deux pays et leurs relations avec l'extérieur. Ils offrent ainsi une occasion unique de reprendre l'analyse comparée de politique étrangère afin d'en établir le degré plus ou moins grand de convergence.On trouvera dans cet ouvrage une étude comparée de la politique étrangère du Canada et des États-Unis par rapport à quatre thèmes principaux : la dynamique internationale, les relations avec les Amériques, l'intégration économique nord-américaine et enfin la sécurité de l'Amérique du Nord. Venant de pays et d'horizons disciplinaires différents, les contributeurs à ce volume proposent un regard croisé de l'objet d'étude, riche en nuances et nourri par des observations diversifiées. 272 pp. Französisch.
Published by Peter Lang Feb 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 1433113589ISBN 13: 9781433113581
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -More than a decade after feminists burst forth onto the Internet demanding material access and social intervention, this collection sets out to explore what it means to be a cyberfeminist today. The contributors examine a wide range of topics, from Health 2.0, the blogosphere, and video games, to female artists and diasporic youth, in order to re-envision how feminists can intervene in the mutual shaping of online and offline relationships. These authors contend that women's bodies and actions online are influenced by the politics of offline spaces, which buttress power hierarchies at both material and symbolic levels. They do not, however, simply make pessimistic assessments of online spaces as an extension of the existing power relations. Rather, Cyberfeminism 2.0 attends to contested aspects of new digital technologies that simultaneously enable political retreat and feminist resistance. 328 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers Feb 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 3034310501ISBN 13: 9783034310505
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Cet ouvrage interroge le rapport à l'autre dans le cadre de l'espace frontalier - ici la Guyane française -, à travers des représentations et des pratiques des enseignants de langue et culture françaises de la ville de Macapá, capitale de l'état d'Amapá. L'auteur tente d'identifier les processus cruciaux qui régulent la construction du vivre-ensemble dans l'espace frontalier, c'est-à-dire quand le rapport à l'autre semble si immédiat et si proche, du moins géographiquement . A l'opposé de ces évidences, ces rapports entre voisins s'inscrivent dans le registre binaire du eux-nous et procèdent à des éloignements du ' proche ' (la Guyane française) et des rapprochements du ' lointain ' (la France), dévoilant ainsi les tensions identitaires entre langue-culture légitimes versus langue-culture non légitimes. Dans cette perspective, ce livre propose des pistes méthodologiques pour introduire dans la formation des enseignants de langues - mais aussi dans la classe -, une éducation à une décentration, permettant de déconstruire l'ethnocentrisme et cette ' innocence de la bonne volonté interculturelle ', afin de reconstruire un rapport distancié à soi et à l'autre. 257 pp. Französisch.
Published by Peter Lang Feb 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 363162297XISBN 13: 9783631622971
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In dieser Monographie wird Ich als ein raumzeitliches Phänomen bestimmt, indem die Autorin dem Problem Ich im Kontext verschiedener Disziplinen wie Philosophie, Psychologie, Soziologie, Literaturwissenschaft und Semiotik nachgeht. Als Ergebnis der theoretischen Analyse gelangt sie zur Neukonzeptualisierung des Konstrukts Ich. Das Ich wird als eine Einheit der synchronen und diachronen Raumzeiten aufgefasst. Im Lichte des theoretischen Kontextes und auf Grund der Analyse der literarischen Werke werden die Fiktionen vom Leben der Jugendlichen im sowjetischen Estland und in der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik konstruiert. Im Anschluss werden die Lebensfiktionen der Esten und Deutschen verallgemeinernd verglichen und interpretiert. 196 pp. Deutsch.
Published by Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers Feb 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 3034307055ISBN 13: 9783034307055
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book offers a new perspective on current semantic theory by analysing key aspects of linguistic meaning and non-truth-conditional semantics. It applies non-truth-conditional semantics to various areas of language and critically considers earlier approaches to the study of semantic meaning, such as truth-conditional semantics, Speech Act theory and Gricean conventional implicatures. The author argues that those earlier approaches to linguistic semantics do not stand up to close scrutiny and are subject to a number of counterexamples, indicating that they are insufficient for a comprehensive and unified account of linguistic semantics. An alternative framework is then presented based on recent developments in the field, demonstrating that it is possible to provide a unified account of linguistic semantics by making two fundamental distinctions between (a) conceptual and procedural meaning and (b) explicit and implicit communication. These two distinctions, combined with the various levels of representation available in linguistic communication, allow researchers to capture the variety of linguistic meaning encountered in natural language. The study includes a discussion of a number of areas within linguistic semantics, including sentence adverbials, parentheticals, discourse/pragmatic connectives, discourse particles, interjections and mood indicators. 258 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers Feb 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 3631621841ISBN 13: 9783631621844
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Media and Materiality in the Neo-Avant-Garde explores the materiality of media technologies and their impact on the avant-garde of the late twentieth century. The essays of the volume range between different art forms (literature, film, music, visual art, performance) and bridge the same contested cultural divides - high and low, ideology and form, art and everyday life - that were once challenged by the avant-garde. Ranging in topics from the Beach Boys to Herbert Eimert, from Scandinavian forests to Warhol's Factory, the perspectives established and the operations performed in Media and Materiality in the Neo-Avant-Garde thus traverse a network of art and technology that has been crucial for more than half a century, and still is today. 171 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang Feb 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 1433107996ISBN 13: 9781433107993
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Giorgio Vasari's Prefaces: Art and Theory provides students and scholars alike with the opportunity to study and understand the art, theory, and visual culture of Giorgio Vasari and sixteenth century Italy. For the first time all of Vasari's Prefaces from the Lives of the Artists (1568) are included translated into English as well as in the original Italian. Also included is an English translation of Giovanni Battista Adriani's letter to Giorgio Vasari enlightening Vasari on the art of the ancient masters. Through the eyes of Vasari, this book captures the creative achievements of his fellow artists - how they adopt nature and the classical tradition as their muses and how they ingeniously interpret the secular and religious themes of the past and present. Vasari himself is lauded for the transformation of the artist from one of being a mere laborer to one who imbues his work with intellectual depth and is recognized as a creator of beautiful visual myths. 408 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers Feb 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 9052017921ISBN 13: 9789052017921
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book argues that since 2001 the primary discursive context for articulating a European identity within the EU has increasingly become the idea of a common foreign policy for Europe. A new grand project of making Europe a true global player is being put forth and it is this as yet unrealised ideal that European citizens are now being asked to identify with. The author examines European identity as an ideological construction that seeks to elicit emotional and affective attachment to the political project of realising a utopian ideal. He unravels the discourses involved in the construction of European identity by drawing on theories and methods from discourse analysis, the study of political myths, narratology and psychoanalysis. The European Neighbourhood Policy is studied in detail, with a focus on the dynamic challenges that ensue when grand ideological statements have to be implemented in a concrete and specific context. 265 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers Feb 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 3034311214ISBN 13: 9783034311212
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume offers an analysis of colonial literature in the late Victorian age with a specific focus on the works of Henry Rider Haggard (1865-1925) and Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894). Starting from the investigation of the nineteenth century as a period of great historical complexity, it places colonial narratives in a wide panorama of social and cultural developments, illustrating the role played by both adventure romances and imperial novels on the ideological and epistemic fabric of this age. By considering late nineteenth-century writing in the context of a multifarious background, the book sheds light on the intellectual discourses that emerged from the culture of imperialism. It also investigates the textual devices through which topical ideas were fictionalized, both in works included in the field of adventure literature and, at a more extended degree, in the whole novel genre. Far from the limits imposed by chronological classification, the stories selected for analysis are introduced in a common conceptual space that contributes to the articulation of a rich literary territory, where crucial themes such as the complications of racial rapports, the ethical failure of the imperial experience, the developments in individual and national identity are explored. 182 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang Feb 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 3631632355ISBN 13: 9783631632352
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Dopo un inquadramento teorico della fraseologia e una panoramica della fraseografia monolingue e bilingue viene qui analizzato il trattamento delle espressioni idiomatiche all'interno dei dizionari di Tedesco-Italiano. Ne emerge la necessità di migliorarne la registrazione lessicografica e pertanto vengono illustrate le scelte fatte a tal fine nei dizionari dei quali Luisa Giacoma è coautrice. Chiude questo studio una proposta di voce 'ideale' che sintetizza quanto è stato fatto negli ultimi anni, soprattutto nei dizionari fraseologici di Hans Schemann, e quanto resta ancora da fare per rendere sempre più usufruibile il patrimonio di espressioni idiomatiche, introducendo informazioni che ne descrivano in modo esplicito gli aspetti lessicali, sintattici, semantici, pragmatici e stilistici. 172 pp. Italienisch.
Published by Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers Feb 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 3631606885ISBN 13: 9783631606889
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Das System der Arbeitnehmerinteressenvertretung ist in Deutschland durch ein Nebeneinander von Gewerkschaften und Betriebsräten geprägt. Betriebsräte und Gewerkschaften agieren hierbei funktional voneinander getrennt und unabhängig. Gleichwohl ist eine Unvereinbarkeit beider Ämter nicht vorgesehen. Tatsächlich sind mehr als 60% der Betriebsratsmitglieder in Gewerkschaften aktiv. Solche Doppelmandate können zu Rollenkonflikten bei der jeweiligen Amtsausübung führen. Wie diesen Rollenkonflikten im Sinne einer geordneten kollektiv-rechtlichen Interessenwahrnehmung zu begegnen ist, ist Gegenstand dieser Arbeit. 190 pp. Deutsch.
Published by Peter Lang Feb 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 3631623232ISBN 13: 9783631623237
Seller: Rheinberg-Buch Andreas Meier eK, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Grenzgänger zwischen Deutschland und der Schweiz unterliegen regelmäßig in beiden Staaten der Einkommensteuer. Mit seinem Art. 15 a enthält das DBA D-CHE für Grenzgänger eine eigene Vorschrift für den Ausgleich dieser Doppelbesteuerung. Die Anwendung dieser Norm bereitet bei verschiedenen Fallkonstellationen in der Praxis jedoch immer wieder erhebliche Schwierigkeiten. In dieser Arbeit werden im Wege der Auslegung des Art. 15 a DBA D-CHE adäquate Lösungen für diese problematischen Sachverhalte erarbeitet. Darüber hinaus wird in einem zweiten Schritt die Sonderbehandlung von Grenzgängern in Doppelbesteuerungsabkommen auf ihre Aktualität und Funktionalität hin beleuchtet. 186 pp. Deutsch.
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Published by Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers Feb 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 363158461XISBN 13: 9783631584613
Seller: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In just a couple of decades, Finland evolved from one of Europe's lowest educated countries to the top performer of the international PISA ranking. Behind this 'success story', there was a conscious strategy to use educational policies for creating a more equal society. Tracing the development of Finnish higher education system after WWII, this book depicts the role of educational expansion in the making of the welfare state. It focuses on the 1970s degree reform and the challenges brought by the 1973 Oil Crisis, resulting in the rise of New Public Management. Though meticulously planned, the reform was a struggle between various actors with conflicting strategies and goals; between educational optimism and scarce resources, academic values and instrumentalism, social justice and elitism. 210 pp. Englisch.
Published by Peter Lang Feb 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 3034311311ISBN 13: 9783034311311
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Experience is a very basic concept and, at the same time, an extremely complex subject. How does our everyday experience as a human being relate with scientific knowledge and moral conduct What kind of mutual relationship lies between human experience, reason and faith This book gathers the results of a joint philosophical research which puts human experience in question from the diverse perspectives of a selected group of scholars. These collected essays lead the reader through a wide investigation articulated in two stages: the first goes from epistemology to theory of experience and the second moves from theory of experience to theology. Special attention is devoted to the many implications of human experience in the much debated and controversial relationship between reason and faith. The outcome is a plural account which looks with deep interest at a wide range of human experiences, especially those intertwined with the field of natural sciences, the challenges of ethical normativity or the traits of religious commitment. 200 pp. Englisch.