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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2019Migrating borders and moving times
by Hastings Donnan, Madeleine Hurd, Carolin Leutloff-Grandits, Sarah Green, Hastings Donnan
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2018The political materialities of borders
by Olga Demetriou, Rozita Dimova, Hastings Donnan, Sarah Green
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2021Border images, border narratives
by Johan Schimanski, Jopi Nyman, Sarah Green, Hastings Donnan
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2021Intimacy and mobility in an era of hardening borders
by Haldis Haukanes, Frances Pine, Hastings Donnan
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Science & MathematicsApril 2021Medicalising borders
Selection, containment and quarantine since 1800
by Sevasti Trubeta, Christian Promitzer, Paul Weindling, Hastings Donnan
The research of pandemics, epidemics, and pathogens like COVID-19 reaches far beyond the scope of biomedicine. It is not only an objective for the health, political and social sciences, but epidemics and pandemics are a matter of geography: foci and vectors of communicable diseases continue to test the efficacy of medical control at state borders. This volume illuminates these issues from various disciplinary viewpoints. It starts by exploring historical models of quarantine, spatial isolation and detention as precautionary means against the dissemination of disease and contagion by border crossers, migrants and refugees. Besides the patterns of prejudice with which these groups are confronted, the book also deals with various kinds of fear of contamination from outside of the nation state. The contributors address the implementation of medical techniques at state borders in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, as well as the presently practiced measures of medical and biometric screening of migrants and refugees. Uniquely, this volume shows that the current border security regimes of Western states exhibit a high share of medicalised techniques of power, which originate both in European modernity and in the medical and biological disciplines developed during the last quarter of the millennium. Drawing on the collective expertise of a network of international researchers, this interdisciplinary volume is essential reading for those wishing to understand the medicalisation of borders across the globe, from the early eighteenth century up to the present day.
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April 2024Hast du das schon gesehen?
Mit dem ABC durch die Welt der Kunst. Ein Kunstführer für Kinder
by Gloria Köpnick, Rainer Stamm
Bist du bereit für ein kunterbuntes Abenteuer in der Welt der Kunst? »Hast du das schon gesehen?« ist der ideale Begleiter, um Kinder spielerisch in die faszinierende Welt der Bilder einzuführen. Von A wie »Ameise« über C wie »Clown« und T wie »Tiger« bis Z wie »Zitrone« werden kunstvolle Meisterwerke für jeden Buchstaben des Alphabets vorgestellt. Spielend leicht erfahren Kinder etwas über Werke von berühmten Künstlerinnen und Künstlern, über Epochen, Stile und Techniken. Und auf jeder Seite gibt es Spannendes zu jedem Kunstwerk zu entdecken!
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May 2018Was du nicht erzählt hast
Meine Familie im 20. Jahrhundert
by Mark Mazower, Ulrike Bischoff
»Das Familienmemoir eines großen Historikers und feinfühligen Schriftstellers mit dem Blick für die menschlichen Details.« Orhan Pamuk, Literaturnobelpreisträger Als sein Vater stirbt und er herausfinden soll, wie seine Großeltern bestattet wurden, tut Mark Mazower, was ein Historiker am besten kann: Er macht sich an die Archivarbeit. Schnell wird ihm klar, wie wenig er über seine Familie weiß. Und so beginnt Mazower, die bewegten Biografien seiner Vorfahren zu erforschen. Etwa die seines Großvaters Max, der als Mitglied des Allgemeinen Jüdischen Arbeiterbundes in Vilnius revolutionäre Schriften verbreitete, bevor er vor den Wirren des russischen Bürgerkriegs nach Großbritannien floh – der vier Sprachen beherrschte und später doch kein Wort über seine Vergangenheit verlor. Oder die von Max’ unehelichem Sohn, André, dem schwarzen Schaf der Familie, der mehrmals seine Nationalität wechselte, sich zeitweise im faschistischen Spanien niederließ und eine verschwörungstheoretische Abhandlung über die angeblichen Machenschaften eines jüdischen Geheimbundes verfasste. Mit großer Einfühlsamkeit zeichnet Mazower die Lebenswege seiner Angehörigen nach, die kreuz und quer über die historische Landkarte unseres Kontinents verlaufen: von der Sowjetunion während des Großen Terrors über das besetzte Paris bis in die neue Heimat im Norden Londons. Mit Was du nicht erzählt hast gelingt ihm etwas Außergewöhnliches: ein berührendes Familienmemoir, das zugleich die wechselhafte Geschichte eines ganzen Jahrhunderts erzählt.
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April 2024Magnolia Parks - Into the Dark
by Hastings, Jessa
Aus dem Englischen von Silvia Kinkel, Lina Robertz, Nora Petroll und Constanze Wehnes
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November 2023Magnolia Parks - The Long Way Home
by Hastings, Jessa
Übersetzt von Constanze Wehnes und Silvia Kinkel
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November 2023Daisy Haites - The Great Undoing
by Hastings, Jessa
Übersetzt von Kristina Koblischke, Regina Jooß und Nora Petroll
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September 2025Forest Hydrology
Processes, Management and Assessment
by Leon Bren, Devendra Amatya, Thomas Williams, Carmen de Jong, Ge Sun
Forests cover about a third of the world's land surface area. They represent a distinct biotic community, provide a living for many millions of people, and provide fresh water to sustain communities. Forests capture part of the precipitation and pass the remainder into the soil. Some of this is then passed back to the atmosphere along with some to streams as a regulated outflow. Forest cover is generally the preferred land-use for clean water supplies, recreation, tourism, and other ecosystem benefits around the world. In many cases the value of the water exceeds the value of other forest products. The discipline "forest hydrology" was developed in the 19th and 20th Century with the aim of putting such water cycling processes into a scientific framework incorporating forest watershed management. The 21st Century has seen proliferations of new technologies that have changed society, our living environment, and this discipline. Forests are also facing unprecedented threats from land conversion, fire, drought, and the changing climate. The discipline of forest hydrology must address these issues with innovation and new ideas. The 2nd Edition of Forest Hydrology: - Presents advances of understanding of key forest hydrologic processes (particularly evapotranspiration) - Presents cutting-edge thinking and assessments in global forest hydrology, including state-of-the-art modelling and methodologies - Presents innovative findings about the impacts of forest fires on the rate of catchment formation and how past fires have led to the catchments we take for granted - Describes the latest challenges facing forest hydrology, such as increased occurrences of disturbance due to extreme precipitation and floods, drought, disease, fire, and their association with climate change - Reviews the latest perceptions of the value of forested catchments compared to alternatives such as desalination plants - Is written by an internationally renowned team of scientists, engineers, and forest managers to give a well-rounded view of the subject This book is essential reading for graduate students, professionals, land managers, practitioners, and researchers with a good understanding of the basic principles of hydrology and hydrologic processes.
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September 2010Drei Wünsche hast du frei
Roman
by Pearce, Jackson / Übersetzt von Gaspard, Christine
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The ArtsMay 2022Hyde Park
by James Shirley
by Helen Ostovich, Eugene Giddens
Hyde Park (1632) is one of the best-loved comedies of James Shirley, considered to be one of the most important Caroline dramatists. The play showcases strong female characters who excel at rebuking the outlandish courtship of various suitors. Shirley's comic setting, London's Hyde Park, offers ample opportunity for witty dialogue and sport - including foot and horse races - across three love plots. This is the first critical edition of the play, including a wide-ranging introduction and extensive commentary and textual notes. Paying special attention to the culture of Caroline London and its stage, the Revels Plays edition unpicks Shirley's politics of courtship and consent while also underlining the play's dynamics of class and power. A detailed performance history traces productions from 1632, across the Restoration to the present day, including that of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1987. A textual history of the play's first quarto determines how it was printed and what relationship Hyde Park has to other texts by Shirley from the same publishers.
