Suchergebnisse

Introduction / Naomi Schaefer Riley and Christine Rosen -- Love in a Time of Reality TV. Sex, Lies, and YouTube / Kay S. Hymowitz -- Monster Mashup: How Our Culture's Heroes and Villains Have Traded Places / Tony Woodlief -- Chick Lit and the Master-Slave Dialectic / Meghan Cox Gurdon -- Lonely Hearts Online: Why I'm Glad I Didn't Meet My Husband on Match.com / Megan Basham -- In My Humble Opinion: Why Americans Still Need Advice Columnists / Margo Howard -- All the President's Friends: The Challenge of Loyalty in Politics / Pia Catton -- Smells Like Teen Spirit. An Unnatural Habitat: The Separate Lives of Adolescents / Mark Bauerlein -- The Achievement Trap: How Overparenting Undermines Character / Caitlin Flanagan -- At Your Leisure. Games People Play Together / Jonathan V. Last -- Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Why Pro Athletes Aren't Heroes / Joe Queenan -- Performance Art: The Faux Creativity of Lady Gaga / Emily Esfahani Smith -- Project Runway: The Surprising Virtues of Style / Herb London and Stacy London -- Back to Betty Crocker: Why Everyday Cooking Matters / Megan McArdle -- In Search of the Next Great American Songbook / Wilfred M. McClay -- Building a Better You. Controlling Our Bodies, Controlling Ourselves / Daniel Akst -- Public Broadcasting: The Allure of Overexposure / Rob Long -- Lessons for Life: The Virtues of Continuing Education -- / patrick allitt -- Death be not Chic / Judy Bachrach -- The American Dream, Twenty-Two Minutes at a Time / Paul Corrigan and Brad Walsh -- Utopian Virtues / -- Caitrin nicol -- Never Having to Say You're Sorry: the Challenges of Forgiveness in an Age of Relativism / Chuck Colson

Social transformation in China (1979-2010) -- The internet with Chinese characteristics -- Paradoxes as lived experiences of modernization : urban youth with Chinese characteristics -- The internet in the everyday lifeworld : "I-and-the-internet" narratives from members of China's "net-generation" -- The internet anxiety, the norm of the "good" netizen and the construction of the "proper" wired self -- Between demonization and celebration : Chinese urban youth and the net café -- The Balinghou's collective narrative in an online forum -- From political indifference to vehement nationalism : Chinese young people negotiating the political self in the internet age -- Conclusion: modernity, the internet and the self

Introduction / Anne Sophie Krossa -- Part I: Culture and history -- Introduction to Part I / Chris Grocott and Anne Sophie Krossa -- Culture / Kristian Naglo and Anthony Waine -- History / Sarah Barber -- Ideology / Chris Grocott -- Philosophy / Garrath Williams -- Literature / Robert Cranshaw -- Poltical culture / Mark Garnett -- Part II: Society -- Introduction to Part II / Garrath Williams and Anne Sophie Krossa -- Society / Anne Sophie Krossa -- Religion / Rebecca Catto and Linda Woodhead -- Gender / Tom Grimwood -- Race and ethnicity / Aristotle Kallis -- Language / Kristian Naglo -- Law and human rights / Israel Butler -- Part III: Politics and policy -- Introduction to Part III / Gordon Clark and Anne Sophie Krossa -- Governance / Bob Jessop -- Nation and state / Bob Jessop -- Region / Gordon Clark -- Conflict / Nina Caspersen -- Migration / Nick Gill -- Social policy / Milda Beišyté

Introduction: The Great War in Russian memory -- Spirituality, the supernatural, and the memory of World War I -- The paradoxes of gender in Soviet war memory -- Violence, morality, and the conscience of the warrior -- World War I and the definition of Russianness -- Arrested history -- Disappearance and reappearance -- Legacies of the Great War

Jabra I. Jabra -- Absence and presence in the work of three Iraqi artists: Modhir Ahmed, Nedim Kufi and Hanaa Malallah / May Muzaffar -- Painters of critical moments: Ghassan Ghaib, Kareem Risan and Nazar Yahya / Farouk Yousif -- In lieu of the sublime: Himat M. Ali, Amar Dawod and Delair Shaker / Nada M. Shabout -- Reconfiguring identity in modern Iraqi art: Dia Al-Azzawi, Rafa Al-Nasiri and Ali Talib / Samar Faruqi -- The conceptual displacement of place: Ali Jabbar, Halim Al-Karim and Mahmoud Obaidi / Georges H. Rabbath -- Art as a "psychological outlet": expatriation and the work of contemporary Iraqi artists / Samar Faruqi -- Modhir Ahmed -- Himat M. Ali -- Dia Al-Azzawi -- Ahmed Al-Bahrani -- Amar Dawod -- Ghassan Ghaib -- Ali Jabbar -- Halim Al-Karim -- Nedim Kufi -- Hanaa Malallah -- Rafa Al-Nasiri -- Mahmoud Obaidi -- Kareem Risan -- Delair Shaker -- Ali Talib -- Nazar Yahya

Hurd, I.: Law and the practice of diplomacy. - S. 581-596 Pouliot, V.: Diplomats as permanent representatives : the practical logics of the multilateral pecking order. - S. 543-561 Lynch, C.: Christian ethics, actors, and diplomacy : mediating universalist pretentions. - S. 613-628 Seabrooke, L.: Economists and diplomacy : professions and the practice of economic policy. - S. 629-642 Sending, O.J.; Pouliot, V.; Neumann, I.B.: The future of diplomacy : changing practices, evolving relationships. - S. 527-542 Barkawi, T.: "Defence diplomacy" in north-south relations. - S. 597-612 Sending, O.J.: United by difference : diplomacy as a thin culture. - S. 643-659 Neumann, I.B.: Peace and reconciliation efforts as systems-maintaining diplomacy : the case of Norway. - S. 563-579

"This volume reprints Paul Forman's classic papers on the history of the scientific profession in post-World War I Germany and the invention of quantum mechanics. The Forman thesis became famous for its demonstration of the cultural conditioning of scientific knowledge, in particular by showing the historical connection between the culture of Weimar Germany--known for its irrationality and antiscientism--and the emerging concept of quantum acausality. From the moment of its publication, Forman's research provoked intense historical and philosophical debates. In 2007, participants at an international conference in Vancouver, Canada, discussed the implications of the Forman thesis for contemporary historiography. Their contributions collected in this volume represent cutting-edge research on the history of the quantum revolution and of German science"--Publisher

The post-Soviet withdrawal phase of the Afghanistan conflict (1989-1995) -- The advent of the Taliban (1995-2001) -- Post-9/11 Afghanistan -- The external powers : interests and concerns -- The challenge of religious militancy and extremism in Pakistan -- Pakistan : a case of intellectual crisis and weak governance -- Conclusions

"Modern democracies are pluralistic insofar as they accept a plurality of conceptions of the good affirmed by their citizens. At the same time they depend on a public conception of justice and sustaining practices that are compatible with the fact of pluralism. Democracy without a shared normative idea of justice degenerates into an accidental association of disengaged individuals. But how can we justify the normative core of the liberal, secular and social democracy without falling back into monistic, universalistic or even ideological claims? The problem of compatibility of democracy and pluralism is shortly sketched (I). Then a well-known and broadly accepted solution known as political liberalism is presented with respect to the work of John Rawls. For Rawls, a public conception of justice that might be supported by an overlapping consensus even in pluralistic democracies is to be 'political, and not metaphysical' (II) and also 'reasonable, but not true' (III). A discussion of this political liberalism, which is neither metaphysical nor ethical, follows. Eventually, five arguments against this 'thin' conception of liberalism are presented." (author's abstract)

Pt. I. Media constructions of 1989 and the elusiveness of the historical GDR. Visual re-productions of the Wende : the role played by television images in constituting and historicizing political events / Hilde Hoffmann -- Remembering GDR culture in postunification Germany and beyond / Stephen Brockmann -- pt. II. Challenges to the dominant discourse of the Wende. "Das waren wir nicht!" : the image of East Germans and the GDR as a narrative problem after 1989 in Klaus Schlesinger's Die Sache mit Randow / Daniel Argelès -- "Der Schrei des Marsyas" : the mythic voices of the subaltern in Reinhard Jirgl's Mutter Vater Roman / Arne De Winde and Frederik Van Dam -- An early challenge to the construction of cross-border romance in post-1989 film : Andreas Dresen's So schnell es geht nach Istanbul / Rosemary Stott -- pt. III. Textual memory. Mediating immediacy : historicizing the GDR by bringing it back to life in postmillennial works of fiction / Andrea Geier -- "Eine Armee wie jede andere auch"? : writers and filmmakers remember the Nationale Volksarmee / Andrew Plowman -- Matter out of place : trash and transition in Clemens Meyer's Als wir träumten / Gillian Pye -- pt. IV. Literary generations : competing perspectives. Autobiographical writing in three generations of a GDR family : Christa Wolf--Annette Simon--Jana Simon / Wolfgang Emmerich -- Accursed progenitors? : extending the generation-gap debate to GDR parents / Astrid Köhler -- Parallels and divergences in post-1989 memory discourse : a comparative review of the Slovak experience / Nadežda Zemaníková -- pt. V. Afterlives. Dances of death : a last literature from the GDR / Karen Leeder -- "Die Gegenwart war es nicht" : Irina Liebmann and the post-Wende uncanny / Catherine Smale -- One iota of difference : remembering GDR literature as socialist literature / Benjamin Robinson