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Understanding Crime Trends in a Hybrid Society
(2025)
This open access book critically revisits 30 years of debate surrounding the evolution of crime trends, aiming to reconcile various hypotheses and controversies. It scrutinizes the concept of the "crime drop," highlighting ...
Dynasty Divided
(2023)
Winner of the W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize
Dynasty Divided uses the story of a prominent Kievan family of journalists, scholars, and politicians to analyze the emergence of rivaling nationalisms in nineteenth-century ...
Chapter 7 Visual Perception in Dante's Commedia According to the Early Commentaries (1320–1400)
(2025)
Dante’s Visions: Crossing Sights on Natural Philosophy, Theory of Vision, and Medicine in the Divine Comedy and Beyond offers a fascinating insight into Dante’s engagement with the science of his time, particularly with ...
Counting on Computers
(2024)
Counting on Computers is a compelling exploration of socialist ambitions for a computerised future in the German Democratic Republic. It examines the authoritarian leadership's positive vision of socialist computerisation ...
»Schizophrenie« in der Alltagssprache
(2024)
Since it was coined in 1908, the term schizophrenia has undergone a remarkable transformation. As well as being a medical diagnosis, the term is now also used to describe contradictory situations and as an everyday insult. ...
Religion und Politik in Christentum und Islam
(2024)
Why do Christianity and Islam approach their relationship to politics in distinct ways? Because they each have their own "grammar." Their canonical scriptures have different contents their early experiences of politics ...
Réinventer l’art sacré
(2024)
During the first half of the 20th century, artists all over Europe investigated religious art and tried to renew its forms of expression. In Switzerland, an artistic society known as the "Groupe de Saint-Luc" was particularly ...
Luxus-Praktiken in der Literatur der Aufklärung
(2024)
Modern human identity has been shaped by consumer practices. Contemporary discourses about consumption between addiction and self-determination have their origins in the eighteenth-century luxury debate. This volume is the ...
A Show of Hands
(2024)
In contrast to the divide between conception and execution advocated by Anglo-American artists in the second half of the 1960s, this book reappraises conceptual art by examining it from the perspective of craft. Furthermore, ...
The Imperial Qín Dynasty
(2024)
The Lǐyē 里耶 text corpus is one of the basic reference points when it comes to the research of pre-imperial and early imperial documents, and grants unique opportunities to redefine our knowledge about social, legal, ...