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The anthology covers sexual fantasies as they are expressed at the convergence of the cultural and the individual. Contributions focus on written erotica, on fantasies about the Other, on how sexual fantasies may be put into ritualized practice - used to expand reality, or regulated, on fantasies as fiction, and on how they may be used in therapy.

The Festschrift in honor of Peter Damian Akpunonu's fifty years as a Catholic priest examines parallels in models of leadership across different eras and cultures.

The book is primarily shaped as an introduction to fictional worlds theory. It critically examines all the scholarly sources regarding the theory, its inspiration and application: namely logic, semantics, aesthetics, and linguistics, as well as intertextuality, transduction, and fictional and historical narration.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the shareholder wealth effects of the financial sector consolidation in the Asia-Pacific region and its impact on the acquirer's cost of debt. The capital market reactions of the institutions directly involved in the M&A and their rivals are examined to evaluate the success of the consolidation process.

This collection adopts a cognitive approach to the study of drama. Analyses range from the medieval stage to 21st century Anglophone drama and provide a cognitive reading of characterisation, interiority, performativity, decoding strategies, empathy, immersion, reader manipulation and audience control.

This book proves the importance of performance measurement criteria to reflect the goal structures of organizations. The applications of Data Envelopment Analysis models in assessing the efficiency of banks with multiple behavior models and non-conventional goal structures provide evidences.

The book demonstrates how illustrated printed books played an active role in identity-building processes in the Hungarian Kingdom. It shows in what ways Latin-language histories of Hungary influenced historical imagery of the Hungarian political community, visual representations of Hungarian patron saints, rulers, nobility and aristocracy.

The legends of Suli have played an important role in Greek national discourse. This study follows the threads of the legend formed by Greek intellectuals and the European Philhellenes. It investigates the interactions between various images of Suli and analyzes its functioning in different European cultures.

In broad historical and European contextualization, 25 experts from Continental Europe give an overview of the development of the Anglicist Women's and Gender Studies in their countries. A pioneering achievement with fundamental insights both for English Studies and various further disciplines.

Private investments into companies, projects and infrastructure based on low-carbon innovations are required to mitigate climate change. This book analyses (financial) barriers to low-carbon innovation. Examples of structures and policy mechanisms that address these barriers and consequently mobilise private finance are being highlighted.

The book contains articles about outdoor education in kindergarten, student teacher lesson analysis skills, activities that bridge the theory-practice gap, an explanation for the variation in reading proficiency in the PISA, identity of academics in the university, and user experience evaluation systems for pupils with disabilities.

The Yearbook on History and Interpretation of Phenomenology 2015 is dedicated to the question of generativity, and more broadly to the generative aspects of and in contemporary phenomenology. We continue to proceed in Husserlian research as well as to address newly emerging contemporary cultural, political, religious, and ecological phenomena.

These memoirs help to understand the collapse of the communist system and the stormy period of systemic change from a personal perspective. The author participated in these changes as an already well known Sovietologist, as well as through his own on- and off involvements in post-communist transition politics, participating in various advisory bodies.

The book shows an eruption of petty trade and entrepreneurship in post-Soviet Russia. Using the ethnographic method, the author presents how people coped with rapid social change and thus contributed to the course of systemic transformation. The context of government policies, migration flows and existence of ethnic minorities is provided.

During the Cold War, Estonia lay behind the Iron Curtain. Even in the grip of Soviet rule the country underwent many important developments took place. This volume brings together fourteen papers on the political, economic, and cultural history of Estonia during the Cold War.

This publication is a methodologically ordered study, dogmatic and at the same time fundamental in nature, intended to offer a holistic view of the Church in the light of reason and of the faith.

From Multitude to Crowds: Collective Action and the Media discusses social formations in contemporary social movements, the relevance of media and communications in social movements and how collective action changed in mediatized societies, from the perspective of Sociology, Political Science, Philosophy, Political Communication or Media Studies.

This book discusses the nature of optionality in second language grammars. For these purposes, experimental data from 213 learners of German and 150 learners of Russian across four levels of acquisition has been collected and analysed. The object of inquiry is the acquisition of various impersonal constructions, as well as argument licensing.

Motivated by the need for practical suggestions for raising proficiency assessment standards in Second Language Acquisition research, this book introduces an argument-based approach to validity as a way to improve test validation. It exemplifies the approach by validating two distinct score interpretations for a new Russian Elicited Imitation Test.

The author analyses the composition of supervisory boards and its members' financial expertise, its influence on a banks' risk and performance profile, and its contribution to bank stability. Then he focuses on the effect of ownership concentration on credit risk and the role of debtholders as a stakeholder group within an international context.

The book studies political transition from dynastic reign to elective monarchy in sixteenth-century Poland-Lithuania. The political transition is viewed in the context of the great phenomena of early modern Europe, e.g. Reformation and state formation process.

The fifth CEE Forum for Legal, Political, and Social Theory Yearbook addresses two major topics: law and state. In particular, it tackles the following issues: law and logic, emergence of the modern state, methodological approaches to legal theory, language and law, constitutional and EU law, contemporary state, and state and crisis.

This book presents a unique scale development project, with a focus on the validation of two rating scales for assessing academic speaking. It reports on a multi-method study designed to scale the level descriptors on the basis of expert judgments and performance data. The characteristics of the levels offer a specification of academic speaking.

The book investigates developments in the training participation pattern of older workers. It focuses on the relations between the rate of participation and the level of job satisfaction. It reveals an increase in training participation, particularly of workers aged 55-59, and a positive correlation between the rate of training and job satisfaction.

This book examines the construction of Euroscepticism in civil society discourse, focusing on Turkey's possible EU-membership, the ongoing political struggles between different political camps in Turkey and general Western discourse.

The book analyses the practically endless process of signification, formation of meanings, presentation and interpretation on the stage. This strict semiotic environment localizes and defines a theatre performance as a product of an intense sign interaction.

The book investigates the negotiation of governmental rationalities of car-dependent life in the face of climate change. It unravels how villagers in a small Danish village negotiate a municipal strategy aimed at conducting their transportation practices in ways that merely sustain the villagers' already maintained car-dependent life forms.

The book investigates industrial relations in Greece comparatively in the last decades, covering current and historical issues. The sociological with other institutional, political and social aspects are combined. Special reference is made to the transition to the Memorandum with the E.U. and I.M.F. and its effects on Greek industrial relations.