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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
The welcome culture of 2015 in Germany has turned into a
deportation policy of the Federal Government with the help of the
(re)definition of safe countries of origin. How can this change in
policy be understood and is it also accompanied by a change of
attitude among the population? Which reasons for and which against
the admission of refugees exist or are cited in the debates? This
volume brings together analyses of the social discourse on dealing
with refugees, questions of labour market integration and the
practice of counselling refugees. Alongside academic analyses are
reflective contributions from the practice of migration policy.
For a long time agriculture and rural life were dismissed by many
contemporaries as irrelevant or old-fashioned. Contrasted with
cities as centers of intellectual debate and political
decision-making, the countryside seemed to be becoming increasingly
irrelevant. Today, politicians in many European countries are
starting to understand that the neglect of the countryside has
created grave problems. Similarly, historians are remembering that
European history in the twentieth century was strongly influenced
by problems connected to the production of food, access to natural
resources, land rights, and the political representation and
activism of rural populations. Hence, the handbook offers an
overview of historical knowledge on a variety of topics related to
the land. It does so through a distinctly activity-centric and
genuinely European perspective. Rather than comparing different
national approaches to living with the land, the different chapters
focus on particular activities - from measuring to settling the
land, from producing and selling food to improving agronomic
knowledge, from organizing rural life to challenging political
structures in the countryside. Furthermore, the handbook overcomes
the traditional division between East and West, North and South, by
embracing a transregional approach that allows readers to gain an
understanding of similarities and differences across national and
ideological borders in twentieth-century Europe.
Including poems by writers from the dawn of the Early Modern period
to the 21st Century, this anthology explores changing attitudes to
medicine, health and the body. A Body of Work: An Anthology of
Poetry and Medicine is divided into nine thematic sections,
including poetry from all periods as well as historical documents
that help students place the poetry in its cultural contexts and
covering such topics as: -The material body -Nerves, nervous
disorders and psychology -Consumption: food, drugs and alcohol
-Contagion and disease -Doctors, hospitals and the experience of
medicine -Treatments and cures -The body in pleasure and pain
-Evolution, genetics and reproduction -Ageing, dying and death "A
Body of Work "is supported by a companion website offering further
contextual essays, class discussion questions and visual
material.Includes work by such poets as: Daniel Abse, Maya Angelou,
Matthew Arnold, W.H. Auden, Ann Bradstreet, William Blake, Charles
Bukowski, Raymond Carver, S.T Coleridge, Erasmus Darwin, Emily
Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Allen Ginsberg, Seamus Heaney, Philip
Larkin, Robert Lowell, Paul Muldoon, Sylvia Plath, Rainer Maria
Rilke, Theodore Roetke, Christina Rossetti, Jo Shapcott, Jonathan
Swift, Michael Symmons-Roberts, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman,
William Carlos Williams, William Wordsworth.
This second edition provides a review of the current flow research.
The first, thoroughly revised and extended, part of the book,
addresses basic concepts, correlates, conditions and consequences
of flow experience. This includes the developments of the flow
model, methods to measure flow, its physiological correlates,
personality factors involved in the emergence of flow, social flow,
the relationship of flow with performance and wellbeing, but also
possible negative consequences of flow. The second, completely new,
part of the book addresses flow in diverse contexts, in particular,
work, development, sports, music and arts, and human computer
interaction. As such, the book provides a broad overview on the
current state of flow research - from the basics to specific
contexts of application. It presents what has been learned since
the beginning of flow research, what is still open, and how the
mission to understand and foster flow should continue. The book
addresses researchers and students who are interested in flow, as
well as practitioners who seek for sound research on flow in their
field of expertise.
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Aphorisms (Hardcover)
Corinna Schroeder-Von Frihling
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R521
Discovery Miles 5 210
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Due to the large-scale global transformations of the 20th century,
migration literature has become a vibrant genre over the last
decades. In these novels, issues of transcultural identity and
belonging naturally feature prominently. This study takes a closer
look at the ways in which the idea of family informs processes of
identity construction. It explores changing roles and meanings of
the diasporic family as well as intergenerational family relations
in a migration setting in order to identify the specific
challenges, problems, and possibilities that arise in this context.
This book builds on insights from different fields of family
research (e.g. sociology, psychology, communication studies, memory
studies) to provide a conceptual framework for the investigation of
synchronic and diachronic family constellations and connections.
The approach developed in this study not only sheds new light on
contemporary British migration literature but can also prove
fruitful for analyses of families in literature more generally. By
highlighting the relevance and multifaceted nature of doing family,
this study also offers new perspectives for transcultural memory
studies.
This edited volume explores different meanings of media convergence
and deconvergence, and reconsiders them in critical and innovative
ways. Its parts provide together a broad picture of opposing trends
and tensions in media convergence, by underlining the relevance of
this powerful idea and emphasizing the misconceptions that it has
generated. Sergio Sparviero, Corinna Peil, Gabriele Balbi and the
other authors look into practices and realities of users in
convergent media environments, ambiguities in the production and
distribution of content, changes to the organization of media
industries, the re-configuration of media markets, and the
influence of policy and regulations. Primarily addressed to
scholars and students in different fields of media and
communication studies, Media Convergence and Deconvergence
deconstructs taken-for-granted concepts and provides alternative
and fresh analyses on one of the most popular topics in
contemporary media culture. Chapter 1 is available open access
under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com
This book offers new perspectives through which to observe and
interpret mega-events. Using the specific case studies of World's
Fairs, Di Vita and Morandi present a report of the Milan Expo 2015
and its trans-scalar legacies. While the event and post-event have
been affected by the world crisis, the locations of exhibition
areas have greatly expanded, encompassing regional as well as
post-metropolitan spaces. The two main aims of comparing Milan to
previous expos such as Lisbon 1998, Zaragoza 2008 and Shanghai
2010, were to demonstrate the contribution of the 2015 World's Fair
to the urban innovation process and to the debate surrounding a new
urban agenda; as well as to examine empirically and theoretically
the international discussion regarding the growth of regional and
macro-regional scales of contemporary cities in order to offer
suggestions for future urban agendas through mega-events. This book
will be of great value to students, researchers and policy makers
in the area of urban planning and the urban studies more broadly,
geography and spatial politics.
"Mary Reid Kelley" celebrates the first museum exhibition devoted
to the finely crafted and researched costumes, objects, and
drawings that Mary Reid Kelley creates for her visually and
intellectually stimulating videos. An essay by curator Daniel
Belasco analyzes the sources and significance of the working
objects in how they promote the unreality effect of Mary Reid
Kelley s videos, which combine both the analog and digital and the
personal and historical. A conversation between Corinna Ripps
Schaming and Mary Reid Kelley and her long-time collaborator
Patrick Kelley reveals insights into their working process. For the
first time, the full range of the artist s costumes, props,
drawings, furniture, and accessories are photographed and presented
as unique works of art."
What is development, what has it been in the past, and what can
historians learn from studying the history of development? How has
the field of the history of development evolved over time, and
where should it be going in the future?
International Development: A Postwar History offers the first
concise historical overview of international development policies
and practices in the 20th century. Embracing a longue duree
perspective, the book describes the emergence of the development
field at the intersection of late colonialism, the Second World
War, the onset of decolonization, and the Cold War. It discusses
the role of international organizations, colonial administrations,
national governments, and transnational actors in the making of the
field, and it analyzes how the political, intellectual, and
economic changes over the course of the postwar period affected the
understanding of and expectations toward development. By drawing on
examples of development projects in different parts of the world
and in different fields, Corinna R. Unger shows how the plurality
of development experiences shaped the notion of development as we
know it today. This book is ideal for scholars seeking to
understand the history of development assistance and to gain new
insight into the international history of the 20th century.
This book presents a multi-disciplinary investigation into
extortion rackets with a particular focus on the structures of
criminal organisations and their collapse, societal processes in
which extortion rackets strive and fail and the impacts of
bottom-up and top-down ways of fighting extortion racketeering.
Through integrating a range of disciplines and methods the book
provides an extensive case study of empirically based computational
social science. It is based on a wealth of qualitative data
regarding multiple extortion rackets, such as the Sicilian Mafia,
an international money laundering organisation and a predatory
extortion case in Germany. Computational methods are used for data
analysis, to help in operationalising data for use in agent-based
models and to explore structures and dynamics of extortion
racketeering through simulations. In addition to textual data
sources, stakeholders and experts are extensively involved,
providing narratives for analysis and qualitative validation of
models. The book presents a systematic application of computational
social science methods to the substantive area of extortion
racketeering. The reader will gain a deep understanding of
extortion rackets, in particular their entrenchment in society and
processes supporting and undermining extortion rackets. Also
covered are computational social science methods, in particular
computationally assisted text analysis and agent-based modelling,
and the integration of empirical, theoretical and computational
social science.
This book explores the importance of freedom and liberalism in the
context of socialities, individualities and materialities. The
authors provide a highly unusual and innovative blending of
concepts about space and landscape through a deeply theoretical
exploration of liberalism. Liberalism is often problematized in
contemporary discussions with regard to gentrification,
environmental problems and inequality. In contrast, this book
refers to a liberalism that maximizes life chances in the context
of dealing with spaces. A connection between freedom and space,
based on liberal ideas, provides a much needed theoretical
intervention in the fields of social and spatial sciences.
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