1970 wurde die Schwarzenbach-Initiative nur knapp verworfen. Sie war der Auftakt zu einer bis heute anhaltenden Reihe von «Überfremdungsinitiativen», die Generationen von Menschen mit Migrationsgeschichte traumatisiert haben. In diesem Buch sprechen Zeitzeug:innen der Schwarzenbach-Initiative über ihr Leben im Provisorium. Sie erzählen von prek…[Read more]

Historically, tourism in Wales was invigorated by the reinvention of mountain scenery during the Romantic period when travellers gained new perspectives of the terrain from higher ground. It is also during this period that inns and guesthouses began keeping visitors’ books in which guests evaluated their surroundings and their hosts’ good ser…[Read more]

Wang, LK and Wang, MHS (2022). Green innovations in flotation, protein separation, flue gas reuse, new process systems, sulfide precipitation, chromium removal, and tannery waste treatment. In: “Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM)”, Wang, LK and Tsao, HP (eds.), 4 (7E), STE…[Read more]

Una critica ai miti dell’automazione da una prospettiva femminista

Sul perchè la cura ha sempre più a che fare con la disobbedienza della proprietà privata

Why to care means to disobey private property

Spanish abstract: Una reflexión evolucionista y cognitivista sobre el papel de la imaginación y de la autorrepresentación en la identidad humana, en la creación de verdades, y en la gestión de las crisis—en el seno de una realidad humana, realidad interaccional y comunicativa, que siempre ha tenido mucho de realidad virtual (avant la lettre y avan…[Read more]

España, a finales del siglo XVIII, todavía era un imperio colonial. El comercio con las provincias de ultramar estimulaba la venida de irlandeses, prusianos, suecos, holandeses, marselleses y sobre todo ingleses, que fundaban Casas de Comercio con españoles. Pero con la aparición de Napoleón en la escena europea, Inglaterra impuso el “blo…[Read more]

Jorge Insunza Becker (21 de abril de 1936-17 de marzo de 2019) fue uno de los principales dirigentes del Partido Comunista chileno desde los años 60. Ingresó a las Juventudes Comunistas en 1954. En 1962 fue promovido al Comité Central del PC y desde 1965 fue parte de su Comisión Política, aquella que encabezó el triunfo de Salvador Allende de 19…[Read more]

Spanish abstract: ¿Llegará a tiempo la energía solar sostenible? ́Solar ́ de Ian McEwan trata los ribetes picarescos de la ciencia occidental, con un tema casi cósmico de trasfondo, y con una vida complicada en primer plano. El protagonista, encarnación de la ciencia actual, es un pícaro moderno, que reúne en sí todos los extremos de la condición…[Read more]

The term cancer climax is meant as, in the narrative, the building culmination of the illness to a narrative point at which either the ill or the illness finally succumbs; the cancer climax is not necessarily synonymous with the overall narrative climax or peak of the story. Creators might place it at a separate point in their works to impart a…[Read more]

Peter Jordan war von 1531 bis 1535 als Buchdrucker in Mainz aktiv. In seiner Presse entstanden zum einen gegenreformatorische Schriften wie eine Schmähschrift gegen Luther, Predigten und eine deutsche Bibelübersetzung, zum anderen aber auch deutschsprachige Wissens- und Gebrauchstexte, bspw. zum Kurbaden, zur Tintenherstellung, zur K…[Read more]

This chapter attempts to analyze the historiographical debate around agency/structure, especially focused on two current historians, Mary Fulbrook and Peter Burke. Likewise, the conception and relationship of the State within the historiography of the Cold War, seen from the perspective of structure/agent, is presented as a case study. In sum,…[Read more]

Comparing the present time with those times in which God decided to extinguish corrupted humanity through the flood, Pope Francis recently recalled that, in those eras, there was still a just man on Earth and, therefore, God reconsidered his decision and helped Noah building an ark to save his creation. The pope added that Noah, due to his…[Read more]

This paper examines the influence of urban fashion ideas disseminated worldwide from France and how they impacted the Romanian ideas of style and beauty, as well as the nature of the communication between Paris and the so-colled ”Little Paris”. My aim is to decode the interwar Romanian interpretation of the new woman notion and assess what typ…[Read more]

Centred on the eclectic sources of early modern neo-atomistic medicine, this chapter examines the physiological theory of German alchemist Daniel Sennert (1572–1637) and Dutch engineer Isaac Beeckman (1588–1637). Both university-trained physicians, they followed Galenic medicine in explaining the structure and functioning of the human body at the…[Read more]