OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2023)Das Gebet ist ein reizvolles Thema, weil es ein Phänomen auf der Schwelle ist und viel verspricht: nämlich eine Brücke zu sein zwischen Himmel und Erde, Kontaktort von Endlichem und Unendlichem und ein ultimativer Trost ...
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(2023)Zunehmend ist unser Alltag von vernetzten Geräten und dem Internet der Dinge durchzogen. Die Vernetzung eröffnet nicht nur neue Nutzungsmöglichkeiten. Sie macht den Nutzer beim Gebrauch des Geräts auch vom Willen des ...
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(2023)Holger M. Zellentin seeks to probe how far the classical rabbis took their literary playfulness in order to advance their religious and societal causes. Building on the literary approaches to rabbinic Judaism of the past ...
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(2023)Der vorliegende Band untersucht Muße-Diskurse und -Praktiken angesichts der einschneidenden Umbrüche in Russland ab 1917. Es gilt, Konzepte von Muße hinsichtlich ihrer Realisierung oder ihres systembedingten Ausbleibens ...
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(2024)The desire to transform ourselves into something better than we are now is as old as humanity. But the ability to use biomedical technologies to enhance our capacities is new. In this chapter, we will distinguish different ...
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(2024)The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Human Enhancement provides readers with a philosophically rich and scientifically grounded analysis of human enhancement and its ethical implications. A landmark in the academic ...
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(2023)What role do the philosophy and pedagogical concepts of the Bauhaus play for adult education? And to what extent were progressive approaches to adult education able to influence Bauhaus architecture? The authors outline ...
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(2023)After decades of turbulence and acute crises in recent years, how can we build a better future for Higher Education? Thoughtfully edited by Laura Czerniewicz and Catherine Cronin, this rich and diverse collection by ...
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(2023)In today’s ‘publish or perish’ academic setting, the institutional prizing of quantity over quality has given rise to and perpetuated the dilemma of predatory publishing. Upon a close examination, however, the definition ...
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(2022)This chapter examines the apparent look of nonchalance evinced by boxers in the face of danger and harm—what is characterized as ‘boxer cool’. It is argued that boxer cool is a culturally derived repertoire of looks, stances ...
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(2022)aesthetics; boxer; boxing; constraint; cool; cornerman; culture; ethics; ethnography; gym; identity; martial arts; philosophy of sport; pugilism; social capital; status; sweet science; urban; violence
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(2023)Perspectives and practices of couples in unconventional Muslim marriages. Unconventional Muslim marriages have been topics of heated public debate. Around the globe, religious scholars, policy makers, political actors, ...
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(2024)Contrary to what Kant believed about the Dutch (and their visual culture) as “being of an orderly and diligent position” and thus having no feeling for the sublime, this book argues that the sublime played an important ...
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(2023)A highly original thinker' - New York Times David Graeber (1961–2020) was an American anthropologist and anarchist activist, who left us with new ways to understand humankind. This collection of new writing brings together ...
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(2023)This book explores omissions, or silences, in previous investigations of agrarian transformations by foregrounding indigenous experiences of capitalist development. Providing a rich and detailed ethnographic study, Mercedes ...
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(2023)A thought-provoking book which empowers its readers to think about the problems in systematic, transformative ways' - Fadhel Kaboub, President of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity The Arab region is a focus ...
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(2023)The idea of giving cash, no-strings-attached, to the poor has become popular in the 21st century. While hardly a radical form of global redistribution, these cash grants, often known as unconditional cash transfers, claim ...
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(2023)The climate crisis is the greatest existential threat humanity faces today. The need for a radical societal transformation in the interests of social justice and ecological sustainability has never been greater. But where ...
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(2023)This monograph examines how Korean women and men came to engage with Catholic missions during Europe’s late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a profoundly volatile period in East Asian history during which political, ...
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(2024)This book tells the stories of disabled people who have been influential in creating modern mass media. Through the voices of key disabled media makers and collaborators, the author highlights the ways in which their ...
