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Putting Inequality in Context
(2017)
Rising income inequality is highlighted as one of the largest challenges facing the United States, affecting civic participation and political representation. Although the wealthy often can and do exert more political ...
Information structure in Isthmus Zapotec narrative and conversation
(2019-03-30)
This book presents an in-depth description of information structure in Isthmus Zapotec, an Otomanguean language spoken by around 50,000 people in southeastern Oaxaca, Mexico, and represents the first book-length treatment ...
Pulling Together or Pulling Apart?
(2019-02-28)
In the aftermath of the twentieth century’s raging warfare, attempts were made to create an environment in which new relationships between European nations could be built around a common identity. Yet, in the twenty-first ...
Praxishandbuch Männergesundheit
(2012)
Neue wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse zu Gender-Aspekten zeigen deutliche Problemfelder und Gesundheitsnachteile bei Männern auf. Dazu gehören Tabuthemen wie psychische Störungen bei Männern, Verzögerung von Arztbesuchen und ...
History from the Bottom Up & The Inside Out
(2017)
History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out James R. Barrett rethinks the boundaries of American social and labor history by investigating the ways in which working-class, radical, and immigrant people's personal lives ...
Die Verwaltung der Prostitution
(2009-02-15)
Prostitution wird häufig als moralisches oder rechtliches Problem diskutiert. Sie ist aber auch eine Herausforderung für die (lokale) Verwaltung: Polizisten bekämpfen Menschenhandel, Gesundheitsämter fürchten um die ...
Endangered Languages in the 21st Century
(2023)
Endangered Languages in the 21st Century provides research on endangered languages in the contemporary world, the challenges still to be faced, the work still to be done, and the methods and practices that have come to ...
World Wide Warriors
(2019)
The contributions of this volume aim at a new, evidence based approach to Jihadism studies. What is the structure of Jihadi online communication and the dissemination of operational material online? Which errors were made ...
Die Geburt der Literatur aus der Aggada
(2010)
Der Modernisierungsprozess des deutschen Judentums im 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert ist geprägt von einer umfassenden Transformation jüdischer Traditionselemente. Im Zentrum dieses Prozesses stehen zwei Bestandteile der ...
Ringen um Versöhnung II
(2019)
Seit der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts wird im politisch-gesellschaftlichen Kontext der eigentlich religiös konnotierte Begriff „Versöhnung“ immer häufiger zur Beschreibung von Konfliktlösungsstrategien benutzt. Doch ...
Choral Societies and Nationalism in Europe (Volume 9)
(2015)
This wide-ranging contribution to the study of nationalism and the social history of music examines the relationship between choral societies and national mobilization in the nineteenth century. From Norway to the Basque ...
Choral Societies and Nationalism in Europe (Volume 9)
(2015)
This wide-ranging contribution to the study of nationalism and the social history of music examines the relationship between choral societies and national mobilization in the nineteenth century. From Norway to the Basque ...
Muße-Diskurse
(2019-06-28)
The literary discourses of this volume on »Muße«, »dosug«, and »prazdnost'« (leisure) open up new perspectives on the development of Russian culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by means of lexical and semantic ...
Putting Inequality in Context
(2017)
Rising income inequality is highlighted as one of the largest challenges facing the United States, affecting civic participation and political representation. Although the wealthy often can and do exert more political ...
Anthropologie der Theorie
(2019-10-28)
The link between leisure and contemplative activity, as paradigmatically developed in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, has a pre- and long post-history reaching into present day philosophy and theology. Aristotle's melding ...
The Problem of Enforcement in International Law
(2011)
This book explores the contentious topic of how collective and community issues should be protected and enforced in international law. Elena Katselli Proukaki takes a detailed look at the issue of third-State countermeasures, ...
The Earliest Europeans
(2020)
The Earliest Europeans explores the early origins of man in Europe through the perspective of ‘a year in the life’: how hominins in the Lower Palaeolithic coped with the year-round practical challenges of mid-latitude ...
The Earliest Europeans
(2020)
The Earliest Europeans explores the early origins of man in Europe through the perspective of ‘a year in the life’: how hominins in the Lower Palaeolithic coped with the year-round practical challenges of mid-latitude ...
Maintaining Peace and Interstate Stability in Archaic and Classical Greece
(2012)
This volume presents the contributions to a symposium held on May 9th, 2009 at the Humanities Center at Harvard University that focused on the question of how peace and interstate stability were established and maintained ...
Medieval Floor Tiles of Northern England
(2005)
This study of the design, manufacture and use of medieval floor tiles shows the long-lasting influence achieved in the north of England, especially by the Cistercian monasteries. It serves to demonstrate how these monastic ...
Grammaticalization in the North: Noun phrase morphosyntax in Scandinavian vernaculars
(2015)
This book looks at some phenomena within the grammar of the noun phrase in a group of traditional North Germanic varieties mainly spoken in Sweden and Finland, usually seen as Swedish dialects, although the differences ...
Modeling information structure in a cross-linguistic perspective
(2017)
This study makes substantial contributions to both the theoretical and computational treatment of information structure, with a specific focus on creating natural language processing applications such as multilingual machine ...
Die Sprachwissenschaft: Ihre Aufgaben, Methoden und bisherigen Ergebnisse
(2016)
"""Die Sprachwissenschaft"" is the magnum opus of the German sinologist and linguist Georg von der Gabelentz (1840-1893), a late 19th-century representative of the Humboldtian tradition of linguistic research. The book ...
Paul's Anthropology in Context
(2023)
George H. van Kooten offers a radical contextualization of Paul's view of man within the Graeco-Roman discourse of his day. On the one hand, important anthropological terminology such as "image of God" and "spirit" derives ...
American Politics and the Environment, Second Edition
(2016)
Changing our environmental policy has been at the forefront of many political discussions. But how can we make this change come about? In American Politics and the Environment, Second Edition, Byron W. Daynes, Glen Sussman ...
Jüdische Minderheit und Industrialisierung
(2024)
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Networks and institutions in Europe's emerging markets
(2014)
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 ...
Verordnete Arbeit - Gelenkte Freizeit
(2023)
Der vorliegende Band untersucht Muße-Diskurse und -Praktiken angesichts der einschneidenden Umbrüche in Russland ab 1917. Es gilt, Konzepte von Muße hinsichtlich ihrer Realisierung oder ihres systembedingten Ausbleibens ...
Pulling Together or Pulling Apart?
(2019-02-28)
In the aftermath of the twentieth century’s raging warfare, attempts were made to create an environment in which new relationships between European nations could be built around a common identity. Yet, in the twenty-first ...
The Problem of Enforcement in International Law
(2011)
This book explores the contentious topic of how collective and community issues should be protected and enforced in international law. Elena Katselli Proukaki takes a detailed look at the issue of third-State countermeasures, ...
Verordnete Arbeit - Gelenkte Freizeit
(2023)
Der vorliegende Band untersucht Muße-Diskurse und -Praktiken angesichts der einschneidenden Umbrüche in Russland ab 1917. Es gilt, Konzepte von Muße hinsichtlich ihrer Realisierung oder ihres systembedingten Ausbleibens ...
Pathways to the Present
(2007-02-28)
'Pathways to the Present' is a thoroughly researched and concisely argued account of economic and environmental change in the postwar "American" Pacific, covering interactions among native Hawaiian, developmental, military, ...
Prisons in the Late Ottoman Empire
(2014-04-11)
Contrary to the stereotypical images of torture, narcotics and brutal sexual behaviour traditionally associated with Ottoman (or ‘Turkish’) prisons, Kent F. Schull argues that these places were sites of immense reform and ...
Das NPD-Verbotsverfahren
(2020)
Das NPD-Verbotsverfahren der Jahre 2013 bis 2017 war eines der aufwändigsten Verfahren in der Geschichte des Bundesverfassungsgerichts. Inhaltlich hat das Urteil "eine weit über die Entscheidung des konkreten Einzelfalls ...
Die Geburt der Literatur aus der Aggada
(2010)
Der Modernisierungsprozess des deutschen Judentums im 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert ist geprägt von einer umfassenden Transformation jüdischer Traditionselemente. Im Zentrum dieses Prozesses stehen zwei Bestandteile der ...
Die rechtsgeschäftliche Haftung für den Accountmissbrauch im Internet
(2015-02-23)
Matthias Schneider untersucht vor dem Hintergrund der Bedeutung von Accounts für den elektronischen Rechtsverkehr, inwieweit der Accountinhaber rechtsgeschäftlich für das missbräuchliche Handeln Dritter haftet. Dazu liefert ...
Risk Assessment in Air Traffic Management
(2020)
One of the most complex challenges for the future of aviation is to ensure a safe integration of the expected air traffic demand. Air traffic is expected to almost double its current value in 20 years, which cannot be ...
Inclusion through Exclusion
(2018-11-15)
How do young people from immigrant families become engaged in politics? Anja Schmidt-Kleinert examines the case of young Israelis who are actively engaged with the nationalist Yisra'el Beitenu party, led by the Israeli ...
Risk Assessment in Air Traffic Management
(2020)
One of the most complex challenges for the future of aviation is to ensure a safe integration of the expected air traffic demand. Air traffic is expected to almost double its current value in 20 years, which cannot be ...
Complementizers on edge
(2023)
This book offers a comparative perspective on the structural and interpretive properties of root-clause complementizers in Ibero-Romance. The driving question the author seeks to answer is where the boundaries between ...