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Modernism and the Choreographic Imagination
(2021)
"This book explores Salome’s quintessential veiled dance through readings of fictional and poetic texts, dramatic productions, dance performances and silent films, arguing for the central place of this dancer – and her ...
Gewalt erklären!
(2024)
Gewalt ist ein soziales Ereignis, das alltäglich ist, auch wenn sich Regionen der Welt mitunter massiv in ihren Gewaltniveaus unterscheiden. Und doch wird Gewalt – zumindest in den westlichen Gesellschaften – als Rätsel ...
2023-0285 EIB Investment Survey - European Union Overview
(2023)
This unique insight into the corporate investment in the European Union examines companies 39; finance needs and the constraints they face. The 2023 edition also provides insight into the pressing issues facing firms, such ...
Middlebrow Matters
(2018-10-31)
Middlebrow is a derogatory word that connotes blandness, mediocrity and a failed aspiration to ‘high’ culture. However, when appropriated as a positive term to denote that wide swathe of literature between the challenging ...
Computer als Schöpfer
(2021)
Wem gehört, was eine künstliche Intelligenz erschaffen hat? Bisher ist der Mensch als Schöpfer von Werken und Erfindungen Ausgangspunkt und Legitimationsfigur für das Urheber- und Patentrecht. Doch schon heute steuern ...
Child’s Play
(2017)
Few things make Japanese adults feel quite as anxious today as the phenomenon called the “child crisis.” Various media teem with intense debates about bullying in schools, child poverty, child suicides, violent crimes ...
Child’s Play
(2017)
Few things make Japanese adults feel quite as anxious today as the phenomenon called the “child crisis.” Various media teem with intense debates about bullying in schools, child poverty, child suicides, violent crimes ...
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 ...
2023-0285 EIB Investment Survey - European Union Overview
(2023)
This unique insight into the corporate investment in the European Union examines companies 39; finance needs and the constraints they face. The 2023 edition also provides insight into the pressing issues facing firms, such ...
Idiotism
(2012)
Idiotism examines society in late capitalism where the market logic of neoliberalism has become the new ‘common sense’.
Using the Greek word idios, meaning 'private', Neal Curtis calls this privatisation of the world ...
Changing Deserts
(2012)
Deserts – vast, empty places where time appears to stand still. The very word conjures images of endless seas of sand, blistering heat and a virtual absence of life. However, deserts encompass a large variety of landscapes ...
Landfill Leachate Management
(2024)
Landfill leachate is a complex mix of organics, inorganics and heavy metals produced from the conventional and engineering landfilling practices. The adverse effects of landfill leachate on the human and environmental ...
En Tierras de Hércules. Torregorda - Camposoto - Sancti Petri
(2023)
En tierras de Hércules explores the history and archaeological heritage of the southwest coast of the Isla Gaditana – the territory where the Temple of Hercules and the Idol of Cádiz are said to have stood for more than ...
Adult and Continuing Education in Belarus
(2017-09-20)
This publication gives an overview of central aspects of adult and continuing education in Belarus. Galina Veramejchyk presents a range of data and information regarding adult and continuing education institutions, ¿nancing, ...
Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea
(2009-04-29)
When gun enthusiasts talk about constitutional liberties guaranteed by the Second Amendment, they are referring to freedom in a general sense, but they also have something more specific in mind---freedom from government ...
The Logic of Invention
(2017-11-01)
In this long-awaited sequel to The Invention of Culture, Roy Wagner tackles the logic and motives that underlie cultural invention. Could there be a single, logical factor that makes the invention of the distinction between ...
Moritz Lazarus und Heymann Steinthal
(2024)
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Arbeitsmarkt 2030 - Wirtschaft und Arbeitsmarkt im digitalen Zeitalter
(2016-09-29)
"The third long-term forecast by Economix estimates the implications of the recent influx of refugees on the German labour market as well as the qualification structure among the employees. At the same time, it forecasts ...
Reading Shakespeare's mind
(2017-01-03)
This book shows that William Shakespeare was a more personal writer than any of his innumerable commentators have realised. It asserts that numerous characters and events were drawn from the author's life, and puts faces ...
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 ...
Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik im selbstkritischen Diskurs
(2023)
Zum zehnjährigen Jubiläum der Käthe und Ulrich Pleiß-Stiftung in 2023 wird ein Blick zurück auf die Entwicklung der Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik geworfen: Nachwuchswissenschaftler:innen und Preisträger:innen der Stiftung ...
Transottomanica – Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken
(2019)
Die Geschichte der großen Reiche im östlichen Europa und im Vorderen Orient war sowohl von konfliktträchtiger Konkurrenz als auch von übergreifendem Austausch geprägt, die intensive Verzahnungen hervorbrachten. Vom 16. bis ...
Idiotism
(2012)
Idiotism examines society in late capitalism where the market logic of neoliberalism has become the new ‘common sense’.
Using the Greek word idios, meaning 'private', Neal Curtis calls this privatisation of the world ...
Bildung und Etablierung der DDR-Bezirke in Brandenburg
(2017)
Mit der Verwaltungsreform vom 23. Juli 1952 gab sich die erst drei Jahre zuvor gegründete DDR eine (staatliche) Verwaltungsstruktur, die bis zur Wende 1989/1990 erhalten blieb. Die faktische Abschaffung der Länder und ihre ...
Bildung und Etablierung der DDR-Bezirke in Brandenburg
(2017)
Mit der Verwaltungsreform vom 23. Juli 1952 gab sich die erst drei Jahre zuvor gegründete DDR eine (staatliche) Verwaltungsstruktur, die bis zur Wende 1989/1990 erhalten blieb. Die faktische Abschaffung der Länder und ihre ...
Changing Deserts
(2012)
Deserts – vast, empty places where time appears to stand still. The very word conjures images of endless seas of sand, blistering heat and a virtual absence of life. However, deserts encompass a large variety of landscapes ...
Chinese Circulations
(2011-04-08)
Chinese merchants have traded with Southeast Asia for centuries, sojourning and sometimes settling, during their voyages. These ventures have taken place by land and by sea, over mountains and across deserts, linking China ...
Beyond Borders
(2014-12-04)
The Yunnanese from southwestern China have for millennia traded throughout upland Southeast Asia. Burma in particular has served as a “back door” to Yunnan, providing a sanctuary for political refugees and economic ...
Gender and Christianity in Modern Europe
(2012-07-13)
Since the 1970s the feminization thesis has become a powerful trope in the rewriting of the social history of Christendom. However, this ‘thesis' has triggered some vehement debates, given that men have continued to dominate ...
Reading Shakespeare's mind
(2017-01-03)
This book shows that William Shakespeare was a more personal writer than any of his innumerable commentators have realised. It asserts that numerous characters and events were drawn from the author's life, and puts faces ...
VARIATIONist Linguistics meets CONTACT Linguistics
(2020)
The current volume is dedicated to the inherently heterogeneous nature of language(s) as seen from the perspective of variationist linguistics and contact linguistics, which became established and internationally recognized ...
Rhetorics of Belonging
(2018-05-05)
Describes the formation and operation of a category of Palestinian and Israeli 'world literature' whose authors actively respond to the expectation that their work will 'narrate' the nation, invigorating critical debates ...
Cultural History in Europe
(2011-09-15)
What is the current state of discussion in Cultural History? Which European institutions engage exclusively in Cultural History and which topics do they address? And how will Cultural History develop in the future? These ...
On this and other worlds
(2017)
"This edited volume offers a collection of twelve interlinear texts reflecting the vast linguistic diversity of Amazonia as well as the rich verbal arts and oral literature traditions of Amazonian peoples. Contributions ...
Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea
(2009-04-29)
When gun enthusiasts talk about constitutional liberties guaranteed by the Second Amendment, they are referring to freedom in a general sense, but they also have something more specific in mind---freedom from government ...
Porträt Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung Österreich
(2023)
Die Situation der Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung in Österreich wird in der neuen Auflage des Länderporträts anhand aktueller Daten und Informationen vorgestellt. Nach einer historischen Einführung folgen Informationen über ...
Post-Ottoman Coexistence
(2016-03-01)
In Southeast Europe, the Balkans, and Middle East, scholars often refer to the “peaceful coexistence” of various religious and ethnic groups under the Ottoman Empire before ethnonationalist conflicts dissolved that shared ...
Rethinking Culture and Cultural Analysis
(2013)
The texts in this collection are revised versions of presentations given at the Coimbra International Conference on the Semantics of Culture emph Why ``Culture''?, held on November 24-25, 2011. Their common theme is the ...
Cooling Down
(2022)
Climate change is a slowly advancing crisis sweeping over the planet and affecting different habitats in strikingly diverse ways. While nations have signed treaties and implemented policies, most actual climate change ...
Gewalt erklären!
(2024)
Gewalt ist ein soziales Ereignis, das alltäglich ist, auch wenn sich Regionen der Welt mitunter massiv in ihren Gewaltniveaus unterscheiden. Und doch wird Gewalt – zumindest in den westlichen Gesellschaften – als Rätsel ...