1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783356703321

Titolo

Firearms and violence [[electronic resource] ] : a critical review / / Committee to Improve Research Information and Data on Firearms ; Charles F. Wellford, John V. Pepper, and Carol V. Petrie, editors ; Committee on Law and Justice, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC, : National Academies Press, c2004

ISBN

0-309-13332-7

1-280-17655-5

9786610176557

0-309-54640-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (340 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WellfordCharles F

PepperJohn <1964->

PetrieCarol

Disciplina

364.2

Soggetti

Firearms and crime - United States

Firearms and crime - Research - United States

Firearms ownership - United States

Violence - United States

Violence - United States - Prevention

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Data for measuring firearms violence and ownership -- Firearms, injury, and crime -- Interventions aimed at illegal firearm acquisition -- The use of guns to defend against criminals -- Right-to-carry laws -- Firearms and suicide -- Firearm injury prevention programs -- Criminal justice interventions to reduce gun violence.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910477323103321

Autore

Sobolev Andrej N

Titolo

Sprachatlas Ostserbiens und Westbulgariens (II) : Sprachkarten / Andrej N. Sobolev

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frankfurt a.M, : PH02, 1998

Edizione

[1st, New ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 p.) : , EPDF

Collana

Scripta Slavica ; 3

Soggetti

linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

Nota di contenuto

143 Sprachkarten

Sommario/riassunto

In der Reihe Scripta Slavica werden Beiträge aus dem gesamten Gebiet der Slawistik veröffentlicht, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf Studien und Nachschlagewerken zur bulgarischen Sprache und Kultur liegt. Die Publikationen umfassen neben monographischen.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910965838403321

Autore

Pugach Sara Elizabeth Berg

Titolo

Africa in translation : a history of colonial linguistics in Germany and beyond, 1814-1945 / / Sara Pugach

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2012

ISBN

9786613410948

9781283410946

128341094X

9780472027774

0472027778

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (316 p.)

Collana

Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany

Classificazione

HIS000000HIS001000HIS014000

Disciplina

496.07/043

Soggetti

Intercultural communication - Africa

Multilingualism - Africa

Sociolinguistics - Africa

Sociolinguistics - Germany

Translating and interpreting - Africa

Translating and interpreting - Germany

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: African Studies and the Classification of Humanity -- 1. Before the Fact: The Beginnings of African Studies on the Mission Field, 1814-87 -- 2. Beyond the Missionary Field: The Development of African Studies at the Seminar für Orientalische Sprachen in Berlin -- 3. The Making of a "Great Africanist": Carl Meinhof in Zizow and Berlin, 1886-1909 -- 4. Anthropology and Linguistics United? Carl Meinhof, Felix von Luschan, and the Hamitic Hypothesis -- 5. Experimenting in the Metropole: The Theory and Practice of African Studies, 1908-19 -- 6. Of Conjunctions, Comportment, and Clothing: African Teaching Assistants in Berlin and Hamburg, 1889-1919 -- 7. After the Colonial Moment: German Influences on South African Linguistics and Ethnology, 1920-45 -- Conclusion: The Legacy of Afrikanistik -- Notes -- Bibliography --



Index.

Sommario/riassunto

A strong and thoughtful study of Afrikanistik's role in the construction of racialist knowledge in Germany.