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Sociology of the Invisible Hand - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Sociology of the Invisible Hand - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

This book illustrates the applicability of the seminal and controversial metaphor of the «invisible hand» in modern sociological theory. It shows that sociologists have long been part of a field mainly associated with economists and political philosophers. Though unlike the framing that builds directly on Adam Smith, sociological theory focuses on undesirable and perverse outcomes. Furthermore, the sociological angle favors the explanation of invisible hand-like mechanisms as contingent upon social structures and broader processes. Thus, it goes beyond its classical formulation in terms of interdependence, interaction and aggregation of individual actions. This book gathers contributions of remarkable authors who are linked directly either with the invisible hand metaphor, with the spontaneous order phenomenon or with the unintended consequences issue and aims to describe the traditional and contemporary applicability of the sociological framing of the invisible hand for social sciences.

DKK 532.00
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Communication and Sport - Pablo Garcia Mateo - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Communication and Sport - Pablo Garcia Mateo - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

From the outset, the interrelationship between sport and communication has proved to be intense and heterogeneous. In a broad sense, sport can be approached from a semiotic perspective. On the one hand, it is one of the main protagonists of mass communication, especially since the second half of the 20th century. On the other hand, it is composed of multiple elements of a kinesic, proxemic, chromemic nature and even develops several artificial languages. However, these links go beyond semiotics. Communication is present through technique and the very socialisation of sporting activity. All these components are addressed in this publication to cover the relationship between communication and sport in its entirety.

DKK 553.00
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Reflexions about a Cultural and Social Phenomenon: Identity - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Reflexions about a Cultural and Social Phenomenon: Identity - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

The unifying theme of contributions gathered in this book is identity , which is an especially topical issue in contemporary society, culture, and art. The monograph presents many of the diverse ways of reflecting on identity, along with the broad interdisciplinary impact of this concept. The authors employ the latest theoretical concepts found in cultural and social landscapes and apply them to specific areas of their scientific interest. The book considers identity as a two-fold concept. On the one hand, identity refers to identicalness, conformity, and sameness. On the other hand, identity refers to something specific and unrepeated that distinguishes individuals or communities from one another.

DKK 291.00
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Scales, Thresholds And Dilemmas Of Housing Transformations In Istanbul - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Scales, Thresholds And Dilemmas Of Housing Transformations In Istanbul - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

In Istanbul, urban transformation and housing production processes are so intricately entwined and intertwined that they elicit a plethora of predictable and unexpected subject matters to be studied holistically. This book provides an insight into the scales, thresholds, and dilemmas of housing transformations in Istanbul from past to present, with a focus on cause-and-effect relationships. It scrutinizes Istanbul from new perspectives as the primary scene, target, and playground for neoliberal market acts and actors, on the one hand, and seeks to shed light on future prospects with regard to housing needs and expectations of twenty-first century users in line with the unique dynamics of Istanbul, a city without ends, on the other hand.

DKK 478.00
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Nature Walks - Anna Dziok - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Nature Walks - Anna Dziok - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

This book, Nature Walks: Peripatetic Tradition in Non-fiction Travel Writing of Robert Macfarlane examines pedestrianism in the long history of British travel writing and examines the consequences that foot mobility has for the walking self and for the meaning-making of the surrounding world. This book also discovers how the books by Robert Macfarlane, a widely read British author, on the one hand, uphold some of the long-established tenets of the travel genre, and, on the other hand, demonstrate an openness to departure, renewal, and the reconfiguration of discursive practices. Nature Walks offers a profound examination of the ways by which literary language may respond to our present environmental challenges.

DKK 430.00
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The Yearbook on History and Interpretation of Phenomenology 2013 - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

The Yearbook on History and Interpretation of Phenomenology 2013 - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

The main topic of the volume encompasses three areas of phenomenological research: person, subject, and organism. These three topics are interrelated in various ways. On the one hand, the question is Husserlian phenomenology of personhood and subjectivity, and on the other hand, it is a broader problem including epistemological, ontological and biological approaches. Those great traditional and contemporary themes of subjectivitiy and intersubjectivity, concepts of person, community and interpersonality, questions of humanity, value and biological status of human beings all became part of Edmund Husserl’s focus. The contributors intend to show that a number of inspiring and unexplored questions arose from these thematic areas, questions which are related to various specific and interconnected fields of study.

DKK 466.00
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Family in Islamic Psychology Perspective: Challenges and Solutions - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Family in Islamic Psychology Perspective: Challenges and Solutions - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

The present book was published with the desire to summarize the recent works about studies on psychology and family, particularly on how to strengthen families and overcome possible challenges that could come in the way. It also represents an interesting dialogue of two worlds. It is, on one hand, the world of psychology in the Islamic context also called Islamic psychology and, on the other hand, the findings and research methodology of Western psychology. Both worlds can learn from each other which is the basic idea of the Biocentric Sciences, where perspectives are integrated. The contributions in this volume were presented by scientists who met at an International Conference on Family and Islamic Values held in Indonesia in 2019.

DKK 339.00
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Eighteenth-century Female Voices - Sabine Augustin - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Eighteenth-century Female Voices - Sabine Augustin - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

This work focuses on the issue of women’s education in a series of novels written by women in the second half of the eighteenth century. On the one hand, the surface plots are conservative, thus reaffirming the social order; on the other hand, numerous subversive narrative techniques undermine the surface stories, drawing attention to the consequences of the arbitrary limitations society imposed on middle-class women as well as to the sense of entrapment and the resulting anxieties they experienced. In showing the increasing female readership ways to negotiate between the behavioural codes of a patriarchal society and their own need for personal freedom, these novels can be read as early feminist critiques of society.

DKK 538.00
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JOURNALISM IN TURKEY: - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

JOURNALISM IN TURKEY: - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Journalism in Turkey has an ambivalent characteristic. On the one hand, the social demand for genuine journalism has increased, and on the other hand, news has turned into a tool within the polluted political polarization atmosphere. In the age of fake news and post-truth, practices of journalism in Turkey both contain significantly striking examples of how media professionals overcome the barriers and also give some clues about the changing nature of journalism. The book examines the deep crisis mainstream media experience in Turkey. New-born media institutions, alternatives, their start-up strategies, and transformation of journalism field are scrutinized by qualitative and quantitative methods. The book aims to present a current picture of journalism in Turkey by underlining both historical continuities and breaks from the tradition.

DKK 561.00
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Data Structure in Cognitive Metaphor Research - Peter Csatar - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Data Structure in Cognitive Metaphor Research - Peter Csatar - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

This collection of papers focuses on cognitive metaphor research (CMR) from the perspective of the current debate on linguistic data and evidence. The peculiarity of the book is that it reveals the causes that trigger the methodological problems of data handling in CMR. These problems include the identifiability of metaphors in discourse and the reliability of the methods of gathering metaphors such as linguistic intuition, discourse analysis, corpus analysis, and psycholinguistic experiments. In order to overcome their weaknesses and to enhance their reliance, the papers argue, on the one hand, for the combination of different methods of gathering and evaluating data in CMR. On the other hand, the papers also point out that converging evidence cannot be obtained without constraining the combinability of data stemming from different sources.

DKK 348.00
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A Degenerate World - Jerzy Jedlicki - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

A Degenerate World - Jerzy Jedlicki - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Modernism and pessimism seem to go hand in hand. What are the sources of the historical pessimism we see in the legions of writers and thinkers over the past three centuries who saw modern civilization as degenerate and despicable, happily marching to its own doom? Why did so many educated and intelligent people despise the innovations that were the work of their contemporaries? This book focuses on English and Polish thought during the 19 th and early 20 th centuries, a time of relative political stability and great success in science and industry, when many nevertheless voiced concern that Europe is moving in the wrong direction, to its own destruction. After WWI, these warnings became even more dire and have left their mark on the European culture of our times.

DKK 466.00
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Invention, Rewriting, Usurpation - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Invention, Rewriting, Usurpation - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

This volume assembles written versions of lectures presented and discussed at the conference «Invention, Rewriting, Usurpation – Discursive Fights Over Religious Traditions In Antiquity» held at Aarhus and Ebeltoft in Denmark in the spring of 2010. Most of the religious texts studied in the contributions were drawn from Early Judaism and Early Christianity. The interest in these was on the one hand elucidating different aspects of the role they played in the formation and transformation of the religions, and on the other hand investigating the role these same texts played in cooperation and conflict between these two religions. The topics of the essays focus on four particular themes, namely Reuse, Rewriting and Usurpation of Biblical and Classical Texts, Invention and Maintenance of Religious Traditions, Orthodoxy and Heresy, and Formation of the Biblical Canon.

DKK 570.00
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Pathways to Success in Higher Education - Gabriella Pusztai - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Pathways to Success in Higher Education - Gabriella Pusztai - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Students are influenced by their peer networks instead of the invisible hand of meritocracy. This statement by David Riesman is still true today. The volume analyses how students make use of social connections and the expanding opportunities offered by contemporary tertiary education. The results show that the resources provided by higher education institutions may be termed social capital, adding a new dimension to literature related to students and the institutional environment.

DKK 529.00
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The Heritage of Central and Eastern Europe - Kinga Anna Gajda - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

The Heritage of Central and Eastern Europe - Kinga Anna Gajda - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

The monograph explores the heritage of Central and Eastern Europe, which is particularly important nowadays in the era of globalization, on the one hand, and nationalism, on the other, and the war on the third hand. It can indicate ways to "face" the challenges Europe is currently facing. The research on the heritage issue aims to foster a greater understanding of the various mechanisms of today’s social and political decision-making. This publication is the result of the work of a team of scholars whose research explores the subject of the heritage and who represent countries and cultures belonging to the region. This is, therefore, research done from within according to the Latin principle: "Nihil novi nisi commune consensu" (Nothing new without the common consent). The publication allows defining terms and shows the distinctive features of the culture and value system characteristic of Central and Eastern Europe. It deals with issues related to the commemoration of the region’s heritage and the issue of what is excluded from the heritage, what is forgotten, and what is overlooked.

DKK 430.00
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Narratives of the Self - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Narratives of the Self - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

This book explores the many interdependencies and crossovers between living and writing, or, in more specific terms, between writers’ lives on the one hand and their literary output on the other. Thematically divided into four major parts, the book focuses on different literary concerns and discusses literary works from the 17 th century to the present day. The first part approaches the issue of autobiography and biography, the second part takes a close look at travel writing, while the third discusses various lives in fiction and the fourth deals with confessional writing.

DKK 402.00
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Constructing Relationships, Constructing Faces - Bartosz Adamczewski - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Constructing Relationships, Constructing Faces - Bartosz Adamczewski - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Using the method of critical intertextual research, this book analyses the phenomena of hypertextuality and ethopoeia in the New Testament writings against the background of the Second Temple literature, the historical Jesus, and the historical Paul. The work demonstrates that all twenty post-Pauline writings including the Gospels, like some of Paul’s letters, are only loosely related to history. On the other hand, the New Testament writings constitute a logically consistent network of intertextual-rhetorical relationships which have to be properly investigated and interpreted. Only analyses of this kind enable us to understand the internal logic of the New Testament as a whole and the true meaning of its individual works.

DKK 473.00
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Media Literacy, Media Education and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Media Literacy, Media Education and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

This book explores the state of media literacy and media education in several Central and Eastern European countries. The main argument centers around the connection between media literacy and media education on the one hand, and liberal democratic values on the other. Data collected through a European Union funded project shows that diversity is the key word when it comes to how countries prioritize media literacy and integrate media education into school curricula. Although national governments have been fairly active in reforming the education system to include media education, civil society is the most impactful actor through the implementation of various projects linking media literacy with democratic values.

DKK 233.00
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Wiener Slawistischer Almanach Band 86/2021 - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Wiener Slawistischer Almanach Band 86/2021 - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

The book is devoted to «contraband» literature from the USSR that was first published abroad over the Soviet period. The volume explores tamizdat as a literary practice and political institution from a variety of perspectives and situates it in the context of its domestic counterparts: gosizdat and samizdat . The Contributions to the volume range from first-hand accounts, archival explorations, and close readings of the texts vis-à-vis the histories of their first publications and reception abroad, to theoretical articles on tamizdat as «textual embodiment» and transgression. The volume lets world history speak through Russian literary manuscripts on their way from the drawer to publication abroad, and «repatriation» back to Russia in a printed form.

DKK 622.00
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Smaller World, Bigger Issues - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Smaller World, Bigger Issues - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Our world is becoming smaller day-by-day due to the effects of technological advances and improvements in transportation. On the other hand, in spite of this world’s apparent shrinkage, issues such as economic growth, unemployment, inequalities in several levels and poverty are getting bigger. The societies have struggled with these issues since their first existence, but nowadays there are no borders or limits to contain a certain problem inside a certain area. A disaster, shortage, conflict, bankruptcy, strikes, etc. in any region affects everyone worldwide in real time. This book includes various analyses of these global issues from different expert perspectives in order to enlighten the readers and make recommendations to policymakers.

DKK 438.00
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Foreign Language Training in Translation and Interpreting Programmes - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Foreign Language Training in Translation and Interpreting Programmes - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Foreign language proficiency is a must for professional translation and interpreting. However, research into Translation and Interpreting-Oriented Language Learning and Teaching (TILLT) is still scarce. As a result, many foreign language lecturers tackle language courses from a general perspective, disregarding the specific linguistic demands that both translation and interpreting place on their practitioners. Against this backdrop, this book brings together scholars who have conducted extensive research into this area. The aim of the volume is thus twofold: on the one hand, to establish international avenues for cooperation, and on the other, to proffer new and updated insights into a subdiscipline of Translation Studies that has not received the same attention as other translation areas.

DKK 482.00
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Backness Distinction in Phonology - Pawel Rydzewski - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Backness Distinction in Phonology - Pawel Rydzewski - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

This book discusses the phonological consequences of the backness distinction in high vowels. It focuses on a single-phoneme approach which does not recognize the existence of the vowel y . The author demonstrates that the role of y is crucial for the analysis of Polish palatalization. If y is recognized as a separate phoneme, then the processes receive a straightforward account in Lexical Phonology and Optimality Theory, the two frameworks used in the study. On the other hand, the absence of y leads to unwarranted exceptionality and entails an extensive use of diacritics or lexical constraints. The analyses show, however, that the lack of y is empirically unfeasible and requires segment indexation, a solution unheard of in phonology.

DKK 561.00
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Chopin - Bengt Edlund - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Chopin - Bengt Edlund - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

The first study of this volume looks for reminiscences of Dies Irae in Chopin’s works. A great number of allusions and affinities are found in the preludes as well as in Chopin’s output. The study also yields insights into Chopin’s composition method. These intertextual findings are used in an attempt to establish the extra-musical content of the Second Ballade. Five preludes – A minor, E minor, B minor, A major and C minor – are closely examined, using diverse analytical approaches. A primary concern is to critically assess previous readings, and Schenkerian ones in particular. An analysis of the initial right-hand passage of the F-minor étude from Méthode brings up matters of idiomatic and ontology.

DKK 786.00
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Balkanizing Europeanization: Fight against Corruption and Regional Relations in the Western Balkans - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Balkanizing Europeanization: Fight against Corruption and Regional Relations in the Western Balkans - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

The main theme of this book revolves around the idea of Europeanization of the Western Balkans. In that respect, the volume discusses the fight against corruption and regional relations in former Yugoslav states, such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia. The objective of the book is to detect the level of effectiveness of the EU impact on domestic structural changes in the Western Balkans regarding aforementioned research issues. The contributors argue that the EU impact in the Western Balkans has so far been limited and point to limitations in this regard. «The book Balkanizing Europeanisation offers timely, detailed, critical and excellently researched insight into the complicated mutual relations of the EU and the countries of the Balkan Peninsula. Based on excellent scholarship, meticulous original research and first-hand experience with the Balkan area, the authors provide a reader with rich and profound analysis of successes and failures of Europeanisation of the Balkan countries. The volume shall become an obligatory reading for many categories of scholars, experts, and people practicing diplomacy with and in the region.» Vít Hloušek, Professor of European Politics, Masaryk University «The limits to and problems connected with processes of Europeanization in the Western Balkans remain an important topic both for policy-makers and for scholarly inquiry. Vučković and Đorđević are to be congratulated for having assembled a first-rate teach of scholars to examine the most vital issues at hand.» Sabrina P. Ramet, Professor of Political Science, The Norwegian University of Science & Technology

DKK 450.00
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Local Matters - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Local Matters - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Where young people grow up makes a decisive difference to their life chances. Drawing on case studies from ten European cities, this book looks at how the local environment and the services available for young people affect their socialization. What comes to the fore are the local matters. On the one hand, there are experiences of discrimination and marginalization due to distance and isolation, decay and neglect but also related to piecemeal and top-down approaches to youth and social services. On the other, we find signs of positive transformation and drivers of social innovation: community building projects, the revitalization of abandoned places, appreciative approaches to servicing and a whole array of tactics that young people deploy to overcome their daily struggles.

DKK 298.00
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Interactive and Interpersonal Meanings of Grammatical Structures - Agata Kochanska - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Interactive and Interpersonal Meanings of Grammatical Structures - Agata Kochanska - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

The study offers an analysis of three grammatical constructions specifically employed in direct performance of directive speech acts in Polish. Constructions of this type have not yet been widely analyzed, as research pertaining to the relation between the grammatical structure of an utterance and its pragmatic effects has focused mainly on indirect speech acts. The study combines a discussion of a wide range of corpus examples with a detailed analysis of hand-picked examples situated in specific contexts. The aim is to show how the grammatical make-up of a construction functions with contextual factors to bring about a range of pragmatic effects pertaining to the speakers’ interaction and their interpersonal relation. The framework of the study is the theory of cognitive grammar.

DKK 389.00
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