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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Have you ever felt the 'daily pinpricks' of subtle bias This book investigates if legal systems should dismiss micro-aggressions as trivialities, or recognise their cumulative harm to the dignity of vulnerable groups. A global survey, from Canada and Germany to Namibia and South Africa, reveals how courts often ignore 'small' slights, and where existing judgments hold promise to meaningfully address these slights. We argue that dismissing these moments entrenches systemic exclusion. Our solution lies in multi-layered law reform. We propose reform of tort law to recognise micro-aggressions, mandatory equality plans and education to foster a kind and caring society. Read this to discover how law can dismantle everyday indignities and protect substantive equality.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Surrealist Movement was committed to an affinity group praxis of anti-authoritarianism that challenged oppressive sociopolitical systems with radical art and culture. Examining key episodes in post-1945 transnational surrealism and para-surrealisms in Europe and the Americas, this volume elucidates the contemporary relevance of the ongoing surrealist resistance to domination and totalitarianism, with a focus on anti-Statism. Examining surrealism's fundamental interaction with anarchism and Marxism, and investigating its forays into self-management and non-hierarchical forms of organization, the volume's topics range from anti-Algerian War activism, to Mai '68 and Cuban Revolution organizing, to the Nadaísmo movement in 1960s Colombia, to art strikes and art abolitionism.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Syrups made from sacred words dissolved in water, cups with inscribed letters, and mysterious symbols traced on food--graphophagy, the ingestion of words, was real and widespread, yet scarcely studied within the medieval European context. This volume reveals how people consumed texts for therapeutic, ritual, and devotional purposes between late antiquity and the high Middle Ages. It explores remedies hidden in the margins of manuscripts, traces of ingestion in grimoires and medical texts, and charms echoing from Egypt to Scandinavia to illustrate that eating words was neither irrational nor exotic: it was a coherent ritual strategy that transformed ink and parchment into powerful tools for acting upon reality.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The open access publication of this book was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.The 'Roman School' of History of Religions developed a historicist approach grounded in historical and social contextualization, differential comparison and critical reflection over its own concepts. In this book, Historians of Religions and Anthropologists demonstrate the relevance of this legacy for contemporary research, at a time when the History of Religions, rightly focusing on its own discursive critique, tends nonetheless to give up any comparison. The editors and contributors of this volume defend the possibility of more complex questions, and open up new insights in historiographical issues as well as historico-cultural analysis.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Using a critical discourse analysis, this book addresses the imposition of right-wing minority rule and nullification through the vehicle of mass media. Each chapter explores current manifestations of minority rule in the thematic areas of gender identity and sexuality; race and aggressive colorblindness; democracy and subversion of the popular vote; abortion and the assault on choice; and information nihilism. Examples are presented from social media, representing an important collective case study in the rapidly evolving nature of news coverage on these key issues during the period between the 1/6 insurrection and the first 100 days of the second Trump administration. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book examines the formation of the Jewish working class in the Americas. Focusing on popular experiences in urban areas, the chapters illuminate the pivotal role of Jewish immigrants in developing left-wing parties and labor unions across the continent. This volume offers a comparative perspective on issues of migration, Diaspora, and social integration in North and South America. The struggles for dignity, confrontations with xenophobia, and quest for social justice that defined the Jewish working class's experience in the Americas resonate deeply with contemporary global challenges regarding migration and labor.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Hagiography and Episcopal Authority in Medieval Iceland, Davide Salmoiraghi studies how Saints' sagas served to promote Gregorian ideals of ecclesiastical independence in the thirteenth-century Icelandic Church. The monograph focuses on the Nordic reception of St Ambrose of Milan (374-397), the most renowned militant bishop in the battle between regnum and sacerdotium, showing how the Old Norse version of his hagiography (Ambrósíuss saga biskups) influenced the sagas of those bishops who fought to free the Icelandic Church from secular control.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Marx's value theory lies at the heart of his political economy but has been subject to fierce and continuing debates over its substance and validity, not least as capitalism has increasingly developed in more complex and diverse forms. Ranging over the nature of Marx's theory of value and its application to issues such as commodity fetishism, the transformation problem, falling profitability, interest-bearing capital and financialisation, and the forms taken by rent, this Volume offers essential and original insights from one the world's leading Marxist political economists. It carefully lays out Marx's own views as well as critically assessing alternative interpretations.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What do dominant approaches to memory studies overlook when they treat religion as marginal or obsolete Towards Postsecular Memory Studies addresses this gap through ethnographic research, archival sources, and discourse analysis. Focusing on Central and Eastern Europe, and analysing how churches become museums, national heroes turn into saints, and mourning takes ritual form, the contributors reveal memory as a field wherein the religious and the secular are inseparable--sometimes cooperating, sometimes clashing, always shaping one another. The volume advances a postsecular approach to memory studies, showing how it opens new analytical paths for understanding why religion still matters in processes of remembrance. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The first of its kind, Annie Ernaux beyond Words: Images and Scenes not only offers fresh perspectives on photographic images in the Nobel Prize winner's work but also presents innovative insights into its adaptations on screen (L'Événement, Simple Passion, The Years) and on stage (A Girl's Story and Happening) in France, Germany, and Italy, as well as a foray into David Ernaux-Briot's The Super 8 Years. The volume offers contributions in a vast array of disciplines, is written by an equally diverse cohort of academics, and features performance artists, a writer, and a photographer from Western Europe, Asia and the United States. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA) developed as a refocusing of Harvey Sacks' original analyses of categories, devices, and sequence in talk-in-interaction. In building empirically an understanding of membership categorisation practices as 'culture-in-action', MCA, and this collection, opens up an attention to categorisation practices, in all their forms, as means of doing ethnomethodology and sociology. Indeed, MCA has become a prominent methodological and analytic approach across the social sciences and a range of topics of study as a powerful form of ethnomethodologically grounded inquiry. The aim of this collection is to showcase the cutting edge of MCA research and future new directions. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What if we rethought international law through the lens of the commons This book challenges us to examine global goods, resources, and spaces - from water to culture, from the Moon to the internet - not as objects to exploitation, but as productive systems shared by active communities and governed by international law: as vibrant universal commons. Drawing on an extensive survey of practice, legal instruments, and jurisprudence, it demonstrates how individuals, peoples, states, and international organisations may act as commoners in relation to resources that are often overlooked - whether too small or too vast - yet essential to life. Moving beyond profit-driven models, the book advances a regenerative framework in which international law secures rights to commoning. It demonstrates how fragmented rules can be integrated into a comprehensive branch of international law through a paradigm shift.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Intertextuality is a multifaceted and complex phenomenon, that can be studied from various perspectives, both diachronically and synchronically. An intertextual relationship is essentially about reinterpreting texts for creating new texts. This volume aims to highlight various approaches by exploring both the methodological dimensions of intertextual research and the ways in which such research may be concretized with regard to specific Old Testament texts.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One of the richest sources for biographical information on graduates of the universities of Paris, Oxford, and Cambridge in the fourteenth century are papal letters of provision. While those from Paris are available in bound volumes, this book brings together for the first time comparable editions of supplications from university masters at Oxford and Cambridge. They show the topographical range of recruitment, the academic career, the importance of theological study at Oxford, and the predominant role of legal studies at Cambridge.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As a follow up to the theoretical approaches examined in Volume 1, this volume includes representations of the different manners in which power can manifest and be responded to. Case studies from the wide temporal and geographic scope of the ancient Near East are used to highlight the various ways scholars can investigate and more fully understand ancient power relationships and their participants, and how they wield, manipulate, and respond to power in the ancient world.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This edited volume provides a contemporary reappraisal of the work and legacy of Hugh MacDiarmid, presenting new perspectives from an international group of researchers. Addressing pivotal elements of MacDiarmid's biography, politics, aesthetics and multilingual literary practice, this collection contextualises his writing within current critical discussions and evolving perceptions of modernism, nationalism, and cultural identity. The essays illuminate the complexities and continuities of MacDiarmid's career, reassessing his contribution to twentieth-century literature and its relevance today. This volume is suitable for scholars, students, and informed readers, and it promotes renewed academic engagement with one of Scotland's most influential and controversial literary figures.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Graffiti Quest, you step into an Egyptian world where walls speak. Ordinary and extraordinary people pen and carve quick insults, political slogans, prayers, and proud declarations--proof that ancient graffiti makers were just as likely to praise a king as to mock a colleague. This interdisciplinary volume invites you into the conversations sparked at a 2023 workshop, where archaeologists, historians, and epigraphers rethink how people engage with places and spaces. Featuring rare images, unpublished archival material, and fresh case studies, these proceedings offer you new tools and new stories that transform the way we read Egypt's inscribed past.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As the current immunity regime produces unfair results at the normative level, this book addresses the question of how to feasibly restrict State immunity from jurisdiction in case of gross violations of human rights, in light of States' resistance to a general jus cogens/human rights exception. The central thesis of the book is that justice may be achieved by a more limited human rights exception to immunity, based on an enlarged forum tort exception. To build such an exception, the book draws on private international law rules on jurisdiction, bringing together the disciplines of public and private international law.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book, initially published in French in 2002, has served as a foundational reference for the emerging field of 'New Diplomatic History.' Adopting a microhistorical approach, Christian Windler proposed a novel paradigm for the cultural and social history of diplomacy. His work combines a focus on the extraordinarily well-documented life of a French consul with an examination of cultural representations, interaction rituals, and gift-giving practices in a cultural contact zone from 1700 to 1840. The author demonstrates how the plural diplomatic order of the early modern Mediterranean region was challenged by the Atlantic revolutions, which resulted in the emergence of new forms of coexistence marked by the growing predominance of European powers.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 'War Communism' as Revolution: Lev Kritsman's The Heroic Period of the Great Russian Revolution (an attempt at an analysis of so-called 'War Communism'), Frederick C. Corney examines this seminal economic analysis of the first years of the revolutionary Soviet system by the economist Lev Kritsman in 1924. His explicitly Marxist analysis of the years of 'War Communism' has been the basis of many later economic analyses of this period. Corney has translated into English the complete text, annotated it, and written an extensive introduction, contextualizing Kritsman's work within the broader economic discussions of the period. He also contextualizes it within the radically changing political climate that proved so fateful to many economists of this era, Kritsman included.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The theme of the twelve tribes of Israel is one of the key points for observing the continuity and discontinuity between Judaism and Christianity, which derives from it. It is therefore a very sensitive topic of 'the parting of the ways', which surprisingly has not aroused much interest among critics. This volume aims to fill this gap by first placing the twelve tribes of Israel in their historical context within Jewish culture, then moving on to the various, often contradictory, interpretations that Christians have given to this concept since the early centuries, before finally using this model to refer to the Church as the new Israel.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Embracing Life and Death, Volume 2 deepens the exploration begun in Volume 1 by inviting readers to engage with the interwoven processes of living, dying, and transformation. The volume brings together twenty-two chapters written by thirty-five authors from four continents, including scholars, educators, healers, artists, caregivers, and physicians whose work bridges science, education, and lived experience. Drawing on narrative inquiry, autoethnography, contemplative research, and arts-based approaches, contributors examine how awareness, compassion, and presence shape experiences across the life-death continuum. Chapters address themes such as mindfulness in medicine and caregiving, birth and motherhood as sites of transition, transrational ways of knowing, spirituality, social justice, and the relevance of ancient wisdom traditions in contemporary education. Across these diverse contexts, Authentic Inquiry is extended into new domains of wellness, ethics, and community, presenting inquiry itself as a relational and life-sustaining practice. Written for educators, researchers, healthcare professionals, and contemplative practitioners, Embracing Life and Death, Volume offers integrative perspectives on what it means to live and die well. By bringing philosophical reflection into dialogue with lived experience, the volume invites readers to join an ongoing crossing--toward wisdom, wholeness, and compassionate engagement with self, others, and the more-than-human world.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume presents the first critical edition and an English translation of Al-Waridat wa'l-Taqdisat (Divine Inspirations and Sanctifications) by Shihab al-Din Ya?ya al-Suhrawardi (1154-1191), a Persianate founder of the Illuminationist (Ishraqi) school within the Islamic philosophy. Written in Arabic, the work blends visionary passages, ontological reflections, ethical counsel, and invocations to celestial beings. It reveals a lesser-known, more occult dimension of al-Suhrawardi, complementing his reputation as philosopher and mystic. Rich with cryptic references to Illuminationist worship and spiritual rank which the author ascribed to himself, the text is analyzed by Lukasz Piatak, who explores its structure, main ideas, and connections to al-Suhrawardi's better-known writings, while also assessing its authenticity and place within his corpus.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This study attempts to connect two of the most important legal themes: guilt and punishment, by examining them in general terms and through their reflection in world literature. In particular, it explores the works of three authors who excel in these issues: Miguel de Cervantes, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Franz Kafka. The topic of guilt and punishment is studied both from an abstract perspective and in its application to the lives and writings of these three distinguished figures in literary history. The first two chapters establish a rich theoretical framework from a variety of perspectives - psychological, religious, juridical. The following chapters take the reader on a fascinating journey through 2,500 years of world literature, from Aeschylus to John Grisham. This back-and-forth between speculative and literary approaches is one of the main strengths of the book. These are just some of the many issues that the author lucidly and insightfully addresses in this captivating new monographic work, which is complemented by an extensive bibliography on the subject.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Globalisation and the fundamental transformations of the 19th and early 20th centuries also brought about a change in international law. In the face of the omnipresent struggle for influence between the great powers, a movement gained ground on the international scene that sought to base international order on rules and to protect peace through international dispute settlement bodies. The Hague Peace Conferences (1899, 1907), the Pan-American Conferences (1889, 1901, 1906), and the Washington Conference (1907) were the first major steps in this direction. This work analyses these developments, taking into account perspectives from Europe, the United States, and Latin America, and traces the path to the creation of the first international court of law.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume presents a rich and multifaceted picture of Jewish material culture(s) from the Late Antiquity to our days, in Europe, America, the Land of Israel and the Middle East. It focuses on Medieval and Early Modern illustrated manuscripts, books, architecture and the decoration of synagogues, amulets, paintings, and objects of ceremonial art and material culture. The book highlights the complex interplay between high art and folk art and the cultural interrelationships between Jews and their host societies.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume looks into the recommendation letters penned by Libanius and other late antique epistolographers. Marien conducts a detailed analyses of the letters written for the same recommendee to different addressees, reassessing such documents from the perspective of exerting influence within the larger community. As for Libanius, Marien discusses 62 letter sets or 230 letters at least. The author also examines how a recommendation process larger than the recommendation letter itself can be seen in late antique letter collections. At the same time, the volume explores the epistolary practice of judicial interventions occurring in a precise institutional context.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How can we explain the diversity of Indic Buddhism, its many different images of worship and its (apparently) dramatic alterations in doctrine This book demonstrates that they reflect the tensions between the meanings of Buddha's absence and presence and the wide variety of combinatory resolutions of those tensions which were brought into being. The meanings of absence and presence were encoded in separate systems of meaning--signified, respectively, in words and in images. Albeit antithetical, these meanings operated in a complementary manner. However, the nature of that complementarity altered during the course of three different phases of the religion's history.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book presents a constructive interpretation of Plato's Parmenides. It offers a close reading of the dialogue's first part and shows how the second part takes up its problems while unfolding a philosophical project that reaches beyond them. The reader is guided through the exercise as Denis Walter shows how it articulates a complex ontology, addressing the hierarchy of forms, definitions, participation, mathematical structure, and teleology. By organizing the argument around philosophical topics rather than deductions, the study brings into view a coherent ontological framework extending from the One to unlimited multitude. The book offers a clear and philosophically grounded reading of one of Plato's most demanding texts.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Why does the Qur?an contain legal verses, and how have scholars interpreted them across the centuries Regulative Verses of the Qur?an offers a comprehensive study of how Islamic law emerged from scriptural interpretation, by exploring the nature of law in the Qur?an itself and in Islamic thought, including in the foundational yet often overlooked genre of a?kam al-Qur?an. Through detailed analysis of classical and contemporary texts, the volume reveals how jurists across Sunni, Shia, and Ibadi traditions have debated the meaning, scope, and application of legal verses. Drawing on rare primary sources and philosophical perspectives this book is an essential resource, illuminating the rich interplay between divine revelation, legal reasoning, and ethical inquiry in Islam.…