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Der sogenannte „spatial turn“ ist bereits in vielen Bereichen der Sozialwissenschaften vollzogen worden. In der Migrationssoziologie hingegen sind raumspezifische Überlegungen bislang nur selten anzutreffen. Am Beginn dieses Buches steht daher die Auseinandersetzung mit der Frage, wie dieser Umstand historisch zu verstehen sein könnte. Im Anschluss daran wird ein konzeptueller methodologischer Vorschlag gemacht, wie raumspezifische Überlegunge...

Auf Thomas Hobbes geht die Feststellung zurück, Absurdität sei ein Privileg des Menschen: Nur ein rationales Wesen ist offensichtlich der Irrationalität fähig. Während das, was außerhalb des Bereichs der Rationalität liegt, „arational“ zu nennen wäre, setzt Irrationalität einen Verstoß innerhalb des Geltungsbereichs der Vernunft voraus. Wie lassen sich aber irrationale Gedanken, Gefühle und Handlungen erklären, wenn Handlungserklärungen, die a...

A 1989 collection of ten essays, originally published in 1989, by leading scholars of the time, written from an economic standpoint.

This 1947 volume provides a dual-text English translation of the Anonymus Londinensis papyrus.

The SAGE Library of International Relations brings together the most influential and field-defining articles, both classical and contemporary, in a number of key areas of research and inquiry in International Relations. Each multi-volume set represents a collection of the essential published works collated from the foremost publications in the field by an editor or editorial team of renowned international stature. They also include a full i...

This book has been written to understand what is meant by the Law and Gospel. How the Ten Commandments are relevant to our walk with the Lord. The different categories of Law as defined in the bible, God's law in today's society, as well as God's law in men's hearts. This book will also help you understand the importance of the Law and Gospel, the law and Jesus, the spirit of life and finally Calvin on the Law and the Gospel. The Law of God is...

The author appropriately terms planetary directions as co-determinants of fate. Rather than view directions as simply fateful, he sees them as life companions along with the many other circumstances, conditions, and influences that shape life and human destiny. With this central philosophy in mind, the author first defines planetary directions and their significance in astrological forecasting. More than 100 examples illustrate the important p...

The annual solar return is a living diary of life. Each year its message builds on the previous year's solar return and indicates pathways into the future. Through the solar return one can determine whether progress is being made, how best to make progress, and how to avoid mishaps. With continued use, the solar return becomes a learning tool and a mirror of the individual's life. Your Solar Return by Cynthia Bohannon contains information tha...

ELLA CORRIGAN'S despair at being jilted pales in light of what follows after she makes the hasty decision to marry a man she has long avoided. Unaware that a friend's secret act of jealousy is responsible for her bitter heartache, she enters an existence never imagined during sweeter days as Mistress of her father's Savannah River plantation - where a mystery is building around the family's phenomenal natural spring, Corrigans' Pool. . . . The...

This book is an eye opener because it reveals the occult books and ideas used by an influential woman in religious circles. In the process of research, the author, Dr. Phil Stringer, uncovered some amazing facts and relationships to occult influences in Mrs. Riplinger's work(s).

Over the past few years, international literature has highlighted the limitations of arthroscopic treatment for antero-inferior instability of the shoulder. Therefore, the question arises as to which technique – open surgery or arthroscopy – may represent the best alternative to the classical arthroscopic capsuloplasty. The volume is organized into eight chapters and presents eight different techniques. Each chapter describes the non-surgical ...

Not many people get the chance to write about their death. But Art Townsend is one of them. On June 11, 2009, Art had a sudden cardiac arrest while working out at the Y. He was shocked back to life 16 times by the EMTs and Emergency Room medical personnel at the nearby hospital, who fought to save his life. Weeks later, when Art left the hospital, they called him "The Miracle Man." One doctor said: "Nobody who gets shocked 16 times ever sits u...

International Lay Counselor Training: A Short Term Training-the-Trainers Program for Christian Leaders and Workers in Developing Countries David K. Carson, Ph.D., David L. Lawson, Psy.D., Montserrat Casado-Kehoe, Ph.D., and David A. Wilcox, Ph.D. Despite the variation in mental health issues globally, the experience of human pain and suffering is universal, including that caused by mental, emotional, and relational disturbances. Mental health ...

Hosting an interdisciplinary harvest of work on the culture of global psytrance (psychedelic trance), this volume includes research attending to psytrance as a product of intersecting local and global trajectories. Themes addressed include theories of subculture, neotribalism, the hybridization of aesthetics and many more.

“Bioethicists have achieved consensus on two ideas pertaining to beginning of life issues: (1) persons are those beings capable of higher-order cognition, or self-consciousness, and (2) it is impermissible to kill only persons. As a consequence, a consensus is reached regarding the permissibility of both destroying human embryos for research purposes and abortion. The present collection aims to interact critically with this consensus. Authors ...

Focuses on the politics, economics, sociology, and history of work and workers in Europe. This title places the labor markets, workplaces, jobs and workers of Europe in comparative perspective, and compares contemporary patterns and the history of European workers with other models of work worldwide.

For more than twenty-five years, Andrew Graham Dixon has published a weekly column on art, first in the Independent and more recently, the Sunday Telegraph. He has written a number of acclaimed books, including A History of British Art and Renaissance, and is twice winner of the Hawthornden Prize, Britain's top prize for writing about art. He is one of the leading figures in broadcasting in the UK, having presented seven major television serie...

This book starts out by presenting the evidence for the importance of hydrophilic interactions in biochemical processes and then goes on to describe the applications of the hydrophilic interactions in these processes, specifically protein folding, protein association, self assembly and molecular recognition.In this volume it is shown that the new paradigm, based on the hydrophilic effect, brings us as close as one can hope to the solutions of ...

This book starts out by presenting the evidence for the importance of hydrophilic interactions in biochemical processes and then goes on to describe the applications of the hydrophilic interactions in these processes, specifically protein folding, protein association, self assembly and molecular recognition.In this volume it is shown that the new paradigm, based on the hydrophilic effect, brings us as close as one can hope to the solutions of ...

Geomorphology is the study of the Earth's diverse physical land-surface features and the dynamic processes that shape these features. Examining natural and anthropogenic processes, The SAGE Handbook of Geomorphology is a comprehensive exposition of the fundamentals of geomorphology that examines form, process, and applications of the discipline. Organized into five substantive sections, the Handbook is an overview of: . Foundations and Relev...