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    • Klichowski, Michał; Pospieszna, Paulina; Sakson-Boulet, Anna (2022)
      All papers of this edition give an opportunity for reflection on the chances, challenges and difficulties associated with the long-term transformation of higher education and scientific activities. Therefore, the concept ...
    • Gromkowska-Melosik, Agnieszka; Hordecki, Bartosz; Szymczyński, Tomasz R. (2022)
      All texts in this volume give an opportunity to reflect in-depth on the opportunities, challenges and difficulties associated with the continuous transformation of higher education and scientific activities. In this context, ...
    • Rankine, Patrice D. (2024)
      Racial reckoning was a recurrent theme throughout the summer of 2020, a response to George Floyd’s murder and the unprecedented impact of COVID on marginalized groups. Theater and Crisis proposes a literary and theatrical ...
    • Kenworthy, Lane (2022)
      The case for a modern democratic humane socialism typically has two parts. The first is that capitalism is bad, at or least not very good. In reaching this conclusion, most have either analyzed a theoretical ideal-type of ...
    • Kenworthy, Lane (2019)
      What configuration of institutions and policies is most conducive to human flourishing? The historical and comparative evidence suggests that the answer is social democratic capitalism — a democratic political system, a ...
    • Naqvi, Ijlal (2022)
      Pakistan would desperately like to produce enough electricity, but it usually doesn’t. This is the rare issue on which government and private sector can unite, and it is the cause of suffering for rich and poor alike across ...
    • Jottkandt, Sigi (2024)
      Sigi Jöttkandt's The Nabokov Effect: Reading in the Endgame attends to the ‘lettrocalamity’ that occurs when literature and cinema collide in Vladimir Nabokov’s work. Jöttkandt suspends the long-held critical investment ...
    • Shagrir, Oron (2022)
      Computing systems are everywhere today. Even the brain is thought to be a sort of computing system. But what does it mean to say that a given organ or system computes? What is it about laptops, smartphones, and nervous ...
    • Miller, Ruth A. (2016)
      Challenging the posthumanist canon that celebrates the preeminence of matter, Ruth Miller, in Flourishing Thought contends that what nonhuman systems contribute to democracy is thought. Drawing on recent feminist theories ...
    • An Stepec, Biwen Annie; Wunch, Kenneth; Skovhus, Torben Lund (2024)
      In the oil and gas industry, technologies have been developed to address microbial-related issues such as oil field souring, microbiologically influenced corrosion, biofouling, and targeted measures for risk assessment and ...
    • European Investment Bank (2023)
      The COVID-19 shock had a strong negative effect on aggregate economic performance, with the average firm taking a hit on sales revenues and financial performance. However, the effects varied from firm to firm. Were ...
    • Applegarth, Risa (2024)
      Although children have prompted and participated in numerous acts of protest and advocacy, their words and labors are more likely to be dismissed than discussed as serious activism. Whether treated disparagingly by ...
    • Biddle, Martin (2024)
      Edited by Martin Biddle with a catalogue of the known coins of the mint by Yvonne Harvey, this volume records and illustrates the minting of silver pennies in Winchester between the reigns of Alfred the Great and Henry ...
    • Dettwiler, Lukas (2022)
      Göran Tunström (1937-2000), der 1983 für seinen in viele Sprachen übersetzten Roman Juloratoriet (dt. Solveigs Vermächtnis) den Literaturpreis des Nordischen Rats erhielt, ist vor allem als begnadeter Erzähler und als ...
    • European Investment Bank (2024)
      After the global financial crisis, investment fell more substantially than it had in the wake of previous recessions. With investment seemingly recovering faster in the United States than in Europe, the fear of a lasting ...
    • Stadelmann, Nicole (2024)
      Wie bestritten Handwerkerfamilien ihren wirtschaftlichen Alltag? Der Schlüssel zum Verständnis liegt in ihrer beruflichen und räumlichen Mobilität Unser Verständnis von Arbeit ist einem starken Wandel unterworfen. Zunehmend ...
    • Knierzinger, Lucas (2024)
      Das Nachleben zu Lebzeiten gestalten. Dokumentation als Versprechen und Verfahren in literarischen Formaten des 20. Jahrhunderts. »Nachleben im Arbeitsmaterial« wirft einen neuen Blick auf die Geschichte dokumentarischer ...
    • Brugger, Ladina; Lingg, Martina; Juska-Bacher, Britta (2024)
      Untersucht werden die Wortschatzkompetenzen sowie die lexikalischen Inferenzprozesse beim Lesen von Schulerinnen und Schulern der dritten Klasse. Die Publikation basiert auf einer vom Schweizerischen Nationalfonds gerderten ...
    • Schütz, Julia; Elsholz, Uwe (2024)
      Lebenslanges Lernen wird in der Erwachsenenbildung, der Hochschulbildung und der Beruflichen Bildung als Auftrag angenommen. Gerade im Kontext von sich wandelnden Lehrwelten und Digitalisierung darf der Fokus auf ...
    • Zayed National Museum (2024)
      Advances in UAE Archaeology details the results of new excavations conducted across the United Arab Emirates over the last few years. These excavations have revealed a wealth of new data on all periods of UAE archaeology ...