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Die vorliegende Arbeit geht davon aus, dass es ‚die‘ „Letzten Tage Tage der Menschheit“ eigentlich gar nicht gibt. Stattdessen muss Karl Kraus’ so betiteltes Dramenprojekt als ein umfassender textueller, medialer und materialer Verbund verstanden werden, der ständig auch von seiner Auflösung bedroht ist. Die Untersuchung folgt daher einer doppelten Fortschreibung – denn „Die letzten Tage der Menschheit“ werden fortgesetzt, erweitert, variiert; sie werden aber auch aufgeschoben und verunmöglicht. Um die Poetik dieses Dramenprojektes angemessen rekonstruieren zu können, rückt die Studie das Ensemble von Praktiken ins Zentrum, die der Materialität, der Literarizität und der Diskursivität der „Letzten Tage der Menschheit“ zuarbeiten. Was ein Text, eine Gattung, ein Buch oder ein Autor ist und inwiefern das Literarische zugleich ans ‚Außerliterarische‘ gekoppelt wird, lässt sich am Beispiel von Kraus noch einmal anders bedenken. Darüber hinaus erschließt die Untersuchung erstmals systematisch die Nachlassmaterialien zu den „Letzten Tagen der Menschheit“. Somit verspricht die Monographie gleich mehrere Neubewertungen: von Kraus, dessen Dramenprojekt und dem Schreiben im und vom Krieg.

The open access book discusses human health and wellbeing within the context of built environments. It provides a comprehensive overview of relevant sources of literature and user complaints that clearly demonstrate the consequences of lack of attention to health in current building design and planning. Current designing of energy-efficient buildings is mainly focused on looking at energy problems and not on addressing health. Therefore, even green buildings that place environmental aspects above health issues can be uncomfortable and unhealthy, and can lead to public health problems. The authors identify many health risk factors and their parameters, and the interactions among risk factors and building design elements. They point to the need for public health specialists, engineers and planners to come together and review built environments for human wellbeing and environmental sustainability. The authors therefore present a tool for holistic decision-making processes, leading to short- and long-term benefits for people and their environment.

The Specchio interiore (Interior Mirror) is a work by the dominican Fra' Battista da Crema partly dedicated to the theme of mystical union. Written close to the foundation, in 1522, of the Hospital of the Incurables in Venice, it remained unpublished for almost two decades and it was first published in 1540 thanks to Ludovica Torelli, countess of Guastalla (1499-1569), alias Paola Maria. Widow, for the second time at age twenty-eight, Ludovica Torelli enjoyed an unusually powerful position for a women. Forced to sell her small state to Ferrante Gonzaga, she spent the second part of her life founding religious institutions and hospitals in Milan and other cities in northern Italy.

The paper aims to engage in a long-distance dialogue with some of Riccardo Del Punta's important writings on occupational safety and health, focusing on a number of issues of broad systematic scope. These are the functionalization of the employer powers involved in complying with the safety obligation, the nature of the limits placed on private economic initiative, and the reconstruction of the labor contract as an organizational contract that can be deduced from the rules governing the matter.

This volume highlights the heretofore largely neglected Battle of Vouillè in 507 CE, when the Frankish King Clovis defeated Alaric II, the King of the Visigoths. Clovis` victory proved a crucial step in the expulsion of the Visigoths from Francia into Spain, thereby leaving Gaul largely to the Franks. It was arguably in the wake of Vouillè that Gaul became Francia, and that "France began." The editors have united an international team of experts on Late Antiquity and the Merovingian Kingdoms to reexamine the battle from multiple as well as interdisciplinary perspectives. The contributions address questions of military strategy, geographical location, archaeological footprint, political background, religious propaganda, consequences (both in Francia and in Italy), and significance. There is a strong focus on the close reading of primary source-material, both textual and material, secular and theological.

Macroeconomic policy is one of the most important policy domains, and the tools of macroeconomics are among the most valuable for policy makers. Yet there has been, up to now, a wide gulf between the level at which macroeconomics is taught at the undergraduate level and the level at which it is practiced. At the same time, doctoral-level textbooks are usually not targeted at a policy audience, making advanced macroeconomics less accessible to current and aspiring practitioners. This book, born out of the Masters course the authors taught for many years at the Harvard Kennedy School, fills this gap. It introduces the tools of dynamic optimization in the context of economic growth, and then applies them to a wide range of policy questions – ranging from pensions, consumption, investment and finance, to the most recent developments in fiscal and monetary policy. It does so with the requisite rigor, but also with a light touch, and an unyielding focus on their application to policy-making, as befits the authors’ own practical experience. Advanced Macroeconomics: An Easy Guide is bound to become a great resource for graduate and advanced undergraduate students, and practitioners alike.

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Civic space worldwide is shrinking – nowhere is this plainer than in Palestine–Israels#13Suppressing Dissent brings together leading experts of shrinking civic space and transnational repression concerning Palestine–Israel to show how failing to address the phenomenon has impacts in the United States, the Middle East and beyond.

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Die Galerie Thannhauser gehörte mit ihren Häusern in München (1909-1928), Luzern (1919-1928) und Berlin (1927-1937) neben den Kunsthandlungen Cassirer, Alfred Flechtheim, Paul Rosenberg, Ambroise Vollard oder auch der Galerie Wildenstein zu den bedeutendsten Förderern der Moderne im Europa der Vor- und Zwischenkriegszeit. Der Band arbeitet die bewegte Geschichte des Familienunternehmens Thannhauser erstmals systematisch auf. Durch umfassende Archivrecherchen rekonstruiert Valerie Ender Leerstellen in deren Geschichte, sodass Gründung, Aufstieg und Etablierung der Avantgardegalerie in einem Netzwerk internationaler Kunstvermittler:innen und privater wie öffentlicher Sammlungen fassbar werden. Auch beleuchtet sie die Verluste des Kunsthandelsunternehmens in Berlin und Paris sowie die Verfolgung und Emigration von Justin Thannhauser und seiner Familie nach der Machtergreifung der Nationalsozialisten. Der lange Schatten der nationalsozialistischen Vernichtungspolitik im Nachkriegsdeutschland wird durch eine Dokumentation der komplizierten juristischen Verhandlungen und der perfiden Täter-Opfer-Umkehr im Kampf Thannhausers um Restitution auf eindrückliche Weise deutlich.

Dieses Buch ist eine Open-Access-Publikation unter einer CC BY 4.0 Lizenz. Unter dem Titel „Digitalisierung souverän gestalten“ wirft der zweite Themenband des Instituts für Innovation und Technik (iit) einen schlaglichtartigen Blick auf die Transformation von digitalen Wertschöpfungsnetzwerken und deren Potenziale. In insgesamt elf Beiträgen beleuchten Expert:innen aus verschiedenen Disziplinen Ansätze hybrider und humanzentrierter künstlicher Intelligenz (KI), praxisnahe Konzepte für eine zielgerichtete Kompetenzentwicklung in Betrieben sowie digitale Innovationen im Werkzeug- und Formenbau. Neben zahlreichen Use Cases werden dabei auch Antworten auf juristische Fragen zur Regulierung und Zertifizierung von KI gegeben.

Controversies and problems with regard to language policy and language education still exist in Malaysia. Despite the attempts of language policy makers to promote multilingualism, the implementation has been marred by political and religious affiliations. Malaysia is a melting pot of many different cultures and ethnicities, the three largest being Malay, Chinese and Indian. Therefore, an analysis of the language variation in this polyglot nation will help in understanding the variety of languages and those who speak them. This book gathers the work of researchers working in the field of language change in Malaysia for over two decades. As there is no book published internationally on the language policy in Malaysia and the effects on the language change in urban migrant populations, this book is a timely contribution not only to an understanding of Malaysian linguistic pluralism and its undercurrents, but also to an understanding of the Indian Diaspora.

Monthly meetings on topics related to personal health and the environment are organized for people over 60, and are led by female members with specific expertise. These meetings aim to raise awareness of the association in the provincial capital and to promote the concept of ecological well-being. Information about the initiative, in addition to being shared on social media, is primarily targeted at the association’s members and at individuals belonging to partner organizations with whom we collaborate and to whom we have presented the activity plan. The decision was made to use the association’s own premises for the events. Auser Tuscia is well known for its work in teaching Italian to foreigners and for serving as an examination centre for A2 and B1 language certification. While this provides the association with a strong reputation, it can also be a limiting factor in a socially conservative urban context. This project represents an effort to demonstrate that our role extends beyond language instruction and companionship for isolated older people.

This volume addresses one of the central issues in literary translation: the relationship between the creative freedom of the translator and the multiplicity of constraints to which translation is necessarily subject. The links between an author’s translation work and his or her own writing are likewise explored. Through a series of compelling case studies, this volume illustrates the parallel and overlapping discourses within the cognate areas of literary studies, creative writing and translation studies, which together propose a view of translation as (a form of) creative writing, and creative writing itself as being shaped by translation processes. The translations of selected contemporary French, Spanish and German texts offer readers some insights into how the translator’s work mirrors and complements that of the creative writer. The combination of theory and practice presented in this volume will appeal not just to specialists in translation studies but also to a wider public.