Brill apr 2026 (64 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book focuses on the economic and political challenges posed by the simultaneous processes of globalisation and rapid technological change for public management and policy making in the Visegrád countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia). The empirical work, based on 90 i…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of populism, authoritarianism, and hate speech, integrating theoretical debates with empirical case studies. It examines how populist movements can evolve into authoritarian regimes, exploring the manipulation of media and democratic instituti…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - While the role of youth in the Arab Spring is acknowledged, their living conditions remain critical. Johannes Frische offers a fresh perspective on Tunisia's post-revolutionary transition by examining employment and income strategies in disadvantaged urban areas. He reveals a grim reality:…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Over the past decade, interest has developed in social constructivist pedagogies that position students of qualitative research as independent and collaborative meaning makers rather than passive receivers of qualitative information. Grounded by theory originated primarily by Lev Vygotsky (1978)…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book provides a comprehensive analysis of regulatory freedom of States in international law and investigates the interaction of regulatory freedom with treatment standards contained in investment treaties. Regulatory freedom is a rule of customary international law that need not be as…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A Clearing in the Woods introduces a different approach to art education. It complements the often-used justifications for art's role in education based on intrinsic (art for art's sake) or instrumental (art makes you more competent) arguments by adding an existential perspective. Art's natural c…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - How are we to understand the internal dynamics of an Islamic reform movement that calls for nationalist rallies and joins a delegation to meet with the French Prime Minister but denies that it 'does politics' This book analyzes how the Association of Algerian ?Ulama?, founded in 1931 as a league…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - How did courts navigate reform, revolution, warfare, and restoration between 1780 and 1830 Not only does this volume reveal reforming princes, plotting royals, and the careers of household dignitaries; it also examines the political and social roles of women at court and the experiences of regime…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This brutal, vivid poem of war is the first Turkmen historical epic ever translated into English. Abdysetdar Kazy's poem recounts the momentous battles of 1858-1860 between the Turkmens and Iranians, in which the Turkmens triumphed. Along with the lively translation, Jeff Eden puts these pivotal…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Dual Use of Global and Local-Indigenous Mental Health Services: The Middle East Case presents a groundbreaking examination of how individuals and communities in the Middle East navigate and integrate both global mental health systems and local, Indigenous healing practices. Bridging Western psych…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book explores the creative depiction of Palestinian traumas in Palestinian Anglophone novels, examining memory as a trope of resistance against erasure and forgetfulness in the works of Isabella Hammad, Susan Abulhawa, Hala Alyan, and Selma Dabbagh. Moving beyond North American and European…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the figure of the ambassador underwent profound changes. This volume investigates its various aspects, analysing the criteria for choosing the diplomat, the arrival and the long years spent at the host court, as well as the conditions of the return…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - We are at once in a compound crisis and an era of what Cornelius Castoriadis called 'the retreat from autonomy.' It will be necessary to change, quite radically, the social imaginary so as to provoke a new Age of Utopian Dreaming in which the possibility of a better world can once again appear on…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The global ecological crisis is increasingly manifesting itself in different regions of the world, here in East Asia and Europe. It produces multi-situated inequalities on a global scale, drawing new geographical, climatic, social, and moral boundaries in an 'ecological cosmopolitanism.' Democrat…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - How does the pandemic affect the notion of biopolitics Immunity and Contagion offers a twofold perspective on the notion of biopolitics: on the one hand, it examines the negative effects of the pandemic, such as mourning, melancholy, dispossession, affective disorders, as well as social and racia…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - What if India were thought of in the plural Island Indias, Archipelagic Memory reimagines postcolonial cartographies through a poetics of fragments that links islands, coastlines and oceans to decentre India's subcontinental core. A literary critical methodology, drawing on archipelagic theory, i…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The modern era was dominated by conflicts between claims to certainty about justice and denials that certainty is warranted. The purpose of this book is to develop a postmodern alternative to both philosophies, one which is universal without being absolutist. The approach is dialectical in…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Philological Investigations explores topics ranging from the cultural significance of aging in early China to the hallucinogenic properties of plants in ancient Chinese poetry; from historical attempts at identifying the location of a famous tidal bore, to a new translation of a recently- excavat…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In addition to introducing a denotational meaning, utterances often convey an expressive meaning, that provides information about the speaker or the judger. This volume collects original research papers on the semantics and pragmatics of expressive meaning in interaction with speech acts, and on…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This collection features autobiographical essays from UCL IOE students exploring their educational journeys through racial identity. Using frameworks like Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality, the essays reveal how education shapes racial identity across diverse contexts, histories, and exp…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - More often than not, debates around free speech in the early modern period had to do with religious speech and expression. This interdisciplinary volume extends the discussion of free speech to look at the broader concept of free of expression in relation to religious practice and religious belie…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This first comprehensive English-language examination of the Dojunkai Foundation (1924-2024) is a must-read for anyone interested in modern Japanese architecture. The Dojunkai Apartments (1924-1934), the Foundation's best-known work, introduced apartment living to Japan in response to crucial his…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - More than mere labels, medieval titles strongly defined the identities of the persons or groups who bore them. Ontologies of Titles questions modern assumptions that guide how historians frame social titles; it shows that Norse titles often were indifferent to boundaries between individual and co…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Would it be possible to overcome the dualism of universalism and relativism that the story of the Tower of Babel portends, and modernity perpetuates Between the dominant paradigms of the dualism of the classical and the vernacular, of universal grammar of Chomskian bio-linguistics and hermeneutic…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - From Iamblichus to Eriugena was completed almost fifty years ago and, having been in considerable demand but out of print for many years, is here made available once more without substantial alteration. The original book described the metaphysical and theological system of later (post-Plotinian)…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Landscapes are the skin of the Earth: they reflect the environmental and cultural well-being of human communities, especially in an age of climate crisis. Focusing on Peru's Huancavelica region, this book affirms the philosophical value of Andean cosmovision, challenging dominant aesthetic paradi…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book is an attempt to introduce Kojin Karatani and his work to a larger public, placing his reconstruction of Marx at its centre. An expository work that tries to bring out the singularity of Karatani's systematic philosophical-theoretical reading of Marx, it particularly illuminates his vit…