This text stresses the importance of culture in human development, and the collective responsibility for the direction in which it evolves. It proceeds from exploring humans as creators and creatures of culture to the role of agents of socialization in cognitive development and …
Fotografieren Sie Menschen in all ihren Facetten! In diesem Buch lernen Sie, wie ausdrucksstarke Porträtaufnahmen gelingen. Ob natürlich oder charakterstark, ob sinnlich oder fantasievoll: Fünf Porträtfotografen mit ganz unterschiedlichen Herangehensweisen zeigen ihre besten Auf…
"Through the fundamental work of Deligne and Lusztig in the 1970s, further developed mainly by Lusztig, the character theory of reductive groups over finite fields has grown into a rich and vast area of mathematics. It incorporates tools and methods from algebraic geometry, topo…
"Philosophical tradition holds that character traits are global; if you possess a particular character trait, you will perform trait-related behavior across the broad range of situations. In Situational Traits of Character: Dispositional Foundations and Implications for Moral Ps…
Nikolajeva (comparative literature, Stockholm U., Sweden and Abo Akademi U., Finland) realized from the poor responses of her students--future teachers--that they were not being given adequate tools for analyzing the artistic means used for characterization in children's literat…
Through a variety of critical perspectives, Nikolajeva ponders the art of characterization, uncovering the essential differences between story ('what we are told') and discourse ('how we are told'), and carefully distinguishing between how these are employed in children's fictio…
Does a novel focus on one life or many? Alex Woloch uses this simple question to develop a powerful new theory of the realist novel, based on how narratives distribute limited attention among a crowded field of characters. His argument has important implications for both literar…