In the light of the complex demographic shifts associated with late modernity and the impetus of neo-liberal politics, childhood continues all the more to operate as a repository for the articulation of diverse social and cultural anxieties. Since the Thatcher years, juvenile delinquency, child poverty, and protection have been persistent issues in public discourse. Simultaneously, childhood has advanced as a popular subject in the arts, as the wealth of current films and novels in this field indicates. Focusing on the late twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries, this collection assembles contributions concerned with current political, social, and cultural dimensions of childhood in the United Kingdom. The individual chapters, written by internationally renowned experts from the social sciences and the humanities, address a broad spectrum of contemporary childhood issues, including debates on child protection, school dress codes, the media, the representation and construction of children in audiovisual media, and literary awards for children's fiction. Appealing to a wide scholarly audience by joining perspectives from various disciplines, including art history, education, law, film and TV studies, sociology, and literary studies, this volume endorses a transdisciplinary and meta-theoretical approach to the study of childhood. It seeks to both illustrate and dismantle the various ways in which childhood has been implicitly and explicitly conceived in different disciplines in the wake of the constructivist paradigm shift in childhood studies.

In addition to introducing the basics of plasma physics, Nonthermal Plasma Chemistry and Physics is a comprehensive presentation of recent developments in the rapidly growing field of nonthermal plasma chemistry. The book offers a detailed discussion of the fundamentals of plasma chemical reactions and modeling, nonthermal plasma sources, relevant diagnostic techniques, and selected applications.

Elucidating interconnections and trends, the book focuses on basic principles and illustrations across a broad field of applications. Expert contributors address environmental aspects of plasma chemistry. The book also includes selected plasma conditions and specific applications in volume plasma chemistry and treatment of material surfaces such as plasma etching in microelectronics, chemical modification of polymer surfaces and deposition of functional thin films. Designed for students of plasma physics, Nonthermal Plasma Chemistry and Physics is a concise resource also for specialists in this and related fields of research.

In the light of the complex demographic shifts associated with late modernity and the impetus of neo-liberal politics, childhood continues all the more to operate as a repository for the articulation of diverse social and cultural anxieties. Since the Thatcher years, juvenile delinquency, child poverty, and protection have been persistent issues in public discourse. Simultaneously, childhood has advanced as a popular subject in the arts, as the wealth of current films and novels in this field indicates. Focusing on the late twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries, this collection assembles contributions concerned with current political, social, and cultural dimensions of childhood in the United Kingdom. The individual chapters, written by internationally renowned experts from the social sciences and the humanities, address a broad spectrum of contemporary childhood issues, including debates on child protection, school dress codes, the media, the representation and construction of children in audiovisual media, and literary awards for children's fiction. Appealing to a wide scholarly audience by joining perspectives from various disciplines, including art history, education, law, film and TV studies, sociology, and literary studies, this volume endorses a transdisciplinary and meta-theoretical approach to the study of childhood. It seeks to both illustrate and dismantle the various ways in which childhood has been implicitly and explicitly conceived in different disciplines in the wake of the constructivist paradigm shift in childhood studies.

The First World War has given rise to a multifaceted cultural production like no other historical event. This handbook surveys British literature and film about the war from 1914 until today. The continuing interest in World War I highlights the interdependence of war experience, the imaginative re-creation of that experience in writing, and individual as well as collective memory. In the first part of the handbook, the major genres of war writing and film are addressed, including of course poetry and the novel, but also the short story; furthermore, it is shown how our conception of the Great War is broadened when looked at from the perspective of gender studies and post-colonial criticism. The chapters in the second part present close readings of important contributions to the literary and filmic representation of World War I in Great Britain. All in all, the contributions demonstrate how the opposing forces of focusing and canon-formation on the one hand, and broadening and revision of the canon on the other, have characterised British literature and culture of the First World War.

The theory of Blending, or Conceptual Integration, proposed by Gilles Fauconnier and Marc Turner, is one of most promising cognitive theories of meaning production. It has been successfully applied to the analysis of poetic discourse and micro-textual elements, such as metaphor. Prose narrative has so far received significantly less attention. The present volume aims to remedy this situation. Following an introductory discussion of the connections between narrative and the processes of blending, the contributions demonstrate the range of applications of the theory to the study of narrative. They cover issues such as time and space, literary character and perspective, genre, story levels, and fictional minds; some chapters show how such phenomena as metalepsis, counterfactual narration, intermediality, extended metaphors, and suspense can be fruitfully studied from the vantage point of Conceptual Integration. Working within a theoretical framework situated at the intersection of narratology and the cognitive sciences, the book provides both fresh readings for individual literary and film narratives and new impulses for post-classical narratology.

The volume Regeln der Bedeutung ('Rules of meaning') marks the launch of REVISIONEN, a projected series of some eight volumes on basic concepts of literary theory. The series aims to reflect on central concepts of literary studies which have become questionable or problematic in the course of recent debates and to open up new perspectives on them in order to make them available for research in a new manner. Such concepts include, for example, 'meaning', 'literature', 'interpretation'. The series takes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing not only on literary theory but also on art history, music, philosophy, linguistics, and psychology.

Complicated many-particle problems abound in nature and in research alike. Plasma physics, for example, or statistical and condensed matter physics are all heavily dependent on efficient methods for solving such problems. Addressing graduate students and young researchers, this book presents an overview and introduction to state-of-the-art numerical methods for studying interacting classical and quantum many-particle systems. A broad range of techniques and algorithms are covered, and emphasis is placed on their implementation on modern high-performance computers.

Although fictional characters have long dominated the reception of literature, films, television programs, comics, and other media products, only recently have they begun to attract their due attention in literary and media theory. The book systematically surveys todays diverse and at times conflicting theoretical perspectives on fictional character, spanning research on topics such as the differences between fictional characters and real persons, the ontological status of characters, the strategies of their representation and characterization, the psychology of their reception, as well as their specific forms and constellations in - and across - different media, from the book to the internet."

Looking for the real state of play in computational many-particle physics? Look no further. This book presents an overview of state-of-the-art numerical methods for studying interacting classical and quantum many-particle systems. A broad range of techniques and algorithms are covered, and emphasis is placed on their implementation on modern high-performance computers. This excellent book comes complete with online files and updates allowing readers to stay right up to date.

Trauer und Verlust sind existentielle Grunderfahrungen in unserem Leben. Wie wir in unserer postmodernen Kultur eine gesunde und heilsame Antwort darauf finden knnen ist das Thema dieser Arbeit. Im Rahmen einer Evaluation eines Trauerumwandlungsseminars, dass von dem bekannten Trauerforscher Jorgos Canacakis entwickelt wurde, versucht der Autor die Wirkfaktoren dieses Seminarmodells zu erforschen. Neben der theoretischen Errterung von Trauerprozessen aus kulturanthropologischer und psychologischer Perspektive, sowie der Darstellung der theoretischen Grundlagen des myragogischen Trauermodells, ist diese Evaluation im Kern darauf ausgerichtet, Anregungen und Impulse fr die Entwicklung von entsprechenden Seminarangeboten zu geben.

Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 1998 im Fachbereich BWL - Personal und Organisation, Note: 1,0, Universitat zu Koln (Unbekannt), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Inhaltsangabe: Gang der Untersuchung: Im Mittelpunkt dieser Arbeit stehen im wesentlichen zwei Fragestellungen: zum einen, welches die spezifischen Aspekte von Kommunikation, speziell in der Verwendung in Unternehmen und Organisationen sind. Also: welche Rahmenbedingungen wirken sich auf den Austausch aus und welchen Stellenwert hat die Interaktion in unterschiedlichen Organisationsformen. Zum anderen geht es darum, die Einbindung von Neuen Medien in vorhandene Kommunikationsprozesse zu untersuchen und die Wechselwirkungen zwischen den kommunikativen Notwendigkeiten und den Moglichkeiten der Technik darzustellen. Hierzu werden unterschiedliche Organisationskonzepte von Unternehmen vorgestellt, angefangen von starren traditionellen Formen mit ausgepragten und starren Hierarchien bis hin zu modernen netzwerkartigen Aufbauten. Sodann gilt es aufzuzeigen, wie verschieden der Stellenwert und die Funktion von Kommunikation in jeder Organisationsformen ist. Ein Beispiel wie organisationsbezogene wie kommunikative Elemente ineinander greifen wird mit dem Ansatz der Unternehmenskulturen vorgestellt. Bemerkenswert hierbei ist, dass sich nicht nur die Struktur einer Organisation auf den Austausch auswirkt, sondern dass auch umgekehrt uber den Einfluss sprachlicher Aspekte auf Mitarbeiter eingewirkt werden kann. Sodann heisst es, die einmal gewonnen Erkenntnisse uber Interaktion innerhalb von Organisationen auf die Moglichkeiten technischer Umsetzungen abzubilden. Nach einer Abgrenzung von Medien als Technologisierung der Sprache, gilt das Augenmerk den unterschiedlichen Leistungen von Kommunikationstechniken. Es wird hierzu zwischen reichhaltigen und weniger reichhaltigen Formen des Austausches unterschieden und hieran ein Differenzierung von (Neuen) Medien vorgenommen. Auf der einen Seite werden hier Nachfrage wie Verteilungs