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L'ouvrage a pour ambition de contribuer a approfondir l'etude interdisciplinaire de l'Union economique et monetaire sur le long terme et invite les lecteurs a decouvrir davantage le projet l'integration europeenne a travers la vision et l'action de l'un de ses promoteurs, Pierre Werner.

Au cours des annees 1950, de rares enfants eurent la joie de recevoir un courrier signe du Pere Noel. Victime de son succes, cette initiative discrete de receveuses des Postes a du etre portee a la connaissance de la hierarchie du ministere des PTT. Ce dernier a officiellement lance en 1962 le Service du courrier du Pere Noel avec la participation active de Francoise Dolto comme toute premiere secretaire. Ainsi, depuis plus de cinquante ans, chaque lettre adressee au Pere Noel est traitee par son secretariat, qui redige la carte reponse et la distribue avec la complicite des postiers avant la nuit de Noel. L'histoire de ce service revele deux mouvements opposes : l'un issu du terrain, elan genereux tourne vers les reves des enfants ; l'autre, porte par la hierarchie, visant a diffuser la culture commerciale et marketing. Les frictions recurrentes entre ces deux logiques revelent la transformation du rituel de la lettre au Pere Noel, au cA ur des tensions qui se nouent entre les pratiques de transmission familiale, les enjeux educatifs promus par l'ecole et la montee en puissance de medias de masse ciblant les jeunes audiences. Mais, au-dela, la mission de ce secretariat original exprime un engagement collectif pour le bonheur des enfants et incarne profondement l'identite meme de l'administration postale.

Cet ouvrage analyse la question des personnes deplacees (DPs) en Allemagne occupee apres 1945 selon 3 perspectives : la politique des Etats et des administrations internationales a l'egard des DPs, entre rapatriement et emigration ; le quotidien de ces deracines a l'echelon local ; la constitution de leurs reseaux et modes de representation.

This book increases awareness about Paul's community formation preaching which has been widely ignored in the contemporary homiletical field where the New Homiletic has exerted a strong influence. This interdisciplinary study suggests that contemporary preachers should preach shared narratives and communal norms for the creation of boundaries.

Late nineteenth-century Ireland saw the emergence of a thriving advertising industry and the Irish child played a vital role in establishing this nascent consumer state. Analysing advertisements, historical materials and literature, this book links the child-centred consumer culture of Victorian Ireland with the setting up of the independent state.

Today, we are witnessing a turn in the fashion imaginary as issues related to social, environmental and cultural sustainability come to predominate in many areas of human activity. The book explores a multitude of fashion issues that feed the contemporary fashion imaginary.

This book weaves intensely personal and evocative stories into a layered autoethnographic text about the author's experience of childhood deafness, sign language and education. It is an important contribution to the study of deaf education, disability and deaf health and well-being.

Arguing that certain song types constitute forms of collective memory, this book explores Irish theatre from the 1950s and 1960s to show that songs provide valuable insights into changes in the popular consciousness. As well as illuminating the performances and reception of the plays, it also challenges orthodox narratives of de Valera's Ireland.

This book examines German media representations of Ireland from 1946 to 2010, from the post-war period to the years of the so-called Celtic Tiger and Ireland's subsequent economic downturn. It charts both the patterns and the inconsistencies in depictions of Ireland in the weekly publications Der Spiegel and Die Zeit, as well as in German cinema.Cultural stereotypes may be employed in the furthering of a problematic cultural essentialism; however, they may also be used to play with readers' or viewers' expectations. They may be juxtaposed with newer cultural generalizations, or re-moulded to fit a transformed cultural reality. The representations of Ireland examined in this book are revealed as inherently ideological, consistently locating Ireland outside of an evolving European societal normalcy. While this is often presented as something highly positive, the book argues that it implicitly places Germany at the centre of Europe and may be viewed as a type of excluding Europeanism.

This book presents a comparative interdisciplinary socio-psycholinguistic study on plurilingual code-switching (CS) in Italy, Croatia and Scotland-UK, based on Italian in contact with four standard varieties (Spanish, English, Philipino and Croatian) and five non-standard varieties (Arbereshe, Occitan, Calabrese, Istrovenetian and Chakavski).

In the first years of the twentieth century, the tourist industry made the Mediterranean and the Balearic Islands accessible to visitors who capture them in image and word. This book examines how these images were created, developed and articulated to cronstruct a space consecrated to pleasure and leisure signified in today's Majorca and Ibiza.

The PEERS program proposes international exchanges adapted to the context of teacher training institutions wishing to take advantage of internationalization in order to link training, research, and practice. The aim of this collective book is to give an overview of the Issues, case studies and perspectives of the PEERS program.

As a corpus-based typological cognitive study of English binominal quantitative expressions based on English-Chinese comparison, the book discovers functional equivalents of Chinese numeral classifiers in English, i.e. `Quasi-Numeral Classifiers' (QNCs) and unveils the categorisation process reflected by five cases of Dimensionality-based QNCs.

The book investigates social capital in the periods of normality and crisis in SEE; it looks how different dimensions of social capital interact with migration experience and extends this focus to the role of ethnic diversity in affecting social capital. It ends by analysing how ethnic diversity affects the economic performance of individuals.

The volume focuses on discourse-pragmatic studies on evidentiality, epistemic modality, and on deontic modality. It presents studies on the functions and discourse-pragmatic variation of evidential and modal expressions, applying corpus-based methodologies and addressing cross-linguistic issues in several European languages.

This book argues that postnational and postsovereign multi-level governance regimes, including the EU, are mechanisms of global capitalism aimed at privatizing democracy. Through detailed analysis of the Basque case, it illustrates how democratization is closely linked to territory, collective empowerment and institutional political capacity.

In the wake of the Irish potato famine, E.K. Tenison and his wife, Lady Louisa, left their estate in Ireland to reside and travel in Andalusia and, later, in Castile. The adventure on which they embarked led to a husband-and-wife team of astonishing cultural production. This book documents their travels and presents their work to a new readership.

The aim of this book is to propose an original hypothesis to account for the difficulties associated with dyslexia, suggesting that this disorder is characterized by deficits affecting the subject's phonological and processing abilities. The results of four experimental protocols are discussed, providing further support for this hypothesis.