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The book discusses the issue of the correlation between social capital and political participation. The reader is given an extensive overview of the social capital term as well as the conventional and unconventional political participation terms including the historical conceptualization of the paradigm as well as its modern interpretations.

Cet ouvrage etudie la litterature mondiale a partir du binome centre/peripherie. Il propose des modeles alternatifs de la litterature mondiale. Il analyse les poetiques et les dynamiques que les centres et les peripheries introduisent dans la construction de differentes litteratures et oeuvres.

This book focuses on scientific studies on the place and importance of gastronomy in tourism. The book is a study that includes practices on sustainable gastronomy, the evaluation of local foods for tourism purposes, and the relationship between tourism-gastronomy-accommodation.

It is argued that a critical approach to health studies with an eye of social sciences, particularly benefited from the fields of economics, law, and politics, contributes to the literature on health studies. This edited book comprises seven parts which contain chapters on the field of health studies in Turkey.

Estudio de las relaciones intertextuales que vinculan la producción poética de Góngora y la literatura hispanoamericana, desde el siglo XVII al XXI, con el objetivo de analizar e interpretar los procesos de imitación, influencia, parodia, que permiten definir y describir los conceptos de «Gongorismo colonial», «Neobarroco» y otras denominaciones similares.

Der schlesische Regiolekt hatte unter deutscher Herrschaft eine Vielzahl von Germanismen aufgenommen. Dargestellt wird, inwieweit dieser Einfluss des Deutschen noch heute sichtbar ist. Das Schlesische wird nur noch von einer Minderheit der oberschlesischen Bevölkerung gesprochen, neben Polnisch. Analysiert werden auch die Präferenzen der Wahl des Kodes und wie diese soziobiographisch bedingt sind.Pod rz¿dami niemieckimi na ¿l¿sku regiolekt ¿l¿ski wch¿on¿¿ du¿¿ liczb¿ germanizmów. Przedstawione badania pokazuj¿, w jakim stopniu widoczny jest nadal wp¿yw j¿zyka niemieckiego na lekt ¿l¿ski, którym obok dominuj¿cego polskiego, dzi¿ pos¿uguje si¿ ju¿ mniejszo¿¿ mieszkäców Górnego ¿l¿ska. Przedmiotem analiz s¿ te¿ preferencje wyboru u¿ywanego kodu i jego socjobiograficzne uwarunkowania.

This study corrects wisdom that only men can be dandies. Revising dandyism to include women dandies offers new interpretations of Edith Sitwell, Nancy Cunard, and Mina Loy, whose poetry and photography feed into each other to produce queer authorial performances, redefining the synergy of dandyism and authorship in modernist literary culture.

The volume presents fifteen papers from diverse areas of Slavic linguistics, including syntax and semantics, both synchronic and diachronic.

Provocation is a peculiar, manipulating form of political influence. It involves artificial triggering of events, attitudes and human behaviours and one-sided determination of disputable issues requiring agreement. The author presents real-world examples to illuminate the various intricacies of this concept, its applications, aims, and much more.

The emergence of monotheism in the Old Testament is closely related to the theodicy question about God's power, kindness, and wisdom. Deutero-Isaiah answers in the form of a "communal theodicy" by confessing YHWH as the only God. Theodicy and monotheism shape the historical and prophetic books.

Contemporary women authors appropriate Shahrazad's figure in their fictions in terms of themes and structure. This constitutes a novel concept, postcolonial feminine writing, which draws on Helene Cixous's and Frantz Fanon's theories.

Die Schriftenreihe Innovatives Wissensmanagement stellt der Wissenschaft sowie der Wirtschaftspraxis Fachbeitrage und Fallstudien in der Schnittmenge zwischen den Disziplinen Innovations- und Wissensmanagement zur Verfugung und verbindet diese Disziplinen in anwendungsorientierter Weise.