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"The geographical position between the gulfs of Naples and Salerno made pre-Roman Sorrento a fundamental point of passage. Around the inhabited centre, sacred sites or scattered settlements developed including the sanctuary of Athena on the extreme tip of the peninsula, near Punta Campanella. This book explores the historical development of the sanctuary from the 6th century B.C. to the 1st century A.D. Drawing on partly unpublished archaeological documentation and literary sources, the book provides useful elements for understanding the site and its relationship with the surrounding area. Sorrento and the Greek presence in the Gulf of Naples are linked to the sanctuary installation, perhaps first dedicated to the Sirens but surely after to Athena. Judging from literary sources, it was one of the best-known places of worship in ancient Italy. It was only in the 1980s that the discovery of an Oscan inscription with a dedication to Minerva made it possible to hypothesise the presence of a sanctuary near the Medieval tower at Punta Campanella. The analysis of the archaeological documentation known until now, the study of the new archaeological plans and of the material culture (ceramics) from the site make it possible to better understand the development and the importance of the sanctuary. This book, therefore, defines the historical and territorial development of the sanctuary of Athena, reconstructing the history of the territory of ancient Surrentum and above all of its most important sanctuary. The book will be of particular interest to archaeologists, ancient historians and historians of religion"--

Der seit dem 16. Jahrhundert in der deutschen Sprache gebräuchliche Krisenbegriff erstreckte sich bis ins 18. Jahrhundert ausschließlich auf den Fachbereich der Medizin. Danach wanderte er langsam in die Alltagssprache und bezeichnete Entscheidungssituationen oder Höhepunkte gefährlicher Entwicklungen, vor allem im Gesundheitsbereich (Seuchen) und in der Wirtschaft. Krisen sind in ihren jeweiligen historischen Konstellationen einzigartig und nicht wiederhol- oder vorhersehbar. Wie der Krisenbegriff dennoch erfolgreich in der Geschichtswissenschaft eingesetzt werden kann, illustriert dieser Band.

Unsere Lebens- und Wirtschaftsweise ist mit einem enormen Verbrauch an natürlichen Ressourcen und Energie verbunden, mit nachteiligen Folgen für die Umwelt wie dem Klimawandel und sozioökonomischen Ungleichgewichten. Gut ausgebildeten, zukunftsorientierten Fachkräften kommt in diesem Zusammenhang eine zentrale Rolle zu. Das Projekt "RessKoRo - Ressourcenkompetenz für die Rohstoffnutzung in globalen Wertschöpfungsketten" hat zum Ziel, das Bewusstsein für die Ressourcennutzung in globalen Wertschöpfungsketten zu schärfen und Handlungsoptionen für Hochschulen und für politische Akteure aufzuzeigen. Gegenstand des Projekts mit einer Laufzeit von 2019 bis 2023 ist die Ermittlung des Status quo der Ressourcenbildung am Beispiel der Studiengänge Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen und Design. Diese Dokumentation präsentiert die Projektergebnisse, darunter Erkenntnisse zu bestehenden Lehr- und Lernkonzepten, Herausforderungen bei der Implementierung von Ressourcenbildung an Hochschulen sowie Best Practices. Die Ergebnisse wurden in Form von konkreten Handlungsoptionen zusammengefasst, die sich sowohl an Hochschulen als auch an politische Entscheidungsträger richten. Sie umfassen Vorschläge für die Integration des Themas Ressourcennutzung in die Curricula und Forschungsschwerpunkte für den Aufbau von interdisziplinären Netzwerken und Kooperationen und für die Förderung des Lernens in der Praxis sowie für die Entwicklung von Weiterbildungsangeboten für Fachkräfte. Darüber hinaus werden Empfehlungen ausgesprochen, um die Hochschulen auf politischer und institutioneller Ebene dabei zu unterstützen, diese Maßnahmen umzusetzen.

Chapter 1: Dreaming the Myth Onwards -- Chapter 2: A Survey of Child-Characters in Contemporary Videogames -- Chapter 3: The Child as a Social Construct -- Chapter 4: Child Killers and Killer Children -- Chapter 5: Child Heroes -- Chapter 6: Plushies, Dollies, and Action Figurines -- Chapter 7: The Kid in the Fridge.

As the competing demands of care and paid work become increasingly complex, has there ever been a more challenging time to be a woman and a mother? Comparing two studies conducted across two generations, Motherhood explores women's experiences of becoming first-time mothers. Through richly narrated, real-time accounts of transition, Tina Miller examines what has changed since her original study was conducted twenty-one years ago. Using sociological and feminist perspectives, she analyses how motherhood has further intensified against a harsher neoliberal backdrop. The book examines the social, political and moral contours in which motherhood is situated which, in the contemporary context, include ideas of planned labours and work/life balance as part of potent, maternal prenatal imaginings. Birth continues to change everything, and the qualitative, longitudinal and comparative data show these ideas to be, mostly, illusory.

The field of military ethics has generally been attentive to emerging trends in modern warfare. Cyber, robotics and AI, for example, have inspired an abundant and flourishing literature. One trend, however, has been largely overlooked: the emergence of special operations as a prominent instrument of statecraft. Drawing extensively on historical cases and first-hand experience, the authors of this book call attention to qualities inherent in special operations - and special operators - that challenge the moral framework which has long informed conventional military operations. Moral theorists will find this analysis provocative, while practitioners - those who conduct or oversee special operations and have an interest in the moral wellbeing of special operators - can put the authors' insights to practical use. Those who simply view with fascination the opaque world of special operations will find this book illuminating.

Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Individuals -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: "Which Is the Counterfeit, and Which the Real Man?": Stories of Suffering and Questions of Credibility, 1819-25 -- Chapter 2: "He a Discoverer, Forsooth!": Arctic Circles and Scientific Sociability, 1818-29 -- Chapter 3: "All Things Are Queer and Opposite": Arctic Circles on the Far Side of the World, 1837-43 -- Chapter 4: "Have You Seen the Esquimaux Sketch of the Ships?": Disappearing Ships and Inuit Maps, 1845-9 -- Chapter 5: "The Argument from Negative Evidence": The Many Lives of the Open Polar Sea, 1850-3 -- Chapter 6: Full Circles: Relics, Stories, and Silences -- Bibliography -- Index.

"This book presents a self-contained and accessible economic analysis of American politics. Chapters address voters, political parties, the media, Congress, the Presidency, and the Supreme Court. Maurer explains how the Framers' design usually encourages moderation - but can also veer into the kind of dangerously divisive politics we know today"--

1. Introduction - Lourdes Torres and Marisa Alicea -- 2. Jennifer as Selena: Rethinking Latinidad in Media and Popular Culture - Frances R. Aparicio -- 3. The Central American Transnational Imaginary: Defining the Transnational and Gendered Contours of Central American Immigrant Experience - Yajaira M. Padilla -- 4. Dora the Explorer, Constructing "Latinidades" and the Politics of Global Citizenship - Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández -- 5. Making Masculinity: Negotiations of Gender Presentation Among Latino Gay Men - Anthony Ocampo -- 6. "Wild Tongues Can't be Tamed": Rumor, Racialized Sexuality, and the 1917 Bath Riots in the US-Mexico Borderlands - Tala Khanmalek -- 7. Inventing the Race: Latinos and the Ethnoracial Pentagon - Silvio Torres-Saillant -- 8. Latinos as the "Living Dead": Raciality, Expendability, and Border Militarization - John D. Márquez -- 9. TWB (Talking while Bilingual): Linguistic Profiling of Latina/os, and other Linguistic torquemadas - Ana Celia Zentella -- 10. Critical Latinx Indigeneities: A Paradigm Drift - María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo -- 11. "Better than White Trash": Work Ethic, Latinidad and Whiteness in Rural Arkansas - Miranda Cady Hallett -- 12. "I Can't Go to College Because I Don't Have Papers": Incorporation Patterns of Latino Undocumented Youth - Leisy J. Abrego -- 13. The Invisibility of Farmworkers: Implications and Remedies - Ken Saldanha -- 14. Latino Immigrant Men and the Deportation Crisis: A Gendered Racial Removal Program -Tanya Golash-Boza and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo -- 15. Pursuant to Deportation: Latinos and Immigrant Detention - David Hernández -- 16. Dispatches from the "Viejo" New South: Historicizing Recent Latino Migrations - Julie M. Weise -- 17. The Legal Production of Mexican/Migrant "Illegality" - Nicholas De Genova -- 18. Central American Immigrant Workers and Legal Violence in Phoenix, Arizona - Cecilia Menjíva -- 19. Delinquent Citizenship, National Performances: Racialization, Surveillance, and the Politics of "Worthiness" in Puerto Rican Chicago - Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas -- 20. Beyond Resistance in Dominican American Women's Fiction: Healing and Growth through the Spectrum of Quietude in Angie Cruz's Soledad and Naima Coster's Halsey Street -- Regina Marie Mills -- 21. Disposable Subjects: The Racial Normativity of Neoliberalism and Latino Immigrants - Raymond Rocco .

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Media and US Foreign Policy in the MENA area: From the war on terror to the Arab Spring -- Chapter 3. The US Public Opinion: A Marginal Impact on US Foreign Policy -- Chapter 4. Interest Groups : An imperfect Impact -- Chapter 5. Think Tanks: A Circuitous Impact on US Foreign Policy -- Summary and conclusion.