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Poison— invisible, unknown, hard to detect and deadly— taps into hard-wired anxieties about the risks of the world around us. From ancient times to the modern age, it has always created more fear than any other threats.In A Basilisk Glance: Poisoners from Plato to Putin, author Robert Templer takes us through the dark maze of poison. He traces its path from when Hercules dipped his arrows in the blood from the severed head of the Hydra to the use of chemical weapons in the Iran-Iraq War in 1980s, from the death of Socrates to the use of toxins as a weapon of assassination, from the mass suicide of Jonestown in 1979 to the sarin attack in the Tokyo metro system.Today, as the war in Ukraine rages, we are reminded of the use of radioactive and nerve weapons by Russian President Vladimir Putin to kill his opponents. His targets— like other victims of poison through the ages— know that they are never safe; a cup of tea, a door handle or even their own underwear might be tainted with a deadly toxin.

Zahlreiche Bundeseinrichtungen erfüllen historisch traditionsreiche Aufgaben der Ressortforschung im Gesundheitsbereich. Sie nehmen als Teile der Bundesverwaltung komplexe Relaisfunktionen zwischen Wissenschaft, Politik sowie administrativer Rechtsanwendung wahr. Manche Einrichtungen wie das Robert Koch- oder das Paul-Ehrlich-Institut haben in der Corona-Pandemie als Akteure staatlicher Wissensgenerierung breite Bekanntheit erlangt. Aber auch andere - wie das Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut oder die Bundesinstitute für Arzneimittel und Medizinprodukte und für Risikobewertung - verfügen über leistungsstarke Forschungsabteilungen und agieren durch Forschung und Publikation als aktive Teilnehmer im Wissenschaftsprozess. Die Untersuchung spürt der Geschichte der Einrichtungen, ihrer Funktion im demokratischen Rechtsstaat, ihrer Unabhängigkeit und ihrer Bedeutung für rechtliche Entscheidungsverfahren nach.

Can religions be compared? For decades the discipline of religious studies was based on the assumption that they can. Postmodern and postcolonial reflections, however, raised significant doubts. In social and cultural studies the investigation of the particular often took precedence over a comparative perspective. Interreligious Comparisons in Religious Studies and Theology questions whether religious studies can survive if it ceases to be comparative religion. Can it do justice to a globalized world if it is limited on the specific and turns a blind eye on the general? While comparative approaches have come under strong pressure in religious studies, they have started flourishing in Theology. Comparative theology practices interfaith dialogue by means of comparative research. This volume asks whether theology and religious studies are able to mutually benefit from their critical and constructive reflections. Can postcolonial criticism of neutrality and objectivity in religious studies create new links with the decidedly perspectival approach of comparative theology? In this collection scholars from theology and religious studies discuss the methodology of interreligious comparison in the light of recent doubts and current objections. Together with the contributors, Perry Schmidt-Leukel and Andreas Nehring argue that after decades of critique, interreligious comparison deserves to be reconsidered, reconstructed and reintroduced.

Esta é uma investigação em torno da natureza profunda da dialética parte-todo no que concerne ao indivíduo e à'coletividade', coletividade que transborda a ideia de algo como um conjunto de indivíduos, aí fora, organizados em coletividade(s) como a nação, o Estado e etc. O autor possui graduação em Ciências Econômicas pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (1975), mestrado em Administração de Empresas pela Fundação Getulio Vargas - SP (1982) e doutorado em Ciências Sociais pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (1998).

Australia is currently the second largest exporter of raw sugar after Brazil, and one of the world's top five sugar exporters. This book tells the story of how the Australian cane sugar industry grew into a major global supplier of sugar, how it became a significant innovator in the technology associated with the growing and harvesting of sugar cane as well as the production and transport of sugar. It describes the spread of sugar cane growing along the north-eastern coast of Australia during the late nineteenth century, and how subsequent twentieth-century expansions were tightly regulated in order to avoid overproduction. It examines changes in agricultural techniques, efforts to combat pests and diseases, breeding new cane varieties and the significance of improvements in the sugar milling and refining processes. Special attention is also devoted to documenting how sugar production changed the landscape of north-eastern coastal Australia. Topics considered include deforestation, soil erosion, loss of wetlands associated with drainage improvements, the introduction of fauna to control insect pests affecting the crops of sugar cane and mining the coral of the Great Barrier Reef to produce agricultural lime. It is the first comprehensive account of the history of the Australian cane sugar industry.

Der Band erschließt alle in der Mikrofiche-Edition enthaltenen Anklageschriften und Urteile von Prozessen, die während der deutschen Besetzung Österreichs gegen österreichische Bürger wegen Hoch-, Landesverrats und Wehrkraftzersetzung vor den Oberlandesgerichten Wien und Graz geführt wurden. Neben einem Personen-, Orts- und Organisationenregister verfügt der Bnad u. a. über Register zu Richtern, Laienrichtern und Anklägern am Volksgerichtshof und den Oberlandesgerichten in Wien und Graz.

Der Band enthält u.a. folgende Register: Namen-, und Decknamenregister Gruppenregister Ortsregister Register jeweils für die Verfahren vor dem Reichsgericht und dem Reichskriegsgericht Konkordanzen jeweils für die staatsanwaltlichen und die gerichtlichen Aktenzeichen