Brill jul 2015 (73 risultati)

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Der Band bietet einen vergleichenden Blick auf den Umgang mit dem kulturellenErbe in den muslimischen Anrainerstaaten des Mittelmeeres. Die vertretenen Beiträge wenden sich diesen Ländern zu und nehmen jeweils exemplarisch Bereich ein den Blick, in denen »Heritage« als von lokalen, nationalen und…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Der Band bietet einen vergleichenden Blick auf den Umgang mit dem kulturellenErbe in den muslimischen Anrainerstaaten des Mittelmeeres. Die vertretenen Beiträge wenden sich diesen Ländern zu und nehmen jeweils exemplarisch Bereich ein den Blick, in denen »Heritage« als von lokalen, nationalen und…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This volume deals with the dissolution of the concept of the ideal body as a repository of knowledge through instances of deformation or hybridization.The starting point comprises a series of case studies of less than perfect bodies: bodies that are misshapen, stigmatized, fragmented, as w…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In Between Feminism and Orthodox Judaism, Yael Israel-Cohen offers an analysis of the activism and identity of women considered at the forefront of the feminist challenge to Orthodoxy. Through a look at women's battle over synagogue ritual and the ordination of women rabbis, an intricate a…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - By looking at the case of Lithuanian yeshivas in Israel, Yohai Hakak's book explores the internal tensions and dynamics of religious orders during a stage of a relative 'loss of charisma', in which the enthusiasm of the founding generation has diminished. It is the first study to include p…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Sayyid Amjad Hussain Shah Naqavi's introduction and annotated scholarly translation of Ayatollah Khomeini's The Mystery of Prayer brings to light a rarely studied dimension of an author better known for his revolutionary politics.Writing forty years before the Islamic revolution, Khomeini…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This study about David Livingstone is different from all other publications about him. Here, Livingstone is not the main topic of interest; the focus of the author is on nutrition and health in pre-colonial Africa and Livingstone is his key informant.David Livingstone and the Myth of Afric…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Integrated Truth and Existential Phenomenology: A Thomistic Response to Iconic Anti-Realists in Science relates an existential phenomenology to modal reasoning. By this reasoning, rooted in a consciousness of phenomena in themselves, a Thomistic realism is advanced wherein scientific inqui…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In recent years postnational theory has become a primary tool for the analysis of European integration. Though interpretations of the concept vary, there is a wide consensus about postnationalism as a way to forge a European identity beyond a particular national history. In line with the G…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Sayyid Amjad Hussain Shah Naqavi's introduction and annotated scholarly translation of Ayatollah Khomeini's The Mystery of Prayer brings to light a rarely studied dimension of an author better known for his revolutionary politics.Writing forty years before the Islamic revolution, Khomeini shows a…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Mass Atrocities, Risk and Resilience examines the relationship between risk and resilience in the prevention of genocide and other mass atrocities and explores two broad areas of neglect. In terms of prevention, there is very little research that analyzes how local and national actors mana…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Are C. S. Lewis's major arguments in defense of Christian belief sound In C. S. Lewis's Christian Apologetics: Pro and Con, defenders and critics of Lewis's apologetics square off and debate the merits of Lewis's arguments from desire, from reason, from morality, the 'trilemma' argument fo…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Is virtual reality the latest grand narrative that humanity has produced Our civilization is determined by a shift from an 'original event' to a virtual 'narrative'. This concerns not only virtual reality but also psychoanalysis, gene-technology, and globalization. Psychoanalysis transforms the d…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Yearbook of International Religious Demography presents an annual snapshot of the state of religious statistics around the world. Every year large amounts of data are collected through censuses, surveys, polls, religious communities, scholars, and a host of other sources. These data ar…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Themes from Ontology, Mind and Logic celebrates Peter Simons's admirable career. The book contains seventeen essays with themes ranging from metaphysics to phenomenology. The contributions by Fabrice Correia, Bob Hale and Crispin Wright, Ingvar Johansson, Kathrin Koslicki, Uriah Kriegel, W…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Based on the discovery of an unknown Latin manuscript, Maria Petyt - A Carmelite Mystic in Wartime provides surprising new information about the seventeenth century Flemish mystic Maria Petyt (1623-1677) who wrote many letters to her spiritual director, Michael of St. Augustine. The book contains…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - What is sensible when it comes to developing and implementing a policy with regard to products which in the case of regular use are harmful, but which at the same time exert a strong attraction, even so strong that people (may) become dependent on or addicted to them This question relates…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Processes of Cultural Change and Integration in the Roman World is a collection of studies on the interaction between Rome and the peoples that became part of its Empire between c. 300 BC and AD 300. The book focuses on the mechanisms by which interaction between Rome and its subjects occurred, e…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Theorizing Legal Personhood in Late Medieval England is a collection of eleven essays that explore what might be distinctly medieval and particularly English about legal personhood vis-à-vis the jurisdictional pluralism of late medieval England. Spanning the mid-thirteenth to the mid-sixteenth ce…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In Dutch Deltas, Werner Scheltjens examines the emergence, functions and structure of the Low Countries' maritime transport system between ca. 1300 and 1850. Scheltjens introduces the delta as a suitable geographical unit of analysis for understanding the regional economic origins of communities…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In Europe within Reach Gerrit Verhoeven traces some sweeping evolutions in the early modern travel behaviour of Dutch and Flemish elites (1585-1750), as the classical Grand Tour was slowly but surely overshadowed by other types of travelling.Leisure trips to Paris, London or Berlin, a cours pitto…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Empires as political entities may be a thing of the past, but as a concept, empire is alive and kicking. From heritage tourism and costume dramas to theories of the imperial idea(l): empire sells. Post-Empire Imaginaries Anglophone Literature, History, and the Demise of Empires presents innovativ…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Global warming interacts in multiple ways with ecological and social systems in Northern America. While the US and Canada belong to the world's largest per capita emitters of greenhouse gases, the Arctic north of the continent as well as the Deep South are already affected by a changing climate.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Periodicals were an essential medium during eighteenth-century Enlightenment. The era's growing number of newspapers and journals made possible a fast and vast dissemination of ideas and debates. Journals were a particularly important means of transmitting ideas, genres, texts, and pieces of info…