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Blockchain und Recht
(2024)
In den Jahren 2020 bis 2023 wurde am Institut für das Recht der Digitalisierung an der Philipps-Universität Marburg das BMJ-Forschungsprojekt "Blockchain und Recht" durchgeführt. Dieser Sammelband dient zum einen dazu, ...
Philosophy in a Meaningless Life
(2016-12-15)
Provides an account of the nature of philosophy which is rooted in the question of the meaning of life. It makes a powerful and vivid case for believing that this question is neither obscure nor obsolete, but reflects a ...
Networks of Power
(2011-02-18)
Networks of Power reconstructs the course of political history in the poorly documented Naco Valley from the fourteenth through early sixteenth centuries. Describing the material and behavioral patterns pertaining to the ...
The Muselmann at the Water Cooler
(2011-05-01)
"A survivor of concentration camps and the Death March, Eli Pfefferkorn looks back on his Holocaust and post-Holocaust experiences to compare patterns of human behavior in extremis with those of ordinary life. What he finds ...
Hydraulic City
(2017-03-10)
In Hydraulic City Nikhil Anand explores the politics of Mumbai's water infrastructure to demonstrate how citizenship emerges through the continuous efforts to control, maintain, and manage the city's water. Through extensive ...
Zwischenmenschliche Vergebung
(2024)
Ulrike Peisker entwickelt entlang des Phänomens zwischenmenschlicher Vergebung deren systematische Rekonstruktion und nutzt die reformatorische Hermeneutik, zwischenmenschliche Vergebung von protestantisch-theologischer ...
The Internationalization of the Academic Library
(2021)
The Internationalization of the Academic Library presents a theoretically informed, empirically grounded analysis of the process of academic library internationalization.Drawing on interviews with library personnel from ...
Widersprechen in vereinnahmenden Verhältnissen
(2019)
Seit geraumer Zeit sehen sich die öffentlichen Universitäten des deutschsprachigen Raumes weitreichenden Veränderungen gegenüber stehen. Die zunehmenden Bestrebungen, etwa das Verhältnis staatlicher Trägerschaft neu zu ...
Water Stewardship
(2020)
Achieving true wholesome sustainability requires a change of heart. Hence this book starts in the heart. It asks the timely question of ‘how do we become true water stewards?’ The transformation to a new sustainable practice ...
Belastung und Bereicherung
(2020)
Flüchtlinge und Vertriebene aus den ehemaligen deutschen Ostgebieten und anderen Siedlungsräumen in Ostmittel- und Osteuropa kamen ab 1945 in sehr großer Zahl auch nach Brandenburg. Bis Ende 1946 nahm das Land mehr als ...
Gone to Pitchipoi
(2012-10-01)
In Gone to Pitchipoi Katz vividly recalls his experience growing up in the turmoil of WWII, and his extraordinary escape from the constant threats of Nazi occupied Poland. Born in 1931 in the picturesque countryside of ...
The Muselmann at the Water Cooler
(2011-05-01)
"A survivor of concentration camps and the Death March, Eli Pfefferkorn looks back on his Holocaust and post-Holocaust experiences to compare patterns of human behavior in extremis with those of ordinary life. What he finds ...
Digital Objects, Digital Subjects
(2019-01-30)
This book explores activism, research and critique in the age of digital subjects and objects and Big Data capitalism after a digital turn said to have radically transformed our political futures. Optimists assert that the ...
The Arab Revolution of 2011
(2015)
How do we make sense of the Arab revolution of 2011? What were its successes, its failures, and significance in world history? The Arab Revolution of 2011 brings together a broad range of perspectives to explain the causes, ...
When Protest Becomes Crime
(2019)
How does protest become criminalised? Applying an anthropological perspective to political and legal conflicts, Carolijn Terwindt urges us to critically question the underlying interests and logic of prosecuting protesters. ...
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 ...
Gone to Pitchipoi
(2012-10-01)
In Gone to Pitchipoi Katz vividly recalls his experience growing up in the turmoil of WWII, and his extraordinary escape from the constant threats of Nazi occupied Poland. Born in 1931 in the picturesque countryside of ...
Settlement and History in Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine Galilee
(2009)
Uzi Leibner aims to provide the most accurate picture possible of the nature and history of the rural settlement in the Lower Galilee during Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods when this region played an important ...
Voices of Long-Term Care Workers
(2024)
There were many challenges, successes, and concerns in providing long-term care to older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. Looking at central North Carolina, the authors highlight the implications of providing long-term ...
Zwischenmenschliche Vergebung
(2024)
Ulrike Peisker entwickelt entlang des Phänomens zwischenmenschlicher Vergebung deren systematische Rekonstruktion und nutzt die reformatorische Hermeneutik, zwischenmenschliche Vergebung von protestantisch-theologischer ...
Literature and sustainability
(2017-04-30)
Sustainability has become a key socio-political issue over recent years. However, whilst the literary-critical community has advanced enthusiastically on an exciting range of environmentally-based analyses (most obviously ...
Essential Vulnerabilities
(2016-12-31)
In Essential Vulnerabilities, Deborah Achtenberg contests Emmanuel Levinas’s idea that Plato is a philosopher of freedom for whom thought is a return to the self. Instead, Plato, like Levinas, is a philosopher of the other. ...
The Corporation That Changed the World
(2012)
The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Its trading empire encircled the globe, importing Asian luxuries such as spices, textiles and teas. But the Company’s takeover of much of India was ...
A grammar of Yakkha
(2015)
This grammar provides the first comprehensive grammatical description of Yakkha, a Sino-Tibetan language of the Kiranti branch. Yakkha is spoken by about 14,000 speakers in eastern Nepal, in the Sankhuwa Sabha and Dhankuta ...
Weiterbildungsstatistik im Verbund
(2020)
Die Langzeitstatistik präsentiert Daten zu öffentlich finanzierten Weiterbildungsangeboten in Deutschland, die jährlich vom Deutschen Institut für Erwachsenenbildung (DIE) erhoben und ausgewertet werden. Die Statistiken ...
Poetry and Psychiatry
(2014-11-15)
In this volume, Professor Ljunggren introduces the Symbolists and their feverish expectations in detail. Theirs was a time when for a brief moment everything seemed possible. Then came the rude awakening, best described ...
Fashion, History, Museums
(2019)
The last decade has seen the growing popularity and visibility of fashion as a cultural product, including its growing presence in museum exhibitions. This book explores the history of fashion curating and exhibitions, ...
Ink-Stained Hollywood
(2022)
For the first half of the twentieth century, no American industry boasted a more motley and prolific trade press than the movie business—a cutthroat landscape that set the stage for battle by ink. In 1930, Martin Quigley, ...
Philosophy in a Meaningless Life
(2016-12-15)
Provides an account of the nature of philosophy which is rooted in the question of the meaning of life. It makes a powerful and vivid case for believing that this question is neither obscure nor obsolete, but reflects a ...
Networks of Power
(2011-02-18)
Networks of Power reconstructs the course of political history in the poorly documented Naco Valley from the fourteenth through early sixteenth centuries. Describing the material and behavioral patterns pertaining to the ...
A Contemporary History of Exclusion
(2016)
This study presents the changing situation of the Roma in the second half of the twentieth century. The authors examine the effects of the policies of the Hungarian state towards minorities by analyzing legal regulations, ...
The Corporation That Changed the World
(2012)
The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Its trading empire encircled the globe, importing Asian luxuries such as spices, textiles and teas. But the Company’s takeover of much of India was ...
Rückzugsorte des Erzählens
(2020)
In European cultural history, otiose leisure is regarded as the ideal prerequisite for a retreat into self-contemplation. Anna Karina Sennefelder maps out this topos by analyzing nineteenth century French narrative texts. ...
Kritik, Aktivismus und Prospektivität.
(2019)
Während des kriegerischen Zerfalls von Jugoslawien und der Bildung neuer Nationalstaaten entstand in der Region ein reges Dokumentarfilmschaffen, das sich den dominanten Rhetoriken der Politik entgegenstellte. Anhand dieses ...
Explanation in typology
(2019-04-10)
This volume provides an up-to-date discussion of a foundational issue that has recently taken centre stage in linguistic typology and which is relevant to the language sciences more generally: To what extent can cross-linguistic ...
The state of local infrastructure investment in Europe
(2021)
Europe’s COVID-19 recovery strategy calls for large-scale public investment to “building back better.” Municipalities account for 45% of all public investment – which makes them a key partner in recovery efforts. As poles ...
The World Jewish Congress During The Holocaust - Between Activism and Restraint
(2014)
Drawing on hitherto neglected archival materials, Zohar Segev sheds new light on the policy of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) during the Holocaust. Contrary to popular belief, he can show that there was an impressive ...
Kritische Naturrechtsethik
(2024)
Robert Deinhammer präsentiert einen innovativen Ansatz zur Naturrechtsethik in systematischer Absicht. Bewahrenswerte Anliegen der aristotelisch-thomasischen Tradition werden mit zeitgenössischen philosophischen Einsichten ...
German Rabbis in British Exile
(2017-06-20)
The rich history of the German rabbinate came to an abrupt halt with the November Pogrom of 1938. The need to leave Germany became clear and many rabbis made use of the visas they had been offered. Their resettlement in ...
Fashion, History, Museums
(2019)
The last decade has seen the growing popularity and visibility of fashion as a cultural product, including its growing presence in museum exhibitions. This book explores the history of fashion curating and exhibitions, ...
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 ...
Tonality as Drama
(2008)
This is an analytical monograph by a Schenkerian music theorist, but it is also written by one performer and enthusiast for another. Tonality as Drama draws on the fields of dramaturgy, music theory, and historical musicology ...
Das ADHS Kaleidoskop
(2015)
ADHS - neue Facetten und Schnittstellen zu anderen Störungsbildern: Die Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit-/Hyperaktivitätsstörung (ADHS) zählt mit einer Prävalenz von 2–6 % zu den häufigsten psychischen Störungen im Kindes-, Jugend- ...
A Tale of Two Capitalisms
(2015)
Great Britain -- Economic policy -- 19th century Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century Life in literature
Education Systems and Inequalities
(2016)
How do education systems shape educational inequalities and differences in educational outcomes? And how do advantages and disadvantages in educational attainment translate into privileges and shortcomings in labour market ...
Happiness and Wellness
(2023)
This book is a collection of chapters on happiness and well-being. It includes contributions from scientists from all over the world, who present different, multifaceted, dialectically open perspectives and sensitivities ...
Faithful Translators
(2013-12-18)
With Faithful Translators Jaime Goodrich offers the first in-depth examination of women’s devotional translations and of religious translations in general within early modern England. Placing female translators such as ...
Juden - Bürger - Deutsche
(2001)
Im 19. Jahrhundert bildete sich zum einen eine bürgerliche und zum anderen eine spezifisch jüdische bürgerliche Gesellschaft heraus. Die Autoren dieses Bandes beleuchten die Besonderheiten, aber auch die Übereinstimmungen ...
Rückzugsorte des Erzählens
(2020)
In European cultural history, otiose leisure is regarded as the ideal prerequisite for a retreat into self-contemplation. Anna Karina Sennefelder maps out this topos by analyzing nineteenth century French narrative texts. ...
Pandemic Exposures
(2021)
For people and governments around the world, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic seemed to place the preservation of human life at odds with the pursuit of economic and social life. Yet this simple alternative belies the ...
Digital Objects, Digital Subjects
(2019-01-30)
This book explores activism, research and critique in the age of digital subjects and objects and Big Data capitalism after a digital turn said to have radically transformed our political futures. Optimists assert that the ...
Building Green
(2017)
Building Green explores the experience of environmental architects in Mumbai, one of the world’s most populous and population-dense urban areas and a city iconic for its massive informal settlements, extreme wealth ...
The Internationalization of the Academic Library
(2021)
The Internationalization of the Academic Library presents a theoretically informed, empirically grounded analysis of the process of academic library internationalization.Drawing on interviews with library personnel from ...
Race and Ethnicity in Latin America
(2010)
For over ten years, Race and Ethnicity in Latin America has been an essential text for students studying the region. This second edition adds new material and brings the analysis up to date.
Race and ethnic identities are ...
An Aqueous Territory
(2016-12-23)
In 'An Aqueous Territory' Ernesto Bassi traces the configuration of a geographic space he calls the transimperial Greater Caribbean between 1760 and 1860. Focusing on the Caribbean coast of New Granada (present-day Colombia), ...
Erosion des Rechtsstaats?
(2020)
Die Missachtung rechtsstaatlicher Grundsätze ist schon seit Längerem in Deutschland "salonfähig". Verursacht ist dieses "Phänomen" vor allem durch die der Exekutive zuzurechnenden politischen Entscheider in Regierungsfunktion, ...
Embodiment in Evolution and Culture
(2016-11-14)
From its beginnings, the theory of evolution has unsettled fundamental anthropological assumptions about the place of human beings in nature. The integration of human origins into natural history by Darwinism was countered ...
Interferencias del archivo
(2016)
Archivo, memoria, cine, literatura y política. Desde una perspectiva intermedial, los ensayos reunidos en el libro analizan las relaciones entre estos campos en Argentina y Chile durante las últimas décadas. Un eje aborda ...
The Pariahs of Yesterday
(2012)
Beginning in the 1870s, a great many Bretons began arriving in Paris. Every age has its pariahs, and in 1900, the “pariahs of Paris” were the Bretons, the last distinct group of provincials to come en masse to the capital ...
Remembrance, History, and Justice
(2015)
The twentieth century has left behind a painful and complicated legacy of massive trauma, monstrous crimes, radical social engineering, or collective/individual guilt syndromes that were often the premises for and the ...
Zukunftsperspektiven der Rechtsvergleichung
(2016)
Dieser Band enthält die Beiträge zu einem Symposium aus Anlass des 80. Geburtstages von Hein Kötz. Sie stehen unter dem Obertitel "Zukunftsperspektiven der Rechtsvergleichung" und zeichnen sich durch einen weitgespannten ...
Jüdische Minderheit und Industrialisierung
(2024)
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Technicolored
(2018)
From early sitcoms such as I Love Lucy to contemporary prime-time dramas like Scandal and How to Get Away with Murder, African Americans on television have too often been asked to portray tired stereotypes of blacks as ...
EIB Working Paper 2020/06 - Digital technologies and firm performance
(2020)
As the productivity of the European economy shows signs of slowing down, many hopes are pinned on digital technologies to reverse this trend. This study uses data from the EIBIS 2019 survey to examine whether the adoption ...
Medieval Floor Tiles of Northern England
(2005)
This study of the design, manufacture and use of medieval floor tiles shows the long-lasting influence achieved in the north of England, especially by the Cistercian monasteries. It serves to demonstrate how these monastic ...
World Wide Warriors
(2019)
The contributions of this volume aim at a new, evidence based approach to Jihadism studies. What is the structure of Jihadi online communication and the dissemination of operational material online? Which errors were made ...
Roots of language
(2015)
Roots of language was originally published in 1981 by Karoma Press (Ann Arbor). It was the first work to systematically develop a theory first suggested by Coelho in the late nineteenth century: that the creation of creole ...
Roots of language
(2015)
Roots of language was originally published in 1981 by Karoma Press (Ann Arbor). It was the first work to systematically develop a theory first suggested by Coelho in the late nineteenth century: that the creation of creole ...
Genius Envy
(2016)
In Genius Envy Adrianna M. Paliyenko uncovers a forgotten past: the multiplicity and diversity of nineteenth-century French women’s poetic voices. Conservative critics of the time attributed genius to masculinity and ...
Creation in Crisis
(2014)
Are Christians fulfilling the stewardship commandment of Genesis to care for God's household? When we speak of the "environmental crisis" facing the planet, we reduce the coming catastrophe to a physical problem. In Creation ...
Creation in Crisis
(2014)
Are Christians fulfilling the stewardship commandment of Genesis to care for God's household? When we speak of the "environmental crisis" facing the planet, we reduce the coming catastrophe to a physical problem. In Creation ...
New perspectives on cohesion and coherence
(2017)
"The contributions to this volume investigate relations of cohesion and coherence as well as instantiations of discourse phenomena and their interaction with information structure in multilingual contexts. Some contributions ...
My Voice Is My Weapon - Music, Nationalism and the Poetics of Palestinian Resistance
(2013)
David A. McDonald rethinks the conventional history of the Palestinian crisis through an ethnographic analysis of music and musicians, protest songs, and popular culture. Charting a historical narrative that stretches from ...
A Task for Sisyphus
(2019)
Despite the increasing number of policy measures and initiatives targeting the Roma in Europe, their position has continued to worsen, which requires answers from policymakers, activists and academics. The author sums up ...
Zukunftsperspektiven der Rechtsvergleichung
(2016)
Dieser Band enthält die Beiträge zu einem Symposium aus Anlass des 80. Geburtstages von Hein Kötz. Sie stehen unter dem Obertitel "Zukunftsperspektiven der Rechtsvergleichung" und zeichnen sich durch einen weitgespannten ...
Whistleblowing for Change
(2021)
The courageous acts of whistleblowing that inspired the world over the past few years have changed our perception of surveillance and control in today's information society. But what are the wider effects of whistleblowing ...
Whistleblowing for Change
(2021)
The courageous acts of whistleblowing that inspired the world over the past few years have changed our perception of surveillance and control in today's information society. But what are the wider effects of whistleblowing ...
Networks and institutions in Europe's emerging markets
(2014)
Do ties between political parties and businesses harm or benefit the development of market institutions? The post-communist transition offers an unparalleled opportunity to explore when and how networks linking the polity ...