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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -2021 Bram Stoker Awards(R) Nominee for Superior Achievement in Non-FictionFrom the short story «The Lottery» to the masterworks The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson¿s popular, often bestselling works experimented with popular generic forms (melodrama, folktale, horror, the Gothic, and the Weird) to create a uniquely apocalyptic vision of America and its contradictions.With a Foreword by award-winning Jackson biographer Ruth Franklin, this collection features comprehensive critical engagement with Jackson¿s works, including those that have received less scholarly attention. Among these are the novels The Road Through the Wall, The Bird¿s Nest, and Hangsaman, as well as Jackson¿s historical study, The Witchcraft of Salem Village. Also included are essays on Jackson¿s darkly humorous collections Life Among the Savages and Raising Demons, on Stephen King¿s «literary friendship» with Jackson, on the little-known film adaptations Lizzie (1957) and Hosszú Alkony (Long Twilight) (1997), and the first-ever extended analysis devoted to Jackson¿s unpublished satirical cartoon sketches.The collection¿s five sections focus on Jackson¿s style, key themes, and influence; her politics and poetics of space; her treatment of the «monstrous» mother and monstrousness of motherhood; her representations of outsiders and minorities; and moving-image adaptations of her work. 346 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This publication focuses on the characterization of the Slovak party system and its analysis from the perspective of cleavages and emerging government groups. The monograph also includes a description of the individual types of emerging government coalitions and their politological analysis on the basis of the RILE index (right-left positioning). The said index is used to specify the programmatic differences of the emerging coalition governments and the impact of the development of the party system in Slovakia on their nature in the period from 1990 to 2012. The work is focused on the development trends of the Slovak party system on the background of programmatic heterogeneity of the individual coalition groups and the overall development of the variable tensions in the party system. The categorization of the government groups is based on the positional and programmatic orientation of the parties, which was published in the framework of the international database CMP (Comparative Manifestos Project). The Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) database processes, inter alia, the data relating to the political programs of the parties within the framework of their comprehensive ideological orientation. The Center for Social Research in Berlin thus contains relevant internationally acceptable comparisons of the party systems and their development. The aim of this publication is to characterize the format and type of the party system in Slovakia, its consolidation and the resulting operational problems between the election system and party system. The aim is also to extend the analysis of the Slovak party system to the specification of positional values and programmatic orientation of the parties in Slovakia based on the internationally accepted database and the RILE criteria. The publication also contains the tables with data on the proximity of variable tensions in the party system after each parliamentary elections and the relevant quantification on the RILE scale. The RILE scale will help us assess the programmatic heterogeneity of the government coalitions also in view of the political discourse on this issue. The work will also verify the hypothesis that the programmatic convergence of the parties in the left-right spectrum creates space for the emergence and establishment of extremist and antisystemic parties in the parliamentary establishment. 126 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -«Questo volume [¿] non si limita a descrivere, ma ricompone un quadro finora assente. I 37 capitoli che compongono questo volume-monstre dettagliano aspetti, figure, momenti spesso messi da parte nel dibattito.¿¿¿Attraverso i diversi capitoli il lettore percepisce la pervasività [dell¿industria] che si fa ideologema, le sue diverse realizzazioni e simbolizzazioni artistiche (cinematografiche e letterarie), e si rende conto che non si tratta solo di una «moda» o un momentaneo interesse dovuto a qualche intellettuale innamorato degli operai.»(Carlo Tirinanzi De Medici, University of Pisa, in SigMa 6 (2022))«Il libro rappresenta senza dubbio un¿indagine preziosa sulla rappresentazione del lavoro e dell¿industria nell¿Italia del dopoguerra. Molte sono le piste che esso ha il merito di aprire, così come le domande e le questioni che mette in gioco.»(Federico Pierotti, University of Picardie Jules Verne, in SigMa 6 (2022))«L'autorevolezza del volume risiede principalmente in tre ragioni: la cornice teorica chiara ma al tempo stesso originale; il contributo e l¿apporto dei maggiori esperti sul tema; la capacità di riflettere sulla letteratura industriale non solo a partire dalla cornice cronologica «classica» di questi saggi (che vanno grosso modo dall¿inizio del boom economico alla fine degli anni Settanta), ma inserendola in un discorso che porta ai giorni nostri rendendo così tale letteratura una specificità nel contesto letterario italiano.¿¿¿Un coraggioso tentativo di creare un canone letterario e cinematografico delle produzioni culturali industriali italiane.»(Daniele Comberieti, Paul Valéry University Montpellier 3, in Annali d¿Italianistica 40 (2022))«¿uno dei volumi più autorevoli sulla letteratura industriale.»(Daniele Comberieti, Paul Valéry University Montpellier 3, in Annali d¿Italianistica 40 (2022))This book explores the representation of industrial labor in Italian literature and film from the 1950s through the 1970s. The first article of the postwar Italian Constitution states that the Republic is founded on labor. Forces across the political spectrum, from Catholic to communist, invested labor with the power to build a new national community after Fascism and war. The 1950s-1970s saw dramatic transformations, in economic, social and cultural terms, as labor moved from agriculture to industry and a whole generation of Italian writers and filmmakers used literature and cinema to interpret ¿ and influence ¿ these changes and to capture the new experiences of industrial labor. The essays in this book offer a comprehensive panorama of this generation¿s work, examining key questions and texts, set against the context of history and theory, gender and class, geography and the environment, as well as their precursors and present-day successors.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 568 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -McLuhan in Reverse proposes two new and startling theses about Marshall McLuhan¿s body of work. The first argues that despite McLuhan¿s claim that he did not work from a theory, his body of work in fact constitutes a theory that Robert K. Logan calls his General Theory of Media (GToM). The second thesis is that McLuhan¿s GToM is characterized by a number of reversals, including his reversals of figure and ground, cause and effect, percepts and concepts; and the medium and its content as described in his famous one-liner 'the medium is the message.'While McLuhan¿s famous Laws of Media are part of his GToM, Logan has identified nine other elements of the GToM. They are his use of probes; figure/ground analysis; the idea that the medium is the message; the subliminal nature of ground or environment revealed only by the creation of an anti-environment; the reversal of cause and effect; the importance of percept over concept and hence a focus on the human sensorium and media as extensions of man; the division of communication into the oral, written, and electric ages along with the notions of acoustic and visual space; the notion of the global village; and finally, media as environments and hence media ecology.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 164 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Games enable children to practice emotions in spaces that are free from actualized consequences. With thoughtful guidance, games can help children manage emotions, perspective-take, demonstrate empathic concern, and exhibit prosocial behaviors.Emerging research suggests that these competencies¿also known as social and emotional learning (SEL) skills¿are, in fact, teachable. In Gaming SEL: Games as Transformational to Social and Emotional Learning, Matthew Farber investigates the rich opportunities games have in supporting SEL skill development. Experts from the fields of education, game development, and SEL¿including folks from CASEL, the Fred Rogers Center, Greater Good in Education, iThrive Games, Minecraft Education, and UNESCO MGIEP¿share advice.Games themselves cannot be responsible for children¿s learning. Having a supportive educator or caregiver guiding experiences can be crucial. This book also includes recommendations for embedding games in classrooms in ways that support meaningful SEL skill development. Regardless of your experience, content area, or grade level, this book is for you!Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 220 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Im Lischka-Prozess standen von Oktober 1979 bis Februar 1980 drei Mitverantwortliche für die Deportation der jüdischen Bevölkerung Frankreichs während der deutschen Besatzung im Zweiten Weltkrieg vor dem Kölner Landgericht. Die kurze Verhandlungsdauer sowie die Verurteilung der Angeklagten Kurt Lischka, Herbert Hagen und Ernst Heinrichsohn zu mehrjährigen Haftstrafen heben den Prozess von den meisten anderen westdeutschen NS-Strafverfahren ab. Die Studie untersucht den Einfluss der Strafverfolgung auf die öffentliche Debatte um die Shoah in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und in Frankreich. Mithilfe des Ansatzes der Histoire croisée analysiert sie, wie die erinnerungskulturelle Auseinandersetzung um den Lischka-Prozess in beiden Ländern geführt und wechselseitig rezipiert wurde. 180 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Hier liegt eine innovative Arbeit über das österreichische bzw. Österreichische Deutsch an polnischen Hochschulen vor. Die AutorInnen beleuchten durch Umfragen, Ergebnisse ihrer Unterrichtspraxis sowie Vorschläge für weitere Entwicklungen, wie polnischen Studierenden der Varietätenreichtum des Deutschen in einem sinnvollen Ausmaß nahegebracht werden kann. Der Fokus liegt hierbei auf dem österreichischen Deutsch. Praktische Übungen für den Unterricht sowie Überlegungen für den Bereich Translatorik vervollständigen das Buch. 122 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Die Autorin befasst sich mit der römisch-rechtlichen Werkgattung der «libri regularum» und untersucht anhand des Werkes des spätklassischen Juristen Älius Marcian, welche methodischen Vorstellungen er mit dem gewählten Titel verbindet. Insbesondere geht sie der Frage nach, ob und unter welchen tatsächlichen Bedingungen eine Regelbildung stattfindet.BoD - Books on Demand, In de Tarpen 42, 22848 Norderstedt 128 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -How do we think and imagine cultural and art institutions nowadays How they need to be transformed to meet the needs of the artists and professionals in the field This book examines the theoretical and practical tensions and questions related to cultural and art institutions in the context of North Macedonia and the wider region of former Yugoslavia. The author explores the needs in the art field of contemporary performing arts (post-dramatic theatre, dance, performance, choreography, etc.) and offers approaches to modelling and governing contemporary performing art institutions from the perspective of the independent cultural and art sector. The book proposes a post-modern cultural and art institution, or a co-institution, based on co-curation and shared leadership as opposed to the traditional or standard model of institution of arts and culture. The author offers an activist, self-organized and horizontal approach to governing, instead of vertical or top¿bottom, and modelling based on shared policies and a participative approach, instead of authoritarian partocratic policy-making.'Innovative and challenging analysis of the changing realities of the institutional cultural system. Conceptually sophisticated, compelling and with imaginative and ethically relevant solutions, this book is the timely response to the crucial issues in cultural management and cultural policy.' Milena Dragi¿evi¿ ¿e¿i¿, prof. emerita, University of Arts BelgradeBooks on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 226 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Die Dissertation untersucht Grundfragen des Patentrechts bei Hermann Isay, unter Berücksichtigung der ihn leitenden rechtsdogmatischen, wirtschafts- und gesellschaftspolitischen Probleme. Isay stellte sich die Frage, wie Patente zum Wiedererstarken der Wirtschaft beitragen könnten. Das seiner Ansicht nach am besten für den Absatz im Ausland geeignete Wirtschaftsgut waren Erfindungen. Isay schrieb Patenten die neue Funktion zu, die Wirtschaft durch Rettung eines eigenständigen Mittelstandes zu stärken. Um den dafür notwenigen Schutz zu generieren, begründete er die Zweiteilungslehre bei der Patentauslegung. Diese Lehre wurde vom Reichsgericht übernommen und stellte über drei Jahrzehnte die herrschende Lehre dar. Zudem setzte sich Isay für die Steigerung des Ansehens des entstehenden Berufstands der Patentanwälte ein. 220 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Die Globalisierung verläuft keineswegs linear und wird deshalb von vielen Menschen als Bedrohung empfunden. Mit dem Fokus auf sieben Schwerpunktthemen wird die Widersprüchlichkeit und Komplexität der Globalisierung in ihren geopolitischen Erscheinungsformen vorgestellt und analysiert. Es geht dabei um die Frage nach der richtigen Relation zwischen Arm und Reich, dem Ausmaß der Digitalisierung, den kulturellen Konfliktlinien, der internationalen Migration, den Anfeindungen für demokratische Gesellschaften sowie den Entsicherungen in Form von neuen Kriegen und Terror. 304 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Memories contribute to the construction of the image or interpretation of the past and the present. This book focuses on the topic of memory in the Middle and Far East societies by highlighting non-European cases of practicing collective and historical memory.The Far East cases include the memory of the Japanese occupation of Korea, issues of Japanization policies within the Taiwanese society, the role of museums in Chinese patriotism, the issue of contemporary Japanese nationalists, and public memory evaluation in India.The Middle Eastern contexts concentrate on the impact of the Arab Spring, historical memory in the politics of Muslim movements and interpreting aspects of heritage. 142 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Security relations between Japan and its East Asia neighbors have been complicated for decades. Entering the third decade of the 21st century, Japan will have to face new security challenges posed by COVID-19 and manage its current relations with the United States, China and South Korea. Mitigating local and global security threats will be one of the most critical challenges for the future. This book focuses on internal and external factors that are influencing current Japanese security policy and analyses the security issues from numerous perspectives, including social issues and their effect on security policies, bilateral relations between Japan and its partners in Asia, and the significance of the U.S.-Japan Alliance. 196 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg kamen sehr viele lexikalische Entlehnungen in der polnischen Alltagssprache unter, was vor allem die Folge der Bekämpfung der Mundarten und der Germanismen war. In der vorliegenden Monographie wird das Schicksal der Germanismen in der Alltagssprache von Köcierzyna, Starogard Gdäski und W¿brze¿no beschrieben.Die Beschreibung erfolgt aufgrund der Befragung von der Generation der Großeltern, der Eltern und Kinder. Es konnten bemerkbare Unterschiede zwischen den einzelnen Generationen hinsichtlich der Kenntnis der Germanismen festgestellt werden. Während die älteste Generation noch ziemlich viele Germanismen kennt, sind der jüngsten Generation die meisten lexikalischen Entlehnungen aus dem Deutschen fremd. 182 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Como povo marítimo que no século XV iniciou a expansão atlântica europeia, os portugueses entraram cedo em contacto com muitas culturas e línguas diferentes. O contacto entre as línguas fez surgir variações, o que atualmente se traduz numa polifonia no espaço linguístico lusófono e em cujo desenvolvimento ocorreram vários processos de transformação.BoD - Books on Demand, In de Tarpen 42, 22848 Norderstedt 222 pp. Deutsch, Portugiesisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Cet ouvrage étudie la programmation et la mise en ¿uvre de la politique de cohésion communautaire en Région Sicile en analysant particulièrement son volet culturel. Une approche au plus près du terrain, nourrie de nombreux entretiens réalisés de Bruxelles à Palerme, a mis à jour un cadre d¿intervention inopérant. Caractérisée par son extrême complexité, la politique de cohésion s¿articule difficilement avec la politique de développement des régions et pays concernés et sa mise en ¿uvre révèle de lourds dysfonctionnements. La culture est reconnue dans ce cadre pour sa contribution au développement du tourisme autour du patrimoine, pourtant cette vision centrée sur son impact économique est réductrice et trompeuse. Le principe du partenariat promu par cette politique suppose l¿implication des parties prenantes du territoire, or la Région Sicile mobilise la majorité des financements disponibles, au détriment d¿un secteur culturel qui reste globalement exclu. Enfin, la politique de cohésion apparaît comme un révélateur des crises politiques sicilienne et européenne : certains acteurs institutionnels insulaires privilégient l¿inertie, tandis que la faible réaction des institutions communautaires pourrait traduire l¿absence de volonté d¿¿uvrer pour une réelle cohésion européenne.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 234 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Now that remote education has become mainstream, how can we best use mobile technology to promote learning How can we personalise our assessment of learning remotely This book explores these questions and more, considering strategies for using mobile devices for more personalised teaching. The proliferation of mobile technology provides a unique opportunity to enable a wider variety of learning and assessment opportunities for students to help them achieve learning outcomes. The research in this book indicates that students¿ proficiency with and awareness of the affordances presented by mobile technology for both learning and assessment outweigh that of educators, and this book seeks to redress this balance.Originally focused on two further and higher education colleges in Northern Ireland, the strategies for teaching and assessment presented here have wider generalisability for educators in any sector, whether that be in education or specialist training. 184 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The Picture Postcard, a new window into Edwardian Ireland uses the material culture of the picture postcard as a lens through which to examine life on the island of Ireland during the Edwardian period (1902-10). Picture postcards became extremely popular worldwide at the start of the twentieth century, when literally hundreds of billions of them were produced and sold.This book draws on postcard collections to access the everyday lives of people who rarely make it into conventional historical narratives, and to make connections in an Irish context between their «small histories» and broader, well-studied discourses such as identity, nationalism, empire, modernity, emigration, tourism and the roles of women.¿Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 282 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The monograph is focused on three essential research problems identified by the key terms used in its title. The analysis covers concepts that previously were not subject to in-depth research projects: the MediaPolis, a MediaEgo and evolution of the political communication paradigm, observed and analysed on the political scene in Poland. Evolution of the public sphere and the media requires consideration of the causes of ongoing changes and of forecast transformations initiated by those changes. Hence, the research project focused on the sphere that emerged in an intersection of known discourse areas ¿ public, political, meta-political and media discourses. The monograph summarizes years of research into the proposed concepts of a MediaEgo politician and the MediaPolis public sphere. 304 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Biomedical translation is a complex activity that goes far beyond finding equivalent terms in another language. Communication and safety problems may occur in scenarios such as the following: (i) if translators are unaware of the conceptual, lexical, and pragmatic complexities of medical translation; (ii) if they do not possess advanced translation competence; or (iii) if they are not familiar with standards and workflows of the sector, or with documentation techniques. They should also be aware of the terminological and technological tools commonly used in the healthcare industry. This book provides viable solutions for English-Spanish medical translators who face such problems. It also integrates widely accepted theoretical paradigms and presents the most up-to-date resources and tools. 230 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The book describes an empirical study which inquired into the involvement of secondary school learners in the planning, preparation and enactment of two happenings. The study took the form of particpatory action research and used a data collection strategy based upon bricolage and the rhizome. Analysis was made of photographs, artefacts and posts from a blog, resulting from happening project sessions. Data was also gathered using auto-narrative, autobiographical interviews and group discussions. The data was interpreted in connection with educational discourses: critical pedagogy, teaching as a liminal practice and creative pedagogy. The research showed the learners were personally and actively involved in the happening project in contrast to what normally occurred in school lessons. 234 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The book deals with the philosophy of the human person as worked out by Karol Wojty¿a. It presents a number of fundamental issues necessary to understand Karol Wojty¿äs personalism. Thus, first it undertakes Wojty¿äs move from the philosophy of the human being to the philosophy of the human person; second, it presents Wojty¿äs epistemological approach to the person against the background of other philosophies concerned with the human person; third, it describes the metaphysical structure of the person; four, it analyses the person¿s selected faculties (consciousness, emotions); five, it presents some aspects of the action of the person (a person¿s causation, or their role in dialogue); and finally, it tries to sketch the problem of personal dignity. 196 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The monograph deals with chosen aspects of modern drama based on the output of three playwrights. It discusses the works of Beckett, Pinter and Stoppard in reference to their employment of the grotesque and the theatre of the absurd. Elements of the grotesque appear in political dramas of all three playwrights. While Beckett does not shy away from absurdity in his plays, some of the early dramas of Pinter and Stoppard present a general existential condition of man, even though their strictly political plays are basically realistic in respect to form, yet satirical in their content. Most of the political plays discussed portray the absurdity of totalitarian countries, stemming from the tragicomic discrepancy between what the authorities are saying they are doing and their actual actions. 234 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Eine große Synthese der Geschichte Polens im Ersten Weltkrieg, die einhundert Jahre historischer Forschung zusammenfasst und neue Forschungswege beschreitet. Eine eingehende Darstellung der russischen, deutschen und österreich-ungarischen Gebiete des geteilten Polen, die in die Wiedergewinnung der Unabhängigkeit und die Neupositionierung des Landes in Europa nach 1918 mündet. Das Buch verwendet Ansätze der Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, der Anthropologie und Umweltgeschichte, um das Alltagsleben im Krieg ebenso zu zeigen wie die militärische und diplomatische Entwicklung. Es analysiert, wie sich die von den Teilungs- und Besatzungsmächten verfolgte Politik und die Aktivitäten der polnischen Unabhängigkeitsbewegung und der Legionen Pi¿sudskis überlagerten und wechselseitig beeinflussten. 442 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Lucius Aelius Sejanus ¿ wer diesen Namen im Munde führt, assoziiert unweigerlich Machtkampf, List, Verrat, Mord aber auch Scharfsinn, Taktik und Fleiß ¿ eben all das, was man sich einerseits an politischer Skrupellosigkeit, andererseits an Ergebenheit in der frührömischen Kaiserzeit gemeinhin vorstellt. Sejan, dieser Name wurde im Laufe der Jahrhunderte zum bildhaften Synonym des machtversessenen Egoisten und rückgradlosen Opportunisten, dem jede moralische Ordnung hinsichtlich Ehre und Loyalität fehlt.Der Autor stellt Aelius Sejanus in den Mittelpunkt seiner Abhandlung und lässt anhand der überlieferten Quellen seine Lebensgeschichte und sein politisches Wirken in Rom lebendig werden. Dabei spannt sich der erzählerische Bogen über drei römische Kaiser, von Augustus über Tiberius hin zu Caligula. 304 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Die Produktion von deutschen Flugschriften erreichte in den 1520er Jahren auch in Nord- und Nordwestböhmen ihren Höhepunkt. Die Druckwerke der dortigen evangelischen Elite zeigen, wie diese sich an der öffentlichen Debatte um das Gemeinwohl beteiligte, zugleich aber regionale Streitfragen ins Spiel brachte. Das Buch klärt die Entstehungszusammenhänge und Besonderheiten einzelner Druckschriften und beschäftigt sich mit den literarischen und medialen Strategien, die für diese Werke prägend waren und die zum Teil von der zeitgleichen Produktion in Wittenberg abhingen. Es werden Selbstzuschreibungen und Fremdwahrnehmungen untersucht, über die sich die Identität der evangelisierten Gemeinden und ihrer Sprecher konstituierte. Des Weiteren fragt der Autor nach der Funktion dieser Schriften. 304 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Der Ausbau von Kindertageseinrichtungen ist eine bildungspolitische Aufgabe, welche nicht nur den Faktor Personal, sondern auch das Raumangebot und dessen pädagogische Gestaltung betrifft. Aus einer prinzipienwissenschaftlichen Perspektive heraus analysiert die Autorin sowohl grundlegende als auch praktische Gestaltungsorientierungen für den Elementarbereich, die zeigen, wie eine pädagogische Raumgestaltung im Elementarbereich umgesetzt werden kann. 364 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Commodities of one type or other have been produced, transferred and consumed in the economic life of humanity through every epoch of its development and forms of sociocultural organization, but are pervasive in the varieties of capitalism dominating contemporary world economies. Even labor, a necessary element in all forms of commodity production, has itself been commoditized. Embodying three kinds of potentially realizable value ¿ use, exchange, and symbolic ¿ commodities reflect and affect various facets of humanity¿s sociocultural life. They have been investigated by knowledge producers ranging from Aristotle and Ibn Khaldun through Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and Karl Marx down to a whole host of twentieth-century economists and others like the anthropologist, Bronislaw Malinowski, and the storyteller, B. Traven.In this book noted economic anthropologist Scott Cook draws on many decades of fieldwork in the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Tamaulipas to take on the challenge of crafting an academic memoir designed to provide insights into the role of commodities in his own life and times and especially in his anthropological career. He undertakes this project in conjunction with a running interpretation of the contrasting approaches of Malinowski and Traven to the topic of commodity production and exchange in Mexico. 256 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book is an exploration of the way in which the characters in Rudyard Kipling¿s short stories use superior knowledge, which often involves deception and the playing of practical jokes. There was early critical hostility to the stance adopted by Kipling¿s characters, that of a superior knowledge acquired by friendship with a small male circle. This book engages with a long-standing critical tradition which treats the jokes as acts of vicarious revenge or symptoms of supposed defects in Kipling¿s personality, instead setting his use of the practical joke in the wider social context of his time.In this book Kipling¿s writing is examined for what it reveals about a complex, self-conscious but powerful range of values rather than what it is supposed to disguise or conceal. Although he endorsed British colonial rule, Kipling was frank about the slackness, endemic rule-breaking and second-rate nature of British rule in India. He also criticised some of the widespread cultural, religious and moral phenomena of his time, which he thought harmful. Many of his short stories contain an implied but serious criticism of Victorian beliefs, from attitudes to death-beds, and schoolboys to Positivism. 292 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The Catholic Church has recently issued a call for «educating to fraternal humanism» ¿ most notably through the encyclical letter of Pope Francis, Fratelli Tutti. Fraternal humanism envisions a pluralist society in which all voices are to be heard and this contrasts with previously held positions of outright rejection of pluralist societies (Augustinian Thomism) or Christianisation of such societies (Whig Thomism). This book proposes an alternative, Dominican Thomist vision of a procedurally secular society that comprises three realms, namely sacred, secular and profane. Such a Dominican Thomist enterprise is founded upon human reasoning whereby Catholic and liberal thinkers collaborate to build this society of three realms in which a fortified secular realm operates as a porous buffer against the sacred and profane realms. In such a society, the public sphere is pluralist and open to all voices. Derived from experience and classroom research into dialogic RE interventions; a socially productive pedagogy is advocated as a starting point for the development of a procedurally secular society. In particular, it identifies a common ground pathway that supports both critical RE from liberal education and critical faith pedagogy from the Catholic tradition.¿Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 272 pp. Englisch.