Brill aug 2004 (7 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A Foot and Mouth Disease outbreak is not by definition similar to a Foot and Mouth Disease crisis. Why then did the 2001 outbreak result in a crisis situation in the Netherlands It was not because nobody was prepared for it. The Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management and Fisheries had a scenario in stock. The scenario was applied as intended. The scenario did what it was supposed to do: it prevented the spreading of the disease, it resulted in a relatively soon eradication of the disease and it minimised damage to agricultural exports. Nevertheless, the crisis was there. ''Foot and Mouth Disease: new values, innovative research agenda's and policies'' reports a process in which individuals and groups involved in the crisis participated in a joint analysis of what caused the crisis, and in the making of a policy and research agenda. The conclusion was that ignorance of the societal function of animals and countryside was the cause of the crisis: the scenario focussed on Foot and Mouth Disease control in a production-oriented environment. In reality many people perceived that the scenario and its rigid application threatened nonproduction values such as the companion role of animals and the recreation function of the landscape. Inevitably a next outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease will occur. However, research and policy makers should seriously take up this perception of animals and countryside to prevent an outbreak of becoming a deep crisis again.'.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This publication is the first in a series on HIV/AIDS and agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa with the overall objective of providing a resource base on issues of rural development in a broad sense in the times of HIV/AIDS. This first book discusses the impact of the epidemic as it has emerged over the last decades at different levels of the agricultural sector, namely the farming system level, the livelihood level, and the household level. In a further step, impact on the agricultural estate sector as well as pastoralism is discussed. One overarching issue that emerges is the importance of gender attributes to adequately understand and address HIV/AIDS impact - the topic at the centre of the second part of the series. The text ends with a discussion of HIV/AIDS in relation to other shocks that befall rural livelihoods. It is followed by an annotated bibliography.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - No detailed description available for 'Calixtus II (1119-1124): A Pope Born to Rule'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This commentary provides a detailed analysis of the first book of Ovid's Fasti, a complex poem which takes as its central framework the Roman calendar in the late Augustan/early Tiberian period and purports to deal with its religious festivals and their origins. Book 1 covers the month of January, and has proven to be particularly challenging to readers in light of the apparent revision/reworking of the text undertaken by the poet whilst in exile. This commentary - the most extensive yet on any single book of the poem - locates the text of Book 1 firmly in its literary, historical and socio-political contexts and seeks both to incorporate and build on the recent scholarship on the poem. In light of the special nature of Book 1, the commentary is prefaced by two introductory sections, the second of which tackles head-on the problems (and dynamics) of post-exilic reworking of the text.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book contains a collection of essays on the notion of 'Free Speech' in classical antiquity. The essays examine such concepts as 'freedom of speech,' 'self-expression,' and 'censorship,' in ancient Greek and Roman culture from historical, philosophical, and literary perspectives. Among the many questions addressed are: what was the precise lexicographical valence of the ancient terms we routinely translate as 'Freedom of Speech,' e.g., Parrhesia in Greece, Licentia in Rome What relationship do such terms have with concepts such as isêgoria, dêmokratia and eleutheria; or libertas, res publica and imperium What does ancient theorizing about free speech tell us about contemporary relationships between power and speech What are the philosophical foundations and ideological underpinnings of free speech in specific historical contexts.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Der Gedanke, dass jede Präsenz mit Absenz durchsetzt ist und jedes Selbe ein anderes bleibt, begegnet uns nicht erst bei Derrida, sondern schon in Merleau-Pontys später Ontologie. Die Suche richtet sich hier auf ein Unsichtbares, das dieser Welt selbst zugehört und ihr Struktur und Relief gibt, und auf ein Nichtsehen, das sich dem Bewusstseinsfeld selbst einschreibt als blinder Fleck, der jeder Welt- und Selbstverfügung spottet. Das Sein bekommt Risse. Es ist nicht vor uns, sondern um uns, eher Element als Gegenstand. Fassen lässt es sich nur indirekt, in den Höhlungen, Kreuzungsstellen und Verschachtelungen dessen, was uns in der Erfahrung begegnet.Brill Deutschland GmbH, Wollmarktstr. 115, 33098 Paderborn 391 pp. Deutsch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Der Gedanke, dass jede Präsenz mit Absenz durchsetzt ist und jedes Selbe ein anderes bleibt, begegnet uns nicht erst bei Derrida, sondern schon in Merleau-Pontys später Ontologie. Die Suche richtet sich hier auf ein Unsichtbares, das dieser Welt selbst zugehört und ihr Struktur und Relief gibt, und auf ein Nichtsehen, das sich dem Bewusstseinsfeld selbst einschreibt als blinder Fleck, der jeder Welt- und Selbstverfügung spottet. Das Sein bekommt Risse. Es ist nicht vor uns, sondern um uns, eher Element als Gegenstand. Fassen lässt es sich nur indirekt, in den Höhlungen, Kreuzungsstellen und Verschachtelungen dessen, was uns in der Erfahrung begegnet.…