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Free Download Christoph Mauntel, "Geography and Religious Knowledge in the Medieval World "
English | ISBN: 3110685957 | 2021 | 262 pages | EPUB | 17 MB
In the medieval world, geographical knowledge was influenced by religious ideas and beliefs. Whereas this point is well analysed for the Latin-Christian world, the religious character of the Arabic-Islamic geographic tradition has not yet been scrutinised in detail.

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Free Download Geographies Of Mobilities: Practices, Spaces, Subjects By Cresswell, Tim;Merriman, Peter
2010 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0754673162 | PDF | 4 MB
Over the past fifteen years or so, there has been a widespread and increasing fascination with the theme of mobility across the social sciences and humanities. Of course, geographers have always had an interest in mobility, but as yet they have not viewed this in the same 'mobility turn' as in other disciplines where it has been used to critique the standard approaches to the subjects. This text brings together leading academics to provide a revitalised 'geography of mobilities' informed by this wider 'mobility turn'. It makes connections between the seemingly disparate sub-disciplinary worlds of migration, transport and tourism, suggesting that each has much to learn from each other through the ontological and epistemological concern for mobility.

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Free Download Genetic Engineering Volume 2: Applications, Bioethics, and Biosafety
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1774912694 | 299 Pages | PDF (True) | 14 MB
This new 2-volume set explores new research and perspectives in genetic engineering, which enables the precise control of the genetic composition and gene expression of organism. This powerful technology can be used for environmental sustainability, food and nutritional security, medicinal advancement, and more. Genetic Engineering aims to provide a deep understanding of the many aspects of this emerging technology and its diverse applications.

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Free Download Genetic Engineering Volume 1: Principles Mechanism, and Expression
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1774912678 | 329 Pages | PDF (True) | 13.4 MB
This new 2-volume set explores new research and perspectives in genetic engineering, which enables the precise control of the genetic composition and gene expression of organism. This powerful technology can be used for environmental sustainability, food and nutritional security, medicinal advancement, and more. Genetic Engineering aims to provide a deep understanding of the many aspects of this emerging technology and its diverse applications.

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Free Download Joseph Walser, "Genealogies of Mahāyāna Buddhism: Emptiness, Power and the question of Origin"
English | 2018 | pages: 306 | ISBN: 1138955566, 1138955558 | PDF | 2,3 mb
Genealogies of Mahāyāna Buddhism offers a solution to a problem that some have called the holy grail of Buddhist studies: the problem of the "origins" of Mahāyāna Buddhism. In a work that contributes both to a general theory of religion and power for religious studies as well as to the problem of the origin of a Buddhist movement, Walser argues that that it is the neglect of political and social power in the scholarly imagination of the history of Buddhism that has made the origins of Mahāyāna an intractable problem. Walser challenges commonly-held assumptions about Mahāyāna Buddhism, offering a fascinating new take on its genealogy that traces its doctrines of emptiness and mind-only from the present day back to the time before Mahāyāna was "Mahāyāna." In situating such concepts in their political and social contexts across diverse regimes of power in Tibet, China and India, the book shows that what was at stake in the Mahāyāna championing of the doctrine of emptiness was the articulation and dissemination of court authority across the rural landscapes of Asia.

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Free Download Genealogie in der Moderne: Akteure - Praktiken - Perspektiven (German Edition) by Timm, Elisabeth, Hecht
German | November 7, 2022 | ISBN: 3110717948 | 350 pages | PDF, EPUB | 159 Mb
Der Band knüpft an das wissenshistorisch und praxeologisch orientierte Interesse an Genealogie an, wie es vor allem in der Geschichte der Vormoderne der letzten Jahre formuliert wurde. Dabei wird in den Blick genommen, wie sich im Bereich der Genealogie die Verschränkung und gegenseitige Beeinflussung wissenschaftlicher und populärer Praktiken, etwa in Vereinen, auswirkte. Genealogische Forschungspraxis wurde zudem als Wissensfeld in historischen, sozialwissenschaftlichen, naturwissenschaftlichen und medizinischen Fächern genutzt. Wie zirkulierte genealogisches Wissen zwischen Vereinen, Universitäten, religiösen und staatlichen Behörden und Archiven seit dem 19. Jahrhundert, und für welche gesellschaftlichen Ordnungsvorstellungen wurde es verwendet? Wie dynamisieren der Medienwandel und Strategien des Open Access in Archiven die Produktion von Genealogien?

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Free Download Gender, Bullying, and Harassment: Strategies to End Sexism and Homophobia in Schools By Meyer, Elizabeth J;Brown, Lyn Mikel(Foreword)
2009 | 101 Pages | ISBN: 0807749532 | PDF | 1 MB
While there have been countless studies of bullying and harassment in schools, none have examined the key gender issues related to these behaviors. In her new book, Meyer does just that and offers readers tangible and flexible suggestions to help them positively transform the culture of their school and reduce the incidences of gendered harassment. The text features sections that speak specifically to administrators, teachers, counselors, student leaders, and community and family members.Integrating research, theory, and practical ideas connected to issues of sex, gender, sexual orientation, bullying, and harassment, this timely book:Defines important terms, such as bullying, (hetero)sexual harassment, sexual-orientation harassment, and harassment because of gender nonconformity. Provides an easy-to-read overview of the legal issues involved in addressing gender and harassment in schooling. Offers an annotated list of educational resources on homophobia, sexual harassment, and bullying, as well as a detailed checklist of steps to aid educators reduce gendered harassment in their schools.Elizabeth J. Meyeris an instructor at McGill University and a researcher at the Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec.

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Free Download Alison L. Beringer, "Gender Bonds, Gender Binds: Women, Men, and Family in Middle High German Literature "
English | ISBN: 3110729059 | 2021 | 253 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 127 MB
While Gender Studies has made its mark on literary studies, much scholarship on the German Middle Ages is largely inaccessible to the Anglo-American audience. With gender at its core as a category of analysis, "Gender Bonds, Gender Binds"uniquely opens up medieval German material to English speakers. Recognizing the impact of Ann Marie Rasmussen's Mothers and Daughters in Medieval German Literature, this transatlantic volume expands on questions introduced in her 1997 book and subsequent work. More than a mere tribute, the collection moves the debates forward in new directions: it examines how gender bonds together people, practices, texts, and interpretive traditions, while constraining and delimiting these things socially, ideologically, culturally, or historically. As the contributions demonstrate, a close, materially focused analysis produces complex results, not easily reduced to a platitude. The essays steer a firm course through the terrain of gender bonds and binds, many of which remain challenging in the present. Herein lies the broader reach of this volume, for understanding the longevity of patriarchy and its effects on human relations demonstrates how crucial the study of the past can be for us as a society today.

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Free Download Jessica Diebowski, "Gender Acquisition in Spanish: Effects of Language and Age (Studies on Language Acquisition [sola], 61) "
English | ISBN: 3110702975 | 2021 | 420 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 1218 KB
The comparative investigation of the acquisition of gender in Spanish by early and late bilinguals of different language combinations is highly debated and crucial as the phenomenon of gender involves grammatical features that differ in all three languages under investigation. Against this background, both early and late bilinguals face an arduous learning task which differs in complexity. Couched within a generative framework, the empirical study focuses on 257 participants with different levels of proficiency in Spanish ranging from low to advanced, and through a series of tests aims to discover which extra-linguistic and intra-linguistic factors act as triggers for non-native outcomes in adult heritage speakers and L2 learners. The observed morphological variability is argued not to stem from a representational (i.e. syntactic) deficit, but rather from a mapping problem in L2 learners and heritage speakers. Successful attainment in terms of gender is possible but dependent on the interplay between various extralinguistic and linguistic factors.

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Free Download Gelehrtenkultur und Sammlungspraxis: Architektur, Akteure und Wissensorganisation in der Universitätsbibliothek Helmstedt (German Edition) by Britta-Juliane Kruse
German | December 19, 2022 | ISBN: 3110788640 | 440 pages | PDF, EPUB | 29 Mb
In einer virtuellen Rekonstruktion werden der Sammlungsort der Universitätsbibliothek im Juleum zu Helmstedt, seine Ausstattung, die Objektsammlung und historische Schriftstücke im Bibliotheksarchiv erforscht. Der Name des einzigartigen Renaissancegebäudes erinnert an Herzog Julius, Gründer der Universität und der Hofbibliothek in Wolfenbüttel. Neu entdeckte Architekturzeichnungen von Georg Christoph Sturm zeigen, dass die 1759 eingerichtete Saalbibliothek ältere Bibliotheksräume ersetzte. Seine Raumkonzepte wurden zusammen mit handschriftlichen Inventaren, Bibliotheksordnungen, Katalogen und Korrespondenzen archiviert. Die Analyse der Dokumente zur Wissensorganisation wird in dieser Studie mit Ergebnissen zur Materialität und Benutzungsgeschichte historischer Hand- und Druckschriften verknüpft ‒ so erhalten soziale Praktiken schärfere Konturen. Als die Universität 1810 geschlossen wurde, standen in der Saalbibliothek etwa 24.000 Bücher aus Nachlässen oder säkularisierten Klöstern. Hinzu kamen Belegexemplare oder Ankäufe bei Auktionen. Beschriebene oder erhaltene Gemälde, Münzen, Kuriositäten und Herbarien sind zur interdisziplinären Erforschung der Gelehrtenkultur und institutionellen Sammlungspraxis von besonderem Interesse.

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