brill jun 2016 (91 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What is it like to rehabilitate sun bears in the rainforests of Malaysia Why are sloth bears trained to dance How is traditional Chinese medicine implicated in the deaths of black bears in North America Bear Necessities answers all of these questions, and many more. Through the voices of activists, scientists, and educators, readers walk alongside those who pull sun bears from Vietnamese bile farms, track Andean bears in the rugged hills of Ecuador, work to protect Montana's grizzlies in the courtroom, and gently heal the many wounded bears who live in sanctuaries around the world. Though almost every bear species is endangered or severely threatened, Bear Necessities offers hope through knowledge and understanding, which reside at the heart of change.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Seit 1980 findet in Venedig die Architekturbiennale statt. Nach dem Vorbild der Kunstbiennale sind seit 1991 auch Länderpavillons Bestandteil der Ausstellung - auch jener Deutschlands. Damit markiert das seit 1989 mauerlose und seit 1990 wiedervereinigte Deutschland von Anfang an den politisch-kulturellen Referenzrahmen der deutschen Beiträge zur Architekturbiennale Venedig.Germania, Venezia präsentiert zum ersten Mal die bis heute realisierten deutschen Beiträge zur Architekturbiennale Venedig in ihren inhaltlichen, kuratorischen und szenografischen Dimensionen. Eine Oral History mit Interviews aller wichtigen Akteure rekapituliert, wie sich das wiedervereinigte Deutschland auf dieser weltweit wichtigsten Architekturausstellung präsentiert hat.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - On Coerced Labor focuses on those forms of labor relations that have been overshadowed by the 'extreme' categories (wage labor and chattel slavery) in the historiography. It covers types of work lying between what the law defines as 'free labor' and 'slavery.' The frame of reference is the observation that although chattel slavery has largely been abolished in the course of the past two centuries, other forms of coerced labor have persisted in most parts of the world. While most nations have increasingly condemned the continued existence of slavery and the slave trade, they have tolerated labor relationships that involve violent control, economic exploitation through the appropriation of labor power, restriction of workers' freedom of movement, and fraudulent debt obligations.Contributors are: Lisa Carstensen, Christian G. De Vito, Justin F. Jackson, Christine Molfenter, David Palmer, Nicola Pizzolato, Luis F.B. Plascencia, Magaly Rodríguez García, Kelvin Santiago-Valles, Nicole J. Siller, Marcel van der Linden, Sven Van Melkebeke.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is the first scholarly edition of Job according to the Peshitta, the Syriac translation of the Hebrew Old Testament from the second century CE, and up to this day the Bible of the Syriac Churches.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Adorno and the Concept of Genocide examines the legacy of Critical Theory's foremost authority on life 'after Auschwitz.' As a leading member of the Frankfurt School and one of post-war Europe's most important public intellectuals, Adorno's reflections on genocide and its relation to contemporary society achieved a level of urgency and insight that remains unparalleled to this day.Assembled here for the first time in English is a wide-ranging collection of essays on the seminal significance of the concept of genocide for Adorno's thought, as well as the enduring relevance of that thought for our own time.Contributors include: Babette Babich, Ryan Crawford, Tom Huhn, Osman Nemli, Ulrich Plass, Erik M. Vogt, James R. Watson, Markus Zöchmeister.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is the first scholarly edition of Apocalypse of Baruch and 4 Esdras according to the Peshitta, the Syriac translation of the Hebrew Old Testament from the second century CE, and up to this day the Bible of the Syriac Churches.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The critical text edition of the books of Chronicles in Syriac.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is the first scholarly edition of Judges and Samuel according to the Peshitta, the Syriac translation of the Hebrew Old Testament from the second century CE, and up to this day the Bible of the Syriac Churches.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is the first scholarly edition of Kings according to the Peshitta, the Syriac translation of the Hebrew Old Testament from the second century CE, and up to this day the Bible of the Syriac Churches.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Transboundary Offshore Aquifers: A Search for a Governance Regime, Renee Martin-Nagle explains the geologic origins of offshore freshwater aquifers and proposes a governance regime for offshore aquifers that are shared by two or more nations. While the existence of freshwater offshore aquifers under continental shelves has been known for decades, none discovered thus far straddle an international border. In the event that an offshore aquifer shared by two or more nations is identified and targeted for development, selection of a governance regime for the aquifer will present a unique challenge, and several current legal systems could provide valuable guidance. While laws addressing transboundary land-based aquifers are still in a nascent stage, customary international law for surface water has evolved over centuries and could provide analogous rules for development of another freshwater resource. This monograph explores principles for sharing natural resources and proposes a governance regime for transboundary offshore aquifers.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The past 50 years have witnessed achievement of a set of widely attested empirical findings on major research issues in SLA. They pertain to such matters as cross-linguistic influence; processes and sequences in interlanguage development; age effects; incidental and intentional, learning and implicit and explicit knowledge; the role of the linguistic environment and of the broader social context as sources of positive and negative evidence and of opportunities for input, interaction and output; and effects of individual differences in language aptitudes and other cognitive and affect variables. Robust findings in any scientific field constitute empirical 'problems' that require explanation and motivate theoretical work. In this inaugural volume of Brill Research Perspectives in Multilingualism and Second Language Acquisition , Michael Long, Gisela Granena and Yucel Yilmaz review work on a selection of these issues, and note implications of some of the work for language teaching, educational language planning, human migration, and other important matters of social concern.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A new etymological dictionary of the entire Latin lexicon of Indo-European origin, and of the inherited stock of the other ancient Italic languages, such as Oscan, Umbrian and South Picene.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Conquest and Construction Mark Dike DeLancey investigates the palace architecture of northern Cameroon, a region that was conquered in the early nineteenth century by primarily semi-nomadic, pastoralist, Muslim, Ful?e forces and incorporated as the largest emirate of the Sokoto Caliphate. Palace architecture is considered first and foremost as political in nature, and therefore as responding not only to the needs and expectations of the conquerors, but also to those of the largely sedentary, agricultural, non-Muslim conquered peoples who constituted the majority population. In the process of reconciling the cultures of these various constituents, new architectural forms and local identities were constructed.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Fictional World of Javier Marías examines the origin and meaning of uncertainty in the key works of Spain's leading contemporary novelist by engaging with the many language-related issues common to his narrative.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Reduced Laughter: Seriocomic Features and their Functions in the Book of Kings, Helen Paynter uses a hermeneutic of carnivalization and mirroring to offer a radical, satirical re-evaluation of the Elijah-Elisha and Aram narratives in the book of Kings.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The volume dedicates itself to the rather neglected field of political poetry and offers a broad perspective across the centuries from Plato until the post-war period. The first part describes the social function of poetry in Plato, his reception in Heidegger and in Ezra Pound's poetry. A contribution on Milton complements this with a great poet`s reflection on central political questions. The second part, pre 20th century, is rounded off by two rulers from the edges of Europe or Asia who left their mark both on history and on the literary history of their country: the Georgian king Teimuraz I and the Persian ruler Shah Ismail. This theme is continued in the last contribution dedicated to an outstanding combination of political and poetic talent from recent history, Mao Zedong. Two other contributions refer to the epoch of WWI, Europe`s big cultural caesura, and they dedicate themselves to two eminently influential figures, Stefan George and Vladimir Mayakowsky.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Muslim Sanzijing, Roberta Tontini traces the history of Islam and Islamic law in China through a rigorous analysis of popular Chinese Islamic primers from the 18th to the 21st century.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Isaiah Shembe's Hymns and the Sacred Dance in Ibandla lamaNazaretha, Nkosinathi Sithole explores the hymns of Prophet Isaiah Shembe and the sacred dance in Ibandla LamaNazaretha, and offers an emic perspective on the Church which has attracted scholars from different disciplines. Isaiah Shembe's Hymns and the Sacred Dance in Ibandla lamaNazaretha posits that in the hymns, Shembe found a powerful medium through which he could voice his concerns as an African in colonial times, while praising and worshipping God. Sithole also refutes claims by some scholars that the sacred dance was a response to colonialism and oppression, showing that in fact the sacred dance in Ibandla lamaNazaretha is considered to be a form of worship and is thought to exist on earth and in heaven.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The supply of new innovative precision dairy farming technologies is steadily increasing. It aims to help farmers to be more labour efficient and to support them in their daily management decisions. At the same time, since many technologies are developed from an engineering perspective, adoption of these technologies is sometimes limited since knowledge on economic benefits and farmers' needs is often incomplete. This book covers the current status of precision dairy farming technologies and what farmers expect from them. It also includes insights and future perspectives on managing, analysing, and combining sensor information. Moreover, new innovative ideas that may better fit farmers' needs and expectation are introduced, ranging from technologies or innovations that aim at improved animal health and welfare, to those technologies that result in a more efficient use of feed and improved grazing management. This book is unique because science and engineering are combined to develop precision dairy farming technologies that are to be applied in practice. The book will serve as a stepping stone for new and innovative ideas within this rapidly growing area within dairy farming.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Interpretation and Meaning in Philosophy and Religion synthesizes cutting-edge philosophical reflections on interpretation with their application to religion. For this, new theoretical insights on interpretation by Krausz, Lamarque, Leddy, Hagberg, and Gibson are examined. Topics cover multiplism (i.e. interpretative pluralism), the goal of interpretation and its starting point. These concepts are then studied in relation to the practice of interpreting religious texts. For example, Grube proposes that the action-relevance of religious interpretations limits the possibility of tolerating divergent interpretations, Karrer-Grube challenges Lamarque's insistence on a firm starting point, and Gokhale challenges Krausz by arguing that Vedantic practices of interpretation are non-multiplist.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Why did premodern authors in the Arabic-Islamic culture compile literary anthologies, and why were these works remarkably popular How can an anthology that consists of reproduced material be original and creative, and serve various literary and political ends How did anthologists select their material, then record and arrange it This book examines the life and works of Abu Man?ur al-Tha?alibi (350-429/961-1039), an eminent anthologist from Nishapur, paying special attention to his magnum opus, Yatimat al-dahr (The Unique Pearl), and its sequel, Tatimmat al-Yatima (The Completion of the Yatima). This book is a direct window on to an anthologist's workshop in the second half of the fourth/tenth century. It examines the methodological consciousness expressed in Tha?alibi's selection and arrangement, and his sophisticated system of internal references and cross-references to other works; how he selected from his contemporaries' oeuvres; how he sought, recorded, memorized, misplaced, and sometimes lost or forgot his selections; how he scrutinized the authenticity of material, accepting, questioning, or rejecting its attribution; and the errors and inconsistencies that resulted from this process.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - China's early emperors must pay their respects to their predecessors in the correct form; the conduct of government and commercial practice depended on a generally accepted system of weights and measures; critics needed a secure means of expressing their views.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In National Identities and the Right to Self-Determination of Peoples, Hilly Moodrick-Even Khen revisits the legal right to self-determination of peoples and suggests an integrative model for securing the cohesion of the various nationalities within multinational states. The model, set on both legal and political science theories, departs from civic nationalism but calls to strengthen it with more immediate and emotional means, such as shared national symbols and multicultural education. Moodrick-Even Khen explores the political history of Canada, Belgium, and Spain and touches upon other divided societies such as South Africa, Northern Ireland and Cyprus. Drawing upon these cases, she suggests a future model for a cohesive society in Israel, which is currently nationally divided between Arabs and Jews.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Beyond Empires explores the complexity of empire building from the point of view of self-organized networks, rather than from the point of view of the central state. This focus takes readers into a world of cooperative strategies worldwide that emphasises the role played by individuals, rather than institutions, in the overseas expansion and consequent development of European empires. While unveiling the practices and mechanisms of cooperation between individuals, this volume show cases the role played by individuals for the creation, development and maintenance of self-organized networks in the Early Modern period. Applying new conceptual and theoretical inputs, this book values the contributions of different 'worlds', bringing to the fore the interactions of Europeans and non-Europeans, Christians and non-Christians, people living within-, on- or just outside the border of empire.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Introduction to the Tsinghua Bamboo-Strip Manuscripts, Liu Guozhong explores the complexities of researching the Tsinghua strips, from the challenges that arise in their preservation, to the contribution they make for our understanding of Chinese history.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Multimodality in Higher Education showcases new directions in multimodal research and also focuses on teaching multimodal text production and writing pedagogy. It theorizes writing practices and writing pedagogy in Higher Educational contexts from a multimodal perspective.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Patricia Crone's Collected Studies in Three Volumes brings together a number of her published, unpublished, and revised articles. The present volume places the rise of Islam in the context of the ancient Near East and investigates sceptical and subversive ideas in the Islamic world.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Material Culture and Queenship in 14th-century France: The Testament of Blanche of Navarre (1331-1398) Marguerite Keane considers the object collection of the long-lived fourteenth-century French queen Blanche of Navarre, the wife of Philip VI (d. 1350). This queen's ownership of works of art (books, jewelry, reliquaries, and textiles, among others) and her perceptions of these objects is well -documented because she wrote detailed testaments in 1396 and 1398 in which she described her possessions and who she wished to receive them. Keane connects the patronage of Blanche of Navarre to her interest in her status and reputation as a dowager queen, as well as bringing to life the material, adornment, and devotional interests of a medieval queen and her household.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Rashda: The Birth and Growth of an Egyptian Oasis Village offers an detailed analysis and description on the history and life under the uncertainty of water supply of an Egyptian oasis village based on various kinds of data and information.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this volume, Paul Robertson re-describes Paul's letters in a way that facilitates empirical comparison with other understudied texts, and theorizes a new taxonomy of the Greco-Roman literary landscape of the ancient Mediterranean.