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Integrating Information into the Engineering Design Process
(2013-12-15)
Engineering design is a fundamental problem-solving model used by the discipline. Effective problem-solving requires the ability to find and incorporate quality information sources. To teach courses in this area effectively, ...
Syntaktischer Atlas der deutschen Schweiz (SADS) – Band 1
(2022)
Das zweibändige Werk gibt erstmals einen umfassenden Überblick über den Satzbau der schweizerdeutschen Dialekte und ergänzt das Standardwerk ""Sprachatlas der deutschen Schweiz"", in dem syntaktische Fragen weitgehend ...
Social media and politics of identity
(2024)
The role of digital platforms in setting up symbolic systems, shared know-ledge, feelings of belonging, inclusion and exclusion dynamics, innova-tion and social transformation movements.Based on some ethnographic case ...
Cosmopolitan Archeologies
(2009-03-02)
This book delves into the politics of contemporary archaeology in an increasingly complex international environment. Describing various forms of cosmopolitan engagement, the contributors explore the implications of applying ...
Cosmopolitan Archeologies
(2009-03-02)
This book delves into the politics of contemporary archaeology in an increasingly complex international environment. Describing various forms of cosmopolitan engagement, the contributors explore the implications of applying ...
Brückenschläge
(2022)
Der Sammelband regt an, über den Tellerrand der Linguistik hinauszuschauen, dorthin zu gehen, wo sich die (Sub)Disziplinen nicht mehr zuständig fühlen, und dabei die Gegenstände, Zugänge sowie Handlungsräume neu zu betrachten. ...
Languages of Science in the Eighteenth Century
(2011-10-17)
The eighteenth century is an important period both in the history of science and in the history of languages. In this volume, seventeen authors explore, from a variety of angles, the construction of a scientific language ...
Jewish Families in Europe, 1939-Present
(2017)
This book offers an extensive introduction and 13 diverse essays on how World War II, the Holocaust, and their aftermath affected Jewish families and Jewish communities, with an especially close look at the roles played ...
Christianity, Islam, and Orisa Religion
(2015)
The Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria are exceptional for the copresence among them of three religious traditions: Islam, Christianity, and the indigenous orisa religion. In this comparative study, at once historical and ...
Online Anti-Rape Activism
(2020)
Online Anti-Rape Activism examines the nature, use and scope of online spaces for anti-rape activism. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with activists from around the world, survey data from participants in these spaces, ...
Children Crossing Borders
(2023)
The Americas are witnessing an era of unprecedented human mobility. With their families or unaccompanied, children are part of this immense movement of people. Children Crossing Bordersexplores the different meanings of ...
Ordnungen im Wandel
(2008-01-15)
Ordnung muss sein! So lässt sich das zentrale Strukturprinzip der Moderne zusammenfassen. Heutige soziale, politische, wirtschaftliche und rechtliche Ordnungen erscheinen dagegen immer weniger eindeutig. Ziel dieses Bandes ...
Lust oder Frust?
(2019)
Die Verbesserung der Qualität in Lehre und Studium war das zentrale Thema der 10. GEW-Wissenschaftskonferenz 2018 in Budenheim. In ihren Beiträgen diskutieren die Autorinnen und Autoren Aspekte und Dimensionen, die die ...
The Place of Devotion
(2015)
Hindu devotional traditions have long been recognized for their sacred geographies as well as the sensuous aspects of their devotees’ experiences. Largely overlooked, however, are the subtle links between these religious ...
Coal and Energy in South Africa
(2021)
Coal and Energy in South Africa: Considering a Just Transition investigates the consequences of shifting social responsibilities, new inequalities and the sustainability concerns created by the likely energy transition in ...
Green Politics in China
(2013)
Based on interviews with members of grassroots organisations, media and government institutions, Green Politics in China is an in-depth account of the novel ways Chinese society is responding to its environmental crisis, ...
Diesel and Gasoline Engines
(2020)
The internal combustion engine was invented around 1790 by various scientists and engineers worldwide. Since then the engines have gone through many modifications and improvements. Today, different applications of engines ...
The Owners of Kinship
(2018-01-01)
The Owners of Kinship investigates how kinship in Indigenous Amazonia is derived from the asymmetrical relation between an “owner” and his or her dependents. Through a comprehensive ethnography of the Kanamari, Luiz Costa ...
Kommunizieren und Herrschen
(2023)
In der digitalen Gegenwart mit ihren sozialen Medien, der Verbreitung von mobilen Endgeräten und der ständigen Verfügbarkeit des Internets ist Kommunikation allgegenwärtig. Doch während Plattformen und Algorithmen zunehmend ...
Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama - Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion
(2014)
Exploring the significance of visual things that are 'under construction' in works by playwrights. Illustrated with examples, it opens up new interpretations of the place of aesthetic form in the early modern imagination. ...
Schwärme im Recht
(2023)
Menschliche "Schwärme", also lose verbundene und nicht hierarchische Personenmehrheiten, stellen das Recht vielfach vor bekannte und neue Regulierungsaufgaben. Wesentliche Treiber der losen Zusammenschlüsse sind ...
The size of things I
(2021)
This book focuses on the role size plays in grammar. Under the umbrella term size fall the size of syntactic projections, the size of feature content, and the size of reference sets. The contributions in this first volume ...
Coaching im digitalen Wandel
(2020)
Im Handlungsfeld Coaching stellt die Digitalisierung alle Beteiligten vor massive Herausforderungen. Ein flächendeckendes Umdenken findet spätestens seit der weltweiten Corona-Pandemie statt – mit folgenreichen Konsequenzen ...
Nachhaltigkeit im Unterricht berufsbildender Schulen
(2020)
In seiner Dissertation entwickelt, erprobt und evaluiert der Autor ein wissenschaftliches Fortbildungskonzept für Berufsschullehrende zum Unterrichtsthema nachhaltiges Handeln im Beruf. Um die Leitidee der Nachhaltigkeit ...
After Queer Theory
(2013-11-20)
After Queer Theory makes the provocative claim that queer theory has run its course, made obsolete by the elaboration of its own logic within capitalism. James Penney argues that far from signalling the end of anti-homophobic ...
Die Wiener Stadtbücher 1395-1430
(2018)
Das „Wiener Stadtbuch“ stellt eine Rechtsquelle ersten Ranges dar. Die Aufzeichnungen über das Rechtsleben einer der größten Städte Mitteleuropas spannen sich von 1395–1430. Der vorliegende 5. Teil enthält die Eintragungen ...
Negro Soy Yo
(2016)
In Negro Soy Yo Marc D. Perry explores Cuba’s hip hop movement as a window into the racial complexities of the island’s ongoing transition from revolutionary socialism toward free-market capitalism. Centering on the music ...
Flight and Migration from Africa to Europe
(2020)
This publication collects contributions to understanding and addressing migration flows from Africa to Europe and supporting social coexistence in the destination countries. Written by experts in psychology and social work, ...
Martin Scorsese's Divine Comedy
(2018)
Catherine O’Brien draws on the structure of Dante’s Divine Comedy to explore Scorsese’s feature films from Who’s that knocking at my door (1967-69) to Silence (2016). In Dante’s poem in 100 cantos, the Pilgrim is guided ...
Footprints in Paradise
(2017-04-30)
In Okinawa, the southernmost prefecture of Japan, “ecotourism” promises to provide employment for a dwindling population of rural youth while preserving the natural environment and bolstering regional pride. Footprints in ...
Qualitätsmonitor 2020
(2020)
Die Qualität der Versorgung, ihre Sicherung, Verbesserung und Incentivierung sind das erklärte Ziel der Gesetzgebung im Gesundheitswesen der letzten Jahre. Der Qualitätsmonitor widmet sich mit der aktuellen Ausgabe der ...
Michel Houellebecq
(2013-03-19)
Michel Houellebecq is perhaps the single most successful and controversial of all contemporary novelists writing in French. Houellebecq has become a global publishing phenomenon: his books have been translated worldwide, ...
Logics of War
(2013-03-13)
Most wars between countries end quickly and at relatively low cost. The few in which high-intensity fighting continues for years bring about a disproportionate amount of death and suffering. What separates these few unusually ...
FISH Handbook for Biological Wastewater Treatment
(2009-07-14)
The FISH Handbook for Biological Wastewater Treatment provides all the required information for the user to be able to identify and quantify important microorganisms in activated sludge and biofilms by using fluorescence ...
African Identities and International Politics
(2022)
Using the lenses of realism, liberalism, the English School and constructivism, this book explains how the divisions and differences in African identities affect African international politics.
This book explores the ...
Beruflich Qualifizierte im Studium
(2015-11-06)
The separation of academic and vocational training has a long tradition in Germany. The introduction of third level study courses without A level prerequisite was supposed to make the education system less exclusive. Against ...
Time-Periodic Solutions to the Equations of Magnetohydrodynamics with Background Magnetic Field
(2020)
In the first part of this thesis we extend the theory of anisotropic Triebel-Lizorkin spaces to time-periodic functions. In particular, the spatial trace space is determined together with the existence of extension operators. ...
Interpreting and technology
(2019-04-17)
Unlike other professions, the impact of information and communication technology on interpreting has been moderate so far. However, recent advances in the areas of remote, computer-assisted, and, most recently, machine ...
Belonging and Becoming in a Multicultural World
(2019)
Children and youth are front and center in the context of global mass migration and the social discord around questions of multicultural inclusion that it often ignites. It is young people at the forefront of navigating ...
The 15 circular steps for cities – Second edition
(2021)
The transition to a circular economy not only conserves resources, but also reduces environmental and climate impacts. It fosters innovation and thereby increases competitiveness and creates new jobs. Cities can be ...
Energiewende und Megatrends
(2020)
Die Energiewende findet gesellschaftlich nicht im »luftleeren Raum« statt: Sie kann sich nur im Kontext anderer tiefgreifender Prozesse sozialen Wandels vollziehen. Digitalisierung, Mobilität, Urbanisierung - diese und ...
Africa's Lions
(2016-11-22)
Africa's Lions examines the economic growth experiences of six fast-growing and/or economically dominant African countries. Expert African researchers offer unique perspectives into the challenges and issues in Ethiopia, ...
Diesseits vom Abseits - Studien zur beruflichen Benachteiligtenförderung (Volume 30)
(2005)
Jugendliche mit besonderem Förderbedarf beim Übergang von der Schule in die Berufs- und Arbeitswelt gibt es seit vielen Jahren. In Deutschland sind inzwischen 15-20% eines Altersjahrgangs durch Ausgrenzung bedroht. Empirische ...
Utopia and Modernity in China
(2022)
The contradictions of modernisation run through the whole of modern Chinese history. The abundance of manufactured goods being sold in the west attests to China’s industrial revolution, but this capitalist vision of 'utopia' ...
Environmental Aspects of Zoonotic Diseases
(2012-01-31)
Environmental Aspects of Zoonotic Diseases provides a definitive description, commentary and research needs of environmental aspects related to zoonotic diseases. There are many interrelated connections between the environment ...
Contextualizing Disaster
(2016)
"Contextualizing Disaster" offers a comparative analysis of six recent highly visible disasters and several slow-burning, hidden, crises that include typhoons, tsunamis, earthquakes, chemical spills, and the unfolding ...
Imagining the Peoples of Europe
(2019)
This volume explores the new political order with a particular focus on discursive constructions of 'the people' and the category of populism across the spectrum.
Selling Transracial Adoption
(2018-01-01)
"Chosen Children" examines the role of the adoption marketplace in shaping how transracial adoptive families are sorted and matched, and analyzes what these practices suggest about race in the United States. In contrast ...
Perception in Aristotle’s Ethics
(2018-02-15)
Rabinoff strives to account for ethical perception (aisthesis) in Aristotle’s ethics—to give it a place of importance in ethical choice and action—and to offer an account of the faculty of perception expansive enough to ...
EIB Investment Report 2019/2020 - Key Findings
(2019)
The Investment Report, issued annually by the European Investment Bank, provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of investment and the financing of investment in the European Union. It combines the exploration of ...
Der apokryphe Briefwechsel zwischen Seneca und Paulus
(2006)
In der zweiten Hälfte des 4. Jahrhunderts erfand ein unbekannter Autor einen Briefwechsel zwischen Seneca und Paulus. Die vierzehn kurzen Briefe, acht vom Philosophen, sechs vom Apostel, sind in sehr schlechtem spätantikem ...
The Modernist Anthropocene
(2023)
The Modernist Anthropocene examines how modernist writers forged new and innovative ways of responding to rapidly changing planetary conditions and emergent ideas about nonhuman life, environmental change and the human ...
Arqueología y aleteiología
(2014)
El presente volumen reúne catorce estudios publicados entre 1994 y 2014, en revistas especializadas de Europa y Latinoamérica. Los estudios abordan diferentes aspectos del pensamiento heideggeriano, tal como éste se ...
Die Indigenenbewegung in Ecuador
(2013-12-15)
Die Indigenenbewegung ist trotz ihrer enormen Diversität ein wichtiger sozialer Akteur in der ecuadorianischen Gesellschaft. Seit einer Sattelzeit zwischen Mitte der 1970er und Mitte der 1980er Jahre hat sie einen Diskurs ...
Chinese Surplus
(2018-01-05)
In CHINESE SURPLUS Ari Heinrich dissects the figure of the medically or artistically commodified body in Chinese culture and popular science. Providing a history of how bodies have been thought and seen to mirror the nation, ...
Smart Europe (Volume 4)
(2019)
A green digital economy could change the future of the Old Continent. The new Smart Europe will be based on three elements: new communication technologies, new sources of energy and new modes of mobility. But the transition ...
EIB Working Paper 2020/07 - The growing digital divide in Europe and the United States (Volume 2020/7)
(2020)
Using the EIBIS Digital and Skills Survey on digitalisation activities of firms in the EU and the US, this study confirms the trend toward a growing digital divide in the corporate landscape with, on one side, many firms ...
Asyl verwalten
(2017-02-15)
Wie gehen Verwaltungsbehörden mit den oftmals komplexen und eigensinnigen Geschichten von Flucht und Asyl um, wie wird daraus ein "Fall" und wie entsteht eine Entscheidung? Im Kontext europäischer Koordinierungsversuche ...
Anwaltliche Berufsausübung im Dienste des Rechtsstaats
(2023)
Rechtsanwälte haben rechtsordnungsübergreifend eine wichtige rechtsstaatliche Funktion. Doch anders als die richterliche Unabhängigkeit, die in den europäischen wie mitgliedstaatlichen Verfassungstexten ausdrücklich erwähnt ...
Mapping Society
(2018)
From a rare map of yellow fever in eighteenth-century New York, to Charles Booth’s famous maps of poverty in nineteenth-century London, an Italian racial zoning map of early twentieth-century Asmara, to a map of wealth ...