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“The Turk” in the Czech Imagination (1870s-1923)
In “The Turk” in the Czech Imagination (1870s-1923), Jitka Malečková describes Czechs’ views of the Turks in the last half century of the existence of the Ottoman Empire and how they were influenced by ideas and trends in other countries, including the European fascination with the Orient, images of “the Turk,” contemporary scholarship, and racial theories. The Czechs were not free …
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- Volume: 26
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- 978-90-04-44079-1
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Essai d’histoire locale by Djiguiba Camara: L’œuvre d’un historien gui…
Essai d’histoire locale fut écrit par un acteur-clé de l’historiographie de l’Afrique de l’Ouest pourtant encore méconnu: Djiguiba Camara. Rédigé en 1955, ce texte est centré sur l’histoire de la Haute Guinée, avec une attention particulière portée sur l’empire de Samori Touré et la résistance anticoloniale. Ce texte, Essai d’histoire locale, illustre la fabrique de l…
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- Volume: 17
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- 978-90-04-42487-6
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Ḥadīth and Ethics through the Lens of Interdisciplinarity
This volume addresses the interplay of ḥadīth and ethics and contributes to examining the emerging field of ḥadīth-based ethics. The chapters cover four different sections: noble virtues ( makārim al-akhlāq) and virtuous acts ( faḍāʾil al-aʿmāl); concepts ( adab, taḥbīb, ʿuzla); disciplines ( ḥadīth transmission, gender ethics); and individual and key traditions (the ḥad…
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- Volume: 5
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- 978-90-04-52593-1
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Heart Speaks unto Heart: On the Kinship of Spirit and Thought: John Henry New…
Both Newman and Stein present a mature response to the challenges of their eras. In like manner they reflect splendid examples of genuine persons in the grip of disrupting cultural trends. They show the primacy of individual conscience and the importance of individual integrity even at the expense of social ostracism and extermination. Newman and Stein are outstanding witnesses of individual fr…
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- Volume: 368
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- 978-90-04-46622-7
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"At the Shores of the Sky; Asian Studies for Albert Hoffstädt
Albert Hoffstädt, a classicist by training and polylingual humanist by disposition, has for 25 years been the editor chiefly responsible for the development and acquisition of manuscripts in Asian Studies for Brill. During that time he has shepherded over 700 books into print and has distinguished himself as a figure of exceptional discernment and insight in academic publishing. He has also be…
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- Volume: 151
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- 978-90-04-43820-0
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The Pathway to Publishing: A Guide to Quantitative Writing in the Health Scie…
Scientific writing is a key skill for researchers. Scientific writing develops critical thinking, helps scientists connect their local results with global understanding, and helps scientists identify appropriate next questions to explore. Increased scientific writing capacity within a research group allows more study results to be shared with the practitioner community and policy makers…
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- 9783030981754
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- XIII, 186
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Towards Gender Equality in Law
This Open Access book aims to find out how and why states in various regions and of diverse cultural backgrounds fail in their gender equality laws and policies. In doing this, the book maps out states’ failures in their legal systems and unpacks the clashes between different levels and forms of law—namely domestic laws, local regulations, or the implementation of international law, individ…
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- XIX, 250
Encounters and Practices of Petty Trade in Northern Europe, 1820–1960
This collection is the result of a large project, which started in 2015, and of many engaging discussions with scholars, who have contributed to our research over the years. We are indebted to the Academy of Finland and the Kone-foundation for funding our project Dealing with Difference: Peddlers, Consumers and Trading Encounters in Finland, 1840–1960. Thank you for financing and be…
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- 9783030980801
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- XIV, 353
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Flexible Dienstleistungsarbeit gesundheitsförderlich gestalten
Flexible und interaktive Dienstleistungsarbeit ist mit Blick auf ihre gesundheitlichen Auswirkungen und gesundheitsfördernde Interventionsansätze noch unzureichend erforscht. Hier setzt das BMBF-geförderte Verbundprojekt FlexiGesA an. Dieser einführende Beitrag konzeptualisiert zunächst flexible und interaktive Dienstleistungsarbeit. Sodann wird hierzu der gesundheitsbezogene Forsc…
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- 9783658370558
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- X, 266
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Crisis Response in Higher Education
The idea for this book began to take shape in June 2019, under the working title ‘The new public university: local missions and global goals’. As with many plans at the time, the ability to dedicate time to write the book and indeed the actual substance of the book were overtaken by events. The emergence of COVID at the end of 2019, and its global spread in the first half of 2020, …
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- 9783030978372
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- XI, 183
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