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Gerhard Schulz gibt in diesem Buch einen Überblick über die Ursprünge des Begriffs "¿Romantik"¿ und seine vielfachen Verwendungen im Bereich von Literatur, Musik und bildender Kunst in Europa. Perspektivische Ausblicke auf Philosophie, Religion, Politik, Geschichte, Naturwissenschaft und die "¿Nachtseiten"¿ der Romantik öffnen den Blick zur Wirkung im 19. und 20.Jahrhundert.

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With ubiquitous electropollution from cell phones/towers, powerlines, computers, and wireless devices, this eye-opening book is the best resource for parents, community planners, healthcare professionals, and scientists alike. Winner, 1996 Award of Excellence from the American Medical Writers Association. From the earth's natural electromagnetic background to "Green" EMF safety designs, Electromagnetic Fields explains which illnesses are assoc...

Das Internationale Handbuch der Kriminologie dient Lehr-, Forschungs- und Nachschlagezwecken und informiert über alle wesentlichen Bereiche der Kriminologie auf dem neuesten internationalen und nationalen Stand der Forschung. Dabei legt es besonderes Gewicht auf die europäische und internationale, sozialwissenschaftliche und empirische Kriminologie, ohne die deutschsprachige Kriminologie zu vernachlässigen. Praktiker der Strafrechtspflege werd...

An deutschen Hochschulen wird die Fähigkeit zur Produktion wissenschaftlicher Texte vorausgesetzt. Gleichzeitig gehört es zum universitären Alltag, dass Studenten handfeste Probleme beim wissenschaftlichen Schreiben haben. Die Studie zeigt, dass diesen Schwierigkeiten ein Spracherwerbsproblem zugrunde liegt, das Problem des Erwerbs einer wissenschaftlichen Textkompetenz. Es wird ein mehrstufiges Entwicklungsmodell vorgestellt, das auf einer An...

The volume presents a selection of papers delivered to the IADA Colloquium held in Lyon in September 2004 on the topic of "Confiding/ Self-disclosure in Interaction". The objective is to describe a particular type of discursive activity by comparing its various fictional representations (in the first part) with its realisations in authentic interactions (second part). These two sections are preceded by an introduction which locates the general...

Neil LaBute is one of the most exciting new talents in theatre and film to have emerged in the 1990s. Influenced and inspired by such writers as David Mamet, Edward Bond and Harold Pinter, he is equally at home writing for the screen as for the stage, and the list of films he has written and directed includes The Wicker Man (2006), Possession (2002) and In the Company of Men (1998). As a playwright, screenwriter, director, and author of short ...

Near Sacramento, numerous trails access the Central Valleys wildlife-filled wetlands and traverse riverside forests and grasslands. The California capital has numerous nearby trails that access the Central Valleys once extensive wetlands and marshes, and explore the sinuous swaths of riverside forests and broad expanses of open grasslands. Just a short distance from Sacramento the trails in the Coast Range and Sierra foothills climb oak-clothe...

From the New York Times bestselling author, an ambitious and explosive international thriller with an unexpected historical twist.

This book examines how cultural and ideological reactions to activism in the post-Civil Rights Black community were depicted in fiction written by Black women writers, 1965 1980. By recognizing and often challenging prevailing cultural paradigms within the post-Civil Rights era, writers such as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara, and Paule Marshall fictionalized the black community in critical ways that called for further examinati...

This volume contains the proceedings of the 2005 ADPD conference and is unique in that it deals not only with issues related individually to Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, but also with the integration of these and other related diseases. The most up-to-date techniques and research findings are illustrated in this volume, which covering topics from immunology, neuroscience, and pharmacology to genetics and molecular biology. Poss...

This book explores how the politics of memory and history affected representations of the internment of 120, 000 Japanese Americans during World War II and the passage of redress legislation in 1988.

Juxtaposes food-aid programs in Germany after WWII against deliberate Allied starvation and expulsion policies.

Discusses conditions of social class and the ways in which class is produced in educational institutions and families, while interrogating and challenging our understandings of social class as it is linked to race, gender, and nation.

This book examines the ideological assumptions embedded in the narrative and imagery of drug films. Drawing on a sample of over one hundred films produced in Britain, Canada, and the U.S. from 1916 to 2005 whose focus is primarily on illegal drugs, trafficking, and their consequences, Boyd highlights specific films that represent past and contemporary illegal drug discourse about users, traffickers, criminal justice, and drug treatment.

Suicide Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups pulls together cutting-edge empirical research from general cultural diversity literature and applies it to suicide assessment, treatment, and prevention theory and practice. By looking outside of the limited cross-cultural studies done within suicidal populations, the contributors - all established experts in both multicultural counseling and suicidology - expand the available empirical literatu...

This beautifully illustrated volume describes the entire flora and fauna of the famous Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil - one of the world's most important fossil deposits, exhibiting exceptional preservation. A wide range of invertebrates and vertebrates are covered, including extended sections on pterosaurs and insects. Two chapters are devoted to plants. Many of the chapters include descriptions of new species and re-descriptions ...

Musicians are always quick to adopt and explore new technologies. The fast-paced changes wrought by electrification, from the microphone via the analogue synthesiser to the laptop computer, have led to a wide diversity of new musical styles and techniques. Electronic music has grown to a broad field of investigation, taking in historical movements like musique concrète and elecktronische musik, and contemporary trends such as electronic dance ...

Organizations today are facing heightened challenges in their efforts to perform effectively. These challenges are reflected in the failure of many long-standing organizations and the shortened tenure of senior level executives. There is increasing agreement that the unique competitive advantage organizations have today lies in their people, their human resource management practices and their cultures. All other elements of production can be r...

In the years approaching the centenary of Mahler's death, this book provides both summation of, and starting point for, an assessment and reassessment of the composer's output and creative activity. Authored by a collection of leading specialists in Mahler scholarship, its opening chapters place the composer in socio-political and cultural contexts, and discuss his work in light of developments in the aesthetics of musical meaning. Part II exa...