New Releases by Michael Meyer

''Makes the case for Annie Besant as a truly eminent Victorian, as brilliant and fearless as she was beautiful'' The Times _________ London, 1877. A petite young woman stands before an all-male jury, about to risk everything. She takes a breath, and opens her defence. Annie Besant and her confidant Charles Bradlaugh are on trial for the crime of publishing a birth control pamphlet. Remarkably, Annie is defending herself against obscenity charges 45 years before women can practice law in England. At a time when women were expected to be obedient, Annie''s fearless voice was a sensation and spotlighted issues of sex, censorship and morality. A Dirty, Filthy Book tells the gripping story of a little-known pioneer who refused to accept the role that the establishment assigned her, and chose instead to resist.

"Warum ist der Antisemitismus in Deutschland allgegenwärtig? Michael Meyer-Blanck macht deutlich, dass antijüdisches Denken auch mit zentralen theologischen Mustern im evangelischen Christentum zusammenhangt. Anderseits zeigt er, wie der Glaube an Jesus Christus, den Juden, die Gemeinschaft mit Israel erneuern und die religiöse Kultur in Deutschland positiv prägen kann." --

This book covers the two-year odyssey of us owning an RV, from the decision to purchase our RV (named Winnie by my daughters) to the day we finally sold her. Spoiler alert: I am a bad driver and made so many mistakes. The book covers our travels across this great country but mostly highlighting some of the ill-fated decisions that were made. The book also provides helpful hints to those owning (or considering owning an RV) with the hope that your travels will include not being splashed in the face with poop water.

Der Dichter Hermann Bahr schrieb 1906 in seiner Wien-Monographie, dass die Stadt "im Qualm und Dunst der Vergangenheit" ächze – eine Diagnose, die auf die damals starke Präsenz von Geschichts- und Erinnerungskultur verweist. Entsprechend bietet die vorliegende Studie ein Panorama musikbezogener Spielarten der Auseinandersetzung mit Vergangenheit in Wien um 1900. Anhand einer großen Quellenvielfalt wird die zentrale Bedeutung von Geschichtsvergewisserung für die Musikkultur der Wiener Moderne insbesondere im Zusammenhang mit dem Urbanisierungsprozess der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts untersucht. Dabei werden Musikausstellungen genauso betrachtet wie verschiedene musikalische Erzeugnisse, unter anderem Richard Strauss'' und Hugo von Hofmannsthals "Rosenkavalier".

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Dies ist die Geschichte des Landbriefträgers Christian Brand und mehr noch seiner Ehefrau Anna Katharina Krings, die beide Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts im Deutsch Belgischen Grenzgebiet in den Orten Manderfeld und Losheim das Licht der Welt erblickten. Der Ehemann konnte seinen Beruf als Spätfolge des Ersten Weltkrieges nicht mehr ausüben. Daraufhin ließ sich das Ehepaar mit ihren inzwischen vier Kindern in Losheim, Eifel nieder. Ein entsprechendes Förderprogramm der damaligen Reichsregierung für deutschstämmige Landarbeiterfamilien machte es ihnen möglich, ein Haus zu bauen und verpflichtend als Landarbeiter zu leben. Doch das Schicksal machte der Familie einen gehörigen Strich durch die Rechnung, jedenfalls sah es zunächst danach aus. Christian erlag seinem Kriegsleiden im Jahr 1928, als sich das Haus in der Rohbauphase befand. Nun musste Witwe Anna mit ihren vier unmündigen Kindern sehen, dass sie zurechtkam. Doch sie baute das Haus trotz aller Schwierigkeiten, die ihr Behörden und Banken verursachten. Heute ist es von der Bildfläche verschwunden und im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes ist Gras darüber gewachsen. Nichts erinnert mehr an das Haus Nr. 22. Neben der Familiengeschichte und der Geschichte des Hauses stellt der Autor die Landschaft und den Ort zur Zeit der Jahrhundertwende vor. Ebenso widmet er der Familie von Roesgen, die den Posthof betrieb und der Eisenbahn Jünkerath-Weywertz ein eigenes Kapitel. Erinnert wird aber auch an viele Menschen der damaligen Zeit aus dem Ort Losheim und Umgebung, mit der die Familie nachgewiesenermaßen in Kontakt stand. Zahlreiche, teils farbige Abbildungen.

PACKAGE THIS TITLE WITH OUR 2016 MLA SUPPLEMENT, Documenting Sources in MLA Style (package ISBN-13: 9781319086251). Get the most recent updates on MLA citation in a convenient, 40-page resource based on The MLA Handbook, 8th Edition, with plenty of models. Browse our catalog or contact your representative for a full listing of updated titles and packages, or to request a custom ISBN. The Bedford Introduction to Literature is a best-seller for a reason: It brings literature to life for students, helping to make them lifelong readers and better writers. Classic works drawn from many periods and cultures--by the authors you love to teach--appear alongside a strong selection of today''s notable writers. There is ample support for students, with a dozen chapters of critical reading and writing support, helpful sample close readings, writing assignments, and student papers. And, because everyone teaches and learns a little differently, there are lots of options for working with the literature, including case studies on individual works and themes that everyone can relate to. In-depth chapters on major authors like Flannery O''Connor and Robert Frost take students deeper into their work, and chapters on the fiction of Dagoberto Gilb and the poetry of Billy Collins and Julia Alvarez--created in collaboration with the authors themselves--are one more way that the anthology showcases literature as a living, changing art form. Featuring a new thematic case study on war fiction and a new cultural case study on John Patrick Shanley''s celebrated play Doubt--a proven success in the classroom--the eleventh edition helps students draw lasting connections between the literature they read and the world around them

Michael Meyer-Blanck skizziert in diesem Werk reformatorische und gegenwartige Denkbemuhungen, gefolgt von einer Phanomenbeschreibung, bei der zwischen dem Gebet als Handlung und dem Gebet als Haltung unterschieden wird. Dazu gehort ein Blick auf Kunst, Musik, Literatur, Naturerleben, Gesundheit und die Leiblichkeit des Betens. Er untersucht die Geschichte des Gebets, wobei u.a. die zunehmende Scham gegenuber dem Beten beschrieben wird. Daraufhin behandelt er das Beten in denkerischer und biblischer Verantwortung, u.a. anhand des Psalters, des Vaterunsers und der neuzeitlichen Wendung zum Subjekt; schliesslich kommen die komplexen Fragen des an Jesus Christus gerichteten Gebets und des Bittgebets zur Sprache. Zuletztbefasst er sich mit religionspadagogischen, poimenischen und liturgischen Aspekten sowie dem Gebet in digitalen Medien und dem multireligiosen Gebet.

This newest addition to the Pamphlet Architecture series, long admired for its willingness to propose architectural solutions to challenging problems addresses the issue of rising sea levels with an interrogation of the concept of floating cities, a field of inquiry gaining increasing relevance and urgency with the impending reality of climate change. The authors explore notions of buoyancy and the amphibious through a typology based on human response and adaptation, to one of the hosting pressing issues of our day.

From the highly praised author of The Last Days of Old Beijing, a brilliant portrait of China today and a memoir of coming of age in a country in transition. In 1995, at the age of twenty-three, Michael Meyer joined the Peace Corps and, after rejecting offers to go to seven other countries, was sent to a tiny town in Sichuan. Knowing nothing about China, or even how to use chopsticks, Meyer wrote Chinese words up and down his arms so he could hold conversations, and, per a Communist dean''s orders, jumped into teaching his students about the Enlightenment, the stock market, and Beatles lyrics. Soon he realized his Chinese counterparts were just as bewildered by China''s changes as he was. Thus began an impassioned immersion into Chinese life. With humor and insight, Meyer puts readers in his novice shoes, introducing a fascinating cast of characters while winding across the length and breadth of his adopted country --from a terrifying bus attack on arrival, to remote Xinjiang and Tibet, into Beijing''s backstreets and his future wife''s Manchurian family, and headlong into efforts to protect China''s vanishing heritage at places like "Sleeping Dragon," the world''s largest panda preserve. In the last book of his China trilogy, Meyer tells a story both deeply personal and universal, as he gains greater – if never complete – assurance, capturing what it feels like to learn a language, culture and history from the ground up. Both funny and relatable, The Road to Sleeping Dragon is essential reading for anyone interested in China''s history, and how daily life plays out there today.

Teaching English covers all of the major issues and current trends in language learning and teaching, such as the trends toward empiricism, constructivism, differentiation, learner- and output-orientation, intercultural learning, and the use of multimedia. This book bridges the gap between the suggestions of theoretical approaches to foreign language teaching and the practical needs of both the educators (regardless of the institutions they are teaching and the experiences they have gathered) as well as the students. It will help readers profit from the materials and reflected practices for use in their own classrooms. And lastly, the book offers optimal preparation for exams in university courses and in teacher-training seminars.

In the tradition of In Patagonia and Great Plains, Michael Meyer''s In Manchuria is a scintillating combination of memoir, contemporary reporting, and historical research, presenting a unique profile of China''s legendary northeast territory. For three years, Meyer rented a home in the rice-farming community of Wasteland, hometown to his wife''s family. Their personal saga mirrors the tremendous change most of rural China is undergoing, in the form of a privately held rice company that has built new roads, introduced organic farming, and constructed high-rise apartments into which farmers can move in exchange for their land rights. Once a commune, Wasteland is now a company town, a phenomenon happening across China that Meyer documents for the first time; indeed, not since Pearl Buck wrote The Good Earth has anyone brought rural China to life as Meyer has here. Amplifying the story of family and Wasteland, Meyer takes us on a journey across Manchuria''s past, a history that explains much about contemporary China--from the fall of the last emperor to Japanese occupation and Communist victory. Through vivid local characters, Meyer illuminates the remnants of the imperial Willow Palisade, Russian and Japanese colonial cities and railways, and the POW camp into which a young American sergeant parachuted to free survivors of the Bataan Death March. In Manchuria is a rich and original chronicle of contemporary China and its people.

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Dieses Lehrbuch verwirklicht zwei Ziele: Einerseits bietet es eine Einführung in die Vorgehensweise zur wissenschaftlichen Analyse von gesprochenen oder geschriebenen Texten. Andererseits werden insgesamt 15 Methoden und Verfahren aus der Linguistik und der Soziologie dargestellt und diskutiert. Die Darstellung erfolgt nach einer einheitlichen Gliederung und ermöglicht damit einen direkten Vergleich. Umfangreiche kommentierte Literaturverweise erleichtern den vertieften Zugang zur Thematik. Damit schafft dieses Werk den derzeit umfassendsten Überblick über sozialwissenschaftliche Methoden der Textanalyse.

In einer Zeit, in der man den umweltschädigenden Einfluß unserer technologischen Gesell schaften immer deutlicher zu spüren bekommt, muß zwangsläufig die "Lehre vom Haus halt der Natur", also die Ökologie, an Bedeutung zunehmen. Daß diese Wissenschaft sich nicht nur um die Rettung der vom Aussterben bedrohten Tiere und Pflanzen bemüht, sondern auch die in ihrer Existenzgrundlage sich selbst gefährdende Menschheit in ihre Betrachtung einbezieht, ist eine Tatsache, die bisher leider nicht in weiten Kreisen der Be völkerung bewußt gemacht wurde. Man kann wohl getrost behaupten, ökologische For schung sei neben einer ausgewogenen Politik und neben akzeptablen Konzepten der Öko nomie für den Fortbestand der Menschheit notwendig. Der Ökologe stützt sich bei seinen Untersuchungen auf nur verbal beschreibbare Beob achtungen (welche allerdings oft durch Fotos oder Zeichnungen dokumentarisch festge halten werden können) und auf (mehr oder weniger) objektive Meßdaten. Liegen nach der Untersuchung letztere vor, müssen diese in irgendeiner Weise in logischen Zusammen hang gebracht werden, sie müssen also verarbeitet werden. Bei der Auswahl von nume rischen Verfahren muß der Ökologe allerdings größtenteils auf fachfremde Literatur zu rückgreifen, d. h. Werke der mathematischen, naturwissenschaftlichen, sozialwissenschaft lichen und medizinischen Statistik sowie der praktischen Mathematik für technisch-natur wissenschaftliche Disziplinen. Entsprechend muß er sich Taschenrechnerprogramme für die Datenauswertung aus Büchern anderer Fachdisziplinen zusammensuchen. Für eine Wissenschaft, die - wie oben angedeutet - so bedeutungsvoll wurde, ist es allmählich an der Zeit, daß sie ihre eigene Literatur zu diesem Thema erhält.

The Bedford Introduction to Literature is a best-seller for a reason: It brings literature to life for students, helping to make them lifelong readers and better writers. Classic works drawn from many periods and cultures appear alongside a strong showing from today’s notable authors. There is plenty of support for students, with a dozen chapters of critical reading and writing support, helpful sample close readings, writing assignments, and student papers. And, because everyone teaches and learns a little differently, there are lots of options for working with the literature, including case studies on individual works and themes that everyone can relate to. In-depth chapters on major authors like Flannery O’Connor and Emily Dickinson take students deeper into their work, and the new tenth edition features a chapter on the fiction of Dagoberto Gilb, created in collaboration with the author himself — one more way that the anthology showcases literature as a living, changing art form.

PACKAGE THIS TITLE WITH OUR 2016 MLA SUPPLEMENT, Documenting Sources in MLA Style (package ISBN-13: 9781319084400). Get the most recent updates on MLA citation in a convenient, 40-page resource based on The MLA Handbook, 8th Edition, with plenty of models. Browse our catalog or contact your representative for a full listing of updated titles and packages, or to request a custom ISBN. Flexible enough for any poetry course, this text is designed to make your students lifelong lovers of poetry. It combines classic poetry with today’s hippest verse, mixing in lots of contemporary life, humor, and universal themes. In-depth chapters on authors such as Emily Dickinson and Billy Collins reveal the real-life contexts in which poets create. There is also plenty of support for students — with thorough chapters on the poetic elements, six sensible chapters on critical reading and writing, and many helpful sample close readings, writing assignments, and student papers.

English and American Literatures bietet kompaktes Basiswissen über: -die Analyse lyrischer, narrativer und dramatischer Texte - literaturwissenschaftliche Methoden und Theorien - die Vorbereitung auf Referate, Hausarbeiten und Prüfungen Der Band ist in englischer Sprache verfasst und auf die Gegebenheiten an Universitäten im deutschsprachigen Raum zugeschnitten. Er ist sowohl als Grundlage für Einführungskurse in die englische und amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft als auch zum Selbststudium geeignet. "Das Buch ist uneingeschränkt empfehlenswert." Der fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch

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The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature is a best-seller for a reason: it brings literature to life for students — helping to make them lifelong readers and better writers. Classic works from many periods and cultures exist alongside a diverse representation of today''s authors. Support for students includes a dozen chapters of critical reading and writing, with plenty of sample close readings, writing assignments, and student papers. And, because everyone teaches a little differently, there are lots of options for working with the literature, including in-depth chapters on major authors and case studies on individual works and themes that everyone can relate to. New to this edition are casebooks on short fiction and the natural world and a chapter created with Billy Collins. This anthology is now available with video! Learn more about VideoCentral for Literature.

''Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!'' This declamation by president Ronald Reagan when visiting Berlin in 1987 is widely cited as the clarion call that brought the Cold War to an end. The West had won, so this version of events goes, because the West had stood firm. American and Western European resoluteness had brought an evil empire to its knees. Michael Meyer, in this extraordinarily compelling account of the revolutions that roiled Eastern Europe in 1989, begs to differ. Drawing together breathtakingly vivid, on-the-ground accounts of the rise of Solidarity in Poland, the stealth opening of the Hungarian border, the Velvet Revolution in Prague, and the collapse of the infamous wall in Berlin, Meyer shows that western intransigence was only one of the many factors that provoked such world-shaking change. More important, Meyer contends, were the stands taken by individuals in the thick of the struggle, leaders such as poet and playwright Vaclav Havel in Prague; Lech Walesa; the quiet and determined reform prime minister in Budapest, Miklos Nemeth; and the man who realized his empire was already lost and decided, with courage and intelligence, to let it go in peace, Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev. Michael Meyer captures these heady days in all their rich drama and unpredictability. In doing so he provides not just a thrilling chronicle of perhaps the most important year of the 20th century but also a crucial refutation of American mythology and a misunderstanding of history that was deliberately employed to lead the United States into some of the intractable conflicts it faces today.

Journalist Michael Meyer has spent his adult life in China, first in a small village as a Peace Corps volunteer, the last decade in Beijing--where he has witnessed the extraordinary transformation the country has experienced in that time. For the past two years he has been completely immersed in the ancient city, living on one of its famed hutong in a century-old courtyard home he shares with several families, teaching English at a local elementary school--while all around him "progress" closes in as the neighborhood is methodically destroyed to make way for high-rise buildings, shopping malls, and other symbols of modern, urban life. The city, he shows, has been demolished many times before; however, he writes, "the epitaph for Beijing will read: born 1280, died 2008...what emperors, warlords, Japanese invaders, and Communist planners couldn''t eradicate, the market economy can." The Last Days of Old Beijing tells the story of this historic city from the inside out-through the eyes of those whose lives are in the balance: the Widow who takes care of Meyer; his students and fellow teachers, the first-ever description of what goes on in a Chinese public school; the local historian who rallies against the government. The tension of preservation vs. modernization--the question of what, in an ancient civilization, counts as heritage, and what happens when a billion people want to live the way Americans do--suffuse Meyer''s story.

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Politik - Thema: Internationale Organisationen, Note: 1,7, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg (Lehrstuhl für Internationale Beziehungen), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Internationale Institutionen können sich auf vielfältige Art und Weise gegenseitig beeinflussen und bestehen nicht komplett isoliert voneinander. Die Effekte ihrer Arbeit sind nicht auf den eigenen Problembereich beschränkt. Der daraus folgende Einfluss kann einen störenden oder unterstützenden Charakter von einem Regime auf ein weiteres haben, beispielsweise durch Begrenzung oder Erweiterung von Handlungsspielräumen für die Akteure der betreffenden Institutionen. Diese Arbeit versucht, das Politikfeld der internationalen Schifffahrt und im speziellen die Bekämpfung der Piraterie dahingehend zu untersuchen, welche globalen und regionalen Institutionen daran beteiligt sind, ob es wechselseitige Interaktionen zwischen ihnen gibt und wenn ja, wie diese aussehen oder welche Auswirkungen sie haben. Die Arbeit ist in folgende Abschnitte gegliedert: Zunächst wird der theoretische Analyserahmen erarbeitet, der als Grundlage für die Untersuchung möglicher Wechselwirkungen zwischen den betreffenden Institutionen dient. Zunächst wird der Ansatz institutioneller Wechselwirkungen von Gehring/Oberthür als grundlegendes Konzept für die Analyse dargelegt. Um auch auf den besonderen Aspekt der Errichtung von regionalen Regimen eingehen zu können, erfolgt dabei der Versuch einer Integration des Multi-Regime-Regulierungsansatzes von Meinke in das Modell von Gehring/Oberthür. Im zweiten Teil der Arbeit wird nach einer kurzen Darstellung der Internationalen Seeschifffahrtsorganisation IMO und des International Maritime Bureau IMB eine Analyse möglicher Wechselwirkung zwischen diesen Akteuren und regionalen Regimen bei der Bekämpfung von Piraterie vollzogen. Einer der Schwerpunkte liegt dabei auf der Region Südostasien, wo mit dem ReCAAP-Projekt ein ausgearbeitetes Regime als Untersuchungsobjekt existiert. Darüber hinaus werden Anti-Piraterie-Regime in Westafrika sowie am Golf von Aden bezüglich möglicher Wechselwirkungen mit der IMO untersucht. Danach wird die Frage behandelt, ob die Wechselwirkungen zwischen den verschiedenen Institutionen und ihre Kombination zu einer effektiven Piraterie-Bekämpfung führen, ob also beispielsweise durch arbeitsteilige Strukturen Internationale Probleme auch ohne eine übergeordnete Instanz gelöst werden können.

The Bedford Introduction to Literature is a best-seller for a reason: It brings literature to life for students — helping to make them lifelong readers and better writers. Classic works drawn from many periods and cultures exist alongside a hefty representation of today’s authors, including women, writers of color, and voices that reflect the quirkiness and humor of modern life. There is plenty of support for students, with a dozen chapters of critical reading and writing support, helpful sample close readings, writing assignments, and student papers. And, because everyone teaches and learns a little differently, there are lots of options for working with the literature, including in-depth chapters on major authors and case studies on individual works and themes that everyone can relate to.

From the introduction by Waid Water When they asked me to write the intro to this book, it didn''t seem too dangerous, so I considered it. We''re stuck out here orbiting Zebulon. I don''t know if we''ll ever get home.

Relates the experiences and ideas of the nineteenth-century abolitionist.

This manual provides an extensive resource of commentaries, interpretations, and suggestions for teaching the poems presented in the book. It includes the following: Helpful overview of each chapter in the book; Thorough introductions to every poem with ideas for teaching and initiating classroom discussion; Suggested answers for many of the connections questions in the text with ideas for additional connections to other selections; Suggested thematic units, each with several topics for discussion and writing; An up-to-date appendix of film, video, and audio resources; and A guide to teaching with the Virtualit Interactive Poetry Tutorial, available at the bookżs companion Web site.