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This volume explores how the quest for security reshaped the world over the course of the 19th century, altering the structures, hierarchies and dynamics of international relations during a pivotal moment in world history. Taking a unique approach to imperial and international history, the essays in this volume show how security propelled imperial expansion, supported institutions of cooperation, maintained networks of imperial actors and sh...

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Zwei Medizinerinnen, alte Erfahrungen und eine neue HerausforderungBerlin, 1931. In unruhiger werdenden Zeiten suchen die Töchter der Ärztin Halt in ihren Familien. Toni hat sich für den Mann ihres Lebens entschieden, ein Kind soll das Glück vollkommen machen. Doch während die junge Ärztin dafür bekannt ist, dass ihr bei den Patientinnen das scheinbar Unmögliche gelingt, scheitert sie bei sich selbst. Weiß ihre Mutter aufgrund ihrer großen Erf...

50 volumes. 4 million words. Global representation.   Engage with the latest theological thinking in this new, readable exposition of the Bible in 50 volumes. Covering all books of the Bible and including the full the Anglicised New International Version (NIV) text, the Hodder Bible Commentary series makes connecting scripture and scholarship easier than ever.   Explore how the Bible intersects with 21st century life with commentary that is do...

Extreme violence scarred the early modern period. Contemporary commentators grappled to find language to categorise the massacres, genocides, assassinations, enslavements, sacks, rapes, riots, and regicides that informed the times. Some used 'outrages', others 'cruelties', but significantly, the early modern period gave rise to the term we use today to define these acts collectively: 'atrocity'. Atrocity and Early Modern Drama intervenes in th...

This crucial history explores the role of philosophical thought in transforming the way that artwork emerging from mental hospitals in the early 20th century was treated. At first seen purely as a documentation of patients' symptoms, these expressions of creativity and often resistance gradually came to be assessed as art objects in their own right. Howard Caygill plots the philosophical re-evaluation of the art of the mentally ill, from the r...

This crucial history explores the role of philosophical thought in transforming the way that artwork emerging from mental hospitals in the early 20th century was treated. At first seen purely as a documentation of patients' symptoms, these expressions of creativity and often resistance gradually came to be assessed as art objects in their own right. Howard Caygill plots the philosophical re-evaluation of the art of the mentally ill, from the r...

This book explores adolescents' (10-18 years) experiences of silence, solitude, loneliness within the school setting. Although many studies explore social withdrawal and loneliness in adolescence, little is known about young people's experiences of solitude as a state of being alone. This book ties together cutting-edge research from developmental psychology and education on solitude in adolescence, and opens the way to a pedagogy of solitude ...

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Die exegetischen Texte zum aristotelischen Organon bilden ein sehr umfangreiches Kapitel der Logik bzw. der Didaktik der Logik in Byzanz. Eine übliche Form dieser Kommentierung, nebst , running commentaries' und einzelnen Scholien, sind die zahlreichen Synopsen sowie Sammlungen von Begriffsdefinitionen, aber auch Kommentare zu Einzelpassagen von Traktaten des Organon - diese Texte werden meistens anonym überliefert. Dabei handelt es sich...

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SZENE HAMBURG STYLE Die neuesten Trends und Wissenswertes rund ums Leben in der schönsten Stadt der Welt Hamburgs Shopping-Landschaft ist groß und vielfältig. Wo also anfangen? Am besten mit einer Beratung von Experten, deren Geheimtipps ganz neue Einkaufswelten eröffnen, wenn es um Stil und Klasse geht. Dahinter verbirgt sich eine Redaktion, die seit Jahren die Shopping- und Living-Szene in Hamburg kennt und liebt. Deshalb finden sich genau d...

Obwohl viele Quellen aus dem alten Ägypten für den polymorphen Bes erhalten sind, wurde diese Form eines mehrköpfigen Wesens in Abhandlungen zur ägyptischen Religion bisher nicht thematisiert. Die Monographie widmet sich dieser speziellen göttlichen Kreation und stellt erstmals deren religiöse Bedeutung heraus. Der spezielle Typus von Bes mit mehreren Häuptern ist durch viele Quellen wie Reliefs, Statuetten, Vignetten und Gemmen sowie Texte in...

Wie werden behinderte Figuren in der antiken Mythologie dargestellt? Diese Arbeit beleuchtet sechs prominente Figuren mit Behinderungen (Thersites, Teiresias, Oidipus, Hephaistos, Philoktetes und Plutos) und untersucht, wie verschiedene Autoren diverser Genres der antiken Literatur diese Figuren gestalten und welche Rolle dabei ihre Lahmheit bzw. Blindheit spielt. Es wird gezeigt, dass sich die Behandlung von behinderten Figuren keineswegs in ...

A comprehensive exploration of Dolores Huerta's contributions to U.S. labor history and her life's work of advocating for systematically disadvantaged and marginalized groups. An iconic figure in American civil rights and one of the most influential labor rights activists of the 20th century, Huerta overcame great odds to make enduring contributions to social justice and advocacy, particularly for farm workers and the Latino community. Organiz...

This timely text charts the metamorphosis of Russian media and culture in the 21st century. It considers how, when Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, Russia's media and culture industry had enjoyed nearly a decade of almost unrestricted freedom and yet, by the time he launched his illegal invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russia's independent media was crushed, while the few viable opposition figures were either imprisoned, exiled, or dead under...

This timely text charts the metamorphosis of Russian media and culture in the 21st century. It considers how, when Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, Russia's media and culture industry had enjoyed nearly a decade of almost unrestricted freedom and yet, by the time he launched his illegal invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russia's independent media was crushed, while the few viable opposition figures were either imprisoned, exiled, or dead under...

An innovative approach in the field of material culture and consumption studies, Life in the Georgian Parsonage looks at the houses, consumption and lifestyle of Church of England clergy in the long 18th century, linking moral debates and popular representations of the clergy to the material culture of their houses and their motivations as consumers. By focusing on ethical and moral dimensions of consumer practices, it challenges established r...