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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten im digitalen Zeitalter: Mittlerweile gehören Elektronisches Buchs und E-Journals, Social-Media-Einträge, Datenbanken und andere elektronische Quellen zum wissenschaftlichen Alltag. Studierende fragen sich oft, welche Quellen sie verwenden dürfen, welche verlässlich sind und wie sie richtig zitiert werden. Dieser Ratgeber zeigt Lösungswege auf:Wie findet man elektronische Quellen Was ist zitierfähig und was nicht Wie vermeidet man Plagiate Wie soll eine bibliographische Angabe aussehen Was tun, wenn in der Quelle Angaben fehlen Für die zweite Auflage hat Lydia Prexl noch mehr Tipps zum Umgang mit schwierigen Fällen gesammelt.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ausgezeichnet mit dem René-König-Lehrbuchpreis 2018Wie verändert sich die Produktionsarbeit Was bedeutet Dienstleistungsarbeit Welche Auswirkungen haben die beobachteten Veränderungen auf das Verhältnis von Arbeit und Leben Ausgehend von konkreten Phänomenen der heutigen Arbeitswelt werden in diesem Lehrbuch der Reihe Soziologie im 21. Jahrhundert Begriffe, Theorien und Forschungsschwerpunkte der Arbeits- und Industriesoziologie anschaulich erläutert und systematisch auf die Klassiker des Faches zurückgeführt.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In early modern times, Seville was the most important hub for the transatlantic economy. It attracted a large number of foreign merchants who connected the American with the European markets. While the transatlantic axis of this trade has drawn much attention in historiography, the connection between Seville and the European Atlantic coast has largely been ignored. Therefore, this book analyzes the central actors of this trade route who were the Flemish and French merchants of Seville. Following their commercial activities, it shows features of their private and business networks in Seville and displays fundamental structures and processes of the European and transatlantic economy.; Dissertationsschrift.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Es ist schon kurios, dass die Soziologie eines der anspruchsvollsten und innovativsten Theorieunternehmen im 20. Jahrhundert ausgerechnet der Arbeit eines ehemaligen Verwaltungsbeamten verdankt. Schließlich war Niklas Luhmann nur durch Zufälle und über Umwege überhaupt in der akademischen Soziologie gelandet . Komplexe Einführungen zum Thema Luhmann gibt es zuhauf. Die Reihe Philosophie für Einsteiger geht einen anderen Weg. Zeichnung und Text sind gleichberechtigt, was diese kurze und äußerst unterhaltsame Einführung besonders leicht verständlich macht. Mit reichlich anekdotischem und biographischem Material ausgestattet, wird der Leser mit Leben und Denken Luhmanns vertraut gemacht. Kleine Exkurse machen sein Denken besser verständlich - wer Luhmanns Einfluss auf die Soziologie verstehen will, muss nicht gleich seine gesammelten Werke wälzen! Warum verabschiedete dieser außergewöhnliche Denker die klassischen Grundbegriffe der Soziologie Warum war bei ihm nicht mehr von 'Menschen', 'Klassen' oder 'Handlungen' die Rede, sondern stattdessen von 'Autopoiesis' und 'System', von 'Funktion' und 'Doppelter Kontingenz' Und welche Rolle spielte dabei sein legendärer Zettelkasten.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Kephalaia of the Teacher is the most detailed account available to modern scholarship of the teachings of Mani, and of the universal religion that he founded as the final successor to Buddha, Zarathushtra and Jesus. This volume provides the first complete English translation of the Coptic text (c. 400 CE), together with introduction, commentaries and indices.Topics include the apostleship of Mani, the practices of the Manichaean community, accounts of the heavenly and demonic beings and worlds, as well as discussions of astrology and religious psychology.In Manichaeism many of the gnostic and dualistic themes of early Christianity achieved the status of a world religion, and the subject is the heir to contemporary interest in heterodoxy and the deconstruction of received histories (see the Nag Hammadi codices).…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume offers insights into the major Jewish migration movements and rebuilding of European Jewish communities in the mid-twentieth century. Its chapters illustrate many facets of the Jews' often traumatic post-war experiences. People had to find their way when returning to their countries of origin or starting from scratch in a new land. Their experiences and hardships from country to country and from one community of migrants to another are analyzed here. The mass exodus of Jews from Arab and Muslim countries is also addressed to provide a necessary and broader insight into how those challenges were met, as both migrations were a result of persecution, as well as discrimination.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Jewish Youth around the World 1990-2010: Social Identity and Values, Erik Cohen offers a rich and multi-faceted picture of Jewish adolescents and young adults today. Based on numerous empirical studies conducted by the author over the course of two decades among various populations in Israel and every major Diaspora country, it considers a range of issues, including: demographics and migration patterns, Jewish identity, involvement in the Jewish community, leisure time activities, values, relationship to Israel and to the global Jewish collective. In-depth analysis of the data uncovers similarities and differences of various sub-populations by nationality, level of religiosity, age, gender and more. The book is pioneering in its comparative approach to Jewish youth around the world.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Within Christian theology, debates on the theology of religions have intensified over the last thirty or so years. This volume surveys the field and maps future directions in this expanding and important area of research. Both established experts and new voices address typological debates, comparative theology, multiple religious belonging or identity, and how dialogue between different religious traditions affects our understanding of these issues. Different perspectives and traditions are represented, and, while focusing upon debates in Christian theology, voices and perspectives from a range of religious traditions are also included. This volume is an essential tool for research students and established scholars working within the theology of religions and interreligious studies.Contributors are: Graham Adams, Tony Bayfield, Abraham Velez de Cea, Gavin D'Costa, Reuven Firestone, Ray Gaston, Elizabeth Harris, Paul Hedges, Shanthikumar Hettiarachchi, Haifaa Jawad, Kristin Beise Kiblinger, Paul F. Knitter, Oddbjørn Leirvik, Marianne Moyaert, Mark Owen, Alan Race, Sigrid Rettenbacher, Perry Schmidt-Leukel, Leonard Swidler, Philip Whitehead, Janet Williams, Ulrich Winkler.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Media, Modernity and Dynamic Plants, Janet Janzen traces the motif of the 'dynamic plant' through film and literature in early 20th century German culture. Often discussed solely as symbols or metaphors of the human experience, plants become here the primary focus and their role in literature and film is extended beyond their symbolic function. Plants have been (and still are) seen as closer to static objects than to living, moving beings. Making use of examples from film and literature, Janet Janzen demonstrates a shift in the perception of plants-as-objects to plants-as-living-beings that can be attributed to new technology and also to the return of Romantic and Vitalistic discourses on nature.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The problem of the limits of science is twofold. First, there is the problem of demarcation, i.e., the boundaries or 'barriers' between what is science and what is not science. Second, there is the problem of the ceiling of scientific activity, which leads to the 'confines' of this human enterprise. These two faces of the problem of the limits -- the 'barriers' and the 'confines' of science -- require a new analysis, which is the task of this book. The authors take into account the Kantian roots but they are focused on the current stage of the philosophical and methodological analyses of science. This vision looks to supersede the Kantian approach in order to reach a richer conception of science.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Recent narrative fiction and film increasingly exploit, explore and thematize the embodied mind, revealing the tenacity of a certain brand of humanism. The presence of narratively based concepts of personal identity even in texts which explore posthuman possibilities is strong proof that our basic understanding of what it means to be human has, despite appearances, remained mostly unchanged. This is so even though our perception of time has been greatly modified by the same technology which both interrupts and allows for the rearrangement of our experience of time at a rate and a level of ease which, until recently, had never been possible.Basing his views on a long line of philosophers and literary theorists such as Paul Ricoeur, Daniel Dennett and Francisco Varela, Escobar maintains in The Persistence of the Human that narrative plays an essential role in the process of constituting and maintaining a sense of self. It is narrative's effect on the embodied mind which gives it such force. Narrative projects us into possible spaces, shaping a temporary corporeality termed the 'meta-body,' a hybrid shared by the lived body and an imagined corporeal sense. The meta-body is a secondary embodiment that we inhabit for however long our narrative immersion lasts - something which, in today's world, may be a question of milliseconds or hours. The more agreeable the meta-body is, the less happy we are upon being abruptly removed from it, though the return is essential. We want to be able to slip back and forth between this secondary embodiment and that of our lived body; each move entails both forgetting and remembering different subject positions (loss and recuperation being salient themes in the works which highlight this process). The negotiation of the transfer between these states is shaped by culture and technology and this is something which is precisely in flux now as multiple, ephemeral narrative immersion experiences are created by the different screens we come into contact with.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Jacques Réda: Being There, Almost, Aaron Prevots studies the work of this major contemporary French writer since the 1950s--poetry, novels, literary essays, short prose, jazz histories. He particularly examines Réda's explorations of place, including how the 'world's energy' becomes the ideal dancing partner, poetry incarnate in one's arms. Réda embodies 'being there, almost' because he wanders with great wisdom yet renounces any glory in this metaphorical dance. He aligns us with the outer world's rhythms and time's passage. Fleeting waves of perception create a voluptuous, unified whole. In considering the arc of Réda's works from 1952-2015, Aaron Prevots locates a progression from post-Baudelairean flânerie to commemoration of childhood, classical antiquity, fellow writers, jazz, physics, swing, theology, and trains.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Radical Planes 9/11 and Patterns of Continuity, edited by Dunja M. Mohr and Birgit Däwes, explores the intersections between narrative disruption and continuity in post-9/11 narratives from an interdisciplinary transnational perspective, foregrounding the transatlantic cultural memory of 9/11. Contesting the earlier notion of a cataclysm that has changed 'everything, ' and critically reflecting on American exceptionalism, the collection offers an inquiry into what has gone unchanged in terms of pre-9/11, post-9/11, and post-post-9/11 issues and what silences persist. How do literature and performative and visual arts negotiate this precarious balance of a pervasive discourse of change and emerging patterns of political, ideological, and cultural continuity.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From a Darwinian perspective, language is rooted in our neurobiology, and the process whereby interpretation is reached - in the case of argumentative sequences - is not dissimilar to that underlying action selection in response to environmental change: indeed, it arguably involves the same type of decision-making (Damasio 1994). Context construction, as construed by Nyan, corresponds to the preliminary stage of decision-making, when the changed environment needs to be categorised. What discourse markers contribute to context construction is an upgraded level of automation, whereby the degree of variation assumed to be present in the interlocutor's processing context can be brought within a manageable range. How discourse markers influence interpretation is construed in terms of Damasio's (2010) convergence-and-divergence zone framework.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The volume presents a selection of research projects in Digital Humanities applied to the 'Biblical Studies' in the widest sense and context, including Early Jewish and Christian studies, hence the title 'Ancient Worlds'. Taken as a whole, the volume explores the emergent Digital Culture at the beginning of the 21st century. It also offers many examples which attest to a change of paradigm in the textual scholarship of 'Ancient Worlds' categories are reshaped; textuality is (re-) investigated according to its relationships with orality and visualization; methods, approaches and practices are no longer a fixed conglomeration but are mobilized according to their contexts and newly available digital tools.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book traces the artistic trajectories of Djuna Barnes and Jane Bowles, examining their literary representations of the nomadic ethic pervading the twentieth-century expatriate movements in and out of America. The book argues that these authors contribute to the nomadic aesthetic of American modernism: its pastoral ideographies, (post)colonial ecologies, as well as regional and transcultural varieties. Mapping the pastoral moment in different temporalities and spaces (Barnes representing the 1920s expatriation in Europe while Bowles comments on the 1940s exodus to Mexico and North Africa), this book suggests that Barnes and Bowles counter the critical trend associating American modernity primarily with urban spaces, and instead locate the nomadic thrust of their times in the (post)colonial history of the American frontier.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In exploring the shifting realities of missionary experience during the course of imperialist ventures and the Catholic Reformation, The Frontiers of Mission: Perspectives on Early Modern Missionary Catholicism provides a fresh assessment of the challenges that the Catholic church encountered at the frontiers of mission in the early modern era. Bringing together leading international scholars, the volume tests the assumption that uniformity and co-ordination governed early modern missionary enterprise, and examines the effects of distance and de-centering on a variety of missionaries and religious orders. Its essays focus squarely on the experiences of the missionaries themselves to offer a nuanced consideration of the meaning of 'missionary Catholicism', and its evolving relationship with newly discovered cultures and political and ecclesiastical authorities.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Food is at the centre of human existence. We eat every day, not only to satisfy our physical needs but also as part of cultural and social interaction. Food choices and markets shape the agricultural landscape and the cities we live in. Whereas what we choose to eat and feed our family is part of who we are, a growing number of actors compete to influence our food habits, through marketing strategies and nutritional advice. And ethical considerations are coupled with every choice over food - whether related to production, distribution, consumption, food waste, policy in general, marketing or advice. Given the variety of implications the 'food problem' entails, the construction of an inclusive society must redirect the concerns about food in the present to the imagination of future alternatives. The search for innovative solutions calls for multidisciplinary critical enquiry - and utopian thinking will be instrumental in that regard. This book brings together work by scholars in a wide range of disciplines addressing many different topics related to food futures. Topics covered include food and literature, food waste, food communication, food policy, corporate social responsibility and public procurement in food supply, responsible research and innovation in food production as well as sustainability and animal ethics and welfare.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Family Law in Britain and America in the New Century: Essays in Honor of Sanford N. Katz nineteen leading family law scholars in the US and Britain pay tribute to Sanford Katz, Darald and Juliet Libby Millennium Professor Emeritus and Professor of Law, Boston College Law School by giving a critical account of developments in family law in their jurisdictions since 2000. Areas covered include the institution of marriage, financial and property issues, parents and children, the state and children, access to justice, and international issues as well as an overview by the Editor. The volume will provide a stimulating and accessible account of the state and current direction of travel of family law in those countries.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Rituals and Symbolic Communication in Medieval Hungary under the Árpád Dynasty (1000 - 1301) Dusan Zupka examines rituals as means of political and symbolic communication in medieval Central Europe, with a special emphasis on the rulers of the Árpád dynasty in the Kingdom of Hungary.Particular attention is paid to symbolic acts such as festive coronations, liturgical praises, welcoming of rulers (adventus regis), ritualised settlement of disputes, and symbolic rites during encounters between rulers. The power and meaning of rituals were understandable to contemporary protagonists and to their chroniclers. These rituals therefore played an essential role in medieval political culture. The book concludes with an outline of ritual communication as a coherent system.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Matthew crowds more Old Testament quotations and allusions into the prologue than anywhere else in his gospel. In this volume, Nicholas G. Piotrowski demonstrates the narratological and rhetorical effects of such frontloading. Particularly, seven formula-quotations constellate to establish a redemptive-historical setting inside of which the rest of the narrative operates. This setting is defined by Old Testament expectations for David's great son to end Israel's exile and rule the nations. Piotrowski contends that the rhetorical effect of this intertextual storytelling was to provide the Matthean community with an identity--in a contentious atmosphere--in terms of God's historical design for the ages, now fulfilled in Jesus and his followers.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Religious Experience Revisited explores a dilemma which has haunted the study of religion since William James. Is religion rooted in experiences Is religion rooted in expressions How are experiences and expressions related The contributors to this international and interdisciplinary compilation explore the possibilities and the impossibilities of a hermeneutics of religion. Combining theology and philosophy with biblical, cultural, historical and literary studies, they examine how religious experiences and religious expressions have been entangled in the past and in the present. These entanglements call for interdisciplinary conversations in which those who study experiences and those who study expressions can learn from each other in order to carve out important and instructive spaces for the study of religion.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre ist die Essay-Forschung wieder in Bewegung geraten. Während ältere Untersuchungen auf einen Überblick der Gattungsgeschichte fixiert waren, hat sich nunmehr das Postulat einer notwendigen Historisierung der Essayproduktion durchgesetzt. Zugleich ist die Einsicht in die besondere Bedeutung des Reflexionsmediums Essay für die gattungsauflösende literarische Moderne und die durch vielfältige Medieninnovationen geprägte Postmoderne gewachsen. Daher begreift der Sammelband, der sich bewusst von gängigen literaturgeschichtlichen Epochengliederungen abgrenzt, den bis heute in fast unüberschaubarer Vielfältigkeit auftretenden Essay als Universalgattung des Zeitalters. Präsentiert werden neben bereits bekannte(re)n Autoren auch solche, deren einschlägiges Werk bislang kaum Aufmerksamkeit erregt hat. Die behandelten Essays werden unter vier systematischen Fragestellungen diskutiert: Gattung und Form, kognitive Aspekte, Themenspektrum und institutionelle Verortung sowie Medialität. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In The Encoded Cirebon Mask: Materiality, Flow, and Meaning along Java's Islamic Northwest Coast, Laurie Margot Ross situates masks and masked dancing in the Cirebon region of Java (Indonesia) as an original expression of Islam. This is a different view from that of many scholars, who argue that canonical prohibitions on fashioning idols and imagery prove that masks are mere relics of indigenous beliefs that Muslim travelers could not eradicate. Making use of archives, oral histories, and the performing objects themselves, Ross traces the mask's trajectory from a popular entertainment in Cirebon--once a portal of global exchange--to a stimulus for establishing a deeper connection to God in late colonial Java, and eventual links to nationalism in post-independence Indonesia.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Picaresque Fiction Today Luigi Gussago examines the development of the picaresque in contemporary Anglophone and Italian fiction. Far from being an extinct narrative form, confined to the pages of its original Spanish sources or their later British imitators, the tale of roguery has been revisited through the centuries from a host of disparate angles. Throughout their wanderings, picaresque antiheroes are dragged into debates on the credibility of historical facts, gender mystifications, rational thinking, or any simplistic definition of the outcast. Referring to a corpus of eight contemporary novels, the author retraces a textual legacy linking the traditional picaresque to its recent descendants, with the main purpose of identifying the way picaresque novels offer a privileged insight into our sceptical times. Cover illustration by Eugene Ivanov 'Night Airing', 2007.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This collection of essays discusses the marketing of scientific and medical instruments from the eighteenth century to the First World War. The evidence presented here is derived from sources as diverse as contemporary trade literature, through newspaper advertisements, to rarely-surviving inventories, and from the instruments themselves. The picture may not yet be complete, but it has been acknowledged that it is more complex than sketched out twenty-five or even fifty years ago. Here is a collection of case-studies from the United Kingdom, the Americas and Europe showing instruments moving from maker to market-place, and, to some extent, what happened next. Contributors are: Alexi Baker, Paolo Brenni, Laura Cházaro, Gloria Clifton, Peggy Aldrich Kidwell, Richard L. Kremer, A.D. Morrison-Low, Joshua Nall, Sara J. Schechner, and Liba Taub. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book involves a new historiographical study of the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia that defines its relationship with fifth- and fourth-century historical works as well as its role as a source of Diodorus' Bibliotheke. The traditional and common approach taken by those who studied the HO is primarily historical: scholars have focused on particular, often isolated, topics such as the question of the authorship, the historical perspective of the HO against other Hellenica from the 4th century BC. This book is unconventional in that it offers a study of the HO and fifth- and fourth-century historical works supported by papyrological enquiries and literary strategies, such as intertextuality and narratology, which will undoubtedly contribute to the progress of research in ancient historiography.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Nathaniel Wallace's Scanning the Hypnoglyph chronicles a contemporary genre that exploits sleep's evocative dimensions. While dreams, sleeping nudes, and other facets of the dormant state were popular with artists of the early twentieth century (and long before), sleep experiences have given rise to an even wider range of postmodern artwork. Scanning the Hypnoglyph first assesses the modernist framework wherein the sleeping subject typically enjoys firm psychic grounding. As postmodernism begins, subjective space is fragmented, the representation of sleep reflecting the trend. Among other topics, this book demonstrates how portrayals of dormant individuals can reveal imprints of the self. Gender issues are taken up as well. 'Mainstream,' heterosexual representations are considered along with depictions of gay, lesbian, and androgynous sleepers.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Many scholars have recently shown great interest in a diachronic re-examination of Antonio Gramsci's main theoretical-political categories in the Prison Not Elektronisches Buch. This method would uncover the origins and development of Gramsci's concepts using the same method that Gramsci himself believed would allow us to grasp 'the rhythm of thought' in Marx. The present work embraces this perspective and puts it to work in two ways. Its first part analyzes the relation between structure and superstructure and the concepts of hegemony and the regulated society. Its second part extends the diachronic analysis to the conceptual pairings which represent alternatives to structure-superstructure, encompassing questions of political and cultural organisation as well as the relation between Gramsci and the major proponents of historical materialism (Marx, Engels, Lenin). English translation of Il ritmo del pensiero: per una lettura diacronica dei 'Quaderni del carcere' di Gramsci published by Bibliopolis, Naples (2011).…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book analyzes the historical significance of rivaling concepts of world order in 20th century East Asia. Since the arrival of European imperialism in 19th century - coupled with its different schools of political philosophy and international law - China has struggled to combine ideas on national sovereignty, spatiality and hegemony in its quest of either imitating or replacing European norms of world order. By analyzing Chinese visions of regional and international order and comparing them with Japanese proposals of that era, this book discusses in detail the relationship of territoriality and political rule, discourses of amity and enmity, and finally the role of hegemoniality in the process of imagining a possible postnational world in 21st century East Asia and beyond.…