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Mountain, Water, Rock, God
(2019)
In Mountain, Water, Rock, God, Luke Whitmore situates the disastrous flooding that fell on the Hindu Himalayan shrine of Kedarnath in 2013 within its broader religious and ecological contexts. For centuries, the enmeshing ...
Odd Couples
(2012-04-11)
Odd Couples examines friendships between gay men and straight women, and also between lesbians and straight men, and shows how these "intersectional" friendships serve as a barometer for shifting social norms, particularly ...
The Changing Tide of Immigration and Emigration During the Last Three Centuries
(2023)
This book demonstrates the tide of change of immigration and emigration. Societies of the northern part of the globe, which had previously sent people to developing countries in the southern hemisphere, are experiencing a ...
Tonal placement in Tashlhiyt
(2017)
In most languages, words contain vowels, elements of high intensity with rich harmonic structure, enabling the perceptual retrieval of pitch. By contrast, in Tashlhiyt, a Berber language, words can be composed entirely of ...
Fit für die digitale Transformation
(2022)
Schlanke und schnelle Arbeitsabläufe, moderne Betriebsführung und die Entwicklung neuer Geschäftsmodelle: Für viele Unternehmen ist die Digitalisierung eine die Chance auf Modernisierung. Wie müssen wirtschaftswissenschaftliche ...
Tourism Geopolitics
(2021)
By the start of the century, nearly one billion international travelers were circulating the globe annually, placing tourism among the worlds’ most ubiquitous geopolitical encounters. While the COVID-19 pandemic brought ...
A grammar of Papuan Malay
(2017)
This book presents an in-depth linguistic description of Papuan Malay, a non-standard variety of Malay. The language is spoken in coastal West Papua which covers the western part of the island of New Guinea. The study is ...
Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy
(2017-01-31)
This book looks at how modern philosophers pass on myths about prehistory.
Why do political philosophers talk so much about the Stone Age? The state of nature, the origin of property, the origin of government, and the ...
Hochschullehre postdigital
(2024)
Der Sammelband reflektiert die Transformationen aus der digitalen Lehre während der Coronapandemie und analysiert, wie durch die Erfahrungen und Erkenntnisse Lehr-Lern-Prozesse zukünftig neu gestaltet und ...
Kafka and Wittgenstein
(2015-11-15)
In Kafka and Wittgenstein, Rebecca Schuman undertakes the first ever book-length scholarly examination of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language alongside Franz Kafka’s prose fiction. In groundbreaking readings, she ...
Disability Studies and Spanish Culture
(2013-03-19)
Disability Studies and Spanish Culture is the first book to apply the tenets of Disability Studies to the Spanish context. In particular, this work is an important corrective to existing cultural studies of disability in ...
Awesome Families
(2005-11-01)
In Awesome Families, Kathleen Jenkins draws on four years of ethnographic research to explain how and why so many individuals-primarily from middle- to upper-middle-class backgrounds-were attracted to this religious group ...
Anthropocence Realism
(2024)
The book considers the poetics of twenty-first century climate change fiction, focusing on realism and exploring the realist mode as a means to engage readers with what is without doubt one of, if not the, most pressing ...
Compound Intonation Units in Totoli
(2024)
This book is an investigation into aspects of prosody, intonation and the prosody-syntax interface in Totoli, an endangered Austronesian language. With a strongly data-driven approach, the study integrates a combination ...
Roman Law and Maritime Commerce
(2023)
Bringing together specialists in ancient history, archaeology and Roman law, this book provides new perspectives on long-distance trade in the Roman world. Recent archaeological work has shown that maritime trade across ...
Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans
(2017)
Early in the twenty-first century, Louisiana, one of the poorest states in the United States, redirected millions in tax dollars from the public coffers in an effort to become the top location site globally for the production ...
Advances in UAE Archaeology
(2024)
Advances in UAE Archaeology details the results of new excavations conducted across the United Arab Emirates over the last few years. These excavations have revealed a wealth of new data on all periods of UAE archaeology ...
Trusting the Police
(2017)
The police can be seen as a governmental institution or as an organizational body, where especially the work – effectiveness, or fairness in encounters – is valued. Through the combination of these approaches and the ...
In The Red
(2018-02-01)
Why do rich countries flirt with fiscal disaster? Between the 1970s and the 2000s, during times of peace and prosperity, affluent countries—like Belgium, Greece, Italy, and Japan—accumulated so much debt that they became ...
A Vietnamese Moses
(2016)
A Vietnamese Moses is the story of Philiphê Bình, a Vietnamese Catholic priest who in 1796 traveled from Tonkin to the Portuguese court in Lisbon to persuade its ruler to appoint a bishop for his community of ex-Jesuits. ...
Food Taboos and Biblical Prohibitions
(2020)
This volume presents contributions from »The Larger Context of the Biblical Food Prohibitions: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approaches« conference held in Lausanne in June, 2017. The biblical food prohibitions constitute ...
About Russia, Its Revolutions, Its Development and Its Present
(2016-07-29)
The author analyzes modern Russian history from a new perspective. Due to the ideological heritage of the XIXth and XXth centuries, the social settings of the sociopolitical history of the USSR (1917–1945) have not been ...
A grammar of Palula
(2016)
"This grammar provides a grammatical description of Palula, an Indo-Aryan language of the Shina group. The language is spoken by about 10,000 people in the Chitral district in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. This ...
Judging Q and Saving Jesus
(2015-12-18)
The monograph Judging Q and Saving Jesus is characterised by careful textual analysis, showing a piercing critical eye in its impressive engagement with the secondary literature, and sharp and insightful critique. The ...
EIB Impact Report 2020
(2021)
Investments supported by the European Investment Bank help achieve EU and international policy goals. The report specifically measures the effectiveness of our investments in three key areas: Additionality: the EIB’s ...
Intelligent and Efficient Transport Systems
(2020)
The aim of this book is to present a number of digital and technology solutions to real-world problems across transportation sectors and infrastructures. Nine chapters have been well prepared and organized with the core ...
Migrant Ecologies
(2023)
<p>Migrant Ecologies: Environmental Histories of the Pacific World is the first volume explicitly dedicated to the environmental history of Earth’s largest ocean. Covering nearly one-third of the planet, the Pacific ...
EIB Statistical Report 2019
(2020)
The Statistical Report presents in list form the projects financed and borrowings undertaken by the EIB in 2019, together with a list of the EIF's projects. It also includes summary tables for the year and over the last ...
Les musiques du français parlé
(2016-01-01)
This volume presents a series of critical essays on the accentuation, rhythm, and intonation of contemporary French which offer new insight into the formal and functional characteristics of French prosody from three different ...
Kierkegaard, Literature, and the Arts
(2018-01-15)
Soren Kierkegaard was as much aesthete as philosopher, and his writings are as much literary and music criticism as philosophy. Kierkegaard, Literature, and the Arts contains fourteen essays that focus on the influence and ...
Chinese Historical Thinking
(2015)
The book presents Chinese historical thinking by four articles. It is covered the ancient origin and the development to modernity and is commented by seven international experts. Presentation and comments find ›second ...
Frame by Frame
(2019)
For most of the twentieth century, the making of animated cartoons was mechanized and standardized to allow for high-volume production: thousands of drawings were inked and painted onto individual transparent celluloid ...
Armut - Arbeit - Menschenwürde
(2012-02-14)
Der von Gustav Adolf Lehmann herausgegebene Band enthält eine vollständige Übersetzung und Kommentierung der Euböischen Rede des Dion von Prusa. Eine Reihe von Essays erschließt den literarischen, archäologischen, ...
ERiK-Forschungsbericht III
(2024)
Das ERiK-Projekt erarbeitet durch bundesweite Befragungen die empirische Grundlage zum Monitoring des KiQuTG. Entlang der Handlungsfelder des Gesetzes werden u.a. Daten zu den Bedarfen von Eltern, zur Personalsituation ...
Origins of Human Language
(2017-12-01)
This book proposes a detailed picture of the continuities and ruptures between communication in primates and language in humans. It explores a diversity of perspectives on the origins of language, including a fine description ...
Understanding the Global Energy Crisis
(2014-03-01)
Central issues in global energy are discussed through interdisciplinary dialogue between experts from both North America and Europe with overview from historical, political, and socio-cultural perspectives, outlining the ...
The Youth of Early Modern Women
(2018-11-01)
Through fifteen varied case studies that draw on a rich array of primary sources, this collection of essays makes the novel claim that early modern European women, like men, had a youth.
European culture recognized that, ...
Biofouling of Spiral Wound Membrane Systems
(2011-03-15)
Biofouling of Spiral Wound Membrane Systems gives a complete and comprehensive overview of all aspects of biofouling, bridging the gap between microbiology, hydraulics and membrane technology. High quality drinking water ...