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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 ...