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A Late Iron Age farmstead in the Outer Hebrides
(2012)
The settlement at Bornais consists of a complex of mounds which protrude from the relatively flat machair plain in the township of Bornais on the island of South Uist. This sandy plain has proved an attractive settlement ...
Trafficking Rhetoric
(2024)
Human trafficking has generated intense global concern, with stories of sex slavery and images of women forced into prostitution so persuasive that states have raced to respond ahead of empirical data and clear definitions ...
The Sexual/Political
(2023)
The Sexual/Political engages with contemporary political issues in sexuality through a survey of modern philosophy, psychoanalytic thought, 20th-century political theory, and more recent queer philosophies.
The book ...
Sound structure and sound change
(2019-10-23)
Research in linguistics, as in most other scientific domains, is usually approached in a modular way – narrowing the domain of inquiry in order to allow for increased depth of study. This is necessary and productive for a ...
Die Akten des Kaiserlichen Reichshofrats (RHR) – Serie II
(2019)
The Aulic Council, together with the Imperial Chamber Court, exercised supreme jurisdiction in the Holy Roman Empire on behalf of the Emperor. It also acted as the supreme feudal court, as an advisory body to the head of ...
The Sexual/Political
(2023)
The Sexual/Political engages with contemporary political issues in sexuality through a survey of modern philosophy, psychoanalytic thought, 20th-century political theory, and more recent queer philosophies.
The book ...
Moving Ourselves, Moving Others
(2012-04-12)
The close relationship between motion (bodily movement) and emotion (feelings) is not an etymological coincidence. While moving ourselves, we move others; in observing others move – we are moved ourselves. The fundamentally ...
Muße im höfischen Roman
(2020)
Wie kann den Protagonisten des höfischen Romans um 1200 eine Vervollkommnung höfischen Lebens gelingen, die tätiges Streben nach êre mit der Wahrnehmung von Erfülltheit in idyllischen Freiräumen vereinbart? Rebekka Becker ...
Energy without Conscience
(2017)
'In Energy without Conscience' David McDermott Hughes investigates why climate change has yet to be seen as a moral issue. He examines the forces that render the use of fossil fuels ordinary and therefore exempt from ethical ...
The Visigothic Kingdom
(2020)
How did the breakdown of Roman rule in the Iberian Peninsula eventually result in the formation of a Visigothic kingdom with authority centralised in Toledo? This collection of essays challenges the view that local powers ...
Manifeste
(2010-12-15)
Politische Manifeste - einst eine Fürsten, Königen und Kaisern vorbehaltene Kommunikationsform - haben sich zu einem Medium protestierender Bürger gewandelt. Anhand einer Reihe von Porträts unternimmt dieser Band eine ...
Die Hamburger Beginen bei St. Jacobi im Kontext ihrer Handschriften und Kultur (Volume 21)
(2022)
Aus dem Beginenkonvent bei St. Jacobi in Hamburg sind 14 mittelniederdeutsche Handschriften überliefert, die einen einzigartigen Einblick in das religiöse Leben spätmittelalterlicher Frauen ermöglichen. Die Gebetbücher, ...
Beruflichkeit im Wandel
(2022)
Am Beispiel der Leiharbeit untersucht die Dissertation, wie sich das berufliche Handeln durch den Strukturwandel verändert. Mit welchen Handlungsanforderungen sind die Beschäftigten konfrontiert und mit welchen Strategien ...
Global Perspectives on Anti-Feminism
(2024)
This new book brings together research and analyses from five continents in order to promote a global perspective on the thoroughly global phenomenon of the current culture wars around sex and gender. The contributions ...
Gaming and Extremism
(2024)
Charting the increase in the use of games for the dissemination of extremist propaganda, radicalization, recruitment, and mobilization, this book examines the "gamification of extremism." Editors Linda Schlegel and Rachel ...
Democracy and Fake News
(2021)
This book explores the challenges that disinformation, fake news, and post-truth politics pose to democracy from a multidisciplinary perspective. The authors analyse and interpret how the use of technology and social media ...
Von Netzwerken zu Märkten
(2019)
Globale Märkte werden von den einen gelobt, von den anderen verteufelt. Doch wie sind sie überhaupt entstanden und wie lassen sie sich soziologisch untersuchen? Dieses Buch zeigt sowohl an modernen als auch an vormodernen ...
The Medieval Kirk, Cemetery and Hospice at Kirk Ness, North Berwick
(2013)
Between 1999-2006 Addyman Archaeology carried out extensive archaeological excavations on the peninsular site of Kirk Ness, North Berwick, during the building, landscaping and extension of the Scottish Seabird Centre. This ...
A Late Iron Age farmstead in the Outer Hebrides
(2012)
The settlement at Bornais consists of a complex of mounds which protrude from the relatively flat machair plain in the township of Bornais on the island of South Uist. This sandy plain has proved an attractive settlement ...
Networks and institutions in Europe's emerging markets
(2018-05-05)
Do ties between political parties and businesses harm or benefit the development of market institutions? The post-communist transition offers an unparalleled opportunity to explore when and how networks linking the polity ...
Social media and politics of identity
(2024)
The role of digital platforms in setting up symbolic systems, shared know-ledge, feelings of belonging, inclusion and exclusion dynamics, innova-tion and social transformation movements.Based on some ethnographic case ...
Historic Landscapes and Mental Well-being
(2019)
Using archaeological sites and historic landscapes to promote mental health well-being represents one of the most significant advances in archaeological resource management for many years. Its potential contribution to ...
IKUWA6. Shared Heritage
(2020)
Celebrating the theme ‘Shared heritage’, IKUWA6 (the 6th International Congress for Underwater Archaeology), was the first such major conference to be held in the Asia-Pacific region, and the first IKUWA meeting hosted ...
The End of Welfare as We Know It?
(2014-01-22)
During the last 30 years, the governments of many Western countries have repeatedly called for an end to welfare. While the virtue of this goal and the means of achieving it continue to be debated in politics, much of ...
Die Sittlichkeit der Sprache
(2012)
Andere Sprachen, andere Gedanken, andere Sitten! Nietzsche versucht in seinen späteren Werken unermüdlich energisch, gerade mit den sprachlichen Gründen und Hintergründen schonungslos die Scheinbarkeit und zugleich die ...
The rise of Africa’s digital economy
(2021)
The rise of an African digital economy is improving millions of lives and rapidly transforming societies. Africa has a unique opportunity to become more sustainable and create economic growth through the better use of data, ...
Trafficking Rhetoric
(2024)
Human trafficking has generated intense global concern, with stories of sex slavery and images of women forced into prostitution so persuasive that states have raced to respond ahead of empirical data and clear definitions ...
Involuntary Associations
(2014-05-28)
The consequences of Englishes spread have become increasingly clear to its diverse speakers. Sometimes associated with a standardization leading to homogenization, often also with imperialism, English is increasingly ...
Genocide as Social Practice
(2014-05-14)
Genocide not only annihilates people but also destroys and reorganizes social relations, using terror as a method. In Genocide as Social Practice, Argentinean social scientist Daniel Feierstein looks at the policies of ...
Fachdidaktik Arbeitslehre
(2023)
Die Lebenswelten der jungen Generationen haben sich seit der Jahrtausendwende mit einer großen Dynamik verändert. Junge Menschen wachsen in einer Welt mit ökonomischen, ökologischen und politischen Krisen auf. Die soziale ...
The Ethics of Armed Conflict
(2014-03-01)
Develops generalised just war principles that can be applied to all forms of armed conflict.
Fachdidaktik Arbeitslehre
(2023)
Die Lebenswelten der jungen Generationen haben sich seit der Jahrtausendwende mit einer großen Dynamik verändert. Junge Menschen wachsen in einer Welt mit ökonomischen, ökologischen und politischen Krisen auf. Die soziale ...
The Visigothic Kingdom
(2020)
How did the breakdown of Roman rule in the Iberian Peninsula eventually result in the formation of a Visigothic kingdom with authority centralised in Toledo? This collection of essays challenges the view that local powers ...
Manifeste
(2010-12-15)
Politische Manifeste - einst eine Fürsten, Königen und Kaisern vorbehaltene Kommunikationsform - haben sich zu einem Medium protestierender Bürger gewandelt. Anhand einer Reihe von Porträts unternimmt dieser Band eine ...
Environmental Conflicts, Migration and Governance
(2020)
EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The globalized era is characterized by a high degree of interconnectedness across borders and continents and this includes human migration. This has led to new governance ...
Fires in GunaiKurnai Country
(2023)
Anthropogenic climate change has become a reality, and in Australia this means longer wildfire seasons with more intense fires across a wider area. The GunaiKurnai people of southeastern Victoria saw a large proportion of ...
Land of Necessity
(2009)
Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.
In Land of Necessity, historians and anthropologists unravel the interplay of the national and transnational ...
Thoughts on grammaticalization
(2015)
After a short review of the history of research, the work introduces and delimits the concepts related to grammaticalization. It then provides extensive exemplification of grammaticalization phenomena in diverse languages, ...
Jüdisches Leben auf dem Lande
(2024)
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Finding Jerusalem
(2017)
Archaeological discoveries in Jerusalem capture worldwide attention in various media outlets. The continuing quest to discover the city’s physical remains is not simply an attempt to define Israel’s past or determine its ...