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The Indigenous State
(2017)
In 2005, Bolivians elected their first indigenous president, Evo Morales. Ushering in a new “democratic cultural revolution,” Morales promised to overturn neoliberalism and inaugurate a new decolonized society. In this ...
From Self-Fulfilment to Survival of the Fittest
(2015)
Contrary to the assumption that Western and Eastern European economies and cinemas were very different from each other, they actually had much in common. After the Second World War both the East and the West adopted a mixed ...
From Self-Fulfilment to Survival of the Fittest
(2015)
Contrary to the assumption that Western and Eastern European economies and cinemas were very different from each other, they actually had much in common. After the Second World War both the East and the West adopted a mixed ...
Negotiations of the "New World"
(2016-11-15)
Global is everywhere - recent years have seen a significant proliferation of the adjective "global" across discourses. But what do social actors actually do when using this term? Written from within the political studies ...
Arctic Madness
(2020)
The French missionary-linguist Émile Petitot (1838–1916) spent twenty years near the Arctic Circle in Canada, publishing numerous works on First Nations languages and practices. Over time, however, he descended into delirium ...
Bildung in Deutschland 2024
(2024)
Bildung in Deutschland erscheint alle 2 Jahre als umfassende und empirisch fundierte Bestandsaufnahme des deutschen Bildungswesens: von der Frühen Bildung über die allgemeinbildende Schule und die ...
Language Between God and the Poets (Volume 2.0)
(2018)
How does language work? How does language produce truth and beauty? Eleventh-century Arabic scholarship has detailed answers to these universal questions. Language Between God and the Poets reads the theory of four major ...
Speech perception in complex acoustic environments
(2019)
Listeners with hearing impairments have difficulties understanding speech in the presence of background noise. Although prosthetic devices such as hearing aids and cochlear implants may improve the hearing capability, ...
Griechische Götter unter sich
(2019)
In den lukianischen Göttergesprächen wird die traditionelle griechische Götterwelt einer dezidiert ironisch-satirischen Beleuchtung ausgesetzt, die im 2. Jh. n. Chr. nicht zuletzt dem jungen Christentum wichtige Argumente ...
Künstliche Intelligenz
(2022)
Die Technologie der Künstlichen Intelligenz ist im Lebensalltag der Verbraucherinnen und Verbraucher angekommen. Sie begegnet uns in nahezu allen Bereichen - sei es bei der Kommunikation, der Fortbewegung oder im behördlichen ...
The Birth of Capitalism
(2011-08-20)
In the light of the deepening crisis of capitalism and continued non-Western capitalist accumulation, Henry Heller re-examines the debates surrounding the transition from feudalism to capitalism in Europe and elsewhere.
Focusing ...
The Post-Conflict Environment
(2014-08-14)
In case studies focusing on contemporary crises spanning Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe, the scholars in this volume examine the dominant prescriptive practices of late neoliberal post-conflict interventions—such ...
The Birth of Capitalism
(2011-08-20)
In the light of the deepening crisis of capitalism and continued non-Western capitalist accumulation, Henry Heller re-examines the debates surrounding the transition from feudalism to capitalism in Europe and elsewhere.
Focusing ...
Bildungsforschung für Praktiker in der Erwachsenenbildung
(2011)
Zur Professionalisierung und damit zur Qualitätsentwicklung in der Erwachsenenbildung ist die kontinuierliche Weiterbildung der Erwachsenenbildner selbst von zentraler Bedeutung.
Dieser Sammelband enthält die überarbeiteten ...
Totalitarian Communication
(2010-05-15)
By using history and theory of communication as an integrative methodological device, this book reaches out to those properties of totalitarian society which appear to be beyond the grasp of specific disciplines. Furthermore, ...
Reformation und die Ethik der Wirtschaft
(2018-08-01)
The grand thesis that the spirit of Protestantism is one of modern capitalism's great driving forces originated from Max Weber. According to him, religious foundations of inner world asceticism, Luther's concept of vocation, ...
The Internet of Everything
(2019)
In the era before IoT, the world wide web, internet, web 2.0 and social media made people’s lives comfortable by providing web services and enabling access personal data irrespective of their location. Further, to save ...
Against Landlords
(2024)
Housing means prosperity and security for some; poverty, precarity and sickness for others. More people live in private rented accommodation than ever before, and rents rise without apparent reason. Homes are smaller every ...
Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia
(2014-03-03)
This book provides valuable new ethnographic insights into life along some of the most contentious borders in the world. The collected essays portray existence at different points across India's northern frontiers and, in ...
Sensitive Reading
(2022)
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.
What are the pleasures of reading translations of South Asian literature, and what does it take to enjoy a translated text? This ...
Das undisziplinierte Kinderzimmer
(2024)
Dem »wilden historischen Denken« auf der Spur. Kinder sind in ihren Zimmern von einer Vielzahl geschichtskultureller Produkte umgeben, die ihr Nachdenken über und ihr Imaginieren von Vergangenheit prägen. Kinderzimmer ...
A history of English
(2022)
Where does today’s English language come from? This book takes its readers on a journey back in time, from present-day varieties to the Old English of Beowulf and beyond. Written for students with little or no background ...
Building Europe
(2015-08-14)
Relying on internal sources, Wilfried Loth analyses the birth and subsequent development of the European Union, from the launch of the Council of Europe and the Schuman Declaration until the Euro crisis and the contested ...
Legal Tech und das Anwaltsmonopol
(2021)
Legal Tech ist in aller Munde. Die Möglichkeit des Einsatzes von Legal Tech wirft dabei vor allem die Frage auf, ob Rechtsdienstleistungen weiterhin primär nur durch Rechtsanwälte erbracht werden dürfen. Diese Fragestellung ...
Speech perception in complex acoustic environments
(2019)
Listeners with hearing impairments have difficulties understanding speech in the presence of background noise. Although prosthetic devices such as hearing aids and cochlear implants may improve the hearing capability, ...
Organisation und Führung in institutionellen Kontexten der Weiterbildung
(2018)
Das Zusammenwirken von Organisationsstrukturen, institutionellen Einflüssen und dem Führungsverständnis von Leitungspersonal ist zentrales Thema der Dissertation, die aus drei Forschungsarbeiten besteht. Den theoretischen ...
Writing Beloveds
(2016-11-21)
Writing Beloveds considers the way in which a poetic convention, the 'beloved' to whom Renaissance amatory poetry was addressed, becomes influential political rhetoric, an instrument that both men and women used to shape ...
Das technische Phänomen „Künstliche Intelligenz“ im allgemeinen Zivilrecht
(2020)
Das Phänomen der künstlichen Intelligenz (KI) gewinnt im Vertrags- und Deliktsrecht zunehmend an Bedeutung. Für die Behandlung der Thematik sind Grundkenntnisse der KI notwendig. Die Autoren beschreiben im notwendigen Maße ...
Totalitarian Communication
(2010-05-15)
By using history and theory of communication as an integrative methodological device, this book reaches out to those properties of totalitarian society which appear to be beyond the grasp of specific disciplines. Furthermore, ...
The Cultural Life of Money (Volume 6)
(2015)
The book discusses how culture simultaneously shapes and is shaped by the economy. Over the past few years, as the world has staggered from one financial crisis to another, the neat separation of economics and culture has ...
Against Landlords
(2024)
Housing means prosperity and security for some; poverty, precarity and sickness for others. More people live in private rented accommodation than ever before, and rents rise without apparent reason. Homes are smaller every ...
Adjective attribution
(2016)
"This book is the first typological study of adjective attribution marking. Its focus lies on Northern Eurasia, although it covers many more languages and presents an ontology of morphosyntactic categories relevant to noun ...
Verstümmelte Körper?
(2019)
Kastratensänger standen bislang vor allem im Mittelpunkt des Forschungsinteresses der Musik- und Theaterwissenschaften. Dabei wurden vor allem ihr Wirken auf den Bühnen des italienischen Musiktheaters des 17. und 18. ...
Reformation und die Ethik der Wirtschaft
(2018-08-01)
The grand thesis that the spirit of Protestantism is one of modern capitalism's great driving forces originated from Max Weber. According to him, religious foundations of inner world asceticism, Luther's concept of vocation, ...
Sex, Power, and Slavery
(2001)
Sexual exploitation was and is a critical feature of enslavement. Across many different societies, slaves were considered to own neither their bodies nor their children, even if many struggled to resist. At the same time, ...
EIB Working Papers 2020/04 - Making a difference
(2020)
This paper investigates the impact of intermediated funding provided by the EIB on the performance of SMEs in the EU between 2008 and 2014. Using statistical analysis of firm-level data, it finds that EIB lending had a ...
Humanitarian Intervention in the Long Nineteenth Century
(2015-06-01)
This book is a comprehensive presentation of humanitarian intervention in theory and practice during the course of the nineteenth century. Through four case studies, it sheds new light on the international law debate and ...
Electronic Democracy
(2012-06-27)
The timely book takes stock of the state of the art and future of electronic democracy, exploring the history and potential of e-democracy in global perspective. Analysing the digital divide, the role of the internet as a ...
Electronic Democracy
(2012-06-27)
The timely book takes stock of the state of the art and future of electronic democracy, exploring the history and potential of e-democracy in global perspective. Analysing the digital divide, the role of the internet as a ...
Fragile Conviction
(2017-02-14)
How does ideology function during periods of political and economic turmoil? This book, based on long-term ethnographic research in a destitute former mining town in Kyrgyzstan, testifies to the precariousness of life in ...
Fragile Conviction
(2017-02-14)
How does ideology function during periods of political and economic turmoil? This book, based on long-term ethnographic research in a destitute former mining town in Kyrgyzstan, testifies to the precariousness of life in ...
Porträt Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung Österreich
(2023)
Die Situation der Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung in Österreich wird in der neuen Auflage des Länderporträts anhand aktueller Daten und Informationen vorgestellt. Nach einer historischen Einführung folgen Informationen über ...
Bildungsforschung für Praktiker in der Erwachsenenbildung
(2011)
Zur Professionalisierung und damit zur Qualitätsentwicklung in der Erwachsenenbildung ist die kontinuierliche Weiterbildung der Erwachsenenbildner selbst von zentraler Bedeutung.
Dieser Sammelband enthält die überarbeiteten ...
Excavations At Sidi Khrebish Benghazi Volume II
(1985)
This volume looks at Economic life at Berenice, including studies of the landscape and animal and plant remains; sculpture and terracottas, and the course pottery - with a detailed look at the local pottery fabrics and a ...
Journalism as the Fourth Emergency Service
(2024)
Journalists have often been considered the "fourth emergency service". They are first on the scene, alongside paramedics, fi re and police, running towards danger rather than away, and providing independent, veritable and ...
Regieren: Die Geschichte einer Zumutung
(2016-09-15)
Szenen einer missvergnügten Ehe - dieses bürgerliche Trauerspiel wird derzeit auf den politischen Bühnen westlicher Demokratien gegeben. Es führt vor, wie weit sich Regierende und Regierte auseinander gelebt haben. Von ...
Post-Ottoman Coexistence
(2016-03-01)
In Southeast Europe, the Balkans, and Middle East, scholars often refer to the “peaceful coexistence” of various religious and ethnic groups under the Ottoman Empire before ethnonationalist conflicts dissolved that shared ...
The Impact of Climate Change on Vulnerable Populations
(2023)
Climate change and urban development threaten health, undermine coping and deepen existing social and environmental inequities. A changing global environment requires transformative social responses: new partnerships, deep ...
Moritz Lazarus und Heymann Steinthal
(2024)
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Sex, Power, and Slavery
(2001)
Sexual exploitation was and is a critical feature of enslavement. Across many different societies, slaves were considered to own neither their bodies nor their children, even if many struggled to resist. At the same time, ...
Wer organisiert die "Entbehrlichen"?
(2014-04-15)
Auch wenn die Zivilgesellschaft in sozial benachteiligten Stadtvierteln häufig kaum sichtbar ist, gibt es wichtige Ausnahmen: Viertelgestalter_innen sind mit unermüdlicher Tatkraft bürgerschaftlich aktiv. Im Buch werden ...
Adjective attribution
(2016)
"This book is the first typological study of adjective attribution marking. Its focus lies on Northern Eurasia, although it covers many more languages and presents an ontology of morphosyntactic categories relevant to noun ...
Empathy
(2023)
Empathy - Advanced Research and Applications is a compilation of recent experimental studies and theoretical models on the concept of empathy and its implication in various aspects of social life. The book describes the ...
Empathy
(2023)
Empathy - Advanced Research and Applications is a compilation of recent experimental studies and theoretical models on the concept of empathy and its implication in various aspects of social life. The book describes the ...
Sensitive Reading
(2022)
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.
What are the pleasures of reading translations of South Asian literature, and what does it take to enjoy a translated text? This ...
Submerged on the Surface
(2018-04-01)
"Between 1941 and 1945, some 6,500 Berlin Jews, in fear for their lives, made the choice to flee their impending deportations and live submerged in the shadows of the capital of Nazi Germany. The experience was brutally ...
Rethinking Culture and Cultural Analysis
(2013)
The texts in this collection are revised versions of presentations given at the Coimbra International Conference on the Semantics of Culture emph Why ``Culture''?, held on November 24-25, 2011. Their common theme is the ...
Prosodic detail in Neapolitan Italian
(2014)
Recent findings on phonetic detail have been taken as supporting exemplar-based approaches to prosody. Through four experiments on both produc tion and perception of both melodic and temporal detail in Neapolitan Italian, ...
EIB Working Papers 2020/04 - Making a difference
(2020)
This paper investigates the impact of intermediated funding provided by the EIB on the performance of SMEs in the EU between 2008 and 2014. Using statistical analysis of firm-level data, it finds that EIB lending had a ...
Bodies and Boundaries of UK Bear Spaces
(2024)
Bodies and Boundaries of UK Bear Spaces is an exploration of the spaces of the UK’s Bear community – and the people who are in them.
The book details a wealth of existing writing and scholarship on Bears – both historical ...
Cultural Governance in Österreich
(2019-06-17)
Wie kann Kulturpolitik so gestaltet werden, dass – im Sinne einer Cultural Governance – nicht nur Politik und nachgeordnet Verwaltung in Entscheidungsprozesse einbezogen sind, sondern auch die Betroffenen: Künstler_innen, ...
Zukunftsmodell
(2020)
Der Sammelband präsentiert Ergebnisse eines transdisziplinären Forschungsprojekts an der Universität Oldenburg, die in wissenschaftlichen Beiträgen sowie in Reflexionen aus Unternehmen, Politik und Verwaltung diskutiert ...
Journalism as the Fourth Emergency Service
(2024)
Journalists have often been considered the "fourth emergency service". They are first on the scene, alongside paramedics, fi re and police, running towards danger rather than away, and providing independent, veritable and ...
Paratextuelle Politik und Praxis
(2018)
This book directs the attention on the role of non-book authorial paratexts. Those are essential for constituting and establishing authorship in the literary field and the book poses the question of interpendence between ...
Confronting the "Good Death"
(2005-10-15)
"The scholarship devoted to the complicity of German physicians in the Holocaust is rich and detailed, but there remains, as Michael Bryant demonstrates, still more to learn. It is well established that the techniques ...
Confronting the "Good Death"
(2005-10-15)
"The scholarship devoted to the complicity of German physicians in the Holocaust is rich and detailed, but there remains, as Michael Bryant demonstrates, still more to learn. It is well established that the techniques ...
Künstliche Intelligenz
(2022)
Die Technologie der Künstlichen Intelligenz ist im Lebensalltag der Verbraucherinnen und Verbraucher angekommen. Sie begegnet uns in nahezu allen Bereichen - sei es bei der Kommunikation, der Fortbewegung oder im behördlichen ...
Wissenschaftskommunikation in den Geisteswissenschaften
(2024)
Der Sammelband beschftigt sich mit der Frage, welche Mglichkeiten es gibt, geisteswissenschaftliche (Forschungs-)Inhalte anschaulich, lebendig und verstndlich zu kommunizieren. Der Band ist im Rahmen des geisteswissenschaftlichen ...
Wissenschaftskommunikation in den Geisteswissenschaften
(2024)
Der Sammelband beschftigt sich mit der Frage, welche Mglichkeiten es gibt, geisteswissenschaftliche (Forschungs-)Inhalte anschaulich, lebendig und verstndlich zu kommunizieren. Der Band ist im Rahmen des geisteswissenschaftlichen ...
Verstümmelte Körper?
(2019)
Kastratensänger standen bislang vor allem im Mittelpunkt des Forschungsinteresses der Musik- und Theaterwissenschaften. Dabei wurden vor allem ihr Wirken auf den Bühnen des italienischen Musiktheaters des 17. und 18. ...
Wer organisiert die "Entbehrlichen"?
(2014-04-15)
Auch wenn die Zivilgesellschaft in sozial benachteiligten Stadtvierteln häufig kaum sichtbar ist, gibt es wichtige Ausnahmen: Viertelgestalter_innen sind mit unermüdlicher Tatkraft bürgerschaftlich aktiv. Im Buch werden ...
Linguistic variation, identity construction and cognition
(2015)
Speakers use a variety of different linguistic resources in the construction of their identities, and they are able to do so because their mental representations of linguistic and social information are linked. While the ...
The Internet of Everything
(2019)
In the era before IoT, the world wide web, internet, web 2.0 and social media made people’s lives comfortable by providing web services and enabling access personal data irrespective of their location. Further, to save ...
Traumatic Stress in South Africa
(2010)
Taking both a historical and contemporary perspective, the book covers the extent of and manner in which traumatic stress manifests, including the way in which exposure to such extremely threatening events impacts on ...
Submerged on the Surface
(2018-04-01)
"Between 1941 and 1945, some 6,500 Berlin Jews, in fear for their lives, made the choice to flee their impending deportations and live submerged in the shadows of the capital of Nazi Germany. The experience was brutally ...
Über die Produktion von Tönen
(2019)
Die vielfältigen Formen des Musizierens in der österreichischen Zwischenkriegszeit wurden in Konflikten um legitime und illegitime Musizierpraktiken immer wieder neu verhandelt. Im Zusammenhang zeitgenössischer Kategorien ...
The Indigenous State
(2017)
In 2005, Bolivians elected their first indigenous president, Evo Morales. Ushering in a new “democratic cultural revolution,” Morales promised to overturn neoliberalism and inaugurate a new decolonized society. In this ...
A history of English
(2022)
Where does today’s English language come from? This book takes its readers on a journey back in time, from present-day varieties to the Old English of Beowulf and beyond. Written for students with little or no background ...
Arctic Madness
(2020)
The French missionary-linguist Émile Petitot (1838–1916) spent twenty years near the Arctic Circle in Canada, publishing numerous works on First Nations languages and practices. Over time, however, he descended into delirium ...
Bildung in Deutschland 2024
(2024)
Bildung in Deutschland erscheint alle 2 Jahre als umfassende und empirisch fundierte Bestandsaufnahme des deutschen Bildungswesens: von der Frühen Bildung über die allgemeinbildende Schule und die ...
Bodies and Boundaries of UK Bear Spaces
(2024)
Bodies and Boundaries of UK Bear Spaces is an exploration of the spaces of the UK’s Bear community – and the people who are in them.
The book details a wealth of existing writing and scholarship on Bears – both historical ...
Cultural Governance in Österreich
(2019-06-17)
Wie kann Kulturpolitik so gestaltet werden, dass – im Sinne einer Cultural Governance – nicht nur Politik und nachgeordnet Verwaltung in Entscheidungsprozesse einbezogen sind, sondern auch die Betroffenen: Künstler_innen, ...
Negotiations of the "New World"
(2016-11-15)
Global is everywhere - recent years have seen a significant proliferation of the adjective "global" across discourses. But what do social actors actually do when using this term? Written from within the political studies ...
Universe and Inner Self in Early Indian and Early Greek Thought
(2016-07-11)
From the sixth century BCE onwards there occurred a revolution in thought, with novel ideas such as such as that understanding the inner self is both vital for human well-being and central to understanding the universe. ...
Language Between God and the Poets (Volume 2.0)
(2018)
How does language work? How does language produce truth and beauty? Eleventh-century Arabic scholarship has detailed answers to these universal questions. Language Between God and the Poets reads the theory of four major ...
Building Europe
(2015-08-14)
Relying on internal sources, Wilfried Loth analyses the birth and subsequent development of the European Union, from the launch of the Council of Europe and the Schuman Declaration until the Euro crisis and the contested ...
Legal Tech und das Anwaltsmonopol
(2021)
Legal Tech ist in aller Munde. Die Möglichkeit des Einsatzes von Legal Tech wirft dabei vor allem die Frage auf, ob Rechtsdienstleistungen weiterhin primär nur durch Rechtsanwälte erbracht werden dürfen. Diese Fragestellung ...
Zukunftsmodell
(2020)
Der Sammelband präsentiert Ergebnisse eines transdisziplinären Forschungsprojekts an der Universität Oldenburg, die in wissenschaftlichen Beiträgen sowie in Reflexionen aus Unternehmen, Politik und Verwaltung diskutiert ...
Paratextuelle Politik und Praxis
(2018)
This book directs the attention on the role of non-book authorial paratexts. Those are essential for constituting and establishing authorship in the literary field and the book poses the question of interpendence between ...
Thinking and Killing - Philosophical Discourse in the Shadow of the Third Reich
(2013)
This book explores the phenomenon of the Third Reich from a philosophical perspective. It concentrates on the ways in which the subjects and experiences of Nazi Germany, the Holocaust and Anti-Semitism are conceived by ...
Excavations At Sidi Khrebish Benghazi Volume II
(1985)
This volume looks at Economic life at Berenice, including studies of the landscape and animal and plant remains; sculpture and terracottas, and the course pottery - with a detailed look at the local pottery fabrics and a ...
Constructing Muslims in France - Discourse, Public Identity, and the Politics of Citizenship
(2014)
The standing of French Muslims is undercut by a predominant and persistent elite public discourse that frames Muslims as failed and incomplete French citizens. This situation fosters the very separations, exclusions, and ...
Theodor Fontane und Wilhelm Wolfsohn - eine interkulturelle Beziehung
(2006)
Der Briefwechsel mit Wilhelm Wolfsohn (1820-1865) ist das früheste zusammenhängende Briefkonvolut Theodor Fontanes (1819-1898). Er gilt als eine wichtige Quelle für die Bewertung von Fontanes politischem, beruflichem und ...
Juden in der Toskana und in Preußen im Vergleich
(2003)
Woran scheiterte die Emanzipation der Juden in Deutschland? Ulrich Wyrwa geht dieser für die deutsche Geschichte zentralen Frage mit der Methode des historischen Vergleichs nach und arbeitet die spezifischen Errungenschaften ...
Computerkriminalität im Europäischen Strafrecht
(2017-11-06)
Combatting computer crime requires transnational co-operation between law enforcement agencies as well as the harmonisation of criminal law. Adrian Haase assesses existing EU directives regarding cybercrime, and develops ...
Soziale Grundsicherung in der Weltgesellschaft
(2006-09-15)
Auch Sozialpolitik globalisiert sich. Das Buch zeigt, dass sozialhilfe- und rentenartige Grundsicherungssysteme nicht nur in entwickelten, sondern auch in Entwicklungs- und Übergangsgesellschaften wirksame Instrumente der ...
Intersections of language rights and social justice in the Caribbean context
(2023)
This volume brings together the work of six authors who explore various dimensions of language rights and how they intersect with social justice in the Caribbean context. Language rights advocacy has been an ongoing issue ...
Ränder der Moderne
(2016)
Die Disziplin der Europäischen Geschichte steht wohl vor der größten Herausforderung ihrer noch jungen Vergangenheit: Die globalhistorische Wende hat viele Grundannahmen der Europäischen Moderne in Frage gestellt und neue ...
Berliner Kunstmatronage
(2024)
Um 1900 sammelten und förderten zahlreiche Berlinerinnen bildende Kunst. Mit ihrer Betrachtung dieser Kunstmatronage lässt Anna-Carolin Augustin eine kaum noch bekannte Facette der Kunststadtmetropole Berlin aufscheinen. ...
Traditional Authority and Security in Contemporary Nigeria
(2024)
Exploring the contentious landscape of Nigeria’s escalating violence, this book describes the changing roles of traditional authorities in combatting contemporary security challenges.
Set against a backdrop of widespread ...