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«Das Denken jedes Zeitalters spiegelt sich in seiner Technik wider.» Der von Norbert Wiener 1948 gemachte Vorschlag, die Geschichte der Maschinen als Zugangsweg zu einer Geschichte des Denkens zu begreifen, schließt seine Selbstanwendung mit ein, lässt er sich doch...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-24
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The walls of Le Nuove prison in Turin are scarred by graffiti, bullets and blood. Opened in 1870, Le Nuove was one of Italy’s first panoptical prisons. During the Second World War it was occupied by the Nazis, who executed and deported anti-Fascist and Jewish prisoners...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-23
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Chinese medicine is a culturally dependent art of healing deeply rooted in the culture and philosophy of the country it originated from: China. This book has three independent but progressive parts, each bearing the title of one of the three courses taught by the author...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-20
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Can the unprecedented rise of the historical genre in Italy after 1980 be explained out of the «Umberto Eco effect» alone, as many critics believe? Why are so many Italians nowadays inclined to believe in their Celtic origins? How many middle Ages were there and do we...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-18
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Applied Theatre: Bewilderment and Beyond explores the practice of theatre in communities and social institutions with marginalised groups. It shifts between contexts and countries to examine different ways that theatre has been applied to a wide range of social issues....
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-10
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What is the relationship between habits and emotions?What is the role of the embodiment of emotions in a cultural habitat?What is the role of the environment for the formation of emotions and subjectivity? One way to address these questions is through discussing an...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-09
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Speech Acts and Politeness are among the main areas of interest in pragmatics. These communicative phenomena can be considered universal and at the same time language and culture-specific. It is this latter dimension that has been at the centre of recent developments in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-05
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The study describes and analyses the history of mission studies and mission activities at Utrecht University (UU), from the establishment of UU in 1636 onwards. It also describes and examines the overseas ministries of Dutch, German, Hungarian, South African, and other...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-04
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This groundbreaking book in theoretical and empirical phraseology research looks at Europe’s linguistic situation as a whole, including 74 European and 17 non-European languages. The occurrence of idioms that actually share the same lexical and semantic structure across...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-07-04
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The Sangitaratnakara («The Ocean of Music») written by Sarngadeva in the 13th century is the most important theoretical work on Indian classical music. Its prologue, the Pindotpatti-prakarana («The Section of the Arising of the Human Body»), deals with the Indian...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-03
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Popular music has always been a dynamic mediator of gender and sexuality, and a productive site of rebellion, oddity and queerness. The transformative capacity of music-making, performance and consumption helps us to make sense of identity and allows us to glimpse...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-07-03
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Here are the essential historical writings of feminism. Many of the works, long out of print or forgotten in what Miriam Schneir describes as a male-dominated literary tradition, are finally brought out of obscurity and into the light of contemporary analysis and...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-06-30
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Berlin's letters are marvellously accessible, and as entertaining. During the two decades covered here his personality and career grow and bloom. In America, during the war, he writes a regular telegram to his anxious parents, often saying just 'Flourishing'; the word...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2012-06-30
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The essay collection focuses on morbid phenomena such as melancholy, trauma, illness and death which engage with questions of «cultural vitality» and «cultural mortality».The figurations and representations of social pathologies not only display time in its existential...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-06-28
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This unique edition is the result of the second International Theatre for Young Audiences Research Network (ITYARN) conference that was held in Malmoe, Sweden, in May 2011 as part of the XVIIth ASSITEJ World Congress and Festival. In fifteen essays that are illustrative...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-06-27
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This study gives substantial coverage and close critical attention to a wide range of Coetzee’s published writings, in the attempt to situate his œuvre within the framework of both postmodernist and postcolonial theory and criticism. In addition, it links the political...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-06-26
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This book analyses articulations of cultural identity in the work of the twentieth-century Polish poet Jerzy Harasymowicz, concentrating on the ways in which his shifting perspectives on the Carpathian Lemko Region are used to address the dilemmas of power, hybridity...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-06-26
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All Quiet on the Hooligan Front is a compelling exploration into the changing face of football. Covering the years just prior to the Hillsborough disaster up to the present day, it shows how the mood of English football has changed dramatically since the era of...
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Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2012-06-22
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As institutional religiosity loosens its hold, different modes of spirituality are on the rise. The essays in this volume, based on papers delivered at the ‘Religious Experience: North and South’ international symposium convened at the University of Helsinki in 2010,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-06-12
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Les « lieux de mémoire » lancés par Pierre Nora dans les années 1980 ont connu un grand succès dans différentes historiographies européennes. Le présent ouvrage veut faire sortir ce concept du cadre national dans lequel il reste encore trop souvent enfermé. Ce...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2012-06-11
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