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Crime, Gender and Social Control in Early Modern Frankfurt am Main
This book charts the lives of (suspected) thieves, illegitimate mothers and vagrants in early modern Frankfurt. The book highlights the gender differences in recorded criminality and the way that they were shaped by the local context. Women played a prominent role in recorded crime in this period, and could even make up half of all defendants in specific European cities. At the same time, there…
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- 978-90-04-38843-7
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- Crime and City in History, Volume: 3
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Alternating Current Field Measurement Technique for Detection and Measurement…
This open access book serves as a comprehensive exploration of Alternating Current Field Measurement (ACFM), encompassing the foundational theory crucial for subsequent chapters, as well as the design and testing of ACFM probes, instruments, and software. Providing guidance and serving as a reference for ACFM instrument development, the text delves into visualization research in ACFM, offering …
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- 9789819772551
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- X, 148 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Creating Kabuki Plays
This volume makes available for the first time a complete translation in English of a key text for our understanding of Kabuki, viz. Kezairoku, Sakusha Shikihô (Valuable Notes on Playwriting, A Playwrights’ Methodology, written 1801), being the only extant treatise fully devoted to the subject of Kabuki playwriting.
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- 978-90-04-12115-7
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- Brill's Japanese Studies Library, Volume: 13
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Energy Citizenship = Envisioning Citizens’ Participation in the Energy System
This open access book develops a deeper understanding of an increasingly applied term across policy cycles and academic discourses, ‘energy citizenship’. It provides the reader with five distinct chapters, with each in turn examining a specific aspect of the concept and how it has manifested in public discourses.
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- 9783031701535
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- VII, 138 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Creating and Sharing Legal Knowledge in the Twelfth Century
The Decretum Gratiani is the cornerstone of medieval canon law, and the manuscript St Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 673 an essential witness to its evolution. The studies in this volume focus on that manuscript, providing critical insights into its genesis, linguistic features, and use of Roman Law, while evaluating its attraction to medieval readers and modern scholars.
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- 978-90-04-42829-4
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- Medieval Law and Its Practice, Volume: 35
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Cracking Facebook
This book presents a Facebook study on members of the Cusp Generation, or those born before the “great digital divide” of 1995. This delineation allows for a discussion on the possible socio-cultural implications of Facebook use for people of all ages. Members of the Cusp Generation are in a unique position as “part digital natives” to easily acquire and use new media technologies, whil…
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- 978-94-6300-209-7
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- Youth, Media, and Culture Series, Volume: 5
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Energy Citizenship Across Europe = Contexts and Conditions for an Emerging En…
This open access book is intended to provoke and progress new thinking in the field of energy research for policy makers, practitioners and scholars. By drawing on a broad range of social and innovation theory insights, this book showcases the diversity of energy citizenship and opens up the concept by including multiple ‘latent’, less visible, forms of energy citizenship that also form par…
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- 9783031701573
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- XVII, 172 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Covenant: A Vital Element of Reformed Theology
Covenant: A Vital Element of Reformed Theology provides a multi-disciplinary reflection on the theme of the covenant, from historical, biblical-theological and systematic-theological perspectives. The interaction between exegesis and dogmatics in the volume reveals the potential and relevance of this biblical motif. It proves to be vital in building bridges between God’s revelation in the pas…
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- 978-90-04-50331-1
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- Studies in Reformed Theology, Volume: 42
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Partizipation und Wissensaufbau beim Lösen von Textaufgaben = Eine interakti…
Das vorliegende Open-Access-Buch geht von der Prämisse aus, dass Lernen aus kognitiver und sozial-konstruktivistischer Sicht als individueller Aufbau von Wissens- und Denkstrukturen verstanden wird. Die Aufgabe der Lehrpersonen besteht dabei darin, mittels ko-konstruktiver Dialoge die Lernenden beim Aufbau und bei der Modifizierung ihrer Wissensstrukturen zu unterstützen. Die vorliegende Stud…
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- 9783658457792
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- XXXVII, 562 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Rescaling Sustainability Transitions = Unfolding the Spatialities of Power Re…
This Open Access book explores sustainability transitions with a focus on their influence on the relationships between cores and peripheries, the rural and the urban, and the large and the small-scale. The societal changes induced by sustainability transitions are expected to assemble as a variegated and heterogeneous process reproduced by different spatial contexts and scales. Hence, the pract…
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- 9783031699184
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- XVII, 299 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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