During a turbulent colonial and postcolonial century, African women struggled to control their own marital, sexual and economic lives and to gain a significant voice in local and national politics. This book introduces many remarkable women, who organized religious and political movements, fought in anti-colonial wars, ran away to escape arranged marriages, and during the 1990s began successful campaigns for gender parity in national legislatures. The book also explores the apparent parado...

This volume begins in the early centuries of the Common Era with the various groups of people who had settled in southern Africa. Stone Age foragers, farmers with iron technology, and pastoralists all interacted to create a complex society before Europeans arrived. In the seventeenth century, Dutch settlers developed a colonial society based on the menial labor of indigenous inhabitants of the Cape and slaves imported from the East Indies and other parts of Africa. British conquest in the ...

This volume begins in the early centuries of the Common Era with the various groups of people who had settled in southern Africa. Stone Age foragers, farmers with iron technology, and pastoralists all interacted to create a complex society before Europeans arrived. In the seventeenth century, Dutch settlers developed a colonial society based on the menial labor of indigenous inhabitants of the Cape and slaves imported from the East Indies and other parts of Africa. British conquest in the ...

Thinking, Childhood, and Time: Contemporary Perspectives on the Politics of Education is an interdisciplinary exploration of the notion of childhood and its place in a philosophical education. Contributors consider children’s experiences of time, space, embodiment, and thinking. By acknowledging Hannah Arendt’s notion that every child brings a new beginning into the world, they address the question of how educators can be more responsive to the Otherness that childhood offers, while assumi...

Trascendiendo El Puente Del Arcoirisis a six-month guided pet grief book****and journal that is uniquely created for dog owners and dog lovers, who seek guidance in healing from their grief after losing their beloved fur friend. Healing pet loss is difficult because, not only was so much love and joy received from your fur friend, but you gave all of your love to them. Our dogs work their way into our hearts, and before we realize it, they become our family mem...

In diesem Buch sind Lehrbeispiele gesammelt, die Dozierenden wertvolle Anregungen für ihre eigene Lehre liefern: Es werden Ideen für einzelne Übungen, Unterrichtseinheiten, Prüfungen oder ganze Kurse vorgestellt. Die benötigten Materialien sind für die Nutzer online frei verfügbar, um die Anwendung zu vereinfachen.Alle Beiträge dieses Buches wurden 2020 für den Preis für das beste Health-Data-Science-Lehrmaterial eingereicht, der von der Arbeitsgruppe Lehre und Didaktik der Bio...

Meerjungfrauen sind wunderschön. Meerjungfrauen sind bezaubernd. Meeerjungfrauen sind leidenschaftlich. Meerjungfrauen sind tödlich. Nicht alle Meerjungfrauen sind so duldsam, naiv und tragisch wie die von Andersen. Lernen Sie die Meerjungfrau von einer ganz anderen Seite kennen! Auch sonst wird Ihnen dieses Buch die Äugen öffnen. Waren es wirklich die Kleider, für die der Kaiser und seine Untertanen kein Auge hatten? Das geheimnisvolle Feuerzeug des ausgemusterten Soldaten - war es tatsäc...

Domain engineeringis a set of activities intended to develop, maintain, and manage the creation and evolution of an area of knowledge suitable for processing by a range of software systems. It is of considerable practical significance, as it provides methods and techniques that help reduce time-to-market, development costs, and project risks on one hand, and helps improve system quality and performance on a consistent basis on the other.In this book, the editors present a collectio...

This book contains the refereed proceedings of two long-running events held along with the CAiSE conference relating to the areas of enterprise, business-process and information systems modeling:* the 23rd International Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support, BPMDS 2022, and* the 27th International Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Development, EMMSAD 2022.The conferences were taking place in Leuven, Belgium d...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2023, which was held in Zaragoza, Spain, during June 12-16, 2023.The 36 full papers included in these proceedings were selected from 161 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Cyber-human and cyber-physical systems; requirements engineering; IoT; environmental applications; process mining; event-driven process mining; ontology and k...

This edited volume illuminates how intimate relations with place can transform early childhood pedagogy by presenting a diverse range of situated place stories. The book begins to answer big questions facing the early childhood education community, including: "What is situated, locally responsive education?", at a time when both researchers and educators grapple with their responsibility (and response-ability) to initiate and inspire alternative environmental ethics and anticolonial approa...

This book contains the proceedings of two long-running events held along with the CAiSE conference relating to the areas of enterprise, business-process and information systems modeling:* the 22nd International Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support, BPMDS 2021, and* the 26th International Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Development, EMMSAD 2021.The conferences were planned to take place in Melbourne, Austra...