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Das undisziplinierte Kinderzimmer
(2024)
Dem »wilden historischen Denken« auf der Spur. Kinder sind in ihren Zimmern von einer Vielzahl geschichtskultureller Produkte umgeben, die ihr Nachdenken über und ihr Imaginieren von Vergangenheit prägen. Kinderzimmer ...
A history of English
(2022)
Where does today’s English language come from? This book takes its readers on a journey back in time, from present-day varieties to the Old English of Beowulf and beyond. Written for students with little or no background ...
Building Europe
(2015-08-14)
Relying on internal sources, Wilfried Loth analyses the birth and subsequent development of the European Union, from the launch of the Council of Europe and the Schuman Declaration until the Euro crisis and the contested ...
Legal Tech und das Anwaltsmonopol
(2021)
Legal Tech ist in aller Munde. Die Möglichkeit des Einsatzes von Legal Tech wirft dabei vor allem die Frage auf, ob Rechtsdienstleistungen weiterhin primär nur durch Rechtsanwälte erbracht werden dürfen. Diese Fragestellung ...
Speech perception in complex acoustic environments
(2019)
Listeners with hearing impairments have difficulties understanding speech in the presence of background noise. Although prosthetic devices such as hearing aids and cochlear implants may improve the hearing capability, ...
Organisation und Führung in institutionellen Kontexten der Weiterbildung
(2018)
Das Zusammenwirken von Organisationsstrukturen, institutionellen Einflüssen und dem Führungsverständnis von Leitungspersonal ist zentrales Thema der Dissertation, die aus drei Forschungsarbeiten besteht. Den theoretischen ...
Writing Beloveds
(2016-11-21)
Writing Beloveds considers the way in which a poetic convention, the 'beloved' to whom Renaissance amatory poetry was addressed, becomes influential political rhetoric, an instrument that both men and women used to shape ...
Das technische Phänomen „Künstliche Intelligenz“ im allgemeinen Zivilrecht
(2020)
Das Phänomen der künstlichen Intelligenz (KI) gewinnt im Vertrags- und Deliktsrecht zunehmend an Bedeutung. Für die Behandlung der Thematik sind Grundkenntnisse der KI notwendig. Die Autoren beschreiben im notwendigen Maße ...
Totalitarian Communication
(2010-05-15)
By using history and theory of communication as an integrative methodological device, this book reaches out to those properties of totalitarian society which appear to be beyond the grasp of specific disciplines. Furthermore, ...
The Cultural Life of Money (Volume 6)
(2015)
The book discusses how culture simultaneously shapes and is shaped by the economy. Over the past few years, as the world has staggered from one financial crisis to another, the neat separation of economics and culture has ...
Against Landlords
(2024)
Housing means prosperity and security for some; poverty, precarity and sickness for others. More people live in private rented accommodation than ever before, and rents rise without apparent reason. Homes are smaller every ...
Adjective attribution
(2016)
"This book is the first typological study of adjective attribution marking. Its focus lies on Northern Eurasia, although it covers many more languages and presents an ontology of morphosyntactic categories relevant to noun ...
Verstümmelte Körper?
(2019)
Kastratensänger standen bislang vor allem im Mittelpunkt des Forschungsinteresses der Musik- und Theaterwissenschaften. Dabei wurden vor allem ihr Wirken auf den Bühnen des italienischen Musiktheaters des 17. und 18. ...
Reformation und die Ethik der Wirtschaft
(2018-08-01)
The grand thesis that the spirit of Protestantism is one of modern capitalism's great driving forces originated from Max Weber. According to him, religious foundations of inner world asceticism, Luther's concept of vocation, ...
Sex, Power, and Slavery
(2001)
Sexual exploitation was and is a critical feature of enslavement. Across many different societies, slaves were considered to own neither their bodies nor their children, even if many struggled to resist. At the same time, ...
EIB Working Papers 2020/04 - Making a difference
(2020)
This paper investigates the impact of intermediated funding provided by the EIB on the performance of SMEs in the EU between 2008 and 2014. Using statistical analysis of firm-level data, it finds that EIB lending had a ...
Humanitarian Intervention in the Long Nineteenth Century
(2015-06-01)
This book is a comprehensive presentation of humanitarian intervention in theory and practice during the course of the nineteenth century. Through four case studies, it sheds new light on the international law debate and ...
Electronic Democracy
(2012-06-27)
The timely book takes stock of the state of the art and future of electronic democracy, exploring the history and potential of e-democracy in global perspective. Analysing the digital divide, the role of the internet as a ...
Electronic Democracy
(2012-06-27)
The timely book takes stock of the state of the art and future of electronic democracy, exploring the history and potential of e-democracy in global perspective. Analysing the digital divide, the role of the internet as a ...
Fragile Conviction
(2017-02-14)
How does ideology function during periods of political and economic turmoil? This book, based on long-term ethnographic research in a destitute former mining town in Kyrgyzstan, testifies to the precariousness of life in ...