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  • JAPAN'S IMPERIAL MYTHOLOGY
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    JAPAN'S IMPERIAL MYTHOLOGY
    How have ancient texts shaped the identity and legitimacy of a modern nation? This question is at the heart of the present volume, which examines Japan’s earliest mytho-historical chronicles, the Kojiki (712) and Nihon shoki (720), and their enduring legacy through the lens of sacralization and desacralization. Building on an international symposium at the University of Tübinge...

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  • A KEY FIGURE OF THE NEW YORK ‘WORLD’ NEWSPAPER AND THE PULITZER PRIZES
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    A KEY FIGURE OF THE NEW YORK ‘WORLD’ NEWSPAPER AND THE PULITZER PRIZES
    HEINZ POHLE
    This volume tells the unique journalistic career of one of the outstanding 20th Century American media professionals, Herbert Bayard Swope. He came from German stock and worked for many years as the executive editor of the New York newspaper `The World', owned by the Pulitzer family. But he did not hesitate to apply for a Pulitzer Prize and became the very first reporter to win...

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  • NON-VIOLENT EDUCATION AS A CHILDREN'S RIGHT - A HUMAN RIGHTS-BASED RESPONSE TO CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE IN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
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    NON-VIOLENT EDUCATION AS A CHILDREN'S RIGHT - A HUMAN RIGHTS-BASED RESPONSE TO CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE IN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
    FRANZ M. WITTMANN
    As stipulated in the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, protecting children from violence requires an approach looking beyond physical force in order to address all forms of violence or abuse, including sexual abuse. Through its reporting mechanism the 1989 CRC generates an unknown level of transparency and accountability in international relations. Accordingly, the...

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  • VERAX VS MENDAX
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    VERAX VS MENDAX
    SASA MILETIC
    This volume engages with Edward Snowden’s (hacker name “Verax”) and Julian Assange’s (“Mendax”) controversial images as whistleblowers in film and media through a reading of Slavoj Žižek’s notion of ideology as cynical distance. Although this book mostly deals with whistleblowing in fiction and documentary films, it also takes into account the rise of social media, as well as t...

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  • ALDOUS HUXLEY ANNUAL
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    ALDOUS HUXLEY ANNUAL
    Volume 23/24 opens with a new selection of unpublished Huxley letters, edited by James Sexton. This section is followed by a number of unknown or little-known original Huxley writings, viz. his early short story "Boggarts" (1912), selected pacifist texts 1935û36, the urtext of Ends and Means (1937), the Huxley article "A Tour through Time" (1951), rediscovered and edited by Ger...

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  • THE PULITZER AND WOLFF PRIZES FOR REGIONAL NEWSPAPERS 1962-1987
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    THE PULITZER AND WOLFF PRIZES FOR REGIONAL NEWSPAPERS 1962-1987
    HEINZ-DIETRICH FISCHER
    This bilingual volume presents different kinds of award-winning reportage articles from Regional Newspapers in America and Germany during a span of twenty-five years. While the American papers prefer more political or economical themes, the German counterparts accentuate social and culturel stories. Heinz-Dietrich Fischer, EdD, PhD, is Professor Emeritus at the Ruhr-University ...

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  • THE MAKING OF A GLOBAL ISSUE
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    THE MAKING OF A GLOBAL ISSUE
    MIRIAM TAG
    How do certain phenomena come to be recognised as global issues? And what enables a concept like ‘early childhood’—once considered private and local—to be addressed alongside climate change, health, and human rights at the level of global governance? This book explores how early childhood has been constituted as a global issue within the United Nations. Grounded in semiotic the...

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  • TRANSLATING HYBRIDITY
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    TRANSLATING HYBRIDITY
    In today's globalised world, living with multiple languages has become a widespread aspect of everyday life. This reality manifests in forms ranging from code switching to complex phenomena like diglossia, multilingualism, and hybrid teaching formats. The chapters in this volume investigate hybridity as a linguistic phenomenon, examining its implications for translation, interp...

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  • HUMANISM AND TECHNOLOGY
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    HUMANISM AND TECHNOLOGY
    How can technology improve healthcare without losing sight of the human being? This interdisciplinary edited volume offers scientifically grounded, practice-oriented, and forward-looking answers to this question. Topics discussed include:• the psychological and societal impacts of artificial intelligence,• ethical challenges of digital therapy,• technological developments in nu...

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  • CENTRAL EUROPE IN TIMES OF CHANGE
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    CENTRAL EUROPE IN TIMES OF CHANGE
    During the 1970s today’s Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research supported the founding of the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota and the Austrian Chair at Stanford University. These foundings were the initial incentives for the worldwide ‘spreading’ of similar institutions; currently, nine Centers for Austrian and Central European S...

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  • THE NATURE AND MISSION OF THE CHURCH
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    THE NATURE AND MISSION OF THE CHURCH
    JEAN-MARC FLÜCKIGER
    This is an academic work of the highest quality, but Jean-Marc Flückiger presents it in a way that makes it very accessible far beyond academic circles. It is a testament to his sharp intellect, but even more to his love of God, commitment to The Salvation Army, and heartfelt dedication to the Church’s mission in the world.Henrik Andersen, Territorial Leader of The Salvation Ar...

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  • PERSPECTIVES ON THE GLOBAL FOLK HIGH SCHOOL MOVEMENT AND PEOPLE’S FUTURE LAB
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    PERSPECTIVES ON THE GLOBAL FOLK HIGH SCHOOL MOVEMENT AND PEOPLE’S FUTURE LAB
    Can research identify common characteristics in educational movements inspired by N.F.S. Grundtvig? This anthology presents sixteen articles exploring the diverse learning communities connected to the 2019 International Folk High School Summit in Copenhagen and the subsequent cooperation project People’s Future Lab. Drawing on empirical studies of institutions linked to the Gru...

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  • ECONOMICS, POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE DURING COVID-19: EXPERIENCES OF THE GLOBAL SOUTH
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    ECONOMICS, POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE DURING COVID-19: EXPERIENCES OF THE GLOBAL SOUTH
    On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 pandemic and governments around the world reacted by closing their national borders, implementing restrictions on travel within their borders, shutting down all but essential services and requiring large sections of their populations to remain at home. Although the pandemic impacted on every country, t...

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  • EUGENE O’NEILL AS NOBEL LAUREATE AND FOUR-TIME PULITZER PRIZE WINNER
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    EUGENE O’NEILL AS NOBEL LAUREATE AND FOUR-TIME PULITZER PRIZE WINNER
    HEINZ-DIETRICH FISCHER
    This volume presents a new look at American dramatist celebrity Eugene O'Neill, recipient of the Nobel Literature award and four Pulitzer Prizes for drama. The book concentrates on the question under which circumstances he won the top national and international recognitions. So it is important to know the detailed praise of his works by the Swedish Academy, resulting in the Nob...

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  • COMPATIBILITY OF SUBSCRIPTION-BASED MODELS WITH ARTICLE 5(2) OF THE DMA
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    COMPATIBILITY OF SUBSCRIPTION-BASED MODELS WITH ARTICLE 5(2) OF THE DMA
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    At the intersection of data protection and digital competition law, subscription-based models - also known as "Pay or Consent" - test the limits of user autonomy and regulatory coherence. The study shows that the DMA's notion of "specific choice" mirrors GDPR consent, challenging the European Commission's approach. Drawing on case law, legislative history, and regulatory practi...

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  • THE PROTESTANT MISSION IN TANGA AND DIGOLAND
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    THE PROTESTANT MISSION IN TANGA AND DIGOLAND
    CHRISTIAN POHL
    Church historiography of East Africa has long focused on the history of foreign missionaries and their activities and was written from a Western perspective. Usually, the role of the indigenous Christians was little appreciated and only marginally included. However, this corresponds neither to their actual importance nor to the quantity of their documents which are handed down....

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  • WESTERN SAHARA -- STATE AND COLONY
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    WESTERN SAHARA -- STATE AND COLONY
    USER
    Western Sahara stands at the crossroads of statehood and colonialism. Still listed as a non-self-governing territory under Article 73 of the UN Charter, it is also home to a self-proclaimed state founded in 1976 by its people: the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), founding member of the African Union. Western Sahara – State and Colony explores this legal complexity, trac...

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  • MUSEUM. LEARNING. DEMOCRACY
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    MUSEUM. LEARNING. DEMOCRACY
    HADWIG KRAEUTLER
    Alma S. Wittlin (1899-1991) was an innovative museologist and educational researcher. She focused on harnessing the specific potentials of museums and exhibitions for social development and, in turn, challenged the field in an egalitarian and anti-hegemonic way. Originally an art historian and writer based in Vienna, she became an independent international scholar after her emi...

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  • CHALLENGES OF MODERN EDUCATIONAL STRATEGIES THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE TEACHER
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    CHALLENGES OF MODERN EDUCATIONAL STRATEGIES THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE TEACHER
    JERNEJA HERZOG
    The scientific monograph entitled Challenges of Modern Educational Strategies Through the Prism of the Teacher explores contemporary trends in education and beyond. It highlights the teacher's crucial role in the educational process, offering an insightful, in-depth, and scholarly analysis. While concerns about the future of teaching in an era dominated by artificial intelligen...

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  • KONGRESSBERICHT/CONFERENCE VOLUME VALENCIA, SPANIEN 2024
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    KONGRESSBERICHT/CONFERENCE VOLUME VALENCIA, SPANIEN 2024
    This conference volume, Alta Musica 38, publishes 24 academic papers presented at the 27th Conference of the International Society for Research and Promotion of Wind Music (IGEB) in Valencia (July 2024). Marking IGEB's 50th anniversary (1974-2024), the contributions broadly explore key areas in wind music studies. These themes include historical development, academic recognitio...

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  • DPAL-SPUNGS MONASTERY FROM THE 18TH TO THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY
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    DPAL-SPUNGS MONASTERY FROM THE 18TH TO THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY
    GABRIELE COURA
    dPal-spungs monastery in Eastern Tibet was a place where monks could train in fields as diverse as meditation, ritual, textual studies and medicine. In this book, dPal-spungs will be looked at as a structure that enabled education, with its various necessary substructures, e. g. buildings and time schedules. Additional factors contributing to monastic learning were for instance...

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  • HISTORY OF ZAZA PEOPLE
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    HISTORY OF ZAZA PEOPLE
    MUSA GÜNER
    This work is dedicated to the history of the Zaza people, the third largest ethnic group in Turkey. The compilation table presents average values of the estimated ethnicity distribution of the Zaza candidates for different DNA testing companies. DNA is the tree of the unwritten folk groups. Effective isolation has given the Zaza people their own DNA. It shows that exclusivity a...

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  • ON THE ROOTS OF RELIGIOUS SECTARIANISM AND THE QUEST FOR AN AUTHENTIC DIALOGUE IN A NEW CULTURAL SPACE
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    ON THE ROOTS OF RELIGIOUS SECTARIANISM AND THE QUEST FOR AN AUTHENTIC DIALOGUE IN A NEW CULTURAL SPACE
    MAHER SAMUEL SEDRAK
    This study examines the potential for cultivating authentic and creative dialogue between Muslims and Christians in Egypt amid entrenched sectarian divisions and polarized cultural spaces. Anchored in intercultural studies and informed by lived encounters, it employs an ethnographic participant-observer methodology, complemented by perspectives from history, psychology, philoso...

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  • THE GARDEN OF MITHRA
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    THE GARDEN OF MITHRA
    MEHRDAD SHOKOOHY
    In Persian tradition Mehr or Mithra - not the Roman Mithras - is a sun god and the slayer of enemies but the friend of those who revere him, bestowing life, warmth and light. Mehr also means love and affection. These meanings are the pivot of this story where a man, in search of the meaning of life, makes a journey of the mind in a world outside the material world; first going ...

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  • UNHINGING PERCEPTION
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    UNHINGING PERCEPTION
    INÊS ROBALO
    Unhinging Perception: Fiction and Materiality in the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel reconsiders realism’s relationship to materiality, fictionality, and human perception. Through a comparatist reading of novels by George Eliot, Theodor Fontane, and Emilia Pardo Bazán, the book situates their works within broader epistemological debates of the period and explores realism’s met...

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  • THE MYSTERY OF THE CHURCH: GOD’S SELF-REVELATION IN EPHREM THE SYRIAN
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    THE MYSTERY OF THE CHURCH: GOD’S SELF-REVELATION IN EPHREM THE SYRIAN
    JIJIMON J. PUTHUVEETTILKALAM
    This book offers a comprehensive study of Ephrem's surviving writings relevant to his understanding of the Church. It traces the key themes of his ecclesiology, examines how his ideas interrelate, and explores their inner coherence. Central to this investigation are four guiding questions: Why is there a Church? Where was it born? How is it related to God's self-revelation? And...

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  • ECHOES OF HERITAGE IN ‘THE LAND OF ORIGINS’
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    ECHOES OF HERITAGE IN ‘THE LAND OF ORIGINS’
    MERSHA ALEHEGNE MENGISTIE
    This book commemorates one of the towering figures in the field of Ethiopian Studies, Emeritus Professor Getatchew Haile (01 June 1932 – 10 June 2021). He was the most prolific Ethiopian philologist of his generation, having authored more than 150 books and scholarly articles on Gəʿəz and its literary tradition. His contributions to the broader field of Ethiopian studies—and to...

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  • TRANSFORMATIVE RENEWAL IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
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    TRANSFORMATIVE RENEWAL IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
    JOHN O'BRIEN
    This book explores transformative renewal in the Catholic Church. Both practical and systematic, it examines 6 pastoral initiatives unfolding at local level, and their coherence with the synodal path inaugurated by Pope Francis, to argue that the Church is on the cusp of incipient development of tradition. It promotes mutual learning with integrity between different ecclesial p...

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  • SYRIAC CHRISTIANS IN TANG CHINA
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    SYRIAC CHRISTIANS IN TANG CHINA
    ALEXIS BALMONT
    Christianity reached China through Syriac Christians centuries before Catholic missions began. Seven Chinese texts (from the 7th to 10th century) reveal this fascinating episode through apologetic works, mystical dialogues and liturgical prayers that incorporate Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian terminology, showing Christianity's creative encounter with Chinese culture. This volu...

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  • REWORKING THE SACRED THROUGH MUSIC AND POETRY
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    REWORKING THE SACRED THROUGH MUSIC AND POETRY
    KLAUS ANTONI
    The volume focuses on the changes which texts undergo with respect to their sacred status when they are reworked and recontextualized through music and poetry. In a series of case studies, the chapters explore processes of selection, canonization, and transformation, which are triggered, for example, by musical settings, translations into poetry, and literary renderings. These ...

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