Brill aug 2010 (60 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Migrationen gehören zu den großen Herausforderungen der Gegenwart. Obwohl aus ökonomischen und demographischen Gründen viele Länder auf Zuwanderungen angewiesen wären, werden sie zunehmend emotional diskutiert und als Bedrohung empfunden. Migrationen gehörten freilich bereits in der Vergangenheit zu…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Die Ideologie, die Scientology zugrunde liegt - hier wird sie entlarvt! Jeder meint zu wissen, worum es bei Scientology geht. Doch es gibt kaum etwas Geheimnisvolleres als dieses weltumspannende Imperium. Handelt es sich um eine Kirche, eine Sekte oder doch um ein bedrohliches Netzwerk, desse…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The history of development cooperation has attracted very little research to date. This volume offers an innovative interpretation by considering the history of SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, which has been in existence for over forty years now. Through SNV's history, an analysis e…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this last decade, poverty in developing countries remains the most important topic of debate at the international level. The main challenge is how to build policies and programs on a gender perspective approach taking into account gender differences in behavior between male and female at t…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This Book of Abstracts is the main publication of the 61st Annual Meeting of the European Association for Animal Production (EAAP) held in Heraklion, Crete Island, Greece, on August 23-27 2010. It contains abstracts of the invited papers and contributed presentations. The meeting addressed s…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume includes fourteen original articles, written by a diverse group of distinguished scholars in honor of Philip Baldi (Penn State University). The contributions all focus on some aspect of classical linguistics, by which is meant Latin, Greek, Etruscan, and Indo-European. Some focus more on…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Food security will exist when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life (as stated in the Rome Declaration in 1996). Given the dimension of the current glo…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For more than a century, from about 1600 until the early eighteenth century, the Dutch dominated world trade. Via the Netherlands the far reaches of the world, both in the Atlantic and in the East, were connected. Dutch ships carried goods, but they also opened up opportunities for the exchange of k…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Hedging is an essential part of everyday communication. It is a discourse strategy which is used to reduce commitment to the force or truth of an utterance to achieve an appropriate pragmatic effect. In recent years hedges have therefore attracted increased attention in Pragmatics and Applied Lingui…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Applying current narrative criticism to the study of the Apocalypse, Hongisto underscores the oral nature of the narrative vis-à-vis the roles of the readers/listeners. EXPERIENCING THE APOCALYPSE AT THE LIMITS OF ALTERITY probes the interplay of meaning creation as readers/listeners encounter the n…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Cairo Genizah has preserved a vast number of medieval and post-medieval letters written in the Jewish variety of Arabic. The linguistic peculiarities of these letters provide an invaluable source for the understanding of the history of the Arabic language and the development of Arabic dialects.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Across the past twenty years major change has taken place in the structure of global society with respect to the nature of migration. The predominant pattern since at least the eighteenth century had been for peoples to move to and settle in Western countries permanently, with relatively little subs…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Late antique identities from the Western Balkans were transformed into new, Slavic identities after c. 600 AD. It was a process that is still having continuous impact on the discursive constructions of ethnic and regional identities in the area. Building on the new ways of reading and studying avail…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume explores early-modern formations of economic thought and policy in a country widely regarded as having followed a unique, non-Western path to capitalism. In discussing such topics as money and the state, freedom and control, national interest ideology, shogunal politics and networks, cas…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the early 14th century, a court nutritionist called Hu Sihui wrote his Yinshan Zhengyao, a dietary and nutritional manual for the Chinese Mongol Empire. Hu Sihui, a man apparently with a Turkic linguistic background, included recipes, descriptions of food items, and dietary medical lore including…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Graeco-Roman literary works, historiography, and even the reporting of rumours were couched as if they came in response to an insatiable desire by ordinary citizens to know everything about the lives of their leaders, and to hold them to account, at some level, for their abuse of constitutional powe…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Volume 8 in the series, appearing in two parts, A and B, deals with the systematics of cyst nematodes of the subfamily Heteroderinae. Cyst nematodes are important pathogens causing extensive damage and significant yield loss to many crops in both temperate and tropical regions. Part A presents summa…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea is an international court with competence to settle disputes concerning the law of the sea. It is a central forum for the settlement of disputes relating to the interpretation and application of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.Thi…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Volume 8 in the series, appearing in two parts, A and B, deals with the systematics of cyst nematodes of the subfamily Heteroderinae. Cyst nematodes are important pathogens causing extensive damage and significant yield loss to many crops in both temperate and tropical regions. Part A presents summa…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The exhibition 'Meisterwerke muhammedanischer Kunst' that took place in Munich in 1910 marked a turning point in the approach to Islamic Art. The show attempted to break free of Orientalism and exotic fantasies and, in doing so, set a new standard for the reception of Islamic art in Europe. Moreover…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This new study argues that the religious attitude of the Roman army was a crucial factor in the Christianization of the Roman world. Specifically, by the end of the third century, there was a significant Christian presence within the army which was ready to act in the interests of the faith. Conditi…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Thirty Years of Reform and Social Changes in China is translated from the original Chinese to provide a look into how scholars in China have been assessing their country's recent societal and political history. This volume and the others in the SSRC series, provide western scholars with an accessibl…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume is a scholarly tribute to Benjamin R. Foster, Laffan Professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature and Curator of the Babylonian Collection at Yale University, from some of his students, colleagues, and companions, in appreciation of his outstanding achievements and in thanks for hi…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book offers fresh readings of the Gospel of Philip (NHC II.3) and the Exegesis on the Soul (NHC II.6) from new theoretical and historical perspectives. Eschewing the category of 'Gnosticism' and challenging common categorisations, the book analyses the preserved Coptic texts as coherent Christi…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Previous scholarship on Arabic prepositions typically has presented these as a static closed class of words. Inevitably, such a treatment does not take into account the diachronic development of prepositions into new functions in syntax, semantics and discourse. The present study applies grammatical…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book, inspired by the sociologist Günter Dux, co-edited by the historian Hans Ulrich Vogel, and introduced by Mark Elvin, is a collective intellectual masterpiece written by some of the world's leading scholars. Its purpose is to illuminate premodern Chinese ways of thinking about Nature by com…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Scholarship on the pre-Bentinck period of Indian history has taken little notice of the inevitable dilemmas of colonial rule as they became visible in the districts. This book argues that the disdain the eighteenth-century Westminster parliaments expressed both for Indians and the East India Company…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The book deals with the Slovene historiography and history of the Slovene and neighbouring territories in the Middle Ages. It is the first work of its kind published in English. It thus makes the medieval history of this part of Europe and some of its fundamental problems accessible to the widest ra…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book provides a comprehensive analysis of EU legislation in the area of legal migration. Five Directives on family reunification, long-term residence, students, researchers and highly qualified migrants are critically assessed. Moreover, the implementation of the Directives in three Member Stat…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Al Qaida, Taliban, Kaschmir, Atombombe: Mit diesen Begriffen wird Pakistan meist in der medialen Berichterstattung bedacht, was der komplexen Situation im Land keinesfalls gerecht wird.In Pakistan überlagern sich ethnische, religiöse und soziale Konflikte, die auch das schwierige Verhältnis z…