Published by SPRINGER NATURE Feb 2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 1137355182 ISBN 13: 9781137355188
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Africa has been noticeably absent in international relations theory. This new collection of essays by contemporary Africanists convincingly demonstrates the importance of the continent to every theoretical approach in international relations. This collection breaks new ground in how we think about both international relations and Africa, re-examining such foundational concepts as sovereignty, the state, and power; critically investigating the salience of realism, neo-liberalism, liberalism in Africa, and providing new thinking about regionalism, security and identity. 242 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Feb 2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 0312237588 ISBN 13: 9780312237585
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book examines how the concept of the poet as a male professional emerged during the Restoration and eighteenth century. Analyzing works by writers from Rochester to Johnson, Linda Zionkowski argues that the opportunities for publication created by the growth of a commercial market in texts profoundly challenged aristocratic conceptions of authorship and altered the status of professional poets on the hierarchies of class and gender. The book proposes that during this period, discourse about the poet's social role both revealed and produced a crucial shift in configurations of masculinity: the belief that commodifying their mental labor undermined writers' cultural authority gave way to a celebration of the market's function as the proving ground for both literary merit and bourgeois manhood. 279 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Feb 2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 0312234023 ISBN 13: 9780312234027
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Although all published biographical information on Toni Morrison agrees that her birth name was Chloe Anthony Wofford, John Duvall's book challenges this claim. Using new biographical information, he explores the issue of names and naming in Morrison's fiction and repeatedly finds surprising traces of the Nobel Prize-winning author's struggle to construct a useable identity as an African American woman novelist. Whatever the exact circumstances surrounding her decision to become Toni, one thing becomes clear: the question of identity was not a given for Morrison. 182 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Feb 2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 0312226543 ISBN 13: 9780312226541
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Already in the century before photography's emergence as a mass medium, a diverse popular visual culture had risen to challenge the British literary establishment. The bourgeois fashion for new visual media - from prints and illustrated books to theatrical spectacles and panoramas - rejected high. Romantic concepts of original genius and the sublime in favor of mass-produced images and the thrill of realistic effects. In response, the literary elite declared the new visual media an offense to Romantic idealism. 'Simulations of nature,' Coleridge declared, are 'loathsome' and 'disgusting.' The Shock of the Real offers a tour of Romantic visual culture, from the West End stage to the tourist-filled Scottish Highlands, from the panoramas of Leicester Square to the photography studios of Second Empire Paris. But in presenting the relation between word and image in the late Georgian age as a form of culture war, the author also proposes an alternative account of Romantic aesthetic ideology - as a reaction not against the rationalism of the Enlightenment but against the visual media age being born. 273 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Feb 2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 0333918282 ISBN 13: 9780333918289
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Africa has been noticeably absent in international relations theory. This new collection of essays by contemporary Africanists convincingly demonstrates the importance of the continent to every theoretical approach in international relations. This collection breaks new ground in how we think about both international relations and Africa, re-examining such foundational concepts as sovereignty, the state, and power; critically investigating the salience of realism, neo-liberalism, liberalism in Africa, and providing new thinking about regionalism, security and identity. 242 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Feb 2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 0333922913 ISBN 13: 9780333922910
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Why are America and Britain wealthier than ever but millions of children live in poverty, neighbourhoods want for basic amenities and the middle classes fear for their families, jobs and futures The answer is not to be found in globalization, technological innovation, or our personal failings to adapt to changing circumstances as we are so often told. The answer lies mainly with the historical legacy of the 'golden era' and the obsession with market individualism. An obsession that the New Democrats in America and the New Labour in Britain have failed to exorcize. Yet the forces of knowledge-driven capitalism provide an unprecedented opportunity at the beginning of the twenty-first century to build societies based on the individual and collective intelligence of all. Capitalism and Social Progress shows how this can be achieved. 338 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Feb 2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 0312234511 ISBN 13: 9780312234515
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Against the backdrop of Britain's underground 18th and early-19th century homosexual culture, mob persecutions, and executions of homosexuals, Hobson shows how Blake's hatred of sexual and religious hypocrisy and state repression, and his revolutionary social vision, led him gradually to accept homosexuality as an integral part of human sexuality. In the process, Blake rejected the antihomosexual bias of British radical tradition, revised his idealization of aggressive male heterosexuality and his male-centered view of gender, and refined his conception of the cooperative commonwealth. 249 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Feb 2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 0333918096 ISBN 13: 9780333918098
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Marxism's chief failing is its substitution of a labour theory of value for the struggles of the labour movement. Consequently, Marxism rests on transhistorical categories that are vulnerable to his own critique of political economy. Jurgen Habermas and Axel Honneth seek to correct this by placing critical theory on a normative foundation. Unfortunately, they restrict this to the cultural sphere. By extending their notion of intersubjectivity to the economic system it can be viewed as an inactive form of morality which social movements influence in the course of their struggles. 211 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Feb 2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 0333778391 ISBN 13: 9780333778395
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -While the Seven Years War pushed London towards a protective Native American policy, outcomes were determined by men on the spot. The savage Anglo-Cherokee war was resolved by Cherokee headmen willing to accept a dignified peace; and by the sympathy of the very man sent to crush them. Colonel James Grant forced his treaty upon South Carolina, demonstrated the value of imperial frontier management and started some Carolinians on the road to revolution. 269 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Feb 2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 0817641521 ISBN 13: 9780817641528
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The problem of noise immunity is a key problem for complex signal processing systems research in science and engineering. New approaches to such problems allow the development of a better quality of signal detection in noise.This book is devoted to a new generalized approach to signal detection theory. The main purpose is to present the basic fundamental concepts of the generalized approach to signal processing in noise and to show how it may be applied in various areas of signal processing. The generalized approach allows extension of the well-known boundaries of the potential noise immunity set up by classical and modern signal detection theories. New approaches for construction of detectors with the amplitude, frequency, and phase tracking systems based on the generalized approach are presented.Features and Topics: New approaches to the statistical theory of signal detectionNew features of signal detection based on experimental studyMore rigorous definition of potential noise immunityChapter summaries and an analsys of recent observations obtained by computer modeling and experimentParticularly useful applications for detection problems in radar, communications, wireless communications, acoustics, remote sensing, sonar, underwater signal processing, geophysical signal processing, and biomedical signal processing.The book is an excellent resource for understanding and solving problems in modern signal detection theories. Professionals, scientists, engineers, and researchers in electrical engineering, computer science, geophysics, and applied mathematics will benefit from using the techniques presented. 748 pp. Englisch.
Published by Springer Nature Singapore Feb 2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 0333729536 ISBN 13: 9780333729533
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - In Political and Social Issues in British Women's Fiction, 1928-1968 , Elizabeth Maslen reassesses fiction written by women between the granting of universal franchise and the advent of new-wave feminism. Through close readings of a wide range of novels, Maslen analyses how writers chose to represent such issues as pacifism and the threat of fascism, war, race and class, and gender, exploring in the process how the writers' priorities affect their decisions on how to write.
Published by Springer Nature Singapore Feb 2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 0333775759 ISBN 13: 9780333775752
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - In Designing US Economic Policy , W. Robert Brazelton analyzes the development of US economic policy in the aftermath of the Second World War. As the world struggled to recover from the massive wartime expenditure, it was essential that economic policy not repeat the mistakes of the prewar era which sparked the 1930s Depression. These policies included Truman's New Deal, which helped shape both the economic and social climate of the USA today.
Published by Springer Nature Singapore Feb 2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 0306465272 ISBN 13: 9780306465277
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Beginning with a brief history of the Internet, this book delves into a review of current research, active learning strategies, Web courseware, metacognition, strategies for Web discussions, promoting student self-regulation, building interactive Web pages, basic HTML coding, managing Web sites, using databases, automated testing, and security and legal issues. Experience shows that Web teaching may be used in an extremely wide range of subject areas. Modern course management software has demystified the use of the Web for teaching, allowing instructors to focus on instructional design and improving student experiences instead of only the technical skills of building Web sites. Web-Teaching helps readers pick and choose what aspects of the Web to employ to achieve the greatest student learning gains.
Published by Springer Nature Singapore Feb 2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 0333748441 ISBN 13: 9780333748442
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Once torn by ideological conflicts and the dominance of command economies, Southern Africa is now moving towards economic liberalism and openness. In general, the ascendancy of 'market economics' is acknowledged by its governments, albeit with different degrees of enthusiasm. Theoretically rich and empirically engaging this timely book offers a critical insight into the ensuing debate on regionalism and the process of regionalization in southern Africa.
Published by Springer Nature Singapore Feb 2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 0312230990 ISBN 13: 9780312230999
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Colonial Transformations covers early modern English poetry and plays, Gaelic poetry, and a wide range of English colonial propaganda. In the book, Bach contends that England's colonial ambitions surface in all of its literary texts. Those texts played multiple roles in England's colonial expansions and emerging imperialism. Those roles included publicizing colonial efforts, defining some people as white and some as barbarians, constituting enduring stereotypes of native people, and resisting official versions of colonial encounters.
Published by Springer Nature Singapore Feb 2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 0333929896 ISBN 13: 9780333929896
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Given the significance of spiritual direction in modern Christianity, surprisingly little attention has been given to the tradition upon which today's spiritual direction is built. A long and interesting history does exist, though, as shown by Patricia Ranft in A Woman's Way . Ranft's insights shed light on the understanding society had of women as spiritual beings and on the position of women in a Christian society. This book delineates the history of spiritual direction for women and by women within the larger context of the history of Christian spirituality and its understanding of human perfectibility. By examining the ways in which women practiced spiritual direction, this study reveals the degree to which women influenced society by using an avenue of influence previously overlooked by scholars.
Published by Springer Nature Singapore Feb 2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 033375462X ISBN 13: 9780333754627
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - A collection of new, scholarly articles on the Jewish Workers' Bund - the first modern Jewish political party in Eastern Europe - written by prominent academics from eight countries. This work represents a broad range of perspectives, Jewish and non-Jewish, sympathetic to the Bund and critical of its work. The articles in this volume are fresh, make use of previously unused source material, and provide us with new perspectives on the significance of the Bund and its ideas.
Published by Springer Nature Singapore Feb 2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 0333775767 ISBN 13: 9780333775769
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The book describes the context within which the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union has been established, the basic mechanisms of the policy for the main sectors of agricultural production and their adaptation over time in line with changes in the broader world economy; the changes in Eastern Europe, the problems of developing countries and the GATT-WTO Agreement in particular. An introduction by Franz Fischler, European Commissioner with responsibility for Agriculture, sets the scene for Community policy beyond 2000.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Feb 2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 0312229569 ISBN 13: 9780312229566
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Reciprocity is a pervasive type of social interaction in encounters, groups and organizations. This volume gathers basic recent works in its main domains such as the theory of reciprocity, the public economics of transfers, the economics of the family, charities, gifts of organs, or the motivations for gift-giving. The book constitutes a landmark in this rapidly expanding field of research. 387 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Feb 2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 0312235747 ISBN 13: 9780312235741
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Drawing on extensive archival research in both Britain and the United States, Serializing Fiction in the Victorian Press represents the first comprehensive study of the publication of instalment fiction in Victorian newspapers. Often overlooked, this phenomenon is shown to have exerted a crucial influence on the development of the fiction market in the last decades of the nineteenth century. A detailed description of the practice of syndication is followed by a wide-ranging discussion of its implications for readership, authorship, and fictional form. 300 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Feb 2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 0333791878 ISBN 13: 9780333791875
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Drawing on contributions from various disciplines, this up to date collection analyses Romania's experiences of the transition from the harsh realities of the Ceausescu dictatorship to the uncertainties of the efforts to consolidate democracy and introduce a market economy. With its focus on Romania's progress in coming to terms with the legacy of its communist past, the realities of pluralism, the introduction of a market economy and the challenge of European integration, the volume will be key reading for academics, students and practitioners interested in transition and Romania. 299 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Feb 2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 0333713877 ISBN 13: 9780333713877
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The classic serial, invented by BBC Radio Drama sixty years ago, survived and adapted itself to television, the arrival of colour and the global market in what has become a flood of classics with all channels competing for ratings and overseas sales. This richly detailed book traces these developments and analyses the genre's response to social, economic, technical and cultural changes, which have re-shaped it into the form we recognise today. The book contains considerable interview material with performers and media professionals. 241 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Feb 2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 0312234104 ISBN 13: 9780312234102
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Political accommodation in Northern Ireland, Israel, and South Africa at the macro level may not, by itself, be sufficient to achieve the long-term goals of building peace and reconciliation. This book uses Lederach's peace-building model to explore issues which may provide a basis for transformation and a lasting peace in the three countries. 247 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Feb 2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 0333760301 ISBN 13: 9780333760307
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -During the nineteen years of her play-writing career, Aphra Behn had far more new plays staged than anyone else. This book is the first to examine all her theatrical work. It explains her often dominant place in the complex theatrical culture of Charles II's reign, her divided political sympathies, and her interests as a free-thinking intellectual. It also reveals her as a brilliant theatrical practitioner, who used the seen as richly and significantly as the spoken. 230 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Feb 2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 033375140X ISBN 13: 9780333751404
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Gender and Sovereignty seeks to reconstruct the notion of sovereignty in post-patriarchal society. Sovereignty is linked to emancipation, and an attempt is made to free both concepts from the static characteristics which derive from the Enlightenment and an uncritical view of the state. To reconstruct sovereignty, we must look beyond the state. Sovereignty, analysed in relational terms, becomes aligned with autonomy and self-determination in a world in which men and women can only be sovereign when they empower one another. 228 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Feb 2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 0333650921 ISBN 13: 9780333650929
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -A Literary life of William Makepeace Thackeray offers a new perspective on the relation between Thackeray's life and his novels. It combines an analysis of his philosophy/religion with his life's experiences with women and acknowledgements of his dependence on writing for a livelihood to provide an explanation for his narrative strategies. Tracing Thackeray's composition and revision of sample passages demonstrates that these strategies were conscious developments. Thackeray's critique of the evils of society focused subtly on conventional domestic cruelties and on the inequities of the world of women, but he did so in a way that could be dismissed and would not necessarily alienate the public upon whose good will his livelihood depended. 163 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Feb 2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 0333918819 ISBN 13: 9780333918814
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The first book to assess critically mystery in children's literature, this collection charts a development from religious mystery through rationally solved detective fictions to insoluble supernatural and horror mysteries. Written by internationally recognised scholars in the field, these thirteen original essays offer challenging and innovative readings of both classic and popular mysteries for children. This volume will be essential and stimulating reading for anyone with an interest in children's literature or in mystery fiction. 228 pp. Englisch.
Published by SPRINGER NATURE Feb 2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 0333735900 ISBN 13: 9780333735909
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Recent decades have seen a sharp increase in financial competition, intensified by globalisation. Excessive risk-taking leading to inevitable business failures at times reached worrying proportions. A contributing factor arose from the complexities of the derivative and other new markets. This volume attempts to analyse and explain financial market developments at the turn of the millennium with the emphasis on the need for greater responsibility and a more ethical approach to financial decision-making. 320 pp. Englisch.
Published by Springer Nature Singapore Feb 2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 0312238347 ISBN 13: 9780312238346
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Jonestown, Waco, and Heaven's Gate resonate in the contemporary mind in the same way that Masada or Mount Tabor resonated in the minds of others long past. The members of these movements believed that the end of the world was at hand and that they had to act through violence or suicide to ensure its occurrence. Frederic Baumgartner explores the long, often violent, history of millennialism as it has affected Western civilization. From ancient Zoroastrians to Concerned Christians of 1998, a belief in the imminent end of the world and the coming of the new age has motivated hundreds of sects and cults, some of which have burned out in an orgy of violence to become a permanent part of Western history.
Published by Springer Nature Singapore Feb 2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 0333753666 ISBN 13: 9780333753668
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book offers an introductory guide for students to four centuries of diplomatic thought. Since diplomacy as we know it was created during the Renaissance in Italy, a number of major figures have reflected on the place of diplomacy in foreign affairs and the problems associated with its pursuit. These include statesmen, international lawyers and historians, most of whom had experience as diplomats of the first or second rank. This book examines the thought of some of the most important of them, from Niccolò Machiavelli in the early sixteenth century to Henry Kissinger in the late twentieth century. 216 pp. Englisch.