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Veiled Threats
(2008)
As Muslim women continue to be a focus of media-led debate, Naaz Rashid uses original scholarship and empirical research to examine how Muslim women are represented in policy discourse and how the trope of the Muslim woman ...
Werbeblocker im Internet
(2021)
Werbeblocker berühren zahlreiche, bislang ungeklärte Rechtsfragen. Während Werbeblocker bisher vor allem anhand des Lauterkeitsrechts beurteilt worden sind, zeigt diese Arbeit, dass vielmehr urheberrechtliche Wertungen ...
Kunstprojekt (Mumin-)Buch
(2019)
Die finnlandschwedische Künstlerin Tove Jansson (1914-2010) war Autorin, Malerin und Karikaturistin zugleich. Dieses künstlerische Spannungsfeld aus der Fusion unterschiedlicher Talente und der Experimentierfreudigkeit mit ...
Ideas of poverty in the Age of Enlightenment
(2024)
<p>Although poverty in the eighteenth century has long been an object of focus for social historians, it has figured only marginally in the intellectual history of the period. This is because it has been assumed that the ...
A Web-Based Approach to Measure Skill Mismatches and Skills Profiles for a Developing Country
(2020)
"Several interdisciplinary studies highlight imperfect information as a possible explanation of skill mismatches, which in turn has implications for unemployment and informality rates. Despite information failures and their ...
Remapping the Cold War in Asian Cinemas
(2024)
This book is about cinema and the cultural Cold War in Asia, set against the larger history of the cultural, political, and institutional linkages between the US, Europe, and Asia at the height of the Cold War. From the ...
Informationelle Privatautonomie
(2023)
Die digitale Agenda der Europäischen Union offenbart einen Konflikt zwischen der staatlichen Pflicht zum Schutz der informationellen Selbstbestimmung einerseits und der gleichzeitigen Achtung der Privatautonomie der ...
Studies in the History of Russian-Israeli Literature
(2023)
This collection of essays covers a hundred-year history of Russian-language literature in Israel, including the pre-state period. Some of the studies are devoted to an overview of the literary process and the activities ...
Von den Medien zu den Plattformen
(2023)
Die digitale Revolution fordert ihren Tribut: Globale Plattformen wie Facebook, Twitter oder TikTok verdrängen immer mehr die traditionellen, national verankerten Medien. Dies führt auch regulatorisch zu gewaltigen Umbrüchen. ...
The Literary History of the Igbo Novel
(2020)
This book looks at the trends in the development of the Igbo novel from its antecedents in oral performance, through the emergence of the first published novel, Omenuko, in 1933 by Pita Nwana, to the contemporary Igbo ...
The Light of Knowledge
(2013-09-13)
Cowinner of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology’s Edward Sapir Book Prize
Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons and other events designed ...
Societies in Transition in Early Greece
(2021)
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at <a href="https://www.luminosoa.org/" target="_blank">www.luminosoa.org</a>.<BR /><BR /> Situated at the disciplinary boundary ...
The Myth of Piers Plowman
(2014)
Addressing the history of the production and reception of the great medieval poem, Piers Plowman, Lawrence Warner reveals the many ways in which scholars, editors and critics over the centuries created their own speculative ...
Die Vorteils- und Gewinnherausgabe im CISG
(2023)
Die Verteilung eines vertragswidrig erzielten Gewinns wird in vielen Rechtsordnungen diskutiert. Der Grundgedanke einer Gewinnherausgabe wegen Vertragsverletzungen ist eingängig: Warum sollte die vertragsbrüchige Partei ...
Exit and Voice
(2019)
Exit and Voice is a compelling account of how Mexican migrants with strong ties to their home communities impact the economic and political welfare of those they leave behind. In many decentralized democracies like Mexico, ...
Gender-Based Violence in Children’s Sport
(2023)
This book addresses the major forms of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in children’s sport, including sexual, physical, and psychological violence and neglect. It reviews the historical, sociocultural, and political influences ...
The Leopard, the Lion, and the Cock
(2023)
Thought-provoking reflection on culture, colonialism, and the remainders of empire in Belgium after 1960
The degree to which the late colonial era affected Europe has been long underappreciated, and only recently have ...
Climate change and poverty
(2014-09-05)
Climate change and poverty offers a timely new perspective on the 'ecosocial' understanding of the causes, symptoms and solutions to poverty and applies this to recent developments across a number of areas, including fuel ...
Juristische Methodenlehre in China und Ostasien
(2024)
Der vorliegende Sammelband liefert einen tiefgreifenden Einblick in die juristische Methodik und Methodenrezeption in Ostasien und insbesondere China. Ziel ist es, einen Beitrag zur juristischen Methodenvergleichung vor ...
Vom Salpetergeschäft zum Sammlerglück
(2023)
"Weitsichtiger Unternehmer, erfolgreicher Netzwerker und Inhaber der größten deutschen Privatsammlung Alter Meister im Kaiserreich vor 1890. Der Hamburger Konsul Weber agierte international und vereinte in seiner Sammlung ...
The Unmaking of Arab Socialism
(2016-10-01)
Conditions of malnutrition, conflict, or a combination of both characterize many Arab countries, but this was not always so. As in much of the developing world, the immediate post-independence period represented an age of ...
Freiheit vom Absoluten
(2023)
In seinen Philosophischen Untersuchungen über das Wesen der menschlichen Freiheit operiert Schelling nicht unter Voraussetzung einer bestimmten Metaphysik, sondern geht den systematischen Implikationen eines starken ...
Inventing Africa
(2011)
Inventing Africa is a critical account of narratives which have selectively interpreted and misinterpreted the continent's deep past.
Writers have created alluring images of lost cities, vast prehistoric migrations and ...
Literatur in Österreich 1938-1945
(2018)
Der Band Wien setzt die flächendeckende Bestandsaufnahme des literarischen Lebens in Österreich während des Nationalsozialismus fort. Dem Skandalisieren von Einzelfällen und der Präsenz der Schriftstellerinnen und ...
Cinema at the End of Empire
(2005-01-01)
How did the imperial logic underlying British and Indian film policy change with the British Empire’s loss of moral authority and political cohesion? Were British and Indian films of the 1930s and 1940s responsive to and ...
The Politics of Reproduction
(2019-10-29)
The Politics of Reproduction: Adoption, Abortion and Surrogacy in the Age of Neoliberalism uniquely brings together three sites of reproduction and reproductive politics to demonstrate their entanglement in creating or ...
"Zum Landrat nicht geeignet“
(2022)
Nach 1989/90 erreichten das Brandenburgische Landeshauptarchiv verstärkt Anfragen zu politischen Leitungsträgern auf Kreis- und Stadtebene aus den Jahren 1945–1952. Ortschronisten und Gemeindeverwaltungen suchten Biografien ...
Grenzen des Hybriden?
(2013)
Seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre Autoren wie Kader Abdolah, Mustafa Stitou, Hafid Bouazza und Abdelkader Benali für Furore sorgten, ist die Literatur von Migranten aus der literarischen Debatte in den Niederlanden nicht mehr ...
Social and structural aspects of language contact and change
(2022)
This book brings together papers that discuss social and structural aspects of language contact and language change. Several papers look at the relevance of historical documents to determine the linguistic nature of early ...
Socio-Economic Atlas of Myanmar
(2017-08-10)
The Socio-Economic Atlas of Myanmar focuses on the analysis and evaluation of regional differences in geographical conditions, natural resources, infrastructure and, in particular, the socio-economic development in the ...
Before They Were Titans
(2015-04-15)
Dostoevsky and Tolstoy are the titans of Russian literature. As mature artists, they led very different lives and wrote vastly different works, but their early lives and writings display provocative kinships, while also ...
Tech Giants, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Journalism
(2019)
This book examines the impact of the "Big Five" technology companies – Apple, Alphabet/Google, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft – on journalism and the media industries. It looks at the current role of algorithms and artificial ...
The European Union's Policy Towards Mercosur
(2016)
This book provides a distinctive and empirically rich account of the European Union’s relationship with the Common Market of the South (Mercosur). It seeks to examine the motivations that determine the EU’s policy towards ...
Beyond the Icon
(2022)
Demonstrates how contemporary Asian American creators employ graphic narrative to counter harmful misrepresentations and show Asian Americans as complex, nuanced individuals.
Schizophrenie des Kindes- und Jugendalters
(2013)
Die Schizophrenie des Kindesalters stellt eine seltene, aber klinisch schwere Form der Schizophrenie dar. Frühkindliche Schizophrenien sollten möglichst früh diagnostiziert werden, auch wegen der ungünstigen Prognose.
Das ...
Tafeln im flexiblen Überfluss
(2012-01-15)
Tafeln und ähnliche Initiativen sammeln die systematisch anfallenden Lebensmittelüberschüsse der Überflussgesellschaft, um sie wohltätig zu verteilen. Sie fügen sich damit in einen transnationalen Trend, der eine lokale ...
Jahrbuch des Freien Deutschen Hochstifts 2019
(2023)
Das »Jahrbuch des Freien Deutschen Hochstifts« ist ein literatur- und kunstwissenschaftliches Periodikum zur deutschsprachigen Literatur und zu den Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Dichtung und Kunst. Die Schwerpunkte liegen ...
The Intersections of a Working-Class Academic Identity
(2024)
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online.Despite ongoing efforts to promote diversity, universities continue to reflect and perpetuate ...
Essays on Plato’s Epistemology
(2016-03-21)
Through a careful survey of several significant Platonic texts, mainly focussing on the nature of knowledge, Essays on Plato’s Epistemology offers the reader a fresh and promising approach to Plato’s philosophy as a whole. ...
Blood Libel
(2012)
The ritual murder accusation is one of a series of myths that fall under the label blood libel, and describes the medieval legend that Jews require Christian blood for obscure religious purposes and are capable of committing ...
The Transatlantic Sixties
(2013-10-15)
This collection brings together new and original critical essays by eleven established European American Studies scholars to explore the 1960s from a transatlantic perspective. Intended for an academic audience interested ...
The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective
(2016-01-01)
For centuries, Africa’s Upper Guinea Coast region has been the site of regional and global interactions, with societies from different parts of the African continent and beyond engaging in economic trade, cultural exchange, ...
Deutsche und italienische Verwaltungssprache im digitalen Zeitalter
(2022)
Bürgernähe, Verständlichkeit, Transparenz und Digitalisierung sind Prinzipien, nach denen öffentliche Verwaltungen heute ihre Tätigkeiten auszurichten versuchen. Der Band untersucht Dokumente von Schweizer Behörden auf ...
Wahnanalysen
(2013)
Die Auseinandersetzung mit der Bedeutung und dem Sinngehalt von Wahnberichten tritt in den letzten Jahren – trotz der unzweifelhaften Behandlungserfolge der Psychopharmakologie seit Einführung der Antipsychotika – wieder ...
Diplomatie und Distinktion
(2020)
Was bewegte einen jungen Adligen im ausgehenden Ancien Régime dazu, in den diplomatischen Dienst einzutreten? Die vorliegende Studie analysiert ausgehend von einer praxeologischen Lektüre der mehr als 50 Tagebuchbände des ...
Sexual States
(2016-01-01)
In Sexual States Jyoti Puri uses the example of the efforts to decriminalize homosexuality in India to show how the regulation of sexuality is fundamentally tied to the creation and enduring existence of the state. Between ...
EIB Global Report 2022/2023 - The story
(2023)
The European Investment Bank plants the seeds for many future success stories. Now another seed has been planted: EIB Global, the EIB’s development arm, which began operating in 2022. This report tells the stories of ...
Die deutschen Streitkräfte im Einsatz gegen Seeräuber
(2018)
Das verstärkte Auftreten von Seeräubern vor der Küste Somalias stellte die Weltgemeinschaft im Jahre 2007 vor lange nicht mehr gekannte Herausforderungen. Das Thema beherrschte lange Zeit die Nachrichten und führte schließlich ...
“We are not only English Jews—we are Jewish Englishmen”
(2019)
Between 1840 and 1880, a mature, increasingly comfortable, native-born Jewish community emerged and matured in London. The history of this community and the ways it developed are explored in this volume using archival and ...
Dying in Full Detail
(2017-03-02)
In 'Dying in Full Detail' Jennifer Malkowski explores digital media's impact on one of documentary film's greatest taboos: the recording of death. Despite technological advances that allow for the easy creation and ...
Metapher und Lebenswelt
(2023)
Religiöse Rede ist metaphorische Rede. Deshalb übersieht eine Theologie in der 'Logik des Begriffs' einiges, was sich erst der aufmerksamen phänomenologischen Betrachtung zeigt. Hans Blumenbergs Metaphorologie ist eine ...
Analysis of Electrical Machines
(2020)
This book is devoted to students, PhD students, postgraduates of electrical engineering, researchers, and scientists dealing with the analysis, design, and optimization of electrical machine properties. The purpose is to ...
Gerontechnology
(2019-06-21)
This book presents a typology that explains the diversity of ICT usage seen in older adults. It examines older adult use of everyday Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) across multiple life contexts (work, ...
Privatheit wider Willen?
(2015-11-24)
Competent adult internet users voluntarily disclose vast amounts of personal data. As such disclosure can cause great harm, governments may feel that through minor interventions they can protect their citizens from disclosure ...
The Mists of Ramanna
(2005-01-01)
Scholars have long accepted the belief that a Theravada Buddhist Mon kingdom, Ramannadesa, flourished in coastal Lower Burma until it was conquered in 1057 by King Aniruddha of Pagan—which then became, in essence, the new ...
Regieren
(2016)
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 ...
Interpreters and War Crimes
(2021)
Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book raises new questions and provides different perspectives on the roles, responsibilities, ethics and protection of interpreters in war while investigating the substance and ...
Dynamic iteration and model order reduction for magneto-quasistatic systems
(2019)
Our world today is becoming increasingly complex, and technical devices are getting ever smaller and more powerful. The high density of electronic components together with high clock frequencies leads to unwanted side-effects ...
Principles of Islamic International Criminal Law
(2011)
The goal of this book is to minimize the misunderstandings and conflicts between International law and Islamic law. The objective is to bring peace into justice and justice into peace for the prevention of violations of ...