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Moral Design and Green Technology
(2025)
Welcome to the Anthropocene, the era in which humans have put a tangible mark on our planet. But also the era in which humans and technology have the potential to shape the necessary transitions towards a sustainable world. ...
Die Erfindung des Hungerstreiks
(2023)
Hungerstreiks gehören zu den bedeutendsten Protestformen der Gegenwart. Das Buch untersucht ihre »Erfindung« und Etablierung in den USA in transnationaler Perspektive. Eng an den Akteur:innen und ihren Lebenswelten orientiert, ...
Shrines in a Fluid Space: The Shaping of New Holy Sites in the Ionian Islands, the Peloponnese and Crete under Venetian Rule (14th-16th Centuries)
(2022)
In Shrines in a Fluid Space, Argyri Dermitzaki offers a study of the cultic phenomena and sites visited by late medieval pilgrims in the Ionian Sea, the Peloponnese and Crete.; Readership: All interested in the cultic ...
Christlich-akademische Judentumsforschung im Dienst der NS-Rassenideologie und -Politik
(2021)
80 Jahre nach dem „Sondereinsatz“ des Tübinger Privatdozenten Karl Georg Kuhn in Warschau, zur „Inspektion“ der Bibliothek der Jüdischen Gemeinde und zur „Untersuchung des ostjüdischen Problems, solange die Gelegenheit ...
Greening International Jurisprudence
(2013)
Greening International Jurisprudence: Environmental NGOs before International Courts, Tribunals, and Compliance Committees examines how international judicial and quasi-judicial bodies enforce international environmental ...
The Autonomy of the Åland Islands
(2024)
Published on occasion of the 100 year anniversary of the Åland Islands’ autonomy, this book brings up and discusses a number of challenging issues, from constitutional and international law perspectives, concerning both ...
Phänomenale Adäquatheit und Irreduzibilität des Bewusstseins
(2020)
1. Situierung der Dissertation Die Dissertation befasst sich in allgemeiner Hinsicht mit dem so genannten «hard problem» der Philosophie des Geistes. Dieses wird als die moderne Version des schwierigsten Teils des ehemaligen ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 6 (1996)
(1998)
The Asian Yearbook of International Law is a major refereed publication dedicated to international law issues as seen primarily from an Asian perspective. Readership: Academics and practitioners who deal with international ...
The Matter of Piety
(2020)
The Matter of Piety provides the fi rst in-depth study of Zoutleeuw’s exceptionally well-preserved pilgrimage church in a comparative perspective, and revaluates religious art and material culture in Netherlandish piety ...
Anthologisches Schreiben
(2022)
„Anthologisches Schreiben“ untersucht, wie Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Walter Benjamin und Rudolf Borchardt ihre schriftstellerische Praxis als Traditionspolitik begreifen und modellieren. Die Analyse zeichnet die mind map ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 22 (2016)
(2018)
The Yearbook aims to promote research, studies and writings in the field of international law in Asia, as well as to provide an intellectual platform for the discussion and dissemination of Asian views and practices on ...
The Surviving Remnant
(2024)
This volume features 72 documents (in Yiddish, English, Hebrew, and German) created between 1945 and 1949, that complicate standard representations of the highly variegated community of Jewish Displaced Persons (DPs) in ...
Illegal Annexation and State Continuity
(2022)
This volume, now in its second and revised edition, deals with the legal status of the three Baltic States - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - as a consequence of the illegality of the Soviet annexation in 1940-1991. It ...
Identifikationspotenziale in den Psalmen
(2019)
Ausgezeichnet mit dem Kardinal-Innitzer-Förderungspreis 2017.
Wie ist es möglich, dass Lesende in literarische Texte einsteigen und diese »hautnah« miterleben? Von dieser Frage ausgehend erforscht Sigrid Eder die ...
Mapping the Pāśupata Landscape
(2020)
In Mapping the Pāśupata Landscape Elizabeth A. Cecil presents a spatial and material history of the Pāśupata tradition and examines the formation of a Śaiva religious landscape in Early Medieval India. Readership: All ...
Fleischwissen
(2024)
Fleischproduktion und Fleischkonsum stehen seit Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts zunehmend in der Kritik. Gesundheit, Tierethik und Klimawandel sind wesentliche Gründe. Fleisch ist sowohl zu einer Metapher für einen rücksichtslosen ...
The Twentieth Century in European Memory
(2017)
The Twentieth Century in European Memory investigates contested and divisive memories. Focusing on questions of transculturality and reception, the book looks at ways in which such memories are being shared, debated and ...
The Distributed Image
(2023)
The ubiquity of digital images is an effect of their distributive versatility. They can be stored almost indefinitely, transmitted instantaneously, reproduced without any effort, visualized in many ways, datafied and ...
African Thresholds: Borders and Places of Passage in Africa, c.1450 to Present
(2025)
The Open Access publication of this book has been made possible by the Swiss National Science Foundation. What is a border, and why does it exist? Reappraising a key idea from Arnold van Gennep’s Les rites de passage, this ...
Scholarship in Action: Essays on the Life and Work of Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936)
(2022)
The Dutch scholar Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857–1936) was one of the most famous orientalists of his time. He acquired early fame through his daring research in Mecca in 1884-85, masterly narrated in two books and ...
What Politics?
(2017)
What Politics? Youth and Political Engagement in Africa examines the diverse experiences of being young in today’s Africa. It offers new perspectives to the roles and positions young people take to change their life ...
Educating Multilingual Students in Rural Schools
(2023)
Illuminating issues of diversity at the intersection of rural education and multilingual learners (ML) in the United States, this edited volume brings forth new research that captures the importance of place and rurality ...
The Morisco Diaspora and the Morisco Networks across the Mediterranean
(2025)
The expulsion of the Moriscos from Habsburg Spain between 1609 and 1614 represents the largest expulsion of a minority in Europe in the early modern period, an important episode of ethnic, political and religious cleansing ...
The Religion and Rituals of the Nomads of Pre-Islamic Arabia
(2022)
This book presents a reconstruction of pre-Islamic Arabian religion based on epigraphic and archaeological sources.
Marianne Werefkin and the Women Artists in Her Circle
(2016)
The volume traces the relationships between Marianne Werefkin and the women artists in her circle. Specifically focusing on issues of cosmopolitan culture, transcultural dialogue, gender roles, and the building of new ...
The Land between Two Seas: Art on the Move in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea 1300–1700
(2022)
The Land Between Two Seas: Art on the Move in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea 1300-1700 focuses on the strong riverine ties that connect the seas of the Mediterranean system (from the Western Mediterranean through the ...
Familienunternehmer als externe Beiräte
(2019)
Firmeninhaber berufen gerne andere Familienunternehmer als externe Mitglieder in ihre Beiräte. Aber welche Erwartungen verbinden sie mit dieser Berufung? Und wie zufrieden sind sie mit dem Ergebnis? In seiner Studie führt ...
Der Pyrenäenfriede 1659
(2010)
Der Pyrenäenfriede von 1659 beendete den seit 1635 geführten französisch-spanischen Krieg. Seine Vorgeschichte mit den zahlreichen vergeblichen Versuchen, den Frieden schon früher zu erzwingen, zeigt, dass es um mehr ging ...
Mannen in het draagnet
(1974)
Regional and national history
Common Man, Society and Religion in the 16th century/Gemeiner Mann, Gesellschaft und Religion im 16. Jahrhundert
(2021)
Der zweisprachige Sammelband vereinigt zum Teil bahnbrechende Ergebnisse einer interdisziplinären Forschungstagung, deren Beiträge sozial-, wirtschafts-, kultur- und kirchengeschichtliche Aspekte der Frühneuzeit im ...
Katechetischer Schriftgebrauch im frühmittelalterlichen Konstantinopel
(2024)
The Holy Scripture was used as a form of pre- and postbaptismal catechesis in early medieval Constantinople. This volume presents an examination of the theological content communicated to catechumens through the Bible, and ...
Politics and Aesthetics in European Baroque and Classicist Tragedy
(2016)
Politics and Aesthetics in European Baroque and Classicist Tragedy is a volume of essays investigating European tragedy in the seventeenth century, comparing Shakespeare, Vondel, Gryphius, Racine and other vernacular ...
Jüdische Gemeindestatuten aus dem aschkenasischen Kulturraum 1650–1850 (Edition 1)
(2013)
Jüdische Gemeinden in Europa pflegten bereits seit dem Mittelalter den Brauch, Regelwerke zu schaffen, die die Grundrichtlinien für das gewollte Verhalten innerhalb der meist autonomen Gemeinschaften zusammenfassten, aber ...
Tang Junyi
(2017-02-15)
Both inside and outside of China, there have been heated debates about Confucian democracy, Confucian values and ethics, and Confucian alternatives to Western models of modernization. In many respects, however, the discussions ...
Aufbruch in Grenzen
(2024)
The volume examines the development of the role and profession of Catholic women from the 1960s to the 1980s in the Federal Republic of Germany. Based on the example of the Catholic University of Applied Sciences of North ...
Feminist Animal and Multispecies Studies: Critical Perspectives on Food and Eating
(2023)
This book develops critical feminist animal and multispecies studies across various societal and environmental contexts. The chapters discuss timely questions broadly related to food and eating, stemming from connections ...
States at Work
(2014)
States at Work explores the mundane practices of state-making in Africa by focussing on the daily functioning of public services and the practices of civil servants. Readership: Anthropologists and political scientists, ...
Bibliotheken in der NS-Zeit
(2019)
Das Schicksal von in der NS-Zeit entzogenem Kulturgut ist seit den 1990er Jahren verstärkt Gegenstand von Provenienzforschung. Dieser Band vereint neueste Erkenntnisse der Provenienzforschung in Bibliotheken und liefert ...
Kulturlandschaften in Deutschland und Polen
(2020)
Was verstehen wir unter Kulturlandschaften? Der vorliegende Band befasst sich mit unterschiedlichen Verständnissen, Deutungen und Bewertungen von Kulturlandschaft, die sich auf deutsche, polnische und bilaterale Untersuchungen ...
Geschichtsoptimismus und Katastrophenbewusstsein
(2022)
Aktuelle Kontroversen um die „Singularität des Holocaust" übergehen oftmals, dass es nach 1945 einige Zeit dauerte, bis die Ermordung der europäischen Jüdinnen und Juden in das Bewusstsein der europäischen Gesellschaften ...
Sharīʿa in Africa Today
(2013)
Sharīʿa in Africa Today. Reactions and Responses explores how Islamic law has influenced relations between Muslims and Christians, through a series of case studies by young African scholars working in Sudan, Nigeria, Kenya ...
Narratives at Play in Aeschylus
(2025)
The strong presence of embedded narratives in Aeschylus is often explained as a sign of the immaturity of the tragic genre in his time. Narratives at Play in Aeschylus analyses narrative features which were ostensibly ...
Playing On: Re-staging the Passion after the Death of God
(2020)
In Playing On: Re-staging the Passion after the Death of God, Mirella Klomp shows how the Dutch playfully rediscover Christian heritage. Engaging theologically with a public Passion play, she demonstrates how precisely a ...
International Submarine Cables and Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction
(2017)
In International Submarine Cables and Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction, Douglas R. Burnett and Lionel Carter closely examine the relationship between trans-oceanic submarine cables and biodiversity in ...