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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 ...