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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Die Welt benötigt dringend tiefgreifende Transformationen für Klimaschutz undNachhaltigkeit. Doch Ambivalenzen in Politik, Wirtschaft und Bevölkerung verzögernund verhindern deren Umsetzung. Warum existieren diese Ambivalenzen Können sie überwunden werden Steht die Welt wegen der unterlassenen Transformationenin wenigen Jahrzehnten vor dem Kollaps Welche Folgen hat der russischeAngriffskrieg auf die Ukraine für den globalen Klimaschutz Dieses Buch analysiert vielschichtig die Aktivitäten für Energiewende, Klimaschutzund Nachhaltigkeit in Deutschland und weltweit. Es skizziert ein neues FortschrittsNarrativ, liefert konkrete Lösungsvorschläge und 95 Zukunftsbilder, um dieKlimakrise erfolgreich zu bewältigen und wirkliche Nachhaltigkeit zu realisieren.Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker über dieses Buch:»Kurskorrektur oder Klimakatastrophe« ist der aufrüttelnde Untertitel dieses höchstbeachtlichen Buches von Werner Mittelstaedt. Für die Kurskorrektur liefert es Aufklärungund vertiefendes Wissen mit Lösungsvorschlägen für mehr Klimaschutz undNachhaltigkeit. 180 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Die sog. Realteilung ist ein praxisrelevantes Problemfeld im Bereich der Ertragsbesteuerung. Im Zentrum steht dabei die mitunternehmerische Personengesellschaft, die in den letzten Jahrzehnten mehrfach gesetzliche Änderungen erfahren hat. Die aktuelle Rechtsgrundlage bildet 16 Abs. 3 Satz 2 EStG. Die vorliegende Arbeit hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, auf dem nunmehr durch den BFH gefestigten dogmatischen Fundament die weiterhin offenen Fragen herauszuarbeiten und deren Lösungen zu diskutieren. 134 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Die lateinische Bibel, in den ersten christlichen Jahrhunderten entstanden und zu einem großen Teil von Hieronymus um das Jahr 400 geschaffen, ist das bedeutendste Literaturwerk des abendländischen Christentums. Bis heute wirkt es in Theologie, kirchlichem Leben, Kunst und Literatur nach.Der vorliegende Band versammelt rund hundert thematische Essays von mehr als dreißig Expertinnen und Experten aus dem Bereich der Vulgata- Forschung, die sich in systematischer Anordnung zu einem Vulgata-Handbuch zusammenfügen. Biographische, linguistische, exegetische, kirchen- und kulturgeschichtliche Fragen werden ebenso umfassend wie zugänglich erörtert, so dass auch Leserinnen und Leser, die des Lateins nicht (oder nicht mehr) mächtig sind, in dem Werk Erstaunliches, Erbauliches, Belehrendes und immer wieder auch Vergnügliches finden.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 216 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book reveals to you the true meaning of Jihad in Islam. Our approach is based on the neurocognitive theory of meaning. This study is my attempt to give snapshots of how a scientific religious interpretation might look if we tried to do that. The whole point of a cognitive approach to religion is to aid us in gaining access to the conceptual network that the religious text is based on so that we can, in some extended sense of the term, understand the way we should understand it. 76 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Since the end of the Second World War, the role of the United States in the international arena has been closely linked to the stability of its security alliance system. For strategic reasons, one of the major goals for the U.S. foreign policy has always been preventing the rise of a hegemonic power in Eurasia. Actually, history and geopolitics tend to show that the global balance of power strictly depends on dynamics, threats and acting players in Eurasia. Despite Chinäs growing global influence, it is in Asia-Pacific that the Chinese quest for power has played out more vividly. In this framework, the partnership between Russia and China represents a source of worries for the West as a whole and, more specifically, the gravest strategic threat to U.S. overseas interests.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 198 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -There is mounting evidence throughout the world that democracy is in retreat. This can be stopped and repaired by infusing it with action, beliefs, and knowledge. This book offers a powerful prescription to stop the democracy deficit disorder: authentically engaging young people throughout our democracy. Through critical thinking and substantive actions, adults can become allies to young people. This will lead to authentic youth engagement, which will make democracy more meaningful, purposeful, and sustainable than ever before.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 268 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -«Paul Butler¿s monograph is a wonderful illustration of how a visual reading of McGahern can reveal previously undiscovered aspects of the writer¿s aesthetic approach. ¿The Deep Well of Want¿ of the title is an expression that captures the pain and hurt at the core of the life journey of both writer and photographer. Paul¿s exquisite photos allow us a special entry into ¿McGahern Land¿, whose landscape and people nurtured the writer¿s creative inspiration. This indispensable study will deepen McGahern readers¿ understanding of what lies at the core of his artistic quest.»(Eamon Maher, TU Dublin)This book represents a unique visualisation of the world of Irish writer John McGahern through his words and the imagery of artist Paul Butler. Traumatic events in the lives of both McGahern and Butler shaped their paths, creating a want to write in McGahern and a want to create imagery in Butler. Butler explores the difficult and complex childhood that the two shared, and through a series of beautiful images that he himself has created in McGahern¿s own part of Ireland, he draws parallels between them and, as Eamonn Wall says in his Preface, produces a rich and life-affirming appreciation of literature, art and imagery.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 244 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Didactique du lexique, terminologie et linguistique de corpus sont les axes autour desquels s¿articule cette étude. Nous nous penchons, en particulier, sur l¿enseignement explicite et structuré du lexique spécialisé pour le français L2, en relation avec le développement non seulement de la compétence strictement terminologique, mais aussi avec la compétence « méta », relevant de la maîtrise du fonctionnement des termes. Après l¿identifi cation d¿un noyau de notions métaterminologiques, notre objectif principal est de proposer des pistes méthodologiques pour leur enseignement basé sur l¿exploitation des corpus spécialisés, dans la conviction qüune synergie effi cace peut s¿instaurer entre la compétence métaterminologique et l¿exploitation d¿une ressource numérique pour des fi ns didactiques. Des applications possibles sont proposées relativement au domaine du commerce.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 196 pp. Französisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Los factores de empuje que existen en determinados países llevan a que un gran número de personas decidan emprender un viaje en busca de mejores condiciones de vida y, en muchos casos, el país donde llegan o por donde entran a Europa es España. La interpretación social o para los servicios públicos es una modalidad de interpretación que permite que estos inmigrantes puedan tener acceso a información y servicios públicos, como la educación, la sanidad, los programas de acogida que tienen muchas ONG, la justicia y los trámites relativos a la protección internacional. Esta monografía recoge las características de estos servicios públicos y ONG en las que pueden desempeñar su trabajo los intérpretes, facilitándoles información para contextualizar sus intervenciones y proponiendo algunas acciones formativas. 130 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Die vorliegende Dissertation untersucht den Grundsatz der Gläubigergleichbehandlung auf nationaler und europäischer Ebene im Vergleich. Sie stellt die historische Entwicklung, den Zweck sowie Ausprägungen und Durchbrechungen des Grundsatzes in den Fokus. Die Arbeit kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass der Grundsatz der Gläubigergleichbehandlung auf europäischer Ebene auf den Grundsatz der Gläubigergleichbehandlung nationaler Rechtssordnungen zurückzuführen ist, wobei die Grundsätze dennoch unterschiedliche Aufgaben erfüllen. So stellen nationale Umsetzungen die Verteilungsebene in den Mittelpunkt. Auf europäischer Ebene wird in erster Linie die Teilnahme am Verfahren, die Verteilungsgerechtigkeit innerhalb mehrerer Verfahren sowie der Antidiskriminierungsgedanke innerhalb einer multi-nationalen Gläubigergemeinschaft adressiert. 212 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Die Rechtsbehelfe in der Zwangsvollstreckung sind immer wieder Gegenstand des juristischen Diskurses, innerhalb legislativer Reformbestrebungen führen sie aber ein Schattendasein. Trotz ihrer häufig kritisierten Komplexität bestehen die Normen über die vollstreckungsspezifischen Rechtsbehelfe seit dem Inkrafttreten der Zivilprozessordnung nahezu inhaltsgleich. Diese Dissertation zeigt die mit dem bestehenden Rechtsbehelfssystem in der Zwangsvollstreckung einhergehenden Probleme auf und beantwortet die Frage, inwieweit es zur Lösung aktueller Fragestellungen geeignet ist. Vorgestellt werden konkrete Vorschläge zur Reform der geltenden Vorschriften sowie zur Einführung bislang ungeschriebener Rechtsbehelfe. 220 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Mit der Einkunftsartenabgrenzung widmet sich die Autorin einem klassischen Thema, das jedoch an Aktualität nicht verloren hat. Im Gegenteil: Die moderne Arbeitswelt stellt das Steuerrecht vor immer neue Herausforderungen.Einführend werden die verfassungsrechtlichen Grundlagen, insbesondere im Hinblick auf die mit der Einkünftequalifizierung einhergehenden Rechtsfolgenunterschiede, erarbeitet. Im Rahmen der Abgrenzung zum nicht steuerbaren Bereich steht die Überzeugungskraft der Markteinkommenstheorie im Fokus. Im Rahmen der Einkunftsartenabgrenzung, dem Kernstück des Werkes, erarbeitet die Autorin unter Rückgriff auf vorhandene Literatur und Rechtsprechung sowie mittels Parallelen zu anderen Rechtsgebieten allgemeingültige Kriterien, die einkunftsartenübergreifend Anwendung finden können. 228 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This dissertation investigates the influence of large family shareholders on financial decisions and the performance of listed firms in Germany. This country is especially interesting, as the German corporate governance system is considered less investor- friendly with a limited influence of shareholders on managerial decisions. Based on the incentive structure of family blockholders and their influence in corporate boards, the four studies offer a novel approach to analyzing the financial behavior of family firms. They use a hand-collected panel dataset identifying blockholders and every board position in 278 corporations. The dissertation demonstrates that the degree of family involvement in boards significantly influences working capital and earnings management as well as stock market performance and provides contributions for academia and practitioners alike. 188 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Zunehmend komplexe Vertragsstrukturen führen dazu, dass mehrere Verträge umfassende Streitigkeiten auch auf Ebene der Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit an Relevanz gewinnen. Die Durchführung schiedsgerichtlicher Mehrvertragsverfahren bringt indes Herausforderungen mit sich, welche nicht zuletzt in der privatautonomen Natur der Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit wurzeln. Die Autorin greift dieses praxisrelevante Thema auf und bewertet die Chancen und Risiken derartiger Verfahren. Dies geschieht durch wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung mit den spezifischen Herausforderungen schiedsgerichtlicher Mehrvertragsverfahren (auch unter Beteiligung Mehrerer), der Erörterung erforderlicher Verfahrensanpassungen sowie vergleichender Analyse der nationalen sowie institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen und Bestimmungen hierzu. 238 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Bei der Behandlung schizophrener Patienten mit Fremdgefährdungspotential für Dritte stehen Behandelnde medizinisch und rechtlich oft im Spannungsfeld kollidierender Interessen und Grundrechte. Durch das Symptom der Fremdaggressivität tritt in der Psychiatrie neben den originär ärztlichen, an den Interessen des Patienten ausgerichteten Heilauftrag eine Verantwortung der Behandelnden auch gegenüber gefährdeten Dritten. Die Autorin zeigt unter Berücksichtigung der Besonderheiten der Behandlung schizophrener Patienten insbesondere mit Blick auf Unsicherheiten in der Diagnostik auf, unter welchen Voraussetzungen Behandelnde bei Verletzung ärztlicher Sorgfaltspflichten unter Berücksichtigung deren Schutzzwecke für drittschädigendes Patientenverhalten haften.BoD - Books on Demand, In de Tarpen 42, 22848 Norderstedt 244 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -La obra Recursos prosódicos en la marcación discursiva tiene como propósito dar cuenta de los fenómenos prosódicos que utilizan seis usuarios de la variedad del español tapatío a fin de marcar el discurso en un corpus de entrevistas sociolingüísticas. Dichas entrevistas se aplicaron a seis informantes de 18 a 35 años con un nivel de instrucción alto.Por un lado, los informantes recurrieron a movimientos ascendentes de la curva melódica, saltos tonales y escalonamiento descendente a fin de marcar el discurso. Por otro lado, los informantes se sirvieron de ascensos en las sílabas finales del segmento discursivo anterior a ciertos marcadores discursivos y descensos en las sílabas iniciales de los propios marcadores para reforzar los valores pragmático-discursivos de los marcadores en cuestión. 156 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -She was young, a determined fighter against Nazism in Germany; she was an independent socialist, a tireless writer against hatred and war; and she was an extremely courageous woman. All this would be enough to secure Hilda Monte a prominent place in the history of resistance to barbarism in 20th century Europe. Furthermore, she designed a project for a federal Europe that remains unparalleled. Among the many proposals for the future European peace, this one stands out. She edited her project in October 1943 with the renowned London publisher Victor Gollancz.Her plea: for European countries to finally put an end to the 'old game of sovereignty'. Lasting peace and economic development required a genuine 'European revolution': solidarity throughout Europe, common federal structures, based on a shared history and the common values of humanism. She was aware that this path would be a difficult one.Hilda Monte was born in Vienna in 1914, grew up in Berlin and wrote her first newspaper articles against the rise of Hitler when she was 17. In 1933 she witnessed the 'seizure of power' in Berlin. Exile in Paris and London followed. But Hilda Monte wanted to do more than just write against Nazism, and so she undertook dangerous trips to Germany. On 17 April 1945, while returning from a mission 'on the ground' for the Austrian resistance, which she considered an act of European solidarity, she was shot and killed on the border near Feldkirch. Her treatise 'The Unity of Europe', newly published here, is the lasting legacy of an eminent European resistance fighter.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 320 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Das Buch präsentiert ein Modell des Sprachlern- und -lehrprozesses, das auf Kooperation und Autonomie der Beteiligten beruht. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf der Fremdsprachenverwendung zu beruflichen Zwecken. Im Kontext der digitalen Realität, die die Subjekte des Spracherwerbs umgibt, stützt sich das Modell auf konstruktivistische und konnektivistische Didaktik. Diskutiert werden Lern- und Lehrstrategien, Lehrpläne und Unterrichtsmaterialien, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der digitalen Medien, sowie die subjektiven Theorien von Lernenden und Lehrenden. Die Studie zielt auch darauf ab, Wege zur Optimierung von Lehrstrategien auf der Grundlage digitaler Medien aufzuzeigen. Dies umfasst auch den Einsatz digitaler Medien beim ungesteuerten Spracherwerb, die Erstellung digitaler Unterrichtsmaterialien und die Verifizierung subjektiver Theorien von Lehrenden und Lernenden. 246 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Considered by many the most talented continuator of the Nashville Agrarians, Melvin E. Bradford occupies a special place in the history of modern Southern conservatism. Bradford challenged established views of the founding, nature, and political tradition of the American Union and, most controversially, the 'myth' of Abraham Lincoln. His writings substantially expanded the cultural and intellectual vision of the Agrarians by adding a new political dimension, and provided vitality and intellectual weight to the Southern conservative tradition. Bradford¿s scholarship can significantly contribute to a more multifaceted and nuanced understanding of American history, tradition, and identity. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of Bradford¿s political thought. 180 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The sound of a city is a cultural phenomenon based on the characteristic relationship between music and the cultural specificity of a given urban area. It occurs when artists from a region create music, which is so unique, it becomes indisputably linked with its place of origin in the public discourse. The link becomes so strong, the phenomenon¿s name derives from the name of the city. There were numerous examples of such sounds in popular music history, including the Nashville Sound with its specific country music, the psychedelic rock of the San Francisco Sound, Prince¿s the Minneapolis Sound, or the Seattle Sound is also known as grunge. This publication explains the terms in which we should research, analyze, interpret, and define the sound of a city. 210 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The bipartite work titled Philosophical and Translatological Wanderings in Moominvalley explores Tove Jansson¿s renowned children¿s classic to illumine its inherent double-address mode. Part one discusses the plentiful philosophi-cal hypotexts of the Moomin series, ranging from Parmenides to Westermarck and geared to an adult readership. Part two examines the Polish translation of anthroponyms, humour and cuisine terms as central to the Moominvalley idiom and the poetics of the saga. By identifying translation techniques and linguistic shifts, the author provides comparative insights into how the source and target texts address their respective audiences. By highlighting the triumphs and failures of the Polish Moomin books, the argument spells out the implications of double address for translation and translation studies. 230 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -In this monograph, the author demonstrates that the Acts of the Apostles is a highly creative hypertextual reworking of the Letter to the Galatians, with over 500 strictly sequentially organized conceptual and linguistic correspondences between Acts and Galatians. This hypertextual dependence on Galatians explains numerous surprising features of Acts. Critical explanations of these features, which are offered in this monograph, ensure the reliability of the new solution to the problem of the relationship between Acts and the Pauline and post-Pauline letters. 242 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book covers current issues and debates in the field of public finance, and features contributions from twenty-one academics across eight different universities. It comprises fourteen chapters, with the first eight covering current discussions in various areas of public finance theory and practices while the last six chapters deal with current debates on tax theory and policies. The aim of this book is to present current debates on public finance from different perspectives.The book titled Current Debates on Public Finance: Theory and Practice not only provides the reader with information on different current issues but also shares the data obtained by different methods. Combining these new methods used in social sciences with public finance theory and practices is important in terms of its contribution to the literature. Therefore, the text is expected to provide information for the reader within the scope of future studies. Thus, the way can be opened for new international cooperations. 218 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Recent years have seen educationalists turning to Emmanuel Levinas when considering the relationship between ethics and education. While it is true that Levinas never speaks of ethics in relation to the practice of classroom education, nonetheless, for Levinas, ethics is a teaching, and learning can only take place in the presence of the Other. This book considers how, within the constraints of the Irish primary school education system, teachers can develop a Levinasian approach to teaching, that affords both them and the children they teach multiple opportunities throughout the school day to take up their ethical responsibility for each other as Other. Beginning from a Levinasian understanding of learning and teaching as constituting primordially relational and ethical events, and weaving the philosophies of Levinas, and the educationalists he inspires, into the approaches of philosophy with children, restorative practice, and PAX, this book suggests a unique approach to ethics in Irish primary school classrooms. The focus of this book, then, is on both the philosophical underpinnings that anchor teaching as a Levinasian, and a consideration of what practical approaches could be employed by the Levinasian teacher.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 188 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -«Tony Lyons¿s study restores Thomas Wyse to the prominent place where he belongs ¿ as one of the most consequential and far-seeing educational thinkers in nineteenth century Ireland. Long a neglected figure, everybody interested in the history of Irish education will profit from this work.»(Professor James Kelly, St. Patrick¿s College, Dublin City University)This is the first major work on Thomas Wyse, and his plans for education reform. It places him, first and foremost, as an educationist, particularly between the years 1830 to 1845. The book draws upon his firm conviction that a national system of education should have a legislative foundation; a solid legal bedrock creates permanency, and, this coupled with universality, was a true national system. Not for him, narrow nationalism: his understanding had greater scope, including all social classes and all ages from primary education, to intermediate, to university and supplementary education. The book bears testimony to and conveys explicitly the core of these ideas. The book is an academic biography of a man who used his good office to explore the prevailing political atmosphere at the time and to produce a programme which would augment and reform education provision in Ireland and the wider United Kingdom. The book amplifies the key elements of Wyse¿s educational thinking, and the reader should find the analyses throughout the book both beneficial and enlightening.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 298 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -«Politic Words is an invigorating mix of the personal, the political and the poetic. Gerry Dawe flings his net wide. From Eavan Boland¿s ¿secret history¿ of women to war memoirist Christabel Bielenberg¿s luminous prose; from the vaulting ambition of Éilís Dillon¿s historical fiction to hunger striker¿s Bobby Sands¿ favourite poet, the now unsung Ethna Carbery, he takes us on a bracing journey from the Troubles to Brexit. Drawing on contemporaneous criticism, Dawe revitalizes 35 years of cultural history into urgent news from the literary front.»(Mary Morrissy, Novelist and former associate director of the writing programme, University College Cork)Politic Words reflects five decades of writing about and discussing Irish literature, both inside the university classroom and in various literary and academic forums. Part one concentrates upon Irish women writers, their influence and example including Edna Longley, Eavan Boland and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin alongside the achievements of younger contemporaries such as Lucy Caldwell and Leontia Flynn. Part two develops some of the historical settings and themes of part one while exploring the social and political legacies of traumatic Irish historical events such as the Great Famine, and its representation in the fiction of William Carleton and reimagined by later interpreters including Benedict Kiely. The collection concludes with a series of readings of Irish culture and politics in terms of the legacy of the Troubles, the impact on Ireland of Brexit and renewed calls for Irish reunification. Politic Words is the final part of a trilogy of studies by Gerald Dawe published by Peter Lang in their Reimagining Ireland series.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 208 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book attempts an innovative exploration of the connection between humour and scepticism in the English literary canon. Defining humour as a capability, or better put, as a dunamis, it looks into its ¿energeiac¿ forms of actualisation in the English literary imagination from Chaucer to Sterne. Refraining from attributing an essentialist tone and mode to the theoretical and critical reception of English humour, and also humour in a wider context, it works instead within a literary nominalist framework where it is explored as a literary phenomenon that sides with the living, the multifarious, and the experiential dimensions of human action. In doing so, it develops a broader argument concerning the nominalist overtones of English humour where its prominent scepticism purports an epistemological break with the dominant forces of universalism; an argumentative force which cyclically acquires its tenets from the preliminary discussion that focuses on the dynamicism of humour. 228 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Temporal and spiritual journeys were a shared characteristic of life for mendicant friars and the laity in medieval and early modern times. This book reflects the objective approach of trained historians in its skilled deployment of source documents. Throughout these pages, we meet with wandering friars and the lay faithful, some for the first time. The contributors are international scholars. Each enquires into a specific area of study from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century. In particular, this reveals that travel in its various forms represented an intrinsic link between the four great mendicant orders: Augustinians, Carmelites, Dominicans and Franciscans. Until recently, mendicant historiography was written by and for members of each respective order.The contents are grouped thematically into three sections. The first considers the significance of travel in mendicant writings about the Eastern Mediterranean and Europe. The opening chapter examines the Old Testament traditions of the Carmelites, followed by two essays on fifteenth-century Italian Franciscans. These emphasise how travel was essential for Observant renewal to succeed. The second section of the book concentrates on early modern Spain. Travel was not limited to the outward journey. The humanist poetry of the Augustinian friar, Luis de León, attended to the inner journey of the soul during this life. The next chapter draws attention to interrelations between laity and clergy. This provides insights into the soul¿s journey into death according to the behaviour of the lay faithful. In the third section, we find the fact-finding journeys of Bartolomé de las Casas on land and sea, in defence of native peoples in the New World. The volume closes with a study of a Dominican friar who followed his own path rather than the accepted routine of travel for friars. By exploring a wide range of experiences over five centuries, this book shows that travel contributed to religious development in many parts of the world.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 268 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -«In Reflections on the Veracruz son jarocho, guitarist-ethnomusicologist Randall Kohl brings something special to the surging feast of scholarship treating Mexicös renowned regional music, the son jarocho. Part history and part cultural analysis, and both qualitative and quantitative in approach, the book explores music as music, music as business, and music as a dynamic expression of Mexican social history. Professor Kohl of the Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa interweaves original research with a half century of scholarship to chart key vectors in the evolution of a music, a culture, and a region.»(Daniel Sheehy, PhD, Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for Museums and Culture; Interim Director, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings; Director & Curator Emeritus, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)«While most of the recent English-language scholarship on son jarocho has focused on its use as a platform for activism and identity formation in the US, Randall Kohl¿s Reflections on the Veracruz son jarocho takes a refreshing look at the genre¿s practice in its home state of Veracruz. This work offers an excellent introduction to the genre for the unfamiliar, including son jarochös history, revival, style traits, subgenres, and recent fusions with other idioms. This is a wide-ranging and accessible book, and an important contribution to our growing understanding of this rich regional tradition.»(Gregory Reish, Center for Popular Music, Middle Tennessee State University)«Randall Kohl's deep understanding of son jarocho shines through in this book. Built on years of ethnographic immersion in the musical community of Xalapa and its environs, this book expertly traverses the textual, performative and cultural terrain of this important musical vernacular of Mexico. This first book in English on the son jarocho will be an invaluable resource for both scholars and general readers with an interest in the genre.»(Anandam Kavoori, Professor, Department of Entertainment and Media Studies, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA)Once associated principally with the Veracruz countryside, the son jarocho music and dance tradition is now establishing itself as a twenty-first-century urban practice caught in a struggle between firmly established customs and newly adaptive strategies. This book presents an overview of the music¿s history and musical characteristics along with specific looks at its texts, iconography, past and present academic trends and other details. It also examines the recently closed local centro de cultura, La Casa de Nadie, as a focal point for son jarocho activity in the city of Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 202 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -«This book elaborates a structure for the general family of utopian genres with marvelous clarity, and with it established, Popov can pursue all kinds of further insights about the relationships between these texts. As the world¿s situation becomes more desperate, and the need for a new political economy more obvious, this complicated canon is becoming increasingly important: no longer just a minor literary genre, but rather a crucial aid to thinking about our social systems. The better we understand utopian narrative strategies, the more fully we can put them to use, so Popov¿s excellent study is timely and interesting.»(Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Mars Trilogy and The Ministry for the Future)«Alexander Popov¿s Zone Theory deftly guides us through the thickets of utopian theory and shows us why we should care, with fresh and convincing readings of a variety of science fictional texts. The writers explored here range from the usual suspects¿Le Guin, Delany, Kim Stanley Robinson¿to some not usually classed as utopian or dystopian, such as John Crowley and Brooke Bolander. Popov builds on the work of Tom Moylan and Fredric Jameson while adding important perspectives such as considering utopia as a hyperobject and using utopian theory to read the incongruous, unresolvable Zones of science fiction such as the Strugatskys¿ Roadside Picnic and Jeff VanderMeer¿s Southern Reach trilogy. I am happy to do as Popov suggests: to read utopias not only as ongoing processes rather than finished blueprints, as Moylan has taught us, but also to see them as a way of learning about the world. Utopia, says Popov, is 'an apparatus for registering difference at the level of societal organization' and thus is always open to new discoveries and new antinomies: anti-utopias lead to anti-anti-utopias and so on without end.»(Brian Attebery, Emeritus Professor of English and Philosophy at Idaho State University, author of Stories about Stories: Fantasy & the Remaking of Myth)Zone Theory reinterprets utopia as an unceasing dialectic between totality and novelty which keeps on discovering new subjectivities and genres. Through close readings within a wide corpus of SF works, it meditates on utopian forms such as critical utopia, critical dystopia, heterotopia, atopia and ecotopia, ultimately tying them to the notion of anti-anti-utopia: a form of forms capacious enough to house a permanently open multiplicity of beings.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 368 pp. Englisch.