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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Designers are usually considered as problem solvers: but what if, instead of solving problems, they pose them The author opens a discussion on the role and the emerging strategies of designers in today¿s society. She presents historical and contemporary perspectives through design practices committed to provide proposals and solutions to social issues. Her analysis of several case studies results in an approach to design as a narrative medium. 70 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Transformative Leadership: A Primer both delivers a complete and engaging overview of transformative leadership and also clearly distinguishes it from other popular approaches to leadership. Hence, this will be the text of choice for many graduate courses in educational leadership. Carolyn M. Shields shows how the tenets of transformative leadership interact with one another, and how they provide a lens for leadership that offers an excellent, inclusive, equitable, and socially just education for all students. Using anecdotes and narratives drawn from empirical research, as well as current data, Dr. Shields establishes how transformative leadership comprises a comprehensive approach to leadership in highly diverse contexts, and how it can empower students who are traditionally marginalized due to race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender identity, home language, or religion. Accepting a mandate for educational change, reconstructing knowledge frameworks, and redistributing power in more equitable ways are starting points for transformative leaders. Changing the structures, cultures, curricula, and pedagogies of the school to be more democratic and emancipatory; acknowledging our interconnectedness and interdependence with global neighbors; and accepting responsibility for promoting both public and private good are processes that implement the transformation. Taken together, these changes cannot be accomplished without considerable collaboration, conversation, and moral courage. No leader wanting to promote excellence and equity for all should be without this primer that offers a new way of thinking about all aspects of schooling, from facilities and fiscal issues to academic programs and school policy. Transformative leadership offers a promising and robust theory of change for all situations and contexts.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 202 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This revised edition of Adolescents¿ Online Literacies: Connecting Classrooms, Digital Media, and Popular Culture features a variety of digital tools for humanizing pedagogy. For example, the book examines numerous artistic representations of young people¿s self-selected graphic novels and fan fiction as part of an in-class multi-genre unit on fandom. This edition makes concrete connections between what the research portrays and what teachers, school librarians, and school media specialists know to be the case in their interactions with young people at the middle and high school level. The contributors of these chapters ¿ educators, consultants, and researchers who span two continents ¿ focus on ways to incorporate and use the digital literacies that young people bring to school.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 240 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -The book deals with the analysis of key political actors in the ¿new democracies¿ from Central and Eastern Europe. It is focused on character of elites, particularly political ones, and their role in the process of societal change. The author argues that elite configuration in terms of relationships between different elite factions as well as their cultural profile has strong impact on developmental dynamics of these societies. Although ¿ at least in some countries from the region ¿ political elites have managed to build the institutional foundations of systems of a market economy and a parliamentary democracy, with only small chances of any reverses taking place, they have been much less successful in establishing mechanisms for society¿s self-organisation. 140 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Robert Flaherty¿s Nanook of the North is one of the best-known documentaries of the silent era and has remained well-known throughout the world ever since its release in 1922. This study takes as its point of departure the changes Nanook underwent from its premiere at the New York Capitol on June 11, 1922, to the sound version of 1947, the film¿s restoration in the 1970s, and later editions on different platforms. Accordingly, the book focuses on the different versions and editions of the film and the significant ways in which the different elements surrounding the film influence our perception. 160 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Critical pedagogy, political economics, and aesthetic theory combine with dialectical and materialist understandings of science, society, and revolutionary politics to develop the most radical goals of society and education. In Philosophy and Critical Pedagogy: Insurrection and Commonwealth, Marcuse¿s hitherto misunderstood and neglected philosophy of labor is reconsidered, resulting in a labor theory of ethics. This develops commonwealth criteria of judgment regarding the real and enduring economic and political possibilities that concretely encompass all of our engagement and action. Marcuse¿s newly discovered 1974 Paris Lectures are examined and the theories of Georg Lukács and Ernest Manheim contextualize the analysis to permit a critical assessment of the nature of dialectical methodology today. Revolutionary strategy and a common-ground political program against intensifying inequalities of class, race, and gender comprise the book¿s commonwealth counter-offensive. 274 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Partnerships among a variety of institutions ¿ for profit, not-for-profit, and non-profit ¿ are a relatively recent organizational development. Such partnerships link businesses, government, and social agencies. The primary reason for these relationships is to achieve goals sooner and more efficiently by building on the resources and expertise of each partner. In arts education, schools, arts organizations, cultural institutions, government agencies, and universities have engaged in joint ventures to improve the teaching and learning of the arts disciplines in their schools and in their communities. These partnerships have been particularly beneficial for teachers, many of whom have limited background in the arts but are expected to teach them in their classrooms. Arts partnerships initially focused on the goals of the participating organizations; that is, to develop artistic skills, to build future audiences, and/or to encourage young people to consider an artistic career. More recently, partnerships focus on educational goals rather than solely artistic ones. Despite the challenges and complexities of arts education partnerships, most partners believe that the benefits to students, teachers and the community outweigh the disadvantages and consequently, as the research in Working Together demonstrates, they are willing to justify the time, energy, and expense involved to improve the quality of arts education. 172 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Globalization is one of the most widely circulated, high-stakes buzzwords of the past generation; yet discussion of the topic is often encased in paradox and contention over what globalization is, to whom and where it may (or may not) apply, and to what effect. In Talking Back to Globalization: Texts and Practices, contributors provide a series of case studies that stress the interplay between culture, politics, and commerce.Interviews with Natalie Fenton and Radha S. Hegde survey globalization and its interpenetration with the spheres of journalism, activism, social media, and identity. The overview furnished by the interviews is followed by the volume¿s two additional extended sections, «Texts» and «Practices.»Chapters in the «Texts» section seek clues about globalization through its insinuation into mediated forms. The diverse selection of cases cover television, films, online travel web pages, blues music, and the political valences of Portuguese neo-fado.Chapters in the «Practices» section address more diffused cases than media texts. Their analyses largely orient toward institutional concomitants of globalization that precede the subject¿s experience of it. Chapters cover the trajectory of the European university, campaigns to shape journalistic practice during the Cold War, the posture of intellectuals vis-à-vis globalization, and the ideology that animates the Facebook experience. 270 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This first-of-its-kind book uniquely captures the meanings of work expressed by immigrants. Their stories ¿ from work histories to life transitions and professional journeys ¿ are conscientiously and rigorously mapped by the academic insights of communication scholars, many of whom are immigrants themselves.Immigrant workers¿ narratives of work and its nuances in an adopted country offer many hitherto muted, invisible, and/or purposely silenced perspectives. A variety of new and familiar terms ¿ concepts such as career inheritance, aphorisms, cultural adaptation, acculturation, and cultural distance ¿ and culture-specific terms such as ganas and consejos are discussed alongside the inherent struggles of identity construction across borders.While the contributors represent diversity in co-cultural affiliations, national origin, and immigration experiences encountered both personally and professionally, the stories of immigrants represent an even larger number of countries and cultures.This volume compels the academic community to acknowledge immigrants as workers whose voices matter and whose sense and processes of meaning-making is nuanced, complex, and multi-dimensional. Immigrant workers¿ voices can contribute significantly to the rich growth of research in organizational communication, meanings of work, career studies, cross-cultural management, psychology of work, and work and society.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 174 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This book explores two central aspects of shopper behavior at the POP: decision-making itself and how it is affected by in-store and out-of-store factors, with a focus on the role of in-store attention, post-decision choice satisfaction and its determinants. It empirically researches these aspects using data gathered in an eye-tracking field experiment. These data allow for a precise analysis of attention at the POP, as well as of many other important variables of in-store decision-making. Overall, the results show that retailers have less influence on in-store decision-making than manufacturers, despite having control over the POP, as out-of-store factors have a stronger impact on in-store decision-making than in-store factors. 138 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Marshall McLuhan made many predictions in his seminal 1964 publication, Understanding Media: Extensions of Man. Among them were his predictions that the Internet would become a «global village,» making us more interconnected than television; the closing of the gap between consumers and producers; the elimination of space and time as barriers to communication; and the melting of national borders. He is also famously remembered for coining the expression «the medium is the message.» These predictions form the genesis of this updated volume by Robert K. Logan, a friend and colleague who worked with McLuhan. In this second edition of Understanding New Media Logan expertly updates McLuhan¿s Understanding Media to analyze the «new media» McLuhan foreshadowed and yet was never able to analyze or experience. The book is designed to reach a new generation of readers as well as appealing to scholars and students who are familiar with Understanding Media. 490 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - This book explores the Capability Approach (CA) as an alternative critical lens through which to regard early childhood education (ECE) curricula. The CA framework is a counter narrative to the narrow instrumentalism that reduces education to a mere process of academic skills acquisition for a future workplace. Primarily the book draws on the example of the Greek case. Criticizing the 'bit role' that the front-line implementers play in the curriculum design and planning procedure it argues that efficient curriculum development can only occur when a zymosis between the pedagogues' beliefs, practical experience, and theoretical knowledge is accomplished. Evidence shows that beliefs define the educators' practices into the pedagogical context. The issues discussed are unlikely to be confined to this country alone and will have resonances on other contexts.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This book provides a critical review of the achievements and challenges of European organizations promoting democracy in the Republic of Armenia. Armenia is a post-transition country and yet not a consolidated democracy. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the Council of Europe, and the European Union with its Neighbourhood Policy have been actively engaged in the country¿s democratization process. A central question is to what extent reforms and recommendations have been accepted in Armenia, and whether they convey real implementations. By analyzing the organizations¿ activities and recommendations, this book explains how projects overlap, whether they reveal an interlocking or interblocking nature, and when they cause unintended side effects. 202 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This book investigates issues pertaining to the US and EU agendas in Africa since the dawn of the new century. It discusses how the African continent has featured within the US and EU foreign policy agendas, by looking at ensuing gaps between a rhetoric that claimed to have put Africa within the high politics agenda and the reality. The case studies analyse the reasons for the very different acknowledgements of USAFRICOM and JAES P&S, even though both policies state to aim the same: support Africa in tackling its own security concerns. The book concludes with a deliberation on which of the two outlooks seems to offer an appropriate approach to the context and which offers pragmatic solutions. 252 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -The author follows the interpretative pursuits of nineteenth-century readers and analyses Tennyson¿s The Princess through the prism of their critical ideas. She analyses Tennyson¿s reconsideration of gender binaries and women¿s rights as well as the poem¿s reliance on the aesthetics of the grotesque and its metapoetic games. The book rests on the premise that literature cannot be studied in isolation from its immediate socio-historical context. As such, poetry becomes an outcome of social and cultural negotiations, moving «in a strange diagonal» between the author and his public. 132 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Papers in this collection provide philosophical and linguistic analyses of reference. The topics discussed include different types of reference, problems of identity, indexicality, reference fixing and descriptions. Other issues covered in individual chapters concern events and the event-argument hypothesis, predicate reference, definite descriptions, contextualism, types of quantifications, faultless disagreement, vagueness, reference in minimalism, and the reference system for coding spatial information in Hausa. The contributions discuss the approaches proposed by Gottlob Frege, Donald Davidson, and Saul Kripke, and contribute to the debate on reference in contemporary philosophy of language and linguistics. 246 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Church schools are booming, becoming increasingly popular with parents across the world. However, research shows that teachers face considerable challenges as they try to offer a distinctively Christian education within a church school context. This book is the account of a qualitative research project investigating the joys and difficulties experienced in English church school classrooms. The research team spent a year working alongside fourteen teachers from Catholic and Church of England secondary schools, introducing them to What If Learning, a pedagogical initiative designed by an international team of educationalists to support teachers in developing Christian approaches to teaching and learning. The highs and lows of the teachers¿ experience are documented in this book and the lessons that emerge are explored in detail. The findings of the project are highly significant for all those involved with church school education and point towards valuable new ways of thinking about Christian faith and learning.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 210 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -The military man has long been one of literature¿s archetypal figures. Using a comparative framework, this book traces the transformation of the military man in eighteenth-century British and French literature as this figure moved from noble warrior to nationalised professional in response to changes within the military structure, the role of empire and the impact of an expanding middle class. The author examines the way in which the masculinity of the military man was reimagined at a time when older models of military service persisted alongside emerging models of patriotic nationalism, inspired by bourgeois morality, the cult of sensibility and a new understanding of the role of violence in both public and private domains. Through a corpus of canonical and lesser-known literature, the book explores the military man¿s relationship to the state and to his fellow citizens, even in the domestic setting. With the role of the «nobleman» in decline, the military man, not a «civilian» and no longer associated with the ¿aristocrat¿, became a separate class of man.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 258 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Une même question a été posée à une équipe de chercheurs spécialisés dans les relations du travail dans les principales économies post-industrielles de ce début du 21e siècle : comment a évolué la régulation sociale dans les entreprises depuis une trentaine d¿années Leurs réponses montrent que les restructurations économiques, l¿européanisation et la mondialisation ont conduit à d¿importants changements, rarement volontaires, dans les relations entre les « partenaires sociaux » : organisations syndicales et patronales, sans oublier l¿État, qui joue souvent un rôle d¿arbitre. Ainsi, les modèles nationaux hérités du 20e siècle ont été remis en cause. Les particularismes se sont effacés pour laisser place à des cadres plus fragiles et plus fluctuants.Ce livre dresse un état des lieux précis des principaux changements qui ont affecté les syndicats et le dialogue social dans les entreprises en Europe et Amérique du Nord. Il permet de dépasser les idées reçues concernant les modèles anglo-saxon, scandinave, rhénan et latin.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 294 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -À l¿heure où les Européens s¿interrogent sur les réponses à apporter à l¿intensification des flux migratoires, le Canada où la gestion de l¿immigration et de la diversité culturelle occupe une place centrale dans la vie intellectuelle et politique depuis les années 1960 attire l¿attention de nombreux observateurs.Saisir la complexité et la richesse de ces débats, nécessite une étude fine de l¿évolution de la société canadienne. Qui de mieux que Jean-Michel Lacroix pouvait livrer cette analyse Ce « canadianiste » internationalement reconnu, pionnier des études canadiennes tant en France qüau niveau international a publié pendant une trentaine d¿année des textes de référence sur les questions d¿immigration et de multiculturalisme. Hélène Harter et Serge Jaumain ont choisi de réunir ici une sélection de ses articles qui restent d¿une étonnante actualité et permettent de suivre l¿évolution d¿une pensée originale bien loin des clichés et autres idées reçues sur la réalité canadienne.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 356 pp. Französisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -We live in a world of phenomena created by the human mind and by human experience, namely conflict, aggression, aggressiveness and violence. These phenomena are viewed as constructs of the mind, types of behaviour, particular experiences and emotional states, specific social interactions or even historical and political categories such as social movements, wars, angry social protests etc. The study explores the notions of aggression and violence and from an individual and a social perspective analyses their determinants in various environments in childhood, adolescence and adulthood. It is an attempt to join the global discussion on reaction conditions and key points that are connected with the risk of pathologization of the personality and its behaviour. 274 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This book adds a new perspective to the study of American art by reclaiming underrated writings of three 20-century masters, Thomas Hart Benton, Marsden Hartley and Ad Reinhardt. Their rich and diverse literary output was never before studied methodically in and beyond the context of their painting. The book¿s first part sets the necessary framework for discussing their texts by outlining the long history of debates about inter-art analogies and rivalries. Through systematic close reading of Benton¿s, Hartley¿s and Reinhardt¿s writings the study reveals novel and unique juxtapositions of visual and verbal elements at work which are present in both their paintings and writings and confirms the existence of a strong link between their painterly and writerly dispositions. 262 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This book reveals the ecclesiological values of charisms in the context of the growing values of personalism in the Church. Yves Congar understands charisms in the light of pneumatological christology. The study discovers that Congar¿s concept of charisms mirrors the values of the arrangement of the first three chapters in Lumen Gentium. The role of charism is most intensive when Congar combines it with the concept of the people of God. His ecclesial diagrams bring out the complementary roles of hierarchy and laity. Thanks to charisms, the Church is neither a pyramid nor is she ready-made. She is always on the process of being built-up by God. Congar exalts the priesthood of the faithful and advocates prophecy of the whole Church without departing from the apostolicity of the Church. 274 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -The term «house of art» designates the cultural phenomenon and creative mode in modernity associated with an artist¿s residence as his own creation and as his product of a need to create which is unfulfilled in the painter¿s, writer¿s or composer¿s actual field. This book discusses the most important of these creations from the 18 century to the beginning of the 20, including gardens as well as the artist¿s space, broadly understood, annexed by his imagination. An artist¿s shaping of his own residence was most commonly a secondary area of his creative work. The formula for a «house of art» is specific to the particular artist and does not have to fit within any given architectural or decorative style. It may conform to the traditions of a residence (artist¿s palace, cottage etc), but most often it forms an individual case. 412 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -The book deals with martyrdom understood as a philosophical category. The main question pertains to the evidential value of the Christian witness through death. The author approaches an answer through a philosophical interpretation of the belief in the evidential role of martyrdom. Numerous historical documents confirm that ancient martyrdom might have been considered as a kind of proof also by people unaffiliated with the Church. The author observes the theology and the reality of martyrdom through the perspective of the ancient philosophy of death and radical personal transformation. He believes that the Christian stance in the face of persecutions could have been understood as the realization of the unrealized ambitions of philosophy, thereby proving indirectly the veracity of the teaching revealed by Jesus Christ. 276 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This is the first book to explore the importance of agriculture in relation to the restoration of the Jerusalem temple in the Book of Haggai during the Achaemenid period. Scholars discussing the rebuilding of the temple have mainly focused on the political and social context. Additionally, the missions of Ezra and Nehemiah have been used as a basis for analysing the economy of postexilic Judah. This has, however, understated the wider socio-economic significance of the temple by disregarding the agricultural capacity of Judah.The Book of Haggai is primarily concerned with agriculture and the temple. This analysis of Haggai includes an examination of the temple¿s reconstruction from a historical and economic point of view, with agriculture playing a central role. Archaeological records are examined and show that prized commodities such as olives and grapes were produced in and around Jerusalem in large quantities and exported all over the ancient Near East.This book is intended to shed new light on the value of agriculture for the people of Judah and the whole imperial economy. It also presents a new interpretation of the Book of Haggai and a new perspective on the temple economy in Jerusalem.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 302 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Cet ouvrage collectif porte sur l¿histoire de la paternité à la fin du Moyen Âge et au début de l¿époque moderne. Partant de l¿étude de sources variées (livres de famille, textes doctrinaux, testaments, images, etc.), les contributions étudient la place faite aux pères dans la famille et dans la société au sein du monde occidental. À la croisée de l¿histoire de la parenté et de l¿histoire du genre, de l¿histoire religieuse et de l¿histoire sociale, ce livre propose un éclairage inédit sur l¿évolution des formes de la paternité dans un contexte marqué par les réformes religieuses et par d¿importantes reconfigurations politiques, en particulier dans les sociétés urbaines. 238 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -There is a clear development towards the acknowledgement of democracy as a universal concern. States and international organisations openly support democracy and condemn setbacks in democratisation and consolidation of democracy. But how far does this development go The author sheds light on the question of an international obligation of states to promote and protect democratic structures as well as a corresponding right of the people. Coming to the conclusion that such norms exist in certain regions and are emerging universally, the author further analyses whether this challenges existing rules of international law, namely the prohibition of the use of force and intervention. Lastly, it is dealt with the question of whether and how such a norm could be enforced under existing mechanisms. 282 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Inscrit depuis quarante ans dans le domaine de la syntaxe, le phénomène de l¿antipassif est traditionnellement associé aux langues à alignement ergatif. Ce travail cherche donc à savoir si la corrélation de l¿antipassif avec l¿alignement ergatif se vérifie sur l¿axe translinguistique. En d¿autres termes, jusqüà quel point doit-on insister sur la dépendance entre l¿antipassif et l¿alignement ergatif Pour comprendre pourquoi le phénomène de l¿antipassif a longtemps été négligé dans la description des langues accusatives et quels sont les arguments en faveur d¿une telle analyse, cette étude s¿appuie sur une approche translinguistique et sur une vision bipolaire relative aux domaines de la syntaxe et de la sémantique.Dans cet ouvrage, l¿auteur s¿attache à l¿analyse descriptive des constructions antipassives formellement marquées. Étant donné qüune certaine proportion de langues ergatives utilise, pour dériver l¿antipassif, la marque polysémique réfléchie et/ou réciproque, cette étude s¿est penchée sur les langues accusatives dont la marque antipassive présente la même caractéristique, d¿où l¿intérêt porté aux langues austronésiennes, du Niger-Congo, Nilo-sahariennes, turciques, et indoeuropéennes, en particulier aux langues slaves et romanes.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 392 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Debates about Basque self-determination were curtailed for decades by political violence, involving both the actions of ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna) and the counter-terrorism activities of Spain and France. In 2011, ETA announced a permanent cessation of operations. Since then, stakeholders have become increasingly aware of the need to rethink Basque nationhood and democratic representation in light of the changing nature of nationhood and citizenship within the European Union. These issues are also topical in the French Basque country, which has witnessed a re-emergence of Basque identity politics in recent years.This book describes the contemporary re-imagining of Basque nationhood in both Spain and France. Taking a fresh look at the history of Basque nationalist movements, it explores the new debates that have emerged since the demise of non-state militancy. Alongside analysis of local transformations, it also describes the impact of global changes on ideas about Basque self-determination.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 340 pp. Englisch.