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The increasing use of mobile devices in work contexts has the potential to alter our work and learning practices. This is particularly true for knowledge workers. In addressing the implications of this transformation the book offers a multi-facete...

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This book explores the challenges of globalisation and digitalisation to labour law and social security under three headings. The first, "The changing foundations of labour law" focuses on the law itself. Here the authors discuss how a c...

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Sonia Delaunay is one of the most important artists of the early twentieth century, whose contribution to European Modernism was fundamental, if not always fully acknowledged in its own right. She is known for translating her experiments via paint...

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Architectural decay as well as the reasons, effects, appearance and representation of ruination have always been important sources of understanding the state of our culture. The essays in this co-written book offer broad perspectives on the potent...

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AEneas i Carthago von Joseph Martin Kraus bildete das umfangreichste und langwierigste Opernprojekt am Hofe des schwedischen Koenigs Gustav III. Das Libretto verfasste der Dichter Johan Henrik Kellgren nach einem Entwurf des Koenigs. Etwa ein Jahr...

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Fast 90.000 Schuler werden gegenwartig in Deutschland an Waldorfschulen nach einem Geschichtslehrplan unterrichtet, der sich als Alternative zu den Curricula der Regelschulen versteht. Was aber leistet dieser welt- und kulturgeschichtlich orientie...

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The period from the 1870s to the 1920s was marked by an interplay between nationalisms and internationalisms, culminating in the First World War, on the one hand, and the creation of the League of Nations, on the other. The arts were central to th...

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Historical content, historical methods and historical orientation are three aspects that may be taught in history education. This study examines the emphases which are included in formal curricula texts and those which are included in teacher-made...

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This book investigates a proposal by K. Stenring that the main chronology of the Old Testament is based on three different calendars. Complete agreement with given periods and dates in the Hebrew version of the Old Testament has been reached in th...

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This book offers new perspectives on the pedagogical value of literary texts. The book is, in the first place, a theoretical study - speculative in nature - about the inherent connection between reading and interculturality. The author argues that...

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Gelungener Wissenstransfer und gelungene Popularisierung setzen eine zielgruppenorientierte Aufbereitung von Informationen voraus. Die Beitrage eroertern die Problematik einer verstandlichen Informationsubermittlung aus verschiedenen Perspektiven....

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Translating Audiovisuals in a Kaleidoscope of Languages addresses the challenges involved in translating multilingualism in film and TV fiction. It shows the complexity of fictional characters "speaking in tongues" in different genres an...

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Multilingualism is a phenomenon that has become increasingly visible in popular cinema and thus is currently a very novel object of academic inquiry. The present volume is a cutting-edge collection of cross- and transdisciplinary takes on this phe...

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For many areas of social science research, including conflict resolution, peacebuilding, and international state-building, Kosovo remains a uniquely interesting and relevant case. This book is motivated by the belief that there is much to be gaine...

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Relational sociology draws attention to non-utilitarian aspects of sociality that reach beyond instrumental rationality, and presents the problem of relational reason. Shaping a civil society under cultural plurality requires reflection upon relat...

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«Das verwirrte Haus Jacob», das einzige Schauspiel des Hamburger Operndichters und Literaturtheoretikers Barthold Feind (1678-1721), ist ein frühes Beispiel des engagierten Theaters, denn es führt unmittelbar in die politischen und theologischen W...

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Christian Philosophy concerns the perennial paradox of reason/revelation and philosophy/theology by reflecting on: whether philosophy has ever been 'pure' i.e., free of beliefs; how Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus helped prepare for Christian philosoph...

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Winner of the award 'Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights in North America' (Gustavus Myers Center for Human Rights in North America) In Living Dangerously, Henry Giroux confronts one of the most important questions facing our education...

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In recent decades it has been increasingly recognized that the forms of the verb in ancient Greek, including that of the New Testament, do not signal time (past, present, future), but aspect (the way each activity is viewed in relation to its cont...

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What Is Dramaturgy? attempts to document, by way of articles, statements, and bibliographies, the dramaturg's profession, which began with Lessing in Germany in the second half of the eighteenth century and was instituted in the United States two ...

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The purpose of this book is to examine what kind of changes Korean society experienced as a result of the introduction of Christianity through Protestant missionaries. Since this was a formative period in the Korean Church, it will be possible to ...

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Martyrdom, Murder, and Magic: Child Saints and Their Cults in Medieval Europe is a comprehensive history of child saints and their cults from late Antiquity to the end of the fifteenth century. The child martyrs of the persecutions, including the ...

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Semiotic Psychology is a special and selective history that focuses on naturally occurring language and its meanings. A review of classic studies from the 1930s through the 1950s shows how content analysis can examine discourse as diverse as plays...

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This final volume in Turner's (anthropology, U. of Toronto) trilogy on Australian Aboriginal culture focuses on what the Aborigines of the Groote Eylandt area of northern Australia take to be the foundations of their way of life, namely musical fo...

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This collection of essays is drawn from a series of international seminars in which participants explored different methodologies for writing the social history of the classroom. Essays in the collection address questions of research methodology a...

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The author identifies major considerations in Jane Austen's novels with those of 18th century Scottish New Rhetoric. She shows how Austen uses fictional examples to argue the development of moral understanding in both sexes by educating them in rh...

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Discusses the cooperative relationship between the Irish government of the 1920s through 1960s and the Catholic Church with regard to education, with the government accepting financial responsibility for the maintenance of schools, while leaving m...

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New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien. American Liberal Religious Thought. Vol. 8 General Editors: Donald A. Crosby and W. Creighton Peden Theology and the Experience of God is an implicit, critical dialogue with Hegel's ph...

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The rapid acceleration of industrialization and the transformation of market capitalism that followed the Civil War provided new opportunities for employment and wealth for many Americans. But these opportunities came at a cost: overcrowded and un...

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