Michael Fuchs

Theodor Fontane, Irrungen, Wirrungen

Stefan L. Brandt

"Space Oddities: Difference and Identity in the American City" approaches a space (and place) central to the American imagination-the city. In particular, this volume discusses the paradoxes of American cities and American urban life. In this way, the book critically engages with the paradoxes of the American identity, embodied by cultural practices in, and cultural representations of, urban life in the United States. (Series: American Studies in Austria, Vol. 16) [Subject: Sociology, American Studies, Cultural Studies, Urban Studies]

Difference and Identity in the American City

Space Oddities

Gedichte, Gedanken, Aphorismen in mehr als zwei Jahrzehnten, zusammengetragen aus traurigen Tagen, wundervollen Momenten, lieblichen Stunden, unendlichen Wochen. Mit der Poesie im Herzen, in Gedanken an große Dichter dieser Zeit, malt Michael Fuchs, in seinem ihn eigenem Stil, ein Bild mit Worten und.... lädt Dich ein, in seinem Kopf zu sein.

Ich lade dich ein, in meinem Kopf zu sein

Rausch

Jochen Messner

Der Star Wars-Kosmos bildet im gesamten Buch die tragende Analogie und zeigt den Entwicklungsprozess hin zu einer erfolgreichen Spitzenführungskraft des 21. Jahrhunderts. Die Autoren zeigen die Ambivalenz und Spannung unserer unberechenbaren Welt und bieten Orientierung für Krisensituationen. Kurz: Das Buch bietet eine Anleitung zur Wiederentdeckung der wesentlichen Dimensionen moderner Führungskultur. Inhalte: Bezugssysteme verstehen Dysbalancen der gewohnten Management-Welt Mentoring als Führungsinstrument Der Weg der Jedi als Führungsentwicklung Ganzheitliche Führungsentwicklung mit dem Quaternitäts-Prinzip Radikale Selbstverantwortung und transpersonale Führung

Anleitung zur persönlichen Entwicklung als Führungskraft

Die Führungskunst der Jedi

Bert Heinrichs

Tade Matthias Spranger

Thomas Heinemann

Dietmar Hübner

Jens Kipper

Kathrin Rottländer

Thomas Runkel

Verena Vermeulen

Moritz Völker-Albert

Welchen Regeln unterliegt die wissenschaftliche Praxis? Welche grundsätzlichen Fragen wirft die Forschung am Menschen auf? Unter welchen Bedingungen ist diese ethisch legitim? Wie ist die Forschung an Tieren ethisch zu bewerten? Mit diesen und anderen Fragen nimmt die Forschungsethik die Richtlinien des Forschungsprozesses unter die Lupe. Das Lehrbuch bietet eine umfassende Einführung in Grundlagen, Problemfelder und Anwendungsgebiete und stellt die methodische Herangehensweise an konkrete forschungsethische Fragestellungen vor.

Eine Einführung

Forschungsethik

Jeff Thoss

While all media are part of intermedial networks, video games are often at the nexus of that network. They not only employ cinematics, embedded books, and in-world television screens for various purposes, but, in our convergence culture, video games also play a vital role in allowing players to explore transmedia storyworlds. At the same time, video games are frequently thematized and remediated in film, television, and literature. Indeed, the central role video games assume in intermedial networks provides testament to their significance in the contemporary media environment. In this volume, an international group of contributors discuss not only intermedial phenomena in video games, but also the intermedial networks surrounding them. Intermedia Games-Games Inter Media will deepen readers' understanding of the convergence culture of the early twenty-first century and video games' role in it.

Video Games and Intermediality

Intermedia Games—Games Inter Media

Petra Eckhard

Walter W. Holbling

In Landscapes of Postmodernity, a group of young scholars link key concepts of postmodern thought to our present everyday experience in which we change our identities on a regular basis. While many of the essays look at less conventional modes of aesthetic representation - computer games, graphic novels, telenovelas, queer and animated films - others analyze more canonical works following less conventional approaches. Either way, the cultural and literary cartographies presented in this book allow America to be conceived as polymorphous or transnational, celebrating a new American self that is aware and proud of its non-Anglo-Saxon origins.

Concepts and Paradigms of Critical Theory

Landscapes of Postmodernity

Stefan Rabitsch

Contributions by Carl Abbott, Jacob Babb, Marleen S. Barr, Michael Fuchs, John Glover, Stephen Joyce, Sarah Lahm, James McAdams, Cynthia J. Miller, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Chris Pak, María Isabel Pérez Ramos, Stefan Rabitsch, J. Jesse Ramírez, A. Bowdoin Van Riper, Andrew Wasserman, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, and Robert Yeates Metropolis, Gotham City, Mega-City One, Panem’s Capitol, the Sprawl, Caprica City—American (and Americanized) urban environments have always been a part of the fantastic imagination. Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror focuses on the American city as a fantastic geography constrained neither by media nor rigid genre boundaries. Fantastic Cities builds on a mix of theoretical and methodological tools that are drawn from criticism of the fantastic, media studies, cultural studies, American studies, and urban studies. Contributors explore cultural media across many platforms such as Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy, the Arkham Asylum video games, the 1935 movie serial The Phantom Empire, Kim Stanley Robinson’s fiction, Colson Whitehead’s novel Zone One, the vampire films Only Lovers Left Alive and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Paolo Bacigalupi’s novel The Water Knife, some of Kenny Scharf’s videos, and Samuel Delany’s classic Dhalgren. Together, the contributions in Fantastic Cities demonstrate that the fantastic is able to “real-ize” that which is normally confined to the abstract, metaphorical, and/or subjective. Consequently, both utopian aspirations for and dystopian anxieties about the American city become literalized in the fantastic city.

American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror

Fantastic Cities

Michael Phillips

Klaus Rieser-Wohlfarter

ConFiguring America brings together a series of incisive essays that analyse a wide range of such figures: those who embody America's tendency to produce celebrities and iconic personalities with global reach. Drawing on theoretical insights from a variety of fields-including cultural iconography, visual culture, star studies, and history-a diverse group of international contributors sheds light on how these figures and their media representations construct America's image beyond its borders. An important addition to an expanding field, ConFiguring America will deepen readers' understanding of.

Iconic Figures, Visuality, and the American Identity

ConFiguring America

"Stick a dick in your ear, and fuck what you heard. Over." They were in a genuine emergency. And the men needed him panicking like they needed magic marker dicks drawn on their faces. "Hey! I'm still fuckin' this monkey. She's just here to take pictures." Ever since Master Gunnery Sergeant Fick came blitzing out of nowhere in ARISEN, Book Four - Maximum Violence, he has emerged as the closest thing to a consensus fan favorite character for the series. He is best known and most beloved for his ribald, profane, merciless, and generally hilarious insults, quips, and bon mots, which are so characteristic that readers have affectionately dubbed them: Fickisms. Now, in response to popular demand, and collected here for the first time, are all the very best tidbits of Fick's wit and wisdom, from all fourteen main series books. And thrown in as an extra special bonus, you can also enjoy the most priceless lines from both Predator, and Aliyev the Kazakh. All initial proceeds from the sale of this book will go to benefit the Marine Raider Foundation. Wit. Wisdom. And Magic Marker Dicks. FICKISMS ARISEN Fick Never Dies.

The Complete Wit and Wisdom of Master Gunnery Sergeant Fick

ARISEN : Fickisms

ARISEN Hope Never Dies. With over 175,000 copies sold, the world's most thrilling and best-loved military ZA series returns to the fall of man - and the war after the fall. ARISEN : NEMESIS is now an Amazon #1 bestseller in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction and #1 in Dystopian. Can be read as a standalone novel, an intro to the series, or at any point alongside the main series. Readers call the ARISEN series: "the wildest and best rollercoaster I've ever been on" ... "Pulse-pounding action at a relentless pace" ... "THE ABSOLUTE BEST FREAKING SERIES IN THIS GENRE" ... "the most unputdownable military zombie apocalypse arc ever" ... "for adrenaline junkies only" ... "A full-on express elevator to hell!!!" ... "A one-of-a-kind ZA opus. The indomitable warrior spirit shines through from start to finish" ... "the best I have ever read in apocalypse fiction of any kind" ... "Riveting. Full of horror and beauty" ... "These guys are the juggernauts of their genre" ... "the best of the best! Sweeping, epic, engaging, and thrilling" ... "keeps on delivering action, thrills & destruction at every turn" ... "Just one more page, I say, then it's 2am again" ... "Another literary heart attack" Africa Wasn't Ready. Between the fall of man and the arrival of the JFK, the Horn of Africa is a battleground. Salvation. Vengeance. Vanity. NEMESIS

Nemesis

Arisen

Wie kann Singen das Lernen unterstutzen und wie lernen Kinder und Jugendliche Singen? Wie kann Singen die Entwicklung einer sozialen Kompetenz unserer Kinder beeinflussen und wie konnen wir diese Elemente in der modernen Medizin der Kommunikationsstorungen einsetzen? Die Lernprozesse beim Singen und Musizieren, aber auch beim Erlernen grundlegender Kommunikationsfahigkeiten in den verschiedenen Altersgruppen werden von ausgewiesenen Spezialisten aus den Fachgebieten Medizin, Neurowissenschaften und Musikpadagogik dargestellt. Mit diesem ersten Band der Reihe "Kinder- und Jugendstimme" liegt somit ein allgemeinverstandliches Kompendium des aktuellen Wissenstandes uber die Zusammenhange zwischen Singen und Lernen vor, das sich an eine interdisziplinare Leserschaft richtet.

Singen und lernen

Maria-Theresia Holub

In »Call Me Ishmael«, Charles Olson exclaims »SPACE to be the central fact to man born in America«. Indeed, from the start, history and identity in America have been intricately tied to issues of space: from the idea of the »city upon a hill« to the transnational (soft) power of the United States, space has always served as an important parameter of power gained or lost and of the struggles to maintain or resist it. With contributions that range from the construction of America in (European) academic discourses to children's fiction, this collection provides an extensive and insightful study of how space influences our understanding of America.

American Culture and its Spaces

Placing America

Robert Sok

VUCA is not just another acronym. Originally coined by the American military to describe a situation fraught with a variety of challenges, it now has a permanent place in the realms of strategic leadership. Those who have made it into an enterprise management role are finding that their leadership skills are truly being tried and tested on account of the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environment we are in. Agility is now the name of the game. Developing one's leadership skills to match this requirement, and to not only surmount the challenges posed by the VUCA world but do so in a mature and authentic way, is what this book is all about. It gently submerges the reader into an impressive tank of knowledge that the authors, experts in the field of personal development, have amassed during their careers. Psychology, mythology and examples of real-life enterprises are accompanied by the excellent analogy of one of our best-known heroes, Luke Skywalker of the Star Wars films, to illustrate that there is nothing to fear, that we all have the potential to act courageously. At regular intervals throughout the book, the reader is presented with thought-provoking questions and statements, the answers to which will help them eventually resurface with a clear picture of how to use their skills and talents to motivate themselves and others to proceed wisely in the corporate landscape. Contents: An expert guide from three vastly experienced and accomplished executive coaches Learn effectively at your own pace, any time and anywhere Convincing background knowledge and examples

The Jedi Path to Agile Mastery

Leadership in a VUCA World

Wie können wir in der pädagogischen und therapeutischen Stimmarbeit wertschätzendes und wertvolles Feedback geben? Wie gehen wir mit Fehlern in der Musikpädagogik und in der Medizin um und was können wir voneinander lernen? Wie meistern wir die Herausforderungen für eine gute Kritikkultur in der Wettbewerbssituation genauso wie in der Kommunikation von Fehlern in einer dienstlichen Hierarchie, zum Beispiel in der Klinik oder Praxis? Diesen Fragen widmen sich die Autorinnen und Autoren in allgemeinverständlichen Kapiteln, die für eine interdisziplinäre Leserschaft verfasst sind. Sie zeigen Lösungswege für die Bewältigung von Auftrittsangst und den Erwerb eines Selbstkonzeptes auf. Zudem beleuchten sie Faktoren, die zu einer gelingenden Beziehung zwischen Schülern, Patienten, Eltern, Pädagogen und Therapeuten beitragen können. Nicht zuletzt gehen sie auf ein Thema ein, das für alle Berufsgruppen, die sich aus pädagogischer, diagnostischer und therapeutischer Sicht mit der Kinder- und Jugendstimme beschäftigen, wichtig ist: Wie können Achtsamkeit und Selbstfürsorge Teil der Professionalität in pädagogischen und therapeutischen Berufen werden?

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