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The Future of Flesh: A Cultural Survey of the Body (Repost)

konarskos — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:28:52 GMT

Zoe Detsi-Diamanti, Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou - The Future of Flesh: A Cultural Survey of the Body
Palgrave Macmillan | ISBN: 0230613470 | 2009-04-15 | PDF | 288 pages | 2.17 Mb

The Future of Flesh examines ways in which “flesh” has been re-conceptualized in late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries. Its twelve essays analyze contemporary attitudes to corporeal change resulting from pain, death, artistic experimentation or technological intervention, and highlight current transformations in the very definition of “flesh.” Cross-disciplinary in their approach, the essays in this collection investigate the limits, the politics and the ethics surrounding corporeal change, and address topics that range from classical heroic bodies, and breast cancer photography to cyberfiction.

The Lion and the Springbok: Britain and South Africa since the Boer War (Repost)

konarskos — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:09:54 GMT

Ronald Hyam, Peter Henshaw - The Lion and the Springbok: Britain and South Africa since the Boer War
C_.m br _.dge Un _.ty Pr _.ss | ISBN: 0521824532 | 2003-06-30 | PDF | 396 pages | 2.63 Mb

This unique account of the "uneasy special relationship" between Britain and South Africa surveys all political, economic, cultural, and geostrategic aspects. Starting from the bruising experience of the South African Boer War, Ronald Hyam and Peter Henshaw trace the countries' deteriorating relationship through a series of crises to South Africa's departure from the Commonwealth in 1961 and subsequent return, post-apartheid, in 1994.

Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (Repost)

konarskos — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:55:24 GMT

Matthew W. Crocker, Martin Pickering, Charles Clifton Jr - Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing
C_.m br _.dge Un _.ty Pr _.ss | ISBN: 0521631211 | 1999-11-28 | PDF | 375 pages | 8.43 Mb

The architectures and mechanisms underlying language processing form one important part of the general structure of cognition. This book, written by leading experts in the field, brings together linguistic, psychological, and computational perspectives on some of the fundamental issues. Several general introductory chapters offer overviews on important psycholinguistic research frameworks and highlight both shared assumptions and controversial issues. Subsequent chapters explore syntactic and lexical mechanisms, the interaction of syntax and semantics in language understanding, and the implications for cognitive architecture.

Determinanten der Kapitalstruktur: Eine meta-analytische Studie der empirischen Literatur (Repost)

konarskos — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:42:59 GMT

Hilmar Schneider - Determinanten der Kapitalstruktur: Eine meta-analytische Studie der empirischen Literatur
G ,a_bl .r | ISBN: 3834923028 | 2010-05 | PDF | 361 pages | 1.97 Mb

Die Wahl der Kapitalstruktur und die Auswirkungen von Finanzierungsentscheidungen auf den Unternehmenswert sind die grundlegenden Fragestellungen von Corporate-Finance. Hilmar Schneider erläutert chronologisch die Entwicklung der modernen Kapitalstrukturtheorie und der empirischen Determinantenforschung. Im Rahmen einer Meta-Analyse wertet er die auf internationaler Ebene publizierten Forschungsergebnisse über die acht bedeutendsten Kapitalstruktur-Determinanten aus. Diese Vorgehensweise erlaubt die Identifikation empirischer Forschungslücken, die studienübergreifende Untersuchung von Moderatoreffekten sowie nicht zuletzt den Rückschluss auf die Gültigkeit zentraler kapitalstrukturtheoretischer Hypothesen.

Language and Emotion (Repost)

konarskos — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:30:47 GMT

James M. Wilce- Language and Emotion
C_.m br _.dge Un _.ty Pr _.ss | ISBN: 0521864178 | 2009-05-11 | PDF | 248 pages | 2.93 Mb

Language is a means we use to communicate feelings; we also reflect emotionally on the language we and others use. James Wilce analyses the signals people use to express emotion, looking at the social, cultural and political functions of emotional language around the world. The book demonstrates that speaking, feeling, reflecting, and identifying are interrelated processes and shows how desire or shame are attached to language. Drawing on nearly one hundred ethnographic case studies, it demonstrates the cultural diversity, historical emergence, and political significance of emotional language. Wilce brings together insights from linguistics and anthropology to survey an extremely broad range of genres, cultural concepts, and social functions of emotional expression.

Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora (Repost)

konarskos — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:27:24 GMT

Linda M. Heywood- Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora
C_.m br _.dge Un _.ty Pr _.ss | ISBN: 0521002788 | 2001-11-19 | PDF | 400 pages | 3.68 Mb

This volume sets out a new paradigm that increases our understanding of African culture and the forces that led to its transformation during the period of the Atlantic slave trade and beyond, putting long due emphasis on the importance of Central African culture to the cultures of the United States, Brazil, and the Caribbean. Focusing on the Kongo/Angola culture zone, the book illustrates how African peoples re-shaped their cultural institutions as they interacted with Portuguese slave traders up to 1800, then follows Central Africans through all the regions where they were taken as slaves and captives.

People of the Sea: Identity and Descent among the Vezo of Madagascar (Repost)

konarskos — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:20:53 GMT

Rita Astuti - People of the Sea: Identity and Descent among the Vezo of Madagascar
C_.m br _.dge Un _.ty Pr _.ss | ISBN: 0521433509 | 1995-04-28 | PDF | 204 pages | 5.19 Mb

The Vezo are fishing people of western Madagascar. The identity of the Vezo is not fixed by descent; rather, it is established by what they do. They are people of the sea, distinguished from the farmers around them by their economic specialism. Ethnicity is usually thought to be a consequence of inborn qualities acquired by descent, and Astuti explores the consequences of ascribing ethnic identity with reference to economic activity. Her analysis reveals that only in the cult of the dead does descent become critical, and her argument in this innovative analysis of Vezo kinship is that the people distinguish two models of the person: one determined by the past, and the other defined contextually, in the present.

Mongols and Mamluks: The Mamluk-Ilkhanid War, 1260-1281 (Repost)

konarskos — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:11:33 GMT

Reuven Amitai-Preiss - Mongols and Mamluks: The Mamluk-Ilkhanid War, 1260-1281
C_.m br _.dge Un _.ty Pr _.ss | ISBN: 0521462266 | 1995-02-24 | PDF | 288 pages | 7.85 Mb

For sixty years, from 1260-1323, the Mamluk state in Egypt and Syria was at war with the Ilkhanid Mongols based in Persia. This is the first comprehensive study of the political and military aspects of the early years of the war, from the battle of Ayn Jalut in 1260 to the battle of Homs in 1281. Between these campaigns, both sides were engaged in various types of psychological warfare. Here, as in the major battles, the Mamluks usually gained the upper hand, establishing themselves as the most important Muslim power at the time.

A Student's Introduction to English Grammar (Repost)

konarskos — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:57:48 GMT

Huddleston Rodney, Pullum Geoffrey K. - A Student's Introduction to English Grammar
C_.m br _.dge Un _.ty Pr _.ss | ISBN: 0521612888 | 2005-03-14 | PDF | 320 pages | 4.79 Mb

This groundbreaking undergraduate textbook on modern Standard English grammar is the first to be based on the revolutionary advances of the authors' previous work, The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (2002). The text is intended for students in colleges or universities who have little or no previous background in grammar, and presupposes no linguistics. It contains exercises, and will provide a basis for introductions to grammar and courses on the structure of English, not only in linguistics departments but also in English language and literature departments and schools of education.

Apposition in Contemporary English (Repost)

konarskos — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:52:18 GMT

Charles F. Meyer - Apposition in Contemporary English
C_.m br _.dge Un _.ty Pr _.ss | ISBN: 0521394759 | 1992-03-27 | PDF | 166 pages | 4.32 Mb

Apposition in Contemporary English is the first full-length treatment of apposition. It provides detailed discussion of its linguistic characteristics and of its usage in various kinds of speech and writing, derived from the data of British and American computer corpora. Charles Meyer demonstrates the inadequacies of previous studies and argues that apposition is a grammatical relation realized by constructions having particular syntactic, semantic and pragmatic characteristics, of which certain are dominant. The language of press reportage, fiction, learned writing and spontaneous conversation is analyzed.

Prosody in Conversation: Interactional Studies (Repost)

konarskos — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:47:59 GMT

Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen, Margret Selting - Prosody in Conversation: Interactional Studies
C_.m br _.dge Un _.ty Pr _.ss | ISBN: 0521460751 | 1996-07-26 | PDF | 484 pages | 7.67 Mb

The essays in this volume are all analyses of prosody--primarily intonation and rhythm--and the role it plays in everyday conversation. Prosody emerges as a strategy deployed by interactants in the management of turn-taking and floor-holding; in the negotiation of conversational activities such as repair, assessments, announcements, reproaches and news receipts; and in the keying of the tone or modality of interactional sequences. The material studied is taken not from constructed laboratory data but from genuine English, German and Italian conversations.

Quantity Adjustment: Vowel Lengthening and Shortening in Early Middle English (Repost)

konarskos — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:43:33 GMT

Nikolaus Ritt - Quantity Adjustment: Vowel Lengthening and Shortening in Early Middle English
C_.m br _.dge Un _.ty Pr _.ss | ISBN: 0521462320 | 1995-02-24 | PDF | 216 pages | 6.30 Mb

Using an innovative theoretical framework, Dr. Ritt describes the phenomenon of the change in vowel length in early Middle English, and sets out to account for its occurrence. He shows that the changes stem from universal principles that govern the way in which humans use speech sounds to communicate. He examines why these principles only sometimes lead to widespread changes, as in Middle English, and goes on to suggest that language is a complex system in which conflicting tendencies are constantly renegotiating their spheres of influence.

Relevance Relations in Discourse: A Study with Special Reference to Sissala (Repost)

konarskos — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:35:21 GMT

Regina Blass - Relevance Relations in Discourse: A Study with Special Reference to Sissala
C_.m br _.dge Un _.ty Pr _.ss | ISBN: 0521385156 | 1990-11-30 | PDF | 300 pages | 5.75 Mb

Using data from Sissala, a previously unanalyzed language, this book shows that the analysis of text and discourse is best approached from a cognitive rather than a strictly linguistic point of view.

The Syntax of the Celtic Languages: A Comparative Perspective (Repost)

konarskos — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:32:13 GMT

Robert D. Borsley, Ian Roberts - The Syntax of the Celtic Languages: A Comparative Perspective
C_.m br _.dge Un _.ty Pr _.ss | ISBN: 0521481600 | 1996-04-26 | PDF | 376 pages | 5.97 Mb

Leading researchers examine the Celtic languages in comparative perspective, making reference to European and Arabic languages; they use the insights of principles-and-parameters theory. A substantial introduction makes the volume accessible to theoreticians unfamiliar with the Celtic languages and to specialists. The book makes a strong contribution to linguistic theory and to our understanding of the Celtic languages.

Discourse and Identity (Repost)

konarskos — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:14:07 GMT

Anna De Fina, Deborah Schiffrin, Michael Bamberg - Discourse and Identity
C_.m br _.dge Un _.ty Pr _.ss | ISBN: 0521834023 | 2006-07-24 | PDF | 476 pages | 1.19 Mb

Drawing on numerous interactional settings (the workplace; medical interviews; education), in a variety of genres (narrative; conversation; interviews), and amongst different communities (immigrants; patients; adolescents; teachers), this revealing volume sheds new light on how our social practices can help to shape our identities.

Sichere Webanwendungen: Das Praxisbuch (Repost)

konarskos — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:10:31 GMT

Mario Heiderich, Christian Matthies - Sichere Webanwendungen: Das Praxisbuch
Galileo Press | ISBN: 3836211947 | 2008-01-01 | PDF | 644 pages | 12.20 Mb

Wenn Sie Webanwendungen konzipieren, erstellen oder pflegen, sollten Sie dieses Buch unbedingt lesen. Die vier Autoren verfügen über langjährige Erfahrung in der Webapplikations-Sicherheit. Sie geben Ihnen einen umfassenden Überblick über die wichtigsten Angriffszenarien, zeigen praxisnah, wo Sie aufpassen müssen und wie Sie Sicherheitslücken vermeiden können. Lernen Sie, was sich hinter XSS und CSFR verbirgt, wie Sie sich vor SQL Injections, URI-Attacken, Directory Traversals schützen können, Flash-Anwendungen absichern und Sicherheits-Tools nutzen können.

A Learning Community in the Primary Classroom (Repost)

konarskos — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:00:15 GMT

Jere Brophy, Janet Alleman, Barbara Knighton - A Learning Community in the Primary Classroom
R ._tl d, ._ge | ISBN: 0805855742 | 2010-05-17 | PDF | 288 pages | 3.81 Mb

This richly detailed description and analysis of exemplary teaching in the primary grades looks at how a teacher establishes her classroom as a collaborative learning community, how she plans curriculum and instruction that features powerful ideas and applications to life outside of school, and how, working within this context, she motivates her students to learn with a sense of purpose and thoughtful self-regulation. The supporting analyses, which ground the teacher’s practice in principles from curriculum and instruction, educational psychology, and related sources of relevant theory and research, are designed to allow teacher-readers to develop coherent understanding and appreciation of the subtleties of her practice and how they can be applied to their own practice.

The Beginnings of Mesoamerican Civilization: Inter-Regional Interaction and the Olmec (Repost)

konarskos — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:53:07 GMT

Robert M. Rosenswig - The Beginnings of Mesoamerican Civilization: Inter-Regional Interaction and the Olmec
C_.m br _.dge Un _.ty Pr _.ss | ISBN: 0521111021 | 2009-12-28 | PDF | 350 pages | 5.63 Mb

Mesoamerica is one of a several cradles of civilization in the world. In this book, Robert M. Rosenswig proposes that we understand Early Formative Mesoamerica as an archipelago of complex societies that interacted with one another over long distances and that were separated by less sedentary peoples. These early "islands" of culture shared an Olmec artistic aesthetic, beginning approximately 1250 BCE (uncalibrated), that first defined Mesoamerica as a culture area. Rosenswig frames the Olmec world from the perspective of the Soconusco area on Pacifica Chiapas and Guatemala. The disagreements about Early Formative society that have raged over the past 30 years focus on the nature of inter-regional interaction between San Lorenzo and other Early Formative regions. He evaluates these debates from a fresh theoretical perspective and integrates new data into an assessment of Soconusco society before, during, and after the apogee of the San Lorenzo polity.

Predictions in the brain: using our past to prepare for the future (Repost)

konarskos — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:48:50 GMT

Moshe Bar - Predictions in the brain: using our past to prepare for the future
The Royal Society | ISBN: 0854037438 | 2009 | PDF | 160 pages | 4.22 Mb

These papers range from addressing cellular underpinnings to computational principles to cognition, emotion and happiness. And they cover predictions that range from the next turn of a rat navigating a maze to predictions required in social interactions.

Wirkprozesse und personenbezogene Wirkungen von kollegialer Beratung (Repost)

konarskos — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:37:24 GMT

Kim-Oliver Tietze - Wirkprozesse und personenbezogene Wirkungen von kollegialer Beratung: Theoretische Entwürfe und empirische Forschung
VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften | ISBN: 3531172247 | 2009-12 | PDF | 283 pages | 3.76 Mb

Kollegiale Beratung ist weit verbreitet - in Unternehmen, im Sozialbereich und in pädagogischen
Berufsfeldern. Was kann kollegiale Beratung bewirken und wie lassen sich diese Wirkungen erklären? Hinter der einfachen Idee, dass sich Berufstätige in Gruppen wechselseitig und systematisch zu schwierigen Fällen aus der Berufspraxis beraten, steckt ein komplexes Gefüge von Wirkprozessen. Anhand der Evaluation eines 15 Monate umfassenden Programms wird gezeigt, dass kollegiale Beratung berufliche Handlungskompetenzen steigern und berufliche Beanspruchungen vermindern kann.