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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 ...
Lament in Jewish Thought
(2014-09-29)
This collection features essays by leading scholars on the philosophical, theological, poetic and cultural aspects of lament, touching on the textual traditions of lament in Judaism, from Biblical, rabbinic and medieval ...
Die Akten des Kaiserlichen Reichshofrats (RHR) – Serie I
(2019)
The Aulic Council is one of the most outstanding European supreme courts of its time and one of the most important institutions of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation in the early modern period (16th-18th century). ...
Socialism, Capitalism and Alternatives
(2019)
In 1989 the Berlin Wall came down. Two years later the Soviet Union disintegrated. The collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union discredited the idea of socialism for generations to come. It was seen as ...
Wissenschaftliches Schreiben interkulturell
(2019)
Wissenschaftliche Texte sind durch unterschiedliche Bildungstraditionen und Schreibkulturen geprägt, die sich unter anderem in verschiedenen Schreibkonventionen und Formulierungsroutinen ausdrücken. Die Beiträge in diesem ...
Zeitwesen
(2020)
Zwischen 1900 und 1945 vollzogen sich in Osterreich tiefgreifende gesellschaftliche und politische Veranderungen. Wie nahmen KunstlerInnen sich und ihre Rolle in jener Zeit des Wandels wahr? Wie reagierten sie auf politische ...
Wissenschaftliches Schreiben interkulturell
(2019)
Wissenschaftliche Texte sind durch unterschiedliche Bildungstraditionen und Schreibkulturen geprägt, die sich unter anderem in verschiedenen Schreibkonventionen und Formulierungsroutinen ausdrücken. Die Beiträge in diesem ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Les héroïnes de séries américaines
(2017-09-07)
Est-il possible pour les héroïnes de Sex and the City de réconcilier féminité et féminisme ? Les déceptions amoureuses d'Ally Mc Beal traduisent-elle un modèle romantique à bout de souffle ? Reflet des évolutions de la ...
Von der Exklusion zur Inklusion
(2020)
In diesem Sammelband wird das Aufgabenspektrum der Weiterbildung an Hochschulen neu gedacht und erweitert. Ausgehend von der Grundbedeutung des Begriffs "Inklusion" als Beteiligung und Berücksichtigung von Menschen in ...
Von der Exklusion zur Inklusion
(2020)
In diesem Sammelband wird das Aufgabenspektrum der Weiterbildung an Hochschulen neu gedacht und erweitert. Ausgehend von der Grundbedeutung des Begriffs "Inklusion" als Beteiligung und Berücksichtigung von Menschen in ...
Art beyond Borders
(2016)
This book presents and analyzes artistic interactions both within the Soviet bloc and with the West between 1945 and 1989. During the Cold War the exchange of artistic ideas and products united Europe’s avant-garde in a ...
Österreichische Historiker
(2019)
Das Buch enthält 13 ausführliche Porträts österreichischer Historiker. Es knüpft konzeptionell an zwei Vorgängerbände an, die 2008 und 2012 erschienen sind, und schließt diese Serie nun ab. Die Porträts setzen sich mit den ...
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 ...
Augmented Reality
(2017-03-01)
There is at present no publication specifically dedicated to analyzing the philosophical implications of augmented reality. Applications cover diverse fields like psychopathology and education, implications concern issues ...
Der deutsche "Dialog mit der islamischen Welt"
(2014-12-15)
Kulturdialog, Interkultureller Dialog, Islamdialog, Transformationsdialog - wer spricht da eigentlich mit wem und vor allem wie? Vom 11. September 2001 bis zu den Umbrüchen in der arabischen Welt 2011 gewährt das Buch ...
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, ...
Les héroïnes de séries américaines
(2017-09-07)
Est-il possible pour les héroïnes de Sex and the City de réconcilier féminité et féminisme ? Les déceptions amoureuses d'Ally Mc Beal traduisent-elle un modèle romantique à bout de souffle ? Reflet des évolutions de la ...
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 ...
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 ...
Photocatalytic Water and Wastewater Treatment
(2022)
This book aims to provide an overview of how photocatalysis can be employed in water and wastewater treatment. Each chapter will attend to a different area of interest, starting with an introduction on the fundamentals of ...
Dissent! Refracted
(2016-04-20)
This collection of essays addresses the ongoing problem of dissent from a broad range of disciplinary perspectives: political philosophy, intellectual history, literary studies, aesthetics, architectural history and ...
Zeitwesen
(2020)
Zwischen 1900 und 1945 vollzogen sich in Osterreich tiefgreifende gesellschaftliche und politische Veranderungen. Wie nahmen KunstlerInnen sich und ihre Rolle in jener Zeit des Wandels wahr? Wie reagierten sie auf politische ...
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 ...
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, ...
Les dimensions du temps
(2024)
Le temps est le concept de transition par excellence qui a certes son origine dans la Nature, mais qui permet aussi l'idée d'un développement de l'esprit - et c'est l'esprit (Geist) qui apparaît ensuite dans un autre cadre ...
Ancient Worlds in Film and Television
(2020)
More than a century ago, filmmakers made their primary focus innovative and widely promulgated visions of antiquity, creating a profound effect on the critical, popular, and scholarly reception of antiquity. In this volume, ...
Language, creoles, varieties
(2024)
This book offers a selection of papers dealing with second language acquisition, foreign language teaching and creole linguistics inspired by the scientific legacy of Mauritian-born scholar Georges Daniel Véronique ...
Language, creoles, varieties
(2024)
This book offers a selection of papers dealing with second language acquisition, foreign language teaching and creole linguistics inspired by the scientific legacy of Mauritian-born scholar Georges Daniel Véronique ...
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 ...
Mongrel Nation
(2007)
Mongrel Nation surveys the history of the United Kingdom's African, Asian, and Caribbean populations from 1948 to the present, working at the juncture of cultural studies, literary criticism, and postcolonial theory. Ashley ...
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 ...
Europa an der Oder
(2008-09-15)
Die deutsch-polnische Grenze ist seit Beginn der 1990er Jahre Schauplatz grenzpolizeilicher Kooperationen. Doch warum entschließen sich Nationalstaaten zur Zusammenarbeit in diesem sensiblen Bereich? Und wieso soll ...
Les dieux olympiens et la mer
(2019)
While the claim that the Greeks are a seafaring people can be qualified, it is nonetheless undeniable that the sea represents a major geographic aspect of the ancient Greek world. It is therefore hardly surprising that ...
EIB Working Paper 2022/12 - Determinants of the exchange rate, its volatility and currency crash risk in Africa’s low and lower middle-income countries
(2022)
"The last three decades have witnessed substantial changes in the foreign exchange markets in Africa, with moves towards liberalisation and flexible exchange rate regimes. This has increased the influence of financial ...
Scandal and Democracy
(2019-03-15)
After a nation has transitioned from authoritarianism to democracy, how are democratic norms most effectively fostered and maintained? This book uses as its case study Indonesia after the fall of the dictator Suharto to ...
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 ...
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 ...