Brill jan 1998 (17 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For far too many people for far too many years, schooling has been a debilitating, demoralizing, and ultimately dehumanizing experience. Make-shift, half-hearted, and watered-down reform measures have proved ineffective. Reform throws out the bath water, but keeps the baby. Radicalism recognizes not a baby but a beast lurks in the bath water and throws both out. This dramatic redefinition of schooling examines four models of dynamism as provided by Nietzsche, Whitehead, Dewey, and Freire. Nietzsche's af-firmation of dynamism is marred by his elitism. Whitehead understands that inert cripple schooling. Without dialogue, ideas remain inert. Dewey misunderstands thinking and does not grasp its inherent double movement: toward order and disorder. Freire's pedagogy is transcended, with emphasis on negotiation between prime values. The final chapter expounds a radical pedagogy of dynamism. Miller argues that teaching and learning are not separate acts, but form a continuum. Within the teaching-learning continuum, all participants are spontaneous and receptive and seek to overcome fear of process, ambiguity, and doubt. The key to radical schooling is a pro-active stance toward creativity that allows for a dynamic integration of difference in dialogue. Negotiating Toward Truth is a call to arms for all educators. The book asks us to look closely what is in the bath water and to have the courage to throw the beast out with the bath water.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Warfare and wealth were the major means for acquiring status in precolonial Minahasa (North Sulawesi). The author argues that the quest for power and prestige is an ongoing concern among Minahasans.Based on extensive anthropological and historical research, this book focuses on patterns and processes of social mobility. The character of leadership in tribal society, then under the colonial bureaucracy, and later in modern Indonesia are discussed. Besides political changes, changes in economic conditions and in religion have had a considerable influence on mobility. These processes are illustrated by a case study of a local community.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Beneath the Volcano is the first major account of the Nage, who inhabit the central part of Flores in eastern Indonesia.The book focuses on Nage ideas concerning a variety of spiritual beings and how these influence both ritual practices and ideas about human beings. In exploring these subjects, the author sets out to uncover a classification of spirits. While quite different from taxonomies of natural beings, Nage ways of linking named categories of spirits nevertheless reveal a regular conceptual order. In describing this order, use is made of a version of Dumont's notion of 'encompassment'. Common ideas informing relations between Nage humans and several categories of spirits are further interpreted as instances of a pervasive principle of 'symmetric inversion', according to which human beings are spirits for the spirits.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Too much of what has so far passed for the 'historical background' to Indonesia's environmental problems has consisted of little more than thinly disguised backward projections of modern trends. The writers in this volume report on their own pioneer journeys into the paper landscapes of the colonial literature and archives in search of the real environmental history of Indonesia.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - No detailed description available for ''Each Man Cried Out to His God''.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - AUSTRALIAN THEATRE in the 1990s is a vigorous enterprise displaying the energies and contradictions of a multicultural society. This collection of essays by leading scholars of Australian theatre and drama surveys the emergence and directions of the new theatrical energies which have challenged or redefined the Australian 'mainstream': Aboriginal, multicultural, Asian-Australian, women's, gay and lesbian, community and young people's theatre; and charts the exciting growth of physical theatre. The contributors assess the impact of evolving funding and industrial priorities, and examine the theoretical and cultural debates surrounding Australian playwriting and theatre-making from the 1970s Vietnam dramas to the postmodern present.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The proceedings of the 30th International Geological Congress held in Beijing, China in August 1997. This volume focuses on mathematical geology and geoinformatics. It aims to present a view of contemporary geology to researchers interested in the geological sciences.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Talking to the Dead is an essay on death and its tenacious hold on Irish culture. There are few traditions in which funerary motifs have been so ubiquitous in literature, popular rituals, folk representations, public rhetorics, even constructions of place. There are even fewer cultures in which funerary genres and preoccupations constitute the central thread of continuity. The Irish Theatrum Mortis is not simply an obsession of writers from the bards to Beckett and Heaney. Nor is it confined to contemporary Republican iconography. It is to be found in the pages of the local press, in acts of ritual resistance to unpopular decisions, in the way in which significant public events are narrated and framed. Though the funerary Ireland presented here may well yield to the new, positive self-image of the Celtic Tiger, it is the authors' contention that at the end of the twentieth century the funerary sign continues to define Irish identity. For good and ill, it is the centre that holds.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Most of the 170 species of grasshoppers and crickets included in this book can be identified instantly by their songs - and often more reliably than from their appearance. Orthopterans have recently become important subjects in evolutionary biological studies and are also increasingly used in the field of conservation as indicators of undisturbed habitat.The book comprises the following chapters: Introduction; Acoustic Methods; Sound Production and Reception of European Orthoptera; The Nature and Function of the Songs; The Value of the Songs in Taxonomy and Identification; Key to the singing Orthoptera of Western Europe, based primarily on their Songs; and other Animal Sounds that could be confused with Orthoptera Songs - illustrated with over 1600 oscillograms; three Appendixes (Check-list of the species included; Summary of Nomenclatural Changes; Data for the Song Recordings); Glossary; References; Index to Vernacular Names; and General Index.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The proceedings of the 30th International Geological Congress held in Beijing, China in August 1997. This volume focuses on geochemistry. It aims to present a view of contemporary geology to researchers interested in the geological sciences.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This intellectual history study locates the philosophy of history of Pierre-Simon Ballanche (1776-1847) within the intellectual, religious, and social life of Restoration and July Monarchy France, and argues for the recognition of Ballanche as an important contributor to that milieu.Its four parts blend the topical and evolutionary approaches, analyzing dominant themes as they are developed across Ballanche's works, and charts Ballanche's complex relation of dependence and independence to the various intellectual currents of the period.This study clarifies the thought of a notoriously obscure thinker, illuminates the intellectual history of early nineteenth-century France, and demonstrates how Ballanche's project for religio-social regeneration effected a crucial step in the historical-mindedness of the Romantic period.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book is a study of the writings of a group of Chinese Christian apologists in the seventeenth century, focussing on Xu Guangqi. Eleven of his shorter writings are included in Chinese and in translation.The first part of the book is devoted to a study of Latin Christian apologists within the Roman Empire to provide a comparison for the analysis of Xu Guangqi's work. Minucius Felix, Tertullian and Lactantius are shown to have faced, in regard to imperial power and Graeco-Roman culture, a situation comparable to that of Xu Guangqi, Li Zhizao and Yang Tinqyun in regard to imperial power and culture in the late Ming period.The final chapters of the book reconsider general issues of confrontation and adaptation in the inculturation of Christianity.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Lausberg's Handbook of Literary Rhetoric, here made available for the first time in English, received high critical acclaim on its first publication in 1963. It is a monumental work of extraordinary erudition, organisation and comprehensiveness, and enjoys unrivalled authority in its formal description of rhetorical techniques. The present edition is a translation of the second edition of 1973, which was reprinted in 1990. The Handbook has for many years been a standard reference work for all engaged in the study of literature and rhetoric. This translation will ensure its accessibility to a new generation of students of rhetoric.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The correspondence between Sir Ronald Ross (1857-1932) and Sir Patrick Manson (1844-1922) is rich in both scientific and human terms. It records, in great detail, Ross's research in India between 1895 and 1899, which elucidated the role of mosquitoes in the transmission of malaria, work for which Ross was awarded the 1902 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology. Ross described the mosquito-transmission theory as Manson's 'Grand Induction', and he had returned to India, where he was an officer in the Indian Medical Service, having been primed by Manson. Ross's regular letters to his mentor document the frustrations and false trails as well as the excitement of discovery. Manson in turn acted as a kind of agent in London, publicising his findings, offering advice and seeking to use his influence to secure for Ross the working conditions he so desired. These 173 letters, plus 85 from the two decades after Ross's return to Britain also record the rise and full of a relationship, as Ross's preoccupation with his place in the history of malariology led to a breach between the two men. Themes of priority, nationalism, and personal vanity punctuate this latter correspondence, which also reveals new insights about the golden years of tropical medicine. Ross included some of the correspondence in his Memoirs, but most of it appears here, fully annotated, for the first time.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Entlang eigenwilliger Lektüren von Adorno, Heidegger, Derrida, Levinas, Kafka und Handke läßt das Buch den Tod in einer kaleidoskopischen Vielfalt erscheinen. Nachgezeichnet wird ein Schritt-Halten mit dem Tod. Zurechtgerückt in der Schwerkraft des Todes ordnen sich die Dinge neu. Todesarten sind Gangarten dieses Schritt-Haltens mit dem Tod. Das Buch gibt die Sprache des Todes zu hören, die durch das Leben hindurch nicht aufhört, zu reden und zu soufflieren.Dem Tod gewinnt der Autor eine bewußtseinsverändernde Kraft ab, die ausstrahlt auf Wahrnehmung, Wohnen, Schreiben, Namen und Mitsein. Der Tod wird hier nicht bloß zu einem Bewußtseinsinhalt. Vielmehr beschreibt Todesarten Metamorphosen des Bewußtseins selbst. Das Buch bewegt sich auf eine menschliche Endlichkeit hin, die die Grenze in weite Räume eines humanen Aufenthaltes verwandelt. So entfaltet der Tod bewohnbare Räumlichkeiten für den sterblich existierenden Menschen.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - No detailed description available for 'Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art / Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 48 (1997)'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Entlang eigenwilliger Lektüren von Adorno, Heidegger, Derrida, Levinas, Kafka und Handke läßt das Buch den Tod in einer kaleidoskopischen Vielfalt erscheinen. Nachgezeichnet wird ein Schritt-Halten mit dem Tod. Zurechtgerückt in der Schwerkraft des Todes ordnen sich die Dinge neu. Todesarten sind Gangarten dieses Schritt-Haltens mit dem Tod. Das Buch gibt die Sprache des Todes zu hören, die durch das Leben hindurch nicht aufhört, zu reden und zu soufflieren.Dem Tod gewinnt der Autor eine bewußtseinsverändernde Kraft ab, die ausstrahlt auf Wahrnehmung, Wohnen, Schreiben, Namen und Mitsein. Der Tod wird hier nicht bloß zu einem Bewußtseinsinhalt. Vielmehr beschreibt Todesarten Metamorphosen des Bewußtseins selbst. Das Buch bewegt sich auf eine menschliche Endlichkeit hin, die die Grenze in weite Räume eines humanen Aufenthaltes verwandelt. So entfaltet der Tod bewohnbare Räumlichkeiten für den sterblich existierenden Menschen.Brill I Fink, Wollmarktstraße 115, 33098 Paderborn 240 pp. Deutsch.…