peter lang peter lang jan 2007 (207 results)

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Crime is one of the most pressing issues facing contemporary society. While the fear of crime is currently at an all-time high, uncertainty exists as to how the criminal justice system should deal with the offender. In recent years public institutions have increasingly embraced a punitive approach, as evidenced in higher incarceration rates and longer prison sentences. Yet little evidence exists to show that this approach improves the public¿s long-term safety. This book suggests that the way to reduce expenditures and decrease recidivism rates is through prison specialization, and a hybrid correctional system under which the public prison retains those offenders who warrant elevated levels of security, while the private sector houses and treats the more malleable offenders and shields them from the corrupting influence of prisoners who seek to disrupt treatment processes. Prisons, Penology and Penal Reform: An Introduction to Institutional Specialization is written for a wide-range of classroom settings. It is appropriate for students in introductory as well as upper-division criminal justice and sociology courses, and graduate courses that require student exploration, debate, and discussion. Each chapter is followed by a Highlights section that reiterates significant statements. Thought-provoking questions are found throughout that require students to evaluate current correctional practices, and to consider issues that have challenged penologists for decades. Keywords are plentiful and serve to familiarize students with a host of penal topics. Few texts surpass the ability of this one to spark classroom interaction. 178 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Informed by whiteness studies, Kyle Kusz¿s groundbreaking book examines the role that sport discourses play in reproducing a central, normative, and superior position for white masculinity in American culture and society at the turn of the twenty-first century. Specifically, Kusz illuminates how the American sports media ¿ through cover stories detailing the so-called disappearance of the white (male) athlete in American sports or the rise of extreme sports ¿ produced a set of contradictory images of white masculinity as victimized and unprivileged, yet superior and squarely centered in American culture, that shaped and were shaped by a broader cultural struggle to re-secure white male privilege. 228 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Curriculum and the Cultural Body extends the discussion of body knowledge by attending to the unspoken questions and practices in education that silence, conceal, and limit bodies. The collection of essays exemplifies a new genre of interdisciplinary writing, drawing on such diverse discourses as curriculum studies; cultural studies; film studies; media and technology studies; feminist theory; queer theory; phenomenology; a/r/tography; and art education. The authors in this edited book explore the multiplicities and complexities of the body in learning and knowing. Each engages with questions that relate the practices of culture to a re-conceptualization of the body in and as curriculum.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 300 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The study of new literacies is quickly emerging as a major research field. This book «samples» work in the broad area of new literacies research along two dimensions. First, it samples some typical examples of new literacies ¿ video gaming, fan fiction writing, weblogging, role play gaming, using websites to participate in affinity practices, memes, and other social activities involving mobile technologies. Second, the studies collectively sample from a wide range of approaches potentially available for researching and studying new literacies from a sociocultural perspective. Readers will come away with a rich sense of what new literacies are, and a generous appreciation of how they are being researched.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 264 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Assessments of the audience of traditional mass media have existed for decades and have been widely studied, but the quantification of the Internet audience is a recent and barely known phenomenon. An audience is an essential requirement for the existence of any mass media: first, there is no medium without an audience, and second, the audience has become a commodity fundamental to the functioning of commercial media systems. It is the application of measurement procedures that allows the audience to play this dual institutional role.The Internet Audience is the first book to focus on the transformation of the Internet into a mass communication medium thanks to the constitution of its audience through measurement. Starting with a historical analysis of this transformation, it goes on to analyze in detail the methods used for the measurement of the Internet audience, their limits and their possibilities. It concludes with an inquiry into the logic and interests behind the creation of an online audience measurement industry. The result is the first comprehensive look at the question of not what the Internet audience does with the medium, but rather what the medium does with its audience. 276 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This study presents a contextualized narratology of African American autobiography. The author compares eight autobiographies by seven African American writers from different periods (namely, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Maya Angelou and Gwendolyn Brooks) and focuses on both the issue of race and such formal elements as temporal arrangement, narrative situation, narrative perspective, present tense, commentary, unreliability as well as audience. In addition to proposing a major framework for the narratology of autobiography in the opening chapter, the succeeding practical analyses draw on other approaches, such as stylistics and rhetoric, which complement narratology in the investigation of «how» a story is presented.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 228 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The chapters in this book were first presented at the Women in French Biennial Conference held in Leeds in May 2004. The twelve essays explore the multifaceted commodification of the female body and provide insights into the mutations of French society and culture. British and French scholars examine the paradoxes and contradictions embodied in various images and discourses related to health and illness from different perspectives, ranging from sociological studies to analyses of working diaries, children¿s medical encyclopaedias and literary texts.The ¿resilient female body¿ as epitomised by the First World War nurse tends by the end of the twentieth century to be construed as the ¿sanitised female body¿, subjected to mind/body dualities largely controlled by the medical professions. Thus, maternity and related issues such as birth and contraceptive technologies figure as major themes with contributors revealing unresolved ambivalences. Other chapters focus on how women¿s economic activity can affect their individual health and, potentially, that of others. A further prominent theme shows how, for contemporary women writers, serious illnesses such as cancer and madness in women can be seen as rich metaphors for the ills of a male-dominated society. Duras¿s alcoholism and Aragon¿s portrayals of prostitution are also discussed. 232 pp. Englisch, Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -With reference to Paul Ricoeur¿s conception of the interconnectedness of history and fiction, this comparative literary study examines narrative strategies that three contemporary writers of fiction ¿ Toni Morrison, V. S. Naipaul, and Ben Okri ¿ have devised to counteract the incompleteness of historical representation. In her novel Beloved Morrison redefines the slave-narrative tradition and reveals an alternative history of slavery by unveiling the interior lives of her characters. Through a hybrid prose that mixes fiction with history in the novels The Enigma of Arrival and A Way in the World, Naipaul illuminates «areas of darkness» in the diasporic world of East Indian Trinidadians and provides new ways of transforming English literary and cultural history. Focusing on West African identity and community, Okri brings a mythic and fantastic dimension to postcolonial fiction as a way of giving a voice to people who are generally without power and almost without any place in a world of inequality and injustice. Probing into historical incompleteness, this study underscores the indispensable role of fiction in representing life, rectifying history, and enlarging reality. 162 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Dès les années 1950, l¿Europe s¿est symboliquement et concrètement placée sous les auspices d¿une référence communautaire supposant égalité entre États, acteurs économiques et régions. Ne s¿agissait-il pas dans l¿esprit des fondateurs de rompre avec une histoire où avaient alterné, depuis le XVII siècle, les pratiques du « concert » (des grandes puissances) et de l¿hégémonie Dans la nouvelle Communauté, les lois de l¿unanimité puis de la majorité démocratique garantiraient la coexistence égalitaire des « petits » et « grands » États membres, des anciens et des nouveaux entrants.Pourtant, force est de reconnaître que la construction européenne a été travaillée par des logiques de hiérarchisation, qüil s¿agisse des institutions, des relations entre États ou encore de l¿économie. « Moteur » franco-allemand, « noyau dur », « groupe pionnier », « Europe à plusieurs vitesses », etc. : les expressions ne manquent pas pour exprimer et voiler tout à la fois cette tendance lourde.Revisitant la notion d¿« ordre européen », explorant les premiers développements de l¿idée d¿Europe unie, l¿ouvrage, issu d¿un colloque international tenu en septembre 2004 à l¿Université Pierre Mendès France-Grenoble II, s¿essaie à identifier les processus, les domaines et les pratiques qui portent jusque dans l¿Europe d¿aujourd¿hui le poids de préoccupations séculaires. 250 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Despite its popularity during the nineteenth century, regional literature has often been overlooked with regard to its role in the development of German national consciousness. By exploring various illustrations of geographic-historical landscapes in texts written before the 1848 revolutions and after the 1871 unification, this book investigates the vital polyphony generated by unique regional voices throughout the age of nationalism. Close readings of texts by Berthold Auerbach, Theodor Storm, Wilhelm Raabe, Fritz Reuter, Theodor Fontane, Gottfried Keller, and Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach examine recognizable and unfamiliar regions. Although this study concentrates on provincial writings, literary regionalism¿s fictionality and simultaneous referentiality raise broader questions for the programmatic aesthetics of Poetic Realism and for inquiries into identity formation. 276 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Interest rate rules play an important role in the empirical analysis of monetary policy as well as in modern monetary theory. Besides giving a comprehensive insight into this line of research the study incorporates the term structure of interest rates into interest rate rules. This is performed analytically as well as empirically. In doing so, state of the art techniques of modern finance for the analysis of the term structure of interest rates are introduced into the macroeconomic concept of interest rate rules. The study implies that from the theoretical perspective term structure effects are an important extension of interest rate rules. From an empirical perspective it shows that including term structure effects in interest rate reaction functions improves our understanding of the interest rate setting of the Deutsche Bundesbank and the European Central Bank. 204 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This is the first book-length account of Joseph Conrad¿s reception in Germany, a virtually unresearched area of Conrad studies. It demonstrates that Conrad was read and used by his German readers as a cosmopolitan literary and moral voice against the prevailing nationalism of Germany in the ¿dark times¿ of the 1930s and 1940s, when their own voices were being silenced. Challenging the longstanding assumption that Germany remained largely indifferent to his works, this book demonstrates that, particularly after the translation of the complete fiction commencing in the 1920s, Conrad¿s works achieved near cult status in Germany. On the basis of diaries and letters, contemporary reviews and essays, unpublished archival material as well as novels and films, the author illuminates the range and importance of Conrad¿s presence as a powerful liberating imagination within twentieth-century German culture. Championed by Thomas Mann, lauded by Hermann Hesse, and decried as ¿Conrad the Jew¿ by the Nazis, Conrad has remained an influential presence in post-war German culture. The study offers a completely fresh perspective on Conrad¿s works and speaks eloquently for the importance of recognizing the way trans-national literary cultural relations have helped to shape European cultural history. 278 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The book explores the nature of Chechen society and Chechen ethno-psychology, the emergence of Chechen nationalism, and the predominantly violent relationships between Russia and the Chechens throughout modern history in order to better explain the most recent periods of confrontation. It concentrates on the second Russo-Chechen campaign and subsequent terrorist attacks in Moscow and Beslan and the spreading of violence throughout the North Caucasus. The book draws on extensive research and includes an introduction by Anatol Lieven. This is the first book to assess the most recent violence in Chechnya in the wider context of cultural, social and political changes in the North Caucasus and Russia. The study enlightens such key phenomena for understanding the ongoing violence as the North Caucasian version of Jihadism, Caucasophobia and Chechenophobia in contemporary Russia, paying attention to Moscow¿s controversial policies of Normalisation in Chechnya. The author also investigates the situation of Chechen resistance and the expansion of the conflict into the neighboring areas of the North Caucasus. 368 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Terror attacks against Western symbols of power, suicide terrorism in Chechnya, or bombing of abortion clinics in the United States: these are a few of the violent religious outbursts that the media never seem to stop broadcasting. While these outbursts are mostly linked to Islamic extremism, it should however be acknowledged that every religion has its own violent side. Despite all the events the media are too prompt to show us, it would be dishonest and insensible not to accept that every religion has also a potential for religious peace building and communal renewal. How, can it be explained then, that religions sometimes react violently against the society surrounding them by trying to overthrow it, while at some other times they willingly help and try to build a better world for everyone The University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp organised an interdisciplinary summer seminar in September 2005 and gathered senior scholars ¿ all experts in their own fields ¿ and junior scholars ¿ who will be the experts of tomorrow ¿ from all over the world, to discuss these burning issues. The seminar focused on miscellaneous topics all pointing towards the question of religion and society; like literalism and the Holy texts, the ambivalence of faith-based radicalism, the psychology of religion and terrorism, nationalism and religion and religious social movements. 314 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book takes a fresh look at the novels and short stories of Albert Camus, from his early attempt at a first novel, La Mort heureuse, to the largely autobiographical Le Premier homme, unfinished at the time of his death. It seeks to see the oeuvre as a totality, coherent throughout, and examines the linkages and transformations from one work to the next, in the context of Camus¿s thought, attitudes and topoi or themes. The development of narrative techniques is examined, ranging from laconism to lyricism, from allegorism to realism, from humour to biting satire. The author traces the influence on Camus¿s thought of philosophers and thinkers as diverse as Nietzsche and the pre-Socratics on the one hand, and St Augustine, Pascal, and Simone Weil on the other, and considers the circularity of his work, from the early preoccupation with the finality of death and the search for meaning to the return to the origin and source in Le Premier homme. The enduring appeal of Camus¿s work is attributed to its humane openness and its challenges for our time.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 308 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book explores theologically the practice of hospital chaplains seeking to meet the spiritual needs of parents bereaved by baby death in-utero. The lived experience of bereaved parents, gathered through a series of in-depth interviews, informs such an exploration. Parents describe the trauma of late miscarriage and stillbirth as still being shrouded by silence, myth and misunderstanding in contemporary society. Up-to-date theoretical understandings of grief are also re-examined in light of parents¿ stories of living with baby death. This book offers suggestions as to how the actual spiritual needs of parents may be met and their grief sensitively facilitated through the sharing of rituals co-constructed by parents and chaplain which seek to have theological integrity yet be relevant in our postmodern age. In our prevalent culture of caring, where increasingly ongoing professional and personal development are regarded as normative, recommendations are made which may aid reflection on current, or shape future, practice for chaplains, pastors, students and various healthcare professionals. 304 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This original collection of articles, derived in part from the papers presented at the twenty-sixth biennial conference of the Classical Association of South Africa held at Durban and Pietermaritzburg 5-7 July 2005, explores a wide range of receptions of Classical ideas in the fiction, drama, poetry, history, opera, and popular culture of a number of countries from South Africa to Cuba. There is a strong emphasis on the use of Greek and Roman tragedy, especially Aeschylus Seven against Thebes, the Electra plays of Sophocles and Euripides, various reworkings of the figures of Antigone and Medea, and the dramatic style of Seneca, but the compendium also includes chapters on Platonism, Horatian Satire, Mythology, Roman Civilization, Roman Historiography, and Greek erotic spells. Chronologically, the scope of reception extends from the contemporary (the problem of HIV/AIDS in South Africa), to the twentieth century (Soyinka, Walcott, Forster, Seth, Campbell), and the Renaissance (Daniel Heinsius). The book illustrates the depth, diversity, and complexity of the interconnections between the Classical past and the present. It provides a refreshingly different perspective on a vitally important and vibrant field of research. 360 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Reflections on Europe in Transition consists of a selection of articles presented at the «The New Europe at the Crossroads» conference held in Poznan, Poland (2005). The diverse contributions from scholars in the fields of political science, modern languages, philosophy, economics, and sociology examine a variety of issues: the myth of a united Europe, the impact of globalization on national identity, the fate of immigrant populations, integration, as well as the state of Germany fifteen years after unification. The contributions also raise the issue of terrorism and some of the European response to it. 202 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book considers how Early Modern England was transformed from a turbulent and rebellious kingdom into a peaceable land. By considering the history of Taunton, Somerset, the most rebellious town in the kingdom, it is possible to see how the emerging features of the Enlightenment ¿ moderation, reason and rational theology ¿ effected that transformation. The experience of Taunton in the seventeenth century was marked by economic fluctuations of the cloth trade and military struggles in the Civil War, the Monmouth Rebellion and the Glorious Revolution. The primary motivation for the citizens was zealous Puritanism. It inspired support for Parliament and rebellion against James II. But in the final quarter of the century a new rational and moderate Protestantism emerged from the largest Nonconformist congregation in the country and from a distinguished dissenting academy. The study shows that both the militancy of the seventeenth century and the enlightened moderation of the eighteenth century were principally inspired by religious rather than secular values. This book contributes to our understanding of England¿s transformation and of the religious factors that stimulated it. 386 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Écrire pour « me parcourir », dit-elle. Ainsi peut-on résumer le projet artistique d¿Assia Djebar.La conscience d¿une histoire personnelle inextricablement mêlée à l¿histoire nationale va de pair avec son souci d¿interpeller les vivants comme de dialoguer avec les morts. Pour elle, il s¿agit de reconstituer, dans et par l¿écriture, les moments successifs et continus de l¿Algérie et de mettre à découvert « l¿Absent de l¿histoire » cher à Michel de Certeau. C¿est-à-dire de pointer vides et défaillances des systèmes idéologiques mis tour à tour en place pour mieux asservir l¿Histoire au pouvoir, mais aussi ouvrir au rêve d¿une Algérie plurielle, multilingue et multiculturelle, qui ne cesse d¿irriguer cette ¿uvre.Se parcourir, donc, pour concilier traditions et modernité, mais y déployer tout autant une perpétuelle liberté de fugitive.Se dessine ainsi dans l¿¿uvre d¿Assia Djebar, en marge de tout modèle préétabli, un travail de la limite susceptible de devenir porte-parole de ceux dont on étouffe la voix et de rappeler l¿unique patrie qüest, pour le poète, l¿écriture.Ce livre y amène en suivant le fil qui va de La Soif et des Impatients aux Nuits de Strasbourg. Il analyse, successivement et d¿une manière neuve, la quête autobiographique, la reconquête du passé et la dialectique entre l¿hier et l¿aujourd¿hui, en focalisant chacun de ses chapitres autour d¿une ¿uvre de la Grande Dame du Maghreb. 290 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Nach Boomjahren in den 1980er Jahren kam es in der Schweiz zu einem eigentlichen Crash der Immobilienmärkte, von dem sich die Preise bis gegen Ende der 1990er Jahre nicht erholten. Seither haben die Preise in einigen Regionen wieder deutlich zugelegt, so dass in jüngster Zeit Warnungen vor Überhitzungen der Märkte aufgekommen sind. Um die Entwicklungen auf den Immobilienmärkten verstehen zu können, müssen unterschiedliche Qualitäten der Liegenschaften berücksichtigt werden, was mittels analytisch-statistischer Methoden auf der Grundlage von hedonischen Modellen möglich ist. Auch bei der Konstruktion von Preisindizes ¿ also der dynamischen Betrachtung ¿ sind den qualitativen Aspekten durch eine geeignete Konstruktion Rechnung zu tragen. Es wird gezeigt, dass sich die Immobilienpreise im Zeitverlauf sowohl regional als auch bezüglich anderer Qualitäten massiv unterschiedlich entwickeln und dass, wenn überhaupt, nur in einigen wenigen Regionen der Schweiz Mitte 2005 Anzeichen einer Überhitzung der Märkte bestehen. 226 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Das Interesse am Liberalismus als historisches, kulturelles und ideologisches Phänomen hat im letzten Jahrzehnt zugenommen. Besonders seine Kulturgeschichte übt seit einigen Jahren im Kontext der neuen historiographischen Schule eine anhaltende Faszination aus.Eine neue These besagt, daß der Liberalismus, wie der Sozialismus und der Katholizismus auf dem europäischen Kontinent, im 19. Jahrhundert eine ¿ zuweilen radikale ¿ Massenbewegung war. In der vorliegenden Arbeit untersucht der Autor den deutschen Liberalismus des 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts als Erfolgsgeschichte unter dem Gesichtspunkt seiner Grenzen und Widersprüche. Die Verwendung des Begriffs Populärer Liberalismus im Kontext des deutschen Liberalismus und des deutschen Bürgertums soll zum besseren Verständnis bestimmter politischer und kultureller Muster in Deutschland bis zu den späten 1920er-Jahren beitragen.Durch die nähere Untersuchung der politischen und kulturellen Formation soll die Existenz des populären Liberalismus im katholischen Süddeutschland nachgewiesen werden. Die Liberalen dieser Region verfügten über ein ausgeprägtes radikales Bewußtsein und ein hohes Maß an Entschlossenheit, sich als Wählergemeinde und gesellschaftliche Kraft zu behaupten: Der populäre Liberalismus (zusammen mit dem populären Katholizismus) war in einzelnen Regionen Süddeutschlands die prägende Kraft der lokalen politischen Kultur.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 226 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -In Artikel II der Völkermord-Konvention von 1948 wird der Tatbestand des Völkermordes, über die kriminelle Absicht eine Bevölkerungsgruppe zerstören zu wollen, festgelegt. Durch die Analyse sozialwissenschaftlicher Arbeiten zum Thema, sowie der Fallstudie des Krieges in Bosnien und Herzegowina, wird jedoch deutlich, wie schwierig ein absolutes Urteil im Bezug auf den Beweis der genozidalen Absicht ist. Die Einstufung der Geschehnisse als «ethnische Säuberungen», Völkermord oder anderer legaler und sozialwissenschaftlicher Termini, bleibt trotz der Arbeit des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofes für das ehemalige Jugoslawien schwierig und wird von politischen Diskussionen in der Region dominiert. 142 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Ist Loyalität zwischen einem Unternehmen und seinen Mitarbeitern angesichts immer neuer Entlassungswellen nur ein schöner Traum Oder ist Loyalität im Unternehmen nicht gerade im Hinblick auf stetig intensiveren Wettbewerb eine notwendige Voraussetzung für unternehmerischen Erfolg Diesen Fragen geht das Buch nach und zeigt, wie sowohl das Unternehmen als auch seine Mitarbeiter von dauerhaften und stabilen Kooperationsbeziehungen profitieren. Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei ein Modell zur schrittweisen Etablierung von Loyalität im Unternehmen. Angereichert mit Praxisbeispielen und Fallstudien richtet sich das Buch gerade auch an Führungskräfte, die das wertschöpfende Potenzial ihrer Mitarbeiter erkannt haben und kontinuierlich erweitern wollen. 224 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Même si le théâtre de Heiner Müller est éminemment politique, son écriture novatrice empêche la réduction des pièces à une « doctrine ». Dans cette quête de polyvalence et de polyphonie, des textes non dramatiques, que Heiner Müller a insérés dans plusieurs de ses pièces, jouent un rôle décisif. Ce livre analyse trois inserts représentatifs : Herakles 2 oder die Hydra, insert narratif central de la pièce Zement (1972), Das Gefühl des Scheiterns, commentaire d¿auteur intégré à Traktor (1974), et Bildbeschreibung (1984), déclaré texte dramatique par son auteur, mais que l¿on peut également considérer comme un insert qui a dévoré le drame auquel il était intégré. Quelle est exactement la fonction de ces inserts au sein des pièces dans lesquelles ils sont logés Quel rôle attribuent-ils au lecteur Et quelle transformation font-ils subir à la dimension politique, essentielle pour l¿¿uvre müllerienne La présente étude tente de trouver des réponses à ces questions. 396 pp. Französisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Didaktische Konzeptionen ¿ auch im Feld zeitgenössischer Kunstdidaktik ¿ scheinen im Zuge verschiedener zeitgenössischer Modernisierungsbewegungen in raschem Wechsel zu kommen und zu gehen. Dabei spielen nicht nur Diskussionen aus der neueren Erziehungswissenschaft und rasante Entwicklungen im Bereich der neuen Medien sowie der zeitgenössischen Kunst eine wichtige Rolle, sondern auch die gegenwärtige philosophische Theoriedebatte.Die aktuelle kunstdidaktische Diskussion lebt von grenzüberschreitenden Betrachtungen, der Erschließung von Nachbardisziplinen und hat mittlerweile einen hohen Theoriestandard erreicht. Diverse aktuelle kunstpädagogische Ansätze sind keineswegs homogen, sondern weisen im Gegenteil disparate, heterogene Profile auf und geben so zwangsläufig Anlass zu kontroverser Diskussion.Dieses Buches versteht sich als systematische Forschungsbilanz bezüglich gegenwärtiger in der Fachdidaktik diskutierter Konzeptionen, deren Kenntnis sich ¿ hinsichtlich der vielfältigen und heterogenen Bezüge ¿ für eine verantwortliche kunstpädagogische Praxis und eigene Standortbestimmung als notwendig erwiesen hat. 400 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -On sait bien ce qüon appelle « norme », en linguistique : une pratique de prescription des comportements langagiers. Cette pratique, la linguistique s¿est depuis longtemps habituée à la remiser dans un espace qui n¿était pas le sien. Il a été une fois pour toutes entendu qüil existait, aisément repérable, un certain usage normatif de la « grammaire », qüon connaissait, et qüil fallait bien distinguer de la linguistique. Ainsi, la possible normativité du discours linguistique a souvent fait l¿objet d¿une soigneuse dissimulation. Alors, la norme « tabou » de la linguistique moderne Quinze linguistes affrontent ici le problème, en partant de ses enjeux épistémologiques, historiques, sociolinguistiques, et, pour finir, grammaticaux. Cet ouvrage s¿organise en deux parties. La première analyse cette présence paradoxale de la notion de norme dans le discours des linguistes. La seconde approfondit les résonances de la problématique dans le domaine qui s¿y prête le plus, à savoir la syntaxe. Attachement, affect ; lois, règles ; double relation au langage : autant de paramètres desquels le linguiste ne peut pas se permettre de détourner son regard.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 342 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -In den letzten Jahren ist eine Vielzahl von Publikationen zu Gender Mainstreaming erschienen. lmmer noch gibt es allerdings zu wenig Wissen über die praktische Umsetzung dieser neuen Gleichstellungsstrategie. In diesem Band sind daher Beiträge zu Chancen, Barrieren und besonderen Herausforderungen bei der Umsetzung von Gender Mainstreaming und Berichte über Best Practices versammelt. Gender Works ist ein unerlässliches Buch für gleichstellungspolitisch Aktive aus der Praxis und Akteure aus der anwendungsorientierten Forschung, die auf der Suche nach Erfahrungen und Anregungen zu Gender-Aspekten in unterschiedlichen Sachthemen sind oder mehr über die Implementierung von Gender Mainstreaming in unterschiedlichen Organisationstypen wissen wollen. 200 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Comment ne pas penser que la critique littéraire antique a influencé la création du genre romanesque Le « discours panégyrique » y tient un rôle important. Ce livre montre comment Achille Tatios s¿est approprié l¿esthétique et des thèmes du discours en prose le plus prisé par Hermogène. L¿accent est mis sur les effets et les fonctions des modalités plastiques, rhétoriques, dramatiques d¿un trait essentiel de cette esthétique, l¿image, principe d¿évidence et d¿énigme. La recherche des allusions, des transpositions et de leurs jeux amène à retrouver, outre les thématiques panégyriques, une structure de fables et de récits platoniciens, combinée avec un riche héritage poétique et des constantes de la réflexion morale. La restitution du contexte littéraire et idéologique du roman permet de saisir l¿originalité d¿Achille Tatios, en éclairant ses choix et le sens de son comique ou de son ironie : quels sont ses rapports, notamment, avec l¿atticisme, avec les écrits de Plutarque, de Lucien A travers ce roman, c¿est aussi un projet du genre apparu aux débuts du christianisme qui se dessine : n¿implique-t-il pas une volonté de défendre et d¿illustrer avec éclat la culture païenne 818 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Diese ideengeschichtliche Analyse betrachtet erstmalig das Schrifttum der jüngsten Weltreligion, des Bahá¿ítums, im Hinblick auf die grundlegenden Parameter für ein Zusammenwirken von Religion und Medizin, und für ein Verständnis von Gesundheit, Krankheit und Heilung. Dabei werden medizingeschichtliche, medizintheoretische und medizinethische Fragen eingehend beleuchtet. Die gesicherte Quellenlage erlaubt die Berücksichtigung zahlreicher authentischer Schriften, unter anderem die des Stifters des Bahá¿ítums, Bahá¿ülláh (1817-1892).