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European Investment Bank Group Fraud Investigations Activity Report 2019
(2020)
This Fraud Investigations Activity Report covers the activities of the Inspectorate General’s Fraud Investigations Division (IG/IN) in 2019. It provides an overview of the work undertaken by IG/IN to prevent, detect, ...
African Literature in the Digital Age
(2021)
The first book-length study on the relationship between African literature and new media. The digital space provides a new avenue to move literature beyond the restrictions of book publishing on the continent. Arguing ...
Ecological Limits of Development
(2021)
Embracing the reality of biophysical limits to growth, this volume uses the technical tools from ecological economics to recast the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as Ecological Livelihood Goals – policy agendas and ...
Popular Music and Public Diplomacy
(2019-03-15)
In the early years of the Cold War, Western nations increasingly adopted strategies of public diplomacy involving popular music. While the diplomatic use of popular music was initially limited to such genres as jazz, the ...
Netzwerke der Forschung
(2011)
Anhand der Beispiele historische Eugenikbewegung und moderne Humangenomik wird in der vorliegenden Arbeit aufgezeigt, dass die Entstehung sowie Aufrechterhaltung von Netzwerken ein entscheidender Faktor ist für den Erfolg ...
Unbound Queer Time in Literature, Cinema, and Video Games
(2025)
Unbound Queer Time in Literature, Cinema, and Video Games investigates the potential of queer conceptions of time to unbind forms of understanding identities. In doing so, it recognizes the power of time to determine us ...
Development of Linguistic Linked Open Data Resources for Collaborative Data-Intensive Research in the Language Sciences
(2019-10-01)
This book is the product of an international workshop dedicated to addressing data accessibility in the linguistics field. It is therefore vital to the book’s mission that its content be open access. Linguistics as a field ...
In Search of the Amazon
(2013-01-01)
Chronicling the dramatic history of the Brazilian Amazon during the Second World War, Seth Garfield provides fresh perspectives on contemporary environmental debates. His multifaceted analysis explains how the Amazon became ...
Gendered Violence
(2018-01-31)
This is a groundbreaking study of an important and neglected topic—the systematic use of rape as a strategic weapon of the genocidal anti-Jewish violence, known collectively as pogroms, that erupted in Ukraine in the period ...
Die Lehre des Thomas von Aquin von der ewigen Glückseligkeit
(2011)
Die Aufgabe der Theologie sollte es sein, die Rede von Sinn des Lebens nicht nur auf die eschatologische Dimension zu beziehen, sondern auch auf den Sinn und die Erfahrung unseres Lebens im Diesseits, d.h. auf "unser Dasein ...
Kant's Philosophy of the Unconscious
(2012-04-16)
In the 20th century, the role of the unconscious in Kant`s philosophy has been in great part neglected by Kant scholars. Nevertheless, the unconscious, the other of consciousness, is a key problem of the critical philosophy. ...
Colonizing Russia's Promised Land
(2019-07-15)
Russia's political elite promoted the colonization of Siberia as a means of transforming the Russian empire into an international economic power, making possible the exploitation of Siberia's resources, particularly its ...
weiterbilden#weiterdenken
(2021)
Der Tarifvertrag zur Qualifizierung für die Beschäftigten in der Metall- und Elektroindustrie Baden-Württemberg (TV Quali) ist seit 20 Jahren in Kraft. Aus Anlass des Jubiläums beleuchten in diesem Sammelband namhafte ...
Die Kosovopolitik Österreichs in den Jahren 1986-1999
(2022)
Nach der Zuspitzung der Krise in Jugoslawien nach 1989 versuchte die österreichische Außenpolitik, einen Beitrag dazu zu leisten, die bewaffneten und ethnischen Konflikte zwischen den Völkern in Jugoslawien, insbesondere ...
Nazism and Neo-Nazism in Film and Media
(2018)
This timely book takes an original transnational approach to the theme of Nazism and neo-Nazism in film, media, and popular culture, with examples drawn from mainland Europe, the UK, North and Latin America, Asia, and ...
Creating the Empress
(2011-01-01)
"In Creating the Empress, Vera Proskurina examines the interaction between power
and poetry in creating the imperial image of Catherine the Great, providing a detailed analysis of a wide range of Russian literary works ...
Muße und Rekursivität in der antiken Briefliteratur
(2016-08-26)
Auffallend häufig finden sich in der antiken Briefliteratur Beschreibungen von Momenten der Muße, sei es als Lebensweise oder als selbstreferentielle Abbildung des Schreib- oder Rezeptionsmomentes des Briefes. Die Beiträge ...
Muße und Rekursivität in der antiken Briefliteratur
(2016-08-26)
Auffallend häufig finden sich in der antiken Briefliteratur Beschreibungen von Momenten der Muße, sei es als Lebensweise oder als selbstreferentielle Abbildung des Schreib- oder Rezeptionsmomentes des Briefes. Die Beiträge ...
The Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States as a Constitutional Court
(2019)
One of the major innovations made by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is the unequivocal granting of a supranational role to the Court of Justice of the organisation. However, its human rights mandate ...
African Literature in the Digital Age
(2021)
The first book-length study on the relationship between African literature and new media. The digital space provides a new avenue to move literature beyond the restrictions of book publishing on the continent. Arguing ...
Delegating Responsibility
(2022)
Delegating Responsibility explores the politics of migration in the European Union and explains how the EU responded to the 2015–17 refugee crisis. Based on 86 interviews and fieldwork in Greece and Italy, Nicholas R. ...
Delegating Responsibility
(2022)
Delegating Responsibility explores the politics of migration in the European Union and explains how the EU responded to the 2015–17 refugee crisis. Based on 86 interviews and fieldwork in Greece and Italy, Nicholas R. ...
Lesbians on Television
(2020)
The twenty-first century has seen LGBTQ+ rights emerge at the forefront of public discourse and national politics in ways that would once have been hard to imagine. Focusing on the small screens of Europe and North America, ...
Die EU und der Rückzug des Staates
(2009-01-15)
Die europäische Integration führt zu einer Schwächung des Staates zugunsten des Marktes. - Diese These bestimmt seit einigen Jahren den EU-Diskurs. Aber kann man wirklich von einer Neoliberalisierung durch die EU sprechen? ...
Lesbians on Television
(2020)
The twenty-first century has seen LGBTQ+ rights emerge at the forefront of public discourse and national politics in ways that would once have been hard to imagine. Focusing on the small screens of Europe and North America, ...
The Future of Money
(2010-04-20)
As the recent financial crisis has revealed, the state is central to the stability of the money system, while the chaotic privately-owned banks reap the benefits without shouldering the risks. This book argues that money ...
Setting the Table
(2021)
One of the most basic questions for any legal system is that of methodology: how one interprets, analyzes, weighs and applies a mass of often competing legal rules, precedents, practices, customs, and traditions to reach ...
Ecological Limits of Development
(2021)
Embracing the reality of biophysical limits to growth, this volume uses the technical tools from ecological economics to recast the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as Ecological Livelihood Goals – policy agendas and ...
A Diffusion Hydrodynamic Model
(2020)
The Diffusion Hydrodynamic Model (DHM), as presented in the 1987 USGS publication, was one of the first computational fluid dynamics computational programs based on the groundwater program MODFLOW, which evolved into the ...
Maßnahmen zur Unterstützung kognitiver und metakognitiver Prozesse in der Studieneingangsphase
(2017)
Bedingt durch die zunehmende Heterogenität der Studierendenschaft rücken die Studienschwierigkeiten in der Studieneingangsphase immer mehr in den Fokus naturwissenschaftsdidaktischer Forschungs- und Entwicklungsarbeiten. ...
Verse and Transmutation - A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry (Critical Editions and Studies)
(2013)
Identifies and investigates a corpus of twenty-one anonymous Middle English recipes for the philosophers' stone dating from the fifteenth century. Verse and Transmutation: A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry ...
Imperial Emotions
(2013-11-13)
Imperial Emotions: Cultural Responses to Myths of Empire in Fin-de-Siècle Spain reconsiders debates about historical memory from the perspective of the theory of emotions. Its main claim is that the demise of the Spanish ...
Fraktale Sicherheiten
(2011-06-15)
Quer durch alle gesellschaftlichen Bereiche besitzt das Konzept der Prävention ein hohes Maß an Akzeptanz. Das Bedürfnis nach Sicherheit tritt besonders in der kommunalen Kriminalprävention in Erscheinung und konkretisiert ...
Jews on trial
(2020)
This book explores two areas of interest: the Papal Inquisition in Modena and the status of Jews in an early modern Italian duchy. Its purpose is to deepen existing insights into the role of the former and thus lead to a ...
Die Lehren des Luftkriegs
(2020)
Wie viele Bomben braucht es, bis eine Gesellschaft zusammenbricht? Sophia Dafinger untersucht eine Gruppe sozialwissenschaftlicher Experten in den USA, für die der Zweite Weltkrieg ein großes Forschungslaboratorium war. ...
Cosmos and Republic
(2023)
In 20 essays inspired by Hannah Arendt's analysis of crisis-ridden modernity, Wolfgang R. Heuer addresses aspects of depoliticization and the loss of politics, and thus of freedom. The wide-ranging essays are grouped in ...
A Summer of Mass Murder
(2022)
Most accounts of the Holocaust focus on trainloads of prisoners speeding toward Auschwitz, with its chimneys belching smoke and flames, in the summer of 1944. This book provides a hitherto untold chapter of the Holocaust ...
A Poetics of Plot for the Twenty-First Century
(2019-11-01)
Story, in the largest sense of the term, is arguably the single most important aspect of narrative. But with the proliferation of antimimetic writing, traditional narrative theory has been inadequate for conceptualizing ...
Rückblende
(2009)
Die großen NS-Prozesse der 1960er Jahre, besonders der Eichmann-Prozess von 1961, werden immer wieder als Schlüsselereignisse bezeichnet, die dazu geführt hätten, den Holocaust als eigenständiges Phänomen stärker ins ...
Cracking Facebook
(2020)
This book presents a Facebook study on members of the Cusp Generation, or those born before the “great digital divide” of 1995. This delineation allows for a discussion on the possible socio-cultural implications of Facebook ...
Mother on Mothers
(2015-12-29)
From Supernanny to Gilmore Girls, from Katie Price to Holly Willoughby, a wide range of examples of mothers and motherhood appear on television today. Drawing on questionnaires completed by mothers across the UK, this book ...
Nachhaltigkeitsorientierte Facharbeit in industriellen Metallberufen
(2023)
Die vorliegende Arbeit stellt die Forschungsergebnisse aus der qualitativen Untersuchung zur Exploration nachhaltigkeitsorientierter Facharbeit in der Domäne industrieller Metallberufe vor. Dabei wird der forschungsleitenden ...
Die Entdeckung der Gestaltbarkeit
(2022)
Ein Bewusstsein von Gestaltungsfreiheiten gesellschaftlichen Fortschritts - das ist auch in der Zeit nach der Französischen Revolution im langen 19. Jahrhundert keine Selbstverständlichkeit. Felix Baumert zieht Alexis de ...
Doing Tolerance
(2020)
How is tolerance reflected in urban space? Which urban actors are involved in the practices and narratives of tolerance? What are the limits of tolerance? The edited volume answers these questions by considering different ...
Creating the Empress
(2011-01-01)
"In Creating the Empress, Vera Proskurina examines the interaction between power
and poetry in creating the imperial image of Catherine the Great, providing a detailed analysis of a wide range of Russian literary works ...
Arab TV-Audiences
(2014)
Today the relations between Arab audiences and Arab media are characterised by pluralism and fragmentation. More than a thousand Arab satellite TV channels alongside other new media platforms are offering all kinds of ...
Global Photographies
(2017-11-01)
How is photography connected to global practices? This is a first edited collection to trace the relationship between history, photography and memory in a global perspective on three interrelated levels: firstly, in the ...
On Water (Volume 1)
(2019)
When taking a drink is as easy as turning a tap, it is easy to forget that our water supply is fragile and that hundreds of millions of people do not have clean drinking water or proper sanitation.The human impact on our ...
Machine translation for everyone
(2022)
Language learning and translation have always been complementary pillars of multilingualism in the European Union. Both have been affected by the increasing availability of machine translation (MT): language learners now ...
Nanoparticle Engineering for Chemical-Mechanical Planarization
(2009)
Increasing reliance on electronic devices demands products with high performance and efficiency. Such devices can be realized through the advent of nanoparticle technology. This book explains the physicochemical properties ...
Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-war Fiction Film
(2016-01-01)
If Dutch cinema is examined in academic studies, the focus is usually on pre-war films or on documentaries, but the post-war fiction film has been sporadically addressed. Many popular box-office successes have been steeped ...
Testen wir relevantes Wissen?
(2016)
Das Professionswissen von Lehrkräften wird als wichtige Voraussetzung für gutes und erfolgreiches Unterrichten diskutiert. Professionswissenstests werden daher oft mit dem Ziel eingesetzt, Aussagen über die Wirksamkeit der ...
Imperial Emotions
(2013-11-13)
Imperial Emotions: Cultural Responses to Myths of Empire in Fin-de-Siècle Spain reconsiders debates about historical memory from the perspective of the theory of emotions. Its main claim is that the demise of the Spanish ...
A Diffusion Hydrodynamic Model
(2020)
The Diffusion Hydrodynamic Model (DHM), as presented in the 1987 USGS publication, was one of the first computational fluid dynamics computational programs based on the groundwater program MODFLOW, which evolved into the ...
Renewable Energy
(2020)
The demand for secure, affordable and clean energy is a priority call to humanity. Challenges associated with conventional energy resources, such as depletion of fossil fuels, high costs and associated greenhouse gas ...
Buddhist and Islamic Orders in Southern Asia
(2018-11-30)
This volume aims to foster interaction between scholars in the subfields of Islamic and Buddhist studies by increasing understanding of the circulation and localization of religious texts, institutional models, and ritual ...
Juristische Netzwerkforschung
(2019-04-01)
Legal network science explores how legal phenomena can be represented as networks and investigates what can be gained from their quantification and visualization. Corinna Coupette introduces legal network science to the ...
Cosmos and Republic
(2023)
In 20 essays inspired by Hannah Arendt's analysis of crisis-ridden modernity, Wolfgang R. Heuer addresses aspects of depoliticization and the loss of politics, and thus of freedom. The wide-ranging essays are grouped in ...
Weimar in Amerika
(2012)
Stephan Steiner präsentiert eine historisch-biographische Studie zu Leo Strauss, in der er die Kontexte und Genese seiner Politischen Philosophie sichtbar macht. Neben der Verortung in den Konstellationen der Weimarer ...
Weimar in Amerika
(2012)
Stephan Steiner präsentiert eine historisch-biographische Studie zu Leo Strauss, in der er die Kontexte und Genese seiner Politischen Philosophie sichtbar macht. Neben der Verortung in den Konstellationen der Weimarer ...
Culture, Technology and the Image
(2023)
class Culture, Technology and the Image explores the technologies deployed when images are archived, accessed and distributed. The chapters discuss the ways in which habits and techniques used in learning and communicating ...
Research in the Archival Multiverse
(2016)
Over the past 15 years, the field of archival studies around the world has experienced unprecedented growth within the academy and within the profession, and archival studies graduate education programs today have among ...
weiterbilden#weiterdenken
(2021)
Der Tarifvertrag zur Qualifizierung für die Beschäftigten in der Metall- und Elektroindustrie Baden-Württemberg (TV Quali) ist seit 20 Jahren in Kraft. Aus Anlass des Jubiläums beleuchten in diesem Sammelband namhafte ...
The Acquisition of Africa (1870-1914)
(2016)
Over recent decades, the responsibility for the past actions of the European colonial powers in relation to their former colonies has been subject to a lively debate. In this book, the question of the responsibility under ...
The Acquisition of Africa (1870-1914)
(2016)
Over recent decades, the responsibility for the past actions of the European colonial powers in relation to their former colonies has been subject to a lively debate. In this book, the question of the responsibility under ...
A Cultural History of the Disneyland Theme Parks
(2020)
The first comparative historical study of the six Disneyland theme parks around the world in five distinct cultures: the USA, Tokyo, Paris, Hong Kong and Shanghai. Situates the parks in their respective historic contexts ...
Electronic Iran - The Cultural Politics of an Online Evolution
(2013)
Electronic Iran introduces the concept of the Iranian Internet, a framework that captures interlinked, transnational networks of virtual and offline spaces. Taking her cues from early Internet ethnographies that stress the ...