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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book draws inspiration from the author¿s own scholarship on race, anti-Blackness, Indigeneity, and anti-colonial studies to offer the personal travelogue of a Black scholar in academia. The author reflects on how he came to a critical consciousness about critical issues of race, anti-Black racism, and anti-colonial studies in the 1980s. The intersecting theme of Black scholars¿ responsibility for advancing a path of Blackcentricity wedded in Black and African Indigeneities to address global anti-Black racism and anti-Blackness is an important intellectual pursuit.In the struggle for true liberation, our work for social justice, equity, decolonization, and the anti-colonial end is only possible if we embrace critical solidarity through Indigenous resistance and community building. We must all be part of an on-going struggle; those of us with the privilege of being familiar with history have a responsibility to mentor and be mentored by our young colleagues as a nurturing of the power of knowledge.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 250 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Throughout the history of human civilization, the definition of the animal and its relationship to humans have been contentious issues. This book investigates the notion of what constituted an animal in Early Medieval English culture as well as how the animal-human interaction is portrayed in the Anglo-Saxon literary corpus. In this regard, the animal¿s portrayals in the Exeter Book Riddles and of monstrous creatures in the Wonders of the East provided a fertile field for research because these texts, rarely connected to allegorical readings and offering viewpoints that might be seen as complementary, deal with fundamental issues regarding what it meant to be human for Early Medieval English society.This study offers fresh insights into the characters and themes explored in the Exeter Book collection and in the Wonders of the East, looking for the spaces of Anglo-Saxon thought in which animality and humanity appear to meet. The author not only discovers the peculiar features in the definition of humanity with regard to animal and non-human figures, but is able to demonstrate that a strong anthropocentric vocation can coexist with an outlook that recognizes a close affinity among different species.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 196 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Drawing on Hegel¿s model of aesthetics and beauty to analyze the Star Trek franchise, this book puts justice at the center of the 'beauty'¿and entertainment value¿of popular culture. The author, George A. Gonzalez, shows that plot¿revolving around justice and injustice¿often determines the artistic success and popularity of TV and films. He argues that Star Trek is the most popular franchise in history because it puts the pursuit of justice, and therefore beauty, at the heart of its world.Star Trek and the Philosophy of Entertainment also offers a major corrective to the prevailing academic treatment of popular culture, demonstrating that Star Trek and other shows consistently challenge class rule and other forms of oppression based on race, gender, and nationality. In the world of Star Trek, justice is represented by a modern, classless society, totally free of ethnic and gender biases.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 120 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This volume explores the enduring influence of Introduction to the Science ofSociology, published a century ago by Robert Park and Ernest Burgess. It bringstogether scholars from the United States, Canada, and Italy, who collectivelydemonstrate the work's enduring relevance and its important role in the dialoguebetween European and American sociology. The contributors examine topics raisedin the original text that remain as relevant as ever, including segregation, the conceptof assimilation and the marginal man, subcultures, constructive isolation, collectivebehavior, the German roots of the Chicago School, socio-spatial evolution overtime, fashion and metropolis, and social creativity from the ecological school to thedigital challenge.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The dynamic development of biotechnologies and the deepening knowledge of natural and information sciences expand the possibilities of human modification. In this book, the ideas of transhumanism and posthumanism are analyzed from several philosophical perspectives, examining their overlap with artistic expression. The possible ontological, ethical, and social implications associated with the fulfillment of transhumanist and posthumanist visions are explored, as well as the validity of traditional philosophical concepts under these new conditions. Additionally, the influence of transhumanist and posthumanist ideas on literary, visual, cinematic, and digital art is analyzed, and interpretative possibilities are explored.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 240 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Toward Abolishing White Supremacy in Higher Education allows higher education professionals to dive in and consider how their roles impact BIPOC students, faculty, and staff. Through personal anecdotes, case studies, scholarly research, and historical references, this seminal work centers the experiences of Black, Indigenous, and people of color in the academic community while offering tools toward abolishing white supremacy in higher education.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 484 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -We selected ten post-communist countries for this research. Eight of them are located on the Balkan Peninsula, from a geographical point of view. We added Romania and Slovenia for historical reasons. The main aim of research is to provide a model of the media system in each of them. We are interested in the political, societal, economic and technological situation, journalistic standards and media accountability. The important thing is to know how media systems evolve in each country, under the influence of political institutions and external stakeholders. We examined how political, media, economic and social systems co-work or influence each other and how they affect each other. 294 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The book is the last volume of an extensive four-volume monograph devoted to the work of Cyprian Norwid (1821¿1883), one of the most outstanding Polish authors. The impact of Norwid¿s oeuvre does not fade, as he addresses fundamental and timeless issues, such as the moral and spiritual condition of man or his place in the world and history, and seeks to answer universal questions. The volume includes articles devoted to the analysis of selected sources and inspirations underlying Norwid¿s work, as well as comparative texts tracing the manifestations of the commonality of thoughts and views connecting Norwid with the leading writers and artists of different periods. As a result, we received a multi-faceted image of an artist who, on the one hand, was strongly rooted in the tradition and modernity of Western European culture, and on the other, was characterized by great openness and sensitivity to otherness and cultural diversity. 658 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The process of the Orthodoxization of memory in Russia started long before the Russian Orthodox Church engaged in the memory politics. It was a grassrooted process initiated by both the living and the dead. By using religious symbols and rituals, various groups of living were restoring their relationship with the forgotten dead of Soviet repressions and war. When the Moscow Patriarchate has returned to active public life and started developing its religious memory infrastructure, the Orthodoxization process got a new up¿down dimension. Finally, a turn of the Putin¿s regime towards religious commemorative practices caused the disappearance of the boundary between religious and political memory. The bricolage memory, consisting of elements of Orthodox tradition and Soviet memory culture, appeared. 246 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This is the first study to examine the intersections of Indigenous scholarship, theories of New Materialism and Native American fiction regarding the Anthropocene future. The book discusses selected speculative fiction novels by North American Indigenous female writers such as Zainab Amadahy, Rebecca Roanhorse, Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel, Cherie Dimaline and Louise Erdrich. They offer a distinctive contribution to the emerging trend in Native American literature called Indigenous futurisms. The writers challenge established paradigms of science fiction genre by presenting alternative worlds where Indigenous people are heroes and Native knowledge means power. The book discusses how academic theory and selected Indigenous speculative fiction address the possibilities for more complex conceptions of the materiality of human bodies and the more-than-human world. 278 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The war in Ukraine has not only affected the political, economic, social, and cultural systems but also the education and schooling system. The full-scale assault of the Russian Federation on Ukrainian territory on 24 February 2022 disrupted the teaching and research systems. The necessity of finding scholarly answers to tough questions about the situation of the universities ¿ their academic staff and students ¿ during the war, the solidarity attitude of universities in foreign countries, and the status of Ukrainian Studies are the causes of preparing this publication. The value of this volume is that the authors of most of the articles are specialists and theorists of the subject, at the same time observers and witnesses of the events and processes described, often actively involved in them.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 284 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This work examines the practice of reading aloud in the interactional context of adult participants engaging in an interface-mediated collaborative game activity. With a conversation analytic approach onto video data of user studies, empirical cases of reading aloud are presented. It is shown how participants multimodally co-organise reading aloud in-interaction for providing accessibility to game text in a game that is unfamiliar to them. With reading aloud, participants meet the interactional challenge of making game text audibly accessible that is not always visually accessible for all participant alike. This practice is not only conducted for another but with another in a truly joint fashion, working as a continuer to accomplish the unfamiliar game. 202 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The publication is a collection of research articles that provide an insight to mnemonic governance ¿ a process of shaping the shared social imaginary of the past by legislators, courts, scholars and other actors. This phenomenon can be observed as an element of political discourse or as changes in law consolidating certain officially recognized states. The contributions in this volume offer a political, legal and historical analysis of transitional justice legislation, emerging memory laws, and the societal perception of the past. With this publication, we intend to contribute to the ongoing and changing debate surrounding memory politics and highlight the practical consequences of mnemonic governance. 206 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book presents an experimental study using eye-tracking methods and experimental pragmatics to examine the role of the Spanish connective a pesar de ello in the recovery of counter-argumentative and anaphoric relations. The book analyzes the processing patterns triggered by the connective when establishing such relations and how these are affected by the position of the connective, the recovery of conflictive assumptions, and the extension and complexity of the antecedent. The results shed light on the limits of the procedural instruction of a pesar de ello as affected by its level of grammaticalization and explicit anaphoric instruction. Overall, the book contributes to a general characterization of the principles underlying the instructions displayed by discourse markers. 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This edited volume provides an opportunity to take a fresh look at the printed material often regarded as disposable by its contemporaries and, until recently, as unworthy of serious academic research. From the fifteenth century to the twentieth century, this volume not only demonstrates the wide variety of ephemeral publications which have survived to the present day, but also shows how they can be used to interpret history and printing history and culture in particular. Some of the forms of printed ephemera discussed will be familiar to scholars such as chapbooks and commercially-printed posters whilst others, such as papal indulgences and bellman¿s sheets are more unusual. The collection discusses the production, distribution and consumption of ephemera, including how it can be used demonstrate changes to print culture over time. This volume aims to demonstrate that printed ephemera, in its many and varied forms, is worthy of serious academic study.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 276 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book addresses specialized translation, focusing on the forms of translation with the potential to make specialized languages more comprehensible and accessible, namely intralingual and intersemiotic translation. The book offers strategies to assist both readers and translators in approaching specialized languages not only from a professional or academic perspective but also from a practical one, encouraging and promoting a new approach to facilitating their understanding of specialized languages. In so doing, it demonstrates how the exploitation of graphic texts (whether static or animated) represents an invaluable instrument on both a pedagogical and social level. Graphic communication is shown to assist in the drafting of various types of specialized documents to make them more accessible to the general public, thus proposing that graphic art might represent a more unbiased approach to specialized languages and, as a result, contribute to a more egalitarian distribution of knowledge.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book, adhering to the dominant and critical approaches in communication studies, explains new theoretical concepts with examples, their definitions and pioneers. Under the heading of dominant approaches, the language of new media, participatory culture, network society, technological transformation and persuasion technology approaches are defined. In the context of critical approaches, the concepts of simulacrum, digital socialism, online movements, surveillance society, digital labour, digital loneliness, collective intelligence and political economy are explained. In the new terminologies section, the concepts of big data, artificial intelligence, semantic web, digital addiction, mixed reality and digital diseases are given in the context of the concept of virtuality. 176 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book encompasses a number of original studies on diversity in cognition. This topic is examined from a wide range of perspectives, including psycholinguistics, linguistic relativity, applied linguistics as well as second language and bilingualism research. The methodological approaches vary from linguistic descriptions and corpus analyses to experimental methods such as eye-tracking or speech elicitation. The book shows that diversity in cognition plays a key role in linguistics encoding, event conceptualization, reception of music and general literacy. Cognitive diversity can even be seen to shape human interaction and communication. The book offers new insights and fresh approaches to the discourse on diversity in and beyond cognition.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 290 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book draws from graph theory and a semiotic comparison between language and distributed ledger technologies (also known as Blockchains) to motivate three experiments on language and network structure. The work explores the importance of this concept in different areas of linguistic research and establishes elements of a tentative linguistics of networks. Its empirical investigation is based on data from threads posted to the imageboard Hispachan, which often displays radicalized language and hate speech. The experiments (based on topic modeling and sentiment analysis) reveal an impact of the network structure of interaction on the interaction itself as well as the use of ingroup signalling and emotionally charged vocabulary to expand the network of interaction.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 316 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -In the increasingly globalised consumer culture of the twenty-first century, consumer goods have long become more than mere commodities: they are markers of identity and tools of narration. Advertising, branding and other processes of consumer culture are ubiquitous and charge objects with meaning, impacting the way we perceive them and those who wear, use, showcase or discard them. This close link between consumer culture and the narration of identities ¿ ranging from an individual to a national level ¿ affects the construction of «national brands», as can be seen through contemporary writing.With a focus on post-2000 Austrian literature, this book unveils how a skilful reading of consumer objects ¿ both branded and non-branded ¿ can enrich literary analysis. Introducing the concept of consumer literacy and applying it to Wolf Haas¿ Das Wetter vor 15 Jahren, Thomas Glavinic¿s Die Arbeit der Nacht, Arno Geiger¿s Es geht uns gut and Raphaela Edelbauer¿s Das flüssige Land, the study showcases the narrative power of consumer goods and the impact of Austrian literature and its writers on the idyllic national brand that stands in stark contrast to a troubled past.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 304 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Band 89 des Wiener Slawistischen Almanachs enthält vor allem zwei thematische Blöcke, die sowohl slawische Kulturen selbst als auch ihre Rezeption auf einer Metaebene umfassen. Zum einen sind dies mehrsprachige Materialien der Tagung «Periodicals in the Slavic World. Contemporary and Historical Perspectives», die in München im Oktober 2021 unter der Teilnahme von Redakteur\*innen mehrerer führender slawistischer Zeitschriften stattfand. Der zweite Block beinhaltet englischsprachige Beiträge des Online-Symposiums «Mad Fridays: Literature and Psychiatry in Late Imperial Russia» (2021). Neben diesen thematischen Blöcken enthält der Band einen Beitrag zur politischen Ökologie des Treibhauses in der russischen Literatur sowie fünf Rezensionen zu Neuerscheinungen in der europäischen Slawistik. 430 pp. Englisch, Deutsch, Russisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book investigates men and quiltmaking, an under-researched part of theU.S.-American quilt world. It analyzes the connection between the genderedness ofmaterial practice and White masculinity concepts in the U.S.-American mainstream.The examination of the construct of masculinity in two quilt novel series from the2010s aims to answer the question of whether the characters¿ attitudes towardsquiltmaking and quilts as objects provide information about change in heterosexualgender relations and whether the fictional masculinities in Wanda E. Brunstetter¿s orAnn Hazelwood¿s novels promote new approaches to manhood. Due to the paucity ofscholarly work on contemporary quilt fiction, this book also contributes to the studyof a hybrid genre. 340 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Playing Shakespeare¿s Beautiful People is an in-depth, comprehensive look at the concepts and standards of 'beauty' found in Shakespeare¿s plays and poems, both in staged performances and in critical literary analyses. Issues as challenging as race, gender, sex, and power come into play when discussing who or what is 'beautiful' in Shakespeare ¿ and who gets to make that determination. How do we address or perform 'beauty' today in a manner that is both consistent with 21st century conceptions of diversity and equity, while still honoring the integrity of Shakespeare¿s texts, even as we interrogate them In this volume, the fifth in the series of Playing Shakespeare¿s Characters, ten distinguished contributors, including Shakespearean scholars, art historians, playwrights, actors, philosophers, visual artists, and educators, bring their unique and provocative responses to Shakespeare¿s challenge for us to 'look on beauty.'Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 194 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book studies the academic history of the humanities of Southwestern Associated University from the following aspects: the general situation of academic research, research institutions and academic journals, philosophical research, historical research, literary research, linguistic research, ethnological and anthropological research, academic tradition, reputation and enlightenment. It comprehensively and systematically studies the academic history of Southwestern Associated University.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 358 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book was compiled, at the request of the CITIC Press, by Liang Peikuan ¿¿¿ (1925¿2021), the son of Liang Shuming ¿¿¿ (1893¿1988). Liang Shuming was known as the 'Last Confucian,' the 'Last Buddhist,' the 'Hidden Buddhist,' a 'lifelong activist,' a 'unifier of thought and action,' and so on. Part I 'The Spirit of the Chinese Culture' is a collection of excerpts from Liang Shuming¿s previous publications, including his most famous Eastern and Western Cultures and Their Philosophies (1922). Part II 'China and the West: Two Different Paths of Social Evolution' and Part III 'The Need to Bring into Union Chinäs Strengths and Foreign Strengths' are the first reprints of what Liang Shuming wrote more than seventy years ago, between 1942 and 1949, too late to be included in the Complete Works of Liang Shuming (1989¿1993). The book looks at the cultural destiny of China, as Liang perceived it, of course.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 260 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -A significant new contribution to Hemmingway scholarship, this book seeks to show that the moral world of The Sun Also Rises is profoundly unstable, and that every character can be seen as being both endorsed and critiqued by the text. This is manifested especially in Jake¿s status as a partially reliable narrator, and above all in his judgment of Brett. Jake consistently hides his true feelings for Brett from the reader and from himself, as he seeks to appear in control of his life.Reading the text in this way also renders the novel¿s famous conclusion less decisive than is usually assumed. This book will be of interest to upper-level undergraduates as well as graduate students and scholars.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 320 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The southwestern borderland in imperial China covers the area encompassing present-day Yunnan, Guangxi, Guizhou, southwestern Sichuan, and the northern part of the Indochina Peninsula, once under the Central Plains dynasty¿s rule. For more than two millennia, China exercised varying degrees of political and military control over this region. The book traces the history of the dynamic and delicate relationship between the imperial court and the southwestern borderland throughout the Han, Jin, Southern, Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, and examines how the Nanyue, Shu- Han, Nanzhao, and Dali regimes governed the region. The author¿s close analysis of both the governance strategy and its implementation sheds critical lights on how this important relationship was sustained for such a long period of time.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 876 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -During the 20th century, the Dai people lived a traditional agrarian life, with minimal modern industry and commerce. Yet unlike other rural societies and ethnic groups such as the Han, birthrate was moderate and there was no son preference. To understand this apparent anomaly, the book draws on a range of anthropological and psychological theories of human behavior by scholars such as Fei Xiaotong, Li Yinhe and Abraham Maslow, and shows the complexity of human fertility behavior, and the inadequacy of purely economic theories.The prevalence of Theravada Buddhist, abundant natural resources and an inheritance system that is agnostic about the sex of the children are key factors in the persistent low fertility and belief in gender equality among the Dai people. The author argues that this understanding of how low fertility rate can take place without overt policy intervention has important implications for what China might do to prepare for its demographic future.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 534 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book draws inspiration from the author¿s own scholarship on race, anti-Blackness, Indigeneity, and anti-colonial studies to offer the personal travelogue of a Black scholar in academia. The author reflects on how he came to a critical consciousness about critical issues of race, anti-Black racism, and anti-colonial studies in the 1980s. The intersecting theme of Black scholars¿ responsibility for advancing a path of Blackcentricity wedded in Black and African Indigeneities to address global anti-Black racism and anti-Blackness is an important intellectual pursuit.In the struggle for true liberation, our work for social justice, equity, decolonization, and the anti-colonial end is only possible if we embrace critical solidarity through Indigenous resistance and community building. We must all be part of an on-going struggle; those of us with the privilege of being familiar with history have a responsibility to mentor and be mentored by our young colleagues as a nurturing of the power of knowledge.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 250 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book aims to look into countries¿ national financial behaviors and their attributes under the modern financial system and explore several important themes regarding national finance. Different from the commonly referred to finance discipline which studies financial affairs in general, national finance focuses on the most essential and immediate issues pertaining to a country¿s financial development: After a country designs its top-level financial layout and chooses a regulatory regime, how should it lead its domestic finance to develop and overtake How should a country¿s financial system respond to the worldwide rapid development of hi-techs How to guard against and cope with systemic or regional financial risks How should a country participate in the construction and promotion of a new international financial order amid international financial powers These are all questions national finance as a subject must address at the highest level.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 410 pp. Englisch.