Based on primary and secondary sources, this study evaluates Nommensen's basic beliefs, his missionary methods, collegial spirit, and his strategy from missiological, ecclesial and sociological perspectives.
Endlich - der marktführende Leitfaden für Brautechnik von L. Narziß ist jetzt auch auf Englisch erhältlich. Das unverzichtbare Handbuch behandelt alle wesentlichen Aspekte, die Brautechniker kennen müssen.
Shows in easy to follow steps how to build the pictured models out of LEGO® bricks. Zeigt in einfachen Schritten wie die abgebildeten Fahrzeuge aus LEGO® Steinen nachgebaut werden können.
In the years spanning from 1800 to 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven completed nine symphonies, now considered among the greatest masterpieces of Western music. Yet despite the fact that this time period, located in the wake of the Enlightenment and at the peak of romanticism, was one of rich intellectual exploration and social change, the influence of such threads of thought on Beethoven’s work has until now remained hidden beneath the surface of the notes. Beethoven’s Symphonies presents a fresh look at the great composer’s approach and the ideas that moved him, offering a lively account of the major themes unifying his radically diverse output. Martin Geck opens the book with an enthralling series of cultural, political, and musical motifs that run throughout the symphonies. A leading theme is Beethoven’s intense intellectual and emotional engagement with the figure of Napoleon, an engagement that survived even Beethoven’s disappointment with Napoleon’s decision to be crowned emperor in 1804. Geck also delves into the unique ways in which Beethoven approached beginnings and finales in his symphonies, as well as his innovative use of particular instruments. He then turns to the individual symphonies, tracing elements—a pitch, a chord, a musical theme—that offer a new way of thinking about each work and will make even the most devoted fans of Beethoven admire the symphonies anew. Offering refreshingly inventive readings of the work of one of history’s greatest composers, this book shapes a fascinating picture of the symphonies as a cohesive oeuvre and of Beethoven as a master symphonist.
Die Begriffe 'Zentrum' und 'Peripherie' sind im Diskurs von Macht und Herrschaft wesentlich. Aus einer breiten Palette methodisch wie regional unterschiedlicher Fachdisziplinen werden in diesem Band Einzelstudien präsentiert, die einem weiten Raum – von Mitteleuropa im Westen, Japan im Osten und Ägypten im Süden – entstammen. Davon ausgehend, dass die Betrachtung räumlicher Aspekte dazu beitragen kann, neue Erkenntnisse über die Phänomene 'Macht' und 'Herrschaft' zu gewinnen, werden die verschiedenen Weisen der Raumproduktion untersucht. Der gemeinsame Fokus aller Beiträge ist die Rolle einer Dichotomie von Zentrum/Kerngebiet und Peripherie/Grenzen in einem repräsentierten, vorgestellten Raum. Diese Fokussierung erleichtert es, transkulturelle Ähnlichkeiten und Ansätze historischen Vergleichens auszumachen. 'Centre' and 'periphery', two notions essential in the discourse of power and domination, tend to be reificated as a static, inert relation of an active, dominating centre on one side with an acquiescent, docile periphery on the other. Far before a 'spatial turn' came into vogue, philosophers like Immanuel Kant or sociologists such as Georg Simmel pointed out that space is not an entity existing besides human perceptiveness respectively without any relation to society. In this book specialists in the history of various premodern societies are discussing manifold kinds of spatial differentiations and within that the role of a seemingly ubiquitous dichotomy between centre/core and periphery/frontier. The researches cover a vast region spanning from Central Europe in the West to Japan in the Farthest East and Egypt in the South.
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