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Japan is one of the world's most literate societies. Its national
newspapers are the most read newspapers in the world, and the
country also has a very vibrant local newspaper sector. This book
assesses the vital role local newspapers play in the development of
local communities, as well as examining their development, industry
structure and production conventions. The author employs the key
term, 'revitalization journalism', to explore in detail the many
techniques and conventions that local newspapers employ to engage
with, and make an impact in, their specific host regions. The book
concludes by comparing Japanese local newspapers to the current
state of newspapers worldwide, and assessing how Japanese local
newspapers are likely to develop in future.
A critical introduction to how the Nagasaki atomic bombing has been
remembered, especially in contrast to that of Hiroshima. In the
decades following the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945,
the city’s residents processed their trauma and formed narratives
of the destruction and reconstruction in ways that reflected their
regional history and social makeup. In doing so, they created a
multi-layered urban identity as an atomic-bombed city that differed
markedly from Hiroshima’s image. Shadows of Nagasaki traces how
Nagasaki’s trauma, history, and memory of the bombing manifested
through some of the city’s many post-atomic memoryscapes, such as
literature, religious discourse, art, historical landmarks,
commemorative spaces, and architecture. In addition, the book pays
particular attention to how the city’s history of international
culture, exemplified best perhaps by the region’s Christian
(especially Catholic) past, informed its response to the atomic
trauma and shaped its postwar urban identity. Key historical actors
in the volume’s chapters include writers, Japanese- Catholic
leaders, atomic-bombing survivors (known as hibakusha), municipal
officials, American occupation personnel, peace activists, artists,
and architects. The story of how these diverse groups of people
processed and participated in the discourse surrounding the
legacies of Nagasaki’s bombing shows how regional history,
culture, and politics—rather than national ones—become the most
influential factors shaping narratives of destruction and
reconstruction after mass trauma. In turn, and especially in the
case of urban destruction, new identities emerge and old ones are
rekindled, not to serve national politics or social interests but
to bolster narratives that reflect local circumstances.
UNESCO aims to tackle Africa's under-representation on its World
Heritage List by inscribing instances of nineteenth- and
twentieth-century modern architecture and urban planning there.
But, what is one to make of the utopias of progress and development
for which these buildings and sites stand? After all, concern for
'modern heritage' invariably-and paradoxically it seems-has to
reckon with those utopias as problematic futures of the past, a
circumstance complicating intentions to preserve a recent 'culture'
of modernization on the African continent. This book, a new title
in Routledge's Studies in Culture and Development series,
introduces the concept of 'global heritage assemblages' to analyse
that problem. Based on extensive anthropological fieldwork, it
describes how various governmental, intergovernmental, and
non-governmental actors engage with colonial and post-colonial
built heritage found in Eritrea, Tanzania, Niger, and the Republic
of the Congo. Rausch argues that the global heritage assemblages
emerging from those examples produce problematizations of the
modern', which ultimately indicate a contemporary need to rescue
modernity from its dominant conception as an all-encompassing,
epochal, and spatial culture.
Dieser multidisziplinäre Band vereint Forschungsarbeiten zu
verschiedenen Aspekten der jüdisch-muslimischen Beziehungen, des
Austauschs und der Koexistenz im Laufe der Zeit, darunter das
Rätsel der abrahamitischen Tradition, Juden im Koran und im
Hadith, Ibn al-'Arabi und die Kabbala, vergleichende feministische
Theologie, Juden, Christen, Muslime und das Barnabas-Evangelium,
die Harmonisierung von Religion und Philosophie in Andalusien,
Juden und Muslime im christlichen Spanien des Mittelalters,
israelische Juden und muslimische und christliche Araber, die
jüdisch-muslimische Koexistenz auf Zypern, muslimisch-jüdische
Dialoge in Berlin und Barcelona, jüdisch-christlich-muslimische
Triloge und Teleologie, jüdische und muslimische Speisegesetze
sowie jüdische und muslimische Integration in der Schweiz und in
Deutschland.
Japan is one of the world's most literate societies. Its national
newspapers are the most read newspapers in the world, and the
country also has a very vibrant local newspaper sector. This book
assesses the vital role local newspapers play in the development of
local communities, as well as examining their development, industry
structure and production conventions. The author employs the key
term, 'revitalization journalism', to explore in detail the many
techniques and conventions that local newspapers employ to engage
with, and make an impact in, their specific host regions. The book
concludes by comparing Japanese local newspapers to the current
state of newspapers worldwide, and assessing how Japanese local
newspapers are likely to develop in future.
The authors of this volume examine theory and practice regarding
past and present roles of Jewish, Christian and Islamic religious
education in nurturing tolerance, interpreted as mutual respect for
and recognition of other groups, in Eastern (Albania, Bulgaria,
Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro and Romania) and Western
(Finland, Germany, Italy, Latvia and Spain) Europe, Israel, Nigeria
and Uzbekistan. They also explore potential roles of religion and
exclusivism in fostering (Islamic state, NGOs, etc.), but also
averting (Islamic legal theory, authority, Sufism, etc.)
radicalization, and of secular states in allowing, but also banning
minority religious education in public schools.With contributions
from Friedrich Schweitzer, Martin Rothgangel, Gerhard Langer,
Daniela Stan, Arto Kallioniemi, Juan Ferreiro Galguera, Maria
Chiara Giorda, Rossana M. Salerno, Viorica Goras-Postica,
Constantin Iulian Damian, Valentin Ilie, Dzintra Ilisko, Ayman
Agbaria, Zilola Khalilova, Raid al-Daghistani, Osman Tastan, Moshe
Ma'oz, Adriana Cupcea, Muhamed Ali, Rudiger Lohlker and Dele
Ashiru. The Editors Ednan Aslan is the Chair of Islamic Theological
studies at the University of Vienna where he is a Professor for
Islamic Education. Margaret Rausch is scholar, researcher and
university instructor in the field of Islamic and Religious
Studies.
This book focuses on the design, development, management,
governance and application of evolving software processes that are
aligned with changing business objectives, such as expansion to new
domains or shifting to global production. In the context of an
evolving business world, it examines the complete software process
lifecycle, from the initial definition of a product to its
systematic improvement. In doing so, it addresses difficult
problems, such as how to implement processes in highly regulated
domains or where to find a suitable notation system for documenting
processes, and provides essential insights and tips to help readers
manage process evolutions. And last but not least, it provides a
wealth of examples and cases on how to deal with software evolution
in practice. Reflecting these topics, the book is divided into
three parts. Part 1 focuses on software business transformation and
addresses the questions of which process(es) to use and adapt, and
how to organize process improvement programs. Subsequently, Part 2
mainly addresses process modeling. Lastly, Part 3 collects concrete
approaches, experiences, and recommendations that can help to
improve software processes, with a particular focus on specific
lifecycle phases. This book is aimed at anyone interested in
understanding and optimizing software development tasks at their
organization. While the experiences and ideas presented will be
useful for both those readers who are unfamiliar with software
process improvement and want to get an overview of the different
aspects of the topic, and for those who are experts with many years
of experience, it particularly targets the needs of researchers and
Ph.D. students in the area of software and systems engineering or
information systems who study advanced topics concerning the
organization and management of (software development) projects and
process improvements projects.
UNESCO aims to tackle Africa's under-representation on its World
Heritage List by inscribing instances of nineteenth- and
twentieth-century modern architecture and urban planning there.
But, what is one to make of the utopias of progress and development
for which these buildings and sites stand? After all, concern for
'modern heritage' invariably-and paradoxically it seems-has to
reckon with those utopias as problematic futures of the past, a
circumstance complicating intentions to preserve a recent 'culture'
of modernization on the African continent. This book, a new title
in Routledge's Studies in Culture and Development series,
introduces the concept of 'global heritage assemblages' to analyse
that problem. Based on extensive anthropological fieldwork, it
describes how various governmental, intergovernmental, and
non-governmental actors engage with colonial and post-colonial
built heritage found in Eritrea, Tanzania, Niger, and the Republic
of the Congo. Rausch argues that the global heritage assemblages
emerging from those examples produce problematizations of the
modern', which ultimately indicate a contemporary need to rescue
modernity from its dominant conception as an all-encompassing,
epochal, and spatial culture.
This book analyses and elaborates on learning processes within work
environments and explores professional learning. It presents
research indicating general characteristics of the work environment
that support learning, as well as barriers to workplace learning.
Themes of professional development, lifelong learning and business
organisation emerge through the chapters and contributions explore
theoretical and empirical analyses on the boundary between working
and learning in various contexts and with various methodological
approaches. Readers will discover how current workplace learning
approaches can emphasise the learning potential of the work
environment and how workplaces can combine the application of
competence that is working, with its acquisition or learning.
Through these chapters, we learn about the educational challenge to
design workplaces as environments of rich learning potential
without neglecting business demands. Expert authors explore how
learning and working are both to be considered as two common
aspects of an individual’s activity. Complexity, significance,
integrity and variety of assigned work tasks as well as scope of
action, interaction and feedback within its processing, turn out to
be crucial work characteristics, amongst others revealed in these
chapters. Part of the Professional and Practice-based Learning
series, this book will appeal to anyone with an interest in
workplaces as learning environments: those within government,
community or business agencies and within the research communities
in education, psychology, sociology and business management will
find it of great interest.
This book focuses on the design, development, management,
governance and application of evolving software processes that are
aligned with changing business objectives, such as expansion to new
domains or shifting to global production. In the context of an
evolving business world, it examines the complete software process
lifecycle, from the initial definition of a product to its
systematic improvement. In doing so, it addresses difficult
problems, such as how to implement processes in highly regulated
domains or where to find a suitable notation system for documenting
processes, and provides essential insights and tips to help readers
manage process evolutions. And last but not least, it provides a
wealth of examples and cases on how to deal with software evolution
in practice. Reflecting these topics, the book is divided into
three parts. Part 1 focuses on software business transformation and
addresses the questions of which process(es) to use and adapt, and
how to organize process improvement programs. Subsequently, Part 2
mainly addresses process modeling. Lastly, Part 3 collects concrete
approaches, experiences, and recommendations that can help to
improve software processes, with a particular focus on specific
lifecycle phases. This book is aimed at anyone interested in
understanding and optimizing software development tasks at their
organization. While the experiences and ideas presented will be
useful for both those readers who are unfamiliar with software
process improvement and want to get an overview of the different
aspects of the topic, and for those who are experts with many years
of experience, it particularly targets the needs of researchers and
Ph.D. students in the area of software and systems engineering or
information systems who study advanced topics concerning the
organization and management of (software development) projects and
process improvements projects.
This book analyses and elaborates on learning processes within
work environments and explores professional learning. It presents
research indicating general characteristics of the work environment
that support learning, as well as barriers to workplace learning.
Themes of professional development, lifelong learning and business
organisation emerge through the chapters and contributions explore
theoretical and empirical analyses on the boundary between working
and learning in various contexts and with various methodological
approaches.
Readers will discover how current workplace learning approaches
can emphasise the learning potential of the work environment and
how workplaces can combine the application of competence that is
working, with its acquisition or learning. Through these chapters,
we learn about the educational challenge to design workplaces as
environments of rich learning potential without neglecting business
demands.
Expert authors explore how learning and working are both to be
considered as two common aspects of an individual s activity.
Complexity, significance, integrity and variety of assigned work
tasks as well as scope of action, interaction and feedback within
its processing, turn out to be crucial work characteristics,
amongst others revealed in these chapters.
Part of the Professional and Practice-based Learning series,
this bookwill appeal to anyone with an interest in workplaces as
learning environments: those within government, community or
business agencies and within the research communities in education,
psychology, sociology and business management will find it of great
interest."
During the 21st century business environments have become more
complex and dynamic than ever before. Companies operate in a world
of change influenced by globalisation, volatile markets, legal
changes and technical progress. As a result, they have to handle
growing volumes of data and therefore require fast storage,
reliable data access, intelligent retrieval of information and
automated decision-making mechanisms, all provided at the highest
level of service quality. Successful enterprises are aware of these
challenges and efficiently respond to the dynamic environment in
which their business operates. Business Intelligence (BI) and
Performance Management (PM) offer solutions to these challenges and
provide techniques to enable effective business change. The
important aspects of both topics are discussed within this
state-of-the-art volume. It covers the strategic support, business
applications, methodologies and technologies from the field, and
explores the benefits, issues and challenges of each. Issues are
analysed from many different perspectives, ranging from strategic
management to data technologies, and the different subjects are
complimented and illustrated by numerous examples of industrial
applications. Contributions are authored by leading academics and
practitioners representing various universities, research centres
and companies worldwide. Their experience covers multiple
disciplines and industries, including finance, construction,
logistics, and public services, amongst others. Business
Intelligence and Performance Management is a valuable source of
reference for graduates approaching MSc or PhD programs and for
professionals in industry researching in the fields of BI and PM
for industrial application.
Joe R. Lansdale (b. 1951), the award-winning author of such novels
as Cold in July (1989) and The Bottoms (2000), as well as the
popular Hap and Leonard series, has been publishing novels since
1981. Lansdale has developed a tremendous cult audience willing to
follow him into any genre he chooses to write in, including horror,
western, crime, adventure, and fantasy. Within these genres, his
stories, novels, and novellas explore friendship, race, and life in
East Texas. His distinctive voice is often funny and always unique,
as characterized by such works as Bubba Ho-Tep (1994), a novella
that centers on Elvis Presley, his friend who believes himself to
be John F. Kennedy, and a soul-sucking ancient mummy. This same
novella won a Bram Stoker Award, one of the ten Bram Stoker Awards
given to Lansdale thus far in his illustrious career. Wielding a
talent that extends beyond the page to the screen, Landsdale has
also written episodes for Batman: The Animated Series and Superman:
The Animated Series. Conversations with Joe R. Lansdale brings
together interviews from newspapers, magazines, and podcasts
conducted throughout the prolific author's career. The collection
includes conversations between Lansdale and other noted peers like
Robert McCammon and James Grady; two podcast transcripts that have
never before appeared in print; and a brand-new interview,
exclusive to the volume. In addition to shedding light on his body
of literary work and process as a writer, this collection also
shares Lansdale's thoughts on comics, atheism, and martial arts.
Mason investigates the suspicious death of an esteemed astronomer.
Before his untimely-and decidedly grisly-demise, the scientist had
made unsettling connections between the recent discovery of an
unusual cluster of pods in a nearby marsh and a meteor shower
passing close to the earth.
Accidental Genius features intimate and laugh-out-loud commentary
from The Room cast and crew, including interviews from its star
Greg Sestero. What a story indeed! A rollicking recollection of
experiences from the legendary "so bad it's good" film. This
comprehensively chronicled book offers a fascinating glimpse into
the cultural phenomenon that brings together die-hard fans and
newcomers alike. Everything you could have possibly wondered about
The Room all in one book! Take a look at Tommy Wiseau's infamous
2003 release through the eyes of the people who made it. Get the
low-down on bizarre audition calls, film set antics, and accounts
from the very first fans who experienced The Room at its earliest
screenings. Also including interviews focusing on the aftermath of
the movie: Sestero's The Disaster Artist, where are they now, and
its lasting legacy. Here you will get a glimpse of how it all
began, why it remains popular, and just what audiences still get
out of this unusual film that people love to hate.
A critical introduction to how the Nagasaki atomic bombing has been
remembered, especially in contrast to that of Hiroshima. In the
decades following the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945,
the city’s residents processed their trauma and formed narratives
of the destruction and reconstruction in ways that reflected their
regional history and social makeup. In doing so, they created a
multi-layered urban identity as an atomic-bombed city that differed
markedly from Hiroshima’s image. Shadows of Nagasaki traces how
Nagasaki’s trauma, history, and memory of the bombing manifested
through some of the city’s many post-atomic memoryscapes, such as
literature, religious discourse, art, historical landmarks,
commemorative spaces, and architecture. In addition, the book pays
particular attention to how the city’s history of international
culture, exemplified best perhaps by the region’s Christian
(especially Catholic) past, informed its response to the atomic
trauma and shaped its postwar urban identity. Key historical actors
in the volume’s chapters include writers, Japanese- Catholic
leaders, atomic-bombing survivors (known as hibakusha), municipal
officials, American occupation personnel, peace activists, artists,
and architects. The story of how these diverse groups of people
processed and participated in the discourse surrounding the
legacies of Nagasaki’s bombing shows how regional history,
culture, and politics—rather than national ones—become the most
influential factors shaping narratives of destruction and
reconstruction after mass trauma. In turn, and especially in the
case of urban destruction, new identities emerge and old ones are
rekindled, not to serve national politics or social interests but
to bolster narratives that reflect local circumstances.
This edited volume analyzes participatory practices in art and
cultural heritage in order to determine what can be learned through
and from collaboration across disciplinary borders. Following
recent developments in museology, museum policies and practices
have tended to prioritize community engagement over a traditional
focus on collecting and preserving museal objects. At many museal
institutions, a shift from a focus on objects to a focus on
audiences has taken place. Artistic practices in the visual arts,
music, and theater are also increasingly taking on participatory
forms. The world of cultural heritage has seen an upsurge in
participatory governance models favoring the expertise of local
communities over that of trained professionals. While museal
institutions, artists, and policy makers consider participation as
a tool for implementing diversity policy, a solution to social
disjunction, and a form of cultural activism, such participation
has also sparked a debate on definitions, and on issues concerning
the distribution of authority, power, expertise, agency, and
representation. While new forms of audience and community
engagement and corresponding models for "co-creation" are
flourishing, fundamental but paralyzing critique abounds and the
formulation of ethical frameworks and practical guidelines, not to
mention theoretical reflection and critical assessment of
practices, are lagging. This book offers a space for critically
reflecting on participatory practices with the aim of asking and
answering the question: How can we learn to better participate? To
do so, it focuses on the emergence of new norms and forms of
collaboration as participation, and on actual lessons learned from
participatory practices. If collaboration is the interdependent
formulation of problems and entails the common definition of a
shared problem space, how can we best learn to collaborate across
disciplinary borders and what exactly can be learned from such
collaboration?
Hired to locate a missing girl, Detective Max "Mutt" Mason
discovers deeper malignant forces at work. Femme fatales soon give
way to strange creatures older than humanity, all bent on remaking
our world as their own. Mason wants answers, but the solution to
this mystery may lie within hidden realms where no man was meant to
behold...
Here is a significant book comprising Joseph Ratzinger's report on
the debates and struggles that made up each of the four sessions of
Vatican II (1962-65), along with theological commentary by a noted
scholar and professor. At the council Ratzinger worked on the
Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation (Dei verbum), the
Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (Lumen gentium), and the Decree
on the Missionary Activity of the Church (Ad gentes). Topics he
treats in detail in the book include the debate on the liturgy
schema, the early debate on divine revelation, the questions of
Mariology and ecumenism, the decree on the bishops' office in the
Church, religious liberty, the Church and the Jews, and the schemas
on the missions and on priestly ministry and life. He gives special
attention to the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church and to the
Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World.
This multidisciplinary volume unites research on diverse aspects of
Jewish-Muslim relations, exchanges and coexistence across time
including the Abrahamic tradition enigma, Jews in the Qur'an and
Hadith, Ibn al-'Arabi and the Kabala, comparative feminist
theology, Jews, Christians, Muslims and the Gospel of Barnabas,
harmonizing religion and philosophy in Andalusia, Jews and Muslims
in medieval Christian Spain, Israeli Jews and Muslim and Christian
Arabs, Jewish-Muslim coexistence on Cyprus, Muslim-Jewish dialogues
in Berlin and Barcelona, Jewish-Christian-Muslim trialogues and
teleology, Jewish and Muslim dietary laws, and Jewish and Muslim
integration in Switzerland and Germany.
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