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MedicineJune 2025Head in the game
Sociocultural analyses of brain trauma in sport
by Stephen Townsend, Murray G. Phillips, Gary Osmond, Rebecca Olive
Head in the game brings together international scholars from multiple humanities, social science, and scientific disciplines to critically examine one of the most vexing issues in global sport: concussion. It argues that science and medicine alone cannot solve the concussion crisis: sociocultural factors must also be considered. This edited collection draws attention to the ways that social, cultural, historical, political, literary, philosophical, and legal factors have shaped the concussion crisis in sport. Head in the game is essential reading for those who want to understand how the concussion crisis came to be, and provides guidance for developing ethical and evidence-based solutions in the future.
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2023Eternal light and earthly concerns
Belief and the shaping of medieval society
by Paul Fouracre
In early Christianity it was established that every church should have a light burning on the altar at all times. In this unique study, Eternal light and earthly concerns, looks at the material and social consequences of maintaining these 'eternal' lights. It investigates how the cost of lighting was met across western Europe throughout the whole of the Middle Ages, revealing the social organisation that was built up around maintaining the lights in the belief that burning them reduced the time spent in Purgatory. When that belief collapsed in the Reformation the eternal lights were summarily extinguished. The history of the lights thus offers not only a new account of change in medieval Europe, but also a sustained examination of the relationship between materiality and belief.
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June 2004Olive
Der heilige Baum. Geschichten und Gedichte
by Andrea Schellinger, Andrea Schellinger
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2021Eternal light and earthly concerns
by Paul Fouracre, Stephen Mossman, C. E. Beneš, T. J. H. McCarthy, Jochen Schenk
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June 1992
Olive, Wein und Feige
Kulturhistorische Skizzen
by Victor Hehn, Klaus von See, Gabriele Seidel-Leimbach
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2022The European Left and the financial crisis
by Michael Holmes, Knut Roder
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2021Ireland and the European Union
Economic, political and social crises
by Michael Holmes, Kathryn Simpson, Dimitris Papadimitriou, Kathryn Simpson, Paul Tobin
This book examines how Ireland's relationship with the EU was affected by a succession of crises in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The financial crisis, the Brexit crisis and the migration crisis were not of equal significance on the island of Ireland. The financial crisis was a huge issue for the Republic but not Northern Ireland, Brexit had a major impact in both polities, the migration and populism issues were less controversial, while foreign policy challenges had a minimal impact. The book provides a summary of the main features of each of the crises to be considered, from both the EU and the Irish perspective. Ireland and the European Union is the first volume of its kind to provide a comprehensive analysis on British-Irish relations in the context of Brexit. It assesses the Withdrawal Agreement and Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland, the devolution settlement and the 1998 Agreement, as well as the European dimension to Northern Ireland's peace process. The contributors explore a number of policy areas that are central to the understanding of each of the crises and the impact of each for Ireland. Chapters examine issues such as security, migration and taxation as well as protest politics, political parties, the media, public opinion and the economic impact of each of these crises on Ireland's relationship with the EU.
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2021Botany and Pharmacognosy Workbook
by Nadine Sprecher and Annette Thomas
Dealing with medicinal plants and knowledge of their constituents and therapeutic effects is an ancient pharmaceutical skill. The associated treasure chest of knowledge is as deep and colourful as the world of plants itself. Just as varied and stimulating is the Botany and Pharmacognosy Workbook, in which the diverse and stimulating tasks are a real joy! The mission and passion of the authors is to impart, deepen and link knowledge in a fun way, with pharmacy practice always in mind. The workbook is intended as a supplement to the textbook Botany and Pharmacognosy for Pharmaceutical Technicians. However, it can also be used independently and guarantees fun for all prospective and active pharmaceutical technicians, returnees and pharmacy interns when learning and revising. For pharmaceutical technician schools and pharmacists, it offers valuable stimulation and support in education and training.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2012The Left and the European Constitution
From Laeken to Lisbon
by Michael Holmes, Knut Roder
This book examines how the Left is affected by European integration. It starts from the rejection of the European Constitution in France and the Netherlands in 2005, in which left-wing parties played key roles. The book explores the level of pro- and anti-EU sentiment among left-wing parties. It discusses the left's reaction to the EU's neo-liberal policies such as Laval, the Lisbon Agenda and the Bolkestein Directive. It examines the extent to which parties are Europeanised or remain nationally-oriented. The book looks at parties from all three left-wing families -social democrats, left-socialists and left-greens. It contains case-studies of eleven EU member states, and also examines the left in the European Parliament. It provides a unique cross-national, cross-party evaluation of contemporary events. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2021The EU and crisis response
by Roger Mac Ginty, Sandra Pogodda, Oliver P. Richmond
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October 2022L’amour numérique
Und täglich grüßt die Liebesgier. Ein Episodenroman | Search, Swipe, Date, Repeat: Oliver Polak sucht die große Liebe
by Oliver Polak
Was es heißt, jenen einzigen Menschen zu finden, der die große Liebe bedeutet: Nichts Geringeres beschreibt Oliver Polak in seinem neuen Buch L’amour numérique. Oder, um es mit der Band Toto zu sagen: Hold the line. Love isn’t always on time. In verschiedenen Episoden erzählt er von den erhebenden und ernüchternden Herausforderungen der modernen Liebe. Search, Swipe and Date – so beginnen immer wieder die Abenteuer vor der Kulisse des romantischsten aller Orte, dem Pariser Café. Und die so arrangierten Begegnungen enden mal im Fauxpax, dann wieder entwaffnend menschlich. L’amour numérique ist wahrheitsgetreu erfunden und zugleich erfahrungsgesättigt. Ein tiefer Seelenstriptease des inneren Ichs, denn am Ende begegnet der Protagonist nur einer Person: sich selbst. Trifft er die Frauen, um sie zu lieben, oder trifft er sie nur, um sich selbst nicht zu lieben? Ein Buch über Sehnsucht, Verlangen und Zärtlichkeit in einer ungewissen Welt. Leonard Cohen, Batman, Oliver Polak: die großen Liebhaber mit durstigen Herzen.
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2006The My Lai massacre in American history and memory
by Kendrick Oliver
On 16 March 1968, two US infantry companies entered a Vietnamese village and in the course of a single morning killed over 400 of its unarmed, unresisting inhabitants . . . This is the first book to examine the response of American society to the My Lai massacre and its ambiguous place in American national memory. Kendrick Oliver argues that the massacre revelations left many Americans untroubled. It was only when the soldiers most immediately responsible came to be tried that opposition to the conflict grew, for these prosecutions were regarded by supporters of the war as evidence that the national leaders no longer had the will to do what was necessary to win. Oliver goes on to show that, contrary to interpretations of the Vietnam conflict as an unhealed national trauma or wound, many Americans have assimilated the war and its violence rather too well, and they were able to do so even when that violence was most conspicuous and current. US soldiers have been presented as the conflict's principal victims, and this was true even in the case of My Lai. It was the American perpetrators of the massacre and not the Vietnamese they brutalized who became the central object of popular concern. Both the massacre and its reception reveal the problem of human empathy in conditions of a counter-revolutionary war - a war, moreover, that had always been fought for geopolitical credibility, not for the sake of the Vietnamese. This incisive enquiry into the moral history of the Vietnam war should be essential reading for all students of the conflict, as well as others interested in the war and its cultural legacies. ;
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April 2007Mein andalusisches Schwarzwalddorf
Essays
by José F. A. Oliver
»Denn gleich dahinter, hinter dem Waldbergigen, hinter der Dämmerlinie der schweren, schwarzgrünen Tannen, lag Andalusien.Auch für mich.« Im Jahr 1960 kamen José F. A. Olivers Eltern auf der Suche nach Arbeit aus Málaga nach Deutschland und zogen in eine kleine Stadt im Schwarzwald. Dort wuchs er auf, als Andalusier und Alemanne zugleich. Erinnerungen an den Vater, die Strohhutfabrik, die Hausacher Spättlemadlee, die Fasent der Kindertage verdichten sich in seinen Essays und Texten zu Bildern eines Ortes, den es nicht geben kann und dennoch gibt, eines andalusischen Schwarzwaldes. Als Dichter zwischen den Kulturen, zwischen den Sprachen gibt Oliver Auskunft über die Erfahrungen eines »Gastarbeiterkindes«, dessen poetische Sensibilität der Zweisprachigkeit entspringt: »ich, Wortmensch Erde, will Sprachen wie Gastgeber Freunde.« José F.A. Oliver, geboren 1961 in Hausach im Schwarzwald. Seine Gedichte sind in mehrere Sprachen übersetzt.
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November 2024Der demokratische Horizont
Politik und Ethik radikaler Demokratie
by Oliver Marchart
Das Unbehagen an der Demokratie wächst. Soziale Bewegungen und Protestparteien verschaffen ihm Ausdruck. Oliver Marchart behauptet, dass die Antwort auf Demokratiedefizit und »Postdemokratie« in der Demokratie selbst liegt. Da der demokratische Horizont unüberschreitbar ist, gilt es, die Demokratie selbst zu demokratisieren: durch Radikalisierung und Neuerfindung der klassischen Prinzipien von Freiheit, Gleichheit, Solidarität und Volkssouveränität. Im Lichte prominenter Theorien radikaler Demokratie (u. a. von Claude Lefort, Chantal Mouffe und Antonio Negri) erkundet Marchart die Möglichkeiten einer solchen Demokratisierung von Demokratie im unvermeidlichen Spannungsfeld zwischen Politik und Ethik.
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March 2010fahrtenschreiber
Gedichte
by José F. A. Oliver
»& weiß nicht mehr in welcher stadt / ich war ich bin ich werde sei / so wie es jetzt am anfang war / gebet & uhrzeit sind verlegt / / 1 datum hinter glas. So könnte es gewesen.« Der Schreibnomade José Oliver ist auf steter Wörterreise. Ägypten, Dubai, Spanien, Slowakei, Schweiz, Niederlande, Litauen und immer wieder zurück zum Ausgangspunkt, in die fremde Heimat Schwarzwald, in den Zwischenraum zweier Sprachen, zum Glauben, in die Kindheitserinnerungen. Und das lyrische Ich notiert als unbestechlicher Fahrtenschreiber die Wahrnehmungsgeschwindigkeit in ihren Schwankungen, die Unhaltbarkeit der Bilder, grenzzerfließende Begegnungen, das Verhältnis von Zeit und Weg; Wiege, Baum und Kreuz – das Alphabet der Hölzer. »Der nomadische Heimatdichter José Oliver weiß genau, wie erfaßbar uns die ganze Welt und wie unverständlich uns das benachbarte Tal erscheinen kann. Dies ist das Privileg großer Dichter.« Ilija Trojanow
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2021Ireland and the European Union
by Michael Holmes, Kathryn Simpson
