Publications
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Working and Learning in Times of Uncertainty: Challenges to Adult, Professional and Vocational Education
(2015)
This book analyses the challenges of globalisation and uncertainty impacting on working and learning at individual, organisational and societal levels. Readership: Educational Researchers and their students
The Principle of Equality in Diverse States
(2021)
This book examines different approaches by which states characterised by federal or decentralized arrangements reconcile equality and autonomy. In case studies from four continents, leading experts analyse the challenges ...
“Hard Power” and the European Convention on Human Rights
(2020)
The European Convention on Human Rights is now crucial to decisions to be taken by the military and their political leaders in ‘hard power’ situations – that is, classical international and non-international armed conflict, ...
Involving Readers
(2024)
This volume explores how and by whom early modern Dutch Bibles were used. Through a detailed analysis of paratextual features and readers’ traces in over 180 surviving Bible copies, Renske Hoff shows how individuals ...
New Approaches to the Study of Esotericism
(2020)
This volume offers new approaches to some of the biggest persistent challenges in the study of esotericism and beyond. Commonly understood as a particularly “Western” undertaking consisting of religious, philosophical, and ...
Ancient Worlds in Digital Culture
(2016)
The volume presents a selection of research projects in Digital Humanities applied to the “Biblical Studies” in the widest sense and context. Taken as a whole, the volume restitutes the merging Digital Culture at the ...
Nicole Oresme, Questiones in Meteorologica de ultima lectura, recensio parisiensis
(2021)
Nicole Oresme was one of the most original and influential thinkers of the fourteenth century. He is best known for his mathematical discoveries, his economic theories, as well as his vernacular translations of cosmological ...
The Hajj and Europe in the Age of Empire
(2016)
The present volume focuses on the political perceptions of the Hajj, its global religious appeal to Muslims, and the European struggle for influence and supremacy in the Muslim world in the age of pre-colonial and colonial ...
Philo of Alexandria and Philosophical Discourse
(2024)
Greek authors likened “philosophical discourse” in the Hellenistic and Roman eras to an orchard. Logic, physics, and ethics served as the orchard walls, the trees, and the fruit of this enterprise. In a similar manner, ...
Die Zerstörung Dresdens 13. bis 15. Februar 1945
(2010)
Dieser Band enthält die zentralen Ergebnisse der »Dresdner Historikerkommission zur Ermittlung der Opferzahlen der Luftangriffe auf die Stadt Dresden am 13./14. Februar 1945«, die erstmalig sämtliche verfügbaren Quellen ...