Humanities & Social Sciences

This book argues that Mary Wollstonecraft and John Stuart Mill are the two primary architects of the modern theory of women’s rights as human rights. It only through addressing women’s rights, Botting argues, that the idea of human rights was given universal scope and application. Botting describes the development of the idea of women’s human rights beginning with the work of Wollstonecraft and Mill, and gives an account of their reception in both western and nonwestern contexts. Her goal is to strip liberal feminism of its Eurocentric bias and offer the theory that remains as a resource for thinking about women’s human rights globally.

This open access book collects expert contributions on actuarial modelling and related topics, from machine learning to legal aspects, and reflects on possible insurance designs during an epidemic/pandemic. Starting by considering the impulse given by COVID-19 to the insurance industry and to actuarial research, the text covers compartment models, mortality changes during a pandemic, risk-sharing in the presence of low probability events, group testing, compositional data analysis for detecting data inconsistencies, behaviouristic aspects in fighting a pandemic, and insurers’ legal problems, amongst others. Concluding with an essay by a practicing actuary on the applicability of the methods proposed, this interdisciplinary book is aimed at actuaries as well as readers with a background in mathematics, economics, statistics, finance, epidemiology, or sociology.

This interdisciplinary edited collection explores and analyses the field of the blue humanities through an Australian lens. The blue humanities is a way of understanding humanity’s relationship with water and manifestations of what is referred to as the ‘blue’ – reefs, oceans, rivers, creeks, basins, and inland bodies of water. In its scope, this collection emphasises both the importance of the local and the interconnectedness of Australia with global environmental concerns. It considers how we conceptualise watery spaces and shades of blue in a country where water is often marked by its absence, its ephemerality, its politicisation, and its dangers. Contributors from environmental history, environmental social science, political science, literary studies, creative arts, Indigenous Knowledge, education, and anthropology tackle various entanglements between the human, the more-than-human, and watery Australian spaces in modern culture. It is the first volume to offer a specific, dedicated focus on the intersections between Australian space and the blue humanities, and it offers a pathway for those wishing to explore, critique, and advance ideas around the blue humanities in both research and teaching. Directly contributing to a growing interdisciplinary field, this is the first book to comprehensively examine the blue in Australia, appealing to scholars, educators, and students working across the humanities and social sciences with an interest in the environmental humanities, ecopolitics, ecocriticism, the blue humanities, cultural geography, environmental history, and the role of place.

The first applied research volume in Scottish Romanticism, this collection foregrounds the concept of progress as 'improvement' as a constitutive theme of Scottish writing during the long eighteenth century. It explores improvement as the animating principle behind Scotland’s post-1707 project of modernization, a narrative both shaped and reflected in the literary sphere. It represents a vital moment in Romantic studies, as a 'four-nations' interrogation of the British context reaches maturity. Equally, the volume contributes to a central concern in the study of Scottish culture, amplifying a critical synthesis of Romanticism and Enlightenment. Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781351056427_oachapter9.pdf

The volume extends the mainly European focus of the series 'Historiography and ldentity' to probe into a more global perspective, exploring the historiographical cultures of a number of Eurasian macro-regions: China, Japan, Iran, South Arabia, Syria, Byzantium, Lotharingia, and Spain. The broader, Eurasian perspective can contribute to a deeper understanding of the very different ways in which works of historiography could communicate, promote, and negotiate 'visions of community' and concepts of belonging.

Este volumen recoge diferentes zonas del intenso debate crítico que suscita, a una y otra orilla del Atlántico, la reflexión sobre los modos de producción, circulación y recepción de las narrativas latinoamericanas y españolas del siglo XXI. Por un lado, ofrece un análisis de conjunto, por campos nacionales y regionales, de las distintas manifestaciones del objeto literario actual, en función de sus temas, problemas y estéticas más visibles. Por otro, aborda sus materialidades y formas de recepción (ediciones, distribución y lecturas) en campos tan importantes como los de Estados Unidos, Francia, Italia, Alemania y España, con el propósito de pensar cómo se articulan lo “latinoamericano” y lo “español” en el panorama mundial del nuevo siglo. En definitiva, este libro supone la primera cartografía transatlántica de las novísimas narrativas en lengua castellana, al tiempo que significa una actualización comparada de sus valores, simbólicos y materiales, en el espacio cultural de lo local y lo mundial.

Compared with other industries, scientific publishing has a centuries-old tradition. However, it is currently the development of digital information and communication technologies in probably the biggest upheaval since the invention of the printing press. Björn Ortelbach deals with the impact of technological development in the scientific publishing industry from a business point of view. In the first part of the book he analyzes how value added cost structures and business models of publishers change. The second part of the book deals with the impact of these changes on the control of these companies. Based on the previously worked out specifics of the industry design proposals for the use of controlling mechanisms are developed.

Retracing Dessí’s collaboration in the magazines “L’Orto”, “Primato” and “Cronache” directed by Giorgio Vecchietti, among stories, essays and reviews that have remained largely unpublished, means deepening the writer’s artistic development by exploring into the creative laboratory of his debut. The 36 texts collected and commented by Francesca Bartolini allow us to analyse the thematic and stylistic approaches that were further developed and deepened in the subsequent production. At the same time they take into account the years of the fascist dictatorship, allowing us to investigate the development of an intellectual conscience engaged in an anti-fascist, rebel movement typical of many writers of that generation. Weaving the critical discourse with the reading of the correspondence, the complex relationship that linked Dessí to the three editorial offices is noted, testifying to the passion of a young artist eager to follow his inclination, but also aware of the difficulty of preserving his freedom and identity in the limitations of the regime.

Jean-Michel Lafleur lauréat du prix Wernaers 2019 pour la vulgarisation scientifique > Hoeveel migranten zijn er in België? Waar komen ze vandaan? Zijn het overwegend mannen? Zijn ze geïntegreerd of bedreigen ze onze identiteit? Nemen ze jobs af van de Belgen of worden ze gediscrimineerd? Wie bedoelt men met “mensen zonder papieren”? Is België gastvrijer dan andere landen? Mogen we onze grenzen sluiten? De meeste Belgen hebben wel een antwoord op dat soort vragen, maar vaak baseren ze zich op vooroordelen of foutieve informatie. Migratie in België in 21 vragen en antwoorden laat de clichés achterwege en geeft in een toegankelijke stijl een antwoord op 21 pertinente vragen rond migratie. Op basis van wetenschappelijke gegevens en helder cijfermateriaal geven de auteurs een evenwichtig en duidelijk antwoord. Kortom, dit boekje is een absolute aanrader voor wie zich een correcte mening wil vormen over dit brandend maatschappelijk onderwerp. E-boek verkrijgbaar in Open Access.

This open access book covers millimeter-wave radar technology as used today in advanced applications such as automated driving and industrial sensor technology. Each topic is discussed from a comprehensive systems perspective, thoroughly addressing both signal processing and hardware aspects, along with their interconnections. After a solid introduction to the basics and applications of radar sensors, the focus shifts to the fundamental operating principles of these sensors. Separate chapters then cover signal processing and hardware concepts in detail. Finally, the book concludes with an in-depth discussion of specialized radar techniques, including imaging radar.

This volume contains reports of the 9th Workshop for Family Law held in Göttingen, Dec. 10th, 2010.

Harry Shaw’s aim is to promote a fuller understanding of nineteenth-century historical fiction by revealing its formal possibilities and limitations. His wide-ranging book establishes a typology of the ways in which history was used in prose fiction during the nineteenth century, examining major works by Sir Walter Scott—the first modern historical novelist—and by Balzac, Hugo, Anatole France, Eliot, Thackeray, Dickens, and Tolstoy.

The music libraries of the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini of Naples and of the Conservatoire of Paris were founded in the same years with the common aim of serving teaching and becoming key places for the construction of a collective memory. Starting from the illustration of the relationships between the two urban centers, this volume analyzes the first decades of life of the two libraries by looking at the different ways of increasing the collections, showing the general interest of the French for the Neapolitan musical heritage and identifying the papers that migrated from Naples to Paris in the Napoleonic era. Through the analysis of archival documents, scores, correspondence of the Napoleonic emissaries in Italy, largely unpublished, a chapter of musical history is narrated, intertwined with the operations of subtraction of works of art carried out by Napoleon's officials in Italy.

This volume is the first to systematically analyze ancient narrative theory in German. The guiding principle is the theory that, although ancient authors like Aristotle were the forerunners of the modern categories of narrative theories, many concepts have been reinterpreted in the course of their reception. It is against this backdrop that this monograph identifies the specific features of ancient narrative theory.

Eugenio Coseriu (1921–2002) was among the most influential linguists in the second half of the 20th century. Although known mainly as a structuralist and an expert in Romance linguistics, his work in fact goes far beyond this, offering an impressive and coherent vision of linguistic theory that embraces a very wide range of issues. These are presented and discussed here in the first comprehensive monograph on Coseriu’s œuvre published in English.