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Schwärme im Recht
(2023)
Menschliche "Schwärme", also lose verbundene und nicht hierarchische Personenmehrheiten, stellen das Recht vielfach vor bekannte und neue Regulierungsaufgaben. Wesentliche Treiber der losen Zusammenschlüsse sind ...
The size of things I
(2021)
This book focuses on the role size plays in grammar. Under the umbrella term size fall the size of syntactic projections, the size of feature content, and the size of reference sets. The contributions in this first volume ...
Coaching im digitalen Wandel
(2020)
Im Handlungsfeld Coaching stellt die Digitalisierung alle Beteiligten vor massive Herausforderungen. Ein flächendeckendes Umdenken findet spätestens seit der weltweiten Corona-Pandemie statt – mit folgenreichen Konsequenzen ...
Nachhaltigkeit im Unterricht berufsbildender Schulen
(2020)
In seiner Dissertation entwickelt, erprobt und evaluiert der Autor ein wissenschaftliches Fortbildungskonzept für Berufsschullehrende zum Unterrichtsthema nachhaltiges Handeln im Beruf. Um die Leitidee der Nachhaltigkeit ...
After Queer Theory
(2013-11-20)
After Queer Theory makes the provocative claim that queer theory has run its course, made obsolete by the elaboration of its own logic within capitalism. James Penney argues that far from signalling the end of anti-homophobic ...
Die Wiener Stadtbücher 1395-1430
(2018)
Das „Wiener Stadtbuch“ stellt eine Rechtsquelle ersten Ranges dar. Die Aufzeichnungen über das Rechtsleben einer der größten Städte Mitteleuropas spannen sich von 1395–1430. Der vorliegende 5. Teil enthält die Eintragungen ...
Negro Soy Yo
(2016)
In Negro Soy Yo Marc D. Perry explores Cuba’s hip hop movement as a window into the racial complexities of the island’s ongoing transition from revolutionary socialism toward free-market capitalism. Centering on the music ...
Flight and Migration from Africa to Europe
(2020)
This publication collects contributions to understanding and addressing migration flows from Africa to Europe and supporting social coexistence in the destination countries. Written by experts in psychology and social work, ...
Martin Scorsese's Divine Comedy
(2018)
Catherine O’Brien draws on the structure of Dante’s Divine Comedy to explore Scorsese’s feature films from Who’s that knocking at my door (1967-69) to Silence (2016). In Dante’s poem in 100 cantos, the Pilgrim is guided ...
Footprints in Paradise
(2017-04-30)
In Okinawa, the southernmost prefecture of Japan, “ecotourism” promises to provide employment for a dwindling population of rural youth while preserving the natural environment and bolstering regional pride. Footprints in ...
Qualitätsmonitor 2020
(2020)
Die Qualität der Versorgung, ihre Sicherung, Verbesserung und Incentivierung sind das erklärte Ziel der Gesetzgebung im Gesundheitswesen der letzten Jahre. Der Qualitätsmonitor widmet sich mit der aktuellen Ausgabe der ...
Michel Houellebecq
(2013-03-19)
Michel Houellebecq is perhaps the single most successful and controversial of all contemporary novelists writing in French. Houellebecq has become a global publishing phenomenon: his books have been translated worldwide, ...
Logics of War
(2013-03-13)
Most wars between countries end quickly and at relatively low cost. The few in which high-intensity fighting continues for years bring about a disproportionate amount of death and suffering. What separates these few unusually ...
FISH Handbook for Biological Wastewater Treatment
(2009-07-14)
The FISH Handbook for Biological Wastewater Treatment provides all the required information for the user to be able to identify and quantify important microorganisms in activated sludge and biofilms by using fluorescence ...
African Identities and International Politics
(2022)
Using the lenses of realism, liberalism, the English School and constructivism, this book explains how the divisions and differences in African identities affect African international politics.
This book explores the ...
Beruflich Qualifizierte im Studium
(2015-11-06)
The separation of academic and vocational training has a long tradition in Germany. The introduction of third level study courses without A level prerequisite was supposed to make the education system less exclusive. Against ...
Time-Periodic Solutions to the Equations of Magnetohydrodynamics with Background Magnetic Field
(2020)
In the first part of this thesis we extend the theory of anisotropic Triebel-Lizorkin spaces to time-periodic functions. In particular, the spatial trace space is determined together with the existence of extension operators. ...
Interpreting and technology
(2019-04-17)
Unlike other professions, the impact of information and communication technology on interpreting has been moderate so far. However, recent advances in the areas of remote, computer-assisted, and, most recently, machine ...
Belonging and Becoming in a Multicultural World
(2019)
Children and youth are front and center in the context of global mass migration and the social discord around questions of multicultural inclusion that it often ignites. It is young people at the forefront of navigating ...
The 15 circular steps for cities – Second edition
(2021)
The transition to a circular economy not only conserves resources, but also reduces environmental and climate impacts. It fosters innovation and thereby increases competitiveness and creates new jobs. Cities can be ...
Energiewende und Megatrends
(2020)
Die Energiewende findet gesellschaftlich nicht im »luftleeren Raum« statt: Sie kann sich nur im Kontext anderer tiefgreifender Prozesse sozialen Wandels vollziehen. Digitalisierung, Mobilität, Urbanisierung - diese und ...
Africa's Lions
(2016-11-22)
Africa's Lions examines the economic growth experiences of six fast-growing and/or economically dominant African countries. Expert African researchers offer unique perspectives into the challenges and issues in Ethiopia, ...
Diesseits vom Abseits - Studien zur beruflichen Benachteiligtenförderung (Volume 30)
(2005)
Jugendliche mit besonderem Förderbedarf beim Übergang von der Schule in die Berufs- und Arbeitswelt gibt es seit vielen Jahren. In Deutschland sind inzwischen 15-20% eines Altersjahrgangs durch Ausgrenzung bedroht. Empirische ...
Utopia and Modernity in China
(2022)
The contradictions of modernisation run through the whole of modern Chinese history. The abundance of manufactured goods being sold in the west attests to China’s industrial revolution, but this capitalist vision of 'utopia' ...
Environmental Aspects of Zoonotic Diseases
(2012-01-31)
Environmental Aspects of Zoonotic Diseases provides a definitive description, commentary and research needs of environmental aspects related to zoonotic diseases. There are many interrelated connections between the environment ...
Contextualizing Disaster
(2016)
"Contextualizing Disaster" offers a comparative analysis of six recent highly visible disasters and several slow-burning, hidden, crises that include typhoons, tsunamis, earthquakes, chemical spills, and the unfolding ...
Imagining the Peoples of Europe
(2019)
This volume explores the new political order with a particular focus on discursive constructions of 'the people' and the category of populism across the spectrum.
Selling Transracial Adoption
(2018-01-01)
"Chosen Children" examines the role of the adoption marketplace in shaping how transracial adoptive families are sorted and matched, and analyzes what these practices suggest about race in the United States. In contrast ...
Perception in Aristotle’s Ethics
(2018-02-15)
Rabinoff strives to account for ethical perception (aisthesis) in Aristotle’s ethics—to give it a place of importance in ethical choice and action—and to offer an account of the faculty of perception expansive enough to ...
EIB Investment Report 2019/2020 - Key Findings
(2019)
The Investment Report, issued annually by the European Investment Bank, provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of investment and the financing of investment in the European Union. It combines the exploration of ...
Der apokryphe Briefwechsel zwischen Seneca und Paulus
(2006)
In der zweiten Hälfte des 4. Jahrhunderts erfand ein unbekannter Autor einen Briefwechsel zwischen Seneca und Paulus. Die vierzehn kurzen Briefe, acht vom Philosophen, sechs vom Apostel, sind in sehr schlechtem spätantikem ...
The Modernist Anthropocene
(2023)
The Modernist Anthropocene examines how modernist writers forged new and innovative ways of responding to rapidly changing planetary conditions and emergent ideas about nonhuman life, environmental change and the human ...
Arqueología y aleteiología
(2014)
El presente volumen reúne catorce estudios publicados entre 1994 y 2014, en revistas especializadas de Europa y Latinoamérica. Los estudios abordan diferentes aspectos del pensamiento heideggeriano, tal como éste se ...
Die Indigenenbewegung in Ecuador
(2013-12-15)
Die Indigenenbewegung ist trotz ihrer enormen Diversität ein wichtiger sozialer Akteur in der ecuadorianischen Gesellschaft. Seit einer Sattelzeit zwischen Mitte der 1970er und Mitte der 1980er Jahre hat sie einen Diskurs ...
Chinese Surplus
(2018-01-05)
In CHINESE SURPLUS Ari Heinrich dissects the figure of the medically or artistically commodified body in Chinese culture and popular science. Providing a history of how bodies have been thought and seen to mirror the nation, ...
Smart Europe (Volume 4)
(2019)
A green digital economy could change the future of the Old Continent. The new Smart Europe will be based on three elements: new communication technologies, new sources of energy and new modes of mobility. But the transition ...
EIB Working Paper 2020/07 - The growing digital divide in Europe and the United States (Volume 2020/7)
(2020)
Using the EIBIS Digital and Skills Survey on digitalisation activities of firms in the EU and the US, this study confirms the trend toward a growing digital divide in the corporate landscape with, on one side, many firms ...
Asyl verwalten
(2017-02-15)
Wie gehen Verwaltungsbehörden mit den oftmals komplexen und eigensinnigen Geschichten von Flucht und Asyl um, wie wird daraus ein "Fall" und wie entsteht eine Entscheidung? Im Kontext europäischer Koordinierungsversuche ...
Anwaltliche Berufsausübung im Dienste des Rechtsstaats
(2023)
Rechtsanwälte haben rechtsordnungsübergreifend eine wichtige rechtsstaatliche Funktion. Doch anders als die richterliche Unabhängigkeit, die in den europäischen wie mitgliedstaatlichen Verfassungstexten ausdrücklich erwähnt ...
Mapping Society
(2018)
From a rare map of yellow fever in eighteenth-century New York, to Charles Booth’s famous maps of poverty in nineteenth-century London, an Italian racial zoning map of early twentieth-century Asmara, to a map of wealth ...
Integration von Zuwanderern
(2010-07-15)
Was fördert, was hemmt die Integration von Zuwanderern? Welche Konzepte können als erfolgreich angesehen werden? Vor dem Hintergrund internationaler Erfahrungen greifen die Beiträge dieses Bandes zentrale Themen der Debatte ...
Reality Bites
(2018)
Fake news, alternative facts, post truth—terms all too familiar to anyone in U.S. political culture and concepts at the core of Dana L. Cloud’s new book, Reality Bites, which explores truth claims in contemporary political ...
Migration and Social Pathways
(2017-10-02)
The landscape of European migration has changed considerably over the past decades, in particular after the fall of the iron curtain and again after the EU enlargement to the east. The author researches the phenomenon of ...
Ethics or the Right Thing?
(2022)
A sympathetic examination of the failure of anti-corruption efforts in contemporary Indonesia. Combining ethnographic fieldwork in the city of Kupang with an acute historical sensibility, Sylvia Tidey shows how good ...
What is Academic Freedom?
(2022)
This book explores the history of the debate, from 1915 to the present, about the meaning of academic freedom, particularly as concerns political activism on the college campus. The book introduces readers to the origins ...
Moral Economies of Corruption
(2016)
Nigeria is famous for "419" emails asking recipients for bank account information and for scandals involving the disappearance of billions of dollars from government coffers. Corruption permeates even minor official ...
A grammar of Mauwake
(2015)
This grammar provides a synchronic grammatical description of Mauwake, a Papuan Trans-New Guinea (TNG) language of about 2000 speakers on the north coast of the Madang Province in Papua New Guinea. It is the first book-length ...
Discourses, Modes, Media and Meaning in an Era of Pandemic
(2022)
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all aspects of our everyday lives – from the political to the economic to the social. Using a multimodal discourse analysis approach, this dynamic collection examines various discourses, ...
Mixtec Evangelicals
(2016)
MIXTEC EVANGELICALS is a comparative ethnography of four Mixtec communities in Oaxaca, detailing the process by which economic migration and religious conversion combine to change the social and cultural makeup of predominantly ...
Book of the Disappeared
(2023)
Book of the Disappeared confronts worldwide human rights violations of enforced disappearance and genocide and explores the global quest for justice with forceful, outstanding contributions by respected scholars, expert ...
Global Player EU?
(2015-05-15)
Die EU wäre gerne ein "global player", der auf dem Spielfeld von Weltwirtschaft und Weltpolitik den großen Jungs den Ball abnimmt. In Politik und Medien wollen die meisten die EU als globalen Spieler sehen, und zwar ...
A Bowl for a Coin
(2019)
A Bowl for a Coin is the first book in any language to describe and analyze the history of all Japanese teas. To understand the triumph of the tea plant in Japan, Wayne Farris begins with its cultivation and goes on to ...
Dropout in der Beruflichen Rehabilitation
(2022)
Aus welchen Gründen brechen Menschen mit Behinderungen eine Berufsausbildung ab? Am Beispiel einer Einrichtung der Beruflichen Rehabilitation haben die Autor:innen des Bandes die Gründe für Dropout analysiert.
In der ...
Parliament in Ethiopia
(2024)
African legislatures remain understudied, yet democratisation, development and peacebuilding all depend on these key political institutions. This book provides an in-depth analysis of Ethiopia’s parliament, a country of ...
Nachleben im Arbeitsmaterial
(2024)
Das Nachleben zu Lebzeiten gestalten. Dokumentation als Versprechen und Verfahren in literarischen Formaten des 20. Jahrhunderts. »Nachleben im Arbeitsmaterial« wirft einen neuen Blick auf die Geschichte dokumentarischer ...
Das Wissen der Einwanderungsgesellschaft
(2023)
Die Verknüpfung von Wissens- und Migrationsgeschichte zeichnet ein neues Bild vom Einwanderungsland Deutschland seit 1945.
Migration verändert den common sense darüber, was in einer Gesellschaft als Wissen anerkannt ...
Der apokryphe Briefwechsel zwischen Seneca und Paulus
(2006-11-13)
Im vierten Jahrhundert erfand ein unbekannter Autor einen Briefwechsel, in dem Seneca zum Freund des Paulus gemacht wird. Jahrhundertelang hat diese Fiktion zu Spekulationen über die Nähe zwischen Stoa und Christentum ...
Enough Already!
(2020)
This text will explore the re-assertion of right-wing populist and fascist movements as presented and distributed in the media. In particular, attacks on immigrants, women, minorities, LGBTQ people are increasing at a ...
The Early Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent
(2020)
The Eastern Fertile Crescent region of western Iran and eastern Iraq hosted major developments in the transition from hunter-forager to farmer-herder lifestyles through the Early Neolithic period, 10,000-7000 BC. Within ...
Piezoelectric Electromechanical Transducers for Underwater Sound, Part II = Пьезоэлектрические электромеханические преобразователи в гидроакустике (Russian-Language Edition)
(2024)
The book presents a broad-scope analysis of piezoelectric electromechanical transducers and the related aspects of practical transducer design for underwater applications. It uses an energy method for analyzing transducer ...
Muße und Gesellschaft
(2019-06-28)
Leisure (otium) is an unfettered lingering in time set loose from instrumental rationality and utilitarianism. It aims to be free from regimes of time and pressures to perform, that is, it aims at freedom set in time yet ...
A Functional, Comprehensive and Extensible Multi-Platform Querying and Transformation Approach
(2016)
This thesis is about a new model querying and transformation approach called FunnyQT which is realized as a set of APIs and embedded domain-specific languages (DSLs) in the JVM-based functional Lisp-dialect Clojure. Founded ...
Porträtgalerien auf Papier
(2018)
Das Sammeln druckgrafischer Bildnisse erfreute sich im 18. Jahrhundert der zunehmenden Wertschätzung einer gebildeten bürgerlichen Sammlerschicht. Auch aristokratische Sammler legten Porträtsammlungen ihrer Ahnen und ...
Turn It and Turn It Again
(2013-04-02)
The study of classical Jewish texts is flourishing in day schools and adult education, synagogues and summer camps, universities and yeshivot. But serious inquiry into the practices and purposes of such study is far rarer. ...
The UNHCR and the Afghan Crisis
(2023)
Today the UNHCR is present in more than 130 countries and takes care of some 90 million people. This book looks at how it is deployed and who its agents are. By taking the reader through the offices in charge of the Afghan ...
Jahrbuch der Deutschen Schillergesellschaft 54/2010
(2023)
Das »Jahrbuch der Deutschen Schillergesellschaft« ist ein literaturwissenschaftliches Periodikum, das vorwiegend Beiträge zur deutschsprachigen Literatur von der Aufklärung bis zur Gegenwart veröffentlicht. Diese Zeitspanne ...
Early Buddhist Transmission and Trade Networks
(2010)
This book examines catalysts for Buddhist formation in ancient South Asia and expansion throughout and beyond the northwestern Indian subcontinent to Central Asia by investigating symbiotic relationships between networks ...
Nachleben im Arbeitsmaterial
(2024)
Das Nachleben zu Lebzeiten gestalten. Dokumentation als Versprechen und Verfahren in literarischen Formaten des 20. Jahrhunderts. »Nachleben im Arbeitsmaterial« wirft einen neuen Blick auf die Geschichte dokumentarischer ...
Children Crossing Borders
(2023)
The Americas are witnessing an era of unprecedented human mobility. With their families or unaccompanied, children are part of this immense movement of people. Children Crossing Bordersexplores the different meanings of ...
Das Wissen der Einwanderungsgesellschaft
(2023)
Die Verknüpfung von Wissens- und Migrationsgeschichte zeichnet ein neues Bild vom Einwanderungsland Deutschland seit 1945.
Migration verändert den common sense darüber, was in einer Gesellschaft als Wissen anerkannt ...
Coal and Energy in South Africa
(2021)
Coal and Energy in South Africa: Considering a Just Transition investigates the consequences of shifting social responsibilities, new inequalities and the sustainability concerns created by the likely energy transition in ...
Посткомуністичні режими = A Concise Field Guide to Post-Communist Regimes
(2023)
The unanticipated and unsolicited Russian aggression against Ukraine in February 2022 highlighted the urgency of updating general assumptions about post-communist countries. The war has revealed the inadequacy of the terms ...
Посткомуністичні режими = A Concise Field Guide to Post-Communist Regimes
(2023)
The unanticipated and unsolicited Russian aggression against Ukraine in February 2022 highlighted the urgency of updating general assumptions about post-communist countries. The war has revealed the inadequacy of the terms ...
Parliament in Ethiopia
(2024)
African legislatures remain understudied, yet democratisation, development and peacebuilding all depend on these key political institutions. This book provides an in-depth analysis of Ethiopia’s parliament, a country of ...
The EIB Climate Survey
(2023)
How are climate changes impacting daily life and economic wellbeing? How do people perceive renewable energy solutions?The inaugural African edition of the European Investment Bank Climate Survey provides some insights. ...
The EIB Climate Survey
(2023)
How are climate changes impacting daily life and economic wellbeing? How do people perceive renewable energy solutions?The inaugural African edition of the European Investment Bank Climate Survey provides some insights. ...
Secession and Security
(2017-11-15)
Since World War II, separatist conflicts have been the most common and deadly types of war in international politics. Such wars result from a simple incongruity: ethno-nationalist groups desire a homeland, but on territory ...
Green Politics in China
(2013)
Based on interviews with members of grassroots organisations, media and government institutions, Green Politics in China is an in-depth account of the novel ways Chinese society is responding to its environmental crisis, ...
EIB Global Report 2022/2023 - The impact
(2023)
Building on decades of experience working in Europe’s neighbourhood, in Africa and around the world, under EU mandates and in support of EU policy priorities, EIB Global brings together all the financial, engineering and ...
Care Work 4.0
(2021)
Digitalisierung ist auch in den Humandienstleistungsberufen eine Kraft, die viel verändert. Der Sammelband zeichnet ein detailliertes Bild der Probleme und Aufgaben für die berufliche sowie akademische Aus- und Weiterbildung ...
Keys to The Gift
(2011-08-01)
"Yuri Leving’s Keys to The Gift: A Guide to Vladimir Nabokov’s Novel is a new systematization of the main available data on Nabokov’s most complex Russian
novel, The Gift (1934–1939). From notes in Nabokov’s private ...
Demokratie morgen
(2013-05-15)
Für die Nachkriegsgenerationen in Deutschland ist Demokratie eine Selbstverständlichkeit. Doch welche Spielräume hat besonnene demokratische Abwägung in Zeiten globalisierter Märkte, Rating-Agenturen und Expertenkommissionen? ...
Care Work 4.0
(2021)
Digitalisierung ist auch in den Humandienstleistungsberufen eine Kraft, die viel verändert. Der Sammelband zeichnet ein detailliertes Bild der Probleme und Aufgaben für die berufliche sowie akademische Aus- und Weiterbildung ...
Refugees and the Ethics of Forced Displacement
(2016)
This book is a philosophical analysis of the ethical treatment of refugees and stateless people, a group of people who, though extremely important politically, have been greatly under theorized philosophically. The limited ...
Refugees and the Ethics of Forced Displacement
(2016)
This book is a philosophical analysis of the ethical treatment of refugees and stateless people, a group of people who, though extremely important politically, have been greatly under theorized philosophically. The limited ...
Demokratie morgen
(2013-05-15)
Für die Nachkriegsgenerationen in Deutschland ist Demokratie eine Selbstverständlichkeit. Doch welche Spielräume hat besonnene demokratische Abwägung in Zeiten globalisierter Märkte, Rating-Agenturen und Expertenkommissionen? ...
Keys to The Gift
(2011-08-01)
"Yuri Leving’s Keys to The Gift: A Guide to Vladimir Nabokov’s Novel is a new systematization of the main available data on Nabokov’s most complex Russian
novel, The Gift (1934–1939). From notes in Nabokov’s private ...
Concrete Expressions
(2013-12-01)
This monograph focusses on a cohesive group of four government buildings constructed in Adelaide during the 1970s. Designed by different architects, the buildings all feature monolithic, austere forms and broadly similar ...
Concrete Expressions
(2013-12-01)
This monograph focusses on a cohesive group of four government buildings constructed in Adelaide during the 1970s. Designed by different architects, the buildings all feature monolithic, austere forms and broadly similar ...
Contemporary Australian Literature
(2015-12-01)
Australia has been seen as a land of both punishment and refuge. Australian literature has explored these controlling alternatives, and vividly rendered the landscape on which they transpire. Twentieth-century writers left ...
The Repoliticization of the Welfare State
(2022)
The Repoliticization of the Welfare State grapples with the evolving nature of political conflict over social spending after the Great Recession. While the severity of the economic crisis encouraged strong social spending ...
Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future
(2021)
Analyzing the confluence between coloniality and activist art, Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future argues that there is much to gain from approaching contemporary politically committed art practices from the angle of ...
Punishment and Political Order
(2007-06-08)
Most of us think of punishment as an ugly display of power. But punishment also tells us something about the ideals and aspirations of a people and their government. How a state punishes reveals whether or not it is confident ...
Muße im 18. Jahrhundert
(2023)
Dass Muße im 18. Jahrhundert ein facettenreiches Phänomen ist, zeigen die hier versammelten Beiträge aus den germanistischen, romanistischen und anglistischen Kultur- und Literaturwissenschaften. In einem Zeitalter, das ...
Punishment and Political Order
(2007-06-08)
Most of us think of punishment as an ugly display of power. But punishment also tells us something about the ideals and aspirations of a people and their government. How a state punishes reveals whether or not it is confident ...
Geopolitics by other means
(2019-02-01)
The Asia-Pacific has become the Indo-Pacific region as the US, Japan, Australia and India have decided to join forces and scale-up their political, economic and security cooperation. The message coming from Washington, ...
Education for Social Justice
(2024)
Education for Social Justice is a statement of the role of education in promoting social justice. Drawing on research, this book explains what social justice is, presents the argument that democracy requires a commitment ...
Kinder des Krieges, Gewissen der Nation
(2020)
›Skandale‹ um geheim gehaltene Verstrickungen in den Nationalsozialismus haben u. a. mit Grass, Andersch oder Walser zentrale Mitglieder der Gruppe 47 betroffen. Die Studie fragt erstmals systematisch nach der Bedeutung ...
A grammar of Pite Saami
(2014)
Pite Saami is a highly endangered Western Saami language in the Uralic language family currently spoken by a few individuals in Swedish Lapland. This grammar is the first extensive book-length treatment of a Saami language ...
Marmaduke Pickthall: Islam and the Modern World
(2016)
Marmaduke Pickthall: Islam and the Modern World makes an important contribution to the field of Muslims in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. This volume of essays marks eighty years since the death of ...