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The Complex City: Social and Built Approaches and Methods
'The Complex City: Social and Built Approaches and Methods' explores different ways of understanding the city. The social city approach proceeds from the ground-up, it focuses on human interactions shaped by economic and environmental processes. The built city method looks through a top-down lens, examining policy and planning for buildings and infrastructure, including utilities and energy networks. This volume is different from other city anthologies in that it explores them through their differences, by presenting each chapter in one of the two categories. While there is invariably an overlap between the two areas, they are distinct positions. In doing so the book identifies how, despite ...
Cocktail International
This monograph encompasses works dating from 1989 to 2005, from Lucander's early abstract phase to the wooden panel paintings and the current watercolours.
Performance, Transparency, and the Cultures of Surveillance
Examines the pervasive presence of surveillance and how surveillance technologies alter the performance of everyday life
W.J.T. Mitchell's Image Theory
W.J.T. Mitchell – one of the founders of visual studies – has been at the forefront of many disciplines such as iconology, art history and media studies. His concept of the pictorial turn is known worldwide for having set new philosophical paradigms in dealing with our vernacular visual world. This book will help both students and seasoned scholars to understand key terms in visual studies – pictorial turn, metapictures, literary iconology, image/text, biopictures or living pictures, among many others – while systematically presenting the work of Mitchell as one of the discipline's founders and most prominent figures. As a special feature, the book includes three comprehensive, authoritative and theoretically relevant interviews with Mitchell that focus on different stages of development of visual studies and critical iconology.
Rowena Dring
Microfinance India: State of the Sector Report 2011 presents the growth of the microfinance sector in India in its entirety. It offers in-depth, well-researched and thoroughly analyzed evidence on how the sector has made an impact at various levels of the economy and society. The report collects information from authoritative sources, studies and reports on the sector and field studies on specific developments of interests. It also brings perspectives from key policy makers through exclusive interviews. Highlighting on more topical themes, this yeare(tm)s report begins with an overview of the microfinance sector, which faced significant problems during 2010e"11. It then evaluates the performances of the SHG and MFI models and discusses thematic issues such as social performance management and financial inclusion in detail.
Neue Deutsche Malerei
One of the most important artistic movements in recent years is chronicled and showcased in this dynamic work.Born in Germany in the years following the collapse of the Communist regime, the New Leipzig School started when a group of classmates at the Leipzig Academy rediscovered figurative art. Their paintings reflected the melancholy that pervaded East Germany as it struggled with capitalism, high unemployment and depopulation. Fifteen year later, paintings by the Leipzig school and its related movement, Dresden Pop, are conquering the international art market. The authors take on this important trend one painter at a time. They examine each artist's oeuvre on its own merit and consider various factors behind the movements--the onset of the digital age, social disillusionment and individual protest. Breathtaking reproductions allow readers to form their own ideas about what constitutes and drives new German painting, and understand its significance around the world.
Komik
Komik, Humor, Witz, Ironie, Satire, Parodie, Komödie. Das Handbuch gibt einen Überblick über die vielfältigen Formen und Themen des Komischen, erläutert methodische Zugänge und bietet so eine Bestandsaufnahme der aktuellen Komikforschung. Dabei werden zunächst Grundbegriffe des Komischen dargestellt. Neben der Komikforschung der verschiedenen Disziplinen von der Anthropologie und Philosophie über die Hirnforschung, die Psychologie, die Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft bis hin zur Soziologie werden die historischen Erscheinungsformen des Komischen in den verschiedenen Medien, von Literatur und Theater über Presse, Malerei und Grafik bis zu Film, Fernsehen, Rundfunk und den neuen Medien beleuchtet.
Douglas Kolk
"Fragmented and morbid, yet full of yearning and sensitivity, Douglas Kolk's drawings and collages show people who seem to be at odds with themselves and on the verge of collapse."--BOOK JACKET.
2022/2023
Das Stefan-George-Jahrbuch erscheint seit 1996 im zweijährigen Rhythmus. Es versteht sich als offenes, der sachlichen Diskussion verpflichtetes Organ der George-Forschung. Platz finden Vorträge, Aufsätze, kleinere Editionen und Rezensionen zu Stefan George (1868-1933), seinem Werk, seinem Kreis, zur Rezeptionsgeschichte, aber auch Beiträge zu Epochenproblemen, zu literarischen Gruppenbildungen oder zur sogenannten Konservativen Revolution.
Wie das Leben so der Tod
Der Tod des Herrschers war zu allen Zeiten ein bedeutsames Ereignis, welches entsprechenden Niederschlag in der Historiographie gefunden hat. Selten jedoch wurden die Berichte über das Ableben der Mächtigen wertfrei verfasst. Chronisten nutzten die Schilderung des Sterbens, um den guten Herrscher zu rühmen oder den schlechten zu verdammen. Den Historiographen oblagen die religiöse Deutung und damit auch die Wertung der zu Lebzeiten erbrachten Taten des Verstorbenen. Bei der Beschreibung bediente man sich dabei antiker und biblischer Vorbilder. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die Sterbedarstellungen von Herrschern vom 6. Jahrhundert und dem Tode Chlodwigs I. bis hin zu Lothar von Süppl...
