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Integration von Zuwanderern
(2010-07-15)
Was fördert, was hemmt die Integration von Zuwanderern? Welche Konzepte können als erfolgreich angesehen werden? Vor dem Hintergrund internationaler Erfahrungen greifen die Beiträge dieses Bandes zentrale Themen der Debatte ...
Reality Bites
(2018)
Fake news, alternative facts, post truth—terms all too familiar to anyone in U.S. political culture and concepts at the core of Dana L. Cloud’s new book, Reality Bites, which explores truth claims in contemporary political ...
Migration and Social Pathways
(2017-10-02)
The landscape of European migration has changed considerably over the past decades, in particular after the fall of the iron curtain and again after the EU enlargement to the east. The author researches the phenomenon of ...
Ethics or the Right Thing?
(2022)
A sympathetic examination of the failure of anti-corruption efforts in contemporary Indonesia. Combining ethnographic fieldwork in the city of Kupang with an acute historical sensibility, Sylvia Tidey shows how good ...
What is Academic Freedom?
(2022)
This book explores the history of the debate, from 1915 to the present, about the meaning of academic freedom, particularly as concerns political activism on the college campus. The book introduces readers to the origins ...
Moral Economies of Corruption
(2016)
Nigeria is famous for "419" emails asking recipients for bank account information and for scandals involving the disappearance of billions of dollars from government coffers. Corruption permeates even minor official ...
A grammar of Mauwake
(2015)
This grammar provides a synchronic grammatical description of Mauwake, a Papuan Trans-New Guinea (TNG) language of about 2000 speakers on the north coast of the Madang Province in Papua New Guinea. It is the first book-length ...
Discourses, Modes, Media and Meaning in an Era of Pandemic
(2022)
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all aspects of our everyday lives – from the political to the economic to the social. Using a multimodal discourse analysis approach, this dynamic collection examines various discourses, ...
Mixtec Evangelicals
(2016)
MIXTEC EVANGELICALS is a comparative ethnography of four Mixtec communities in Oaxaca, detailing the process by which economic migration and religious conversion combine to change the social and cultural makeup of predominantly ...
Book of the Disappeared
(2023)
Book of the Disappeared confronts worldwide human rights violations of enforced disappearance and genocide and explores the global quest for justice with forceful, outstanding contributions by respected scholars, expert ...
Global Player EU?
(2015-05-15)
Die EU wäre gerne ein "global player", der auf dem Spielfeld von Weltwirtschaft und Weltpolitik den großen Jungs den Ball abnimmt. In Politik und Medien wollen die meisten die EU als globalen Spieler sehen, und zwar ...
A Bowl for a Coin
(2019)
A Bowl for a Coin is the first book in any language to describe and analyze the history of all Japanese teas. To understand the triumph of the tea plant in Japan, Wayne Farris begins with its cultivation and goes on to ...
Dropout in der Beruflichen Rehabilitation
(2022)
Aus welchen Gründen brechen Menschen mit Behinderungen eine Berufsausbildung ab? Am Beispiel einer Einrichtung der Beruflichen Rehabilitation haben die Autor:innen des Bandes die Gründe für Dropout analysiert.
In der ...
Parliament in Ethiopia
(2024)
African legislatures remain understudied, yet democratisation, development and peacebuilding all depend on these key political institutions. This book provides an in-depth analysis of Ethiopia’s parliament, a country of ...
Nachleben im Arbeitsmaterial
(2024)
Das Nachleben zu Lebzeiten gestalten. Dokumentation als Versprechen und Verfahren in literarischen Formaten des 20. Jahrhunderts. »Nachleben im Arbeitsmaterial« wirft einen neuen Blick auf die Geschichte dokumentarischer ...
Das Wissen der Einwanderungsgesellschaft
(2023)
Die Verknüpfung von Wissens- und Migrationsgeschichte zeichnet ein neues Bild vom Einwanderungsland Deutschland seit 1945.
Migration verändert den common sense darüber, was in einer Gesellschaft als Wissen anerkannt ...
Der apokryphe Briefwechsel zwischen Seneca und Paulus
(2006-11-13)
Im vierten Jahrhundert erfand ein unbekannter Autor einen Briefwechsel, in dem Seneca zum Freund des Paulus gemacht wird. Jahrhundertelang hat diese Fiktion zu Spekulationen über die Nähe zwischen Stoa und Christentum ...
Enough Already!
(2020)
This text will explore the re-assertion of right-wing populist and fascist movements as presented and distributed in the media. In particular, attacks on immigrants, women, minorities, LGBTQ people are increasing at a ...
The Early Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent
(2020)
The Eastern Fertile Crescent region of western Iran and eastern Iraq hosted major developments in the transition from hunter-forager to farmer-herder lifestyles through the Early Neolithic period, 10,000-7000 BC. Within ...
Piezoelectric Electromechanical Transducers for Underwater Sound, Part II = Пьезоэлектрические электромеханические преобразователи в гидроакустике (Russian-Language Edition)
(2024)
The book presents a broad-scope analysis of piezoelectric electromechanical transducers and the related aspects of practical transducer design for underwater applications. It uses an energy method for analyzing transducer ...