peter lang peter lang apr 2003 (149 résultats)

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Disney¿s attempt to validate multicultural diversity may appear to be a worthy, even admirable, endeavor. However, the contributors of this book argue that the Disney company¿s version of multiculturalism is really the same «old groove» ¿ a surreptitious colonizing force that manipulates the psychological, cultural, and political identities of consumers, predominantly children. Demystifying the mechanisms and ideals through which Disney manages public values and expands its empire of illusory American culture, The Emperor¿s Old Groove interrogates animation role models that perpetuate insidious racial, cultural, and gender stereotypes. 216 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Public Education and the Imagination-Intellect argues for re-thinking the thinking process and for urban education reform. Weems¿s work lives in the moment of creation. Her imagination-intellect theory chapters frame this book; she posits that the imagination and intellect are inextricably linked; that like Freire¿s architect all ideas are first imagined, then intellectually developed in an interconnected process that mirrors the blood¿s circulation through the body. The two plays and the collection of poems are rich, layered landscapes of African American culture and meanings. They lend themselves to multi-interpretation, co-performance, and co-ownership by each audience member who engages the work.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 150 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Architectural Forms and Philosophical Structures examines architectural and architectonic forms as products of philosophical and epistemological structures in selected cultures and time periods, and analyzes architecture as a text of its culture. Relations between architectural forms and philosophical structures are explored in Western civilization, beginning in Egypt and Greece and culminating in twentieth-century Europe and America. Architecture, like all forms of artistic expression, is interwoven with the beliefs and the structures of knowledge of its culture.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 286 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Traditional marriage and Christian marriage rites presently exist as two distinct ceremonies in some parts of Africa. Is there no way of bringing the two together to avoid any form of duplication or multiplication of rite More so because the Church has always implicitly recognised matrimonial institution as a cultural product. The answer to the above question is located in the whole issue of inculturation. A process that successfully flourished in the Western civilisation and consequently influenced the teaching of the Church on marriage. The answer to our question seeks to establish a marriage rite where couples will genuinely experience the happy marriage between culture and Church. A marriage rite that will fulfil both the traditional and Christian demands. 264 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This book investigates the public funding of opera in Britain and Germany and the nature of failures of decision making in the allocation of funds to opera companies. A description of the funding systems in Germany and in Britain is followed by case studies in both countries. The case studies reveal that the funding bodies have never defined their aims well. However, it is also shown that this lack of well-defined objectives is not the root of the problem. Powerplay of stakeholders and inadequate management of power politics are the reason for the failures in the implementation of policy vis-à-vis opera companies. A decision-making model as a practical and realistic solution is proposed for funding bodies in Britain and Germany. The suggested model covers the full range of decision-making situations confronting public funding bodies of opera companies.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 376 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Cet ouvrage traite d¿une période importante de l¿histoire européenne, qui s¿étend de la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale jusqüà la fin de la guerre froide. Elle a été marquée par l¿instauration en Europe du régime des droits de l¿homme le plus avancé du monde. Durant ce demi-siècle, le continent européen, divisé sur le plan stratégique et idéologique, dépouillé de ses possessions coloniales, confronté à un vaste afflux d¿immigrés, s¿est engagé à développer des instruments politiques, judiciaires et diplomatiques de protection et de défense des droits de l¿homme.Ce livre réunit la majeure partie des contributions du colloque tenu à Oslo en août 2000 dans le cadre du XIX Congrès international des sciences historiques. Il s¿agit d¿une des premières enquêtes historiques dans le domaine des droits de l¿homme, entreprise avec la collaboration d¿historiens de divers horizons.This book deals with a remarkable period of human history from the end of the Second World War to the end of the Cold War, when Europe established the world¿s most advanced human-rights regime. During this half century a continent, divided by arms and ideology, divested of its colonial empires, and faced with a huge influx of foreigners, drew on old ideas and on post-First World War experiments, to expand the political, judicial, and diplomatic practices of human-rights advocacy and protection.The book contains the major part of the contributions of the colloquium of the 19 International Congress of Historical Sciences held in Oslo in August 2000. It represents one of the first collaborative, historical inquiries into the field of human rights. 376 pp. Englisch, Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Cet ouvrage se propose d¿explorer à travers diverses configurations politiques, sociales et éducatives, les modes d¿intégration des groupes dits minoritaires. Le terme de « minorité » désigne un groupe de personnes différant, par la race, la religion, la culture, la langue, la nationalité ou l¿ethnie, du groupe plus nombreux dans lequel il vit, et défini comme tel par le groupe majoritaire. La variété des situations que nous abordons ici ne permet pas d¿arrêter une seule définition de « minorités », tributaire du contexte, de son histoire et de ses enjeux actuels. L¿intégration des minorités sera abordée dans les pays d¿Europe centrale et orientale en pleine (re)négociation de leurs identités ¿ altérités ; dans des sociétés d¿accueil, Canada, Suisse et Grèce, où l¿apport migratoire remet en question, dans tous les secteurs de la vie publique, les équilibres traditionnels ; dans les sociétés en mutation, comme dans les pays d¿Afrique subsaharienne, les pays andins (Colombie et Equateur) et au Brésil, où le défi lancé par les situations des « minorités » convoque l¿engagement social et politique au sein de l¿éducatif. Les relations entre majorité et minorités sont habituellement conflictuelles mais de ces rapports de force peuvent émerger des accommodements, des formes d¿acculturation ou de cohabitation : ce sont ces nouveaux espaces interculturels, leurs conditions d¿émergence et leurs modes de construction qui sont investigués ici. 314 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Das Erbrecht hat grundsätzlich eine vermögensverteilende Funktion. Das PSG ist hingegen durch seine vermögenssichernde Funktion gekennzeichnet. Dieses Spannungsverhältnis kann sich auch auf die rechtliche Stellung der Noterben auswirken. Bei der Errichtung einer Privatstiftung unter Lebenden besteht insbesondere die Gefahr, dass der Stifter die Vermögensübertragung zu seinen Lebzeiten auf die Stiftung bewusst zum Mittel der Umgehung oder Minderung der Ansprüche der Pflichtteilsberechtigten einsetzt, ohne dabei (wegen der weitgehenden Gestaltungsfreiheit des PSG) seinen Einfluss auf das gestiftete Vermögen zu verlieren. Diese Arbeit untersucht, in wie weit die gesetzlichen Regelungen des ABGB, insbesondere die785 und 951, dem Pflichtteilsberechtigten einen ausreichenden Schutz vor solchen Maßnahmen des Stifters bieten. 138 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Versicherungsvereine auf Gegenseitigkeit sehen sich mit erheblichen Schwierigkeiten insbesondere bei der Eigenkapitalbeschaffung konfrontiert. Viele streben daher den Wechsel in die Rechtsform der Aktiengesellschaft an. Hierzu bieten sich neben dem versicherungsrechtlichen Institut der Bestandsübertragung gem. 14 VAG die vielfältigen Möglichkeiten des UmwG an. Diese Untersuchung zeigt die einzelnen Wege auf und weist auf wesentliche für Versicherungsunternehmen zu beachtende Besonderheiten hin. Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei die Problematik der Abfindung der von einer Umwandlung betroffenen Vereinsmitglieder. Die Vor- und Nachteile der einzelnen Umstrukturierungsmaßnahmen werden gegeneinander abgewogen, um eine Antwort auf die Frage nach der im Einzelfall optimalen Lösung zu finden.BoD - Books on Demand, In de Tarpen 42, 22848 Norderstedt 244 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Die Untersuchung versucht aufzuzeigen, dass das demokratische Legitimationsprinzip der Volkssouveränität keineswegs eine verfassungsrechtliche Organgestalt der Aktivbürgerschaft erzwingt. Damit rücken die Einzelnen mit ihren autonomen Willen in den Mittelpunkt der verfassungstheoretischen Untersuchung. Der Autor entfaltet die Volksgesetzgebung als staatliche Legislativgewalt, die ausgeübt und verantwortet wird durch staatliche Organe und Behörden. Diese Abstimmungsorgane sind an das Verfassungsrecht gebunden und für die Verfassungsmäßigkeit der volksbeschlossenen Gesetze verantwortlich. Dagegen sind die Stimmberechtigten bei der Teilnahme an plebiszitären Verfahren keiner Instanz verantwortlich und in ihrer autonomen Entscheidung frei. Unter dieser Grundanschauung erörtert der Autor u.a. die verfassungsrechtlichen Fragestellungen der konsultativen Volksbefragung, der Zulässigkeitsprüfung vor einem Volksbegehren und der quantitativen Erfolgsanforderungen (Quoren). 164 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Gegenstand der Arbeit ist die Frage, ob es im europäischen Recht ein Solidaritätsprinzip gibt und in welcher Weise es in Erscheinung tritt. Grundlage der Untersuchung ist eine inhaltliche Bestimmung des Begriffs der Solidarität. Darauf aufbauend wird das Solidaritätsprinzip im Recht der Europäischen Union begutachtet. Dafür werden die europäischen Verträge auf Rechtsgrundlagen für solidarische Pflichten hin untersucht und die Erscheinungsformen, in denen die Solidarität im europäischen Recht zutage tritt, systematisiert. Abschließend wird untersucht, welche Grenzen dem Solidaritätsprinzip gesetzt sind. 196 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Das Buch will einen Schlüssel geben zu Musils Jahrhundertwerk. Sein Roman erscheint als hochkomplexes und präzis durchkomponiertes Bild einer Erfahrung: die Fraglichkeit. Alles wird fraglich ¿ die Welt, der Mensch, das Denken, der Glaube. Ein Abgesang an alles Feste, Sichere, Selbstverständliche. Das kann Angst machen. Aber im Fragen, im Nachfragen nach dem sich Entziehenden, ersteht ein neuer Umgang mit ihm. Und diese Arbeit interpretiert Musils Roman als solches Nachfragen. Und zwar als religiöses Fragen. Vielleicht ist so ein zeitgemäßes Glauben. 304 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Simone Weil, a brilliant young teacher, philosopher, and social activist, wrote the essay, The 'Iliad' or the Poem of Force at France at the beginning of World War II. Her profound meditation on the nature of violence provides a remarkably vivid and accessible testament of the Greek epic's continuing relevance to our lives. This celebrated work appears here for the first time in a bilingual version, based on the text of the authoritative edition of the author's complete writings. An introduction discusses the significance of the essay both in the evolution of Weil's thought and as a distinctively iconoclastic contribution to Homeric studies. The commentary draws on recent interpretations of the Iliad and examines the parallels between Weil's vision of Homer's warriors and the experiences of modern soldiers. 130 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book represents a millennial point of reflection in the history of educational studies and its future. The trajectory of educational studies is especially interesting due to shifts that have occurred concerning knowledge and identity - particularly how they encounter one another. The chapters are largely drawn from presentations made at the American Educational Studies Association. They reflect educational studies 'on the ground' as practiced by members in the field and represent the future of educational studies - the redefinition of disciplines, the link between ideas and practice, and a critique of the assumptions within taken-for-granted knowledge. The Future of Educational Studies provides an excellent overview of educational studies and current examples of the range of work being done in the field. 336 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Most faculty members of college and university English departments would acknowledge frequent interdepartmental tensions between faculty members who specialize in literature and those who specialize in composition. Yet many literature faculty regularly teach composition and/or have administrative responsibilities in writing programs and writing centers. Teaching Composition/Teaching Literature: Crossing Great Divides is an anthology of articles by faculty who reject the low status commonly assigned to composition and articulate ways to combine literature and composition as teachers and scholars. Ultimately, these essays signal possible ways to repair the rift between the divisions. 170 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Disney's attempt to validate multicultural diversity may appear to be a worthy, even admirable, endeavor. However, the contributors of this book argue that the Disney company's version of multiculturalism is really the same «old groove» - a surreptitious colonizing force that manipulates the psychological, cultural, and political identities of consumers, predominantly children. Demystifying the mechanisms and ideals through which Disney manages public values and expands its empire of illusory American culture, The Emperor's Old Groove interrogates animation role models that perpetuate insidious racial, cultural, and gender stereotypes. 216 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Play of the Personal considers everyday dramas of learning and refusing to learn, the force of meaning in moments of breakdown and in moments of repair or creativity, and the struggles of teachers and students in classrooms informed by the hopes and imperatives of critical and feminist pedagogies. The book begins with the author's autobiography of learning to think psychoanalytically about education and goes on to take up such familiar notions as resistance, the personal, and autobiography. Drawing upon a range of psychoanalytic thinkers and concepts, The Play of the Personal explores questions of desire and fantasy as both the grounds of learning and as a site of conflict for teachers, students, and the curriculum. 144 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Public Education and the Imagination-Intellect argues for re-thinking the thinking process and for urban education reform. Weems's work lives in the moment of creation. Her imagination-intellect theory chapters frame this book; she posits that the imagination and intellect are inextricably linked; that like Freire's architect all ideas are first imagined, then intellectually developed in an interconnected process that mirrors the blood's circulation through the body. The two plays and the collection of poems are rich, layered landscapes of African American culture and meanings. They lend themselves to multi-interpretation, co-performance, and co-ownership by each audience member who engages the work. 150 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Following an outline of the origins of the concept of ethos as it is found in the writings of Aristotle and Plato, James Norman examines the Catholic Church's understanding of ethos in post-Vatican II educational documents and compares this understanding with the Irish Catholic Church's approach to school ethos. Based on his own experience and research, Norman suggests new possibilities for the development of ethos in Catholic schools. 124 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -One of the most fascinating dimensions of online chat and cybersex are the ways that their medium, the Internet, allows people to reconfigure relationships between self, body, and social interaction. Online chat participants discursively write a self into existence in a disembodied medium that allows for extreme fluidity and multiplicity; cybersex participants evoke bodies in words and images, manipulating relationships between selfhood and the corporeal body. Perhaps never before have so many people been actively involved in social psychological experiments in which they redefine themselves in ways that are so distinctively at the cutting edge of important social and cultural transformations. Based on over 150 interviews with online chat and cybersex participants, Self-Games and Body-Play is an empirically grounded analysis of how these unique experiences provide a lens for better understanding the nature of personhood in everyday life. 168 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Stepping Across: Four Interdisciplinary Studies of Education and Cultural Politics is a collection of four studies of education, privilege, and power - each of which explores relationships between formal schooling and larger cultural contexts. Representing some of Koza's most recent thinking, the studies examine interrelated constructs of race, gender, and social class as they materialize in local and specific settings. «No Hero of Mine: Disney, Popular Culture, and Education» (2001); «Rap Music: The Cultural Politics of Official Representation» (1994); «Unhappy Happy Endings: Cultural Politics in the Broadway Musical Hit Once on This Island» (1997, revised 2001); «To Shave or Not to Shave: The Hair Removal Imperative and Its Implications for Teachers and Teaching» (2001) comprise the collection. 178 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Architectural Forms and Philosophical Structures examines architectural and architectonic forms as products of philosophical and epistemological structures in selected cultures and time periods, and analyzes architecture as a text of its culture. Relations between architectural forms and philosophical structures are explored in Western civilization, beginning in Egypt and Greece and culminating in twentieth-century Europe and America. Architecture, like all forms of artistic expression, is interwoven with the beliefs and the structures of knowledge of its culture. 286 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Mission theory, including motivations, goals, and theology, has always been part of mission activities, but most written history of the Modern Missionary Movement, especially from North America, has neglected its clear articulation. This book addresses that dearth by examining mission goals in the American Madura Mission of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions between the years 1830 and 1916, noting a change in emphasis from church-centered to society-centered goals during this period. Goals of the AMM in India received shape through the interaction of ABCFM Foreign Corresponding Secretaries, articulating official goals of the Boston Board, with specific missionaries of the AMM, relating their success stories and articulating hopes for their work through letters and journals. Highlighting the work of AMM missionaries, William Tracy, William Capron, Frank Van Allen and Eva Swift, and their interaction with Board Secretaries Rufus Anderson, Nathaniel Clark and James Barton, demonstrates the dynamic process through which goals were forged in the AMM and in ABCFM work in other parts of the world. 236 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Possessions emerges from the fifth Cambridge French Graduate Conference, which took place in 2001. The theme has provoked a broad scope of investigation, covering French literature, film and theory, and ranging from the early medieval period to the present day. Despite the lack of attention which has so far been explicitly devoted to the idea of possession, it is shown to be an ever-present concern, and this volume seeks to fill this critical blind spot. The essays confront the central notion on several levels, tackling issues of authorship and ownership, postcolonialism, gender, and the potential trauma implicated in possession. The juxtaposition of different media, periods and critical schools allows common links to emerge, demonstrating ways in which possession acts as both problem and enabling notion. As a stimulating and original investigation into an under-explored area of critical thinking, the volume offers a critical examination of the possessing power of the text. 223 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Traditional marriage and Christian marriage rites presently exist as two distinct ceremonies in some parts of Africa. Is there no way of bringing the two together to avoid any form of duplication or multiplication of rite More so because the Church has always implicitly recognised matrimonial institution as a cultural product. The answer to the above question is located in the whole issue of inculturation. A process that successfully flourished in the Western civilisation and consequently influenced the teaching of the Church on marriage. The answer to our question seeks to establish a marriage rite where couples will genuinely experience the happy marriage between culture and Church. A marriage rite that will fulfil both the traditional and Christian demands. 264 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book represents a millennial point of reflection in the history of educational studies and its future. The trajectory of educational studies is especially interesting due to shifts that have occurred concerning knowledge and identity - particularly how they encounter one another. The chapters are largely drawn from presentations made at the American Educational Studies Association. They reflect educational studies «on the ground» as practiced by members in the field and represent the future of educational studies - the redefinition of disciplines, the link between ideas and practice, and a critique of the assumptions within taken-for-granted knowledge. The Future of Educational Studies provides an excellent overview of educational studies and current examples of the range of work being done in the field.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 346 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Most faculty members of college and university English departments would acknowledge frequent interdepartmental tensions between faculty members who specialize in literature and those who specialize in composition. Yet many literature faculty regularly teach composition and/or have administrative responsibilities in writing programs and writing centers. Teaching Composition/Teaching Literature: Crossing Great Divides is an anthology of articles by faculty who reject the low status commonly assigned to composition and articulate ways to combine literature and composition as teachers and scholars. Ultimately, these essays signal possible ways to repair the rift between the divisions.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 180 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The Play of the Personal considers everyday dramas of learning and refusing to learn, the force of meaning in moments of breakdown and in moments of repair or creativity, and the struggles of teachers and students in classrooms informed by the hopes and imperatives of critical and feminist pedagogies. The book begins with the author's autobiography of learning to think psychoanalytically about education and goes on to take up such familiar notions as resistance, the personal, and autobiography. Drawing upon a range of psychoanalytic thinkers and concepts, The Play of the Personal explores questions of desire and fantasy as both the grounds of learning and as a site of conflict for teachers, students, and the curriculum.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 164 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Following an outline of the origins of the concept of ethos as it is found in the writings of Aristotle and Plato, James Norman examines the Catholic Church's understanding of ethos in post-Vatican II educational documents and compares this understanding with the Irish Catholic Church's approach to school ethos. Based on his own experience and research, Norman suggests new possibilities for the development of ethos in Catholic schools.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 142 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book presents essays written by internationally acclaimed scholars on the leading figures and major social projects and movements within the tradition of critical theory. Critical Theory and the Human Condition is organized in two parts: «Labors of the Dialectic» and «Projects and Movements». «Labors of the Dialectic» addresses key themes associated with the work of Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Eric Fromm, Herbert Marcuse, Hannah Arendt, Karl Marx and Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Jürgen Habermas and Maxine Greene. Their work is situated in relation to contemporary issues associated with the human condition. «Projects and Movements» deals with the new politics of cynicism, knowledge, dialogue and humanization, critical race theory, critical multiculturalism, the body and feminist aesthetics, cultural studies, and the environment.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 300 pp. Englisch.