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Contemporary Jewish Reality in Germany and Its Reflection in Film
(2012-12-06)
The notion of "self" and "other" and its representation in artwork and literature is an important theme in current cultural sciences as well as in our everyday life in contemporary Western societies. Moreover, the concept ...
Capitalism without Conscience
(2014-04-14)
Does austerity aim to reduce the deficits or is it but a pretext to move the state backwards, demolishing in the process what remains of social programs? It would now be a good time recall Keynes who concluded his «General ...
Die Bestattungsgruben in Bat
(2020)
Volume 1 of the series Arabia Orientalis presents the first comprehensive study of two Umm an-Nar (2700—2000 BC) burial pits from the UNESCO World Heritage site Bat in the Sultanate of Oman. They were excavated between ...
Roy and Zhores Medvedev
(2024)
The unique trajectory of Soviet dissident twin brothers Roy and Zhores Medvedev takes us through a century of history, from Stalin to Putin. They achieved fame as the first authors of independent research on Stalinism from ...
Second Chance
(2024)
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Institutions of Hanseatic Trade
(2016-11-30)
The merchants of the medieval Hanse monopolised trade in the Baltic and North Sea areas. The authors describe the structure of their trade system in terms of network organisation and attempts to explain, on the grounds of ...
Children’s rights in crisis
(2024)
More than three decades have passed since the United Nations' adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, yet children's rights and dignity still confront profound challenges worldwide. This book delves ...
Two Lenins
(2017-11-01)
Highly innovative and theoretically incisive, Two Lenins is the first book-length anthropological examination of how social reality can be organized around different yet concurrent ideas of time. Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov ...
Benachteiligte Jugendliche in Ausbildung und Beruf individuell begleiten
(2019)
Die "Assistierte Ausbildung" (AsA) soll als ein Arbeitsmarktinstrument benachteiligten Jugendlichen den Weg in Berufsausbildung und Beruf erleichtern, ihre Chancen auf den Abschluss einer Berufsausbildung erhöhen und ...
Textiles in Motion
(2024)
An innovative series of case studies looking at the significance, meaning and social context of costume and textiles used in dance among a variety of ancient cultures and civilisations.Dress is at the core of dance. It ...
Persons and Their Minds
(2017)
Today’s approaches to the study of the human mind are divided into seemingly opposed camps. On one side we find the neurosciences, with their more or less reductionist research programs, and on the other side we find the ...
The Witness as Object
(2018-04-30)
Today more than ever before, the historical witness is now a “museum object” in the form of video interviews with individuals remembering events of historical importance. Such video testimonies now not only are part of the ...
Fencing in AIDS
(2020)
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.
In this vitally important book, medical anthropologist Holly Wardlow takes readers through a ten-year history of the AIDS epidemic ...
The evolution of case grammar
(2016)
"There are few linguistic phenomena that have seduced linguists so skillfully as grammatical case has done. Ever since Panini (4th Century BC), case has claimed a central role in linguistic theory and continues to do so ...
Making Things Stick
(2016)
With Mexico’s War on Crime as the backdrop, Making Things Stick offers an innovative analysis of how surveillance technologies impact governance in the global society. More than just tools to monitor ordinary people, ...
Drifting Apart of Transatlantic Security
(2021)
For the first time, this book examines the comparative impact of the Obama administration on the NATO and defense policies of European allies. Germany, Poland and Turkey serve as case studies to evaluate American policies ...
American Creoles
(2012-05-25)
The Francophone Caribbean and the American South are sites born of the plantation, the common matrix for the diverse nations and territories of the circum-Caribbean. This book takes as its premise that the basic configuration ...
Utopian Discourses Across Cultures
(2016-07-06)
The term Utopia, coined by Thomas More in 1516, contains an inherent semantic ambiguity: it could be read as eu topos (good place) or ou topos (no place). The authors of this volume analyze this polysemous notion and its ...
Geflüchtetenprotest und Gewerkschaften
(2020)
Seit 2012 gibt es in Deutschland eine neue Generation von selbstorganisiertem Geflüchtetenprotest mit einer zentralen Forderung: das Recht auf Arbeit und gewerkschaftliche Organisation. Die Interaktionen geflüchteter ...
Veiled Threats
(2008)
As Muslim women continue to be a focus of media-led debate, Naaz Rashid uses original scholarship and empirical research to examine how Muslim women are represented in policy discourse and how the trope of the Muslim woman ...
Werbeblocker im Internet
(2021)
Werbeblocker berühren zahlreiche, bislang ungeklärte Rechtsfragen. Während Werbeblocker bisher vor allem anhand des Lauterkeitsrechts beurteilt worden sind, zeigt diese Arbeit, dass vielmehr urheberrechtliche Wertungen ...
Kunstprojekt (Mumin-)Buch
(2019)
Die finnlandschwedische Künstlerin Tove Jansson (1914-2010) war Autorin, Malerin und Karikaturistin zugleich. Dieses künstlerische Spannungsfeld aus der Fusion unterschiedlicher Talente und der Experimentierfreudigkeit mit ...
Ideas of poverty in the Age of Enlightenment
(2024)
<p>Although poverty in the eighteenth century has long been an object of focus for social historians, it has figured only marginally in the intellectual history of the period. This is because it has been assumed that the ...
A Web-Based Approach to Measure Skill Mismatches and Skills Profiles for a Developing Country
(2020)
"Several interdisciplinary studies highlight imperfect information as a possible explanation of skill mismatches, which in turn has implications for unemployment and informality rates. Despite information failures and their ...
Remapping the Cold War in Asian Cinemas
(2024)
This book is about cinema and the cultural Cold War in Asia, set against the larger history of the cultural, political, and institutional linkages between the US, Europe, and Asia at the height of the Cold War. From the ...
Informationelle Privatautonomie
(2023)
Die digitale Agenda der Europäischen Union offenbart einen Konflikt zwischen der staatlichen Pflicht zum Schutz der informationellen Selbstbestimmung einerseits und der gleichzeitigen Achtung der Privatautonomie der ...
Studies in the History of Russian-Israeli Literature
(2023)
This collection of essays covers a hundred-year history of Russian-language literature in Israel, including the pre-state period. Some of the studies are devoted to an overview of the literary process and the activities ...
Von den Medien zu den Plattformen
(2023)
Die digitale Revolution fordert ihren Tribut: Globale Plattformen wie Facebook, Twitter oder TikTok verdrängen immer mehr die traditionellen, national verankerten Medien. Dies führt auch regulatorisch zu gewaltigen Umbrüchen. ...
The Literary History of the Igbo Novel
(2020)
This book looks at the trends in the development of the Igbo novel from its antecedents in oral performance, through the emergence of the first published novel, Omenuko, in 1933 by Pita Nwana, to the contemporary Igbo ...
The Light of Knowledge
(2013-09-13)
Cowinner of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology’s Edward Sapir Book Prize
Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons and other events designed ...
Societies in Transition in Early Greece
(2021)
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at <a href="https://www.luminosoa.org/" target="_blank">www.luminosoa.org</a>.<BR /><BR /> Situated at the disciplinary boundary ...
The Myth of Piers Plowman
(2014)
Addressing the history of the production and reception of the great medieval poem, Piers Plowman, Lawrence Warner reveals the many ways in which scholars, editors and critics over the centuries created their own speculative ...
Die Vorteils- und Gewinnherausgabe im CISG
(2023)
Die Verteilung eines vertragswidrig erzielten Gewinns wird in vielen Rechtsordnungen diskutiert. Der Grundgedanke einer Gewinnherausgabe wegen Vertragsverletzungen ist eingängig: Warum sollte die vertragsbrüchige Partei ...
Exit and Voice
(2019)
Exit and Voice is a compelling account of how Mexican migrants with strong ties to their home communities impact the economic and political welfare of those they leave behind. In many decentralized democracies like Mexico, ...
Gender-Based Violence in Children’s Sport
(2023)
This book addresses the major forms of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in children’s sport, including sexual, physical, and psychological violence and neglect. It reviews the historical, sociocultural, and political influences ...
The Leopard, the Lion, and the Cock
(2023)
Thought-provoking reflection on culture, colonialism, and the remainders of empire in Belgium after 1960
The degree to which the late colonial era affected Europe has been long underappreciated, and only recently have ...
Climate change and poverty
(2014-09-05)
Climate change and poverty offers a timely new perspective on the 'ecosocial' understanding of the causes, symptoms and solutions to poverty and applies this to recent developments across a number of areas, including fuel ...
Juristische Methodenlehre in China und Ostasien
(2024)
Der vorliegende Sammelband liefert einen tiefgreifenden Einblick in die juristische Methodik und Methodenrezeption in Ostasien und insbesondere China. Ziel ist es, einen Beitrag zur juristischen Methodenvergleichung vor ...
Vom Salpetergeschäft zum Sammlerglück
(2023)
"Weitsichtiger Unternehmer, erfolgreicher Netzwerker und Inhaber der größten deutschen Privatsammlung Alter Meister im Kaiserreich vor 1890. Der Hamburger Konsul Weber agierte international und vereinte in seiner Sammlung ...