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Zakat, Islamic Micro-finance and the Question of the Future in 21st-Century Indonesia

The book examines the history of abortion and contraception in Modern Greece from the time of its creation in the 1830s to 1967, soon after the Pill became available. It situates the history of abo...

For many decades Giacomo Leopardi's Zibaldone di pensieri has been seen as a collection of temporary thoughts and impressions whose final expression is to be found in the published poems (the Canti...

This book examines Caribbean people resisting racial, political, and social oppression from the eve of the 1790s Haitian Revolution to the twenty-first century. Migrating rebels, shipments of newsp...

Annika Gonnermann hat am Lehrstuhl für Anglistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft der Universität Mannheim gelehrt und promoviert. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Dystopieforschung, sowie Krit...

The connection between the electric and magnetic fields is fundamental to our understanding of light as electromagnetic waves. The magnetic vector potential lies at the heart of this relation. The ...

This short introduction to the United Nations analyzes the organization as itis today, and how it can be transformed to respond to its critics. Combiningessential information about its history and ...

20th Century Russian Literature and Russian-Jewish Cultural Contacts; Essays in Honor of Vladimir Khazan

The questions as to why most languages appear to have more trouble borrowing verbs than nouns, and as to the possible mechanisms and paths by which verbs can be borrowed or the obstacles for verb b...

Frontmatter -- Alte Zeit und neue Zeit -- Personen -- Erster Aufzug -- Zweiter Aufzug -- Dritter Aufzug -- Vierter Aufzug -- Fünfter Aufzug

Der Band widmet sich einem Kapitel der Regierungspraxis preußischer Könige, das bisher weder im Zentrum der Forschung noch quellenmäßiger Erschließung stand: den Reisen der Monarchen im In- und Aus...

"This book makes a vital contribution to the current literature on human well-being. Through a condensed but incisive analysis of a wide range of sources, from ancient philosophy to the political c...

Peter Abelard's autobiography, the Historia calamitatum, is one of the best-known medieval texts, especially because of the story of his love for Heloise which it recounts. In recent decades, there...

This book is situated at the intersection of queer/gender studies and theories of acting pedagogy and performance. It explores the social and cultural matrix in which matters of gender are negotiat...

Frontmatter -- Das Erbtheil des Vaters -- Personen -- Erster Aufzug -- Zweiter Aufzug -- Dritter Aufzug -- Vierter Aufzug -- Die Advokaten -- Personen -- Erster Aufzug -- Zweiter Aufzug -- Dritter ...