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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The book analyses how racial knowledge has circulated in transnational entanglements, particularly between Germany and India, into the research on human variation in India, racializing the understanding of caste and ethnicity. It focuses on the legacy of Irawati Karve (1905-1970), a Indian anthropologist trained at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Eugenics, and Human Heredity in Berlin, Germany (1927-1930) and a prominent scientist in post-colonial India. Besides a historical analysis of Karve's adaptation of racial approaches to the study of Indian castes, the book applies material-semiotic and ethnographic lenses to examine how her work is taken up today in anthropology and population genetics. By showing how transnational and transcolonial entanglements in race science shape knowledge on human diversity in India, the book offers novel insights to discussions in anthropology, STS, and global history, including the racialization of difference, colonial legacies, and post-colonial sovereignty in science. It contributes to a better understanding of the co-constitution of politics and sciences of human diversity and it argues for a closer attention to inequalities as a way to de-link from the legacies of scientific racism. 252 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The book analyses how racial knowledge has circulated in transnational entanglements, particularly between Germany and India, into the research on human variation in India, racializing the understanding of caste and ethnicity. It focuses on the legacy of Irawati Karve (1905-1970), a Indian anthropologist trained at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Eugenics, and Human Heredity in Berlin, Germany (1927-1930) and a prominent scientist in post-colonial India. Besides a historical analysis of Karve's adaptation of racial approaches to the study of Indian castes, the book applies material-semiotic and ethnographic lenses to examine how her work is taken up today in anthropology and population genetics. By showing how transnational and transcolonial entanglements in race science shape knowledge on human diversity in India, the book offers novel insights to discussions in anthropology, STS, and global history, including the racialization of difference, colonial legacies, and post-colonial sovereignty in science. It contributes to a better understanding of the co-constitution of politics and sciences of human diversity and it argues for a closer attention to inequalities as a way to de-link from the legacies of scientific racism. 252 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The book analyses how racial knowledge has circulated in transnational entanglements, particularly between Germany and India, into the research on human variation in India, racializing the understanding of caste and ethnicity. It focuses on the legacy of Irawati Karve (1905-1970), a Indian anthropologist trained at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Eugenics, and Human Heredity in Berlin, Germany (1927-1930) and a prominent scientist in post-colonial India. Besides a historical analysis of Karve's adaptation of racial approaches to the study of Indian castes, the book applies material-semiotic and ethnographic lenses to examine how her work is taken up today in anthropology and population genetics. By showing how transnational and transcolonial entanglements in race science shape knowledge on human diversity in India, the book offers novel insights to discussions in anthropology, STS, and global history, including the racialization of difference, colonial legacies, and post-colonial sovereignty in science. It contributes to a better understanding of the co-constitution of politics and sciences of human diversity and it argues for a closer attention to inequalities as a way to de-link from the legacies of scientific racism.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Beyond the Voting Rights Act movingly recounts over 30 years of contemporary voting rights battles in the United States from the 1980s to the present day. The book places in context the modern-day battles against voter suppression laws that were embedded in American history and are still underway across the country. It tells a story of that struggle from the author's perspective beginning as a young African American from Cleveland in the 1980s, who reluctantly became involved within this movement as a student activist and inadvertently rose to become an integral part of the ultimate legislative victoryWalter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 258 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book is the result of the first interdisciplinary conference in Vietnam which took place on 'the Rule of Law.' Instead of beginning immediately with a highly specialized debate from the perspective of one single academic discipline, we started to discuss numerous facets of the subject arising from a multidisciplinary dialogue. For this reason, the contributions for this publication come from various scientific disciplines in Vietnam and Germany:political, historical, social, economic and legal sciences, but also members of Vietnamese governmental and non-governmental organizations.The aim of the volume is to open up a dialogue about the Rule of Law between two very different legal cultures, the German-European and the Vietnamese-Southeast Asian. 364 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This short book brings together novel cross-interdisciplinary investigation from both natural and social science, representing a true hybrid across disciplines examining the 'politics' and 'science' of COVID-19. Viruses, Vaccines, and Antivirals: Why Politics Matters considers the dynamics surrounding viruses, proposed vaccines, and antiviral therapies, contextualizing what governments have done during the COVID-19 crisis.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 144 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -A rupture of life on Earth is currently unfolding. What, then, does this rupture signify, not only in terms of being alive during such an upheaval, but also in terms of being alive to upheaval itself Petrified: Living During a Rupture of Life on Earth takes the reader on a journey deep into the nature of our home, to give us the tools to learn how, in the middle of that rupture, to comport ourselves with honesty, clarity, culpability and intelligence. The purpose of this journey is straightforward: to formulate the basis of a philosophy for living during this rupture of life on earth. A philosophy for living in the twenty-first-and-last century of life as we have known it on our planet. A toolkit, as it were, for living at the confluence between being petrified at the prospect of extinction, and becoming petrified in the most real and physical sense. Lyrical, playful, and deadly serious, Petrified aims to provide a new worldview for a new world coming, creating a present-day fable about achieving fidelity to the vicissitudes of the cosmos. Wherein, the book asks: if desperate times call for desperate measures, how can the response be measured against its only true correlate - the cosmos 354 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -A rupture of life on Earth is currently unfolding. What, then, does this rupture signify, not only in terms of being alive during such an upheaval, but also in terms of being alive to upheaval itself Petrified: Living During a Rupture of Life on Earth takes the reader on a journey deep into the nature of our home, to give us the tools to learn how, in the middle of that rupture, to comport ourselves with honesty, clarity, culpability and intelligence. The purpose of this journey is straightforward: to formulate the basis of a philosophy for living during this rupture of life on earth. A philosophy for living in the twenty-first-and-last century of life as we have known it on our planet. A toolkit, as it were, for living at the confluence between being petrified at the prospect of extinction, and becoming petrified in the most real and physical sense. Lyrical, playful, and deadly serious, Petrified aims to provide a new worldview for a new world coming, creating a present-day fable about achieving fidelity to the vicissitudes of the cosmos. Wherein, the book asks: if desperate times call for desperate measures, how can the response be measured against its only true correlate - the cosmos 354 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -A rupture of life on Earth is currently unfolding. What, then, does this rupture signify, not only in terms of being alive during such an upheaval, but also in terms of being alive to upheaval itself Petrified: Living During a Rupture of Life on Earth takes the reader on a journey deep into the nature of our home, to give us the tools to learn how, in the middle of that rupture, to comport ourselves with honesty, clarity, culpability and intelligence.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In the past 25 years or more, political observers have diagnosed a crisis of the sovereign nation state and the erosion of state sovereignty through supranational institutions and the global mobility of capital, goods, information and labour. This edition of the European History Yearbook seeks to use 'cultural sovereignty' as a heuristic concept to provide new views on these developments since the beginning of the 20th century.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 188 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book tells the story of the power generation gas turbine from the perspective of one of the leading companies in the field over a period of nearly 100 years, written by an engineer. Especially in times of imminent global economic crises it appears to be worthwhile to reflect on real economic values and technological leadership based on engineering ingenuity and enduring management. Though the original edition of the book was primarily designed as a technical history of the BBC/ABB/Alstom power generation gas turbines, its scope is sufficiently broad to cover general development trends, including parallel competitor activities; correspondingly the title of this reviewed 3rd edition was adapted in a more general sense. A special benefit is the historical breakdown to the gas turbine component level, so that the book actually outlines the development of axial compressors from early beginnings based on Prandtl's wing theory, the progress in combustion technology towards extraordinary low emission values and that of axial turbines with special emphasis on early turbine cooling innovations, already in the 1930s a stroke of genius of the BBC Baden engineering team. The sheer length of certain engineering developments over several decades allows interesting historic observations and deductions on inherent business mechanisms, the effects of technology preparations and organisational consequences. A look into the mirror of the past provides revelations on the impact of far-reaching business decisions. In 2017 the book received the prestigious Engineer-Historian Award of the ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers). 540 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book tells the story of the power generation gas turbine from the perspective of one of the leading companies in the field over a period of nearly 100 years, written by an engineer. Especially in times of imminent global economic crises it appears to be worthwhile to reflect on real economic values and technological leadership based on engineering ingenuity and enduring management. Though the original edition of the book was primarily designed as a technical history of the BBC/ABB/Alstom power generation gas turbines, its scope is sufficiently broad to cover general development trends, including parallel competitor activities; correspondingly the title of this reviewed 3rd edition was adapted in a more general sense. A special benefit is the historical breakdown to the gas turbine component level, so that the book actually outlines the development of axial compressors from early beginnings based on Prandtl's wing theory, the progress in combustion technology towards extraordinary low emission values and that of axial turbines with special emphasis on early turbine cooling innovations, already in the 1930s a stroke of genius of the BBC Baden engineering team. The sheer length of certain engineering developments over several decades allows interesting historic observations and deductions on inherent business mechanisms, the effects of technology preparations and organisational consequences. A look into the mirror of the past provides revelations on the impact of far-reaching business decisions. In 2017 the book received the prestigious Engineer-Historian Award of the ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers). 540 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book tells the story of the power generation gas turbine from the perspective of one of the leading companies in the field over a period of nearly 100 years, written by an engineer. Especially in times of imminent global economic crises it appears to be worthwhile to reflect on real economic values and technological leadership based on engineering ingenuity and enduring management.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book evaluates whether or not we can decide on the best theory of concepts by appealing to the explanatory results of cognitive science. It undertakes an in-depth analysis of different theories of concepts and of the explanations formulated in cognitive science. As a result, two reasons are provided for thinking that an appeal to cognitive science cannot help to decide on the best theory of concepts.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 194 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Martyrs create space and time through the actions they take, the fate they suffer, the stories they prompt, the cultural narratives against which they take place and the retelling of their tales in different places and contexts. The title 'Desiring Martyrs' is meant in two senses. First, it refers to protagonists and antagonists of the martyrdom narratives who as literary characters seek martyrs and the way they inscribe certain kinds of cultural and social desire. Second, it describes the later celebration of martyrs via narrative, martyrdom acts, monuments, inscriptions, martyria, liturgical commemoration, pilgrimage, etc. Here there is a cultural desire to tell or remember a particular kind of story about the past that serves particular communal interests and goals. By applying the spatial turn to these ancient texts the volume seeks to advance a still nascent social geographical understanding of emergent Christian and Jewish martyrdom. It explores how martyr narratives engage pre-existing time-space configurations to result in new appropriations of earlier traditions.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 244 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Am 11. August 1919 entfiel mit der Weimarer Verfassung die Theaterzensur, die bislang fester Bestandteil des Theaters gewesen war. Die Freiheit der Kunst wurde garantiert. Die Untersuchung beleuchtet die Transformationen um die Aufhebung der Theaterzensur unter dem Begriff 'De-Censorship' und geht der Frage nach, inwiefern sich eine Kontrolle über das Theater dennoch fortsetzte. Besonders anschaulich lässt sich dies an den Theaterskandalen in den 1920er Jahren zeigen, die oftmals ähnlich restriktiv wirkten wie die Zensur. Theaterskandale in der Weimarer Republik sind in ihrer Intensität und Häufigkeit in der Theatergeschichte ohne Beispiel, doch bisher kaum erforscht. Verbale Attacken in den Zeitungen, Tumulte im Zuschauerraum und polizeiliche Maßnahmen waren dabei an der Tagesordnung. Entlang von exemplarischen Fallstudien zu Theaterskandalen aus München erforscht die Arbeit, wie sich die Kontrolle vom Staat auf die Öffentlichkeit verschiebt und zeigt, dass durch Kontrolle und Skandal neue Öffentlichkeiten im Theater der Weimarer Republik nachgewiesen werden können. 8 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Der Band befasst sich mit der 'Halsgerichtsordnung' Kaiser Karls V. aus dem Jahre 1532. Dieses erste deutsche reichseinheitliche Strafgesetz wirkt über viele Jahrhunderte und viele Reformbewegungen hinweg noch immer in unsere heutige Strafrechtsordnung hinein. Es ist bekannt auch unter dem Namen 'Carolina' und steht in markanter Weise für die Rezeption, also die Übernahme von Vorschriften und Ideen aus fremden Rechtsordnungen und dem Versuch, die Anwendung der Folter an frühe rechtsstaatliche Grenzen zu binden. 20 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Der Band befasst sich mit der 'Halsgerichtsordnung' Kaiser Karls V. aus dem Jahre 1532. Dieses erste deutsche reichseinheitliche Strafgesetz wirkt über viele Jahrhunderte und viele Reformbewegungen hinweg noch immer in unsere heutige Strafrechtsordnung hinein. Es ist bekannt auch unter dem Namen 'Carolina' und steht in markanter Weise für die Rezeption, also die Übernahme von Vorschriften und Ideen aus fremden Rechtsordnungen und dem Versuch, die Anwendung der Folter an frühe rechtsstaatliche Grenzen zu binden. 20 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Suizidassistenz wird in der Gesellschaft kontrovers diskutiert. Die Pflege als größte Berufsgruppe im Gesundheitswesen findet in diesem Diskurs allerdings oft wenig Beachtung - dabei sind es nicht selten die Pflegenden sind, die als erste mit Sterbewünschen konfrontiert werden. Dieses Buch stattet den Leser mit aktuellen Hintergrundinformationen aus und ermöglicht durch seine verständliche Darstellung, einen vorurteilsfreien Diskurs mit ausdrücklicher Einbeziehung der pflegerischen Profession und Perspektive zu führen. Es trägt so wesentlich zu einem interdisziplinären und interprofessionellen Dialog bei, der so dringend nötig ist. 347 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Suizidassistenz wird in der Gesellschaft kontrovers diskutiert. Die Pflege als größte Berufsgruppe im Gesundheitswesen findet in diesem Diskurs allerdings oft wenig Beachtung - dabei sind es nicht selten die Pflegenden sind, die als erste mit Sterbewünschen konfrontiert werden. Dieses Buch stattet den Leser mit aktuellen Hintergrundinformationen aus und ermöglicht durch seine verständliche Darstellung, einen vorurteilsfreien Diskurs mit ausdrücklicher Einbeziehung der pflegerischen Profession und Perspektive zu führen. Es trägt so wesentlich zu einem interdisziplinären und interprofessionellen Dialog bei, der so dringend nötig ist. 347 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The book analyses how racial knowledge has circulated in transnational entanglements, particularly between Germany and India, into the research on human variation in India, racializing the understanding of caste and ethnicity. It focuses on the legacy of Irawati Karve (1905-1970), a Indian anthropologist trained at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Eugenics, and Human Heredity in Berlin, Germany (1927-1930) and a prominent scientist in post-colonial India. Besides a historical analysis of Karve's adaptation of racial approaches to the study of Indian castes, the book applies material-semiotic and ethnographic lenses to examine how her work is taken up today in anthropology and population genetics. By showing how transnational and transcolonial entanglements in race science shape knowledge on human diversity in India, the book offers novel insights to discussions in anthropology, STS, and global history, including the racialization of difference, colonial legacies, and post-colonial sovereignty in science. It contributes to a better understanding of the co-constitution of politics and sciences of human diversity and it argues for a closer attention to inequalities as a way to de-link from the legacies of scientific racism.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The Anatomy of Colorism in America addresses the significance that colorism, racial hierarchy, and white skin idealization have each had on the lives of individuals across multiple communities and how those experiences have compared with one another. These three complexion-based imperial systems culturally, legally, politically, and socially divided persons based on differing skin shades, hair textures, eye shapes, facial angles, body types, or claims to mythical racial backgrounds.The Anatomy of Colorism in America argues that the practices associated with empire building and imperial expansion in America, such as manifest destiny, settler colonialism, and indentured servitude and slavery all led to the creation of these complexion-based divisions. Once formed, these divisions led to socially damaging outcomes for the individuals perceived as nonwhite by the local Anglo-American settler colonial class. This book documents four locations and communities where such circumstances emerged and compares them. The four case studies investigated in this book include Blacks in Charleston, South Carolina, the Californios in Alta California, Mormons in Utah, and the relationship between Indigenous Hawaiians, Japanese immigrants, and Anglo-American whites in Hawaii. 216 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The Anatomy of Colorism in America addresses the significance that colorism, racial hierarchy, and white skin idealization have each had on the lives of individuals across multiple communities and how those experiences have compared with one another. These three complexion-based imperial systems culturally, legally, politically, and socially divided persons based on differing skin shades, hair textures, eye shapes, facial angles, body types, or claims to mythical racial backgrounds.The Anatomy of Colorism in America argues that the practices associated with empire building and imperial expansion in America, such as manifest destiny, settler colonialism, and indentured servitude and slavery all led to the creation of these complexion-based divisions. Once formed, these divisions led to socially damaging outcomes for the individuals perceived as nonwhite by the local Anglo-American settler colonial class. This book documents four locations and communities where such circumstances emerged and compares them. The four case studies investigated in this book include Blacks in Charleston, South Carolina, the Californios in Alta California, Mormons in Utah, and the relationship between Indigenous Hawaiians, Japanese immigrants, and Anglo-American whites in Hawaii. 216 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Practices of colorism have been present in American communities since the founding of the nation. Coloring Empires discusses how minor differences in skin shade can lead to major prejudicial divisions within racial and ethnic communities and in nati.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Identifying the antebellum era in the United States as a transitional setting, Imagining Southern Spaces¿investigates spatialization processes about the South during a time when intensifying debates over the abolition of slavery led to a heightened period of (re)spatialization in the region. Taking the question of abolition as a major factor that shaped how different actors responded to these processes, this book studies spatial imaginations in a selection of abolitionist and proslavery literature of the era. Through this diversity of imaginations, the book points to a multitude of Souths in various economic, political, and cultural entanglements in the American Hemisphere and the Circumatlantic. Thus, it challenges monolithic and provincial representations of the South as a provincial region distinct from the rest of the country.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 300 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This interdisciplinary volume explores various identities and their expressions in Georgia from the early 19th century to the present. It focuses on memory culture, the politics of history, and the relations between imperial and national traditions. It also addresses political, social, cultural, personal, religious, and gender identities. Individual contributions address the imperial scenarios of Russia's tsars visiting the Caucasus, Georgian political romanticism, specific aspects of the feminist movement and of pedagogical reform projects before 1917. Others discuss the personality cult of Stalin, the role of the museum built for the Soviet dictator in his hometown Gori, and Georgian nationalism in the uprising of 1956. Essays about the Abkhaz independence movement, the political role of national saints, post-Soviet identity crises, atheist sub-cultures, and current perceptions of citizenship take the volume into the contemporary period.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 208 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The book presents a multi-sited ethnography on the Taiwanese Buddhist order Fo Guang Shan. By considering spatial approaches to the research of modern Chinese religiosities, it adds to the study of modern and contemporary Chinese Buddhism, while also aiming to contribute to a broader understanding of how religious border-crossings and transnational mobilities shape the revival of religion under today's global condition.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 166 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The volume deals with processes of transformation in the cities of Southeastern Europe since the 1980s. It combines historical research with social science analysis to relate macro-processes such as political developments, crises and conflicts to people's perceptions, practices and ideas. The contributions point to the changing power of the market on the functional structure of cities. Contributions deal with different areas of urban development such as infrastructure planning, housing, architecture, management and design of the public space, as well as issues related to the self-image of cities, the ethics of urban development and changes in labor markets and ownership. The volume also examines whether and how images of the past and historical backgrounds, with their specific traditions of cultural diversity and different political systems, have been reflected in urban development around and after 1989.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book is the first extensive study of the categories Hebrew speakers in Israel use for their classification of linguistic variation. It is commonly assumed that Modern Hebrew has no dialects in the traditional sense, despite considerable variation in everyday language use. Its particular sociolinguistic context makes Israel an interesting case to reassess cognitive sociolinguistic theory. This empirical study relies on interviews and experimental data from fieldwork to analyze cognitive processes that shape representations of social groups and linguistic phenomena. It is an original application of Grounded Theory Methodology and introduces the novel method group elicitation and rating task (GERT). 298 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book is the first extensive study of the categories Hebrew speakers in Israel use for their classification of linguistic variation. It is commonly assumed that Modern Hebrew has no dialects in the traditional sense, despite considerable variation in everyday language use. Its particular sociolinguistic context makes Israel an interesting case to reassess cognitive sociolinguistic theory. This empirical study relies on interviews and experimental data from fieldwork to analyze cognitive processes that shape representations of social groups and linguistic phenomena. It is an original application of Grounded Theory Methodology and introduces the novel method group elicitation and rating task (GERT). 298 pp. Englisch.