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Author
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Symptoms of an Unruly Age compares the writings of Li Zhi (1527-1602) and his late-Ming compatriots to texts composed by their European contemporaries, including Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Cervantes. Emphasizing aesthetic patterns that transcend national boundaries, Rivi Handler-Spitz explores these works as culturally distinct responses to similar social and economic tensions affecting early modern cultures on both ends of Eurasia. The paradoxes,...
Series
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
This is a hopeful but complicated era for those with ambitions to reform the juvenile courts and youth-serving public institutions in the United States. As advocates plea for major reforms, many fear the public backlash in making dramatic changes. Choosing the Future for American Juvenile Justice provides a look at the recent trends in juvenile justice as well as suggestions for reforms and policy changes in the future. Should youth be treated as...
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
©1992
Language
English
Description
All but buried for most of the twentieth century, the concept of altruism has re-emerged in this last quarter as a focus of intense scholarly inquiry and general public interest. In the wake of increased consciousness of the human potential for destructiveness, both scholars and the general public are seeking interventions which will not only inhibit the process, but may in fact chart a new creative path toward a global community. Largely initiated...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Do the United States and France, both post-industrial democracies, differ in their views and laws concerning discrimination? Marie Mercat-Bruns, a Franco-American scholar, examines the differences in how the two countries approach discrimination. Bringing together prominent legal scholars--including Robert Post, Linda Krieger, Martha Minow, Reva Siegel, Susan Sturm, Richard Ford, and others--Mercat-Bruns demonstrates how the two nations have adopted...
Author
Publisher
Budrich, Barbara
Pub. Date
2017
Language
Deutsch
Description
Die Schulleistungen von Jungen sind in den letzten Jahren vermehrt Gegenstand von Diskussionen geworden. Während auf der einen Seite das im Vergleich zu Mädchen qualitativ und quantitativ schlechtere Abschneiden der Jungen zum Anlass genommen wird, die Notwendigkeit von Jungenförderung zu postulieren, sehen andere dazu wenig bis gar keinen Anlass. Der Autor zeigt im ersten Teil den Stand geschlechtstypischer Schulleistungen auf und geht auf...
Series
Publisher
Transcript-Verlag
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Deutsch
Description
In Bezug auf den Nationalsozialismus ist oft von einer Bankrotterklärung der Soziologie die Rede. Der Band widmet sich daher der Frage, wie die erst spät universitär verankerte Soziologie in Österreich den Nationalsozialismus thematisiert hat: Wie verhielt sie sich im Vergleich zu anderen wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen? Und welche Auswirkungen hatte und hat die Fachgeschichte auf die Entwicklung der Disziplin und das (un)bewusste Tradieren...
Author
Series
Publisher
Transcipt Verlag
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
New knowledge, created in international cooperation, is essential for global sustainability. Set against this background, this study focuses on German science policy for research cooperation with developing countries and emerging economies in sustainability research. Based on interviews with policy makers and researchers, the book scrutinizes the actors, processes and contents of science policy in Germany. The author argues that science policy mainly...