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The Logical Renaissance

Literature, Cognition, and Argument, 1479-1630

By: Katrin Ettenhuber

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The Logical Renaissance

Literature, Cognition, and Argument, 1479-1630

By: Katrin Ettenhuber

The Logical Renaissance: Literature, Cognition, and Argument, 1479-1630 is the first substantial account of early modern English literature's deep but uncharted relationship with logic. The nature and functions of logic have been largely misunderstood in literary criticism of the period, where it is often seen as sterile and formalistic: either an overcomplex remnant of Medieval philosophy superseded by rhetoric, or part of a Ramist pedagogy so stripped back that it had little to offer in the way of creative inspiration. Katrin Ettenhuber shows instead that early modern writers encountered in their study of logic a vibrantly practical art of argument and reasoning, which provided rich opportunities for imaginative engagement and artistic appropriation. The book opens with a clear and accessible introduction to the logical terms and concepts that will guide the discussion. It charts changes in logic education between the late fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries, before presenting a series of case studies that illustrate the creative applications of logic across a wide range of genres, including epic and lyric poetry, drama, and religious prose. The Logical Renaissance demonstrates, for the first time, logic's central role in the literary culture of early modern England.

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Oxford University Press

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0198881185

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Every Child Can Learn

Using learning tools and play to help children with Developmental Delay

By: Katrin Stroh,Thelma Robinson,Alan Proctor

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Every Child Can Learn

Using learning tools and play to help children with Developmental Delay

By: Katrin Stroh,Thelma Robinson,Alan Proctor

Includes CD-Rom Based on the authors′ own clinical practice and extensive experience in the field, this book is a creative and flexible aid to helping children with learning difficulties. Their accessible and positive approach, ′Functional Learning′, focuses on helping children learn, children′s potential, and what they can rather than cannot do. It is based on the purposeful ′doing′ by the young child and can be carried out at home, school or the therapy room with either parents, teacher or therapist. The approach, which is cross-cultural, can be extended to all aspects of the child′s life, and enables them to participate in everyday activities at home and school. Fully illustrated, the book draws extensively on the authors′ many years of practical work and offers techniques and activities used to help children develop their learning with a focus on: - Development of Learning Tools - Working with parents - Language and communication - Behaviour and emotional development - Integration of learning into everyday life The book includes a CD-Rom/DVD with printable material for making cards and worksheets, plus illustrative video material. This book is suitable for anyone working with or caring for a child with learning difficulties, or with autistic spectrum disorders; for SEN teachers and SENCOs, early years training, teacher training and child development courses, as well as parents. Recommended video resources: Learning and Communication http://www.concordmedia.org.uk/products/learning-and-communication-programmes-for-developmentally-delayed-children-568/ Understanding Understanding http://www.concordmedia.org.uk/products/understanding-understanding-1157/

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SAGE

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1849203547

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Studies on Old High German Syntax

Left Sentence Periphery, Verb Placement and Verb-second

By: Katrin Axel

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Studies on Old High German Syntax

Left Sentence Periphery, Verb Placement and Verb-second

By: Katrin Axel

Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027233764

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Women, Camp, and Popular Culture

Serious Excess

By: Katrin Horn

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Women, Camp, and Popular Culture

Serious Excess

By: Katrin Horn

This innovative study claims camp as a critical, yet pleasurable strategy for women’s engagement with contemporary popular culture as exemplified by 30 Rock or Lady Gaga. In detailed analyses of lesbian cinema, postfeminist TV, and popular music, the book offers a novel take on its subject. It defines camp as a unique mode of detached attachment, which builds on affective intensity and emotional investment, while strongly encouraging a critical edge.

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Springer

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3319648462

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Dictionary of Contemporary Germany

By: Tristam Carrington-Windo,Katrin Kohl

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Dictionary of Contemporary Germany

By: Tristam Carrington-Windo,Katrin Kohl

A series of dictionaries on the contemporary milieu of the world's most important countries. The Contemporary Country Dictionary series are not tourist guides--though tourists with a serious interest in countries they are visiting will find them of great help in learning more about these societies. These alphabetical reference guides have been compiled to give up-to-date information on all aspects of each country--explanations of terms that are outside the scope of a standard dictionary or encyclopedia--including acronyms, political and legal institutions, cultural phenomena, social welfare programs, industrial concerns, media, literary and political personalities, and much more. Each Dictionary has been compiled by two people--a native of the individual country and an English-speaking collaborator from either Great Britain or the United States. Readers are thus assured of authoritative information that is rendered in terms comprehensible to English-language readers. The Dictionaries will prove invaluable to researchers, librarians, and students.

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Routledge

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1136595376

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Miniature Crafts and Their Makers

Palm Weaving in a Mexican Town

By: Katrin Flechsig

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Miniature Crafts and Their Makers

Palm Weaving in a Mexican Town

By: Katrin Flechsig

Picture a throng of tiny devils and angels, or a marching band so small it can fit in the palm of your hand. In a Mixtec town in the Mexican state of Puebla, craftspeople have been weaving palm since before the Spanish Conquest, but over the past forty years that art has become more finely tuned and has won national acceptance in a market nostalgic for an authentic Indian past. In this book, Katrin Flechsig offers the first in-depth ethnographic and historical examination of the miniature palm craft industry, taking readers behind the scenes of craft production in order to explain how and why these folk arts have undergone miniaturization over the past several decades. In describing this "Lilliputization of Mexico," she discusses the appeal of miniaturization, revealing how such factors as tourism and the construction of national identity have contributed to an ongoing demand for the tiny creations. She also contrasts the playfulness of the crafts with the often harsh economic and political realities of life in the community. Flechsig places the crafts of Chigmecatitlán within the contexts of manufacturing, local history, religion, design and technique, and selling. She tells how innovation is introduced into the craft, such as through the modification of foreign designs in response to market demands. She also offers insights into capitalist penetration of folk traditions, the marketing of folk arts, and economic changes in modern Mexico. And despite the fact that the designations "folk" and "Indian" help create a romantic fiction surrounding the craft, Flechsig dispels common misperceptions of the simplicity of this folk art by revealing the complexities involved in its creation. More than thirty illustrations depict not only finished miniatures but also the artists and their milieu. Today miniatures serve not only the tourist market; middle-class Mexicans also collect miniatures to such an extent that it has been termed a national pastime. Flechsig’s work opens up this miniature world and shows us the extent to which it has become a lasting and important facet of contemporary Mexican culture.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816550077

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9780816550074

The Role of Phonology and Phonetics in Loanword Adaptation

German and French Front Rounded Vowels in Japanese

By: Katrin Dohlus

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The Role of Phonology and Phonetics in Loanword Adaptation

German and French Front Rounded Vowels in Japanese

By: Katrin Dohlus

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Humboldt--Univ., 2008).

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Peter Lang

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3631590059

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Sex Changes with Kleist

By: Katrin Pahl

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Sex Changes with Kleist

By: Katrin Pahl

Sex Changes with Kleist analyzes how the dramatist and poet Heinrich von Kleist (1777–1811) responded to the change in the conception of sex and gender that occurred in the eighteenth century. Specifically, Katrin Pahl shows that Kleist resisted the shift from a one-sex to the two-sex and complementary gender system that is still prevalent today. With creative close readings engaging all eight of his plays, Pahl probes Kleist’s appreciation for incoherence, his experimentation with alternative symbolic orders, his provocative understanding of emotion, and his camp humor. Pahl demonstrates that rather than preparing modern homosexuality, Kleist puts an end to modern gender norms even before they take hold and refuses the oppositional organization of sexual desire into homosexual and heterosexual that sprouts from these norms. Focusing on the theatricality of Kleist’s interventions in the performance of gender, sexuality, and emotion and examining how his dramatic texts unhinge major tenets of classical European theater, Sex Changes with Kleist is vital reading for anyone interested in queer studies, feminist studies, performance studies, literary studies, or emotion studies. This book changes our understanding of Kleist and breathes new life into queer thought.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810140136

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9780810140134

Knowledge Representation in the Social Semantic Web

By: Katrin Weller

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Knowledge Representation in the Social Semantic Web

By: Katrin Weller

The main purpose of this book is to sum up the vital and highly topical research issue of knowledge representation on the Web and to discuss novel solutions by combining benefits of folksonomies and Web 2.0 approaches with ontologies and semantic technologies. The book contains an overview of knowledge representation approaches in past, present and future, introduction to ontologies, Web indexing and in first case the novel approaches of developing ontologies.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3598251807

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Under Construction: Logics of Urbanism in the Gulf Region

By: Steffen Wippel,Katrin Bromber,Birgit Krawietz

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Under Construction: Logics of Urbanism in the Gulf Region

By: Steffen Wippel,Katrin Bromber,Birgit Krawietz

Interdisciplinary in approach, this volume explores and deciphers the symbolic value and iconicity of the built environment in the Arab Gulf Region, its aesthetics, language and performative characteristics. Bringing together a range of studies by artists, curators and scholars, it demonstrates how Dubai appeared - at least until the financial crisis - to be leading the construction race and has already completed a large number of its landmark architecture and strategic facilities. In contrast, cities like the Qatari capital Doha still appear to be heavily ’under construction’ and in countries like the Sultanate of Oman, ultra-luxury tourism projects were started only recently. While the construction of artificial islands, theme parks and prestige sport facilities has attracted considerable attention, much less is known about the region’s widespread implementation of innovative infrastructure such as global container ports, free zones, inter-island causeways and metro lines. This volume argues that these endeavours are not simply part of a strategy to prepare for the post-oil era for future economic survival and prosperity in the Lower Gulf region, but that they are also aiming to strengthen identitarian patterns and specific national brands. In doing so, they exhibit similar, yet remarkably diverse modes of engaging with certain global trends and present - questionably - distinct ideas for putting themselves on the global map. Each country aims to grab attention with regard to the world-wide flow of goods and capital and thus provide its own citizens with a socially acceptable trajectory for the future. By doing that, the countries in the Gulf are articulating a new semiotic and paradigm of urban development. For the first time, this volume maps these trends in their relation to architecture and infrastructure, in particular by treating them as semiotics in their own right. It suggests that recent developments in this region of the world not only represen

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1317005287

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Violence, Imagination, and Resistance

Socio-legal Interrogations of Power

By: Katrin Roots

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Violence, Imagination, and Resistance

Socio-legal Interrogations of Power

By: Katrin Roots

Much of the discussion of social transformation and resistance in socio-legal studies centres around the question of whether and how the law can be used to achieve practical change. However, the editors of this volume argue that it will never be possible to enact change through the law because it is inseparable from violence, be it metaphysical, social, or political. They posit that a “just world,” free from oppressive power relations, requires us to imagine communities where the state and its law cease to exist. Contributors address the underexplored questions of what alternatives to law could look like: how communities could organize their everyday lives, and how they could address social and interpersonal conflicts outside of an apparatus of violence. These essays contribute to the ongoing interrogation of settler colonialism, racism, and structural violence in Canada by demonstrating how to expose the violence the law produces, how to deconstruct law’s power, and, finally, how to identify modes of resistance that have transformative potential.

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Athabasca University Press

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1771993669

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9781771993661

Testing Knowledge

Toward an Ecology of Diagnosis, Preceded by the Dingdingdong Manifesto

By: Katrin Solhdju,Alice Rivieres

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Testing Knowledge

Toward an Ecology of Diagnosis, Preceded by the Dingdingdong Manifesto

By: Katrin Solhdju,Alice Rivieres

This volume presents the collective adventure of Dingdingdong, the Institute for the Co-production of Knowledge about Huntington's Disease, founded in 2012 between Paris and Brussels. Katrin Solhdju's Testing Knowledge: Toward an Ecology of Diagnosis pursues the question of taming the violence of the new species of medical foreknowledge represented by genetic testing. Adopting historical and epistemological perspectives on diagnostic situations, including observations from anthropological field research, speculative storytelling, and ancient oracles, Testing Knowledge proposes a new ecology of predictive diagnostic gestures, which potentially concern us all. Testing Knowledge is preceded by the Dingdingdong collective's Manifesto (2013), which tells the story of the young Alice Rivières, who in 2006 took the presymptomatic, genetic test, foretelling her that she will eventually develop Huntington's. Her first-person account of the revelation of her test results, which she experienced as an act of poisoning or cursing, pulls the reader into the manifold ethical, psychological, and existential issues inherent to medical predictions. Testing Knowledge is also preceded by a foreword from Alice Wexler, author of Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research, and is followed by an afterword by philosopher Isabelle Stengers.

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punctum books

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1953035469

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Exiles, Eccentrics, Activists

Women in Contemporary German Theater

By: Katrin Sieg

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Exiles, Eccentrics, Activists

Women in Contemporary German Theater

By: Katrin Sieg

The first book-length critical appraisal of the work of Marieluise Fleisser, Elfriede Jelinek, Erika Mann, Else Lasker-Schuler, Kerstin Specht, and Ginka Steinwachs

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University of Michigan Press

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0472104918

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European Climate Diplomacy in the USA and China

Embassy Narratives and Coalitions

By: Katrin Buchmann

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European Climate Diplomacy in the USA and China

Embassy Narratives and Coalitions

By: Katrin Buchmann

In this book, Katrin Buchmann offers a fascinating and insightful account of the efforts of several European embassies to create alliances in the United States and in China to support the UN climate negotiations leading up to COP15.

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BRILL

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9004368159

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Prussian Army Soldiers and the Seven Years' War

The Psychology of Honour

By: Katrin Möbius,Sascha Möbius

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Prussian Army Soldiers and the Seven Years' War

The Psychology of Honour

By: Katrin Möbius,Sascha Möbius

The army of Frederick the Great of Prussia is generally known as an efficient fighting machine based on brutal and strict drill procedures that led to broken but fearless soldiers as well as glorious battle victories. In analysing the mentalities of the men who established Prussia's great power status, Prussian Army Soldiers and the Seven Years' War fundamentally challenges this interpretation. Drawing on a vast array of primary sources (including the writing of regimental chaplain Küster, who could probably be called the first modern military psychologist) and presenting the first English translation of 12 letters of common Prussian soldiers from the Seven Years' War, this book shows that the soldiers were feeling individuals. They were loving husbands, vulnerable little brothers, deeply religious preachers, and sometimes even bold adventurers. All these individuals, however, were united by one idea which made them fight efficiently: honour. In Prussian Army Soldiers and the Seven Years' War, the different elements of the Prussian soldiers' concept of such honour are expertly analysed. The result is a nuanced, sophisticated, and much-needed psychological history of Frederick the Great's army.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350081590

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Verbs

By: Roland Bielmeier,Katrin Häsler,Chungda Haller,et al.

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Verbs

By: Roland Bielmeier,Katrin Häsler,Chungda Haller,et al.

This landmark dictionary serves as a basis for historical-comparative research on Tibetan. Conceptualized empirically and etymologically, it builds on extensive data from the Tibetan dialects and establishes the relationship to Written Tibetan. It reflects historical sound change and semantic change in all of linguistic Tibet. Based on historical sound change and geographical distribution, the dictionary applies a new classification of the Tibetan dialects.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110554070

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9783110554076

Trade Unions on YouTube

Online Revitalization in Sweden

By: Jenny Jansson,Katrin Uba

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Trade Unions on YouTube

Online Revitalization in Sweden

By: Jenny Jansson,Katrin Uba

This open access book investigates how trade unions representing different social classes use YouTube videos for renewal purposes. Information and communication technology has undoubtedly offered new opportunities for social movements, but while research suggests that these new means of communication can be used for trade union revitalization, few studies have examined what unions actually do on social media. By analysing more than 4500 videos that have been uploaded by Swedish trade unions, Jansson and Uba explore how unions use YouTube to address issues such as recruiting new members, improving internal democracy, promoting political campaigns and constructing (new) self-images. The results demonstrate that trade unions representing a range of social classes use different revitalization strategies via YouTube. This research will be of use to students and scholars researching European politics and political participation, trade unionism and labour movements in the digital age.

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Springer

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303024914X

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9783030249144

Green Roof Systems

A Guide to the Planning, Design, and Construction of Landscapes over Structure

By: Susan Weiler,Katrin Scholz-Barth

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Green Roof Systems

A Guide to the Planning, Design, and Construction of Landscapes over Structure

By: Susan Weiler,Katrin Scholz-Barth

Green Roof Systems goes beyond the fashionable green roof movement and provides solid information on building accessible space, often as important public space, over structure. It offers brief coverage of the entire process, including planning and collaboration, and focuses on the technical aspects of these roof systems, their components, and their applications.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471674958

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Ethnic Drag

Performing Race, Nation, Sexuality in West Germany

By: Katrin Sieg

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Ethnic Drag

Performing Race, Nation, Sexuality in West Germany

By: Katrin Sieg

An exploration of the West German attempt to repress and refashion concepts of "race" after the Holocaust

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University of Michigan Press

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0472112821

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9780472112821

Designing One Nation

The Politics of Economic Culture and Trade in Divided Germany

By: Katrin Schreiter

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Designing One Nation

The Politics of Economic Culture and Trade in Divided Germany

By: Katrin Schreiter

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations, thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The histories of East and West Germany traditionally emphasize the Cold War rivalries between the communist and capitalist nations. Yet, even as the countries diverged in their political directions, they had to create new ways of working together economically. In Designing One Nation, Katrin Schreiter examines the material culture of increasing economic contacts in divided Germany from the 1940s until the 1990s. Trade events, such as fairs and product shows, became one of the few venues for sustained links and knowledge between the two countries after the building of the Berlin Wall. Schreiter uses industrial design, epitomized by the furniture industry, to show how a network of politicians, entrepreneurs, and cultural brokers attempted to nationally re-inscribe their production cultures, define a postwar German identity, and regain economic stability and political influence in postwar Europe. What started as a competition for ideological superiority between East and West Germany quickly turned into a shared, politically legitimizing quest for an untainted post-fascist modernity. This work follows products from the drawing board into the homes of ordinary Germans to offer insights into how converging visions of German industrial modernity created shared expectations about economic progress and living standards. Schreiter reveals how intra-German and European trade policies drove the creation of products and generated a certain convergence of East and West German taste by the 1980s. Drawing on a wide range of sources from governments, furniture firms, industrial design councils, home lifestyle magazines, and design exhibitions, Designing One Nation argues that an economic culture linked the two Germanies even before reunification in 1990.

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Oxford University Press

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0190877294

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9780190877293

Sports and Modernity in Late Imperial Ethiopia

By: Katrin Bromber

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Sports and Modernity in Late Imperial Ethiopia

By: Katrin Bromber

This first academic study of the history of modern sports in Ethiopia during the imperial rule of the 20th century argues that modern sports offers new possibilities to explore the meanings of modernity in Africa. Providing an in-depth analysis of the role of sports in modern educational institutions, volunteer organizations, and urbanization processes, the author shows how agents, ideas and practices linked societal improvement and bodily improvement.

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Boydell & Brewer

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1847012922

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Tropes of Transport

Hegel and Emotion

By: Katrin Pahl

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Tropes of Transport

Hegel and Emotion

By: Katrin Pahl

Intervening in the multidisciplinary debate on emotion, Tropes of Transport offers a fresh analysis of Hegel’s work that becomes an important resource for Pahl’s cutting-edge theory of emotionality. If it is usually assumed that the sincerity of emotions and the force of affects depend on their immediacy, Pahl explores to what extent mediation—and therefore a certain degree of manipulation but also of sympathy—is constitutive of emotionality. Hegel serves as a particularly helpful interlocutor not only because he offers a sophisticated analysis of mediation, but also because, rather than locating emotion in the heart, he introduces impersonal tropes of transport, such as trembling, release, and shattering.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810127849

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9780810127845

Gene Doping

Scientific Basis - Gateways - Monitoring

By: Katrin Gerlinger,Thomas Petermann,Arnold Sauter

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Gene Doping

Scientific Basis - Gateways - Monitoring

By: Katrin Gerlinger,Thomas Petermann,Arnold Sauter

Just like a phantom, the topic of »gene doping« keeps haunting the debates regarding the future of competitive sports for years. Very often, corresponding fantasies and visions culminate in the imagination of super athletes who are permanently manipulated with regard to their genetic disposition. However, the application scenarios to be expected will be far more unspectacular, but more probable and more obvious at the same time. Very soon, we will have to expect the use of new substances as well as of methods in gene and cell therapy for targeted manipulation of gene activity. Their use promises a highly efficient performance enhancement and will be difficult to prove, if at all. This book provides comprehensive answers to the key questions of the further development: Which scientific results could cater to the needs of potential gene doping? Where are the future gateways in top-level and popular sports? And how can prohibitions and monitoring be used in responding to this? Another question will be which individual behavioural patterns of athletes and which social contexts will play a role with regard to the potential »career« of gene doping.

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3732287858

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9783732287857

No-regret Potentials in Energy Conservation

An Analysis of Their Relevance, Size and Determinants

By: Katrin Ostertag

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No-regret Potentials in Energy Conservation

An Analysis of Their Relevance, Size and Determinants

By: Katrin Ostertag

(2) Do existing estimates of the no-regret potential stand up to are-evaluation within this framework? As a result of this analysis the size of previous estimates for no-regret potentials may be modified - in terms ofenergy savings or in financial terms. On the basis of these findings, we will approach the overriding third research question: (3) How large is the no-regret potential and what determines its size? The following chapter will provide a fuller account of the debate on no-regret potentials. This will be complemented by a detailed theory-based definition of no regret potentials in Chapter 2. The thesis will focus mostly on the micro-level of analysis. But we will also address the implications ofour findings for the analysis ofenergy saving measures and policies at more aggregate levels, notably within a feasibility study for adapting a model which represents the level of the national economy. The debate on no-regret potentials 1 origin, context, issues The term "no-regret potentials" was coined during the debate on climate change. It designates opportunities for the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions ". . . that are worth undertaking whether or not there are climate-related reasons for doing so. " (IPCC 1996, p. 271). In the IPCC's Third Assessment Report (TAR), no regret potentials are increasingly equated with GHG emission reduction potentials at negative (net) costs (lPCC 2001, p. 21).

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642573428

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A Mist Connection

An Environmental History of the Laki Eruption of 1783 and Its Legacy

By: Katrin Kleemann

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A Mist Connection

An Environmental History of the Laki Eruption of 1783 and Its Legacy

By: Katrin Kleemann

In the summer of 1783, an unusual dry fog descended upon large parts of the northern hemisphere. The fog brought with it bloodred sunsets, a foul sulfuric odor, and a host of other peculiar weather events. Inspired by the Enlightenment, many naturalists attempted to find reasonable explanations for these occurrences. Between 8 June 1783 and 7 February 1784, a 27-kilometer-long fissure volcano erupted in the Icelandic highlands. It produced the largest volume of lava released by any volcanic eruption on planet Earth in the last millennium. In Iceland, the eruption led to the death of one-fifth of the population. The jetstream carried its volcanic gases further afield to Europe and beyond, where they settled as a fog, the origin of which puzzled naturalists and laypersons. "A Mist Connection" is an environmental history that documents the Laki eruption and its consequences for Iceland and the wider world. The book combines methods of historical disaster research, climate history, global history, history of science, and geology in an interdisciplinary approach. Icelandic flood lava eruptions of this scale have a statistical recurrence period of 200 to 500 years; it is crucial to understand their nature so that we can prepare for the next one. An eruption of this magnitude would surely be disastrous for our modern, globalized, and interconnected world.

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3110732025

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Selfies

Why We Love (and Hate) Them

By: Katrin Tiidenberg

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Selfies

Why We Love (and Hate) Them

By: Katrin Tiidenberg

This book presents a rich and nuanced analysis of selfie culture. It shows how selfies gain their meanings, illustrates different selfie practices, explores how selfies make us feel and why they have the power to make us feel anything, and unpacks how selfie practices and selfie related norms have changed or might change in the future.

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1787543579

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Taking the Alhambra to St. Petersburg

Neo-Moorish Russian Architecture and Interiors 1830-1917

By: Katrin Kaufmann

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Taking the Alhambra to St. Petersburg

Neo-Moorish Russian Architecture and Interiors 1830-1917

By: Katrin Kaufmann

Ein wenig bekanntes Phänomen innerhalb des sogenannten Maurischen Revivals ist die intensive Auseinandersetzung russischer Architekten mit der ibero-islamischen Architektur, insbesondere mit den mittelalterlichen Nasridenpalästen der Alhambra in Granada. Die materialreiche Studie analysiert orientalisierende Bauwerke und Interieurs des 19. Jahrhunderts in St. Petersburg und zeichnet die Transferwege nach, über die das Formenvokabular der Alhambra von Spanien nach Russland gelangte. Sie bezieht wesentliche Aspekte der russischen Kulturgeschichte und der europäischen Orient-Vorstellungen des 19. Jahrhunderts mit ein und zeigt, dass russische Architekten und die Kaiserliche Akademie der Künste zu den Pionieren des Maurischen Revivals gehörten. Erstmalige Betrachtung der orientalisierenden Architektur St. Petersburgs im gesamteuropäischen Kontext Russische Architekten als Pioniere des Maurischen Revivals

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3111141373

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Binan Goonj

Bridging cultures in Aboriginal health

By: Anne-Katrin Eckermann,Toni Dowd,Ena Chong,Lynette Nixon,Roy Gray,Sally Margaret Johnson

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Binan Goonj

Bridging cultures in Aboriginal health

By: Anne-Katrin Eckermann,Toni Dowd,Ena Chong,Lynette Nixon,Roy Gray,Sally Margaret Johnson

A newly-updated edition of the definitive textbook on Aboriginal Health issues Binan Goonj, 3rd Edition: Bridging cultures in Aboriginal health is a comprehensive Indigenous health text which addresses key topics in a clear and accessible manner. Thoroughly updated and revised, the latest edition of Binan Goonj sheds light upon the many multidisciplinary topics within the complex field of Indigenous health. With chapter titles including Empowerment in Aboriginal Health and Aboriginal Communities Today, this authoritative health resource has been widely adopted as a teaching text across Australia. Despite years of research, policy changes and interventions, it is widely documented that the health status of many Aboriginal people remains the poorest in Australia. Binan Goonj, 3rd Edition: Bridging cultures in Aboriginal health explores the processes and practices underlying this situation, while providing practical strategies to work towards redressing it. This latest edition will engage a diverse readership and challenge students and health professionals alike to examine their own values and the use of power in Australian society. Elsevier's Evolve website provides extensive support material for nursing and health professions faculty and students, including: • discussion questions • suggested reading on Aboriginal health and related topics • web links • an instructor's manual featuring course delivery tips including topics such as adult learning, attitudinal change, colonisation, government policies, Indigenous media sites and cross-cultural education resources • video links specific to chapters in this latest edition of Binan Goonj • completely updated to reflect major Indigenous health policy changes since the second edition• an in-depth exploration of the collaboration between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people• the use of Aboriginal health case studies and critical incidences to bring academic discussion and analysis to life• processes that have been successfully incorporated into 18 years of cross-cultural workshops

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0729579360

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Food for All in Africa

Sustainable Intensification for African Farmers

By: Gordon Conway,Ousmane Badiane,Katrin Glatzel

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Food for All in Africa

Sustainable Intensification for African Farmers

By: Gordon Conway,Ousmane Badiane,Katrin Glatzel

Africa requires a new agricultural transformation that is appropriate for Africa, that recognizes the continent's diverse environments and climates, and that takes into account its histories and cultures while benefiting rural smallholder farmers and their families. In this boldly optimistic book, Sir Gordon Conway, Ousmane Badiane, and Katrin Glatzel describe the key challenges faced by Africa's smallholder farmers and present the concepts and practices of Sustainable Intensification (SI) as opportunities to sustainably transform Africa's agriculture sector and the livelihoods of millions of smallholders. The way forward, they write, will be an agriculture sector deeply rooted within SI: producing more with less, using fertilizers and pesticides more prudently, adapting to climate change, improving natural capital, adopting new technologies, and building resilience at every stage of the agriculture value chain. Food for All in Africa envisions a virtuous circle generated through agricultural development rooted in SI that results in greater yields, healthier diets, improved livelihoods for farmers, and sustainable economic opportunities for the rural poor that in turn generate further investment. It describes the benefits of digital technologies for farmers and the challenges of transforming African agricultural policies and creating effective and inspiring leadership. Food for All in Africa demonstrates why we should take on the challenge and provides ideas and methods through which it can be met.

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Cornell University Press

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1501744410

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9781501744419

Mama Tenga

My African Life

By: Katrin Rohde

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Mama Tenga

My African Life

By: Katrin Rohde

An adventurous and fateful journey to West Africa made Katrin Rohde sell everything she owned in Germany and settle permanently in Burkina Faso. She gives a graphic report of how she began to take care of street children leading pitiful lives marked by hunger, drugs and crime in the capital city of Ouagadougou. Over the years Katrin Rohde has set up a number of facilities for children and teenagers: orphanages, workshops and training facilities for street kids, counselling centres for young women and girls, a clinic, and much, much more - always in accordance with the principle "helping people to help themselves". With self-assurance, courage and discipline, with humour and African equanimity she realizes her projects and ideas in what are often difficult conditions. Today everyone knows her there as "Mama Tenga" - "Mother Fatherland". A colourful and enthralling narrated autobiography, a testimony to human nature, that provides a deep and unusual insight into African reality and the life of people in Burkina Faso. Bonus features: Contains a picture gallery which shows everyday life at AMPO and the African country Burkina Faso.

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Nieswand Verlag

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3895670316

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9783895670312

Ergonomics

How to Design for Ease and Efficiency

By: Katrin Kroemer Elbert,Henrike B. Kroemer,Anne D. Kroemer Hoffman

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Ergonomics

How to Design for Ease and Efficiency

By: Katrin Kroemer Elbert,Henrike B. Kroemer,Anne D. Kroemer Hoffman

Ergonomics: How to Design for Ease and Efficiency, Third Edition updates and expands this classic guide, including the latest essential themes and regulations. An introductory section provides all of the physical and mental ergonomics theory engineers, designers, and managers need for a range of applications. The following section provides authoritative advice on how to design for the human in a range of real world situations, now including new content on subjects including the individual within an organization, planning for space journeys, taking back control from autonomous systems, and design for aging. Retaining its easy-to-use layout and jargon-free style, this book remains an invaluable source of models, measures and advice for anyone who needs to understand ergonomics. - Updated throughout to address new research on themes, including haptics, autonomous vehicles, and circadian rhythms - Includes discussions of the physical (anthropometric, biomechanical) and mental capacities of the human, along with tables of reference data - Provides both managerial and engineering recommendations, covering aspects of ergonomics that are relevant across the project

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Academic Press

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0128132973

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9780128132975

Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes

Designing Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Cities

By: André Viljoen,Katrin Bohn,Joe Howe

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Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes

Designing Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Cities

By: André Viljoen,Katrin Bohn,Joe Howe

A pioneering book on an innovative approach to urban design.

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Routledge

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0750655437

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9780750655439

Bodies and Souls

Politics and the Professionalization of Nursing in France, 1880-1922

By: Katrin Schultheiss

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Bodies and Souls

Politics and the Professionalization of Nursing in France, 1880-1922

By: Katrin Schultheiss

This political history shows how the turmoil and transformation of nursing during the French Third Republic reflected the political and cultural tensions at work in the nation, including critical conflicts over the role of the Church in society, the professionalization of medicine, and the emancipation of women.

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Harvard University Press

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0674004914

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9780674004917

Mobile Entrepreneurs

An Ethnographic Study of the Migration of the Highly Skilled

By: Katrin Sontag

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Mobile Entrepreneurs

An Ethnographic Study of the Migration of the Highly Skilled

By: Katrin Sontag

Migration, mobility, and globalization are transforming ways of working and living. Business activities, relationships and a sense of belonging are often not tied to any one place. This book explores biographies of highly mobile startup founders who often run startups that have been called „born global“. It describes how they move, how they orientate and perceive themselves, and how migration and mobility play a role beyond the physical act of ‘moving’. Presenting current ethnographic research, the book critically discusses approaches in migration and mobility studies and the research field of the „migration of the highly skilled“.

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Verlag Barbara Budrich

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3863883608

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9783863883607

The Cultural Politics of Art in Iran

Modernism, Exhibitions, and Art Production

By: Katrin Nahidi

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The Cultural Politics of Art in Iran

Modernism, Exhibitions, and Art Production

By: Katrin Nahidi

Modernist Iranian art represents a highly diverse field of cultural production deeply involved in discussing questions of modernity and modernization as practiced in Iran. This book investigates how artistic production and art criticism reflected upon the discourse about gharbzadegi (westoxification), the most substantial critique of Iran's adaptation of Western modernity, and ultimately proved to be a laboratory for the negotiation of an anti-colonial concept of an Iranian artistic modernity, which artists and critics envisioned as a significant other to Western colonial modernity. In this book, Katrin Nahidi revisits Iranian modernist art, aiming to explore a political and contextualized interpretation of modernism. Based on extensive fieldwork, interviews, and archival research, Nahidi provides a history of modernist art production since the 1950s and reveals the complex political agency underlying art historiographical processes. Offering a key contribution to postcolonial art history, Nahidi shows how Iranian artistic modernity was used to flesh out anti-colonial concepts and ideas around Iranian national identity.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009361414

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9781009361415

The Sociology of Everyday Life Peacebuilding

By: John D. Brewer,Bernadette C. Hayes,Francis Teeney,Katrin Dudgeon,Natascha Mueller-Hirth,Shirley Lal Wijesinghe

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The Sociology of Everyday Life Peacebuilding

By: John D. Brewer,Bernadette C. Hayes,Francis Teeney,Katrin Dudgeon,Natascha Mueller-Hirth,Shirley Lal Wijesinghe

This book uses in-depth interview data with victims of conflict in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Sri Lanka to offer a new, sociological conceptualization of everyday life peacebuilding. It argues that sociological ideas about the nature of everyday life complement and supplement the concept of everyday life peacebuilding recently theorized within International Relations Studies (IRS). It claims that IRS misunderstands the nature of everyday life by seeing it only as a particular space where mundane, routine and ordinary peacebuilding activities are accomplished. Sociology sees everyday life also as a mode of reasoning. By exploring victims’ ways of thinking and understanding, this book argues that we can better locate their accomplishment of peacebuilding as an ordinary activity. The book is based on six years of empirical research in three different conflict zones and reports on a wealth of interview data to support its theoretical arguments. This data serves to give voice to victims who are otherwise neglected and marginalized in peace processes.

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Springer

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3319789759

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9783319789750

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