Open Access Books

Für Alltag, Sozialleben und Erfahrungshorizont der Menschen in der Vormoderne waren militärische Aspekte allgegenwärtig. Das gesellschaftsgeschichtlich ausgerichtete Quelleninventar für die preußische Zentrallandschaft von der Elbe bis zur Oder führt tief in diese Welt. Es stellt eine Arbeitsgrundlage für ein breites historisches Forschungsspektrum zur Verfügung. Dieser zweite von drei Teilen erschließt über 5.000 Archivalien des Brandenburgischen Landeshauptarchivs aus landesherrlichen Lokalbehörden der Kurmark, aus Ober- und Unterbehörden der Neumark und der Niederlausitz sowie aus (adligen) Herrschafts-, Guts- und Familienarchiven, aus Städten und anderen Körperschaften, ferner Nachlässen und Sammlungen von 1713 bis 1806.

The Jewel of Annual Astrology is an encyclopaedic treatise on Tājika or Sanskritized Perso-Arabic astrology, dealing particularly with the casting an interpretation of anniversary horoscopes. Authored in 1649 CE by Balabhadra Daivajña, court astrologer to Shāh Shujāʿ – Governor of Bengal and second son of the Mughal emperor Shāh Jahān – it casts light on the historical development of the Tājika school by extensive quotations from earlier works spanning five centuries. Readership: Anyone interested in the history of Indian astrology, the transmission of horoscopic astrology generally, the Indian reception of Perso-Arabic astral sciences, or intellectual history in early modern South Asia.

Sind die Immaterialgüterregister eine Art Grundbuch oder ein spezieller Teil des Handelsregisters? Sind sie lediglich Datenbanken, welche Informationen ohne konstitutive Rechtswirkungen bereithalten? Da dem «geistigen Eigentum» kein praktikables Institut des «geistigen Besitzes» zur Seite gestellt werden kann, sind im gewerblichen Rechtsschutz Surrogate für Besitz und Publizität notwendig. Das vorliegende Buch geht der Frage nach, welche Institute des geltenden Rechts die immateriellen und abstrakten Positionen des gewerblichen Rechtsschutzes für den Rechtsverkehr erkennbar und fasslich machen, welche Behörden mit der Führung dieser Einrichtungen betraut und mit welchen Rechtswirkungen diese Institute ausgestattet sind.

This study delves into the diverse marine habitats of Jubilee Shoals, a submerged rocky reef off Pissouri Bay, Cyprus (eastern Mediterranean). The habitats include Posidonia oceanica meadows on the plateau, coralline communities on the vertical walls, and a cave system at its base. Utilizing closed-circuit rebreathers, trained cave divers quantitatively described the epibenthic communities and biodiversity within the cave system, ensuring both safety and high-quality data collection. Rebreathers allowed silent, bubble-less operation, efficient gas usage, extended dive times, reduced decompression times essential for detailed observation. The findings underscore the need for rebreathers in scientific exploration of deep-water environments, emphasizing their advantages. This approach facilitates undisturbed marine life observation and minimizes environmental impact, paving the way for future research and conservation in similar ecosystems.

In recent accounts of rhetoric’s storied productivity, commentators have implied, along systematically Kantian lines, albeit with the occasional protestation, that agency must be coextensive with subjectivity. But is that all there is (to 2,500 years’ worth of hypothesizing about the ways in which communication might promote social change)? Les Belikian’s answer, drawing not only on traditional and contemporary rhetorical studies but also on Deleuzean thinking, actor-network theory, and object-oriented ontology, takes the form of a quadruply contrarian thesis: Rhetorical agency inheres, irreducibly so, in subjectivity, in conventionality, in transcendence, and in materiality, all of which are themselves always under production.

This interdisciplinary volume focuses on the politics, economics, technologies, uses, and cultures of maintenance of different forms of communication over long time or in Longue Durée Throughout the chapters, contributors from a wide range of fields explore transversal and trans-temporal issues of communication maintenance. Among these are the struggles to keep communication infrastructures functioning, the hidden work of maintenance done by both experts and non-experts such as everyday users, the political significance of maintaining communications (or not maintaining them), and the different habits and significance of maintenance in different times and world regions. The forms of communication covered include broadcasting, telecommunications such as the telegraph and telephone, digital and popular media as computers and mobile phones, mostly forgotten media like pneumatic tubes, transportation infrastructures, maps as used as tools to politically control land, the clock as a medium and a material artifact, and many more. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of communication and media studies, the history of science and technology, general history, geography, maintenance studies, and other related disciplines.

How can we learn to notice the signs of disability? We see indications of disability everywhere: yellow diamond-shaped “deaf person in area” road signs, the telltale shapes of hearing aids, or white-tipped canes sweeping across footpaths. But even though the signs are ubiquitous, Stephanie L. Kerschbaum argues that disability may still not be perceived due to a process she terms “dis-attention.” To tell better stories of disability, this multidisciplinary work turns to rhetoric, communications, sociology, and phenomenology to understand the processes by which the material world becomes sensory input that then passes through perceptual apparatuses to materialize phenomena—including disability. By adding perception to the understanding of disability’s materialization, Kerschbaum significantly expands our understanding of disability, accounting for its fluctuations and transformations in the semiotics of everyday life. Drawing on a set of thirty-three research interviews focused on disabled faculty members’ experiences with disability disclosure, as well as written narratives by disabled people, this book argues for the materiality of narrative, suggesting narratives as a means by which people enact boundaries around phenomena and determine their properties. Signs of Disability offers strategies and practices for challenging problematic and pervasive forms of “dis-attention” and proposes a new theoretical model for understanding disability in social, rhetorical, and material settings.

Indonesia

While it has become fashionable in the arena of international health to think about health systems, the theoretical underpinning of Niklas Luhmann's vast and productive theory has been given too little consideration in the field. It is rich in concepts that can facilitate a fuller understanding of what health systems are. João Costa applies these concepts and shows the analytical possibilities they open up. He argues concisely how Luhmann's Social Systems Theory offers an integrated theoretical body as well as a consistent articulation of concepts that can lay the groundwork for a vastly improved health systems thinking.

Indigenous rights to heritage have only recently become the subject of academic scholarship. This collection aims to fill that gap by offering the fruits of a unique conference on this topic organised by the University of Lapland with the help of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The conference made clear that important information on Indigenous cultural heritage has remained unexplored or has not been adequately linked with specific actors (such as WIPO) or specific issues (such as free, prior and informed consent). Indigenous leaders explained the impact that disrespect of their cultural heritage has had on their identity, well-being and development. Experts in social sciences explained the intricacies of indigenous cultural heritage. Human rights scholars talked about the inability of current international law to fully address the injustices towards indigenous communities. Representatives of International organisations discussed new positive developments. This wealth of experiences, materials, ideas and knowledge is contained in this important volume.

With the increasing focus on the critical importance of mentoring in advancing Black women students from graduation to careers in academia, this book identifies and considers the peer mentoring contexts and conditions that support Black women student success in higher education. This edited collection focuses on Black women students primarily at the doctoral level and how they have retained each other through their educational journey, emphasizing how they navigated this season of educational changes given COVID and racial unrest. Chapters illuminate what minoritized women students have done to mentor each other to navigate unwelcome campus environments laden with identity politics and other structural barriers. Shining a light on systemic structures in place that contribute to Black women’s alienation in the academy, this book unpacks implications for interactions and engagement with faculty as advisors and mentors. An important resource for faculty and graduate students at colleges and universities, ultimately this work is critical to helping the academy fortify Black women’s sense of belonging and connection early in their academic career and foster their success. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

This open access book explores the interplay between individual and collective procreative interests against the background of cutting-edge developments in reproductive science. Reproductive technologies have made possible a range of novel practices that challenge some of our most fundamental assumptions about parenthood and the family. Gametes have been collected from dying or deceased individuals to enable their spouses or parents to create children. Children have undergone invasive fertility preservation interventions at their parents’ request. Mothers have donated their wombs to their daughters. Meanwhile, new scientific discoveries in epigenetics and microbiomics are reshaping our understanding of biological connections. The Ethics of Human Reproduction and the Family brings together philosophers and social scientists to examine these challenges. Contributors explore, among others, the ethics of posthumous reproduction, uterus transplantation, intrafamilial adoption, conflicts between women’s interests and state policies, and the implications of postgenomic science for genetic and social kinship. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation .

In the context of the thirtieth anniversary of the Center for Historical Research of Latin America (CIHAL) at Jaume I University in Castellón, the First Latin American World Congress of Historical Sciences was organized, highlighting the importance of Latin American historical studies worldwide. The book you now hold is a product of this congress, underscoring the significance of Latin American and Latin Americanist historical sciences. We believe the question remains as to what contributions generations of Latin American and Latin Americanist historians can make to our discipline and to society at large. Therefore, we remain convinced of the relevance of studying Latin American history for historiography, theory, and historical methodology. We also believe that interpreting the past is an indispensable tool in current and future debates, both about Latin America itself and about its relationship with other regions of the world. Therefore, this volume presents seven central points of Latin American history for discussion, such as: the uses of history: national, racial and ethnic identities; environmental, climate history and ecological resistance; revolutions, political conflicts and transitions; circulation of knowledge, historiography and methods of historical teaching; constitutionalism, modernization and legal/political thought; and social history and migrations.

The purpose of this book is to introduce researchers and practitioners to recent advances and applications of Monte Carlo Simulation (MCS). Random sampling is the key of the MCS technique. The 11 chapters of this book collectively illustrates how such a sampling technique is exploited to solve difficult problems or analyze complex systems in various engineering and science domains. Issues related to the use of MCS including goodness-of-fit, uncertainty evaluation, variance reduction, optimization, and statistical estimation are discussed and examples of solutions are given. Novel applications of MCS are demonstrated in financial systems modeling, estimation of transition behavior of organic molecules, chemical reaction, particle diffusion, kinetic simulation of biophysics and biological data, and healthcare practices. To enlarge the accessibility of this book, both field-specific background materials and field-specific usages of MCS are introduced in most chapters. The aim of this book is to unify knowledge of MCS from different fields to facilitate research and new applications of MCS.

Social media and chats are not 'clouds' disconnected from reality: they are concrete spaces of interpersonal relationships where words, even virtual ones, can become very powerful tools of oppression. In fact, living on social media implies continuous exposure to the gaze and words of others. And, therefore, also to sexist comments, insults and an often unaware participation in virtual dysfunctional dynamics. For this reason, care is necessary, an education in reflexivity, respect and listening. The book proposes a pedagogical device to prevent and combat hate speech, describing the impacts it produces on the existential dynamics of victims. And a pedagogical-didactic trajectory that reveals its most insidious virtual forms, making this phenomenon recognizable especially to younger people. The volume proposes a new way to reverse the hateful flow of hate speech: the alternative narrative that is intertwined with an educational model that starts from human rights to reach their protection. The HRE (Human Rights Education) hybrid teaching device designed by the author intends to support the training of teachers, educators and training professionals in the acquisition of digital citizenship skills from an 'active learning' perspective.