These Ghostly Archives: The Unearthing of Sylvia Plath offers a ground-breaking look at Plath studies. Focusing on previously unpublished material found in archives from around the world, These Ghostly Archives aims to reconstruct the ghostly figure of Plath within our culture via unseen letters, manuscripts, photographs, places and poems. This book approaches archival studies exploring both the practical and experiential work carried out in the archive, highlight...

By putting students in direct touch with the inner workings of the political system, The Real World of American Politics provides them with direct, concrete access to the nuts-and-bolts—the real world—of American government. In all the standard areas of American political practice, working documents provide serious insight into the stakes, values, and processes that drive and inform the political system. For example, looking carefully at the text of an actual bill deeply enhances ...

This collection presents twenty-seven new essays in Japanese aesthetics by leading experts in the field. Beginning with an extended foreword by the renowned scholar and artist Stephen Addiss and a comprehensive introduction that surveys the history of Japanese aesthetics and the ways in which it is similar to and different from Western aesthetics, this groundbreaking work brings together a large variety of disciplinary perspectives—including philosophy, literature, and cultural politics—to...

Die Geschichte vor, während und nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg war auch in der neutralen Schweiz geprägt durch die Wirtschaftskrise, durch Militärdienst und Lebensmittelrationierungen, durch technische Entwicklungen und durch die Aufbruchstimmung nach dem Krieg. Für diejenigen, die sie erlebt haben, fand diese Geschichte in kalten, verdunkelten Wohnzimmern statt, im engen Luftschutzkeller, beim Radiohören mit der Familie, mit dem ersten Chewing Gum und mit dem ersten, einzigen Auto im Quartier...

Band 1 widmet sich den "Grundlagen des Strafrechts" aus rechtsphilosophischer, rechtssoziologischer und geistesgeschichtlicher Sicht. Auch verfassungsrechtliche Vorgaben, Fragen der juristischen Methodenlehre und neue dogmatische Herausforderungen werden eingehend diskutiert. Zur Klärung der empirischen Grundlagen sind Kriminologie und Kriminalstatistik prominent vertreten. Den bestehenden Entwicklungen des deutschen Strafrechts wird ebenso Rechnung getragen wie neueren Diskussionsfeldern,...

This book examines the rise and the fall of the Russian Empire through the lens of its military history. While much of the literature on this history tends to focus on epochs, The Russian Military and the Creation of Empire uses a variety of archival sources to capture this aspect of modern Russia from Peter the Great right up to the present day.John W. Steinberg analyzes the social dynamic between Russian society and its military over time. Through a focus on civil-milita...

Arguing against emergent and even dominant tendencies of recent political thought that emphasize the so-called primacy of affect, Peter Steinberger challenges political theorists to take account of important themes in philosophy on the topic of human rationality. He engages with major proponents of post-Kantian thought, analytic and continental alike, to show how political judgment and political action, properly understood, are deeply and definitively grounded in considerations of human re...

This revised and updated second edition of Paulo Freire: The Man from Recife recounts the life, thought, and experiences of a remarkable man who has left an indelible mark on the social sciences, education, and theology. As one who was born in the northeastern part of Brazil in a city called Recife, Freire experienced the sting of poverty and the pangs hunger within an unjust social and economic system, yet he emerged as a courageous, prophetic voice of conscience. With a new Fore...

At the root of our understanding of territory is the concept of terra—land—a surface of fixed points with stable features that can be calculated, categorised, and controlled. But what of the many spaces on Earth that defy this simplistic characterisation: Oceans in which ‘places’ are continuously re-formed? Air that can never be fully contained? Watercourses that obtain their value by transcending boundaries?This book examines the politics of these spaces to shed light on the chall...

Literacies of Power illustrates the many ways American schools, media, and other social institutions perpetuate ignorance. In this new, expanded edition, Donaldo Macedo shows why so-called common culture literacy is a form of dominant cultural reproduction that undermines independent thought and goes against the best interests of our students. Offering a wide-ranging counterargument, Macedo shows why cultural literacy cannot be restricted to the acquisition of Western heritage values, whic...

Analyzing Intelligence, now in a revised and extensively updated second edition, assesses the state of the profession of intelligence analysis from the practitioner's point of view. The contributors—most of whom have held senior positions in the US intelligence community—review the evolution of the field, the rise of new challenges, pitfalls in analysis, and the lessons from new training and techniques designed to deal with 21st century national security problems. This second edition updat...

In der Anthologie finden sich Geschichten und Gedichte, die die Schüler des Wahlkurses Kreatives Schreiben am Gymnasium Marquartstein 2023 verfasst haben. Auch drei Lehrkräfte haben sich an dem Sammelband beteiligt. Es ist Realistisches, Surreales, Humoristisches und Fantasy enthalten.