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The Theater of Transformation

Postmodernism in American Drama

By: Kerstin Schmidt

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The Theater of Transformation

Postmodernism in American Drama

By: Kerstin Schmidt

The Theater of Transformation: Postmodernism in American Drama offers a fresh and innovative reading of the contemporary experimental American theater scene and navigates through the contested and contentious relationship between postmodernism and contemporary drama. This book addresses gender and class as well as racial issues in the context of a theoretical discussion of dramatic texts, textuality, and performance. Transformation is contemporary drama's answer to the questions of postmodernism and a major technique in the development of a postmodern language for the stage. In order to demonstrate the multi-faceted nature of the postmodern theater of transformation, this study draws on a wide range of plays: from early experimental plays of the 1960s by Jean-Claude van Itallie through feminist plays by Megan Terry and Rochelle Owens to more recent drama by the African-American playwright Suzan-Lori Parks. The Theater of Transformation: Postmodernism in American Drama is written for anyone interested in contemporary American drama and theater as well as in postmodernism and contemporary literary theory. It appeals even more broadly to a readership intrigued by the ubiquitous aspects of popular culture, by feminism and ethnicity, and by issues pertaining to the so-called 'society of spectacle' and the study of contemporary media.

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BRILL

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9401202478

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9789401202473

Devices and Systems for Laboratory Automation

By: Kerstin Thurow,Steffen Junginger

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Devices and Systems for Laboratory Automation

By: Kerstin Thurow,Steffen Junginger

Devices and Systems for Laboratory Automation Structured Overview on the Available Systems and Devices for Laboratory Automation Choosing the right systems and devices for the automation in any given laboratory is an essential part for the process to succeed. As relevant information to make an informed choice is not always readily available, a structured overview is essential for modern scientists. This book provides an introduction into laboratory automation and an overview of the necessary devices and systems. Sample topics discussed by the two well-qualified authors include: Specific requirements the automation needs to fulfill such as liquid delivery, low volume delivery, solid delivery, and sample preparation An overview on robots and mobile robots Common interfaces in laboratory automation For scientists and all individuals working in laboratories, the work serves as an indispensable resource in helping to make laboratory processes more streamlined, effective, and efficient.

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John Wiley & Sons

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3527348328

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9783527348329

Environmental Standards

Combined Exposures and Their Effects on Human Beings and Their Environment

By: Christian Streffer,Josef Bücker,Adrienne Cansier,Dieter Cansier,Carl Friedrich Gethmann,Robert Guderian,Gerd Hanekamp,Dietrich Henschler,Gerald Pöch,Eckard Rehbinder,Ortwin Renn,Marco Slesina,Kerstin Wuttke

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Environmental Standards

Combined Exposures and Their Effects on Human Beings and Their Environment

The rapid growth of the world population - nearly six-fold over the last hundred years - combined with the rising number of technical installations especially in the industrialized countries has lead to ever tighter and more strained living spaces on our planet. Because ofthe inevitable processes oflife, man was at first an exploiter rather than a careful preserver of the environment. Environmental awareness with the intention to conserve the environment has grown only in the last few decades. Environmental standards have been defined and limit values have been set largely guided, however, by scientific and medical data on single exposures, while public opinion, on the other hand, now increasingly calls for astronger consideration of the more complex situations following combined exposures. Furthermore, it turned out that environmental standards, while necessarily based on scientific data, must also take into account ethical, legal, economic, and sociological aspects. A task of such complexity can only be dealt with appropriately in the framework of an inter disciplinary group.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3662070626

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9783662070628

Exhibiting Europe in Museums

Transnational Networks, Collections, Narratives, and Representations

By: Wolfram Kaiser,Stefan Krankenhagen,Kerstin Poehls

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Exhibiting Europe in Museums

Transnational Networks, Collections, Narratives, and Representations

By: Wolfram Kaiser,Stefan Krankenhagen,Kerstin Poehls

Museums of history and contemporary culture face many challenges in the modern age. One is how to react to processes of Europeanization and globalization, which require more cross-border cooperation and different ways of telling stories for visitors. This book investigates how museums exhibit Europe. Based on research in nearly 100 museums across the Continent and interviews with cultural policy makers and museum curators, it studies the growing transnational activities of state institutions, societal organizations, and people in the museum field such as attempts to Europeanize collection policy and collections as well as different strategies for making narratives more transnational like telling stories of European integration as shared history and discussing both inward and outward migration as a common experience and challenge. The book thus provides fascinating insights into a fast-changing museum landscape in Europe with wider implications for cultural policy and museums in other world regions.

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Berghahn Books

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1782382917

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9781782382911

The Vietnamese Health Care System in Change

A Policy Network Analysis of a Southeast Asian Welfare Regime

By: Kerstin Priwitzer

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The Vietnamese Health Care System in Change

A Policy Network Analysis of a Southeast Asian Welfare Regime

By: Kerstin Priwitzer

Within the last twenty years a large-scale bottom-up privatization has taken place in Vietnam, changing and dismantling the public health care system. This process has led to severe tensions inherent in the transitional society of Vietnam between equity and access to health care support - especially for the poor, elderly, migrants, and ethnic minorities - on the one hand, and its efficiency on the other hand. The book traces the reform efforts to modernize the health care system by the Communist Party of Vietnam and the Vietnamese government. The author bases her findings on little known primary literature and interviews with key stakeholders of the policy network involved in the reform of the health care system, thereby painting an authentic atmospheric picture of the profound changes in the health care system in Vietnam.

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Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

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9814345687

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9789814345682

Thinking Color in Space

Positions, Projects, Potentials

By: Kerstin Schultz,Hedwig Wiedemann-Tokarz,Eva Maria Herrmann

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Thinking Color in Space

Positions, Projects, Potentials

By: Kerstin Schultz,Hedwig Wiedemann-Tokarz,Eva Maria Herrmann

The interaction between color and architecture determines our perception of space, and defines the tectonic relationships. The fascinating spatial potential of color, and the multi-layered dimensions of interpretation in the experience of color are design and communication means which, however, are often not fully used – color oscillates between autonomy and functional purpose, and should be understood as a distinct "material" that can be used as part of the design. The book focuses both on the tangible aspects and design criteria of color, and on its indeterminate nature and its experience value. Using examples in art and architecture, the spatial interdependency of color is illustrated, as is its interaction with structure, light, and geometry.

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Birkhäuser

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3035618402

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9783035618402

GECCo - German-English Contrasts in Cohesion

Insights from Corpus-based Studies of Languages, Registers and Modes

By: Kerstin Kunz,Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski,José Manuel Martínez Martínez,Katrin Menzel,Erich Steiner

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GECCo - German-English Contrasts in Cohesion

Insights from Corpus-based Studies of Languages, Registers and Modes

By: Kerstin Kunz,Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski,José Manuel Martínez Martínez,Katrin Menzel,Erich Steiner

In contrastive linguistics of English and German, there is a tradition of accounting for contrasts with respect to grammar and, to a lesser extent, for lexis and phonetics. Moving on to discourse and text, there is a sizeable body of literature on cohesive patterns in English and German respectively - but very little in terms of a comparison. The latter, though, is of particular interest for language learners, translators and, of course, linguists and researchers in language technology. This book attempts to close this gap, based on a number of years of corpus-based study into variation and cohesion in the two languages. While there is an overall focus on language contrasts, it also investigates variation between different registers language-internally, and between written and spoken mode in particular. For each of the five major types of cohesion (co-reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunctive relations and lexical cohesion), overviews are given of contrasts in the system and of contrastive frequencies in texts. Results and methods presented in this book are thus relevant for language teaching, translation, language technology and corpus-based work on English and German generally.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110711095

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9783110711097

A Life Cycle for Clusters?

The Dynamics of Agglomeration, Change, and Adaption

By: Kerstin Press

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A Life Cycle for Clusters?

The Dynamics of Agglomeration, Change, and Adaption

By: Kerstin Press

This book studies the determinants of cluster survival by analyzing their adaptability to change in the economic environment. Linking theoretic knowledge with empirical observations, a simulation model (based in the N/K method) is developed, which explains when and why the cluster's architecture assists or hampers adaptability. It is found that architectures with intermediate degrees of division of labor and more collective governance forms foster adaptability.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3790817635

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9783790817638

Modernisation and Tradition

European Local and Manorial Societies 1500-1900

By: Kerstin Sundberg

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Modernisation and Tradition

European Local and Manorial Societies 1500-1900

By: Kerstin Sundberg

This anthology is based on a symposium which had as its key issue a critical discussion of different theories of modernisation from the perspective of people's activities in local manorial societies. Modernisation can be studied in terms of changing values, norms and social relationships. From a theoretical point of view the book makes use of the possibility to change main macro-conceptions of the modernisation process, using dichotomies such as feudal/capitalist and individual/collective, and it also tries to integrate tradition and continuity perspective.

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Nordic Academic Press

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9189116402

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9789189116405

Reluctant Warriors

Germany, Japan, and Their U.S. Alliance Dilemma

By: Alexandra Sakaki,Hanns W. Maull,Kerstin Lukner

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Reluctant Warriors

Germany, Japan, and Their U.S. Alliance Dilemma

By: Alexandra Sakaki,Hanns W. Maull,Kerstin Lukner

Can Germany and Japan do more militarily to uphold the international order? Since the end of World War II, Germany and Japan have been the most reluctant of all major U.S. allies to take on military responsibilities. Given their histories, this reluctance certainly is understandable. But because of their size and economic importance, Germany and Japan are the most important U.S. allies in Europe and in East Asia, respectively, and their long-term reluctance to share the defense burden has become a perennial source of frustration for Washington. The potential security roles of Germany and Japan are becoming increasingly important given the uncertainty, indeed volatility, of today’s international environment. Under President Trump, friction among allies over burden-sharing is more intense than ever before. Meanwhile, the security environments in Europe and Asia have deteriorated because of the resurgence of a belligerent Russia under Vladimir Putin, the steady rise of an increasingly assertive China, and North Korea’s worrisome acquisition of nuclear weapons. Partly in response to these developments, Germany and Japan in recent years have boosted their security efforts, mainly by increasing defense spending and taking on a somewhat broader range of military missions. Even so, because of their cultures of anti-militarism resistance remains strong in both countries to rebuilding the military and assuming more responsibility for sustaining regional or even global peace. In Reluctant Warriors, a team of noted international experts critically examines how and why Germany and Japan have modified their military postures since 1990 so far, and assesses how far the countries still have to go—and why. The contributors also highlight the risks the United States takes if it makes too simplistic a demand for the two countries to “do more.”

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Brookings Institution Press

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0815737378

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9780815737377

Swedish Crime Fiction

The Making of Nordic Noir

By: Kerstin Bergman

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Swedish Crime Fiction

The Making of Nordic Noir

By: Kerstin Bergman

Why have authors from the safe, social welfare state Sweden captivated the minds of the crime fiction readers across the globe? Kerstin Bergman suggests that killer marketing and a widespread curiosityabout the “exotic” Nordic welfare states, their waste landscapes and alleged gender equality, has propelled these authors and novels into the international spotlight. Bergman uses this innovative angle to retell the recent history of crime fiction in Sweden, exploring central themes and selecting key authors that have garnered national and international acclaim for their lethal plots. Swedish Crime Fiction: The Making of Nordic Noir contextualizes the explosive recent history of the genre, offering newcomers and aficionados insights into the minds of protagonists and their literary creators. This is the first research-based and exhaustive presentation of Swedish crime fiction and its Nordic “neighbours” to an international audience.

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Mimesis

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8857524302

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9788857524306

Just Dreaming

The Silver Trilogy, Book 3

By: Kerstin Gier

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Just Dreaming

The Silver Trilogy, Book 3

By: Kerstin Gier

Immerse yourself in a world where the line between dreams and reality blurs in Just Dreaming, the enthralling conclusion to the bestselling Silver Trilogy. The course of dream travel never did run smooth—at least, not in Liv Silver's experience. Able to visit other people's dreams (whether they want her to or not), Liv has solved mysteries, unearthed difficult truths, fought madmen, and escaped life-threatening peril, all from the comfort of her own bed. But Liv's troubles are just beginning. A rocky romance, a malicious blogger with a hidden identity, a wedding, and a classmate (or two) dead-set on revenge all await Liv in this action-packed conclusion to the Silver trilogy.

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Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

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1250137810

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9781250137814

Attachment to Pets

An Integrative View of Human-Animal Relationships with Implications for Therapeutic Practice

By: Henri Julius,Andrea Beetz,Kurt Kotrschal,Dennis Turner,Kerstin Uvnäs-Moberg

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Attachment to Pets

An Integrative View of Human-Animal Relationships with Implications for Therapeutic Practice

By: Henri Julius,Andrea Beetz,Kurt Kotrschal,Dennis Turner,Kerstin Uvnäs-Moberg

The biological and psychological basis of pet therapy / animal-assisted therapy and what this means for practice "A comprehensive, scientific foundation for human-animal therapy." (Judith Solomon) In recent years, the ancient symbiosis between humans and their pets has entered a new phase, marked by the burgeoning clinical specialty of human-animal therapy. This approach uses the relationship between humans and their (mainly) mammalian pets to support the growth of emotion regulation, social skills, and mental health in children, adolescents, and adults. But how are humans and animals able to develop close bonds at all? What makes it possible for animals to have a therapeutic effect on humans? And how can we best use this understanding in animal-assisted therapy? In this unique book, a team of expert biologists and psychologists integrate and combine sophisticated biological and psychological knowledge to answer these questions. Together they have created a comprehensive, scientific foundation for human-animal therapy, a foundation that will facilitate the development, implementation, and evaluation of effective new interventions.

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Hogrefe Publishing GmbH

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1616764422

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9781616764425

Feeling Political

Emotions and Institutions since 1789

By: Ute Frevert,Kerstin Maria Pahl,Francesco Buscemi,Philipp Nielsen,Agnes Arndt,Michael Amico,Karsten Lichau,Hannah Malone,Julia Wambach,Juliane Brauer,Caroline Moine

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Feeling Political

Emotions and Institutions since 1789

By: Ute Frevert,Kerstin Maria Pahl,Francesco Buscemi,Philipp Nielsen,Agnes Arndt,Michael Amico,Karsten Lichau,Hannah Malone,Julia Wambach,Juliane Brauer,Caroline Moine

Historicizing both emotions and politics, this open access book argues that the historical work of emotion is most clearly understood in terms of the dynamics of institutionalization. This is shown in twelve case studies that focus on decisive moments in European and US history from 1800 until today. Each case study clarifies how emotions were central to people’s political engagement and its effects. The sources range from parliamentary buildings and social movements, to images and speeches of presidents, from fascist cemeteries to the International Criminal Court. Both the timeframe and the geographical focus have been chosen to highlight the increasingly participatory character of nineteenth- and twentieth-century politics, which is inconceivable without the work of emotions.

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Springer Nature

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303089858X

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9783030898588

Engineering Society

The Role of the Human and Social Sciences in Modern Societies, 1880-1980

By: Kerstin Brückweh,Richard F. Wetzell

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Engineering Society

The Role of the Human and Social Sciences in Modern Societies, 1880-1980

By: Kerstin Brückweh,Richard F. Wetzell

Explaining crime by reference to abnormalities of the brain is just one example of how the human and social sciences have influenced the approach to social problems in Western societies since 1880. Focusing on applications such as penal policy, therapy, and marketing, this volume examines how these sciences have become embedded in society.

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1137284501

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The Wolf Children of the Eastern Front

By: Sonya Winterberg,Kerstin Lieff

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The Wolf Children of the Eastern Front

By: Sonya Winterberg,Kerstin Lieff

If this doesn’t move you, I suggest you check your pulse.' –John Kay, frontman of Steppenwolf (born in East Prussia in 1944) Told by the children who survived, these stories could well be the last eyewitness report of the aftermath of the Second World War. As the land where they once lived was integrated into the Eastern Bloc, their accounts remained hushed until after the Iron Curtain fell. Now, in The Wolf Children of the Eastern Front, they break their silence. During the bitter winter months of 1944-45, hundreds of thousands of Germans fled East Prussia from an advancing Red Army. With sometimes only minutes’ notice, families escaped in horse-drawn carriages, or they simply ran on foot. In desperation, mothers threw babies onto handcarts, pushing ahead through snowstorms and freezing temperatures. Exhausted, horses broke down, left to die in roadside ditches. Pounding artillery filled the air. In the ensuing chaos, 20,000 children lost their families – to the mayhem, to starvation, epidemics or gunfire. Even the youngest suddenly found themselves alone in the world, needing to forage for food and find shelter. They hid in bullet-riddled barns and wandered from house to house, begging for help. While many died, there are the few that managed to survive. Their experiences are unimaginable: toes frozen off, endless hunger, rape, physical abuse. Those considered lucky were eventually taken in, even lovingly cared for, primarily by Lithuanian farmers, but nearly to the last of them, they grew into adulthood illiterate and poverty-stricken. Yet a surprising truth lives within nearly every one of these victims – an overwhelming sense of hope and forgiveness. They are the Wolf Children.

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Pen and Sword Military

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1399014617

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9781399014618

Organizing Muslims and Integrating Islam in Germany

New Developments in the 21st Century

By: Kerstin Rosenow-Williams

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Organizing Muslims and Integrating Islam in Germany

New Developments in the 21st Century

By: Kerstin Rosenow-Williams

Kerstin Rosenow-Williams analyzes the challenges faced by Islamic organizations in Germany since the beginning of the 21st century, providing original empirical insights based on a sociological research perspective.

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BRILL

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9004230556

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9789004230552

Internationalization of Education Policy

A New Constellation of Statehood in Education?

By: Kerstin Martens,Philipp Knodel

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Internationalization of Education Policy

A New Constellation of Statehood in Education?

By: Kerstin Martens,Philipp Knodel

This book investigates and discusses the phenomenon of internationalization of education policy and its consequences for national policymaking processes. By comparing educational outcomes and actors' reactions in different countries, it provides detailed insights into a highly contested policy field.

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Springer

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1137401699

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9781137401694

Minority Churches as Media Settlers

Negotiating Deep Mediatization

By: Dorota Hall,Marta Kołodziejska,Kerstin Radde-Antweiler

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Minority Churches as Media Settlers

Negotiating Deep Mediatization

By: Dorota Hall,Marta Kołodziejska,Kerstin Radde-Antweiler

How do minority Christian churches adapt to and negotiate with the changes brought about by deep mediatization? How do they use their media to present themselves to their followers and the general public? This book aims to answer these questions by investigating how minority organizations of two different Christian traditions in the UK and Poland – the Seventh-day Adventist Church and the Orthodox Churches – use their own media to position themselves in their social, religious, and political environments. Based on the analyses of media practices, media content, and interview material, the study develops the new concept of media settlers, which pertains to religious organizations that use their media to fulfill their own aims: expand, assert their authority, and maintain their communities. They do so through five key media practices, which can be defined as strategies: acknowledgment, authorization, omission, replication of content, and mass-mediatization of digital media. This book is of particular interest to scholars of religion and mediatization, mainly sociologists, graduate students, and qualitative researchers working with discourse analysis. It is an insightful read for anyone interested in the Seventh-day Adventist and Orthodox Churches nowadays.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000905128

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9781000905120

Rolfs Railroad Stories

Stories from al Life with four Railways

By: Rolf Wittig,Kerstin Harper

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Rolfs Railroad Stories

Stories from al Life with four Railways

By: Rolf Wittig,Kerstin Harper

A book for people who are fascinated by rails, train stations and locomotives. With many pictures and stories from four railways, from subways and S-Bahn trains, freight and express trains, but especially from the old steam locomotives. From the sweaty profession of locomotive heater, and from the heights and lows of the modern electric locomotive driver, which he practiced for many years in Hamburg and Munich.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3759757766

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9783759757760

Dream a Little Dream, Chapters 1-5

By: Kerstin Gier

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Dream a Little Dream, Chapters 1-5

By: Kerstin Gier

Download the first five chapters of Dream a Little Dream, the first book a new trilogy brimming with mystery, humor, and romance from the New York Times–bestselling author of the Ruby Red Trilogy, Kerstin Gier! Liv has been dealing with a lot lately. She and her family have just moved in with her mother's new boyfriend in London, and she's starting over (again) at a new school. But Liv isn't sure that explains her dreams, which have gone from odd to...well, bizarre. Lately, her nighttime hours have been filled with talking stone statues, mysterious corridors, and creepy rituals conducted by four boys in a graveyard. The strangest part is that Liv recognizes the boys. They're classmates from her new school, and they seem to know things about her that they couldn't possibly know...unless they actually are in her dreams? Luckily, Liv never could resist a good mystery, and all four of those boys are pretty cute...

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Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

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1466884460

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9781466884465

Polycyclic aromatic compounds (PACs) in oily wastewater from shipping with a focus on scrubber water

By: Magnusson, Kerstin,Dela Cruz, Majbrit,Devers, Jason,Christensen, Jan H,Granberg, Maria

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Polycyclic aromatic compounds (PACs) in oily wastewater from shipping with a focus on scrubber water

By: Magnusson, Kerstin,Dela Cruz, Majbrit,Devers, Jason,Christensen, Jan H,Granberg, Maria

Available online: https://pub.norden.org/temanord2023-550/ To reduce emissions of hazardous combustion gases to air, ship owners can switch to cleaner fuels or install so called “scrubbers”, onboard the ship. In a scrubber, combustions gases are sprayed with water and the dirty wash water, the scrubber water, is discharged to the sea. The number of ships with scrubbers and the volumes of discharged scrubber water have increased dramatically the past decade. When allowing the use of scrubbers, the focus was on improving the air quality, while the impact on the marine environment was not considered. We have here analysed polycyclic aromatic compounds (PACs), the most toxic fraction of oil, in scrubber water from ships, and reviewed recent ecotoxicological scientific literature on PAC toxicity to marine organisms. Our conclusion is that in areas with intense shipping there is a serious risk for negative effects on marine organisms.

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Nordic Council of Ministers

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9289377488

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9789289377485

Landscape of Peace

Mechanisms of Social Control on Lamotrek Atoll, Micronesia

By: Kerstin J. S. Werle

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Landscape of Peace

Mechanisms of Social Control on Lamotrek Atoll, Micronesia

By: Kerstin J. S. Werle

Kerstin Werle’s work is based upon a year of fieldwork on Lamotrek and Yap, belonging to a group of islands with a matrilineal culture. Although a trend to the lifestyle of the Western world can be found everywhere on the islands, traditional customs, a gendered division of labour and subsistence techniques prevail. Kerstin Werle carried out her research according to classical anthropological methods, supplementing the available specialist literature on the widespread Micronesian atolls with a valuable overview. Her book shows how the ideal of an old and wise woman, contained in the cultural symbol lavalava, is faced with a young society. Due to the extremely limited space on the small atolls, individual plots of land have become historically, culturally and emotionally significant places, all of which have been ascribed their own individual character. With the help of these personalized places, people on Lamotrek pursue local politics.

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240

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Springer

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3658058323

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9783658058326

Simple Weave

Weave without a large loom

By: Kerstin Neumüller

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Simple Weave

Weave without a large loom

By: Kerstin Neumüller

An introduction to weaving without large looms, with 15 weaving projects and a guide to making your own tools. In S imple Weave, the world of weaving opens beyond gigantic looms and inaccessible patterns. Kerstin Neumüller demonstrates how you can weave with tools that are easy to make yourself and often small enough to fit in your pocket. Here lies inspiration for those who have never woven but are eager to try, as well as for experienced weavers interested in working with flexible and portable tools. Practical and beautiful keepsakes to make include Scandi-style bands, bracelets, pencil and laptop cases and a wall hanging. Kerstin also shares her journey from textiles to woodworking, offering instructions for how to make your own pocket-sized weaving tools. The book is divided into three accessible chapters: • Techniques and basic weaving theory. • 15 achievable weaving projects including bands, a pencil case, coasters and tea towels. • Making your own tools. This section includes descriptions of how to carve a heddle, make a weave stretcher, carve a backstrap loom and make a frame loom. Enjoy the mindfulness and rhythm of this traditional craft and create bespoke, contemporary pieces to fit your own style.

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Batsford Books

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1849948534

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9781849948531

The School of Sophisticated Drinking

An Intoxicating History of Seven Spirits

By: Kerstin Ehmer,Beate Hindermann

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The School of Sophisticated Drinking

An Intoxicating History of Seven Spirits

By: Kerstin Ehmer,Beate Hindermann

Wherever and whenever people have been found talking, they have been found drinking: an age-old pastime with an equally storied history. Alcohol and civilization have developed in close quarters, sometimes supporting each other and sometimes getting in each other’s way. The School of Sophisticated Drinking, which began as an ongoing series of lectures at Berlin’s legendary Victoria Bar in 2003, traces the deep-seated lineage of drinking in the social, political, and even scientific developments of our culture. Appealing to both expert drinkers and novice barflies, each chapter delves into the sociopolitical significance of and technological innovations behind a familiar wine or spirit—brandy, vodka, whisky, rum, gin, tequila, and champagne—and shares plenty of tales of adventure, from the glamour of Hollywood and Broadway, to the tormented worlds of well-known writers, to the outbreak of wars and the unending struggle for economic and military power. The reader’s thirst for knowledge can be further quenched by trying any or all of the enticing cocktail recipes gathered at the end of the book.

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1771641207

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Object Lessons and the Formation of Knowledge

The University of Michigan Museums, Libraries, and Collections 1817–2017

By: Kerstin Barndt,Carla M. Sinopoli

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Object Lessons and the Formation of Knowledge

The University of Michigan Museums, Libraries, and Collections 1817–2017

By: Kerstin Barndt,Carla M. Sinopoli

Object Lessons and the Formation of Knowledge explores the museums, libraries, and special collections of the University of Michigan on its bicentennial. Since its inception, U-M has collected and preserved objects: biological and geological specimens; ethnographic and archaeological artifacts; photographs and artistic works; encyclopedia, textbooks, rare books, and documents; and many other items. These vast collections and libraries testify to an ambitious vision of the research university as a place where knowledge is accumulated, shared, and disseminated through teaching, exhibition, and publication. Today, two hundred years after the university’s founding, museums, libraries, and archives continue to be an important part of U-M, which maintains more than twenty distinct museums, libraries, and collections. Viewed from a historic perspective, they provide a window through which we can explore the transformation of the academy, its public role, and the development of scholarly disciplines over the last two centuries. Even as they speak to important facets of Michigan’s history, many of these collections also remain essential to academic research, knowledge production, and object-based pedagogy. Moreover, the university’s exhibitions and displays attract hundreds of thousands of visitors per year from the campus, regional, and global communities. Beautifully illustrated with color photographs of these world-renowned collections, this book will appeal to readers interested in the history of museums and collections, the formation of academic disciplines, and of course the University of Michigan.

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0472122649

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Fiscal Crises

By: Mrs.Kerstin Gerling,Mr.Paulo A Medas,Mr.Tigran Poghosyan,Juan Farah-Yacoub,Yizhi Xu

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Fiscal Crises

By: Mrs.Kerstin Gerling,Mr.Paulo A Medas,Mr.Tigran Poghosyan,Juan Farah-Yacoub,Yizhi Xu

A key objective of fiscal policy is to maintain the sustainability of public finances and avoid crises. Remarkably, there is very limited analysis on fiscal crises. This paper presents a new database of fiscal crises covering different country groups, including low-income developing countries (LIDCs) that have been mostly ignored in the past. Countries faced on average two crises since 1970, with the highest frequency in LIDCs and lowest in advanced economies. The data sheds some light on policies and economic dynamics around crises. LIDCs, which are usually seen as more vulnerable to shocks, appear to suffer the least in crisis periods. Surprisingly, advanced economies face greater turbulence (growth declines sharply in the first two years of the crisis), with half of them experiencing economic contractions. Fiscal policy is usually procyclical as countries curtail expenditure growth when economic activity weakens. We also find that the decline in economic growth is magnified if accompanied by a financial crisis.

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International Monetary Fund

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1475592159

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Innovations for our Future

Delphi ’98: New Foresight on Science and Technology

By: Kerstin Cuhls,Knut Blind,Hariolf Grupp

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Innovations for our Future

Delphi ’98: New Foresight on Science and Technology

By: Kerstin Cuhls,Knut Blind,Hariolf Grupp

Foresight has experienced a great upswing in the last few years, partly in view of the Millenium. Innovations for our Future describes not only the big development trends of the future in research and technology, but also the re-discovery of the Delphi method. The Delphi method is not new, but with further developed methodology it is being used increasingly to take stock of innovative future developments. The book describes results of the widespread national survey of 1998, a German-Japanese comparison, another comparison with the preceding Delphi study as well as its utilization and implementation.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642574726

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Genre and Reception in the Gothic Parody

Framing the Subversive Heroine

By: Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

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Genre and Reception in the Gothic Parody

Framing the Subversive Heroine

By: Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

This book brings together an analysis of the theoretical connection of genre, reception, and frame theory and a practical demonstration thereof, using a set of parodies of the first wave of the Gothic novel, ranging from well-known titles such as Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, to little known and researched titles such as Mary Charlton’s Rosella. Münderlein traces the development of socio-political debates conducted in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries on female roles, behaviour, and subversion from the subtly subversive Gothic novel to the Gothic parody. Combining two major areas of research, literary criticism and Gothic studies, the book provides both a new take on an ongoing debate in literary criticism as well as an in-depth study of a virtually neglected aspect of Gothic studies, the Gothic parody.

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Routledge

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1000487776

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Paths Towards a New World

By: Mats Larsson,Geoffrey Lemdahl,Kerstin Lidén

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Paths Towards a New World

By: Mats Larsson,Geoffrey Lemdahl,Kerstin Lidén

Covering the approximately 6,500 years from the beginning of the Late Mesolithic to the transition to the Bronze Age, Mats Larsson takes the reader on a journey through the development of Swedish prehistoric society and culture set against the backdrop of climatic and landscape change. Using examples selected from a wealth of archaeological sites, artefacts and palaeo-environmental studies he explores a series of chronological themes: such as how the relationship between land and water influenced people’s lives in many ways and the development of often long-distance cultural and exchange networks, as reflected in the occurrence of ‘foreign’ stone axes, flint, copper and pottery. He describes how innovations, such as the introduction of agriculture, spread rapidly during the Neolithic, incorporating characteristics of extensive northern European cultural groups, beginning with the Funnel Beaker Culture with its array of distinctive objects, settlements and burial monuments, while retaining some specific regional and local expressions in material culture. Later, certain characteristics of the Pitted Ware Culture, such as specific types of pottery decoration, were taken up in some areas while the emergence of some regional groups can be seen as a step in the ideological and social changes that led to what we today call the Battle Axe Culture. Towards the end of the Stone Age the battle axe was replaced by the dagger as a symbol of the male warrior as a more stable society emerged in many parts of the country, concentrated around large farms with longhouses. It was only at this late stage that agriculture and the raising of livestock gained a firm hold, and the landscape was opened up permanently.

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Oxbow Books

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1782972609

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9781782972600

Progress towards monitoring of microlitter in Scandinavian marine environments:

State of knowledge and challenges

By: Martin Hassellöv,Therese Karlsson,Karin Mattsson,Kerstin Magnusson,Jakob Strand,Robin Lenz,Bert van Bavel,David Pettersson Eidsvoll

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Progress towards monitoring of microlitter in Scandinavian marine environments:

State of knowledge and challenges

By: Martin Hassellöv,Therese Karlsson,Karin Mattsson,Kerstin Magnusson,Jakob Strand,Robin Lenz,Bert van Bavel,David Pettersson Eidsvoll

Microlitter consists of minute particles of anthropogenic or processed natural material. The project brings together research groups to conduct specific case studies in gradients from near urban sources such as the traffic environment and cities to the coastal water and sediments in order to study the relative occurrence of specific sources and their environmental dispersion and distribution. The conclusion were first that in sediments from the road environment (tunnel runoff water), tire particles, asphalt and road markings could be identified, and in the urban creek sediments many black particles including elastomers, charcoal-like and oil and soot where in high abundance and decreased rapidly out in the recipient. The results emphasize the role of the cities as hotspot source functions for microlitter in the coastal environment and also where mitigating measures could be directed.

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Nordic Council of Ministers

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928935884X

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9789289358842

Automation Solutions for Analytical Measurements

Concepts and Applications

By: Heidi Fleischer,Kerstin Thurow

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Automation Solutions for Analytical Measurements

Concepts and Applications

By: Heidi Fleischer,Kerstin Thurow

The first book dedicated specifically to automated sample preparation and analytical measurements, this timely and systematic overview not only covers biological applications, but also environmental measuring technology, drug discovery, and quality assurance. Following a critical review of realized automation solutions in biological sciences, the book goes on to discuss special requirements for comparable systems for analytical applications, taking different concepts into consideration and with examples chosen to illustrate the scope and limitations of each technique.

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John Wiley & Sons

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3527342176

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9783527342174

Extramural English in Teaching and Learning

From Theory and Research to Practice

By: Pia Sundqvist,Liss Kerstin Sylvén

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Extramural English in Teaching and Learning

From Theory and Research to Practice

By: Pia Sundqvist,Liss Kerstin Sylvén

This book is unique in bringing together theory, research, and practice about English encountered outside the classroom – extramural English – and how it affects teaching and learning. The book investigates ways in which learners successfully develop their language skills through extramural English and provides tools for teachers to make use of free time activities in primary and secondary education. The authors demonstrate that learning from involvement in extramural English activities tends to be incidental and is currently underutilized in classroom work. A distinctive strength is that this volume is grounded in theory, builds on results from empirical studies, and manages to link theory and research with practice in a reader-friendly way. Teacher-educators, teachers and researchers of English as a foreign language and teachers of English as a second language across the globe will find this book useful in developing their use of extramural English activities as tools for language learning.

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Springer

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1137460482

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9781137460486

Toole's Cerebrovascular Disorders

By: E. Steve Roach,Kerstin Bettermann,Jose Biller

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Toole's Cerebrovascular Disorders

By: E. Steve Roach,Kerstin Bettermann,Jose Biller

Toole's Cerebrovascular Disorders was the first modern book devoted to care of the stroke, originally published more than 40 years ago. This is a completely revised and updated sixth edition of the highly respected standard for stroke diagnosis and treatment. Dr James Toole has stayed on as a consultant for the text, and Drs E. Steve Roach, Kerstin Bettermann, and Jose Biller have reworked Dr Toole's book to include chapters on genetics, pregnancy-related stroke, and acute treatments. The practical focus of the book has not changed, retaining its emphasis on bedside diagnosis and treatment. Easily accessible both for stroke specialists and residents, the sixth edition has been modernized to keep pace with the rapid expansion of knowledge in stroke care and includes evidence-based recommendations, the latest technology and imaging, and risk factors. The text is supplemented with more than 200 images, many in color.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139855581

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Statebuilding Missions and Media Development

A Context-Sensitive Approach

By: Kerstin Tomiak

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Statebuilding Missions and Media Development

A Context-Sensitive Approach

By: Kerstin Tomiak

This book examines the effects of media interventions in the global South, and argues for a more adaptive and context-sensitive media development. The work investigates media development as part of statebuilding and the effects that Western-led media has in, and on, a newly built state. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, including interviews, observations and social surveys, it analyses the effect media interventions has on global South countries, from the population’s point of view. The findings show that in practice media development can be alien to the societies in which a free press is implemented, which can lead to unintended and negative consequences for social relations in a country. While the book uses South Sudan as a case study, it also presents different perspectives and shows that local views on the media are different from those of Western experts and policymakers. Therefore, the book advocates taking local views seriously and an adaptive media development that is sensitive to the context in which it is set up. This book will be of much interest to students of statebuilding, media studies, development studies and international relations in general.

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Routledge

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1000432718

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Variation in English and German Nominal Coreference

A Study of Political Essays

By: Kerstin Anna Kunz

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Variation in English and German Nominal Coreference

A Study of Political Essays

By: Kerstin Anna Kunz

The topic of this work is nominal coreference in English and German. Its focus is on coreference relations that establish textual coherence and continuity above the local level of the clause. The book shows how linguistic options for creating coreference in English and German can be interpreted against the background of their motivating factors. It discusses mental text processing, German-English systemic contrasts and register peculiarities as possible sources for variation on different linguistic levels. Hermeneutic and example-based observations are complemented by a corpus-linguistic analysis of English and German political essays and German translations from the English originals. The study finally highlights linguistic and functional correlations of coreference instantiations in English and German texts, additionally shedding light on coreference strategies employed in translations. It thus yields an incentive for future research as well as providing a wealth of insights for language and translation teaching.

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Peter Lang

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3631610173

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9783631610176

Allen Dulles, the OSS, and Nazi War Criminals

The Dynamics of Selective Prosecution

By: Kerstin von Lingen

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Allen Dulles, the OSS, and Nazi War Criminals

The Dynamics of Selective Prosecution

By: Kerstin von Lingen

Kerstin von Lingen shows how Nazi SS-General Karl Wolff avoided war crimes prosecution because of his role in "Operation Sunrise," negotiations conducted by high-ranking American, Swiss, and British officials - in violation of the Casablanca agreements with the Soviet Union - for the surrender of German forces in Italy. Von Lingen suggests that the Cold War started already with "Operation Sunrise," and helps us understand rollback operations thereafter: one was the failure of justice and selective prosecution for high ranking Nazi criminals. The Western Allies not only failed to ensure cooperation between their respective national war crimes prosecution organizations, but in certain cases even obstructed justice by withholding evidence from the prosecution.

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1107025931

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9781107025936

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