englischAt the beginning of the 20th century, sport turned into a phenomenon with great cultural reach. The modern sporting hero came onto the scene as an often politically and economically instrumentalised picture of perfection, showcased both in the media and at competitions. Despite criticism of [...]
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englischThis book reveals the possibilities and challenges of civic education in circumstances of extreme polarization. In a time of increasing political polarization, what should the goals of civic education be, and how should they be implemented? Contributors raise a variety of crucial [...]
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englischAt the latest since 2021, when Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock proclaimed feminist foreign policy as one of the priorities of the German government's foreign and security policy efforts, this approach has been increasingly discussed. What exactly does feminist foreign policy mean and how [...]
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englischHans Thiersch's concept of lifeworld-orientation suggests that every professional action in social work should focus on the lifeworld or everyday world of the recipient. The implementation of lifeworld-oriented and client-centred social work has also been called for in social pedagogical [...]
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englischIn the GDR, fiction took on the function of a surrogate public sphere, since the mass media did not provide it. This is also true of literature set in the scientific establishment and milieu, a segment comprising some 150 texts. This book makes this segment accessible. On the one hand, it [...]
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englischCensorship is highly topical. In the context of global crises, eroding democracies and strengthening autocracies and dictatorships, it even seems to be gaining in relevance. A scholarly review of the phenomenon and its study is urgently needed. This handbook is the first to present the state [...]
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englischThis volume is dedicated to the (re)discovery of six pairs of artists of the applied arts in Germany between 1890 and 1930. Ursel Tischkewitz traces their biographies and artistic careers, taking into account the historical and socio-cultural context of an art characterized by hierarchies at [...]
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englischDistributed Ledger Technology (DLT) is the technological basis of Bitcoin and facilitates the implementation of distributed information management structures and the coordinated management of information changes within a ledger. This technology could remove the need for intermediation in the [...]
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englischThe anthology analyses the development of the two overlapping epidemics HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C in Central Asia and China against the background of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Both epidemics have a significant impact on public health and particularly affect drug users. [...]
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englisch“Joseph Joachim – Identities | Identitäten” presents new perspectives on the Hungarian violinist, composer, and pedagogue Joseph Joachim (1831–1907). Encompassing eighteen essays about Identity and Self-Staging, Identities on the European Musical Stage, Joseph Joachim in England, and [...]
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