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Whether Dante was part of a hegemonic discourse or a counter one, he helped to shape identities, create new ones, re-imagined old ones. However, for these young South African students whose contributions are collected in this book Paradise as a place of the future seems to remain an unattainable mirage. For them South Africa is locked in a present which cannot overcome its past and cannot imagine its future; an eternal Purgatory, which ironically enough for Dante is the only non-eternal place of the afterlife.

Ein Bewusstsein von Gestaltungsfreiheiten gesellschaftlichen Fortschritts - das ist auch in der Zeit nach der Französischen Revolution im langen 19. Jahrhundert keine Selbstverständlichkeit. Felix Baumert zieht Alexis de Tocqueville, Karl Marx und Max Weber erstmals gemeinsam heran, um aus ihren verschiedenen Perspektiven zu zeigen, wie sich auch in der modernen Welt einschränkende Möglichkeitsräume oder gar die Erstarrung von Gestaltungsfreiheiten ergeben können. Damit zeigt er die fundamentale Bedeutung von Politik in der Moderne auf, und zwar als notwendiges Instrument der Bewusstwerdung sowie der Absicherung von Gestaltungsfreiheiten.

Deutschland hat sich in internationalen Abkommen dazu bekannt, das Menschenrecht auf eine medizinische Versorgung zu achten, zu schützen und zu gewährleisten. Dessen ungeachtet sind in Deutschland Migrantinnen und Migranten ohne Papiere faktisch von der Gesundheitsversorgung ausgeschlossen - Ausnahmen gelten lediglich für medizinische Notfälle, bestimmte Infektionserkrankungen und Schutzimpfungen. Auf Grundlage erstmals durchgeführter Erhebungen an Gesundheitsämtern und Krankenhäusern unternimmt Maren Mylius eine Bestandsaufnahme der tatsächlichen Zugangswege für die Betroffenen und veranschaulicht die Folgen der #on("i")#exklusiven#off("i")# Regelungen anhand von Fallbeispielen und Interviews.

The publication presents the results of recent building archaeology in the auditorium of the theater, conducted in the years 2003–2011. Starting with an introductory presentation on the history of research and the current state of preservation, the main section deals in detail with the construction phases of the auditorium from Hellenism to the Byzantine period. On the basis of drawings, maps and photos, nearly 800 years of architectural history are explained vividly and comprehensibly and discussed by comparison of apt buildings. Contributions to sculptures in the theatre and to the investigation of ancient mortar complement the findings.

À la fin de 1941, à Nice, Aragon rencontre Matisse dans des circonstances qui conduiront à une collaboration suivie où chacun des deux artistes trouve son compte. Henri Matisse, roman, publié en 1971, est l’ultime et flamboyant témoignage de ces échanges. Prodigieux assemblages de textes écrits sur trente ans, le livre d’Aragon est à la fois un témoignage non-fictionnel sur un peintre - entre biographie, autobiographie et critique d’art -, une composition "romanesque" qui mélange les genres littéraires (poème, articles, essais, rêveries sur Matisse) et l’expérience matérielle d’un livre de luxe richement illustré qui définit son propre espace visuel. La présente étude se propose de poser les fondements d’une poétique de la composition qui va bien au-delà de la pratique éditoriale du recueil. Cet espace livresque sans grand équivalent dans l’histoire de la littérature interroge en profondeur les frontières de la représentation dans l’exhibition permanente des éléments de la présentation. La relation critique du peintre et du poète, du visible et du lisible conduit à une interrogation en acte sur les modalités de l’écriture - sujet, temps, espace - et de la lecture. L’analyse proposée tente de rendre sensibles les coordonnées d’une expérience de la création littéraire confrontée à son alter ego, et celles d’une expérience à la fois du pouvoir et de la fragilité des critères d’identification de l’objet littéraire : sujet et objet, fictionnel et référentiel, récit et discours. Lire Henri Matisse, roman, c’est éprouver en même temps l’éclatement de l’écrit dans son contact avec l’inassimilable, et la persistance, au delà des ruptures, d’un discours inspiré. Le livre rassemble les décombres d’un grand édifice national et les transforme en chantier d’une œuvre littéraire désormais impossible.

Quality in Design and Execution of Engineering Practice is about quality management focused at fitness for purpose, rather than compliance with specifications, rules and regulations. The focus on getting execution in line with fitness for purpose is supported by a classification of seven different categories of quality, defined by their relevance for purpose, compliance with specifications, and actual execution. This classification facilitates decision making on desirable exemptions from specifications in the interest of both buyer and supplier. The author offers guidelines for quality management in different types of business units: License Giver, License Taker, Jobber and Consultant. Real life examples illustrate the author’s approach, which concerns a mindset rather than a recipe for effective quality management. The book is of interest to any manager who is striving for superior quality of products and services for his customers.

"Towards the Eradication of Helicobacter pylori Infection - Rapid Diagnosis and Precision Treatment" book is a comprehensive guide to combating one of the most persistent challenges in global public health. In this volume, experts from various disciplines have joined forces to present the latest research, clinical insights, and practical applications for diagnosing and treating H. pylori infection. The chapters present in this volume cover diagnostic modalities in detecting H. pylori infection, from rapid noninvasive techniques for detecting antibiotic resistance to the utility of linked color imaging in endoscopic diagnosis. The book also presents innovative treatment strategies, including the role of cytokines in inflammation, the impact of antibiotic resistance patterns, and the potential of immunotherapeutic approaches. Healthcare professionals, researchers, and students should benefit from this volume in developing the knowledge and tools necessary to combat and eradicate H. pylori infection effectively.

A new model of urban governance, mapping the route to a more equitable management of a city's infrastructure and services. The majority of the world's inhabitants live in cities, but even with the vast wealth and resources these cities generate, their most vulnerable populations live without adequate or affordable housing, safe water, healthy food, and other essentials. And yet, cities also often harbor the solutions to the inequalities they create, as this book makes clear. With examples drawn from cities worldwide, Co-Cities outlines practices, laws, and policies that are presently fostering innovation in the provision of urban services, spurring collaborative economies as a driver of local sustainable development, and promoting inclusive and equitable regeneration of blighted urban areas. Identifying core elements of these diverse efforts, Sheila R. Foster and Christian Iaione develop a framework for understanding how certain initiatives position local communities as key actors in the production, delivery, and management of urban assets or local resources. Within this framework, they explain the forms such initiatives increasingly take, like community land trusts, new kinds of co-housing, neighborhood cooperatives, community-shared broadband and energy networks, and new local offices focused on citizen science and civic imagination. The “Co-City” framework is uniquely rooted in the authors' own decades-long research and first-hand experience working in cities around the world. Foster and Iaione offer their observations as “design principles”—adaptable to local context—to help guide further experimentation in building just and self-sustaining urban communities.

This introduction motivates the objectives of Performance Generating Systems in Dance and provides wayfinding markers for the inquiries, insights, and resources of the book. First, the need to understand, conceptualize, and render accessible the practice of performance generating systems is discussed. I then sketch the interdisciplinary and multimethodological journey of research this book is based on and name the established artists and research collaborators that have been involved. The three theoretical frameworks of the book – dramaturgy, psychology, and performativity – are introduced and anchored in key insights about performance generating systems. From this backdrop, I outline how these frameworks are applied to, and further developed through, case examples of the practice by sharing a selection of the topics covered and discoveries offered within the contents of the book.

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Les deux premiers chapitres de ce volume analysent plusieurs cas exemplaires des efforts déployés en France et en Allemagne pendant les années 20 et 30 pour parvenir à une meilleure connaissance réciproque et écarter le spectre d'un nouvel affrontement sanglant : les récits de voyageurs français visitant Berlin, l'action de médiation d'Otto Grautoff, les réactions de la presse française à l'occasion de l'Anschluß, les relations entre syndicats français et allemands, le combat inlassable de Hermann Hesse en faveur de la paix et les mouvements pacifistes en Allemagne et en France. Au lendemain de la guerre de 1939-1945 avec son cortège d'horreurs, le dialogue franco-allemand a repris très tôt. Ces années difficiles sont évoquées à propos du problème des prisonniers de guerre allemands en France et de la politique d'occupation française en Allemagne. "Vers quel avenir commun ? " est le titre du chapitre suivant, qui expose le rôle moteur de la France et de l'Allemagne dans la construction de l'Europe, les perspectives de la coopération en matière de sécurité et analyse certains aspects du discours politique français sur l'Allemagne. Les deux dernières études sont consacrées à Joseph Rovan, à sa vie et à son oeuvre, indissocia­blement liées à l'histoire des relations franco-allemandes en notre siècle

The electrodialysis process, from energy to the environment, offers very important opportunities. Separation of ion content in water, recovery, electrolysis of water, and many other possibilities will be possible with electrodialysis. Electrodialysis is of great importance not only in the efficient use of resources in our world, but also in space studies. In this book on electrodialysis, in 7 chapters, the possibilities offered by the electrodialysis process are discussed in detail and presented to the service of the scientific community.

The volume, dedicated to the 44th International Conference of the Italian Union for Drawing, investigates the theme of ‘Transitions’, which particularly effectively represents our time and the current condition of the discipline of Drawing. The term, beyond its generic meaning of an intermediate stage in a process in which a condition changes from one state to another, has always been used in various fields, from music to geophysics. In fact, the disciplines of drawing have always been confronted with themes and issues relating to transitions from one condition to another. The history of representation tells us of transformations, even epochal ones, relating to ‘drawing’, with all that such transitions entail: suffice it to think of the evolution of forms of representation, of instrumental apparatuses, of the mutability of supports, of the analogical-digital transition underway, of the new modes of communication on platforms, of the hypertrophic offer of images also on the net that confirms Guy Debord’s intuitions relating to the new spectacularisation of society. Similarly, representation triggers transitions in the prefiguration and communication of design, the anticipation and foreshadowing of future events.The challenges posed by the digital pose open questions whose scope can only be glimpsed, such as the relationship between drawing and the act of modelling, and the construction of new paradigms of visual language and communication. ‘Transitions’, almost implicitly, points to possible futures, the evolution of technique and the search for new modes of expression; at the same time, however, it can suggest silences and reflections in a process of connection between history, theory, criticism and construction.

Sarah H. Beckjord’s Territories of History explores the vigorous but largely unacknowledged spirit of reflection, debate, and experimentation present in foundational Spanish American writing. In historical works by writers such as Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, Bartolomé de Las Casas, and Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Beckjord argues, the authors were not only informed by the spirit of inquiry present in the humanist tradition but also drew heavily from their encounters with New World peoples. More specifically, their attempts to distinguish superstition and magic from science and religion in the New World significantly influenced the aforementioned chroniclers, who increasingly directed their insights away from the description of native peoples and toward a reflection on the nature of truth, rhetoric, and fiction in writing history. Due to a convergence of often contradictory information from a variety of sources—eyewitness accounts, historiography, imaginative literature, as well as broader philosophical and theological influences—categorizing historical texts from this period poses no easy task, but Beckjord sifts through the information in an effective, logical manner. At the heart of Beckjord’s study, though, is a fundamental philosophical problem: the slippery nature of truth—especially when dictated by stories. Territories of History engages both a body of emerging scholarship on early modern epistemology and empiricism and recent developments in narrative theory to illuminate the importance of these colonial authors’ critical insights. In highlighting the parallels between the sixteenth-century debates and poststructuralist approaches to the study of history, Beckjord uncovers an important legacy of the Hispanic intellectual tradition and updates the study of colonial historiography in view of recent discussions of narrative theory.