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Bad Boys and Wicked Women
This volume assembles 13 essays as the result of a workshop for international doctoral and post-doctoral researchers in Old Norse studies, which was held at the Institute for Nordic Philology at LMU in Munich in December 2015. The contributions’ focus lies on different aspects of ›bad‹ or ›evil‹ characters in saga literature, and they give testimony to the broad literary variety such figures display in Old Norse texts. The “Antagonists and Troublemakers in Old Norse Literature” are here explored in their diversity, ranging from their literary psychology to their characteristics which often challenge gender norms. The contributions discuss the narrative strategies of presenting these characters to the audience, both positively and negatively. Furthermore, they analyse how the central paradox of evil and its dependence on context is realised in various ways in Old Norse literature.
Wizards and Words
This work presents an outline of the Old Norse vocabulary associated with magic and its practicioners. The research is focused on the individual words’ evaluative aspect and on their function within the texts, as well as on the narrative roles of magic as a literary motif and as a cultural concept. The literary motif of magic plays a significant role as a narrative device that enables the construction of multiple layers of meaning in the texts. The cultural concept of magic contributes to the conceptualization of various social and psychological aspects, such as the transformations of political power, gender roles, the transgression of norms, irrational impulses, and diverse forms of otherness.
Children of the Laboring Poor
This volume provides fascinating new insights into the agency of the laboring poor in early modern Europe. Based on more than 5,000 biographical accounts of orphans in the city of Augsburg, it explores their responses to changing social and economic circumstances and their utilization of social institutions and mores.
International Review of Research in Mental Retardation
Neurotoxicity and Developmental Disabilities is a comprehensive review of the relationship between neurotoxicity and mental retardation. Though individual chapters each focus on a specific toxin, the chapters jointly emphasize that many variables influence the developmental outcomes following exposure to neurotoxicants, including timing of exposure, pattern of exposure, dose, susceptibility, and environmental conditions. Coverage includes the developmental consequences of maternal exposure to methyl mercury, and direct exposure to PCBs and Dioxins, lead, methanol, parental smoking, pthalates and pesticides. Additional chapters review research on environmental agents and autism, and assessment studies of exposure. This thematic volume in the International Review of Research in Mental Retardation begins with forewords by Stephen R. Schroeder, and series editor Laraine Glidden.
Agencies and policies
Inhaltsangabe:Abstract: In this book, I want to examine how bilateral donors perform in fighting corruption. Taking an actor-centred, policy-oriented approach I focus on three selected bilateral agencies that are heavy-weights in the aid scene: the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the British Department for International Development (DFID) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). Each of the three agencies that I focus on faces corruption individually. At the same time corruption remains a common problem, given its negative consequences on development. In this book, I take a rationalist perspective. I argue that donors perform well in fi...
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Tatort - ungelöste Fälle
„Kein Opfer ist je vergessen“, heißt es in der US – Fernsehserie „Cold Case“. In Berlin ermitteln seit 2007 sieben Spezialisten ausschließlich nie aufgeklärte Fälle. Schmidt ist einer der Beamten. Statt „Cold Case“ heißt die Truppe aller-dings: LKA 11 – Sondereinheit. „Mörder sollten sich nie in Sicherheit wiegen. Wir können aus immer weniger immer mehr rausholen“ Kriminalhauptkommissar Hauke Schmidt In diesem Buch werden einige ungelöste Kapitalverbrechen vorgestellt. Es sind Fälle bei denen die Angehörigen bis heute darauf warten etwas über den Verbleib ihrer Liebsten zu erfahren. Viele der ungelösten Fälle werden irgendwann aufgedeckt. Denn die technischen Möglichkeiten, mit denen die Ermittler inzwischen arbeiten, werden immer präziser. So das es nur noch eine Frage der Zeit ist bis jeder Verbrecher entdeckt wird. Die Familien der Opfer leben mit der Ungewissheit, doch auch die Täter sollten mit der Furcht vor der Entdeckung leben. Lesen sie dieses Buch und urteilen sie selbst wer oder wo die Täter sind.
