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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Public education has received increasing criticism since the beginning of the nineties. Four major areas of concern can be discerned: the technical backwardness of the schools, the disappearance of political legitimization, financial limitations and the conservative school development. Worldwide, educational systems are being reorganized and developed beyond the traditional forms. These efforts are accompanied by increasingly complicated and complex research which assumes an international form. The international symposium Futures of Education, which took place in Zurich from 28 to 30 March 2000, was dedicated to these questions. The lectures held at the symposium were concerned with the relationship between research and development and above all, encouraged discussion and brought new ideas into play. 324 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Der vorliegende Band vereinigt ausgewählte Beiträge einer interdisziplinären Konferenz zum Thema «Berlin ¿ Wien ¿ Prag. Moderne, Minderheiten und Migration in der Zwischenkriegszeit», die im September 2000 an der Queen¿s University of Belfast stattfand. Die literaturwissenschaftlichen, publizistischen, judaistischen und architekturhistorischen Beiträge (in deutscher oder englischer Sprache) vermitteln neue Perspektiven in Bezug auf die spannungsreiche Kultur dieser Städte in den zwanziger und dreissiger Jahren.This volume comprises selected papers from the conference «Berlin ¿ Wien ¿ Prag. Modernity, Minorities and Migration in the Inter-War Period» which was held at the Queen¿s University of Belfast in September 2000. The contributions (in English or German) offer new perspectives on the exciting culture of these cities during the 1920s and 30s from a variety of disciplines: Literary History, Media Studies, Jewish Studies and History of Architecture. 294 pp. Englisch, Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Das Kalikapura¿a ist eng verbunden mit dem Pilgerzentrum der Göttin Kamakhya im heutigen Assam. Unter Berücksichtigung der politischen und religiösen Verhältnisse des mittelalterlichen Kamarupa wird untersucht, auf welche Weise der Text den Kultort und seine lokale Göttin in die Große Tradition des Hinduismus einbindet. Dabei wird auf die Vorstellung von einer höchsten weiblichen Gottheit (Mahamaya) zurückgegriffen. Sie manifestiert sich im pura¿ischen Mythenteil als Sati und im tantrischen Kultteil des Textes als Liebesgöttin Kamakhya. Maya und kama verknüpfen diese gegensätzlichen Konzepte. Eine Betrachtung der vi¿¿uitischen Elemente im Text zeigt, daß das Kalikapura¿a keinen reinen, sondern einen vi¿¿uitischen Saktismus repräsentiert - eine Variante des Hinduismus im mittelalterlichen Assam.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Schwerpunkt dieser Arbeit liegt auf dem rechtswissenschaftlichen Aspekt einer möglichen Haftung sportausübender Personen bei Sportunfällen (Verschuldenshaftung, Gefährdungshaftung). Der Autor stellt Risiken und Haftungsproblematik beim Betrieb von Sportanlagen dar. Außerdem untersucht er die Möglichkeit einer Haftungsbefreiung und einer Haftungsbeschränkung sowie im Bereich des Schulsports mögliche Haftung und Schadensersatzproblematik. Auch die strafrechtliche Varianz von Sportunfällen wird anhand von Fallbeispielen dargelegt. 144 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Der Band basiert auf Referaten, die in den Sektionen Linguistik im DaF-Unterricht und Phonetik im DaF-Unterricht auf der 8. Tagung der Gesellschaft zur Sprache und Sprachen 28.-30.3.1999 an der Universität München gehalten wurden. Die Beiträge decken eine breite Palette an Themen ab, die für die linguistischen Aspekte des Faches Deutsch an ausländischen Universitäten relevant sind: Stellenwert der Linguistik im Fremdsprachenunterricht, insbesondere im ausländischen DaF-Unterricht, Vorschläge zur didaktischen Aufbereitung spezifischer grammatischer Themen im Deutschen, Kontrastivität, Neuorientierung der didaktischen Phonetik/Phonologie. 262 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Die Studien dieses Sammelbandes bedenken den Sachverhalt, daß im Mittelalter poetische Kommunikation außerhalb von klösterlichen Ordnungen kaum (oder doch allenfalls erst ansatzweise) in eigenen Sozialsystemen institutionell gesichert ist. Literatur ¿ zumal die volkssprachige höfische Dichtung ¿ scheint hier vielmehr in einer heute nicht mehr leicht nachvollziehbaren Weise in unterschiedlichste soziale Praxen eingebettet zu sein; Praxen im übrigen, welche vorwiegend interaktiv sind, also auf Kommunikation unter Anwesenden beruhen. Wie unter solchen Bedingungen sozialer Interaktion die Literatur institutionell möglich und wie sie institutionell wirksam wird: Solchen Fragen gehen die Beiträge an unterschiedlichen Einzelfällen nach. Sie bemühen sich dabei um ausgeprägt textnahe Interpretationen und erproben neue Perspektiven vor allem auch auf solche Dichtungen, die stets im Interessenzentrum der Germanistischen Mediävistik stehen. 276 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Der polizeiliche Todesschuß ist rechtlich ein schwierig zu beurteilendes Ereignis. Manche Polizeigesetze erwähnen ihn, andere nicht. Zur uneinheitlichen polizeirechtlichen Lage kommt hinzu, daß in allen Ländern 32 StGB gilt ¿ aber auch für Polizisten im Dienst Die ausdrücklichen polizeirechtlichen Ermächtigungen und die strafrechtliche Rechtfertigung reichen unterschiedlich weit. Was gilt im Fall einer Kollision Ob das gezielte Erschießen ohne ausdrückliche polizeigesetzliche Ermächtigung überhaupt zulässig ist und ob eine solche Ermächtigung aus anderen Rechtsquellen abgeleitet werden kann, kontrastiert diese Untersuchung anhand einer strafrechtlichen Betrachtung. 212 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -War Bosnien-Herzegowina ein Völkergefängnis oder ein Musterbeispiel für friedliches multikulturelles Zusammenleben Diese Studie untersucht die ethnoreligiöse Vielfalt der bosnisch-herzegowinischen Bevölkerung, ihre Multikulturalität und die Repräsentation dieser Vielfalt in den Institutionen des Rechts und der Politik ¿ den Multikulturalismus. Dabei wird aufgezeigt, daß der zentrale Defekt sozialistischer Gesellschaften darin bestand, daß in ihrem universalistischen Verständnis von Gleichberechtigung das Recht auf Differenz (von Gruppen und Individuen) systematisch ausgeschlossen blieb. Gerade an den multikulturellen Konflikten zeigt sich, daß sie nicht ein für allemal, mit einem verfassungsrechtlichen Federstrich aus der Welt zu schaffen sind, sondern daß es rechtlicher und institutioneller Formen bedarf, mit denen Menschen es lernen, ihre unstillbaren Konflikte demokratisch zu lösen. 292 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Despite the accuracy of the critiques of the international 'competence education and testing movement', which promote narrow approaches to education based on delivering and testing prepackaged knowledge in simplistic and practically ineffective models of competence, Competence in the Learning Society shows that the development of a better framework for thinking about the nature, development, release, and assessment of competence is vital. It explores the kinds of competence that are needed if our society is to survive the impending environmental and social collapse. Competence in the Learning Society makes a case for a renewed understanding of competence which is not only about doing a job effectively, but ensuring the job is making an effective contribution by going beyond its boundaries and influencing the system in which it operates. This book also describes the kind of educational and societal systems that are needed to develop and nurture high-level competence.Currently there is no book available that draws together thinking on 'competence' in a way that is both relevant to higher-level education and illustrates recent research and practice. This book goes beyond critique of current practice to putting forward an argument for systemwide changes that are challenging and thought provoking. 538 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This anthology traces contemporary responses to some of the fundamental questions raised during the French Revolution concerning the world of social and political humankind. What is a constitution What is the nature of sovereignty Who are the people What is the nation What is the meaning of popular sovereignty, of national sovereignty What is the origin and meaning of rights Given differences in the abilities of individuals, is economic equality in society possible Is it desirable Is it really in the interest of the poor What is their interest What is the general interest, the common interest of society Do commoners and the privileged share a common interest Do the rich and the poor If so, what is it If not, how - to paraphrase Rousseau - is a moral society possible 368 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book presents an overview of experiences, projects and approaches related to employment in the environment sector and of trends related to sustainability. It also contains an article on career prospects for women in the field of engineering, of which environmental engineering is an important component. This publication, prepared as part of the project 'Careers in Engineering' funded by the EU's LEONARDO Programme, documents a variety of experiences on environmental training useful to those involved with curriculum development, curriculum planning and other aspects of environmental education. 200 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Karl Heim (1874-1958) prägte als Theologe an den Universitäten Halle, Münster und seit 1920 Tübingen sowie von 1920 bis 1948 als Frühprediger an der Tübinger Stiftskirche Generationen von Pfarrern. Unter seinen Zuhörern und Lesern befanden sich auch viele Nichttheologen, da sich der christliche Glaube für ihn immer Gegenwartsfragen stellen musste, unter denen die Anfragen der Naturwissenschaften einen großen Raum einnahmen. Das Jahrbuch der Karl-Heim-Gesellschaft will dieses Erbe Heims bewahren und weiterführen, indem es eine biblisch-christliche Orientierung in einer von Wissenschaft und Technik geprägten Welt anzubieten versucht. Namhafte Naturwissenschaftler und Theologen aus dem In- und Ausland greifen darin in der ihnen jeweils eigenen Weise auf verständliche Art dieses Anliegen Karl Heims auf und führen es weiter.Drei Beiträge befassen sich dem Problembereich von Sünde, Schuld und Tod, wobei die Antworten aus der Soziobiologie, der Literatur und des biblischen Erbes in die Überlegungen mit einbezogen werden.Drei weitere Beiträge sprechen ethische und allgemein religiöse Fragen an, vom therapeutischen Klonen über die grüne Gentechnik bis zur Sterbeforschung. Ein Beitrag erinnert an das Lebenswerk B. Bavinks, einem Pionier des Dialogs zwischen Theologie und den Naturwissenschaften. Zwei Beiträge loten das Verhältnis von Glaube und Naturwissenschaft aus. Abschließend weisen drei Beiträge auf wichtige Aspekte im Denken Karl Heims hin.Volume 14 of the Yearbook of the German Karl Heim Society presents contributions by prominent scholars from Germany, Finland, und Hungary who raise significant questions concerning the relationship between theology and science and try to outline a Christian orientation in the dialogue between these two disciplines. Three essays focus on guilt, evil and sin, another three on contemporary issues such as human cloning, green gene technology, and near-death-experiences, while two authors try to fathom the relationship between faith and science. One article brings into focus the achievement of Bavink, a pioneer in the dialogue between theology and the sciences, while the remaining three articles center on important aspects of the theology of Karl Heim. All essays, though written with two exceptions in German, have extensive summaries in English. 226 pp. Deutsch, Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume offers a broad description of the development and perspectives of literary sociology within the discipline of comparative literature. It brings together researchers who work (implicitly or explicitly) within the field of comparative literature and who opt, methodologically, for a broad approach that sees literary-theoretical problems as part of more general cultural issues. Several research options that marked the history of literary sociology or that can be considered as belonging to its legacy are presented in this book. The point of departure is the observation that, in the 60s and 70s, a number of academics were convinced that the discipline of comparative literature should be organized around a sociological model. The tendency to consider literary sociology as the «pilot discipline» in comparative literature persisted until the early 80s. However, the earlier sociological models gradually lost much of their historical-materialist aura and began to take the shape of less stringent context-analyses. The newer forms of literary sociology often entered into an alliance with semiotics and (post)structuralism or elaborated upon Mikhail Bakhtin. Alongside this development, there was a tendency within literary sociology to adopt empirical methods. Moreover, contemporary literary theory has also witnessed the rise of new avenues of research that reflect the older literary-sociological principles. At the origin of texts in this volume is the eponymous conference organized by the Belgian Association of General and Comparative Literature in Ghent (April 6-7, 2000). 225 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book points out the myth of the gifted bilingual paradox. It is an indication that the field of education of gifted bilingual students is more a possible achievement than an impossible dream. These students are an integral part of the educational system requiring attention to be appropriately identified and nurtured so that their talent potential can be fully realized. Gifted Bilingual Students: A Paradox includes three original case studies that complement and illustrate the theoretical discussion and gives the families' voices a central place.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 166 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Despite the accuracy of the critiques of the international «competence education and testing movement», which promote narrow approaches to education based on delivering and testing prepackaged knowledge in simplistic and practically ineffective models of competence, Competence in the Learning Society shows that the development of a better framework for thinking about the nature, development, release, and assessment of competence is vital. It explores the kinds of competence that are needed if our society is to survive the impending environmental and social collapse. Competence in the Learning Society makes a case for a renewed understanding of competence which is not only about doing a job effectively, but ensuring the job is making an effective contribution by going beyond its boundaries and influencing the system in which it operates. This book also describes the kind of educational and societal systems that are needed to develop and nurture high-level competence. Currently there is no book available that draws together thinking on «competence» in a way that is both relevant to higher-level education and illustrates recent research and practice. This book goes beyond critique of current practice to putting forward an argument for systemwide changes that are challenging and thought provoking.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 558 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -For a long time, scientific knowledge on children and childhood was almost exclusively produced by educationalists and developmental psychologists. In recent years, however, a new approach originating in Europe was added: childhood sociology. This book introduces this approach by presenting a collection of essays from various European countries: France, Germany, Sweden, Poland, the Netherlands, Italy, the United Kingdom, and Denmark. The articles cover a wide range of methodologies as well as subject areas in the field of childhood sociology, giving a picture of the life situation of contemporary children in Europe and arguing how childhood researchers can come to terms with new trends and facts of (post-)modern childhood.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 344 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Superman comics, Jimmy Cagney gangster films, Pink Floyd, the Beatles, and a modern-day New England Emile - unlikely companions for the Beaver and his picture-perfect parents June and Ward Not at all in this cache of thought-provoking essays on the cause, effect, and reciprocal relationships among popular culture, education, and adolescent behavior. Twelve educators analyze the evidence and arrive at diametrically opposite conclusions - and many points between. Pessimists see rampant deterioration in our educational process and product; optimists perceive encouraging signs of progress and potential for ethical improvement. Only time will tell who is right. Individual essay bibliographies provide a valuable resource of 350 relevant titles. Images of Youth is stimulating reading for both expert and neophyte in the field.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 272 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This anthology traces contemporary responses to some of the fundamental questions raised during the French Revolution concerning the world of social and political humankind. What is a constitution What is the nature of sovereignty Who are the people What is the nation What is the meaning of popular sovereignty, of national sovereignty What is the origin and meaning of rights Given differences in the abilities of individuals, is economic equality in society possible Is it desirable Is it really in the interest of the poor What is their interest What is the general interest, the common interest of society Do commoners and the privileged share a common interest Do the rich and the poor If so, what is it If not, how - to paraphrase Rousseau - is a moral society possible Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 382 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Placenames reveal how particular cultures perceive and classify their environments: what they see as significant - economically, religiously, and so forth - about how they differentiate particular places from space in general. In addition to comprising a distinct semantic domain, to the extent that the reasons for their individual existences can be discovered, placenames may also convey important information concerning cultural beliefs and values, folklore, ethnography, economics, and history. Placenames also function as mnemonic devices that may facilitate communication, travel, resource-finding, and mythological memory, and as such are highly charged linguistic symbols. Cultural geographer Stephen C. Jett has collected and analyzed over 250 Navajo placenames from Arizona's spectacular Canyon de Chelly system, discovering what they mean and why and identifying frequencies of allusions in these names as well as in the stories, mythical and historical, that involve these named places and imbue them with meaning. Comparisons are made with both Euroamerican placenaming practice - very different - and that of other North American Athapaskan-speakers - very similar. Here too, Professor Jett inventories the scores of trails that Navajos have built and used in the canyons and describes their physical features and uses.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 280 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -In our present generation of mammoth discount chains, wholesale membership outlets, and internet buying, it has been increasingly difficult for the pioneer - older, more established retail chains - to continue to operate, the latest casualty being Montgomery Ward. What was once known as «America's Store», the venerable F.W. Woolworth Company, has disappeared from downtowns and shopping centers as shopping trends and merchandising have changed. This story of one of the five founders of the Woolworth Company, Earle Perry Charlton, chronicles his life (both personal and professional) and what it was like to establish a new type of business in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Starting with meager savings and little capital of his own, he established a chain of fifty-three E.P. Charlton five & ten cent stores that was based in Fall River, Massachusetts, and stretched across Canada and the west coast of the United States from Seattle to San Diego, before joining with four other friendly competitors in 1912 to form what was to become the F. W. Woolworth Company.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 202 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -One of the most widely acknowledged attributes of Francophone literature in general is that it brings wideranging socio-political issues to bear on literary theory, worldviews, and historical events. This study brings to light the resulting implications of this fact on the universal themes of femininity underlying the originating, unveiling, and demystifying that occur in the works of two of the best-known and most highly accomplished women writers of North African origin - Assia Djébar and Leïla Sebbar. This study also concerns itself with these writers' texts and intertexts in their relationship with cultural manifestations and with language.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 166 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book presents an overview of experiences, projects and approaches related to employment in the environment sector and of trends related to sustainability. It also contains an article on career prospects for women in the field of engineering, of which environmental engineering is an important component. This publication, prepared as part of the project «Careers in Engineering» funded by the EU's LEONARDO Programme, documents a variety of experiences on environmental training useful to those involved with curriculum development, curriculum planning and other aspects of environmental education.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 200 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book demonstrates how the Christian faith can be practiced more effectively in the midst of the challenges and crises of human suffering in the Igbo/African Christian families and how the Gospel message can elicit a new perspective in their understanding of this suffering situation. In spite of the enigmatic and paradoxical nature of the perennial problem of human suffering, Christ's suffering and death have given it a positive meaning. While tensions and challenges are inevitable, authentic faith, dynamic hope, and fraternal charity sustain. It is against this backdrop that Obioma Des. Obi reconstructed a contextualized theology based on a pastoral theological response to the human suffering caused by childlessness, poverty, and premature death. The highest Christian optimism should be exercised in every suffering situation. Each community must strive to pursue its mission not in isolation but in solidarity, through the promotion of peace, justice, equality, and freedom.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 260 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The author of the Micah story was probably active in the wake of the fall of Jerusalem in 587 B.C.E. Calling into question recent understandings that highlight the Micah story in the book of Judges as a piece of political polemic, this book ascribes the text to a morality teacher standing firmly in the deuteronomic tradition. Idolatrous, immoral, fearful, and alienated from God, the protagonists do what is emphatically forbidden in the book of Deuteronomy. The moral of the Micah story: do not act like the protagonists, return to God, practice covenant loyalty, and remember that God never breaks the covenant with the people.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 166 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -In Poe, Odoyevsky, and Purloined Letters, Sucur draws on his broad literary interests including Romanticism, Gothic literature, the «long» eighteenth century, literary history, and literary theory. In his work, Sucur counterbalances and contextualizes Lacan's and Derrida's relativistic responses to Poe's «The Purloined Letter» by returning to period style analysis, reading Edgar Allan Poe's and V. F. Odoyevsky's oeuvres in relation to E. T. A. Hoffmann's «High Romantic» tales and in relation to a historicizing and classicizing Biedermeier period (1815-1848), a late Romantic paradigm proposed by Friedrich Sengle, Virgil Nemoianu, and others.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 220 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Karl Heim (1874-1958) prägte als Theologe an den Universitäten Halle, Münster und seit 1920 Tübingen sowie von 1920 bis 1948 als Frühprediger an der Tübinger Stiftskirche Generationen von Pfarrern. Unter seinen Zuhörern und Lesern befanden sich auch viele Nichttheologen, da sich der christliche Glaube für ihn immer Gegenwartsfragen stellen musste, unter denen die Anfragen der Naturwissenschaften einen großen Raum einnahmen. Das Jahrbuch der Karl-Heim-Gesellschaft will dieses Erbe Heims bewahren und weiterführen, indem es eine biblisch-christliche Orientierung in einer von Wissenschaft und Technik geprägten Welt anzubieten versucht. Namhafte Naturwissenschaftler und Theologen aus dem In- und Ausland greifen darin in der ihnen jeweils eigenen Weise auf verständliche Art dieses Anliegen Karl Heims auf und führen es weiter. Drei Beiträge befassen sich dem Problembereich von Sünde, Schuld und Tod, wobei die Antworten aus der Soziobiologie, der Literatur und des biblischen Erbes in die Überlegungen mit einbezogen werden. Drei weitere Beiträge sprechen ethische und allgemein religiöse Fragen an, vom therapeutischen Klonen über die grüne Gentechnik bis zur Sterbeforschung. Ein Beitrag erinnert an das Lebenswerk B. Bavinks, einem Pionier des Dialogs zwischen Theologie und den Naturwissenschaften. Zwei Beiträge loten das Verhältnis von Glaube und Naturwissenschaft aus. Abschließend weisen drei Beiträge auf wichtige Aspekte im Denken Karl Heims hin. Volume 14 of the Yearbook of the German Karl Heim Society presents contributions by prominent scholars from Germany, Finland, und Hungary who raise significant questions concerning the relationship between theology and science and try to outline a Christian orientation in the dialogue between these two disciplines. Three essays focus on guilt, evil and sin, another three on contemporary issues such as human cloning, green gene technology, and near-death-experiences, while two authors try to fathom the relationship between faith and science. One article brings into focus the achievement of Bavink, a pioneer in the dialogue between theology and the sciences, while the remaining three articles center on important aspects of the theology of Karl Heim. All essays, though written with two exceptions in German, have extensive summaries in English.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 228 pp. Englisch, Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The advent and approach of colonization and Christianity condemned the African traditional religion and culture as paganistic and backward. This created issues of bi-culturalism and bi-religiousness in personal and religious identity that the church needs to address. For those living in most post-colonial countries, there is the existence of deep psychological and spiritual scars that need healing. The Western Christian rituals in use in most African mainline churches exclude any traditional religious rituals. A new pastoral theology of care and psychodynamic understanding of integrative consciousness is needed in these contexts. A pastoral care-giver with integrative consciousness (possessing an awareness of both the traditional and Western worldview and/or integration thereof) is required to address the psychological and religious identity conflict existing in post-colonial contexts such as Zimbabwe.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 208 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Public education has received increasing criticism since the beginning of the nineties. Four major areas of concern can be discerned: the technical backwardness of the schools, the disappearance of political legitimization, financial limitations and the conservative school development. Worldwide, educational systems are being reorganized and developed beyond the traditional forms. These efforts are accompanied by increasingly complicated and complex research which assumes an international form. The international symposium Futures of Education, which took place in Zurich from 28 th to 30 th March 2000, was dedicated to these questions. The lectures held at the symposium were concerned with the relationship between research and development and above all, encouraged discussion and brought new ideas into play. 324 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This volume contains the revised texts of the lectures given at the Nordic Prosody VIII conference, held at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Trondheim, Norway), in August 2000. Most of the nineteen contributions deal with prosodic aspects of Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Estonian and Finnish, thus including in the notion of Nordic even the major Finno-Ugrian languages around the Baltic Sea. The scope of the papers is wider than on former occasions, not only representing well-established approaches to prosodic research but also covering new areas like the investigation of speech errors, the auditory processing of pitch, voice imitation, or multimodal speech perception.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 268 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The first international conference specifically devoted to the lyrics in African American popular music was held in Metz in September 2000 and gathered scholars and experts on blues, gospel song and rap. The eleven contributions, three of which in French, contained in this volume turn their attention to structure and thematic and expressive content in the three genres. Their conclusions, more than ever, allow us to see black popular music as the ongoing oral history of African Americans. Tenu à Metz en septembre 2000, le premier colloque international consacré spécifiquement au texte dans la musique populaire afro-américaine a réuni chercheurs universitaires et experts autour du blues, du gospel et du rap. Les onze communications, dont huit en anglais, qui constituent cet ouvrage se penchent plus particulièrement sur la structure et le contenu thématique et expressif de ces trois genres musicaux. Leurs conclusions amènent plus que jamais le lecteur à percevoir la musique populaire afro-américaine comme l'histoire orale du peuple noir aux Etats-Unis.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 232 pp. Englisch, Französisch.