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Verlag Barbara Budrich External Democracy Promotion and Diversity Among International Agencies: Evaluating Variances in the Impact of the UNDP and the EC in Rwanda
This research considers the mixed results of international agencies in democracy promotion despite their attempt to shape a common policy emphasized in various international agreements. On the background of backlashes and the search for new answers it analyses how the UNDP and the EC promoted democracy in Rwanda from 2003 until 2013. As a result, the author outlines how democracy strategies differ; she defines variance factors in impact, and develops a new concept of variances.
£36.00
Verlag Barbara Budrich The Politics of Nuclear Energy in the European Union: Framing the Discourse: Actors, Positions and Dynamics
For the foreseeable future the overall use of nuclear electricity in the European Union is unlikely to change significantly despite the controversies surrounding its use amongst the EU’s nation states. The author questions the role that nuclear electricity plays in meeting the challenges of providing secure, competitive and sustainable energy to support the development of the low carbon economy in the EU. Analysis presented focuses on the evolution of the discourse on nuclear energy amongst policy makers at European and national levels as well as amongst the public.
£44.96
Verlag Barbara Budrich Europeanisation and Renationalisation: Learning from Crises for Innovation and Development
The book explores how the European Union and its members have been renegotiating Europeanisation and renationalisation in response to the multiple crises they faced in recent years. The authors highlight varying understandings of ´crises´ in different national and supranational policy and institutional contexts. They show how in some cases these have challenged the legitimacy of European Union norms and institutions and even triggered disintegration, while in other cases these crises have served as sources of inspiration for European social innovation and political development.
£31.50
Verlag Barbara Budrich Syrian Female Refugees in Turkey – Intersectional Marginalization
In recent years, migration has become one of the most discussed phenomena, both within and outside the academic world. This book takes into account how Syrian female refugees are socially, economically, culturally, ethnically and sexually marginalized. The author analyzes how discourses produced in the Turkish host society affect Syrian female refugees and local women. What do these women think about the ongoing events, their status and the steps the Syrian government and NGOs as well have taken so far in order to produce solutions for women's invisibilization in the public sphere?
£35.96
Verlag Barbara Budrich Open Borders, Open Society? Immigration and Social Integration in Japan
Is Japan prepared for an ethnically diverse society? The volume examines the past and future trajectory of Japan’s immigration and integration policies and related institutions, taking a cross-disciplinary approach in social sciences. The authors highlight critical issues and challenges that the nation is facing as a result of the government’s inarticulate migrant-acceptance policy, e.g. in the fields of deportation, refugee policy, multicultural education and disaster protection. How can the situation be improved? The book investigates the changes and initiatives needed to build a resilient policy regime for a liberal, pluralistic, and inclusive Japan.
£55.80
Verlag Barbara Budrich Transferring Professional Knowledge and Skills: The Case of Central and Eastern European Migrant Physicians in German Hospitals
Due to the current shortage of medical doctors in Germany, hospital administrations increasingly recruit physicians from abroad to meet their demand. Relaxed migration policies and access regulations to the medical profession enable the formal recognition of these physicians’ qualifications. However, the question remains whether these measures suffice to ensure a smooth transfer of professional knowledge and skills. Research on the migration of highly skilled migrants has thus far predominantly focused on macro-structural aspects, whereas their actual integration at the workplace remains largely unexplored. The author investigates such micro processes of integration into the work environment in the case of Central and Eastern European migrant physicians in German hospitals, and attempts to understand the relationship between formal and informal aspects of integration and recognition.
£26.96
Verlag Barbara Budrich Managing Expatriates: Success Factors in Private and Public Domains
This volume provides in-depth examinations of a variety of individual, social, and environmental factors that contribute to the success of expatriate employees. Using data from numerous large-scale studies from both the public and private sectors, this volume provides valuable insights into expatriate success with implications for both theoretical understanding and practical management. The authors explore factors that influence employees to pursue expatriation, contribute to expatriate adjustment and satisfaction, and ultimately drive expatriate performance, well-being, and success. The chapters in this book consider the role of sociodemographic characteristics, personality and individual differences, training and preparation, and social and organizational support in contributing to each of these outcomes. Using findings from diverse countries and sectors and data-focused analytic techniques, this volume provides novel insights into factors promoting expatriate success.
£39.56
Verlag Barbara Budrich Doing Tolerance: Urban Interventions and Forms of Participation
How is tolerance reflected in urban space? Which urban actors are involved in the practices and narratives of tolerance? What are the limits of tolerance? The edited volume answers these questions by considering different forms of urban in/exclusion and participatory citizenship. By drawing together disparate yet critical writings, Doing Tolerance examines the production of space, urban struggles and tactics of power from an interdisciplinary perspective. Illustrating the paradoxes within diverse interactions, the authors focus on the conflict between heterogeneous groups of the governed, on the one hand, and the governing in urban spaces, on the other. Above all, the volume explores the divergences and convergences of participatory citizenship, as they are revealed in urban space through political, socio-economic and cultural conditions and the entanglements of social mobilities.
£26.96
Verlag Barbara Budrich Interventions Against Child Abuse and Violence Against Women: Ethics and Culture in Practice and Policy: 1
This book offers insights and perspectives from a study of “Cultural Encounters in Intervention Against Violence” (CEINAV) in four EU-countries. Seeking a deeper understanding of the underpinnings of intervention practices in Germany, Portugal, Slovenia and the United Kingdom, the team explored variations in institutional structures and traditions of law, policing, and social welfare. Theories of structural inequality and ethics are discussed and translated into practice. Using a shared qualitative methodology, space was created to listen to professionals discussing the challenges of intervention and as well to hear voices of women who had escaped domestic violence or trafficking for sexual exploitation and of young people who had been taken into care due to abuse or neglect. Voices of professionals as well as of women and young people who have experienced intervention illuminate how and why practices may differ. The authors examine how existing theories can illuminate complex inequalities or encompass the experiences of minorities against the background of European colonial history, and what streams of ethical theory apply to the dilemmas and challenges of intervention practice. Analytical descriptions of the legal-institutional frameworks for each of the three forms of violence set the stage for comparison. Drawing on a rich store of empirical data, five chapters discuss key issues facing policy-makers and practitioners seeking effective strategies of intervention that can diminish violence while strengthening the agency of women and children. Unique among comparative studies, CEINAV integrated creative art workshops into the research and involved both professionals and survivors of violence in the process. “Reflections” include a discussion of different intervention cultures in Europe, alongside working with different voices and making cultural encounters visible through art. Overall the authors argue that overcoming violence cannot be achieved by standardising procedure but require an ethical foundation, for which they offer a proposal.
£33.26
Verlag Barbara Budrich Why States Rebel: Understanding State Sponsorship of Terrorism
Given the fact that two-thirds of all intrastate wars since 1945 have included foreign interventions, what drives sovereign states to support non-state conflict parties? In order to understand causes and calculations of this particular type of third party intervention, this book connects some of the most important contemporary debates in international relations, ranging from security cooperation between states and non-state actors to the effects of intervention on both local conflict dynamics and interstate relations. Presenting a new theoretical framework and a multidimensional concept of support (endorsement, hosting, as well as financial and military assistance), this book establishes a systematic path between international as well as domestic incentives and specific types of sponsorship policies. In a subsequent comparative analysis, the author examines conditions and dynamics of Syria’s cooperation with Fatah, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, and Hizballah from 1964 to 2006.
£33.26
Verlag Barbara Budrich Closing the Capabilities Gap: Renegotiating social justice for the young
The volume relates the Capabilities Approach to research and practice in education, welfare economics and social policy. Thus, it challenges traditional objectives and approaches in these fields. The authors suggest a capabilities perspective that calls into question the metric of success of these disciplines and in the fields of politics. It moves the attention away from economic growth and human capital towards autonomy and “agency freedom” of (young) individuals. Especially with respect to the young this implies a substantial shift of perspectives. Young persons have been particularly highlighted in the political debate: on the one hand side they are one of the groups with the highest risk to face situations of poverty, on the other hand side young persons are the main focus group of educational strategies in the form of investments in human capital which dominate the discourse. In this context, the capability perspective implies a provoking shift of paradigms because it takes place against the background of capitalist societies redefining their notion of “the public” and diminishing the collective responsibility for the vulnerable. The volume discusses whether and in how far the capabilities perspective makes a difference and provides additional value in terms of promoting democracy and justice on a social level as well as well-being on the level of individual (particularly young) individuals.
£24.95
Verlag Barbara Budrich A Student’s Guide to European Universities: Sociology, Political Science, Geography and History
The guidebook to Social Sciences in Europe offers students and researchers going abroad an insight into the origins, the methods and the current trends in four Social Science disciplines in six European countries (Spain, France, Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic and Great Britain), as well as an overview of the university system and student life in those countries. For each country, insights into the national traditions and characteristics of Sociology, History, Geography and Political Science are combined with practical information on teaching and assessment methods.
£44.96
Verlag Barbara Budrich Gender Politics and Democracy in post-socialist Europe
This book explores the politics of gender and democracy in post-communist Europe. Utilising the concept of political representation, the book scrutinises women’s legislative presence and highlights the opportunities and obstacles to parity democracy in this region of Europe. The book examines the link between women’s membership of national parliaments and the substantive representation of gender interests. It investigates the role of civil society, the state and the European Union in representing women’s interests and in promoting gender politics. The book provides an important and timely contribution to the classical political questions of who represents, what is represented, and how representation takes place. In adopting an integrated approach to political representation, the book extends current understanding of this fundamental concept. Using new research, it provides the first comprehensive comparative analysis of the interplay between emerging democracies and gender politics in post-communist Europe.
£17.95
Verlag Barbara Budrich Perspectives on Transitions in Refugee Education: Ruptures, Passages, and Re-Orientations
Refugees face transitions in their lives: on an individual, a social and a cultural level. This book covers various aspects of these transitions and their intersections with educational experiences. Studies from different country contexts show the complex relationships between individual, culture, society and institutions. Examining these relationships and experiences during transitional processes aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of the different types of transitions in the context of refugee education, which may lead to an improvement of support structures in the future. The aim of this book is to present various aspects of transitions that refugees are facing in their lives and the intersections among these transitions and refugee education. Chapters from different country contexts reveal how refugees engage in several transitional processes due to movement between different countries, their settlement in a new country, as well as the transitions that are inherent to their life-course. Examining the various aspects of such relationships and experiences during transitional processes may help to understand the typologies of different transitions in the context of refugee education. Transitional processes that the chapters of the book tackle include educational transitions, transformative transitions, cultural transitions as well as social transitions from various refugee groups’ perceptions including parents, students, teachers and unaccompanied minors. Several chapters discuss how experience of transition is influenced by rules, regulations, and responses of micro and macro environments, such as local community, institutions, governments at the national and international levels while some other specifically indicate the aspects of transitions taking place in schools.
£42.30
Verlag Barbara Budrich Studies in Economics and Policy Making: Central and Eastern European Perspectives
This book presents a broader, more courageous interpretation of economic thinking and associated tasks of policy making. The reader will go far beyond traditional boundaries of economic thought and practice. While conceptualizing in broader manner, the fundamentals of economic and managerial thought in the context of today’s transformation process, it offers a genuine account regarding the pace of adaptation and change, in the wake of globalization’s latest phase. It asserts that knowledge management has become an essential component beyond previous assumptions, while complimenting and enhancing larger achievements at domestic and international levels. Increasingly, necessary managerial skill levels and ability, including enhanced leadership skills, effective communication, and capacities for knowledge mobilization, while enhancing ethical outcomes, help lead societies towards greater success amidst greater uncertainty.
£24.26
Verlag Barbara Budrich Transdisciplinary Impulses towards Socio-Ecological Transformation: Engaged Reflections – Reflected Engagements
Education for sustainable development should enable people to think and act in a way that is fit for the future – in the face of challenges such as climate change, environmental degradation, loss of biodiversity, poverty and inequality. How can different disciplines address this task? In this volume, academic interdisciplinary contributions from philosophy, social sciences and education are complemented by transdisciplinary contributions from practical fields (e.g. museum education, journalism). The current contributions provide impulses for reflection and open up spaces for thinking in order to do justice to the complexity of the task of socio-ecological transformation.
£20.00
Verlag Barbara Budrich Women, Biomedical Research and Art: A Relationality in Tension
Die Studie widmet sich intersektionalen Verletztbarkeiten, sozio-geografischen und rassistischen Ungerechtigkeiten sowie dem Traumapotenzial von Reproduktionsmedizin, Menschenhandel und Schwarzmarkt-Organhandel. Mittels eines empirischen, kritisch-diskursanalytischen, künstlerischen und philosophisch-theoretischen Zugangs entwickelt die interdisziplinäre Studie praktische kreative Werkzeuge für eine Pädagogik, die Würde und Integrität betont und die Menschenrechte im Alltag der betroffenen Bevölkerung unterstützt.
£37.80
Verlag Barbara Budrich Greek Tragedy, European Odyssey: The Politics and Economics of the Eurozone Crisis
Debate among politicians and academics alike vacillates as to whether the euro is the crowning achievement of a half-century of European integration efforts, or now constitutes a force that threatens to drive European Union member states apart. This book introduces both the political and economic forces at play in the eurozone crisis that have shaped this debate and changed the face of European integration.
£22.95
Verlag Barbara Budrich European Strategies in Lifelong Learning: A Critical Introduction
£16.95
Verlag Barbara Budrich Innovating Teaching and Learning: Reports from University Lecturers
The book brings together unique teaching experiences of young researchers innovating their teaching and student learning and enhancing student engagement. Their teaching innovations serve as a valuable source of inspiration for other young teachers who face similar pedagogic problems.
£10.01
Verlag Barbara Budrich Germany’s New Partners: Security Relations of Europe’s Reluctant Leader: 5
In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis Germany became Europe’s most influential nation state. This book aims to provide a comparative assessment of how this is reflected in the country’s bilateral security relationships with key global and regional partners. Prepared by an international team of scholars, it will offer unique, in-depth perspectives on the ways these evolving interactions affect the prospects for addressing recent and emerging security challenges. The fact of Germany’s (re-)emergence as Europe’s leading state is now undisputed, even if the implications are not. The post-2008 financial crisis, heightened conflict along Europe’s eastern and southern fringes since 2014, and the populist political wave across the West have all driven stronger German engagement in international affairs. While German policy seeks to exercise “leadership from the middle” via multilateral frameworks such as the United Nations, NATO, and the European Union, this entails major adjustments in interactions with other states. Indeed, the future of the security order built on these institutions now hinges on the quality of Germany’s key bilateral ties. With such stakes in mind, this volume offers a comparative assessment of the background, status, and prospects of a selection of the most significant cases. These investigations cover Germany's relationships with the US, Russia, UK, France and China as well as with Poland and the Balkans. The volume concludes that, though active German leadership is more necessary than ever, it remains insufficient for European or broader international security. Germany and its new partners must aim for a balanced model of cooperation that responds to both the internal and external challenges of the early twenty-first century.
£33.26
Verlag Barbara Budrich Evidence-based Practice – Modernising the Knowledge Base of Social Work?
The quest to create an evidence-based Social Work practice is emerging strongly in different fields of Social Work and social policy. In this volume internationally renowned proponents and opponents of this approach deliver profound analyses of the meaning and implications of an evidence based perspective which clearly challenges the nature of the knowledge base of the established Social Work practice and apparently reevaluates and reshapes the character of welfare professionalism. Aus dem Inhalt: What Knowledge? Evidence-based Practice, Profession and Users Organising, Measuring and Implementing Evidence Towards an Evidence-based Professionalism
£22.95
Verlag Barbara Budrich Early Childhood Education Leadership in Times of Crisis: International Studies During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Die COVID-19-Pandemie hat weltweit dramatische Auswirkungen auf sämtliche Aspekte des Berufs- und Alltagslebens, auch auf den Bereich der frühkindlichen Bildung und Betreuung. Dieser Band beleuchtet das Thema Führung in Kitas: Wie erleben Leitungskräfte die Herausforderungen, mit denen sie konfrontiert sind, und welche Bewältigungsstrategien wenden sie an, um mit den Veränderungen im Alltag und in der Praxis in der Kita umzugehen? Autor*innen aus zwölf Ländern präsentieren empirische Befunde, die Informationen über verschiedene Mechanismen der Krisenbewältigung von Kinderbetreuungssystemen auf der ganzen Welt liefern.
£40.50
Verlag Barbara Budrich Democracy under Construction: Patterns from four continents
The book compares five newly emerged democracies in Europe, South East Asia, Latin America and Africa. Cutting across vastly dif¬fer¬ent historical and cultural backgrounds it tells the story of how societies come to terms with a painful past and how politics, culture and the economy intertwine in the process of creating new democratic nations.
£41.36
Barbara Fiore Editora El secreto de la garganta del ruiseor
£31.77
Barbara Fiore Editora Cigarra
Tac, tac, tac! Cigarra lleva diecisiete años grabando datos en un edificio alto. Sin cometer errores. Sin descanso. En una oficina rodeada de humanos. Maltratada por sus compañeros. Tac, tac, tac! Cigarra se va a jubilar. Nadie se despide. Nadie le agradece. Entonces Cigarra sube hasta la azotea? y, allí, algo fuera de lo común sucede.Tras El árbol rojo, Emigrantes y Cuentos de la periferia el australiano Shaun Tan regresa con una poderosa reflexión sobre el mundo empresarial, el ciclo de la vida, la resistencia y la posibilidad de transformación. Un texto simple y rítmico acompañado de evocadoras imágenes al óleo que evocan un ambiente laboral gris que nos empuja a la reflexión.Shaun Tan es capaz abordar temas sociales, políticos o históricos complejos a través de historias aparentemente sencillas que, sin embargo, esconden múltiples posibilidades de interpretación.
£17.50
Barbara Fiore Editora Flora y los pavos reales
Molly Idle vuelve a sorprendernos con este delicado y original libro sin palabras dedicado a la amistad.Flora baila en compañía de dos pavos reales. Pero la relación entre tres amigos puede convertirse en un baile delicado. El espectacular final revela que los verdaderos amigos siempre encontrarán la forma de bailar, volar y jugar juntos.Un libro de tonalidades verdes y turquesas que encandilará a grandes y pequeños.
£19.53
Barbara Fiore Editora Paisaje de amor
En el fondo de tu corazón quizá tengas un bello paisaje que merezca la pena buscar toda la vida.En 2003, Ekin Cheng, Karena Lam y Ye Liu protagonizaron la película The Floating Landscape, dirigida por Miu-Suet Lai. Invitaron a Jimmy Liao a que pintase diez ilustraciones que reflejasen los distintos estados de ánimo de la protagonista en su búsqueda desesperada de su difunto amor, así como el hermoso paisaje que este había visto, con un desenlace muy diferente de lo habitual en las historias de amor de hoy en día. En los créditos finales, las diez ilustraciones aparecían como telón de fondo de la canción The Floating Landscape, que cantaba feliz la protagonista, dando así un toque añadido de romanticismo e imaginación a la película. The Floating Landscape fue seleccionada para el 60 Festival Internacional de Cine de Venecia. La película se estrenó en Japón en 2005, y la editorial japonesa Tokuma le pidió a Jimmy que crease un álbum a partir de esas diez ilustraciones. A finales de es
£19.23
Barbara Fiore Editora Llegan los dinosaurios Y otros contemporneos que no eran dinosaurios
Te gustan los dinosaurios? Sabrías decir el nombre de cien de estos maravillosos animales? Sabes cuál fue el primero? Cuáles fueron los más altos y largos o los más pequeños de todos? Sabes cuántos de ellos volaban? Si aún no lo sabes, Llegan los dinosaurios! te dará las respuestas a todas estas preguntas.Con la serie de libros ilustrados Leporello hemos ampliado los límites del concepto de libro. Ahora puedes darte un buen paseo de cuatro metros rodeado de dinosaurios! Además de disfrutar y aprender con este curioso libro, lo puedes utilizar para decorar tu espacio favorito, enmarcarlo o dejarlo a la vista para tenerlo siempre mano.
£17.39
Barbara Fiore Editora Zip y Candy
Me llevaba el dedo índice a los labios para indicarle a mi familia que guardara silencio, acercaba una grabadora al altavoz del televisor y grababa programas de música en una cinta de casete.La cara A y la cara B del casete pronto se llenaban con mi música favorita. No podía comprarme otra cinta porque mis padres no me daban paga, así que tenía que elegir entre grabar la música nueva encima de la antigua o no volver a grabar canciones en la misma cinta para que no se borraran las anteriores. A veces me costaba mucho decidirme.Si la cinta tuviera voluntad propia, es decir, si respirase por sí sola, cómo podría vivir con una memoria tan limitada? Así fue como se me ocurrió la idea que dio lugar a este cuento.Si el anterior, El cielo estrellado del doctor Ink, era una historia oscura, esta vez quise escribir un cuento lleno de luz. Una vez decidido el rumbo que quería tomar, Zip y Candy, los protagonistas, empezaron a andar y a hablar por sí mismos, y yo me convertí en un simp
£16.31
Barbara Fiore Editora Esbozos de una tierra sin nombre
Bajo la superficie de todo proyecto creativo suele haber un gran iceberg oculto que lo mantiene todo a flote: una masa de material preliminar formado por cajas, folios y cuadernos de notas que en principio el autor no pretende mostrar y menos aún publicar. Eso es especialmente aplicable a Emigrantes, una historia que depende en gran medida del silencio y el misterio. Siempre imaginé que, una vez terminado, el libro superaría las referencias a su fuente original, que sería algo así como un álbum perdido procedente de un universo alternativo. La falta de aclaraciones tan sólo le añadiría interés, el lector se encontraría sólo con una serie de dibujos extraños, de personajes sin voz en paisajes anónimos. Así pues, qué necesidad tenía de volver a mi viejo archivo y publicar un volumen de notas y dibujos de trabajo? Aunque por lo general considero mi propio proceso creativo simplemente como eso, como un medio para conseguir un objetivo, lo cierto es que los cuadernos de trabajo de otros art
£21.15
Barbara Fiore Editora El visor
Escrita por el aclamado autor de obras de terror Gary Crew, eL visor cuenta una historia peculiar sobre un chico cuya obsesión por curiosos artefactos le lleva a descubrir una caja extraña en un vertedero. Resulta que es un viejo arcón lleno de artilugios ópticos, uno de los cuales le llama la atención: se trata de un intrincado objeto mecánico que reproduce discos de imágenes: escenas de destrucción, violencia y la caída de civilizaciones a lo largo del tiempo. El chico tiene miedo, pero a la vez no puede evitar seguir mirando la máquina una y otra vez mientras las imágenes cambian y se sucedenComentarios sobre eL visor en la pagina web de Shaun Tan:
£15.00
Barbara Fiore Editora La ventana
El mundo es un caos, y el simple hecho de vivir no es nada fácil. Es inevitable que un sinfín de tribulaciones pongan a prueba a la gente y la hagan madurar. Todo se vuelve complicado y deja un mal sabor de boca. Al final entendemos que la realidad de la vida es que todos estamos absolutamente solos. Pero corremos en pos del rayo de esperanza del amor, que nos muestra un rumbo claro que se abre paso entre la oscuridad.La ventana describe un mundo cada vez más caótico y a una persona que basa su precaria supervivencia en una simple creencia. Refleja mis pensamientos tras muchos años de vida en sociedad, escondidos por mi pincel en un país lejano. Su transformación en un cuento de hadas cruel es en recuerdo de la inocencia perdida.
£17.89
Barbara Fiore Editora El paraíso
£20.07
Verlag Barbara Budrich At the Origins of Parliamentary Europe
£38.70
Verlag Barbara Budrich Research and Development in Adult Education: Fields and Trends
£24.95
Verlag Barbara Budrich Political Psychology
The book Political Psychology provides detailed information about the development of the field of political psychology, a subfield of both political science and psychology. It describes the evolution of concepts and theories within political psychology, international influences in the field, current concepts and methodology, and trends that augur for the future of the enterprise. Contributors: Betty Glad, Kathleen M. McGraw, Elizabeth Marvick, Brent Strathman, Donald A. Sylvan, Linda Valenty, David G. Winter
£17.95
Verlag Barbara Budrich Status and Ethnic Identity: A Study on First- and Second-Generation Migrants: 56
Migrants’ minority and majority identity are controversial political topics, offering insights into challenges of integration and social cohesion. Based on a two-dimensional model of ethnic identity, the book asks about the role of social status for migrants’ identification with their origin group and the majority population. It focuses on intergenerational differences, migrant visibility, status mismatch, and exposure in the receiving country. Results reveal forms of ethnic identity beyond the classical assumption of mutual exclusiveness, which suggests minority identity among status-lower, and majority identity among status-higher migrants.
£31.50
Verlag Barbara Budrich Mind Your Writing – How to be a Professional Academic Writer
In order to write and publish successfully, academic writers must be aware of their skills and their role as writers. They need to be able to answer fundamental questions about their writing, enabling them to make conscious and strategic decisions. Only in that way they will become writing professionals who successfully carry out their profession.
£11.95
Barbara Fiore Editora La primavera de las 999 hermanas ranas
Mamá rana despierta a sus 999 hijas. Es primavera! Ya podéis levantaros! Pero que ha pasado? Mamá rana cuenta a sus hijas una y otra vez, y solo hay 998. La hermana mayor aún no se ha despertado-una, dos, tresMamá rana cuenta a las pequeñas, pero solo hay 998.-Qué raro-dice, y justo después oye unos ronquidos.-Vaya! Hay una que todavía duerme-exclama mamá rana, sorprendida.-Es nuestra hermana mayor.-La mayor aún no se ha despertado.-Es una dormilona!Las ranitas se ríen de su hermana.
£15.41
Verlag Barbara Budrich After 9/11: Leading Political Thinkers about the World, the U.S. and Themselves: 17 Conversations
After 9/11 presents 17 interviews with America´s leading political thinkers. Renowned experts such as Zbigniew Brzezinski, Francis Fukuyama, and Noam Chomsky discuss the nation’s foreign policy in the post-9/11 world. Yet, they also comment on their own role in US society – and the mounting challenges they face today. The conversations illustrate the hopes and expectations, the anger and frustration, the shattered beliefs and unshakable convictions of the nation´s preeminent minds – at a time when America made its epic transition from George W. Bush to Barack Obama. Renowned experts engage in a vibrant debate about their nation´s position on the global stage: What is America´s foreign policy in the post-9/11 world? What should it be? What led to the catastrophe of September 11? How best to prevent another one, and how to restore America´s damaged reputation? What to expect of Obama? While struggling to define their nation´s role in a world that has changed since the terror attacks, the intellectuals discuss their own role in 21st-century society – a society that thrives on public discourse. The book is written for students, graduates, and lecturers in political science, sociology, culture studies, philosophy, and history. However, anyone interested not only in the political positions of America´s most prominent thinkers but also in how these thinkers feel about what they do and how they do it will enjoy this book. Interview partners: Benjamin Barber John Bolton Zbigniew Brzezinski Noam Chomsky Francis Fukuyama Jean Bethke Elshtain Robert O. Keohane James M. Lindsay Michael Novak Joseph Nye Clyde Prestowitz Anne-Marie Slaughter Nancy Soderberg Strobe Talbott Michael Walzer Cornel West Howard Zinn (†)
£17.95
Verlag Barbara Budrich Migration and Refugee Policies in Germany: New European Limits of Control?
International migration is one of the most controversial political topics today which demands innovative approaches of global and regional governance. The book provides a fresh theoretical framework to understand European responses to the international migration of people and explains the dynamics of Germany’s migration and refugee policy during the last two decades. Against traditional theories and their inherent focus on the national political sphere, the book highlights supranational and multi-level political processes as increasingly important factors to account for national policy changes. Confronted with the most recent developments of international migration, the study offers students and practitioners the necessary background to participate in today’s debates.
£39.56
Verlag Barbara Budrich Rising employment flexibility and young workers’ economic insecurity: A comparative analysis of the Danish model of flexicurity
How have the immediate school-to-work transition and the early career changed in different labour market entry regimes since the early 1980s? How do institutional frameworks differ with regard to insecurity perception? Ellen Ebralidze investigates these topics from a cross-national perspective while focusing on Denmark, the darling of flexicurity literature. The results show that in all the labour market entry regimes, the school-towork transition has become increasingly difficult, and flexible forms of work are more typical in the first job. Furthermore, the liberal institutional framework of the United States seems to produce a similarly low degree of job-loss worry among young people in their early career as the Danish paradigm.
£17.95
Verlag Barbara Budrich Smooth Path or Long and Winding Road?: How Institutions Shape the Transition from Higher Education to Work
The book uses a comparative study of Germany and Britain to reveal how national institutions shape the labour market careers of higher education graduates. It identifies four institutional spheres that are important: the structure of higher education systems, the content of study, the structure of graduate labour markets, and labour market flexibility. Due to country differences, the transition from higher education to work in Germany follows a smooth path, while in Britain it is more comparable to a long and winding road.
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Verlag Barbara Budrich Controlling Corruption in Europe: The Anticorruption Report, volume 1
Corruption has an impact. It is about time that anticorruption starts having an impact, too. This is the first annual policy report of the European Seventh Framework Research Project ANTICORRP, which has started in 2012 and will continue until 2018. Based on the work of 21 different research centers and universities gathering original data, ANTICORRP offers yearly updates on the latest from corruption research, analyzing both the consequences of corruption and the impact of policies attempting to curb it. This first report offers a methodology to evaluate corruption risk and quality of government at country, region and sector level by means of corruption indicators that are sensitive to change and policy intervention. The aim of the project is to offer testable, easy to handle policies which reduce corruption risk. Corruption distorts market competition, bolsters deficits on behalf of discretionary spending, hurts real investment in public health and education, reduces tax collection, detriments the absorption rate of EU funds, and generates vulnerable employment and brain drain. This study estimates that if EU member states would all manage to control corruption at the Danish level, tax collection in Europe would increase by 323 billion Euro per year – double of the EU budget for 2013.
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Verlag Barbara Budrich Multilateralism and Multipolarity: Structures of the Emerging World Order
The international system is undergoing a fundamental change from unipolarity to multipolarity and is facing the growing importance of Asia in world politics. In order to build global governance for the 21st century, the multipolar state system must be complemented and linked with structures of multilateral cooperation.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Citation and Authority in Medieval and Renaissance Musical Culture: Learning from the Learned. Essays in Honour of Margaret Bent
Essays - collected in honour of Margaret Bent - examining how medieval and Renaissance composers responded to the tradition in which they worked through a process of citation of and commentary on earlier authors. Essays in honour of Margaret Bent. The chapters of this book probe the varied functions of citation and allusion in medieval and renaissance musical culture. At its most fundamental level musical culture relied on shared models for musical practice, used by singers and composers as they learned their craft. Several contributors to this volume investigate general models, which often drew on earlier musical works, internalized in the process of composers' own training as singers. In written theoretical musical pedagogy, conversely, citation of authority is deliberate and intentional. The adaptation of accepted wisdom in theoretical treatises was the means by which newer authors stamped their own authority. Further kinds of citation occur in specific musical texts, either within the words set to music or in the music itself. The diverse functions of citation and allusion for the creator, reader, scribe, performer and listener are here given due consideration. In doing so, this volume is a fitting tribute to Margaret Bent, whose pedagogy, publications, and presence are honoured in this Festschrift. Contributors: SUSAN RANKIN, GILLES RICO, CHRISTIAN THOMAS LEITMEIR, BARBARA HAGGH, LEOFRANC HOLFORD-STREVENS, ANDREW WATHEY, KEVIN BROWNLEE, ALICE V. CLARK, LAWRENCE M. EARP, VIRGINIA NEWES, JOHN MILSOM, DAVID HOWLETT, REINHARD STROHM, THEODOR DUMITRESCU, CRISTLE COLLINS JUDD, BONNIE J. BLACKBURN
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Verlag Barbara Budrich Health Among the Elderly in Germany: New Evidence on Disease, Disability and Care Need
Whether increasing life expectancy leads to better health remains still controversial. Three topics are explored: (1) vanguard groups which inform about possible levels of health if the general social and environmental conditions were to approach those of the vanguard group; (2) the social and behavioral determinants of health differentiated into proximal and distal factors; (3) vulnerable groups such as migrants and the health differences between migrant groups. Newly available population-based data as well as new study designs and advanced stati¬stical modelling form the basis for the empirical analyses.
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