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La cocina de los venenos
(2020)
Durante los siglos XVII y XVIII se presentaron varias querellas ante el tribunal de justicia criminal del Nuevo Reino de Granada, en las que se denunciaba que había personas que ejercían los oficios médicos sin tener títulos ...
Power and Religion in Baroque Rome
(2005)
This study analyzes the ways in which a variety of cultural manifestations were the necessary preconditions for (religious) policy and power in the Rome of Urban VIII (1623-1644). Precisely their interaction created what ...
Regieren in der modernen Gesellschaft
(2016-05-23)
Wie lässt sich das Handeln der Regierung in modernen Gesellschaften theoretisch fassen? Schon die Autoren der amerikanischen Verfassung haben die Notwendigkeit erkannt, die Exekutivgewalt einzuhegen und sie mit der Legislative ...
The Learning Economy and the Economics of Hope
(2016-12-01)
‘The Learning Economy and the Economics of Hope’ offers original insights in processes of innovation and learning and draws implications for economic theory and public policy. The book introduces the reader to important ...
Das Gebet als metaphorischer Prozess
(2023)
Das Gebet ist ein reizvolles Thema, weil es ein Phänomen auf der Schwelle ist und viel verspricht: nämlich eine Brücke zu sein zwischen Himmel und Erde, Kontaktort von Endlichem und Unendlichem und ein ultimativer Trost ...
Facets of Facebook
(2016)
The debate on Facebook raises questions about the use and users of this information service. This collected volume gathers a broad spectrum of social science and information science articles about Facebook.Facebook has ...
The Democratization of Artificial Intelligence
(2019)
After a long time of neglect, Artificial Intelligence is once again at the center of most of our political, economic, and socio-cultural debates. Recent advances in the field of Artifical Neural Networks have led to a ...
Performing Interpersonal Violence Court, Curse, and Comedy in Fourth-Century BCE Athens
(2012-01-16)
This book offers the first attempt at understanding interpersonal violence in ancient Athens. While the archaic desire for revenge persisted into the classical period, it was channeled by the civil discourse of the democracy. ...
Cooking Data
(2018-03-30)
COOKING DATA is an ethnographic study of how demographic data is collected, handled, processed, and manipulated by fieldworkers, researchers, policymakers, and NGOs in Malawi and internationally. Crystal Biruk’s fieldwork ...
Das Endgericht bei Paulus
(2019-06-12)
In the 'New Perspective on Paul' the last judgment does not play any decisive role. According to other Pauline scholars, Paul, in his many fragmentary references to a last judgment, did not presuppose a consistent conception ...
Chapter 8 Continuity or rupture? Investigating domestic structures during the Final Neolithic and the Bell Beaker culture in central-eastern France and western Switzerland
(2019)
European studies of the Bell Beaker phenomenon have concentrated on burial and artefacts that constitute its the most visible aspects. This volume concentrates on the domestic sphere assemblage composition, domestic ...
EIB Group activities in EU cohesion regions in 2021
(2022)
As part of the EIB Group’s bigger, bolder and more focused approach to cohesion, this report, the first in a new series, presents the EIB Group’s activities in EU cohesion regions in 2021. The results are presented in terms ...
Teaching Health Care in Virtual Space
(2016-07-31)
Teaching Health Care in Virtual Space is the first “how-to” manual for health educators on the instructional use of three-dimensional, computer-generated virtual environments, called “multi-user virtual learning environments” ...
Atelische an-Konstruktion
(2022)
In der atelischen an-Konstruktion im Deutschen treten die Verben mit einer an-Präpositionalphrase auf (an etwas malen/essen/basteln). Basierend auf Korpusdaten wird in diesem Band gegen die verbreitete Alternationsanalyse ...
Man or Monster?
(2016-11-04)
During the Khmer Rouge's brutal reign in Cambodia during the mid-to-late 1970s, a former math teacher named Duch served as the commandant of the S-21 security center, where as many as 20,000 victims were interrogated, ...
The role of constituents in multiword expressions
(2020)
Multiword expressions (MWEs), such as noun compounds (e.g. nickname in English, and Ohrwurm in German), complex verbs (e.g. give up in English, and aufgeben in German) and idioms (e.g. break the ice in English, and das Eis ...
Mongrel Nation
(2007-07-13)
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 ...
Patientenpolitiken
(2022)
Wie ist es möglich geworden, Patient*innen nicht nur als passiv und leidend, sondern auch als eigensinnig und politisch zu verstehen? Helene Gerhards verbindet genealogische und subjektkonstitutionsanalytische Zugänge, mit ...
Methods in Contemporary Linguistics
(2012-08-31)
The present volume is a broad overview of methods and methodologies in linguistics, illustrated with examples from concrete research. It collects insights gained from a broad range of linguistic sub-disciplines, ranging ...
Fiasko – Scheitern in der Frühen Neuzeit
(2015-06-15)
Wie stellen sich Menschen ihre Zukunft vor und wie gehen sie damit um, wenn sie keinen Erfolg haben? Moralische Urteile über den Scheiternden sind die Regel – ein schamvoller Rückzug aus der Welt oft die Reaktion. Jedoch: ...
Як воює ІДІЛ = How ISIS Fights
(2023)
Based on extensive field work, this book analyzes how ISIS – a widely hated, massively outnumbered, and ludicrously outgunned organization – managed to occupy over 120 cities, towns, and villages from the Southern Philippines ...
»Solidarität zuerst«
(2021)
Die Solidarität ist im Vergleich zur Freiheit und zur Gerechtigkeit merkwürdig »theorielos«. Liegt dies an der Dominanz eines politischen Liberalismus aus vorindustriellen Zeiten, der unser Denken bis heute prägt? An die ...
Russians Abroad
(2013-06-01)
"This book presents an array of perspectives on the vivid cultural and literary politics that marked the period immediately after the October Revolution of 1917, when Russian writers had to relocate to Berlin and Paris ...
Generation und Geltung
(2012-02-15)
In den Sozialwissenschaften wird das Verhalten von Menschen oft durch ihre Zugehörigkeit zu einer Generation erklärt. Seit den 68ern ist jedoch umstritten, ob sich überhaupt noch Generationen bilden und wodurch sie entstehen ...
Childhood in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
(2005-07-18)
Although many researchers have taken a critical stance towards the theses on the history of childhood developed by Philippe Ariès in 1960, this volume is the first comprehensive collection of studies with a psychological ...
Beiträge zur deutschen Grammatik
(2019-04-11)
This volume contains the complete collection of published and unpublished work on German grammar by Tilman N. Höhle. It consists of two parts. The first part is Topologische Felder, a book-length manuscript that was written ...
Eine andere Welt ist möglich - ohne Antisemitismus?
(2009-10-15)
Die Begriffe "links" und "nicht-antisemitisch" sind längst nicht mehr gleichzusetzen. Dies zeigt sich auch in Argumentationen von Teilen des globalisierungskritischen Akteurs Attac. Aber worin bestehen eigentlich die ...
On Kings
(2017-11-01)
In anthropology, as much as in the current popular imagination, kings remain figures of fascination and intrigue. As the cliché goes, kings continue to die spectacular deaths only to remain subjects of vitality and long ...
Multiword expressions in lexical resources
(2024)
This volume contains chapters that paint the current landscape of the multiword expressions (MWE) representation in lexical resources, in view of their robust identification and computational processing. Both large-size ...
Sovereign Justice
(2010-12-14)
Over the past years global justice has established itself as one of the new and most promising frontiers of political theory. Sovereign Justice collects valuable contributions from scholars of both continental and analytic ...
Macht Arbeit Frei?
(2018-01-01)
This book examines the forced labor of Jews in the General Government of Occupied Poland from 1939-1943. Specifically, it traces the bureaucratic understanding and use the terms "labor" and "work" in the General Government; ...
Anatomy of a Civil War
(2018-10-15)
Anatomy of a Civil War demonstrates the destructive nature of war, ranging from the physical destruction, to a range of psycho-social problems, and to the detrimental effects on the environment. Despite such horrific aspects ...
Völkerrechtliche Vorgaben für die Verleihung der Staatsangehörigkeit
(2022)
Das Staatsangehörigkeitsrecht wird trotz der völkerrechtlichen Relevanz der Staatsangehörigkeit oft als eine der letzten Bastionen staatlicher Souveränität angesehen. Patrick R. Hoffmann hinterfragt diese tradierte Annahme, ...
Max Emden
(2023)
"Der schöngeistige, eigensinnige Wohltäter und das Schicksal seiner Kunstsammlung: Biographie und Film bieten eindrückliche Einsichten in Emdens Leben. Inklusive der Film-DVD »Auch Leben ist eine Kunst - Der Fall Max ...
History Made Conscious
(2023)
During the last fifty years, the writing of history underwent two massive transformations. First, powered by Marxism and other materialist sociologies, the great social history wave instated the value of social explanation. ...
From Hospitality to Grace
(2017-11-01)
The Pitt-Rivers Omnibus brings together the definitive essays and lectures of the influential social anthropologist Julian A. Pitt-Rivers, a corpus of work that has, until now, remained scattered, untranslated, and unedited. ...
Digital Environments
(2017-02-15)
Digital technology already has permeated the physical world. Devices such as smartphones, tablets or wearables and online venues like virtual worlds and social networks have penetrated every part of our lives. The ...
Death in Jewish Life
(2014-08-28)
This volume examines in inter-disciplinary perspective the degree to which the medieval Ashkenazi were innovative in the area of communal activity surrounding burial and mourning customs. The topics cover liturgical poetry ...
TransArea
(2016-07-11)
The future of area studies lies in opening out into TransArea studies, which tie together area-connected competencies with transdisciplinary research practices. It is one of the loftiest and most urgent duties of philology ...
The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood Cinema 1960–2000
(2017-12-11)
The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood Cinema 1960-2000 combines digital cartography with close readings of representative films to write a history of twentieth century Hollywood narrative cinema at the intersection of the ...
Großerzählungen des Extremen
(2018)
What makes radical world views so attractive? And how can the revival of extremism be explained from the perspective of cultural and social studies? If major narratives were supposed to be found on the dump of history, ...
Female Bodies and Female Practitioners
(2024)
The contributions collected here discuss the emergence, transfer and transformations of theoretical and practical gynaecologic knowledge in ancient medical and other traditions. The authors investigate the cultural practices ...
The Pseudo-Democrat's Dilemma
(2011-04-21)
Cowinner of the International Studies Association’s Chadwick F. Alger Prize, Winner of the American Political Science Association’s Comparative Democratization Section Best Book Award, and Cowinner of the Yale University ...
Garbage Citizenship
(2018)
Over the last twenty-five years, garbage infrastructure in Dakar, Senegal, has taken center stage in struggles over government, the value of labor, and the dignity of the working poor. Through strikes and public dumping, ...
Storytelling
(2018)
In Storytelling, Rodolphe Gasché reexamines the muteness of Holocaust survivors, that is, their inability to tell their stories. This phenomenon has not been explained up to now without reducing the violence of the events ...
Understanding Immigration
(2017)
Based on the dual premise that nations need to learn from how immigration issues are handled in other modern democracies, and that adaptation to a new era of refugee and emigration movements is critical to a stable world, ...
Amok, School Shooting und zielgerichtete Gewalt
(2011)
In den kinder- und jugendpsychiatrischen Kliniken werden durch Schulen, schulpsychologische Dienste, Jugendämter und Polizei immer mehr Kinder und Jugendliche vorgestellt, um deren Gefährdungspotenzial professionell ...
Communicating Linguistics
(2023)
Increasingly, academics are called upon to demonstrate the value of linguistics and explain their research to the wider public. In support of this agenda, Communicating Linguistics: Language, Community and Public Engagement ...
Traces numériques
(2013)
Relié à des inconnus par des technologies numériques simplifiant l’accès à l’information et à la communication, l’humain du xxie siècle, même le moins tenté par les nouvelles technologies, laisse partout des traces de ses ...
Religion in der Schule
(2018)
Nirgendwo kommt der Staat der Persönlichkeit des Einzelnen so nahe wie in der Schule: Sie ist zugleich ein Ort der Bildung wie auch der Persönlichkeitserziehung und der Integration der heranwachsenden Generation in die ...
Language and the Making of Modern India
(2018)
Through an examination of the creation of the first linguistically organized province in India, Odisha, Pritipuspa Mishra explores the ways regional languages came to serve as the most acceptable registers of difference ...
Jahrbuch der Deutschen Schillergesellschaft 64/2020
(2023)
Das »Jahrbuch der Deutschen Schillergesellschaft« ist ein literaturwissenschaftliches Periodikum, das vorwiegend Beiträge zur deutschsprachigen Literatur von der Aufklärung bis zur Gegenwart veröffentlicht. Diese Zeitspanne ...
Archival Silences
(2021)
Archival Silences demonstrates emphatically that archival absences exist all over the globe. The book questions whether benign ‘silence’ is an appropriate label for the variety of destructions, concealment and absences ...
Making Refuge
(2016)
How do people whose entire way of life has been destroyed and who witnessed horrible abuses against loved ones construct a new future? How do people who have survived the ravages of war and displacement rebuild their lives ...
Reclaiming Romanticism
(2022)
The earliest environmental criticism took its inspiration from the Romantic poets and their immersion in the natural world. Today the “romanticising” of nature has come to be viewed with suspicion. Written by one of the ...
Leo Baeck Institute New York
(2024)
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The World Jewish Congress During The Holocaust
(2014-06-01)
Drawing on hitherto neglected archival materials, Zohar Segev sheds new light on the policy of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) during the Holocaust. Contrary to popular belief, he can show that there was an impressive ...
A vision of Africa's future
(2018-10-01)
Africa is a fast-changing continent and an area of rising global relevance, where major transformation processes are currently underway, from demographic expansion to economic development, from social progress to environmental ...
Interdisziplinarität in der Hochschullehre
(2023)
Was interdisziplinares Lernen fr Lehrende und Studierende bedeutet, welche Herausforderungen und Chancen entstehen und welche Konsequenzen fr das Denken und Handeln in Wissenschaft und Praxis sichtbar werden, ist Thema ...
Design Justice
(2020)
What is the relationship between design, power, and social justice? “Design justice” is an approach to design that is led by marginalized communities and that aims expilcitly to challenge, rather than reproduce, structural ...