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Applying media and communication studies to sentencing and penal culture, Franko Aas offers a lucid and innovative account of how punishment is adjusting to a new cultural climate.

Examines the responses of German Jewish writers to the geographical and cultural displacement that is one of the lasting consequences of the Holocaust. When Paul Celan was charged with plagiarism in 1960, the ensuing public debate in West Germany threw the poet into a major personal crisis even though most German critics immediately came to his defense. This crisis coincided with a transformative moment in the history of Holocaust remembrance, its first generational reimagining in the wake of a number of highly publicized criminal trials. Words from Abroad takes its lead from this disjunction between public ritual and private crisis to chart the emergence of a new literary diaspora, examining German Jewish writers who were dislocated in the course of World War II and began rewriting their own displacement more than a decade after the war. The idea of diaspora had ceased to be a constructive element of Jewish culture in Germany during the nineteenth-century process of emancipation and assimilation, though this book argues that it becomes crucial in articulating the possibility of German Jewish identity after the Holocaust. Along with the works of Paul Celan, Words from Abroad examines selected German Jewish writers such as Peter Weiss and Nelly Sachs. The study of these authors is framed by theoretical reflections on the play of distance and proximity in German Jewish intellectuals after the Holocaust, including Theodor W. Adorno, Jean Améry, and Günther Anders. Drawing on postcolonial theory, diaspora studies, trauma theory, and psychoanalytical theory, author Katja Garloff offers an original and nuanced reading of the way in which these writers, in the wake of the Holocaust, experienced and variously created a vision of dispersion as both traumatic and productive. Words from Abroad is an important tool in investigating the works of these German Jewish writers and thinkers, but it is also a contribution to the interdisciplinary scholarship on trauma and displacement itself.

Essay from the year 2004 in the subject Business economics - Offline Marketing and Online Marketing, grade: 1,7 (A-), European Business School - International University Schloß Reichartshausen Oestrich-Winkel (Chair for eCommerce), language: English, abstract: Concerning the doability navigation in the main menus is easy at the Nissan website. It enables the user to get back to the initial page immediately by a direct link and there are several different links to service partners working together with Nissan, such as local traders. But coming to quite distant pages from the homepage the navigation menu decreases and these pages often lack the direct link to the very beginning. Another negative aspect is that there are almost the same navigation issues on the initial page as on the page for business customers. Furthermore there is no searching device. All in all, one does not have the impression to get a clear overview of how the navigation is built up. Endless frontier is not provided on this website as the possibilities of discovering things other than Nissan cars are quite limited. One does have the possibility of building one’s favourite car by choosing its colour and technical data and getting direct price information, but concerning other topics like company and financial data or press information one does not feel well informed. However, the human touch is very well achieved as there are many personalized items like “Ihr Team”, “Ihre Vorteile”, “Ihre Sicherheit”, personal brochures and tailor-made offers and the possibility to choose one’s local Nissan partner. Negative about this point is that there actually is a category for business customers but none for private ones. Additionally there is no such a mean like “my Nissan” where one could have a kind of personal account.

Since its first appearance on the small screen in 1966, the multimedia franchise Star Trek has attracted an unprecedented fan-following in the U.S. and beyond. For many viewers, it has been Star Trek's ostensible representation of a multicultural utopia that fascinated them. This book seeks to elucidate the semiotics of Star Trek's popular multiculturalism. Engaging Cultural Studies and American Studies theory, the book proceeds from a discussion of Star Trek's self-fashioning as a multicultural 'vision, ' to readings of its changing articulations of racial, ethnic, gender, and sexual difference, and concludes with case studies of two fan-communities' creative appropriations of Star Trek's promise of an egalitarian future

Economic policy interventions of a scale as effected in Eastern Germany can be expected to have a significant impact on the economy. The question whether investment subsidization as a core policy instrument is a suitable measure to initiate a self-sustaining upswing in the Eastern German economy and an improvement of living standards has been reason for dispute since the beginning of transition. Using econometric techniques, the study analyzes the effects of investment subsidies on economic structure, employment and productivity in the Eastern German industry. The study suggests that there is a need for redesigning subsidization and changing infrastructure and labor market policies.

By calling Pig fat, Snail starts a chain of insults among the other animals that eventually catches up with him and convinces him that each animal is right in liking himself just the way he is.