Die Dissertation analysiert die Kontrolltätigkeit des Bundesverfassungsgerichts bei Verfassungsbeschwerden in kindschaftsrechtlichen Fällen. Ausgehend von den in der Literatur vertretenen dogmatischen Modellen zur Kontrollkompetenz untersucht die Arbeit das tatsächliche Entscheidungsverhalten des Gerichts und widmet sich anschließend unter Rückgriff auf funktionell-rechtliche Argumente der Bestimmung von Kontrollgrenzen.
<p>Aladin, der Junge aus den Gassen von Bagdad, erzählt selbst von seinen Abenteuern im Orient: Von der zauberhaften Wunderlampe und ihrem mächtigen Bewohner, dem launischen Lampengeist, von Sindbad, dem verwegenen Seefahrer, und von Ali Baba, der es mit 40 bösen Räubern aufnimmt.</p>
Explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly - and what the troubling social and political implications of this are.
Technology does not stand apart from music, influencing it from the outside-it is a part of music, integral to every aspect of musical activity and musical life. "Music technology" tends to evoke images of modernity, but all tools used to create, store, reproduce, and transmit music-new or old, acoustic or electronic-are technologies worthy of investigation. This Very Short Introduction ranges across centuries and continents, revealssurprising connections-between eighteenth century French android musicians and twenty-first century Japanese singing holograms or Baroque pipe organs and music video game controllers. Humans are, and have always been, creatures of technology and of music. If we want to understand how music is made and experienced, Mark Katzargues, we must investigate its relationship-ancient and inextricable-with technology.
Elizabeth Bishop has been described as the 'best-loved' poet in English of the second half of the twentieth century. This book explores the published poems at the core of her remarkable canon of verse, along with her letters and other writings, and draws out key themes of the environment, balance, and ideas of love and loss.
This book explores the extraordinarily diverse and beautiful world of insects, from tiny wasps to giant beetles. It analyses insect evolution, and describes their behaviour, their environments, and the interactions they have with other animals. It also discusses their vital role in all land ecosystems, and their importance for our own survival.