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Islam and Evolution : Al-Ghazālī and the Modern Evolutionary Paradigm
ABSTRACT This book attempts to equip the reader with a holistic and accessible account of Islam and evolution. It guides the reader through the different variables that have played a part in the ongoing dialogue between Muslim creationists and evolutionists. This work views the discussion through the lens of al-Ghazālī (1058-1111), a widely-known and well-respected Islamic intellectual fr…
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- 9780429345753
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- 362 p
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Rethinking Governance in Europe and Northeast Asia: Multilateralism and Natio…
ABSTRACT This book explores how nationalism and multilateralism transform international society and global governance. It does so by comparing the governance model of the EU – a constitutionalised and increasingly polycentric form of multilateralism – with Northeast Asia. There nationalist administrations have resisted multilateral commitments and are locked into rivalries instead of pursu…
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- 9780429317125
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- 236 p
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Women’s Lived Landscapes of War and Liberation in Mozambique : Bodily Memor…
ABSTRACT This book tells the history of the changing gendered landscapes of northern Mozambique from the perspective of women who fought in the armed struggle for national independence, diverting from the often-told narrative of women in nationalist wars that emphasizes a linear plot of liberation. Taking a novel approach in focusing on the body, senses, and landscape, Jonna Katto, through …
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- 278 p
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Relations between immigration and integration policies in Europe: challenges,…
ABSTRACT Written from a pan-European perspective, this book examines the decision-making processes in immigration and integration policies in Europe across decades, focusing on several key moments of Europe’s postwar history. The analysis of factors taken into consideration by states in key moments of immigration policy (re)formulation shows that Europe is moving away from rational, econo…
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- 9780429263736
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- 248 p
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Der Zusammenhang zwischen Meritokratie und beruflicher Bildung
Dieses Open-Access-Buch beschäftigt sich mit dem Einfluss des meritokratischen Prinzips auf die Wertschätzung beruflicher Bildung gegenüber allgemeiner bzw. akademischer Bildung. Diesen Einfluss untersucht die Autorin sowohl allgemein, das heißt auf idealtypischer Ebene, als auch in Bezug auf die Ukraine. Als Ergebnis zeigt die Studie, dass das meritokratische Leistungsprinzip idealtypisch …
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- Internationale Berufsbildungsforschung
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- XXI, 582
Das Formular
Wenn stimmt, was bereits Friedrich Schiller beklagt hat: dass der Mensch in der modernen Gesellschaft „zum Formular geworden“ ist, dann steht mit diesem unscheinbaren Verwaltungs-tool nichts weniger als unsere Lebenswirklichkeit auf dem Spiel. Der erste (Open Access-)Band der Reihe AdminiStudies beschäftigt sich deshalb mit der Funktion und Geschichte von Formularen, jenen institutionalisi…
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- AdminiStudies. Formen und Medien der Verwaltung
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- XIII, 324
Revisualising Intersectionality
Revisualising Intersectionality offers transdisciplinary interrogations of the supposed visual evidentiality of categories of human similarity and difference. This open-access book incorporates insights from social and cognitive science as well as psychology and philosophy to explain how we visually perceive physical differences and how cognition is fallible, processual, and dependent on who is…
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- XI, 132
Archives and Records
This open access book addresses the protection of privacy and personality rights in public records, records management, historical sources, and archives; and historical and current access to them in a broad international comparative perspective. Considering the question “can archiving pose a security risk to the protection of sensitive data and human rights?”, it analyses data security and …
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- XXI, 313
Rethinking Film Festivals in the Pandemic Era and After
This is an open access book. This edited collection aims to document the effects of Covid-19 on film festivals and to theorize film festivals in the age of social distancing. To some extent, this crisis begs us to consider what happens when festivals can’t happen; while films have found new (temporary) channels of distribution (most often in the forms of digital releases), the festival format…
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- Framing Film Festivals
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- XIX, 342
Internationale Wahrnehmung von Urheberrechten an Musikwerken
Dieses Open-Access-Buch adressiert die durch Globalisierung und Digitalisierung zunehmende Internationalisierung der Wahrnehmung von Urheberrechten. Musikverlage, aber auch Urheber sehen sich dabei zwar der Option einer selbstbestimmten internationalen Wahrnehmung ihrer Urheberrechte gegenüber. Gleichzeitig ist dieser Schritt aber mit großen betriebswirtschaftlichen, technischen und rechtlich…
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- XIV, 232
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