brill dez 2020 (109 risultati)

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Die Seeschlacht von Tsushima brachte die Entscheidung im Russisch-Japanischen Krieg von 1904/05. Sie hatte einen prägenden Einfluss auf die Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Dieses Buch schildert nicht nur die Hintergründe und den Verlauf der Schlacht, sondern auch, wie die Ereignisse in Ostasien die Weltgeschichte mitbestimmten. Denn der Erste Weltkrieg, die Russische Revolution und sogar Pearl Harbor wurden von den Lehren und Erfahrungen, die sich an Tsushima knüpften, beeinflusst.Der Sieg, den der japanische Admiral Togo in der Koreastraße über das russische Geschwader unter Admiral Rozestvenskij errang, stellte die Weichen für das Ende des Russisch-Japanischen Krieges. Japans Aufstieg zur Großmacht im Pazifikraum nahm seinen Anfang. Das bereits marode Zarenreich hingegen glitt in eine Epoche der Unruhen und Revolutionen. Dass die modern ausgerüsteten und effizient geführten japanischen Streitkräfte der Großmacht Russland eine empfindliche Niederlage beibringen konnten, wurde weltweit von der Öffentlichkeit und den Militärs mit Erstaunen wahrgenommen. Konnte es sein, dass kluge Planung, neueste Militärtechnik und schnelle Mobilisierung den sicheren Sieg über einen an Material und Personal überlegenen Gegner bedeuteten 220 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - When looking at the early modern period (c. 1500-c. 1800), we often speak of 'the military' or 'the army'. But what exactly do we mean when using these terms The forms and structures of the armed forces have not only changed between 1500 and 1800, but also varied throughout different regions of the world and even within Europe. The contributors to this volume examine twelve early modern examples of armed forces in the Holy Roman Empire, Western and Eastern Europe, Eastern Asia and North America and paint a multifarious and even disparate picture during this period. The findings suggest that modern notions of the armed forces common in the early modern period should be used more prudently to avoid prevalent implications of non-existing continuity and uniformity.; When looking at the early modern period (c. 1500-c. 1800), we often speak of 'the military' or 'the army'. But what exactly do we mean when using these terms The forms and structures of the armed forces have not only changed between 1500 and 1800, but also varied throughout different regions of the world and even within Europe. The contributors to this volume examine twelve early modern examples of armed forces in the Holy Roman Empire, Western and Eastern Europe, Eastern Asia and North America and paint a multifarious and even disparate picture during this period. The findings suggest that modern notions of the armed forces common in the early modern period should be used more prudently to avoid prevalent implications of non-existing continuity and uniformity.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Die Seeschlacht von Tsushima brachte die Entscheidung im Russisch-Japanischen Krieg von 1904/05. Sie hatte einen prägenden Einfluss auf die Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Dieses Buch schildert nicht nur die Hintergründe und den Verlauf der Schlacht, sondern auch, wie die Ereignisse in Ostasien die Weltgeschichte mitbestimmten. Denn der Erste Weltkrieg, die Russische Revolution und sogar Pearl Harbor wurden von den Lehren und Erfahrungen, die sich an Tsushima knüpften, beeinflusst.Der Sieg, den der japanische Admiral Togo in der Koreastraße über das russische Geschwader unter Admiral Rozestvenskij errang, stellte die Weichen für das Ende des Russisch-Japanischen Krieges. Japans Aufstieg zur Großmacht im Pazifikraum nahm seinen Anfang. Das bereits marode Zarenreich hingegen glitt in eine Epoche der Unruhen und Revolutionen. Dass die modern ausgerüsteten und effizient geführten japanischen Streitkräfte der Großmacht Russland eine empfindliche Niederlage beibringen konnten, wurde weltweit von der Öffentlichkeit und den Militärs mit Erstaunen wahrgenommen. Konnte es sein, dass kluge Planung, neueste Militärtechnik und schnelle Mobilisierung den sicheren Sieg über einen an Material und Personal überlegenen Gegner bedeuteten 220 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Die drei Schlachten um den Monte Cassino südlich von Rom tobten von Januar bis Mai 1944. Am 18. Mai 1944 war das Ringen um den Monte Cassino für die Wehrmacht verloren. Die Alliierten hatten den umkämpften 'Wellenbrecher Cassino', wie ihn die deutsche Propaganda nannte, nach knapp einem halben Jahr schwerer Kämpfe eingenommen. Nun drangen sie auf Rom vor. Die nationalsozialistische Propaganda agierte jedoch so geschickt und nachhaltig, dass viele Deutsche bis auf den heutigen Tag mit dem Namen 'Monte Cassino' in erster Linie einen letzten deutschen Abwehrsieg und keine Niederlage verbinden. Insbesondere das Bild unbesiegter deutscher Fallschirmjäger hat sich dabei in den Köpfen festgesetzt. Sogar die wissenschaftliche Literatur übernahm dieses Narrativ.Magnus Pahl analysiert in seinem Buch die Inhalte der deutschen Propaganda. Er wirft den Blick ebenso auf die multinationalen Streitkräfte der Alliierten, unter denen das neuseeländische wie auch das polnische Kontingent eine besondere Rolle spielten. Monte Cassino ist auf seine Weise ein europäischer, ja ein globaler Erinnerungsort des Zweiten Weltkriegs. In diesem Sinne ist dem Band ein Geleitwort des polnischen Militärhistorikers Zbigniew Wawer beigegeben. 331 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Die drei Schlachten um den Monte Cassino südlich von Rom tobten von Januar bis Mai 1944. Am 18. Mai 1944 war das Ringen um den Monte Cassino für die Wehrmacht verloren. Die Alliierten hatten den umkämpften 'Wellenbrecher Cassino', wie ihn die deutsche Propaganda nannte, nach knapp einem halben Jahr schwerer Kämpfe eingenommen. Nun drangen sie auf Rom vor. Die nationalsozialistische Propaganda agierte jedoch so geschickt und nachhaltig, dass viele Deutsche bis auf den heutigen Tag mit dem Namen 'Monte Cassino' in erster Linie einen letzten deutschen Abwehrsieg und keine Niederlage verbinden. Insbesondere das Bild unbesiegter deutscher Fallschirmjäger hat sich dabei in den Köpfen festgesetzt. Sogar die wissenschaftliche Literatur übernahm dieses Narrativ.Magnus Pahl analysiert in seinem Buch die Inhalte der deutschen Propaganda. Er wirft den Blick ebenso auf die multinationalen Streitkräfte der Alliierten, unter denen das neuseeländische wie auch das polnische Kontingent eine besondere Rolle spielten. Monte Cassino ist auf seine Weise ein europäischer, ja ein globaler Erinnerungsort des Zweiten Weltkriegs. In diesem Sinne ist dem Band ein Geleitwort des polnischen Militärhistorikers Zbigniew Wawer beigegeben. 331 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Religion and Education: The Forgotten Dimensions of Religious Education explores fundamental questions about the role of religion and education in contemporary religious education. Drawing from a range of educational and religious traditions and perspectives, it investigates the future of religious education for all.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Die Seeschlacht von Tsushima brachte die Entscheidung im Russisch-Japanischen Krieg von 1904/05. Sie hatte einen prägenden Einfluss auf die Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Dieses Buch schildert nicht nur die Hintergründe und den Verlauf der Schlacht, sondern auch, wie die Ereignisse in Ostasien die Weltgeschichte mitbestimmten. Denn der Erste Weltkrieg, die Russische Revolution und sogar Pearl Harbor wurden von den Lehren und Erfahrungen, die sich an Tsushima knüpften, beeinflusst.Der Sieg, den der japanische Admiral Togo in der Koreastraße über das russische Geschwader unter Admiral Roestvenskij errang, stellte die Weichen für das Ende des Russisch-Japanischen Krieges. Japans Aufstieg zur Großmacht im Pazifikraum nahm seinen Anfang. Das bereits marode Zarenreich hingegen glitt in eine Epoche der Unruhen und Revolutionen. Dass die modern ausgerüsteten und effizient geführten japanischen Streitkräfte der Großmacht Russland eine empfindliche Niederlage beibringen konnten, wurde weltweit von der Öffentlichkeit und den Militärs mit Erstaunen wahrgenommen. Konnte es sein, dass kluge Planung, neueste Militärtechnik und schnelle Mobilisierung den sicheren Sieg über einen an Material und Personal überlegenen Gegner bedeuteten.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Die drei Schlachten um den Monte Cassino südlich von Rom tobten von Januar bis Mai 1944. Am 18. Mai 1944 war das Ringen um den Monte Cassino für die Wehrmacht verloren. Die Alliierten hatten den umkämpften 'Wellenbrecher Cassino', wie ihn die deutsche Propaganda nannte, nach knapp einem halben Jahr schwerer Kämpfe eingenommen. Nun drangen sie auf Rom vor. Die nationalsozialistische Propaganda agierte jedoch so geschickt und nachhaltig, dass viele Deutsche bis auf den heutigen Tag mit dem Namen 'Monte Cassino' in erster Linie einen letzten deutschen Abwehrsieg und keine Niederlage verbinden. Insbesondere das Bild unbesiegter deutscher Fallschirmjäger hat sich dabei in den Köpfen festgesetzt. Sogar die wissenschaftliche Literatur übernahm dieses Narrativ. Magnus Pahl analysiert in seinem Buch die Inhalte der deutschen Propaganda. Er wirft den Blick ebenso auf die multinationalen Streitkräfte der Alliierten, unter denen das neuseeländische wie auch das polnische Kontingent eine besondere Rolle spielten. Monte Cassino ist auf seine Weise ein europäischer, ja ein globaler Erinnerungsort des Zweiten Weltkriegs. In diesem Sinne ist dem Band ein Geleitwort des polnischen Militärhistorikers Zbigniew Wawer beigegeben.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Engaged Encounters: Thinking about Forces, Fields and Friendships with Monique Nuijten is a festschrift celebrating the scholarly, professional and personal contributions and insights of Monique Nuijten.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Higher Education in the UK and the US: Converging University Models in a Global Academic World edited by Sarah Pickard addresses the key similarities and differences in higher education between the two countries over the last thirty years, in order to ascertain whether there exists a specific 'Anglo-Saxon model'. This interdisciplinary book is divided into three thematic parts dealing with current fundamental issues in higher education within neoliberal Great Britain and the United States: economics and marketisation of higher education; access and admittance to universities; and the student experience of higher education. The contributors are all higher education specialists in diverse academic fields - sociology, political sciences, public policy studies, educational studies and history - from either side of the Atlantic.Contributors are: Bahram Bekhradnia, James Côté, Marie-Agnès Détourbe, John Halsey, Magali Julian, Kenneth O'Brien, Cristiana Olcese, Anna Mountford-Zimdars, Sarah Pickard, Chris Rust, Clare Saunders, Christine Soulas, and Steven Ward. \*Higher Education in the UK and the US: Converging University Models in a Global Academic World is now available in paperback for individual customers.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - With the limited availability of related foci in the area of critical educational studies, Critical Theorizations of Education is timely in both its topical relevance and time-space-themed discursive interventions. With its overall scope, constructed as both a counter-and-forward looking critical reflections and analysis of some of the most salient and contemporaneously active platforms of education, it prospectively and relatively comprehensively expands on dynamically intersecting learning and teaching contexts and relationships. As such, the volume's contents by both established and emerging scholars, selectively locate the interplays of knowledge, learning and attendant power relations, which either transform or reproduce the status quo. Contributors are: Levonne Abshire, Claire Alkouatli, David Anderson, Neda Asadi, N'Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba, Gulbahar Beckett, José Cossa, Ratna Ghosh, Shibao Guo, Yan Guo, Carl E. James, Dip Kapoor, Festus Kelonye Beru, Ginette Lafreniere, Qing Li, Oliver Masakure, Magnus Mfoafo-M'Carthy, Greg William Misiaszek, Dolana Mogadime, Samson Nashon, Selline Ooko, Bathseba Opini, Amy Parent, Thashika Pillay, Edward Shizha, Kimberley Tavares, Alison Taylor, and Stacey Wilson-Forsberg.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - We live in a globalized world in which a person in Burkina Faso can identify with Star Wars heroes, and in which a New York trader drinks the same Starbucks coffee as his Taiwanese counterpart. How are individuals socialized in Rome, Bombay, and Tokyo To answer this question, a unique investigation has been carried out using two scales of analysis usually tackled separately by global studies: the scale of the cosmopolitan world and its global narratives, imaginaries, iconographies; as well as the scale of everyday life and socialization to otherness. This two-fold perspective constitutes the innovative approach of this volume that endeavors to address an operationalization of the cosmopolitan perspective and reacts to current debates and new research findings. With a Foreword by Natan Sznaider. This book was first published in 2016 as Pluriel et commun. Sociologie d'un monde cosmopolite by Les Presses de Sciences Po, Paris. Other editions: the book is also published in Italian as Plurale e comune. Sociologia di un mondo cosmopolita by Morlacchi editore, Perugia, 2018; and in Brazilian as Plural e comum. Sociologia de um mundo cosmopolita by Edições Sesc, Sao Paulo, 2018.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Youth, Religion, and Identity in a Globalizing Context: International Perspectives investigates the ways that young people navigate the intersections of religion and identity. As part of the Youth in a Globalizing World series, this book provides a broad discussion on the various social, cultural, and political forces affecting youth and their identities from an international comparative perspective. Contributors to this volume situate the experiences of young people in Canada, the United States, Germany, and Australia within a globalized context. This volume explores the different experiences of youth, the impact of community and processes of recognition, and the reality of ambivalence as agency. Youth, Religion, and Identity in a Globalizing Context: International Perspectives is now available in paperback for individual customers.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Gender, Continuity, and the Shaping of Modernity in the Arts of East Asia, 16th-20th Centuries explores women's and men's contributions to the arts and gendered visual representations in China, Korea, and Japan from the premodern through modern eras. A critical introduction and nine essays consider how threads of continuity and exchanges between the cultures of East Asia, Europe, and the United States helped to shape modernity in this region, in the process revealing East Asia as a vital component of the trans-Pacific world. The essays are organized into three themes: representations of femininity, women as makers, and constructions of gender, and they consider examples of architecture, painting, woodblock prints and illustrated books, photography, and textiles.Contributors are: Lara C. W. Blanchard, Kristen L. Chiem, Charlotte Horlyck, Ikumi Kaminishi, Nayeon Kim, Sunglim Kim, Radu Leca, Elizabeth Lillehoj, Ying-chen Peng, and Christina M. Spiker.Gender, Continuity, and the Shaping of Modernity in the Arts of East Asia, 16th-20th Centuries is now available in paperback for individual customers.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Young People and the Politics of Outrage and Hope brings together contributions from international youth studies experts who ask how young people and institutions are responding to high levels of unemployment, student debt, housing costs that lock many out of home ownership, and the challenge to find meaningful modes of participation in neo-liberal social contexts. Contributors including Henry Giroux, Anita Harris and Judith Bessant, draw on a range of theoretical, methodological and empirical work to identify and debate some of the challenges and opportunities of the politics of outrage and hope that should accompany academic, community and political discussions about the futures that young people will inherit and make.Young People and the Politics of Outrage and Hope is now available in paperback for individual customers.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - What Politics Youth and Political Engagement in Africa examines the diverse experiences of being young in today's Africa. It offers new perspectives to the roles and positions young people take to change their life conditions both within and beyond the formal political structures and institutions. The contributors represent several social science disciplines, and provide well-grounded qualitative analyses of young people's everyday engagements by critically examining dominant discourses of youth, politics and ideology. Despite focusing on Africa, the book is a collective effort to better understand what it is like to be young today, and what the making of tomorrow's yesterday means for them in personal and political terms.Contributors are: Ehaab Abdou, Abebaw Yirga Adamu, Henni Alava, Päivi Armila, Randi Rønning Balsvik, Jesper Bjarnesen, þóra Björnsdóttir, Jónína Einarsdóttir, Tilo Grätz, Nanna Jordt Jørgensen, Marko Kananen, Sofia Laine, Naydene de Lange, Afifa Ltifi, Ivo Mhike, Claudia Mitchell, Relebohile Moletsane, Danai S. Mupotsa, Elina Oinas, Henri Onodera, Eija Ranta, Mounir Saidani, Mariko Sato, Loubna H. Skalli, Tiina Sotkasiira, Abdoulaye Sounaye, Leena Suurpää, and Mulumebet Zenebe.What Politics Youth and Political Engagement in Africa is now available in paperback for individual customers.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - As the inaugural volume of the new Brill book series Gendering the Trans-Pacific World: Diaspora, Empire, and Race, this anthology presents an emergent interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary field that highlights the inextricable link between gender and the trans-Pacific world. The anthology features twenty-one chapters by new and established scholars and writers. They collectively examine the geographies of empire, the significance of intimacy and affect, the importance of beauty and the body, and the circulation of culture. This is an ideal volume to introduce advanced undergraduate and graduate students to Transpacific Studies and gender as a category of analysis.Gendering the Trans-Pacific World: Diaspora, Empire, and Race is now available in paperback for individual customers.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Doing Authentic Inquiry to Improve Learning and Teaching consists of 18 chapters, and 19 authors from 4 countries. The book is suited for use by educators, researchers and classroom practitioners involved in teaching and learning, teacher education, and policy. All chapters are grounded in urban contexts, but are broadly applicable. Multilogical research highlights uses of sociocultural theory, authentic, event-oriented, interpretive inquiry, narrative, and willingness to learn from difference. Methodologies are historically constituted, emergent, contingent, and participatory, embracing collaborative, and contemplative practices, and value of many voices and diverse meaning systems. Readers experience research that is potentially both personally and professionally transformative and applicable to today's challenges. Contributors are: Jennifer D. Adams, Konstantinos Alexakos, Arnau Amat, Marissa E. Bellino, Mitch Bleier, Corinna Yolanda Brathwaite, Olga Calderon, Katelin Corbett, Amy DeFelice, Gene Fellner, Helen Kwah, Manny Lopez, Anna Malyukova, Kate E. O'Hara, Malgorzata Powietrzynska, Isabel Sellas, Kenneth Tobin, and Yau Yan Wong.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - International cooperation in higher education is not new, but gained new urgency in recent years with the expansion of the knowledge economy, the easy flow of communications and the emulation created by international rankings. In the European Union's countries, international competition and the process of political and economic unification required national higher education institutions to give priority to international cooperation, while large countries such as Russia, China, Brazil and South Africa intensified their effort to modernise their institutions and link them to the international flow of science, technology and talent, leading similar trends in other countries in their regions. These global trends are shaped by the national culture and institutions of each country, and the existing national and international cooperation policies and instruments on all sides. In Building Higher Education Cooperation with the EU: Challenges and Opportunities from Four Continents, the authors look at how these interactions occur from the perspectives of the European Union and the countries involved and make recommendations on policies that could make international cooperation more fluid and beneficial to all parties involved.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book engages with the experience of space and time in youth cultures across the world. Putting together contemporary case studies on young transnationalists, young glocals and young protesters in cities on the five continents, it analyzes new agoras and chronotopes in global cities. It is based on a selection of papers first presented to the International Sociological Association (ISA) Research Committee 34 session on Youth Cultures, Space and Time that took place during the ISA World Congresses of Sociology in Gothenburg, Sweden (2010), and in Yokohama, Japan (2014). The value of this volume for youth researchers worldwide is twofold. Firstly, the chapters exemplify innovative approaches to understanding the fluid and dynamic urban space-time dimension in which young people's cultural and bodily practices are located. Secondly, the volume offers a transnational perspective. Chapter contributors come from countries across the world, and give account of very diverse youth culture phenomena. They represent both established researchers and new voices in youth research.Contributors are: Óscar Aguilera Ruiz, Ilenya Camozzi, Carles Feixa, Vitor Sérgio Ferreira, Liliana Galindo Ramírez, Elham Golpoush-Nezhad, Leila Jeolás, Jeffrey J. Juris, Hagen Kordes, Sofia Laine, Carmen Leccardi, Pam Nilan, Jordi Nofre, Ndukaeze Nwabueze, Luca Queirolo Palmas, Yannis Pechtelidis, Geoffrey Pleyers, José Sánchez García, Mahmood Shahabi.Youth, Space and Time is now available in paperback for individual customers.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - World Christianity publications proliferate but the issue of methodology has received little attention. World Christianity: Methodological Considerations addresses this lacuna and explores the methodological ramifications of the World Christianity turn. In twelve chapters scholars from various academic backgrounds (anthropology, religious studies, history, missiology, intercultural studies, theology, and patristics) as well as of multiple cultural and national belongings investigate methodological issues (e.g. methods, use of sources, choosing a unit of analysis, terminology, conceptual categories, ) relevant to World Christianity debates. In a closing chapter the editors Frederiks and Nagy converge the findings and sketch the outlines of what they coin as a 'World Christianity approach', a multidisciplinary and multiple perspective approach to study Christianity/ies' plurality and diversity in past and present.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In Kanbunmyaku: The Literary Sinitic Context and the Birth of Modern Japanese Language and Literature, Saito Mareshi demonstrates the centrality of Literary Sinitic poetry and prose in the creation of modern literary Japanese. Saito's new understanding of the role of 'kanbunmyaku' in the formation of Japanese literary modernity challenges dominant narratives tied to translations from modern Western literatures and problematizes the antagonism between Literary Sinitic and Japanese in the modern academy. Saito shows how kundoku (vernacular reading) and its rhythms were central to the rise of new inscriptional styles, charts the changing relationship of modern poets and novelists to kanbunmyaku, and concludes that the chronotope of modern Japan was based in a language world supported by the Literary Sinitic Context.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The 'Good news' is central to evangelical theology and the movement known as evangelicalism, but the news has not always been good for minorities who inhabit evangelical communities and institutions in the United States. Vincent Bacote argues a reckoning with questions of race is necessary for evangelical theology to help cultivate an evangelical movement more hospitable to minorities, particularly African-Americans. Evangelicalism is here regarded not only a set of beliefs about the Bible, Christ's work on the cross, conversion and witness but also as a set of dispositions and postures that create openness to the concerns of minorities. With a perpetually uneasy conscience, Christians within the evangelical movement can cultivate a disposition ready to learn from the questions and contributions of minorities in evangelical spaces, such as William Bentley and Carl Ellis. A better evangelical theology is proposed as doctrines that yield actions that are truly good news for all.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In An Overview of the Pre-suppression Society of Jesus in Spain, Patricia W. Manning offers a survey of the Society of Jesus in Spain from its origins in Ignatius of Loyola's early preaching to the aftereffects of its expulsion. Rather than nurture the nascent order, Loyola's homeland was often ambivalent. His pre-Jesuit freelance sermonizing prompted investigations. The young Society confronted indifference and interference from the Spanish monarchy and outright opposition from other religious orders. This essay outlines the order's ministerial and pedagogical activities, its relationship with women and with royal institutions, including the Spanish Inquisition, and Spanish members' roles in theological debates concerning casuistry, free will, and the immaculate conception. It also considers the impact of Jesuits' non-religious writings.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In this volume, Francesca Martelli outlines some of the main contours of recent, current and future research on Ovid. Her study looks back to the rehabilitation of Ovid's oeuvre in the 1980s, and considers the post-modern aesthetic prerogatives and post-structuralist theoretical concerns that drove the critical recuperation of his poetry throughout that decade and in the decades that followed. But it also looks forward, by considering how the themes of this poet's oeuvre answer to a variety of new materialist concerns that are now gaining currency in the humanities and social sciences. It highlights the ecopoetic sensibility of the Metamorphoses, for example, and unpacks the environmental narratives that this poem yields when read in dialogue with the discourses of critical posthumanism. And it closes by considering the hauntological aesthetics of Ovid's exile poetry as a comment on the effects of the principate on time, space, media, and art.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Theology is an explication, im-plication, and com-plication of the Christian perception of truth and value. The occurrence of this perception takes place in following the story of the Gospel, which remains open and organic, unable to be closed. Every formation of a closed system has to be exceeded on the way to a post-systematic theology.The first part of this work deals with redefining basic concepts from a phenomenological perspective and from within a narrative ontology. Key terms such as relation, way-formational line, event, time, space, sign, metaphor, concept, name, model, theory, coherence, causality, contingence, subject, and truth, are explored and reworked. The main portion of the work delves into the threefold self-presentation of God in the perception of truth and value as displayed in the Gospel. The work concludes by taking up the consequences of the relationship between faith and religion, historicity and Holy Scripture, the concept of rationality, as well as the inter-disciplinary and academic study of theology.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Flowering of Ecology presents an English translation of Maria Sibylla Merian's 1679 'caterpillar' book, Der Raupen wunderbare Verwandelung und sonderbare Blumen-Nahrung. Her processes in making the book and an analysis of its scientific content are presented in a historical context. Merian raised insects for five decades, recording the food plants, behavior and ecology of roughly 300 species. Her most influential invention was an 'ecological' composition in which the metamorphic cycles of insects (usually moths and butterflies) were arrayed around plants that served as food for the caterpillars. Kay Etheridge analyzes the 1679 caterpillar book from the viewpoint of a biologist, arguing that Merian's study of insect interactions with plants, the first of its kind, was a formative contribution to natural history. Read Kay Etheridge's blogpost on 'Art Herstory'. See inside the book.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This volume offers new approaches to some of the biggest persistent challenges in the study of esotericism and beyond. Commonly understood as a particularly 'Western' undertaking consisting of religious, philosophical, and ritual traditions that go back to Mediterranean antiquity, this book argues for a global approach that significantly expands the scope of esotericism and highlights its relevance for broader theoretical and methodological debates in the humanities and social sciences. The contributors offer critical interventions on aspects related to colonialism, race, gender and sexuality, economy, and marginality. Equipped with a substantial introduction and conclusion, the book offers textbook-style discussions of the state of research and makes concrete proposals for how esotericism can be rethought through broader engagement with neighboring fields.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - International cooperation in higher education is not new, but gained new urgency in recent years with the expansion of the knowledge economy, the easy flow of communications and the emulation created by international rankings. In the European Union's countries, international competition and the process of political and economic unification required national higher education institutions to give priority to international cooperation, while large countries such as Russia, China, Brazil and South Africa intensified their effort to modernise their institutions and link them to the international flow of science, technology and talent, leading similar trends in other countries in their regions. These global trends are shaped by the national culture and institutions of each country, and the existing national and international cooperation policies and instruments on all sides. In Building Higher Education Cooperation with the EU: Challenges and Opportunities from Four Continents, the authors look at how these interactions occur from the perspectives of the European Union and the countries involved and make recommendations on policies that could make international cooperation more fluid and beneficial to all parties involved.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Exile, Diplomacy and Texts offers an interdisciplinary narrative of religious, political, and diplomatic exchanges between early modern Iberia and the British Isles during a period uniquely marked by inconstant alliances and corresponding antagonisms. Such conditions notwithstanding, the essays in this volume challenge conventionally monolithic views of confrontation, providing - through fresh examination of exchanges of news, movements and interactions of people, transactions of books and texts - new evidence of trans-national and trans-cultural conversations between British and Irish communities in the Iberian Peninsula, and of Spanish and Portuguese 'others' travelling to Britain and Ireland. Contributors: Berta Cano-Echevarría, Rui Carvalho Homem, Mark Hutchings, Thomas O'Connor, Susana Oliveira, Tamara Pérez-Fernández, Glyn Redworth, Marta Revilla-Rivas, and Ana Sáez-Hidalgo.