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Elisabeth Hsu
Based on fieldwork conducted between 2001-2008 in urban East Africa, this book explores who the patients, practitioners and paraprofessionals doing Chinese medicine were in this early period of renewed China-Africa relations. Rather than taking recourse to the placebo effect, the …
Antoon De Baets
Berghahn Books
I can warmly recommend Responsible History to any concerned historian in need of a reliable compass for responsible conduct. I endorse Voltaires words quoted in this book: Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. Responsible …

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Contentious Politics in Europe since 1945
Hara Kouki, Eduardo Romanos
Berghahn Books
The protest movements that followed the Second World War have recently become the object of study for various disciplines; however, the exchange of ideas between research fields, and comparative research in general, is lacking. An international and interdisciplinary dialogue is …
Jacqueline Woodson
Penguin Young Readers Group
View our feature on Jacqueline Woodson's Feathers.Hope is the thing with feathers starts the poem Frannie is reading in school. Frannie hasnt thought much about hope. There are so many other things to think about. Each day, her friend Samantha …
Patricia Reilly Giff
Random House Children's Books
This brilliantly told (New York Times) Newbery Honor Book gives readers a sense of what it was like to be on the American home front while our soldiers were away fighting in World War II. As in past years, Lily …
Pope Benedict XVI
The Crown Publishing Group
The New York Times bestselling final volume in the Popes Jesus of Nazareth series, detailing how the stories of Jesus infancy and childhood are as relevant today as they were two thousand years ago. In 2007, Joseph Ratzinger published his …
Stephan Baer, Klaus Ensslin
This book provides an overview of recent developments in experiments probing the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states of the second Landau level, especially the \nu=5/2 state. It summarizes the state-of-the-art understanding of these FQH states. It furthermore describes how the …
Klaus Höllig, Jörg Hörner
Dieses Buch bietet Ihnen eine Ubersicht aller fundamentalen Problemstellungen in Ubungs- und Klausuraufgaben der Mathematikgrundvorlesungen fur Ingenieure, Natur- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftler. Es enthalt eine Auswahl von mehr als 400 typischen Aufgaben, gegliedert in 50 Themengebiete, mit detaillierten Losungsskizzen und Beschreibungen der …

View book details for Der gescheiterte Investorendeal der Bundesliga

Risiken, Chancen und Folgen fur den Profisport
Sebastian Friedrich, Marc J. Friedrich
Dieses essential analysiert die Ereignisse rund um den Investorendeal der deutschen Fuball-Bundesliga, der Ende 2023 trotz Zustimmung einer knappen Mehrheit der Vereine der 1. und 2. Bundesliga gestoppt wurde. Die Autoren untersuchen die Ursachen und Hintergrunde der Fanproteste und beleuchten …
Bernard Pajot, Bernard Clerjaud
This book outlines, with the help of several specific examples, the important role played by absorption spectroscopy in the investigation of deep-level centers introduced in semiconductors and insulators like diamond, silicon, germanium and gallium arsenide by high-energy irradiation, residual impurities, …

View book details for Die Konstruktion unternehmerischer Zukunfte

Eine Studie zur Kommunikation und Legitimation von Zukunftsvorstellungen
Joachim Haupt
Wie und warum kommunizieren Unternehmen uber die Zukunft der Menschheit? In dieser Arbeit werden die Zukunftserzahlungen von Facebook und SpaceX empirisch rekonstruiert. Im Zentrum der Betrachtung steht die offentliche Kommunikation der prominenten Unternehmerfiguren Mark Zuckerberg und Elon Musk. Anhand dieser …
Godehard Diep, Wolfgang Mattig, Peter M. Hermanns
Gute Leistung muss gut bezahlt werdenKommentierung der einzelnen LeistungenAbrechenbarkeit, Steigerungssatze, mogliche Ausschlusse, aktuelle GerichtsurteilePraktische Abrechnungstipps und -beispiele mit Analogen Bewertungen gema GOA 6 (2), Auslegungshinweisen und Beschlussen, u.a. vonBAK und des Zentralen Konsultationsausschusses fur GebuhrenordnungsfragenBerufsverbandenPVSBesondere Berucksichtigung vonUmsatzsteuerpflicht fur ArzteAmbulante spezialarztliche …
Daniel Bolz, Andreas Braun
Das Buch vermittelt einen Leitfaden zur Grundung und Organisation studentischer Unternehmensberatungen in Deutschland. Es beleuchtet die signifikante Rolle dieser Organisationen im Hochschulokosystem und die Vorteile, die sie fur Studierende und ihre Klient:innen bieten. Basierend auf detaillierten Untersuchungen diskutieren die Autoren …
Samantha Jewel
"Carbon is Not a Dirty Word" is a comprehensive guide to understanding one of the most crucial elements on our planet: carbon. Samantha Jewel, with her unique background in both the food industry and environmental advocacy, takes readers on a …

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WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION, 2019
Tayari Jones
* One of the New York Times' '100 Best Books of the 21st Century' * 'A moving portrayal of the effects of a wrongful conviction on a young African-American couple.' Barack Obama Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of …

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A Fish, the Earth, and the History of a Common Fate
Mark Kurlansky
WINNER OF THE JOHN AVERY AWARD AT THE ANDRE SIMON AWARDS If we can save the salmon, we can save the world Over the centuries, salmon have been a vital resource, a dietary staple and an irresistible catch. But there …
Rebecca Campbell, Anthony McGowan
Monty is a dog, not a financial genius, but economics still shapes his everyday life. Over the course of seventeen walks, Dr Rebecca Campbell chews over economic concepts and investigates how they apply to our lives people and mutts alike. …
A. J. Steiger
IT IS THE FUTURE. THERE IS NO WAR, NO SOCIAL UNREST, NO PAINFUL MEMORIES... AND NO FREEDOM. At seventeen, Lain has already aced the Institutes elite training programme for Mindwalkers, therapists who use direct neural links to erase traumatic memories. …

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Sex, Drugs and Guns on the Mafia Coast
Barbie Latza Nadeau
From sex slaves to drug mules, The Daily Beast's Rome Bureau Chief uncovers a terrifying and intricate web of criminal activity right on Europes doorstep. Chasing the money from kidnapped Nigerian hair braiders to ISIS gunrunners, this is the story …

View book details for Istanbul at the Threshold of Nation State

Allied Occupation, National Resistance, and Political Conflict, 1918-1923
Erol Ülker
During the formation of the Turkish national movement, while Istanbul was under British, French, and Italian occupation, a distinct factional split emerged. One side supported the Ottoman sultanates sovereignty, while the other championed a populist, republican path. An Istanbul at …

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Between Tradition, Genetic Risk and Cultural Change
Alison Shaw, Aviad E. Raz
Berghahn Books
Juxtaposing contributions from geneticists and anthropologists, this volume provides a contemporary overview of cousin marriage and what is happening at the interface of public policy, the management of genetic risk and changing cultural practices in the Middle East and in …

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Local Dilemmas, Global Politics
Andrea Whittaker
Berghahn Books
The issue of abortion forces a confrontation with the effects of poverty and economic inequalities, local moral worlds, and the cultural and social perceptions of the female body, gender, and reproduction. Based on extensive original field research, this provocative collection …

View book details for The Rich and the Poor in Modern Europe, 1890-2020

A Historians Response to Recent Debates among Economists
Hartmut Kaelble
As social inequality grows, historical analysis on wealth and income distribution across the 20th century often does not take into account inequality of education, health, housing and chances of social mobility, nor does it differentiate statistical inequality from the realities …

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Memory, Affect and Creativity in Times of Ecological Upheavals
Olivia Angé, David Berliner
Introducing the study of econostalgias through a variety of rich ethnographic cases, this volume argues that a strictly human centered approach does not account for contemporary longings triggered by ecosystem upheavals. In this time of climate change, this book explores …

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On the Interface of Ethnobotany and Medical Anthropology
Elisabeth Hsu, Stephen Harris
Berghahn Books
Plants have cultural histories, as their applications change over time and with place. Some plant species have affected human cultures in profound ways, such as the stimulants tea and coffee from the Old World, or coca and quinine from South …
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