peter lang peter lang nov 2012 (304 résultats)

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -It is hard to find another two concepts which would be more significant in the European integration discourse than «democracy» and «solidarity» and at the same time more ambiguous in the political practice of integration. Currently European integration discourse is being organized around the concept of democracy. Analyzing European integration discourse the author argues that the situation is quite paradoxical because in order to secure democracy in the EU, European integration discourse must be organized not around the concept of democracy but around the concept of solidarity. The book attempts to show in more details the context of the clash of these fundamental values which serve also as the leading political principles of European integration. Therefore several further concepts and problems have been discussed such as the issue of identity, the concept of citizenship and the problem of nationalism. Since the theoretical framework of the analysis have been built around the idea of discourse the inevitable consequence was to look at some aspects of communication and the links between conceptual and normative development of the European integration. 126 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Although the Polish immigrant movement in Germany has existed for more than 150 years, this fact is not reflected in the shape or standing of contemporary organisations. The history of Polish associations in Germany is an example that demonstrates, on the one hand, growth and expansion, and on the other, the weakening and decay of an immigrant organisation movement. «Polish Organisations in Germany: Their Present Status and Needs» is intended to fill, to a certain extent, the gaps in the sociological literature on Polish organisations in Germany. It aims at describing the situations in which nongovernmental organizations that associate Poles residing in Germany find themselves: their number, their number of members, the fields and range covered by their activities, their financial standing, their level of organization, their relations with the Polish and German authorities, etc. 172 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This book is a review of major post-World War II American foreign policy decisions made by authorities who were blinded by ideology. In each of the nine situations examined, accurate evidence was available and even known to many of the decision makers, but chauvinism, anti-Communism, or willful left-wing or right-wing ideological predilections carried the day. In the preface, Newman takes as his guiding light the words of Corey Robin: «The twentieth century, it¿s said, taught us a simple lesson about politics: of all the motivations for political action, none is as lethal as ideology. The lust for money may be distasteful, the desire for power ignoble, but neither will drive its devotees to the criminal excess of an idea on the march.»The analytical-critical essays comprising this volume sweep across the post-war period, from the Hiroshima decision through Bush and Iraq. Government documents, scholarly analyses, and Newman¿s own acerbic arguments both entertain and inform readers.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 216 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -From the social media-based 2008 Obama election campaign to the civic protest and political revolutions of the 2011 Arab Spring, the past few years have been marked by a widespread and complex shift in the political landscape, as the rise of participatory platforms ¿ such as YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and blogs ¿ have multiplied the venues for political communication and activism.This book explores the emergence of a permanent campaign ¿ the need for constant readiness ¿ on networked communication platforms, focusing on political moments, crises and elections in Canada, the U.S.A., and Australia. The book chapters investigate the proliferation of new political actors and communicators: political bloggers, advocacy groups, diverse publics, and political party staff as they engage in political maneuvers across participatory platforms. With in-depth analyses of some of the most well-known participatory media today, this book offers a critical assessment of the constant efforts at managing the plurality of voices that characterize contemporary politics.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 154 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This volume represents a unique contribution to the area of language attitudes research with its focus on how languages, dialects and accents induce us to form social judgments about people who use these forms.The essays attend to evaluations of speech styles across nations. No previous work has embraced this comparative perspective globally, but such a volume that situates language and attitude research in the 21st century is long overdue.The content is culturally diverse and showcases the work of eminent scholars across the globe. Each chapter brings its own theoretical interpretation to this field of study, and the book provides the reader with a plethora of models that extend our understanding of language attitudes.It is fitting that Cindy Gallois, who has incisively contributed to research on language attitudes over the past 30 years, provides an epilogue on the current state of language attitudes research.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 202 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This volume explores and discusses how privacy is understood today. What is privacy What strategies are used to achieve or to protect the individual¿s privacy How are our conceptions of privacy evolved throughout times and cultures Given the multidimensional character of privacy, the book analyses the variety and complexity of its meanings by adopting a cross-disciplinary position. The contributions collected here approach the topic from a multiplicity of perspectives and with the support of modern critical theories in sociology, anthropology, philosophy, visual art, and media. In discussing the main questions raised by the privacy issue, the essays reveal the multifaceted aspects of human experience, which cannot be easily explored within a single framework for interpretation. This book gives the reader the opportunity to explore some of these aspects and to learn more about privacy ¿ how important it is to us and how much we will miss it if it is neglected ¿ and ultimately more about ourselves. 154 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Winner of the Everett Lee Hunt Award 2014.Winner of the NCA Clifford G. Christians Ethics Research Award 2013 from the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet ResearchThe crisis of incivility plaguing today¿s workplace calls for an approach to communication that restores respect and integrity to interpersonal encounters in organizational life. Professional civility is a communicative virtue that protects and promotes productivity, one¿s place of employment, and persons with whom we carry out our tasks in the workplace. Drawn from the history of professions as dignified occupations providing valuable contributions to the human community, an understanding of civility as communicative virtue, and MacIntyre¿s treatment of practices, professional civility supports the «practice» of professions in contemporary organizations. A communicative ethic of professional civility requires attentiveness to the task at hand, support of an organization¿s mission, and appropriate relationships with others in the workplace. Professional civility fosters communicative habits of the heart that extend beyond the walls of the workplace, encouraging a return to the service ethic that remains an enduring legacy of the professions in the United States.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -In a digital age of perceived anonymity and diminishing face-to-face contact what does it mean to be true to thyself Has the internet given us license to be false to others, without consequence Technology has given us capabilities we previously did not have and changed the way we think about time and space.Although research is now being done on many aspects of the interplay between humans and technology, there currently exists a vacuum regarding behavior and usage of technology. This edited volume contains some of the best research on digital ethics from authors in communication, law, information studies, education, philosophy, political science, computer science, and business on topics that range from sexting to piracy.This groundbreaking volume contributes to the growing body of knowledge in this area and provides a much-needed resource for scholars and teachers interested in exploring ethics in this new digital world.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 254 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Crossmedia and transmedia are keywords of increasing importance for media professionals and scholars alike. Although these phenomena are older than sometimes argued, the affordances of digital networked media have radically enriched the nature of «crossmedia strategies» of media industries. As such crossmedia is an emergent practice that arises as one of the core sources of complexity and innovation for late modern cultures. This edited volume includes chapters by authors from three continents who approach the phenomenon from different disciplinary angles: semiotics, cultural studies, media economics, political economy, innovation studies. The common interest lies in the dynamics that lead to experiments with crossmedia and in how our cultures are innovated through such practices. 320 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -The question of whether strategic leaders really matter is important to a wide array of topics. Three essays contribute to empirical top executive research on the relative importance of German CEOs and CFOs. The analyses are based on a unique dataset that includes observations from more than 300 CEOs and 100 CFOs working for 110 publicly listed German firms that operated in 10 different industries between 1983 and 2002. The first essay describes and analyzes characteristics of top executives. The second essay examines the existence and size of top executive-specific effects as well as industry-, company- and executive-level moderating factors. The third essay sheds light on the circumstances under which CEOs and CFOs matter the most (or least). 138 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This is the first in-depth look at the development of the television newscast, the most popular source of news for over forty-five years.During the 1940s, most journalists ignored or dismissed television, leaving the challenge to a small group of people working above New York City¿s Grand Central Terminal. Without the pressures of ratings, sponsors, company oversight, or many viewers, the group refused to recreate newspapers, radio, or newsreels on the new medium. They experimented, argued, tested, and eventually settled on a format to exploit television¿s strengths. This book documents that process, challenging common myths ¿ including the importance of a popular anchor, and television¿s inability to communicate non-visual stories ¿ and crediting those whose work was critical in the formation of television as a news format, and illustrating the pressures and professional roadblocks facing those who dare question journalistic traditions of any era.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 410 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Infosys Prize for outstanding contribution to the Humanities in Literary StudiesRabindranath Tagore is widely regarded as a romantic poet, speaking of beauty and truth; as a transcendentalist; a believer in the absolute; a propagandist for universal man; and as a national icon. But, as Amit Chaudhuri shows in these remarkable and widely admired essays about the poet and his milieu, his secret concern was really with life, play, and contingency, with the momentary as much as it was with the eternal. It is this strain of unacknowledged modernism, as well as a revolutionary life-affirming vision, that gives his work, Chaudhuri argues, its immense power.Acute, challenging, and path-breaking, Amit Chaudhuri¿s collection will become a classic reading of Rabindranath Tagore and the way he is perceived today.On Tagore was awarded the Rabindra Puraskar, the West Bengal government¿s highest literary honour, in 2012 in recognition of the ¿significance, in the English language, of its critical analysis of Tagore¿s works¿. 192 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Im europäischen Spitzenfußball dominiert eine kleine Gruppe von Vereinen. Diese statistische Untersuchung analysiert für die vier wichtigsten europäischen Ligen ¿ Bundesliga, Premier League, Primera División, Serie A ¿ die Tendenz zur Dominanz weniger Vereine. Ein Blick auf die kommerziell ebenfalls erfolgreiche nordamerikanische Profiliga im Basketball ¿ NBA ¿ legt nahe, dass mit regulierenden Eingriffen in den Ligabetrieb eine stärker egalitäre Entwicklung möglich wäre.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 113 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This book discusses the phonology of glides and nasals in Polish and English on the basis of spelling and pronunciation errors. The aim of this study is to show the relatedness between spelling and pronunciation errors and the phonological systems of both languages in Standard Generative Phonology and Optimality Theory. The rule-based phonology, where the intricacies of gliding and nasalization are resolved by the application of fully productive rules, gives a coherent analysis of the investigated data corpus. Similarly, the constraint-based phonology, where the solution is offered by the system of universal constraints, successfully accounts for the examined phenomena. However, for generalizations concerning the insertion of the back glide, Standard Optimality Theory does not provide conclusive results. This study proves that the introduction of a two-level evaluation, as envisaged by Derivational Optimality Theory, satisfactorily handles the ongoing changes. 162 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Bonhoeffer¿s stance on political issues has been the focus of considerable research. Insufficient attention has been given, however, to the theoretical foundations of Bonhoeffer¿s political theology, that is, to the fundamental elements and concepts that shape his understanding of religion¿s relation to politics. This volume aims to redress this oversight in Bonhoeffer studies. The collected essays show how Bonhoeffer¿s theological core convictions resulted in assumptions about the nature and goal of politics that remain relevant for today. The contributions to this volume document the 4 International Bonhoeffer Colloquium which took place in Mainz, Germany, in 2010 and was funded by the Fritz-Thyssen-Foundation. 156 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This book criticizes the suggestive implication of newer bioethics that we need a new ethical paradigm in order to handle with the innovations of medicine and biotechnology. It holds that these innovations have a suggestive character at all which is not relevant however in order to justify a paradigm shift in ethics. Especially the suggestions of reproduction, genetics, mercy killing and neuroscience reveal a misunderstanding about ethics. Moreover they show inevitably theological implications they actually like to avoid especially in secular ethics. 154 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -The book addresses the problem of literary value in North American literature, children¿s literature, film and poetry. Chapter One: The Ennob(e)led focuses on institutions which are instrumental in attributing value to literature: literary critics (e.g. D.H. Lawrence) and award givers (e.g. the Swedish Academy). It explores W.B. Yeats¿s, T.S. Eliot¿s, Czes¿aw Mi¿osz¿s and William Golding¿s lives with the Nobel Prize. In Chapter Two: The Forgotten homage is paid to four authors who lost popularity, or never enjoyed it: Lorenza Stevens Berbineau, Frank Stockton, Charles Chesnutt and Conrad Aiken. Chapter Three: From Margin to Mainstream compares various Chinese, Japanese, First Nations¿ and other ethnic voices in Canadian children¿s literature. Chapter Four: From Mainstream to Margin juxtaposes scholarly pursuits with cinematic praxis, and cinematic praxis with political activity. 200 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Is constitutional jurisprudence on socio-economic rights a threat to democracies How powerful are constitutional courts in this field Is it possible to restrain judicial activism in socio-economic adjudication Through reference to constitutional dialogue theory, this book shows constitutional adjudication in socio-economic matters through the lenses of constitutional pluralism and intra-institutional deliberation. The experiences of nascent Central-Eastern European democracies which have undergone democratic changes in early 90ies of the 20th century are particularly interesting as a case study. The example of Polish, Czech and Slovak constitutional acquis are used to encourage the mechanisms that legitimize the role of constitutional courts in the field of socio-economic adjudication. 174 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -The rapid development in information technology during the last few decades has not only given us greater opportunities to freely search for information and contacts. The growth of the Internet has also created new opportunities for criminal organisations, political activists and terrorists to threaten individuals, companies and countries. Individuals and organisations are also increasingly the targets of attacks and espionage via the web. There are various kinds of illegitimate and criminal activities. Every modern state thus has to create strategies and courses of action in order to protect information, networks and computers that are vital to society from malicious cyber activities. Creating secure systems and minimising risks of information being leaked or tampered with should be a prioritised task. It is also important to understand what threats arise from the information technological revolution. The purpose of this book is to give a broad background to the development of the dark side of the internet and its consequences. It is not about scaremongering, but about creating understanding and knowledge and thus preparedness in order to handle detrimental activities. It describes the changes in progress and what they may mean to society, companies and individuals as well as to the military and police. 170 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -In the last few years we have witnessed the widespread proliferation of video camcorders as a powerful and sophisticated instrument for data collection. Video is increasingly used in broad areas of research throughout the social sciences. It allows for a rich recording of social processes and provides a completely new kind of data. Used as a «microscope of interaction», this «video revolution» is expected to exert profound impact on research practice. But despite its popularity as an instrument, the methodological discussion of video is still underdeveloped. This book gathers a selection of outstanding European researchers in the field of qualitative interpretive video analysis. The contributions discuss the crucial features of video data and present different approaches how to handle, interpret, analyse and present video data collected in a wide range of «real world» social fields. The book thereby aims at providing an overview on contemporary interpretive and qualitative approaches to video analysis.Peter Lang Group AG Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaft, Place de la gare 12, 1003 LAUSANNE 220 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Seit der Unabhängigkeit vor über 200 Jahren waren die bilateralen Beziehungen zwischen Lateinamerika und Europa stets geprägt von einem asymmetrischen Abhängigkeitsverhältnis zugunsten Europas. Trotz historisch enger Verbundenheit und gemeinsamer kultureller und politischer Werte, spielte Lateinamerika in der europäischen Außenpolitik bislang eine untergeordnete Rolle. Aktuell aber sorgen Veränderungen im internationalen System und nicht zuletzt das wirtschaftliche Potenzial der Region für eine zunehmende Emanzipierung und lassen den Subkontinent so wieder auf die politische Agenda Europas rücken. Während der Passauer LateinAmerikagespräche (PLA) wurden daher Relevanz, Chancen und Hindernisse der transkontinentalen Beziehungen erörtert. Dieser Band dokumentiert einen Teilausschnitt der wissenschaftlichen Diskussion, mit Fokus auf ausgewählte wirtschaftliche und politische Aspekte. 100 pp. Deutsch, Spanisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This book aims to contribute to the debate on European cultural policy and cultural diplomacy as well as to fill in the gap that exists in this under-researched field. Europe is still struggling in formulating its common cultural policy that will present Europe as a united and diverse entity to the world while the EU Member States invest efforts in promoting themselves only. This volume examines individual practices in 10 selected cases while the introduction study outlines main features of the EU cultural diplomacy. 244 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -The present book is an interdisciplinary, meta-semantic study of meaning, combining linguistics, semiotics and philosophy. Its main theoretical framework is Cognitive Linguistics. The author demonstrates how the theoretical and historiographic boundaries of the cognitive model of language can be broadened and enriched by semiotic and phenomenological perspectives. The discussion reveals that, despite their distinct origins, these approaches yield parallel views on meaning. Thus informed, the theoretical apparatus of Cognitive Linguistics is considerably strengthened. 194 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This book examines the measurement and econometric effects of ethnic diversity. This issue is of great relevance to research and policy and is currently being discussed a great deal in the literature. In particular, a sizable literature has suggested that ethnic diversity constitutes a significant barrier to economic development. The precise measurement and interpretation of these results are a matter of substantial controversy. In this book, the dynamics of ethnic diversity are being empirically analyzed for the first time. Furthermore, it develops and applies a new measure of ethnic diversity which takes the distance between groups into account, thus focusing on diversity rather than mere fragmentation. This book convincingly confronts theoretical considerations with (new) data and thereby provides a good mix of theory and empirics, making significant contributions to the current debates. 188 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -While a number of published works approach the shared concerns of Ireland and Scotland, no major volume has offered a sustained and up-to-date analysis of the cultural connections between the two, despite the fact that these border crossings continue to be politically suggestive. The current collection addresses this area of comparative critical neglect, focusing on writers, from Charles Robert Maturin to Liam McIlvanney, whose work offers insights into debates about identity and politics in these two neighbour nations, too often overwhelmed by connections with their larger neighbour, England.The essays in this collection are distinct yet connected, and are designed to come together like the intricate cross-bars and precise patterning of the plaid to capture the complexity of the Celtic connections they address. They move from pre-history to postmodernism, from Gothic to Gaelic and from Macbeth to Marxism, incorporating gender and genre, and providing a detailed survey of responses to the Irish-Scottish paradigm.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 254 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -It is no longer a matter of debate to state that the practice of ¿democracy¿ in different African nations is almost always experienced through violence or something near to it. The principal question addressed by this work is, ¿Why are many African countries finding it difficult to practise democracy without «tears» ¿ Though this unique work recognises a number of factors as contributing to the pitiable democratic experience of many African states, the liberal party model of democracy is identified as a major political obstacle which not only impedes democratisation, but also fails to address significant national questions in plural societies. Instead of acting as an attenuating force, the liberal party system tends to intensify the negative roles of other dependent socio-political variables in instituting and consolidating democracy in multi-ethnic societies. In light of this, this work recommends a cooperative, instead of a competitive method of government formation ¿ a ¿Cooperative Collegial Democracy¿ ¿ for African societies and any multi-ethnic society. This is a party-less, peaceful and overtly fair political system which is imbued with the qualities needed to resolve national questions and which constrains the incompetent and corrupt from emerging as political leaders, thus ensuring competent leadership and establishing functional and non-destabilising democracies in African or other multi-ethnic states.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 218 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Assuming the role of the African American griotte of her generation, Gloria Naylor seeks to recover and remember the eroded history of female archetypes in order to overcome the pain that a patriarchal, misogynist society has caused for Black women. Through revisiting and revising Biblical master narratives and Judeo-Christian imagery, Naylor sets out to tell the whole story of a truncated history. In great detail, this book throws light on Naylor¿s literary revisionism against the backdrop of a radical Black Feminist Liberation Theology and a matrifocal Africana Womanism. In an analysis that fuses the impact of residual oral narration, geo-psychic spaces, and the rediscovery of a Jungian mother pattern, it becomes clear that characters and plot symbiotically enter into the all-encompassing realm of the feminine, creative life force. It is here that Naylor carves out a living space for a new generation of African American women. 274 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Der Nießbrauch ist ein Instrument zur Regelung der vorweggenommenen Erbfolge. Diese Gestaltung ermöglicht die Übertragung des Anteils an einer Personengesellschaft auf den Junior, während gleichzeitig bestimmte Rechte beim Senior verbleiben. Mit der Frage, welche aus der Gesellschafterstellung erwachsende Rechte beim Gesellschafter verbleiben müssen und welche auf den Nießbrauchsbegünstigten übergehen können, beschäftigt sich diese Arbeit. Es werden einkommens- sowie erbschafts- und schenkungsteuerliche Aspekte betrachtet und der alternativen Gestaltungsmöglichkeit einer Vermögensübertragung gegen Versorgungsleistungen gegenübergestellt. Der Nießbrauch ist ein bedeutendes Mittel zur Regelung einer vorweggenommenen Erbfolge. 104 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Feridun Zaimoglu made a spectacular entrance onto the German cultural scene in 1995 with Kanak Sprak: a volume of incendiary texts based on interviews with disaffected Turkish German youths, using an invented, stylized literary language, a hybrid of multiple varieties of German with a hip hop beat. A prolific and acclaimed novelist, dramatist, newspaper columnist, visual artist and live performer, Zaimoglu has remained in the public eye through controversy and reinvention. His more recent work appropriates German literary traditions in radically new ways, adapting Romantic styles, narrative forms and motifs to postmodern conditions.This volume features the suppressed original first chapter of Leyla, Zaimoglüs critically and commercially most successful novel, first published in 2006, as well as an extensive interview with the author. Critical essays on his writing by major scholars in the field cover issues of gender, language and power, the politics of ethnicity, religion, Romanticism and anti-modernism, and the challenges of translating his work. This is the first volume of criticism in any language dedicated to Zaimoglüs literary work.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Immigration has become a contentious issue in Europe in recent decades, with immigrants being accused of resisting integration and threatening the secular fabric of nationhood. The most extreme form of this unease has invented and demonized an Islamic ¿other¿ within Europe. This book poses central questions about this global staging of difference. How has such anxiety increased exponentially since 9/11 Why has the Muslim veil been singled out as a metaphor in debates about citizenship Lastly, and most fundamentally, who sets the criteria for constructing the ideal citizen This study explores the issue of gender and immigration in the national contexts of Germany and France, where the largest minority populations are from Turkey and North Africa, respectively. The author analyzes fictional works by the Turkish-German writers Emine Sevgi Özdamar and Zafer ¿enocak and by Francophone writer Malika Mokeddem. All three deconstruct binary oppositions and envision an alternate third space that allows them to break out of the confines of organized religion. In the latter part of the book, the voices of young Muslim women are foregrounded through interviews. The concluding chapter on the pedagogical tool Deliberative Dialogue suggests ways to navigate such contentious issues in the Humanities classroom.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 252 pp. Englisch.