Approaches to Hungarian: Vol. 16 Papers from the 2017 Budapest Conference

Volume ini berisi makalah pilihan dari Konferensi Internasional ke-13 tentang Struktur Bahasa Hongaria (Budapest, 2017).Kontribusi tersebut membahas masalah terkini dalam linguistik Hongaria, termasuk perbandingan dengan bahasa lain (mis., Inggris, Jerman, Turki, Arab, Spanyol). Secara khusus, makalah fonetik dan fonologi menyajikan studi eksperimental dan korpus tentang/ h / voicing, akustik t…

Breaching the Bronze Wall: Franks at Mamluk and Ottoman Courts and Markets

Breaching the Bronze Wall deals with the idea that the words of honorable Muslims constitute proof and that written documents and the words of non-Muslims are of inferior value. Thus, foreign merchants in cities such as Istanbul, Damascus or Alexandria could barely prove any claim, as neither their contracts nor their words were of any value if countered by Muslims. Francisco Apella?niz explore…

BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutations

Mutations in the BRCA1/2 genes are the most common cause of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC), and HBOC is an autosomal dominant cancer predisposition syndrome. Individuals with HBOC have a high risk for breast and ovarian cancers and a moderate risk for other cancers, such as prostate, pancreatic, melanoma, and fallopian tube cancers. The goal of screening individuals at high risk of…

brazil@digitaldivide.com: Confronting Inequality in the Information Society

The topic of this book, the digital divide, refers to the unequal distribution of resources associated with information and communication technology between countries and within societies. We will explore how one factor, in this case information technology, can potentially support contradictory tendencies: towards greater freedom and social participation and to deeper social inequality and new …

Brazil: Essays on History and Politics

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Brazil in the World, the World in Brazil. Brasil no mundo, o mundo no Brasil

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Brave new world: Imperial and democratic nation-building in Britain between t…

After the First World War, Britain faced a number of challenges as it sought to adapt to domestic conditions of mass democracy while maintaining its position in the empire in the face of national independence movements. As politicians at home and abroad sought to legitimize their position, new efforts were made to conceptualize nationality and citizenship, with attempts to engage the public usi…

Chapter Postface Mapping Historical Landscapes in Transformation

The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time. The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised historical research on cultural landscapes. Additionally, the opening up of increasingly diverse collections of source material, often incomplete and difficult to interpret, has led t…

Chapter Postcolonial Italian Studies: Rhizomatic Notes from the South

This essay draws on the first (of two) edited volumes of ISSA dedicated to “Postcolonialismi Italiani ieri e oggi appunti (sudafricani) per una (ri)concettualizzazione ‘rizomatica’ dei postcolonial Italian studies” (Virga, Zuccala 2018) and on some of the new concepts introduced therein

Branding the Middle East

This edited volume fills a gap in the research on place, product and personal branding in the Middle East and North Africa. It critically analyses processes of strategic communication and image building under conditions of globalisation, neoliberalisation and authoritarian rule. It looks at historical and contemporary branding efforts of different actors involved, their interests and motives an…