Authors:Marianne van den Boomen, Sybille Lammes, Ann-Soph
Publisher: Amsterdam University Pre
Keywords: life, technology, mediamatters, everyday, media, material, tracing, new, digital
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1970-01-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 9089640681
ISBN-13: 9789089640680

Three decades of societal and cultural alignment of new media have yielded a host of innovations, trials, and problems, accompanied by versatile popular and academic discourse. New Media Studies crystallized internationally into an established academic discipline, and this begs the question: where do we stand now? Which new questions are emerging now that new media are being taken for granted, and which riddles are still unsolved? Is contemporary digital culture indeed all about ’you’, the participating user, or do we still not really understand the digital machinery and how this c

Authors:Julia Arnscheidt, Benjamin van Rooij, Jan Michiel
Publisher: Amsterdam University Pre
Keywords: development, projects, aup, governance, legislative, law, international, explorations, theory, practice, lawmaking
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2009-02-15
List price: $59.50
ISBN-10: 9087280467
ISBN-13: 9789087280468

This volume explores how legislation and lawmaking function in developing countries; how legislation specifically contributes to this development; and how lawmaking and legislation can be improved by nations themselves or through donor-assisted projects. Lawmaking and Development combines insight from both scholars and practitioners involved in legal assistance projects in order to address topics such as legal transplantation, legislative quality, linkages between legislation and implementation, and the politics of lawmaking.

Author: Hebe Verrest
Publisher: Amsterdam University Pre
Keywords: urban, livelihoods, caribbean, activities, based, economic, home
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 2007-12-12
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 9056294903
ISBN-13: 9789056294908

Poor urban households in the economic ’south’ deploy various livelihood activities. One of these is a Home-Based Economic Activity (HBEA), e.g. sales of home-made snacks or car maintenance. This study examines the prevalence, organisation and relevance of HBEAs in four neighbourhoods in the Caribbean cities Paramaribo (Suriname) and Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago). Recent economic developments in these countries diverge; Suriname recovers slowly from a crisis while Trinidad and Tobago’s economy is buoyant. These economic features together with local political developments

Author: Hans Benni
Publisher: Amsterdam University Pre
Keywords: amsterdam, archaeological, studies, press, university, dummies, gaps
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2006-08-15
List price: $67.00
ISBN-10: 905356859X
ISBN-13: 9789053568590

In this study the syntactic properties of empty categories and dummy pronouns are investigated within the framework of Government-Binding theory.The assumption that clauses must have a subject is present in most, if not all, linguistic theories. In GB theory the requirement that clauses have a subject is stipulated as a consequence of the base rules or the Extended Projection Principle. In this book it is claimed that no such stipulation is necessary. The presence of a subject is exclusively determined by the theories of thematic roles and Case.This view is supported by the fact that the alleg

Author: Alexander Kotchegura
Publisher: Amsterdam University Pre
Keywords: countries, lup, dissertaties, communist, post, service, reform, civil
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2008-11-19
List price: $54.50
ISBN-10: 9087280602
ISBN-13: 9789087280604

Why the state bureaucracy in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) appears to have been least of all affected by the post-communist transformation when compared to other public institutions and sectors of the economy? Why declared reforms of civil services failed so far to reach most of their objectives and even have had counter-productive effect in some cases? On the basis of a comprehensive analysis of the development of the Russian and Czech state administration over the last decade and a half the author provides a thorough insight into the causes of the prevailing tendencies in the administrati

Author: Guido Suurmond
Publisher: Amsterdam University Pre
Keywords: lup, meijersreeks, industry, catering, fire, safety, enforcing
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2008-12-10
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 9087280610
ISBN-13: 9789087280611

Authors:Richard Allen, Malcolm Turvey,
Publisher: Amsterdam University Pre
Keywords: camera, university, press, film, transition, culture, amsterdam, michelson, obscura, lucida, essays, honor, annette
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2002-11-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9053564942
ISBN-13: 9789053564943

Annette Michelson’s contributions to art and film criticism over the last three decades have been unparalleled. This volume honors her unique legacy with original essays by some of the many scholars who have been influenced by her work. Some continue her efforts to develop theoretical frameworks for understanding modernist art, while others practice her form of interdisciplinary criticism in relation to avant-garde and modernist art works and artists. Still others investigate and evaluate Michelson’s work itself. All in some way pay homage to her extraordinary contribution.