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Creative Knowledge Cities
Edward Elgar Publishing 2012; US$ 40.00This book adopts a holistic, integrated and pragmatic approach to exploring the myths, concepts, policies, key conditions and tools for enhancing creative knowledge cities, as well as expounding potentially negative impacts of knowledge based city policies. The authors provide a critical reflection on the reality of city concepts including university-city... more...
Comedy in Comparative Literature
The Edwin Mellen Press 2010; US$ 169.95A collection of essays that explore the very dynamics of comedy, jokes laughter and theorization from early writings of antiquity to contemporary modern day fiction and fits well into the genre of comparative literature and will pose many opportunities for further scholarship. more...
"Und dann werde ich das größte Zeitungshaus Europas bauen"
Campus Verlag 2012; US$ 33.05Hauptbeschreibung "Ich wollte Zeitungen machen, die von den Menschen gelesen werden, anständige, moderne, von der gewohnten deutschen Norm etwas abweichende Zeitungen." Axel Springer In einer umfassenden Biographie, die erstmals den Unternehmer Axel Springer in den Mittelpunkt stellt, zeichnet der Wirtschaftshistoriker Tim von Arnim den beispiellosen... more...
Didaktik der Journalistik
Springer 2012; US$ 54.99Seit vielen Jahren wird dar ber diskutiert, dass die journalistische Aus- und Weiterbildung gleicherma en Theorie und Praxis braucht. In dem Herausgeberband wird vor dem Hintergrund dieser Diskussion gezeigt, mit welchen didaktischen Konzepten sowohl theoretische, methodische und praktische Kenntnisse und F higkeiten in unterschiedlichen Ausbildungseinrichtungen... more...
The August War in Georgia: Foreign Media Coverage
Diplomica Verlag 2012; US$ 49.59Hauptbeschreibung Reporting on a foreign war or a crisis is a challenging activity, a true professional test for a journalist. Media is often criticized for promoting violence by its conflict reporting: either by staying detached or by being biased. Peace, or conflict-sensitive, journalism was created for improvement of conflict coverage: it emphasizes... more...
A Pennine Childhood
The History Press 2011; US$ 13.11As a boy in the 1850s, Ernest Dewhurst's great-grandfather was dispatched by train from Bolton to Colne in Lancashire. The label pinned to his jacket read 'Anyone can have this lad who wants him'. Thinking about the harshness of his great-grandfather's childhood prompted Ernest to examine his own upbringing, and the comparative cosiness of an isolated... more...
Plots of War
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 112.00Plots of War: Modern Narratives of Conflictdiscusses the dynamics of change and transformation thatunderlie the troubled project of modernity and shows how deeply it has been shaped by war and violence. The narrative of war, theemplotment of violence in historic and mainly in symbolic terms, is deeply embedded in the construction of individual and... more...
Semiotik, Rhetorik und Soziologie des Lachens
De Gruyter 1996; US$ 147.00The Thirteenth Blaubeuren Symposium was dedicated to the discussion of the changing face of the ridiculous and the changing functions of laughter since the Middle Ages. The contributions focus on parallels and differences in English, American, German, French, Italian and Spanish literature and on their respective cultural and historical origins. more...
Kleine Literaturgeschichte der Großstadt
WBG - Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2012; US$ 13.22Hauptbeschreibung Die Großstadt hat die Schriftsteller von jeher fasziniert. Schon Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts entstanden die ersten Großstadtromane, im 19. und bis weit ins 20. Jahrhundert hinein erschienen die Klassiker des Genres. Der vorliegende Band macht in Form anregender Essays mit den wichtigsten literarischen Großstadtdarstellungen aus drei... more...









