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Before Einstein
(2017-01-02)
Before Albert Einstein proposed the concept of four-dimensional spacetime, late Victorian scientists, radical philosophers and writers were discussing the possibility of a different kind of fourth dimension. Before Einstein ...
Electronic Iran
(2013-12-01)
Electronic Iran introduces the concept of the Iranian Internet, a framework that captures interlinked, transnational networks of virtual and offline spaces. Taking her cues from early Internet ethnographies that stress the ...
The future of dialects: Selected papers from Methods in Dialectology XV
(2016)
Traditional dialects have been encroached upon by the increasing mobility of their speakers and by the onslaught of national languages in education and mass media. Typically, older dialects are “leveling” to become more ...
Jewish Emancipation Reconsidered
(2003)
A group of distinguished historians makes the first systematic attempt to compare the experiences of French and German Jews in the modern era. The cases of France and Germany have often been depicted as the dominant paradigms ...
See
(2018)
Vision traditionally occupies the height of the sensorial hierarchy. The sense of clarity and purity, it is the one most explicitly associated with truth and knowledge. The law has always relied on vision and representation, ...
Knowledge Services
(2016-11-10)
Knowledge Services converges information management, knowledge management (KM), and strategic learning into a single enterprise-wide discipline for the benefit of the business or organization in which it is practiced. With ...
"Rechtswidriges Recht"
(2024)
n Bezug auf das Problem des "rechtswidrigen Rechts" herrschte eine Kontroverse zwischen zwei Schülern Hans Kelsens (1881-1973): Adolf Julius Merkl (1890-1970) und Fritz Sander (1889-1939). Auf dem Spiel stand nicht weniger ...
The Jesuit Mission to New France
(2010)
A new interpretation of the Jesuit mission to New France is here proposed by using, for comparison and contrast, the earlier Jesuit experience in Japan. In order to present revisionist perspectives of the Jesuit missions ...
Interculturalidad, protección de la naturaleza y construcción de paz
(2020)
Interculturalidad, protección de la naturaleza y construcción de paz es producto de un proyecto Erasmus+ financiado por la Unión Europea y ejecutado por investigadores vinculados a ocho universidades de Italia, Francia, ...
Child Poverty, Evidence and Policy
(2011-02-23)
This book is about the ideas, networks and institutions that shape the development of evidence about child poverty and wellbeing, and the use of such evidence in development policy debates.
Mongrel Nation
(2007)
Mongrel Nation surveys the history of the United Kingdom's African, Asian, and Caribbean populations from 1948 to the present, working at the juncture of cultural studies, literary criticism, and postcolonial theory. Ashley ...
Der deutsche "Dialog mit der islamischen Welt"
(2014-12-15)
Kulturdialog, Interkultureller Dialog, Islamdialog, Transformationsdialog - wer spricht da eigentlich mit wem und vor allem wie? Vom 11. September 2001 bis zu den Umbrüchen in der arabischen Welt 2011 gewährt das Buch ...
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 ...
Les dimensions du temps
(2024)
Le temps est le concept de transition par excellence qui a certes son origine dans la Nature, mais qui permet aussi l'idée d'un développement de l'esprit - et c'est l'esprit (Geist) qui apparaît ensuite dans un autre cadre ...
Remembering the South African War
(2013-08-08)
The experience of the South African War sharpened the desire to commemorate for a number of reasons. An increasingly literate public, a burgeoning populist press, an army reinforced by waves of volunteers and, to contemporaries ...
Informationsverwaltungsrecht internationaler Institutionen
(2018)
Internationale Institutionen agieren und regieren mehr denn je durch Informationen und Wissen. Dabei geraten ihre Informationsbeziehungen zu Staaten und Individuen in den Fokus politischer und rechtlicher Auseinandersetzungen. ...
Democracy and Fake News
(2021)
This book explores the challenges that disinformation, fake news, and post-truth politics pose to democracy from a multidisciplinary perspective. The authors analyse and interpret how the use of technology and social media ...
Lament in Jewish Thought
(2014-09-29)
This collection features essays by leading scholars on the philosophical, theological, poetic and cultural aspects of lament, touching on the textual traditions of lament in Judaism, from Biblical, rabbinic and medieval ...
Healthcare as a Human Rights Issue
(2017-11-15)
This book deals with various facets of the human right to health: its normative profile as a universal right, current political and legal conflicts and contextualized implementation in different healthcare systems. The ...
A Partnership with Africa
(2021)
Africa is embarking upon a period in which its political, economic and social outlook will transform. The European Investment Bank is a key part of the EU toolbox that for decades has helped make the partnership between ...