At the beginning of the 21st century, there are an increasing number of states in which elections do not meet the standards of liberal democracy due to electoral malpractices. The analysis of the malpractices at all stages of the electoral cycle and their impact on the political regime is the primary objective of this book. The research focuses on Turkey. However, the authors move one step further and try to present the Turkish case from a comparative perspective. They analyse selected countries in Central Europe, the Balkans and Latin America. They investigate an interesting process of mutual reinforcement of increasingly serious electoral malpractices and change in/of the political regime. It leads to the development of 'borderline regimes' balancing between two types of political regimes.
Автор: Stepien, Tomasz Название: Heuristics of technosciences ISBN: 3631656971 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783631656976 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 92290.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Confronted with the accelerated development of science and technology the presented analyses are focusing on three predominant theoretical approaches in the philosophy of science and technology: technoscience (STS), technology assessment (TA) and converging technologies (NBIC). On this base are extrapolated the coordinates of the heuristics of technosciences which are recognized as the platform of understanding but also dealing with technoscientific innovations. This concerns especially nanotechnology and the emerging theoretical, methodological, ethical, socio-political controversies and dilemmas. In this manner the book epitomizes the elaborated to date approaches and designs the heuristic turn as the strategy of comprehensive understanding of technosciences.
Автор: Stepien, Aneta Название: Shame, masculinity and desire of belonging ISBN: 3034322534 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783034322539 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 112670.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
This study considers male shame in contemporary writing by men, examining why shame is often considered a female emotion and therefore denied in men. The author’s comparative approach to the private experience of shame in novels by Hanif Kureishi, Philip Roth and Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki demonstrates the extent to which shame conditions male behaviour, protecting the powerful hierarchies existing between different kinds of masculinities. Using different conceptual analyses, the author exposes the damaging nature of the culturally sanctioned demand that men be «real men», which is often simply a call for violence. The book also examines shame more broadly as a means of social control, whether of women in patriarchal cultures or of people of different ethnic, sexual and class identities. Treating shame as both an individual and a social emotion, the author draws on perspectives from scholarship on shame in postcolonial, gender and feminist studies.
Автор: Stepien, Tomasz Kompara, Mojca Название: Spatialisation of higher education: poland and slovenia ISBN: 3631712979 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783631712979 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 52900.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
The book focuses on European Integration in the Field of Higher Education and Research, as well as the Implementation of the Bologna Process in Slovenia. The common policy of higher education and research belongs to the most important fields in the process of European integration and to the constitutive elements of the European Union. The authors analyse the process constituting the framework of higher education and research policy in Poland and Slovenia. The book analyses the political process of transformation within these two member states of the EU and exemplifies their plurality and specificity which are integrated in the genuine European idea of education, science and the research community.
Автор: Binczyk, Ewa Stepien, Tomasz Название: Modeling technoscience and nanotechnology assessment ISBN: 3631647352 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783631647356 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 59710.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book is presented by two authors who worked in close cooperation. The first part is written by Ewa Bi?czyk and discusses various postulates that have been formulated in response to the problem of the unwanted side-effects of the practical success of technoscience which derive from two theoretical perspectives: the study of risk and science and technology studies (STS), inspired by actor-network theory (ANT). In the second part of the book Tomasz St?pie? analyses and characterizes the nano-domain as an example of the development of techno-sciences. Generally, in the case of nanotechnology this book calibrates reciprocally to each other the indeed familiar but also slightly different theoretical approaches established in the philosophy of science and technology.
Автор: Tworek Wojciech Название: Eternity Now: Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady and Temporality ISBN: 1438475543 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781438475547 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 50890.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The Habad movement, formed in eighteenth-century Belarus, has developed into one of the most influential streams of Hasidic Judaism. Drawing on both mystical sermons and legal writings of its founder, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady (1745-1812), Eternity Now provides the first account of the historiosophical dimensions of early Habad doctrine. Challenging the commonly held view that Shneur Zalman was primarily concerned with supratemporal transcendence, Wojciech Tworek reveals the importance of time and history in his teachings. Tworek argues that the worldly dimensions of Shneur Zalman's thought were largely responsible for the rapid growth of Habad at the turn of the nineteenth century and fostered its transformation from an elitist circle into a mass movement. Tworek's readings of Hebrew and Yiddish sources demonstrate the implications of these ideas not only for male scholars but also for non-scholars, Jewish women, and even non-Jews. Philosophical and kabbalistic thought joined together to form a model of religious experience attractive to a broad audience, laying an ideological foundation for the missionary messianism that was to become a hallmark of Habad in the twentieth century.
Автор: Usarzewicz Wojciech Название: Calm Forest: Native American Flute Songbook ISBN: 8364699148 ISBN-13(EAN): 9788364699146 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 12760.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
"Calm Forest" is a songbook for beginners and intermediate players who wish to learn how to play Native American flute. The book starts with introduction that covers breathing and playing techniques. Then, it explains basic decorations such as grace notes or thrills and describes the pentatonic scale of Native flutes.
In addition, "Calm Forest" contains 20 original songs in tablature notation. Simple graphical instructions explain which holes must be covered on a flute to play the songs in proper order, there's no need to read music notation at all.
Each song is linked so you can listen to real recordings for free as well, which can further help you with learning the art of Native American flute.
Автор: Wojciech Wachowski Название: Towards a Better Understanding of Metonymy ISBN: 1788743458 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788743457 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 71900.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
The general aim of this book is to contribute to a better understanding of metonymy, a phenomenon which still, despite the current upsurge in scholarly attention, remains puzzling in some respects. The theoretical framework of this book is provided by the school of thought commonly known as Cognitive Linguistics. The first part of the book analyses and develops various hypotheses concerning the nature of metonymy advanced in the literature to date. It presents numerous arguments in favour of the conceptual rather than purely linguistic basis of metonymy and shows that metonymy is a ubiquitous phenomenon not only in language but above all in thought. The second part contains a thorough analysis of the constraints to the scope of metonymy and discusses the differences between metonymy and other forms of so-called figurative language. The third part is devoted to the role and importance of metonymy in communication and focuses on the creative functions of metonymy, which have received surprisingly little scholarly attention to date, such as euphemism, vague language, and humour. The fourth part of this book is centred on some problematic issues concerning the distinction between metonymy, metaphor, and synecdoche.
Автор: Wojciech Ligeza Название: World under Revision: The Poetry of Wislawa Szymborska ISBN: 3631676042 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783631676042 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 60410.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the entirety of Wis?awa Szymborska’s poetic oeuvre. The author employs in-depth historical reflection on Szymborska’s beginnings to reveal that – without describing her post-war beginnings and reflecting on her early entanglement in socialist realist newspeak – Szymborska’s mature anti-dogmatic attitude will remain unclear. The book shows how Szymborska’s rhetoric and stylistics – figures of reservation, negation, contradiction, tautology, and repetition – are closely connected with the construction of the poetic world and affect the shape of her messages. After all, Wis?awa Szymborska is a poet of sophisticated wit, a surprising freedom of expression, and an unusual game with various literary styles, even with colloquial Polish.
Автор: Marta Soniewicka, Wojciech Lewandowski Название: Human Genetic Selection and Enhancement: Parental Perspectives and Law ISBN: 363174451X ISBN-13(EAN): 9783631744512 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 60410.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Among all human practices, procreation seems the most paradoxical. It starts as a fully personal choice and ends with the creation of a new subject of rights and responsibilities. Advances in reproductive genetics pose new ethical and legal questions. They are expected to prevent the transmission of genetic diseases to progeny and also to improve genetically-endowed mental and physical attributes. Genetic selection and enhancement may affect a child’s identity, as well as the parent-child relationship. The authors are committed to a pluralistic approach that captures all aspects of this relationship in terms of moral virtues and principles. They elucidate that most of the conflicts between parental preferences and a child’s rights could be resolved with reference to the meaning and nature of procreation.
