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Die Wirtschaft versorgt uns nicht nur mit Gütern und Dienstleistungen, sondern auch mit Begriffen und Phrasen, von denen viele mittlerweile im allgemeinen Sprachgebrauch angekommen sind: von adressieren bis zeitnah, Compliance bis Wording. Wie es zum Siegeszug dieses sonderbaren Jargons kam, erklärt Jens Bergmann, stellvertretender Chefredakteur von brand eins in seinem Buch. Einem einleitenden Essay folgen sechs Kapitel zu verschiedenen Formen des modernen Business Bullshit: von Imponiervokabular über Gutfirmensprech bis zu Nullnachrichten und Sprachunfällen. (Verlagstext)

This volume provides an overview of the landscape of mediated female agencies and subjectivities in the last decade. In three sections, the book covers the films of women directors, television shows featuring women in lead roles, and the representational struggles of women in cultural context, with a special focus on changes in the transformative power of narratives and images across genres and platforms. This collection derives from the editors' multi-year experiences as scholars and practitioners in the field of film and television. It is an effort that aims to describe and understand female agencies and subjectivities across screen narratives, gather scholars from around the world to generate timely discussions, and inspire fellow researchers and practitioners of film and television

La place réelle des femmes dans l'histoire des arts (littérature, musique, peinture et arts plastiques, théâtre, danse, cinéma, photo etc.) fait actuellement l'objet de nombreux débats, qui interrogent leur rôle en tant que créatrices, au-delà de la reproduction de techniques éprouvées, et la manière dont elles ont réussi à imposer leur légitimité d'artiste, contre des phénomènes récurrents et parfois insidieux de disqualification visant à les invisibiliser. Ce volume retrace des parcours singuliers de femmes artistes, actives pour l'essentiel au XXe siècle dans l'espace germanique

"The history of the Abbasid Caliphate (750-1258 CE) spans the formative period of Islamic civilization. After the expansion of the Islamic empire under the Rashidun caliphs (632-661) and the Umayyad dynasty (661-750), the Abbasid Caliphate, based in Baghdad (762), presided over the a new era of coalescence in Islamic society, economic integration, and religious ferment on many levels. Although the political and military sway of the Abbasids lasted only in their first century of rule, the caliphate of Baghdad continued to as a focal point of allegiance across the Islamic world throughout the Middle Ages. This book traces the story of the Abbasid state from its imperial age to its continuity as a 'papal' style caliphal institution that provided legitimacy to newly rising Sultans across the Islamic world through investiture and official emblems. The book surveys the golden age of the early period, such as in the reigns of Harun al-Rashid and al-Ma'mun, examines the issue of decline in nuanced terms, and sheds light on the long-neglected story of Abbasid revival under caliphs, such as al-Qadir, al-Qa'im, and al-Nasir in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The intellectual, scientific, and literary vigor of Abbasid society continued up until the eve of the Mongol conquest of Baghdad in 1258. As the Abbasid Caliphate ended in the capital, a shadow caliphate survived with Mamluk support as an honorific institution in Egypt until the Ottoman conquest in 1517. The achievements of the Abbasids left not only a durable stamp on Islamic cultural definitions but arguably touched world history through the patronage of the caliphs for the Graeco-Arabic translation movement, and their stimulation for scholarly activity. Whether through their actual historical role as organizers of government or through legend, such as in The Thousand and One Nights, the caliphs, and the memory of medieval Baghdad, continued to inspire the life and imagination of Islamic and Western society from the medieval to the modern period"--

"Deng Yunte (1912-66), also known as Deng Tuo, was a respected academic and artist. He was also a propagandist and political commentator, before becoming one of the earliest victims of the Cultural Revolution. He committed suicide in 1966. This is the first English translation of his classic study of famine relief in Chinese history. Richly researched, Deng plots the history of famine from ancient times to the Republican Period and explores the impact of famine relief in China with a focus on social and economic forces. This is a unique and revealing text, not only as a study of famine in China, but as an example of historical scholarship from twentieth-century China"--