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This innovative volume selectively assesses three centuries of inquiry into the role of communications in the history of civilization. It challenges the conventional assumption that inquiry into the human consequences of living in a communications-dominated age began in the middle of the twentieth century as a response to omnipresent technology. Beginning with the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, Heyer shows how scholars as well known as Rousseau and as obscure as Monboddo were concerened with the historical dimension of aspects of social communication. Heyer approaches his subject as a...

Die Motivationen fur die Berufswahl Lehramt sind vielfach untersucht worden. Dieser Forschungsstand erhalt mit der vorliegenden Studie neue Impulse: Aus biographischer und bildungssoziologischer Perspektive werden die Studien- und Berufsentscheidungen kunftiger Musiklehrerinnen und -lehrer rekonstruiert. Es wird anhand von Einzelfallrekonstruktionen gezeigt, dass sich der Berufswunsch Musiklehrer im Verlauf der Lebensgeschichten in engem Zusammenhang mit den musikalischen Tatigkeiten und Erfahrungen in einem Spannungsfeld von aktiver Musik(re)produktion, dem Herkunftsmilieu und...

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A Christmas Party is a classic mystery. Perfect for fans of Mystery in White by J Jefferson Farjeon.

Also published as Envious Casca.

It is no ordinary Christmas at Lexham Manor. And the mood is anything but festive.

Six holiday guests find themselves the suspects in a murder inquiry when the old Scrooge who owns the substantial estate, Nathaniel Herriard, is found stabbed in the back.

Whilst the delicate matter of inheritance could be the key to this crime, the real conundrum is how any of the suspects could have entered the locked...

This is the first book to deal exclusively with the influence and meaning of what media historian Paul Heyer calls our century's first collective nightmare. Using contemporary as well as archival sources, he explores a series of intriguing questions: Why has the TITANIC disaster affected the way we think about ourselves and our technology? How has the media made it into a morality play of mythic dimensions? What impact has that story had on the development of 20th-century communications? This timely and compelling book pays homage to the TITANIC's fateful voyage by attempting to explain...