Brill aug 2009 (44 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This workbook accompanies the textbook 'Institutional economics and economic organisation theory: an integrated approach'. It has the same structure as the textbook. For every chapter, it provides questions and exercises to become more acquainted with the theories introduced in the textbook.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From democratic restoration in the 1980s up to today, most Latin American countries have been struggling constantly to find a workable balance between the need to strengthen the authority of state institutions and their citizens' aspirations to have a real say in the decision-making process.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This Book of Abstracts is the main publication of the 60th Annual Meeting of the European Association for Animal Production (EAAP) held in Barcelona, Spain, on August 24-27 2009. It contains abstracts of the invited papers and contributed presentations. The meeting addressed subjects relatin…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A considerable amount of writing has been published on Japan at war in the Second World War, and more recently scholars have been revisiting the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5; whereas this volume strives to examine Japan's twentieth-century approach to war and militarism in a wider perspective…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This new translation, the lifework of the author, is fully academically oriented. Given that it is the largest Japanese poetic anthology and thus the most important compendium of Japanese culture of the Asuka period (AD 592-710) and most of the Nara period (AD 710-784), it is very much more t…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The story of Latin American evangelicals doing theology is mostly unknown. In the 1970s there was an important development with the formation of the Latin American Theological Fraternity (FTL). This group spearheaded the theological production in Latin America, marking the beginning of a critical st…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Security is an all-encompassing term of art which is subject to diverse interpretations and understandings. It includes notions of protection against transnational threats, including terrorism, inter- and intra-state conflict, nuclear proliferation, forced migration, violation of women's righ…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The World Bank Policy for Projects on International Waterways: An Historical and Legal Analysis discusses the evolution and context of the Bank policy for projects on international waterways. It starts with a brief description of how the Bank faced the challenges stemming from such projects, and ana…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The central question of this volume is, whether present day medical visualisation techniques like ultrasound, endoscopy, CT, MRI and PET-scans mark a significant shift in the experience of bodily interiority. These visualisation techniques enable not only medical researchers and practitioners to loo…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 1975, a group of Dutch and British scholars published a conference volume of collected essays entitled Some Political Mythologies. That conference sought to examine the political myth as an object of historical study, particularly in the context of the tumultuous and exceptional history of the Lo…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Vincent Guillin uses the issue of sexual equality as a prism through which to examine important differences - epistemological, methodological and theoretical - between Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill. He succeeds in showing how their differing conceptions of science and human nature influence and…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Since the publication of the first edition of Richard Popkin's classic The History of Scepticism in 1960, skepticism has been increasingly recognized as a major force in the development of early modern philosophy. This book provides a review of current scholarship and significant updated research on…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A long discussed theme concerning Ezekiel 18 and 20 is the relationship between collective and individual responsibility. In the first half of the twentieth century the discussion appeared to end as a result of the introduction of the corporate personality by Henry Wheeler Robinson (1872-1945). This…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book contains the proceedings of the XIth International Symposium on Ruminant Physiology. The papers address ruminant comparative physiology, the rumen ecosystem and metagenomics, nutrient digestion and absorption, methanogenesis, tissue metabolism and gene expression, pregnancy, lactati…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Professions are central to any political sociology of major associations, organizations and venues in civil society underpinning democracy; they are not a subset of livelihoods in a mundane sociology of work and occupations. Professions in Civil Society and the State is at once elegant and st…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book portrays the achievements and progress of equality at work between men and women. The relevant UN Conventions, the ILO Philadelphia Declaration of 1944 and the numerous ILO Conventions and Recommendations on the development of equality are recalled. The European Union has applied and devel…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Polish-Lithuanian Jewry was the center of the early modern Jewish world, and the most outstanding symbol of its glory was the famous Jewish autonomy. In spite of the considerable attention that scholars have paid to the Council of the Four Lands, surprisingly little information was available from th…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Offering a fresh assessment of the presence and function of paraenesis within Valentinianism, this book places Valentinian moral exhortation within the context of early Christian moral discourse. Like other early Christians, Valentinians were not only interested in ethics, but used moral exhortation…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The introduction of invasive marine species into new environments, whether by ships' ballast water, attached to ships' hulls or via other means has been identified as one of the four main threats to the world's oceans, along with land-based sources of marine pollution, over-exploitation of living m…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The book deals with the characters and evolution of the European economy from the high Middle Ages until the start of modern growth in the 19th century. Europe is always set in a global context and the European specific features are analysed on the background of the world economy. The main aim of th…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Law played a key role in the workings of Roman culture, and legal discourse was important even in non-legal Latin literature. A proper understanding of that literature requires an investigation of the ways legal language is used. Nevertheless, legal elements have so far been widely neglected by scho…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Complex, brutal and challenging, the First World War continues to inspire dynamic research and debate. The third volume to emerge from the pioneering work of the International Society for First World War Studies, this collection of new essays reveals just how plural the conflict actually was - its t…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One of the most important and controversial themes in the contemporary dialogue among scientists and Christian theologians is the issue of 'divine action' in the world. This volume brings together contributions from leading scholars on this topic, which emerged out of the Scientific Perspectives on…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This revised and updated collection is intended to serve as a thematic textbook on the institutions and procedures devoted to the national implementation of human rights and to the international monitoring of State performance. Albeit not exhaustive, the coverage extends to most of the monitoring in…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In an original and compelling examination of traditional mathematics, this comprehensive study of the anonymous Manual of Mongolian Astrology and Divination (published by A. Mostaert in 1969) takes on the fundamental problem of the post-enlightenment categorization of knowledge, in particular the in…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Vor 70 Jahren, am 1. September 1939, erhielt die deutsche Wehrmacht den Befehl zum Einmarsch in Polen. Damit begann der Zweite Weltkrieg. Für insgesamt 18,2 Millionen (davon 1,3 Millionen österreichische) Männer eine Erfahrung, die ihr Leben und das ihrer Familien nachhaltig negativ beeinflusste. Ni…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Diese Broschüre zur Frage einer Komparativen Theologie veröffentlicht zwei Beiträge, die zu diesem Thema beim ersten Forschungstag der Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste im Oktober 2007 vorgetragen und diskutiert worden sind. Der Forschungstag der Akademie dien…