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In the wake of the French Revolution, history was no longer
imagined as a cyclical process in which the succession of ruling
dynasties was as predictable as the change in the seasons.
Contemporaries wrestled with the meaning of this historical
rupture, which represented both the progress of the Enlightenment
and the darkness of the Terreur. French authors discussed the
political events in their country, but they were not the only ones
to do so. As the effects of the French Revolution became more
palpable across the border, German authors pondered their
implications in newspapers, political pamphlets, and
historiographical treatises. German women also participated in
these debates, but they often embedded their political commentary
in literary texts because they were discouraged, and sometimes even
barred, from publishing in explicitly political and public venues.
As such, literature, in the sense of belles lettres, had a
compensatory function for women: it allowed them to engage in
political discussion without explicitly encroaching on certain
domains that were perceived as a male preserve. As women writers
explored the uses of literature for political commentary they
adapted major literary genres in order to consolidate their
position in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century
literary sphere. Those genres included domestic fiction, the
historical novel, historical tragedy, autobiography, the
Robinsonade, and the Bildungsroman. Women writers challenged the
images of women traditionally portrayed in these genres: dutiful
daughter, submissive wife, caring mother, tantalizing mistress,
angelic figure, and passive victim. Gender and Genre discusses six
women writers who replaced these traditional female types with
women warriors and emigrants as protagonists in texts published
between 1795 and 1821: Therese Huber, Caroline de la Motte Fouque,
Christine Westphalen, Regula Engel, Sophie von La Roche, and
Henriette Froelich. These authors' protagonists question
traditional images of passive femininity, yet their battered bodies
also depict the precarious position of women in general, and women
writers in particular, during this period. Because women writers
were attacked by their male counterparts who attempted to halt
their foray into the literary marketplace, these texts are as much
about power dynamics in the German literary establishment as they
are about French politics.
In the wake of the French Revolution, history was no longer
imagined as a cyclical process in which the succession of ruling
dynasties was as predictable as the change in the seasons.
Contemporaries wrestled with the meaning of this historical
rupture, which represented both the progress of the Enlightenment
and the darkness of the Terreur. French authors discussed the
political events in their country, but they were not the only ones
to do so. As the effects of the French Revolution became more
palpable across the border, German authors pondered their
implications in newspapers, political pamphlets, and
historiographical treatises. German women also participated in
these debates, but they often embedded their political commentary
in literary texts because they were discouraged, and sometimes even
barred, from publishing in explicitly political and public venues.
As such, literature, in the sense of belles lettres, had a
compensatory function for women: it allowed them to engage in
political discussion without explicitly encroaching on certain
domains that were perceived as a male preserve. As women writers
explored the uses of literature for political commentary they
adapted major literary genres in order to consolidate their
position in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century
literary sphere. Those genres included domestic fiction, the
historical novel, historical tragedy, autobiography, the
Robinsonade, and the Bildungsroman. Women writers challenged the
images of women traditionally portrayed in these genres: dutiful
daughter, submissive wife, caring mother, tantalizing mistress,
angelic figure, and passive victim. Gender and Genre discusses six
women writers who replaced these traditional female types with
women warriors and emigrants as protagonists in texts published
between 1795 and 1821: Therese Huber, Caroline de la Motte Fouque,
Christine Westphalen, Regula Engel, Sophie von La Roche, and
Henriette Froelich. These authors' protagonists question
traditional images of passive femininity, yet their battered bodies
also depict the precarious position of women in general, and women
writers in particular, during this period. Because women writers
were attacked by their male counterparts who attempted to halt
their foray into the literary marketplace, these texts are as much
about power dynamics in the German literary establishment as they
are about French politics.
In recent years, the transitioning body has become the subject of
increasing scholarly, medical, and political interest. This
interdisciplinary collection seeks to enable productive dialogue
about bodily transformation and its many potential meanings and
possibilities. Recent high-profile sex transitions, such as Bruce
Jenner's transformation into Caitlyn, have contributed to a
proliferation of public and private debates about the boundaries of
personal identity and the politics of gender. Sexual transition is
only one possible type of bodily transformation, and bodies that
change forms vex many binaries that underpin daily life such as
male/female, gay/straight, well/unhealthy, able/disabled,
beautiful/ugly, or adult/child. When transformations and
transitions involve trauma, illness, injury, surgery or death,
bodies can become culturally and socially illegible and enter the
realm of abjection or even horror. Health humanities, a recent
revision of medical humanities that includes patients and other
nonphysicians, provides an interdisciplinary lens through which to
read such bodily transformation and its representation in public
culture. The authors of the essays in the present volume situate
their work in this interdisciplinary space to enable productive
dialogue about bodily transformation and its meanings in artistic,
literary, visual, and health discourses. The essays in this volume
discuss non-normative bodies from eighteenth-century France to
present-day Iran and investigate narratives of cancer, aging,
anorexia, AIDS, intersexuality, transsexuality, viruses, bacteria,
and vaccinations. This collection will be of key interest to
faculty and students in women' studies/gender studies, cultural
studies, studies of visual and material culture, medical/health
humanities, disability studies, and rhetorics of science, health
and medicine, and will be a useful resource for scholars across
interdisciplinary fields of study.
In recent years, the transitioning body has become the subject of
increasing scholarly, medical, and political interest. This
interdisciplinary collection seeks to enable productive dialogue
about bodily transformation and its many potential meanings and
possibilities. Recent high-profile sex transitions, such as Bruce
Jenner's transformation into Caitlyn, have contributed to a
proliferation of public and private debates about the boundaries of
personal identity and the politics of gender. Sexual transition is
only one possible type of bodily transformation, and bodies that
change forms vex many binaries that underpin daily life such as
male/female, gay/straight, well/unhealthy, able/disabled,
beautiful/ugly, or adult/child. When transformations and
transitions involve trauma, illness, injury, surgery or death,
bodies can become culturally and socially illegible and enter the
realm of abjection or even horror. Health humanities, a recent
revision of medical humanities that includes patients and other
nonphysicians, provides an interdisciplinary lens through which to
read such bodily transformation and its representation in public
culture. The authors of the essays in the present volume situate
their work in this interdisciplinary space to enable productive
dialogue about bodily transformation and its meanings in artistic,
literary, visual, and health discourses. The essays in this volume
discuss non-normative bodies from eighteenth-century France to
present-day Iran and investigate narratives of cancer, aging,
anorexia, AIDS, intersexuality, transsexuality, viruses, bacteria,
and vaccinations. This collection will be of key interest to
faculty and students in women' studies/gender studies, cultural
studies, studies of visual and material culture, medical/health
humanities, disability studies, and rhetorics of science, health
and medicine, and will be a useful resource for scholars across
interdisciplinary fields of study.
The notion of disinterestedness is often conceived of as antiquated
or ideological. In spite of this, Hilgers argues that one cannot
reject it if one wishes to understand the nature of art. He claims
that an artwork typically asks a person to adopt a disinterested
attitude towards what it shows, and that the effect of such an
adoption is that it makes the person temporarily lose the sense of
herself, while enabling her to gain a sense of the other. Due to an
artwork's particular wealth, multiperspectivity, and dialecticity,
the engagement with it cannot culminate in the construction of
world-views, but must initiate a process of self-critical thinking,
which is a precondition of real self-determination. Ultimately,
then, the aesthetic experience of art consists of a dynamic process
of losing the sense of oneself, while gaining a sense of the other,
and of achieving selfhood. In his book, Hilgers spells out the
nature of this process by means of rethinking Kant's and
Schopenhauer's aesthetic theories in light of more recent
developments in philosophy-specifically in hermeneutics, critical
theory, and analytic philosophy-and within the arts
themselves-specifically within film and performance art.
Bourdieu's theory of social fields is one of his key contributions
to social sciences and humanities. However, it has never been
subjected to genuine critical examination. This book fills that gap
and offers a clear and wide-ranging introduction to the theory. It
includes a critical discussion of its methodology and relevance in
different subject areas in the social sciences and humanities. Part
I "theoretical investigations" offers a theoretical account of the
theory, while also identifying some of its limitations and
discussing several strategies to overcome them. Part II "Education,
culture and organization" presents the theory at work and
highlights its advantages and disadvantages. The focus in Part III
devoted to "The State" is on the formation and evolution of the
State and public policy in different contexts. The chapters show
the usefulness of field theory in describing, explaining and
understanding the functioning of the State at different stages in
its historical trajectory including its recent redefinition with
the advent of the neoliberal age. A last chapter outlines a
postcolonial use of the theory of fields.
This book bridges the gap between knowledge management and
technology. It embraces the complete lifecycle of knowledge,
information, and data from how knowledge flows through an
organization to how end users want to handle it and experience it.
Whether your intent is to design and implement a single technology
or a complete collection of KM systems, this book provides the
foundations necessary for success. It will help you understand your
organization's needs and opportunities, strategize and prioritize
features and functions, design with the end user in mind, and
finally build a system that your users will embrace and which will
realize meaningful business value for your organization. The book
is the culmination of the authors' collective careers, a combined
sixty years of experience doing exactly what is detailed in this
book. Their guidance has been honed by their own successes and
failures as well as many others they have researched in order to
provide a comprehensive study on KM transformations and the
technologies that help to enable them. They have successfully
applied this knowledge as the founders and leaders of the world's
largest dedicated knowledge management consultancy, which runs
these projects for many of the world's most complex organizations.
They are writing as practitioners directly to other practitioners
with the intent to enable them to apply and benefit from their
knowledge and experience. "Compelling reading for KM practitioners
looking to ensure their technology decisions support their business
and organizational objectives." - Margot Brown, Director of
Knowledge Management, World Bank Group "We are two years into our
KM Transformation and if I'd had this book beforehand, it would
have made the journey smoother and faster! This is a great playbook
for how to plan, organize, and execute a KM transformation." -
Stephanie Hill, Senior Director, Global Customer Services, PayPal
Dieses Buch zeigt die Bedeutung von Nachhaltigkeit für den
Nonprofit-Sektor sowie die Herausforderungen und Ansätze für ein
zukunftsfähiges Management in diesem Bereich. Das Thema
Nachhaltigkeit ist ein wesentlicher Treiber der Ausrichtung von
Organisationen. Zum einen spielt der Begriff Nachhaltigkeit für
Nonprofit-Organisationen (NPOs) selbst eine Rolle, denn auch sie
verbrauchen Ressourcen und sind in der Pflicht, diese nachhaltig
einzusetzen. NPOs sind somit gefordert, Nachhaltigkeit gesteuert
und systematisch in den eigenen Prozessen und Strukturen zu
verankern. Des Weiteren übernehmen NPOs in der Gesellschaft
vielfach eine besondere Rolle als Vehikel einer
Nachhaltigkeitstransition, aus der sich ein vieldimensionaler
Anspruch eines nachhaltigen Managements für NPOs
ergibt.Renommierte Beitragsautor*innen diskutieren aus einer
transdisziplinären Perspektive die Kernfrage, wie sich NPOs
gegenüber aktuellen Veränderungen verhalten und welche
Ansatzpunkte für ein nachhaltiges Management bereits existieren.
Exemplarisch werden verschiedene Themengebiete und
Handlungskonzepte aus dem Nonprofit-Sektor – wie z.B.
das Klimaschutz-, Personal-, Marketing-, IT-, Hochschul- oder
Kulturmanagement – herangezogen. Dieser
Sammelband richtet sich an Expert*innen, Wissenschaftler*innen,
Student*innen und Praktiker*innen verschiedenster Fachrichtungen
mit dem Ziel, einen Einblick in das Thema der Nachhaltigkeit in
Nonprofit-Organisationen zu geben.
Die komplexe Nutzfahrzeugtechnik anschaulich darzustellen ist Ziel
dieses Werkes, das aus 9 einzelnen, in sich abgeschlossenen
Beiträgen besteht. Kompakt und gut verständlich bietet es den
Ãœberblick heutiger Technik im Nutzfahrzeug. Ausgehend von den
grundlegenden Anforderungen des Kunden werden die
konzeptionsbestimmenden Charakteristika und Systeme in
geschlossenen Beiträgen fundiert dargestellt. Dieser Band
behandelt die Aufbauten und Anhänger, die ein Nutzfahrzeug für
den jeweiligen Einsatz optimal ergänzen. Aufbauten, Anhänger und
spezifische Ausstattungen werden erklärt. Für den Leser in
Ausbildung und Praxis wird ein guter Ãœberblick gegeben. Â
Die komplexe Nutzfahrzeugtechnik anschaulich darzustellen ist Ziel
dieses Werkes, das aus 9 einzelnen, in sich abgeschlossenen
Beiträgen besteht. Kompakt und gut verständlich bietet es den
Ãœberblick heutiger Technik im Nutzfahrzeug. Ausgehend von den
grundlegenden Anforderungen des Kunden werden die
konzeptionsbestimmenden Charakteristika und Systeme in
geschlossenen Beiträgen fundiert dargestellt. Dieser Band
Elektrik und Mechatronik führt in die Mechatronik des
Nutzfahrzeuges ein. Die elektrischen und elektronischen Systeme bis
hin zu den fortschrittlichen Fahrerassistenzsystemen werden
vorgestellt. Auch die Druckluftanlage und die Nutzfahrzeugbremse
werden erläutert, so dass der Leser einen umfassenden Überblick
erhält, wie es zum Verständnis in Ausbildung und Praxis hilfreich
ist.
Die komplexe Nutzfahrzeugtechnik anschaulich darzustellen ist Ziel
dieses Werkes, das aus 9 einzelnen, in sich abgeschlossenen
Beiträgen besteht. Kompakt und gut verständlich bietet es den
Ãœberblick heutiger Technik im Nutzfahrzeug. Ausgehend von den
grundlegenden Anforderungen des Kunden werden die
konzeptionsbestimmenden Charakteristika und Systeme in
geschlossenen Beiträgen fundiert dargestellt. Dieser Band
Getriebe und Antriebsstrangauslegung erläutert zunächst, wie
Fahrwiderstand und Motorcharakteristik zur Auslegung des Getriebes
und der Übersetzungen führt. Das Getriebe mit seinen
Baugruppen wird detailliert vorgestellt, so dass ein gutes
Verständnis für Ausbildung und Praxis geschaffen wird. Weitere
Bauteile des Antriebsstrangs wie Gelenkwelle, Kupplung und Retarder
werden behandelt.Â
Die komplexe Nutzfahrzeugtechnik anschaulich darzustellen ist Ziel
dieses Werkes, das aus 9 einzelnen, in sich abgeschlossenen
Beiträgen besteht. Kompakt und gut verständlich bietet es den
Ãœberblick heutiger Technik im Nutzfahrzeug. Ausgehend von den
grundlegenden Anforderungen des Kunden werden die
konzeptionsbestimmenden Charakteristika und Systeme in
geschlossenen Beiträgen fundiert dargestellt. Dieser Band
stellt Alternativen und Ergänzungen zum konventionellen Antrieb
des Nutzfahrzeuges vor. Die große Vielzahl von Optionen wird
verständlich für den Praktiker und den Lernenden dargeboten.
Hybridfahrzeuge, elektrische Antriebe und alternative Kraftstoffe
werden behandelt.Â
Die komplexe Nutzfahrzeugtechnik anschaulich darzustellen ist Ziel
dieses Werkes, das aus 9 einzelnen, in sich abgeschlossenen
Beiträgen besteht. Kompakt und gut verständlich bietet es den
Ãœberblick heutiger Technik im Nutzfahrzeug. Ausgehend von den
grundlegenden Anforderungen des Kunden werden die
konzeptionsbestimmenden Charakteristika und Systeme in
geschlossenen Beiträgen fundiert dargestellt. Dieser Band
Dieselmotor gibt einen ersten Überblick über das weite Feld
Dieselmotor. Er liefert erste Informationen zur mechanischen
Funktion des Motors. Die Integration des Motors ins Fahrzeug sowie
wichtige Systeme wie Kühlung, Kraftstoffsystem und
Abgasnachbehandlung werden erläutert, so dass erste Schritte zum
Verständnis des Dieselmotors in Ausbildung und Praxis ermöglicht
werden.Â
This edited volume gathers selected, peer-reviewed contributions
presented at the fourth International Conference on Differential
& Difference Equations Applications (ICDDEA), which was held in
Lisbon, Portugal, in July 2019. First organized in 2011, the ICDDEA
conferences bring together mathematicians from various countries in
order to promote cooperation in the field, with a particular focus
on applications. The book includes studies on boundary value
problems; Markov models; time scales; non-linear difference
equations; multi-scale modeling; and myriad applications.
This book is situated in the field of medical humanities, and the
articles continue the dialogue between the disciplines of
literature and medicine that was initiated in the 1970s and has
continued with ebbs and flows since then. Recently, the need to
renew that interdisciplinary dialogue between these two fields,
which are both concerned with the human condition, has resurfaced
in the face of institutional challenges, such as shrinking
resources and the disappearance of many spaces devoted to the
exchange of ideas between humanists and scientists. This volume
presents cutting-edge research by scholars keen on not only
maintaining but also enlivening that dialogue. They come from a
variety of cultural, academic, and disciplinary backgrounds and
their essays are organized in four thematic clusters: pedagogy, the
mind-body connection, alterity, and medical practice.
This valuable study of 20th-century reservation life, first
published in 1939, portrays 150 families on the White Earth
Reservation in Minnesota in a period of loss of traditional ways.
Sister M. Inez Hilger used a straightforward approach in her
research and elicited a wealth of information. By concentrating on
both the traditional Chippewa (Ojibway) ways as well as on the
adaptations the families had made, Hilger was able to present a
Chippewa world in transition. She placed her broad cultural
analysis in the context of reservation housing. The many quotes
from the people she interviewed bring a lively, personal expression
to the story. This reprint edition contains a new introduction by
Brenda J. Child, assistant professor of American studies at the
University of Minnesota, and Kimberly M. Blaeser, professor of
comparative literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Bourdieu's theory of social fields is one of his key contributions
to social sciences and humanities. However, it has never been
subjected to genuine critical examination. This book fills that gap
and offers a clear and wide-ranging introduction to the theory. It
includes a critical discussion of its methodology and relevance in
different subject areas in the social sciences and humanities. Part
I "theoretical investigations" offers a theoretical account of the
theory, while also identifying some of its limitations and
discussing several strategies to overcome them. Part II "Education,
culture and organization" presents the theory at work and
highlights its advantages and disadvantages. The focus in Part III
devoted to "The State" is on the formation and evolution of the
State and public policy in different contexts. The chapters show
the usefulness of field theory in describing, explaining and
understanding the functioning of the State at different stages in
its historical trajectory including its recent redefinition with
the advent of the neoliberal age. A last chapter outlines a
postcolonial use of the theory of fields.
This book improves understandings of how and why clientelism
endures in Latin America and why state policy is often ineffective.
Political scientists and sociologists, the contributors employ
ethnography, targeted interviews, case studies, within-case and
regional comparison, thick descriptions, and process tracing.
In recent years considerable progress and new developments in
diagnostic and interventional cardiology have been observed, such
as balloon angioplasty of coronary artery stenoses, reperfusion
techniques in acute myocardial infarction, new pacing, and
cardioversion-defibrillation techniques in ventricular tachyar
rhythmias. On 5-8 May, 1985, an international symposium on
'Invasive Cardio vascular Therapy' was held in Cologne, which
provided a survey on the experi ment l and routine therapeutic
measures presently available and practiced in cardiovascular
medicine. This volume is based on the oral presentations given
during the symposium. In five chapters the most important
traditional and new interventional techniques are discussed by
experts in the field. Chapter I contains a description of results
from catheter palliation of congeni tal shunt disorders or relief
of congenital pulmonary or aortic valve stenoses as well as the
recent experience with surgical repair of single ventricle,
Fallot's tetralogy and tricuspid atresia. Chapter II presents the
surgical results of valve replacement with different valve
prostheses in acquired valvular disease, the surgical management of
bacte rial endocarditis, as well as the various techniques of
partial transient left heart support devices and of cardiac
transplantation. In chapter III, the invasive management of chronic
coronary heart disease, peripheral vascular disease by balloon
catheter or laser techniques, and the surgical approach to coronary
heart disease are discussed."
'Et moi, ..., si j"avait su comment en revenir, One service
mathematics bas rendered the je n'y seWs point alit: human race. It
bas put common sense back Jules Verne where it belongs, on the
topmost shelf next to the dusty canister labelled 'discarded non-
The series is divergent; therefore we may be sense'. able to do
something with it. Eric T. Bell o. Heaviside Mathematics is a tool
for thought. A highly necessary tool in a world where both feedback
and non linearities abound. Similarly, all kinds of parts of
mathematics serve as tools for other parts and for other sciences.
Applying a simple rewriting rule to the quote on the right above
one finds such statements as: 'One service topology has rendered
mathematical physics .. .'; 'One service logic has rendered com
puter science .. .'; 'One service category theory has rendered
mathematics .. .'. All arguably true. And all statements obtainable
this way form part of the raison d'etre of this series."
This book is a comprehensive overview of electrocardiography and
the major effects of current cardiac pharmacological therapy on
electrocardiography. The text is based on work presented at the
International Symposium on Non-invasive Cardiovascular Diagnosis
and Therapy, held in May, 1987 at the University of Cologne. The
theme of the book is to review, in broad clinical perspective the
current state-of-the-art of electrocardiography as it pertains to
standard electrocar diograms, exercise testing, ambulatory
electrocardiography, electrocardiographic telemetry, and high
resolution electrocardiography. Furthermore, advance , in cardiac
drug therapy in relation to diuretics, beta blocking drugs,
antiarrhythmic agents and thrombolytic agents are reviewed. The
emphasis of the conference and this book is to review the clinical
state-of-the-art information and applications in this regard. In
the initial section on electrocardiography, Dr. Spodick reviews our
present day physiologic and pathophysiologic understanding of
systolic time intervals, and how they are affected by a variety of
cardiac disease states and pharmacologic agents. Dr. Ellestad
examines problems and provides pragmatic tips on exercise testing
in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease, and advances in
exercise scores and computer analysis. Dr. Graboys reviews the
value of exercise testing in the diagnosis and management of
patients with serious ventricular arrhythmias. Dr. Kellermann
presents the complimentary role that exercise testing plays in com
prehensive follow-up therapy of the cardiac patient, and the use of
exercise for work and physical training. Detailed information
concerning the interaction of cardiac rehabilitation and
ventricular arrhythmias are examined."
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