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The West African Manilla Currency

Research and Securing of Evidence from 1439-2019

By: Rolf Denk

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The West African Manilla Currency

Research and Securing of Evidence from 1439-2019

By: Rolf Denk

Prof . Dr Rolf Denk, born in Düsseldorf in 1935, worked as a dermatologist in the Mainz University Hospital and afterwards in his own specialist practice in Rüsselsheim. In 1978 he and other collectors were among the founders of the European Union to Search for, Collect, and Preserve Primitive and Curious Money (EUCOPRIMO). In 1981 he took over the editing of the journal Der Primitivgeldsammler. After completing his medical career, he devoted himself more to the research of early indigenous means of payment. 110 own publications have appeared on this topic. In 2017 he published the monograph "Das Manillen-Geld West Afrikas" of which he now presents a revised and extended edition in English. The currency manillas discussed in this book are open metal rings that were used by Europeans as means of payment in trade with the local population from the mid-15th to mid-20th century in various areas of the West Coast of Africa. All currency manillas were made in Europe and are not indigenous products. Therefore is not correct and misleading to designate the foot, arm and neck rings produced in the country itself as manillas. The early Portuguese manillas, also called tacoais, were largely produced according to Portuguese specifications in Flanders and Germany. They are heavier and larger than the so-called Birmingham manillas, which originated in England and were mainly exported to southern Nigeria, where they were in circulation as market money with the Igbo and Ibibo. An intermediate position in terms of shape, weight and metal composition is occupied by the popo manillas, probably produced in England and France and mainly used in the Ivory Coast. On the basis of extensive literature research, an attempt is made to obtain more precise data on the production, use and typification of the different currency manillas and to show their clear distinction from the indigenous metal rings.

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3347284879

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9783347284876

MACH 2

Flying the F-104 Starfighter

By: Rolf Stünkel

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Flying the F-104 Starfighter

By: Rolf Stünkel

Lockheed ́s F-104G, a brand-new sleek jet design of the early 1950s, was a dream bird with a flying performance well beyond imagination. Despite its widow maker reputation in Germany during the early years of operation, the F-104 gained cult status and pilots became addicted to flying it. In his book, Rolf Stünkel takes us back to his training days and cold-war flights over the Baltic sea and along the East German border - a gripping, thought-provoking journey through time, not without a self-critical look at the past and present.

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3347130340

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The West African Manilla Currency

Research and Securing of Evidence from 1439-2019

By: Rolf Denk

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Research and Securing of Evidence from 1439-2019

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Festival and Fiction in Heinrich Wittenwiler's 'Ring'

A Study of the Narrative in its Relation to the Traditional Topoi of Marriage, Folly and Play

By: Rolf R. Mueller

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Festival and Fiction in Heinrich Wittenwiler's 'Ring'

A Study of the Narrative in its Relation to the Traditional Topoi of Marriage, Folly and Play

By: Rolf R. Mueller

This volume investigates Heinrich Wittenwiler’s famous poem Ring. Main focus is the relation of the narrative to the traditional topoi of marriage, folly, and play.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027281475

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Environmental Sociology and Social Transformation

Key Issues

By: Magnus Boström,Rolf Lidskog

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Environmental Sociology and Social Transformation

Key Issues

By: Magnus Boström,Rolf Lidskog

Environmental Sociology and Social Transformation demonstrates how sociological theory and research are critical for understanding the social drivers of global environmental destruction and the conditions for transformative change. Written by two professors of sociology who are deeply involved in the international community of environmental sociology, Magnus Boström and Rolf Lidskog argue that we need to better understand society as well as the fundamentally social nature of environmental problems and how they can be addressed. The authors provide answers to why so many unsustainable practices are maintained and supported by institutions and actors despite widespread knowledge of their negative consequences. Employing a pluralistic sociological approach to the study of social transformations, the book is divided into five key themes: Causes, Distributions, Understandings, Barriers, and Transformation. Overall, the book offers an integrative and comprehensive understanding of the social dimension of (un)sustainability, societal inertia, and conditions for transformative change. It provides the reader with references from classic and contemporary sociology and uses pedagogical features including boxes and questions for discussion to help embed learning. Arguing that a broad and deep social transformation is needed to avoid a global civilization crisis, Environmental Sociology and Social Transformation will be a great resource for students and scholars who are exploring current environmental challenges and the societal conditions for meeting them.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040030408

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The Bastille

A History of a Symbol of Despotism and Freedom

By: Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink,Rolf Reichardt

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The Bastille

A History of a Symbol of Despotism and Freedom

By: Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink,Rolf Reichardt

This book is both an analysis of the Bastille as cultural paradigm and a case study on the history of French political culture. It examines in particular the storming and subsequent fall of the Bastille in Paris on July 14, 1789 and how it came to represent the cornerstone of the French Revolution, becoming a symbol of the repression of the Old Regime. Lüsebrink and Reichardt use this semiotic reading of the Bastille to reveal how historical symbols are generated; what these symbols’ functions are in the collective memory of societies; and how they are used by social, political, and ideological groups. To facilitate the symbolic nature of the investigation, this analysis of the evolving signification of the Bastille moves from the French Revolution to the nineteenth century to contemporary history. The narrative also shifts from France to other cultural arenas, like the modern European colonial sphere, where the overthrow of the Bastille acquired radical new signification in the decolonization period of the 1940s and 1950s. The Bastille demonstrates the potency of the interdisciplinary historical research that has characterized the end of this century, combining quantitative and qualitative approaches, and taking its methodological tools from history, sociology, linguistics, and cultural and literary studies.

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Duke University Press

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082238275X

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9780822382751

Fake News in Science and Education

Leaving Weak Thinking Behind

By: Rolf Arnold

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Fake News in Science and Education

Leaving Weak Thinking Behind

By: Rolf Arnold

The debate over the facts is in full swing. Many people do not merely invent facts, but also feel the need to spread them. The lies and fake news that serve the cause of populism is rightly appalling. Deliberate disinformation has become a means of controlling politics and public opinion. The purpose of this book is to oppose this up-and-coming phenomenon of “weak thought.” It is a passionate plea for a new Age of Enlightenment. Scientists tend to be much more skeptical about “truths”. In the process of formulating evidenced-based reasoning, undisputed facts are not deliberately hidden, but put forwards for open debate. The free expression of opinion, a free press, and the freedom of research and teaching guarantee the discussion and debate needed to argue the factual evidence in a democracy. The effectiveness of education is an important issue to consider. Learning has always been a way to deal with uncertainty. An important aspect of education in our modern world is about preparing learners to deal with change. It is a kind of preparation for the insecurity of not knowing what is coming and an openness that threatens to withdraw the proven and the validated.

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143

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1475850506

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9781475850505

Bible and the plough

The lives of a Hutterite minister and a Mennonite farmer

By: Rolf Wilhelm Brednich

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Bible and the plough

The lives of a Hutterite minister and a Mennonite farmer

By: Rolf Wilhelm Brednich

The life histories of two Saskatchewan residents, one a Hutterite minister and the other a Hutterite farmer, are presented in this volume together with interview transcripts in both Low German and English translation.

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152

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University of Ottawa Press

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1772823430

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9781772823431

Visual proficiency - A perspective on art education

By: Kunibert Bering,Rolf Niehoff

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Visual proficiency - A perspective on art education

By: Kunibert Bering,Rolf Niehoff

Every day, over a million images are uploaded to flickr. This is a striking example of the so-called »flood« of images that emerged with the beginning of the digital age. A generation of adolescents has already been socialised with this flood of images and deals with it on a daily basis, both in their networks and elsewhere. Art education thus faces significant challenges: art is the only school subject that deals with the problems inherent in images as images, making them the focus of pedagogic activity. This volume presents both the foundations for engaging with the phenomenon of the »image« in a competent and historically informed manner as well as the perspectives for art education that arise from these foundations. It is based upon the conviction that providing orientation in a world defined by images does not mean following solely a technocratic, functionalist or even neoliberal »concept of education«. Quite the contrary: »providing an orientation« for how to deal with images in a world that is dominated by them is a crucial part of the holistic development of young people's personalities. The volume's main focus lies upon the new functions taken on both by the image and by art more generally. It takes into account aspects of globalisation and participation and also includes more unusual views (often from a cross-media perspective) of art and its historical repertory, which even current image creation is unable to dispense with. The volume also deals extensively with architecture and the images it conveys.

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wbv Media GmbH & Company KG

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376397573X

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9783763975730

Meist - Ungereimt - Zeug

By: Rolf Bennecke

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Meist - Ungereimt - Zeug

By: Rolf Bennecke

Gereimtes und Ungereimtes zu den Themen Liebe, Dunkle Wolken und ein paar Unfugsreimereien

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Lulu.com

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1291105360

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9781291105360

Relation Als Vergleich

Die Relationstheorie Des Johannes Buridan Im Kontext Seines Denkens Und Der Scholastik

By: Rolf Schönberger

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Die Relationstheorie Des Johannes Buridan Im Kontext Seines Denkens Und Der Scholastik

By: Rolf Schönberger

This book interprets the theory of relation of John Buridan, one of the most influential thinkers of the late Middle Ages. In so doing it examines his whole wider oeuvre in the context of the history of scholastic debate.

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BRILL

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9004098542

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9789004098541

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Fake News in Science and Education

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