Jake and his sister Leah were torn apart from their good life in their youth. Jake lived well enough with the town rabbi in Pinsk but Leah suffered at the hands of the butcher and especially at the hands of the butcher's humiliating wife, Dora. Leah was treated as the lowest servant and so they made a daring escape on horseback. As the Nazi steamroller advanced through Eastern Europe,Jake The Horse Thiefwould be faced with the dangers of World War II. Jake became a leader of the par

This collection presents twenty-seven new essays in Japanese aesthetics by leading experts in the field. Beginning with an extended foreword by the renowned scholar and artist Stephen Addiss and a comprehensive introduction that surveys the history of Japanese aesthetics and the ways in which it is similar to and different from Western aesthetics, this groundbreaking work brings together a large variety of disciplinary perspectives—including philosophy, literature, and cultural politics—to...

Band 1 widmet sich den "Grundlagen des Strafrechts" aus rechtsphilosophischer, rechtssoziologischer und geistesgeschichtlicher Sicht. Auch verfassungsrechtliche Vorgaben, Fragen der juristischen Methodenlehre und neue dogmatische Herausforderungen werden eingehend diskutiert. Zur Klärung der empirischen Grundlagen sind Kriminologie und Kriminalstatistik prominent vertreten. Den bestehenden Entwicklungen des deutschen Strafrechts wird ebenso Rechnung getragen wie neueren Diskussionsfeldern,...

Inland Waterway Transportation explores how tools of economic analysis can improve the efficiency of both public and private investment in inland waterway transportation. Originally published in 1969, this study investigates how waterway transportation has been affected by public operating policy, costs and charges for the use of waterways in the United States as well as the impact of relationships central to waterway policy and individual firms such as the effect of the waterway ...

Band 6 des Handbuch des Strafrechts "Teildisziplinen des Strafrechts" nimmt in fünf Abschnitten einzelne, besondere Themenbereiche des Strafrechts ausführlich in den Blick. Er widmet sich dem Medizinstrafrecht, dem Betäubungs- und Arzneimittelstrafrecht, dem Wirtschafts- und Steuerstrafrecht und umfasst Beiträge zum Themengebiet "Kommunikation und Strafrecht" sowie zu den internationalen Verflechtungen des Strafrechts. Ausführlich besprochen werden dabei u.a. die ärztliche Heilbehandlung, ...

Unlike Nazi medical experiments, euthanasia during the Third Reich is barely studied or taught. Often, even asking whether euthanasia during the Third Reich is relevant to contemporary debates about physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and euthanasia is dismissed as inflammatory. Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: Before, During, and After the Holocaust explores the history of euthanasia before and during the Third Reich in depth and demonstrate how Nazi physicians incorporated mainstr...

Progressive politics has long been in crisis in the United States. As the radical Left realizes the dire consequences of defining themselves solely by what they are against, this collection challenges leading engaged academics and activists to show how radical politics can lead to a more fruitful democracy. Dealing with pressing issues of the day such as health care, race, immigration, religion, foreign policy, unions, feminism, liberalism, education, and the media, this edited volume look...

This excellent new volume in the series from the Society for Economic Anthropology focuses on the role of labor in contrasting world economies. The contributors offer a diverse collection of case studies, illustrating labor processes in a wide range of contexts in both western and nonwestern societies. The volume presents a detailed portrait of how the mobilization of labor changes dramatically with variations in social, political and economic conditions, as well as location and time perio...

A frank and engaging exploration of the burgeoning academic field of environmental historyInspired by the pioneering work of preeminent environmental historian Donald Worster, the contributors to A Field on Fire: The Future of Environmental History reflect on the past and future of this discipline. Featuring wide-ranging essays by leading environmental historians from the United States, Europe, and China, the collection challenges scholars to rethink some ...

In the past decade various studies have examined how political humor may influence various political attitudes and voting behavior; whether it affects learning, cognition and media literacy, how it might shape political participation; how people process different forms of political humor; and more. This book is devoted to anticipating and addressing where the field of political humor and its effects will move in the next generation of scholarship, exploring the continued evolution of the s...

In this edited book we argue that we are now involved in a struggle over the soul of educators and that means resisting the neoliberalizing policy regime that mostly governs through asserting a narrow, technicist, and individualistic definition of what it means to be a good teacher. The book represents the recent scholarship of the Pedagogies for Justice Research Group at the University of South Australia. The research reported is framed up by a critical sensibility that ...

Nonprofits often struggle financially, overwhelmed by the need to muster a complex combination of income streams that range from grants and government funding to gifts-in-kind and volunteer labor. Financing Nonprofits draws upon a growing body of scholarship in economics and organizational theory to offer a conceptual framework for understanding this diverse mix of financing sources. By applying theory, readers can understand when a nonprofit organization should pursue particular sources o...