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    • Nieva-de la Paz, Pilar (2022)
      Las revisiones de antiguos mitos y la formación de nuevos iconos en las creaciones de las autoras contemporáneas favorece la indagación en el proceso de construcción de la identidad colectiva y en la evolución de los roles ...
    • Lee, A. Robert (2020)
      Across more than two centuries Afro-America has created a huge and dazzling variety of literary self-expression. Designs of Blackness provides less a narrative literary history than, precisely, a series of mappings—each ...
    • Schmidt, Frederike (2018)
      Die Studie zielt darauf, ein praxisnahes Verfahren zur Diagnose von Lesekompetenz zu erstellen. Wesentliches Entwicklungsprinzip ist dabei, die Perspektive(n) der Zielgruppe – Deutschlehrkräfte der Sekundarstufe I – von ...
    • Wawrzyńczak, Dariusz; Majchrzak-Kucęba, Izabela; Pevida, Covadonga; Bonura, Giuseppe; Nogueira, Rita; De Falco, Marcello (2023)
      A shift towards implementation of renewable energy has disadvantages, such as power availability, storage capacity, and accompanying costs, and therefore the potential of clean fossil fuel technologies to ensure the stability ...
    • Feichtner, Isabel; Gordon, Geoff (2023)
      Gathering an interdisciplinary range of cutting-edge scholars, this book addresses legal constitutions of value. Global value production and transnational value practices that rely on exploitation and extraction have ...
    • Scott, Martin; Wright, Kate; Bunce, Mel (2023)
      This book documents the unique reporting practices of humanitarian journalists – an influential group of journalists defying conventional approaches to covering humanitarian crises. Based on a 5-year study, involving ...
    • van Wessel, Margit; Kontinen, Tiina; Bawole, Justice Nyigmah (2023)
      At a time when uneven power dynamics are high on development actors’ agenda, this book will be an important contribution to researchers and practitioners working on innovation in development and civil society. While ...
    • Zellentin, Holger (2021)
      In this chapter, the author discovers Michel Cuypers’ pioneering application to the Qur’an of the Semitic rhetorical analysis of Roland Meynet. It takes the reader through the first 33 verses of Surat Maryam to show how a ...
    • Junka-Aikio, Laura (2022)
      Over the past decades, online hate speech against the Indigenous Sámi people has sharply proliferated, and in each Nordic country, it is now considered a problem requiring counter-measures and further study. This chapter ...
    • Valkonen, Sanna; Aikio, Áile; Alakorva, Saara; Magga, Sigga-Marja (2022)
      This book provides a comprehensive and multifaceted analysis of the Sámi society and its histories and people, offering valuable insights into how they live and see the world. The chapters examine a variety of social and ...
    • Dyduch, Joanna (2021)
      This book explores the political and social dynamics of the bilateral relations between Germany and Poland at the at the national and subnational levels, taking into account the supranational dynamics, across different ...
    • Tenenboim-Weinblatt, Keren; Baden, Christian; Aharoni, Tali; Overbeck, Maximilian (2022)
      This chapter examines the social dynamics of projections about the outcomes and implications of the repeated elections in Israel. Based on a combination of a panel survey and focus groups, we analyze citizens’ evolving ...
    • Shamir, Michal; Rahat, Gideon (2023)
      The 16th book in The Elections in Israel series, this book covers an extraordinary political event of having four national elections in two years, which were much (but not all) about one person, "King Bibi." Analyzing ...
    • Eloranta, Jari; Ojala, Jari; Sabaté, Oriol (2022)
      In this chapter, we aim to compare the Nordic societies in a broad fashion in the last 200 years in their process of “sailing” (with the implication of rough waters along the way) from social fragmentation to more inclusive ...
    • Lloyd, Christopher; Hannikainen, Matti (2022)
      Aiming to go beyond reiterating the stereotypical narrative of the rise of welfare states, this interdisciplinary book examines the long-run historical processes of the development of the welfare state. It focuses on the ...
    • Stark, Alexander (2023)
      In the early 1940s, Elisabeth Wilms (1905-1981) from Dortmund discovered her passion for filming. What began as a hobby quickly developed into a lucrative business at the interface of amateur and commercial film after the ...
    • Avrachenkov, Konstantin; Dreveton, Maximilien (2022)
      This book is a general introduction to the statistical analysis of networks, and can serve both as a research monograph and as a textbook. Numerous fundamental tools and concepts needed for the analysis of networks are ...
    • Tashinskiy, Aleksey; Boguna, Julija; Rozmysłowicz, Tomasz (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 ...
    • Karpukhin, Sara; Vergara, José (2022)
      In Reimagining Nabokov: Pedagogies for the 21st Century, eleven teachers of Vladimir Nabokov describe how and why they teach this notoriously difficult, even problematic, writer to the next generations of students. ...
    • Little, Stephen; Larkin, T. Lawrence (2022)
      The philosophical ties between Northeastern Asia and the Northern Rockies as represented in a selection of fine art — including Daoist nature deities and immortals, Confucian scholar brushes and inkstones, and Buddhist ...