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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. ...
Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace
(2008-03-30)
"This book is clearly written, admirably concise, and well situated in the secondary literature on gender and conservatism and the foreign and domestic Cold War. . . . Brennan's study offers another valuable reminder that ...
Languages From the World of the Bible
(2011-12-19)
The alphabetic script is part of the lasting heritage of the ancient Near East. It unites a number of newly-emerging civilizations in ancient Syria-Palestine, which together constitute the immediate background of the Hebrew ...
Adolescent Psychiatry. A Contemporary Perspective for Health Professionals
(2013)
Psychiatric disorders in adolescents are an important social problem relevant to almost all healthcare professionals. The prevalence of mood, anxiety, substance use and other psychiatric disorders among adolescents is high. ...
Afro-Peruvian Spanish: Spanish slavery and the legacy of Spanish Creoles
(2015)
The present work not only contributes to shedding light on the linguistic and socio-historical origins of Afro-Peruvian Spanish, it also helps clarify the controversial puzzle concerning the genesis of Spanish creoles in ...
Ambivalent Encounters
(2012-12-01)
Jenny Huberman provides an ethnographic study of encounters between western tourists and the children who work as unlicensed peddlers and guides along the riverfront city of Banaras, India. She examines how and why these ...
(In)Appropriate Online Behavior: A pragmatic analysis of message board relations
(2013)
This descriptive and comprehensive study on the discursive struggle over interpersonal relations in online message boards is located at the fascinating interface of pragmatics and computer-mediated discourse – a research ...
Arbeitsmarkt 2030 - Digitalisierung der Arbeitswelt
(2016-09-16)
The analyses and results included in the technical assessment complement the third main study "The German Labour Market in 2030 - Economy and Labour Market in the Digital Age - Forecast 2016" (Original title: Arbeitsmarkt ...
The Lords of Lambityeco
(2009-12-15)
"The definitive volume of this Late Classic site. . . . an important contribution to Oaxaca archaeology and to understanding Monte Alb at its peak and during its demise." Veronica Perez Rodriguez, American Anthropologist
Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City"
(2010-06-15)
"This book brings to light these indigenous intellectuals' dynamic efforts to shape their own social and political status in the Spanish Empire. For the historian of colonial Spanish America or Peru, it provides an enticing ...
Emotional Minds
(2012-07-16)
The thoroughly contemporary question of the relationship between emotion and reason was debated with such complexity by the philosophers of the 17th century that their concepts remain a source of inspiration for today`s ...
Bondage : Labor and Rights in Eurasia from the Sixteenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries
(2014)
For the first time, this book provides the global history of labor in Central Eurasia, Russia, Europe, and the Indian Ocean between the sixteenth and the twentieth centuries. It contests common views on free and unfree ...
Building Europe. A History of European Unification
(2015)
Relying on internal sources, Wilfried Loth analyses the birth and subsequent development of the European Union, from the launch of the Council of Europe and the Schuman Declaration until the Euro crisis and the contested ...
Approaches to World Literature
(2013)
The present volume introduces new considerations on the topic of World Literature, penned by leading representatives of the discipline from the United States, India, Japan, the Middle East, England, France and Germany. The ...
Chomskyan (R)evolutions
(2010)
It is not unusual for contemporary linguists to claim that “Modern Linguistics began in 1957” (with the publication of Noam Chomsky’s Syntactic Structures). Some of the essays in Chomskyan (R)evolutions examine the sources, ...
Christian Martyrdom in Late Antiquity (300-450 AD). History and Discourse, Tradition and Religious Identity
(2012)
The present volume`s focus lies on the formation of a multifaceted discourse on Christian martyrdom in Late Antiquity. While martyrdom accounts remain a central means of defining Christian identity, new literary genres ...
Performing Interpersonal Violence. Court, Curse, and Comedy in Fourth-Century BCE Athens
(2012)
This book offers the first attempt at understanding interpersonal violence in ancient Athens. While the archaic desire for revenge persisted into the classical period, it was channeled by the civil discourse of the democracy. ...
One Hundred Years at the Intersection of Chemistry and Physics. The Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society 1911-2011
(2011)
This volume, occasioned by the centenary of the Fritz Haber Institute, formerly the Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, covers the institute's scientific and institutional history from its founding until ...
The Purpose of the First World War. War Aims and Military Strategies
(2015)
Ten million soldiers died during the First World War. But why, and for what reason? The Great War is widely seen as a pointless carnage (Pope Benedict XV). Was there a point, at least in the eyes of the political and ...
Planar Dynamical Systems. Selected Classical Problems
(2014)
This book presents in an elementary way the recent significant developments in the qualitative theory of planar dynamical systems. The subjects are covered as follows: the studies of center and isochronous center problems, ...
Optimizing the German Workforce : Labor Administration from Bismarck to the Economic Miracle
(2010)
During the twentieth century, German government and industry created a highly skilled workforce as part of an ambitious program to control and develop the country’s human resources. Yet, these long-standing efforts to match ...