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Post-Apartheid Youth in South Africa
(2024)
This book investigates the life experiences of youth in South Africa, considering whether contemporary youth have benefitted from the socioeconomic reconstruction of post-apartheid society. Student protests against apartheid ...
Sovereign by Design
(2022)
Digital sovereignty is an essential pillar of the future. Politicians discuss it, businesses strive for it, and public discourse increasingly centers on it. However, what does it take to become digitally sovereign and ...
Implementation of Sustainable Development in the Global South
(2024)
The advent of the Sustainable Development Goals and the 2030 Agenda have contributed to the deepening of the concept of sustainable development within global and national policy schemes. The fact that sustainable development ...
Subjektive Theorien der Gewalt
(2022)
Im Fokus der Studie steht das Forschungsdesiderat, die Genese des Gewaltverständnisses von Lehrkräften und dessen Bedeutung für den professionellen Umgang mit Gewalt zu rekonstruieren. Grundlegend für die Untersuchung ist ...
Getriebetagung 2024
(2022)
Dieser Tagungsband präsentiert die Fachbeiträge der Getriebetagung 2024 in München, die im Rahmen einer langjährigen Tradition stattfindet. Die alle zwei Jahre gemeinsam von den Technischen Universitäten Aachen, Chemnitz ...
Ein Physikübungskonzept zur Förderung der Problemlösekompetenz
(2022)
Problemlösen ist eine wichtige Kompetenz im Fach Physik und damit ein wichtiges Lernziel. Im Studium wird das Problemlösen vor allem durch das Lehrformat der Physikübung vermittelt, in dem wöchentlich Übungsaufgaben ...
Tales of Plague and Pestilence
(2025)
How has disease impacted the evolution of Japan’s culture and society? Sakai Shizu, a leading researcher in Japanese medical history, chronicles the litany of illnesses that have plagued Japan over time, unearthing recorded ...
Greek Tragedy and Modernist Performance
(2021)
This book examines the ways the encounters between modernist theatre makers and Greek tragedy were constitutive in the modernist experiments in performance. Through a series of events / instances / poses that engage visual, ...
Wissensbasiertes IT-Projektmanagement mit KI- und Cloud-Techniken
(2022)
In sicherheitskritischen IT-Projekten, deren Erfolg entscheidend für die öffentliche Sicherheit ist, kann der Ausfall eines IT-Systems weitreichende Folgen haben. Die Wiederverwendung von wertvollem Erfahrungswissen, das ...
Time and Timelessness in Victorian Poetry
(2023)
Time and Timelessness in Victorian Poetry explores the question of poetry’s relation to time and argues that this relation is historically contingent – as the concept of time changes, so too do the shaping forms and ...
Formatives Assessment auf Basis von maschinellem Lernen
(2022)
Formatives Assessment hat sich als effektive Methode zur Unterstützung des Lehrens und Lernens erwiesen. Allerdings werden formative Assessments in der Praxis häufig durch die Größe der Lerngruppen sowie zeitlichen Aufwand ...
Mensch-Roboter-Interaktion – Philosophische und ethische Perspektiven
(2022)
Roboter sind Maschinen, deren Funktionen in Anlehnung an Handlungeninterpretiert werden. Dadurch erscheint ihr praktischer Einsatz alsAssistenten und Helferlein in unserer komplexen Lebenswelt möglich. Dochneben den ...
The Eppo/Olaf Compendium of National Procedures
(2022)
This French EPPO/OLAF volume provides an overview of French and European Union law, with particular attention paid to the European Public Prosecutor's Office and the Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) as well as the investigative ...
How ISIS Fights
(2021)
How did ISIS – a widely hated, massively outnumbered and ludicrously outgunned organisation – manage to occupy over 120 cities, towns and villages from the Southern Philippines to Western Libya? Seeking to understand ISIS’s ...
Data Science and Reliable Machine Learning
(2022)
In October 2024, researchers, students, and practitioners from Armenia, Chile, Germany, and Japan met at the American University of Armenia for the fourth edition of the Cadassca Workshop on Collaborative Technologies and ...
The Eppo/Olaf Compendium of National Procedures
(2022)
This Bulgarian EPPO/OLAF volume starts with an introduction by Prof Dr Dobrinka Chankova providing a categorisation of the fight against EU frauds in Bulgaria. The book offers a comprehensive guide to EPPO/OLAF investigations, ...
Black Schoolgirls in Space
(2024)
Locating Black girls’ desires, needs, knowledge bases, and lived experiences in relation to their social identities has become increasingly important in the study of transnational girlhoods. Black Schoolgirls in Space ...
Lernort Wohnung
(2025)
Das Ziel dieses Buches ist es, Instrumente fr Assistenz als Teilhabeleistung zu beschreiben und zu zeigen, wie diese in der Praxis genutzt werden knnen und schon genutzt werden. Dabei handelt es sich um die beiden ...
Volkshochschul-Statistik
(2024)
Die Statistik der deutschen Volkshochschulen wird vom DIE seit 1962 jhrlich erstellt. Bei einer Ausschpfungsquote von rund 98 Prozent liegen im Berichtsjahr 2022 fr 826 der deutschen Volkshochschulen Informationen vor. Die ...
Mind the Gender Gap
(2024)
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. Drawing on women’s lived experiences, Mind the Gender Gap offers an original approach to looking ...
Activism in Language Teaching and Language Teacher Education
(2024)
Featuring work from a range of global contexts, this edited volume showcases the innovative ways language education professionals engage in and embrace activism. Contributions detail practices and pedagogies to foster ...
Oberwalliser Orts- und Flurnamenbuch (VSNB)
(2024)
Das Besondere an den Oberwalliser Orts- und Flurnamen ist ihr relativ spätes Auftreten. Während die deutsche Schweiz im Wesentlichen seit dem 5. Jahrhundert langsam alemannisiert wurde, war das Oberwallis noch eine ...
Survival under Dictatorships
(2023)
A complex array of individual responses to the abuse of power by the state is represented in this book in three horrific episodes in the history of East-Central Europe. The three events followed each other within a span ...
Oberwalliser Orts- und Flurnamenbuch (VSNB)
(2024)
Das Besondere an den Oberwalliser Orts- und Flurnamen ist ihr relativ spätes Auftreten. Während die deutsche Schweiz im Wesentlichen seit dem 5. Jahrhundert langsam alemannisiert wurde, war das Oberwallis noch eine ...
Lügen
(2022)
"Fake news" und "alternative Fakten" verdrängen zunehmend belastbare Daten. Sie bringen die journalistische Recherche und Massenmedien ins Zwielicht. Und die Gesellschaft spalten sie in Gläubige politischer Ideologen ...
Waves of Upheaval in Myanmar
(2024)
Although the February 2021 military coup brought an end to a decade of far-reaching political, economic and cultural change in Myanmar, the attempt to restore a masculinized, military dictatorship has met widespread popular ...
The Feminist Legislation Project
(2024)
In this book, leading law academics along with lawyers, activists and others demonstrate what legislation could look like if its concern was to create justice for women. Each chapter contains a short piece of legislation ...
An Outline of the Origins of Money
(2024)
"On this subject, I only knew the excellent little book by the late Schurtz”— Marcel Mauss, 1914, “Les origines de la notion de monnaie”.Heinrich Schurtz’s 1898 book has been a touchstone for economic historians, ...
COVID-19 Pandemic as a Catalyst for Change
(2022)
The COVID-19 pandemic has radically altered the functioning of modern societies and economies, causing a global crisis on an unprecedented scale. This book considers whether the end of the pandemic has marked a new beginning ...
Exploring Japanese Thought
(2025)
Japanese history is filled with many great writers and thinkers whose names live on today. While some are well-known abroad, like the Zen scholar Suzuki Daisetsu and the writer Miyazawa Kenji, others remain confined to the ...
Just Transitions
(2024)
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This innovative book promotes a holistic, pragmatic and proactive approach to ...
Wortlernen mit sozialen Robotern
(2024)
Die Forschung zum kindlichen Wortlernen hat in den letzten Jahren aufgezeigt, dass der Erwerb eines neuen Wortes durch Prozessualität gekennzeichnet ist. Ein aktuelles Forschungsinteresse richtet sich in diesem Zusammenhang ...
Entwicklung und Evaluation von automatisierten Feedbackschleifen in Online-Aufgaben im Fach Chemie
(2022)
Ein Großteil der Studienabbrüche im Fach Chemie an deutschen Hochschulen (Abbruchquote 52%; Stand 2022) lässt sich auf Lern- und darauf folgende Leistungsprobleme zurückführen. Mit digitalen, feedbackgestützten Lernaufgaben ...
Patronage und deutsche Literatur im 18. Jahrhundert
(2024)
Eine in unserer Gegenwart verfemte Beziehung, die im 18. Jahrhundert individuelle Lebensläufe und das literarische Leben wesentlich mitbestimmte Patronage ist eine schriftintensive soziale Praxis. Sie ermöglicht die ...
The African National Congress and the Regeneration of Political Power
(2011)
The ANC is a party-movement that draws on its liberation credentials yet is conflicted by a multitude of weaknesses, factions and internal succession battles. Booysen constructs her analysis around the ANC’s four faces of ...
On looking into words (and beyond): Structures, Relations, Analyses
(2017)
"On Looking into Words is a wide-ranging volume spanning current research into word structure and morphology, with a focus on historical linguistics and linguistic theory. The papers are offered as a tribute to Stephen R. ...
Signal Processing
(2014)
This book explains how mathematical tools can be used to solve problems in signal processing. Assuming an advanced undergraduate- or graduate-level understanding of mathematics, this second edition contains new chapters ...
Universities in Imperial Austria 1848–1918
(2018-12-15)
"Combining history of science and a history of universities with the new imperial history, Universities in Imperial Austria 1848–1918: A Social History of a Multilingual Space by Jan Surman analyzes the practice of scholarly ...
Einführung in die grammatische Beschreibung des Deutschen. Zweite, überarbeitete Auflage
(2016)
"This textbook is an introduction to the descriptive grammar of German on the levels of phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and graphemics. It is a recommended read for anyone interested in the grammar of German and ...
The EIB circular economy guide
(2023)
The EIB Circular Economy Guide highlights the need and rationale for a circular economy transition, with the aim of inspiring circular change. The guide presents how the EIB supports the circular economy through financing, ...
Marie NDiaye
(2013-10-28)
This is the first critical study in English to focus exclusively on the work of Marie NDiaye, born in central France in 1967, winner of the Prix Femina (2001), the Prix Goncourt (2009), shortlisted for the Man Booker ...
2023-0107 Cross-border infrastructure projects
(2023)
Cross-border infrastructure projects are fixed-asset investments that physically link two or more countries via infrastructure, including digital infrastructure, enabling the flow of people, goods, commodities or data. ...
In Search of the Amazon - Brazil, the United States and the Nature of a Region
(2013)
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 ...
The empirical base of linguistics: Grammaticality judgments and linguistic methodology
(2016)
Throughout much of the history of linguistics, grammaticality judgments – intuitions about the well-formedness of sentences – have constituted most of the empirical base against which theoretical hypothesis have been tested. ...
Mainstreaming Gender in Global Climate Governance
(2023)
This book explores the role of feminist activists in The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and highlights the progress they have made in mainstreaming gender as a key issue in global climate governance. ...
Tone in Yongning Na: Lexical tones and morphotonology
(2017)
"Yongning Na, also known as Mosuo, is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Southwest China. This book provides a description and analysis of its tone system, progressing from lexical tones towards morphotonology. Tonal changes ...
Demonic History
(2015-03-20)
In this ambitious book, Kirk Wetters traces the genealogy of the demonic in German literature from its imbrications in Goethe to its varying legacies in the work of essential authors, both canonical and less well known, ...
Now Peru Is Mine
(2016-11-01)
Born in 1921, Manuel Llamojha Mitma became one of Peru's most creative and inspiring indigenous political activists. Now Peru Is Mine combines extensive oral history interviews with archival research to chronicle his ...
Smart Regulation
(1970)
Welche Bedeutung hat die unaufhaltsame Datenflut in Form von Big Data und Quick Data für politische und wirtschaftliche Entscheidungen? Der vorliegende Band geht dieser Frage für die Bereiche Wissenschaft, Ethik und Marketing ...
Der Jude 1916-1928
(2000)
Die Zeitschrift 'Der Jude' wurde 1916 als Organ der Zionistischen Weltorganisation gegründet. Ihre Aufgabe war es zunächst, die nationalen Ziele der Juden in Ost- und Mitteleuropa einem gebildeten Publikum nahezubringen. ...
Financial Report 2022
(2023)
In 2022, the Bank’s lending signatures amounted to €65.1 billion. This report includes the 2022 financial statements and audit reports both for the EIB and the EIB Group.
In the Beginning was the Image: The Omnipresence of Pictures
(2016-12-20)
The authors outline the topic of visuality in the 21st century in a trans- and interdisciplinary theoretical frame from philosophy through communication theory, rhetoric and linguistics to pedagogy. As some scholars of ...
Veto Power
(2011-09-01)
Veto rights can be a meaningful source of power only when leaving an organization is extremely unlikely. For example, small European states have periodically wielded their veto privileges to override the preferences of ...
Finance in Africa
(2022)
Banks in Africa are weathering the COVID-19 pandemic well and showing a lot of creativity to overcome the crisis’s problems. But the war in Ukraine is causing new concerns. With interest rates rising in many countries and ...
Witchcraft, Gender and Society in Early Modern Germany
(2007)
Using the example of Eichstätt, this book challenges current witchcraft historiography by arguing that the gender of the witch-suspect was a product of the interrogation process and that the stable communities affected by ...
Social Bots
(2024)
Digitale Diskursräume eröffnen nicht nur Partizipationschancen. Sie sind auch Forum für Desinformationskampagnen und manipulative Verhaltensweisen. Paradigmatisch für diese Ambivalenz steht das Phänomen der Social Bots. ...
A grammar of Rapa Nui
(2017)
This book is a comprehensive description of the grammar of Rapa Nui, the Polynesian language spoken on Easter Island. After an introductory chapter, the grammar deals with phonology, word classes, the noun phrase, possession, ...
Psychology and Politics
(2019)
Psy-sciences (psychology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, pedagogy, criminology, special education, etc.) have been connected to politics in diverse ways during the 20th and 21st centuries. Besides episodes in the history of ...
Refiguring Motherhood Beyond Biology
(2023)
This book unpacks and interrogates dominant constructions of mothering, making use of interdisciplinary, ideological and theoretical perspectives to investigate how new rhetorics of mothering can expand the realm of maternal ...
Before Einstein
(2017-01-02)
Before Albert Einstein proposed the concept of four-dimensional spacetime, late Victorian scientists, radical philosophers and writers were discussing the possibility of a different kind of fourth dimension. Before Einstein ...
Electronic Iran
(2013-12-01)
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 ...
The future of dialects: Selected papers from Methods in Dialectology XV
(2016)
Traditional dialects have been encroached upon by the increasing mobility of their speakers and by the onslaught of national languages in education and mass media. Typically, older dialects are “leveling” to become more ...
Jewish Emancipation Reconsidered
(2003)
A group of distinguished historians makes the first systematic attempt to compare the experiences of French and German Jews in the modern era. The cases of France and Germany have often been depicted as the dominant paradigms ...
See
(2018)
Vision traditionally occupies the height of the sensorial hierarchy. The sense of clarity and purity, it is the one most explicitly associated with truth and knowledge. The law has always relied on vision and representation, ...
Knowledge Services
(2016-11-10)
Knowledge Services converges information management, knowledge management (KM), and strategic learning into a single enterprise-wide discipline for the benefit of the business or organization in which it is practiced. With ...
"Rechtswidriges Recht"
(2024)
n Bezug auf das Problem des "rechtswidrigen Rechts" herrschte eine Kontroverse zwischen zwei Schülern Hans Kelsens (1881-1973): Adolf Julius Merkl (1890-1970) und Fritz Sander (1889-1939). Auf dem Spiel stand nicht weniger ...
The Jesuit Mission to New France
(2010)
A new interpretation of the Jesuit mission to New France is here proposed by using, for comparison and contrast, the earlier Jesuit experience in Japan. In order to present revisionist perspectives of the Jesuit missions ...
Interculturalidad, protección de la naturaleza y construcción de paz
(2020)
Interculturalidad, protección de la naturaleza y construcción de paz es producto de un proyecto Erasmus+ financiado por la Unión Europea y ejecutado por investigadores vinculados a ocho universidades de Italia, Francia, ...
Child Poverty, Evidence and Policy
(2011-02-23)
This book is about the ideas, networks and institutions that shape the development of evidence about child poverty and wellbeing, and the use of such evidence in development policy debates.
Mongrel Nation
(2007)
Mongrel Nation surveys the history of the United Kingdom's African, Asian, and Caribbean populations from 1948 to the present, working at the juncture of cultural studies, literary criticism, and postcolonial theory. Ashley ...
Der deutsche "Dialog mit der islamischen Welt"
(2014-12-15)
Kulturdialog, Interkultureller Dialog, Islamdialog, Transformationsdialog - wer spricht da eigentlich mit wem und vor allem wie? Vom 11. September 2001 bis zu den Umbrüchen in der arabischen Welt 2011 gewährt das Buch ...
Big Water
(2018)
Big Water explores four centuries of the overlapping histories of Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay (the Triple Frontier), and the colonies that preceded them. Examining an important area that includes some of the first ...
Les dimensions du temps
(2024)
Le temps est le concept de transition par excellence qui a certes son origine dans la Nature, mais qui permet aussi l'idée d'un développement de l'esprit - et c'est l'esprit (Geist) qui apparaît ensuite dans un autre cadre ...
Remembering the South African War
(2013-08-08)
The experience of the South African War sharpened the desire to commemorate for a number of reasons. An increasingly literate public, a burgeoning populist press, an army reinforced by waves of volunteers and, to contemporaries ...
Informationsverwaltungsrecht internationaler Institutionen
(2018)
Internationale Institutionen agieren und regieren mehr denn je durch Informationen und Wissen. Dabei geraten ihre Informationsbeziehungen zu Staaten und Individuen in den Fokus politischer und rechtlicher Auseinandersetzungen. ...
Democracy and Fake News
(2021)
This book explores the challenges that disinformation, fake news, and post-truth politics pose to democracy from a multidisciplinary perspective. The authors analyse and interpret how the use of technology and social media ...
Lament in Jewish Thought
(2014-09-29)
This collection features essays by leading scholars on the philosophical, theological, poetic and cultural aspects of lament, touching on the textual traditions of lament in Judaism, from Biblical, rabbinic and medieval ...
Healthcare as a Human Rights Issue
(2017-11-15)
This book deals with various facets of the human right to health: its normative profile as a universal right, current political and legal conflicts and contextualized implementation in different healthcare systems. The ...
A Partnership with Africa
(2021)
Africa is embarking upon a period in which its political, economic and social outlook will transform. The European Investment Bank is a key part of the EU toolbox that for decades has helped make the partnership between ...