Humanities & Social Sciences

The topic of this book is the interplay between the economic order and economic development in Germany's various economic systems since 1945 the social market economy of the old Federal Republic of Germany the state socialist planned economy of the German Democratic Republic and the social market economy in unified Germany.

Remembering the Wars of Religion examines the painful legacy of civil war, focusing on memories of violence and victimhood after the French Wars of Religion. Officially, these wars ended in 1598, when the Edict of Nantes proclaimed peaceful coexistence between Catholics and Protestants, and ordered them to forget the troubles that had begun in 1562. The reality in biconfessional cities scarred by the wars such as Lyon, La Rochelle, and Montpellier was more complicated. Catholics and Protestants who had lived through the conflict found it impossible to forget or forgive the violence they had witnessed and the losses they had suffered. Whether in personal chronicles and elegant portrait galleries, or public spaces such as churches, courtrooms, and the street, the conflict between the two groups dragged on for another century. Memories were repeatedly used to antagonize, fuelling local tensions and undermining the official policy of toleration established by the Edict of Nantes. Remembering the Wars of Religion thus offers a compelling new perspective on the challenges of religious coexistence and peacebuilding. It shows that besides state policies of intolerance and doctrinal differences rooted in the Reformation, it was the manipulation of wartime memories by subsequent generations that fuelled long-term animosity and ultimately laid the basis for the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685.

Die Arbeit entwickelt ein gebrauchsbasiertes Modell zur Entstehung grammatischer Varianten. Dieses wird auf drei Variationsphänomene angewandt: Variation in der Konjugation (geglimmt/geglommen), Variation in der Deklination (des Bären/Bärs) und Variation in der Selektion zwischen haben und sein im Perfekt (ich bin/habe Auto gefahren). Zudem wird das Modell psycholinguistisch überprüft. Das Modell greift auf den gebrauchsbasierten Ansatz der Kognitionslinguistik zurück und erarbeitet Frequenz, Prototyp und Schema als grundlegende Einflussfaktoren darauf, wie wahrscheinlich Variation und Stabilität in einem Sprachsystem sind: Bei allen Variationsphänomenen sind neben der Variation auch stabile Verwendungen zu beobachten (geflogen/*gefliegt, des Matrosen/*des Matroses, ich bin gegangen/*ich habe gegangen). Im theoretischen Teil der Arbeit werden Frequenz, Protoyp und Schema als kognitive Einflussfaktoren auf Variation und Stabilität modelliert und anschließend ihr Einfluss auf die drei Variationsphänomene theoretisch beleuchtet. Im empirischen Teil der Arbeit wird der Einfluss der Faktoren Frequenz, Prototyp und Schema anhand von Reaktionszeitmessungen überprüft. Das in der Arbeit entwickelte Modell fasst Variation und Stabilität von Sprache probabilistisch und prognostiziert auf diese Weise Variation. Der Rückgriff auf Reaktionszeiten erlaubt es, in der Sprachverarbeitung Variationspotential zu erkennen, das noch nicht im Sprachgebrauch sichtbar ist. Die Arbeit verdeutlicht damit den zentralen Stellenwert, den Variation in der Sprache einnimmt, erweitert mit der Verbindung aus Kognitions- und Psycholinguistik bestehende Forschung und ermöglicht einen systematischen, empirisch überprüfbaren Zugang zu Variation.

This is the fifth report on excavations by Barry Cunliffe that took place on the site of the Roman fort and amphitheatre at Richborough, in Kent, in the 1960s. Included are descriptions of artefacts such as pottery, coins and buildings, together with an account of the methodology used to unearth these.

This open access book provides the first systematic overview of existing challenges and opportunities for responsible data linkage, and a cutting-edge assessment of which steps need to be taken to ensure that plant data are ethically shared and used for the benefit of ensuring global food security – one of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. The volume focuses on the contemporary contours of such challenges through sustained engagement with current and historical initiatives and discussion of best practices and prospective future directions for ensuring responsible plant data linkage. The volume is divided into four sections that include case studies of plant data use and linkage in the context of particular research projects, breeding programs, and historical research. It address technical challenges of data linkage in developing key tools, standards and infrastructures, and examines governance challenges of data linkage in relation to socioeconomic and environmental research and data collection. Finally, the last section addresses issues raised by new data production and linkage methods for the inclusion of agriculture’s diverse stakeholders. This book brings together leading experts in data curation, data governance and data studies from a variety of fields, including data science, plant science, agricultural research, science policy, data ethics and the philosophy, history and social studies of plant science.

Heterosexuality in contemporary novels, re-examined using the frameworks of feminism and queer theory Drawing on feminist and queer theories of sex, gender and sexuality, this study focuses on female identities at odds with heterosexual norms. In particular, it explores narratives in which the conventional equation between heterosexuality, reproductive sexuality and female identity is questioned. - A timely exploration of the dynamic relationship between feminist and queer theory - Insightful close readings of acclaimed novels, including Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex, Zoë Heller's Notes on a Scandal, A. M. Homes' The End of Alice, Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, Alan Warner's Morvern Callar and Sarah Waters' Affinity - Topics range from spinsterhood and intergenerational sexuality to transgender and human cloning

Rape Culture in the House of David: A Company of Men describes a biblical rape culture sustained and maintained by Yhwh and a host of men—from royal kings and princes to their relatives, counselors, generals, and servants. This volume reveals that sexual violence in the house of David is not simply perpetrated by its most powerful men. Rather, in the pursuit of power, status, authority, and honor, men form alliances and networks that support the use and abuse of women’s bodies and valorize sexualized violence against other men. The man who is most capable of sexual violence is Israel’s ideal king. Barbara Thiede deftly addresses the power and contemporary relevance of these narratives and argues that exposing and naming rape culture in biblical literature is essential—in social, economic, and political realms. This is a meaningful feminist intervention in the field of biblical studies and is of great benefit to graduate students and scholars of religion, gender studies, and masculinity studies.

871 / 5,000 The ninth volume of the Short Writings of the Zurich Greek and religious scholar Walter Burkert (1931–2015) follows the thematic structure of the first eight volumes of his opuscula, which were edited between 2001 and 2011 by postdoctoral students of this seminal scholar, who worked at the University of Zurich from 1969 to 1996. The volume fills gaps and supplements the publications he published in the individual fields during his final years. Furthermore, his remarkable academic debut, the typewritten Erlangen dissertation "On the Ancient Greek Concept of Compassion," is made accessible to a wider audience for the first time. In addition to the editor's foreword, the volume also includes an appreciation by Jan N. Bremmer, the Dutch religious scholar and friend of Walter Burkert.

In Hoofdstuk 1 worden de achtergronden van het NWO programma Slimme sturing (Smart governance) en de Zorgtransitie besproken, die de aanleiding vormden voor de opzet van het onderzoek ‘Lokaal bestuur en eigen kracht in Rotterdam’, dat resulteerde in het hier voorliggende eindrapport. Vervolgens wordt de oorsprong van de Family Group Conference besproken en hoe deze zich wereldwijd heeft verspreid en heeft geresulteerd in een aantal internationale studies, waarin de Family Group Conference is gecontrasteerd met professionele hulpverlening. Een aantal toonaangevende studies is geschematiseerd weergegeven in Hoofdstuk 1. Hoe de vragen van de maatschappelijke partners in de definitieve onderzoeksopzet werden vertaald en welke uitkomstmaten gekozen werden, wordt beschreven in Hoofdstuk 2: Onderzoeksopzet. In Hoofdstuk 3 worden de uitkomsten van het empirische onderdeel van het onderzoek onder zorgvragers gepresenteerd. Hoofdstuk 4 bespreekt de uitkomsten van het onderzoek onder zorgprofessionals en Eigen Kracht coördinatoren. In een aantal zaken bleken het netwerk en de zorgprofessional ondersteuningstaken specifiek verdeeld te hebben. In Hoofdstuk 5 zijn deze patronen van taakverdeling op basis van gemeenschappelijke elementen gestileerd in een drietal scenario’s, waarvan de kostenimplicaties zijn berekend, in het bijzonder het potentieel aan besparingen. In Hoofdstuk 6 worden de bevindingen van het onderzoek geplaatst tegen de achtergrond van het NWO Slimme sturing programma, met accent op de sturingsinstrumenten die centraal staan in het sociale domein: regulering en budgettering. Bezien wordt wat exact de reikwijdte is van het nog vrijwel onbekende recht op een Familiegroepsplan. Hoofdstuk 7 sluit het rapport af met een slotbeschouwing en een aantal aanbevelingen, voor de betrokken maatschappelijke partners en voor de wetenschap.

Wilfred Bion’s theories of dreaming, of the analytic situation, of reality and everyday life, and even of the contact between the body and the mind offer very different, and highly fruitful, perspectives on lived experience. Yet very little of his work has entered the field of visual culture, especially film and media studies. Kelli Fuery offers an engaging overview of Bion’s most significant contribution to psychoanalysis- his theory of thinking- and demonstrates its relevance for why we watch moving images. Bion’s theory of thinking is presented as an alternative model for the examination of how we experience moving images and how they work as tools which we use to help us ‘think’ emotional experience. ‘Being Embedded’ is a term used to identify and acknowledge the link between thinking and emotional experience within the lived reception of cinema. It is a concept that everyone can speak to as already knowing, already having felt it - being embedded is at the core of lived and thinking experience. This book offers a return to psychoanalytic theory within moving image studies, contributing to the recent works that have explored object relations psychoanalysis within visual culture (specifically the writings of Klein and Winnicott), but differs in its reference and examination of previously overlooked, but highly pivotal, thinkers such as Bion, Bollas and Ogden. A theorization of thinking as an affective structure within moving image experience provides a fresh avenue for psychoanalytic theory within visual culture. Wilfred Bion, Thinking, and Emotional Experience with Moving Images will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists, as well as scholars and students of film and media studies, cultural studies and cultural sociology and anthropology, visual culture, media theory, philosophy, and psychosocial studies.

Die Fähigkeit, sowohl vernetzt, in Zeitabläufen und in Modellen zu denken als auch systemgerecht zu handeln – kurz: systemisch zu denken – wird in den meisten natur- und gesellschaftswissenschaftlichen Fächern als wichtiges Lernziel angesehen. Besonders geeignet zur Förderung des systemischen Denkens sind Wirkungsdiagramme und System Dynamics, die im Zentrum des vorliegenden Buchs stehen. Die ersten Beiträge widmen sich den theoretischen Grundlagen des systemischen Denkens, der Gestaltung von Wirkungsdiagrammen, dem Lernen mit System Dynamics, dem Modelliertool Insight Maker und generischen Strukturen bzw. Systemarchetypen, die sich sich in vielen unterschiedlichen Situationen finden und somit ein hohes Transferpotenzial aufweisen. Die weiteren Artikel zeigen die Bedeutung des systemischen Denkens und die Unterrichtsgestaltung anhand exemplarischer Beispiele in mehreren Fächern auf: - Deutsch - Biologie - Physik - Geographie - Geschichte - Politik - Wirtschaft Auf der Website des Buchs (www.wirtschaft-lernen.de/systemisches_denken) finden sich Materialien wie Aufgabenblätter, Screencasts und die verwendeten Modelle.

The struggle for world leadership between China and the United States, resulting in Russia's war with Ukraine, among other things, underscores the reality of structural changes in the global economy and the global system. This book explains that a new era of egocentrism and polycrisis in a multipolar system has emerged in international economic policy, with a strong drive toward interventionism and protectionism of national economies. Dynamic economic imbalances are becoming a constant factor in disrupting international competitiveness and forcing changes in both monetary policy and general economic policy. This prompts a new, more pragmatic definition of fundamental concepts in the theoretical sphere as well as an up-to-date and viable cause-and-effect narrative that is not disconnected from decision-making processes in the economic and political spheres. This book provides a comprehensive diagnosis of the current global economy landscape and evaluates the processes affecting the economic and financial realities and the effectiveness of economic policies. The recent dynamics have rendered much of the existing literature outdated or confined to individual economies, economic systems, and regions. The book describes the evolution of international economic policy, offering a comparative analysis of foreign trade theories, especially in the context of macroeconomic trends and the impact of international trade in goods and services in the new balance of power of the global economy. Targeted primarily at academics, students, and researchers in economics, finance, international relations, and management, it will also serve as a valuable resource for policymakers shaping and implementing contemporary state economic policies.

Realist Evaluation: Principles and Practice offers a comprehensive exploration of contemporary realist evaluation, showcasing how skilled practitioners navigate diverse fieldwork contexts. Authored by experts spanning academia and evaluation backgrounds across five continents in fields including climate change, criminology, health, and international development, the book provides a rich tapestry of perspectives. Covering participatory approaches, digital and visual data collection, interpreter-mediated interviews, and innovative methods like refuse data analysis, the authors delve into contemporary social research methodologies while addressing issues such as power, insider/outsider research, the nature of evidence, critical and scientific realism philosophies of science, and confirmation bias in qualitative research. Practical advice is provided in areas such as developing a topic guide, combining a realist review with an evaluation, and managing large, multi-site cross-national projects. This collection underscores the creative nature of the realist imagination, highlighting ongoing innovations by scholars and evaluators. With contributions from an outstanding group of internationally renowned experts in realist evaluation including Nick Tilley, a key figure in the development of realist evaluation alongside Ray Pawson, this is the ideal text for students, researchers and professionals including policy makers, professional evaluators, and those at organisations such as thinktanks and NGOs, who require an accessible guide on how to use realist evaluation methods.

The volume is a comprehensive evaluation of epistemic, practical, veridical issues from the perspective of every kind of failure, disruption, or confusion that comes under the general rubric of “error.” The analysis is not limited to the element of negativity, but rather, an inquiry about the extent that error can be transformed into a starting point or precondition for successful epistemic practices.

"This book covers the principles and practices of technologies for the control of pollution originating from organic wastes (e.g. human faeces and urine, wastewater, solid wastes, animal manure and agro-industrial wastes) and the recycling of these organic wastes into valuable products such as fertilizer, biofuels, algal and fish protein and irrigated crops. Each recycling technology is described with respect to: - Objectives - Benefits and limitations - Environmental requirements - Design criteria of the process - Use of the recycled products - Public health aspects. Organic Waste Recycling includes case studies, examples, exercises and questions. This book is intended as a text or reference book for third or fourth year undergraduate students interested in environmental science, engineering and management, and graduate students working in the environment-related disciplines. It also serves as a reference text for policy makers, planners and professionals working in the environment and sustainable development fields."