New Distributed Titles Fall 2009 - Oxbow Books

social sciences
La circolazione dei beni culturali
Manuale aggiornato con i Decreti
Legislativi 26 marzo 2008, nn. 62 e 63
by Massimo De Rocchis, Giovanni Reccia
and Edoardo Valente
This volume offers an exhaustive framework for understanding
technical and juridical aspects of the circulation
of cultural assets. It is the first guidebook of its kind,
presenting the historical changes in cultural heritage
legislation and an accurate examination of national and
international laws, rights and obligations, including the
UNESCO Cultural Heritage Code. Italian text.
304p, paperback, 9788859605126, $29.50(s),
Edizioni Polistampa, December 2008.
Medien und Politik
in Deutschland und den USA
Kontrolle, Konflikt und Kooperation
vom 18. bis zum frühen 20. Jahrhundert
by Daniel Gossel
This volume studies the relationship between politics
and the media in Germany and the United States in comparative
historical analyses. It reconstructs the central influences
on the media from the 18th to the early 20th
century, demonstrates the opportunities and limits of
political influence during and after WW I, and presents
two historical case studies on the influence of powerful
and controversial media managers. German text.
440p, hardback, 9783515092937, $90.00(s),
Franz Steiner Verlag, September 2009.
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Informations- und Kommunikationsutopien
edited by Petra Grimm and Rafael Capurro
The establishment of new media technologies has always generated negative
visions of the future as a reaction to the new and unknown. What
myths and utopian dreams evolved throughout the history of information
and communication media and still linger to this day? What ethical perspectives
have to be considered for the future design of information and
knowledge societies? This volume sheds critical light on contemporary
utopian ideas of information and communication. German text.
161p, 4 b/w illus, paperback, 9783515092661, $37.00(s),
Franz Steiner Verlag, December 2008, Medienethik 7.
Gender und Exzellenz
Aktuelle Entwicklungen
im österreichischen Wissenschaftssystem
edited by Birgit Stark and Barbara Haberl
In this volume, experts from a number of different research institutions in
Austria examine, from various perspectives, the consequences of implementing
excellence and quality paradigms into the culture of research, the choice
of evaluation procedures being implemented, as well as the extent of discrimination
against female scientists and scholars. German text.
131p, paperback, 9783700166108, $29.00(s), Austrian Academy of Sciences,
October 2009.
Gesundheitskonzepte im Wandel
Geschichte, Ethik und Gesellschaft
edited by Daniel Schäfer, Andreas Frewer, Eberhard Schockenhoff and Verena Wetzstein
Under the influence of medical, demographic and social variation, the ideas of both health and disease are
subject to continuous change. This volume examines the historical conditions and the present state of this
change and discloses possible consequences. German text.
308p, hardback, 9783515090766, $79.00(s), Franz Steiner Verlag, December 2008,
Geschichte und Philosophie der Medizin 6.
Gesellschaft, Mensch, Umwelt – beobachtet
Ein Beitrag zur Theorie der Geographie
by Heike Egner
From the perspective of modern difference theory, both society and individual
humans appear as independent and autonomous systems that
are not easily unsettled by their environment. What we need is a new
look at the relationships between society, humans, and environment.
This volume studies these relationships and proposes new ways of understanding
human/environment relationships. German text.
208p, 8 b/w illus, paperback, 9783515092753, $71.00(s),
Franz Steiner Verlag, December 2008, Erdkundliches Wissen. Schriftenreihe für Forschung und Praxis 145.
The David Brown Book Company – Fall 2009