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Integration von Zuwanderern
(2010-07-15)
Was fördert, was hemmt die Integration von Zuwanderern? Welche Konzepte können als erfolgreich angesehen werden? Vor dem Hintergrund internationaler Erfahrungen greifen die Beiträge dieses Bandes zentrale Themen der Debatte ...
Reality Bites
(2018)
Fake news, alternative facts, post truth—terms all too familiar to anyone in U.S. political culture and concepts at the core of Dana L. Cloud’s new book, Reality Bites, which explores truth claims in contemporary political ...
Migration and Social Pathways
(2017-10-02)
The landscape of European migration has changed considerably over the past decades, in particular after the fall of the iron curtain and again after the EU enlargement to the east. The author researches the phenomenon of ...
Ethics or the Right Thing?
(2022)
A sympathetic examination of the failure of anti-corruption efforts in contemporary Indonesia. Combining ethnographic fieldwork in the city of Kupang with an acute historical sensibility, Sylvia Tidey shows how good ...
What is Academic Freedom?
(2022)
This book explores the history of the debate, from 1915 to the present, about the meaning of academic freedom, particularly as concerns political activism on the college campus. The book introduces readers to the origins ...
Moral Economies of Corruption
(2016)
Nigeria is famous for "419" emails asking recipients for bank account information and for scandals involving the disappearance of billions of dollars from government coffers. Corruption permeates even minor official ...
A grammar of Mauwake
(2015)
This grammar provides a synchronic grammatical description of Mauwake, a Papuan Trans-New Guinea (TNG) language of about 2000 speakers on the north coast of the Madang Province in Papua New Guinea. It is the first book-length ...
Discourses, Modes, Media and Meaning in an Era of Pandemic
(2022)
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all aspects of our everyday lives – from the political to the economic to the social. Using a multimodal discourse analysis approach, this dynamic collection examines various discourses, ...
Mixtec Evangelicals
(2016)
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 ...
Book of the Disappeared
(2023)
Book of the Disappeared confronts worldwide human rights violations of enforced disappearance and genocide and explores the global quest for justice with forceful, outstanding contributions by respected scholars, expert ...
Global Player EU?
(2015-05-15)
Die EU wäre gerne ein "global player", der auf dem Spielfeld von Weltwirtschaft und Weltpolitik den großen Jungs den Ball abnimmt. In Politik und Medien wollen die meisten die EU als globalen Spieler sehen, und zwar ...
A Bowl for a Coin
(2019)
A Bowl for a Coin is the first book in any language to describe and analyze the history of all Japanese teas. To understand the triumph of the tea plant in Japan, Wayne Farris begins with its cultivation and goes on to ...
Dropout in der Beruflichen Rehabilitation
(2022)
Aus welchen Gründen brechen Menschen mit Behinderungen eine Berufsausbildung ab? Am Beispiel einer Einrichtung der Beruflichen Rehabilitation haben die Autor:innen des Bandes die Gründe für Dropout analysiert.
In der ...
Parliament in Ethiopia
(2024)
African legislatures remain understudied, yet democratisation, development and peacebuilding all depend on these key political institutions. This book provides an in-depth analysis of Ethiopia’s parliament, a country of ...
Nachleben im Arbeitsmaterial
(2024)
Das Nachleben zu Lebzeiten gestalten. Dokumentation als Versprechen und Verfahren in literarischen Formaten des 20. Jahrhunderts. »Nachleben im Arbeitsmaterial« wirft einen neuen Blick auf die Geschichte dokumentarischer ...
Das Wissen der Einwanderungsgesellschaft
(2023)
Die Verknüpfung von Wissens- und Migrationsgeschichte zeichnet ein neues Bild vom Einwanderungsland Deutschland seit 1945.
Migration verändert den common sense darüber, was in einer Gesellschaft als Wissen anerkannt ...
Der apokryphe Briefwechsel zwischen Seneca und Paulus
(2006-11-13)
Im vierten Jahrhundert erfand ein unbekannter Autor einen Briefwechsel, in dem Seneca zum Freund des Paulus gemacht wird. Jahrhundertelang hat diese Fiktion zu Spekulationen über die Nähe zwischen Stoa und Christentum ...
Enough Already!
(2020)
This text will explore the re-assertion of right-wing populist and fascist movements as presented and distributed in the media. In particular, attacks on immigrants, women, minorities, LGBTQ people are increasing at a ...
The Early Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent
(2020)
The Eastern Fertile Crescent region of western Iran and eastern Iraq hosted major developments in the transition from hunter-forager to farmer-herder lifestyles through the Early Neolithic period, 10,000-7000 BC. Within ...
Piezoelectric Electromechanical Transducers for Underwater Sound, Part II = Пьезоэлектрические электромеханические преобразователи в гидроакустике (Russian-Language Edition)
(2024)
The book presents a broad-scope analysis of piezoelectric electromechanical transducers and the related aspects of practical transducer design for underwater applications. It uses an energy method for analyzing transducer ...
Muße und Gesellschaft
(2019-06-28)
Leisure (otium) is an unfettered lingering in time set loose from instrumental rationality and utilitarianism. It aims to be free from regimes of time and pressures to perform, that is, it aims at freedom set in time yet ...
A Functional, Comprehensive and Extensible Multi-Platform Querying and Transformation Approach
(2016)
This thesis is about a new model querying and transformation approach called FunnyQT which is realized as a set of APIs and embedded domain-specific languages (DSLs) in the JVM-based functional Lisp-dialect Clojure. Founded ...
Porträtgalerien auf Papier
(2018)
Das Sammeln druckgrafischer Bildnisse erfreute sich im 18. Jahrhundert der zunehmenden Wertschätzung einer gebildeten bürgerlichen Sammlerschicht. Auch aristokratische Sammler legten Porträtsammlungen ihrer Ahnen und ...
Turn It and Turn It Again
(2013-04-02)
The study of classical Jewish texts is flourishing in day schools and adult education, synagogues and summer camps, universities and yeshivot. But serious inquiry into the practices and purposes of such study is far rarer. ...
The UNHCR and the Afghan Crisis
(2023)
Today the UNHCR is present in more than 130 countries and takes care of some 90 million people. This book looks at how it is deployed and who its agents are. By taking the reader through the offices in charge of the Afghan ...
Jahrbuch der Deutschen Schillergesellschaft 54/2010
(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 ...
Early Buddhist Transmission and Trade Networks
(2010)
This book examines catalysts for Buddhist formation in ancient South Asia and expansion throughout and beyond the northwestern Indian subcontinent to Central Asia by investigating symbiotic relationships between networks ...
Nachleben im Arbeitsmaterial
(2024)
Das Nachleben zu Lebzeiten gestalten. Dokumentation als Versprechen und Verfahren in literarischen Formaten des 20. Jahrhunderts. »Nachleben im Arbeitsmaterial« wirft einen neuen Blick auf die Geschichte dokumentarischer ...
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 ...
Das Wissen der Einwanderungsgesellschaft
(2023)
Die Verknüpfung von Wissens- und Migrationsgeschichte zeichnet ein neues Bild vom Einwanderungsland Deutschland seit 1945.
Migration verändert den common sense darüber, was in einer Gesellschaft als Wissen anerkannt ...
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 ...
Посткомуністичні режими = A Concise Field Guide to Post-Communist Regimes
(2023)
The unanticipated and unsolicited Russian aggression against Ukraine in February 2022 highlighted the urgency of updating general assumptions about post-communist countries. The war has revealed the inadequacy of the terms ...
Посткомуністичні режими = A Concise Field Guide to Post-Communist Regimes
(2023)
The unanticipated and unsolicited Russian aggression against Ukraine in February 2022 highlighted the urgency of updating general assumptions about post-communist countries. The war has revealed the inadequacy of the terms ...
Parliament in Ethiopia
(2024)
African legislatures remain understudied, yet democratisation, development and peacebuilding all depend on these key political institutions. This book provides an in-depth analysis of Ethiopia’s parliament, a country of ...
The EIB Climate Survey
(2023)
How are climate changes impacting daily life and economic wellbeing? How do people perceive renewable energy solutions?The inaugural African edition of the European Investment Bank Climate Survey provides some insights. ...
The EIB Climate Survey
(2023)
How are climate changes impacting daily life and economic wellbeing? How do people perceive renewable energy solutions?The inaugural African edition of the European Investment Bank Climate Survey provides some insights. ...
Secession and Security
(2017-11-15)
Since World War II, separatist conflicts have been the most common and deadly types of war in international politics. Such wars result from a simple incongruity: ethno-nationalist groups desire a homeland, but on territory ...
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, ...
EIB Global Report 2022/2023 - The impact
(2023)
Building on decades of experience working in Europe’s neighbourhood, in Africa and around the world, under EU mandates and in support of EU policy priorities, EIB Global brings together all the financial, engineering and ...
Care Work 4.0
(2021)
Digitalisierung ist auch in den Humandienstleistungsberufen eine Kraft, die viel verändert. Der Sammelband zeichnet ein detailliertes Bild der Probleme und Aufgaben für die berufliche sowie akademische Aus- und Weiterbildung ...
Keys to The Gift
(2011-08-01)
"Yuri Leving’s Keys to The Gift: A Guide to Vladimir Nabokov’s Novel is a new systematization of the main available data on Nabokov’s most complex Russian
novel, The Gift (1934–1939). From notes in Nabokov’s private ...
Demokratie morgen
(2013-05-15)
Für die Nachkriegsgenerationen in Deutschland ist Demokratie eine Selbstverständlichkeit. Doch welche Spielräume hat besonnene demokratische Abwägung in Zeiten globalisierter Märkte, Rating-Agenturen und Expertenkommissionen? ...
Care Work 4.0
(2021)
Digitalisierung ist auch in den Humandienstleistungsberufen eine Kraft, die viel verändert. Der Sammelband zeichnet ein detailliertes Bild der Probleme und Aufgaben für die berufliche sowie akademische Aus- und Weiterbildung ...
Refugees and the Ethics of Forced Displacement
(2016)
This book is a philosophical analysis of the ethical treatment of refugees and stateless people, a group of people who, though extremely important politically, have been greatly under theorized philosophically. The limited ...
Refugees and the Ethics of Forced Displacement
(2016)
This book is a philosophical analysis of the ethical treatment of refugees and stateless people, a group of people who, though extremely important politically, have been greatly under theorized philosophically. The limited ...
Demokratie morgen
(2013-05-15)
Für die Nachkriegsgenerationen in Deutschland ist Demokratie eine Selbstverständlichkeit. Doch welche Spielräume hat besonnene demokratische Abwägung in Zeiten globalisierter Märkte, Rating-Agenturen und Expertenkommissionen? ...
Keys to The Gift
(2011-08-01)
"Yuri Leving’s Keys to The Gift: A Guide to Vladimir Nabokov’s Novel is a new systematization of the main available data on Nabokov’s most complex Russian
novel, The Gift (1934–1939). From notes in Nabokov’s private ...
Concrete Expressions
(2013-12-01)
This monograph focusses on a cohesive group of four government buildings constructed in Adelaide during the 1970s. Designed by different architects, the buildings all feature monolithic, austere forms and broadly similar ...
Concrete Expressions
(2013-12-01)
This monograph focusses on a cohesive group of four government buildings constructed in Adelaide during the 1970s. Designed by different architects, the buildings all feature monolithic, austere forms and broadly similar ...
Contemporary Australian Literature
(2015-12-01)
Australia has been seen as a land of both punishment and refuge. Australian literature has explored these controlling alternatives, and vividly rendered the landscape on which they transpire. Twentieth-century writers left ...
The Repoliticization of the Welfare State
(2022)
The Repoliticization of the Welfare State grapples with the evolving nature of political conflict over social spending after the Great Recession. While the severity of the economic crisis encouraged strong social spending ...
Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future
(2021)
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 ...
Punishment and Political Order
(2007-06-08)
Most of us think of punishment as an ugly display of power. But punishment also tells us something about the ideals and aspirations of a people and their government. How a state punishes reveals whether or not it is confident ...
Muße im 18. Jahrhundert
(2023)
Dass Muße im 18. Jahrhundert ein facettenreiches Phänomen ist, zeigen die hier versammelten Beiträge aus den germanistischen, romanistischen und anglistischen Kultur- und Literaturwissenschaften. In einem Zeitalter, das ...
Punishment and Political Order
(2007-06-08)
Most of us think of punishment as an ugly display of power. But punishment also tells us something about the ideals and aspirations of a people and their government. How a state punishes reveals whether or not it is confident ...
Geopolitics by other means
(2019-02-01)
The Asia-Pacific has become the Indo-Pacific region as the US, Japan, Australia and India have decided to join forces and scale-up their political, economic and security cooperation. The message coming from Washington, ...
Education for Social Justice
(2024)
Education for Social Justice is a statement of the role of education in promoting social justice. Drawing on research, this book explains what social justice is, presents the argument that democracy requires a commitment ...
Kinder des Krieges, Gewissen der Nation
(2020)
›Skandale‹ um geheim gehaltene Verstrickungen in den Nationalsozialismus haben u. a. mit Grass, Andersch oder Walser zentrale Mitglieder der Gruppe 47 betroffen. Die Studie fragt erstmals systematisch nach der Bedeutung ...
A grammar of Pite Saami
(2014)
Pite Saami is a highly endangered Western Saami language in the Uralic language family currently spoken by a few individuals in Swedish Lapland. This grammar is the first extensive book-length treatment of a Saami language ...
Marmaduke Pickthall: Islam and the Modern World
(2016)
Marmaduke Pickthall: Islam and the Modern World makes an important contribution to the field of Muslims in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. This volume of essays marks eighty years since the death of ...