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It's Mike's birthday, he was given a bike. While enjoying the gift, he neglected his responsibilities, and he lost it. Will Mike ever get his bike back, is there anything he can do to convince his mom and dad he's responsible enough. Will they trust him again? See if Mike has learned his lesson and does the right thing to get his bike back?
Bored and done with the world, Henry has lost his passion for life. Only existing, but not really living. That is until he meets the quirky Ava, who is full of exactly what he's missing. Life. Adventurous, colourful and exciting - Henry is about to have the time of his life this summer. But is one summer enough to change his whole life?
Are we doomed? As individuals, certainly, eventually, inevitably. But as a species? As a civilization? Leading catastrophe engineer Michel Bruneau thinks perhaps not. The Blessings of Disaster draws on knowledge from multiple disciplines to illustrate how our civilization’s future successes and failures in dealing with societal threats—be they pandemics, climate change, overpopulation, monetary collapse, and nuclear holocaust—can be predicted by observing how we currently cope with and react to natural and technological disasters. Maybe most importantly, this entertaining and often counter-intuitive book shows how we can think in better ways about disasters, to strengthen and extend ou...
Anton Schweighofer, one of Austria's most eminent architects, supports a rationalism related both to traditional anonymous architecture and to the classical modern movement, making him a lone figure in an architectural scene that prefers sophisticated detail and glossy surfaces over the radical sounding out of the typological and structural aspects of building. Among the projects presented here in detail are a Children's Village in New Delhi, a Research Station in the Arctic, and residential buildings in Vienna and Berlin. Each demonstrates Schweighofer's peerless and uncompromising architectural principles.
Was kennzeichnet die Sprache bilingualer deutsch-japanischer Jugendlicher? Wo liegen die Unterschiede zur deutschen Standardsprache? Und welche Implikationen ergeben sich daraus für den Sprachunterricht? Katharina Muelenz-Goli untersucht phonetische Interferenzen bei deutsch-japanischen Schülern einer Auslandsschule in Japan. Mittels kontrastiver, sprechwissenschaftlicher und gesprächsanalytischer Methoden kann sie rhythmische Auffälligkeiten und Sprechhemmnisse nachweisen. Sie stellt zudem fest, dass die Identität der Jugendlichen eng an ihre Sprache geknüpft ist, die Standarddeutsch als fremder empfinden und sich selbst eher als Japanisch Sprechende sehen. Dieser Sprachidentität steht die klar definierte standardsprachliche Norm gegenüber. Im schulischen Kontext resultieren daraus häufige Korrekturen und Zurechtweisungen, was bei den Schülern ein Gefühl der Unterlegenheit hervorruft. Vor diesem Hintergrund entwickelt die Autorin konkrete konzeptionelle Empfehlungen für den Unterricht mit bilingualen Lernenden auf der Basis aktueller Forschungsergebnisse zum Spracherwerb und zu Deutsch als Zweitsprache (DaZ).
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This volume presents a comprehensive overview of gender archaeology, both theory and practice, and contributes a substantial and definitive reference work by bringing together state-of-the-art research, theoretical overviews, and the latest debates in the field. Responding to the shifts in the theoretical landscape and the societal and political frameworks within which we produce our knowledge, chapters create both a solid theoretical baseline which help readers grasp the significance of gender in archaeology as well as offer perspectives on how to engender produced knowledge about the past. In line with recent focus on the shortcomings of gender and archaeological representation, chapters a...
"Almost every day you can read somewhere that a fundamental change is needed in schools and the education system.... With this book it is my deep wish to make a contribution to this." --M. Glöckler, pediatrician How do we accompany and support the development of children and adolescents so that they can be motivated to face the upcoming challenges? What skills are needed to solve the global problems of social injustice and to deal with the consequences of the ecological-economic crisis creatively? What must the education system be like, that it prepares us as adults to be less molded to existing conditions and therefore better able to see what needs to be changed for the future? Which activ...