This study investigates possible differences between fictional portrayals of the British Raj by Anglo-Indian authors who lived in the colony and writers who never saw the country. In an attempt to challenge Said's assumptions outlined in Orientalism, the results of the comparison will be used to discuss how consistent the colonial discourse was.
The book underpins the importance of the shepherd theme in Mark, which complements the other important motifs in the narrative such as way, nourishment, gathering etc. The theme even merges with the motif of way, when Jesus, who came on the way of the Lord, goes ahead of the disciples to Galilee.
The author analyses notes in medieval books from the archive of the First Romanian School from Scheii Brasovului, a Romanian settlement outside Brasov. The notes reveal an educated society, passing on fragments of their way of thinking. The study shows the medieval book as a medium including glimpses of life, fragments of human emotions and events.
This volume deals with linguistic analysis and contains articles dealing with major grammatical techniques and strategies in Arabic dialects and with linguistic substitution as verbal dynamism. Ce volume traite de sujets de l'analyse linguistique et contient d'articles sur les techniques grammaticales et les strategies dans dialectes arabiques.
Ethno-national identity is an outcome of ideological interpellation, self-writing and narratives. Politics as the enactment of identity has led Ethiopian politics to a dead-end. A theological turn can open the ontological possibility of a new political subject and a reinvention of politics that transcends the impasse.
This research is focused on professional development opportunities for young academics who teach in German universities. The analysis shows how academics reconstruct the relation between teaching and research under given structural conditions of the academic labor market, and how they make career decisions.
The topic of the book is the self-identity of Romanian managers, researched with qualitative and quantitative methods. It aims to explain and to make prognoses about managerial potential and managerial performance from an identity point of view. It proposes identity instruments for the evaluation, prognosis and growth of managerial performance.
The work presents Abrahamic monotheistic religions and the belief of the traditional religions in Africa, especially in Igboland. Religions have come and gone and many are still in existence and they are religiously or socially formed. The faiths of Judaism, Christianity and Islam have their complementary religious conviction with Igbo religion.
The Apologetic thesis of Lukan scholarship should not be over exaggerated. The criticism of the powerful is clearly seen in the double work of Luke. The Magnificat, the Temptation of Jesus and the admonition to serve others within the last supper of the Gospel show the sensitivity of Luke in dealing with the powerful.
America during the seventies as portrayed by Wes Craven, Peter Watkins, Hubert Selby, Jr., Philip K. Dick, Gustav Hasford and George A. Romeo is analyzed. The rhetorical device allegory, Barthes's concept of mythology and Foucault's concept of power relations are utilized in order to expose a discussion of the body under siege.
This study addresses the contemporary conflict of national identity in Sudan between the adherents of "Islamic nationalism" and those of "customary secularism". Diverse theoretical models for the formation of a nation-state are considered, where diversity is not discouraged, but states apply laws to promote religious and ethnic diversities.
Based on data from Kurdish-German pre-school bilingual children in Austria, this empirical study aims at giving an analysis of factors that constrain child code-switching. Children can exercise power relations or negotiate identity with their parents through choice of language and can manage language choices and rights-and-obligations balances.
This book highlights an important moment in the history of Romanian sociology: The idea of getting involved in the knowledge and construction of social life as well as the virtues of the sociologic monograph method that were promoted by the Bucharest Sociologic School and the Banat-Crisana Social Institute.
The treatise seeks to describe the encounter between Orthodoxy and psychoanalysis as discussed by Thermos. The interaction of these spheres of knowledge should solve the pastoral vocation problem and clergy ineffectiveness. Yet analysis of Thermos's concepts shows that agreement on this interaction will depend on more intra-Orthodox discussion.
This work sheds a light on Nigeria's problems resulting from its creation and its makeup. The presence of many tribes and religions has created a constant security dilemma. The author presents education and religious dialogue as a solution which can finally lead to mutual understanding.
This book is an exploration of the classical music stage within a framework of informal learning through the interactive concert performances of Fazil Say. It presents a detailed demonstration of such a space as a learning medium, and interprets its pedagogical meaning from both the artist's and the audience's perspectives.
The book focuses on Russian-Hebrew bilingual speech. It identifies, describes and accounts for diverse types of bilingual varieties spoken in the Russian immigrant community in Israel. Therefore an interdisciplinary approach was chosen, examining the structural aspects of the immigrants' speech under consideration of their personal social networks.
Allocating scarce medical resources has become an important topic in public discussion. In this book, the author shows how the concepts of Nash and Kalai/Smorodinsky can be applied to a medical allocation problem and discusses implications of their properties and solutions for the German health system.
Focusing not only on Gould's writings on music technology but also on those of Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) and Jean Le Moyne (1913-1996), this book provides a fresh perspective on Gould's thinking, which was embedded in and keenly alert to the intellectual world outside music.
From Peasants to Farmers? Agrarian Reforms and Modernisation in Twentieth Century Romania
Addresses the vagueness of past conceptualizations by providing a theoretical background, the development of a reliable and valid measurement model of CEO reputation as well as the validation of identified relations to its antecedents and consequences.
Computer Networks, the Internet and Next Generation Networks
Access to European Justice for Environmental Civil Society Organizations
Innovation remains to be the widely recognized leverage in the quest for future growth. This book presents a model of technological, marketing and complementary competencies in relation to firms' innovative performance, drawing from a study of medium and large-sized Slovenian manufacturing enterprises.
The Mexican Crisis of 1994/5 was the first financial crisis that spilled over into the real sector. In this book, this thesis explores unconventional research strands.
From Darkness to Light
Offers insights into different aspects of financing companies with venture capital (VC) and corporate venture capital (CVC) using three independent and specific datasets. This study analyses particular VC financing mechanisms depending on differences in the national institutional framework and the experience of the VC investor.
Investigates the relationship between private equity investors and fund managers and how intermediaries can mitigate their agency problems. This book also presents a new statistical method to predict the performance distribution of venture capital direct investments.
Presents a novel matrix of the regional embeddedness of multinational enterprises (MNEs) and systematically classifies the case study firms. This title shows that geographical proximity to Regional Innovation Systems (RIS) is important for Open Innovation and enables MNEs to strengthen their absorptive capacity.
Essays on Labor Market and Human Capital - Korea and Germany
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