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With the growing recognition during the last two centuries that the Earth has an immense age and processes over long periods of time have changed the morphology and composition of the Earth's crust...

This book provides a chronological introduction to modern atomic theory, which represented an attempt to reconcile the ancient doctrine of atomism with careful experiments--performed during the 19t...

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

This monograph is intended to present the fundamentals of the theory of abstract parabolic evolution equations and to show how to apply to various nonlinear dif- sion equations and systems arising ...

This book focuses on the impact of financial liberalisation and globalisation on economic growth and inequality worldwide over the past quarter century. It places a particular emphasis on the first...

Die 373 erstmals gedruckten Dokumente zeichnen ein lebendiges Bild von den Verhältnissen im preußischen Elementarschulwesen zwischen 1796 und 1848. Damit wird eine wichtige und schon frühzeitig auc...

The Editors: Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti is Professor of English and member of the Department of Linguistics of the University of Florence. Her key research interests include the pragmatic and d...

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

Im 19. Jahrhundert entwickelte sich die katholische Kirche in Preußen von einer staatlich sanktionierten "Kirchengesellschaft" zu einer Kirche in der Gesellschaft. Diese Entwicklung gründete nicht ...

This book explores academic identity development in the 21st century university. Recognising dramatic shifts in academic practices and landscapes, the book pushes back on rising neoliberalism with ...

This book traces the precise origin of the early English lexical and lexico-phonetic influences in Sranan, an English-based creole spoken in Suriname. Sranan contains "fossilised" linguistic remnan...

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...

This open access book provides a multi-perspective approach to the caravan trade in the Sahara during the 19th century. Based on travelogues from European travelers, recently found Arab sources, hi...

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...

This book is based on papers originally presented at the international conference 'Activating Human Rights and Diversity' held in Australia in 2003. It advances a powerful and convincing affirmatio...