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Book Imagology

Download or read book Imagology written by Manfred Beller and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do national stereotypes emerge? To which extent are they determined by historical or ideological circumstances, or else by cultural, literary or discursive conventions? This first inclusive critical compendium on national characterizations and national (cultural or ethnic) stereotypes contains 120 articles by 73 contributors. Its three parts offer [1] a number of in-depth survey articles on ethnic and national images in European literatures and cultures over many centuries; [2] an encyclopedic survey of the stereotypes and characterizations traditionally ascribed to various ethnicities and nationalities; and [3] a conspectus of relevant concepts in various cultural fields and scholarly disciplines. The volume as a whole, as well as each of the articles, has extensive bibliographies for further critical reading. Imagologyis intended both for students and for senior scholars, facilitating not only a first acquaintance with the historical development, typology and poetics of national stereotypes, but also a deepening of our understanding and analytical perspective by interdisciplinary and comparative contextualization and extensive cross-referencing.

Book Handboek Dementie

    Book Details:
  • Author : College Hill Road Jonker
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2009-11-25
  • ISBN : 903136228X
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book Handboek Dementie written by College Hill Road Jonker and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-11-25 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sinds het verschijnen van de Richtlijn diagnostiek en farmacologische behandeling van dementie in 2005 zijn er veel ontwikkelingen gaande op het gebied van onderzoek, diagnostiek en behandeling van dementie. Het accent is meer komen te liggen op een benadering vanuit de pathologie en minder op de syndroomdiagnose.Oordelen over zogenoemde anti-alzheimermiddelen worden voortaan wetenschappelijk onderbouwd, er worden steeds meer niet-farmacologische interventies ontwikkeld en er is meer aandacht voor de behandeling en zorg van patienten.Deze en andere ontwikkelingen hebben geleid tot dit Handboek dementie. Het is een compleet boek, dat uitgebreid aandacht besteedt aan het interdisciplinaire karakter van de zorg rondom dementie. Dit handboek bestaat uit vier delen: algemene aspecten, diagnostiek, behandeling en beleid en ziektebeelden. Mede door deze overzichtelijke indeling komen alle onderwerpen goed tot hun recht en worden ze in het juiste perspectief geplaatst. Daarnaast is alle informatie zodanig gepresenteerd, dat de informatie goed bruikbaar in de praktijk is.Handboek dementie is een aanrader voor alle professionals die in hun dagelijks werk met dementie in aanraking komen: huisartsen, medisch specialisten, klinisch geriaters, internisten-ouderengeneeskunde, ouderenpsychiaters en specialisten ouderengeneeskunde, klinisch (neuro)psychologen, (psycho)gerontologen en verpleegkundigen.Daarnaast is het boek uitermate geschikt voor studenten geneeskunde en psychologie, alsmede voor studenten van een van bovengenoemde specialismen."

Book Silver Empowerment

Download or read book Silver Empowerment written by Jasper De Witte and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silver empowerment is a valuable paradigm to improve care and support systems for older persons. It aims to counteract the dominant image of ageing, which is all too often one of decline, dependency and vulnerability, and rather sees ageing and the ageing population as a challenge that opens up new opportunities. By focusing on the strengths and connections of older persons, silver empowerment strives for an inclusive, age-friendly society that will allow everyone to grow old with dignity and meaning. In this book, leading academics from a variety of disciplines discuss ways to enhance the empowerment of older persons in practice. Covering a wide range of topics such as resilience, loneliness, community-based care, the interplay between formal and informal care, the inclusion of older persons’ perspectives in research and care, and empowering policy, Silver Empowerment is of interest to academics, policy makers and practitioners interested in empowerment and care and support systems for older persons.

Book Euclides

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1926
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 778 pages

Download or read book Euclides written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Not White Enough  Not Black Enough

Download or read book Not White Enough Not Black Enough written by Mohamed Adhikari and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-17 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of Colouredness—being neither white nor black—has been pivotal to the brand of racial thinking particular to South African society. The nature of Coloured identity and its heritage of oppression has always been a matter of intense political and ideological contestation. Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community is the first systematic study of Coloured identity, its history, and its relevance to South African national life. Mohamed Adhikari engages with the debates and controversies thrown up by the identity’s troubled existence and challenges much of the conventional wisdom associated with it. A combination of wide-ranging thematic analyses and detailed case studies illustrates how Colouredness functioned as a social identity from the time of its emergence in the late nineteenth century through its adaptation to the postapartheid environment. Adhikari demonstrates how the interplay of marginality, racial hierarchy, assimilationist aspirations, negative racial stereotyping, class divisions, and ideological conflicts helped mold people’s sense of Colouredness over the past century. Knowledge of this history, and of the social and political dynamic that informed the articulation of a separate Coloured identity, is vital to an understanding of present-day complexities in South Africa.

Book Focus Mutual Information for Medical Image Alignment in Dentistry  Orthodontics and Craniofacial Surgery

Download or read book Focus Mutual Information for Medical Image Alignment in Dentistry Orthodontics and Craniofacial Surgery written by Wolfgang Jacquet and published by ASP / VUBPRESS / UPA. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical imaging is the cornerstone for diagnosis, treatment planning, and follow-up for many medical conditions, and this reference on dental and facial procedures describes a clever digital combination of two successive images that may provide much more information than the naked eye can obtain from both images separately. Using mutual information (MI) alignment/registration criteria, the discussion covers a wide variety of clinical applications for which this technology is helpful.

Book Wanneer wordt vreemd  vreemd

Download or read book Wanneer wordt vreemd vreemd written by Christiane Timmerman and published by ACCO. This book was released on 2004 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dit boek is een weerslag van het congres 'Wanneer wordt vreemd, vreemd?' dat in Antwerpen plaatsvond op 6 februari 2004 en werd georganiseerd door het Antwerps Centrum voor Migrantenstudies van de UA. Door de internationalisering maakt een vreemde bevolking in toenemende mate deel uit van de Belgische samenleving. Deze vreemde bevolking moet echter meetellen in de maatschappij. Maar wie beschouwen we als vreemd en hoeveel generaties blijft dit etiket gelden? Deze onduidelijkheid heeft zijn weerslag op de mogelijkheden en kwaliteit van onderzoek, beleid en registratie, en daardoor ook op de samenleving in haar geheel. Dit boek bevat bijdragen waarin de consequenties van deze vragen worden onderzocht voor specifieke deeldomeinen als onderwijs, arbeid, welzijn, gezondheid, politiek, geschiedenis, media, religie, recht en huisvesting.

Book Yumtzilob

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 528 pages

Download or read book Yumtzilob written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kwartaal-uitgave over de Americas" (varies).

Book Gender  Identity and the Culture of Organizations

Download or read book Gender Identity and the Culture of Organizations written by Iiris Aaltio and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender, Identity and the Culture of Organizations considers how organizations operate as spaces in which minds are gendered and men and women constructed. This edited collection brings together four powerful themes that have developed within the field of organizational analysis over the past two decades: organizational culture; the gendering of organizations; post-modernism and organizational analysis; and critical approaches to management. A range of essays by distinguished writers from countries including the UK, USA, Canada, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands and Sweden, explore innovative methods for the critical theorizing of organizational cultures. In particular, the book reflects the growing interest in the impact of organizational identity formation and its implications for individuals and organizational outcomes in terms of gender. The book also introduces research designs, methods and methodologies by which can be used to explore the complex interrelationships between gender, identity and the culture of organizations.

Book Beyond Being Koelies and Kantr  ki

Download or read book Beyond Being Koelies and Kantr ki written by Margriet Fokken and published by Uitgeverij Verloren. This book was released on 2018 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the self-positioning of Hindostani people in the face of British and Dutch colonial practices. Originally from India and shipped to the Dutch colony of Suriname after the abolition of slavery, the Hindostani served as contract labourers to keep the plantation system afloat from 1873. Central to the book is the perspective of the Hindostani themselves. We travel alongside the Hindostani from the moment they were recruited and their movement through the depots awaiting shipment, their travel experiences, their arrival in Suriname, relocation to plantations, and their dispersal following the end of their contracts, either as city workers, or farmers. All along, the book poses the question of identification: how did Hindostani make sense of themselves, their fellow Hindostani, and Surinamese society? Stereotyped images make way for insight in lived experience of lower and higher caste, Hindus and Muslims, men and women.

Book America s True Mother Country

Download or read book America s True Mother Country written by G.H. Joost Baarssen and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2014 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis analyzes American images of the Dutch since the second half of the 19th century. Works by John Lothrop Motley (1814-1877), Douglas Campbell (1840-1893), and William Elliot Griffis (1843-1928) are explored to assess the transformation in American thinking about the Dutch of the Netherlands and Dutch-Americans. These writers celebrate the Dutch as proto-Americans, while using the characteristically American typological approach to history to make sense of themselves and their country. Thesis. (Series: MasteRResearch - Vol. 5)

Book The Oxford Handbook of European Islam

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of European Islam written by Jocelyne Cesari and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 897 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, Muslim countries and Europe have engaged one another through theological dialogues, diplomatic missions, political rivalries, and power struggles. In the last thirty years, due in large part to globalization and migration from Islamic countries to the West, what was previously an engagement across national and cultural boundaries has increasingly become an internalized encounter within Europe itself. Questions of the Hijab in schools, freedom of expression in the wake of the Danish Cartoon crisis, and the role of Shari'a have come to the forefront of contemporary European discourse. The Oxford Handbook of European Islam is the first collection to present a comprehensive approach to the multiple and changing ways Islam has been studied across European countries. Parts one to three address the state of knowledge of Islam and Muslims within a selection of European countries, while presenting a critical view of the most up-to-date data specific to each country. These chapters analyze the immigration cycles and policies related to the presence of Muslims, tackling issues such as discrimination, post-colonial identity, adaptation, and assimilation. The thematic chapters, in parts four and five, examine secularism, radicalization, Shari'a, Hijab, and Islamophobia with the goal of synthesizing different national discussion into a more comparative theoretical framework. The Handbook attempts to balance cutting edge assessment with the knowledge that the content itself will eventually be superseded by events. Featuring eighteen newly-commissioned essays by noted scholars in the field, this volume will provide an excellent resource for students and scholars interested in European Studies, immigration, Islamic studies, and the sociology of religion.

Book The Position of the Turkish and Moroccan Second Generation in Amsterdam and Rotterdam

Download or read book The Position of the Turkish and Moroccan Second Generation in Amsterdam and Rotterdam written by Maurice Crul and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation. The Dutch second generation of Turkish and Moroccan origin is coming of age and making a transition from education to the labour market. This first publication of the TIES Project (Towards the Integration of the European Second Generation) studies the social situation and views of this ethnic group, drawing on the research carried out in Amsterdam and Rotterdam in 2006-07 among the Dutch-born children of immigrants from Turkey and Morocco and a comparison group of young people (age 18-35) whose parents were born in the Netherlands. This title can be previewed in Google Books - http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN9789089640611. This title is available in the OAPEN Library - http://www.oapen.org.

Book A Living Landscape

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stijn Arnoldussen
  • Publisher : Sidestone Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9088900108
  • Pages : 538 pages

Download or read book A Living Landscape written by Stijn Arnoldussen and published by Sidestone Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, half the Netherlands is below sea level. Because of this, water-management is of key importance when it comes to maintaining present-day habitation of the Dutch low-lands. In prehistory, however, large parts of the Dutch landscape were highly dynamic due to ongoing fluvial sedimentation. Vast deltaic areas with ceaseless river activity formed the backdrop against which prehistoric occupation took place. Although such landscapes may seem inhospitable, the often excellently preserved archaeological evidence indicates that people lived in these lowlands throughout prehistory. This book describes why Bronze Age farmers were keen to settle here and how these prehistoric communities structured the landscape around their house-sites at various scales. Using a vast body of evidence from several large-scale excavations in the Dutch river area, the author reconstructs the changes in the cultural landscape over time. Starting from the Middle Neolithic, changing preferences for settlement site locations and changes in domestic architecture are traced in detail to the Iron Age. However, for proper understanding of the cultural landscape, not only settlements but also graves and patterns of object deposition - and their landscape characteristics - are discussed. By using evidence from over 50 major excavations, yielding over 300 house plans, this book contains by far the richest data-set on Dutch Bronze Age settlements. Most of these results have not previously been published in English, making this book of over 500 pages a true academic treasure for an international audience. The in-depth presentation of Bronze Age settlement sites, as well as the critical discussion of models and premises current in later prehistoric settlement archaeology, have an important relevance stretching beyond the Dutch lowland areas on which it is based. The wealth of high-quality Dutch data is presented as a synthesized (yet well-annotated) narrative, that rises above mere site interpretation, even more so due to its landscape-scale focus. Therefore this book is a must-have for those interested in later prehistoric cultural landscapes and settlement archaeology.

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  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 9004610278
  • Pages : 764 pages

Download or read book written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Use and Abuse of Memory

Download or read book The Use and Abuse of Memory written by Christian Karner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades after the previously unimaginable horrors of the Nazi extermination camps and the dropping of nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, their memories remain part of our lives. In academic and human terms, preserving awareness of this past is an ethical imperative. This volume concerns narratives about—and allusions to—World War II across contemporary Europe, and explains why contemporary Europeans continue to be drawn to it as a template of comparison, interpretation, even prediction. This volume adds a distinctly interdisciplinary approach to the trajectories of recent academic inquiries. Historians, sociologists, anthropologists, linguists, political scientists, and area study specialists contribute wide-ranging theoretical paradigms, disciplinary frameworks, and methodological approaches. The volume focuses on how, where, and to what effect World War II has been remembered. The editors discuss how World War II in particular continues to be a point of reference across the political spectrum and not only in Europe. It will be of interest for those interested in popular culture, World War II history, and national identity studies.