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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book, which was originally written as a dissertation, broadens the approach to gender equality in primary education by exploring the magnitude of complex interactions between schools and rural livelihood household processes in the context of HIV/AIDS. The arguments are based on recent ethnographic research using dimensions of rural pupils', parents', and teachers' responses to the socio-economic impact of HIV/AIDS on their livelihoods. It gives insight into some of the current debates that have been generated in the field of education, HIV/AIDS and rural livelihoods.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book explores the public role of Islam in contemporary world politics. 'Public Islam' refers to the diverse invocations and struggles over Islamic ideas and practices that increasingly influence the politics and social life of large parts of the globe. The contributors to this volume show how public Islam articulates competing notions and practices of the common good and a way of envisioning alternative political and religious ideas and realities, reconfiguring established boundaries of civil and social life. Drawing on examples from the late Ottoman Empire, Africa, South Asia, Iran, and the Arab Middle East, this volume facilitates understanding the multiple ways in which the public sphere, a key concept in social thought, can be made transculturally feasible by encompassing the evolution of non-Western societies in which religion plays a vital role.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'This book contains ideas to develop interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary views on economy and society. It aims to disseminate heterodox ideas on various subjects related to economics and global society. The book is organised in six parts. Part 1 contains the key lectures of Backhaus on the concept of state sciences and of Klamer on the importance of culture for economics. Parts 2- 6 contain successively contributions in the areas of economic paradigms and theories, population and society, corporate issues, environment, and international relations. Examples of the content are: - the changes of family life cycles due to the rise of non-traditional households; - subjective and objective inflation rates after the introduction of the Euro; - the economics of genetic engineering; - the contribution of foreign direct investment to the economic development of host countries; - the inaccuracy of economic models applied in places characterized by extreme income disparities; - the improvement of political and corporate governance; - evolutionary thinking and emission trading; - freedom and order in the European Union; - the reform of social policy in Europe. The book provides interesting creative multi-disciplinary ideas with respect to various topical issues concerning the contemporary global society. It is highly recommended for economists and social scientists in search of broad views on social science and society.'.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Over the past fifteen years Francis of Marchia (fl. 1320) has finally begun to receive the kind of attention his contemporary Franciscan confreres John Duns Scotus, Peter Auriol, and William of Ockham have enjoyed for decades. Marchia, a master of theology at the University of Paris, has emerged as an exciting thinker who made original contributions in areas ranging from modal theory to trinitarian theology. This volume capitalizes on the studies on and critical editions of the works of Marchia published since 1991, treating some of his often distinct and influential doctrines in cosmology, physics, metaphysics, ethics, and politics, based on his three main works: his commentaries on the Sentences and Aristotle's Metaphysics and his Improbatio written against Pope John XXII.Contributors include: Fabrizio Amerini, Russell L. Friedman, Roberto Lambertini, Andrea Robiglio, Chris Schabel, Mark Thakkar, and Fabio Zanin.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The nature of time has haunted humankind through the ages. Some conception of time has always entered into our ideas about mortality and immortality, and permanence and change, so that concepts of time are of fundamental importance in the study of religion, philosophy, literature, history, and mythology. On one aspect or another, the study of time cuts across all disciplines. The International Society for the Study of Time has as its goal the interdisciplinary and comparative study of time. This volume presents selected essays from the 12th triennial conference of the International Society for the Study of Time at Clare College, Cambridge. The essays are clustered around themes that pertain to the constructive and destructive nature of memory in representations and manipulations of time. The volume is divided into three sections Inscribing and Forgetting, Inventing, and Commemoration wherein the authors grapple with the nature of memory as a medium that reflects the passage of time.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The papers provide access for the first time to Tibetan documents and practices from the period of the tenth to fifteenth century.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In 1994, the term 'Tatarstan model' came into use to describe the path which one of Russia's constituent republics had adopted during the unprecedented conditions of its transformation from a Soviet-period pseudo-autonomous entity into a democratic market-economy state. Since then, this particular model of development has attracted increasing attention from both domestic Russian and international observers, not least on account of its enduring ethnic and religious multiculturalism. Focusing as it does on one of the most interesting and unusual regional examples of the Russian market transformation, successfully piloted by the republic's long-serving President Mintimer Shaimiev, this book also argues that whilst there may be no third way between democracy and tyranny, also in economic terms, there may be and, indeed, are different forms of successful transition not necessarily foreseen or properly understood by Western observers.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - For the whole of the last half-century, most theoretical syntacticians have assumed that knowledge of language is different from the tasks of speaking and understanding. There have been some dissenters, but, by and large, this view still holds sway. This book takes a different view: it continues the task set in hand by Kempson et al (2001) of arguing that the common-sense intuition is correct that knowledge of language consists in being able to use it in speaking and understanding. The Dynamics of Language argues that interpretation is built up across as sequence of words relative to some context and that this is all that is needed to explain the structural properties of language. The dynamics of how interpretation is built up is the syntax of a language system. The authors' first task is to convey to a general linguistic audience with a minimum of formal apparatus, the substance of that formal system. Secondly, as linguists, they set themselves the task of applying the formal system to as broad an array of linguistic puzzles as possible, the languages analysed ranging from English to Japanese and Swahili. It argues that knowledge in language consists of being able to use it in speaking and understanding. It analyses a variety of languages, from English to Japanese and Swahili. It appeals to a wide audience in the disciplines of language, linguistics, anthropology, education, psychology, cognitive science, law, media studies, and medicine.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This volume contains a collection of the lectures of the invited speakers and symposium organizers presented at the International Conference of Computational methods in Science and Engineering (ICCMSE 2006), held in Chania, Greece, October 2006. The content of the papers bears upon new developments of Computational Science pertinent to Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Medicine, Mathematics and Engineering. Molecular Science is a privileged ground for the application and evaluation of new mathematical tools and computational methods. In recent years, novelty and progress with greatest conceivable speed is common experience. This flavor of research findings carrying many consequences for distant fields is easily evidenced in the lectures collected in this volume.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Using a Canadian case study, this book demonstrates that Dutch immigrant farmers have a global competitive advantage. It also deals with the implications, both beneficial and harmful, of positive stereotyping, in this case the reputation of the Dutch as successful farmers. Farming in a Global Economy consists of three parts. The first provides an overview of farming and migration in the Netherlands and Ontario. Part two deals with Dutch farmers in Ontario from a historical and a sociological perspective, telling the story of postwar farm immigrants, much of it in their own words. The last part covers the Dutch presence in, and impact on, Ontario agriculture.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - No detailed description available for 'Beyond the Legacy of Genghis Khan'.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In November 2005 Tilburg University hosted for the first time an international Colloquium on the European and National Perspectives of the Regulation of Gambling. The results of this exciting day are reflected in this book which brings together a wide range of perspectives from the contemporary debate surrounding the regulation of gambling markets within the context of the European Union. Not only does the book encompass both ends of the spectrum of the current discussion; it also brings together the perspectives of academics, lawyers and operators. The debate on the regulation of gambling has been gathering pace following a series of judgments of the ECJ. In 2006 gambling was excluded from the proposed Services Directive, and the European Commission commenced infringement proceedings against a handful of Member States regarding restrictions on the supply of sports betting services. Given these developments and being one of the very few publications concerned with this topic, this book will serve as a timely and valuable contribution for all those interested in this emerging and at times decisive debate.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Africa Yearbook covers major domestic political developments, the foreign policy and socio-economic trends in sub-Sahara Africa - all related to developments in one calendar year. The Yearbook contains articles on all sub-Saharan states, each of the four sub-regions (West, Central, Eastern, Southern Africa) focusing on major cross-border developments and sub-regional organizations as well as one article on continental developments and one on European-African relations. While the articles have thorough academic quality, the Yearbook is mainly oriented to the requirements of a large range of target groups: students, politicians, diplomats, administrators, journalists, teachers, practitioners in the field of development aid as well as business people.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This collection is a unique joint venture of teachers in, and practitioners of military ethics. Representatives of each branch of the Armed Forces, i.e. the Navy, the Army, the Air Force and the Military Police, discuss their branch-specific experiences with moral questions and dilemma's. The moral questions and dilemma's which arise in their work are also discussed by certain professional groups within the Armed Forces, such as the Military Medical Service and the Military Psychological Service. Detailed attention is given to how junior commanders can enhance morally responsible behaviour within their unit. A substantial part of the book focuses on teaching military ethics. It includes the Socratic dialogue, decision-making skills, and a chapter containing fictitious moral dilemmas that can be used as exercises. The book is aimed at those responsible for training at military training centres as well as at cadets, midshipmen and young officers. It will also be an important tool for commanders preparing for a mission. And it will be of use for all those concerned with the subject of military ethics at policy and management level, both in the armed forces and outside it. Military Ethics: The Dutch Approach - A Practical Guide is an adapted translation of the main chapters of the Dutch-language volume Praktijkboek Militaire Ethiek (Practitioner's Guide Military Ethics).

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This volume on Clusters brings together contributions from a large number of specialists. A central element for all contributions is the use of advanced computational methodologies and their application to various aspects of structure, reactivity and properties of clusters.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Does Paul have a theology If so, what is it, or rather, what is it on various topics that he and the early Church confronted This volume moves beyond the traditional discussion of whether Paul had a center to his theology to raise questions regarding his perspective on a number of important theological issues. These issues include his gentile mission, the concepts of faith, grace, and the law, reconciliation, the temple, eschatology, miracles, gender, and Paul's trinitarian tendencies. This collection of essays addresses topics of current interest in the study of Paul's theology--not to arrive at the center of his thought, but to understand what factors helped to center his thinking on a variety of important theological concerns.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Mycotoxins are poisonous chemical compounds produced by certain fungi. There are many such compounds, but only a few of them are regularly found in food and animal feedstuffs. Nevertheless, those that do occur in food and feed have great significance in the health of humans and livestock. The effects of some mycotoxins are acute, with symptoms of severe illness appearing very quickly. Other mycotoxins have longer term chronic or cumulative effects on health, including the induction of cancers and immune deficiency. Information about mycotoxins is far from complete, but enough is known to identify them as a serious problem in many parts of the world, causing significant economic losses in addition to their negative health effects. 'The mycotoxin factbook' is aimed at the latest developments to combat the mycotoxin problem. The book contains the peer-reviewed papers of the third conference of the World Mycotoxin Forum. The various chapters focus on mycotoxin food and feed risks in the context of human nutrition and animal feeding. Topics dealt with in 'The mycotoxin factbook' are: - Regulatory issues, international developments and the impact on worldtrade - The latest information on major mycotoxins and emerging problems in the food chain - The impact of mycotoxins in the feed chain - New developments in mycotoxin prevention - Trends in mycotoxin analysis 'The mycotoxin factbook' is a valuable resource for researchers and professionals from the food and feed industry as well as from the scientific community. This book is an ideal supplement to 'Meeting the mycotoxin menace' as published in 2004.'.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This volume is the first comprehensive commentary on the fourth book of Martial's epigrams: it focuses on literary matters and realia in order to clarify each poem and to offer an aesthetic account of the book as a whole.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - No detailed description available for 'Basic Documents on International Migration Law'.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book is an updated and expanded version of the General Course delivered by the author at the Hague Academy of International Law in 2002. The book chronicles and evaluates the intellectual movement known as 'the revolution' in American private international law. This movement began in the 1960s, caught fire in the '70s, spread in the '80s and declared victory in the '90s, leading to the abandonment of the centuries-old choice-of-law system, at least for torts and contracts. This book: - explores the revolution's philosophical and methodological underpinnings; - provides the most comprehensive and systematic analysis of court decisions following the revolution; - identifies the revolution's successes and failures; and - proposes ways and means (including a new breed of 'smart' choice-of-law rules) to turn the revolution's victory into success.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book contains selected peer-reviewed papers of the IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry) symposium 'Mycotoxins and phycotoxins'. These symposia are the principal international interdisciplinary conventions focusing on occurrence, advances in determination, toxicology and exposure management of these bio-contaminants. The chapters are organized in sections that include up to date overviews of current mycotoxin and phycotoxin issues. Advances in analytical techniques using rapid screening tools, high-sensitivity instrumental methods and their combinations, applied for single and multi-toxin determinations, are highlighted in a specific section of the book. Identification of requisite agronomic factors and pre-harvest forecasting for strategic intervention are part of a treatise on exposure management. Since the inception more than 30 years ago, this IUPAC symposia series has grown in scope, scientific novelty and value.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The 2-volume handbook is dedicated to one of the most significant processes in the history of ancient Greece - colonisation. Greeks set up colonies and other settlements in new environments, establishing themselves in lands stretching from the Iberian Peninsula in the west to North Africa in the south and the Black Sea in the north east. In this colonial world Greek and local structures met, influenced and enriched each other. The handbook brings together historians and archaeologists, all world experts, to present the latest ideas and evidence. The principal aim is to present and update the general picture of this phenomenon, showing its importance in the history of the whole ancient world, including the Near East. The work is dedicated to Prof. A.J. Graham.This first volume gives a lengthy introduction to the problem, including methodological and theoretical issues. The chapters cover Mycenaean expansion, Phoenician and Phocaean colonisation, Greeks in the western Mediterranean, Syria, Egypt and southern Anatolia, etc. The volume is richly illustrated.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Under U.S. domestic law and treaty practice, all international agreements concluded by the United States, regardless of their form, designation or title are divided into treaties, which are submitted to the Senate for its advice and consent to ratification, and other international agreements. Treaties which are submitted to the Senate are similar to federal laws, and their legislative history is much the same as the one followed by legislation, except that it is confined to proceedings in the Senate only. This legislative history follows the procedures established by the Senate, and it is based on primary legislative sources.The main part is arranged chronologically by the date of conclusion of the treaty. Each treaty contains the following components: it provides general information about the treaty; it lists chronologically steps taken by the Senate during the treaty approval process; legislative implementation, executive action, following Senate approval; entry into force, and annotations, such as references to related treaties, amendments, and present status. The use of the legislative history is facilitated by appendices and a detailed general index which includes: parties, regional subdivisions, and subjects.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, a judicial institution created by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, began its activities on 1 October 1996. Together with the Statute of the Tribunal (Annex VI to the Convention), the Rules of the Tribunal, adopted on 28 October 1997, govern the functioning of the Tribunal and the proceedings before it. The objective of this Commentary is to give to legal practitioners and academics a detailed analysis of the provisions contained in the Rules. In doing so, the contributors, who are Judges of the Tribunal or members of its Registry, paid particular attention to the practice and the jurisprudence of the Tribunal as well as to the corresponding provisions in the Rules of the International Court of Justice.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Joseph of Rosheim, sixteenth-century leader of the Jews in the Holy Roman Empire, left historical writings that are presented here in a critical edition published now for the first time in English translation. The principal part of the book is devoted to a Hebrew manuscript--a chronicle--left by R. Joseph, in which he describes incidents from the history of his life and that of the Jews in his day and age. R. Joseph writes with extreme terseness, often in cryptic language, and therefore his chronicle appears here with prefaces, background information and a commentary. The prefaces provide important information about the blood libels and the expulsions, the debate concerning Solomon Molcho's messianic ideas, and the influence R. Joseph exerted at the court of Emperor Charles V.Particularly valuable for the study of Christian-Jewish relations in the Reformation period are two other documents printed here. The 'Letter of Consolation,' is a long epistle that R. Joseph wrote to the Jews of Hesse in 1541, advising them on how to cope with the harsh decrees enacted against them and discussing the attitudes of some leading Reformers towards the Jews. Also included in the book is his Letter to Strasbourg City Council of July 1543, which contains his response to Martin Luther's anti-Jewish tracts. This book can be considered a sequel to the critical edition (in Hebrew) of R. Joseph's large work, Sefer ha-Miknah, which Chava Fraenkel-Goldschmidt published in 1970.The Afterword discusses some of the most recent research into Joseph of Rosheim's activities and writings.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This volume on Thucydides, the most important historian of the ancient world, comprises articles by thirty leading international scholars. The contributions cover a wide range of issues, including Thucydides' life, intellectual milieu and predecessors, Thucydides and the act of writing, his rhetoric, historical method and narrative techniques, narrative unity in the History, the speeches, Thucydides' reliability as a historian, and his legacy through the centuries. Other topics dealt with include warfare, religion, individuals, democracy and oligarchy, the invention of political science, Thucydides and Athens, Sparta, Macedonia/Thrace, Sicily/South Italy, Persia, and the Argives.The volume aims to provide a survey of current trends in Thucydidean studies which will be of interest to all students of ancient history.Brill's Companion to Thucydides was awarded Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2007.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Wie nahmen die Menschen im Mittelalter den Krieg wahr, wie richteten sie ihr Handeln ein, wie interpretierten sie den Kampf, wie verwanden sie seine Folgen Zur Beantwortung dieser Fragen verknüpft der Autor in methodisch neuartiger Weise Ansätze der Kulturgeschichte mit denen der Erforschung von Ritualen und symbolischen Handlungen. Sein Buch ist ein bedeutender neuer Baustein in der Erforschung des Krieges im europäischen Mittelalter, der auch für andere Epochen und Weltregionen methodisch wegweisend ist. Es erweist sich, dass das Kämpfen im Mittelalter nicht einfach eine praktische Tätigkeit ist, die nach einem scheinbar feststehenden Maßstab in Hinsicht auf ihre Effizienz bewertet werden kann. Vielmehr unternehmen die Handelnden wie ihre Chronisten größte Anstrengungen, um das Geschehen gemäß jenen Maßstäben, die ihrer Kultur eigen sind, einzuordnen, zu werten und der Mit- und Nachwelt zu präsentieren. Bezeichnenderweise orientieren sich diese Kriterien im Mittelalter am sinnlich Erfahrbaren, an Ritualen und symbolischen Handlungen, nicht aber an abstrakten Denkkategorien wie strategischen Überlegungen oder Planungen. Die kulturell definierten Maßstäbe der Bewertung prägen Handeln und Denken der Zeitgenossen im Krieg derart tief, dass sie geradezu eine eigene Art von Rationalität konstituieren. 406 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Wie nahmen die Menschen im Mittelalter den Krieg wahr, wie richteten sie ihr Handeln ein, wie interpretierten sie den Kampf, wie verwanden sie seine Folgen Zur Beantwortung dieser Fragen verknüpft der Autor in methodisch neuartiger Weise Ansätze der Kulturgeschichte mit denen der Erforschung von Ritualen und symbolischen Handlungen. Sein Buch ist ein bedeutender neuer Baustein in der Erforschung des Krieges im europäischen Mittelalter, der auch für andere Epochen und Weltregionen methodisch wegweisend ist. Es erweist sich, dass das Kämpfen im Mittelalter nicht einfach eine praktische Tätigkeit ist, die nach einem scheinbar feststehenden Maßstab in Hinsicht auf ihre Effizienz bewertet werden kann. Vielmehr unternehmen die Handelnden wie ihre Chronisten größte Anstrengungen, um das Geschehen gemäß jenen Maßstäben, die ihrer Kultur eigen sind, einzuordnen, zu werten und der Mit- und Nachwelt zu präsentieren. Bezeichnenderweise orientieren sich diese Kriterien im Mittelalter am sinnlich Erfahrbaren, an Ritualen und symbolischen Handlungen, nicht aber an abstrakten Denkkategorien wie strategischen Überlegungen oder Planungen. Die kulturell definierten Maßstäbe der Bewertung prägen Handeln und Denken der Zeitgenossen im Krieg derart tief, dass sie geradezu eine eigene Art von Rationalität konstituieren. 406 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Wie nahmen die Menschen im Mittelalter den Krieg wahr, wie richteten sie ihr Handeln ein, wie interpretierten sie den Kampf, wie verwanden sie seine Folgen Zur Beantwortung dieser Fragen verknüpft der Autor in methodisch neuartiger Weise Ansätze der Kulturgeschichte mit denen der Erforschung von Ritualen und symbolischen Handlungen. Sein Buch ist ein bedeutender neuer Baustein in der Erforschung des Krieges im europäischen Mittelalter, der auch für andere Epochen und Weltregionen methodisch wegweisend ist. Es erweist sich, dass das Kämpfen im Mittelalter nicht einfach eine praktische Tätigkeit ist, die nach einem scheinbar feststehenden Maßstab in Hinsicht auf ihre Effizienz bewertet werden kann. Vielmehr unternehmen die Handelnden wie ihre Chronisten größte Anstrengungen, um das Geschehen gemäß jenen Maßstäben, die ihrer Kultur eigen sind, einzuordnen, zu werten und der Mit- und Nachwelt zu präsentieren. Bezeichnenderweise orientieren sich diese Kriterien im Mittelalter am sinnlich Erfahrbaren, an Ritualen und symbolischen Handlungen, nicht aber an abstrakten Denkkategorien wie strategischen Überlegungen oder Planungen. Die kulturell definierten Maßstäbe der Bewertung prägen Handeln und Denken der Zeitgenossen im Krieg derart tief, dass sie geradezu eine eigene Art von Rationalität konstituieren.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Sommer 1940: Frankreich ist besiegt, die 'Neue Ordnung' des Marschalls Pétain richtet sich unter deutscher Aufsicht im unbesetzten Teil des Landes ein. Februar 1942: In Riom bei Vichy beginnt mit Billigung Hitlers ein Prozess wegen Hoch- und Landesverrats gegen die früheren Ministerpräsidenten Blum und Daladier, den Oberbefehlshaber Gamelin u. a. Ihnen werden Krieg und totale Niederlage angelastet. Doch statt das Vichy-Regime durch Diffamierung führender Köpfe der Dritten Republik zu stabilisieren, richtet sich der Prozess zunehmend gegen seine Betreiber selbst - sie entpuppen sich als Mitverantwortliche für das Desaster von 1940. Hitler lässt den Prozess abbrechen. Doch er kann nicht mehr verhindern, dass der Prozessverlauf das Vichy-Regime weitgehend diskreditiert hat. Der Prozess von Riom hatte eine wichtige Funktion für die Entstehung und Stärkung des Widerstands gegen die deutsche Besatzung und für die weitere politische Entwicklung in Frankreich. Elisabeth Bokelmann legt nun, gestützt auf reichhaltiges Quellenmaterial, die erste Darstellung dieses spektakulären politischen Prozesses im deutschsprachigen Raum vor.Brill Deutschland GmbH, Wollmarktstraße 115, 33098 Paderborn Deutsch.