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Performing Interpersonal Violence Court, Curse, and Comedy in Fourth-Century BCE Athens
(2012-01-16)
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. ...
Languages of Science in the Eighteenth Century
(2011-10-17)
The eighteenth century is an important period both in the history of science and in the history of languages. In this volume, seventeen authors explore, from a variety of angles, the construction of a scientific language ...
Genocide as Social Practice
(2014-05-14)
Genocide not only annihilates people but also destroys and reorganizes social relations, using terror as a method. In Genocide as Social Practice, Argentinean social scientist Daniel Feierstein looks at the policies of ...
Childhood in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
(2005-07-18)
Although many researchers have taken a critical stance towards the theses on the history of childhood developed by Philippe Ariès in 1960, this volume is the first comprehensive collection of studies with a psychological ...
Embracing Watershed Politics
(2008-06-30)
In Embracing Watershed Politics, political scientists Edella Schlager and William Blomquist provide timely illustrations and thought-provoking explanations of why political considerations are essential, unavoidable, and ...
Health, Rights and Dignity
(2010-12-09)
The idea that there is such a thing as a human right to health has become pervasive. It has not only been acknowledged by a variety of international law documents and thus entered the political realm but is also defended ...
Why are women entrepreneurs missing out on funding?
(2020)
The study assesses the access-to-risk-capital conditions for women-driven companies in Europe in comparison to the US and Israel to contextualise emergent cross-country and regional barriers and gaps. The study finds that ...
Writing Beloveds
(2016-11-21)
Writing Beloveds considers the way in which a poetic convention, the 'beloved' to whom Renaissance amatory poetry was addressed, becomes influential political rhetoric, an instrument that both men and women used to shape ...
Architects of Buddhist Leisure
(2016-11-30)
Buddhism, often described as an austere religion that condemns desire, promotes denial, and idealizes the contemplative life, actually has a thriving leisure culture in Asia. Justin McDaniel looks at the growth of Asia’s ...
After Confucius
(2005-01-31)
After Confucius is a collection of eight studies of Chinese philosophy from the time of Confucius to the formation of the empire in the second and third centuries B.C.E. As detailed in a masterful introduction, each essay ...
Stockholm
(2019)
Once upon a time there was a city in a cold place a long way to the north. One day the city started to tell a story about itself. As the chapters unfolded, life in the city changed, and soon it didn’t even seem so cold or ...
Corporate Memory
(2005-05-20)
Corporate memory' is the body of information that an organization needs to keep for re-use. It is the active and historical information that an organization has that is worth sharing, managing and preserving to enable it ...
Challenging Communion
(2017-01-01)
In this book, Jennifer Garrison examines literary representations of the central symbol of later medieval religious culture: the Eucharist. In contrast to scholarship that depicts mainstream believers as enthusiastically ...
Oberwalliser Orts- und Flurnamenbuch
(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 ...
Verbindende Mechanismen
(2024)
Interdisziplinäre Forschung ist anspruchsvoll, aber oft der erfolgversprechendste Weg zur Lösung wissenschaftlicher Probleme. Diese Überzeugung setzte sich in den 1920er- und 1930er-Jahren zunehmend durch. Wie kamen ...
Anerkennung ausländischer Berufsabschlüsse
(2024)
Wie viel Potenzial steckt in der Anerkennung im Ausland erworbener pädagogischer Qualifikationen zur Linderung des Fachkräftemangels in der Frühen Bildung? Dieser zentralen Frage geht die ...
150 Jahre Kunstgeschichte an der Universität Gießen
(2024)
Im Jahr 1874 wurde für Hugo von Ritgen an der Gießener Universität eine Professur für Kunstgeschichte eingerichtet. Die Großherzoglich-Hessische Landesuniversität zeigte sich damit trendbewusst und war einer der frühesten ...
Motivation und Verbindlichkeit bei gering literalisierten Erwachsenen
(2025)
Das Forschungsprojekt MOVE untersucht, wie Erwachsene mit Alphabetisierungs- und Grundbildungsbedarf motiviert und zu einer verbindlichen Teilnahme an Lernangeboten bewegt werden können. Es beleuchtet die Mechanismen ...
Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China
(2018)
This volume features new work on cinema in early twentieth-century Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China. Looking beyond relatively well-studied cities like Shanghai, these essays foreground cinema's relationship with ...
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 ...
Mind the Gender Gap
(2024)
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. Drawing on women’s lived experiences, Mind the Gender Gap offers an original approach to looking ...
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 ...