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Hermeneutics and Music Criticism forges new perspectives on aesthetics, politics and contemporary interpretive strategies. By advancing new insights into the roles judgment and imagination play both in our experiences of music and its critical interpretation, this book reevaluates our current understandings of musica (TM)s transformative power. The engagement with critical musicologists and philosophers, including Adorno, Gadamer, and Ricoeur,...

Sie haben Fragen zur Mikro- und Makroökonomie oder zur Umwelt- und Ressourcenwirtschaft? Dann schlagen Sie einfach nach und profitieren Sie von unserem aktuellen Wissen zur Volkswirtschaftslehre. Einfach und verständlich erklärt Ihnen das Gabler Kompakt-Lexikon Volkswirtschaftslehre - die wichtigsten Grundbegriffe der VWL, - die Klassische und Keynesianische Lehre, - den Monetarismus und die Neoklassik, - die Neue Politische Ökonomie, - d...

The Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been in power since 2002. This book charts the rise and development of the most successful party with an Islamic background in the history of the Turkish Republic party from its roots through to government, analysing in particular its internal organisation and dynamics.

Situates risk management in its proper context in the world of project management and beyond, and emphasises the central concepts that are essential in order to understand why and how risk management should be implemented on all projects of all types and sizes, in all industries and in all countries.

Offers an introduction to this classic area of sociology by examining the social origin and implications of the epistemological, organizational and demographic challenges facing medical education in the twenty-first century.

Global Perspectives on the Rule of Law presents original work from a panel of leading social scientists and legal scholars on the relationship between the rule of law and economic and political development.

A comprehensive reference for prevention, control, and mitigation of slip, trip, and fall accidents. It covers standards and best practices relating to facility design, effective management control programs, test methods and standards relating to pedestrian safety, and slip resistance methods.

In order to examine fully the nature of human beings, Paul Ricoeur crossed disciplinary boundaries in his work, moving from phenomenology to social and political thought, hermeneutics, and ethics. Running throughout Ricoeur's work - particularly Fallible Man, Time and Narrative, Oneself as Another, and his shorter pieces on hermeneutics, ethics, and religion - is a theme of the human capacity for hope. According to Ricoeur, hope is a capacity ...

How we address people, where we sit, what we disclose about ourselves, how we make eye contact, and where and when we touch are signs of attitudes and emotions. Because we may not be conscious of the social or psychological significance of these signs, they are the stealth aspect of conversation. One goal of this book is to demonstrate that address, self-disclosure, seating, eye-contact, and touch are the five vital signs of conversation. Anot...

The convergence of smartphones, GPS, the Internet, and social networks has given rise to a playful, educational, and social media known as location-based and hybrid reality games. The essays in this book investigate this new phenomenon and provide a broad overview of the emerging field of location-aware mobile games, highlighting critical, social scientific, and design approaches to these types of games, and drawing attention to the social and...

The literature of Caribbean writers living in the United States embodies a duality, an awareness of multiple sites of identity as well as conflict of place and space. Easily grouped with African Americans, Caribbean peoples and other immigrants from the African Diaspora make up the quasi-political face of Black America. But as immigrants from a former colonized community, Caribbean writers carry with them a historical experience that different...

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, ICARIS 2009, held in York, United Kingdom, in August 2009. The 30 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on immune system modelling, theoretical aspects of artificial immune systems, and applied artificial immune systems.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC 2009, held in Accra Beach, Barbados, in February 2009. The 20 revised full papers and 1 revised short papers presented together with 1 panel report and 1 keynote address were carefully reviewed and selected from 91 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on economics of...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Annual International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications, WASA 2009, held in Boston, MA, USA, in August 2009. The 36 revised full papers presented together with 15 invited papers and 7 workshop papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. Providing a forum for researchers and practitioners worldwide, the papers address current research ...

The 4th International Computer Science Symposium in Russia (CSR 2009) was held August 18-23, 2009 in Novosibirsk, Russia, hosted by the Sobolev Institute of Mathematics and Novosibirsk State University. It was the fourth event in the series of regular international meetings, following CSR 2006 in St. Petersburg, CSR 2007 in Ekaterinburg, and CSR 2008 in Moscow. The opening lecture was given by Andrei Voronkov, and four other invited plenary le...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Symposium Fundamentals of Computation Theory, FCT 2009, held in Wroclaw, Poland in August 2009. The 29 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 67 submissions. The papers address all current topics in computation theory such as automata and formal languages, design and analysis of algorithms, computational and structural complexity, semantics, logic, ...

Welcome to the Second International Conference on Contemporary Computing, which was held in Noida (outskirts of New Delhi), India. Computing is an exciting and evolving area. This conference, which was jointly organized by the Jaypee Institute of Information Technology University, Noida, India and the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA, focused on topics that are of contemporary interest to computer and computational scientists and engine...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 29th Annual International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2009, held in Santa Barbara, CA, USA in August 2009. The 38 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 213 submissions. Addressing all current foundational, theoretical and research aspects of cryptology, cryptography, and cryptanalysis as well as advanced applications, the papers are organized in topical s...