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Del 49 - Polish Studies – Transdisciplinary Perspectives
History of Polish Mathematics
A Cultural Perspective from Origins to Modernity
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
859 kr
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The book traces the history of mathematics in the Polish lands from pagan times (the tenth century AD) to the present, with particular attention to the era inaugurated by the reforms of the National Education Commission (1773–1794), through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries until recently. Richly illustrated and thoroughly documented, it recounts the many achievements of Polish mathematicians— including the world-renowned interwar Polish School of Mathematics—alongside the great tragedies, notably the losses caused by the Second World War, as well as the arduous post-war revival. A book for anyone interested in Polish culture and its achievements.
Del 22 - Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts
Pierre Klossowski
The Pantomime of Spirits
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
855 kr
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This book examines the many facets of the work of Pierre Klossowski (1905–2001). Klossowski first established himself as a writer and was known and admired by peers such as Bataille, Blanchot, Gide, Foucault, Deleuze and Lacan. But in 1972 he gave up writing to devote himself to his ‘mutism’: painting made up of large coloured drawings. In time he became as famous a painter as he had been a writer and theorist. Klossowski now has two separate groups of commentators: those concerned with his writings and those with his painting, with little overlap between the two. Here, this separation is explicitly removed. Klossowski’s entire œuvre revolved around the concept of the gaze. Rarely has the gaze been so radically interpreted – as an active, mobile, evanescent object that breaks down the connections between representation and the visible. How is one to see the invisible divinity? This question plagued Klossowski, and he displaced it onto pornographic rituals. The pantomime of spirits is the scene, fixed in silence, where bodies meet – a knotting of desiring body and dogmatic theology. A creator of simulacra, Klossowski attempted to exorcise the ‘obsessive constraint of the phantasm’ that subjugated him in all these scenes.Translated from the French by Adrian Price in collaboration with Pamela King.
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
500 kr
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Social responsibility in healthcare is currently the subject of increasing attention around the world and is often presented as one of the necessary responses to improving health systems in developed countries. The absence of African data on this subject motivated a survey that aimed to assess social responsibility of African public hospitals in terms of management of kidney disease, and explore the factors that influence it. based on patient and physician perceptions. This work has highlighted the crucial role of hospital governance and management, (involving the various stakeholders) in improving hospital social responsibility, and consequently the provision of care.
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
595 kr
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This is one of Stifter’s great epic works, a most sensitive account of the formative years in the life of Heinrich, a student of natural sciences, born into a bourgeois environment, but influenced and gently guided by a nobleman, the old Baron von Risach. It is in fact the baron’s own reminiscences which give the book its title. Comparable in some ways to Gottfried Keller’s Der grüne Heinrich this novel, nevertheless, reflects Stifter’s own moral values, his ethical thinking and his deep reverence for nature.
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
614 kr
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Finland, South Africa and Bosnia-Herzegovina are each burdened by memories of a civil war, between either social classes, racial groups or ethnic communities. History wars have followed the conflicts and been fought on the arenas of popular rhetoric, public memory, that is, monuments, museums and commemoration rituals, and history education. This book studies how the parties to these conflicts have attributed guilt to «the others» and victimhood to «us» in each country, and compares their respective memory politics and education strategies. The author draws on the potential on «history from below» activities and multiperspectival history lessons.
Del 54 - Literary & Cultural Theory
Studies of Imagery in Early Mediterranean and East Asian Poetry
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
749 kr
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This volume consists of articles on imagery in the poetry of various literary canons. Focussing on figurative speech, the authors analyse poetry of the Near East, Greece, the Arabic world, early modern Spain, classical China and classical Japan. The articles present new research based on individual approaches for each particular canon within a wide span from socio-cultural environment to semantic and cognitive properties of specific images. They deal with the poetics of the other, the role of the poet, poetic persuasion in politics, traditional typologies of tropes, intertextuality, and the principle of analogy. The authors combine literary theory with specialised knowledge of the local context and literary tradition and provide innovative and dynamic close readings.
Del 38 - Arbeit, Bildung und Gesellschaft / Labour, Education and Society
Sustainable Work in Europe
Concepts, Conditions, Challenges
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
785 kr
Sustainable Work in Europe brings together a strong core of Swedish workinglife research, with additional contributions from across Europe, and discussionof current issues such as digitalisation, climate change and the Covid pandemic.It bridges gaps between social science and medicine, and adds emphasis onage and gender. The book links workplace practice, theory and policy, and isintended to provide the basis for ongoing debate and dialogue.
Del 14 - Greifswalder Beitraege Zur Musikwissenschaft
Orgelbau, Orgelmusik Und Organisten Des Ostseeraums Im 17. Und 19. Jahrhundert
Häftad, Tyska, 2006
1 489 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
555 kr
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The focus of the present work is the art status of Duchamp’s Readymades and Warhol’s Brillo Box, and the claim that these works, because of their singular radicality, have initiated artistic and conceptual revolutions thereby changing the concept of art. The two first parts of the book are devoted to an analysis of the philosophical and art theoretical discourses these iconic works have engendered. Particular attention is paid to controversies concerning the interpretation and the significance of the works in question. In Part One, Thierry de Duve’s theory of art is discussed at some length. In Part Two, the focus is on Arthur Danto’s philosophy of art, inspired as it is by Warhol’s work. In Part Three, the philosophical debates concerning the definability of art are at the centre of attention. Some recent definitional proposals as well as criticisms of the definitional project are highlighted. In particular, Danto’s essentialist project is contrasted with Wittgenstein-inspired family resemblance approaches.
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Tyska, 2016854 kr
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Del 14 - Medizingeschichte Im Kontext
Erfolg und Scheitern der Hegar-Operation
Eine wissenschaftsgeschichtliche Untersuchung ueber die Kastration der Frau im 19. Jahrhundert
Häftad, Tyska, 2007
802 kr
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Inbunden, Tyska, 2003
1 311 kr
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Del 4 - Paedagogica
Pedagogical Tact
Reconnecting Theory and Practice in Education
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
378 kr
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At a time when education is becoming ever more standardized and technocratic, there is renewed interest in the interpersonal, even intimate phenomenon of pedagogical tact. Some speak of a renaissance. Like tact in general, pedagogical tact is a ready and delicate sense of what is fitting and proper in dealing with others. In pedagogy, these "others" are typically children, youth, or students, and tact is exercised as a kind of disposition that is oriented to the learners’ maturation and eventual autonomy. It takes the form of a subtle but active discernment that arises when theories and prescriptions simply do not help. This edited collection, the first to appear on pedagogical tact in English, includes contributions from several authors who are a part of the renaissance in this area. It also features a substantial introduction to the tradition of pedagogy from which tact emerges, and one that also traces the international development of understandings of pedagogical tact.This rich collection of recent texts on pedagogical tact provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the intricate relationship between theory and practice. It explores various characteristics, contexts, and applications of pedagogical tact, featuring contributions from distinguished scholars from the USA, Sweden, France, Germany, and Switzerland. As the first English-language volume dedicated solely to this topic since Max van Manen’s The Tact of Teaching (1991) and Pedagogical Tact (2015), it is an essential resource. Highly recommended.— Evi Agostini, Director of Studies – Education Directorate of Doctoral Studies, University of Vienna
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
732 kr
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The essays in this book investigate the complex and often contradictory relationships between aesthetics and modernity from the late Enlightenment in the 1790s to the Frankfurt School in the 1960s and engage with the classic German tradition of socio-cultural and aesthetic theory that extends from Friedrich Schiller to Theodor W. Adorno. While contemporary discussions in aesthetics are often dominated by abstract philosophical approaches, this book embeds aesthetic theory in broader social and cultural contexts and considers a wide range of artistic practices in literature, drama, music and visual arts. Contributions include research on Schiller’s writings and his work in relation to moral sentimentalism, Romantic aesthetics, Friedrich Schlegel, Beethoven, Huizinga and Greenberg; philosophers such as Kierkegaard, Benjamin, Heidegger and Adorno; and thematic approaches to Darwinism and Naturalism, modern tragedy, postmodern realism and philosophical anthropology from the eighteenth century to the present day. This book is based on papers given at an international symposium held under the auspices of the University of Nottingham at the Institute of German and Romance Studies, London, in September 2009.
Del 53 - Danziger Beiträge Zur Germanistik
Wort - Text - Diskurs
Inbunden, Tyska, 2016
1 191 kr
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Del 34 - Salzburger Studien zum Europaeischen Privatrecht
Transfer of Movable Property under U.S. Law
Discussed from a Functional Perspective
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
787 kr
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This book discusses legal rules for three functional commercial conflict situations under the laws of the U.S.A., mainly analyzing the U.C.C., the Bankruptcy Code, Common Law and Equity. In this context, the term conflict situation is meant to address a certain type of conflict arising between certain parties – e.g. buyer, seller, creditors of buyer or seller, or other types of third parties, like former title-holders to the goods – having certain colliding interests in the same property. The three conflict situations addressed in this book are the protection of a buyer in the seller’s insolvency, the protection of a seller in the buyer’s insolvency, and the conflict between a person formerly entitled to the goods and a good faith acquirer.
Del 397 - Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européenn
Zu Text und Bild bei Leonardo da Vinci
Eine mediengeschichtliche Kritik des Einsatzes verbaler und visueller Darstellungsmittel in der italienischen Renaissance
Häftad, Tyska, 2004
1 751 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2015
766 kr
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Spiritual guidance is the serious business of Mount Athos, the principal service that the Fathers offer to each other and to the world. Athonites have been purveyors of spiritual guidance for more than a thousand years in a tradition that goes back to the fourth-century desert fathers. The recent monastic renewal on the Mountain is testimony to the Fathers’ continuing power to attract disciples and pilgrims to listen to what they have to say. The papers included in this volume examine some of the many aspects of this venerable tradition, as it has developed on Mount Athos, and as it has devolved upon monks and nuns, spiritual fathers and confessors, lay men and women, in other parts of Greece and in the world. Most of the papers were originally delivered at a conference convened by the Friends of Mount Athos at Madingley Hall, Cambridge, in 2013.
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
1 224 kr
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Musicians tend to believe that the mystery of their art cannot be objectively studied, quantified, or explained. As a result, the term «motor learning» is rarely used in connection with musicians, and an empirical approach to musical performance is more the exception than the rule. Sports scientists, however, show a great interest in musicians because of their advanced skill level and the attentional and emotional demands of the concert stage. This work combines knowledge across disciplines. Advances toward an understanding of human behavior and cognition offer clues to strategies of motor learning and performance that promote the well-being of musicians and athletes. This book provides a forum for an interdisciplinary exchange of research, laying the groundwork for future projects.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
492 kr
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Interpretation has historically been understood as a method to shrink the distance between the interpreter and the interpreted. This view has dominated the comprehension of the interpretation of art: it always entails the interpretation of something, and this something must then govern our effort to understand it. If not, we are left with mere subjective whims. This book tries to modify this well-worn view by altering the dualist position to incorporate the very object within the sense-making activity. Interpretation rather becomes the creative making of something different, and this explains why it is deemed unfinished. The notion of “re-contextualization” covers this in between operation (between work and interpretation), and the very object of interpretation remains just an enabling condition of transference. Interpretation preserves the challenge, by re-making and re-locating meaning.
Del 82 - Erziehungskonzeptionen und Praxis / Educational Concepts and Practice
Learning Scenarios for Social and Cultural Change
«Bildung» through Academic Teaching
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
477 kr
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The anthology departs from the fundamental idea that the university is deeply connected to the ideal of «Bildung» and to democratic values. If the university should serve as an open space to develop democracy and to meet today’s social, cultural and ecological challenges, then one has to take into account the different disciplines’ approaches to education. Thus, the featured proposals on school and university education come from diverse research fields such as general education, media education, art and aesthetic education, philosophy, ethnology, sociology, performance art and gender.
Del 22 - Schriftenreihe des Kaerntner Instituts fuer Hoehere Studien
Loan Loss Provisions in Alternative Banking Landscapes
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
614 kr
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This book comprises two empirical studies that use econometric techniques to examine loan loss provisions in Southeast Europe (SEE). The first study applies the Generalized Method of Moments estimator to a dynamic panel dataset, shedding light on specific loan loss provisioning practices. This study makes a unique contribution to the field, extending empirical evidence on discretionary and non-discretionary components of loan loss provisions in SEE. Additionally, the analysis of outlying observations offers interesting insights into potential motives influencing decisions on loan loss provisions. Filling a gap where research in SEE is infrequent, the second study uses individual structural vector auto-regression (SVAR) models for individual economies and panel SVAR models for SEE EU states and the Western Balkans, forecasting response functions of loan loss provisions to adverse GDP and employment shocks.
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
920 kr
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Del 46 - ACTA Germanica / German Studies in Africa
Acta Germanica
German Studies in Africa
Häftad, Tyska, 2018
614 kr
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Del 18 - Ralahine Utopian Studies
Metamorphoses of Science Fiction
On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
741 kr
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Returning to print for the first time since the 1980s, Metamorphoses of Science Fiction is the origin point for decades of literary and theoretical criticism of science fiction and related genres. Darko Suvin’s paradigm-setting definition of SF as «the literature of cognitive estrangement» established a robust theory of the genre that continues to spark fierce debate, as well as inspiring myriad intellectual descendants and disciples. Suvin’s centuries-spanning history of the genre links SF to a long tradition of utopian and satirical literatures crying out for a better world than this one, showing how SF and the imagination of utopia are now forever intertwined. In addition to the 1979 text of the book, this edition contains three additional essays from Suvin that update, expand and reconsider the terms of his original intervention, as well as a new introduction and preface that situate the book in the context of the decades of SF studies that have followed in its wake.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
944 kr
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This book, which presents a cognitive-semiotic theory of cultural evolution, including that taking place in historical time, analyses various cognitive-semiotic artefacts and abilities. It claims that what makes human beings human is fundamentally the semiotic and cultural skills by means of which they endow their Lifeworld with meaning. The properties that have made human beings special among animals living in the terrestrial biosphere do not derive entirely from their biological-genetic evolution, but also stem from their interaction with the environment, in its culturally interpreted form, the Lifeworld. This, in turn, becomes possible thanks to the human ability to learn from other thinking beings, and to transfer experiences, knowledge, meaning, and perspectives to new generations.
Del 11 - Studies in History, Memory and Politics
On the Threshold of the Holocaust
Anti-Jewish Riots and Pogroms in Occupied Europe: Warsaw – Paris – The Hague – Amsterdam – Antwerp – Kaunas
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
440 kr
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In the early months of the German occupation during WWII, many of Europe’s major cities witnessed anti-Jewish riots, anti-Semitic incidents, and even pogroms carried out by the local population. Who took part in these excesses, and what was their attitude towards the Germans? Were they guided or spontaneous? What part did the Germans play in these events and how did they manipulate them for their own benefit? Delving into the source material for Warsaw, Paris, The Hague, Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Kaunas, this study is the first to take a comparative look at these questions. Looking closely at events many would like to forget, the volume describes various characters and their stories, revealing some striking similarities and telling differences, while raising tantalising questions.
Del 11 - Frontiers of Business Ethics
Responsible Economics
E.F. Schumacher and His Legacy for the 21st Century
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
798 kr
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The centenary of E.F. Schumacher’s birth (1911-1977) offered an urgent opportunity to revisit his work and life. Against the background of the crisis at the beginning of this century, reconsidering Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful or frugality paradigm makes clear that advances in responsible economics continue to be a priority. This book contains the proceedings of the 2011 Annual Conference of the European SPES Forum on ‘Responsibility in Economics and Business: The Legacy of E.F. Schumacher’, which was organised in September 2011 by the Centre for Ethics of the University of Antwerp in collaboration with the Business Ethics Center of Budapest. The aims of this conference were to celebrate the 100th anniversary of E.F. Schumacher’s birth and to engage with Schumacher’s vision to help address the present need for responsibility in economics and business. The answers to our current economic crisis presented in this book prove that the legacy of an economist and philosopher like Schumacher are not confined to a utopian economic paradigm. Utopian economic paradigms are concerned with a better economic situation in the future. Schumacher reconsidered today, however, makes it clear that society needs responsible economics invested in the sustainability of the globe, right now.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
799 kr
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This volume contains a collection of papers that deal with Romance linguistics from two broad perspectives: multilingualism and language acquisition. Some of the contributions investigate these phenomena in the light of language contact, language attitudes and code switching in multilingual societies or multilingual families. Others focus on the acquisition of rhythmic patterns, intonation or even emotions in a second language. Many of the contributions present themes related to oral production or speech. The book in itself is multilingual and includes papers written in Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and English.
Del 23 - International Relations in Asia, Africa and the Americas
Narrating Victimhood Nationalism
Cultural Memory in Polish and South Korean History Museums
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
557 kr
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This book provides an extensive analysis of the narratives showcased in history museums related to victimhood nationalism in Poland and South Korea. As victimhood nationalism in these countries is often stimulated by certain memory exhibitions with historical context, the author focuses on exploring how museums, through their memory exhibitions of cultural memory, trigger nationalism and stimulate a sense of victimhood in Poland and Korea. This book utilizes Cultural Studies' interdisciplinary tools, combining textual and contextual analysis, while also providing historical background to enhance the reader's understanding. Based on this analysis, the author introduces the concept of a memory factory, emphasizing the role of museums not only as spaces for displaying chronological history but as factories that generate cultural memories in large quantities. Through this, the author claims that victimhood nationalism is a consequence but also an inheritance of cultural memory.