Open Access Books

„Anthologisches Schreiben“ untersucht, wie Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Walter Benjamin und Rudolf Borchardt ihre schriftstellerische Praxis als Traditionspolitik begreifen und modellieren. Die Analyse zeichnet die mind map bürgerlich-männlicher literarischer Intelligenz, ihrer Denkstile, Arbeitsweisen und Kommunikationsformen kritisch nach. Die Anthologie und das anthologische Schreiben werden dabei als widersprüchliches ästhetisches Modell gedeutet, das im Zuge der massiven Transformationen des 1. Weltkriegs intellektuelle Freiräume zugleich vor vermeintlichen Zumutungen des Politischen bewahrt und die Kehrseite dieser Freiräume befragt: Wie haben Hofmannsthal, Benjamin und Borchardt literaturhistorisch begründete Identitäten für ihr Hier und Jetzt eingesetzt und genutzt?

Decolonizing 1968 explores how activists in 1968 transformed university campuses across Europe and North Africa into sites of contestation where students, administrators, and state officials collided over definitions of modernity and nationhood after empire. Burleigh Hendrickson details protesters' versions of events to counterbalance more visible narratives that emerged from state-controlled media centers and ultimately describes how the very education systems put in place to serve the French state during the colonial period ended up functioning as the crucible of postcolonial revolt. Hendrickson not only unearths complex connections among activists and their transnational networks across Tunis, Paris, and Dakar but also weaves together their overlapping stories and participation in France's May '68.Using global protest to demonstrate the enduring links between France and its former colonies, Decolonizing 1968 traces the historical relationships between colonialism and 1968 activism, examining transnational networks that emerged and new human and immigrants' rights initiatives that directly followed. As a result, Hendrickson reveals that 1968 is not merely a flashpoint in the history of left-wing protest but a key turning point in the history of decolonization.Thanks to generous funding from Penn State and its participation in TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem), the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.

In this book, written between 1979 and 2020, Gilbert Lewis distills a lifetime of insights he garnered as a medical anthropologist. He asks: How do beliefs about illness in different societies influence their members’ ability to heal? Despite the advances of Western medicine, what can it learn from non-Western societies that consider sickness and curing to be as much a matter of social relationships as biological states? What problems arise when one set of therapeutic practices displaces another? Lewis compares Indigenous medical beliefs in New Guinea in 1968, when villagers were largely self-reliant, and in 1983, after they became dependent on Western medicine. He then widens his comparative scope by turning to West Africa and discussing a therapeutic community run by a prophet who heals the ill through confession and long-term residential care. Pandora’s Box began life with the prestigious Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures that Gilbert Lewis delivered in 1979 at the University of Rochester. He expanded them with materials gathered over the next forty years, completing the manuscript a few weeks before his death. Engagingly written, this book will inspire anthropologists, medical professionals, students, and curious readers to look with new eyes at current crises in world health.

One of the most challenging scientific steps of the modern era has been the ability to replace, functionally or anatomically, the failing heart, and in December 2017 we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the world's first human heart transplant. Despite a long and troubled hystory, heart transplantation has dramatically expanded over time, and is currently the "gold standard" solution in terms of treatment of refractory end-stage heart failure. Thanks to the contributions by well-known experts in the field, the goal of this book is to provide a framework for successful transplant program development and management. The text reflects the global collective efforts of those who have dedicated countless energy to achieving a better understanding of the details that will ultimately yield better outcomes in terms of teamwork.

This volume honours the academic achievements and scholarship of Professor Florence Myles as a world-leading scholar in the fields of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and French Linguistics, in particular for her work in corpus-based SLA and language policy in primary school education. In addition to reviews of the field (e.g., primary languages policy in the UK), the volume presents new research studies reflective of key theoretical and methodological issues in current SLA research, including theory-building, corpus-based investigations, studies of language development, as well as informing teacher professional development through research. Taken together, this edited book provides a wide-ranging and balanced account of Myles’s work and speaks to her influence on SLA research and primary languages policy. We invite readers to learn more about the fascinating research presented here as inspired by Florence’s dedication to field.

Vasyl’ Stus's (1938-1985) poetry is one of the richest and most complex chapters in the literary history of late Soviet Ukraine. His poems are not only born of the author’s talent, but also of his erudition and deep cultural awareness; Stus’s poetry eloquently shows the presence of a significant Modernist trend in the literature of the Ukrainian underground during the Age of Economic stagnation. Stus's Modernism is the ideal evolution of the Ukrainian poetic culture of the first decades of the century, and develops thanks to an intense intertextual dialogue with the European literature. Stus’s reception of Russian and German poetry, in addition to becoming the model for nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century Ukrainian poetry, proves fundamental to fully understand his work’s literary palimpsest, which this volume offers a comprehensive reading of, from the early stages to the maturity’s collections.

Human rights are not just another set of legal tools, norms and entitlements. Rather, they radiate the authority of „inalienable rights“, which all human beings equally possess - simply because of their humanness. This is the foundational idea. Although human rights are a beacon of hope for numerous people in all continents, they remain politically contested in many ways. Critics have questioned the effectiveness of human rights campaigns as well as the legitimacy of promoting universal rights across political and cultural boundaries. In order to respond to critical objections, one has to tackle stereotypical misperceptions, such as the false equation of human rights with an „individualistic“ lifestyle. In fact, human rights facilitate political solidarity based on universal respect. Unlike other introductions to human rights, which usually focus on legal standards, procedures and institutions, this book mainly explores the foundational principles, which jointly define the human rights approach: inherent dignity, freedom, equality and solidarity. The purpose is to trigger curiosity, critical questions, debates and personal discoveries. Professor Heiner Bielefeldt teaches human rights at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen-Nurembourg. Between 2010 and 2016, he served as UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief. Die Menschenrechte strahlen eine besondere moralische Autorität aus. Als "unveräußerliche Rechte", die allen Menschen allein aufgrund ihres Menschseins zukommen, unterscheiden sie sich von sonstigen rechtlichen Instrumenten, Normen oder Ansprüchen. Dies ist die grundlegende Idee. Obwohl für viele Menschen in allen Kontinenten ein Fanal der Hoffnung, bleiben die Menschenrechte in mehrerer Hinsicht politisch umstritten. Sowohl die Wirksamkeit menschenrechtlicher Kampagnen als auch die Legitimität des Eintretens für grenzüberschreitende universale Rechte stehen seit langem in der Kritik. Um auf Einwände antworten zu können, gilt es zunächst, stereotype Missverständnisse auszuräumen, etwa die falsche Gleichsetzung der Menschenrechte mit einem bestimmten individualistischen Lebensstil. Menschenrechte stiften politische Solidarität auf der Basis universellen Respekts. Im Unterschied zu sonstigen Einführungen zu den Menschenrechten, die typischerweise vor allem auf rechtliche Standards, Verfahren und Institutionen eingehen, beschäftigt sich dieses Buch hauptsächlich mit den tragenden Prinzipien, die gemeinsam den Menschenrechtsansatz definieren: Menschenwürde, Freiheit, Gleichheit und Solidarität. Das wichtigste Ziel der Einführung besteht darin, Neugier zu wecken, kritische Fragen aufzuwerfen, Debatten anzuregen und persönliche Entdeckung zu fördern. Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Heiner Bielefeldt unterrichtet Menschenrechte an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Zwischen 2010 und 2016 fungierte er als UN-Sonderberichterstatter für Religions- und Weltanschauungsfreiheit

There is no society that is not affected by modern science and its consequences. There is also no serious hope that global challenges such as climate, inequality or migration can be tackled without scientific research and reflection. Every society and every government is therefore dependent on science. For democracies, however, the question of the relationship between politics and science arises again in a special way, since science there appears to be something that concerns everyone and must therefore be publicly negotiated. The volume 'Public Reason? Science in Democracy 'addresses the question of the difficulties encountered by the ideal of a public and reason-led discourse on the relevance of scientific results in modern democracies. Based on questions as diverse as the problems of scientific policy advice, the relationship between science and the media, the possibilities and limits of citizen science and the role of ethics and politics in the university, the contributions presented open up new perspectives on the complex relationship between science, politics and media and non-media public.

After almost two decades of continuous development in bio, circular, and green economy, the time is ripe for the assessment of the major achievements and challenges that private and public enterprises face today to further enhance these global sustainability concepts. Due to the central role of political incentives for the development and implementation of environmentally friendly and sustainable practices, the present book project focuses on the nexus between public policies, institutions, quality of public sector management, and patterns of interaction between government and private businesses in backing bio, green, and circular economy practices and eco-innovation. In addition, the project also accommodates surveys that elaborate on the differences between the implementation of new organizational forms and scientific innovations in technologically advanced and developing settings.

Ziel dieser Arbeit ist die Entwicklung eines metallischen Nanoaktors, dessen mechanisches Verhalten über magnetische Felder gesteuert werden kann. Mit Hilfe der in der Mikrotechnik etablierten Technologien werden Titan-Nanobiegebalken realisiert, dessen Vorderenden mit einem magnetischen Element funktionalisiert sind. Prozessablauf und Charakterisierungsmethoden werden ausführlich beschrieben und liefern wertvolle Erkenntnisse für den Betrieb solcher Nanoaktoren in zukünftigen Nanosystemen.

Pollution & threats to the environment

A Arte de Enganar a Natureza é um ótimo título para um belo e revelador trabalho sobre os inúmeros e diversos embates morais, políticos, médicos e jurídicos em torno das ideias, representações e práticas de controle da natalidade no Brasil da primeira metade do século XX. Associando antropologia e história, conceitos e narrativas, múltiplas fontes e análise de casos, Fabíola Rohden nos oferece uma decisiva contribuição que se estende a vários campos disciplinares e temáticos: uma história da sexualidade e da reprodução no Brasil, uma história das relações de gênero e das políticas públicas voltadas para as mulheres e, também, uma página desconhecida da história da medicina brasileira.

Décriées par les citoyens, les caméras de vidéosurveillance suscitent, depuis les années 1990, de virulents débats dans les sociétés occidentales. Mais qu'en disent et qu'en font les artistes ? Si certains artivistes contemporains ont choisi d'accompagner la résistance d'une partie de la population, d'autres créateurs se sont lancés dans des appropriations esthétiques et ludiques. Leurs démarches signent, au passage, non pas la fin d'une dénonciation de la société sécuritaire, mais une nouvelle forme de sensibilisation aux enjeux sociaux qui lui sont inhérents. S'éloignant de l'approche de Michel Foucault qui considérait que l'on surveille pour punir, ces artistes visuels proposent de sourire des dispositifs de contrôle de notre société hypermoderne et d'interagir avec eux. Examinant les travaux de Banksy, Jill Magid, Ai Weiwei, Michael Wolf et de bien d'autres, cet ouvrage analyse l'histoire récente, mais déjà en transformation, du regard numérique.

This book contains a collection of twelve state-of-the-art, original papers with results from contemporary research in the syntheses and uses of nucleosides and nucleoside analogues, as well as two reviews on contemporary methodology to modify nucleosides.

This open access book attempts to provide a perspective on the circularity assessment at different levels of the systemic hierarchy and advocates better resource management for a sustainable future. It demonstrates how relevant circularity indicators are used for quantifying the extent of circularity of each level. Illustrative case studies that discuss the process of quantitatively interpreting progress towards circularity are provided. This work caters to a broad readership inclusive of governance, basic research, engineering, and business stakeholders. The conclusion signifies the role of consumer community in achieving circularity.