A Delicate Choreography: Kinship Practices and Incest Discourses in the West …

The origins of the incest taboo have puzzled many of the most influential minds of the West, from Plutarch to St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, David Hume, Lewis Henry Morgan, Sigmund Freud, Emile Durkheim, Edward Westermarck, and Claude Le?vi-Strauss. This book puts the discussion of incest on a new foundation. It is the first attempt to thoroughly examine the rich literature, …

Natural Law and the Law of Nations in Eighteenth - and Nineteenth - Century I…

Volume ini memberikan pencerahan baru tentang teori-teori hukum alam modern melalui lensa konteks politik yang terfragmentasi di Italia pada abad kedelapan belas dan kesembilan belas, serta perubahan dramatis pada masa itu. Dari era reformasi, melalui revolusi dan 'Risorgimento', gerakan penyatuan yang diakhiri dengan penciptaan Kerajaan Italia yang bersatu pada tahun 1861, kita melihat pergese…

1919 – The Year That Changed China: A New History of the New Culture Moveme…

The year 1919 changed Chinese culture radically, but in a way that completely took contemporaries by surprise. At the beginning of the year, even well-informed intellectuals did not anticipate that, for instance, baihua (aprecursor of the modern Chinese language), communism, Hu Shi and Chen Duxiu would become important and famous – all of which was very obvious to them at the end of the year.…

10th MATBUD’2023 Scientific-Technical Conference

The jubilee 10th MATBUD'2023 Conference on ‘Building Materials Engineering and Innovative Sustainable Materials’ was organized within the framework of the Welcome to Poland project financed by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA): "MATBUD'2023—Developing international scientific cooperation in the field of building materials engineering” BPI_WTP_2021_1_00002. The scie…

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A Century of Parks Canada 1911-2011

When Canada created a Dominion Parks Branch in 1911, it became the first country in the world to establish an agency devoted to managing its national parks. Over the past century this agency, now Parks Canada, has been at the centre of important debates about the place of nature in Canadian nationhood and relationships between Canada’s diverse ecosystems and its communities. Today, Parks Cana…

Advanced Mechanical Modeling of Nanomaterials and Nanostructures

This reprint presents a collection of contributions on the application of high-performing computational strategies and enhanced theoretical formulations to solve a wide variety of linear or nonlinear problems in a multiphysical sense, together with different experimental studies.

Wohnen in Gesundheit = Die Corona-Pandemie und Teilhabe in besonderen Wohnfor…

In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird die Coronapandemie in besonderen Wohneinrichtungen der Eingliederungshilfe im sozialwissenschaftlichen Blick erfasst. Die Lagebeschreibung spiegelt verschiedene Perspektiven: die Einschätzungen von Menschen mit Beeinträchtigungen, Leitungsverantwortlichen, Fachpersonal und Angehörigen. Die Daten wurden bundesweit während der Lockdown-Phasen in einer qualitati…

Voicing Consent = Sex Workers, Sexual Violation and Legal Consciousness in Cr…

This open access book draws on an international research project, using extensive and multiple methods to explore unwanted sexual contact and violence in sex work populations. A project delivered by a large team of sex workers, peer researchers, and academics, and with practitioner input over a four-year period, the central question they explore is: how do social, legal, and judicial contexts s…

Towards Sustainable Good Health and Well-being = The Role of Health Literacy

The purpose of this open access book is threefold. The first is to shed light on patient participation and health literacy for Good Health and Well-being, which is one of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. Health literacy is considered a prerequisite for patients to be able to participate in shared decisions on their own treatment (WHO,1998). Health literacy has received increased internat…