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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Beyond the Voting Rights Act movingly recounts over 30 years of contemporary voting rights battles in the United States from the 1980s to the present day. The book places in context the modern-day battles against voter suppression laws that were embedded in American history and are still underway across the country. It tells a story of that struggle from the author's perspective beginning as a young African American from Cleveland in the 1980s, who reluctantly became involved within this movement as a student activist and inadvertently rose to become an integral part of the ultimate legislative victoryWalter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 258 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book is the result of the first interdisciplinary conference in Vietnam which took place on 'the Rule of Law.' Instead of beginning immediately with a highly specialized debate from the perspective of one single academic discipline, we started to discuss numerous facets of the subject arising from a multidisciplinary dialogue. For this reason, the contributions for this publication come from various scientific disciplines in Vietnam and Germany:political, historical, social, economic and legal sciences, but also members of Vietnamese governmental and non-governmental organizations.The aim of the volume is to open up a dialogue about the Rule of Law between two very different legal cultures, the German-European and the Vietnamese-Southeast Asian. 364 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This short book brings together novel cross-interdisciplinary investigation from both natural and social science, representing a true hybrid across disciplines examining the 'politics' and 'science' of COVID-19. Viruses, Vaccines, and Antivirals: Why Politics Matters considers the dynamics surrounding viruses, proposed vaccines, and antiviral therapies, contextualizing what governments have done during the COVID-19 crisis.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 144 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -In the past 25 years or more, political observers have diagnosed a crisis of the sovereign nation state and the erosion of state sovereignty through supranational institutions and the global mobility of capital, goods, information and labour. This edition of the European History Yearbook seeks to use 'cultural sovereignty' as a heuristic concept to provide new views on these developments since the beginning of the 20th century.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 188 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The book is a historical and ethnographic analysis on the legacy of 'race' in anthropological and genetics research on caste in India, focusing on Irawati Karve (1905-1970), a prominent Indian anthropologist trained in a German school of biologicalDe Gruyter Oldenbourg, Genthiner Straße 13, 10785 Berlin 252 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book evaluates whether or not we can decide on the best theory of concepts by appealing to the explanatory results of cognitive science. It undertakes an in-depth analysis of different theories of concepts and of the explanations formulated in cognitive science. As a result, two reasons are provided for thinking that an appeal to cognitive science cannot help to decide on the best theory of concepts.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 194 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Martyrs create space and time through the actions they take, the fate they suffer, the stories they prompt, the cultural narratives against which they take place and the retelling of their tales in different places and contexts. The title 'Desiring Martyrs' is meant in two senses. First, it refers to protagonists and antagonists of the martyrdom narratives who as literary characters seek martyrs and the way they inscribe certain kinds of cultural and social desire. Second, it describes the later celebration of martyrs via narrative, martyrdom acts, monuments, inscriptions, martyria, liturgical commemoration, pilgrimage, etc. Here there is a cultural desire to tell or remember a particular kind of story about the past that serves particular communal interests and goals. By applying the spatial turn to these ancient texts the volume seeks to advance a still nascent social geographical understanding of emergent Christian and Jewish martyrdom. It explores how martyr narratives engage pre-existing time-space configurations to result in new appropriations of earlier traditions.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 244 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The book analyses how racial knowledge has circulated in transnational entanglements, particularly between Germany and India, into the research on human variation in India, racializing the understanding of caste and ethnicity. It focuses on the legacy of Irawati Karve (1905-1970), a Indian anthropologist trained at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Eugenics, and Human Heredity in Berlin, Germany (1927-1930) and a prominent scientist in post-colonial India. Besides a historical analysis of Karve's adaptation of racial approaches to the study of Indian castes, the book applies material-semiotic and ethnographic lenses to examine how her work is taken up today in anthropology and population genetics. By showing how transnational and transcolonial entanglements in race science shape knowledge on human diversity in India, the book offers novel insights to discussions in anthropology, STS, and global history, including the racialization of difference, colonial legacies, and post-colonial sovereignty in science. It contributes to a better understanding of the co-constitution of politics and sciences of human diversity and it argues for a closer attention to inequalities as a way to de-link from the legacies of scientific racism.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Identifying the antebellum era in the United States as a transitional setting, Imagining Southern Spaces¿investigates spatialization processes about the South during a time when intensifying debates over the abolition of slavery led to a heightened period of (re)spatialization in the region. Taking the question of abolition as a major factor that shaped how different actors responded to these processes, this book studies spatial imaginations in a selection of abolitionist and proslavery literature of the era. Through this diversity of imaginations, the book points to a multitude of Souths in various economic, political, and cultural entanglements in the American Hemisphere and the Circumatlantic. Thus, it challenges monolithic and provincial representations of the South as a provincial region distinct from the rest of the country.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 300 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This interdisciplinary volume explores various identities and their expressions in Georgia from the early 19th century to the present. It focuses on memory culture, the politics of history, and the relations between imperial and national traditions. It also addresses political, social, cultural, personal, religious, and gender identities. Individual contributions address the imperial scenarios of Russia's tsars visiting the Caucasus, Georgian political romanticism, specific aspects of the feminist movement and of pedagogical reform projects before 1917. Others discuss the personality cult of Stalin, the role of the museum built for the Soviet dictator in his hometown Gori, and Georgian nationalism in the uprising of 1956. Essays about the Abkhaz independence movement, the political role of national saints, post-Soviet identity crises, atheist sub-cultures, and current perceptions of citizenship take the volume into the contemporary period.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 208 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The book presents a multi-sited ethnography on the Taiwanese Buddhist order Fo Guang Shan. By considering spatial approaches to the research of modern Chinese religiosities, it adds to the study of modern and contemporary Chinese Buddhism, while also aiming to contribute to a broader understanding of how religious border-crossings and transnational mobilities shape the revival of religion under today's global condition.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 166 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The volume deals with processes of transformation in the cities of Southeastern Europe since the 1980s. It combines historical research with social science analysis to relate macro-processes such as political developments, crises and conflicts to people's perceptions, practices and ideas. The contributions point to the changing power of the market on the functional structure of cities. Contributions deal with different areas of urban development such as infrastructure planning, housing, architecture, management and design of the public space, as well as issues related to the self-image of cities, the ethics of urban development and changes in labor markets and ownership. The volume also examines whether and how images of the past and historical backgrounds, with their specific traditions of cultural diversity and different political systems, have been reflected in urban development around and after 1989.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The book covers the concepts of Python programming language along with mobile application development. Starting from fundamentals, the book continues with the explanation of mobile app development using Kivy framework. All the chapters offer questions and exercises for to better understanding of the subject. This second revised and updated edition covers the most recent developments in Kivy since the publishing of the first edition.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Spaces of Responsibility explores the role of ethics in (re)ordering extractive relations under the global condition. Through an empirical investigation of actors, places, and ideas in and around Burkina Faso's industrial gold mining sector, this volume carries out an anti-essentialist yet critical examination, offering new insights into global mining capitalism. Corporate concession-making practices, the implementation of (national) mining legislation, and civil society interventions in mining areas all contribute in different ways to the dialectics of the global. Accordingly, the ongoing territorialization of mining investment often has considerable impacts on the well-being of populations in the Global South. At the same time, multinational corporations today cannot completely distance or isolate themselves from the political, economic, and social contexts they are interacting in and with. Drawing on theoretical debates about the links between resource extraction and socio-economic development, multi-scalar negotiations of ethics in mining governance are ethnographically retraced. In terms of gains and benefits, these negotiations manifest themselves spatially, providing access for some actors while excluding others.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 368 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Heterogeneous catalysis is at the core of chemical manufacturing. The book covers the importance of surfaces, interfaces and nanoscale materials in heterogeneous catalysis. It covers the synthesis of inorganic and nanosized inorganic catalysts and includes green synthesis methods. It describes characterization techniques and discusses challenges and opportunities in the scale up of catalysts production.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book retells the history of Israeli film in the 1960s and 1970s in sex scenes. Through close readings of the first sex scenes in mainstream Israeli movies from this period, it explores the cultural and social contexts in which these movies were made. More specifically, it discusses how notions of collective identity, individual agency, and the public and private spheres are inscribed into and negotiated in sex scenes, especially in light of the historical events that marked these decades. This study thus pushes away from the traditional academic perception of Israeli film and opens up new ways of understanding how it has developed in recent decades. It draws on a growing international body of academic literature on the cinematic representation of sex in order to illuminate the particularities of the Israeli context in the 1960s and 1970s. Apart from film scholars and scholars of Israeli film, this study also addresses readers interested in Israeli cultural history more broadly.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 298 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The global expansion of European colonization is commonly perceived as lawful according to the valid European colonial law of the time. This book is substantially challenging this belief by uncovering its legal justifications based on discovery and terra nullius as retrospectively created legal fictions and demonstrating it¿s untenability in practice. Focused on the critical reconstruction of Spanish and Dutch colonization practices in northeastern South America, Trinidad and Tobago between 1498 and 1817, the book offers an illuminating view on the European shadow of the colonial past in the Americas. Based on the application of an innovative comparative spatio-legal Global History approach to 1,770 excavated European colonial written sources from archives of both sides of the Atlantic in comparison to the colonial legal provisions of Europe¿s most influential legal writers, the book, moreover, provides a substantial argument to the contemporary Caribbean-European reparation debate in favor of the return of Indigenous Peoples¿ historical territories. Therefore, the book calls for the extension of the traditional territory approach to reparations of the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIPs) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR).Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 356 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book instructively introduces the reader to the basics of Jewish law. It gives a detailed, cutting-edge analysis of contemporary public and private law in the State of Israel, as well as Israel's legal culture, its system of government, and the roles of its democratic institutions: the executive, parliament, and judiciary. The book examines issues of Holocaust, law and religion, constitutionalization, and equality.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 658 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Perfect Harmony and Melting Strains assembles interdisciplinary essays investigating concepts of harmony during a transitional period, in which the Pythagorean notion of a harmoniously ordered cosmos competed with and was transformed by new theories about sound - and new ways of conceptualizing the world. From the perspectives of philosophy, literary scholarship, and musicology, the contributions consider music's ambivalent position between mathematical abstraction and sensibility, between the metaphysics of harmony and the physics of sound. Essays examine the late medieval and early modern history of ideas concerning the nature of music and cosmic harmony, and trace their transformations in early modern musico-literary discourses. Within this framework, essays further offer original readings of important philosophical, literary, and musicological works. This interdisciplinary volume brings into focus the transformation of a predominant Renaissance worldview and of music's scientific, theological, literary, as well as cultural conceptions and functions in the early modern period, and will be of interest to scholars of the classics, philosophy, musicology, as well as literary and cultural studies.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 162 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A rupture of life on Earth is currently unfolding. What, then, does this rupture signify, not only in terms of being alive during such an upheaval, but also in terms of being alive to upheaval itself Petrified: Living During a Rupture of Life on Earth takes the reader on a journey deep into the nature of our home, to give us the tools to learn how, in the middle of that rupture, to comport ourselves with honesty, clarity, culpability and intelligence. The purpose of this journey is straightforward: to formulate the basis of a philosophy for living during this rupture of life on earth. A philosophy for living in the twenty-first-and-last century of life as we have known it on our planet. A toolkit, as it were, for living at the confluence between being petrified at the prospect of extinction, and becoming petrified in the most real and physical sense. Lyrical, playful, and deadly serious, Petrified aims to provide a new worldview for a new world coming, creating a present-day fable about achieving fidelity to the vicissitudes of the cosmos. Wherein, the book asks: if desperate times call for desperate measures, how can the response be measured against its only true correlate - the cosmos.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -In the emerging fields of religious and interreligious peacebuilding, the question of monitoring and evaluation is a challenging, yet necessary process. The need to develop comprehensive yet fitting evaluation models for religious and interreligious peacebuilding is not only important for donor interests, but also critical as a means of documenting and learning for peacebuilders themselves. Theories and best practices in monitoring and evaluation have become prevalent in many fields, yet the amount of literature on evaluating intercultural and, especially, religious and interreligious projects remains scant in comparison. This volume offers a unique contribution that not only looks at several of the challenges and implications faced by religious and interreligious peacebuilders but also provides concrete examples of new models and tools for monitoring and evaluating religious and interreligious peacebuilding projects. In doing so, this volume serves as a tool and point of reference for individuals and organizations developing and implementing interreligious dialogue and peacebuilding projects.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 236 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Wojciech Materski's book gives a synopsis of the politics of memory practized by Russia from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. He shows how, irrespectively of the period in its history, Russia's politics of memory have always been usedDe Gruyter Oldenbourg, Genthiner Straße 13, 10785 Berlin 295 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This volume is the first-ever collection of essays devoted to the Lurianic concept of tsimtsum. It contains eighteen studies in philosophy, theology, and intellectual history, which demonstrate the historical development of this notion and its evolving meaning: from the Hebrew Bible and the classical midrashic collections, through Kabbalah, Isaac Luria himself and his disciples, up to modernity (ranging from Spinoza, Böhme, Leibniz, Newton, Schelling, and Hegel to Scholem, Rosenzweig, Heidegger, Benjamin, Adorno, Horkheimer, Levinas, Jonas, Moltmann, and Derrida).Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 472 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Wojciech Materski's book From the Tsars to 'The Tsar' gives a synopsis of the politics of memory practiced by Russia from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. He shows how irrespectively of the period in its history, Russia's politics of memory have always been used as a tool to integrate the country's inhabitants, reinforce the cult of their leader, cultivate the social attitudes and stereotypes its rulers wanted the people to embrace, and relativize their mistakes and crimes.The broad perspective Materski adopts provides a very substantial supplement to earlier work on the subject, or in fact takes the time range he considers much further, offering the latest, highly original and thoroughly researched synthesis of Russia's politics of memory from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. These qualities, alongside the current geopolitical situation overshadowed by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, make Wojciech Materski's book an attractive offer not only for historians, political scientists, sociologists and specialists in international relations, but also for students and non-specialists looking for information on Russia's history and foreign policy.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Games create worlds made of many different elements, but also of rules, systems and structures for how we act in them. So how can we make sense of them Mytholudics: Games and Myth lays out an approach to understanding games using theories from myth and folklore. Myth is taken here not as an object but as a process, a way of expressing meaning. It works to naturalise arbitrary constellations of signs, to connect things in meaning. Behind the phrase 'just the way it is' is a process of mythologization that has cemented it. Mytholudics lays out how this understanding of myth works for the analysis of games. In two sections each analysing five digital games, it then shows how this approach works in practice: one through the lens of heroism and one through monstrosity. These ask questions such as what heroic mythology is constructed in Call of Duty What do the monsters in The Witcher tell us about the game's model of the world How does Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice weave a conflict between Norse and Pictish mythology into one between competing models of seeing mental illness This method helps to see games and their worlds in the whole. Stories, gameplay, systems, rules, spatial configurations and art styles can all be considered together as contributing to the meaning of the game.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book tells the story of the power generation gas turbine from the perspective of one of the leading companies in the field over a period of nearly 100 years, written by an engineer. Especially in times of imminent global economic crises it appears to be worthwhile to reflect on real economic values and technological leadership based on engineering ingenuity and enduring management. Though the original edition of the book was primarily designed as a technical history of the BBC/ABB/Alstom power generation gas turbines, its scope is sufficiently broad to cover general development trends, including parallel competitor activities; correspondingly the title of this reviewed 3rd edition was adapted in a more general sense. A special benefit is the historical breakdown to the gas turbine component level, so that the book actually outlines the development of axial compressors from early beginnings based on Prandtl's wing theory, the progress in combustion technology towards extraordinary low emission values and that of axial turbines with special emphasis on early turbine cooling innovations, already in the 1930s a stroke of genius of the BBC Baden engineering team. The sheer length of certain engineering developments over several decades allows interesting historic observations and deductions on inherent business mechanisms, the effects of technology preparations and organisational consequences. A look into the mirror of the past provides revelations on the impact of far-reaching business decisions. In 2017 the book received the prestigious Engineer-Historian Award of the ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Derivations on von Neumann algebras are well understood and are always inner, meaning that they act as commutators with a fixed element from the algebra itself. The purpose of this book is to provide a complete description of derivations on algebras of operators affiliated with a von Neumann algebra. The book is designed to serve as an introductory graduate level to various measurable operators affiliated with a von Neumann algebras and their properties. These classes of operators form their respective algebras and the problem of describing derivations on these algebras was raised by Ayupov, and later by Kadison and Liu. A principal aim of the book is to fully resolve the Ayupov-Kadison-Liu problem by proving a necessary and sufficient condition of the existence of non-inner derivation of algebras of measurable operators. It turns out that only for a finite type I von Neumann algebra M may there exist a non-inner derivation on the algebra of operators affiliated with M. In particular, it is established that the classical derivation d/dt of functions of real variables can be extended up to a derivation on the algebra of all measurable functions. This resolves a long-standing problem in classical analysis.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Library design in the 21st century has one common theme: collaboration is at the heart of innovation. Designing modern libraries is a complex process involving many stakeholders and participants. Libraries of all types work with an almost limitless range of constituent groups for input, buy-in and successful implementation. Securing support for new library buildings and renovations of libraries engages many people: library clients, community members, faculty, funding agencies, donors, governing authorities, librarians, architects, interior designers and planners. Telling the right story and getting to the end game demand carefully crafted approaches, wide-ranging skills, a unified vision and productive teamwork. The IFLA Library Buildings and Equipment Section has selected the best papers presented by award-winning architects and international thought leaders from the academic and public library sector at our recent satellite conferences and seminars: 'Collaborative Strategies for Successful Library Design' (Chicago, Illinois), 'What comes after the Third Place ' (Columbus, Ohio); 'Key Issues for Library Space: International Perspectives' (Maynooth, Ireland); 'Storage, the final frontier' (Munich, Germany) and 'Telling and selling the space story' (Wroclaw, Poland). The stories by the library and design professionals within this publication illustrate how powerful a role partnerships, outreach and cooperation play in a library project's success.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 246 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Distinctive Styles and Authorship in Alternative Comics addresses the benefits and limits of analyses of style in alternative comics. It offers three close readings of works serially published between 1980 and 2018 - Art Spiegelman's Maus, Alison Bechdel's Dykes to Watch Out For, and Jason Lutes' Berlin - and discusses how artistic style may influence the ways in which readers construct authorship.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 228 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Abu al-Qasim al-Qushayris (d. 465/1072) theological oeuvres remain eclipsed by his celebrated achievements in Sufism, with prevailing scholarly assertions that he is a mere repeater of Asharite views and that his theology plays an apologetic role within al-Risalat al-Qushayriyya, anchoring its esoteric content to orthodoxy. Against this backdrop, the present study investigates al-Qushayris theology, in the light of intellectual developments in the fourth-fifth/tenth-eleventh centuries. His views are critically analysed on prominent epochal issues across his three most voluminous theological creeds, Luma fi al-itiqad, al-Fuul fi al-uul and al-Risala. Key topics include Gods attributes; His relationship with man; and epistemological concerns. The thesis argues that al-Qushayris theology is, contrary to prevailing views, neither homogenous, nor entirely Asharite. It reveals that his variegated theology is shaped by teleological forces. Al-Luma shows a traditionalist bent, whereas al-Fuul is distinctly semi-rationalist. In al-Risala, he lays the foundations of a mystical theology that governs the Sufi schema, whilst simultaneously delimiting the relevance of Asharite doctrines to the mere confines of the masses.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin Englisch.