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Survival under Dictatorships
(2023)
A complex array of individual responses to the abuse of power by the state is represented in this book in three horrific episodes in the history of East-Central Europe. The three events followed each other within a span ...
Oberwalliser Orts- und Flurnamenbuch (VSNB)
(2024)
Das Besondere an den Oberwalliser Orts- und Flurnamen ist ihr relativ spätes Auftreten. Während die deutsche Schweiz im Wesentlichen seit dem 5. Jahrhundert langsam alemannisiert wurde, war das Oberwallis noch eine ...
Oberwalliser Orts- und Flurnamenbuch (VSNB)
(2024)
Das Besondere an den Oberwalliser Orts- und Flurnamen ist ihr relativ spätes Auftreten. Während die deutsche Schweiz im Wesentlichen seit dem 5. Jahrhundert langsam alemannisiert wurde, war das Oberwallis noch eine ...
Wortlernen mit sozialen Robotern
(2024)
Die Forschung zum kindlichen Wortlernen hat in den letzten Jahren aufgezeigt, dass der Erwerb eines neuen Wortes durch Prozessualität gekennzeichnet ist. Ein aktuelles Forschungsinteresse richtet sich in diesem Zusammenhang ...
Resettled Iraqi Refugees in the United States
(2023)
The American war against Iraq has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths and displaced millions of people. Between 20 March 2003 and 30 September 2017, more than 172,000 Iraqis resettled in the United States. This book ...
Carnival in Tel Aviv
(2014)
The Tel Aviv annual Purim celebrations were the largest public events in British Palestine, and they played a key role in the development of the urban Jewish experience in the Promised Land. Carnival in Tel-Aviv presents ...
Terrorism and the Pandemic
(2023)
The global pandemic has offered extraordinary opportunities for extremists and terrorists to mobilize themselves and revive as more powerful actors in the security landscape. But could these threat groups actually capitalize ...
One Hundred Years of the ANC
(2012)
On 8 January 2012 the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa, the oldest African nationalist organisation on the continent, celebrated its one hundredth anniversary. This historic event has generated significant ...
After 9/11: Leading Political Thinkers about the World, the U.S. and Themselves
(2011)
After 9/11 presents 17 interviews with America´s leading political thinkers. Renowned experts such as Zbigniew Brzezinski, Francis Fukuyama, and Noam Chomsky discuss the nation’s foreign policy in the post-9/11 world. Yet, ...
The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis
(2015)
The Anthropocene, in which humankind has become a geological force, is a major scientific proposal; but it also means that the conceptions of the natural and social worlds on which sociology, political science, history, ...
Topographies of Tolerance and Intolerance
(2018)
"Topographies of Tolerance and Intolerance challenges the narrative of a simple progression of tolerance and the establishment of confessional identity during the early modern period. These essays explore the lived experiences ...
EIB Working Paper 2023/01 - Advanced digital technologies and investment in employee training
(2023)
The use of advanced digital technologies such as 3D printing, advanced robotics, drones, big data analytics and artificial intelligence is spreading. These technologies have uncertain implications for labour demand. Affected ...
Japanese Tea Culture
(2023)
Why is the tea-room entrance, or nijiriguchi, so narrow? How did the practice of “passing the bowl,” or mawashinomi, come about? And what hidden meaning lies behind the ritual purification of hands and mouth, or chōzu? ...
CPC Futures
(2022)
What will the upcoming 20th Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) bring, and what will the next decade of CPC rule look like? Who will rule China and what future do they envision for the Party and China? In this ...
Policy and Practice in Rural Tanzania
(2022)
Who are the rural people of Africa? What does it mean to be part of a ‘rural’ community in contemporary Tanzania? And why is it important to debate questions of African rurality beyond the mere GDP contribution of rural ...
Beyond the Veil
(2024)
Across cultures and epochs, curtains have influenced human perception, directing attention and framing transitions between spheres. They simultaneously conceal and reveal, captivating the viewers' imagination and desire. ...
Redefining the Political
(2024)
Redefining the Political documents the political life of a community of Black women living below the poverty line. Alex Moffett-Bateau spent a year interviewing residents of a public housing development on the far South ...
Redefining the Political
(2024)
Redefining the Political documents the political life of a community of Black women living below the poverty line. Alex Moffett-Bateau spent a year interviewing residents of a public housing development on the far South ...
Volkshochschul-Statistik
(2024)
Die Statistik der deutschen Volkshochschulen wird seit 1962 jährlich vom DIE erstellt. Im Berichtsjahr 2023 liegen bei einer Ausschöpfungsquote von rund 98 Prozent Daten für 822 der deutschen Volkshochschulen vor. Die ...
Black Women Navigating the Doctoral Journey
(2023)
With the increasing focus on the critical importance of mentoring in advancing Black women students from graduation to careers in academia, this book identifies and considers the peer mentoring contexts and conditions that ...
Public Health Humanitarian Responses to Natural Disasters
(2017)
The pressure of climate change, environmental degradation, and urbanisation, as well as the widening of socio- economic disparities have rendered the global population increasingly vulnerable to the impact of natural ...
Museums for Peace
(2023)
Museums for Peace: In Search of History, Memory and Change highlights the inspiring as well as conflicting representations and purposes of diverse museums for peace around the world. Coming from various cultural and ...
Die Kirchen der Stadt Rom im Mittelalter 1050–1300. Bd. 5
(2025)
Die drei bedeutendsten Marienkirchen Roms stehen im Mittelpunkt des fünften Bandes des Corpus Die Kirchen der Stadt Rom im Mittelalter 1050–1300. Santa Maria Maggiore auf dem Hügel Esquilin ist die Älteste und ...
Digitale Prüfungsszenarien in der Hochschule
(2024)
Wie Prüfungen und Prüfungsszenarien an Hochschulen innovativ und digital gestaltet werden können, steht im Fokus dieses Sammelbandes. Die Beiträge stellen Ergebnisse des Projekts ...
Cultural Models of Nature
(2019)
Drawing on the ethnographic experience of the contributors, this volume explores the Cultural Models of Nature found in a range of food-producing communities located in climate-change affected areas. These Cultural Models ...
Counterspeech
(2023)
This volume looks at the forms and functions of counterspeech as well as what determines its effectiveness and success from multidisciplinary perspectives. Counterspeech is in line with international human rights and freedom ...
The Nuremberg Trials: International Criminal Law Since 1945
(2006-08-08)
60 years after the trials of the main German war criminals, the articles in this book attempt to assess the Nuremberg Trials from a historical and legal point of view, and to illustrate connections, contradictions and ...
The Constitution of Consciousness
(2005)
Through the work of philosophers like Sellars, Davidson, and McDowell, the question of how the mind is related to the world has gained new importance in contemporary analytic philosophy. This book demonstrates that Husserl's ...
Educating for Peace through Countering Violence
(2023)
This book advances knowledge about the implementation of peace and non-violence strategies in education that counter violence. Addressing both hidden and direct violence, it examines the harm to wellbeing and learning ...
Living with Health Inequalities
(2023)
This book explores how people encounter, understand, live with and respond to health risks associated with social, economic and political inequality. Complementing a traditional public health approach, the book moves beyond ...
Indigenous Invisibility in the City
(2020)
Indigenous Invisibility in the City contextualises the significant social change in Indigenous life circumstances and resurgence that came out of social movements in cities. It is about Indigenous resurgence and community ...
With a Pure Conscience
(2025)
Offers new perspectives on freedom of conscience and religious liberty by tracing their origins to the Middle Ages, thereby challenging the common assumption that these core tenets of modernity were products of the ...
Women Under Suspicion
(2025)
Officially, women in the Soviet Union enjoyed a degree of equality unknown elsewhere in Allied countries at the time. However, long-standing norms of gendered behavior and stereotypes that cast women as morally weak, ...
Neerlandistiek in Europa
(2010)
De wetenschappelijke beoefening van de neerlandistiek heeft ook buiten het Nederlandse taalgebied een lange geschiedenis. In sommige landen waren er al in de eerste helft van de negentiende eeuw taal- en letterkundigen die ...
Afterimages of Apartheid
(2025)
Afterimages of Apartheid shows how photographs of the past can be mobilised as a critical tool for understanding the ongoing effects of apartheid in contemporary South Africa. Through close readings of significant images ...
Centres and Cycles of Accumulation in and Around the Netherlands during the Early Modern Period
(2011)
The Netherlands housed a number of widely known, envied and emulated centres of accumulation during the early-modern period. Raw and manufactured goods passed through Dutch port cities, linking the country to global cycles ...
The Location of Experience
(2024)
We tend to feel that works of fiction give us special access to lived experience. But how do novels cultivate that feeling? Where exactly does experience reside?The Location of Experience argues that, paradoxically, novels ...
„Unserm grossen Bekker ein Denkmal“?
(2009)
In den deutschen Landen wurde noch das ganze 18. Jahrhundert hindurch die Wirkungsmacht von Teufel und Dämonen heftig diskutiert. Gegner der Hexenverfolgungen und Kritiker einiger Aufsehen erregender Fälle von Exorzismus ...
Antiblackness and Global Health
(2024)
Antiblackness and Global Health offers a major new account of the 2014-2016 West African Ebola crisis and a radical perspective on the racial politics of global health. Lioba Hirsch traces the legacies of colonialism across ...
Garbarge Citizenship
(2018)
Over the last twenty-five years, garbage infrastructure in Dakar, Senegal, has taken center stage in struggles over government, the value of labor, and the dignity of the working poor. Through strikes and public dumping, ...
Die Devotio moderna in Deventer
(2007)
Die Devotio moderna als semireligiose wie monastische Kirchenreformbewegung breitete sich seit dem späten vierzehnten Jahrhundert über ganz Mitteleuropa aus. Aber wie funktionierte sie in ihrem Nukleus Deventer en détail? ...
Who Are My People?
(2022)
Who Are My People? explores the complex relationship between identity, violence, and Christianity in Africa.In Who Are My People?, Emmanuel Katongole examines what it means to be both an African and a Christian in a continent ...
Wild and Wonderful
(2025)
In Wild and Wonderful, social anthropologist Vanessa Manceron investigates an understudied but indispensable scientific practice: getting to know and recognize the living worlds around us. Her research takes her to England, ...
Excavations At Sidi Khrebish Benghazi (Berenice) Volume III, Part 1
(1985)
The Fine Pottery (P. M. Kenrick) includes a detailed type series of the forms recorded in some 38 major categories of fine ware, spanning a period from the third century B.C. to the seventh century A.D. (more than 800 ...
Translating Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries
(2013)
Knowledge of nature may be common to all of humanity, yet it is written in many tongues. The story of the Tower of Babel is not only an etiology of the multitude of languages, it also suggests that a "confusion of tongues" ...
On Earth as in Heaven
(2025)
Over the past two decades, the world has witnessed alarming environmental degradation—climate change, the loss of biodiversity, and the pollution of natural resources—together with a failure to implement environmental ...
Legitimating Nationalism
(2024)
Russia is a large, diverse, and complicated country whose far-flung regions maintain their own histories and cultures, even as President Vladimir Putin increases his political control. Powerful, autocratic regimes still ...
Violence against women’s health in international law
(2020)
Violence against women is characterised by its universality, the multiplicity of its forms, and the intersectionality of diverse kinds of discrimination against women. Great emphasis in legal analysis has been placed on ...
The Geopolitics of Green Colonialism
(2024)
The time for denial is over. Across the Global North, the question of how we should respond to the climate crisis has been answered: with a shift to renewables, electric cars, carbon trading and hydrogen. Green New Deals ...
The Elementary Forms of Corruption
(2025)
Seeks to better understand the nature of corruption through a case study of a rural Brazilian community’s response to the country’s political fraud. The Elementary Forms of Corruption is an ethnographic history of rural ...
Becoming Somebody Else
(2025)
A study of homelessness and addiction exploring the void of drug-induced blackout and its impact on identity and time. What does it mean to exist outside the normative temporality of life, of housed living, and, ultimately, ...
Everyday Sustainability
(2017)
Honorable Mention, 2019 Michelle Z. Rosaldo Prize presented by the Association for Feminist AnthropologyWinner of the 2018 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize presented by the National Women's Studies AssociationWinner of the ...
Making Things Happen
(2022)
Drawing on the Pakistan Earthquake Reconstruction and Recovery Project (PERRP), this volume explores the sociocultural side of post-disaster infrastructure reconstruction. As the latter is often fraught with delays and ...
The International Monetary Fund and Latin America
(2012)
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has played a critical role in the global economy since the postwar era. But, claims Claudia Kedar, behind the strictly economic aspects of the IMF’s intervention, there are influential ...
Multi Agent Systems
(2020)
Research on multi-agent systems is enlarging our future technical capabilities as humans and as an intelligent society. During recent years many effective applications have been implemented and are part of our daily life. ...
Engine of modernity
(2020)
Engine of Modernity: The Omnibus and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris examines the connection between public transportation and popular culture in nineteenth-century Paris through a focus on the omnibus - a ...
Ghirza A Libyan Settlement in the Roman Period
(1984)
This volume reports one of the most important sites in the Tripolitanian hinterland. It contains detailed studies of the many buildings of the settlement (including a pagan temple) and its cemeteries. Particular attention ...
Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages
(2024)
The approximately 500 Bantu languages spoken across vast areas of Central, Eastern and Southern Africa are united by the presence of a number of broad typological similarities, including, for example, complex noun class ...
The Social, Cultural and Environmental Costs of Hyper-Connectivity
(2021)
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online.↵This book seeks broader critical engagement with the design, development and adoption processes ...
Imacoqwa’s Arrow
(2025)
A pathbreaking study of Yagwoia cosmological concepts. In Imacoqwa’s Arrow, Jadran Mimica draws on decades of field research to bring us a rich ethnographic account of myth and meaning in the lifeworlds of the Yagwoia of ...
L2 Spanish and Italian intonation
(2023)
The main aim of this book is to contribute to our understanding of the acquisition of second language intonation, by comparing Czech learners of Spanish with German learners of Spanish and Czech learners of Italian. By ...
Aging Experiments
(2023)
The sustained expansion of the life span and the attendant demographic changes in the West have fuelled the production of cultural texts that explore alternative representations of aging and old age. The contributors to ...
Fragile World
(2018)
In Fragile World: Ecology and the Church, scholars and activists from Christian communities as far-flung as Honduras, the Philippines, Colombia, and Kenya present a global angle on the global ecological crisis—in both its ...
African Ecological Ethics and Spirituality for Cosmic Flourishing
(2022)
This is the definitive African text on ecological ethics, African environmental spirituality, a theology of creation, and climate justice. The contributors to this important volume explore the common threats facing this ...
Diversity and Dominion
(2010)
This book records a set of dialogues between scientists, theologians, and philosophers on what can be done to prevent a global slide into ecological collapse. It is a uniquely multidisciplinary book that exemplifies the ...
Transgression in the Architectures of After-Modernity
(2025)
Transgressive acts in architecture as responses to today’s ecological, political, economic, and social crises.
In architecture, transgressive acts have always been a reality, in spite of rules and canons that have ...
The Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States as a Constitutional Court
(2019)
One of the major innovations made by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is the unequivocal granting of a supranational role to the Court of Justice of the organisation. However, its human rights mandate ...
Del este de Europa al sur de América : migraciones soviéticas y postsoviéticas a la ciudad de Bucaramanga, Santander
(2015)
El objetivo principal de esta obra es reconstruir los procesos migratorios que llevaron a los migrantes de la ex Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas, a residir en Bucaramanga (Colombia). Así mismo, se indaga sobre ...