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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Body; Hartmut Berghoff und Till van Rahden Vom Donner der Weltgeschichte. Finanzgeschichte als Schlüssel zum Verständnis der Moderne; I. Konzepte Öffentliche Finanzen und Steuern in Deutschland zwischen Ancien Régime undModerne; Überlegungen zur Transformation des Systems öffentlicher Finanzen in Deutschland seit dem 18. Jahrhundert; »Alles hängt an den Finanzen«. Überlegungen zu einer deutschen Finanzgeschichte von 1790 bis 1990

Introduction -- Spirits, souls, and selves : the body as a contested site -- Souls into spirits : death as self-transformation -- Domesticating the self -- Maintaining health and well-being -- Marking maturity : the negotiation of social inequalities at midlife -- The ethnopsychology of aging and overall development -- Imagined lives.

Examines the way that the state has been imagined in terms traditionally associated with human subjectivity: body, mind, personality and home. This book weaves a set of arguments concerning the three icons of the political imagination - the political collective, the sovereign agency and the enemy figure.

Intro -- Deleuze and Spinoza -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 God -- 2 From the Infinite to the Finite -- 3 The Weak Identity Thesis -- 4 The Body and its Passions -- 5 The State of Nature -- 6 The Blessed State of Reason -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited and Abbreviations -- Index.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Embodiment and Incarnation -- 3 Merit-making and Salvation -- 4 Sacrifice, Body and Spirit -- 5 Ritual and Experience -- 6 From Meaning to Salvation -- 7 Symbolism and Sacrament -- 8 Gift and Charismata -- Bibliography -- Index.

This history of the internationally prominent insurance corporation Allianz AG in the Nazi era is based largely on new or previously unavailable archival sources. This book joins a growing body of scholarship based on free access to the records of German corporations in the Nazi era

Engendering History broadens the base of empirical knowledge on Caribbean women's history and re-evaluates the body of work that exists. The book is pan-Caribbean in its approach, though most articles are on the English-speaking Caribbean, highlighting the research pattern in Caribbean women's history

Since 1945 there has been a tremendous growth in the number of international organizations, leading to the development of a body of law regulating the relationship between the organizations and their host states. International Organizations and their Host States examines the relationship from a practical perspective.

With the adoption of the U.N. convention on the law of the sea in 1982, this volume delineates the issues and their implications for Canada's future at sea, and recommends the establishment of an independent advisory body to ensure serious and comprehensive treatment of maritime concerns

An unusual display behavior in response to the human approximation is reported for the Black-capped Donacobius, Donacobius atricapilla (Linnaeus, 1766). The observed bird showed a body size maximization display keeping static. The registered display is supposed to be a territorial response used to deter interspecific intruders.

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Political theology is often the subject of debate. In this contribution we will trace an alternative declination of this concept in modern political thought. Starting from James I's thought, the article will show the most arcane and heterodox sides of sovereignty and the multiple configurations of the political body.

A further subdivision within the lexico-grammarical groups is achieved in the well-known thematic subgroups, such as terms of kinship, names for parts of human body, colour terms, military terms and so on. There will be discussed all related arguments and will be given examples in this article

Wittgensteinian propositions are used to investigate whether there is some benefit from thinking about objects of fandom and their vectors via affect theory and queer theory as an inverse analytical approach: fandom as something that is not text specific but rather affect or even body specific.

The first ant-Laboulbenial interaction in Africa is recorded. The fungus Laboulbenia camponoti Batra was detected over the body of workers Camponotus oasium Forel collected in Senegal. This is a huge range extension of its Eurasian previously known distribution. We present the updated global database for L. camponoti.

The results of the first study, which aims to determine the age of landslides on the southern slope of the Psekhako ridge and northern slope of the Aibga ridge (Western Caucasus) using radiocarbon dating of organic material incorporated into the body of a landslide.