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Handbook of language and digital culture
The Handbooks of Applied Linguistics provide a state-of-the-art description of established and emerging areas of Applied Linguistics. Each volume gives an overview of the field, explains the most important traditions and their findings, identifies the gaps in current research, and gives perspecti...
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Inside party headquarters
As one of the first overviews of a central apparatus of a communist state party, Inside Party Headquarters focuses on the “inner life” of the party and its employees, and examines the changing relations of party and state over the course of four decades.
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Grandma
This innovative series grew out of a desire to provide all children with the opportunity to see themselves within the books they are reading and to identify with the children and families they see. The diversity of today’s families is clearly captured. The simple text and engaging photographs exp...
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The law in nazi germany
Offers concise and compelling account of how intelligent and well-educated legal professionals lent their skills and knowledge to a system of oppression and domination Addresses why German lawyers and jurists were attracted to Nazism, how their support of the regime resulted from a combi...
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Real analysis
While many real analysis texts prioritize brevity over clarity, this volume focuses on the student’s conceptual journey. The text begins with a rigorous construction of the Real Number System from the Field and Order Axioms, moving through the topology of R, sequences, and series. It provides a t...
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Water, life, and profit
Water, Life, and Profit offers a holistic analysis of the people, economies, cultural symbolism, and material culture involved in the management, production, distribution, and consumption of drinking water in the urban context of Niamey, Niger. Keough and Youngstedt offer new insights into the ...
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Environmental anthropology engaging ecotopia
Contributions from scholar-activists and activist-practitioners Covers seldom examined dialogue around 3 main areas: Bioregionalism, Permaculture and Ecovillages Advocates a re-orientation of environmental anthropology from a problem-oriented towards a solutions-focused endeavour
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English pronunciation for speakers of spanish
This book covers the key concepts of English phonetics and phonology for Spanish-speaking learners of English. It combines theoretical issues (e.g. phonetics and phonological theory, segmentals and suprasegmentals, accent variation, connected speech, or spelling), as well as applications to pract...
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Jewish life in nazi germany
German Jews faced harsh dilemmas in their responses to Nazi persecution, partly a result of Nazi cruelty and brutality but also a result of an understanding of their history and rightful place in Germany. This volume addresses the impact of the anti-Jewish policies of Hitler’s regime on Jewish ...
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Region-building
After two centuries of nation-building, the world has entered an era of region-building in search of political stability, cultural cohesion, and socio-economic development. Nations involved in the regional structures and integration schemes that are emerging in most regions of the world are dee...
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A synchronous late iron age?
Chronoi: Time, Time Awareness, Time Management is a book series that presents the work of the Einstein Center Chronoi. The center is dedicated to the investigation of time and time-related subjects such as time awareness, time management, time perception, and temporality from interdisciplinary an...
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The hadrami diaspora
In-depth assessment of Hadrami identity, social order and religious change Provides detailed analysis of Hadrami communities both within and outside Yemen Highlights the complexity of the diasporic process Describes links betwen Hadrami migrants from Yemen and from the Indian Oce...
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Interculturalidad y autoría en la narrativa judeoargentina
This book explores intercultural tensions in Jewish-Argentine narrative, focusing on the development of a new linguistic, civic, and cultural belonging among Jewish immigrants, as well as the construction of the authorial image of their writers. It offers multiple perspectives on the processes of...
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Slavery and antislavery in spain's atlantic empire
Most comprehensive study of slavery in the Spanish Empire. Comparative and Atlantic-world perspectives. International group of authors (US, Latin America, Europe). Approaches subject from a variety of methods, including social, intellectual, legal, and economic history.
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Kant’s place
This series publishes outstanding monographs and edited volumes that investigate all aspects of Kant’s philosophy, including its systematic relationship to other philosophical approaches, both past and present. Studies that appear in the series are distinguished by their innovative nature and abi...
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Supercinema
An innovative perspective on cinema in the digital age Studies the way in which digital special effects and editing techniques require a new theoretical framework in order to be properly understood Looks at the relationship betwen the spectator, and film which utilises digital techno...
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Pigs
Megan thinks pigs are dumb, but they show her!
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Osthandel and ostpolitik
Eclipsed by the scope of the Atlantic economy, obscured by Anglo-German rivalry, and nearly destroyed by the post-1945 division of Europe, the flow of goods across East Central Europe has been, nonetheless, an immensely significant pattern of European economic exchange. For Germany, the Osthand...
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Irish/ness is all around us
A detailed ethnography of Irish-speaking and Irish-speakers in contemporary west Belfast Sheds new light on the issues attending language revivalism in Ireland and its intersection with historic conflict in N.Ireland Explores the complexities of changing and contradictory senses of I...
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After the cult
Offers comparison of indigenous and anthropological perceptions of other and self Examines mutual influencing between indigenous and Western perceptions as well as the relation between anthropological “predecessors” and “successors” Investigates cultural perceptions of other and self...
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Maximen viii / maxims viii
Der Mathematiker Kurt Gödel hat über einen Zeitraum von 22 Jahren (1934-1955) philosophische Bemerkungen, die so genannten Maximen Philosophie (Max Phil), niedergeschrieben. Sie sind in 15 Notizbüchern in der Kurzschrift Gabelsberger überliefert.Erstmals wird nun an der Kurt-Gödel-Forschungsstell...
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Suffering and evil
Until recently the subject of suffering and evil was neglected in the sociological world and was almost absent in Durkheimian studies as well. This book aims to fill the gap, with particular reference to the Durkheimian tradition, by exploring the different meanings that the concepts of evil an...
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Something good (annikin miniature edition)
Something good” is exactly what Tyya, Andrew and Julie want to put into their shopping cart. Tyya’s dad won’t buy anything good at the storeno ice cream, no candy, no cookies. But when the saleslady puts a price sticker on Tyya’s nose, Daddy is finally forced to buy something good.
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Exiles from european revolutions
Studies on exile in the 19th century tend to be restricted to national histories. This volume is the first to offer a broader view by looking at French, Italian, Hungarian, Polish, Czech and German political refugees who fled to England after the European revolutions of 1848/49. The contributor...
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Carneiro
Robert L. Carneiro is one of the most influential figures in anthropology in the twentieth century who brought cultural evolutionism from its nineteenth century origins. This book aims to contribute to revitalizing Carneiro’s profound theoretical perspective for current and future generations o...
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Medicine between science and religion
Offers a sustained exploration of ‘religion’, ‘science’ and ‘medicine’ in Western and Tibetan medical contexts. Discusses the situated confluence and/or friction of medicine between religious and scientific world views in various contexts of healing . Offers original ethnographic ex...
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Strategic management of profitability in banking from an asset-liability view
Can a bank be both profitable and fragile at the same time? The uncomfortable answer is yes. Banks do not fail simply because they take risks. They fail when those risks are mispriced, under-compensated, and allowed to accumulate over time. This book introduces Pricing Gap as a new analytical fra...
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Kinship in europe
Since the publication of Philippe Ariès’s book, Centuries of Childhood, in the early 1960s, there has been great interest among historians in the history of the family and the household. A central aspect of the debate relates the story of the family to implicit notions of modernization, with th...
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Security and development
Since 9/11 ideas of security have focused in part on the development of ungovernable spaces. Important debates are now being had over the nature, impacts, and outcomes of the numerous policy statements made by northern governments, NGOs, and international institutions that view the merging of s...
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State and minorities in communist east germany
Based on interviews and materials in the archives of the SED Examines the interaction between several minority groups and the state and party bodies of the East German dictatorship Uses the study of minority groups to illustrate the limits of the East German dictatorship
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The dark (annikin miniature edition)
Jule Ann pounds on the bottom of a cookie jar, and a small dark lump bounces out. The Dark quickly gobbles up every shadow in sight, growing bigger with each one. Munsch’s plucky heroine resolves the perplexing problem with brilliant, spirited logic.
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Women in israel
This book is a comprehensive feminist examination of women's diverse experience in Israeli society over four decades and analyzes society during this time. As an ethnography, the book emphasizes a commitment to social justice and equality, and challenges prevailing social and gender research ap...
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Jesus reclaimed
In this cross-cultural study the author compares Jewish and Christian discourses. Offers a historical account of Jewish perspectives on the Nazarene and the potential reasons for the recent increased interest in Jesus. Contrasts the Jewish quest for a historical Jesus against the har...
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Popular historiographies in the 19th and 20th centuries
Opens up new field of study (popular histories) which promises to contribute in major way to investigation of broader historical cultures Intertextuality and interdisciplinarity point the way for future research in the area Explores popular histories in different media and popular hi...
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De gruyter handbook on the psychology of energy transitions
Limiting climate change will require a global shift in the way energy is produced, distributed, and consumed. While much of the discourse thus far has gravitated toward technological innovation, a successful Energy Transition also depends on how individuals and communities respond to it, from the...
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Women migrants from east to west
Based on the oral histories of eighty migrant women and thirty additional interviews with ‘native’ women in the ‘receiving’ countries, this volume documents the contemporary phenomenon of the feminisation of migration through an exploration of the lives of women, who have moved from Bulgaria an...
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Multicultural dialogue
As cross-cultural migration increases democratic states face a particular challenge: how to grant equal rights and dignity to individuals while recognizing cultural distinctiveness. In response to the greater number of ethnic and religious minority groups, state policies seem to focus on managi...
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English corpus phonetics and phonology
The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features vo...
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The allure of capitalism
Provides a unique ethnography of "global management". One of the few in-depth ethnographies addressing the current financial and economic crisis. Unique in the way it provides an ethnographic extended case study, extending out of the field from corporate managerial practices to the g...
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Gray zones
Few essays about the Holocaust are better known or more important than Primo Levi’s reflections on what he called “the gray zone,” a reality in which moral ambiguity and compromise were pronounced. In this volume accomplished Holocaust scholars, among them Raul Hilberg, Gerhard L. Weinberg, Chr...
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Murmel, murmel, murmel (annikin miniature edition)
What in the world is Robin going to do with the baby she finds in her sandbox? Murmel, murmel, murmel,” is all Robin hears coming from a hole in her sandbox. When she reaches down and out pops a baby, she finds herself in a real fix: who will take care of it? Robin’s too little! Off she goes, s...
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Bodies in pain
This study of Darren Aronofsky's films goes deeper than the auteur direction, but rather focuses on the spectator and the senses employed in a viewing of his work. The study is deeply concerned with his audio-visual style and the subsequent emotions provoked in the audience. Explores...
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Estructuras de predicación y alternancia de cópula
The book series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie is among the most renowned publications in Romance Studies. It covers the entire field of Romance linguistics, including the national languages as well as the lesser studied Romance languages. The series publishes high-quality mo...
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The bounded field
Regionalism is one of the most debated issues in contemporary western Europe. Yet why the region, rather than the nation state, can have such a strong appeal for the construction of social and political identity remains largely unexplored. Drawing on data collected in the mountainous Trentino r...
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