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A Black Odyssey: John Lewis Waller and the Promise of American Life, 1878 -1900
This book focuses on the career of a single individual—an ambitious, resourceful Black American—and his efforts to realize personal fulfillment in a racist world.No Black American was more determined to realize the promise of American life following the Civil War, nor more frustrated by his inability to do so than John Lewis Waller. Waller, whose first twelve years were spent in slavery, ov…
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A Bowl for a Coin: A Commodity History of Japanese Tea
A Bowl for a Coin is the first book in any language to describe and analyze the history of all Japanese teas. To understand the triumph of the tea plant in Japan, Wayne Farris begins with its cultivation and goes on to describe the myriad ways in which the herb was processed into a palatable beverage. Along the way, he traces the shift in tea's status from exotic gift item from China to its com…
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»In the Cause of Humanity« Eine Geschichte der humanitären Intervention i…
Die Frage, ob, wann und wie die internationale Gemeinschaft auf Verletzungen humanitärer Normen und damit verbundene humanitäre Krisen reagieren soll, gehört zweifellos zu den vieldiskutierten Themen auf der Agenda der heutigen internationalen Politik. Allerdings tauchte diese Problematik nicht erst am Ende des 20. und zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts plötzlich aus dem Nichts auf, sondern ber…
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Schools and Society During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This open access book provides an analysis of the effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on diverse education systems, and of the results of the policies adopted to sustain educational opportunities. Through a series of diverse national case studies, the book examines the preexisting fragilities and vulnerabilities in educational structures which shaped the nature of the varied responses, around the …
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»From the Native's Point of View«? Kulturelle Globalisierung nach Clifford…
Welchen Erklärungswert haben klassische ethnologische Kulturtheorien für die Analyse kultureller Globalisierung? Macht der Begriff »Kultur« in einer entgrenzten und hybridisierten Welt überhaupt noch Sinn? Anhand der breit rezipierten Ansätze von Clifford Geertz und Pierre Bourdieu überprüft der Autor die postmoderne These, Globalisierung erfordere eine fundamentale Umstellung der kultu…
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A Boy Asleep under the Sun: Versions of Sandro Penna
Peter Valente’s first encounter with Sandro Penna’s poetry was while translating Pier Paolo Pasolini. At the time, Valente was reading a biography on Pasolini and learned of his close friendship with Penna. Pasolini insisted that among serious readers of poetry, Penna could not be ignored. Born in Perugia on June 12, 1906, Sandro Penna lived most of his life in Rome (he died there on Januar…
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Schöne Momente pflegender Angehöriger in der Pflege und Begleitung von Mens…
Anna Kiefer war bis Ende des Jahres 2023 akademische Mitarbeiterin am Institut für Gerontologie der Universität Heidelberg. An derselben studierte sie die Fächer Gesundheit und Gesellschaft (Care) sowie Germanistik. Zu ihren Forschungsinteressen und -schwerpunkten zählen unter anderem die Verbesserung der Lebensqualität und die Aufrechterhaltung des subjektiven Wohlbefindens von pflegenden…
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A Bridge Between: Spanish Benedictine Missionary Women in Australia
This sensitive account of Spanish Benedictine women at an Aboriginal mission in Western Australia is poignant and disturbing. Notable for its ecumenical spirit, depth of research and deep engagement with the subject, A Bridge Between is a model of how religious history, in its broader bearings, can be written. — Graeme Davison, Monash University With great insight and care, A Bridge Between p…
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Scenes and Communities in the City
This open access book addresses the problem of creation and reproduction processes of contemporary urban communities, as well as cultural mechanisms and factors of these processes. Rejecting both the environmental determinism, and cultural reductionism of community studies, the book assumes that the postmodern city is a space of diverse urban communities that go far beyond the traditional conce…
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Scattering Amplitudes in Quantum Field Theory
This open access book bridges a gap between introductory Quantum Field Theory (QFT) courses and state-of-the-art research in scattering amplitudes. It covers the path from basic definitions of QFT to amplitudes, which are relevant for processes in the Standard Model of particle physics. The book begins with a concise yet self-contained introduction to QFT, including perturbative quantum gravity…
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