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Fruto de una reflexión de traductología llevada a cabo sobre el texto jurídico del rey Sabio, este primer léxico castellano/francés de la Segunda Partida revela los procesos de determinación lexicográfica a los cuales recurrieron los legisladores alfonsinos y permite entender la nueva carga semántica que insuflaron a los vocablos en las últimas décadas del siglo XIII. Hoy en día, el léxico cuenta más de mil entradas, y se completará a medida que avance la empresa de traducción hasta formar una herramienta de gran utilidad para futuras traducciones.

Across the margins offers a comparative, theoretically informed analysis of the cultural formation of the Atlantic Archipelago. In its overall conception and in specific contributions (including an introductory essay), this collection demonstrates the benefits of working across the disciplines of history, geography, literature and cultural studies, but also presents new configurations of cultural forms hitherto associated with specifically national and sub-national literatures. The essays, from both established and new scholars working in the fields of British, Irish and comparative cultural studies, addresses broad questions raised by the interface between language, gender, sexuality and ethnicity in relation to marginal identities, but also includes specific genre-based case studies on contemporary poetry, fiction, drama, popular music and art. This format recognises the importance of specific concerns which emerge from different geographical locations, but also encourages movement beyond traditional formations of national cultures. Responding to recent constitutional developments in Great Britain and Ireland, it explores their implications both for the cultural negotiations of marginality and for established critical paradigms. It is therefore of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates and academics working in the areas of comparative literature, postcolonial theory, Irish, Scottish and Welsh studies, and British political/cultural studies.

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The presented historical source is an extremely interesting letter, written in 1957 by a Polish emigrant, who had held a high-ranking position at the Ministry of Labour and Welfare of the Second Polish Republic. The author writes to his acquaintance describing his wartime path: arrest by the NKVD in Lithuania, imprisonment, exile to the Altai Krai, then his service for the Polish government-in-exile in Slavgorod, Teheran, Isfahan and Beirut, and finally his passage to England, where he made his home after the war.

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Peter Cornelius was not only a composer, poet, translator and critic, but also a teacher of music theory at the Königlich Bayerische Musikschule (Royal Bavarian Music School) in Munich. For the first time, this volume brings together his writings on music theory, reconstructing them and contextualising them in several specialist articles. Exciting insights are here provided into the reality of teaching at a German-speaking conservatory in the mid-nineteenth century – an environment often riven by aesthetic conflict. In addition to offering courses in harmony and modulation, Cornelius also taught a composition course based on Haydn’s string quartets in which he commented on the work of his students and provided his own solutions.

In der Reihe Slavistische Beiträge werden vor allem slavistische Dissertationen des deutschsprachigen Raums sowie vereinzelt auch amerikanische, englische und russische publiziert. Darüber hinaus stellt die Reihe ein Forum für Sammelbände und Monographien etablierter Wissenschafter/innen dar.

An immediate, but only partial, remedy to the current state of affairs would be to prioritise transparency, accountability and leadership integrity within the system to restore trust in the bona fides of key institutions. The longer-term challenge will be to counter a growing sense of economic exclusion, where violent police action, rather than democratic process, is increasingly employed to stave off the manifestations of material anxiety experienced by struggling citizens. This edition of the Transformation Audit, titled ‘Confronting Exclusion’, focuses on instances of such exclusion but, as in previous years, also prioritises the search for inclusive economic policy and future strategies to address them. By looking at each of the four chapter areas, it seeks to find answers to the challenge of a society in which the promise of true freedom and equal rights will remain only that until people feel equipped to be in charge of their own destiny and that of their children.

This document presents technical appendixes to supplement the main evaluation report.

Paris, Ville Lumière, miroir du monde, Babel des temps modernes, voilà l’image que nous a léguée le XIXe siècle. Exilés, sans-patrie, poètes, romanciers, peintres, musiciens, étudiants y ont trouvé refuge. De telle manière que tous ces étrangers de Paris ont constitué le Paris des étrangers. Mais après le traumatisme de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, Paris est-il toujours la capitale des libertés ? Les victimes des révolutions et des répressions ; se dirigent-elles encore vers la capitale de l...

Depuis le sommet de Rio de Janeiro en 1992, la diversité du vivant n’est plus l’apanage des biologistes : le concept de biodiversité envisage les relations du monde biologique avec les sociétés. La diversité se trouve en effet à présent au cœur des préoccupations de développement durable et de conservation. L’Amazonie, considérée comme une région de très grande diversité, attire depuis longtemps toutes les convoitises mais suscite désormais des inquiétudes : la nature inépuisable nous apparaît dès lors comme une biodiversité en péril. Mais, comment évaluer l’état et les transformations de la biodiversité de cette immense région ? Quels sont les effets des nombreuses politiques publiques de développement et de conservation qui s’y sont multipliées ces dernières décennies ? Cet ouvrage présente d’abord la complexité de quelques situations locales amazoniennes – des systèmes agricoles indigènes aux fronts pionniers associés à l’élevage extensif. L’imagerie satellitale permet ensuite de cartographier les dynamiques de la biodiversité végétale dans l’espace et le temps à partir d’une analyse des paysages et de l’estimation de leur complexité grâce à une démarche pluridisciplinaire (de la botanique à l’anthropologie). Les transformations des paysages et les variations concomitantes de la biodiversité sont par ailleurs mises en relation avec les politiques publiques et les actions privées. L’approche méthodologique, volontairement simple, a été élaborée avec l’ambition d’être applicable à d’autres espaces forestiers tropicaux.

The digital era is transforming the way we preserve, publish and research our cultural heritage: archives and libraries are being reorganized, heritage collections are being resurrected in new forms. This volume presents the output of the "Proyecto Humboldt Digital" (Havana/Berlin) and the results of a 2022 conference which brought together librarians, archivists, academics and heritage institutions from the Cuban and Ibero-American context.

An introduction to Content Operations (ContentOps), its place in the organization, and how we can use its principles to deliver better content at scale. An edited collection of essays that makes Content Operations (ContentOps) teachable across silos and departments. A convergent approach for industry-based training and college level courses covering a broad spectrum of professional content. The edited collection includes ideas for teaching and exploring key concepts and topics related to ContentOps based on available resources and scale. The purpose of this collection is to provide the equivalent of a guest lecture from an industry expert to inform decision makers in industry or to inspire research and teaching ideas in academia.

"Words as Events introduces the tradition of short, communicative rhyming couplets, the mantinádes, as still sung and recited in a variety of performance situations on the island of Crete. Recently, these poems have also entered modern mass media and they are widely being exchanged as text messages by Cretans. Focusing on the multi-functionality of the short form, Sykäri demonstrates how the traditional register gives voice to individual experiences in spontaneous utterances. The local focus on communicative economy and artistry is further examined in a close analysis of the processes and ideals of composition. By analyzing how the “restrictions” of form and performative conventions in fact generate impulses of creativity, the author creates a theoretical approach that is sensitive to the special characteristics of the short, rhymed poetic traditions. In this interdisciplinary study, the reader is invited to become familiar with the current folklore theory of oral poetry, which has a long tradition in Finland. The author combines the results of earlier folkloristic and anthropological insights, and extends the theoretical concerns further to address questions of spontaneity and individual agency. The research data has been produced in communicative interactions during long-term fieldwork. As a result, the short, rhymed poetry, often neglected by scholars in earlier research paradigms, can now be seen in new light – specifically as dialogic poetry – through its extended, multi-layered dialogic qualities."