This book explores the idea that the increasingly complex connections created by the forces of globalisation have led to a diminishing difference between what were once described as international schools and national schools. The increased movement of people global... Lees meer.

Unsettling traditional understandings of housing reform as focused on the nuclear family with dependent children Single People and Mass Housing in Germany 1850-1930 is the first complete study of single-person mass housing in Germany and the pivotal role this class- a... Lees meer.

Investigates the ways in which marriage and partner migration processes have become the object of state scrutiny and the site of sustained political interventions in several states around the world. Contributors reveal how marriage and partner migration have become bat... Lees meer.

This book brings together current theoretical and methodological perspectives as well as examples of empirical implementations from leading international researchers focusing on the context-specificity and situatedness of their core theories in motivation and emotion.... Lees meer.

In 1818 with a single essay of vast scope and stunning detail Leopold Zunz launched the turn to history in modern Judaism. Despite unending setbacks he persevered for more than five decades to produce a body of enduring scholarship that would inspire young Jews stre... Lees meer.

Genocide global warming organizational negligence and oppressive social practices are four examples of moral contexts in which the interplay between individuals and collectives complicate how we are to understand moral responsibility. Moral Responsibility in Collecti... Lees meer.

This book looks closely at Swedish pornography in the 1970s. Mariah Larsson combines contemporary case studies with comprehensive analyses of advertisements critical responses and censorship records to ask how the small city of Malm s embrace of the era s sexual libera... Lees meer.

By moving away from instrumental views of language the book Discourse Analysis Applied English Language Teaching in Colombian Contexts. Theory and Methods situates the teaching and learning of English as a foreign language along a broader spectrum of socio-culturally... Lees meer.

The cross-cultural transferability and translatability of educational interventions are often assumed rather than critically assessed and adapted before their implementation in other cultures. In this volume the editors invited scholars to reassess their intervention w... Lees meer.

This book examines the confrontational war pictures of Otto Dix 1891 1969 and explores their role in shaping the memory of World War I in Germany from 1914 to 1936. Dix s thirty-eight months on the World War I battlefields profoundly influenced his post-war artistic c... Lees meer.

This book examines the confrontational war pictures of Otto Dix 1891 1969 and explores their role in shaping the memory of World War I in Germany from 1914 to 1936. Dix s thirty-eight months on the World War I battlefields profoundly influenced his post-war artistic c... Lees meer.

This book provides the first dedicated study of the Evian Conference of July 1938 an international initiative called by U.S. President Franklin D. This book provides the first dedicated study of the Evian Conference of July 1938 an international initiative called by... Lees meer.

Documenting major intellectual and paradigmatic changes in the field of comparative education in the light of the history and development of the journal Comparative Education this book compiles a selection of articles from forty years of the journal s distinguished his... Lees meer.

Excavations on the Koukounaries Hill Paros Greece from 1976-1992 revealed a 12th century B.C.E. Mycenaean building an Iron Age settlement and an Archaic sanctuary. This volume presents the pottery from five areas inside the building as well as the pottery from a li... Lees meer.

The term Judeo-Christian in reference to a tradition heritage ethic civilization faith etc. has been used in a wide variety of contexts with widely diverging meanings. Contrary to popular belief the term was not coined in the United States in the middle of the 20... Lees meer.