OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2024)In the ten articles featured in this volume, the contributors initiate a discussion on how and to what extent political changes, armed conflicts, economic, social and technological transformations that have taken place in ...
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(2024)The book scrutinizes post-war rat control programs in Poland, exploring their intricate intersections with politics, science, and ideology. It delves into the impact of prevailing cultural narratives concerning problematic ...
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(2024)The changing social conditions – such as increasing cultural and religious heterogeneity in schools, political instrumentalization of the Islamic religion – make it necessary to conduct research on new, context-sensitive ...
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(2025)Through his way of historical representation, Orosius wants to proof that Christianity is not responsible for the catastrophe of his own time: the sack of Rome in 410 AD. In her study, the author examines Orosius’ numerous ...
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(2024)This collection presents studies on a wide range of discursive positions marked by vulnerability and investigates the functions of (self-)positioning actors as vulnerable in contemporary social discourses. As a phenomenon ...
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(2024)Postcolonial theory is a topic of ongoing heated discussions: for some it is a “super theory” for the age of globalization, while others see it as an elitist discourse that only leads to sectarian identity politics. But ...
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(2024)This volume presents the findings of the cooperative religious education project “Christian-Islamic Religious Education in Teamteaching”. In this specific teaching setting, one Catholic and one Islamic teacher taught ...
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(2024)The first volume on empirical classroom studies in German as a second and foreign language focusses on practices and methodological approaches. The contributions concentrate not only on linguistic interactional analyses ...
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(2024)Who and what is a ‘male writer’? While ‘writing women’ are almost a genre in their own right, represented in popular and scholarly anthologies, ‘male’ writing, which has probably shaped ideas of masculinity more than any ...
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(2024)This volume addresses the issues in inter- and transdisciplinary dialogue as well as the interaction of individual disciplines in handling complex research topics related to foreign language learning and teaching. It is ...
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(2024)Japanese family businesses are among the oldest in the world and many of them prove a history record of 200 years and more. Research on several case studies of century old firms (‘shinise’) in Japan reveal three factors ...
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(2024)Marta Tomczok presents all Polish postmodern novels about the Holocaust, starting with “The First Splendor” by Leopold Buczkowski and ending with “The Suspected Dybbuk” by Andrzej Bart. She also presents their rich ...
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(2024)In this book, Helen Wiedmaier analyses the depiction of men as fighters in written sources from the 14th and early 15th century which depict the battles at Gammelsdorf (1313), Morgarten (1315), Mühldorf (1322) and Sempach ...
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(2025)Digitization has changed the way people communicate about books. New practices, such as book blogging or social reading, cannot be directly classified by traditional socio-cultural categories such as “literary criticism”, ...
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(2024)Female authors from the Varnhagen Collection such as Charlotte von Ahlefeldt, Helmina von Chézy, Amalie von Imhoff, Amalie Schoppe, Fanny Tarnow, Karoline von Woltmann, Caroline de la Motte Fouqué, Amalie von Voigt, and ...
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(2024)The nursing process generally is understood as key element of professional nursing care in Germany. This study follows this argument back to the introduction of the nursing process in the 1970s and 1980s. At that time, the ...
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(2024)The relationship between sexualized violence and revenge can be observed in different cultural contexts and legal discourses from the past to the present. Cultural analysis can help to understand the logics, socio-political ...
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(2024)The volume – whose chapters originated at panels at the International Byzantine Congress in Belgrade and at the IMC in Leeds – seeks to offer an introduction into various aspects of social and geographical mobility, and ...
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(2024)The volume presents a comparative perspective on victors and vanquished according to the categories of remembering victory and defeat, practices of celebrating victory and triumphs as well as the culture of dealing with ...
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(2024)The Max Planck Society, currently operating 86 independent institutes, is dedicated to fundamental research in the natural sciences, as well as in the social sciences and humanities. It enjoys worldwide recognition as an ...
