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This eBooks is a Digsimile edition of the original edition: Berlin, 1896, Geographische Verlagshandlung Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen) with numerous illustrations by W.L. Arndt and E. Arndt-Ceplin. With his bestseller “Travelling through Bosnia and Herzegovina”, the author Heinrich Renner makes a love declaration to “Bosnia, the land of dawn”.
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The situation in the North Caucasus has stabilised, in comparison with previous years, mainly as regards the activity of the Islamic military underground. This is an effect of ideological changes among the militants which have led to a dilution of the Caucasian armed struggle and its marginalisation in global jihad, since top priority has been granted to the Middle Eastern front. The factors which have contributed to this stabilisation are the organisational crisis in the Caucasus Emirate and the outflux of militants to the Middle East, as well the successful ‘carrot and stick’ policy adopted by Moscow. However, the partial stabilisation in the Caucasus is inherently precarious, being a contingent outcome of the situation rather than the result of systemic change. The region’s pressing problems remain unresolved; and these problems are generating chronic instability and cauing the Caucasus to drift away from Russia in civilisational terms. An economic or political crisis in the Russian Federation may result in the conflicts in the Caucasus unfreezing, including a reactivation of the idea of Chechen independence as well as the idea of the Caucasus Emirate, which is a part of global jihad.
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The following volume of essays is a result of the research that was done from autumn 2015 until spring 2018 by an eleven-person research group of the Faculty of Law, University of Debrecen, who tried to look into what role local self-governments in Hungary had played in shaping environmental policy and environmental law. Further, it is a result of the partnership between the Faculty of Sciences and Arts, Cluj-Napoca of Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania and the Faculty of Law of the University of Debrecen. However, because of the complexity of the topic, besides the legal approach, it also includes other approaches and modes of interpretation, beginning with ecological aspects through public policy to a sociological approach and interpretation, while mixed research methods are used at the same time. Beyond classic legal methods such as legislative analysis, a questionnaire research among 516 local governments, different focus-group interviews have been used, and fieldwork among 10 local governments was carried out. These essays are meant for those who are interested in the issues of eco-villages, smart cities, ecosystem services, environment protection practices, and environmental policy instruments or who are trying to obtain appropriate answers for the problems of integrating agricultural production and biodiversity, the general questions of waste management in Hungary and Romania, and the responsibility of local authorities.
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The book is dedicated to the social structure of Lviv and Łódź. The contributions included in the volume provide a theoretically-oriented overview of the research on this subject, performed with the use of various approaches and methods.
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The attempt to make a comparative study of Lviv and Łódź in search of certain regularities seems at the first glimpse rather farfetched, because apparently there are rather few analogies between the city of Lviv with its long history and multifunctional tradition and the monofunctional, rather young, industrial city of Łódź. But deeper analysis shows that despite many differences in the course of the history of both cities, some common tendencies can be traced, such as dynamic demographic and spatial development in the second half of the 19th century based on introduction of railway transport, the building of socio-economic and spatial structures of these cities by multi-cultural local communities, and going through half-a-century period of centralized socialist economy after the Second World War. Lviv and Łódź regained political independence almost at the same time (1989 in Poland and 1991 in Ukraine) and entered the route of democratic development, undergoing political and socio-economic transformations during the last 20 years. As a result of these processes as well as the influence of globalization, today we can observe in Łódź and in Lviv similar problems and phenomena, influencing their spatial development and functional restructuring.
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The book presents the synthesis of the environmental and archaeological approaches which can answer a principally historical questions related to the uprise of the high mediaeval settlement structure but also of the beginnings of the gold and silver exploitation in the project base area. The book offers structured data to the mediaeval development in the region which is still lacking direct archaelogical evidence in many areas. A low and sometimes difficult detectability of early deforestation, settlement and a whole spectre of the mining activities is compensated by archaeoenvironmental, geochemical and archaeometallurgical analytics of the alluvial sediments in this territory.
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Problematyka władzy lokalnej jest z natury rzeczy bardzo szeroka i podejmowana przez przedstawicieli różnych dyscyplin naukowych. Każda z nich koncentruje się na nieco innym aspekcie funkcjonowania władzy lokalnej. W niniejszej monografii, mającej charakter przede wszystkim politologiczny, podjęto próbę odpowiedzi na dwa zasadnicze pytania badawcze:1. Jakie społeczność wiejska miała polityczne i prawne możliwości udziału w wyłanianiu władz lokalnych oraz w zarządzaniu sprawami lokalnymi?2. Jaką rolę w tym poszerzaniu (lub ograniczaniu) możliwości partycypacji odgrywały zmieniające się podziały terytorialne obszarów wiejskich? [Ze wstępu]
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Książka jest użytecznym kompendium wiedzy o jednym z najważniejszych procesów społecznych XX i XXI wieku - współczesnych migracjach ludności.- Dlaczego historia człowieka to historia migracji? - Kim jest migrant, uchodźca, repatriant? - Jakie są przyczyny procesów migracyjnych i jakie są ich skutki dla jednostki, rodziny i społeczeństwa?- Jaka będzie przyszłość migracji?- Kim są i jak funkcjonują cudzoziemcy w Polsce? - Dlaczego migranci są populacją trudną do zbadania?Na te i wiele innych ważnych pytań odpowiadają w prezentowanej pracy specjaliści z różnych dyscyplin naukowych, m.in.: demografii, socjologii, ekonomii, nauk politycznych, prawa, historii, geografii i antropologii.Jako podstawowe kompendium wiedzy o wszelkich zjawiskach i procesach dotyczących przeszłych, teraźniejszych i przyszłych migracji niniejsza książka znajdzie czytelników wśród osób zawodowo zajmujących się tą problematyką, lecz z uwagi na przystępny język zainteresuje z pewnością także osoby spoza świata nauki.z recenzji dr hab. Marii Zielińskiej, prof. UZCechą dobrego wykładu (z którym mamy tu do czynienia) jest jego treściwość połączona ze zwięzłością. (…) Sprawiło to, że przygotowane zostało obszerne i poważne kompendium wiedzy z zakresu migracji, bardzo potrzebne na polskim rynku wydawniczym. Nie ulega też wątpliwości, że otrzymana publikacja, gromadząca rzetelną wiedzę z wielu dyscyplin, będzie jedną z ważniejszych w dostępnej literaturze przedmiotu.z recenzji prof. dr hab. Krystyny RomaniszynW tomie publikują: Marta Anacka, Katarzyna Andrejuk, Jan Brzozowski, Maciej Duszczyk, Agnieszka Fihel, Kamila Fiałkowska, Michał P. Garapich, Agata Górny, Izabela Grabowska, Marta Jaroszewicz, Aleksandra Grzymała-Kazłowska, Anna Janicka, Ewa Jaźwińska, Paweł Kaczmarczyk, Marta Kindler, Witold Klaus, Weronika Kloc-Nowak, Piotr Koryś, Magdalena Lesińska, Karolina Łukasiewicz, Wojciech Łukowski, Michał Nowosielski, Marek Okólski, Marta Pachocka, Aneta Piekut, Karolina Podgórska, Agnieszka Radziwinowiczówna, Justyna Salamońska, Karolina Sobczak-Szelc, Renata Stefańska, Dariusz Stola, Monika Szulecka, Przemysław Śleszyński, Sabina Toruńczyk-Ruiz, Paulina Trevena, Mieczysława Zdanowicz, Piotr Zdanowicz.
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Subalternity is important. This study aims to philosophically investigate the notion of ‘subalternity’ with regard to a variety of minority issues in Central and Eastern Europe. Although a lot has been written about, too little has been achieved in practice. Therefore, this monograph gives a different perspective over the notion of “minority” in the attempt to reopen new and old places of confrontation that would potentially diversify scholarly trajectories of critical investigation.
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This is 1903, a time when the word „Ghetto“, particularly in Jewish context, already may have sound slightly pejorative, but had no connotation yet as it got few decades later through Shoah. This is a book providing a portrait of the urban quarters and places of Prague formed and characterized by the Prague Jewish life. // A CEEOL-"Digsimile" (digital Faksimile) of the original, published in 1903 by the VERLAGSBUCHHANDLUNG DER BÖHM. GRAPHISCHEN GESELLSCHAFT „UNIE“ IN PRAG. The Digsimile of the original illustrated book can be used for citation as if you would cite an extract from the original (pagination is the same).
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An instructive introduction to the theory of evolution and its applications in biology, physics, chemistry, geology and humanities. The author shows that evolution is a physical process, occurring in geological time dimension, describes how the Darwin’s theory of natural selection works in immunology, neurobiology, sociology as well as in certain aspects of culture and political institutions. He also shows the effects achieved through the action of selection in different areas of biological and social life. He discusses such problems as: the ambiguity of the term “theory of evolution”, the falsifiability of evolutionary hypotheses, connection between evolution and thermodynamics, the concept of reductionism, methodological background of phylogenetics, cladistics, evolutionary developmental biology and homeotic genes, as well as the cumulative nature of social and cultural evolution.
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Published 1986 in Zagreb by the » Centar za informacije i publicitet «. // EDITOR’s INTRODUCTION: This book from the edition "Anatomy of a Conspiracy" is entitled "Kosovo - Truths and Misconceptions", and its author is Sinan Hasani, a well-known socio-political worker and writer. Given that these are well-known events, but very complex and contradictory, the author found himself in a really difficult role, to consciously and critically comprehensively analyze the events to which he was partly a witness. It was a challenge for an excellent analyst and writer to turn the exceptionality of authentic testimony into an interesting political-sociological study. In an extensive and documented book, the author fulfilled these tasks in its entirety. By placing the events he writes about in the wider space and complexity of socio-economic and national relations, not only in the narrower area of Kosovo but also within Yugoslavia, observing Yugoslav-Albanian relations and in the broader Balkans and Europe, the author confirms his literary work equally well. talent as the book itself ranks in the good fundus of Marxist political journalism in our country.
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published in 1908 by Wilhelm Heims Publisher in Leipzig.
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The spatial layouts of former border railway urbanized centers are presented from an interdisciplinary perspective referring to fields such as socio-economic geography, historical studies, urban planning, architecture, industry, migration, and cultural diversity. The monograph integrates historical studies of urbanized centers developed as a result of the influence of a railway station and state border with the problem of contemporary spatial development of the surroundings of such railway stations as cultural heritage. In addition, the book proposes a model and typological approach explaining the processes taking place in the studied urbanized centers.
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Współczesny świat jest zdominowany przez miasta, które są motorem jego rozwoju. Ulegają one jednak ciągłym przemianom, a współcześnie – w okresie intensywnych, dynamicznych zmian geopolitycznych i społeczno-gospodarczych – borykają się z wieloma trudnościami. Problemy rozwoju miast są poważnym wyzwaniem, wymagają interdyscyplinarnego podejścia oraz umiejętności zintegrowanego zarządzania i sterowania. Celem monografii jest przedstawienie wybranych nurtów, metod, narzędzi oraz działań determinujących przekształcenia współczesnych miast, które traktuje się tutaj jako złożone systemy powiązań gospodarki, społeczeństwa, środowiska i przestrzeni. W publikacji wyróżniono przede wszystkim te kwestie, które służą polepszeniu funkcjonowania współczesnych miast, poprawie jakości życia ich mieszkańców oraz przyczyniają się do rozwiązania wielu złożonych problemów. Książka adresowana jest do teoretyków i praktyków zajmujących się zagadnieniami rozwoju i rewitalizacji miast, planowania przestrzennego i urbanistyki. Do jej lektury zaproszeni są również studenci oraz absolwenci w szczególności takich kierunków, jak: gospodarka przestrzenna, studia miejskie, ekomiasto, prawo, geografia urbanistyczna, ekonomia, urbanistyka, socjologia miast czy ochrona środowiska. Monografia dedykowana jest więc osobom, które interesują się miastami i procesami ich rozwoju.
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“One book leads to another; one book grows out of another; one book flows out of others. Flowing is a fitting figure for a book about a river, creeks, wetlands and water. The present volume grew out of a brief discussion of two paintings of wetlands in mid-western Victoria by the nineteenth-century colonial landscape painter Eugene von Guérard. This discussion was part of a chapter on wetlands in Australian painting and photography (Giblett 2020a). It was included in John Ryan’s and Li Chen’s edited collection Australian Wetland Cultures (Ryan and Chen, eds 2020). I also contributed a chapter to this volume on Aboriginal wetland cultures, their sacral water beings and their refraction in Rainbow Serpent anthropology and Rainbow Spirit theology (Giblett 2020e). I take up and develop this discussion in the present volume in relation to particular Aboriginal peoples and places in mid-western Victoria, their practices of wetland cultures and their stories about and images of them, including the Rainbow Serpent.“
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ORIGINAL PREINTED IN GERMAN FRACTURA FONT: PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU’LL BE ABLE TO READ (see Introduction.pdf) Published in 1895 by the Central Committee of the Russian Lutheran Church // From the introduction: In the last two years, it is primarily the Estonian and Livonian parish Augmentaioln Funds that have been incorporated into our administration - because they serve similar purposes to our Support Fund. In Reval, two foundations with special provisions were also handed over to the district committee. All in all, this amounts to more than 100,000 rubles, by which the annual bill is now larger. This deceives the eyes of the uninitiated and they will draw false conclusions. It is in keeping with the spirit of the Gospel not to collect treasures or accumulate capital; for we should not place our trust in money, but in the spirit as the true comforter. Hence, the Central Committee doesn’t set out to accumulate treasure. But where it receives foundations for the benefit of the church, it has no right to carry them out in any other way than the founders have ordered in their friendly disposition.
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The book introduces the issue of productive culture of teaching and learning in broader didactical context. In the first part of the book, three areas of productive culture of teaching and learning are as theoretical framework presented: 1. clarity, structure, coherence, 2. cognitive activation, instrumentalization, semantization, 3. Supportive learning environment. The second part of the book presents 17 didactic case studies that have been developed by teams that consisted of researchers and teachers from schools. The aim of didactic case studies is to highlight key areas of productive culture of teaching and learning.
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The publication has a contrastive character and focuses on the phraseology of Czech, Croatian and Bulgarian languages (in theoretical terms also Slovak). It focuses on phrasemes that contain a toponymic component in their structure. The phrasemes are analysed and confronted in terms of form, semantics, motivation, typology and origin. At the same time, the book deals to the necessary extent with the theory of proper names. The publication includes chapters presenting the fundamental Czech, Slovak, Croatian and Bulgarian phraseological theories, as well as a comprehensive review of the Czech-Slovak and South Slavic (i.e. Bulgarian and [post-]Yugoslav) phraseological literature.
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The Atlas of Czech Dialects - Nominative Singular Feminine is the result of an interdisciplinary collaboration between experts from the Dialectology Department of the Institute of Czech Language of the Czech Academy of Sciences and experts from the Department of Geoinformatics of the Faculty of Science of Palacký University in Olomouc. The Atlas presents not only the dialectal phenomena that are declining and disappearing, but also the phenomena that are still alive. The main analytical dialect maps show the morphological differences in the territory of the Czech national language. The accompanying maps of spelling variations illustrate the overall territorial picture of the word form under study. In addition to the dialect maps and brief expert dialectological comments, the atlas contains texts describing the realities of former rural life, farming methods and customs, infographics, links to audiorecords and illustrative images created by artificial intelligence tools. The expert explanations are complemented by rich dialectal material, while the popular format of the texts ensures accessibility to a wide range of people interested in our dialect. Data from the Questionnaire for Research on Czech Dialects, processed into thematic maps, are brought to life by photographs taken by dialectologists half a century ago during field research.
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