"This collection asks pressing questions about how and why we study performances of Renaissance drama, challenging prevailing views and suggesting new methodologies for the field. How does an emphasis on Shakespeare limit us? What can we learn from non-traditional theatre? Why should we rethink the value of studying what happens onstage?"--

The "Encyclopedia of Mexico" presents a processual view of Mexican history, society and culture from ancient civilizations to the present day. The primary emphasis is on broad historiographic issues, although the encyclopedia includes many supplementary entries on people and specific events. The encyclopedia provides students, academics, librarians and the general reader with convenient access to basic bibliographic and factual data on specific events and broad processes in Mexican history. It promotes scholarly dialogue across disciplinary and national borders and provides a useful component for multi-disciplinary courses on Mexico. This two-volume encyclopedia contains some 600 entries and represents a collaborative effort that has involved more than 350 leading scholars from around the world.

Plato's dialogues frequently criticize traditional Greek myth, yet Plato also integrates myth with his writing. Daniel S. Werner confronts this paradox through an in-depth analysis of the Phaedrus, Plato's most mythical dialogue. Werner argues that the myths of the Phaedrus serve several complex functions: they bring nonphilosophers into the philosophical life; they offer a starting point for philosophical inquiry; they unify the dialogue as a literary and dramatic whole; they draw attention to the limits of language and the limits of knowledge; and they allow Plato to co-opt cultural authority as a way of defining and legitimating the practice of philosophy. Platonic myth, as a species of traditional tale, is thus both distinct from philosophical dialectic and similar to it. Ultimately, the most powerful effect of Platonic myth is the way in which it leads readers to participate in Plato's dialogues and to engage in a process of self-examination.

A comprehensive resource to understanding the hand-press printing of early books Studying Early Printed Books, 1450 - 1800 offers a guide to the fascinating process of how books were printed in the first centuries of the press and shows how the mechanics of making books shapes how we read and understand them. The author offers an insightful overview of how books were made in the hand-press period and then includes an in-depth review of the specific aspects of the printing process. She addresses questions such as: How was paper made? What were different book formats? How did the press work? In addition, the text is filled with illustrative examples that demonstrate how understanding the early processes can be helpful to today's researchers. Studying Early Printed Books shows the connections between the material form of a book (what it looks like and how it was made), how a book conveys its meaning and how it is used by readers. The author helps readers navigate books by explaining how to tell which parts of a book are the result of early printing practices and which are a result of later changes. The text also offers guidance on: how to approach a book; how to read a catalog record; the difference between using digital facsimiles and books in-hand. This important guide: Reveals how books were made with the advent of the printing press and how they are understood today Offers information on how to use digital reproductions of early printed books as well as how to work in a rare books library Contains a useful glossary and a detailed list of recommended readings Includes a companion website for further research Written for students of book history, materiality of text and history of information, Studying Early Printed Books explores the many aspects of the early printing process of books and explains how their form is understood today.

Die Praxisrelevanz der Datenverarbeitung (DV) in den Unternehmen der Wirtschaft (Be triebswirtschaften) ist so erheblich, dag die Betriebswirte diesem Fachgebiet ihre besonde re Aufmerksamkeit schenken mussen. Die betriebswirtschaftlichen Abteilungen der Fach hochschulen, an die wir uns speziell richten, aber auch universitare betriebswirtschaftliche Lehrstiihle und andere Lehrinstitutionen (Fachschulen, Akademien usw.), welche fUr die kaufmannische Praxis ausbilden, haben diesen Sachverhalt langst erkannt. In den Lehr inhaiten ist dem Fachgebiet "Datenverarbeitung" (Wirtschaftsinformatik) jedoch bis heu te noch nicht der Stellenwert eingeraumt worden, der ihm auf Grund seiner allgemeinen Bedeutung zustehen mugte. Es wird z. B. eine allgemeine Einfuhrung in die Datenverarbeitung ("EDV Grundlagen" oder ahnliche Vorlesungsbezeichnungen) fur aile Fachhochschul-Studenten wahrend der ersten Semester geboten - ein wiinschenswertes (und notwendiges) tieferes Eindringen in die vielfaitigen betriebswirtschaftlichen EDV-Bezuge ist jedoch nur jenen Studenten mog lich (und das auch nur bedingt), welche das Vertiefungsstudium (Schwerpunktfach) "Or ganisation und Datenverarbeitung" gewahlt haben. Andererseits ist es vordringliche Aufgabe der hier speziell ins Auge gefagten Fachrichtung, in erster Linie das notwendige betriebswirtschaftlich-theoretische Wissen zu vermitteln. Betriebswirtschaftliche Lehrinhalte durfen daher nicht zuriicktreten. Wegen der begrenz ten zur Verfiigung stehenden Unterrichtsstundenzahl sollten die betriebswirtschaftlichen EDV-Anwendungen - obgleich vielfach recht kompliziert - in den Fachunterricht (z. B. Rechnungswesen, Fertigungssteuerung, Revisions- und Wirtschaftspriifungswesen, Perso nalwirtschaft - urn nur einige Facher anzufuhren) mit aufgenommen werden. Der zukunftige betriebswirtschaftliche Fachhochschullehrer mug vor allem fur die Daten verarbeitung offen sein, so wie der Wirtschaftspraktiker die EDV kennen und verstehen lernen mug, urn sie als wirkungsvolle Hilfe einsetzen zu konnen."

This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.

This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.

This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.

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