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Sport und Medien (Medienwissen kompakt)

Sind Sportjournalisten unkritisch? Sind sie nur Fans, die es über die Absperrung geschafft haben? Warum gelingt es der Mehrzahl der Sportarten trotz aller Mühen nicht, in der Berichterstattung präsenter zu sein? Welche Macht kommt Amazon & Co. in Zukunft zu?Dies sind nur einige Fragen, die die Sportwelt beschäftigen. Der vorliegende Band widmet sich den Beziehungen von Sport und Medien, den Besonderheiten des Medieninhalts Sport und den Spannungsfeldern, die den Sportjournalismus von Anfang an begleiten und zukünftig zu großen Entscheidungen zwingen werden.

All-Age-Literatur: Die Entdeckung einer neuen Zielgruppe und ihrer Rezeptionsmodalitäten

Maria Bertling untersucht die Zielgruppe der All-Age-Leser, also Erwachsene, die Kinder- und Jugendbücher lesen. Anhand einer empirischen Untersuchung, die auf dem Konstrukt der Rezeptionsmodalitäten von Monika Suckfüll aufbaut, zeigt die Autorin, dass es eine Lesegruppe erwachsener Leser gibt, die All-Age-Literatur liest und die sich von anderen Lesegruppen abgrenzt. Außerdem stellt die Arbeit heraus, dass es einen signifikanten Zusammenhang zwischen All-Age-Literatur und einem „emotionalen Zugang“ zu Literatur gibt. Daraufhin wird die All-Age-Literatur exemplarisch mit Hilfe eines Emotionswortschatzes auf ihren Emotionsgehalt hin untersucht. Das Ergebnis: All-Age-Literatur hat eine höhere Anzahl an negativen Emotionsworten und erfüllt so alle Voraussetzungen für eine unterhaltende Lektüre.

Handbook on the Clinical Treatment of Adopted Adolescents and Young Adults

This collection bridges the voices of international scholars and adopted persons to share knowledge about clinical practice with adopted people in adolescence and early adulthood. Coming at a time when countries are beginning to focus on adoption reform, this handbook is the first to address not only the external, systemic contributions to their developmental complexities but also the underlying, internal meanings of being adopted as children become adolescents and mature into adulthood. It explains how adopted clients differ from those not adopted and emphasizes the need for clinical research on adopted people in this older age group. Exploring how clinicians can understand their client’s clinical needs, it offers specific protocols and frameworks for assessment and necessary modifications in language and treatment. With a foreword by Miriam Steele, chapters examine the legal and sociopolitical cultures, policies, and practices in which adoption is embedded, calling for broad systemic change. Embracing theoretical, conceptual, and global perspectives, this handbook is written for clinicians in all disciplines, at all tiers of practice, administration, and training, identifying the key roles they can potentially play in expanding and better focusing our understanding of the psychology of being adopted.

Zwischen Autonomie und Verbundenheit: Junge Erwachsene und ihre Eltern

Dieses Buch befasst sich mit Generationenbeziehungen im jungen Erwachsenenalter. Im Zentrum des Buches steht die emotionale Verbundenheit zwischen jungen Erwachsenen und ihren Müttern und Vätern. Anhand von Erkenntnissen aus der TREE-Studie in der Schweiz zeigt Ariane Bertogg, dass nicht nur die aktuelle Lebenslaufsituation bei der Aushandlung der Kind-Eltern-Beziehungen eine Rolle spielt, sondern dass auch die familiäre Vorgeschichte und familiäre Netzwerkstrukturen sowie der gesellschaftliche Kontext, wie etwa soziale Schicht oder Region, in dieser dynamischen Lebensphase bedeutsam sind.

Drawings From A Dying Child: Insights Into Death From A Jungian Perspective (PDF)

Does a dying child understand death? How can we help children who are dying? Originally published in 1993, this book concerns a young girl, Rachel, terminally ill with leukaemia. The book describes a series of drawings she made and shows how they reveal her inner experience, how she became fully aware that she was dying and even came to accept death. The result is a moving and informative story that will be invaluable to caregivers and families with a dying child. It provides new understanding of the experience of a dying child and suggests practical strategies for coping.

Digital Humanism: A Human-Centric Approach to Digital Technologies

This book provides an accessible and up to date overview of the foundational issues about both emerging constructive understandings of the digital era and still hidden and ignored aspects that could instead be dramatically relevant in the future, in the process of a technological humanism. The book offers relevant scientific and ethical questions bringing together professionals and researchers, from different professional and disciplinary fields, who have a shared interest in investigating operative aspects of technological, digital and cultural transitions of humans and their capacity of building human societies. The challenges are clear but there is a lack of an epistemological, anthropological, economic and social agenda that would enable a drive to such transitions towards a technological humanism. This book provides an ideal platform for professionals and scholars, not only providing tools for problem analysis, but also indicating shared directions, needs and objectives for a common goal; the creation of new scenarios instead of the creation of fears and manipulated social imaginaria.

Queens Matter in Early Modern Studies

The essays in this book traverse two centuries of queens and their afterlives—historical, mythological, and literary. They speak of the significant and subtle ways that queens leave their mark on the culture they inhabit, focusing on gender, marriage, national identity, diplomacy, and representations of queens in literature. Elizabeth I looms large in this volume, but the interrogation of queenship extends from Elizabeth's historical counterparts, such as Anne Boleyn and Catherine de Medici, to her fictional echoes in the pages of John Lyly, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, Mary Wroth, John Milton, and Margaret Cavendish. Celebrating and building on the renowned scholarship of Carole Levin, Queens Matter in Early Modern Studies exemplifies a range of innovative approaches to examining women and power in the early modern period.

Queens Matter in Early Modern Studies

The essays in this book traverse two centuries of queens and their afterlives—historical, mythological, and literary. They speak of the significant and subtle ways that queens leave their mark on the culture they inhabit, focusing on gender, marriage, national identity, diplomacy, and representations of queens in literature. Elizabeth I looms large in this volume, but the interrogation of queenship extends from Elizabeth's historical counterparts, such as Anne Boleyn and Catherine de Medici, to her fictional echoes in the pages of John Lyly, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, Mary Wroth, John Milton, and Margaret Cavendish. Celebrating and building on the renowned scholarship of Carole Levin, Queens Matter in Early Modern Studies exemplifies a range of innovative approaches to examining women and power in the early modern period.

The Case for Terence Rattigan, Playwright (Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries)

This book asserts the extraordinary quality of mid-twentieth century playwright Terence Rattigan’s dramatic art and its basis in his use of subtext, implication, and understatement. By discussing every play in chronological order, the book also articulates the trajectory of Rattigan’s darkening vision of the human potential for happiness from his earlier comedies through his final plays in which death appears as a longed for peace. New here is the exploration through close analysis of Rattigan’s style of writing dialogue and speeches, and how that style expresses Rattigan’s sense of life. Likewise, the book newly examines how Rattigan draws on sources in Greek and Roman history, literature, and myth, as well as how he invites comparison with the work of other playwrights, especially Bernard Shaw and Shakespeare. It will appeal broadly to college and university students studying dramatic literature, but also and especially to actors and directors, and the play-going, play-reading public.

The Japanese Communist Party: Permanent Opposition, but Moral Compass (Routledge Contemporary Japan Series)

This book provides an historical overview of the Japanese Communist Party from its foundation to the present. It outlines the development of the party, explores its stance on key issues and discusses how the party has set a high moral tone, avoiding compromising coalitions with other parties, being intolerant of corruption within its own ranks, and frequently and consistently opposing the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. The book also considers the internal nature of the party, which continues to have a mass membership, and which in recent years has softened its former somewhat rigid approach. The book emphasizes the importance for Japan of this moral approach as the conscience of the nation, especially as the present Abe government moves Japan to the right, even though the Japanese Communist Party has never gained power and is never likely to.

The Japanese Communist Party: Permanent Opposition, but Moral Compass (Routledge Contemporary Japan Series)

This book provides an historical overview of the Japanese Communist Party from its foundation to the present. It outlines the development of the party, explores its stance on key issues and discusses how the party has set a high moral tone, avoiding compromising coalitions with other parties, being intolerant of corruption within its own ranks, and frequently and consistently opposing the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. The book also considers the internal nature of the party, which continues to have a mass membership, and which in recent years has softened its former somewhat rigid approach. The book emphasizes the importance for Japan of this moral approach as the conscience of the nation, especially as the present Abe government moves Japan to the right, even though the Japanese Communist Party has never gained power and is never likely to.

Multimedia Communications and Video Coding

This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Symposium on Multimedia Communications and Video Coding (ISMCVC95) held October 11 - 13, 1995, at the Poly­ technic University in Brooklyn, New York. This Symposium was organized under the aus­ pices of the New York State funded Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications (CATT), in cooperation with the Communications Society and the Signal Processing Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). In preparing this book, we have summarized the topics presented in various sessions of the Symposium, including the keynote addresses, the Service Provider and Vendor Session, the Panel Discussion, as well as the twelve Technical Sessions. This summary is presented in the Introduction. 'Full papers submitted by the presenters are organized into eleven chapters, divided into three parts. Part I focuses on systems issues in multimedia communications. Part II concentrates on video coding algorithms. Part III discusses the interplay between video coding and network control for video delivery over various channels.

European Anti-Discrimination and the Politics of Citizenship: Britain and France

This book looks at transformations in citizenship politics in the EU Member States. It argues that the anti-discrimination agenda in the Treaty of Amsterdam has affected traditional patterns of national integration of ethnic minorities and migrants in Europe. Comparing France and Britain, it also looks at religious factors and Islam in Europe.

Social Prescribing Policy, Research and Practice: Transforming Systems and Communities for Improved Health and Wellbeing

This contributed volume uniquely enhances our knowledge and understanding of social prescribing internationally. It fills a gap in the literature by engaging critically with the concept of social prescribing across different countries, to contribute to more general lessons that can be used in a variety of contexts.The book discusses the strengths and weaknesses in the design, implementation, evaluation, policy, and practice of social prescribing. Each chapter has a framework structured around three key themes: the key policies underpinning social prescribing, the evaluation and research evidence base, and practice including the design and implementation of social prescribing. Country-based chapters focus on the development of social prescribing and include case studies of different social prescribing models in England, Wales, Portugal, Germany, Republic of Ireland, Canada and Singapore. Three chapters are dedicated to England given the wide-ranging contribution of this country to the development of social prescribing. Among the topics covered:An international perspective on social prescribing: introductionThe role of social prescribing in addressing health inequalitiesImplementing social prescribing schemesConclusion: The present and future of social prescribingSocial Prescribing Policy, Research and Practice: Transforming Systems and Communities for Improved Health and Wellbeing encapsulates the wide-ranging evidence on social prescribing in a single volume. The book should appeal to a broad and diverse audience including researchers interested in the evaluation and effective design and implementation of social prescribing and community health intervention more generally; researchers and commissioners of public health interventions; healthcare professionals involved in the development of health interventions in primary, secondary and tertiary care; the local health economy which includes local government departments (e.g., public health, housing, employment, social services); professionals working in the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector; policy makers; and university students (including medical students).

Crisis Management and Decision Making: Simulation Oriented Scenarios

A House in the Homeland: Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory (Worlding the Middle East)

A powerful examination of soulful journeys made to recover memory and recuperate stolen pasts in the face of unspeakable histories. Survivors of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 took refuge across the globe. Traumatized by unspeakable brutalities, the idea of returning to their homeland was unthinkable. But decades later, some children and grandchildren felt compelled to travel back, having heard stories of family wholeness in beloved homes and of cherished ancestral towns and villages once in Ottoman Armenia, today in the Republic of Turkey. Hoping to satisfy spiritual yearnings, this new generation called themselves pilgrims—and their journeys, pilgrimages. Carel Bertram joined scores of these pilgrims on over a dozen pilgrimages, and amassed accounts from hundreds more who made these journeys. In telling their stories, A House in the Homeland documents how pilgrims encountered the ancestral house, village, or town as both real and metaphorical centerpieces of family history. Bertram recounts the moving, restorative connections pilgrims made, and illuminates how the ancestral house, as a spiritual place, offers an opening to a wellspring of humanity in sites that might otherwise be defined solely by tragic loss. As an exploration of the powerful links between memory and place, house and homeland, rupture and continuity, these Armenian stories reflect the resilience of diaspora in the face of the savage reaches of trauma, separation, and exile in ways that each of us, whatever our history, can recognize.

Art as Human Practice: An Aesthetics

How is art both distinct and different from the rest of human life, while also mattering in and for it? This central yet overlooked question in contemporary philosophy of art is at the heart of Georg Bertram's new aesthetic. Drawing on the resources of diverse philosophical traditions – analytic philosophy, French philosophy, and German post-Kantian philosophy – his book offers a systematic account of art as a human practice. One that remains connected to the whole of life.

Art as Human Practice: An Aesthetics

How is art both distinct and different from the rest of human life, while also mattering in and for it? This central yet overlooked question in contemporary philosophy of art is at the heart of Georg Bertram's new aesthetic. Drawing on the resources of diverse philosophical traditions – analytic philosophy, French philosophy, and German post-Kantian philosophy – his book offers a systematic account of art as a human practice. One that remains connected to the whole of life.

Das Individuum und seine Familie: Lebensformen, Familienbeziehungen und Lebensereignisse im Erwachsenenalter (DJI - Familien-Survey #4)

Die Familie in den neuen Bundesländern: Stabilität und Wandel in der gesellschaftlichen Umbruchsituation (DJI - Familien-Survey #2)

Die Familie in Westdeutschland: Stabilität und Wandel familialer Lebensformen (DJI - Familien-Survey #1)

Ostdeutschland im Wandel: Lebensverhältnisse — politische Einstellungen (Transformationsprozesse: Schriftenreihe der Kommission für die Erforschung des sozialen und politischen Wandels in den neuen Bundesländern (KSPW) #7)

Die Ergebnisse der vorstehenden Untersuchung lassen sich in den folgenden drei Punkten zusammenfassen: 1. Es ist ein erheblicher Wechsel zwischen der (rückerinnerten) Wahl vom De­ zember 1990 und der Wahlabsicht Anfang 1993 festzustellen. Rund 40% aller Befragten sind entweder zu einer anderen Partei gewechselt, oder sie haben sich von einer Partei in die Kategorie "Nichtwähler" , "Weiß nicht" oder "Kei­ ne Antwort" begeben. Besonders stark davon betroffen sind die Parteien der Bonner Regierungskoalition, die nur eine Minderheit ihrer Wähler von 1990 bis zum Jahresbeginn 1993 bei der Stange halten konnten. Allerdings ist nur eine Minderheit der CDU-Abwanderer zu anderen Parteien gewechselt, die große Mehrheit hat sich zunächst in die gewissermaßen parteipolitisch neutra­ le Kategorie der Unentschiedenen, der Nichtwähler und der Antwortverweigerer bewegt. Es handelt sich vermutlich, zumindest gemessen arn Stand von 1993, um keine endgültigen Umorientierungen, sondern um Distanzierungen von der ursprünglich gewählten Partei. 2. Ähnlich wie die Parteiidentifikationen weisen die Parteiwählerschaften auch in den neuen Bundesländern eine gewisse sozialstrukturelle Profilierung auf, die jedoch noch deutlich diffuser als in Westdeutschland ist. Dies bedeutet mit anderen Worten, daß die Wahlabsichten in Ostdeutschland sozialstrukturell weniger stark verankert sind als im Westen. Daraus läßt sich folgern, daß das Wahlverhalten in den neuen Bundesländern auch mittelfristig stärkere Aus­ schläge zeigen dürfte als im Westen. Überraschungen lassen sich aufgrund dieser hohen Volatilität ebenso wenig ausschließen wie Erdrutschwahlen in die eine oder andere Richtung. 3.

Soziologie und Soziologen im Übergang: Beiträge zur Transformation der außeruniversitären soziologischen Forschung in Ostdeutschland (Transformationsprozesse: Schriftenreihe der Kommission für die Erforschung des sozialen und politischen Wandels in den neuen Bundesländern (KSPW) #23)

Familien-Atlas: Karten und Zahlen

KINDER, EHE UND FAMILIE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Ledige 1987 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Ledige (35 bis 39 Jahre) 1987 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Verheiratete 1987 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Verheiratete (30 bis 34 Jahre) 1987 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Geburten 1986 bzw. 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Geburten -junge Mütter 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Geburten -ältere Mütter 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Kinder unter 6 Jahren 1987 bzw. 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Kinder unter 1 0 Jahren 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Ausländische Kinder unter 10 Jahren 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Eheschließungen 1986 bzw. 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Single-Haushalte 1987 bzw. 1981 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Weibliche Single-Haushalte 1987 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Haushalte mit vier und mehr Personen 1987 bzw. 1981 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Haushalte mit ausländischem Haushaltsvorstand 1987 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Ausländische Haushalte mit vier und mehr Personen 1987 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Ehescheidungen 1986 bzw. 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Geschiedene 1987 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Geschiedene (30 bis 34 Jahre) 1987 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 ~ BEVÖLKERUNG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Altersaufbau der Bevölkerung 1950 -1987 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Altersaufbau der Bevölkerung in den Bundesländern 1987 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Mobilität in der Altersgruppe 18 bis 24 Jahre 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Mobilität in der Altersgruppe 30 bis 49 Jahre 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Ausländer/Ausländerinnen 1987 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Veränderung

Sozialer und demographischer Wandel in den neuen Bundesländern (Transformationsprozesse: Schriftenreihe der Kommission für die Erforschung des sozialen und politischen Wandels in den neuen Bundesländern (KSPW) #6)