Humanities & Social Sciences

This document constitutes the Comparative Study of the Precoll project – Policies for Regional Cooperation in Lifelong Learning, led by the Università degli Studi di Firenze-Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Educazione e dei Processi Culturali e Formativi / University of Florence-Department of Educational Sciences and Cultural and Training Processes, in partnership with Generalitat de Catalunya (Spain), Junta de Andalucía (Spain), Regione Toscana (Italy), Welsh Assembly Government (United Kingdom), Jämtland County Council (Sweden), NIACE Dysgu Cymru-National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (United Kingdom), Provincia di Livorno Sviluppo Srl (Italy), subcontractor Melius Srl (Italy). EARLALL has been supporting the quality of the work, as well as Cedefop thanks to the regular advice and suggestions provided by Steven Bainbridge.

This book seeks to advance knowledge of human settlement and adaptation in the world's largest desert, the sahara. Previous studies focussed on the prehistoric phases but this study takes a wider historical and geographical perspective. It sets out to combine the results of several field campaigns, their histories and methodologies. We look at fieldwork, fortifications, funerary structures, irrigation, rock art and human occupation. The final summary looks at the current state of research and offers a platform for future investigations.

This collection of specially commissioned essays provides the first incisive collaborative intervention to ongoing debates about law and politics under capitalism from an explicitly socialist constitutionalist perspective. Heterodox literature on constitutional studies, to a large extent and with a few notable exceptions, shares a rejection of Marxist analytical principles. Moving beyond the formalism and instrumentalism, this volume will engage with the question: what differentiates a Marxist conception of socialist constitutionalism and the role of institutional forms in building socialism, from republican and post-Marxist conceptions? Drawing inspiration from socialist thinkers and historical attempts to build socialism, the contributors explain the relevance of socialist conceptions of democracy and rights for contemporary struggles for social emancipation. They combine historical and theoretical analyses to review socialist constitutional theory and practice, while thinking about the future of democracy and rights in a communist polity. The contributions deal with a variety of topical issues, including the relationship between state, law, and society; the relationship between constitutional law and revolutionary social change; right as legal superstructure and right as a form of social consciousness; the ethical grounds of communism; socialist conceptions of right; and principles for a socialist constitutionalism. Consolidating Marxist approaches to public law and constitutional theory, Socialist Constitutionalism and the Communist Polity offers both a rigorous contribution to the elaboration of Marxist theory and a re-examination of foundational constitutional concepts, questions, and debates that will help to orient non-specialist readers

Interkulturelle Theologie und kritische Religionswissenschaft leben von ihrer Vielfalt und Bezügen zu anderen Disziplinen. In dieser Festschrift für Heike Walz eröffnen die Beitragenden entlang der Themenkomplexe »Menschen-Würde« und »Körper-Wissen« vielschichtige Zugänge zu aktuellen Fragestellungen. In interkulturellen und mehrsprachigen Perspektiven entstehen neue Impulse zu De(s)kolonialität, pluralen Epistemologien, Dance Studies, Wissens- und Würdediskursen, (Post-)Migration, (Feministischer) Theologie, Gender Studies und Menschenrechten. Die Untersuchung der Themenfelder in ihrer Verwobenheit zeigt Forschungsansätze und -ergebnisse auf, die auch in ihrer interdisziplinären Anschlussfähigkeit bisher einzigartig sind.

Das Phänomen der internationalen interkulturellen Heiratsmigration gewinnt seit Jahren zunehmend an Bedeutung. In ihm verweben und verdichten sich vielfältige Dynamiken zwischen Globalem und Lokalem, zwischen Ökonomie, Kultur und Geschlecht, zwischen Heirat und Ehe sowie zwischen Familie und Arbeit auf komplexe Weise. In dieser ethnographischen Migrationsstudie wird anhand dichter Fallbeschreibungen die Vernetzung zwischen Herkunfts- und Zielland philippinischer Heiratsmigrantinnen nachgezeichnet. Auf der Spurensuche nach kulturellen Bedeutungszusammenhängen ebenso wie nach alltäglichen Lebensstrategien wird eine kreative Verschränkung von kleinen und großen Erzählungen und ethnologischen Interpretationen und Analysen hergestellt. Im Ergebnis wird mit zahlreichen Klischees über Heiratsmigrantinnen aufgeräumt.

Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant; Nursing care; Haemato-oncology nursing; Paediatric transplant nursing; Apheresis

Industrial / commercial art & design

Affect; critical pedagogy; education research; epistemology; peace education; peacebuilding education; philosophy of education

NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) and blockchain are revolutionizing the art market by offering advantages in terms of traceability and authenticity of works. Through blockchain, every transaction is recorded transparently and immutably, ensuring provenance and control over the circulation of the artwork. NFTs certify the uniqueness of a digital work, acting as a guarantee of authenticity and tracking each ownership transfer. Additionally, NFTs enable the tokenization of art, breaking ownership into shares, making it accessible to a broader audience and creating new investment and engagement opportunities.

Education; European Union

The web is at the center of modern computing. Every year the web expands its reach to more and more of what we do with computers. It now goes far beyond its original use for document-based information sharing: many people now spend their entire day in a browser, not using a single other application! So given this centrality, it's worth knowing how the web works. And in particular, it's worth focusing on the browser, which is the user agent and the mediator of the web's interactions, which ultimately is what makes the web's principles real. But web browsers are still opaque, not just to students but to faculty and industry programmers. This book dissipates this mystery by systematically explaining all the major components of a web browser.

The field of disability studies significantly contributes to contemporary discussions of the marginalization of and social justice for individuals with disabilities. However, what of disability in the past? The Medieval Disability Sourcebook: Western Europe explores what medieval texts have to say about disability, both in their own time and for the present.This interdisciplinary volume on medieval Europe combines historical records, medical texts, and religious accounts of saints’ lives and miracles, as well as poetry, prose, drama, and manuscript images to demonstrate the varied and complicated attitudes medieval societies had about disability. Far from recording any monolithic understanding of disability in the Middle Ages, these contributions present a striking range of voices—to, from, and about those with disabilities—and such diversity only confirms how disability permeated (and permeates) every aspect of life.The Medieval Disability Sourcebook is designed for use inside the undergraduate or graduate classroom or by scholars interested in learning more about medieval Europe as it intersects with the field of disability studies. Most texts are presented in modern English, though some are preserved in Middle English and many are given in side-by-side translations for greater study. Each entry is prefaced with an academic introduction to disability within the text as well as a bibliography for further study. This sourcebook is the first in a proposed series focusing on disability in a wide range of premodern cultures, histories, and geographies.

The author presents a comprehensive picture of teachers' subjective understandings, attitudes and beliefs about human rights education. From this, indications are derived as to how human rights education can be further developed pedagogically and methodologically and which institutional measures are necessary. In addition, ideas for the pedagogical implementation of human rights education are outlined.

For a growing number of people, democracy has become synonymous with broken promises and abandoned commitments. Governments everywhere are not listening to their citizens’ concerns on matters of fundamental importance. As a result, ordinary men and women of all political persuasions are demanding transformations, not just to government policies, but to the methods of governance themselves. They realize that in the periods between general elections, they have great difficulty having their voices heard, because they have no formal role in constructing political agendas. This open access book focuses on one way to address this problem, by establishing a continual dialogue between individuals and their governments, hence forcing politicians to constantly pay attention to “the people.” Larry Patriquin argues for the creation of permanent citizens’ assemblies, which would be charged with examining issues of public concern and giving advice to governments. For those troubled by our current democratic impasse, Permanent Citizens’ Assemblies: A New Model for Public Deliberation will give hope that practical reforms are possible and that new institutions can become effective components of governance in nations across the globe. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

Die vorliegende Arbeit sollte als Versuch verstanden werden, auch dem Nicht-Polonisten einen ersten Zugang zum Schaffen Wyspiańskis und zu seiner Konzeption eines monumentalen Theaters (teatr ogromny) zu eröffnen. Die Verfasserin ging von dem Gesichtspunkt aus, daß das Werk Wyspiańskis, so außergewöhnlich es in seiner Zeit war, nur im Zusammenhang mit dieser Zeit verstanden werden kann. Das Herausstellen eines einzelnen Werkes, in diesem Falle des Dramas "Achilleis" von 1903, kann nur sinnvoll sein, wenn es in Verbindung mit der Entwicklung der europäischen Dramenliteratur um 1900 gesehen wird.