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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 ...
A history of English
(2022)
Where does today’s English language come from? This book takes its readers on a journey back in time, from present-day varieties to the Old English of Beowulf and beyond. Written for students with little or no background ...
Building Europe
(2015-08-14)
Relying on internal sources, Wilfried Loth analyses the birth and subsequent development of the European Union, from the launch of the Council of Europe and the Schuman Declaration until the Euro crisis and the contested ...
Legal Tech und das Anwaltsmonopol
(2021)
Legal Tech ist in aller Munde. Die Möglichkeit des Einsatzes von Legal Tech wirft dabei vor allem die Frage auf, ob Rechtsdienstleistungen weiterhin primär nur durch Rechtsanwälte erbracht werden dürfen. Diese Fragestellung ...
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, ...
Organisation und Führung in institutionellen Kontexten der Weiterbildung
(2018)
Das Zusammenwirken von Organisationsstrukturen, institutionellen Einflüssen und dem Führungsverständnis von Leitungspersonal ist zentrales Thema der Dissertation, die aus drei Forschungsarbeiten besteht. Den theoretischen ...
Writing Beloveds
(2016-11-21)
Writing Beloveds considers the way in which a poetic convention, the 'beloved' to whom Renaissance amatory poetry was addressed, becomes influential political rhetoric, an instrument that both men and women used to shape ...
Das technische Phänomen „Künstliche Intelligenz“ im allgemeinen Zivilrecht
(2020)
Das Phänomen der künstlichen Intelligenz (KI) gewinnt im Vertrags- und Deliktsrecht zunehmend an Bedeutung. Für die Behandlung der Thematik sind Grundkenntnisse der KI notwendig. Die Autoren beschreiben im notwendigen Maße ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Adjective attribution
(2016)
"This book is the first typological study of adjective attribution marking. Its focus lies on Northern Eurasia, although it covers many more languages and presents an ontology of morphosyntactic categories relevant to noun ...
Verstümmelte Körper?
(2019)
Kastratensänger standen bislang vor allem im Mittelpunkt des Forschungsinteresses der Musik- und Theaterwissenschaften. Dabei wurden vor allem ihr Wirken auf den Bühnen des italienischen Musiktheaters des 17. und 18. ...
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, ...
Sex, Power, and Slavery
(2001)
Sexual exploitation was and is a critical feature of enslavement. Across many different societies, slaves were considered to own neither their bodies nor their children, even if many struggled to resist. At the same time, ...
EIB Working Papers 2020/04 - Making a difference
(2020)
This paper investigates the impact of intermediated funding provided by the EIB on the performance of SMEs in the EU between 2008 and 2014. Using statistical analysis of firm-level data, it finds that EIB lending had a ...
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 ...
Electronic Democracy
(2012-06-27)
The timely book takes stock of the state of the art and future of electronic democracy, exploring the history and potential of e-democracy in global perspective. Analysing the digital divide, the role of the internet as a ...
Electronic Democracy
(2012-06-27)
The timely book takes stock of the state of the art and future of electronic democracy, exploring the history and potential of e-democracy in global perspective. Analysing the digital divide, the role of the internet as a ...
Fragile Conviction
(2017-02-14)
How does ideology function during periods of political and economic turmoil? This book, based on long-term ethnographic research in a destitute former mining town in Kyrgyzstan, testifies to the precariousness of life in ...
Fragile Conviction
(2017-02-14)
How does ideology function during periods of political and economic turmoil? This book, based on long-term ethnographic research in a destitute former mining town in Kyrgyzstan, testifies to the precariousness of life in ...
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 ...
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 ...
Excavations At Sidi Khrebish Benghazi Volume II
(1985)
This volume looks at Economic life at Berenice, including studies of the landscape and animal and plant remains; sculpture and terracottas, and the course pottery - with a detailed look at the local pottery fabrics and a ...
Journalism as the Fourth Emergency Service
(2024)
Journalists have often been considered the "fourth emergency service". They are first on the scene, alongside paramedics, fi re and police, running towards danger rather than away, and providing independent, veritable and ...
Regieren: Die Geschichte einer Zumutung
(2016-09-15)
Szenen einer missvergnügten Ehe - dieses bürgerliche Trauerspiel wird derzeit auf den politischen Bühnen westlicher Demokratien gegeben. Es führt vor, wie weit sich Regierende und Regierte auseinander gelebt haben. Von ...
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 ...
The Impact of Climate Change on Vulnerable Populations
(2023)
Climate change and urban development threaten health, undermine coping and deepen existing social and environmental inequities. A changing global environment requires transformative social responses: new partnerships, deep ...
Moritz Lazarus und Heymann Steinthal
(2024)
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Sex, Power, and Slavery
(2001)
Sexual exploitation was and is a critical feature of enslavement. Across many different societies, slaves were considered to own neither their bodies nor their children, even if many struggled to resist. At the same time, ...
Wer organisiert die "Entbehrlichen"?
(2014-04-15)
Auch wenn die Zivilgesellschaft in sozial benachteiligten Stadtvierteln häufig kaum sichtbar ist, gibt es wichtige Ausnahmen: Viertelgestalter_innen sind mit unermüdlicher Tatkraft bürgerschaftlich aktiv. Im Buch werden ...
Adjective attribution
(2016)
"This book is the first typological study of adjective attribution marking. Its focus lies on Northern Eurasia, although it covers many more languages and presents an ontology of morphosyntactic categories relevant to noun ...
Empathy
(2023)
Empathy - Advanced Research and Applications is a compilation of recent experimental studies and theoretical models on the concept of empathy and its implication in various aspects of social life. The book describes the ...
Empathy
(2023)
Empathy - Advanced Research and Applications is a compilation of recent experimental studies and theoretical models on the concept of empathy and its implication in various aspects of social life. The book describes the ...
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 ...
Submerged on the Surface
(2018-04-01)
"Between 1941 and 1945, some 6,500 Berlin Jews, in fear for their lives, made the choice to flee their impending deportations and live submerged in the shadows of the capital of Nazi Germany. The experience was brutally ...
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 ...
Prosodic detail in Neapolitan Italian
(2014)
Recent findings on phonetic detail have been taken as supporting exemplar-based approaches to prosody. Through four experiments on both produc tion and perception of both melodic and temporal detail in Neapolitan Italian, ...
EIB Working Papers 2020/04 - Making a difference
(2020)
This paper investigates the impact of intermediated funding provided by the EIB on the performance of SMEs in the EU between 2008 and 2014. Using statistical analysis of firm-level data, it finds that EIB lending had a ...
Bodies and Boundaries of UK Bear Spaces
(2024)
Bodies and Boundaries of UK Bear Spaces is an exploration of the spaces of the UK’s Bear community – and the people who are in them.
The book details a wealth of existing writing and scholarship on Bears – both historical ...