Buku ini berfokus pada berbagai aspek koperasi di Switzerland dan negara tetangganya, serta kontribusi mereka dalam memenuhi tantangan sosial yang lebih besar. Buku ini berusaha untuk mengidentifikasi bagaimana koperasi dapat menangani tantangan sosial yang besar dan memperluas kajian tentang koperasi. Diskusi-diskusi tersebut ditekankan dalam konteks Tujuan Pembangunan Berkelanjutan PBB. Bab-b…
oftware ist spätestens seit Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts elementarer Bestandteil moderner Gesellschaften. Als Forschungsgegenstand der Soziologie ist sie lange nur punktuell in einzelnen Teilbereichen der Disziplin aufgetaucht (z. B. Suchman 1987; Ortmann et al. 1990; Orlikowski und Robey 1991; Rammert et al. 1998) oder wurde dann zum Thema, wenn aufsehenerregende Gesellschaftsanalysen (z. …
iese Einleitung behandelt zwei grundlegende Fragen. Zunächst erörtert sie, warum es ein Handbuch zu Außenpolitik Österreichs braucht, worin also die Beweggründe für dieses Handbuch liegen und welche Ziele und Zielgruppen es erreichen soll. Danach geht die Einleitung auf die Frage ein, wie sich die Außenpolitik Österreichs wissenschaftlich durchdringen lässt. Dabei beschäftigt …
n Climate Change and International Shipping: The Regulatory Framework for the Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Yubing Shi provides ground-breaking analyses of the evolving regulatory framework for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from international shipping.
his book presents a number of advanced autonomous dynamic trajectory optimal control technologies for launch vehicles. Improving flight autonomy has gained broad-ranging concerns, so as to responsively and autonomously handle the unexpected events or failures. It was reported that the enhanced Proton M launch system adopted artificial intelligence elements to improve the in-flight fail-safe…
By providing various fascinating first-hand accounts of how citizens negotiate their rights in the context of weak state institutions, Citizenship and Democratization in Southeast Asia offers a unique bottom-up perspective on the evolving character of public life in democratizing Southeast Asia.
This collection of essays, written by leading scholars in the fields of East German art, film, literature, music, and museum studies, seeks to renegotiate the artistic legacy of the German Democratic Republic. Combining a range of theoretical and practical perspectives, the volume challenges the narrow frameworks of totalitarianism and Ostalgie that have dominated discussions of art produced in…
Art Crossing Borders offers a thought-provoking analysis of the internationalisation of the art market during the long nineteenth century. Twelve experts, dealing with a wide variety of geographical, temporal, and commercial contexts, explore how the gradual integration of art markets structurally depended on the simultaneous rise of nationalist modes of thinking, in unexpected and ambiguous wa…
Arnold Geulincx (1624-1669) is a key figure in the history of ideas, whose concepts have been seen as precursors to those developed by Spinoza, Malebranche, Leibniz and Kant. His Ethics presents a treatment of virtue from the standpoint of occasionalist metaphysics. The great Irish writer Samuel Beckett stated that Geulincx, with his emphasis on the powerlessness and ignorance of the human con…
The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. From pilgrimage sites in the far west of Europe to the Persian court; from mystic visions to a gruesome contemporary “dance”; from a mundane poem on wine to staggering religious art: thus far in space and time extends the world of the Armenians. A glimpse of the vast and …