Brill apr 2026 (70 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 interviews and close cooperation with experts in the field, has provided valuable insights into the social consequences of the technological revolution, technical revolution, technical upgrading and economic development, public services, data management, communication and disinformation, coordination within the public sector and with private entities in the management of data and intellectual property. The research reveals a set of complex political economies with a high degree of political inertia characteristic of semi-peripheral countries, combined with various attempts to actively shape the technological flow.…

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 institutions. The book includes global case studies, such as Turkey, Hungary, and Brazil, highlighting the role of media in spreading propaganda and hate speech. It also addresses the methodological challenges of studying these phenomena and emphasizes the need for multidisciplinary approaches. The book serves as a valuable resource for academics, policymakers, and activists confronting the rise of populism and authoritarianism.…

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: young people face structural unemployment, informality, and precariousness. Focusing on the low-income suburb of Ettadhamen in Greater Tunis, he highlights the impact of sociospatial segregation, economic stagnation, and social marginalization. This close-up on youth's everyday life challenges the notion of youth as a simple transitional phase, instead exposing their ongoing struggle with precarity and exclusion.…

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 asserted solely based on treaty provisions. The requirements of regulatory freedom: bona fide, public interest and non-discrimination once cumulatively met do not overlap with treatment standards, thus excluding the possibility of a State being found responsible for breach of investment treaties.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - C.A. Storey's Persian Literature: A Bio-Bibliographical Survey is the most authoritative reference work on the Persian written tradition, offering the names of authors and the titles of those of their works that have survived in the Persian language. Storey's work is for the Persian manuscript tradition what Brockelmann's is for the Arab world.…

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - C.A. Storey's Persian Literature: A Bio-Bibliographical Survey is the most authoritative reference work on the Persian written tradition, offering the names of authors and the titles of those of their works that have survived in the Persian language. Storey's work is for the Persian manuscript tradition what Brockelmann's is for the Arab world.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - C.A. Storey's Persian Literature: A Bio-Bibliographical Survey is the most authoritative reference work on the Persian written tradition, offering the names of authors and the titles of those of their works that have survived in the Persian language. Storey's work is for the Persian manuscript tradition what Brockelmann's is for the Arab world.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - C.A. Storey's Persian Literature: A Bio-Bibliographical Survey is the most authoritative reference work on the Persian written tradition, offering the names of authors and the titles of those of their works that have survived in the Persian language. Storey's work is for the Persian manuscript tradition what Brockelmann's is for the Arab world.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - C.A. Storey's Persian Literature: A Bio-Bibliographical Survey is the most authoritative reference work on the Persian written tradition, offering the names of authors and the titles of those of their works that have survived in the Persian language. Storey's work is for the Persian manuscript tradition what Brockelmann's is for the Arab world.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - C.A. Storey's Persian Literature: A Bio-Bibliographical Survey is the most authoritative reference work on the Persian written tradition, offering the names of authors and the titles of those of their works that have survived in the Persian language. Storey's work is for the Persian manuscript tradition what Brockelmann's is for the Arab world.…

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 of Muslim scholars, addressed the peculiar situation of French laïcité in colonial Algeria and competed with Algeria's revolutionary nationalists. It also highlights the financial basis and the grassroots organizations of the movement, from which it brought about a 'passive' revolution against the colonial social order.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Korean test-prep academies (hagwons) embody a distinct culture of achievement, combining Eastern values and rugged American individualism in the age of optimization. The students in this study share their experiences navigating college admissions within this complex, and demanding landscape. …

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 change and exile. Reconsidering the history of monarchy and the court in the early nineteenth century, Courts and Politics in an Age of Turmoil broadens the definition of politics to include court sociability and women. It concludes that historians of the nineteenth century can no longer take for granted the political marginalization of the court. Contributors include Nigel Aston, Jeroen Duindam, Kristine Dyrmann, Mikolaj Getka-Kenig, William D. Godsey, Vincent Haegele, Philip Mansel, Heidi Mehrkens, Fabian Persson, Quinten Somsen, Thibaut Trétout, Damien Tricoire, Charles-Eloi Vial, and Joost Welten.…

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 battles in context with an introduction using rare eyewitness sources in Persian, Turkic, Russian, and French. Revered as a classic in Turkmenistan today, the Jangnama is essential (and often delightful) reading for the history of Central Asia and Iran in the nineteenth century. …

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 psychiatric models with culturally rooted approaches, the book highlights the importance of contextually relevant care in addressing mental health needs. Through research and case studies, it provides critical insights for social work and mental health professionals, emphasizing the need for culturally competent service models. This work significantly contributes to reshaping mental health policy and practice in multicultural and Indigenous contexts.…

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 models of trauma and remembrance, it extends the analysis of trauma tropes to literature from the Global South. In the context of a Palestinian archival history that has been systematically destroyed to obscure the brutal realities of settler colonialism, popular memory and testimonial forms--including literature--emerge as adversarial strategies that counter the politics of memoricide and historical erasure.…

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 the horizon. Utopian Dreams against the Grain lays out the capitalist social imaginary, the utopian task at hand, the utopian dream's background in literary thought, and - in the conclusion - a practical discussion of climate change and of how transformative thinking can help mitigate the situation to come.…

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 home. In the context of the significant growth of circulating information, the procedures for creating embassy archives are also considered. Attention is paid to the networks of relations, influenced by polycentrism in the decision-making processes, to the cultural implications, connected to the forms of diplomatic sociability, to the rapid and sometimes frenetic turnover of individuals entrusted with portions of diplomatic agency: secretaries, agents, men of letters, sometimes women. By offering an innovative analysis of the relationship between diplomatic treatises, forms of the political and practical sources on the ambassador, this volume critically reflects on some pivotal themes in the history of European diplomacy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.…

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.' Democratic and authoritarian governments put in place biopolitical apparatuses for societal reinvention. Individuals develop social, economic and emotional capabilities for survival, recovery, and mobilization in the post-disaster process. In Western Europe, environmental and disaster sociology has been built around a Western way of thinking about the relationship between risks, disaster, and modernity. Japanese and Chinese sociologists/anthropologists highlighted non-Western approaches to disasters. This book is a contribution to the post-Western sociology in a cross-pollinization process where 'Western' and 'non-Western' knowledge about disaster do interact, articulated through cosmovisions to move towards dialogical between East Asia and Europe.…

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, island studies, and transoceanic memory work, reveals littoral and island geographies as dynamic and porous sites of creolised cultural memory that unsettle fixed notions of nation, home, and history. Island Indias invites you to navigate a fluid world assembled across discontinuous shores, where memory drifts, ruptures, and resurfaces to make fragmentation a method of world-making. Contributors are: Rosa Beunel-Fogarty, Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Farha Noor, Nikhita Obeegadoo, Shazia Rahman, Luca Raimondi, and Sandrine Soukaï. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Aftershocks of Extraction explores the history of Groningen gas--a discovery once celebrated as the Netherlands' treasure but now recognized as a source of profound social and ecological damage. How can the history of Groningen gas help us make sense of the Anthropocene What can it tell us about the persistence of fossil fuels And how does fossil fuel extraction impact local communities in the global North Through personal narratives and research from different disciplines, this pioneering volume answers these questions by examining Groningen's experience with gas extraction, exposing earthquakes, damaged homes, and fractured communities. The volume innovatively bridges scholarly analysis with firsthand accounts from those affected. By connecting Groningen's local story to global histories of energy, empire, and climate change, it offers essential insights for understanding our Anthropocene moment and imagining more just energy futures--making this required reading for anyone concerned about environmental justice and climate crisis.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In this book, Martin Vacek advances a bold metaphysical thesis: that an explosive divine being exists. This provocative work invites readers to engage with radical ideas at the intersection of theology and philosophy.

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 the way that these two domains are encoded in syntax. By covering a broad variety of well-known and new expressive phenomena -including non-lexical datives, tense, modality, expletive negation, minimizers, conditionals, or mood- the contributions uncover the pervasive presence of expressive meaning across speech acts, while providing new insight into the old and new issues at the semantics-pragmatics interface.…

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 racial inequalities; on the other hand, it reveals the need to redefine biopolitics as a positive attempt to survey, govern, and overcome the crisis. The pandemic encourages us to reformulate biopolitics in positive terms so that it would take into account all forms of human, biological, and geological life and becomes capable of operating on a planetary scale.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This work explores the ambivalent and often troublesome relationship that Jews and Christians had in the Middle Ages, focusing specifically on scriptural exegesis. While the shared scriptural tradition of Jews and Christians could lead to mutual understanding and rapprochement, it also inspired sharp polemic on the 'right' interpretation of those same Scriptures. Even the exact text of those shared Scriptures was hard to agree on. The essays in this volume show that the meaning of Scripture is not self-evident; it is created within a faith community. The result was a lively discussion on the meaning of Scripture between Jews and Christians. Sharp polemic and cross-fertilization occurred simultaneously. The essays in this volume will add new details and perspectives to the rich tradition of scholarship on this topic, and, in some cases, will even challenge its parameters. Contributors are Deeana Copeland Klepper, Robert A. Harris, Franklin T. Harkins, Görge Hasselhoff, Johannes Heil, Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski, Christopher Ocker, Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, Devorah Schoenfeld, Boyd Taylor Coolman, and Frans van Liere.…

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 historical and social challenges such as urban reconstruction after the devastating earthquake of 1923 and the emergence of new working and middle classes. The book's texts, by prominent scholars and architects, as well as a series of original drawings and photographs from the period, bring the work of the Dojunkai Foundation back to life 100 years after its founding. While the Dojunkai Apartments have unfortunately been lost in the rapid changes and greedy redevelopment typical of Japanese metropolises, this book seeks to contribute to the preservation of their memory and their significance.…

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- excavated debate between tea and wine. In each case, the authors attempt to use philological methods of reading and interpretation to recover original meanings and implications in Chinese sources. The twelve chapters collectively illustrate how modern scholarship on Chinese culture continues to engage with the methods of premodern philology from both Europe and China.…

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 belief in early modern Europe. It includes exploration of actual speech and freedom of press, but also moves beyond this to look at in practice, theory, and writing. Chapters span a wide range of geographical and linguistic contexts, including the Netherlands, Italy, England, Switzerland, and Poland. Authors provide essays sharing insights from different scholarly fields including church history, intellectual history, cultural studies, history of the press, literary studies, theology, philosophy, and art history. Ultimately, the case studies explored here shed light on both freedom and its curtailment as this relates to religious experience from the post-Reformation times up to the early enlightenment period. Contributors to this volume: Markus Bardenheuer, Wouter Kreuze, Timothy G. Fehler and Amelia Spell, Jakub Basista, Marius van Hoogstraten, Jan Kvetina, Gary K. Waite, Martin van Gelderen, Vincenzo Lavenia, William Cook Miller, Nigel Smith, Erica Heinsen-Roach, Vera J. Camden, and Freya Sierhuis.…

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 common, person and office. Drawing on a wide range of sources, the book explores how titles were shaped by political practice, textual production, and the conflicting aprioris governing the categorization of beings. It demonstrates how social titles alternated between signaling inherent personal qualities and abstract categories, thus revealing how language operated across multiple ontological registers in structuring social order. (The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation.).…