Social groups, communities and identities

«Wenn Kafka nicht gebetet hat – was wir nicht wissen –, so war ihm doch aufs höchste eigen, was Malebranche ‹das natürliche Gebet der Seele› nennt – die Aufmerksamkeit.

This book examines the role of Europeans who settled in the Ottoman Empire between the 16th and 19th centuries and assumed Ottoman identity , be it by way of conversion to Islam and assimilating to the host society or by becoming loyal servants or subjects of the Ottoman state, identifying themselves as Ottomans, but retaining their faith.

Why do people seek a connection to something beyond the social dimensions of the world?

Konflikte sind alltäglich, auch in der Feuerwehr und unabhängig von Dienstebene oder Alter.

Architecture and the urban are connected to challenges around violence, security, race and ideology, spectacle and data.

On June 6, 1982, the Israeli Defence Forces entered Lebanon for what was billed as a relatively limited operation.

How did Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's divorce become the centre of the anti-#MeToo backlash?

Revolutionary bodies provides a detailed study of the erotics and politics of the male body in Irish fiction.

Neurodiversity and Entrepreneurship increases our understanding of how different types of entrepreneurial activity may help to improve the inclusion of neurodiverse individuals in the workplace and society.

Genocide is the word Pope Francis used on July 20, 2022, to describe the 150-year history of Canada's involvement in the Residential Boarding School System.

Smart Cities and Sustainable Manufacturing: Innovations for a Greener Future explores the intersection of these two essential disciplines, underscoring the transformative potential of their integration in sculpting sustainable urban landscapes.

Tracing the lives and works of five women in four case studies, author Marie Meyerding examines the representation of women in the field of photography in South Africa in the second half of the twentieth century.

This fully illustrated study examines the German, Italian and Bulgarian occupation forces in Greece during 1941 44 as well as those of the two Greek Resistance organizations.

This book provides a detailed study of approved schools for girls, which operated in England and Wales between 1933-1973.

Sex-Selfies als Social-Media-Trend, frauenfeindliche Rap- und Partysongs zum Mitgrölen, Sexshops in Innenstädten mit Masturbationsgerätschaften in der Auslage, Sexting und DickPics-Versendung per Smartphone, digitale Darstellungen von sexualisierter Gewalt und Missbrauch von Kindern, Cybermobbing und -grooming, Herabwürdigung und sexuelle Ausbeutung per Dating-Apps und Unmengen von kinderleicht zugänglichen Pornoangeboten im Internet … Alles Anzeichen für eine bedenkliche Hypersexualisierung und Pornographisierung unserer Gesellschaft?

From nineteenth-century public baths to todays private backyard havens, swimming pools have long been a provocative symbol of American life.

Political Prayer in Nineteenth-Century American Literature explores how American women writers such as Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rebecca Harding Davis, and Emily Dickinson translated petitioning - a political form for redress of grievances with religious resonance, or what Strand calls "e;political prayer"e; - in their literary works.

This companion comprises essays that analyze interactions between art and global imperial relationships from 1800 to World War II.

Take a bumpy ride with Denise known on stage as Dutchess through the dark day-to-day life of a career stripper/dancer.

Originally published in 1992, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction and new preface, Forms of Dominance: On the Architecture and Urbanism of the Colonial Enterprise examines the complex experience of colonial domination, social reaction, and physical adaptation within the built environment of regions such as Morocco, Eastern Europe, India, Guatemala and East Africa, and provides a multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural perspective on the colonial experience.

Originally published in 1981 Controlling Women critically examines the forms of moral regulation and social control that were exercised over women at the time, arguing that the study of 'deviant' women cannot be separated from the study of how all women are defined and controlled.

Women's Studies investigates the world from women-centred perspectives which cross the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines.

The primary aim of this edited volume is to document the current theories, best practices, and technological advancements in the move towards a Smart Built Environment (SBE).

Peter Kurer was born in 1931 in Austria.

Readers and Mistresses: Kept Women in Victorian Literature identifies kept mistresses in British Victorian narrative and offers ways to understand their experiences.

This book critically explores global challenges from linguistic and literary standpoints aimed atcontributing towards their mitigation.

Despite reliance on ingredients like horse dung, Old English remedies for women's medicine speak to contemporary reproductive concerns.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Sustainable Development is a comprehensive exploration of how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies are revolutionizing the field of sustainable development.

The Kit b-i-Aqdas is considered the most important and sacred text of the Bah ' Faith, a religion with some eight million adherents, found in nearly every country of the world.