Cities are growing worldwide due to an increasing population, and simultaneously,motorization intensifies. Challenges such as local environmental pollution, a lack ofspace, and saturation of existing infrastructure are thereby becoming more pressing.The urgency to act and the need for new forms of mobility sets the tone not only forpolitics, urban, and transport planning but also leads some com…
In the recent cultural heritage boom, community-based and national identity projects are intertwined with interest in cultural tourism and sites of the memory of enslavement. Questions of historical guilt and present responsibility have become a source of social conflict, particularly in multicultural societies with an enslaving past. This became apparent in the context of the Black Lives Matte…
Like many other countries in the world, Germany is ageing. By now, no one can escape this insight. For decades, the Federal Republic of Germany was marked by a remarkable abstinence from population policy, both discursively and operationally. The bon mot handed down by the former German Chancellor Adenauer from 1949 to 1963, “People always have children,” is not only …
From at least 4000 BCE to the death of Cleopatra VII in 30 CE, Egyptian Mythology was the foundation of ancient Egyptian culture. Spanning over large dominions as distant as the Roman Empire and the Greco-Roman realm, Egyptian mythology was a prevailing entity. Goddesses like Isis were worshiped not only by the natives of Egypt but also those of England and Afghanistan.
rantor, on the one hand, can be understood as the Empire in its most unbridled form, colonising and governing all surrounding worlds and extracting from them what the Empire required for its own inhabitants. This intensity was matched only by the sheer precarity it dealt, leading to a coup staged by rebel leader Gilmer, displacing Trantor and the imperial family. Over time it was the farmers, …
Since the late 1980s a so called ‘spatial turn’ affected the arts and humanities, fore-most cultural studies. Also, computer game studies took a turn towards space, if they were not from the very beginning always about analyzing the spatiality of digital games (Günzel 2010). Nevertheless, this contribution investigates not only spatial theories, but suggests a further possible turn within …
This book takes the reader from basic questions like “What is health?” and “What is a psychiatric disorder?”, into the midst of people’s present mental health and enhancement choices. More and more people receive psychiatric diagnoses and the use of psychopharmacological drugs keeps increasing. Concurrently, media report the popularity of “brain doping” or “study drugs” on cam…
Water will undoubtedly become an ever more crucial locus of academic reflection, as Christiana Peppard’s concern that “wars of the future will be fought over water, not oil” (2014) stresses. Increasing water shortages worldwide and global warming of water, in particular the salt water of the oceans, beg further reflection, from natural and agricultural sciences, the legal field, and also …
Anda mendapat informasi dan disiapkan secara benar untuk memahami terapi medis--yang barangkali akan anda, anggota keluar anda, dan orang yang anda cintai lakukan. Lebih dari 50 dokter terkemuka dan pakar kesehatan membantu untuk menerbitkan buku yang sangat membantu ini. Lebih dari itu, mereka memberikan nasehat sederhana dan denga bahasa yang lugas. Buku ini membahas setiap terapi, termasuk:…
Anda mendapat informasi dan disiapkan secara benar untuk memahami terapi medis--yang barangkali akan anda, anggota keluar anda, dan orang yang anda cintai lakukan. Lebih dari 50 dokter terkemuka dan pakar kesehatan membantu untuk menerbitkan buku yang sangat membantu ini. Lebih dari itu, mereka memberikan nasehat sederhana dan denga bahasa yang lugas. Buku ini membahas setiap terapi, termasuk:…