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"Harry - yer a wizard"
(2017)
J. K. Rowling’s “ Harry Potter” series (1997–2007) has turned into a global phenomenon and her Potterverse is still expanding. The contributions in this volume provide a range of inter- and transdisciplinary approaches to ...
Moral Economy at Work
(2021)
The idea of a moral economy has been explored and assessed in numerous disciplines. The anthropological studies in this volume provide a new perspective to this idea by showing how the relations of workers, employees and ...
Islam, Politics and Change
(2016)
After violent protests all over the country had forced President Suharto to step down in 1998, Indonesia successfully made the transition from an authoritarian state to a democracy. In this book Indonesian scholars attached ...
Religion and World Politics
(2023)
Religion and World Politics provides a short, accessible, and practical introduction to how we can understand the place of religion in world politics in a more comprehensive, contextually relevant way.
Is religion central ...
EIB Investment Report 2022/2023
(2023)
Political strife caused by the war in Ukraine, an energy crisis and tightening credit are hitting EU firms just as they were beginning to emerge from the COVID-19 crisis. While the pandemic was a major shock, sizable policy ...
Homo militaris
(2012-01-15)
Als politische Institution des Staates und der Gesellschaft prägt das Militär Soldaten und Zivilisten - und erzeugt den "Homo militaris". Ulrich vom Hagen widmet sich der spezifischen Kultur des Militärs: In Verbindung der ...
Rural settlement and economic activity
(2018)
Rural Settlement and Economic Activity is a key new addition to literature on the rural economy of Tripolitania during Antiquity. The chapters explore the geography and climate of the area and present the results of the ...
Vertrieben aus Hamburg
(2023)
"Ein Porträt vom Leben, Werk und Wirken der Ärztin Rahel Liebeschütz-Plaut. Rahel Liebeschütz-Plaut - 1923 die erste habilitierte Ärztin an der Medizinischen Fakultät in Hamburg und dritte habilitierte Ärztin überhaupt ...
Innovation in Energy Systems
(2019)
It has been a little over a century since the inception of interconnected networks and little has changed in the way that they are operated. Demand-supply balance methods, protection schemes, business models for electric ...
Critical Alliances
(2020)
Critical Alliances argues that late-Victorian and modernist feminist authors saw in literary representations of female collaboration an opportunity to produce new gender and economic roles for women. It is not often that ...
Women Warriors and National Heroes
(2019)
This volume presents women warriors and hero cults from a number of cultures since the early modern period. The first truly global study of women warriors, individual chapters examine figures such as Joan of Arc in Cairo, ...
Discourse and Digital Practices
(2015)
Discourse and Digital Practices shows how tools from discourse analysis can be used to help us understand new communication practices associated with digital media, from video gaming and social networking to apps and photo ...
"Es gibt keinen direkteren Weg zu mir als über Deine Kunst"
(2024)
Rosa Schapire - emanzipierte Frau, leidenschaftliche Förderin expressionistischer Kunst, entwurzelt im Londoner Exil, aber Kämpferin bis zum Schluss. »Hätte ich im Mittelalter gelebt, ich wäre wohl eine Nonne oder Heilige ...
Climate Change as a Threat to Peace
(2015-02-12)
This volume takes a fresh look at climate change as a threat to peace and its impacts on cultural heritage and cultural diversity. It proceeds under the assumption that the impacts of climate change on cultural heritage ...
Impotent Warriors
(2008-12-01)
From September 1990 to June 1991, the UK deployed 53,462 military personnel in the Gulf War. After the end of the conflict anecdotal reports of various disorders affecting troops who fought in the Gulf began to surface. ...
Silent Love
(2016-05-31)
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is one of Vladimir Nabokov’s most autobiographical novels and it has often been observed that Sebastian’s passionate affair with the femme fatale Nina Rechnoy is a dramatized extension of ...
Literaturwissenschaft und Bibliotheken
(2015)
Literaturwissenschaft und Bibliotheken haben ein besonderes Verhältnis zueinander, ist doch die Literaturwissenschaft hauptsächlich in der Bibliothek an der Arbeit. Zugleich war das Nachdenken über Bibliotheken immer wieder ...
The Power of the Story
(2023)
A cross-disciplinary volume that combines and puts into dialogue perspectives on disasters, this book includes contributions from anthropology, history, cultural studies, sociology, and literary studies. Offering a rich ...
The Power of the Story
(2023)
A cross-disciplinary volume that combines and puts into dialogue perspectives on disasters, this book includes contributions from anthropology, history, cultural studies, sociology, and literary studies. Offering a rich ...
What’s Left of the Left?
(2008-08-01)
In What’s Left of the Left, distinguished scholars of European and U.S. politics consider how center-left political parties have fared since the 1970s. They explore the left’s responses to the end of the postwar economic ...
Troplowitz
(2023)
"Unternehmerisches Genie, Philanthrop, Politiker und Mäzen - das beeindruckende Wirken und Engagement Oscar Troplowitz` und seiner Frau Gertrud. Das Erfolgsgeheimnis von Oscar Troplowitz war seine außergewöhnliche ...
Sovereignty in Ruins
(2017-04-07)
Featuring essays by some of the most prominent names in contemporary political and cultural theory, Sovereignty in Ruins presents a form of critique grounded in the conviction that political thought is itself an agent of ...
Collaborative Technologies and Data Science in Artificial Intelligence Applications
(2020)
In September 2020, researchers from Armenia, Chile, Germany and Japan met at the American University of Armenia for a virtual conference to discuss technologies with applications in smart cities, data science and information ...
Okulare Demokratie
(2017-09-15)
In The Eyes of the People entwickelt der Politikwissenschaftler Jeffrey Edward Green unter der Bezeichnung "Okulare Demokratie" eine grundlegend neue Theorie demokratischer Teilhabe. Dabei wird der Blick der Bürger_innen ...
"Vorträge der Bibliothek Warburg"
(2023)
Die erste eingehende Betrachtung der bedeutenden Vorträge an der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Bibliothek Warburg. Die Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg (KBW) wird seit vielen Jahren intensiv erforscht, das Werk Aby ...
Die Machbarkeit politischer Ordnung
(2013-03-15)
Wie ist stabile Ordnung möglich? Auf diese Kernfrage der Politikwissenschaft gibt der Band neue Antworten. Das Spektrum der Beiträge erstreckt sich von der Entfaltung der Theorie sozialer Wirklichkeitskonstruktion über ...
Beute und Conquista
(2020)
Der welthistorische Vorgang der Eroberung Amerikas fasziniert heute noch. Wie er organisiert war und welchen Dynamiken er folgte, wurde aber bislang nicht hinreichend erforscht. Vitus Huber nimmt die Verflechtung politischer ...
Evidenzen der Bilder
(2020)
Evidenz beschreibt etwas, das unmittelbar einleuchtet. Wissenschaftliche Abbildungen erheben zwar den Anspruch, evident zu sein, aber ihre Evidenz ist nicht natürlich. Sie ist nur mittelbar für diejenigen einleuchtend, die ...
Innovation in Energy Systems
(2019)
It has been a little over a century since the inception of interconnected networks and little has changed in the way that they are operated. Demand-supply balance methods, protection schemes, business models for electric ...
50 Jahre Skandinavistik in der Schweiz
(2019)
Im Jahr 1968 richteten die Universitäten Basel und Zürich ein gemeinsames Ordinariat für Nordische Philologie ein. Themen der nordischen Sprachen und Literaturen hatten zwar bereits früher an Schweizer Universitäten im ...
50 Jahre Skandinavistik in der Schweiz
(2019)
Im Jahr 1968 richteten die Universitäten Basel und Zürich ein gemeinsames Ordinariat für Nordische Philologie ein. Themen der nordischen Sprachen und Literaturen hatten zwar bereits früher an Schweizer Universitäten im ...
Climate Change as a Threat to Peace
(2015-02-12)
This volume takes a fresh look at climate change as a threat to peace and its impacts on cultural heritage and cultural diversity. It proceeds under the assumption that the impacts of climate change on cultural heritage ...
Silent Love
(2016-05-31)
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is one of Vladimir Nabokov’s most autobiographical novels and it has often been observed that Sebastian’s passionate affair with the femme fatale Nina Rechnoy is a dramatized extension of ...
Formulaic language
(2021)
The notion of formulaicity has received increasing attention in disciplines and areas as diverse as linguistics, literary studies, art theory and art history. In recent years, linguistic studies of formulaicity have been ...
Toxic Timescapes
(2024)
An interdisciplinary environmental humanities volume that explores human-environment relationships on our permanently polluted planet.While toxicity and pollution are ever present in modern daily life, politicians, juridical ...
Young American Muslims
(2012-12-05)
What is it like to be a young Muslim in America? Many young Americans cherish an American dream, 'that all men are created equal. And the election of America’s first black President in 2008 has shown that America has moved ...
EIB Investment Report 2022/2023
(2023)
Political strife caused by the war in Ukraine, an energy crisis and tightening credit are hitting EU firms just as they were beginning to emerge from the COVID-19 crisis. While the pandemic was a major shock, sizable policy ...
Moritz Lazarus und Heymann Steinthal
(2024)
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Die Machbarkeit politischer Ordnung
(2013-03-15)
Wie ist stabile Ordnung möglich? Auf diese Kernfrage der Politikwissenschaft gibt der Band neue Antworten. Das Spektrum der Beiträge erstreckt sich von der Entfaltung der Theorie sozialer Wirklichkeitskonstruktion über ...
Dependencies in language: On the causal ontology of linguistic systems
(2017)
Dependency is a fundamental concept in the analysis of linguistic systems. The many if-then statements offered in typology and grammar-writing imply a causally real notion of dependency that is central to the claim being ...
A Comprehensive Survey of Rock Art in Upper Tibet
(2024)
Focusing on the central and western parts of the region, this is the second in a series of five volumes that comprehensively document rock art in Upper Tibet. It examines a panoply of graphic evidence found on stone surfaces, ...
Investing in nature-based solutions
(2023)
Nature-based solutions are cost-effective interventions that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits and build resilience. This report highlights the challenges involved in financing nature-based projects and ...
Sapientia Salomonis (Weisheit Salomos)
(2015-11-05)
Dieser Band enthält eine zweisprachige Textausgabe (griech.-dt.) der "Weisheit Salomos" mit ausführlicher Einführung und erläuternden Essays zum Verständnis und zu den kulturellen Hintergründen des Werkes. Damit wird ein ...
Inside the Antisemitic Mind
(2017)
Antisemitism is on the rise in Europe, sometimes manifest in violent acts against Jews, but more commonly noticeable in everyday discourse. This innovative empirical study examines written examples of antisemitism in ...
Freie Zeit
(2021)
»Das Reich der Freiheit beginnt in der That erst da, wo das Arbeiten, das durch Noth und äußere Zweckmäßigkeit bestimmt ist, aufhört« - so einst Karl Marx.Und heute? Trotz weitgehender Automatisierung bleibt die Norm der ...
Globalisation vs Europeanisation
(2013-10-02)
The book offers an innovating, interdisciplinary analysis of the relation between globalisation and Europeanisation from a value-driven and human-centric perspective. The approach goes beyond the traditional analysis and ...
Impotent Warriors
(2008-12-01)
From September 1990 to June 1991, the UK deployed 53,462 military personnel in the Gulf War. After the end of the conflict anecdotal reports of various disorders affecting troops who fought in the Gulf began to surface. ...
Development of a System for Fast Identification and Characterization of Biological Cells
(2024)
Bio Impedance Spectroscopy (BIS) consists in the application of a small frequency variable electrical signal to a biological material and measuring its response. This research explores BIS applied to cancer and healthy ...
Toxic Timescapes
(2024)
An interdisciplinary environmental humanities volume that explores human-environment relationships on our permanently polluted planet.While toxicity and pollution are ever present in modern daily life, politicians, juridical ...
Development of a System for Fast Identification and Characterization of Biological Cells
(2024)
Bio Impedance Spectroscopy (BIS) consists in the application of a small frequency variable electrical signal to a biological material and measuring its response. This research explores BIS applied to cancer and healthy ...
Der erzählte Antisemitismus
(2023)
Antisemitische Narrative sind alt und aktuell zugleich – und machen auch vor Kinderbuchklassikern nicht halt. Lange Zeit haben Forschung und öffentlicher Diskurs die Vorstellung von einer Jüdischen Weltverschwörung an der ...
Religion and World Politics
(2023)
Religion and World Politics provides a short, accessible, and practical introduction to how we can understand the place of religion in world politics in a more comprehensive, contextually relevant way.
Is religion central ...
Ever Faithful
(2014)
Known for much of the nineteenth century as "the ever-faithful isle," Cuba did not earn its independence from Spain until 1898, long after most American colonies had achieved emancipation from European rule. In this ...
Young American Muslims
(2012-12-05)
What is it like to be a young Muslim in America? Many young Americans cherish an American dream, 'that all men are created equal. And the election of America’s first black President in 2008 has shown that America has moved ...
Moderne vor Ort
(2018)
Die Protagonisten des Buches Camillo Sitte, Otto Wagner, Josef Maria Olbrich, Joseph August Lux, Oskar Strnad und Felix Augenfeld schufen von den spaten 1880er Jahren bis 1938 uber die Zasur des Weltkriegs hinaus eine ...
Art from a Fractured Past
(2013-11-01)
Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission not only documented the political violence of the 1980s and 1990s but also gave Peruvians a unique opportunity to examine the causes and nature of that violence. In Art from a ...
Homo militaris
(2012-01-15)
Als politische Institution des Staates und der Gesellschaft prägt das Militär Soldaten und Zivilisten - und erzeugt den "Homo militaris". Ulrich vom Hagen widmet sich der spezifischen Kultur des Militärs: In Verbindung der ...
The Fabulous Future?
(2015-05-05)
Will the future be one of economic expansion, greater tolerance, liberating inventions, and longer, happier lives? Or do we face stagnation, declining quality of life, and a technologically enhanced totalitarianism worse ...
"Vorträge der Bibliothek Warburg"
(2023)
Die erste eingehende Betrachtung der bedeutenden Vorträge an der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Bibliothek Warburg. Die Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg (KBW) wird seit vielen Jahren intensiv erforscht, das Werk Aby ...
Reformation und Recht
(2017-07-11)
The law's cultural and especially its religious contexts present a fresh challenge to a globalised world. Did the Reformation's demand for the abolition of canonical law have particular consequences for legal development? ...