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The main objective of this paper is to present and argue for the relevance of a non-linear, interactive presentation of results of a qualitative investigation of language attitudes. After introducing the layout of the project, the conclusions of "traditional" qualitative analyses, i.e. a rhetorical and a discourse analysis are presented. Analyses show that although informants share common traits in both the exposition of their attitudes as well as their arguments for supporting a particular attitude, the overall picture is one of confusion rather than order. It is proposed that the challenge of the project is to find a mode of presentation which does not sweep this confusion under the rug, but rather holds it up as an interesting find in itself. As an attempt to confront this challenge, an interactive online presentation is presented.

Der Autor befasst sich aus techniksoziologischer Perspektive mit den Dynamiken der wissenschaftlichen und industriellen Innovation bzw. dem institutionellen System der Innovation als Bestandteilen von Wissensveränderungen. Wissensveränderungen wiederum betreffen zwei Aspekte: (1) das Regime der Wissensproduktion, wobei zwischen einem funktionalen und einem fragmentalen Wissensregime unterschieden wird; (2) die Wissensart, unterteilt in die Entwicklung expliziter Erkenntnis und die Erklärung der Relation zwischen explizitem und stillschweigendem Wissen. Mittels dieses begrifflichen Instrumentariums werden in einem ersten Schritt die sich verändernden Muster der Wissensproduktion beschrieben, die sich aus den Zusammenhängen der 'funktionalen Spezialisierung' und der 'fragmentalen Distribution' ergeben. Im Anschluss gilt das Augenmerk den sich wandelnden Relationen zwischen den beiden Wissensarten 'Erklärung' und 'Erforschung'. Auf dieser Grundlage konzeptueller Betrachtungen und empirischer Studien formuliert der Autor abschließend zwei mögliche Aufgabenfelder zur weiteren Erforschung heterogener Innovationsnetzwerke: (1) Vergleiche zwischen individuellen Innovationsbiographien in verschiedenen technologischen und industriellen Feldern, um so verschiedene Muster von Innovationspfaden und ihren Veränderungen zu identifizieren; (2) Analysen innovativer Konstellationen, die sich auf wissenschaftliche, technologische und institutionelle Konzepte beziehen. (ICG2)

Preface -- Chapter 1 Overview of the History of Money -- Chapter 2 On the Choice of Optimal Currency Denominations -- Chapter 3 The Impact of Denomination Choice on Commercial Trading: A Policy Evaluation of a New Iraqi Monetary System -- Chapter 4 Diffusion of Electronic Money and Choice of Payment Methods -- Chapter 5 The Impact of Electronic Money on Demand for Cash: Time Series Analysis -- Chapter 6 Can We Stabilize the Price of a Cryptocurrency? Understanding the Design of Bitcoin and Its Potential to Compete with Central Bank Money -- Chapter 7 A Cashless Society: Facts and Issues -- Chapter 8 The Future of Money or Quest for Good Money .

The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law introduces students, scholars, and practitioners to the theory and history of the rule of law, one of the most frequently invoked-and least understood-ideas of legal and political thought and policy practice. It offers a comprehensive re-assessment by leading scholars of one of the world's most cherished traditions. This high-profile collection provides the first global and interdisciplinary account of the histories, moralities, pathologies and trajectories of the rule of law. Unique in conception, and critical in its approach, it evaluates, breaks down, and subverts conventional wisdom about the rule of law for the twenty-first century.

Frontmatter -- Literature & Philosophy -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Selection and Translation of Texts -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: The Eighteenth-Century French History of an Idea -- 1 Condillac and the Meaning of Experience -- 2 Bonnet's Mind-Body Continuum in the Economy of Our Being -- 3 Helvetius's Seminal Concept of Physical Sensibility -- Part II: Aesthetics -- 4 The Sensationist Aesthetics of the French Enlightenment -- 5 An Exemplary yet Divergent Text: Graffigny's Lettres d'une Phvienne -- 6 The Perversion of Sensationism in Laclos and Sade -- Part III: The Politics of Sensationism -- 7 Cultivating Talent and Virtue -- 8 Materialism's Extension of Sensationist Principles -- 9 The Adoption and Critique of Sensationism by the Ideologues -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

Part I Introduction -- 1 Originality or from the Origin to the Originary -- Part II Creative Categories of the Origin -- 2 Mythical Bases for a Sociological Definition of the Concept of Creativity -- 3 Creativity: Sociocultural Order and Chaos, Memory of the Past, and Projection of the Future -- 4 The Originality of Axial Civilizations and the Free Play of History 5 The Ages of Creativity -- Part III Creative Categories of the Originary -- 6 From Creative Capitalism to Old Age 7 Creative Work in the Global Economy of Risk and Uncertainty -- 8 The Connection Between Creative Economy and the Crisis of Representative Democracy -- Part IV Final Coda: Broken Creativity -- 9 Creativity Without Time.

Introduction / Martin Palouš -- Patočka's concept of the solidarity of the shaken and the possibility of a meaningful existence / Ivan Chvatik - Solidarity - but for whom? / Ludger Hagedorn -- Whose solidarity? Which shaking? Patočka's 6th heretical essay and the limits of its extraphilosophical relevance / Josef Moural -- Socialist legality and the politics of dissent / Jiří Přibáň -- Understanding the principle of inherent human dignity / Glenn Hughes -- Ethics, communication, and roles or : the intriguing case of Hillary Clinton and Wikileaks or : the ethics of communication and the preserving of human dignity / Henrik Syse -- Addendum : a philosopher and his history : Jan Patočka's reflections on the end of Europe and the arrival of the post-European epoch / Martin Palouš.

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is one of the most recognizable acronyms among international organizations. It is mainly associated with the 'oil shock' of 1973 when the price of petroleum increased fourfold and industrialized countries and consumers were forced to face the limits of their development model. This is the first history of OPEC and of its members written by a professional historian. It carries the reader from the formation of the first petrostate in the world, Venezuela in the late 1920s, to the global ascent of petrostates and OPEC in the 1970s, to their crisis at the end of the 1980s and beginning of the 1990s.

Introduction -- Aristotle and Locke in the American founding -- Equality, liberty, wisdom, morality, and consent in the idea of political freedom -- Humanizing certitudes and impoverishing doubts : a critique of The closing of the American mind by Allan Bloom -- "The Reichstag is still burning : the failure of higher education and the decline of the West" : a valedictory lecture -- The end of history means the end of freedom -- The American founding as the best regime : the bonding of civil and religious liberty -- The decline and fall of the American idea : reflections on the failure of American conservatism -- Thomas Aquinas meets Thomas Jefferson -- Dred Scott revisited -- Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I: Ontological Reception and the Spatiality of Being -- 1: The Question of Man -- 2: Time and the Will -- 3: Receptivity and Spatiality -- PART II: Ontological Difference and the Concealing of Being -- 4: Distance and Concealment -- 5: Art and Difference -- PART III: The Rhythm of Language and the Meaning of Being -- 6: The 'Speaking' of Language -- 7: Human Nature and Sensus Communis -- 8: Inspiration and Genius -- 9: Thought and Expression -- PART IV: The Truth of Being and the Truthfulness of Man -- 10: A History of Truth and Truthfulness -- 11: Being and the Hidden God -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

"Surviving the Gulag is the first-person account of a complex woman who survived five horrifying years in Russian prison camps: starved, beaten, and worked nearly to death. A story like Ilse Johansen's is rarely told--of a woman caught in the web of fascism and communism at the end of the Second World War and beginning of the Cold War. Her candid account of her time as a prisoner, written soon after her release, provides startling insight into the trials of a German female prisoner under Soviet rule. Readers of memoir and history, and students of feminism and war studies, will learn more about women's experience of the Soviet gulag through the eyes of Ilse Johansen."--

A fascinating narrative of community and faith, Charles London'sFar From Zion explores the Jewish Diaspora in some of the most unexpected places-from BurmatoTehrantoCubaand evenBentonville,Arkansas. The award-winning author of the highly acclaimedOne Day the Soldiers Came, London tells the stories of the Jews who stayed behind, choosing to remain in the countries of their birth rather than immigrating to the Holy Land of Israel. At once a riveting modern history of a scattered People of the Book and London's moving story of his own personal odyssey of religious and cultural discovery,Far From Zion is an affecting and unforgettable study of diversity, tenacity, survival, and rebirth.

This examination of the history of the 20th century and the place of war in its unfolding presents a radical, unorthodox interpretation of both. With provision for seeing 1945 as the proper starting point for the 20th century and 1968 as the year that marked the end of the Age of Reason, this provocative study portrays the First World War as the first war of the 20th century and the Second World War as the last war of the 19th. It also provides a counterview of the Second World War as merely one part of a series of conflicts that lasted between 1931 and 1975 and the Cold War as the time when r

Nationalism is one of the major social and political issues of modern times, and a subject of intense intellectual debate. The most important and influential theory of nationalism is that of Ernest Gellner (1925–1995). This volume assesses every aspect of that theory, bringing together an exceptional set of scholars to explain, criticise and move beyond Gellner's work. In doing so the book establishes the state-of-play within the theory of nationalism, and complements Gellner's account by bringing political variables back into play. The book is unique in offering sustained attention to a single powerful theory, and will be of wide interest to students and scholars of political and social theory, history, sociology and anthropology