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Ränder der Moderne
(2016)
Die Disziplin der Europäischen Geschichte steht wohl vor der größten Herausforderung ihrer noch jungen Vergangenheit: Die globalhistorische Wende hat viele Grundannahmen der Europäischen Moderne in Frage gestellt und neue ...
Binge-Watching and Contemporary Television Research
(2021)
Focuses on binge-watching and its role in contemporary television studies.
Touching at a Distance
(2023)
Theatre has a remarkable capacity: it touches from a distance. The audience is affected, despite their physical separation from the stage. The spectators are moved, even though the fictional world presented to them will ...
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 ...
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 ...
Begriffsbestimmungen
(2011)
Mathematische Begriffsbildung ist ein zentrales Thema für das Verständnis von Mathematik in erkenntnistheoretischer, logischer sowie auch didaktischer Hinsicht. Die Beiträge in diesem Buch behandeln das Thema in vier ...
EIB Working Paper 2023/05
(2023)
The COVID-19 shock had a strong negative effect on aggregate economic performance, with the average firm taking a hit on sales revenues and financial performance. However, the effects varied from firm to firm. Were ...
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 ...
Body Modification
(2018-03-07)
Die klassischen Formen der Körpermodifikationen, wie Piercings, Tattoos oder Bodybuilding, sind inzwischen allgegenwärtig. Mittlerweile werden medizinisch-ästhetische Eingriffe von (minimalinvasiven) schönheitschirurgischen ...
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 ...
Engaging Environments in Tonga
(2023)
On March 11, 2011, a tsunami warning was issued for Tonga in Polynesia. On the low and small island of Kotu, people were unperturbed in the face of impending catastrophe. The book starts out from the puzzle of peoples’ ...
Linguistic variation, identity construction and cognition
(2015)
Speakers use a variety of different linguistic resources in the construction of their identities, and they are able to do so because their mental representations of linguistic and social information are linked. While the ...
The Cultural Life of Money (Volume 6)
(2015)
The book discusses how culture simultaneously shapes and is shaped by the economy. Over the past few years, as the world has staggered from one financial crisis to another, the neat separation of economics and culture has ...
Das undisziplinierte Kinderzimmer
(2024)
Dem »wilden historischen Denken« auf der Spur. Kinder sind in ihren Zimmern von einer Vielzahl geschichtskultureller Produkte umgeben, die ihr Nachdenken über und ihr Imaginieren von Vergangenheit prägen. Kinderzimmer ...
The Story of Barzu
(2013)
The ancient Persian storytelling tradition has survived until the present day among the Tajik villages in the Gissar mountains of Uzbekistan. This book explores the story of Barzu and demonstrates that the historical ...
Questioning Bodies in Shakespeare's Rome
(2010)
Ancient Rome has always been considered a compendium of City and World. In the Renaissance, an era of epistemic fractures, when the clash between the 'new science' (Copernicus, Galileo, Vesalius, Bacon, etcetera) and the ...
Questioning Bodies in Shakespeare's Rome
(2010)
Ancient Rome has always been considered a compendium of City and World. In the Renaissance, an era of epistemic fractures, when the clash between the 'new science' (Copernicus, Galileo, Vesalius, Bacon, etcetera) and the ...
Actors and Networks in the Megacity
(2017)
This study is a concise introduction to Bruno Latour's Actor-Network Theory and its application in a literary analysis of urban narratives of the 21st century. We encounter well-known psycho-geographers such as Iain Sinclair ...
Über die Produktion von Tönen
(2019)
Die vielfältigen Formen des Musizierens in der österreichischen Zwischenkriegszeit wurden in Konflikten um legitime und illegitime Musizierpraktiken immer wieder neu verhandelt. Im Zusammenhang zeitgenössischer Kategorien ...
Humanitarian Intervention in the Long Nineteenth Century
(2015-06-01)
This book is a comprehensive presentation of humanitarian intervention in theory and practice during the course of the nineteenth century. Through four case studies, it sheds new light on the international law debate and ...
The Indigenous State
(2017)
In 2005, Bolivians elected their first indigenous president, Evo Morales. Ushering in a new “democratic cultural revolution,” Morales promised to overturn neoliberalism and inaugurate a new decolonized society. In this ...
From Self-Fulfilment to Survival of the Fittest
(2015)
Contrary to the assumption that Western and Eastern European economies and cinemas were very different from each other, they actually had much in common. After the Second World War both the East and the West adopted a mixed ...
From Self-Fulfilment to Survival of the Fittest
(2015)
Contrary to the assumption that Western and Eastern European economies and cinemas were very different from each other, they actually had much in common. After the Second World War both the East and the West adopted a mixed ...
Negotiations of the "New World"
(2016-11-15)
Global is everywhere - recent years have seen a significant proliferation of the adjective "global" across discourses. But what do social actors actually do when using this term? Written from within the political studies ...
Arctic Madness
(2020)
The French missionary-linguist Émile Petitot (1838–1916) spent twenty years near the Arctic Circle in Canada, publishing numerous works on First Nations languages and practices. Over time, however, he descended into delirium ...
Bildung in Deutschland 2024
(2024)
Bildung in Deutschland erscheint alle 2 Jahre als umfassende und empirisch fundierte Bestandsaufnahme des deutschen Bildungswesens: von der Frühen Bildung über die allgemeinbildende Schule und die ...
Language Between God and the Poets (Volume 2.0)
(2018)
How does language work? How does language produce truth and beauty? Eleventh-century Arabic scholarship has detailed answers to these universal questions. Language Between God and the Poets reads the theory of four major ...
Speech perception in complex acoustic environments
(2019)
Listeners with hearing impairments have difficulties understanding speech in the presence of background noise. Although prosthetic devices such as hearing aids and cochlear implants may improve the hearing capability, ...
Griechische Götter unter sich
(2019)
In den lukianischen Göttergesprächen wird die traditionelle griechische Götterwelt einer dezidiert ironisch-satirischen Beleuchtung ausgesetzt, die im 2. Jh. n. Chr. nicht zuletzt dem jungen Christentum wichtige Argumente ...
Künstliche Intelligenz
(2022)
Die Technologie der Künstlichen Intelligenz ist im Lebensalltag der Verbraucherinnen und Verbraucher angekommen. Sie begegnet uns in nahezu allen Bereichen - sei es bei der Kommunikation, der Fortbewegung oder im behördlichen ...
The Birth of Capitalism
(2011-08-20)
In the light of the deepening crisis of capitalism and continued non-Western capitalist accumulation, Henry Heller re-examines the debates surrounding the transition from feudalism to capitalism in Europe and elsewhere.
Focusing ...
The Post-Conflict Environment
(2014-08-14)
In case studies focusing on contemporary crises spanning Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe, the scholars in this volume examine the dominant prescriptive practices of late neoliberal post-conflict interventions—such ...
The Birth of Capitalism
(2011-08-20)
In the light of the deepening crisis of capitalism and continued non-Western capitalist accumulation, Henry Heller re-examines the debates surrounding the transition from feudalism to capitalism in Europe and elsewhere.
Focusing ...
Bildungsforschung für Praktiker in der Erwachsenenbildung
(2011)
Zur Professionalisierung und damit zur Qualitätsentwicklung in der Erwachsenenbildung ist die kontinuierliche Weiterbildung der Erwachsenenbildner selbst von zentraler Bedeutung.
Dieser Sammelband enthält die überarbeiteten ...
Totalitarian Communication
(2010-05-15)
By using history and theory of communication as an integrative methodological device, this book reaches out to those properties of totalitarian society which appear to be beyond the grasp of specific disciplines. Furthermore, ...
Reformation und die Ethik der Wirtschaft
(2018-08-01)
The grand thesis that the spirit of Protestantism is one of modern capitalism's great driving forces originated from Max Weber. According to him, religious foundations of inner world asceticism, Luther's concept of vocation, ...
The Internet of Everything
(2019)
In the era before IoT, the world wide web, internet, web 2.0 and social media made people’s lives comfortable by providing web services and enabling access personal data irrespective of their location. Further, to save ...
Against Landlords
(2024)
Housing means prosperity and security for some; poverty, precarity and sickness for others. More people live in private rented accommodation than ever before, and rents rise without apparent reason. Homes are smaller every ...
Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia
(2014-03-03)
This book provides valuable new ethnographic insights into life along some of the most contentious borders in the world. The collected essays portray existence at different points across India's northern frontiers and, in ...
Sensitive Reading
(2022)
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.
What are the pleasures of reading translations of South Asian literature, and what does it take to enjoy a translated text? This ...