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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book presents you with the background profiles of those mass exterminators of National Socialism who wound up in court. It pictures their ¿route to crime¿ and explains why their court room profiles have always remained so controversial in the eyes of post-war observers and commentators. Both inside and outside academia, this controversy continuous to flare up every now and then. It invariably focusses on Hannah Arendt¿s famous thesis about the personality of Adolf Eichmann, Hitler¿s manager of mass destruction. We will take a closer look at the arguments involved in this ¿debate¿ on the Banality of Evil and see how Arendt¿s interpretation of Eichmann relates to the perspectives of the post-war courts who tried other exterminators of Hitler¿s empire. 166 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book presents an analysis of more than 30 plays written by Irish dramatists and poets that are based on the tragedies of Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus. These plays proceed from the time of Yeats and Synge through MacNeice and the Longfords on to many of today¿s leading writers. A special feature of the book is that, in order to cater for these who may know little about Greek tragedy, it begins with a chapter entitled ¿A Brief Reading of Greek Tragedy¿, and then, in regard to each Greek play analysed, it presents a mini-essay on that play, before coming to the Irish version(s) of it. Three features of these Irish appropriations stand out. Firstly, there are three methods of using a Greek tragedy: straight translation, which requires us to interrogate the original play; version, which preserves the invariant core of the original, but which can add or subtract material; loose adaptation, which often moves the action into the modern world. Secondly, there is a considerable stress on Sophocles whose emphasis on the theme of recognition resonates in a postcolonial society that must define itself. Thirdly, there is a considerable stress on the experience of women ¿ such as Antigone and Medea ¿ that can relate to the position of women in Irish society after independence.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 176 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The lively, informative and incisive collection of essays sheds fascinating new light on the literary interrelations between Ireland, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Czech Republic. It charts a hitherto under-explored history of the reception of modern Irish culture in Central and Eastern Europe and also investigates how key authors have been translated, performed, and adapted. The work of Jonathan Swift, John Millington Synge, Flann O'Brien, Samuel Beckett, Brian Friel, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon and Martin McDonagh, it is indicated, has particularly inspired writers, directors, and translators. The searching analyses presented here illuminatingly reflect on the far-reaching political and social import of multicultural exchange. It is shown to be a process that is at best mutually defining and that raises questions about received forms of identity, the semiotics of genre and the possibilities and limits of linguistic translation. In addition, the histories compiled here of critical commentary on Irish literature in Hungary or of the staging of contemporary Irish plays in Hungary and in the Czech Republic, for example, uncover the haphazardness of intercultural exchange and the extent to which it is vulnerable to political ideology, social fashion, and the vagaries of state funding. The revealing explorations undertaken in this volume of a wide array of Irish dramatic and literary texts, ranging from Gulliver's Travels to Translations and The Pillowman, tease out the subtly altered nuances that they acquire in a Central European context. By the same token, it is demonstrated that Ireland has been changed by the recent migration of workers from Eastern Europe and that consequently projections of the figure of the emigrant or asylum seeker in current drama warrant scrutiny. This original and combative collection demonstrates, not only that literary exchange between Hungary, Poland, Romania, the Czech Republic, and Ireland has been prolonged, multifaceted and, above all, enriching, but also that it exposes blind-spots, and forces confrontation with issues of racism, failure of empathy and cultural misprision. 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This is the first book to provide comprehensive treatment of Robert Lowell¿s engagements with Irish poetry. Including original contributions by leading and emerging scholars from both sides of the Atlantic, the essays in the volume explore topics such as Lowell and W.B. Yeats, Louis MacNeice, and Denis Devlin, as well as the ways in which the American poet¿s work was read by later Irish poets Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, Paul Durcan, Leontia Flynn, and others. In addition to exploring the ways that several poets have engaged with Lowell, the book encompasses a wide range of thematic concerns, from Lowell and ecology to the politics of identification. The book also includes essays on aspects of Lowell¿s engagements with Irish-American contexts, as well as contributions by contemporary poets Gerald Dawe, Paul Muldoon and Julie O¿Callaghan. Robert Lowell and Irish Poetry concludes with a previously unpublished introduction Seamus Heaney gave to a reading by Lowell in Ireland in 1975, which is followed by a reminiscence by Marie Heaney.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 280 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Cet ouvrage entend modifier le point de vue sur l'art conceptuel en partant des multiples manières dont des artistes associés au mouvement ont eu recours à la photographie. Cette approche de l'art conceptuel nécessite de prendre de la distance par rapport au modèle anglo-américain en élargissant l'observation à d'autres aires géographiques comme celles du Brésil, de l'Italie, du Japon et de la Pologne. Le choix d'une focale élargie rassemble également des notions a priori étrangères à l'idée de dématérialisation de l'art qui reste attachée à l'historiographie de l'art conceptuel. La triade 'Photo / Objet / Concept' insiste sur la dimension matérielle des expressions artistiques étudiées. La notion d'objet constitue en effet une des idées directrices de ce volume. Elle permet d'interroger les caractéristiques matérielles du médium à travers des pratiques spécifiques comme la sculpture, la délégation ou l'exposition. Reconsidérer l'usage et les pratiques de la photographie au sein de l'art conceptuel amène à renouveler la réception d'un moment historique pour comprendre l'importance et la place du médium dans l'art d'aujourd'hui. 194 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -¿Bullying in the Internet Age: The State of Cyberbullying among Teens in Turkey¿ specifically addresses cyberbullying as an issue to be discussed in the field of media and communication for uses and literacy. Cyberbullying has become and is still a fragile problem with the enhancement of contemporary technologies. To determine why young individuals are engaged in these behaviors is in its infancy because of ever-changing technology uses in Turkey, and its theoretical underpinnings are still researched. To put a finer point on these experiences turning into cyberbullying acts is in need of knowing the social media uses of young individuals, addressing a necessity in defining what cyberbullying is within Turkey¿s context, and examining the types of cyberbullying which young individuals are confronted with in detail. 116 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Founded in 1989, Teach For America (TFA) has grown into a massive organization with a presence across the United States and has expanded internationally to 46 countries. TFA¿s international expansion through Teach For All (TFAll) coincides with a broader exportation of neoliberal education reform ideologies across the globe. As a follow up to Teach For America Counter-Narratives: Alumni Speak Up and Speak Out (Peter Lang, 2015), this text is the first to provide a glimpse into the first-hand experiences of those impacted by the colonizing nature of TFAll and the global education reform movement of privatization.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 162 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The Rise of Weaponized Flak in the New Media Era presents the first book-length examination of flak as a form of political harassment, authored by a seasoned researcher on political discourse and mass media. Flak against news media was a component of the Edward Herman-Noam Chomsky seminal 'Propaganda Model.' However, in the thirty years since the model was introduced, flak has become an increasingly significant and prevalent sociopolitical force in its own right, in large part for the proliferation of new media platforms. Flak is not simply good faith or tough criticism. Rather, flak discourses and actions go on attack for the purpose of delegitimizing, disabling, and even criminalizing political foes, however tendentiously. The book presents cross-disciplinary appeal for students and scholars of mass media, new media, political science, and sociology¿as well as for anyone concerned with today¿s sociopolitical environment.Given the book¿s seminal examination of the topic, the introductory chapters in Part I extensively map out flak¿s current forms and delineate similarities and distinctions from scandal and activism. Newly-minted terminology is introduced to flesh-out contemporary flak (for example, flak-in-discourse, boutique flak, phantom flak).The balance of the book is organized around case studies of flak mills (Part II) and flak issues (Part III). In particular, Part II drills down into the flak discourses and techniques of dedicated flak mills that characterize themselves as, respectively, journalistic and think tank organizations. Part III of the book features case studies of flak around elections and universities in the United States. 222 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book explores the ways in which the political and social power structures between filmmaker and protagonist are manifested in the aesthetics of documentary film. Using a synthesis of filmmaking practice and critical theories from the fields of cultural studies and political philosophy, the research devises methodological approaches to the analysis of documentaries in light of the political and material conditions of their emergence. By exploring filmmaking practice and placing it in the context of wider theories pertaining to issues of power structures and representation, it sheds light on the different aspects which must be considered when approaching the analysis of a documentary film for its ideological and political content. 146 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Regional differences matter. Even in an increasingly globalized world, rhetorical attention to regionalism yields very different understandings of geographic areas and the people who inhabit them. Regional identities often become most apparent in the differences (real and perceived) between urban and rural areas. Politicians recognize the perceived differences and develop messages based on that knowledge. Media highlight and exacerbate the differences to drive ratings. Cultural markers (from memorials to restaurants and memoirs and beyond) point to the differences and even help to construct those divisions. The places identified as urban and rural even visually demarcate the differences at times. This volume explores how rhetoric surrounding the urban and rural binary helps shape our understanding of those regions and the people who reside there. Chapters from award-winning rhetorical scholars explain the implications of viewing the regions as distinct and divided, exploring how they influence our understanding of ourselves and others, politics and race, culture, space and place, and more. Attention to urban and rural spaces is necessary because those spaces both act rhetorically and are also created through rhetoric. In a time when thoughtful attention to regional division has become more critical than ever, this book is required reading to help think through and successfully engage the urban/rural divide. 318 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -When MTV (Music Television channel) was established in 1981, an executive claimed that they had 'integrated the most powerful forces in our two decades, TV and rock ¿n¿ roll.' In fact, this problematic relationship began in the mid-1950s, when the advent of rock ¿n¿ roll represented a musical and cultural revolution. The backlash against the music and the youth culture from which it emanated, described here as 'rockaphobia,' was reflected in a process of adulteration, racism, and co-optation by television programmers, spearheaded by American Bandstand. This interplay between rock ¿n¿ roll and television played a significant role in alienating baby boomers from the mainstream, motivating them to create their own countercultural identity. This social migration helped to delineate the boundaries that would be identified in the 1960s as the generation gap.Transmission and Transgression uses an interdisciplinary approach informed by media ecology, the theoretical framework which recognizes that each communication technology, or medium, creates its own unique environment, independent of content. This analysis allows the author to identify inherent technological and sensory incompatibilities between the medium of television and the cultural practice of rock ¿n¿ roll, and to place these tensions within the broader shift of physiological emphasis from the traditional, tribal world dominated by the ear to the modern world which privileges the eye. Even in its remediated, diluted form, rock music has occupied a significant niche on television, and this book is the most comprehensive summary, celebration, and analysis of that history. 356 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The new edition of The Tragic Black Buck: Racial Masquerading in the American Literary Imagination offers a fresh perspective on this trail blazing scholarship, and the singular importance of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby as a challenge to the racial hegemony of biological white supremacy. Fitzgerald convincinglyand boldly shows how racial passing by light-skinned Black individuals becomes the most fascinating literary trope associated with democracy and the enduring desire for the American Dream.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 256 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The boundaries between word classes are often fuzzy. This book looks at the classification of interjections and similar words of other classes. It reviews work done over the past 250 years on several languages, including English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Latin, Ancient Greek, Albanian, and Welsh. Most chapters discuss interjections in relation to one of the other traditionally recognized parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, adpositions, and conjunctions. A major focus is on the use of relevant terminology e.g. primary and secondary interjections, proper and improper interjections, and interjectives. 142 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book presents a new methodology for facilitating the acquisition of second languages in a natural way. This methodology aims to facilitate the acquisition of a second language in the same way that a child acquires his mother tongue, taking into account the characteristics of the environment of the acquisition of an L2, which in most cases is the classroom. These pedagogic principles have been obtained through a detailed study of infant and children¿s developmental psychology and the infant-directed speech (IDS), also known as Motherese. The book also provides with the main criticism different methods and approaches had had over the years and explains why this method overcomes these criticisms to teach a second language effectively 100 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The Socio-Cultural and Philosophical Origins of Science discusses the formation of spiritual culture and reveals the prerequisites for the developments of philosophy (reflection), science (objectification), religion (spirituality), and art (conventionality) from a common root: animistic thinking. Philosophy emerges as reflexive thinking which transforms the animistic into the ideal, the polarization of which into a subject-object relation becomes the basis for the emergence and development of science. The study shows that any new thought in culture that answers the question of being goes through the same stages of mysticism, poetics, rhetoric, grammar, logic, and mathematics. The book is designed for students to prepare for the PhD candidate examination in the philosophy of science, as well as for scholars (scientists) interested in the methodology of scientific knowledge. It would also appeal to both students and professors in various disciplines across humanities and social sciences, as well as to anyone interested in understanding the commonalities and differences among, and the origins of, philosophy, science, religion, and art. 98 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Mediating the Windrush Children analyses three plays by St. Kitts-born British playwright Caryl Phillips: Strange Fruit (1981), Where There is Darkness (1982), The Shelter (1984), and a film by Trinidadian-British filmmaker Horace Ové, Pressure (1975), as artistic depictions of the experience of the Windrush generation, a term that refers to the Anglo-Caribbean islanders recruited to help rebuild Britain in the aftermath of World War II. These works are vibrant calls to resist visuality as an authoritarian medium, and tools of resilience. The revival of Caryl Phillips¿s Strange Fruit at the Bush Theatre, and ¿Get Up, Stand Up Now¿, the celebration of Black British artists, among whom Horace Ové, took place in London during the summer of 2019. Both events put into perspective the 2018 Windrush scandal that saw members of the Windrush generation denied their rights as British citizens.Mediating the Windrush Children should appeal to students engaged in drama studies, film studies and postcolonial literature, as well as members of the general public interested in artistic works focusing on the Windrush generation. 84 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Against the backdrop of an increasingly globalized business environment, this book provides readers with a pragmatic approach to international management of complex issues that arise from the tension between fiduciary and ethical priorities. If the challenge of management is making decisions in situations of uncertainty, Conflict Minerals in the Democratic Republic of Congo is the ultimate test of finding business solutions in extremely volatile situations. Based on firsthand experience and years of rigorous research, this book leverages a real-world case of a global tech company grappling with the dilemma of whether to continue sourcing a vital mineral in the conflict-affected region of the Democratic Republic of Congo at the risk of ruining its reputation or to suffer the immediate financial consequences of pulling out. Putting readers in the role of consultants to a client operating in the area lets them experience defining moments of managing with limited information, time pressure and a dwindling budget. Almost as if ¿parachuting¿ into an escalating conflict scenario, readers form critical relationships with characters that introduce them to management tools and techniques they need to arrive at a successful conclusion. The excitement and intensity of Conflict Minerals in the Democratic Republic of Congo equips business leaders of today and tomorrow with valuable know-how they can apply to the uncertainties of everyday business in an international context. 110 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The Doctor Still Knows Best explores an answer to the question: how can medical culture still be marked by paternalism despite the focused attempts by the medical community to put doctor and patient on more equal footing The recent push within medicine has been on shared decision-making, truth-telling by the doctor, and creating a medical culture that is patient-centered. The author has discovered that, in practice, medicine tells a very different story.Since entering the medical world twenty years ago seeking treatment for infertility through IVF, subsequently seeking treatments for her disabled son through the present day, Janet Farrell Leontiou has continually encountered a medical culture where she is not treated as an equal. As a professor of communication, the author has developed an ear for language and is able to deconstruct the ways in which communication choices create a patriarchal medical culture. Dr. Farrell Leontiou also understands how no communication can create a culture without her participation. She, therefore, invites the reader to recognize how we can endorse and recreate a culture that does not serve our interests. Through an examination of her own experience, the book offers insight on how medical paternalism has survived for as long as it has and argues that it never serves the best interest of the patient.The book provides the reader, medical student and/or health communication student with a fresh way of thinking about how communicative choices create culture. 94 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book analyses the role of writing as an integral part of communicative competence in the teaching/learning process, particularly in TEFL at Slovak primary schools. The author chooses primary schools in the Nitra Self-governing Region in Slovakia as the sample, with an intention to find out if primary school learners in Slovakia understand the instructions to the written exercises they are given. He analyses the mistakes/errors they usually make, and judges the criteria for reaching the expected level of writing proficiency in English. Using the very same methodology, he compares a previous research with the current situation, taking all aspects into account. 192 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Traditionally, the teaching of English pronunciation has been a marginalized, or indeed neglected, area in many English language teaching (ELT) programs despite the crucial role it plays in effective communication. In recent years, however, with the global spread of English as the means of international communication, there has been a growing recognition of the importance of pronunciation in the teaching and learning of English and its close link to other aspects of language learning, such as listening, speaking and vocabulary. Students as well as non-native English-speaking teachers (NNEST) place great importance on the mastery of English pronunciation, from which they can gain confidence, develop a greater sense of professional and linguistic competence and achieve greater intelligibility through the development of communicative skills in speaking, listening and vocabulary.With the emergence of paradigms of English as an international language (EIL), World Englishes (WE), English as a lingua franca (ELF) and the worldwide impact of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) on foreign language learning/teaching, this study presents a critical survey of these areas expressing the author¿s own views on the specific issue concerned while incorporating the views of other scholars. The book deals with both traditional and most recent viewpoints in pronunciation teaching, such as the nature of learning to pronounce, the pedagogical aims and objectives of teaching pronunciation, the role of the teacher and the notion of 'intelligibility', which is considered to be a highly controversial issue for international communication within the paradigms of EIL, ELF and WE. The ¿Turkish¿English Interlanguage Talk¿ has been dealt with as a case study proposing pedagogical recommendations particularly for the Turkish academics/teacher trainers and the student-teachers of English language teaching (ELT) in mind as English pronunciation teaching is a very much neglected area in the Turkish ELT today. 188 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -After reflecting On the European and Asian origins of legal and political systems: views from Korea, Kazakhstan and France (2018), the authors address in this book three intertwined issues. First, how systems that were established long ago are challenged by the necessity to adapt to change both in time, rapidly after the end of the cold war, and in space, across the continent of Eurasia and no longer ¿simply¿ in their sub-region. Second, how these systems evolve both in a sui generis manner and adopt, each for itself, reforms at the national and sub-regional levels; and also in a reciprocal manner, learn and borrow from each other towards a ¿regional legal order¿ in the making. Third, how extra-judicial evolutions, such as the logistical and commercial dynamics of the Belt and Road Initiative(s) appear more and more as the source or the cause of that very change affecting all Eurasian actors and interests. Examined elsewhere from a broad social sciences perspective, in the publication Cross-border exchanges: Eurasian perspectives on logistics and diplomacy (2019), these issues are here systematically analysed by a mix of conceptual and doctrinal perspectives and of textual, jurisprudential and positivist perspectives. Naturally, the challenge within the challenge to ascertain is whether a pan-regional or global legal ¿model¿ would be capable of impacting change in general and legal change in particular as part of the ¿post-cold-war 2:¿, where the political-military legacy is overcome by and yields to business concerns reaching beyond cautious legal constructions.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 314 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Each generation brings their distinct features to classrooms, which makes teachers to rethink their instructional practices and reorganize the learning environment to accommodate students¿ needs. The youngest generation, called Generation Alpha, has its own traits that makes it unique and worth considering. We have prepared this book in attempt to help teachers gain a multi-dimensional perspective about effective teaching, creative thinking, handling individual differences, managing classrooms, testing, leveraging digital intelligence, and gaining data literacy skills while dealing with Generation Alpha. The book addresses all teachers, teaching any level or grade, regardless of their branch 154 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The customer was conceptualized as an individual who was surrounded by products and messages and could make a choice between these products and messages, but now the customer can shape the products and messages that are directed to him with engagement by producing content. The customer not only participates in co-production in visible business processes but also through consumption produces identity, image, meaning, value and experience in the marketplace. This book hereby emerged out of the requirement of collecting theories about researching customer and its behaviors which changes with the interaction social media has created, which has a place to stay in relationship within the distances and timelessness created by speed incident to digitalization. 220 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -3 Jahre Europe ¿ Europe: 3 Years bietet eine Zusammenschau aktueller Forschung und Europäischer Praxen zu Schlüsselaspekten von Migration sowie eine Kollektion von nachhaltigkeitsorientierten Best-Practice-Projekten mit Geflüchteten der Jahre 2015 bis 2018. Die deutschen, italienischen und österreichischen Beiträger des Bandes vermitteln eine Vielzahl kultureller, ideologischer, wissenschaftlicher, akademischer und nicht-akademischer Perspektiven und Hintergründe.3 Jahre Europe ¿ Europe: 3 Years offers readers a cross-section of current research and European practices concerning key issues of migration and a best practice collection of sustainable European refugee projects implemented during the years 2015 to 2018. The contributors to this volume are from Germany, Italy, and Austria, and they are writing from very different cultural, ideological, scientific, academic and non-academic perspectives and backgrounds. 204 pp. Englisch, Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The editors of this book combine new approaches in economy and business administration. The topics of this book range from tax policy, accounting information systems, banking in Turkey, work safety, gender pay gaps and social media marketing to e-municipality processes and Islamic indices. 264 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This collective volume, with contributions from renowned authors, aims to analyse crucial issues in the field of community interpreting at the present time. It addresses the challenges in the field of health, disability, conflict zones, the use of technologies and the incorporation into the training of topics related to environments of vulnerability. The works contained in the volume are the result of recent work in the academic, professional and research projects.Este volumen colectivo, que cuenta con contribuciones de autores de reconocido prestigio, tiene como objetivo analizar temáticas cruciales en ámbito de la interpretación comunitaria en el momento presente. Se abordan los retos en el ámbito de la salud, la discapacidad, las zonas de conflicto, el uso de las tecnologías y la incorporación en la formación de temáticas relacionadas con entornos de vulnerabilidad. Los trabajos que contiene el volumen son fruto de trabajos recientes en el ámbito académico, profesional y en el seno de proyectos de investigación . 252 pp. Englisch, Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The book 'Her Story, My Story Writing about Women and the Holocaust, is composed of 27 biographical-academic essays written by prominent women scholars worldwide. All have devoted a significant part of their professional lives to writing about aspects of Jewish women's experiences during the Holocaust. We believe that this choice was not random, and in many cases was rooted in the personal history and professional experiences of each scholar which later affected the fruits of her scholarship.Each essay charts that scholar's journey towards working on the topic and her experiences while conducting her research. Scholars discuss issues relating to identity, personal choices, religious, political and cultural affiliations and their connection to the focus of their research.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 382 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Thirty years have passed since in 1987 formal democratization was achieved in South Korea. Since then the country has undergone the two turnover test (Huntington), and it overcame economic, financial, and political crises. However, social inequality is higher than before democratization, social conflict has been exacerbating, and political polarization has been on the rise. South Koreäs democracy has been going through a continuous stress test trying the polity¿s capacity to heal social conflict, integrate society, and mature politics as meeting these challenges is key to sustainable consolidation of democracy. The chapters of this edited volume, written by experts from South Korea and Germany in respective fields, examine the way in which South Korea has coped with these challenges in its political system, political economy, and political society since its transition to formal democracy, and provide a focused critical assessment of three decades after democratization. 224 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book examines transcultural processes between the Eurasian and Inner-Carpathian worlds in the Aeneolithic and Early Bronze Age from the perspectives of archaeology, history, anthropology, ethnology, art and philosophy. Based on archaeological sources, the authors reconstruct the character, extent, time and space of possible migration-invasive movements of communities from the East to central Europe. Archaeology of migration focuses primarily on the growing base of cultural attributes and identifiers that cannot be attributed to local prehistoric communities. They also can help analyse the multiple layers of prehistoric processes and complex prehistoric social phenomena. The book presents the authors¿ reflections on the subject, based on artefacts of foreign origin that appear in the communities of the Inner North-Western Carpathians at the turn of the early Metal periods. 202 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book offers a wide selection of carefully selected studies examining some of the most compelling issues, which have been explored in the area of literary translation. The contributions were authored by an international group of scholars who focused on the recent developments in the field, encompassing the complex aspects of cultural transfer; translation of stylistic devices; and the importance of convention and ideology. However, the most distinctive feature of this book is that it offers a multifaceted view of the condition of the contemporary national identities and its linguistic transfer from different perspectives within various source language/target language pairs. 288 pp. Englisch.