Humanities & Social Sciences

'Eating Identities' is the first book to link food to a wide range of Asian American concerns such as race and sexuality. Xu provides lucid and informed interpretations of seven Asian American writers (John Okada, Joy Kogawa, Frank Chin, Li-Young Lee, David Wong Louie, Mei Ng, and Monique Truong), revealing how cooking, eating, and food fashion Asian American identities in terms of race/ethnicity, gender, class, diaspora, and sexuality. Most literary critics perceive alimentary references as narrative strategies or part of the background; Xu takes food as the central site of cultural and political struggles waged in the seemingly private domain of desire in the lives of Asian Americans. For students of literature, this tantalizing work offers an illuminating lesson on how to read the multivalent meanings of food and eating in literary texts.

Praise for the first edition: "The most up-to-date and wide-ranging encyclopedia work on human evolution available."--American Reference Books Annual "For student, researcher, and teacher...the most complete source of basic information on the subject."--Nature "A comprehensive and authoritative source, filling a unique niche...essential to academic libraries...important for large public libraries." --Booklist/RBB

How do media and technologies structure our daily working lives? An organisational-sociological study.

In diesem Open-Access-Buch stehen die wirtschaftliche Verwertung von Daten und die dazu gehörenden technischen und organisatorischen Prozesse und Strukturen in Unternehmen im Fokus. Es behandelt Themen wie Datenmonetarisierung, Datenverträge, Data Governance, Informationssicherheit, Datenschutz und die Vertrauenswürdigkeit von Daten. Seit Jahren wird davon gesprochen, dass „Daten das neue Öl“ sind. Expertinnen und Experten sind sich einig: Das Wertschöpfungspotential von Daten ist enorm und das über fast alle Branchen und Geschäftsfelder hinweg. Und dennoch bleibt ein Großteil dieses Potentials ungehoben. Deshalb nimmt dieser Sammelband konkrete Innovationshemmnisse, die bei der Erschließung des wirtschaftlichen Werts von Daten auftreten können, in den Blick. Er bietet praktische Lösungsansätze für diese Hürden an den Schnittstellen von Ökonomie, Recht, Akzeptanz und Technik. Dazu folgen die Autorinnen und Autoren einem interdisziplinären Ansatz und greifen aktuelle Diskussionen aus der Wissenschaft auf, adressieren praxisnahe Herausforderungen und geben branchenunabhängige Handlungsempfehlungen. Den Leserinnen und Lesern soll eine transparente Informationsbasis angeboten werden und damit die Teilnahme an der Datenwirtschaft erleichtert werden. Dieses Buch richtet sich an Entscheidungsträgerinnen und Entscheidungsträger in Unternehmen sowie an Entwicklerinnen und Entwickler datenbasierter Dienste und Produkte. Der Band ist ebenfalls für Fachkräfte der angewandten Forschung wie auch für interdisziplinär Studierende z.B. der Wirtschaftsinformatik, der technikorientierten Rechtswissenschaft oder der Techniksoziologie relevant.

This monograph is a contribution to the documentation of the linguistic situation of the Kinnaur district in Himachal Pradesh (Indian Himalayas) which has been so far almost undescribed. The Sino-Tibetan languages Kinnauri and Navakat and the Indo-Aryan language Kinnauri Pahari, all spoken in Kinnaur, are described both individually and as parts of a multifaceted linguistic ecology that extends into the surrounding wider Himalayan region. The author combines traditional linguistic description and a quantitative computational procedure to disentangle genealogical and areal characteristics of the languages of Kinnaur.

It is by now common knowledge that one of the aspects upon which the survival of the University depends is how it will make the best possible use of the new technologies (e-learning). Despite the acceptance of this principle, difficulties arise when one attempts to proceed from the mere declaration to actually planning activities and putting them into effect. This research, the result of collaboration between teachers and researchers of the Educational Science and Engineering Faculties of the University of Florence, focuses on certain theoretical concepts and reference apparatus, bringing international literature to bear on the specific case of Italy. [english version]

This open access book features a diverse collective of arts and humanities researchers, educators and creative practitioners, sharing their thoughts and experiences of how to approach gender nonconformity creatively and ethically, including from a decolonial perspective. While substantial work has addressed the ethics and practicalities of working with trans and gender-nonconforming participants in social science research, approaches to gender nonconformity in arts and humanities research, teaching and practice still remain underexplored. Here, contributors share their thoughts and experience on topics including centring trans people and people of colour in fan adaptations of Les Misérables; moving beyond medicalised approaches to trans history; responding to the early modern history of gender nonconformity through poetic-performative closet dramas; and using trans history to decolonise history teaching. The editors’ draw out the book’s practical and theoretical implications, reflecting on what it means for marginalised people to ‘forge a home’ within the arts and humanities in our contemporary political moment. This book is an invaluable resource for academics, educators, performers and activists invested in finding new, trans-affirming, decolonial and anti-racist ways to engage with gender nonconformity in their work. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.

The history and past management of trees within woodlands are the main objectives of this book. The authors show four points of view about one theme: silvicultures. Wood pasture systems of South East England and Northern Italy, Spanish pollard forests, and Portuguese montado are great examples of European ancient forests. Reconstruction of forest ecology, management, protection, and the understanding of these silvicultures from different perspectives are the main values of this monograph. The authors would like to make all readers aware of the value of ancient forests as cultural and socioecosystem services.

This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE 2020, which took place in Dublin, Ireland, in April 2020, and was held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2020. The 23 full papers, 1 tool paper and 6 testing competition papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 81 submissions. The papers cover topics such as requirements engineering, software architectures, specification, software quality, validation, verification of functional and non-functional properties, model-driven development and model transformation, software processes, security and software evolution.

Seit ihrer Gründung ist die Europäische Gemeinschaft hin- und hergerissen zwischen einer marktwirtschaftlichen und einer interventionistischen Wirtschaftsordnung. Über einen Zeitraum von 1955 bis heute wird die französische Europapolitik in dieser Arbeit auf ihre ordnungspolitischen Konstanten und deren Ursprungsmotive untersucht. Frankreich hat sich beharrlich für die Errichtung einer makroökonomischen Gesamtsteuerung in Europa eingesetzt. Statt an die Selbstheilungskräfte des Marktes zu glauben, hat sich die französische Europapolitik dem wirtschaftlichen Allgemeininteresse verschrieben, dessen Verwirklichung aus französischer Sicht ohne staatliche Interventionen in den Wirtschaftsablauf nicht denkbar ist. Die Ursprungsmotive der französischen Binnenmarktpolitik werden über die Wirtschaftsstilanalyse auf die Wertewelt und den Vernunftglauben der französischen Aufklärung zurückgeführt.

This book emerges at a time when critical race studies, postcolonial thought, and decolonial theory are under enormous pressure as part of a global conservative backlash. However, this is also an exciting moment, where new horizons of knowledge appear and new epistemic practices (e.g. symmetry, collaboration, undisciplining) gain traction. Through our critical engagements with structural, relational, and personal aspects of knowing and unknowing we work towards a greater multiplicity of knowledges and practices. Calling into question the asymmetrical global economy of knowledge and its uneven division of intellectual labour, our interdisciplinary volume explores what a decolonial horizon could entail for African Studies at the crossroads. Contributors are Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Eric A. Anchimbe, Edwin Asa Adjei, Susan Arndt, Muyiwa Falaiye, Katharina Greven, Christine Hanke, Amanda Hlengwa, Catherine Kiprop, Elísio Macamo, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Cassandra Mark-Thiesen, Lena Naumann, Thando Njovane, Samuel Ntewusu, Anthony Okeregbe, Zandisiwe Radebe, Elelwani Ramugondo, Eleanor Schaumann

Since the Iraq war, the Middle East has been in continuous upheaval, resulting in the displacement of millions of people. Arriving from Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, and Syria in other parts of the world, the refugees show remarkable resilience and creativity amidst profound adversity. Through careful ethnography, this book vividly illustrates how refugees navigate regimes of exclusion, including cumbersome bureaucracies, financial insecurities, medical challenges, vilifying stereotypes, and threats of violence. The collection bears witness to their struggles, while also highlighting their aspirations for safety, settlement, and social inclusion in their host societies and new homes.

Women in the Bible, Qumran and Early Rabbinic Literature: Their Status and Roles explores the different attitudes toward the woman

As global water resources face growing threats from pollution and overuse, sustainable treatment solutions are urgently needed. Among these, adsorption stands out as an effective and versatile method for removing a broad spectrum of contaminants from water and wastewater. However, optimizing adsorption for large-scale applications is a complex challenge that demands both a solid understanding of adsorption science and the use of advanced computational tools. Computational Techniques for Modelling and Simulating Adsorption Processes for (Waste)Water Treatment addresses this challenge by providing a comprehensive guide integrating core adsorption principles with cutting-edge computational approaches for enhancing adsorption efficiency and system design. Structured to lead readers from fundamental concepts to advanced applications, the book includes: an overview of water pollution and treatment; a detailed exploration of adsorption principles and models; an introduction to general computational strategies for modelling and optimization, leading on to density functional theory, molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo simulations and QSAR techniques; AI and machine learning in adsorption modelling; computational fluid dynamics and system-level optimization. Together, these topics provide researchers, engineers, and practitioners with the tools needed to model, simulate, and optimize adsorption processes for more efficient and sustainable water treatment.

Zentrale Intention dieser Untersuchung ist vielmehr die Herausarbeitung der Entwicklung des sowjetischen satirischen Romans von 1919 bis 1931, vom ersten feststellbaren Text also bis zum "Goldenen Kälbchen" von I. Il'f und e. Petrov, das eine der Gipfelleistungen des sowjetischen satirischen Romans darstellt und zugleich weitergehend den (vorläufigen) Schlußpunkt seiner Entwicklung markiert.