Brill apr 2015 (43 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Thinking about and relating to the environment - what the Germans call Umwelt, i.e., the world that surrounds us - in the way that we do today has a long tradition within modern German culture. German scientists were among the many European explorers that left Europe in the late eighteenth century on voyages of discovery to then unknown parts of the world. For some explorers, discovery meant the fundamental confirmation of their own superiority vis-à-vis primitive peoples and primitive natures; for others it resulted in a shake-up of their belief in the superiority of European civilization in the face of the achievements of other civilizations, or in the face of spectacular nature scenes that outperformed the temperate European landscapes in terms of scale, sublimity, and grandeur. The documents that contain these stories of discovery left an important impression not only on German culture, but on European civilization at large, defining it vis-à-vis other civilizations and other natures. Europe today is the product of these encounters, including the way we conceive of our Umwelt, the environment that surrounds us. The story told in this book is the story of the rise of the modern German environmental imagination with particular emphasis on its narrative and visual components, complementing and expanding Barbara Stafford's important work in her seminal study of the illustrated travel account from 1984. Chapters on Georg Forster, Alexander von Humboldt, Albert Bierstadt, Leni Riefenstahl, and Werner Herzog unfold the key stages in a process that constitutes the unfolding of the modern German environmental imagination.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Das Buch 'Tierproduktion und veterinärmedizinische Lebensmittel-hygiene' wendet sich primär an Studenten, die sich mit dem Fachgebiet der Lebens-mittelhygiene und des Öffentlichen Gesundheitswesens in der Veterinärmedizin vertraut machen wollen. Weiters soll es als Nachschlagewerk für im Bereich der 'Veterinary Public Health' in Österreich tätige (amtliche und Amts-)Tierärzte dienen. Das Buch enthält die wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen für die in der europäischen und österreichischen Gesetzgebung geforderten Kenntnisse von Tierärzten, die eine offizielle Kontrollfunktion im veterinärmedizinischen Gesundheitswesen wahrnehmen möchten. Dieses Buch liefert nicht nur die Grundlagen für eine Startkompetenz in diesem wichtigen Fachgebiet, sondern listet auch die wesentlichen nationalen und europäischen Rechtsgrundlagen, denen die amts-tierärztlichen Tätigkeiten auf diesem Gebiet unterliegen, auf bzw. Stellt die entsprechenden Querverweise her. 2. überarbeitete Auflage.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In Martial Arts and the Body Politic in Indonesia Lee Wilson offers an innovative study of nationalism and the Indonesian state through the ethnography of the martial art of Pencak Silat. Wilson shows how technologies of physical and spiritual warfare such as Pencak Silat have long played a prominent role in Indonesian political society. He demonstrates the importance of these technologies to the display and performance of power, and highlights the limitations of theories of secular modernity for understanding political forms in contemporary Indonesia. He offers a compelling argument for a revisionist account of models of power in Indonesia in which authority is understood as precarious and multiple, and the body is politically charged because of its potential for transformation.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In Environment, Trade and Society in Southeast Asia: A Longue Durée Perspective, eleven historians bring their knowledge and insights to bear on the long Braudelian sweep of Southeast Asian history. In doing so they seek both to debunk simplistic assumptions about fragile traditions and transformational modernities, and to identify real repeating patterns in Southeast Asia's past: clientelistic political structures, periodic tectonic and climatic disasters, ethnic occupational specializations, long cycles of economic globalization and deglobalization. Their contributions range across many centuries: from the Austronesian expansion to the Aceh tsunami, and from the Sanskrit cosmopolis to the Asian financial crisis. The book is inspired by, and dedicated to, Peter Boomgaard, a scholar whose work has embodied the Braudelian spirit in Southeast Asian historiography.This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Grazer Philosophische Studien is a peer reviewed journal that publishes articles on philosophical problems in every area, especially articles related to the analytic tradition. Each year at least two volumes are published, including special issues with invited papers. Reviews are accepted by invitation only.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Learning and Teaching Writing Online: Strategies for Success takes a fresh look at the challenge of supporting writers online, and reports on research from around the world to offer a range of learning and teaching strategies. The main themes are feedback in online environments, collaboration through online environments, and course design for online environments.This book is designed for higher education practitioners who are interested in exploring pedagogic approaches for giving feedback and supporting collaborative writing online. It will also appeal to researchers of writing development and technology enhanced learning.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In White Lies and Black Markets, Fatah-Black offers a new account of the colonization of Suriname--one of the major European plantation colonies on the Guiana Coast--in the period between 1650-1800. While commonly portrayed as an isolated tropical outpost, this study places the colony in the context of its connections to the rest of the Atlantic world. These economic and migratory links assured the colony's survival, but also created many incentives to evade the mercantilistically inclined metropolitan authorities. By combining the available data on Dutch and North American shipping with accounts of major political and economic developments, the author uncovers a hitherto hidden world of illicit dealings, and convincingly argues that these illegal practices were essential to the development and survival of the colony, and woven into the fabric of the colonial project itself.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The contributions in Moribund Germanic Heritage Languages in North America advance the ever-expanding research program in formal and theoretical treatments of heritage language grammars through in-depth empirical investigations. The core focus on moribund varieties of heritage Germanic languages extends beyond the exploration of the individual heritage language grammars and contributes to larger discussions in the field of Germanic linguistics.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In Echoes of Success, Ian Stuart Kelly uses new information about late Victorian Scottish Highland battalions to provide new insights into how groups identify themselves, and pass that sense on to successive generations of soldiers.Kelly applies concepts from organisational theory (the study of how organisations function) to demonstrate how soldiers' experiences create a 'blueprint' of expected behaviours and thought patterns that contribute to their battalion's continued success. This model manages the interplay between public perception and actual life experiences more effectively than current approaches to understanding identity. Also, Kelly's primary research offers a more certain description of soldiers' life, faith, education, and discipline than has previously been available.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Studying Religions with the Iron Curtain Closed and Open. The Academic Study of Religion in Eastern Europe offers an account of the research focused on the origins, development and the current situation of the Study of Religions in the 20th century in countries such as the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine, and Russia. Special attention is devoted to the ideological influences determining the interpretation of religion, especially connected with the rise of Marxist-Leninist criticism of religion.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This first monograph in English on Colluthus situates this late antique author within his cultural context and offers a new appraisal of his hexameter poem The Abduction of Helen, the end-point of the pagan Greek epic tradition, which was composed in the Christianised Egyptian Thebaid. The book evaluates the poem's connections with long-established and contemporary literary and artistic genres and with Neoplatonic philosophy, and analyzes the poet's re-negotiation of traditional material to suit the expectations of a late fifth-century AD audience. It explores Colluthus' interpretation of the contemporary fascination with visuality, identifies new connections between Colluthus and Claudian, and shows how the author's engagement with the poetry of Nonnus goes much further than previously shown.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Protection challenges around the globe require innovative legal, policy and practical responses. Drawing primarily from a new generation of researchers in the field of refugee law, this volume explores the 'boundaries' of refugee law. On the one hand, it ascertains the scope of the legal provisions by highlighting new trends in State practice and analysing the jurisprudence of international human rights bodies, as well as national and international Courts. On the other hand, it marks the boundaries of refugee law as 'legal frontiers' whilst exploring new approaches and new frameworks that are necessary in order to address the emerging protection challenges.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - While comparative studies on purity and impurity presented in the last decades have mostly concentrated on the ancient world or on modern developments, this volume focusses the hitherto comparatively neglected period between ca. 300 and 1600 c. E. The collection is innovative because it not only combines papers on both European and Asian cultures but also considers a wide variety of religions and confessions. The articles are written by leading experts in the field and are presented in six systematic sections. This analytical categorization facilitates understanding the functional spectrum that the binomial purity and impurity could cover in past societies. The volume thus presents an in-depth comparative analysis of a category of paramount importance for interfaith relations and processes of transfer. Contributors are: Aziz al-Azmeh, Matthias Bley, Sven Bretfeld, Miriam Czock, Licia Di Giacinto, Hans-Werner Goetz, Elisabeth Hollender, Nikolas Jaspert, Stefan Köck, Stefan Leder, Hanna Liss, Christopher MacEvitt, Hermann-Josef Röllicke, Paolo Santangelo, and Ephraim Shoham-Steiner.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In Europe and the Americas: Transatlantic Approaches to Human Rights, leading scholars of different disciplines offer new insight into transatlantic approaches to human rights. At a time when global challenges (economic crises, poverty, terrorism, mass migration and climate change) have a profound impact on the universal development of human rights and democracy, a common transatlantic understanding of human rights may prove instrumental in meeting these challenges. Through conceptual discussions, by analysing different human rights topics in different periods and regions (Europe, the United States and Latin America), and by focusing on a diverse range of actors, from policy makers and judicial institutions to academics and civil society, the authors identify key developments of human rights within a transatlantic framework.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The adoption of the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing to the Convention on Biological Diversity in 2010 is a major landmark for the global governance of genetic resources and traditional knowledge. The way in which it will be translated into practice will however depend on the concrete implementation in national country legislation across the world. Implementing the Nagoya Protocol compares existing ABS regimes in ten European countries, including one non-EU member and one EU candidate country, and critically explores several cross-cutting issues related to the implementation of the Nagoya Protocol in the EU. Gathering some of the most professional and widely acclaimed experts in ABS issues, this book takes a major step towards filling a gap in the vast body of literature on national and regional implementation of global commitments regarding ABS and traditional knowledge.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In Envoys of A Human God Andreu Martínez offers a comprehensive study of the religious mission led by the Society of Jesus in Christian Ethiopia. The mission to Ethiopia was one of the most challenging undertakings carried out by the Catholic Church in early modern times.The book examines the period of early Portuguese contacts with the Ethiopian monarchy, the mission's main developments and its aftermath, with the expulsion of the Jesuit missionaries. The study profits from both an intense reading of the historical record and the fruits of recent archaeological research. Long-held historiographical assumptions are challenged and the importance of cultural and socio-political factors in the attraction and ultimate estrangement between European Catholics and Ethiopian Christians is highlighted.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Much has been written about the activity of Lenin and his colleagues on the editorial board of the Iskra newspaper, whereas little has been said about the opponents of Leninism, who unsuccessfully fought for control of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party during the Iskra period. To redress the balance, Richard Mullin has translated 25 documents from this period, most of which express an anti-Lenin view. They include articles from Rabochee Delo, the Jewish Bund's Poslednie Izvestiia and the post-Lenin Iskra, pamphlets by Plekhanov and Martov, the resolutions of Party meetings and some very revealing private correspondence. However, the result is not an anti-Bolshevik polemic: through these documents a clearer, and curiously flattering picture of Lenin's thought and activity is obtained.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Created in order to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities (1992-2012), this publication aims to offer readers a comprehensive review, written by a variety of scholars in the field, of the value and impact of the standards formulated in the Declaration. In so doing, it hopes to stimulate attention for and debate around the Declaration and its principles. The regional perspectives and case studies included further enable the identification of positive initiatives and good practices as well as persistent gaps in the implementation of the standards enshrined in the Declaration.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Proto-Slavic, the reconstructed ancestor of the Slavic languages, presents a rich inflectional system inherited from Proto-Indo-European. In this handbook all the inflectional endings of Proto-Slavic are traced back to Proto-Indo-European through a systematic comparison with the corresponding forms in related languages.Applying a redefinition of Proto-Slavic based on prehistoric loanword relations with neighbouring non-Slavic languages, Thomas Olander provides a new look at the Proto-Slavic inflectional system. The systematic, coherent and exhaustive approach laid out in the handbook paves the way for new solutions to long-standing problems of Slavic historical grammar.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Bringing together scholars from different disciplines and geographies, the Brill Handbook of Spiritualism and Channeling presents modern spirit possession in a variety of contexts. Weaving together the interrelated movements of Spiritualism along with its specific Franco and Latin American currents, articles explore the nineteenth-century beginnings of séances and trance mediumship.Channelling, an heir to Spiritualism begun in the 1970s and still flourishing today, is brought into direct conversation with its predecessors with a view to showing both continuity and disjuncture as the products of new cultural and religious needs. The Brill Handbook marks the first extensive collection on these two interrelated movements and examines themes such as gender, race, performance, and technology in each instance.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The remarkable volume collects essays and studies on the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and its application. Its aim is to offer a series of contributions, made by distinguished scholars and legal experts, on the Charter considered as a living legal instrument, with a view to understanding whether, five years after its entry into force and fifteen years after its first proclamation, it is being taken seriously, and whether its use and effective impact within the legal orders and practice of the European Union and Member States can realistically improve in the coming years. The contributions are structured and organized around three main themes, 'The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights as a Legal Instrument: General Issues', 'The Charter and Social Rights', and 'Assessing the Legal Impact of the Charter at the National Level'. Scholars and experts participating in the book have conducted, under the supervision of its editor, extensive and in-depth analysis on the many issues raised by each of these themes. The result is a fascinating and varied collection of essays that combines high academic quality with great practical usefulness.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - 'What's wrong with international law ' This is the question Professor A.H.A. Soons provocatively posed to his colleagues around the world when leaving his chair in public international law at Utrecht University. Meant to provoke discussion about what actually is wrong with international law as well as act in defence of the discipline, his conclusion was a resounding 'nothing!' Honouring Professor Soons's achievements throughout his long career as a scholar and a practitioner of international law, this Liber Amicorum exmaines whether, indeed, there is something wrong with international law. The contributors identify gaps or 'wrong norms' in specific fields of international law, and assess whether there is something wrong with the regulatory function of international law as a system for creating global public order.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The UNECE Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes provides invaluable insights into the contribution of this international agreement towards transboundary water cooperation via its legal provisions, accompanying institutional arrangements and subsidiary policy mechanisms.Contributing authors - experts on key aspects of the Convention - address a broad range of issues, primarily concerning its: development and evolution; relationship with other multi-lateral agreements; regulatory framework and general principles; tools for arresting transboundary pollution; procedural rules; compliance and liability provisions; and select issues including its Protocol on Water and Health.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This work is an annotated edition of a ritual manuscript, written in the traditional Zhuang character script. The Hanvueng epic is a narrative in verse about murderous enmity between two royal step-brothers, recited when there is fraternal feuding, death by violence, outbreaks of smallpox, or other such disasters. The theme of enmity is an important one that resonates deeply in the Tai societies on the periphery of the Chinese empire. The narrative touches on many other aspects of life in the valley-kingdoms in the highlands of Guangxi: marriage and inheritance, match-making, slavery and social stratification, agriculture, hunting, fishing, raiding, livestock raising dye-making, wild animals and plants, and the use of ritual to put things to rights. …

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Since 1999, the EU has adopted legislation harmonizing many areas of immigration law, in particular rules on borders, visas, legal migration, and irregular migration. The much-enlarged and fully updated second edition of this book contains the text of and detailed commentary upon every significant measure in this field proposed or adopted up until 1 September 2011. It includes commentary on the EU visa code, the Schengen Borders Code, the Frontex Regulation, the Returns Directive, the Directives on family reunion, long-term residents and single permits for migrant workers, and many more besides. This is the essential guide for any lawyers, academics, civil servants, NGOs and students interested in this area of law. The authors of each commentary are academic and practitioner experts in the field of EU immigration law based in the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands. Also available as a set of 3 volumes see isbn 9789004222304.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Michail M. Bachtin, der durch die Entwicklung der literaturwissenschaftlichen Paradigmen der Dialogizität und Polyphonie Berühmtheit erlangte, wurde noch nicht ausreichend als Vertreter der ihrerseits vernachlässigten russischen Philosophie wahrgenommen.Auch im philosophischen Frühwerk bilden Dialog und Vielfalt den roten Faden. Unter der Prämisse seines dynamisch-organischen Menschenbildes ist der Mensch dort am vollkommensten, wo ihm ein anderer antwortet. Bachtins Frühwerk ist ein mutiges, aber nicht leicht zu erschließendes Plädoyer für Einheit in der Vielfalt und Vielfalt in der Einheit. Dieses Modell gegenseitiger Anerkennung wird an den Phänomenen Liebe und Tod veranschaulicht und bietet in seinem phänomenologischen Vorgehen thematische und methodische Anknüpfungspunkte. Es wird historisch und systematisch interpretiert und erschlossen.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Ce livre présente une étude historique et culturel sur l'art figuration humaine et le portrait dans un contexte islamique médiéval basé sur des sources littéraires et iconographiques. Avec: Sheila Blair; Éloïse Brac de la Perrière; Oleg Grabar; Kata Keresztely; Mika Natif; Yves Porter; Houari Touati This book presents an art historical and cultural study of human figuration and portraiture in a medieval islamic context, based on literary and iconographic sources. With contributions by: Sheila Blair; Éloïse Brac de la Perrière; Oleg Grabar; Kata Keresztely; Mika Natif; Yves Porter; Houari Touati.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Die Geografen Hermann und Robert Schlagintweit sowie der Geologe Adolph Schlagintweit zählen zu den ersten deutschen Wissenschaftlern, die den Himalaya und das Karakorum-Gebirge erforschten. Einige Gebiete dieser damals weithin noch unerschlossenen Gebirgsregionen betraten sie als erste Europäer überhaupt. Die Expedition war von Alexander v. Humboldt angeregt und durch die britische Ostindien-Kompanie sowie den preußischen König Friedrich Wilhelm IV. finanziert worden. Diese Konstellation erwies sich als konfliktreich. Die Entdeckungsreisenden sahen sich der universalwissenschaftlichen Naturforschung Humboldts verpflichtet - aber auch den politischen und wirtschaftlichen Interessen ihrer britischen Auftraggeber. Dies und der unterschiedliche Wissensstand über Asien in Großbritannien und dem restlichen Europa sorgten für kontroverse Bewertungen der Expedition, die zwischen einer Glorifizierung der Brüder als herausragender Entdecker und ihrer kompletten Ablehnung schwankten. Die Autoren dieses reichbebilderten Katalogs stellen die Expedition und ihre Ergebnisse erneut auf den Prüfstand, geben Aufschluss über die Organisation einer solch großen Unternehmung und vermitteln einen Einblick in die umfangreichen Sammlungen, welche für heutige Forschungsfragen weiterhin von großer Relevanz sind.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Friedrich Hielscher (1902-1990) ist eine der widersprüchlichsten Gestalten der deutschen Geistesgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts: Freikorpskämpfer und Agitator, Schriftsteller und Mystiker, Gegner der Nationalsozialisten, Gründer einer heidnischen Kirche, Freund und Gesprächspartner von Theodor Heuß, Ernst Jünger, Alfred Kantorowicz und Martin Buber. Hielscher zählte in der Weimarer Republik zu den führenden nationalrevolutionären Publizisten und entwickelte ein mystisches, nicht völkisch-rassistisches Verständnis von Deutschtum. Als Kritiker des Nationalsozialismus versuchte er eine Widerstandsgruppe aufzubauen. In den 1960er Jahren zunächst als magischer Guru des Dritten Reichs verklärt, verschwand Hielscher aus dem öffentlichen Bewusstsein und widmete sich seiner weitgehend geheimen »Unabhängigen Freikirche«, deren Glaubensinhalte auf die germanische Mythologie Bezug nahmen. Mit seiner Kapitalismus-Kritik und Fortschrittsskepsis steht Hielscher auch im Zusammenhang mit Ursprüngen der Alternativbewegung. Der Band enthält einen Bildteil mit teils noch nie publizierten Fotografien Hielschers.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Unsere Welt voller Untergänge und Katastrophen ist zugleich eine Welt voller Rettungen, Retter und Rettungsgeschichten. Täglich werden Rettungspakete geschnürt und Rettungsschirme gespannt, damit angesichts der drohenden Untergangsszenarien solches Rettungshandeln als alternativlos erscheine. Derartige Heilsversprechen lassen sich einerseits als Diskursinstrument zur Plausibilisierung und Invisibilisierung politisch kontingenten Handelns betrachten. Andererseits bilden sie ein zentrales und historisch tief eingewurzeltes Basisnarrativ unserer Kultur, welches die Beiträger von der Frühen Neuzeit bis in die Gegenwart in ihrer religiöstheologischen, biopolitischen, sozialgeschichtlichen, technischen und medialen Dimension erkunden. Gegenstand sind literarische Texte sowie bioethische, populäre, ästhetische und politisch-philosophische Diskurse vom 17. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart.…