Brill jun 2023 (78 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Im Zuge der Debatte über Sammlungsgut aus kolonialen Kontexten steht Georg Zenker (1855-1922) exemplarisch für eine Generation von Sammlern, die in der Hochphase des Imperialismus disziplinenübergreifend Sammlungen für die Berliner Museen zusammenbrachten. Zenker gilt dabei als eine zentrale…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Our sense of agency and ability to distinguish between intentional and accidental actions are fundamental for social interaction. They allow us to plan and perform joint actions and assign responsibility for our own actions and those of others. Research on the nature of agency and intentions…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the midst of a global pandemic, the Frankfurt POLY (Polycentricity and Plurality of Premodern Christianities) Lectures on 'Pathways through Early Modern Christianities' brought together a virtual, global community of scholars and students in the Spring and Summer of 2021 to discuss the fascinatin…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Reaching out into the rural English teaching and learning environment led to compiling these chapters that exemplify the possibilities and achievements of teachers worldwide. Often with overly large classes, isolation, and few resources, English instruction leads to extrinsic success for thei…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) and other Vygotskian approaches are becoming increasingly popular among social scientists interested in studying human actions, thoughts and emotions in their cultural contexts. Building on non-dualist, dialectical materialist epistemological premise…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In China, strong economic growth over the past four decades, accelerated urbanisation and multiple inequalities between urban and rural worlds have driven the escalation of internal and international migrations. The internal migration of workers represents a unique phenomenon since the reform…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The figure of the 'professional' looms large in our contemporary society as an ideal for economic activity and socio-political inclusion, and even as a model for individual self-development. But how and when did this figure arise And what has led professional activity to become such an essential part…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The figure of the 'professional' looms large in our contemporary society as an ideal for economic activity and socio-political inclusion, and even as a model for individual self-development. But how and when did this figure arise And what has led professional activity to become such an essential part…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In their theological and historical interactions, neo-Calvinism and Roman Catholicism have often met in moments of conflict and co-operation. The neo-Calvinist statesman Abraham Kuyper polemicized against the Roman Catholic Church and its theology, whilst building bridges between those tradit…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The figure of the 'professional' looms large in our contemporary society as an ideal for economic activity and socio-political inclusion, and even as a model for individual self-development. But how and when did this figure arise And what has led professional activity to become such an essential part…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Aligning Religious Law and State Law: Negotiating Legal Muslim Marriage in Pasuruan, East Java, Muhammad Latif Fauzi investigates the extent to which the Indonesian state has regulated Muslim marriage, how a local community in Pasuruan, East Java practices and negotiates the regulation and…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book explores the strategies adopted by the Jesuit missions under the Portuguese and Spanish patronage vis-à-vis Islamic powers such as the Mughal Empire in South Asia and the expansion of Islam in the Southeast-Asian peripheries. Based on a comparative perspective, this book examines th…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The figure of the 'professional' looms large in our contemporary society as an ideal for economic activity and socio-political inclusion, and even as a model for individual self-development. But how and when did this figure arise And what has led professional activity to become such an essential part…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The figure of the 'professional' looms large in our contemporary society as an ideal for economic activity and socio-political inclusion, and even as a model for individual self-development. But how and when did this figure arise And what has led professional activity to become such an essential par…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Things of Others: Ethnographies, Histories, and Other Artefacts deals with the things mainly, but not only, mobilized by anthropologists in order to produce knowledge about the African American, the Afro-Brazilian and the Afro-Cuban during the 1930s. However, the book's goal is not to dig…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The figure of the 'professional' looms large in our contemporary society as an ideal for economic activity and socio-political inclusion, and even as a model for individual self-development. But how and when did this figure arise And what has led professional activity to become such an essential part…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Were mid-Tudor evangelicals roaring lions or meek lambs Did they struggle with a minority complex, or were they comfortable with their position of political ascendancy under Edward VI How did their theological blueprint of the 'True Church' fit their temporal realities By relocating the Book of Comm…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - While the last four years has seen a renewed interest in dress in biblical studies, much of this work focuses on dress as object--what it is, looks like, and who wears it. In consequence, the symbolic and rhetorical function of dress in metaphors is often reduced to its function in 'real life.' In r…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - If war is a timeless reality of mankind, the ways and means whereby it is conducted have nonetheless evolved over time due to new technologies and innovative military strategies. For the most part, however, they have not challenged the ethical rules of warfare. The rapid rise in the use of automated…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is the first English translation of one of the most important treatises written during the late-Middle Ages in defense of converts from Judaism, favoring religious tolerance in the face of religious and racially motivated prejudice and violence. The book also includes a fresh Latin edition, dra…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This is the first account in English of the making of Italian nationhood from the perspective of constitutional history. It is also the first to consider the role that the House of Savoy played in this process. Bringing together influential experts in the field, the collection covers the evolution…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The study of medieval chronicles is firmly established as a focus of research in the whole range of disciplines comprising Medieval Studies: literature, history, art history, linguistics, book history, digital humanities, and so forth. Each article in this volume dedicated to Erik Kooper pres…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When a Zen teacher tells you to point at your mind, which part of your body do you point at According to the Japanese master Chikotsu Daie (1229-1312), you should point at the fistful of meat that is your heart. Esoteric Zen demonstrates that far from an outlier, Daie's understanding reflects the me…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Reaching out into the rural English teaching and learning environment led to compiling these chapters that exemplify the possibilities and achievements of teachers worldwide. Often with overly large classes, isolation, and few resources, English instruction leads to extrinsic success for their stude…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Cangin languages of Senegal remained hidden from linguists for years, and have only recently been seriously documented. This book traces the history of the Cangin languages, and presents a reconstruction of Proto-Cangin through careful application of historical linguistic methods. This is one of…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Song of Songs is the only book of the Bible to privilege the voice of a woman, and its poetry of love and eroticism also bears witness to violence. How do the contemporary #MeToo movement and other movements of protest and accountability renew questions about women, gender, sex, and the problema…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In The Divine/Demonic Seven and the Place of Demons in Mesopotamia, Gina Konstantopoulos analyses the Sebettu, a group of seven divine/demonic figures found across a wide range of textual and artistic sources in Mesopotamia from the late third to first millennium BCE. The Sebettu appeared both as fi…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) and other Vygotskian approaches are becoming increasingly popular among social scientists interested in studying human actions, thoughts and emotions in their cultural contexts. Building on non-dualist, dialectical materialist epistemological premises, thes…