Brill jun 2018 (72 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Many urban centres are shaken to their core with mistrust between communities and law enforcement. Erosion was exacerbated in the Obama-era, intensified during the 2016 campaign, and is violently manifested in Trump's presidency. The promise of uniting communities articulated by leaders lays…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Asian women are often labelled with biased stereotypical images, ranging from 'subordinate housewife' to 'migrant domestic maid,' and 'overseas bride.' Asian women, in fact, are being constructed as 'women among women.' These feminine roles are related to the various activities that women per…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Clinical Trials and the African Person offers an account of the African notion of the self/person within the clinical trials context. As opposed to autonomy-based principlism, this other-regarding/communalist perspective is touted as the preferred alternative model particularly in multicultur…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Sociology of Shi?ite Islam is a comprehensive study of the development of Shi?ism. In these collected essays Arjomand has persistently developed a Weberian theoretical framework for the analysis of Shi?ism, from its sectarian formation in the eighth century through the establishment of the Sa…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Mission of Development interrogates the complex relationships between Christian mission and international development in Asia from the 19th century to the new millennium. Through historically and ethnographically grounded case studies, contributors examine how missionaries have adapted to…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Communication decisively impacts upon all our lives. This inherent need to connect may either be soothing or painful, a source of intimate understanding or violent discord. Consequently, how it is brokered is challenging and often crucial in situations where those involved have quite differen…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Forest Family highlights the importance of the old-growth forests of Southwest Australia to art, culture, history, politics, and community identity. The volume weaves together the natural and cultural histories of Southwest eucalypt forests, spanning pre-settlement, colonial, and contemporary…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What is the relationship between the general, abstract norm and the singular, concrete case that sometimes affirms a parallel, contrasting, norm The present essay engages with this question. The argument stems from an analysis of extraordinary singular cases that sometimes emerge, sometimes a…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In British Quakers and Religious Language, Rhiannon Grant explores the ways in which this community discusses the Divine. She identifies characteristic patterns of language use and, through a detailed analysis of examples from published sources, uncovers the philosophical and theological clai…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Interchange between anthropology and biblical scholarship began because of perceived similarities between 'simpler' societies and practices appearing in the Hebrew Bible. After some disengagement when anthropologists turned mainly to ethnographic fieldwork, new cross-disciplinary possibilitie…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What is Protestant Art presents an introduction to Protestant visual culture from the Reformation to the present. Examining historical images as evidence of changing practices and attitudes, Andrew T. Coates explores three major themes in the history of Protestant visual culture: 1) the relig…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The edited collection Spatial Practices: Territory, Border and Infrastructure in Africa presents research findings from the German Research Council's Priority Programme 1448 'Adaptation and Change in Africa' (2011-2018). At the heart of the volume are important new spatial practices that have…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Nietzsche and the Dionysian argues that the Dionysian affect in Nietzsche's early work can be linked to an originary interruption of self-consciousness articulated by the philosophical companion, who compels us to respond to the plurality of life they express by being 'true to the earth' and…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Drawing on usage-based theory, neurocognition, and complex systems, Languaging Beyond Languages elaborates a three-part model that recognizes and accounts for linguistic heterogeneity in an attempt to move theory and description beyond linguistics' ideologically based attachment to reified linguisti…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This second edition of the conifer book Pines is an amended and updated version of the first edition, which sold out in 2002. The scope and structure of the book have been maintained. It includes several taxonomic changes and presents a new chapter on phylogeny. Conservation aspects have been…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - On the Fringes of Literature and Digital Media Culture offers a polyphonic account of mutual interpenetrations of literature and new media. Shifting its focus from the personal to the communal and back again, the volume addresses such individual experiences as immersion and emotional reading, offers…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences was established in 1826. Its collection of Persian manuscripts is the most comprehensive set of its kind in Hungary. The volumes were produced in four major cultural centres of the Persianate world, the Ottoman Empire, Iran, Central Asia and India dur…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Amyrtaeus, only pharaoh of the Twenty-eighth Dynasty, shook off the shackles of Persian rule in 404 BCE; a little over seventy years later, Ptolemy son of Lagus started the 'Greek millennium' (J.G. Manning's phrase) in Egypt?living long enough to leave a powerful kingdom to his youngest son, Ptolemy…