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This volume presents a systematic and fresh interpretation of a mid-second-century AD papyrus - the so-called Muziris papyrus - which preserves on its two sides fragments of a unique pair of documents: on one side, a loan agreement to finance a commercial enterprise to...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-04-15
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This volume presents a systematic and fresh interpretation of a mid-second-century AD papyrus - the so-called Muziris papyrus - which preserves on its two sides fragments of a unique pair of documents: on one side, a loan agreement to finance a commercial enterprise to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-04-15
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Für die Stärkung des öffentlichen Verkehrs in der Stadt ist es zentral, die Fahrgasteinstellungen zum ÖPNV zu verstehen, um das Verkehrsangebot kundenfreundlich gestalten zu können. Alexandra Bensler entwickelt eine Typologie der Fahrgasteinstellungen zum Busfahren, die...
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Springer VS
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2020-04-15
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This provocative account of our immigration system's long, racist history reveals how it has become the brutal machine that upends the lives of millions of immigrants today.Each year in the United States, hundreds of thousands of people are arrested, imprisoned, and...
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Bold Type Books
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2020-04-14
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A witty, inspiring reckoning with the ancient Greek and Roman myths and their legacy, from what they can illuminate about #MeToo to the radical imagery of Beyoncé.The picture of classical antiquity most of us learned in school is framed in certain ways -- glossing over...
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Wildfire
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2020-04-14
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Daniela Blaschke geht der Frage nach, welche Gesellschaftsreferenz der Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) von Unternehmen zugrunde liegt. Ihre Analyse von CSR als strukturelle Kopplung im Sinne Luhmanns rückt sogenannte CSR-Initiativen, die als Netzwerke zwischen...
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Springer
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2020-04-13
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AutoUni – Schriftenreihe
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This book traces the principal roots of the concept of post-truth to uncover how it came by its present meaning. The concept of post-truth is the ripe and poisonous fruit of a tree fertilized and watered by many gardeners: some with good intentions, some with bad...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-04-13
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Spaces of New Colonialism is an edited volume of 16 essays and interviews by prominent and emerging scholars who examine how the restructuring of capitalist globalization is articulated to key sites and institutions that now cut an ecumenical swath across human...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2020-04-13
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How universal are our moral obligations? Should we attempt to communicate with life beyond our planet? What is "life"? Social and Conceptual Issues in Astrobiology explores the most important questions related to the field of astrobiology, and the resulting book is the...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-04-10
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This book explores how and why Tokyo has been divided over time in terms of living conditions. First, recent urban discourses that explain the transformation of Tokyo’s urban structure are examined, along with social changes and the expansion of unequal residential...
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Springer
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2020-04-09
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The study of media industries has become a thriving subfield of media studies. It already comprises a diverse intellectual history, a range of fascinating questions and topics, and many theoretical and methodological frameworks.Media Industry Studies provides the...
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Polity
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2020-04-09
Collection :
Short Introductions
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The birth of democracies owes much to the interventions and mobilizations of ordinary people. Yet many feel as though they have inherited democratic institutions which do not deliver for the people – that a rigid democratic process has been imposed from above, with...
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Polity
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2020-04-09
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Dieses Buch möchte an 200 Beispielen aus Theologie, Bildender Kunst, Literatur, Musik und Film aufzeigen, dass die Josefnovelle mit ihrer Verführungsszene längst zur Weltliteratur gehört. Der Koran nennt die gesamte Josefgeschichte „die schönste Erzählung“ und...
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Springer VS
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2020-04-08
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Julia Schuppan untersucht die Wirksamkeit betrieblichen Mobilitätsmanagements in beruflichen Lebensereignissen. In einem zwischen Soziologie, Psychologie und Geografie verorteten Ansatz werden berufliche Lebensereignisse als geeignete Gelegenheitsfenster für...
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Springer VS
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2020-04-08
Collection :
Studien zur Mobilitäts- und Verkehrsforschung
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Drawing on comparative literary studies, postcolonial book history, and multiple, literary, and alternative modernities, this collection approaches the study of alternative literary modernities from the perspective ofcomparative print culture. The...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-04-07
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This book is the first-ever monograph on clustering patterns in prehistoric settlements. It not only theoretically explains the difference between natural settlement communities and organizational forms for the first time, but also demonstrates the importance of...
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Springer
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2020-04-07
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From an award-winning journalist, a searing exposé of the effects of the mass incarceration crisis on families -- including the 2.7 million American children who have a parent locked up.In The Shadow System, award-winning journalist Sylvia A. Harvey follows the fears,...
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Bold Type Books
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2020-04-07
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Most historians rely principally on written sources. Yet there are other traces of the past available to historians: the material things that people have chosen, made, and used. This book examines how material culture can enhance historians' understanding of the past,...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-04-07
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This edited volume offers solutions on the challenges of religious pluralisation from a European perspective. It gives special attention to interreligious dialogue and interfaith relations as specific means of dealing with plurality. In particular, the contributors...
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Springer
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2020-04-07
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Barriers to Rebuilding the African American Community explores the major threats and roots affecting both America’s most racially polarized periods as well as the major issues plaguing the African American community. The author provides intelligent insight into the...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2020-04-07
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