OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2023)This book reviews the implications that the work of the French philosopher Louis Althusser had in Mexico, in the journey from the late 1960s to the collapse of Marxist discourses in public life. Unlike other works, some ...
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(2023)No one has given the polymath Thomas Young (1773–1829) the all-round examination he so richly deserves—until now. Celebrated biographer Andrew Robinson portrays a man who solved mystery after mystery in the face of ridicule ...
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(2023)Throughout the last two centuries, Hebrew metrics was studied by leading linguists and specialists in medieval Hebrew poetry. Nowadays, it has disappeared from the academic discussion such that it is sometimes even difficult ...
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(2023)Every body contains multitudes, but no body is immune to the ideology of oneness: one true self, one sexuality, one gender, one vision of the world, one true God. For many who identify (or who have been named by others) ...
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(2023)The state of the art in the optical characterization of materials is advancing rapidly. New insights have been gained into the theoretical foundations of this research and exciting developments have been made in practice, ...
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(2023)This study systematically investigates the representation of warm conveyor belts (WCBs) in large reforecast data sets of different numerical weather prediction models and evaluates the role of WCBs for the onset and life ...
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(2023)The research deals with a question about Architecture and its design strategies, combining historical information and digital tools. Design strategies are historically defined, they rely on geometry, context, building ...
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(2023)Seemingly detached from attractive mobility alternatives in cities the car remains highly relevant in personal mobility. In order to investigate the role of the car, a new survey concept for a multidimensional analysis of ...
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(2023)Servants were for a long time the dominant form of labour in Sweden. To serve, at a farm or at a manor, was ever since the thirteenth century the most common way to make a living, since poor people could by law be forced ...
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(2023)For centuries, the Mosque of Eyüp Sultan has been one of Istanbul’s most important pilgrimage destinations, in large part because of the figure buried in the tomb at its center: Halid bin Zeyd Ebû Eyûb el-Ensârî, a Companion ...
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(2023)The present book is a special gift for a special colleague and friend. Defined as an “Unfestschrift,” it gives colleagues, students, and friends of Regina Bendix an opportunity to express their esteem for Regina’s inspiration, ...
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(2023)The second volume of the “Göttingen Colloquia on the Digitalisation of Civil Procedure” contains the written presentations of the speakers of the three Friday Colloquia held in winter term 2021-22. The first colloquium was ...
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(2023)This book analyses in detail half a century of international discussions on housing, slums and informal settlements, identifies policy phases (self-help, enabling) and discusses pros and cons of applied measures globally ...
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(2023)This collection of new work on the philosophical importance of television starts from a model for reading films proposed by Stanley Cavell, whereby film in its entirety—actors and production included—brings its own ...
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(2023)Yanna Yannakakis traces the creation of Indigenous custom as a legal category and its deployment as a strategy of resistance to empire in colonial Mexico.
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(2023)Die Verletzung internationaler Arbeits- und Sozialstandards entlang der Lieferkette ist bei global agierenden Unternehmen eher die Regel als die Ausnahme. Mittlerweile sind solche Firmen allerdings durch die Gesetzgebung ...
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(2023)In Wien und Berlin öffneten während des Ersten Weltkrieges hunderte Kriegsküchen, die in Zeiten der größten Versorgungsnot täglich von hunderttausenden Menschen besucht wurden. Jenny Sprenger-Seyffarth stellt die Entstehung ...
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(2023)Was bedeutet es, Lehrer:in an einer Schule im ›Brennpunkt‹ zu sein? Hauke Straehler-Pohl stellt die gemeinsamen Reflexionen von Lehrer:innen in den Vordergrund, die sich dieser Frage widmen. Dabei entsteht nicht nur ein ...
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(2023)Die Etablierung der Opera buffa veränderte die Opernlandschaft des 18. Jahrhunderts maßgeblich. Sie stellte einen inhaltlichen Kontrapunkt zur höfisch geprägten Opera seria dar und löste diese zunehmend in den Spielplänen ...
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(2023)Increasing irrigation efficiency has been high on the political agenda in Spain for many years. However, the overarching aim to reduce agricultural water consumption has not been met so far. To explore this phenomenon, ...
