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The essay discusses one of the challenges to the methodology of the law - a new wave of naturalistic approaches. The book aims to outline how these new developments affect studying and explaining the law. It distinguishes two fundamentally different models of the scientific inquiry of the law and discusses the nature of its scientific status.

The present volume provides a variety of perspectives on democratic decay and the erosion of the rule of law, on the re-emergence of popular sovereignty as a political category, and on public reason in an age of 'post-truthism', focusing on the CEE region and South Eastern Europe.

Die Nichtanwendung der Lehre von der fehlerhaften Gesellschaft bei Personengesellschaften, deren Gesellschaftsvertrag insgesamt gegen ein gesetzliches Verbot verstößt, entspricht gefestigter Rechtsprechung. Die daraus resultierende Nichtigkeitsfolge geht zu Lasten von Gläubigern, Gesellschaftern und der Rechtssicherheit. Die Verfasserin zeigt für den praktisch wichtigsten Anwendungsfall, die kartellrechtswidrigen Gemeinschaftsunternehmen, auf, dass die Nichtanwendung der Lehre nicht überzeugt. Hierzu vergleicht sie insbesondere die Konsequenzen für den Wettbewerb bei Annahme von Nichtigkeit und fehlerhafter Gesellschaft. Zudem legt die Verfasserin dar, dass die Nichtigkeitsfolge auch nicht zur Prävention vor Kartellrechtsverstößen geboten ist.

Gentrifizierung ist ein global verbreiteter und kontrovers diskutierter urbaner Prozess, der auch seinen Niederschlag in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur gefunden hat. Diese Studie untersucht die literarische Verarbeitung der Gentrifizierung in Berlin nach 2000 anhand von ausgewählten Romanen von Aljoscha Brell, Ulrich Peltzer, Jan Peter Bremer und Annett Gröschner. Mithilfe eines interdisziplinären theoretischen Rahmens, der narratologische Aspekte mit soziologischen kombiniert, arbeitet die Untersuchung heraus, wie der Wettbewerb um den urbanen Raum aus der Figurenperspektive imaginiert und verhandelt wird. Die Analyse zeigt, wie Machtverhältnisse zwischen sozialen Gruppen sich in den zum Teil standardisierten Figurenkonstellationen der untersuchten ¿Gentrifiktionen¿ manifestieren.

The book focuses on the Polish social policy in the period 1918-1939, its contextual (historical, organisational, conceptual, financial) conditionings, the institutions, and primarily on the practical activities. The subject matter scope of the research covers labour and employment issues, social insurance, social welfare and health care system.

The present collection comprises chapters dedicated to figure of Rome as an Arcadia-city: like ideal consular roads, the included papers develop into varied thematic branches: they pass through Poland, England, Greece, Russia - extending from the ancient Rome to the 20th century.

A hopeless individual is more vulnerable and is threatened with indifference, meaninglessness, anxiety, and despair. Are there symptoms of this in the West? Is it an individual phenomenon or has it been historically and culturally transmitted? This book analyzes how hope contributes to forming a healthy and responsible identity. But, what hope?

This book attempts a profile of literary Salem by analyzing recurring themes and motifs such as real estate conflicts, the infamous afflicted girls, Salem's metaphorical significance in politics, the motif of ancestry tracing, the re-appropriation of the witch as a figure of female empowerment, and the fear of history repeating.

This book presents a purposeful didactic intervention aiming to develop information competence in translation students. The study findings may be particularly useful for translation teachers and professional translators who want to improve their web search expertise.

The book presents a linguo-cultural picture of traditional values reflected in Anglo-American and Polish proverbs. The paremiological analysis carried out from a contrastive perspective provides additional evidence supporting the claim about the existence of distinct axiological differences specific only to a given linguo-culture.

Esta obra presenta una novedosa taxonomia para la categorizacion de los errores ortograficos en zonas de contacto linguistico, disenada a partir de la combinacion del analisis contrastivo entre la ortografia del ingles y del espanol con los errores detectados en Gibraltar para comprobar como el contacto linguistico se ve reflejado en la ortografia.

Memories, which are subjective reconstructions of past events, reflect collectively constructed "truths" about the surrounding world, and, thus, contribute to the further construction of the image or interpretation of the past and the present. This book focuses on the topic of memory in the Middle and Far Eastern societies.

Based on the ethnographic method, this volume offers analytical insights into the workings of agency in late industrialism, revealed in interactions between a power plant and a local community in Opole, Silesia, in southwestern Poland. Political, economic, ethnic, gender, and mobility issues are examined through the prism of various scales.

This book investigates the ways and the degree in which bilingualism affects language, cognitive and narrative abilities in bilingual children. The results of the research reveal the significance of biliteracy in the above areas. The book also provides research observations and classroom implications of the finds or the research.

The book describes an empirical study into the involvement of secondary school learners in the production of two happenings. It took the form of particpatory action research and used a research strategy based upon bricolage and the rhizome. The data showed learners were actively involved in the happening project, unlike their school lessons.