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The Middle East is a hot spot of proliferation. This volume, written under the auspices of the EU Consortium for Non-Proliferation and Disarmament determines the state of diplomatic efforts to establish a weapons of mass destruction (WMD) free zone in the Middle East.

Through its exploration of the spatial dimensions of risk, this book offers a brand new approach to theorizing risk, and significant improvements in how to manage, tolerate and take risks. A broad range of risks are examined, including natural hazards, climate change, political violence, and state failure.

Science in Elite Sport" covers all sports science disciplines applied to a variety of sports at the elite level. This compares research conducted and several applications of sports science throughout Europe.

Drawing on the experience of evaluating over 2000 emergency room patients, Rene Muller explores the important role of psychiatry in emergency room medicine. In a series of brief essays, many of which initially appeared in "Psychiatric Times,

Etwa zehn Prozent der Angolaner_innen haben eine körperliche Behinderung, was u.a. auf die Tretminen zurückzuführen ist, die im langen Bürgerkrieg exzessiv eingesetzt wurden. Francis Müllers ethnografische Recherche in Angola zeigt, dass viele Menschen mit Behinderung in Luanda individualistische Werte haben und kreative Praktiken ausüben, auch wenn sie in bitterer Armut leben: In den Musekes - den Slums in Luanda - leben die Menschen mit Behi...

Researching more precisely the present social relevance of church and religion at different levels, The Social Significance of Religion in the Enlarged Europe raises and responds to both descriptive and explanatory questions: Can we observe tendencies of religious decline in the various Western and Eastern European countries? Are we witnessing trends of religious individualization? To what extent has there been a religious upswing in the last ...

Shedding light on an important and neglected topic in childhood studies, Anja Mÿller interrogates how different concepts of childhood proliferated and were construed in eighteenth-century periodicals and satirical prints. In examining links between text and image, Mÿller uncovers the role these media played in the genealogy of childhood prior to the 1790s, challenging the myth that situates the origin of childhood in late eighteenth-century En...

This thoroughly informed account of the Neanderthals sets out the history of their discovery and the changing ideas of their place in human ancestry. The authors present a range of new data, including the Schoningen spears, the Lagar Velho child burial, and even Homo foresiensis, found in 2004. Using the Out of Africa model, the Neanderthals are used as an appropriate way into discussing the origins of modern humans. Comprehensive and in-depth...

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This volume is divided into four thematic sections: 'preattentive processing' and 'role of memory' in visual search, 'brain mechanisms' and 'computational modelling' of visual search.

Author Brook Muller understands that your design tendencies influence your working methods and impact the "greeness" of your buildings. This book explains design strategies and emphasizes the importance of your poetic judgment when you're dealing with complex and dynamic ecological systems. Muller also speculates architectural possibilities when ecology is embedded in the design process from conceptual phases onward, how these impact the archi...

This book presents a new way for educators at all levels - from early years to university - to think about curriculum priorities. It focuses on the curriculum as a form of specialised knowledge, optimally designed to enable students to gain access to the best knowledge available in any field.

Aimed at academics, post-graduate students in business and management, reflective practitioners, standards or policy developers, those in governance roles and others in need of a detailed knowledge of the spectrum of project related governance in organizations, this book will help develop a comprehensive understanding of the theoretical and practical underpinnings of the subject, their interaction, and implications for implementation. This all...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Religion, Note: 1, 5, Universität Luzern, 9 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Im Zentrum Max Webers Denken steht der Prozess der Rationalisierung bzw. der Tatsache, dass ausgerechnet der Okzident eine universelle Rationalität hervorbringen konnte: Diese Rationalisierung wird bei der protestantischen Weltentzauberung vollendet, sie beginnt aber bereits bei de...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Religion, Note: gut, Universität Luzern (Religionswissenschaftliches Seminar), Veranstaltung: Religion und Politik im 20. Jh., 15 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Kaum ein Werk wird seit dem 11. September 2001 so kontrovers diskutiert wie Samuel Huntingtons 'Kampf der Kulturen'. Für die einen ist Samuel Huntington ein wertkonservativer Kriegstrommler, ander...

By the late 1990s Green parties had entered national governments in five Western European countries - Finland, Italy, Germany, France and Belgium. This book aims to provide an understanding of the differences and similarities of Green parties in coalition governments.

Reclaiming Knowledge reasserts the importance of a strong view of knowledge for a robust sociology of knowledge, for analysing and formulating curricula, and for a responsible approach to education policy.A recurring theme of the book is that constructivism, as a broad anti-epistemological movement, has taken a perfectly reasonable set of theses about the social constitution of knowledge, and radicalised it into a set of sceptical claims about...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Religion, Note: 6, Universität Luzern, 9 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: "Erklären kann man nur, indem man vergleicht" schreibt Emile Durkheim in seiner Studie über den Selbstmord (1983: 23) - eine Idee, die auch für meine Proseminar-Arbeit gelten soll. Emil Durkheim vergleicht in seinem Werk "Der Selbstmord" die Selbstmordraten von Katholiken, Protestant...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Individuum, Gruppe, Gesellschaft, Note: sehr gut, Universität Luzern, 9 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Begriff des symbolischen Interaktionismus geht auf den Soziologen Herbert Blumer zurück, der ihn erstmals im Jahr 1937 verwendete. Dass oftmals George Herbert Mead als Gründungsvater des Symbolischen Interaktionismus bezeichnet wird, liegt am starken...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Religion, Note: 5.5, Universität Luzern (Soziologisches Seminar), 67 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Waren die Neunzigerjahre noch von der Theorie des Endes der Geschichte von Francis Fukuyama geprägt, so kehrte die totgesagte Geschichte am 09/11 zurück - und mit ihr die Religion. Die religiöse - präziser: islamische - Legitimation der Attentate hat zu ei...