peter lang peter lang nov 2002 (148 results)

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The Internet crosses established boundaries of previously separate fields of communication and research. In its wake, new borderlands are opened up ¿ characterized by mixes of private and public, production and consumption, and play and politics. This book explores those borderlands and overviews key issues in the study of Internet culture. Digital Borderlands investigates four ways in which identities are shaped through interactive uses of the Internet ¿ love relations, gendered bodies, girl webzines, and cosmopolitan sites all exemplify how new media transforms older forms of popular entertainment and political culture.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 208 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Liberal Constitutionalism, Marriage, and Sexual Orientation: A Contemporary Case for Dis-Establishment uses constitutional theory and political philosophy to shed light on an elusive feature of American jurisprudence: the establishment of a sectarian preference in the law to the detriment of American citizens who happen to be gay or lesbian and who wish to exercise their fundamental right to marry. Reviewing aspects of liberal-democratic theory, marriage law, and pertinent analogies that deal with the right to marry, Gordon Albert Babst presents the notion of the «shadow establishment,» which makes the best sense of a constitutional affirmation of bias against same-sex marriage and gay persons in the law. 168 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Die sprachliche und soziokulturelle Vielfalt wurde zunächst als Folge von Migration sichtbar und thematisiert, danach aber auch mit der europäischen Integration, mit der historischen Multikulturalität sowie mit den Auswirkungen der Globalisierung in Verbindung gebracht. Diese Pluralität gilt seit Mitte der siebziger Jahre für viele als Herausforderung für Schulpraxis, Bildungspolitik, Pädagogik. Welche Strategien entwickeln nationale und regionale Bildungssysteme sowie Einzelschulen, um sich auf die verschiedenen Formen der Mehrsprachigkeit und der Heterogenität der Schulklassen einzustellen Wie verhält sich die Praxis zu den rhetorischen Diskursen Den Kern dieser empirischen Untersuchung bilden sechs Fallstudien in Deutschland, Frankreich, Italien sowie drei Schweizer Kantonen. Die Grundausrichtung eines Schulsystems (integrativ oder trennend und selektiv) ist dafür entscheidend, wie die sprachliche und soziokulturelle Vielfalt wahrgenommen wird: als Teil einer heute «normalen» Heterogenität oder aber als «Störung», die getrennter Unterrichtsangebote bedarf. Die Pluralität ist nicht das Spezialgebiet einer «interkulturellen Erziehung», sondern eine unverzichtbare Aufgabe der Schule, Bildung und Pädagogik. 580 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Schon im Alter von 18 Jahren setzt sich Jean Paul intensiv mit den philosophischen Konzeptionen seiner Zeit auseinander. Dabei weicht anfänglicher Optimismus, besonders durch Leibniz vermittelt, zunehmender Skepsis. Die Rehabilitation der Sinnlichkeit, u.a. in der Philosophie Herders, erregt und verunsichert ihn zugleich. Erst mit der Entdeckung der Einbildungskraft findet Jean Paul einen «poetischen» Zugang zu den drängenden metaphysischen Problemen. An dieser Nahtstelle zwischen Denkübung und Dichtung setzt die vorliegende Arbeit ein. 196 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Diese Arbeit bezieht sich auf die Mobiliarsicherungsrechte. Konkret werden die Sicherungsübereignung als Bankenkredite und der Eigentumsvorbehalt bzw. der verlängerte und erweiterte Eigentumsvorbehalt als Warenkredit erfaßt. Die Autorin vergleicht Banken- und Warenkredit in der deutschen Kreditpraxis mit der koreanischen Kreditpraxis. Dadurch macht sie rechtspolitische Vorschläge im letzten Kapitel ihrer Arbeit für die koreanische Kreditpraxis. 338 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Welche Sprache im Rechtsverkehr maßgeblich ist und welche nicht, berührt den sensiblen Bereich der kulturellen Identität des Einzelnen. Ebenso empfindlich und schützenswert ist die Position des Verbrauchers gegenüber der regelmäßig besser informierten und organisierten Anbieterseite. Der Autor nimmt eine Synthese dieser beiden Aspekte vor und rückt den ausländischen Verbraucher ins Zentrum seiner Überlegungen. In welcher Sprache muss ein Verbraucher informiert werden; wer trägt das Risiko von Missverständnissen in einem Vertragsverhältnis Die Antwort auf diese Fragen findet der Autor auf bislang unbeschrittenen Wegen: das Sprachrisiko als Teilaspekt völkerrechtlichen Diskriminierungsschutzes, von Informationsasymmetrien im Vertragsrecht und des Europäischen Privatrechts. Die Arbeit schließt mit dem Vorschlag einer Richtlinie für das Europäische Vertragsrecht ab, die sich nicht zuletzt auf eine breite ökonomische Analyse des Sprachenrechts stützt. 334 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Die Bedeutung des einstweiligen Rechtsschutzes im Gemeinschaftsrecht ist bislang hauptsächlich in Bezug auf dessen Einwirkungen auf das nationale Recht untersucht worden. Diese Arbeit stellt dagegen den vorläufigen Rechtsschutz in den Mittelpunkt, wie er von dem Europäischen Gerichtshof selbst gewährt wird. Nach einer Darstellung der gegenwärtigen Rechtsschutzbedingungen zeigt das Buch auf, welche rechtsstaatlichen Anforderungen für das gemeinschaftliche Rechtsschutzsystem gelten. Die daran ausgerichtete Untersuchung des einstweiligen Rechtsschutzes im Gemeinschaftsrecht macht zum Teil empfindliche Rechtsschutzdefizite deutlich, welche die Effektivität des gemeinschaftlichen Eilrechtsschutzes beeinträchtigen. Die Arbeit geht den Ursachen dieser Rechtsschutzlücken auf den Grund und zeigt Möglichkeiten auf, sie zu schließen. 258 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Das Zusammentreffen von Kultur und Kunst auf der einen, Recht und Verwaltung auf der anderen Seite führt zwangsläufig zu Reibungen und Konflikten. Besonders deutlich wird die Gegensätzlichkeit der durch Autonomie, Freiheit und Eigengesetzlichkeit charakterisierten Kultur und der Begrenzungen und bindenden Handlungsvorgaben des Normensystems im Bereich der Kulturverwaltung. Diese Schrift hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, die hier auftretenden Schwierigkeiten aufzuzeigen, die wesentlichen rechtlichen Grundlagen und Rahmenbedingungen der verwalteten Kunst systematisch darzustellen sowie praktische Grundsätze für die Bewältigung regelmäßig auftretender Probleme zu erarbeiten. Besondere Berücksichtigung findet hierbei die Finanzierung kultureller Betätigung der öffentlichen Hand. 328 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This ethnographic study addresses the ways residents of an economically distressed community in Nova Scotia perceive post-secondary education. Historically, the efficacy of education as an economic development strategy has been contradicted by the lack of work available locally and the personal costs associated with acquiring credentials. Yet education has been and continues to be a strong central value for this community. This book confirms the opportunities educational achievement can offer to individuals and yet questions how credentials alone can lift economically distressed communities as a whole if the systemic issue of regional political economy is not addressed. 152 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Although the celebrations surrounding the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) highlighted some remarkable achievements in the human rights movement, the international community must remain cognizant of a whole new array of unprecedented challenges. These challenges relate to the relevance of the conceptual framework within which the human rights movement has been operating as well as to the need for effective strategies of promotion and protection. 232 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -An Enactment of Science: A Dynamic Balance Among Curriculum, Context, and Teacher Beliefs examines the specific role of an urban sixth-grade teacher as she engages her students in the learning of science. With a four component model of curriculum enactment (curriculum, context, teacher beliefs, and enactment) as a guiding framework for inquiry, this book addresses an essential question in contemporary science education: Is exemplary science teaching a process of 'traditional' practices, 'progressive' practices, or, an eclectic combination of both, constituting some notion of a middle ground Also examined is the teacher's explicit process of coaching students in the use of social skills as part of the content of science as she guides students toward successful cooperative group work and collective and individual problem solving.Robert W. Blake, Jr., suggests that pre-service and in-service teachers may want to evaluate how closely their beliefs about the curriculum, context, and teaching match the reality of their classroom situation with the potential of altering one (the curriculum) or the other (their beliefs) to enhance the enactment of science. Also, explicit teacher modeling of social skills may serve useful for students to act independently of the teacher as they engage in science activities. Finally, teachers may consider their practice a balance between traditional and progressive modes of teaching, finding what is most useful are components from both frameworks. 212 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book assesses the desirability of legalising euthanasia. From the ethical perspective, euthanasia raises many important issues including the right to life, the right to liberty, the avoidance of unnecessary pain, the appropriate allocation of medical resources, and the rights and duties of doctors. Other relevant considerations include the improving standard of palliative care and the 'slippery slope' argument. The central arguments for and against euthanasia are evaluated against the background of the leading contemporary moral theories. This book seeks to cut through the rhetoric that has become a feature of the debate and asks whether there is a sound reason for denying the wishes of individuals who express their wish to die. 161 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Ecocriticism: Creating Self and Place in Environmental and American Indian Literatures studies twentieth-century poets and prose writers of diverse ethnicity who have attempted to recover a sense of home, identity, community, and place in response to various forms of displacement caused by such forces as colonization, racial and sexual oppression, and environmental alienation. Working from an ecocritical perspective that investigates «place» as inherent in configurations of the self and in the establishment of community and holistic well being, this book examines the centrality of landscape in writers who, either through mythic, psychic, or environmental channels, have identified a landscape or place as intrinsic to their own conceptualizations of self. It also clarifies the territory where postcolonial and American studies intersect by investigating the literary decolonization efforts made by American Indian authors who are writing to reclaim their historical territories. 131 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In this collection of essays, religion in the United States is explored in terms of its interaction with an entertainment-focused culture. The first half of the book addresses questions of how religion actually fulfills an 'entertaining' role in society, focusing on lay participation in faith communities, the goals and impact of preaching the rise of non-traditional religions and attraction of meditation in recent years, and the question of whether bigger crowds are always better. The second half of the book focuses on how religion is treated in various entertainment media, including film, music, television, and literature. 301 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The international dimension of research in education signals a paradigm shift in thinking about educational research in general. This collection of essays by a group of prominent scholars in several fields, including human resource education, early childhood, educational evaluation, interpretive research, arts education, anthropology, and philosophy of education, is a cutting-edge publication that defines new theoretical and methodological directions in international education research. Research in International Education consists of both conceptual chapters and chapters based on empirical work that together address methodological/theoretical issues involved in international education research, contexts of research, and research in informal and formal settings. 318 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This study of the Twenty Verses on the Great Vehicle and the Verses on the Heart of Dependent Origination provides readable translations of the texts, followed by text-critical material, edited Tibetan, and wide-ranging commentary. Detailed editions of and comments upon eighth- or ninth-century A.D. Dunhuang manuscripts of the Heart of Dependent Origination are included. Anyone interested in the second-century Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna will be interested in this book. 183 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The increased attention now devoted to studying travel writing and theory follows on the heels of a growing critical interest in autobiography (a genre closely aligned to travel writing); commentary on multiculturalism, nationalism, colonialism, and post-colonialism; and in spectacle and visual culture. The essays collected here address these diverse impulses and focus provocatively on issues of colonialism/post-colonialism, empire, identity, culture, spectacle, pilgrimage, map theory, narrative theory, diaspora, and displacement, and discuss writers as diverse as Ernest Hemingway, Theodore Roosevelt, Jean Baudrillard, Alexis de Tocqueville, Simone de Beauvoir, V. S. Naipaul, Evelyn Waugh, John McPhee, George Orwell, Graham Greene, Walter Benjamin, Constance Fredericka Gordon Cumming, Willa Cather, Elizabeth Bowen, Kurt Vonnegut, Dorothy Richardson, Jonathan Raban, Paul Theroux, Bruce Chatwin, and Doris Lessing. 303 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Ethical evaluation of language and action has relied historically on the western, monocultural assumptions of classical ethical theory. But persistent contemporary critiques undermine the moral force of ethical agency as individualistic, autonomous, and rationalistic. Contributors to Moral Engagement in Public Life take up the search for intellectual resources in light of these challenges by explicating twelve theorists in moral philosophy and communication ethics. Two classical theorists, Aristotle and Confucius, provide longstanding themes of ongoing relevance and serve as a point of departure for ten contemporary thinkers whose own perspectives are, in part, a response to classical thought in the current context. Together these theorists expand the conceptual domain crossculturally and internationally for understanding ethical discourse and action in practical and professional life. 296 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Original sin, widely denied today, is nevertheless the condition in which our spiritual life begins. Fetal psychology helps one see original sin as a psychic negation of the created reflections in Christ of the traits of divine love within the Trinity. Hence, only through Christ can such damage be healed. But before we can live in the full freedom and power of the Holy Spirit, we must relive, in Jesus and as He did, all that God led His people through, from the fall of Adam till Jesus' death and resurrection. Through the 'spiritual sense' of the Old Testament, each word of which speaks of Jesus, we learn how to do this. The loss of this sense, embedded in the doctrine and practice of the much maligned 'institutional Church' but forgotten by most Christians, explains the chasm that has opened between the intellectual life of the West and the spiritual life of Christians. 438 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Although Belgium has only been an independent state since the 1830s, it has a long and complex past. This history is essential for understanding the complexities of issues that led to a devolution of the unitary Belgian state into a federation of linguistically based regions. In addition to the elements that contributed to Belgium's particular political evolution, the history which is traced in this book is a composite of many themes of broad historical interest and importance. Belgium: A History covers the gamut of Belgian history through dramas of religious and cultural conflict, intense localism, state building, uneven development, divergent class interests, war and domination, and finally, integration into a larger European community. 224 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Although Belgium has only been an independent state since the 1830s, it has a long and complex past. This history is essential for understanding the complexities of issues that led to a devolution of the unitary Belgian state into a federation of linguistically based regions. In addition to the elements that contributed to Belgium's particular political evolution, the history which is traced in this book is a composite of many themes of broad historical interest and importance. Belgium: A History covers the gamut of Belgian history through dramas of religious and cultural conflict, intense localism, state building, uneven development, divergent class interests, war and domination, and finally, integration into a larger European community. 224 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -At present, in European and American civil society a new paradigm of doing not only psychology, sociology and philosophy, but also comparative religiology and theology is emerging: it is called communicative rationality and action. A new communicative theology and religiology are also arising. Their central theme is the theodicy problem. The present study approaches this theme in the framework of a critical political theology and comparative religiology in a narrative and discursive fashion. In search for a solution to the theodicy problem, we explore with the help of the critical theory from Max Horkheimer through Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno to Jürgen Habermas, and with the assistance of the new political theology from Johann B. Metz through Helmut Peukert to Edmund Arens, the psychological, sociological, philosophical and theological constellation of universal freedom, reconciliation, and non-possessive love and solidarity out of personal autonomy and sovereignty. 486 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Drawing on the expertise of nearly two hundred prominent British, American, and Commonwealth scholars, this encyclopedia offers a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of twentieth-century Britain that will prove invaluable to students as well as general readers. The biographical and topical articles, each accompanied by a brief bibliography, cover a wide array of subjects from politics to the arts. Issues of gender and the impact of the two World Wars receive special emphasis. In contrast to the political focus of other guides, Twentieth-Century Britain gives comparable attention to literature, music, social currents, and family life, and also includes a chronology of significant events and a guide to further research. 640 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book provides a rhetorical analysis of some key legal situations that illustrate some of the problematics of colonial and neocolonial situations. A series of case studies from several continents is used to illustrate how colonial rules and regulations have been «co-produced» by elites and subalterns. This book looks at how both material and symbolic resources have been mobilized at key historical moments to justify the appropriation of land, mineral wealth, labor, and even genetic resources. These key colonial histories continue to influence many of the economic, political, social, and legal relationships that exist between «developed» and «underdeveloped» countries.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 264 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Zur Internationalen Erfurter Konferenz trafen sich Hochschuldozentinnen aus sechs Ländern. Dabei ging es um die Implementierung von Gender Studien, um Vernetzung, Interdisziplinarität und vor allem um die Erarbeitung von didaktisch-methodischen Konzepten. Folgende Fragen wurden diskutiert: Welche Ziele werden mit Gender Studien verbunden Wie kann Geschlechterbewusstsein in Lehre oder Training geweckt werden Welche guten didaktischen Beispiele gibt es Welche Medien werden eingesetzt University lecturers from six countries met at the international Erfurt conference. The focus was on the implementation of gender studies, networking and the development of didactic concepts, as there is a great need in this discipline for didactic and methodological clarification. Topics discussed were: What is the goal of gender studies How can gender awareness be raised in teaching or training situations What good didactic examples exist already How can New Media be implemented Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 196 pp. Englisch, Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The conflict between the political and the personal, an opposition which pervades the whole of American Literature, informs the essays on twentieth-century American theater gathered in this volume. Prominent theater scholars from Europe and America address the cultural paradigm created by the clash of private needs with public expectations. The difficulty of reconciling the two has led many dramatists to turn to the complexities of intertextuality in order to express their rebellions and rejections of inherited cultural values and myths. Essays on Arthur Miller, Sam Shepard, Susan Glaspell, H.M. Koutoukas, Dolores Prida, or Suzan Lori-Parks (to name but a few of the dramatists discussed here) reflect the vibrancy of American drama and the depth of the interaction of the political with the personal.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 382 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book examines critical prose written by Henry James and a representative group of American and British novelists and critics of his era in order to reveal a subtextual debate about the gender of fiction. A close examination of the adjectives and metaphors used to describe fiction uncovers a persistent pattern linked to the socio-cultural valuation of women's work versus men's. James's prose criticism reveals the strongest pattern, but a similar pattern is also discernable in criticism by well-known authors such as W. D. Howells and Robert Louis Stevenson, as well as the anonymous and now obscure critics writing in the periodicals of James's day. Studying the gendered accounts of the art of fiction can help redesign our idea of the modern, especially the modern novel, as a creative misreading based on changes in the roles of men and women and ideas of gender that existed in society and culture and reverberated in literature.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 260 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The papers in this book cover an impressive range of research into all aspects of the study of Middle English Language and Texts, hence the title From Tongue to Text. The topics dealt with are arranged according to this spectrum of approach, beginning with spelling evidence (which may tell us something about sounds), and moving forward through phonology, sound symbolism, morphology, syntax, discourse analysis, and vocabulary, to the study of dialects, Middle English in contact with other languages, and to text explication. The authors come from all parts of Europe, north, south, east and west, and from Japan, and originally came together at the Third International Conference on Middle English at Dublin, Ireland, in July 1999, where they contributed with others to the theme of Language and Text. 341 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The so-called «theory of everything» (T.O.E.) of reality cannot be perfect, if it ignores reality of the mind, from where we are looking at, researching, and describing reality as it is. One cannot progress very far in answering the metaphysical questions about reality without considering problems about time. Because time is the most crucial of all metaphysical and physical problems, it must be resolved in order to find a T.O.E. A German theologian, Karl Heim (1874-1958), gave a notable ontological answer to the enigmatic problem of time. In his T.O.E., time is two-dimensional space.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 200 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The papers collected in this volume thematise the relation between language and ecology. In the first part of the book, the focus is on the «ecological» aspects of different languages, with special reference to language maintenance, language loss and the influence languages have on each other. In the second part, the representation of environmental topics in the media is studied from a discourse critical point of view. What is the role of language in the development of the ecological crisis and in the attempts to master it How are environmentally sensitive topics dealt with in the press, in TV programmes and on the radio The volume also contains papers in which the theory of ecolinguistics is put on firm ground. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes befassen sich mit der Verbindung von Sprache und Ökologie. Im ersten Teil wird auf die «ökologischen» Beziehungen zwischen einzelnen Sprachen eingegangen, bei denen Prozesse der Verdrängung, Mischung und gegenseitigen Beeinflussung ablaufen. Im zweiten Teil wird die Darstellung von Umwelt-Themen in den Medien diskurskritisch beleuchtet. Wie wird mit diesen Themen in der Presse, in Radio- und Fernsehprogrammen umgegangen Welche Rolle spielt die Sprache ganz allgemein bei der Entstehung und Bewältigung ökologischer Krisen Der Band enthält auch programmatische Aufsätze, in denen das Paradigma der Ökolinguistik theoretisch begründet wird. 514 pp. Englisch, Deutsch.