BOOKS with Alphabet J (Ja, Jb,Jc, Jd, Je…... )

Overview: The study of modern China and Japan have separately become major arenas of scholarship over the past three decades in the west, but little work has been done that brings these two histories together for the period prior to the twentieth century. This work does just that. Many of these texts were built on fanciful embellishments of stories that migrated from one land to the other, but the unique qualities of the Sino-Japanese cultural bond seem to have conditioned the interaction.978-1-349-62659-5978-1-137-08365-4

Overview: 978-94-011-8151-8978-94-011-8776-3

Overview: 978-3-642-90179-9978-3-642-92036-3Series ISSN 0374-1222

Overview: Über Jugend und GewaltDas Buch präsentiert Beiträge, die sich mit dem Phänomen der Jugendgewalt vornehmlich in Entwicklungsländern auseinandersetzen. Es beleuchtet Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten von Jugendgewalt zwischen „Erster“ und „Dritter Welt“; es fragt nach den unterschiedlichen Kontexten der Gewalt; es setzt sich mit der schwierigen Lebens- und Überlebenssituation von Jugendlichen unter gewalttätigen gesellschaftlichen Bedingungen auseinander; es beleuchtet angesichts geringer Partizipationsmöglichkeiten die Rolle von Jugendlichen in Nachkriegsgesellschaften; und es zeichnet

Overview: Für Journalisten: Grundlegende und verständliche EinführungDie Justiz bildet für juristisch nicht vorgebildete Journalistinnen und Journalisten einen schwierigen, schwer zu durchschauenden Gegenstand der Berichterstattung. Diese Einführung dient dazu, ihnen die Justizberichterstattung zu erleichtern und neue, bislang vernachlässigte Berichterstattungsfelder außerhalb der Strafjustiz zu erschließen. Dazu bietet die Einführung einen allgemein verständlichen Überblick über die Aufgaben und die Arbeitsweise der Justiz, die Gerichtsbarkeiten, Prozessgrundsätze und Verfahrensabläufe. Sie s

Overview: Wilhelm Tönnis hatte am Ende seines Lebens vor, die Geschichte der deutschen Neurochirurgie an seinem Le­ bensbericht darzustellen. Er hat jedoch leider nur einen Torso, d. h. einzelne Kapitel hinterlassen können. Zu früh nahm ihm der Tod die Feder aus der Hand. Seine Freunde hielten es aber für wichtig, diese Berichte für die deutsche Neurochirurgie zu erhalten. Als Dr. Dr.h.c. mult. Heinz Götze sich bereit erklärt hatte, diesen Bericht in überarbeiteter Form im Springer-Verlag drucken zu lassen, habe ich diese Aufgabe übernommen. Mir schien es aber wichtig, zwischen den oft nur bru

Overview: 978-3-8100-0807-7978-3-322-95550-0

Overview: Constitutes a significant update to existing scholarly discussions of Jameson.Places Jameson’s career in a broader field of criticism and focuses on contemporary critical engagements.Becomes the firstThis book demonstrates how Fredric Jameson’s understanding of the novel form has heavily influenced his work as a critical theorist. It contends that Jameson’s idiosyncratic engagements with the literary canon have had a major impact on his theoretical frameworks, particularly in his sense of historical change. The book investigates Jameson’s predominant literary interests in chapters fo

Overview: 978-3-8100-0555-7978-3-322-90085-2

Overview: Presents a richly illustrated biography of one of the most influential astronomers of the 20th century.Based on extensive archival studies, including documents in Dutch.Written by a student of the sub.This book is the first thorough and overdue biography of one of the giants of science in the twentieth century, Jan Hendrik Oort. His fundamental contributions had a lasting effect on the development of our insight and a profound influence on the international organization and cooperation in his area of science and on the efforts and contribution of his native country..This book aims at

Overview: 978-3-409-13777-5978-3-322-84597-9

Overview: Offers a systematic study of the de facto moratorium periods in Japan’s capital punishment policy.Proposes an alternative analytical framework to examine the policy..Investigates the social and politi.Offering a timely reanalysis of the issue of Japan’scapital punishment policy, this cutting edge volume considers the de factomoratorium periods in Japan’s death penalty system and proposes an alternativeanalytical framework to examine the policy. Addressing how the Ministry ofJustice in Japan justified capital punishment policy during the de factomoratorium periods from 1989 to 1993, f

Overview: Examines the perceptions of journalists on the societal influences that impact their work.Provides novel insights into the perspectives of journalists in Sierra Leone.What effects do societal factors This book provides novel insights into the perspectives of journalists in Sierra Leone and on their work by examining their perceived journalistic values and the influences that shape them. It treats journalism as an occupational identity and as a community that works on the foundation of the sub-Saharan African philosophies that exalts communal values in every sphere of life. .When jour

Overview: Jugend - Jugendpolitik - EuropaDas Buch beschäftigt sich mit qualitativen gesellschaftlichen Veränderungen in Europa und diskutiert Auswirkungen auf die Jugend sowie mögliche Konsequenzen für Jugendarbeit und Jugendpolitik in europäischer Perspektive. Es geht der Frage nach, welches Europa als Antwort auf die Herausforderungen der Globalisierung entstehen muss, damit Jugendliche eine Chance haben, ihre Lebensphase Jugend möglichst erfolgreich gestalten zu können.978-3-8100-3975-0978-3-322-80957-5

Overview: 978-3-0348-5731-4978-3-0348-5730-7

Overview: This book examines the life and work of John Kenneth Galbraith, a truly iconic figure in progressive modern liberalism and a seminal influence in the rise of heterodox political economy. It emphasizes his continuing relevance to the current research of today, and to the multifaceted crisis of democratic capitalism.978-0-230-30244-0Series ISSN 2662-6276 Series E-ISSN 2662-6284

Overview: Provides a timely discussion of job precariousness in Europe.Adopts a mixed-method approach combining original survey and interview data.Uniquely combines and analyses well-being, social inclusion and.This book examines patterns of political engagement of long-term unemployed youth. The authors show how unemployment affects the personal, social, and political life of young people. Focusing on the case of Geneva in Switzerland, the study shows the importance of socioeconomic, relational, psychological, and institutional resources for the political engagement of unemployed youth. The b

Overview: Provides a critical edition of one of the most important treatises composed on Islamic/Ptolemaic theoretical astronomy, as well an English translation.Contains a survey of introductory accounts of ast.This book provides the only critical edition and English translation of Maḥmūd al-Jaghmīnī’s al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾa al-basīṭa, the most widely circulated Arabic treatise on Ptolemaic astronomy ever written. Composed in the early 13.th .century, this introductory textbook played a crucial role in the teaching, dissemination, and institutional instruction of Islamic astronomy well into

Overview: 978-1-349-03368-3

Overview: Empiricist philosophy of science of the kind that promised truth through method and a unification of science now lies in disarray. Arguments over the indeterminancy of theoretical language, the inadequacy of induction, the empirical incommensurability of competing theories, the possibility or im­ possibility of scientific progress, and the applicability of natural science metatheory and methods to problems of human action have allIed to a loss in confidence. As it is commonly said, the philosophy of science is now in a "postempiricist" phase. It is a phase marked by heated disagreeme