peter lang peter lang aug 2001 (148 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The author examines Jean-Jacques Rousseaüs political thought from the angle of classical republicanism. To offer an account of Rousseaüs republicanism she explores his idea of the citizen and civic virtues. In addition, eighteenth-century conceptions of luxury and Rousseaüs ideas of the patriot and liberty are discussed. Rousseaüs republicanism is here considered to stem from his Genevan legacy and his ideas are seen as a critical response to the contemporary ascendancy of the Mandevillean idea of man, which emphasized the values and virtues attached to commerce. 218 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Taking as its point of departure the remarkable increase in the production of fictional autobiographies in Britain and Ireland over the last thirty years, this book sets out to explore the historical, philosophical and literary context motivating and shaping such an increase. It seeks to show that as a result of the epistemological crisis of the 20 century and of the consequent assault on traditional modes of representation, writers began to look for alternative textual spaces and narrative forms which would allow them to highlight the constructed nature of identity and selfhood. The contention is that fictional autobiography is particularly suitable for postmodern needs, since it explores the relationship between text and reality and focuses on language as mediator between the two. 274 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This volume contains a selection of papers presented at an international conference held in Bergamo (5-6 May 2000), which focussed on the semantic and pragmatic values of modality in specialized texts ¿ legal, economic, academic and medical. The assembled contributions give an overview of the range of scholarly approaches to modality. They convey the theoretical background and provide in-depth analyses of specialized texts on a synchronic as well as on a diachronic level. 424 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Le drame musical wagnérien est né d¿une réaction contre les conventions de l¿opéra traditionnel. Outre la virtuosité vocale gratuite, Wagner en fustigeait surtout l¿absence d¿unité, due pour l¿essentiel à la discontinuité de sa forme. Il s¿agit, déjà, d¿un reproche qui touche au c¿ur de la problématique du temps au théâtre et à l¿opéra. Partant d¿une analyse des différentes notions et mises en ¿uvre du temps sur le plan dramatique et musical, cet ouvrage s¿emploie à en révéler la modernité. A un temps cloisonné, étanche, soumis à l¿arbitraire de la rationalité, il s¿est agi de substituer un temps ouvert, souple, tenant compte des fluctuations de la durée intérieure. Il convenait de remplacer une construction de l¿esprit par une perception de la conscience subjective, une forme architecturale par une plastique mouvante. En s¿affranchissant ainsi de la pure linéarité d¿un temps dirigé vers l¿avenir, en créant un tissu extrêmement serré de relations entre le passé, le présent et l¿avenir, le drame musical wagnérien fournit avant la lettre un exemple d¿¿uvre ouverte, où il devient difficile de repérer un début, un milieu et une fin. 478 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -GmbH-Geschäftsführer befinden sich beim Management Buy-Out in einem Interessenkonflikt. Einerseits sind sie als Angestellte des Zielunternehmens verpflichtet, dessen Interessen und die seiner Anteilseigner wahrzunehmen. Andererseits sind sie als Käufer bestrebt, einen möglichst günstigen Vertrag zu schließen. Die Autorin untersucht praxisnah, inwieweit die Geschäftsführer verpflichtet sind, Sonderwissen über das Unternehmen von sich aus den Altgesellschaftern zu offenbaren. Weitere Verhaltenspflichten werden herausgearbeitet, ebenso der Umfang von Schadensersatzansprüchen bei Pflichtverletzungen. 128 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -In dieser Arbeit wird versucht, aufgrund eingehender Betrachtungen von György Ligetis A-cappella-Kompositionen der letzten zwanzig Jahre deutende und ästhetisch wertende Aussagen zu Ligetis kompositorischem Standort, seinen personalstilistischen Charakteristika und seinem speziellen Traditionsverhältnis zu treffen. Den Untersuchungen vorangestellt sind Anmerkungen zur Kompositionsgeschichte der A-cappella-Chormusik sowie ein Überblick über die stilistische Entwicklung György Ligetis. Die Analysen führen zu musikästhetischen und geschichtsphilosophischen Reflexionen über Ligetis Musik der achtziger und neunziger Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts. György Ligeti wird dabei als Vertreter einer innovationsorientierten und dennoch «ideologiefreien» Moderne im Zeitalter der «Postmoderne» dargestellt. 236 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Die Beschäftigung mit Institutionen in der ökonomischen Theorie hat in den letzten drei Jahrzehnten einen beträchtlichen Aufschwung erfahren. Diese Arbeit überträgt Erkenntnisse aus der Neuen Institutionenökonomik ¿ insbesondere der Theorie der Verfügungsrechte, Agency-Theorie und Transaktionskostentheorie ¿ auf politische Institutionen und Organisationen. Schwerpunkt der Untersuchung sind parlamentarische und bürokratische Institutionen wie das Ausschusssystem des Deutschen Bundestages und die Ministerialbürokratie. Dabei wird vor allem die angelsächsische Literatur aufgearbeitet und anhand von empirischen Beispielen aus der Umwelt- und Kernenergiepolitik gezeigt, dass die Neue Institutionenökonomik geeignet ist, politische Prozesse und Strukturen zu erklären. 278 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Die Arbeit geht der grundsätzlichen Frage nach, in welchem Verhältnis Märchen und Recht zu einander stehen. Zwischen Märchen und Recht, betrachtet als zwei eigenständige Kulturphänomene, sind auf vielfältige Weise Beziehungen denkbar, zum Beispiel unter rechtsgeschichtlichen, rechtsphilosophischen, rechtsethnologischen und rechtsvolkskundlichen Aspekten. Die Arbeit prüft unter allen wichtigen Aspekten, ob und inwiefern ein Zusammenhang besteht und legt jeweils offen, welche methodischen Anforderungen zu beachten sind. Insgesamt wird ein Bogen gespannt von ersten rechtsgeschichtlich orientierten Ansätzen Jacob Grimms bis hin zur modernen Satire und Parodie, die auf künstlerischer Ebene Märchen und modernes Gesetzesrecht konfrontiert. 250 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Die bestehenden Ansätze über gesellschaftliche Diskriminatorik und Rassismus werden in diesem Band zusammengefasst und in ein gesellschaftliches Gesamtmodell eingebracht, wodurch eine erhöhte ¿ gleichzeitig aufklärerisch-pragmatische ¿ Analysequalität erreicht wird. Ein historischer Atlas über die Ideologiemilieus der Ersten Republik in Österreich liefert dabei praktisches Anschauungsmaterial. Der Orientierungskonflikt diskriminierter Minderheiten zwischen zwei Bezugssystemen wird in einer bisher wissenschaftlich nicht vorhandenen Präzision erarbeitet und die Identitätsmilieus der Minderheiten in der Spannung zur Mehrheit werden sichtbar gemacht.Im zweiten Teil werden Prinzipien eines universalistischen Humanismus und Sozialismus zur Herstellung zunehmender Adäquanz sozialer Beziehungen entwickelt. Es erfolgt eine Kritik rechter und linker Ideologiemuster, die selbst nicht wiederum in Ideologie zurückfällt. Der Autor zeigt neue ideelle Horizonte zur emanzipatorischen Überwindung bestehender gesellschaftlicher Verzerrung und Verblendung auf. 268 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -In Anknüpfung und Weiterführung der größeren Arbeiten von K. R. Mandelkow zur Wirkungsgeschichte Goethes enthält dieser Band ausgewählte Aufsätze und Vorträge zur Klassik- und Romantikrezeption in Deutschland. Die zweiundzwanzig Texte erörtern zentrale Aspekte der Auseinandersetzung mit den historischen Dokumenten unter ästhetischen, historischen, politischen und literaturtheoretischen Fragestellungen. Ziel ist es, Wissenschaftsgeschichte, literarische Kritik und individuelle Leseraneignung in ihrem Wechselbezug darzustellen und neue Wege und Möglichkeiten eines produktiven Umgangs mit der Überlieferung zu eröffnen. 382 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Zu den von alters her charakteristischen Tätigkeitsfeldern des Magiers gehört neben Giftmischerei und Wahrsagerei auch das Be-Singen oder Be-Sprechen. Die Ausübung des Wortzaubers ist aber an die Kenntnis ganz bestimmter Formeln und Formulierungen gebunden, die ihrerseits wieder überlieferten Mustern folgen. Die Arbeit behandelt im wesentlichen zwei Aspekte, nämlich die Sammlung und Klassifizierung der bisher gedruckten altdeutschen Zaubersprüche und Segen. Mehr als 300 Sprüche werden hinsichtlich ihrer Zugehörigkeit zu bestimmten Typen und Formen untersucht. Die volkskundliche Einführung geht zunächst auf einige grundlegende Begriffe aus dem Bereich magischer Denkweise ein und bietet in weiterer Folge einen Überblick über Inhalt und Vorgangsweise bei der Ausübung des Besprechens. Ein umfassendes Sachregister verzeichnet alle wesentlichen Begriffe, Personen- und Krankheitsnamen. Die Sprüche werden in separaten Indizes nach Titel, Inhalt und Anfangsvers erfaßt, was unter anderem ein rasches Auffinden inhaltlich verwandter Segen ermöglicht. 324 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The authors of Voices of Experience are members of a rapidly growing population of academics who focus their efforts as seriously on teaching as they do on scholarship. Their essays grew out of a seminar at the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, which was devoted to topics that teachers early in their academic careers wanted to explore with their colleagues: effective teaching techniques, students' and teachers' motivation, discussion in the classroom, collaborative learning, lecturing, diversity, grading and feedback, and balancing teaching and professional concerns. Voices of Experience offers the reader an opportunity to share the results of this interdisciplinary exchange. 134 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Beginning in 1901, this history traces the pioneering progressive origins of the Francis W. Parker School of Chicago to its neoprogressive vision for the twenty-first century. It is the story of the school's evolution from the founding years (1901-1930), through the Eight-Year Study and the postwar innovations (1930-1965), to the progressive challenge (1965-1995). The story closes as the school is being reconceptualized and the building reconstructed. This book explains the interrelationship of three of Chicago's education progressives - John Dewey, the philosopher; Colonel Francis W. Parker, the father of progressive education; and Anita McCormick Blaine, the financier and visionary. Several themes shaping the school unify the text: (1) the influence of psychology on educational practice; (2) the centrality of the teacher and instruction in the school; (3) the value of a model upon which to build curriculum; and (4) the interdependent relationship between democracy and education. The fourth theme is as applicable to the multicultural Chicago of today as it was in the 1900s. Marie Kirchner Stone uses Colonel Parker's purpose of the common school - 'to create citizens for a democratic society' - as the yardstick to measure the value of progressive education in today's democracy. 370 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -A violent and materialistic African-American youth has emerged from communities overrun by crime, drugs, and broken homes. Because of frustrated aspirations resulting from impoverished conditions, millions of youths are at risk to acquire what David D. Mitchell calls the Destructive Capitalistic Personality Complex (DCPC), which leads to destructive behavior patterns. This critical evaluation argues that Black theology and the Black church have failed these youths and calls for a joint plan to prevent at risk youths from acquiring the DCPC. 139 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The network of an airline determines virtually every aspect of airline economics, for example the set of products offered, cost and service levels, the equipment needed in the air and on the ground, the attractiveness of frequent flyer programs, the nature of competition with rival airlines, the extent to which market power can be exercised, and the attractiveness as an alliance partner. As a consequence, most recent policy issues in air transport are associated with the hub-and-spoke systems of major air carriers. This book analyzes the airlines' choice of network structure theoretically and empirically. Specifically, it explores the importance of passenger preferences for flight frequency and travel time, and the impact of geography, hub congestion, and the regulatory regime. 208 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Diese Arbeit wurde mit dem Förderpreis der Landeshauptstadt Salzburg zur Förderung von Kunst, Wissenschaft und Literatur ausgezeichnet.The book addresses the issue of Universal Grammar (UG) and parameter resetting in Second Language (L2) acquisition. The central questions are: what is the initial state of a learner's L2-grammar and does UG play a role in L2-acquisition Several hypotheses are evaluated and set in relation to four parameters that are suggested to play a central role in UG and language acquisition. Particular focus is put on parametric differences between English and German. For this purpose Austrian learners have been tested on null subjects and adverbial and verb placement. It is shown that the learners transfer the L1-parameter settings into their early English interlanguage grammars. They are then involved in a disrupted process of parameter resetting, which is not guided by UG but proceeds via cognitive processes and learning strategies. 248 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book shows what issues and themes dominate body psychotherapy at the beginning of the new millennium. The focus of the Travemünde Congress, and of this volume, is on how the bodily dimension can be linked with theories that are used in psychotherapy. The selection of authors ensures that this volume allows the reader to have an overview of major trends in this field. 307 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The authors of Voices of Experience are members of a rapidly growing population of academics who focus their efforts as seriously on teaching as they do on scholarship. Their essays grew out of a seminar at the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, which was devoted to topics that teachers early in their academic careers wanted to explore with their colleagues: effective teaching techniques, students' and teachers' motivation, discussion in the classroom, collaborative learning, lecturing, diversity, grading and feedback, and balancing teaching and professional concerns. Voices of Experience offers the reader an opportunity to share the results of this interdisciplinary exchange.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 150 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Hablar de manierismo literario equivale a entrar en un campo muy vasto y complejo y además afrontar un tema que no deja de invitar a controvertidas discusiones. En el marco de este libro dedicado al análisis de poemas concretos apenas se aborda la discusión teórica ya que por la inherente complejidad del asunto no puede Ilegarse a una solución generalmente aceptada. Sin rechazar de antemano el entendimiento del manierismo como fenómeno histórico, en este volumen se opta implícitamente por una comprensión más amplia, ahistórica. 138 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book reveals the nature, possibilities, and power of aesthetic play in teaching, learning, and researching at a middle school (Creative Arts Centre, Milton Williams School, Calgary, Alberta, Canada), which chooses to value the creating process across the entire school curriculum. Questions surface recursively throughout the book: What does it mean for teachers and students to experience and learn aesthetically How is the aesthetic embodied in teachers' discourses and discursive patterns as well as in students' approaches to learning and in their work What are the effects of learning through integration of the aesthetic into the school curriculum as a whole The artistic form of collage acts as a literary device to address these questions from multiple perspectives.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 138 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Beginning in 1901, this history traces the pioneering progressive origins of the Francis W. Parker School of Chicago to its neoprogressive vision for the twenty-first century. It is the story of the school's evolution from the founding years (1901-1930), through the Eight-Year Study and the postwar innovations (1930-1965), to the progressive challenge (1965-1995). The story closes as the school is being reconceptualized and the building reconstructed. This book explains the interrelationship of three of Chicago's education progressives - John Dewey, the philosopher; Colonel Francis W. Parker, the father of progressive education; and Anita McCormick Blaine, the financier and visionary. Several themes shaping the school unify the text: (1) the influence of psychology on educational practice; (2) the centrality of the teacher and instruction in the school; (3) the value of a model upon which to build curriculum; and (4) the interdependent relationship between democracy and education. The fourth theme is as applicable to the multicultural Chicago of today as it was in the 1900s. Marie Kirchner Stone uses Colonel Parker's purpose of the common school - «to create citizens for a democratic society» - as the yardstick to measure the value of progressive education in today's democracy.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 388 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -One of the most significant challenges facing teachers today is their capacity to work effectively with diverse learners. Building Connections responds to the essential needs that teachers have expressed as a result of reflecting on their experiences in schools, with learners and their families, and with colleagues. Many teachers today consider teaching to be a calling, a mission that reaches out to youth. They want to be faithful to this mission, to create effective learning environments and experiences that foster successful student achievement, and to have a sense of wholeness while doing so. This book is a personal reflection on the author's experiences with diverse people. It represents Eileen M. Cunningham's attempt to transpose these experiences and her responses to them into a framework that can be used by others who want to make sense of their experiences through a spiritual perspective.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 140 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In order to understand God and the world in this «postmodern» age, Gregory S. Cootsona analyzes two seminal twentieth-century thinkers: the scientist and philosopher, Alfred North Whitehead, and the theologian, Karl Barth. Whitehead began constructing a philosophy of nature in 1910, which developed into a comprehensive metaphysics in his 1929 opus magnum, Process and Reality. Whitehead described the world and God as dynamically interconnected actual entities. Although Barth clearly posited a diastasis between God and the world in the 1922 second edition of Der Römerbrief, he discovered a more subtle, christologically-based reconciliation of the world and God in the Church Dogmatics (1932-1968). Though the two differ greatly, several points of comparison can be found. The final chapter presents the challenge and inspiration that twenty-first century theologians can receive from Barth and Whitehead. 226 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Buero Vallejo was not only a dramatist who opposed Francoism, but also totalitarian and Fascist structures per se. He did not purely oppose, he also proposed models of enlightenment to overcome these oppressive structures, models which were not only valid for Spain of the dictatorship but also for the democracy. The messages of his plays are applicable to any modern Western society. Through immersion effects, he challenges readers and authors to experience, reflect upon and break down repressive structures within them. He was and remains an author of our times in his permanent concern for the cause of enlightenment of mankind. 285 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The art museum has changed shape. Its bricks have been flattened on paper, celluloid, and plastic and diffused into virtual spaces. The relationship between flesh and environment has been irrevocably changed as people no longer have to attend the architectural structure of the art museum to know the art museum. It recurs infinitely in our daily lives - on television, movie, and computer screens; in books and magazines; and on urban artifacts from matchbook covers to billboards. These representations may not be real art museums per se, but they provide the basis upon which most people now partake of the museum's sacred rituals. Suzanne Oberhardt offers a new way of seeing the art museum as it is transformed and reinvented in the twenty-first century.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 180 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book is about the damage that has been systematically inflicted upon teachers' work globally over the past two or more decades. It chronicles and traces the major policy maneuvers in what can only be described as «difficult times». The effects are not hard to see in the language of the new technologies of power: competencies, vocationalization of the curriculum, appraisal, testing, accountability, restructuring, enterprise culture, and self-management, as well as through the cooption of progressive categories like collegiality, teacher development, and other reflective approaches to teaching. While these discourses mark out the oppressive contours of teaching there still exists considerable space to imagine and live out alternative discourses and practices. The way out of the miasma, it is argued, is to robustly confront and vigorously supplant dominant managerialist discourses with agenda and practices that are more democratic, educative, and socially just.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 316 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The author examines Jean-Jacques Rousseau's political thought from the angle of classical republicanism. To offer an account of Rousseau's republicanism she explores his idea of the citizen and civic virtues. In addition, eighteenth-century conceptions of luxury and Rousseau's ideas of the patriot and liberty are discussed. Rousseau's republicanism is here considered to stem from his Genevan legacy and his ideas are seen as a critical response to the contemporary ascendancy of the Mandevillean idea of man, which emphasized the values and virtues attached to commerce. 218 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This is a comparative study of the Chinese left-wing intellectual leader Lu Xun and the «gentle» Nietzsche. It covers four major aspects of their affinities: the intellectual, the political, the literary, and the personal. The study does not aim at demythologising the Lu Xun cult in China which has already been shattered in the hands of its creators. Through an examination of Nietzsche's influence on Lu Xun and an analysis of their similarities, this study reveals a new dimension of Lu Xun's radicalism which remains relevant to the present world. Looking at Lu Xun from the «gentle» Nietzschean perspective, this study also elicits new meanings in Lu Xun's arguments about Chinese «national character» and his insights into the crisis in Chinese culture which remain haunting questions in the Chinese intellectual arena. 200 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -A violent and materialistic African-American youth has emerged from communities overrun by crime, drugs, and broken homes. Because of frustrated aspirations resulting from impoverished conditions, millions of youths are at risk to acquire what David D. Mitchell calls the Destructive Capitalistic Personality Complex (DCPC), which leads to destructive behavior patterns. This critical evaluation argues that Black theology and the Black church have failed these youths and calls for a joint plan to prevent at risk youths from acquiring the DCPC.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 158 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Surveying more than two millennia, The Engineer in History presents the story of the designers and builders of aqueducts, cathedrals, clocks, machine tools, bridges, railroads, and airplanes. It examines their social origins, educations, working methods, relationships with employers, influences on management theory and practices, and many other topics. Throughout, the narrative focuses on particular engineers whose working lives exemplify the themes presented.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 264 pp. Englisch.