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We Plow God's Fields
(1991)
This biography explores the life of James G. K. McClure, Jr., and his vision for a better life in the mountains of North Carolina. At his prompting, and under his leadership, The Farmers Federation was founded in Fairview, ...
Women in the Ancient Near East
(2016-08-01)
Women in the Ancient Near East offers a lucid account of the daily life of women in Mesopotamia from the third millennium BCE until the beginning of the Hellenistic period. The book systematically presents the lives of ...
Spain, China, and Japan in Manila, 1571-1644
(2015-06-11)
This book offers a new perspective on the connected histories of Spain, China, and Japan as they emerged and developed following Manila’s foundation as the capital of the Spanish Philippines in 1571. Examining a wealth of ...
Der Berliner „jüdische Salon“ um 1800
(2012-07-30)
Anhand neuer Quellen werden die Berliner 'jüdischen Salons' um 1800 als ebenso lebendiges wie fragiles kommunikatives Netz präsentiert. Der Querschnitt durch die Salongesellschaft des Beispieljahrs 1794/95 beleuchtet eine ...
Der Berliner „jüdische Salon“ um 1800
(2012-07-30)
Anhand neuer Quellen werden die Berliner 'jüdischen Salons' um 1800 als ebenso lebendiges wie fragiles kommunikatives Netz präsentiert. Der Querschnitt durch die Salongesellschaft des Beispieljahrs 1794/95 beleuchtet eine ...
The European Radical Left
(2021)
Is today’s left really new? How has the European radical left evolved? Giorgos Charalambous answers these questions by looking at three moments of rapid political change - the late 1960s to late 1970s; the turn of the ...
Emotional Minds
(2012-07-16)
The thoroughly contemporary question of the relationship between emotion and reason was debated with such complexity by the philosophers of the 17th century that their concepts remain a source of inspiration for today`s ...
The EIB Circular Economy Guide
(2020)
The EIB Circular Economy Guide aims to promote a common understanding of circular economy, and raise awareness about and promote circular solutions. The Guide provides information about EIB’s lending and advisory activities ...
Computational approaches to semantic change (Volume 6)
(2021)
Semantic change — how the meanings of words change over time — has preoccupied scholars since well before modern linguistics emerged in the late 19th and early 20th century, ushering in a new methodological turn in the ...
EIB Working Papers 2019/01 - Blockchain, FinTechs and their relevance for international financial institutions (Volume 2019/1)
(2019)
This paper provides an introduction to financial technology and blockchain, while exploring:
the impact of FinTechs and TechFins on the financial sector,
a description of blockchain technology and its applications, with ...
Corruption as an Empty Signifier
(2013-01-05)
Corruption as an Empty Signifier critically explores the ways in which corruption in Africa has been equated with African politics and political order, and offers a novel approach to understanding corruption as a potentially ...
Ancient Jewish Prayers and Emotions
(2015-11-13)
Given the recent interest in the emotions presupposed in early religious literature, it has been thought useful to examine in this volume how the Jews and early Christians expressed their feelings within the prayers recorded ...
Public Health Humanitarian Responses to Natural Disasters
(2017)
The pressure of climate change, environmental degradation, and urbanisation, as well as the widening of socio- economic disparities have rendered the global population increasingly vulnerable to the impact of natural ...
Mo Yan in Context
(2014-09-15)
This is the first English-language study of the Chinese writer’s work and influence, featuring essays from scholars in a range of disciplines, from both China and the United States. Its introduction, twelve articles, and ...
Holisms of communication
(2021)
A central pillar of contemporary communication research is the analysis of filmed interactions between people. The techniques employed in such analysis first took on a recognizably modern form in the 1970s, but their roots ...
The Philosophical Structure of Historical Explanation
(2019)
Roth develops an argument that resolves disputes persisting since the 19th century about the scientific status of history. He does this by showing why historical explanations must take the form of a narrative, making their ...
Rechtsformneuschöpfungen im in- und ausländischen Gesellschaftsrecht
(2024)
Gesellschaftsformen bilden die Essenz des Gesellschaftsrechts. Der vorliegende Band untersucht, welche Bereicherungen das Rechtsformentableau in jüngerer Zeit erfahren hat. Als Untersuchungsgegenstand dienen ihm rund 20 ...
Europe and Palestine 1799–1948
(2006)
The encounter of Occident and Orient is one of the major topics of our time. This encounter is the theme of the present volume in regards to the Palestinian realm from 1799 to 1948. The contributions of twelve authors from ...
Rechtssprachliche Kommunikation
(2023)
Sprache fungiert als Sonderhorizont der Konversierenden, Rechtssprache als Sonderhorizont rechtssprachlich Konversierender. Bei unterschiedlichem Sonderhorizont scheitert Kommunikation. Das Gelingen von Kommunikation ist ...
Hip Sublime
(2017-11-01)
In their continual attempt to transcend what they perceived as the superficiality, commercialism, and precariousness of life in post-World War II America, the Beat writers turned to the classical authors who provided, on ...
Artifacts of Thinking
(2017)
'Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Arendt’s 'Denktagebuch'' offers a path through Hannah Arendt’s recently published 'Denktagebuch', or 'Book of Thoughts.' In this book a number of innovative Arendt scholars come together to ...
Artifacts of Thinking
(2017)
'Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Arendt’s 'Denktagebuch'' offers a path through Hannah Arendt’s recently published 'Denktagebuch', or 'Book of Thoughts.' In this book a number of innovative Arendt scholars come together to ...
Lobbying the Autocrat
(2023)
Although authoritarian countries often repress independent citizen activity, lobbying by civil society organizations is actually a widespread phenomenon. Using case studies such as China, Russia, Belarus, Cambodia, Malaysia, ...
Beruflichkeit – Interaktionsarbeit – Kompetenz
(2023)
In diesem Sammelband werden die Themenfelder Beruflichkeit, Interaktionsarbeit und Kompetenzentwicklung in der Pflege aus interdisziplinären Perspektiven diskutiert. Die verschiedenen Aspekte der Beruflichkeit von ...
An Empirical Study of EFL Writing at Primary School (Volume 9)
(2022)
This book presents a research study investigating young foreign language learners' ability to compose communicative texts in English. It reviews current research on young learners' EFL writing, reports on the learners' EFL ...
Regesten Kaiser Friedrichs III (1476-1479)
(2020)
This volume lists 332 documents and letters from Emperor Friedrich III. from the Vienna House, Court and State Archives for the years 1476 to 1479. Among other things, the material provides insight into the emerging conflicts ...
Muße und Erzählen: ein poetologischer Zusammenhang
(2016-08-26)
Gibt es einen poetologischen Zusammenhang zwischen Muße und Erzählen? Thomas Klinkert untersucht dies anhand literarischer Texte in italienischer, französischer, spanischer und deutscher Sprache vom Mittelalter bis zur ...
Hemispheric Imaginations
(2016)
What image of Latin America have North American fiction writers created, found, or echoed, and how has the prevailing discourse about the region shaped their work? How have their writings contributed to the discursive ...
DiverCity – Global Cities as a Literary Phenomenon
(2016)
Based on the structured analysis of selected North American novels, this work examines global cities as a literary phenomenon (»DiverCity«). By analyzing Dionne Brand's Toronto, »What We All Long For« (2005), Chang-rae ...
Linguística clínica
(2022)
A Linguística Clínica reúne profissionais, investigadores e estudantes de diferentes graus académicos cujo foco de trabalho é a exploração da ponte entre a Linguística e a Fonoaudiologia (na tradição brasileira) ou a Terapia ...
Nicholas of Cusa and Islam
(2020)
This collection of essays explores the complex relations between Christians and Muslims at the dawn of the modern age. It begins by examining two seminal works by Nicholas of Cusa: De pace fidei, a dialogue seeking peace ...
Mixtec Evangelicals
(2016-09-01)
MIXTEC EVANGELICALS is a comparative ethnography of four Mixtec communities in Oaxaca, detailing the process by which economic migration and religious conversion combine to change the social and cultural makeup of predominantly ...
Gender and Politics
(2012-07-10)
This timely collection offers a fresh look on the impact of gender perspectives in the discipline of political science at the beginning of the 21st century. Jane Bayes combats the Eurocentric focus that has characterised ...
Human Rights Standards
(2016)
Analyzing the confluence between coloniality and activist art, Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future argues that there is much to gain from approaching contemporary politically committed art practices from the angle of ...
Religion and Nationalism in Chinese Societies
(2017-11-01)
Religion and Nationalism in Chinese Societies explores the interaction between religion and nationalism in the Chinese societies of mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. On the one hand, state policies toward religions in ...
Die Bindung Dritter an Prozessergebnisse
(2023)
Nach heute ganz herrschender Meinung wirkt die Rechtskraft ausschließlich zwischen den Prozessparteien. Ausnahmen von diesem Grundsatz sind insbesondere in §§ 68 Abs. 3, 74, 265 f., 325 ff., 613 ZPO sowie in § 407 Abs. 2 ...
A Norse Farmstead in the Outer Hebrides
(2005)
This volume examines South Uist, a small island in the soutern half of the Outer Hebrides. In the middle of the island lies the township of Bornais. This covers a particularly flat area of land which means that the three ...
ALT 40
(2023)
Explores and interrogates the many and diverse perspectives of the new frontiers of African literary studies. Publication of the seminal volume African Literature Comes of Age by C.D. Narasimhaiah (India) and Ernest N. ...
Evolution of Water Supply Through the Millennia
(2014-02-14)
Evolution of Water Supply Through the Millennia presents the major achievements in the scientific fields of water supply technologies and management throughout the millennia. It provides valuable insights into ancient water ...
Die Josephs-Akademie im Wiener Josephinum
(2019)
Unter Joseph II. wurde 1785 das Josephinum eröffnet und beheimatete die medizinisch-chirurgische Josephs-Akademie, die ausschließlich der Ausbildung für zukünftige Feldchirurgen und als Modell für mehrere Chirurgenschule ...
Language Endangerment and Language Revitalization
(2006-02-21)
In almost every part of the world, minority languages are being threatened with extinction. At the same time, dedicated efforts are being made to document endangered languages, to maintain them, and even to revive once-extinct ...
Dative constructions in Romance and beyond
(2020)
This book offers a comprehensive account of dative structures across languages –with an important, though not exclusive, focus on the Romance family. As is well-known, datives play a central role in a variety of structures, ...
The Most Noble of People
(2017)
The Most Noble of People presents a nuanced look at questions of identity in Muslim Spain under the Umayyads, an Arab dynasty that ruled from 756 to 1031. With a social historical emphasis on relations among different ...
Human Rights Standards
(2016)
Analyzing the confluence between coloniality and activist art, Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future argues that there is much to gain from approaching contemporary politically committed art practices from the angle of ...
The Anthem Companion to Pierre Bourdieu
(2016)
The Anthem Companion to Pierre Bourdieu' provides an introduction to the French sociologist’s thought and an evaluation of the international significance of his work from a range of national perspectives. The contributions ...
Gaming and Extremism
(2024)
Charting the increase in the use of games for the dissemination of extremist propaganda, radicalization, recruitment, and mobilization, this book examines the "gamification of extremism."
Editors Linda Schlegel and Rachel ...
Das Amalgam Anfangs-Elektrizitätslehreunterricht
(2020)
In fachdidaktischen Interventionsstudien wird Unterricht auf Basis neu entwickelter Unterrichtskonzepte öfter mit "traditionellem Unterricht" verglichen. Eine vertiefte Auseinandersetzung mit "traditionellem Unterricht" ...
EIB Working Papers 2019/03 - Financing and obstacles for high growth enterprises
(2019)
Firms can be identified as high growth, stable or declining. This paper investigates the links between these different phases in the life of a firm, investment activity, financing needs and financing constraints. Using the ...
The Book of Job
(2017-06-26)
The Book of Job has held a central role in defining the project of modernity from the age of Enlightenment until today. Why has Job`s response to disaster become a touchstone for modern reflections on catastrophic events? ...
EIB Investment Report 2021/2022
(2022)
The massive resources the European Union is unleashing to rebuild after COVID-19 present a unique opportunity to deal with climate change and improve the ability of firms and individuals to compete in a more digital world. ...
Queering the Shakespeare Film
(2017)
A range of mainstream and independent English language film productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Twelfth Night, and The Merchant of Venice take centre stage in Queering the Shakespeare Film. ...
Demokratie ohne Grund - kein Grund für Demokratie?
(2007-02-15)
Der Poststrukturalismus dekonstruiert liberal-demokratische Begriffe und lehnt Letztbegründungen für normative Ordnungen ab. Kritiker werfen ihm daher eine Unvereinbarkeit mit einer demokratischen Haltung vor. Derrida, ...
ALT 40
(2023)
Explores and interrogates the many and diverse perspectives of the new frontiers of African literary studies. Publication of the seminal volume African Literature Comes of Age by C.D. Narasimhaiah (India) and Ernest N. ...
Youth without Representation
(2022)
Officeholders in contemporary parliaments and cabinets are more likely than not to be male, wealthy, middle-aged or older, and from the dominant ethnicity, whereas young adults have an insufficient presence in political ...
Owning Books and Preserving Documents in Medieval Jerusalem
(2023)
In the late medieval period manuscripts galore circulated in private collections and in educational libraries in the cities of the Middle East. Yet very few have left a documentary trail or have survived as an easily ...
Völkerrechtsordnung und Völkerrechtsbruch
(1970)
Völkerrechtsordnung und Völkerrechtsbruch stehen in einem widersprüchlichen und doch engen und unaufgelösten Zusammenhang. Das zeigt sich im besonderen Maße im Bereich des ius contra bellum, des Verbots zwischenstaatlicher ...
Dative constructions in Romance and beyond
(2020)
This book offers a comprehensive account of dative structures across languages –with an important, though not exclusive, focus on the Romance family. As is well-known, datives play a central role in a variety of structures, ...
Digital Divas
(2016)
The geek is male. Or so it seems. As is well documented, there is a distinct under-representation of girls studying computing at high school level and, correspondingly, going on to have careers in IT. To address this ...
The Real Economy
(2020-02-11)
This collection highlights a key metaphor in contemporary discourse about economy and society. The contributors explore how references to reality and the real economy are linked both to the utopias of collective well-being, ...
Bildung im Alter - für alle?
(2013)
Die vorliegende Studie untersucht auf der Basis aktueller Zahlen des Mikrozensus, wer an Bildungsangeboten im Alter ab 55 Jahren teilnimmt, was die Hemmnisse für ein lebenslanges Lernen sind und wie sich soziale Ungleichheit ...
The Sopranos
(2009)
“In its original run on HBO, The Sopranos mattered, and it matters still,” Dana Polan asserts early in this analysis of the hit show, in which he sets out to clarify the impact and importance of the series in both its ...
Tragsessel in europäischen Herrschaftszentren
(2020)
For the first time, this anthology is dedicated to the early days of baby armchairs in Europe. It contains seven articles by international researchers who deal with the history of the introduction and establishment of ...
The Believer and the Modern Study of the Bible
(2019-03-27)
The essays in this volume address the conundrum of how Jewish believers in the divine character of the Sinaitic revelation confront the essential questions raised by academic biblical studies.
The first part is an ...
Foundations of Fuzzy Logic and Semantic Web Languages
(2013)
This book is the first to combine coverage of fuzzy logic and Semantic Web languages. It provides in-depth insight into fuzzy Semantic Web languages for non-fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic experts. It also helps researchers ...
Drawing Processes of Life
(2023)
How the challenge of depicting biological systems can generate productive questions for artists and scientists. An artist drawing cell division faces a problem: what is the best way to visually represent a dynamic process? ...
Growing Up in the Cis-Baikal Region of Siberia, Russia
(2023)
Growing Up in the Cis-Baikal Region of Siberia, Russia analyses the dietary life histories of prehistoric hunter-gatherers from six cemeteries in the Lake Baikal region of Siberia, Russia. The overarching goal was to better ...
After Corporate Paternalism
(2021)
In this ethnographic study of post-paternalist ruination and renovation, Christian Straube explores social change at the intersection of material decay and social disconnection in the former mine township Mpatamatu of ...
Die politische Ordnung des Flüchtlingslagers
(2010-09-15)
Weltweit werden Flüchtlinge langfristig in Flüchtlingslagern untergebracht. Heterogene Akteure - UNO, NGOs, Regierungsvertreter, aber auch die Flüchtlinge selbst - bringen ihre Perspektiven, Interessen, Ressourcen und ...
Toward an Inclusive Creative Writing
(2017)
The creative writing workshop has existed since the early part of the 20th century, but does it adequately serve the students who come to it today? While the workshop is often thought of as a form of student-centered ...
Rethinking Statehood in Palestine
(2021)
The quest for an inclusive and independent state has been at the center of the Palestinian national struggle for a very long time. This book critically explores the meaning of Palestinian statehood and the challenges that ...
Berufsbildung, eine Renaissance?
(2017-04-04)
The potential role of vocational education in Austria, Germany and Switzerland was the topic of the Fifth Austrian Conference on Vocational Education and Training Research 2016 (5. Österreichische Berufsbildungsforschungskonferenz ...
New Perspectives in Theology of Judaism
(2021)
If it can be said that theology is the philosophical examination of a religion by an insider, then the present collection of essays by Shubert Spero offers us the proper formula for a truly authentic work. The author sets ...
A dictionary and grammatical outline of Chakali
(2017)
This book is the first comprehensive monograph dedicated to Chakali, a Southwestern Grusi language spoken by less than 3500 people in northwest Ghana. The dictionary offers a consistent description of word meaning and ...
Linguística clínica
(2022)
A Linguística Clínica reúne profissionais, investigadores e estudantes de diferentes graus académicos cujo foco de trabalho é a exploração da ponte entre a Linguística e a Fonoaudiologia (na tradição brasileira) ou a Terapia ...
How the West Came to Rule
(2015-06-20)
Mainstream historical accounts of the development of capitalism describe a process which is fundamentally European - a system that was born in the mills and factories of England or under the guillotines of the French ...
Die Josephs-Akademie im Wiener Josephinum
(2019)
Unter Joseph II. wurde 1785 das Josephinum eröffnet und beheimatete die medizinisch-chirurgische Josephs-Akademie, die ausschließlich der Ausbildung für zukünftige Feldchirurgen und als Modell für mehrere Chirurgenschule ...
Language Endangerment and Language Revitalization
(2006-02-21)
In almost every part of the world, minority languages are being threatened with extinction. At the same time, dedicated efforts are being made to document endangered languages, to maintain them, and even to revive once-extinct ...
A Nation on the Line
(2018-03-23)
A NATION ON THE LINE is an ethnographic study of the call center industry in the Philippines and of its workforce composed of young, largely college-educated Filipinos. Padios merges several lines of inquiry about Pacific ...
Religion and Nationalism in Chinese Societies
(2017-11-01)
Religion and Nationalism in Chinese Societies explores the interaction between religion and nationalism in the Chinese societies of mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. On the one hand, state policies toward religions in ...
The Anthem Companion to Pierre Bourdieu
(2016)
The Anthem Companion to Pierre Bourdieu' provides an introduction to the French sociologist’s thought and an evaluation of the international significance of his work from a range of national perspectives. The contributions ...
Defying the IRA?
(2017-01-27)
This book examines the grass-roots relationship between the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the civilian population during the Irish Revolution. It is primarily concerned with the attempts of the militant revolutionaries ...
EIB Working Papers 2019/03 - Financing and obstacles for high growth enterprises
(2019)
Firms can be identified as high growth, stable or declining. This paper investigates the links between these different phases in the life of a firm, investment activity, financing needs and financing constraints. Using the ...
Die Chimäre einer Globalen Öffentlichkeit
(2016-02-15)
Aktuelle gesellschaftliche Diskurse sind vielfach von Globalisierungsassoziationen geprägt. Sie gehören zum allgegenwärtigen Argumentationsrepertoire und werden zumeist als Inbegriff einer faktischen Globalisierung ...
Foundations of Fuzzy Logic and Semantic Web Languages
(2013)
This book is the first to combine coverage of fuzzy logic and Semantic Web languages. It provides in-depth insight into fuzzy Semantic Web languages for non-fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic experts. It also helps researchers ...
Public Justice and the Criminal Trial in Late Medieval Italy
(2016)
This book examines the administration of justice in the small northern Italian town of Reggio Emilia at the end of the fourteenth century. Through an examination of material from the judicial archives from the period ...
Border Watch
(2012)
Questions over immigration and asylum face almost all Western countries. Should only economically useful immigrants be allowed? What should be done with unwanted or 'illegal' immigrants? In this bold intervention, ...
Border Watch
(2012)
Questions over immigration and asylum face almost all Western countries. Should only economically useful immigrants be allowed? What should be done with unwanted or 'illegal' immigrants? In this bold intervention, ...
Gaming and Extremism
(2024)
Charting the increase in the use of games for the dissemination of extremist propaganda, radicalization, recruitment, and mobilization, this book examines the "gamification of extremism."
Editors Linda Schlegel and Rachel ...
EIB Investment Survey 2021 - EU overview
(2021)
This unique insight into the corporate investment landscape in the European Union examines companies' finance needs and the constraints they face. The 2021 edition delves into the massive shock produced by the COVID-19 ...
Black Love, Black Hate
(2018-11-02)
Felice D. Blake’s Black Love, Black Hate: Intimate Antagonisms in African American Literature highlights the pervasive representations of intraracial deceptions, cruelties, and contempt in Black literature. Literary criticism ...
The Book of Job
(2017-06-26)
The Book of Job has held a central role in defining the project of modernity from the age of Enlightenment until today. Why has Job`s response to disaster become a touchstone for modern reflections on catastrophic events? ...
Noncitizenism
(2017)
Noncitizens have always been present in liberal political philosophy. Often hard to situate within traditional frameworks that prioritise citizenship, noncitizens can appear voiceless and rightsless, which has implications ...
Winchester
(2017)
This critical assessment of the archaeology of the historic city of Winchester and its immediate environs from earliest times to the present day is the first published comprehensive review of the archaeological resource ...
Demokratie ohne Grund - kein Grund für Demokratie?
(2007-02-15)
Der Poststrukturalismus dekonstruiert liberal-demokratische Begriffe und lehnt Letztbegründungen für normative Ordnungen ab. Kritiker werfen ihm daher eine Unvereinbarkeit mit einer demokratischen Haltung vor. Derrida, ...
Die medizinische Versorgung von Menschen ohne Papiere in Deutschland
(2016-07-15)
Deutschland hat sich in internationalen Abkommen dazu bekannt, das Menschenrecht auf eine medizinische Versorgung zu achten, zu schützen und zu gewährleisten. Dessen ungeachtet sind in Deutschland Migrantinnen und Migranten ...
A Nation on the Line
(2018-03-23)
A NATION ON THE LINE is an ethnographic study of the call center industry in the Philippines and of its workforce composed of young, largely college-educated Filipinos. Padios merges several lines of inquiry about Pacific ...
How the West Came to Rule
(2015-06-20)
Mainstream historical accounts of the development of capitalism describe a process which is fundamentally European - a system that was born in the mills and factories of England or under the guillotines of the French ...
After Corporate Paternalism
(2021)
In this ethnographic study of post-paternalist ruination and renovation, Christian Straube explores social change at the intersection of material decay and social disconnection in the former mine township Mpatamatu of ...
The Most Noble of People
(2017)
The Most Noble of People presents a nuanced look at questions of identity in Muslim Spain under the Umayyads, an Arab dynasty that ruled from 756 to 1031. With a social historical emphasis on relations among different ...