History of scholarship Books
De Gruyter Dancing before Gods Beauty
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£95.00
De Gruyter Quranic Studies
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£16.65
De Gruyter Subaltern Sovereigns
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£24.75
de Gruyter Afrika
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£134.09
de Gruyter Wellhausen ALS Arabist
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£134.09
de Gruyter Studies in the Ethiopic Anaphoras
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£111.62
de Gruyter Das Catupariatsutra Teil II Textbearbeitung
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£134.09
de Gruyter Japan Heute
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£134.09
de Gruyter Sy257dV257daMañjar299
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£117.50
de Gruyter Oldenbourg Vietnam
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£65.70
Bohlau Verlag Generation im Aufbruch: Die
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£51.29
Bohlau Verlag Zwischen Verein, Korporation und
Book SynopsisMit der Öffnung der deutschen Universitäten für Frauen am Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts begannen Studentinnen, sich nach dem Vorbild ihrer männlichen Kommilitonen in studentischen Verbindungen zu organisieren. Zunächst handelte es sich noch um lose Zusammenschlüsse, die mit den männlichen Korporationen nicht vergleichbar waren. Mit der Zeit begannen die Frauen jedoch, ihren Vereinen zunehmend eine Struktur zu geben und Elemente der Männerbünde zu übernehmen sie wurden zu Korporationen im klassischen Sinne. Simone Ruoffner-Unterrainer untersucht exemplarisch die Damenverbindungen der Universitäten Tübingen und Würzburg sowie deren Mitglieder. Sie geht der Frage nach, wie sich die Verbindungen auch in Zusammenhang mit ihrer konfessionellen Prägung in ihrem Alltag, der Übernahme männerbündischer Traditionen, aber auch der Zusammensetzung ihrer Mitglieder unterschieden, welche Intention den Zusammenschlüssen zugrunde lag und wie es zur Wandlung bloßer Gesinnungsgemeinschaften hin zu Korporationen kam.
£66.99
Dietrich Reimer Wissensdinge: Geschichten Aus Dem
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£26.91
Dietrich Reimer The Nature of Things: Stories from a Natural
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£38.00
Dietrich Reimer What's Missing?: Collecting and Exhibiting Europe
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£36.10
Peter Lang AG Contextualizing Practical Knowledge in Early
Book SynopsisThe topic of this book is practical knowledge in early modern Europe, interpreted widely as recipes containing art procedures or medical panaceas between 1400 and 1700. In this book, the 1) origin or creation, 2) transmission or dissemination, and 3) use or consumption are key subjects for understanding the place of practical knowledge in early modern European society. After a historiographical and theoretical approach, this book applies Deleuze and Guattari’s rhizome metaphor to art technological literature. The first part ends with a study about medical practitioners and mediators who disseminate practical knowledge through the printing press. The second part of the book is entirely dedicated to the booklet A Very Proper Treatise (1573), using a microhistory approach to study it.Table of ContentsPractical knowledge: construction, transmission and users – Secret, silent, tacit, useful and common knowledge – Deleuze and Guattari’s Rhizome – Kunstbuchlein – Workshop – Laboratory – Secret society – Professors of secrets – Gatekeepers and mediators – A Very Proper Treatise – Richard Tottel
£50.04
Peter Lang AG Israel’s Academic Arena: The Colleges and
Book SynopsisFollowing mounting political and social pressures to increase public accessibility to higher education in Israel, in 1994 Israel’s academic arena was transformed from a monolithic system consisting exclusively of research universities to a binary one comprised of both research universities and academic colleges. Within the system’s expansions plans, Israel’s Council for Higher Education prioritized the increased accessibility of higher education to peripheral populations, defining this as a central aim. This transformation was achieved in a short period of time through regional colleges that operated in the periphery and offered professional academic courses. In addition to these institutions, a number of University Extensions operated in Israel, founded based on the American Protestant Colleges model, introduced in Israel in the 1960’s by Bar Ilan University. In 2000 all these institutions were officially included in the country’s higher education system, resulting in a huge increase in the total number of students in academia, with higher education becoming accessible to the country’s social and geographic periphery. This book reviews the evolution of Israel’s academic system and examines the ways in which it has met the national aims defined by the Council for Higher Education in its plans. Table of ContentsHigher education - Social gaps - Academic Colleges
£61.11
Peter Lang AG LEtat Et Les Guerres En Republique Democratique
Book SynopsisDepuis la fin de la décennie 1990 jusqu'au moment de la publication de ce livre, la République Démocratique du Congo est secouée par des guerres récurrentes. La littérature sur cette instabilité a retenu trois causes unilatéralement crispées sur un élément explicatif : la guerre pour le contrôle des ressources, les conflits intercommunautaires ainsi que les conflits régionaux dans la région des Grands lacs africains. En explicitant le présupposé de ces approches qu'il surmonte par l'approche institutionnelle, ce livre met en exergue le facteur essentiel à l'origine du mal congolais et propose des politiques publiques susceptibles d'y remédier.
£37.80
Peter Lang AG Arctic Region in the Climate Change Era Zone of
Book SynopsisIt is now beyond question that Arctic Region is experiencing an unprecedented andradical transformation.
£43.20
Lit Verlag Narrating the Self and Nation in Kenyan
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£36.00
Lit Verlag StateSociety Interaction in Vietnam
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£33.75
Lit Verlag Legal Framework and Basis for the Establishment
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£31.50
Gebruder Mann Verlag Die Konigliche Hofbibliothek in Berlin 1774-1970:
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£76.00
Universitatsverlag Winter Joachim Heinrich Campe: Dichtung, Sprache,
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£43.50
V&R unipress Silesia Superior
Book SynopsisUpper Silesia â transdisciplinary studies of the historical, cultural and natural region
£55.79
Taylor & Francis Energy and Sustainable Development 003 African
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£41.65
Verlag Barbara Budrich Higher Education Research – What Else?: The
Book SynopsisThe founder of higher education research in Germany, Ulrich Teichler, looks back on more than five decades of higher education research. The economic miracle and university expansion, the student movement, experiments and crises of the 1970s, organisational breakdown, reunification, internationalisation, ranking and management cult – all these are historical stages that are reflected in higher education and science. Ulrich Teichler, directly involved, reports with openness and humour, presenting clever analyses.. Higher education research and Ulrich Teichler – one is not conceivable without the other. Anyone involved in German and European higher education research – that is, research that has higher education as its subject matter – will not be able to avoid his name. Ulrich Teichler was the founding director and for many years the director of the International Center for Higher Education Research at the University of Kassel, one of the first higher education research centers at a German university. The student protest of the late 1960s is only one of the drastic events that Ulrich Teichler reports on. Other upheavals in higher education, politics and society are also remembered, recounted and – this is his great strength – analyzed by Ulrich Teichler as a contemporary witness. Readers experience exemplarily how a research field is established, how international impulses have an effect, how a research scene emerges and how it deals with the economic cycles of its research field. Since the beginnings of university research in the late 1970s, the research scene has grown enormously and has changed considerably – not least due to a change of generations. As before, however, the observation remains that Ulrich Teichler has had a strong influence on higher education research over all these years. This constellation was the reason for two scientists of the successor generation – Anna Kosmützky and Christiane Rittgerott – to look back on more than five decades of university research together with Ulrich Teichler and to talk to him about his life as a scientist, about research strategies, managing a research center and much more. He answered the questions posed to him with his typical openness, enthusiasm for providing information, and humour.Table of ContentsForeword1. A Straight Path to Academia?2. Why Research on Higher Education?3. Academic Careers: Highly Selective and Risky4. Chicago and Other Horizons – Why not Anywhere Else?5. Higher Education as a Focus of Research: The Aim of the Institute in Kassel6. Efforts to Consolidate the Research Center amidst Declining Public Interest in Higher Education7. The Elephants of Higher Education Research8. Associations of Higher Education Researchers – A Special Hobby?9. Institutional Consolidation: Continuing the old Activities or Taking on the Challenge of new Options?10. Moving towards the Evaluative and Managerial University – New Challenges for Higher Education Research?11. The Turn of the Century – A New Paradise or Growing Obsolescence of Higher Education Research?12. On the Path towards International and Comparative Higher Education Research13. European and Global Convergence Discourses – A New Framework for Higher Education Research14. Moving towards Large International Research Consortia?15. The Academic Entrepreneur – Changing Institutional Leadership over a Period of More than Three Decades16. Does Research Need Managerial Virtuosity?17. Publication Strategy18. Higher Education Research and Higher Education Practice: “To Hear the Grass Grow”19. Institutional and Biographical Development20. Professional Life and the Role Played by Partner and Family21. The Status Passage out of Institutional ResponsibilityIndexUlrich Teichler – Curriculum VitaeFestschriften for Ulrich TeichlerUlrich Teichler – Bibliography (June 2021)
£27.20
Social Science Press Social and Economic Profile of India
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£47.50
TusQuets Amexica Guerra en la frontera War Along the
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£20.09
NIAS Press States and Societies in Motion: Essays in Honour
Book SynopsisWith contributions from leading scholars in their field, this collection of fourteen essays offers wide-ranging but incisive perspectives on East and Southeast Asian Studies. Apart from informing and enlightening the reader, the essays offer a tribute to Professor Takashi Shiraishi, the renowned Japanese scholar, for his many contributions across continents and disciplines as well as his personal qualities as a long-time colleague, teacher and friend. Now Professor Emeritus of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo, Shiraishi-sensei has had an outstanding career as a teacher, scholar, administrator and policy advisor, his many roles including Deputy Director of the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University and president both of GRIPS and the Institute of Developing Economies, Japan. Often with Japan at their nexus, the essays speak to three enduring themes in the research interests that spanned Shiraishi's half-century career, namely, political movements in Southeast Asia; national and regional politics in China and Japan; and the links between ideology, networks and policies at critical junctures of state formation. An introduction by the editors reviews Shiraishi's contributions to many areas of scholarship (these are documented in the back matter, in a bibliography of his publications and writings in English and Japanese). Among authors of the fourteen essays that follow are Patricio Abinales, Chris Baker, Caroline Hau, Peter Katzenstein, Pasuk Phongpaichit and Thongchai Winichakul. In a concluding lengthy interview Shiraishi speaks for the first time, in a frank if light-hearted tone, of his diverse experiences in academia, as student, faculty and administrator, his thoughts on area studies and their connections with official policy-making, and his initiatives for building regional networks of research and intellectual exchange. A festschrift in English being a rarity for a Japanese scholar, this collection offers valuable if indirect insights into the links and influences that have animated a burgeoning community of international academic exchange and expert cooperation. This has been facilitated by Shiraishi's position, time and again (even if an accidental one, as he likes to say), as a transnational intersection point for colleagues, students and friends in their many various research pursuits. A rich and rewarding collection.
£73.00
NIAS Press States and Societies in Motion: Essays in Honour
Book SynopsisWith contributions from leading scholars in their field, this collection of fourteen essays offers wide-ranging but incisive perspectives on East and Southeast Asian Studies. Apart from informing and enlightening the reader, the essays offer a tribute to Professor Takashi Shiraishi, the renowned Japanese scholar, for his many contributions across continents and disciplines as well as his personal qualities as a long-time colleague, teacher and friend. Now Professor Emeritus of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo, Shiraishi-sensei has had an outstanding career as a teacher, scholar, administrator and policy advisor, his many roles including Deputy Director of the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University and president both of GRIPS and the Institute of Developing Economies, Japan. Often with Japan at their nexus, the essays speak to three enduring themes in the research interests that spanned Shiraishi's half-century career, namely, political movements in Southeast Asia; national and regional politics in China and Japan; and the links between ideology, networks and policies at critical junctures of state formation. An introduction by the editors reviews Shiraishi's contributions to many areas of scholarship (these are documented in the back matter, in a bibliography of his publications and writings in English and Japanese). Among authors of the fourteen essays that follow are Patricio Abinales, Chris Baker, Caroline Hau, Peter Katzenstein, Pasuk Phongpaichit and Thongchai Winichakul. In a concluding lengthy interview Shiraishi speaks for the first time, in a frank if light-hearted tone, of his diverse experiences in academia, as student, faculty and administrator, his thoughts on area studies and their connections with official policy-making, and his initiatives for building regional networks of research and intellectual exchange. A festschrift in English being a rarity for a Japanese scholar, this collection offers valuable if indirect insights into the links and influences that have animated a burgeoning community of international academic exchange and expert cooperation. This has been facilitated by Shiraishi's position, time and again (even if an accidental one, as he likes to say), as a transnational intersection point for colleagues, students and friends in their many various research pursuits. A rich and rewarding collection.
£31.43
Brill The Arabic Writing Tradition, an Historical
Book SynopsisProfessor Dr Fuat Sezgin meticulously documented the scientific writings and advances achieved by Muslim scholars. His celebrated Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), the largest bio-bibliography for the Arabic literary tradition in general, and the history of science and technology in the Islamic world in particular, is still of utmost importance for the field.Table of ContentsPreface Transliteration and Abbreviations 1 Introduction A. The Current State of Research B. The Beginnings and Emergence of Arabic Mathematics C. The Development of Arabic Mathematics D. Overview of Achievements of Arab Mathematicians from the Mid-5th/11th to the Mid-9th/15th Century 2 Sources A. Greek Sources B. Indian Sources C. Middle Persian and Syriac Sources 3 Arab Mathematicians Addenda Appendix: Libraries and Collections of Arabic Manuscripts Bibliography Index of Authors Index of Book Titles Index of Modern Authors, Publishers, Editors
£181.64
Amsterdam University Press Woodcuts as Reading Guides: How Images Shaped
Book SynopsisIn the first half of the sixteenth century, the Low Countries saw the rise of a lively market for practical and instructive books that targeted non-specialist readers. This study shows how woodcuts in vernacular books on medicine and astrology fulfilled important rhetorical functions in knowledge communication. These images guided readers’ perceptions of the organisation, visualisation, and reliability of knowledge. Andrea van Leerdam uncovers the assumptions and intentions of book producers to which images testify, and shows how actual readers engaged with these illustrated books. Drawing on insights from the field of information design studies, she scrutinises the books’ material characteristics, including their lay-outs and traces of use, to shed light on the habits and interests of early modern readers. She situates these works in a culture where medicine and astrology were closely interwoven in daily life and where both book producers and readers were exploring the potential of images.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Note to the reader Abbreviations Codes used for examined editions and copies Introduction Chapter 1. Bodies of Knowledge: Dutch Medical-Astrological Books between 1500-1550 Chapter 2. Organising Knowledge: Conceptualisations and Visual Strategies Chapter 3. Knowledge Tools: The Perceived Epistemic Significance of Images Chapter 4. Reliable Knowledge: Invoking Trust through Authority and Playfulness Chapter 5. Customising Knowledge: Readers’ Engagement with Illustrated Books Conclusion Appendices Bibliography List of figures List of tables Index of names and works
£43.65
Nordic Africa Institute Encounter Images in the Meetings Between Africa and Europe
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The American University in Cairo Press The Muslim Brothers in Society Everyday Politics
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking ethnography of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood The Islamists' political rise in Arab countries has often been explained by their capacity to provide social services, representing a challenge to the legitimacy of neoliberal states. Few studies, however, have addressed how this social action was provided, and how it engendered popular political support for Islamist organizations. Most of the time the links between social services and Islamist groups have been taken as given, rather than empirically examined, with studies of specific Islamist organizations tending to focus on their internal patterns of sectarian mobilization and the ideological indoctrination of committed members. Taking the case of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (MB), this book offers a groundbreaking ethnography of Islamist everyday politics and social action in three districts of Greater Cairo. Based on long-term fieldwork among grassroots netw
£35.99
World Scientific Publishing Company The Tortuous Evolution of South Asian Regional
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£85.50
World Scientific Publishing Company Great Transition In India An Interdisciplinary
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£66.50
Springer Verlag, Singapore Studies in Housing and Urban Analysis in Japan
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£116.99
Bloomsbury Publishing USA Culture and Customs of the Hmong
Book SynopsisThis book is the first to balance an account of the traditional life and history of the Hmong as a global people, with a full account of their modern, urban lives.Culture and Customs of the Hmong takes a global approach to understanding the Hmong, a people who have lived in China for more than 4,000 years. It is the first book to combine an account of the traditional life and history of the Hmong with a full account of their modern, urban lifestyle, balancing traditional lifeways and practices with modern, evolving customs.The book is unique in dealing, not only with the Hmong in the United States, Australia, and other Western nations, but also with their traditional and changing lives in their Asian homelands of Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, and China. This broad international perspective allows readers to look at the Hmong through the complex interplay of the many social, historical, economic, and cultural influences they have been exposed to in their worldwide migration, and at how they manage to maintain their many traditions across national boundaries and great distances.
£21.99
