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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Sprachbarrieren sind in öffentlichen Einrichtungen keine Seltenheit. Um sie abzubauen, werden Sprachmittlerinnen und Sprachmittler benötigt. In diesem Buch wird aufgezeigt, wie eine flächendeckende, effektive und rechtskonforme Versorgung mit Sprachmittlung etabliert werden kann. Hierfür wird erstmals der Bedarf an Sprachmittlung in öffentlichen Einrichtungen realistisch eingeschätzt. Organisationsmodelle für eine bedarfsgerechte Vermittlung von Sprachmittlungsleistungen werden ebenso vorgestellt wie rechtliche Aspekte und Qualifikationsprofile. Die formulierten Handreichungen sind wissenschaftlich fundiert und an der Praxis orientiert. Das Buch richtet sich vor allem an diejenigen, die an innovativen Konzepten für den systematischen Umgang mit Sprachbarrieren in Deutschland interessiert sind.BoD - Books on Demand, In de Tarpen 42, 22848 Norderstedt 172 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Ausgehend von der Rolle der Technologie in der heutigen Gesellschaft und der Effekte, die sie auf die Entwicklungen der Individuen hat, widmet sich dieser Band dem Verhältnis von Natur und Künstlichkeit im Rahmen literarischer Schaffensprozesse. Mit dem Ziel, dem Problem des Künstlichen theoretisch näher zu kommen, geht der vorliegende Band dem Wechselverhältnis von Natur und Kunst in der Literatur nach und spannt dabei einen weiten Bogen, der von Heinrich von Kleist bis Martin Mosebach reicht, über Robert Musil, Max Bense und viele andere. Etablierte und junge WissenschaftlerInnen gehen gemeinsam der Frage nach, wie Künstlichkeit im Kunstwerk und im Verhältnis zur Natur zu fassen ist und zeigen neue Perspektiven und Zugänge auf, die gerade im Hinblick auf die zunehmend digitalisierten Gesellschaften von großer Relevanz sind. Der Aufbruch der starren Gegensätzlichkeit zwischen Natur und Künstlichkeit, das Umdenken ihres Verhältnisses sowie eine positive Konnotation des Künstlichkeitsbegriffs eröffnen Denkszenarien, die sich auch für zukünftige Studien als wegweisend herausstellen werden.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 130 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The mass media are an important source of information about mental health, yet television shows, news stories, social media posts, and other media fare often perpetuate stereotypes and misunderstandings about mental illness. For 70 years, scholars in media studies, psychology, sociology, and other fields have investigated media representations of mental illness and how exposure to media content informs people's beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors related to mental health. Despite the attention, little progress has been made in changing these messages and mitigating negative outcomes.Enter Media & Mental Health. This book flips the issue on its head, examining the question: Can the problem be a solution Informed by budding lines of research from media studies, psychology, and other fields, this book discusses ways in which television, music, movies, news, social media, and other mass media fare may challenge the stigmatization of mental illness. It contains insight that is valuable for both academic and lay audiences, including 'best practices' for mental health professionals, activists, and organizations to help reduce stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination and to improve public understanding of this oft-misunderstood part of the human experience.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 176 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -When Andrew Cuomo was forced to resign as governor of New York in August 2021, a commentator on CNN remarked that he had 'not gotten his own memo' on sexual harassment that he had signed into law two years earlier. Misogyny in English Departments theorizes the results of a qualitative empirical study of the ways women in U.S. college and university English departments experience misogyny, and the effects that misogyny has on their personal and professional lives. It seems that we in English departments, too, have not gotten our own memos. English departments market themselves as spaces of equity and diversity, as dedicated to inclusivity and social justice, as committed to rooting out injustices like misogyny via such means as socially just, feminist, and critical pedagogies. We are some of the very people who teach students to recognize and fight back against social injustices like misogyny, and yet, as the women the author interviews demonstrate in this book, we are no less likely to engage in gender-based discriminatory and abusive practices.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 162 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Often regarded as one of life¿s few certainties, death is both instantly familiar to us and deeply mysterious. Death is everywhere, yet few of us take the time to consider its significance in shaping human lives. This book addresses the difficult, complex, sensitive subject of death from a unique point of view. Drawing on insights from philosophers across the ages, the authors argue that death is a matter of profound educational importance. Paying particular attention to thinkers in the existentialist tradition, Philosophy, Death and Education shows that our understanding of death can play a key role in determining what, how and why we teach and learn. Death exerts an influence, often unnoticed, on our commitments and priorities, our ideals and relationships. A thoughtful examination of death, the authors suggest, can help us to see ourselves in a new light, and in so doing, allow us to better appreciate what others have to offer.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 142 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Ethics/morality/professional ethics is a subject that can be discussed in many aspects in the field of health sciences and social sciences. Every social event that takes place in social life is also the subject of ethics. Ethics can be dealt with in every field from education to economy, from old age to media. In this book, experts from different fields of social sciences and health sciences have revealed their relations with the main theme of ethics. In terms of social sciences, education, economy, academic studies for disadvantaged groups, old age and ethics are discussed. In terms of health sciences, health problems in nursing, psychiatry, cancer and obesity were discussed ethically. The increasing importance of the interdisciplinary approach in all fields of science is valid in the main topic of ethics. For this purpose, it is aimed to reach the richness provided by the intersection sets of different perspectives.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 188 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The curricular reform of 2016 presented us with a unique opportunity to compare children who had followed the previous early childhood curriculum in Slovakia with children who attended preschool after the successful implementation of the new preschool curriculum. Our book is based on the findings of research carried out in the ecologically valid environment of Slovak preschools. The results offer a unique perspective on literacy development in the context of a national reform implementation that had a direct impact on educational practice. 132 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -How do people with and without disabilities work together in the artistic process This volume is a compilation of 14 interviews with directors and producers of European feature films that enriches the understanding of interabled dynamics in creative ventures. It highlights the work of actors with learning disabilities, along with, behind the scenes knowledge of the casting process, training methods, brainstorming sessions to incorporate their inputs, production process, unforeseen challenges that they encounter on sets and the critical and audience reception of the film. It is also an attempt to explore if such films could be categorised as belonging to the ¿inclusive films¿ genre. The volume concludes with reflections on the limits and possibilities of artistic expression offered by theatre and films to the people with learning disabilities.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 186 pp. Englisch, Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Is it possible that more than 50 years after the assassination of Che Guevara, and after hundreds and perhaps thousands of biographers, analysts, journalists, and scientists researching the life and legacy of Che Guevara, it has not yet been discovered that one of Guevaräs articles was published with a pseudonym in July 1967 in the most important journal of social sciences in Cuba, Pensamiento Crítico The author of this book proposes an affirmative answer to this question, revealing for the first time at a worldwide level, Che Guevaräs possible authorship of a brilliant article studying the Bolivia situation in 1967, at the same time that Guevaräs National Liberation Army of Bolivia was fighting against the military dictatorship of Rene Barrientos. The book provides a dense and rich series of arguments to prove this audacious historical conjecture. The reader must judge if these arguments are convincing or not.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 100 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Dostoevsky on Guadalupe Street is a riveting collection of short essays on the impact of world literature¿and Fyodor Dostoevsky in particular¿on a young Latino growing up in Texas. For a searching mind attempting to find links and meanings in a dark world of fragmentation and despair, literary escape can be vitally significant. Grouped into short categories (from formative beginnings to politics and dystopia), these essays provide a historic glimpse into a nascent group of Latino writers emerging from obscurity to form one of Americäs newest voices. Latino writing is the fastest growing genre worldwide, and this excellent primer provides a quick study for undergraduates, graduates, and first-generation college students in journalism, education, literary studies, and the humanities. The essays are short, original, witty, and provocative¿and easy to read.'Written in lucid, luminous, and engaging prose. Dostoevsky on Guadalupe Street is a surprising, probing, edifying tour-de-force that captures literary journalism at its quintessential best. A much-needed critical discourse on the status of literature in our changing society.'¿Maria Martha Brummell, Emerita, Associate Dean, Yale University; CEO of Catch the Next, Inc. (New Haven, CT)'In one of the piquant prose morsels that constitute Dostoevsky on Guadalupe Street, Rafael Castillo, an ardent aficionado of metaphor, notes that writing is for him ¿a roller coaster to self-discovery.¿ Jouncing through topics including education, punctuation, translation, digitalization, and growing up on the West Side of San Antonio, exhilarated readers will also find themselves.'¿Steven G. Kellman, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Texas at San Antonio; Author of Rambling Prose, The Translingual Imagination, and Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth, Among Other Books'When you open Dostoevsky on Guadalupe Street, you will enter a world where imagination rules. You will not read this volume; you will inhabit it. Rafael Castillo possesses the two most important traits of a talented writer¿a fierce intelligence and the grace with which to express it.'¿Robert Seltzer, Former Editorial Writer for the San Antonio Express-News; Author of Amado Muro and Me: A Tale of Honesty and Deception'Rafael Castillo takes us back to his youth growing up in San Antoniös Westside, where books opened his world. Castillös beautiful, captivating words and colorful images in Dostoevsky on Guadalupe Street bring to life la raza del Westside, who for too long were marginalized and left in the shadows. This is must-reading!'¿Rogelio Saenz, Peter Flawn Professor of Geography, University of Texas at San Antonio; Author of Latinos in the United States: Diversity and Change and Opinion Writer for Latino Rebels and the New York Times'Rafael Castillo has the concentrated power of a razor-sharp miniaturist who captures the nuance and cadence of West Side San Antonio with ease and patience of one who has observed a world through ease, mystery, and grace.'¿Belinda Urdiales, Novelist and Writer with Aztlan Associates; Author of The Hidden Voice'Dostoevsky on Guadalupe Street is a compilation of essays, review, articles and op-eds that capture the life of Latinos in the Southwest with literary style and panache.'¿Julian S. Garcia, Former Editor with ViAztlan: International Journal of Arts and Ideas; Author of La Fantasica CuranderaLang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 150 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -When the book titled Poems. By the Incomparable Mrs K.P. was published in 1664 Katherine Philips herself defined it as 'those fugitive papers that have escap'd my hands', expressing her reluctance to publish them and her aversion to her works appearing in print. Despite her (apparent) modesty, Orinda and her work definitely occupied an important position in the literary field of that time. This book studies the life and work of Katherine Philips (1632-1664) from a historicist and socio-critical perspective. It posits that 'the Matchless Orinda' embodies the literary shift from manuscript to printed literature, and shows how a woman poet, following in the footsteps of successful male counterparts, such as Abraham Cowley and John Dryden, was able to achieve fame in the male-dominated literary world.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 216 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Più di un secolo prima del consolidamento dei modelli petrarchisti del periodo aragonese, emersero a Napoli due lirici i cui componimenti riecheggiano i poeti toscani e, soprattutto, Petrarca: Guglielmo Maramauro e Bartolomeo di Capua, conte di Altavilla. Questi due autori sono stati ignorati dalla critica recente nonostante l¿importanza della loro produzione, soprattutto per il loro ruolo di anticipatori nell¿imitazione dei modelli poetici toscani nel Mezzogiorno italiano.Il libro Due pionieri trecenteschi del petrarchismo napoletano: Guglielmo Maramauro e Bartolomeo di Capua studia la Napoli del Trecento e la sua permeabilità alla lingua e alla cultura toscana, presenta i dati biografici di entrambi gli autori e include la prima edizione critica e commentata dei loro sonetti. 124 pp. Italienisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Giuseppe Lombardo Radice (1879-1938) was one of the main figures in Italian pedagogy in the first half of the 20th century and collaborated with the philosopher Giovanni Gentile on the 1923 reform of the Italian school system. However, his work ¿for¿ and ¿with¿ many elementary school teachers also left important and long-lasting traces beyond Italy¿s borders, in Switzerland, Spain, Central Europe, and the North Adriatic, thanks to his intense international contacts with several scholars, foremost among them Adolphe Ferrière and Lorenzo Luzuriaga.A rediscovery of Lombardo Radice will open up new research avenues in different fields of the History of Education, History of Elementary Schools, and History of Teacher Education, because his original thinking about the primacy of the educational relationship between teacher and pupils, a new concept of school discipline and his idea of the scuola serena also accorded him a unique role in the international movement of New School Education. Moreover, his research among previously unknown popular elementary schools in Italy and the Italian-speaking Tessin region in Switzerland adopted a heuristic perspective, comparable to current studies on the material culture of schools. 172 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Felix Müller-Eising untersucht die Nutzung der Blockchain-Technologie für das Grundbuch, das Handelsregister und das Aktienregister. Zuerst wird eine Einführung in die allgemeine Funktionsweise einer Blockchain gegeben, wobei Token, kryptografische Schlüssel, Smart Contracts und Konsensmechanismen wie Proof-of-Work und Proof-of-Stake erläutert werden. Danach werden dezentrale und zentrale Einsatzmöglichkeiten einer Blockchain für die Register untersucht. Er kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass sowohl das Grundbuch als auch das Handelsregister durch eine Blockchain keinen deutlichen Mehrwert erhalten würden. Dagegen habe die Tokenisierung von Aktien in einem blockchainbasierten Aktienregister einige Vorteile, die den Einsatz einer Blockchain rechtfertigen würden. 244 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Entscheidungen über Vertragslaufzeiten im Profisport sind wegen der unsicheren sportlichen Entwicklung der Spieler mit Prognoserisiken verbunden. Die Vereine haben ein Bedürfnis nach Flexibilität, wollen aber nicht auf die Bindung im Falle der positiven Entwicklung verzichten. Mit jeder Klausel, die dem Arbeitgeber Flexibilität in Bezug auf die Vertragslaufzeit gewährt, geht einerseits ein wirtschaftlicher Wert für den Klauselverwender und andererseits eine Verschiebung des vom Arbeitgeber zu tragenden Verwendungsrisikos einher. Vor diesem Hintergrund beleuchtet der Verfasser die Wirksamkeit von Verlängerungsoptionen und bedingten Vertragsgestaltung erstmals auch unter Berücksichtigung der Folgen der Öffnung der AGB-Kontrolle auch für Arbeitsvertragsbedingungen auf diesen Problemkreis. 266 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Ces dernières années, un intérêt croissant se manifeste de manière récurrente autour d¿un thème incontestablement politique en Occident comme dans le monde musulman : la politisation du corps des femmes musulmanes dans l¿espace public, véritable champ de bataille en temps de crises, et notamment dans le contexte actuel marqué par la prééminence du fait ethnique et religieux.C¿est dans ce contexte que l¿on voit émerger un nouveau profil de femmes à la fois féministes et musulmanes, dont la «rhétorique» peut paraître déroutante, voire inquiétante, mais qui est pourtant inclusive. Elles vont à la fois contester un discours islamique exacerbé à l¿endroit des femmes tout en défiant la normativité d¿une pensée féministe occidentale dominante qui les infantilise.Cet ouvrage illustre le passage de « l¿élaboration théorique à l¿agir féministe » des femmes musulmanes engagées dans cette révolution silencieuse qui émerge au début des années 90. En effet, dans ce contexte d¿affirmation des féminismes musulmans en Occident, elles se réapproprient des outils conceptuels en étude de genre, comme l¿approche intersectionnelle à l¿aune des théories postcoloniales,¿qui permettent de poser la «¿question politique¿» des rapports de domination.Tout comme le mouvement «Black feminism» des années 70 aux Etats-Unis, les féministes musulmanes sont engagées dans la construction d¿un «Contre-discours» théorique et pratique qui contribue à la révolution des féminismes musulmans, tout en amorçant un virage sans précédent vers une diversité inclusive.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 268 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Toward a Re-Emergence of James Moffett's Mindful, Spiritual, and Student-Centered Pedagogy is an edited collection comprised of thirteen original chapters and two vital reprints of Moffett¿s work that have been out of print for more than thirty years. All of the contributions in this volume are dedicated to pushing forward Moffett¿s prescient ideas into the contemporary contexts of teaching, learning, and the language arts which inform current discussions of holistic education.The volume offers scholars, educational professionals, teachers, and graduate students of writing studies, rhetoric, composition, and English education a practical guide to understanding the theory, methodology, and praxis of James Moffett. This text is perfect for scholars at all levels who are focused on language learning, writing and composition, and mindfulness and spirituality in teaching and learning or teacher educators seeking inventive approaches to literacy learning which account for holistic conceptions of development and the theory and history of composition.The volume begins with an in-depth introduction to Moffett¿s work for those new to Moffett studies and offers readers the tools to deepen or begin the study of Moffett¿s ideas as well as resources for continuing that work beyond this volume.'No history of the National Writing Project, or of English Language Arts teaching more generally, would be complete without a rich engagement with the work and ideas of James Moffett. Written during the tumultuous 1960¿s, Moffett¿s central books, Teaching the Universe of Discourse and A Student-Centered Language Arts Curriculum, sparked a paradigm shift in how the profession came to understand the purpose and substance of teaching language and literacy. As current teachers grapple with another tumultuous time, Toward a Re-Emergence of James Moffett¿s Mindful, Spiritual, and Student-Centered Pedagogy is a book that will help them (re)discover the nurturing and humanistic underpinnings of their calling.'¿Elyse Eidman-Aadahl, Executive Director, National Writing Project'This collection re-introduces a profoundly influential but largely forgotten voice in English education¿especially writing instruction¿to a generation that feels his influence in the very intellectual air we breathe, too often without knowing his name. James Moffett was at the molten center of political controversies over language, schooling, and censorship a generation ago that still inflame school board meetings and legislative battles today. Yet he was also a pioneer and prophet of the mindfulness turn in education and the broader culture that is powerfully alive in ways that he advanced from mid-career until his untimely death in 1996. The essays here (including his own, ¿Writing, Inner Speech, and Meditation¿) reintroduce and reinterpret him for us at a time when his voice of courage, comfort, and composure are urgently needed.'¿David R. Russell, Professor Emeritus, Iowa State UniversityBooks on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 282 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -«A brilliant, touching and thought-provoking book. Moving Along merges academic research with personal narrative and beautifully rendered drawings to create a one-of-a-kind book that contributes fresh and compelling perspectives. This life-affirming graphic novel is essential reading for anyone interested in Parkinson¿s and the power of art and community to sustain and nurture the human spirit.»(David Leventhal, Program Director and Founding Teacher, Dance for PD®, Mark Morris Dance Group, Brooklyn, NY USA)«This is a wonderfully accessible book that has been co-created by people living with Parkinson¿s, researchers and artists. In the true-to-life stories, the anxieties and challenges of living with Parkinson¿s are explored in evocative cartoons. Yet , as well as talking about the challenges, the book has the joy of dancing at its heart. Dance has proved to be an exceptionally good catalyst for living well with Parkinson¿s and this graphic novel illustrates individual journeys through Parkinson¿s and into dance. For anyone curious about dancing who now lives with Parkinson¿s, or knows someone who does, this book is for you. For anyone interested in graphic medicine, dance for wellbeing, or arts in healthcare, this book is an important addition to the literature. »(Professor Sara Houston, author of Dancing with Parkinson¿s)Meet Hugo, Karen, Alma, Helene, Anne-Marie, Poul, Lone, and Eskild, who go to Parkinson¿s dance class together. They are characters in this graphic novel, which is based on many stories about Parkinson¿s. The stories come from participants in Parkinson¿s dance who have talked about how dance involves bodily, aesthetic experiences, including the feeling of bubbles in their bodies and flying together. Dancing brings joy, energy, and community, and thereby strengthens the will to live, all important when a chronic illness turns your world upside down.This book, a co-produced research-based graphic novel, is designed for use in the fields of arts and health, medical humanities, graphic medicine, and narrative medicine. It is also written for people with Parkinson¿s, or other chronic diseases, and their families. The book invites dialogue about the existential dimensions of chronic illness, especially Parkinson¿s, and long-term caregiving.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 184 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book, Thales and the Beginnings of European Reflection, is more than a field guide to all major testimonies about Thales. It does not merely contain a summary and critique of the available literature on the subject, but also lays down a new, holistic interpretation of Thales from a perspective that brings to light several important, but previously overlooked issues. An emphasis on mythology in Thales¿ thought combined with discourse analysis and a comprehensive treatment of his thinking in its pre-philosophical and pre-scientific unity is hoped to offer a unique and deeper insight into Thales¿ genius and the beginnings of European reflection.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 182 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book is an elucidation and defense of four main propositions: (1) human nature is essentially rational; (2) rational nature is a conversation; (3) as the essential fabric of human nature, the reason exists as a potentiality in the formal organization of the human body; and (4) at the individual and collective levels, humanity grows and develops in the medium of conversation. Moreover, human nature is the unity of the capacities of intellect, which aims at the value of truth, goodness, which aims at the value of human love or happiness, and will, which aims at the value of freedom. Accordingly, in any type of human dialogue, or conversation, the dialogist should act as a human being and treats the other dialogist as a human being. This assumption underlies the analysis of the basic types of individual and inter-institutional dialogue. 202 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -L¿objectif principal de ce volume est de rassembler les expériences d¿un grand nombre de projets de doctorat et de post-doctorat en cours ou récemment achevés dans des contextes de plurilinguisme et d¿hétérogénéité, en mettant l¿accent en particulier sur la dimension méthodologique de ces recherches.The volume is composed of 12 studies focusing on the key questions related to the methods in research on pluri- and multilingualism. The studies combine research on pluri- and multilingualism experiencing linguistic heterogeneity. This is the normal case today both in migration societies and in societies that have been shaped by colonial experiences till date. 246 pp. Englisch, Französisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The book deals with what the author calls the new humanities: a broad and diversified front of orientations, directions, and turns grouped around five major currents: the digital humanities, engaged humanities, cognitive humanities, art-based research, and posthumanities. What links these approaches is their opposition toward the principles of the modern theory of humanistic cognition, which appears to be immaterial, external, impersonal, static, and neutral. Against this model, the new humanities posit a different type of cognition: embodied, penetrating the interior of the studied field, personalized (participatory), active (intervening), and situated (engaged). With this significant change, we proceed from the culture of disinterested observation, founded on the myth of contemplative view of the external world, to the real culture of participatory action, which is reconciled with the perspectivity and partiality of the subject¿s cognitive actions and which paves the way to reality from within and in its own right.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 208 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The book is a collection of studies on the war in Ukraine. The considerations focus on different contexts of the first phase of the armed conflict. The authors try to answer questions about the motives and results of Russian disinformation and blaming Ukraine, the US and NATO for the invasion, as well as of the position of third countries towards the Russian aggression. One of the issues addressed is sexual violence in wartime and the image of women in armed conflict. The authors also analyze the aid provided by certain nations and Ukrainian national minorities in selected countries. Some chapters also examined public opinions on various war-related issues. Such a broad approach provides multidimensional view of the war while complementing earlier images of the conflict in Ukraine. 228 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The volume consists of fifteen papers discussing a vast array of issues and aspects relating to the concept of cultural memory. Taking as a standpoint the Halbwachs/Assman critical tradition, the individual contributions trace the relevance of the concept in the context of a wide range of areas, from medieval studies, through Victorian culture, up to multifold examples from the contemporary literary scene, especially speculative fiction. The collection of papers is designed as an informative and exhaustive overview tracing the relevance of the notion of cultural memory as a reference point in the discussion of cultural continuity and transformations in the diachronic context of the evolution of European culture. 246 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The Technological Unconscious in Contemporary Fiction in English analyzes the way in which contemporary English-language prose explores the role that the broadly understood environment plays in shaping human consciousness, with particular emphasis on technological aspects of this environment. The discussion of the chosen literary texts aims to demonstrate that contemporary narrative fiction in English presents consciousness as inextricably linked with the surrounding technological environment. Using a wide range of narrative techniques and referring to a variety of consciousness models, the analyzed texts also show that the connection between technology and consciousness is often invisible to the human agent due to the ubiquity and transparency of the technology. 196 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -La responsabilité sociale en santé fait actuellement l¿objet d¿une attention croissante à travers le monde, et est souvent présentée comme l¿une des réponses nécessaires à l¿amélioration des systèmes de santé dans les pays développés. L¿absence de données africaines à ce sujet a motivé la réalisation d¿une enquête, qui avait pour but d¿évaluer la responsabilité sociale des hôpitaux publics africains en termes de prise charge de la maladie rénale, et d¿explorer les facteurs qui l¿influencent en se basant sur les perceptions des patients et des médecins.Le présent travail a mis en exergue le rôle crucial de la gouvernance et de la gestion hospitalières, en impliquant les différentes parties prenantes, dans l¿amélioration de la responsabilité sociale des hôpitaux, et par conséquent l¿offre de soins.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 244 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This volume explores the importance of scholarly and literary communities, the challenges of translation and difference, and the search for the ineffable in art. It is a collection of interviews, translations, scholarly essays, and tributes in honor of Burton Pike (1930-2022), a renowned translator of Robert Musil, Rilke, Goethe, Gerhard Meier, and others, as well as a scholar of literary Modernism and the image of the city. He was also an extraordinary teacher, mentor, and inspiration to a generation. The pieces are mostly written by former students, colleagues, and admiring friends, but the book also includes two interviews with Pike, along with Pike's own previously unpublished lecture on Thomas Mann's last novel, Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The Ottoman and Habsburg Empires both faced the 'general crisis' of the 17th century. Yet they responded to the crisis very differently. The Habsburgs centralized fiscal structures, which would facilitate economic development in the 19th century. The Ottomans, which initially had more centralized tax collection, opted for decentralization, paving the way for economic peripheralization. To account for this puzzle, this book offers a political-economic theory of institutional change that focuses on the structure and intensity of elite conflict over the distribution of resources. Using the comparative-historical method, the book demonstrates that high levels of conflict generated political incentives for centralization, and where such incentives were lacking, decentralization followed.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 236 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Drones, like any new technology, give rise to many challenges that require discussion and solutions. Their integration with the manned aviation system is one of the most important challenges for the future of aviation and requires the development of regulations regulating related issues to their use. As part of the monograph, the current safety regulations in civil aviation were analyzed in terms of assessing their application to drone opera-tions and analyzing of all those issues that should be taken into account when creating legal regulations for the use of drones. In addition, an in-depth analysis of issues such as the protection of the right to privacy, protection of property rights, liability for damage caused by drones, liability insurance was made. 286 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The book deals with the clash between the free, enterprising pay schools and the controlled and systematized national schools. Many commissions of inquiry were instigated, beginning in 1791, and continuing until the foundations of the national school system of 1831. From Thomas Orde in the 1780s to Thomas Wyse in 1830, the cumulative evidence of the commissions of inquiry led to the substitution of the long-running pay schools. The new systematic approach introduced teacher training, purpose-built schools, inspection, uniform school texts, and an array of rules and regulations. It took the people considerable time to grapple with the new regime. In order to understand the difficulties the people had in accepting the new schools, it is worth drawing attention to Brian Friel¿s play Translations in which he teases out the alien concept of an imposed school in a remote part of Donegal.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 298 pp. Englisch.