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By Dustin Galer. 2023
The story of a mid-century working-class housewife whose extraordinary physical transformation empowered her to become a dynamic social activist who…
fueled a movement to create a more inclusive future for people with disabilities.Experience the inspiring stories that fill each issue, from people just like you, who have found their hope restored, faith…
strengthened and lives transformed through miraculous encounters with angels. Angels still visit us today to guide us, and give us reassuring evidence of God’s eternal love. Discover the angels in your own life!Experience the inspiring stories that fill each issue, from people just like you, who have found their hope restored, faith…
strengthened and lives transformed through miraculous encounters with angels. Angels still visit us today to guide us, and give us reassuring evidence of God’s eternal love. Discover the angels in your own life!Experience the inspiring stories that fill each issue, from people just like you, who have found their hope restored, faith…
strengthened and lives transformed through miraculous encounters with angels. Angels still visit us today to guide us, and give us reassuring evidence of God’s eternal love. Discover the angels in your own life!By Dustin Galer. 2023
The story of a mid-century working-class housewife whose extraordinary physical transformation empowered her to become a dynamic social activist who…
fueled a movement to create a more inclusive future for people with disabilities.By Malcolm B. Hamilton. 1995
This clear introduction to the sociology of religion combines a discussion of key theorists with a modern emphasis on the…
diversity of religious beliefs and practices. Malcolm Hamilton's expanded second edition brings the discussion fully up-to-date, and extends its material on secularization and religious sects, giving a broad comparative view. Drawing on the insights of history, anthropology and sociology, he surveys classic and contemporary theory to give a full picture of the variety and scope of theoretical perspectives.By Yonique Campbell, Tracy-Ann Johnson-Myers. 2024
Gender Inequality and Women’s Citizenship combines cases across Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago to highlight the range of…
systemic inequalities that impact women in the Anglo-Caribbean. Using empirical and secondary data and drawing on feminist theoretical insights, Yonique Campbell and Tracy-Ann Johnson-Myers examine a range of pertinent and intersecting social, political and economic challenges facing women in the Anglo-Caribbean. The issues explored include gender-based violence, barriers to women in politics, the effects of COVID-19 on women, and debates around the illegality of abortion rights and failure to protect the health of women by allowing them to exercise autonomy over their bodies. They raise questions about systemic inequalities resulting from patriarchal gender relations, heteronormativity, women's social and economic status, and state inaction. This book is unique in its interdisciplinary analysis of gender inequality in the Anglo-Caribbean, mapping the intersection of women’s multiple identities and positionalities to determine the obstacles they encounter. It will be of interest to scholars and researchers of International Relations, Caribbean Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Development Studies, Sociology and Anthropology.By Anthony Trotta. 2024
The growth and proliferation of technology in American society places new demands on the U.S. government and the health of…
its democracy, affecting both policymaking and public administration. Technology and American Democracy explores the underpinning democratic theories, including constitutional justifications, that guide decision makers during the application of Information Technology (IT) in governance to promote democratic principles such as transparency and accountability. The book examines the capacity of IT to facilitate deliberative democracy, alter modern bureaucratic structures and functions, and affect areas of public policy including public budgeting and performance measurement. Author Anthony Trotta demonstrates the ways in which technology creates new problems for contemporary government, including a discussion of virtual currency and its possible issues that must be addressed by the public sector. The discussion avoids highly technical language and confusing industry jargon, focusing instead on explaining important concepts in an accessible fashion, applicable to a broad spectrum of readers. Technology and American Democracy is required reading for students enrolled in courses on politics, public administration, and public policy.Das vorliegende Open-Access-Buch folgt der übergreifenden Fragestellung, ob ein Kritiklernen im institutionell gebundenen politischen Unterricht möglich ist. Diese Fragestellung wird…
nicht aus einer institutionen- und schulsoziologischen, sondern aus einer lerntheoretischen und politikdidaktischen Perspektive entwickelt. Der Analysefokus richtet sich damit auf die Frage, wie subjektorientierte Lernprozesse in einer Gesellschaft strukturiert werden können, die durch spezifische soziale Verhältnisse geprägt ist. Das Kernanliegen der vorliegenden Arbeit besteht in der Erschließung der Gedankenwelt Antonio Gramscis für die aktuelle lerntheoretische und politikdidaktische Debatte. Dabei soll der Nachweis der analytischen Ergiebigkeit zentraler Kategorien aus den Schriften Antonio Gramscis, insbesondere der Hegemonie und des Alltagsverstandes, über den Weg einer systematischen Reflexion einschlägiger Sinnbildkonstruktionen geführt werden, denen in der aktuellen Fachdebatte eine zentrale Bedeutung zukommt. Aus einer hegemonietheoretisch gestützten konstruktiven Kritik der Sinnbildkonstruktionen werden Schlussfolgerungen für eine Theorie von Bildungs- und Lernprozessen gezogen, die sich in den Kontext der kritischen politischen Bildung einordnen lassen.Dieses Buch handelt von dem Konzept der Macht im digitalen Raum. Konkret wurden mittels Textanalysen die Machtbegriffe von fünf verschiedenen…
Theorien, welche Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmodelle im Digitalen behandeln, identifiziert. Untersucht wurden dabei postkapitalistische, hyperkapitalistische und alternative Ansätze, welche in der Arbeit unter dem Begriff der Theorien der politischen Digitalökonomie zusammengefasst wurden. Die identifizierten Machtbegriffe wurden hinsichtlich ihrer theoretischen Vorannahmen (Vordenker*innen, Konzepte, Begriffe etc.) untersucht und kritisch diskutiert. Schlussendlich wurden die verschiedenen Konzeptionen untereinander verglichen, indem sie in verschiedene Machtkategorisierungen eingeordnet wurden.By Hartmut Frey, Michael Hirscher, Kay Golze, Michael Felderhoff. 2023
In diesem Buch sind die Besonderheiten von Wasserstoff als zukünftigen Energieträger im Rahmen der nationalen Wasserstoffstrategie Deutschland von ausgewiesenen Kennern…
in einer bisher ungekannte Bandbreite beleuchtet. Herstellung, die Bedeutung von Speichersystemen im Energiesystem sowie tiefgehende Details bei der Materialbetrachtung von verschiedenen Oberflächenproblemen sind ergänzt durch eine kurze Übersicht über den möglichen konkreten Einsatz von Wasserstoff. Dabei wird auf Möglichkeiten eingegangen, wie vor dem Hintergrund der globalen Klimaerwärmung der Treibhausgasausstoss praxis- und bürgernah abgesenkt werden kann.Der InhaltCharakteristika von Wasserstoff, Herstellungsverfahren, ProzesseGroßflächige nachhaltige Energieerzeugung zur Produktion des Energieträgers WasserstoffsWasserstoffspeicher und ihre AnwendungWie sicher ist die Nutzung von Wasserstoff?Speichertechnologien für WasserstoffMärkte für Wasserstoffspeicher und Bedeutung von Wasserstoff im Energiesystem und Technische Systeme für die NutzungWasserstoffnutzung in Gebäuden und kleinen SiedlungenDie ZielgruppenFachleute aus Industrie, Unternehmen und Politik, Architekten, Ingenieure, Studierende und Dozenten.Die AutorenProf. Dr. Hartmut Frey hat an der Universität Stuttgart Maschinenbau und Theoretische Physik studiert und in Plasmaphysik promoviert. Prof. Frey war Entwicklungsleiter der Leybold-Heraeus GmbH in Hanau und Köln. Er war Gastprofessor am Institut für Luftverkehr der Technischen Universität in Sofia (Bulgarien) und ist korrespondierender Professor an den Universitäten in Tomsk und Sofia.Kay Golze engagierte sich den 2010er für die Entwicklung der Elektromobilität. Im folgenden Jahrzehnt entwickelte er verschiedene Lösungen zur Anwendung von Wasserstoff im industriellem Maßstab. Als Mitglied des Wissenschaftsnetzwerk stellt er seine Analysen einer breiten Wissenschaftsgemeinde zur Verfügung, sowie anderen Wissenschaftlern und Unternehmen.Dr. Michael Hirscher ist seit 1987 wissenschaftl. Mitarbeiter am MPI für Metallforschung (jetzt Intelligente Systeme) und seit1991 Gruppenleiter "Wasserstoffspeicherung" am MPI-MF/MPI-ISDr. Michael Felderhoff ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung in Mülheim an der Ruhr. Seit 1999 befasst er sich mit der Synthese und Charakterisierung von Metallhydriden zur Speicherung von Wasserstoff und Wärme und der Umsetzung der Ergebnisse in Demonstrationsprojekte.An expertly woven history and critique of the ideas shaping transportation in the United States.Excruciating traffic jams. Struggling transit agencies.…
An epidemic of pedestrian fatalities. It is clear that transportation is not working in the United States and that we need to rethink our approach. In Shifting Gears, Susan Handy provides an in-depth history of the ideas embedded in American transportation policy and the emergence of new ways of thinking that could give us better transportation options. Weaving in bits of her own personal narrative, Handy gives readers a deeper and clearer understanding of our transportation system and the roots of its successes and failures.Handy covers the myriad costs of car ownership, the futility of expanding highways, and the misplaced faith in technological innovation. She offers new ideas and strategies that can improve the health of our car-centric transportation system—most crucially, the idea that communities across the country must create an array of choices for daily travel. Shifting Gears asserts that a diverse transportation ecosystem is essential for creating more just, sustainable communities, but getting there will take a dramatic shift in how we think about transportation.By Susan Watkins. 2023
Since the turn of the century, New Left Review has published a score of editorials on contemporary world politics, each…
departing from conventional positions. This collection brings together a selection of NLR&’s interventions in these years of US unipolarity and late-capitalist boom and bust, the War on Terror and the rise of China, the asymmetrical recovery from the financial crisis and the fraught politics of the energy transition. Bookended by surveys reviewing the broader political-intellectual conjuncture in which the journal is publishing, they examine both the ideas and the on-the-ground operations of liberal-internationalist rule, from the Middle East peace process to the new cold war, analysing the character of the EU and the record of Obama, the meaning of Donald Trump and the explanation for Brexit – as well as tracking counter-movements from street to ballot box, the Arab Spring to Corbyn, Sanders and Podemos.The ultimate goal of environmental policy is reducing pollution. Attention to environmental problems in the social sciences has brought some…
bold generalizations about causes of good results, but almost no systematic cross-national studies that flesh out major theoretical arguments and test those claims with data. This study makes a seminal contribution to that effort in two ways. First, by taking environmental outcomes over the last thirty years as the central dependent variable, it provides a basis for evaluating national performance in reducing environmental problems. Second, by developing a data set including performance in a number of countries and elaborating on major explanations of environmental performance found in the literature, this study provides the most rigorous available analysis of the determinants of environmental performance. In so doing, it challenges what is probably the conventional wisdom in the social sciences.By Jutta Ecarius, Anja Schierbaum, Dominik Krinninger, Uwe Uhlendorff. 2023
Das Buch fragt: Familie wozu? und dokumentiert konzeptionelle und theoretische Perspektiven, Entwicklungen und Kontroversen in der erziehungswissenschaftlichen Forschung zu Familie.…
Mit der Frage Familie – wozu? werden gezielt Themen zu Familie und Gesellschaft, Familienbeziehungen und -konstellationen, privater und öffentlicher Erziehung und Bildung aufgegriffen und diese aus spezifischen erziehungswissenschaftlichen Perspektiven diskutiert.By Peter Baldwin. 1992
This book examines the social bases of the European welfare state, and the interests developed in or against social policy…
by various classes of society, during the period 1875-1975 in Britain, France, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden. By analyzing the competing concerns of different social "actors" that lie behind the evolution of social policy, it explains why some nations had an easy time in developing a generous and solidaristic welfare state while others fought long and entrenched battles. In particular, the book examines the period after the Second World War and looks in detail at the state developed by the bourgeoisie in welfare policies. By casting its net across five nations and a whole century, the book attempts to establish a broad logic of interest behind the welfare state based on a very extensive range of archival material.Why has labor played a more limited role in national politics in the United States than it has in other…
advanced industrial societies? Victoria Hattam demonstrates that voluntarism, as American labor's policy was known, was the American Federation of Labor's strategic response to the structure of the American state, particularly to the influence of American courts. The AFL's strategic calculation was not universal, however. This book reveals the competing ideologies and acts of interpretation that produced these variations in state-labor relations.