englischThis book provides interested readers a very personal insight into the history of German pediatric surgery. The experiences and perspectives of 10 retired pediatric surgeons in former leadership positions are complied in personal interviews. A particularly interesting aspect of this book is [...]
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englischThe publication deals with texts calling for violence and justifies this by religious arguments. It is however not always possible to distinguish, whether these arguments are motivated by religious convictions or whether they are later justifications. In most cases, they are intertwined. It [...]
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englischTo what extent are progressive and democratizing innovations in education to be understood as ideological? The volume explores this question and exposes the seemingly neutral, distant scientific pedagogy as a committed part of an ideology production.
The authors of the volume examine this [...]
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englischThe dissertation is dealing with four conservative bestselling authors who celebrated their first successes in the Weimar Republic, did not leave Germany after 1933 and dominated the literary field until the 1950s: Werner Bergengruen, Hans Carossa, Reinhold Schneider and Ernst Wiechert. The [...]
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englischThe Jewish-Canadian and Arab-American writers and professors of literature George Ellenbogen (*1934) and Evelyn Shakir (1938–2010) were life companions. In both their memoirs, the authors tell stories of neighborhood, enriching encounters and their search for roots. George grows up in the [...]
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englischThe travel diary has its origin in world-wide research and teaching contacts. The history of the phenomenological movement is completed by global geography. Intercultural relations have regard to philosophy, science, art, religion and everyday life. Famous names turn up like Boulez, Derrida, [...]
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englischAs a relatively new discipline, psychiatry always strived to live up to the latest medical standards. In doing so, it had to let itself be judged above all by its institutions. However, with each step forward taken in the field of medicine, these buildings were regarded as out of date as [...]
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englischSappho from Lesbos, born in the seventh century BC, was the first canonical female voice in Europe. From antiquity on she was appreciated in art/ artistically received, even if – or perhaps precisely because – her biography lies in the dark and most of her poetry is lost. To this day, the [...]
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englischNarratives and dramatic plays are usually based on a non manifest structure that can be conceived as a moral one, where you can find rules and sentences of having-to-do.
The Moral Contract as a metaphor describes this fundamental basis, composed of three components: competition, exchange [...]
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englischThe proceedings explore knowledge organization systems and their role in knowledge organization, knowledge sharing, and information searching.
The papers cover a wide range of topics related to knowledge transfer, representation, concepts and conceptualization, social tagging, domain [...]
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