Urban Claims and the Right to the City explores how contested processes of urban development, and the rights of city dwellers, are understood and interpreted from the perspective of women and men working, in different ways, at the grassroots in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, and London, UK.
Wahnwitzige Konstruktionen, absurde Kletterübungen, riskantes Werkeln – im Internet, aber nicht nur dort, zeigt sich der Mensch als unbedachtes Wesen: Auch die Klügsten lassen sich zu Eseleien hinreißen.
Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe brings together historians, anthropologists, political scientists, sociologists, urban planners and political activists to break new ground in the globalisation of knowledge about informal housing.
Beni-Amer cattle owners in the western part of the Horn of Africa are not only masters in cattle breeding, they are also knowledge sovereign, in terms of owning productive genes of cattle and the cognitive knowledge base crucial to sustainable development.
How and Why to Read and Create Children's Digital Books outlines effective ways of using digital books in early years and primary classrooms, and specifies the educational potential of using digital books and apps in physical spaces and virtual communities.
In 'Creative Intelligence & Other Works on the Human Thought Process' by John Dewey, the renowned psychologist and philosopher explores the concept of creative intelligence and its role in shaping human thought processes.
From a rare map of yellow fever in eighteenth-century New York, to Charles Booth's famous maps of poverty in nineteenth-century London, an Italian racial zoning map of early twentieth-century Asmara, to a map of wealth disparities in the banlieues of twenty-first-century Paris, Mapping Society traces the evolution of social cartography over the past two centuries.
Die 36 Strategeme sind aus dem chinesischen Weisheitsverständnis nicht wegzudenken, die Lehren von Strategem 13 "Auf das Gras schlagen, um die Schlangen aufzuscheuchen" oder Nummer 15 "Den Tiger vom Berg in die Ebene locken" sind fester Bestandteil der chinesischen Alltagspraxis.
Ausgehend von einer allgemeinen Motivationstheorie in Form der Wert-Erwartungstheorie wurde die Aggressionstheorie von Hans-Joachim Kornadt verwendet zur Erklärung des Völkermords auf der Ebene der Ausführung und auf individueller Handlungsebene.
What is it like to be a young Muslim man in post-7/7 Britain, and what impact do wider political factors have on the multifaceted identities of young Muslim men?
One of the first ethnographic studies to explore use of social media in the everyday lives of people in Tamil Nadu, Social Media in South India provides an understanding of this subject in a region experiencing rapid transformation.
Archaeologists in Print is a history of popular publishing in archaeology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a pivotal period of expansion and development in both archaeology and publishing.
In seinem ersten Werk: "Über soziale Differenzierung" entwirft Simmel die zentrale These, dass sich mit wachsender Entwicklung und Differenzierung einer Gesellschaft die Individualität des Einzelnen stärker ausbilde.
The Tenacity of the Couple-Norm explores the ongoing strength and insidious grip of couple-normativity across changing landscapes of law, policy and everyday life in four contrasting national contexts: the UK, Bulgaria, Norway and Portugal.
Riehls bekanntestes Werk ist die "Naturgeschichte des deutschen Volkes als Grundlage einer deutschen Socialpolitik"(4 Bände, 1851-1869), in dem geographische Faktoren, soziale Verhältnisse und deutsche Kultur- und Lebensweise hervorgehoben werden.
Creating Chinese Urbanism describes the landscape of urbanisation in China, revealing the profound impacts of marketisation on Chinese society and the consequential governance changes at the grassroots level.
Women in the History of Science brings together primary sources that highlight women's involvement in scientific knowledge production around the world.
La loca farsa de Oscar Wilde sobre identidades erróneas, compromisos secretos y enredos entre amantes todavía deleita a los lectores más de un siglo después de su publicación de 1895 y su estreno.
"e;History of the Christian Church"e; is an eight volume account of Christian history which covers the history of Christianity from the time of the apostles to the Reformation period.
Of the various modes of communicating instruction to the uninformed, the masonic student is particularly interested in two; namely, the instruction by legends and that by symbols.
Documented during the American Civil War, A Confederate Girl's Diary provides a thorough account of civilian life in Louisiana during and after the war through the diary entries of Sarah Morgan Dawson, who used her diary to record her thoughts and experiences from 1862 to 1865.
In Werbe- und Unterhaltungsformaten stellt Armin Nassehi eine zunehmende Entwicklung hin zur kindischen Ansprache fest – obwohl die Zielgruppe gar keine Kinder sind, sondern rationale, entscheidungsbegabte Erwachsene.