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The Philosophy of Human Rights
(2011-11-17)
The notion of "human rights" is widely used in political and moral debates. The core idea, that all human beings have some inalienable basic rights, is appealing and has an important practical function: It allows moral ...
Contemporary Jewish Reality in Germany and Its Reflection in Film
(2012-12-06)
The notion of "self" and "other" and its representation in artwork and literature is an important theme in current cultural sciences as well as in our everyday life in contemporary Western societies. Moreover, the concept ...
Odd Couples
(2012-04-11)
Odd Couples examines friendships between gay men and straight women, and also between lesbians and straight men, and shows how these "intersectional" friendships serve as a barometer for shifting social norms, particularly ...
The Mists of Ramanna
(2005-01-01)
Scholars have long accepted the belief that a Theravada Buddhist Mon kingdom, Ramannadesa, flourished in coastal Lower Burma until it was conquered in 1057 by King Aniruddha of Pagan—which then became, in essence, the new ...
The vision and the path (Volume 11)
(2019)
What is Europe? A continent fragmented through the centuries by wars, border conflicts and cultural diversity. As Europeans, we do not have a common language or a common history, but we do have common roots, needs and ...
Why Vienna gets high marks (Volume 2)
(2018)
This essay reviews the political circumstances and strategic orientations of Vienna's comprehensive urban development policy, and how the EIB's investments facilitated key projects and supported Vienna's process of urban ...
Methods in Contemporary Linguistics
(2012-08-31)
The present volume is a broad overview of methods and methodologies in linguistics, illustrated with examples from concrete research. It collects insights gained from a broad range of linguistic sub-disciplines, ranging ...
Bringing the World Home
(2005-03-31)
Bringing the World Home sheds new light on China’s vibrant cultural life between 1895 and 1919—a crucial period that marks a watershed between the conservative old regime and the ostensibly iconoclastic New Culture of the ...
Pioneering Conservation in Alaska
(2006-12-18)
"Designed as a companion to his "Environmental Conflict in Alaska" (2001), which presented the environmental issues of Alaska's statehood period, the newest study by Ross provides an in-depth view of the resource management ...
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 ...
Confronting the "Good Death"
(2005-10-15)
"The scholarship devoted to the complicity of German physicians in the Holocaust is rich and detailed, but there remains, as Michael Bryant demonstrates, still more to learn. It is well established that the techniques ...
Muße und Rekursivität in der antiken Briefliteratur
(2016-08-26)
Auffallend häufig finden sich in der antiken Briefliteratur Beschreibungen von Momenten der Muße, sei es als Lebensweise oder als selbstreferentielle Abbildung des Schreib- oder Rezeptionsmomentes des Briefes. Die Beiträge ...
The Value of Hawaiʻi 3
(2020)
“Hulihia” refers to massive upheavals that change the landscape, overturn the normal, reverse the flow, and sweep away the prevailing or assumed. We live in such days. Pandemics. Threats to ʻāina. Political dysfunction, ...
Advances in the Analysis of Spanish Exclamatives
(2017-01-01)
'Advances in the Analysis of Spanish Exclamatives' is the first book entirely devoted to Spanish exclamatives, a special sentence type often overlooked by contemporary linguists and neglected in standard grammatical ...
Language Endangerment and Language Revitalization
(2006-02-21)
In almost every part of the world, minority languages are being threatened with extinction. At the same time, dedicated efforts are being made to document endangered languages, to maintain them, and even to revive once-extinct ...
Advances in Research Using the C-SPAN Archives
(2016-11-15)
This book is a guide to the latest research using the C-SPAN Archives. In this book, nine authors present original work using the video archives to study presidential debates, public opinion and Congress, analysis of the ...
Self-Publishing and Collection Development
(2015-09-15)
The current publishing environment has experienced a drastic change in the way content is created, delivered, and acquired, particularly for libraries. With the increasing importance of digital publishing, more than half ...
Holocaust Denial
(2012-09-14)
Holocaust Denial: The Politics of Perfidy provides a graphic and compelling global panorama of past and present variations on this toxic phenomenon. The volume examines right and left wing French negationism, post-Communist ...
Encounter with the Plumed Serpent
(2007-04-30)
The Mixtec, or the people of Savi ("Nation of the Rain God"), one of the major civilizations of ancient Mesoamerica, made their home in the highlands of Oaxaca, where they resisted both Aztec military expansion and the ...
Kant's Philosophy of the Unconscious
(2012-04-16)
In the 20th century, the role of the unconscious in Kant`s philosophy has been in great part neglected by Kant scholars. Nevertheless, the unconscious, the other of consciousness, is a key problem of the critical philosophy. ...