This volume takes a broad outlook on the concept of transculturality. Contributions from 19 authors and specialists, of almost as many diverse origins, grapple with this concept, each in their own way. How can transculturality be described? How can it... Zobraziť viac
Die Studie untersucht erstmals judenfeindliche Äußerungen im Reichstag der Weimarer Republik und weist nach, dass Antisemitismus ein relevantes Deutungsmuster darstellte. Aus zahlreichen Beispielen der Themenfelder Ostjudendebatten, Barmat-Skandal und... Zobraziť viac
How do mental events such as choices and decisions lead to physical action? The problem of mental causation is one of the most important and intriguing philosophical issues of our time and has been at the centre of debates in the philosophy of mind for... Zobraziť viac
The book discusses methodological issues relating to the philosophy of science and the natural and social sciences. It reconstructs the methods of measurement and scientific explanation, the relation of data, phenomena and mechanisms, the problem of... Zobraziť viac
This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2012. Teaching History to Adolescents: A Quest for Relevance is an exploration of research, ideas, trends, and practices for educators who teach American... Zobraziť viac
This volume allows a new generation of scholars, from the Balkans and beyond, to shed light on some of the struggles the region faces. The combination of post-communist and post-conflict transition, together with the current economic and financial... Zobraziť viac
Die Studie erforscht mit kultursoziologischen Methoden (narrativ-problemorientierte Interviews, Deutungsmusteranalysen) den Stellenwert der literarischen Bildung bei Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen des Hochkulturschemas, deren literarische... Zobraziť viac
This volume is concerned with issues in experimental philosophy and experimental linguistics. Examining experiments in language from a variety of perspectives, it asks what form they should take and what should count as evidence. There is particular... Zobraziť viac
This volume is a collection of empirical studies investigating the ways and means through which culturally-shaped identities are manifested in and through discourse in documents and texts from multiple spheres of social action. It also looks at... Zobraziť viac
Adolescents' Online Literacies: Connecting Classrooms, Digital Media, and Popular Culture is a compilation of new work that makes concrete connections between what the research literature portrays and what teachers, school librarians, and media... Zobraziť viac
This book is a field guide on how to implement game-based learning and «gamification» techniques to the everyday teaching. It is a survey of best practices aggregated from interviews with experts in the field, including: James Paul Gee (Author, What... Zobraziť viac
The book won the Surveillance Studies Network Book Prize 2014. The book argues that the mobile as a political technology in a broad sense facilitates the global export of the Western concept of individuality. This empowers those subjectivities and... Zobraziť viac
Alexander Freiherr von Bach (1813-1893), Justizminister und späterer Innenminister des ersten Dezenniums der Regierungszeit Franz Josephs I., gilt als eine der bedeutendsten Politikerpersönlichkeiten dieser Epoche. Der glänzende Anwalt und glühende... Zobraziť viac
This book investigates possible common objects of inquiry in philosophy of language and literature. The topics discussed include proper names (analyzed from different theoretical perspectives), fictional names, truth in fiction, ontological status and... Zobraziť viac
This book focuses on the history of Hungarian parliamentarism. Beside classic methods of historiography, the author utilizes statistical and GIS methods in his analysis. He combines the micro and macro levels of research. The book analyses the social... Zobraziť viac
Das Buch versammelt Studien zu Edith Stein und Bernhard von Clairvaux, zu Rilke und dem Duineser Engel, zu Max Planck und der modernen Dante-Kosmologie, zur klassischen Oper und zu Nikolaus Cusanus sowie den ersten Nachtrag zur Literaturrezeption der... Zobraziť viac
The growing interest in the visual dimension of musical performance practice and the use of film as a medium of presentation and research in Ethnomusicology is related to the increasingly wide use of visual ethnographic methods of research and... Zobraziť viac
This anthology - the first of its kind in eight years - collects some of the best and most current research and reflection on the complex interactions between religion and computer-mediated communication (CMC). The contributions cohere around the... Zobraziť viac
This book examines the ways that hatred comes alive in language and discourse. It asks whether much of the discourse on the political right - that which attacks their enemies - is hate speech. Extending Michael Waltman's previous work on hate speech,... Zobraziť viac
This book unravels Taiwan's anomalous place in the international community. While it is for all intents and purposes treated as a sovereign state by most members of the international community, it is recognized by only twenty-three of them. The book... Zobraziť viac
