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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Großstadt = Gottlosigkeit Sind die spätmodernen Metropolen mit ihren Lebensrhythmen überhaupt dafür geeignet, Spiritualität und Glaube eine Chance zu geben Braucht Religion den Exodus aufs Land Tatsächlich sind Religion und Urbanität, das Sakrale und das Säkulare, historisch auf das engste miteinander verknüpft. Am Beispiel Berlins zeigt die Publikation, was sich daraus für die Entwicklung einer zeitgenössischen (katholischen) Theologie ableiten lässt, wenn diese bereit ist, auf die Sprache der Großstadt zu hören und in ein fruchtbares Gespräch mit Philosophie und Literaturwissenschaft einzutreten («Berliner Ansatz»). 142 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This publication will introduce how two different countries promote high quality learning with technology in very different educational systems. The book opens inspiring scenarios how new technological tools and services can be used for promoting students' learning in schools and higher education, enhancing collaboration in educational communities and supporting teachers' professional development. The publication focuses on three major themes: Students as knowledge and art creators in playful learning systems, personalized learning supported by mobiles and intelligent tutoring systems with games and new web-based tools identifying learning difficulties, and technology in digitalized learning environments. The book is based on systematic research work in universities. 334 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Education, religion, scepticism, politics, friendship, sex, and style ¿ Montaigne¿s major themes are revealed here in the making of a text that practises freedom of thought by putting it to the test. This is an audacious close reading of the Essays and a demonstration of how Montaigne¿s great book continues to speak to the present. 244 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The Indian Uprising of 1857 had a profound impact on the British experience on the subcontinent and fears of its recurrence continued to haunt the colonisers until the very end of the Raj. For the past 150 years most aspects of the Uprising have been subjected to intense scrutiny by historians, yet the nature of the outbreak itself remains obscure. What was the extent of the conspiracies and plotting How could rumours of contaminated ammunition spark a mutiny when not a single greased cartridge was ever distributed to the sepoys Based on a careful, even-handed reassessment of the primary sources, Rumours and Rebels explores the existence of conspiracies during the early months of 1857 and presents a compelling and detailed narrative of the panics and rumours which moved Indians to take up arms. With its fresh and unsentimental approach, this book offers a radically new interpretation of one of the most controversial events in the history of British India.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 354 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Studies in this book have been gathered on the occasion of two academic events in the field of Transnational Families, focusing on the Eastern-European space, from a ¿ diversified ¿ qualitative social research perspective. The volume places a special emphasis on a gendered and practice-oriented approach, exploring territories of domination and empowerment that inform the negotiation of difference. Studies follow processes of emancipation, family practices, redistribution of gendered roles, forms of abuse, social remittance, confrontation between rights and cultures, forming joint action strategies and egalitarian capital, in a process of emergence of new social actors. Studies reflect back upon the ambiguity of conceptual frameworks to be put to use while approaching this yet unexplored area. 190 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -In this book, the author presents that although various Old Romance grammars can be traced back to the common Latin ancestor, the functional domain of reciprocity shows divergent paths of development. In this regard, each of the languages have worked up their unique solutions, with grammatical and semantic mechanisms underlying their diversity. 120 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The book focuses on Heidegger¿s thoughtful repetition of early Greek thinking, and his receptive attention to the fragments of the Presocratics from our contemporary age. Their thought has a special value for him as the heritage which must be repeated anew in order to bring us back to the question of being and to open before us new avenues for existence. The author raises questions which help us to understand Heidegger as a thinker. He presents a deep analysis of Heidegger¿s interpretations of the Presocratics and contributes to a new, insightful understanding of Heideggerian philosophy.«The book deserves a wide reception among scholars who are interested in the Presocratics, Heidegger and contemporary philosophy.»Dr. Katherine Morris (University of Oxford)«Prof. Korab-Karpowicz (¿) develops a consistent reading of Heidegger¿s historical studies, thereby significantly contributing to a new approach for the study of Heideggerian philosophy.»Dr. Michal Bizö (Jagiellonian University, Kraków).

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The book analyses organizational disengagement and its consequences at an organizational and at an individual level. The author argues for the existence of an additional dimension of employee disengagement, namely discursive disengagement. It is a distinctive dimension with respect to its dependence on a specific work of the employee. The author engages with discourse analysis to classify employee disengagement trajectories, vocabularies of motive and rhetorical resources. She analyses how people frame their decisions of staying or leaving organizations by defining their employment situation and how they justify their choices through their professional experiences. 118 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This volume explores multiple dimensions of openness in ICT-enhanced education. The chapters, contributed by researchers and academic teachers, present a number of exemplary solutions in the area. They involve the use of open source software, innovative technologies, teaching/learning methods and techniques, as well as examine potential benefits for both teachers' and students' cognitive, behavioural and metacognitive development. 160 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book provides a guide to research and teaching in an Australian Indigenous Studies that is oriented toward the diverse, contemporary world. Central to this perspective is a sensibility to the intercultural complexity of that world ¿ particularly its Indigenous component ¿ and an awareness of the interactional capabilities that the Indigenous (and others) need to successfully negotiate it. These capabilities are important for facilitating Indigenous peoples¿ goal of equality as citizens and recognition as Indigenous, a goal which this book seeks to address.The Indigenous Studies presented in this book rejects as unproductive the orientation of orthodox Indigenous Studies, which promulgates the retention of old cultures, positive stereotypes, binary oppositions and false certainties. It adopts a more dialogical and process-oriented approach that highlights interactions and relationships and leads to the recognition of cultural and identity multiplicity, intersection and ambiguous difference.The book covers key topics such as ancestral cultures, colonisation and its impacts, identity politics, interculturality, intersectionality, structural marginalisation, unit development and teaching complexity. The focus of the book is the development of a sensibility that can shape readers¿ perceptions, decisions and actions in the future and guide teachers in their negotiation of intercultural classroom relationships.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 292 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book is a collection of the contributions to the Governing Europe project, which tackles the current situation and the future developments of the European mechanism of governance, putting forward a series of policy and institutional recommendations for the medium and long term, aimed at improving the democratic nature and the effectiveness of the European decision-making processes. 250 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The authors outline the topic of visuality in the 21st century in a trans- and interdisciplinary theoretical frame from philosophy through communication theory, rhetoric and linguistics to pedagogy. As some scholars of visual communication state, there is a significant link between the downgrading of visual sense making and a dominantly linguistic view of cognition. According to the concept of linguistic turn, everything has its meaning because we attribute meaning to it through language. Our entire world is set in language, and language is the model of human activities. This volume questions the approach in the imagery debate. 192 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The author analyzes the multi-layered and multidimensional theme of identity construction recurring in Tony Harrison¿s work from the seventies onwards looking at the way it evolved throughout the years. The book examines identity in the frame of the sociological and philosophical thoughts of such thinkers as Emmanuel Levinas and Zygmunt Bauman and in reference to the systematization proposed by Zbigniew Bokszäski: identity as a state or process, identity as a continuity or change, and identity as a consequence of conformity or revolt. 212 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -La rencontre avec l¿autre est le thème fédérateur de cet ouvrage atypique, issu d¿une expérience didactique originale mise en place par des professeurs issus de différentes disciplines. Le Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, en tant que territoire où tant d¿immigrés se sont rencontrés et cohabitent pacifiquement, a été choisi comme cadre idéal pour ce projet.La formule choisie par les différents auteurs de ce volume se fait l¿écho du dialogue interculturel qüils étudient et s¿avère riche de sens. De nouvelles questions sur l¿altérité, l¿immigration et la rencontre de mentalités et cultures différentes émergent des différents textes qui composent cet ouvrage.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 214 pp. Englisch, Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -In the framework of the so-called Barcelona process, the European Union concluded several bilateral agreements with Morocco aimed to deepen their economic integration. The 2000 Association agreement European Union¿Morocco is the general legal framework for the development of relationships among the two parties. In this context, the recent Agreement on reciprocal liberalisation measures on agricultural products and fishery products, entered in force in 2012, and the Fisheries Partnership Agreement, issued in 2013, were established. They reiterate and update former agreements. No one of them expressly excludes the territory of Western Sahara from the scope of application, in contrast with other similar agreements negotiated with other countries, such as the Free trade pact between Morocco and the United States of America. The non-exclusion of the territory of Western Sahara raises several concerns on the compliance of these agreements with International Law, not only in relation to the principle of self-determination of peoples but also with the principle of sovereignty of natural resources, the prohibition of exploitation of resources of a territory under occupation, the obligation to not recognise situations arisen in an illegal way, the prohibition to negotiate agreement with an occupying country once the process of decolonisation has begun. 328 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book provides insights into the education and schooling of Syrian and Palestinian Syrian children inside and outside Lebanese refugee camps. It describes what is happening to these children and young refugees in terms of their schooling. Investigating the perspectives of children, their parents, teachers, community leaders, and state politicians and bureaucrats on the schooling provisions and educational opportunities for refugee children in Lebanon, this book reveals the condition of social disadvantage that Syrian and Syrian Palestinian refugee children and their families are experiencing in Lebanon. Maadad and Rodwell propose the idea of the pedagogy of the displaced that recognises socio-economic disadvantage and refocuses the nature of the learner and their learning and the philosophy of teaching. A collaborative action of society ¿ the refugee families, the schools, the communities, the host state, the international aid agencies and the rest of the world ¿ in addressing the barriers to education and schooling of the refugee children must break ground and be sustained.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 170 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The study of the relations between Portugal and the German-speaking countries in the 15th and 16th centuries is an intriguing topic that has attracted the interest of scholars for some decades. In recent years evidence accumulated has shown that there was still much to be known and even some large areas were still unexplored. In order to better grasp the nature of what was a complex historical phenomenon, an interdisciplinary approach to the topic turned out to be necessary by deepening the understanding of what is usually termed the circulation of knowledge. The present book shows how knowledge travels with people, with artifacts, along commercial lines, and is created and transformed by the intervention of individuals from various educational and social strata. 246 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The book is a study of the eighteenth-century English robinsonade, also known as desert island or castaway narrative. It discusses the pre-history of the genre, the complex multi-level semantics of «Robinson Crusoe», its role in introducing a new mode of meaning formation combining the conventions of the travel narrative, Providence book, and spiritual autobiography, as well as its functioning as a genre model for later authors. Another important subject is the subsequent process of robinsonade¿s simplification by the gradual elimination of religious meanings and foregrounding the exciting adventures of the protagonists, turning it into a genre of children¿s literature.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 212 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The study presents a chronotope of linguistic and cultural changes that took place in England and Wales between the 4th and 8th centuries. It encompasses the areas of South Wales and Eastern England and describes the cultural practices of preliterate Anglo-Saxon and Celtic speech communities and their adaptation of runic, ogham and Latin scripts. The study is based on the concepts of anthropological linguistics, ethnography of communication and discourse analysis. It incorporates 23 selected ogham- and Latin-inscribed stones from Wales, and 10 rune-inscribed everyday objects from England. The presented inscriptions were designed as text occurrences with well-planned, graphical content distribution, intentionally placed in the public space to increase the range of their potential audience. 218 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Language can be seen as a therapeutic tool to the visually impaired. The author explores the psycho-linguistic therapy «Touching the World» which is rooted within two areas. The mental one pivots on emotional openness and balance, gained through the sandtray therapy, controlled breathing practice, the Brain Linkage Method, and the edu-kinaesthetic area. The linguistic layer offers a two-pathed differentiation. Lexical and grammar fields are taught through the Re-charged Direct Method, enriched with sand and water experiments, based on tactile-audible perception. The author¿s suggestions to explore language as a therapy tool show how deeply the possibilities and discoveries are hidden in a language teaching-learning process. 224 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The book offers a novel exploration into the semantic development of English terms concerning the concept of ¿joy¿ («bliss», «cheer», «delight», «dream», «game», «gladness», «glee», «joy», and «mirth»). The analysis, carried out within the framework of cognitive and historical linguistics, employs the notions of cognitive domains, profiling, and categorisation. The author adopts a panchronic perspective, according to which language reflects the way speakers experience the world. This allows her to provide a new insight into the intrinsic nature of semantic change. 172 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book offers a collection of papers pertaining to the most thought-provoking problems in the areas of theoretical and contrastive linguistics. The contributions are devoted to current developments in morphological and semantic theorizing. The contrastive analyses conducted by the authors examine the structure of English and selected Slavic languages. 202 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Freida Sima (Bertha) Eisenberg Kraus was among the two million Jewish men, women and children who emigrated from Europe to the United States during the Great Wave of Immigration (1881¿1914). This book tells her story and that of her family, from her birth in the Bukovina to her immigration to New York City alone at age fifteen in 1911, her immigrant work life, her marriage to a widower with four sons, and the birth of their only daughter right before the beginning of the Great Depression in 1929. It describes how she and a whole immigrant generation survived that Depression, sent their children off to fight for America during the Second World War while worrying about what was happening to the families that they had left back in Europe. It takes the story further, describing what happened to her European family and how she was reunited with her surviving siblings after the war. The book continues for almost a half century after the war¿s end, portraying the «Golden Years» of these former immigrants through their retirement and until the final years of their lives.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 370 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The book, through textual analyses, brings concepts of Senghorian Negritude and Emersonian ideas into a cross-cultural dialogue, and thus opens up a completely new perspective in research on the history of ideas. It synthesizes the diverse cultural, literary, philosophical and religious trends which have impacted on the complex and elusive fields of Transcendentalism and Negritude. Focusing on the current debate on influences and affinities in literary and cultural studies, the book shows that African religions and philosophy have influenced the formation of American Transcendentalism.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 212 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Italy often suffers from its cultural heritage. Certain themes have passed into stereotype and popular consumption, while others have been overlooked. This volume discusses teaching choices and topics on the implementation of a US study abroad business programme in Italy. The authors first have a look at business questions, then at culture through a chapter on the fashion industry. The final section focuses on methods in teaching Italian culture, language, history, and intercultural communication. This volume highlights non-traditional aspects of Italian culture, and focuses on the intercultural dimension of teaching and learning for study abroad students. The points of view found herein should promote a more contextualized and contemporary view of what studying Italy can be about. 180 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book is the first major sociophonetic work on the urban accent of Aberdeen in North-East Scotland. The study shows how the accent has changed following the large-scale immigration from other parts of Scotland and the UK since the 1970s. It is rooted in a dialect contact framework and based on sociolinguistic interviews with a stratified sample of 44 Aberdonians. The study uses an innovative method to assess the importance of the individual speaker in innovating and conserving the local accent. Based on six phonological variables, it shows how the traditional variants are replaced or marginalised, supraregional forms gain ground and strongly marked forms typical of Glaswegian or London English are added to the local feature pool. 240 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Au cours des dernières décennies, le concept de complexité a bénéficié d¿un intérêt croissant et ce, dans un large éventail de disciplines scientifiques, dont les sciences du langage. Des linguistes, s¿inscrivant dans des courants théoriques divers, ont souligné son importance pour le développement de mesures fiables et objectives de la performance, de la maîtrise ou encore de l¿évolution linguistique.En français, la notion de complexité connaît un essor important avec la naissance de la grammaire scolaire au XIXe siècle et les études des rapports logiques au sein de la phrase dite « complexe ». Dans des descriptions portant aussi bien sur le français L1 que L2, la complexité réfère donc souvent à la construction d¿unités phrastiques. Elle en arrive à désigner la constitution interne de syntagmes ou de séquences de mots, et certaines approches l¿appliquent même à la caractérisation de concepts descriptifs. L¿objectif de cet ouvrage est précisément de montrer l¿élasticité du concept de complexité.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 208 pp. Französisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The book provides a compilation of idiosyncratic manifestations of information society in techno-economic, political and cultural spheres. The contributors focus on the increasing complexity within information societies. To manage this complexity, societies develop constantly evolving context-specific modes of meta-governance. The contributions allow a better understanding of well-known conceptualizations and definitions of information society and related concepts such as post-industrial society, post-modernity, as well as network society, and knowledge society. 286 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Due to the global influence of the shareholder-centered model of the US, both China and the EU have taken more measures to protect minority shareholders. In this respect, the representation of minority shareholders on the board, in particular the system of cumulative voting which was originally designed by the US to protect minority shareholders, has become a frequently-discussed issue in China and the EU. This study of comparative law is based upon the comparison of the attitudes among the US, China and the EU towards cumulative voting. By analyzing some empirical investigations and massive literatures of American academics as the theoretical foundation, it tries to demonstrate whether the convergence of corporate governance towards the shareholder-centered model is inevitable. 224 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Hailed by many as a game-changer in political communication, Twitter has made its way into election campaigns all around the world. The European Parliamentary elections, taking place simultaneously in 28 countries, give us a unique comparative vision of the way the tool is used by candidates in different national contexts. This volume is the fruit of a research project bringing together scholars from 6 countries, specialised in communication science, media studies, linguistics and computer science. It seeks to characterise the way Twitter was used during the 2014 European election campaign, providing insights into communication styles and strategies observed in different languages and outlining methodological solutions for collecting and analysing political tweets in an electoral context. 274 pp. Englisch.