Filter by
The Migration Period, Pre-Viking Age, and Viking Age in Estonia
This book analyses the society, economy, settlement, and culture of the territory of present-day Estonia in the period of ca AD 450–1050. This period is known in the Estonian archaeological chronology as the Migration Period, the Pre-Viking Age, and the Viking Age. This was an era of rapid change, by the end of which traditional Estonian peasant culture as it is known until the 19th century h…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789949199365
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Post-Truth Imaginations: New Starting Points for Critique of Politics and Tec…
This book engages with post-truth as a problem of societal order and for scholarly analysis. It claims that post-truth discourse is more deeply entangled with main Western imaginations of knowledge societies than commonly recognised. Scholarly responses to post-truth have not fully addressed these entanglements, treating them either as something to be morally condemned or as accusations against…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780429628764
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The Popes, the Catholic Church and the Transatlantic Enslavement of Black Afr…
Mehr als 400 Jahre lang erlitten schwarzafrikanische Männer, Frauen und Kinder während des transatlantischen Sklavenhandels schlimmste Formen der Versklavung und Erniedrigung durch Katholiken und das westliche Christentum. Damals wie heute glaubte niemand an die tiefe Verwicklung der Kirche und des Papsttums in den schwarzafrikanischen Holocaust. Trotz jüngster Behauptungen des päpstlichen …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783487155975
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Coastal Themes; An Archaeology of the Southern Curtis Coast, Queensland
Archeology; Aboriginal australians; Antiquities; Queensland; Australia
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781920942960
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 930.1 ULM c
Generations in Estonia Contemporary Perspectives On Turbulent Times
This book provides the international reader with the first study of different generations and intergenerational relations in Estonia. The chapters highlight generational patterns in the 20th and 21st centuries, with the volume as a whole taking an interdisciplinary approach. Sharing the idea that generations are dynamic, that their borders are blurred and change over time, and that their constr…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789949770557
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Pollution Regulation in Development. System Design, Compliance and Enforcement
Over the last decades, some non-OECD countries such as Brazil, Indonesia, Colombia, Mexico, India and China have been rapidly industrializing. While this has had positive effects on economic growth, it has also caused pollution with severe effects . In response to the new pollution threat, most of the industrializing economies have installed pollution prevention and control regulations, and imp…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789087280437
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Political Ecology of REDD+ in Indonesia
Indonesia’s commitment to reducing land-based greenhouse gas emissions significantly includes the expansion of conservation areas, but these developments are not free of conflicts. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of agrarian conflicts in the context of the implementation of REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) and forest carbon offsetting in Indones…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781138479319
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Myth, Materiality, and Lived Religion
"The authors of the present volume, Myth, Materiality, and Lived Religion, focus on the material dimension of Old Norse mythology and the role played by myths in everyday life. More broadly expressed, the collection looks at the social, ceremonial and material contexts of myths. This topic has been underexplored in previous research on Old Norse myths, despite its important theoretical implicat…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789176350966
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Plant Selection for Bioretention Systems and Stormwater Treatment Practices
Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Water Quality/Water Pollution; Hydrology/Water Resources; Urban Ecology
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789812872449
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Horizons of Shamanism a Triangular Approach To The History and Anthropology …
The multifarious and sometimes contested concept of “shamanism” has aroused intense popular and scholarly interest since its initial coinage by the Russian scholar V. M. Mikhailovsky in the late 19th century. In this book, three leading scholars, representing different branches of the humanities, dwell on the current status of shamanic practices and conceptions of the soul, both as ‘etic…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789176350270
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography