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The studies collected in this book fall into four chief thematic areas of research on Fryderyk Chopin's life, stylistic changes, creative output, and musical reception. It deals with the composer's artistic formation, the problem of his musical language, his musical aesthetics and the composer's reception.

This book seeks to foster the successful incorporation of digital competence in Bologna-adapted language degrees. It pools the insights of international practitioners who report on classroom- and research-based experiences which have integrated ICT for specific and generic competence development within the Higher Education language context.

This work takes a holistic and multidisciplinary approach to analyze journalism cultures in selected Central and Eastern European countries. The analysis is being conducted with a reference to general features and characteristics of journalism in Central and Eastern Europe; national case studies from Poland, Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria etc. follow.

The book describes the factors influencing the maintenance of Polish by the second generation of emigrants in Sweden. It indicates the systemic mechanisms governing the acquisition of Polish by a child in a bilingual setting. Particular attention is given to the acquisition of the category of case.

This book identifies a corpus of British and Polish texts that share correspondences with reference to the themes of feminine doubling, the difficulty of asserting feminine subjectivity, sexual mother-figures and symbolic father-figures. It draws on the Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis and the French feminist uses of it known as ecriture feminine.

By exploring the varied depiction of World War I in the history textbooks used in three countries' classrooms the author reveals some important facts. Using what he terms Constellation Analysis, he relates the differences he finds to the distinctive nature of the societies and education systems of Japan, Sweden and England.

This book is a philosophical analysis of knowledge in practices, focused on knowing how, tacit knowledge and expert knowledge. Knowing in action is argued to be more basic than propositional or theoretical knowledge. The analytical framework is pragmatist, with references to William James and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

The authors of this book are critical to gender regimes in the fields of education, work, family life and politics. They are convinced that women and men are faced with different structural opportunities and barriers. Women are faced with significantly less chances to transform and transfer their cultural and social capital into a political one.

The key obstacles to successful implementation of the Kenya Slum Upgrading Program in Kibera include poverty, corruption, tribalism, political interpretation of the project aims, bureaucracy, slum oriented businesses (kadogo economy), NGO activity and youth unemployment.

This book examines the ways in which crime fiction has developed over several decades and in several national literary traditions. Issues discussed include genre syncretism, intertextuality, sexuality and gender, nationhood and globalization, postcolonial literature and ethical aspects of crime fiction.

This volume contains novel and transnationally useful sources, as well as teaching modules for cutting-edge history lessons across European schools. Concepts from the fields of Memory Cultures, New Imperial History, Postcolonial Studies and Transnational History have been applied to the researched topics and the teaching modules.

The publication introduces how China and Finland promote high quality learning with technology in two different educational systems. It opens scenarios how digital tools and services promote students' learning in schools and higher education and enhance collaboration in educational communities.

This volume contains research papers on miscellaneous issues of Middle English studies putting a notable emphasis on up-to-date tools and methodologies. It involves lexical studies, phonology, semantics, morphological and syntactic processes as well as issues of language contacts, variables in manuscripts and dialects and insights into literature.

Deals with the aesthetic manifestations of one of the world's most fiercely iconophobic and anti-aesthetic religious cultures: Calvinism. This book establishes the category of the Calvinesque as an aesthetic of extreme violence against the human body.

Presentation and critical reading of medieval women writers on a pan-European level. This book brings us up-to-date on research pertaining to women in the pre-modern era and highlights the strong impact, which women poets enjoyed after all.

European organizations - OSCE, Council of Europe, and EU with its ENP - have been actively engaged in the democratization process in Armenia. By analyzing their achievements and challenges, this book explains how projects overlap or reveal an interlocking or interblocking nature, and when they cause unintended side effects.

While global warming and its consequences on humanity are being fiercely debated at the global scale, deliberate and pragmatic reflections on the subject in Sub Sahara Africa remain muted. This book examines how global climate change impacts the area, the measures and strategies to face it and actions presently implemented in combating it.

While unappreciated and controversial during most of his life, Anton Bruckner is today regarded as the greatest symphonist between Beethoven and Gustav Mahler - in terms of originality, boldness and monumentality of his music. The image of Bruckner the man, however, is still extreme instance of the tenacious power of prejudice.

The book offers a detailed overview on traditional indigenous Sami myths, beliefs and rituals. Based on empirical findings and discussion, the author inquires how they are related to an ecologically sustainable use of the natural environment. Ecological sustainability was a key basic value and was linked to a belief in spirits and divinities.

Between the two World Wars, the colonial regime was confronted with the Indian nationalist movements. As a result, independence was granted by Britain in 1947, a cataclysmic event for the colonized world. The reality was that peaceful decolonization process never existed and the independence of Britain had dramatic consequences.

The question of language has been discussed in various philosophical, literary, and theoretical works of the twentieth century. However, in many cases, while language has remained the object of discussion, an understanding of the experience of language from within has not been deepened. This book seeks to pay attention to ¿the experience of language¿ and rethinks its importance in twentieth century thought and literature. It describes how Beckett, Blanchot, and Heidegger experience the force of language. The study focuses on how each in a different way sought to show the force of language as the movement of vacillation, as a metaphorical form of expression. For instance, in Beckett¿s work Ill Seen Ill Said we find the movement of the veil which at once conceals and reveals its own dissimulation; in Blanchot¿s work Awaiting Oblivion, which depicts the relation between the bodies of two nameless characters (¿he¿ and ¿she¿) who spend the whole night together in a room having a conversation, we ¿see¿ the space of conversation; and in Heidegger¿s work «A Dialogue on Language» dialogue is experienced as the balance ¿ the space of measuring the hidden ¿weight¿ of language.