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In this book you can find the necessary tools to be introduced to the fields of Terminology and Specialized Translation, so as to achieve a general understanding of the internal workings of these two interrelated discipl...

The present volume represents a unique contribution to its field. First of all, because it is the result of a common research effort by members of different European institutions of higher education, working together und...

Edited by Gualberto Buela-Casal, this book features a series of interviews with leading psychologists, mostly clinicians, about the major current challenges and perspectives of Clinical Psychology worldwide.Among the int...

Digital technologies have revolutionized studying, analyzing, and interpreting human culture, history, and society. Digital humanities (DH) combine traditional disciplines such as literature, history, and philosophy with...

In this new book, Trainini and his team attempt a step forward and make a series of proposals that come to complete cardiac anatomy, physiology and mechanics. Reading this new investigation is a pleasure that demands con...

How is knowledge measured? How long does it take us to reflect on something and how long to express our thoughts? Such is the dilemma that the human, social and economic sciences go through, since they face the challenge...

«Migration is a good instance of what anthropologists used to call a “total social fact.” Politics and society, culture and economy, law and aesthetics are all traversed by the challenge of migration. Therefore, a p...

El trabajo en contexto rural tiene unas particularidades propias de la ruralidad que en algunos casos no han sido tenidas lo suficientemente en cuenta en el quehacer por parte de algunos profesionales en disciplinas como...

The present volume represents a compilation of international teacher education practice and research with a focus on Teacher Education for Contemporary Contexts. It draws upon the diverse educational perspectives, teachi...

This volume compiles the papers presented at the seventh edition of the Conference on PPN Chipped and Ground Stone Industries of the Fertile Crescent, held in Barcelona from 14 to 17 February 2012. This series of confere...

This collection of essays by the historian and activist Aviva Chomsky includes work on topics ranging from immigration, to labor history, to popular culture. Chomsky's incisive prose brings the perspective of a historian...

Do you feel you have the power and duty to change the world? Do you yearn to make a positive impact on society through your work, family, or spiritual life? Or do you feel that despite having everything in life -- health...

The paper deals with an obligation to perform mandatory work which was imposed on specific groups of students during the covid-19 pandemic in the Czech Republic. The first part of the paper handles mandatory work or serv...

This text aims to trace the thematisation of death and dying in Sociology, which in the 1990’ evolves into constituion of independent sociological sub-discipline: “sociology of dying and death”. The main intention ...

The paper examines the forming of national academic communities in successor states and in the situation after the First World War when scholars (mainly those working in life sciences) participated in the scientific legi...

In his article, the author discusses the development of American criminal law in the 19th century, with the focus on prison issues. In this context, he also recalls the views of the French thinker Michel Foucault on this...

Even though Prague was an experimental university where natural law had been discussed and established as a chair earlier than in Vienna, the survival of the new discipline was threatened by shortsighted personnel polici...

By means of historiographical and critical analysis, the present article aims to map out “the traces” of sociological concepts in the works of Jiři Levy in comparison to the works of A. Popovič and F. Miko. The aim...

This paper introduces and reflects upon methodological merits of the author’s long-standing work on a book dedicated to the topic of Czech Catholic theology’s reaction from 1850 to 1950 to the challenges posed by nat...

The so-called “normalization period” (1969–1989) is one of the most tragic chapters in the development of Czechoslovak sociology. The study reconstructs the process in which all the important positions in the struc...

This study presents an analysis of the theological work of Gavin D’Costa. Author intends to introduce D’Costa’s contribution in the field of the theology of religions and to examine the concept of Trinitarian Theol...

Among the “classic” diagnoses of modernity, the German scholar Max Weber is often ascribed the role of the creator of a “theory of rationalization.” If there had to be one keyword for which Max Weber is constantl...

In the introduction of this study the author presents the most important personalities of the history the Czech Trinitarian Theology, who had written before Josef Pospišil started. The author explains the reasons of thi...

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