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The Politics of Spanish American "Modernismo" elucidates the professional and literary means through which Spanish American modernistas negotiated a cultural politics of rapprochement with Spain and Europe in order to differentiate their Americanness from that of the United States. Gerard Aching argues that these turn-of-the-century men of letters were in fact responsible for the burgeoning role that intellectuals and writers had (and continue to have) in defining pan-Hispanicism. Aching's arguments contribute to current debates about modernity and the colonial/postcolonial condition in nineteenth-century Hispanic literatures.

Seit 2006 ist die neue Bauordnung von Berlin in Kraft, die weitgehend die Regelungen der Musterbauordnung 2002 aufgreift. Die aktuelle Berliner Bauordnung beruht auf den grundsätzlichen Erwägungen, sich im Verfahrens- wie im materiellen Recht auf die aus heutiger Sicht notwendigen Regelungen zu beschränken. Teilziele sind - Stärkung der Eigenverantwortung der am Bau Beteiligten, - Reduzierung der Prüfprogramme der Baugenehmigungsverfahren, - Deregulierung und Vereinfachung des materiellen Bauordnungsrechts. Die 6. Auflage des bewährten Kommentars liefert aktuelle Erläuterungen, in die Praxiserfahrungen der letzten zwei Jahre Eingang fanden. Ausführlich behandelt werden unter anderem das Abstandsflächenrecht, der Brandschutz, die am Bau Beteiligten, die bauaufsichtlichen Verfahren, die Behandlung des Bauantrages, die Prüfung bautechnischer Nachweise und die Regelungen über Bauprodukte und Bauarten.

This book offers a cross-European analysis of urban and regional strategies of reconciling welfare and competitiveness. It develops an understanding of the strategy challenge to reconcile competitiveness with cohesion, and provides an analysis of cities and regions as actors in multi-level governance settings. The book offers a European comparative view on housing, labour markets, enterprises, ethnical issues, gender dimensions, urban development projects, transport, and sustainability.

Deserts are highly emblematic spaces: dry, barren, isolated. In literary and cinematic representations, they often betoken collapse and dystopia. Reading Aridity in Western American Literature offer readings of literature set in the US Southwest from ecocritical and new materialist perspectives. The volume explores the diverse epistemologies, histories, relationships, futures, and possibilities that emerge from the representation of American deserts in fiction, film, and literary art. The authors, as well, trace the social, cultural, economic, and biotic narratives that foreground deserts, and how these underscore the challenges of climate change, ecojustice, and human and non-human flourishing. As such, the volume rethinks what deserts are and provides a constructive lens for seeing deserts as more than blank spaces, rather as ecogeographies that challenge, critique, and urge collective ecojustice action.

This book offers a cross-European analysis of urban and regional strategies of reconciling welfare and competitiveness. It develops an understanding of the strategy challenge to reconcile competitiveness with cohesion, and provides an analysis of cities and regions as actors in multi-level governance settings. The book offers a European comparative view on housing, labour markets, enterprises, ethnical issues, gender dimensions, urban development projects, transport, and sustainability.

The official novelization of Jim Henson's cult classic film along with a behind-the-scenes look at the film's conception from the Jim Henson Archives. Sarah has thirteen hours to save her brother from a land where everything seems possible and nothing is what it seems. Experience the beloved fantasy classic Labyrinth adapted by A.C.H. Smith and personally overseen by Jim Henson. Featuring twenty previously unpublished illustrations by legendary illustrator and concept artist Brian Froud and an exclusive peek into Jim Henson's creative process with fifty never-before-seen pages from his personal journal, detailing the initial conception of his ideas for Labyrinth.