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Diese Arbeit geht der Bedeutung der Gitarre gerade innerhalb jener Kulturepoche nach, die als in besonderer Weise prägend für die Gitarre angesehen werden kann, nämlich im Spanien des Mittelalters und des Siglo de Oro. Zu diesem Zweck wurden hispanische Texte...
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Throughout history, oral cultures lacking the medium of writing have relied on secret cults and societies to keep the authoritative versions of their sacred compositions, originally passed on to them as myths of divine origins, alive and remembered. In this book, the...
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Die Arbeit gibt einen Überblick über theoretische Konzepte und empirische Ergebnisse aus dem Arbeitsfeld Kriminalgeographie (Wohn- und Tatorte), einem Bereich der Sozialgeographie.Die Konzepte kommen aus der Sozialgeographie, der Umwelt- bzw. Ökopsychologie und der...
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«Das Denken jedes Zeitalters spiegelt sich in seiner Technik wider.» Der von Norbert Wiener 1948 gemachte Vorschlag, die Geschichte der Maschinen als Zugangsweg zu einer Geschichte des Denkens zu begreifen, schließt seine Selbstanwendung mit ein, lässt er sich doch...
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This volume is devoted to the relationship between political and social dimensions of nation-building in Estonia. The authors of the volume analyse the Estonian nation-building since 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed and Estonia regained independence, in the context...
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Ryszard Kapuscinski was a direct witness to the creation and a collapse of numerous independent African states, the guerilla movements in South America, the military combat in Honduras and El Salvador, the coup in Angola, the 1974 revolution in Ethiopia, the anti-Shad...
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In contemporary Western societies, the visual domain has come to assume a hitherto unprecedented cultural centrality. Daily life is replete with a potentially endless stream of images and other visual messages: from the electronic and paper-based billboards of the...
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The walls of Le Nuove prison in Turin are scarred by graffiti, bullets and blood. Opened in 1870, Le Nuove was one of Italy’s first panoptical prisons. During the Second World War it was occupied by the Nazis, who executed and deported anti-Fascist and Jewish prisoners...
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This book is about the impact of the EU on local issues, particularly in the pre-accession phase. It analyses and discusses contending interests and aspirations in culture, education, communication and tourism in parts of former Yugoslavia. Various contributions create...
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As more and more people become mobile to visit friends, family, and business colleagues using social networking websites, technologies in use today like Couchsurfing.com or online hitchhiking websites (OHWs) are allowing people to create new, planned encounters also...
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This study analyzes the social problems of society systematically from a macro view and pluralistic point of view. The main objective of this field-study is to contribute an effort to the culture of discussion and problem-solving culture of society. The research...
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Known in her lifetime primarily as a literary scholar, Lydia Ginzburg (1902–1990) has become celebrated for a body of writing at the intersections of literature, history, psychology, and sociology. In highly original prose, she acted as a chronicler of the Soviet...
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Chinese medicine is a culturally dependent art of healing deeply rooted in the culture and philosophy of the country it originated from: China. This book has three independent but progressive parts, each bearing the title of one of the three courses taught by the author...
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Die Studie setzt sich mit der gesellschaftlich aktuellen Thematik des Intergruppenverhaltens von Kriminellen und Nichtkriminellen auseinander. Ausgehend von der Problematik einer eindeutigen Differenzierung der beiden Gruppen beschreibt die Autorin die Funktionen und...
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Im Zuge der Globalisierung ändern sich die vielfältigen urbanen Lebensbedingungen kontinuierlich, wodurch der Bedarf an sinnvollen Entwicklungskonzepten für Städte und besonders Metropolen verstärkt wird. Stadtentwicklungskonzepte sind jedoch häufig von wirtschaftlichen...
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Can the unprecedented rise of the historical genre in Italy after 1980 be explained out of the «Umberto Eco effect» alone, as many critics believe? Why are so many Italians nowadays inclined to believe in their Celtic origins? How many middle Ages were there and do we...
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Ce livre a reçu le prix de la Société italienne de science politique (SISP) comme meilleur bouquin en sciences politiques en Italie pour la période 2007-2008. Pension policy represents in many respects the corner stone of the contemporary European welfare states. And...
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Applied Theatre: Bewilderment and Beyond explores the practice of theatre in communities and social institutions with marginalised groups. It shifts between contexts and countries to examine different ways that theatre has been applied to a wide range of social issues....
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What is the relationship between habits and emotions?What is the role of the embodiment of emotions in a cultural habitat?What is the role of the environment for the formation of emotions and subjectivity? One way to address these questions is through discussing an...
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Die Arbeit wurde 2011 mit dem Nachwuchspreis der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Politikwissenschaft (ÖGPW) ausgezeichnet. Seit mittlerweile mehr als 35 Jahren kämpft die Bevölkerung der Westsahara für ihre Unabhängigkeit und gegen den Gebietsanspruch Marokkos auf das...
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