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Cold War Civil Defence in Western Europe
This open access edited collection brings together established and new perspectives on Cold War civil defence in Western Europe within a common analytical framework that also facilitates comparative and transnational dimensions. The current interest in creating disaster-resilient societies demands new histories of civil defence. Historical contextualization is essential in order to understand what is at stake in preparing, devising, and implementing forms of preparedness, protection, and security that are specifically targeted at societies and citizens. Applying the concept of sociotechnical imaginaries to civil defence history, the chapters of this volume cover a range of new themes, from technology and materiality to media, memory, and everyday experience. The book underlines the social embeddedness of civil defence by detailing how it both prompted new forms of social interaction and reflected norms and visions of the ‘good society’ in an age where nuclear technology seemed to hold the key to both doom and salvation.
Analyzing Genres in Political Communication
Featuring contributions by leading specialists in the field, the volume is a survey of cutting edge research in genres in political discourse. Since, as is demonstrated, “political genres” reveal many of the problems pertaining to the analysis of communicative genres in general, it is also a state-of-the-art addition to contemporary genre theory. The book offers new methodological, theoretical and empirical insights in both the long-established genres (speeches, interviews, policy documents, etc.), and the modern, rapidly-evolving generic forms, such as online political ads or weblogs. The chapters, which engage in timely issues of genre mediatization, hybridity, multimodality, and the mixing of discursive styles, come from a broad range of perspectives spanning Critical Discourse Studies, pragmatics, cognitive psychology, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics and media studies. As such, they constitute essential reading for anyone seeking an interdisciplinary yet coherent research agenda within the vast and complex territory of today’s forms of political communication.
Die waren nicht anders als wir
Wie haben sie gelebt, gestritten und geliebt? In drei Geschichten, auf den Spuren unserer Vorfahren, begleitet der Autor Peter H.-K. Stingl zunächst Muug, einen Steinzeitjäger, mit seiner Sippe, der vor 60.000 Jahren auf seiner Wanderung nach Norden war. Das Überleben, das Zusammenleben, Höhepunkte und Schicksalsschläge, die Zeit verschwimmt für den Leser und er stellt verblüfft fest: Die waren nicht anders als wir. Im zweiten Kapitel befindet sich der Autor in einer Zeit vor 10.000 Jahren, in der der Mensch sesshaft wurde und begleitet Mara und Jona. Kapitel drei entführt den Leser in die Zeit von Jesu Christi mit den Abenteurern Elias und Jeremias. Das vierte Kapitel überspringt die Zeit des 21. Jahrhunderts und begleitet einen Stamm von Waldindianern, die nach der Katastrophe dem Traum eines Schamanen folgen.
The Patron Way: From Fantasy to Fortune - Lessons on Taking Any Business From Idea to Iconic Brand : From Fantasy to Fortune - Lessons on Taking Any Business From Idea to Iconic Brand
The never-before-told story of Patrón Tequila--the brand that revolutionized an industry How a billion-dollar business ascended from a forgotten dusty agave field in central Mexico The Patrón Way details the unorthodox building of the brand, the extraordinary creativity and marketing ingenuity of Patrón's cofounder, Martin Crowley, and his life partner, Ilana Edelstein, and the way Patrón single-handedly transformed the face of the liquor industry. Edelstein was involved in every aspect of the business--from the brand’s iconic bottle to designing the sexy and attention-getting outfits worn by the famous "Patrón Girls" at promotions and parties to running the back office. Patrón is a ...
Descriptions, Translations and the Caribbean
This book offers a new perspective on the role played by colonial descriptions and translation of Caribbean plants in representations of Caribbean culture. Through thorough examination of Caribbean phytonyms in lexicography, colonization, history, songs and translation studies, the authors argue that the Westernisation of vernacular phytonyms, while systematizing the nomenclature, blurred and erased the cultural tradition of Caribbean plants and medicinal herbs. Means of transmission and preservation of this oral culture was in the plantation songs and herb vendor songs. Musical creativity is a powerful form of resistance, as in the case of Reggae music and the rise of Rastafarians, and Bob Marley’s ‘untranslatable’ lyrics. This book will be of interest to scholars of Caribbean studies and to linguists interested in pushing the current Eurocentric boundaries of translation studies.
The Twentieth Century in European Memory
The Twentieth Century in European Memory investigates contested and divisive memories of conflicts, world wars, dictatorship, genocide and mass killing. Focusing on the questions of transculturality and reception, the book looks at the ways in which such memories are being shared, debated and received by museum workers, artists, politicians and general audiences. Due to amplified mobility and communication as well as Europe’s changing institutional structure, such memories become increasingly transcultural, crossing cultural and political borders. This book brings together in-depth researched case studies of memory transmission and reception in different types of media, including films, literature, museums, political debate printed and digital media, as well as studies of personal and public reactions. Contributors are: Ismar Dedović, Astrid Erll, Rosanna Farbøl, Magdalena Góra, Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir, Anne Heimo, Sara Jones, Wulf Kansteiner, Slawomir Kapralski, Zoé de Kerangat, Zdzisław Mach, Natalija Majsova, Inge Melchior, Daisy Neijmann, Vjeran Pavlaković, Benedikt Perak, Tea Sindbæk Andersen, and Barbara Törnquist-Plewa.
Arbol de luna
"Novela en la que todo se aproxima a la farsa, al dolor, a la risa, ""Arbol de luna"" es tambien una revision parodica de la historia latinoamericana contemporanea, que nos muestra de una vez un continente atenazado por la falsedad politica. Sostenida sobre el recorrido vital e intimo de sus personajes, Arbol de luna es una obra en la que las ciudades se suceden, los amigos desaparecen y aparecen."
