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Formalization of Banking Supervision
(2022)
This open access book is the first attempt to elaborate the formalization phase of banking supervision in eight developed countries—USA, Japan, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, France, and UK. This innovative study ...
Iridescent Kuwait
(2021)
Petro-modernity is a local phenomenon essential to the history of Kuwait, while also a global experience and one of the prime sources of climate change. The book investigates petroleum’s role in the visual culture of Kuwait ...
Transitioning to Clean Water and Sanitation
(2021)
Transitioning is a key concept for innovative management in several domains, particularly the challenges emerging from climate change. Transitioning to Clean Water and Sanitation will, thus, contribute to an understanding ...
Responsive Human Rights
(2021)
Who is a vulnerable person in human rights law? This important book assesses the treatment of vulnerability by the European Court of Human Rights, an area that has been surprisingly under explored by European human rights ...
Taking a Common Concern Approach to Economic Inequality
(2022)
Through the lens of cooperative sovereignty and the common concern of humankind concept, this book contemplates what kind of transnational corporate taxation system would be necessary for appropriately dealing with rising ...
Television before TV
(2022)
Television before TV rethinks the history of interwar television by exploring the medium’s numerous demonstrations organized at national fairs and international exhibitions in the late 1920s and 1930s. Building upon extensive ...
Das Werk im Werk
(2022)
Zivilisieren durch Strafen
(2022)
Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts verfügte Britisch-Indien über die größten Gefängnisse der Welt. Stolz rühmten sich Kolonialbeamte damit, ein ""zivilisiertes"" System des Strafens eingeführt zu haben, das mit den Institutionen ...
Meanings and Functions of the Ruler's Image in the Mediterranean World (11th – 15th Centuries)
(2022)
The book investigates, from different methodological viewpoints, the multiple ways in which medieval rulers in different areas of the Mediterranean constructed their outward appearance and communicated it by means of a ...
Theatre and Its Other
(2022)
In Theatre and Its Other, Elisa Ganser revisits a telling debate on the intertwined natures of dance and dramatic acting; preserved in Abhinavagupta’s eleventh-century commentary on the Nāṭyaśāstra, it reflects complex ...
Verwaltete Vielfalt
(2022)
Vielfalt prägte das frühneuzeitliche Europa. Am Beispiel der königlichen Domänen in Polen-Litauen lässt sich dies besonders gut zeigen. Die landwirtschaftlichen Güter der königlichen "Tafel" (mensa regia) lagen wie ein ...
Paul on the Human Vocation
(2021)
This book offers a new explanation for Paul’s puzzling use of λογικὴ λατρεία (Rom 12.1). Based on a detailed investigation of ancient philosophical parallels, it argues that Paul here alludes to discourse on the role of ...
Rhapsodic Objects
(2021)
Circulation and imitation of cultural products are key factors in shaping the material world.The contributions explore how technical knowledge, immaterial desires, and political agendas impacted the production and consumption ...
Ausstellungskommunikation
(2021)
Associations de migrants et coopération internationale
(2022)
Since the global food crisis of 2008, Senegalese migrant associations have become involved in the agricultural development of their localities of origin. Through their projects they have created a transnational dynamic ...
Theatre and Metatheatre
(2021)
In this book, experts discuss the use of ‘theatre’ and ‘metatheatre’ to describe ancient Greek dramatic activities. By examining how these two concepts are used in very different ways by scholars of various horizons, this ...
Homo Novus
(2021)
Based on current and projected breakthroughs in biological, genetic, and digital technologies—and their possible convergences—contemporary transhumanism confronts the Christian faith with the question: can finite beings ...
Intercultural Approaches to Education
(2022)
This open access book provides an analysis of contemporary societies and schools shaped by cultural diversity, globalization and migration. This diversity is necessarily reflected in education systems and requires the ...
Latin as the Language of Science and Learning
(2021)
This book approaches its topic from three angles: diachronic semantics, a panorama of science and scientific writing in Latin from antiquity up to the present, and linguistic forays that try to demarcate scientific Latin ...
Provozierte Bewunderung
(2022)
Töne und Schälle
(2022)
A Global Law of Diversity
(2025)
This book provides a global perspective on the accommodation of diversity within constitutional traditions, considering the most innovative approaches and legal instruments of the Global North and Global South. This field ...
Performance
(2025)
Representing the output of the research project ""Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge,"" this volume brings together diverse voices, methods, and formats in the discussion and practice of performance ...
Responsibility for Rationality
(2025)
This book develops the foundations of an ethics of mind by investigating the responsibility that is presupposed by the requirements of rationality that govern our attitudes. It thereby connects the most recent research on ...
Children and Violence
(2025)
This multi- disciplinary volume provides an innovative approach to children and violence, looking beyond the existing literature that focuses on child soldiers in the ‘Global South.’ Harnessing expert contributions from ...
Governance, Regulation and Management of Global Sport Organisations
(2025)
This book is a bold and ambitious analysis of the challenges facing global sport in the 21st century and how those challenges can be met through good governance, management and regulation. Connecting the political and ...
Governing delinquency through freedom
(2020)
This book analyzes the non-custodial government of young offenders in two major cities in Brazil. In doing so, it delves into the paradox of an institution exerting control over youths while at the same time promoting their ...
Stable Isotopes in Tree Rings
(2022)
This Open Access volume highlights how tree ring stable isotopes have been used to address a range of environmental issues from paleoclimatology to forest management, and anthropogenic impacts on forest growth. It will ...
Writing Systems and Their Use
(2022)
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of grapholinguistics, treating questions concerning both the structure and use of writing systems by complementing the linguistic main perspective ...
Exploring Islamic Social Work
(2022)
This open access book addresses, for the first time, Islamic social work as an emerging concept at the interface of Islamic thought and social sciences. Applying a multidisciplinary approach it explores, on the one hand, ...
Applying Reflective Equilibrium
(2022)
This open access book provides the first explicit case study for an application of the method of reflective equilibrium (RE), using it to develop and defend a precautionary principle. It thereby makes an important and ...
Binationale Herkunft und Zugehörigkeit
(2022)
The author examines how young adults of binational origin in Morocco and Switzerland repeatedly establish a subjective balance between national discourses of belonging, social processes of inclusion and exclusion, and their ...
Akademische Resilienz
(2020)
Das vorliegende Buch erforscht das Thema Resilienz und Vulnerabilität im Bereich von Bildung und Bildungssystem. Es handelt sich um eine interdisziplinäre Studie, die sich im Schnittbereich von Entwicklungspsychologie, ...
Kantianism for Animals
(2022)
This open access book revises Kant’s ethical thought in one of its most notorious respects: its exclusion of animals from moral consideration. The book gives readers in animal ethics an accessible introduction to Kant’s ...
Translation und Exil (1933–1945) I
(2022)
Research into exile has so far focused on numerous groups of people persecuted by the National Socialists: Writers, artists, scientists, politicians and many others. One group, however, has remained largely invisible until ...
Das sexuelle Schutzalter
(2022)
"Die Geschichte des sexuellen Schutzalters: Sie zeigt die Vulnerabilität von Kindern in einer generationen- und geschlechterhierarchischen Gesellschaft. Wann endet das sexuelle Schutzalter? Bis zu welchem Alter sollen ...
Educational Internationalism in the Cold War
(2025)
This edited volume delves into the intricate landscape of educational internationalism during the Cold War, providing an in-depth examination of its diverse forms, impulses, and global impacts.
Through multilingual ...
Chapter 7 Visual Perception in Dante's Commedia According to the Early Commentaries (1320–1400)
(2025)
Dante’s Visions: Crossing Sights on Natural Philosophy, Theory of Vision, and Medicine in the Divine Comedy and Beyond offers a fascinating insight into Dante’s engagement with the science of his time, particularly with ...
Selbst organisiertes Lernen am Gymnasium
(2022)
Independent knowledge acquisition and learning organisation are key qualifications of the information society. The Mixed Methods study examines inter-individual differences among pupils in dealing with self-organised ...
Die Arbeit am Ausdruck
(2022)
Les mots de la vidéo
(2022)
Beyond Treaties: Rethinking Legal Mechanisms for International Climate Governance
(2025)
This open access book examines the implications of the shift towards minilateralism for international climate law, analysing how climate-related trade measures and Paris Agreement compatible platforms may enhance global ...
Der Super-Imam
(2025)
An Empirical Study of EFL Writing at Primary School (Volume 9)
(2022)
This book presents a research study investigating young foreign language learners' ability to compose communicative texts in English. It reviews current research on young learners' EFL writing, reports on the learners' EFL ...
Women, Agency, and the State in Guinea
(2020)
This book examines how women in Guinea articulate themselves politically within and outside institutional politics. It documents the everyday practices that local female actors adopt to deal with the continuous economic, ...
A History of Rhetoric, Sound, and Health and Healing
(2025)
A History of Rhetoric, Sound, and Health and Healing argues for medico-sonic knowledge — systematically interpreted bodily sounds with medical knowledge mediated by rhetoric — as an evolving corporeal practice with an ...
Evolution of burial practices within Neolithic cist graves.
(2025)
In the 5th millennium BCE, the first farming societies in the Western Alps developed unique burial practices characterized by Chamblandes-type graves. These box-shaped graves, constructed from stone slabs or wooden planks, ...
Business and Human Rights
(2025)
This book explores the interface of Business and Human Rights with other practice areas, such as antitrust, arbitration, artificial intelligence, investment law, finance, private international law, professional ethics, ...
Space is the Ultimate Luxury
(2025)
This book explores the history, ecology, and society of a seemingly inhospitable stretch of land along the Orange River in southern Namibia. Here, a group of African farmers have succeeded against all odds to stay on their ...