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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 ...
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 ...
Protecting Children Online?
(2018-03-02)
This book investigates regulatory and social pressures that social media companies face in the aftermath of high profile cyberbullying incidents. The author’s research evaluates the policies companies develop to protect ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Rhetorics of Belonging - Nation, Narration and Israel/Palestine
(2013)
Describes the formation and operation of a category of Palestinian and Israeli 'world literature' whose authors actively respond to the expectation that their work will 'narrate' the nation, invigorating critical debates ...
The Postcolonial African Genocide Novel
(2021)
In The Postcolonial African Genocide Novel, Chigbo Anyaduba examines fictional responses to mass atrocities occurring in postcolonial Africa. Through a comparative reading of novels responding to the genocides of the Igbo ...
Protecting Children Online?
(2018-03-02)
This book investigates regulatory and social pressures that social media companies face in the aftermath of high profile cyberbullying incidents. The author’s research evaluates the policies companies develop to protect ...
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 ...
Strange Science
(2017-01-02)
'Strange Science: Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age' is an unprecedented collection that examines marginal, fringe, and unconventional forms of scientific inquiry, as well as their cultural ...
Magical Foodscape
(2024)
Earth, agriculture, fishing, hunting and gathering—— the ways of acquiring food and also the factors dominating the settlements’ landscape pattern in the primitive society, has been gradually replaced by manufacturing, ...
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 ...
The Summer People
(1989)
In the summer of 1974, twenty-four year old Anna DeVoss finds herself widowed and alone in the unfamiliar country of the North Carolina mountains. The body of her husband, a navy pilot missing in action for six years, has ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
Bismarck's Institutions
(2013-01-01)
The decline in birth rates in advanced economies is not a new phenomenon. Between 1880 and 1900 birth rates dropped from 5.5 children per woman to 2.5 children per woman. A further decline from 2.5 to 1.5 or even 1.3 ...
Two Nations
(1999)
International scholars and specialists in Jewish, German, British and European history offer this first comparative approach to the study of German and British Jewish history from the late 18th century to the 1930s. The ...
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. ...
The Postcolonial African Genocide Novel
(2021)
In The Postcolonial African Genocide Novel, Chigbo Anyaduba examines fictional responses to mass atrocities occurring in postcolonial Africa. Through a comparative reading of novels responding to the genocides of the Igbo ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Magical Foodscape
(2024)
Earth, agriculture, fishing, hunting and gathering—— the ways of acquiring food and also the factors dominating the settlements’ landscape pattern in the primitive society, has been gradually replaced by manufacturing, ...
The Summer People
(1989)
In the summer of 1974, twenty-four year old Anna DeVoss finds herself widowed and alone in the unfamiliar country of the North Carolina mountains. The body of her husband, a navy pilot missing in action for six years, has ...
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" ...
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 ...
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 ...
Rhetorics of Belonging - Nation, Narration and Israel/Palestine
(2013)
Describes the formation and operation of a category of Palestinian and Israeli 'world literature' whose authors actively respond to the expectation that their work will 'narrate' the nation, invigorating critical debates ...
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? ...
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 ...
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 ...
Genealogie der Ethikpolitik
(2016-08-15)
Nationale Ethikkomitees gelten als adäquate Lösung für ethische Probleme lebenswissenschaftlicher - und zunehmend auch nanotechnologischer - Entwicklungen. Aber wann, wie und in welchem Kontext setzten sich diese Ethikpolitiken ...
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 ...
Anti-Empire
(2018)
Anti-Empire explores how different writers across Lusophone spaces have engaged with imperial and colonial power at its various levels of domination, while imagining alternatives to dominant discourses pertaining to race, ...
Philosophieren mit Objekten
(2021)
Gilbert Simondons Schaffen wird an erster Stelle mit der Technikphilosophie in Verbindung gebracht. Allerdings hat er sich nicht nur intensiv mit den naturwissenschaftlichen Texten seiner Zeit auseinandergesetzt, er hat ...
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 ...
Schreibend werden
(2018)
Schreibentwicklung im Kontext migrationsgesellschaftlicher und sprachenbezogener Machtverhältnisse steht im Mittelpunkt dieser Dissertation. Die Autorin lotet aus, welchen Stellenwert die Aushandlung von Viabilität - eines ...
European Investment Bank Group Activity Report 2022
(2023)
Our flagship report shows how the European Investment Bank stepped up to the challenges of 2022. From our ongoing work rebuilding Ukraine's damaged towns and cities and our support for refugees, to our unwavering commitment ...
Les mises en guerre de l’État
(2018-12-01)
Cet ouvrage collectif se propose d’interroger le processus de nationalisation des sociétés européennes dans le contexte de la guerre : est-ce le succès de cette nationalisation qui explique le succès de la mobilisation en ...
Pandora’s Box
(2021)
In this book, written between 1979 and 2020, Gilbert Lewis distills a lifetime of insights he garnered as a medical anthropologist. He asks: How do beliefs about illness in different societies influence their members’ ...
Alienating Labour
(2013)
The Communist Party dictatorships in Hungary and East Germany sought to win over the “masses” with promises of providing for ever-increasing levels of consumption. This policy—successful at the outset—in the long-term ...
Medical Caregiving Narratives of the First World War
(2023)
This book offers a novel critical intervention in medical humanities, foregrounding the importance of spaces and senses in medical experiences. It explores the distinctive experience and literary representations of somatic ...
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 ...
Modernism, Fiction and Mathematics
(2018)
Modernism in mathematics – this unusual notion turns out to provide a new perspective on central questions in and beyond literary modernism. Contrasting ‘mathematical fictions’ from and about the heyday of mathematical ...
Digital Resistance in the Middle East
(2017)
This book argues that Internet diffusion and use in the Middle East enables meaningful micro-changes in citizens’ lives, even in states where no Arab Spring revolution occurred.
Mythen und Narrative des Entscheidens (Volume 3, Edition 1)
(2019)
Es gibt Mythen des Entscheidens, die immer wieder erzählt werden, wie beispielsweise die Entscheidung von Adam und Eva im Paradies, vom Baum der Erkenntnis zu essen, das Urteil des Paris, Herakles am Scheideweg oder Buridans ...
Islamic Studies in the Twenty-first Century
(2016-08-01)
In recent decades, traditional methods of philology and intellectual history, applied to the study of Islam and Muslim societies, have been met with considerable criticism from rising generations of scholars who have turned ...
Islamic Studies in the Twenty-first Century
(2016-08-01)
In recent decades, traditional methods of philology and intellectual history, applied to the study of Islam and Muslim societies, have been met with considerable criticism from rising generations of scholars who have turned ...
Ageing and Technology
(2016-01-15)
The booming increase of the senior population has become a social phenomenon and a challenge to our societies, and technological advances have undoubtedly contributed to improve the lives of elderly citizens in numerous ...
Europa zwischen Grenzkontrolle und Flüchtlingsschutz
(2018-03-26)
Die Außengrenzen sind zu einem umkämpften Raum der EU-Politik zwischen Grenzkontrollen und Flüchtlingsrechten geworden. Silja Klepp stellt diese Aushandlungskämpfe in einer Ethnographie der Seegrenze dar. Forschungsreisen ...
Europa zwischen Grenzkontrolle und Flüchtlingsschutz
(2018-03-26)
Die Außengrenzen sind zu einem umkämpften Raum der EU-Politik zwischen Grenzkontrollen und Flüchtlingsrechten geworden. Silja Klepp stellt diese Aushandlungskämpfe in einer Ethnographie der Seegrenze dar. Forschungsreisen ...
Confessio im Konflikt
(2019)
Der Band geht exemplarisch und interdisziplinär den medial und diskursiv artikulierten Zusammenhängen zwischen Selbst- und Fremdwahrnehmung sowie individuell-subjektivem Bekennen in ihren frühneuzeitlichen Ausprägungen ...
Cast Out
(2008-11-29)
Throughout history, those arrested for vagrancy have generally been poor men and women, often young, able-bodied, unemployed, and homeless. Most histories of vagrancy have focused on the European and American experiences. This ...
Enemies of All Humankind
(2016)
Hostis humani generis, meaning “enemy of humankind,” is the legal basis by which Western societies have defined such criminals as pirates, torturers, or terrorists as beyond the pale of civilization. Sonja Schillings argues ...
Minority Women and Austerity
(2017)
In the first book of its kind, Bassel and Emejulu explore minority women’s experiences of and resistances to austerity measures in France and Britain. Minority women are often portrayed as passive victims. However, Minority ...
Contagion and Enclaves
(2012-11-20)
Colonialism created exclusive economic and segregatory social spaces for the exploitation and management of natural and human resources, in the form of plantations, ports, mining towns, hill stations, civil lines and new ...
Digitalisierung in der Logistikbranche
(2021)
Die Transportlogistik leidet unter Fachkräftemangel - wie andere Branchen auch. Welche Möglichkeiten die Digitalisierung für die Gestaltung von attraktiven Arbeitsplätzen und Weiterbildungsangeboten bietet, stellen die ...
Genealogie der Ethikpolitik
(2016-08-15)
Nationale Ethikkomitees gelten als adäquate Lösung für ethische Probleme lebenswissenschaftlicher - und zunehmend auch nanotechnologischer - Entwicklungen. Aber wann, wie und in welchem Kontext setzten sich diese Ethikpolitiken ...
Digitalisierung in der Logistikbranche
(2021)
Die Transportlogistik leidet unter Fachkräftemangel - wie andere Branchen auch. Welche Möglichkeiten die Digitalisierung für die Gestaltung von attraktiven Arbeitsplätzen und Weiterbildungsangeboten bietet, stellen die ...
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 ...
Das Rätsel der Lesbarkeit
(2011)
Karel van het Reve (1921–1999) war Slawist, vor allem aber ein gefeierter Kolumnist, Essayist, Romancier und Übersetzer. Und er war er ein „Meister der ironischen Pirouette“, der seine Meinung stets offen, in einem schlichten ...
Praxisbuch Ethik in der Notfallmedizin
(2015)
Das Werk stellt ethische Herausforderungen und Entscheidungskonflikte aus dem breiten Feld der inner- und außerklinischen Notfallmedizin dar und liefert durch Denkanstöße und ethische Argumente praxisnahe Entscheidungshilfen. ...
Les mises en guerre de l’État
(2018-12-01)
Cet ouvrage collectif se propose d’interroger le processus de nationalisation des sociétés européennes dans le contexte de la guerre : est-ce le succès de cette nationalisation qui explique le succès de la mobilisation en ...
European Investment Bank Activity Report 2021
(2022)
Our flagship report illustrates how the European Investment Bank Group confronted two great threats in 2021, the climate crisis and the coronavirus pandemic, even as the challenges posed by development grew more urgent. ...
Patrons of Women
(2011-05-01)
Assuming women’s empowerment would accelerate the pace of social change in rural Nepal, the World Bank urged the Nepali government to undertake a “Gender Activities Project” within an ongoing long-term water-engineering ...
Ageing and Technology
(2016-01-15)
The booming increase of the senior population has become a social phenomenon and a challenge to our societies, and technological advances have undoubtedly contributed to improve the lives of elderly citizens in numerous ...
Von Frankfurt nach Jerusalem
(2024)
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EIB Working Paper 2021/01 - Towards a new growth model in CESEE
(2021)
The factors behind the pre-crisis growth model of the Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European EU countries (CESEE) region – skilled yet affordable labour force, foreign direct investment, imports of productivity-enhancing ...
Handeln unter Risiko
(2010-07-15)
Das bisherige institutionell arrangierte Verhältnis von Sicherheit und Risiko ist angesichts der massiven Veränderungen der inneren, der sozialen und der äußeren Sicherheit in der Krise. Moderne Gesellschaften stehen vor ...
Die Religion der Bürger
(2022)
"Religion" ist seit dem 17. Jahrhundert einer der zentralen Begriffe der deutschsprachigen protestantischen Theologie. Ab dem 19. Jahrhundert gewann der Begriff im Zusammenhang der religiösen Transformationsprozesse und ...
EIB Working Paper 2021/01 - Towards a new growth model in CESEE
(2021)
The factors behind the pre-crisis growth model of the Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European EU countries (CESEE) region – skilled yet affordable labour force, foreign direct investment, imports of productivity-enhancing ...
Handeln unter Risiko
(2010-07-15)
Das bisherige institutionell arrangierte Verhältnis von Sicherheit und Risiko ist angesichts der massiven Veränderungen der inneren, der sozialen und der äußeren Sicherheit in der Krise. Moderne Gesellschaften stehen vor ...
A Companion to Geoffrey of Monmouth
(2020)
A Companion to Geoffrey of Monmouth brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to provide an updated scholarly introduction to all aspects of his work. Arguably the most influential secular writer of medieval ...
Cast Out
(2008-11-29)
Throughout history, those arrested for vagrancy have generally been poor men and women, often young, able-bodied, unemployed, and homeless. Most histories of vagrancy have focused on the European and American experiences. This ...
Bankiers, Künstler und Gelehrte
(2024)
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Changing Gender Norms in Islam Between Reason and Revelation
(2018)
Women‘s movements in Islamic countries have had a long and arduous journey in their quest for the realization of human rights and genuine equality. The author examines whether discriminatory laws against women do in fact ...
Interferencias del archivo: Cortes estéticos y políticos en cine y literatura
(2016-02-22)
Archivo, memoria, cine, literatura y política. Desde una perspectiva intermedial, los ensayos reunidos en el libro analizan las relaciones entre estos campos en Argentina y Chile durante las últimas décadas. Un eje aborda ...
Schreibend werden
(2018)
Schreibentwicklung im Kontext migrationsgesellschaftlicher und sprachenbezogener Machtverhältnisse steht im Mittelpunkt dieser Dissertation. Die Autorin lotet aus, welchen Stellenwert die Aushandlung von Viabilität - eines ...
"Mehr Freiheit wagen" - Beiträge zur Emeritierung von Jürgen Basedow
(2023)
Im Herbst 2017 ist Jürgen Basedow als Direktor am Hamburger Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht in den Ruhestand getreten. Dies war Anlass für das Institut und seine Schülerinnen und ...
Digital Resistance in the Middle East
(2017)
This book argues that Internet diffusion and use in the Middle East enables meaningful micro-changes in citizens’ lives, even in states where no Arab Spring revolution occurred.
Patrons of Women
(2011-05-01)
Assuming women’s empowerment would accelerate the pace of social change in rural Nepal, the World Bank urged the Nepali government to undertake a “Gender Activities Project” within an ongoing long-term water-engineering ...
Von Frankfurt nach Jerusalem
(2024)
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Beethoven und Haydn
(2023)
"[E]inigen Unterricht bei Haydn genommen, aber nie etwas von ihm gelernt": Ludwig van Beethovens Verhältnis zu Joseph Haydn schien von Beginn an belastet. Entsprechend verstanden die meisten Zeitzeugen, Biographen und ...
Alienating Labour
(2013)
The Communist Party dictatorships in Hungary and East Germany sought to win over the “masses” with promises of providing for ever-increasing levels of consumption. This policy—successful at the outset—in the long-term ...
Voices of Labor
(2017)
Motion pictures are made, not mass produced, requiring a remarkable collection of skills, self-discipline, and sociality—all of which are sources of enormous pride among Hollywood’s craft and creative workers. The interviews ...
Juristische Kommentare
(2020)
In der Rechtsvergleichung gilt der juristische Kommentar zumeist als typisch deutsches Publikationsformat. Doch ist das nur die halbe Wahrheit. Welche Verbreitung und Bedeutung haben Kommentare in anderen Rechtsordnungen? ...
Deterministic Artificial Intelligence
(2020)
Kirchhoff’s laws give a mathematical description of electromechanics. Similarly, translational motion mechanics obey Newton’s laws, while rotational motion mechanics comply with Euler’s moment equations, a set of three ...
The Message is Murder
(2017-11-20)
The Message is Murder analyses the violence bound up in the everyday functions of digital media. At its core is the concept of 'computational capital' - the idea that capitalism itself is a computer, turning qualities into ...
Politik der Unentschiedenheit
(2010-03-15)
Flüchtlinge stehen vor vielen Problemen, die nicht nur in ihren Heimatländern entstehen, sondern häufig durch die Politik anderer Staaten und internationaler Organisationen verursacht werden. Flüchtlinge leben in unentschiedenen ...
Politik der Unentschiedenheit
(2010-03-15)
Flüchtlinge stehen vor vielen Problemen, die nicht nur in ihren Heimatländern entstehen, sondern häufig durch die Politik anderer Staaten und internationaler Organisationen verursacht werden. Flüchtlinge leben in unentschiedenen ...
Archive of Jewish History
(2023)
12-й том «Архива» открывается исследованием Ефима Меламеда (Киев) об истории надзора сталинских спецслужб за еврейскими писателями в конце 1930-х — начале 1950-х годов, имевшего последствиями репрессии и физическое уничтожение ...
The Cold War
(2017)
The traces of the Cold War are still visible in many places all around the world. It is the topic of exhibits and new museums, of memorial days and historic sites, of documentaries and movies, of arts and culture. There ...
Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf and Worldly Realism
(2017-01-31)
Austen and Woolf are materialists, this book argues. ‘Things’ in their novels give us entry into some of the most contentious issues of the day. This wholly materialist understanding produces worldly realism, an experimental ...
Spectral Feature Selection for Data Mining
(2012-01-01)
This timely introduction to spectral feature selection illustrates the potential of this powerful dimensionality reduction technique in high-dimensional data processing. It presents the theoretical foundations of spectral ...
Anti-Empire
(2018)
Anti-Empire explores how different writers across Lusophone spaces have engaged with imperial and colonial power at its various levels of domination, while imagining alternatives to dominant discourses pertaining to race, ...
Das Europa der Europäer
(2011-03-15)
Wurden die Grundeinstellungen europäischer Bürger bisher fast exklusiv durch quantitative Methoden beobachtet und erklärt, so geht die in diesem Buch vorgestellte international vergleichende Studie einen anderen Weg: Das ...
Philosophieren mit Objekten
(2021)
Gilbert Simondons Schaffen wird an erster Stelle mit der Technikphilosophie in Verbindung gebracht. Allerdings hat er sich nicht nur intensiv mit den naturwissenschaftlichen Texten seiner Zeit auseinandergesetzt, er hat ...