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Blockchain und Recht
(2024)
In den Jahren 2020 bis 2023 wurde am Institut für das Recht der Digitalisierung an der Philipps-Universität Marburg das BMJ-Forschungsprojekt "Blockchain und Recht" durchgeführt. Dieser Sammelband dient zum einen dazu, ...
Philosophy in a Meaningless Life
(2016-12-15)
Provides an account of the nature of philosophy which is rooted in the question of the meaning of life. It makes a powerful and vivid case for believing that this question is neither obscure nor obsolete, but reflects a ...
Networks of Power
(2011-02-18)
Networks of Power reconstructs the course of political history in the poorly documented Naco Valley from the fourteenth through early sixteenth centuries. Describing the material and behavioral patterns pertaining to the ...
The Muselmann at the Water Cooler
(2011-05-01)
"A survivor of concentration camps and the Death March, Eli Pfefferkorn looks back on his Holocaust and post-Holocaust experiences to compare patterns of human behavior in extremis with those of ordinary life. What he finds ...
Hydraulic City
(2017-03-10)
In Hydraulic City Nikhil Anand explores the politics of Mumbai's water infrastructure to demonstrate how citizenship emerges through the continuous efforts to control, maintain, and manage the city's water. Through extensive ...
Zwischenmenschliche Vergebung
(2024)
Ulrike Peisker entwickelt entlang des Phänomens zwischenmenschlicher Vergebung deren systematische Rekonstruktion und nutzt die reformatorische Hermeneutik, zwischenmenschliche Vergebung von protestantisch-theologischer ...
The Internationalization of the Academic Library
(2021)
The Internationalization of the Academic Library presents a theoretically informed, empirically grounded analysis of the process of academic library internationalization.Drawing on interviews with library personnel from ...
Widersprechen in vereinnahmenden Verhältnissen
(2019)
Seit geraumer Zeit sehen sich die öffentlichen Universitäten des deutschsprachigen Raumes weitreichenden Veränderungen gegenüber stehen. Die zunehmenden Bestrebungen, etwa das Verhältnis staatlicher Trägerschaft neu zu ...
Water Stewardship
(2020)
Achieving true wholesome sustainability requires a change of heart. Hence this book starts in the heart. It asks the timely question of ‘how do we become true water stewards?’ The transformation to a new sustainable practice ...
Belastung und Bereicherung
(2020)
Flüchtlinge und Vertriebene aus den ehemaligen deutschen Ostgebieten und anderen Siedlungsräumen in Ostmittel- und Osteuropa kamen ab 1945 in sehr großer Zahl auch nach Brandenburg. Bis Ende 1946 nahm das Land mehr als ...
Gone to Pitchipoi
(2012-10-01)
In Gone to Pitchipoi Katz vividly recalls his experience growing up in the turmoil of WWII, and his extraordinary escape from the constant threats of Nazi occupied Poland. Born in 1931 in the picturesque countryside of ...
The Muselmann at the Water Cooler
(2011-05-01)
"A survivor of concentration camps and the Death March, Eli Pfefferkorn looks back on his Holocaust and post-Holocaust experiences to compare patterns of human behavior in extremis with those of ordinary life. What he finds ...
Digital Objects, Digital Subjects
(2019-01-30)
This book explores activism, research and critique in the age of digital subjects and objects and Big Data capitalism after a digital turn said to have radically transformed our political futures. Optimists assert that the ...
The Arab Revolution of 2011
(2015)
How do we make sense of the Arab revolution of 2011? What were its successes, its failures, and significance in world history? The Arab Revolution of 2011 brings together a broad range of perspectives to explain the causes, ...
When Protest Becomes Crime
(2019)
How does protest become criminalised? Applying an anthropological perspective to political and legal conflicts, Carolijn Terwindt urges us to critically question the underlying interests and logic of prosecuting protesters. ...
Big Water
(2018)
Big Water explores four centuries of the overlapping histories of Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay (the Triple Frontier), and the colonies that preceded them. Examining an important area that includes some of the first ...
Gone to Pitchipoi
(2012-10-01)
In Gone to Pitchipoi Katz vividly recalls his experience growing up in the turmoil of WWII, and his extraordinary escape from the constant threats of Nazi occupied Poland. Born in 1931 in the picturesque countryside of ...
Settlement and History in Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine Galilee
(2009)
Uzi Leibner aims to provide the most accurate picture possible of the nature and history of the rural settlement in the Lower Galilee during Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods when this region played an important ...
Voices of Long-Term Care Workers
(2024)
There were many challenges, successes, and concerns in providing long-term care to older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. Looking at central North Carolina, the authors highlight the implications of providing long-term ...
Zwischenmenschliche Vergebung
(2024)
Ulrike Peisker entwickelt entlang des Phänomens zwischenmenschlicher Vergebung deren systematische Rekonstruktion und nutzt die reformatorische Hermeneutik, zwischenmenschliche Vergebung von protestantisch-theologischer ...
Literature and sustainability
(2017-04-30)
Sustainability has become a key socio-political issue over recent years. However, whilst the literary-critical community has advanced enthusiastically on an exciting range of environmentally-based analyses (most obviously ...
Essential Vulnerabilities
(2016-12-31)
In Essential Vulnerabilities, Deborah Achtenberg contests Emmanuel Levinas’s idea that Plato is a philosopher of freedom for whom thought is a return to the self. Instead, Plato, like Levinas, is a philosopher of the other. ...
The Corporation That Changed the World
(2012)
The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Its trading empire encircled the globe, importing Asian luxuries such as spices, textiles and teas. But the Company’s takeover of much of India was ...
A grammar of Yakkha
(2015)
This grammar provides the first comprehensive grammatical description of Yakkha, a Sino-Tibetan language of the Kiranti branch. Yakkha is spoken by about 14,000 speakers in eastern Nepal, in the Sankhuwa Sabha and Dhankuta ...
Weiterbildungsstatistik im Verbund
(2020)
Die Langzeitstatistik präsentiert Daten zu öffentlich finanzierten Weiterbildungsangeboten in Deutschland, die jährlich vom Deutschen Institut für Erwachsenenbildung (DIE) erhoben und ausgewertet werden. Die Statistiken ...
Poetry and Psychiatry
(2014-11-15)
In this volume, Professor Ljunggren introduces the Symbolists and their feverish expectations in detail. Theirs was a time when for a brief moment everything seemed possible. Then came the rude awakening, best described ...
Fashion, History, Museums
(2019)
The last decade has seen the growing popularity and visibility of fashion as a cultural product, including its growing presence in museum exhibitions. This book explores the history of fashion curating and exhibitions, ...
Ink-Stained Hollywood
(2022)
For the first half of the twentieth century, no American industry boasted a more motley and prolific trade press than the movie business—a cutthroat landscape that set the stage for battle by ink. In 1930, Martin Quigley, ...
Philosophy in a Meaningless Life
(2016-12-15)
Provides an account of the nature of philosophy which is rooted in the question of the meaning of life. It makes a powerful and vivid case for believing that this question is neither obscure nor obsolete, but reflects a ...
Networks of Power
(2011-02-18)
Networks of Power reconstructs the course of political history in the poorly documented Naco Valley from the fourteenth through early sixteenth centuries. Describing the material and behavioral patterns pertaining to the ...
A Contemporary History of Exclusion
(2016)
This study presents the changing situation of the Roma in the second half of the twentieth century. The authors examine the effects of the policies of the Hungarian state towards minorities by analyzing legal regulations, ...
The Corporation That Changed the World
(2012)
The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Its trading empire encircled the globe, importing Asian luxuries such as spices, textiles and teas. But the Company’s takeover of much of India was ...
Rückzugsorte des Erzählens
(2020)
In European cultural history, otiose leisure is regarded as the ideal prerequisite for a retreat into self-contemplation. Anna Karina Sennefelder maps out this topos by analyzing nineteenth century French narrative texts. ...
Kritik, Aktivismus und Prospektivität.
(2019)
Während des kriegerischen Zerfalls von Jugoslawien und der Bildung neuer Nationalstaaten entstand in der Region ein reges Dokumentarfilmschaffen, das sich den dominanten Rhetoriken der Politik entgegenstellte. Anhand dieses ...
Explanation in typology
(2019-04-10)
This volume provides an up-to-date discussion of a foundational issue that has recently taken centre stage in linguistic typology and which is relevant to the language sciences more generally: To what extent can cross-linguistic ...
The state of local infrastructure investment in Europe
(2021)
Europe’s COVID-19 recovery strategy calls for large-scale public investment to “building back better.” Municipalities account for 45% of all public investment – which makes them a key partner in recovery efforts. As poles ...
The World Jewish Congress During The Holocaust - Between Activism and Restraint
(2014)
Drawing on hitherto neglected archival materials, Zohar Segev sheds new light on the policy of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) during the Holocaust. Contrary to popular belief, he can show that there was an impressive ...
Kritische Naturrechtsethik
(2024)
Robert Deinhammer präsentiert einen innovativen Ansatz zur Naturrechtsethik in systematischer Absicht. Bewahrenswerte Anliegen der aristotelisch-thomasischen Tradition werden mit zeitgenössischen philosophischen Einsichten ...