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Joseph und Aseneth
(2009-12-07)
Liebes- und Bekehrungsgeschichte in einem - die Erzählung von der stolzen ägyptischen Priestertochter Aseneth, ihrer Liebe zu Joseph, dem Sohn Jakobs, ihrer Bekehrung und Bewahrung, wird in einer aktuellen Übersetzung auf ...
Making Institutional Repositories Work
(2015-11-15)
Quickly following what many expected to be a wholesale revolution in library practices, institutional repositories encountered unforeseen problems and a surprising lack of impact. Clunky or cumbersome interfaces, lack of ...
Architects of Buddhist Leisure
(2016-11-30)
Buddhism, often described as an austere religion that condemns desire, promotes denial, and idealizes the contemplative life, actually has a thriving leisure culture in Asia. Justin McDaniel looks at the growth of Asia’s ...
Colonial Legacies
(2007-09-30)
Taiwan and South Korea, both former Japanese colonies, achieved rapid growth and industrialization after 1960. The performance of former European and American colonies (Malaysia, Singapore, Burma, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, ...
Dreams of Nationhood
(2010-08-01)
The American Jewish Communist movement played a major role in the politics of Jewish communities in cities such as Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia, as well as in many other centers, between the ...
Drawing on the Victorians
(2015-12-15)
Late 19th-century Britain experienced an explosion of visual print culture and a simultaneous rise in literacy across social classes. New printing technologies facilitated quick and cheap dissemination of images—illustrated ...
Children As Caregivers
(2017-04-28)
The global public health community has focused care and funding on TB and HIV in Zambia, but adult policy-makers, doctors, and humanitarians often ignore children's perspectives as they confront infectious diseases. ...
Zellen, Wellen, Systeme
(2016-12-02)
The history of systems theory does not start with the rise of cybernetics in the post-war 20th century. It rather took off in the late 19th century's now largely forgotten organismic sociology. Authors like Talcott Parsons ...
Politik in Fernsehserien
(2018-08-15)
House of Cards, Borgen und Co. – seit einiger Zeit boomen Fernsehserien, die explizit den politischen Betrieb fokussieren. Diese erreichen nicht nur ein akademisches Nischenpublikum, sondern erzielen insgesamt hohe ...
Zionist Israel and the Question of Palestine
(2016-11-07)
Tamar Amar-Dahl offers a profound analysis of Israel’s political order and culture and the role of Zionism. The study uncovers the discrepancy between the Western democratic self-image of Israel and its military influenced ...