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God's Property
(2010)
Up to the twentieth century, Islamic charitable endowments provided the material foundation of the Muslim world. In Lebanon, with the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the imposition of French colonial rule, many of these ...
Velar fronting in German dialects
(2022)
Velar Fronting (VF) is the name for any synchronic or diachronic phonological process shifting the velar place of articulation to the palatal region of the vocal tract. A well-known case of VF in Standard German is the ...
Learning context effects
(2018-09-06)
This book deals with the effects of three different learning contexts mainly on adult, but also on adolescent, learners’ language acquisition. The three contexts brought together in the monograph include i) a conventional ...
Excavations at Chester. Roman Land Division and a Probable Villa in the Hinterland of Deva
(2023)
Excavations at Chester. Roman land division and a probable villa in the hinterland of Deva reports on excavations carried out by Northern Archaeological Associates (NAA) at Saighton Camp – a former British Army training ...
Return of the Jew
(2013-02-15)
A new, “unexpected” generation of Jews made an appearance in Poland following the fall of the communist regime. Once home to the greatest Jewish community in the world and then site of one of the biggest tragedies in Jewish ...
The Distinction of Peace
(2016-11-01)
“Peacebuilding” serves as a catch-all term to describe efforts by an array of international organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and agencies of foreign states to restore or construct a peaceful society in the ...
Management der sozialen Verantwortung im Krankenhaus
(2011)
Die der Krankenversorgung immanente Caritas ist ebenso keine Gegenkategorie zur Ökonomie, also zu einem wirtschaftlichen Handeln, wie auch das Management der sozialen Verantwortung nicht auf die Moderation (scheinbar) ...
Cinema, Trance and Cybernetics
(2017-04-30)
Ute Holl explores cinema as a cultural technique of trance, unconsciously transforming everyday spatio-temporal perception. The archaeology of experimental and anthropological cinema leads into psycho-physiological ...
Antiklerikalismus in Europa
(2019)
Der Antiklerikalismus verfolgte im 19. Jahrhundert eine grundlegende Neuordnung des Verhältnisses von Staat, Gesellschaft, Kirchen und Religion. Lisa Dittrich erörtert erstmals anhand dreier Länder vergleichend die ...
Weltweit und virtuell - Praxisbeispiele aus dem digitalen Hochschulmarketing
(2016-07-27)
"The study presents examples of good practice in the use of digital tools for international university marketing. This includes websites, apps, social media, webinars, virtual fairs, digital learning and teaching formats ...
Women Writing Portuguese Colonialism in Africa (Volume 22)
(2020)
This book represents the first attempt to query the contribution of women as cultural agents to the colonization, the anti-colonial opposition and the decolonization of territories ruled by Portugal in the African continent ...
Who Will Build the Ark?
(2024)
In Who Will Build the Ark? leading radical thinkers debate left alternatives to runaway global heating, capitalist crisis and wider environmental breakdown, clarifying the stakes in key disputes between Green New Deal ...
The Cultural Life of James Bond
(2020)
The release of No Time To Die in 2020 heralds the arrival of the twenty-fifth installment in the James Bond film series. Since the release of Dr. No in 1962, the cinematic James Bond has expedited the transformation of Ian ...
Between Babylon and Jerusalem
(2020)
Simon Rawidowicz (1896–1957) was one of the most innovative, if also underappreciated, Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. He was a partner in conversation with many of the leading Jewish cultural or political figures ...
Forces of Secularity in the Modern World
(2018)
Stephen Strehle is a leading scholar of church/state issues. In this volume, he focuses his rigorous historical analysis and philosophical acumen upon a topic of great interest today and source of cultural wars around the ...
Sex Rewarded, Sex Punished
(2008)
A masterful intersection of Bible studies, gender studies, and rabbinic law, Diane Kriger explores the laws pertaining to female slaves in Jewish law. Comparing biblical strictures with later rabbinic interpretations as ...
The Mongols and the Armenians (1220-1335)
(2010)
In the thirteenth century, the Armenians of Greater Armenia and of the Armenian Kingdom in Cilicia were invaded by Mongol nomads of the Inner Asian steppe. The ensuing Mongol-Armenian relations were varied. The Greater ...
Wollstonecraft, Mill, and Women's Human Rights
(2016)
This book argues that Mary Wollstonecraft and John Stuart Mill are the two primary architects of the modern theory of women’s rights as human rights. It only through addressing women’s rights, Botting argues, that the idea ...
Der Logos der Sophistik und die Philosophie
(2022)
Dieses Buch problematisiert "die Sophistik" als Gegenstand der Philosophiegeschichte und stellt die These auf, "die Sophistik" sei das Resultat einer philosophischen Operation. Anhand der kritischen Diskussion relevanter ...
Knights Across the Atlantic
(2017-01-27)
Knights Across the Atlantic tells for the first time the full story of the Knights of Labor in Britain and Ireland, where they operated between 1883 and the end of the century. British and Irish Knights drew on the resources ...