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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Managing a band is a challenge, similar to managing a small or medium-sized enterprise. A type of band particularly difficult to manage is a telephone band that does not have a fixed line-up of musicians. Together, the musicians form a virtual organisation. Every participant in the organisation brings in a certain set of skills, has specific business goals, and has to bear some risks. The major findings include a thorough documentation of activities involved in managing a medium-sized telephone band which are explained in more detail by modelling the processes. Emphasising the use of information and communication technologies, the results provide a chronological sequence of activities that may generally be used for band and event management. 124 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -In the past decade or so, there has been an increasing interest in employing a combination of archival and life history methods to understand the complexities of schooling. This book explores the history of the Beal Technical School in order to discuss the methods and problems involved in researching the story of an institution. It offers the scholar and practitioner a series of practical guidelines and examples for doing such research. At the same time, it includes elements of the history of a case study, leading to an extended discussion of complex issues of representation that will be of interest to both the new and the more experienced educational researcher. This book is a critical tool for a variety of education historians and researchers.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 160 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book focuses attention on deans as agents of change using the conceptual framework of «turnaround leadership for higher education» (Fullan and Scott, Turnaround Leadership for Higher Education). Drawing on this framework, cases studies of six deans of color are presented. Interrogating the framework through the lens of these individuals is particularly cogent, given their positions as leaders of colleges or schools of education in a variety of institutional settings. This insider¿s view allows the reader to examine how a particular leader thought about and implemented a change initiative and whether the desired organizational outcomes were achieved. The study of deans of color who must engage in critical problem-solving is especially timely, given the absence of their perspectives in the existing literature on change and change initiatives in higher education.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 192 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Mount Athos is the spiritual heart of the Orthodox world. From its beginnings in the ninth century it attracted monks from all corners of the Byzantine empire and beyond to experience its seclusion, its sanctity, and its great natural beauty. The first monastery, founded in 963, was an international institution from the start; by the end of the twelfth century separate monasteries had been founded not only for Greeks but also for Georgians, Amalfitans, Russians, Serbs, and Bulgarians. Nationality, however, has rarely counted for much on Athos, and though the Romanians have never secured a monastery for themselves, today they form, after the Greeks, the largest ethnic group. This book tells the story of how these many traditions came to be represented on the Mountain and how their communities have fared over the centuries. Most of the papers were originally delivered at a conference convened by the Friends of Mount Athos at Madingley Hall, Cambridge, in 2009. As far as possible, the authors were chosen to write about the traditions that they themselves represent.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 226 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -News Literacy gathers leading scholars, educators, and media makers to explore new approaches to thinking about, examining, and evaluating news media and civic engagement around these fundamental questions: What are the most pressing issues in news, media, and culture in a converged, digital, and global media age What are the best educational practices to foster media literate understanding, engagement, and expression across borders, across cultures, and across divides The book will prepare future media practitioners (and citizens) to embrace new media environments that can simultaneously empower their craft and their civic voice. This means teaching not only about the various ways new technologies are used and to what end, but also how these tools can enable better engagement with audiences, more dialog with communities, and a more nuanced understanding of how information is processed through new media platforms. Such an approach can empower a more active, collaborative, and empowered information landscape for the digital age.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 230 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -In response to the growing scope and popularity of wedding-related offerings and the media attention given to celebrity and royal weddings, The Bride Factory critically examines various bridal media outlets, artifacts, and the messages they convey about women today. The book departs from conventional wisdom and other treatments of the bridal industry as a scholarly topic by revealing how media portray women in modern American society, and how these portrayals reflect feminism and femininity and illustrate the hegemony created by these media. The book discusses the portrayal of women as brides in media coverage throughout history; the various forms of wedding media, including print, television, and the Internet; how bridal media forward ideals of feminine beauty; how reality wedding programs depict brides ¿ and the new «bridezilla» ¿ as agents of control over their perfect day; the role of men in wedding planning; and the extent to which the white wedding ideal is embraced or resisted, with special attention given to alternative wedding media.Cohesive and multidisciplinary in its approach, The Bride Factory is the first major publication to shed critical light on bridal media and their feminist implications.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 308 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book explores the work of two major twentieth-century artists by placing them in critical proximity. Marcel Proust¿s A la recherche du temps perdu and Jean-Luc Godard¿s Histoire(s) du cinéma connect in ways that the author accounts for through the agency of cinema and its theorisation. Cinema, the art form that characterises the twentieth century, provides the tools with which to recognise Proust¿s and Godard¿s shared poetic enterprise and the modernist underpinning that leads, in both cases, to the simultaneous rejection of and yearning for artistic transcendence. Rather than bringing Proust and Godard together by highlighting their similarity to cinema, the author instead considers the ways that these two major works respond to questions raised by film theory and philosophy. In this way, the communication across the formal and historical gulf that divides Proust and Godard makes itself heard.This study offers a new approach to film-philosophy scholarship by embracing the cinematic as an inspiring channel through which to rethink not only our relationship with film but also with literature and, potentially, with art at large.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 286 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The enlarged and enlarging European Union is a novel political project in motion. The supranational institutions created for six member states over 50 years ago are influencing the everyday lives of more than 500 million European citizens in 27 countries. In addition to being national citizens, such as French, Polish or Hungarian, they are now also Europeans. This generates the following questions: How do ongoing political processes affect who the Europeans are What is the content of their reconstructed identity What are the consequences of changes in collective identity formation for political processes in Europe This book is the result of five years of research on the link between democracy and the functioning of the European Union. It brings together contributions covering recent research dealing with the changing nature of collective identity formation processes in contemporary Europe. 216 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Durch die Zusammenarbeit von zwei Verlagen hat die Acta Germanica mit diesem Band zum ersten Mal eine südafrikanische und eine deutsche Ausgabe. Mit dieser erfreulichen Neuerung wird der Schwerpunktsetzung der Zeitschrift des Germanistenverbandes im südlichen Afrika Rechnung getragen, denn zum einen reflektiert sie unsere wissenschaftliche Arbeit im afrikanischen Kontext und zum anderen zeigt sie durch eine erhebliche Anzahl internationaler Beiträge die wachsende globale Verflechtung unseres Faches. Der erste Teil des Bandes versammelt Beiträge, die unterschiedliche Bezüge zu Afrika herstellen, etwa in einer vergleichenden Untersuchung von Tabus und Tabubrüchen in deutschen und afrikanischen Märchen, in der Lesart des Romans Auf dem Strom über die Magie der Symbole, in der Kritik eines kolonialen Utilitarismus gegenüber Frauen in Kafkas Romanfragment Das Schloß sowie der Rolle von Migrationsliteratur in der Vermittlung von interkulturellen Kompetenzen im DaF-Unterricht in Westafrika. Der zweite Teil präsentiert allgemeine Beiträge über Motive der Großstadt in der Migrationsliteratur, eine Untersuchung über mythische Strukturen in Ilija Trojanows Der Weltensammler sowie vier Beiträge über den Zusammenhang von Magie und Sprache in Bezug auf Reden und Schweigen in der deutschen Erinnerungsliteratur, Sebalds Sprache, das Performative der Sprache und historisches Trauma am Beispiel von Herta Müllers Atemschaukel und schließlich in Bezug auf magische Ansprüche in erzählender Literatur. Der letzte Beitrag beleuchtet die aktuelle Rolle der Geisteswissenschaften heute.Thanks to the co-operation of two publishers, Acta Germanica can now appear in a South African as well as a German edition. This edition is the first to appear under the auspices of this new co-publishing venture. The initiative reflects our scholarly work located within the context of the African continent. But the growing number of international contributions also indicates the increasing global connectedness of our discipline. The first part of this edition comprises four contributions with different takes on African themes, investigating taboos and breaches of taboos from comparative perspectives of German and African fairy tales. Other contributions explore the magic of symbols (in the novel Auf dem Strom), the critique of colonial utilitarianism in relation to women (in Kafkäs novel fragment Das Schloß), and the role the literature of migration in developing interculturally communicative competencies in German language teaching in West Africa. The second part presents contributions of a more general nature, on motifs of the metropolis in the literature of migration, and on mythical structures in Ilija Trojanow¿s novel Der Weltensammler. Other contributions in this second part explore the interrelation between magic and language with reference to the structures of speech and silence in German Erinnerungsliteratur, to Sebald¿s language, to performativity and historical trauma in Herta Müller¿s novel Atemschaukel, and to narrative prose texts¿ claims on magic. The last contribution addresses the role of the humanities today. 196 pp. Englisch, Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -To what extent is philosophy reliant on translation and how does this practice impact on philosophy itself How should philosophical texts be translated Is translation inherently philosophical Can philosophy be described as a ¿type of translation¿ The essays in this collection seek to respond to these intriguing and provocative questions. Exploring a wide range of issues, from the complexities of translating ambiguous philosophical terms to the role of language in concepts of identity and society, each essay highlights the manner in which the two disciplines rely on (and intersect with) each other. Drawing the collection together is an understanding of both translation and philosophy as practices which seek for meaning in our complex relationship with language and the world. 198 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book offers an in-depth study of the rich tapestry of happiness discourses in well-known philosophical novels by Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Hermann Hesse and Ernst Jünger, published between 1922 and 1949. The study is prompted, in part, by an awareness that despite the interdisciplinarity of happiness research, Western literary scholarship has paid scant attention to fictionalized constructs of happiness. Each of the four chapters uses extended textual analysis to explore the sites in which happiness (Glück) and serenity (Heiterkeit) are sought, experienced, narrated, reflected upon and enacted. The author theorizes, with particular reference to Bachelard and Foucault, the interfaces between interior and exterior spaces and states of well-being. In addition to providing new interpretive perspectives on the canonical novels themselves, the book makes a significant contribution to a broader history of the idea of happiness through the appraisal of key intellectual cross-currents and traditions, both Western and Eastern, underpinning the novelists¿ varied and nuanced conceptualizations and aesthetic representations of happiness.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 216 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book focuses on Cuban and Cuban-American crime fiction of the 1990s and early twenty-first century. Contemporary authors, writing in both English and Spanish, have created new hybrid forms of the crime fiction genre that explore the problematic cultural interaction between Cuba and the United States. Through an analysis of the work of writers such as Leonardo Padura Fuentes, José Latour and Carolina Garcia-Aguilera, the author investigates issues which include the oppression of the individual by the state within Cuba, constructions of masculinity and femininity, and the problems facing Cuban immigrants entering the United States. The author demonstrates how contemporary writers have been influenced both by the American hard-boiled crime fiction genre and by the legacy of the socialist detective fiction that was promoted in Cuba by the Castro regime in the 1970s. By focusing on works produced both within and outside of Cuba, the book taps into wider debates concerning the concept of post-nationality. The cultural fluidity that characterizes these new variants of crime fiction calls into question traditional boundaries between national literatures and cultures.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 206 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The volume focuses on logic. The issue that has inspired its preparation is the set of contradictions besetting the concept of logic. On the one hand, logic is held in high esteem, especially by those who cherish reasoning and science, but on the other hand, evidence shows that most people do not use logic in daily life and barely apply it to their work and reasoning. Furthermore, logic is considered as the «crown» of sciences, but at the same time it turns out that logic refers to very specific rules that apply to very particular and narrow domains. How can these and similar contradictions be resolved In their quest for answers, the contributors to this book have explored the multiplicity and variety of logic types and their role for the cognition and construction of realities. 174 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book makes an intensive study of James Phelan¿s rhetorical theory of narrative. Apart from illustrating six basic principles in doing rhetorical theory of narrative, the author examines six major issues which are central to Phelan¿s rhetorical poetics, namely, focalization, character narration, unreliable narration, narrative progression, narrative judgments, and narrative ethics. For each narratological concept, the author minutely conducts a genealogical study to make the review work complete. The book not only compares Phelan¿s rhetorical narratology with classical narratology but also with other strands of postclassical narratology. A detailed bibliography makes this book a compendium of narrative theory which is of relevance for scholars and students of all literary disciplines.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 258 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This study presents a new approach to tense-aspect teaching from the perspective of Cognitive Linguistics. Its aims are twofold: first, to provide a coherent account of the English tense-aspect system. To this end, a synthesis of Langacker¿s Cognitive Grammar theory and Fauconnier¿s Mental Space approach will be put forward. Second, to test the applicability and effectiveness of CL-informed learning materials in the language classroom. For that purpose, an empirical analysis was conducted involving German students of English at an upper-intermediate level. The study therefore addresses linguists and language teachers alike. 252 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The volume brings together up-to-date contributions on translation and accessibility, with a major focus on audiovisual texts, their translations and receivers across languages and cultures. Featuring studies of dubbing, interlingual subtitling, subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of hearing (SDH), audio description and other translation techniques, as they are employed and developed across Europe, the book also covers all the major issues related to the reception of translated and accessible texts. Five essays focus on children as unique viewers and receivers of translated audiovisual texts, thus providing a valuable contribution to the development of research in audiovisual translation for children.El volumen recoge las últimas contribuciones sobre traducción y accesibilidad, con un enfoque mayoritario en textos audiovisuales, en su traducción y en sus receptores en diversos sistemas lingüístico-culturales Además de ofrecer estudios sobre doblaje, subtitulación, subtitulación para sordos, audiodescripciön y otras tecnicas de traducción tal como son empleadas y desarrolladas en Europa, el libro también cubre aquellos temas centrales en la recepciön de textos traducidos y accesibles. Cinco de los articulos se centran en los niños como receptores de los textos audiovisuales traducidos, por lo que se puede considerar esta obra como una valiosa contribución al desarrollo de las investigaciones en traducción audiovisual para un público infantil. 260 pp. Englisch, Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The hallmark technique of Jane Austen¿s mature writing ¿ known as free indirect discourse (FID) ¿ is responsible for what has become known as the «inward interest» of Austen¿s writing. In Persuasion, FID is used extensively to represent the complex life of the heroine¿s mind as she converses with herself. Austen¿s posthumously published «late» novel Persuasion was first translated into French in 1821 by Isabelle de Montolieu as La Famille Elliot, ou l¿ancienne inclination. The present study focuses on the question of how Montolieu handled FID in her French translation: At the time she was translating Persuasion into French, FID did not exist as a formal grammatical category. Neither did Montolieu have the possibility of seeking a model in the works of Flaubert ¿ whose own extensive and innovative use of FID is comparable to Austen¿s ¿ as he was writing much later in the century.Previous translation studies have completely ignored this very crucial aspect of this translation. The author adopts a cross-disciplinary approach encompassing the history of publication, Jane Austen studies, translation studies, and narratology. This book tests the applicability of the conceptual framework of narratology within the field of Translation Studies. The author identifies key analytical concepts from the field of narratology and applies them to Montolieüs translation with the aim of revealing what happened to Austen¿s FID when Persuasion was first translated into French.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 250 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Die normativen Fragen und Probleme um die Aufnahme und Weiterführung von lebenserhaltenden medizinischen Maßnahmen begegnen uns immer wieder. Zu den wohl prominentesten Beispielen zählt der Fall der Eluana Englaro. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit kommen vor allem drei normative Konzepte zur Anwendung: Es sind Menschenwürde, Autonomie und Lebensrecht/-interesse/-wert. Dabei wird zuerst untersucht, wie die jeweiligen Konzepte im Rahmen der Fragestellung am sinnvollsten zu verstehen sind, um sie dann auf drei exemplarische Fallbereiche von Patienten in dauerhaft künstlicher Lebenserhaltung anzuwenden. Daraus ergeben sich eine ganze Reihe spezifischer Fragen wie etwa nach der Bindungskraft früherer Entscheidungen oder der Verwendbarkeit des Wertes des Lebens als Gegenpol zum Selbstbestimmungsrecht. 94 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The contributions of this volume present the latest results of world-wide academic research in the field of the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible and in related areas. The articles cover a multitude of topics, including exegetical and literary problems, history, iconography, history of religion, archaeology as well as lexicography and central theological questions concerning the Hebrew Bible. Dieser Band bietet neueste Ergebnisse von Forscherinnen und Forschern aus Europa, Amerika, Afrika und Asien auf dem Gebiet des Alten Testaments/der Hebräischen Bibel in Verbindung mit angrenzenden Wissenschaftsgebieten. Die Artikel behandeln exegetisch-literarische, historische, religionsgeschichtliche, ikonographische, archäologische und lexikographische sowie zentrale theologische Fragen. 292 pp. Englisch, Deutsch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The Canon of the Bible and the Apocrypha in the Churches of the East features essays reflecting the latest scholarly research in the field of the canon of the Bible and related apocryphal books, with special attention given to the early Christian literature of Eastern churches. These essays study and examine issues and concepts related to the biblical canon as well as non-canonical books that circulated in the early centuries of Christianity among Christian and non-Christian communities, claiming to be authored by biblical characters, such as the prophets and kings of the Old Testament and the apostles of the New Testament.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 122 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The volume consists of 20 original papers by linguists from different European universities on the subject of dialogue forms in selected discourse areas. The broad title Discourse and Dialogue takes into account the heterogeneity of approaches typical of modern European discourse research, which is also reflected in this volume.In diesem Band wurden 20 Originalbeiträge von Linguisten verschiedener europäischer Universitäten über Dialogformen in ausgewählten Diskursbereichen zusammengestellt. Der breit gehaltene Titel Diskurs und Dialog soll der Heterogenität der Ansätze Rechnung tragen, die die moderne europäische Diskursforschung charakterisiert und auch in diesem Band manifest wird. 306 pp. Englisch, Deutsch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Dislocation, which involves moving from a familiar place to an unknown place, is a common experience in this era of globalization yet it can cause a deep sense of alienation ¿ people feel invisible, voiceless, and anonymous. A Hermeneutic on Dislocation as Experience: Creating a Borderland, Constructing a Hybrid Identity employs socio-rhetorical criticism from a postcolonial perspective, providing a hermeneutic on the experience of dislocation from the perspective of Asian immigrant women. The author¿s focus on Asian immigrant women¿s spirituality is interwoven with different texts such as the story of a woman caught in adultery (Jn. 7: 53-8:11), Asian immigrant women¿s stories in the novels Dictee and Crossings, and stories of Korean shamans encountered in the author¿s ethnographic fieldwork. This book suggests that people who experience dislocation can create a borderland where their own marginality gains power and voice. In that borderland, they are able to construct a hybrid identity as a result of deep engagement with one another. In particular, the author¿s fieldwork on Korean shamans reveals how the shamanic ritual itself functions as a borderland, wherein the marginalized Korean shamans gain hybrid identity. A Hermeneutic on Dislocation as Experience is a valuable resource for classes in Asian studies, ethnography, cultural anthropology, biblical spirituality, women¿s spirituality, and interdisciplinary courses. 148 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book discusses the linguistic reflection of ethnicity using as an illustration informal speech patterns in the bi-ethnic Afrikaans speech community. Its theoretical outlook is based on variationist studies and discourse studies on the processes shaping ethnicity. Two areas of language variation come into focus, namely Afrikaans morphosyntax and Afrikaans-English code-switching. Coloured and White speech norms are quantitatively reconstructed on the basis of a corpus of informal speech. This forms the point of departure for a qualitative reconstruction of strategies of ethnic identity negotiation. It is shown that quantifiable trends of linguistic convergence are not incompatible with enduring ethnic differentiation in speech norms. 298 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -In Reasonableness of Faith Tony Kim gives an account of the nature of the relationship between faith and reason through a study of Søren Kierkegaard¿s Philosophical Fragments, which was published under the pseudonym Johannes Climacus. The relationship between faith and reason is problematized by the fact that these ideas essentially occupy different realms of human thought. Kim argues that Climacus contends that there is a historical relation between God and human beings.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 158 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Der Tagungsband zum VI. Rechtshistorikertag im Ostseeraum vom 3. bis 5. Juni 2010 in Tartu (Estland) und Riga (Lettland) dokumentiert die Einheit und Vielfalt in der Rechtsgeschichte. Die Beiträge umfassen die gesamte Spannbreite der neuzeitlichen Rechtsgeschichte von der Privatrechtsgeschichte über die Verfassungsgeschichte bis hin zur Justiz- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte. The proceedings of the 6th conference in legal history in the Baltic Sea area from 3rd to 5th June 2010 in Tartu (Estonia) and Riga (Latvia) focus an the Unity and Plurality in the Legal History. The articles cover the whole range of modern legal history from the history of private law to the history of constitutional law to the history of courts and legal scholarship. 314 pp. Englisch, Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -What are the points of contact between the study of language and the study of history What are the possibilities for collaboration between linguists and historians, and what prevents it This volume, the proceedings of an international conference held at the University of Bristol in April 2009, presents twenty-two articles by linguists and historians, exploring the relationship between the fields theoretically, conceptually and in practice. Contributions focus on a variety of European and American languages, in historical periods from the Middle Ages to the present day. Key themes at the intersection of these two disciplines are the standardization and classification of languages, the social and demographic history of medieval and early modern Europe, the study of language and history ¿from below¿, and the function of language in modern politics. The value of interdisciplinary collaboration is demonstrated in a wide-ranging set of case studies, on topics including language contact in Northern and Central Europe, the relationship between peninsular and transatlantic Spanish, and new approaches to the recent histories of Nicaragua, Luxembourg and Bulgaria. The volume seeks out the interdependencies between the two fields and asks why exchanges between linguists and historians remain the exception rather than the rule. 528 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The twenty-two papers in this collection represent various cognitively-oriented approaches to the study of literary and persuasive texts. Their authors include both linguists and literary scholars, united by their interest in exploring the mental processes accompanying the creative production of meanings. Some of the papers, grouped into two broad sections ¿ Cognitive approaches to literary thought and Aspects of cognitive rhetoric ¿ offer new theoretical insights, and others focus on more specific aspects of verbal creativity, zooming in on concrete novels, poems, speeches and media texts. The variety of research interests and points of departure, of the subjects and materials chosen for analysis, but also of the employed methods of research shows that the developing field of cognitive poetics/rhetoric is able to accommodate a multitude of perspectives. 334 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -In this collected edition, globalization and its consequences on vocational education systems are described and, at the same time, combined with the question of whether new phenomena of inclusion but also of exclusion are produced. Inclusion and exclusion are differentiations that predominate in all kinds of (vocational education) systems, regardless of their national background. These terms base on the requirements of the system itself but also on shortages, particularly when supply and demand are dehiscing. Vocational education developed out of the requirement to integrate large parts of society into a broader or more extended education and, consequently, into an economic and social process. Besides the so-called «social question», gender-, status- and generation-specific characteristics and also the participation in higher education are under discussion. Depending on each country ¿ this volume features contributions of Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Denmark, France, Finland, Japan, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the USA ¿ this debate generates a different development which is described by the authors in their different research areas. Collectively, a multifaceted overall picture arises which illustrates the importance of inclusion and exclusion.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 330 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), perhaps the most famous European poet of the twentieth century, exemplifies how the «crisis of language» inherent in literary Modernism also constitutes a crisis of religious discourse. In Rilke¿s poetry and prose, language replaces God as the focal point of human experience. Yet despite his rejection of Christianity, Rilke crucially draws on Christian imagery to express his Modernist worldview. Transformation of Language and Religion in Rainer Maria Rilke offers new readings of major texts such as The Not Elektronisches Buch of Malte Laurids Brigge and The Duino Elegies, as well as analyzing some of Rilke¿s lesser-known works, Visions of Christ and «The Letter of the Young Worker.» 184 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Geoffrey Hill is one of the most significant poets currently at work in the English language. The essays gathered in this book present a number of new contexts in which to explore a wide range of his writings, from the poems he wrote as an undergraduate to the recent volumes A Treatise of Civil Power (2007) and Collected Critical Writings (2008). Connections are made between the early and the later poetry, and between the poetry and the criticism, and archival materials are considered along with the published texts. The essays also make comparisons across disciplines, discussing Hill¿s work in relation to theology, philosophy and intellectual history, to literature from other languages, and to the other arts. In doing so, they cast fresh light upon Hill¿s dense, original and sometimes challenging writings, opening them up in new ways for all readers of his work.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 270 pp. Englisch.