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"Mountain of Destiny"
A study of how Nanga Parbat, the ninth-highest peak on earth, became the German "mountain of the mind."
The Draw of the Alps
The Alps have exerted a hold over the German cultural imagination throughout the modern period, enthralling writers, artists, philosophers, scientists, and tourists alike. The Draw of the Alps interrogates the dynamics of this fascination. Though philosophical and aesthetic responses to Alpine space have shifted over time, the Alps continue to captivate at an individual and collective level. This has resulted in myriad cultural engagements with Alpine space, as this interdisciplinary volume attests. Literature, photography, and philosophy continue to engage with the Alps as a place in which humans pursue their cognitive and aesthetic limits. At the same time, individuals engage physically wi...
Finisterre II: Revisiting the Last Place on Earth
Finisterre II: Revisiting the Last Place on Earth. Migrations in Spanish and Latin American Culture and Literature is a collective aesthetic, historical, literary, and cultural analysis of how biopolitical, cultural, and economic trends have impacted narratives about migration in the Hispanic world. Considering migrants as protagonists of their stories, the book approaches the migrant as a subject of cultural patrimony and knowledge. The different articles, written by scholars from the United States, Japan, Norway, the United Kingdom, and Ecuador, examine how Hispanic art and narratives of migrancy allow us to re-evaluate the cultural understanding of borders.
To Walk with the Devil
In the spring of 1941, when Slovenia was invaded by Germany, Italy, and Hungary, Slovenes faced at best assimilation, and at worst deportation or extermination. Still, a significant number of Slovenes would eventually collaborate with the Axis powers. Why were they so ready to work with their invaders, and why did the occupiers permit this collaboration? Gregor Joseph Kranjc investigates these questions in To Walk with the Devil, the first English-language book-length account of Slovene-Axis collaboration during the Second World War. Examining archival material and post-war scholarly and popular literature, Kranjc describes the often sharp divide between Communist-era interpretations of collaboration and those of their émigré anti-Communist opponents. Kranjc situates this divide in the vicious civil war that engulfed Slovenia during its occupation – a conflict that witnessed at its bloody climax the execution of over 10,000 Slovene collaborators and opponents of the new Communist Yugoslav regime in the wake of liberation. To Walk with the Devil makes clear how these grisly events continue to ripple through Slovene society today.
Nanga Parbat - The Ultimate Chronicle
The story of Nanga Parbat is long and multifaceted. It was often personified as implacable and unapproachable. Attempts to climb it were made as early as the 19th century. Between the First and Second World Wars it was named the 'mountain of destiny for the Germans' and abused by National Socialist propaganda. The best mountaineers lost their lives in large numbers. In the 1950s, the decade of the first ascents of 8,000m peaks, "Nanga" also fell. Its first climber, the unforgettable Hermann Buhl, would have celebrated his 100th birthday in 2024. This story from a long-forgotten time up to the days of modern mountaineering is dedicated to him.
HCI and Usability for Education and Work
The Workgroup Human–Computer Interaction & Usability Engineering (HCI&UE) of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) serves as a platform for interdisciplinary - change, research and development. While human–computer interaction (HCI) tra- tionally brings together psychologists and computer scientists, usability engineering (UE) is a software engineering discipline and ensures the appropriate implementation of applications. Our 2008 topic was Human–Computer Interaction for Education and Work (HCI4EDU), culminating in the 4th annual Usability Symposium USAB 2008 held during November 20–21, 2008 in Graz, Austria (http://usab-symposium.tugraz.at). As with the field of Human–Computer Inter...
Makroorganisatorische Vorstrukturierungen der Schulgestaltung
Schulexterne Voraussetzungen und Bedingungen der Schulgestaltung und -qualität sind Thema des fünften Bandes der Reihe "Grundlagen der Qualität von Schule". Das umfasst alle makroorganisatorischen Vorstrukturierungen, die den Handlungsspielraum von Schulen abstecken. Sie beinhalten Zielvorgaben sowie administrative und organisatorische Bedingungen, wie Bildungsausgaben, Schulstrukturen und Schulversorgung, Schulrecht und Schulaufsicht, Lehrpläne, Lehrbücher und Prüfungssysteme. Auf makroorganisatorischer Ebene ist die Qualifizierung und Kompetenzentwicklung des pädagogischen Personals ebenfalls ein wichtiger Faktor. Die Beiträge des Bandes befassen sich mit diesen Voraussetzungen und Bedingungen und schließen mit einer Bilanz zum Thema durch die Herausgeber ab.
Schule 2020 aus Expertensicht
zehnten angebahnt haben, dürften die weitere Entwicklung prägen: die Idee der Gleichheit aller Menschen und damit zusammenhängend das Recht der Kinder auf Wertschätzung und Respekt, die Idee der Freiheit und damit zusammenh- gend die Möglichkeit zur eigenverantwortlichen Gestaltung des eigenen Lebens und seines Umfelds und die Idee der Solidarität, d. h. der gemeinschaftlichen Sicherung der Lebensgrundlagen. Es werden globale Trends skizziert, etwa E- wicklungen in der Arbeitswelt oder in der Sozialisation von Kindern und Juge- lichen, und Herausforderungen, die sich daraus für die weitere Entwicklung der Schule ergeben. Es wird die Frage diskutiert, welche Bildung als zukunftsträ- t...
HCI and Usability for e-Inclusion
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of HCI and Usability for e-Inclusion, held as the 5th Symposium of the Workgroup Human-Computer Interaction and Usability Engineering of the Austrian Computer Society, USAB 2009, in Linz, Austria, in November 2009. The 12 revised full papers and 26 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on gender and cognitive performance, usefulness, usability, accessibility, emotion, confidence and elderly, usability testing, evaluation, measurement, education, learning and e-inclusion, design for adaptive content processing, grounded theory, activity theory and situated action, smart home, health and ambient assistent living, user centred design and usability practice, interaction, assistive technologies and virtual environments, communication, interfaces and haptic technology as well as new technologies and challenges for people with disabilities.
