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    • Penick, Douglas (2025)
      In the contemporary West, the elderly are regarded as somehow “other,” no longer who they used to be, no longer full members of the worlds they once inhabited. Being old is seen as a medical management issue. But old age ...
    • Pinto, Jorge Cruz; Čavić, Ljiljana; Farias, Hugo Lopes; Ginja, Luis Miguel (2025)
      Designing in Times of Crisis offers insights, visions, and strategies for architects and urban designers to question and respond to the crises and challenges of the contemporary anthropocentric world. The book highlights ...
    • Dellve, Lotta; Fonn, Sharon; Köhlin, Gunnar; Skagert, Katrin (2025)
      This book brings together knowledge on how to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goal 8, to bring societal change through sustainable economic growth and decent work for all by 2030. At its core is the great ...
    • Evans, Carla M.; Taylor, Catherine S. (2025)
      Culturally Responsive Assessment in Classrooms and Large-Scale Contexts explores how scholars and professionals in educational measurement and assessment can use the unique cultural and social identities of students to ...
    • Linek, Leoni (2025)
      Freundschaften haben große Bedeutung im Leben vieler Menschen, und sie werden im Zuge gesellschaftlichen Wandels noch bedeutsamer. Das Buch untersucht, was Menschen im post-traditionalen neuen Mittelschichtsmilieu in ihren ...
    • Harke, Jan Dirk (2025)
      Das Eigentum als ein gegenüber allen wirksames Recht war dem römischen Recht nicht in die Wiege gelegt. Das Konzept einer exklusiven Zuordnung der Sache zu ihrem Inhaber tritt erst deutlich nach dem Zwölftafelgesetz in ...
    • D'Alessandro, Roberta; Putnam, Michael T.; Terenghi, Silvia (2025)
      This volume explores a wide range of structural phenomena in typologically diverse heritage languages using current Minimalist theoretical approaches. Heritage languages have been the focus of extensive research in the ...
    • Brennan, Patrick H. (2025)
      This is the story of the King’s Own Calgary Regiment. Beginning in the last years of collective innocence before the Great War, it follows the regiment to Vimy Ridge, through the short years of peace to Dieppe and the ...
    • Fortna, Peter (2024)
      This is the definitive history of the Fort McKay Métis Nation. It traces the evolution of the community from the mid-nineteenth to the early twenty-first century, paying special attention to genealogy, land-use, land-tenure, ...
    • Zeiderman, Austin (2025)
      Austin Zeiderman unearths how the fraught past and future of Colombia’s Magdalena River articulate the mirrored hierarchies of race and environment to explore global entanglements of race, nature, and capital.
    • Weisenfeld, Gennifer (2025)
      Gennifer Weisenfeld examines the evolution of Japanese advertising graphic design from the early 1900s through the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, a pivotal design event that rebranded Japan on the world stage.
    • Groenland, Koen (2025)
      How will businesses use quantum technology in the future? What problems will a quantum computer solve? How long will it take before these devices become commercially relevant? With the first generation of quantum computers ...
    • Alessi, Nicolò P.; Trettel, Martina (2025)
      The volume offers new and unexplored perspectives on federalism and its relationships with diversity accommodation. It represents the first structured attempt to use federal theory and practice to frame several phenomena ...
    • Schwitter, Raphael (2024)
      Die vorliegende Monographie entwirft eine literaturgeschichtliche Gesamtdarstellung des römischen Antiquarianismus vom 2. Jahrhundert v. Chr. bis zum 3. Jahrhundert n. Chr. Ausgangspunkt ist die begrifflich-konzeptuelle ...
    • Oresme, Nicole; Panzica, Aurora (2024)
      Nicole Oresme, a mathematician, philosopher, and theologian, stood as one of the most original and influential thinkers of the Late Middle Ages. This volume presents the critical edition of Oresme's earliest work, his first ...
    • Keller, Marc (2024)
      Contemporary literature and film often explore how illness impacts romantic relationships: Faced with the imminent or experienced death of the loved one, the healthy partner refuses to outlive them, echoing the long-standing ...
    • Dinkel, Benjamin (2024)
      This volume provides evidence that the work of Adalbert Stifter is permeated by forms of violence and "(Ver-)Führung". The study shows that although Stifter's texts are infused with attempts to appease violence, at the ...
    • Bastias Saavedra, Manuel (2025)
      Explore a new perspective on land relations with Ownership Regimes, which shifts focus from traditional legal views to socio-historical contexts. This book reveals how land holding was influenced by diverse practices, ...
    • Bryjka, Filip; Chłoń, Tomasz; Kupiecki, Robert (2024)
      Dive into the world of disinformation with this groundbreaking book. Uncover how Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) shapes modern politics and society, and how it impacts your own life. Explore answers ...
    • Chitwood, Zachary (2024)
      These collected studies dedicated to the Orthodox monastic center of Mount Athos during the Middle Ages paint a compelling picture of the Holy Mountain’s monastic communities as economic actors. Mount Athos’ rich archival ...