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The Digital Humanities and Literary Studies

Eve, Martin Paul (2022)

This book delivers an introduction and overview of developing intersections between digital methods and literary studies. The Digital Humanities and Literary Studies serves as a starting place for those who wish to learn ...

Sustainable Human Development Across the Life Course

Banati, Prerna (2021)

"EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. It is critical that the wellbeing of society is systematically tracked by indicators that not only give an accurate picture of human life today, but also provide ...

Digitalisierung in der Grundschule

Haider, Michael; Schmeinck, Daniela (2022)

Using the example of the multi-perspectival subject of science education, the book shows the basics, conditions for success and didactic concepts of digitization in elementary school. It describes the various aspects of ...

Music Worlding in Palau

Abels, Birgit (2022)

Music Worlding in Palau: Chanting, Atmospheres, and Meaningfulness is a detailed study of the performing arts in Palau, Micronesia as holistic techniques enabling the experiential corporeality of music’s meaningfulness—that ...

Lives in Transit in Early Modern England

Das, Nandini (2022)

What did it mean in practice to be a ‘go-between’ in the early modern world? How were such figures perceived in sixteenth and seventeenth century England? And what effect did their movement between languages, countries, ...

Everyday Automation

Pink, Sarah; Berg, Martin; Lupton, Deborah; Ruckenstein, Minna (2022)

This Open Access book brings the experiences of automation as part of quotidian life into focus. It asks how, where and when automated technologies and systems are emerging in everyday life across different global regions? ...

Biocultural Rights, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities

Girard, Fabien; Hall, Ingrid; Frison, Christine (2022)

This volume presents a comprehensive overview of biocultural rights, examining how we can promote the role of indigenous peoples and local communities as environmental stewards and how we can ensure that their ways of life ...

The History of Japanese Economic Development

Ohno, Kenichi (2018)

This is an easy-to-read book that explains how and why Japan industrialized rapidly. It traces historical development from the feudal Edo period to high income and technology in the current period. Catch-up industrialization ...

War in Film

Jacob, Frank (2022)

The human experience of war is not only remembered by societies through memorials, but also through the depiction of wars and important battles of respective national histories on screen. Very often, the image presented ...

The Orientalist Semiotics of Dune

Jacob, Frank (2022)

Frank Herbert’s »Dune« (1965) is considered to be one of the most successful Science Fiction novels of the 20th century. It introduces its readers to a future universe, in which the production of the most valuable resource ...

New Global Cities in Latin America and Asia

Baisotti, Pablo (2022)

New Global Cities in Latin America and Asia: Welcome to the Twenty-First Century proposes new visions of global cities and regions historically considered “secondary” in the international context. The arguments are not ...

Recherche im Translationsprozess

Hagemann, Susanne (2022)

What do I need to know in order to successfully complete a translation job? How do I acquire the relevant knowledge? This is what information mining is about. Gaps in a translator’s knowledge can occur in a variety of ...

Chapter 9 Talking rocks, illusory sounds, and projections of the otherworld

Shpinitskaya, Julia; Rainio, Riitta (2021)

This volume explores illusionism as a much larger phenomenon than optical illusion, magic shows, or special effects, as a vital part of how we perceive, process, and shape the world we live in. Considering different cultural ...

Comment s’écrit l’autre?

Ruiz Darasse, Coline (2020)

Two people who do not speak the same language meet. One writes the name of the other: a fugitive, timeless and banal scene. Only a modest written record remains. Thanks to it, however, we can, centuries later, re-experience ...