Publications
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Translating Early Modern Science (Volume 51)
(2017)
Translating Early Modern Science explores the roles of translation and the practices of translators in early modern Europe. In a period when multiple European vernaculars challenged the hegemony long held by Latin as the ...
Sikh News in India, 1864-1924
(2024)
This handbook, divided into four volumes, presents the first English translations of newspaper articles about the Sikhs published in the weekly press reports for Punjab between 1864 and 1924. Covering press material from ...
Nagaoka
(2008)
This comprehensive account of the Nagaoka capital discusses the capital's construction and layout, and investigates the motivations behind the establishment and abrupt abandonment of Nagaoka within the context of Kanmu's ...
Coaching-Prozessforschung
(2018)
Das Buch bildet den State of the Art der aktuellen Coaching-Prozessforschung ab. Forscherinnen und Forscher unterschiedlicher Disziplinen – mehrheitlich auch erfolgreich praktizierende Coaches – präsentieren dazu ihre ...
Women and Crime in Post-Transitional South African Crime Fiction
(2020)
In this ground-breaking study, Sabine Binder analyses the complex ways in which female crime fictional victims, detectives and perpetrators in South African crime fiction resonate with widespread and persistent real crimes ...
Sozialgeschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
(2024)
This socio-historical study examines the changing conditions of scientific work and the transformation of professional collaborations in basic research, using the Max Planck Society as an example in the second half of the ...
Material Perspectives on Religion, Conflict, and Violence
(2022)
How do objects become contested in settings characterized by (violent) conflict? Why are some things contested by religious actors? How do religious actors mobilize things in conflict situations and how are conflict and ...
Regulation of Risk
(2022)
Regulation of Risk provides comprehensive insight into regulation of risk in transport, trade and environment. Contributions provide national, regional and international perspectives on pressing questions: How is risk ...
Economics and Mathematical Modeling in Health-Related Research
(2022)
The definition of a healthcare system evolves continuously, becoming broader and more complex with each rendering. Healthcare systems can consist of many different elements, including but not limited to: access to comprehensive ...
Enhancing the Value of Teacher Education Research
(2024)
This book invites us to critically reflect on the value of research in, on and for teacher education. It explores the nature and role of teacher education research and identifies ways to enhance its value for policy and ...
Das Werk im Werk
(2022)
Werke, die sowohl einzeln als auch simultan aufgeführt werden können, schaffen Möglichkeiten das „Werk“ neu zu denken. Denn die monologisch geschlossene Anlage des einzelnen Werks wird durch ein weiteres Werk geöffnet und ...
WTO Law and Trade Policy Reform for Low-Carbon Technology Diffusion
(2021)
In WTO Law and Trade Policy Reform for Low-Carbon Technology Diffusion, Zaker Ahmad puts a spotlight on the crucial importance of dismantling market barriers and offering incentives to improve clean technology access and ...
Design of a Worker Cooperatives Society
(2023)
What would an alternative to contemporary capitalism look like? In this book, Geert Reuten sets out a detailed design of a democratic society organised in worker cooperatives, followed by an equally detailed democratic ...
Lire l’Histoire générale des Antilles de J.-B. Du Tertre
(2021)
This book examines the historical ramiÿ cations of the concept of exoticism through a literary analysis of Histoire générale des Antilles written by the Dominican missionary Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre. The study gives a ...
Topographie des Reiches Gottes
(2020)
In der „Sammlung auserlesener Materien zum Bau des Reiches Gottes“ und ihren Fortsetzungsserien, eine der erfolgreichsten pietistischen Zeitschriften des 18. Jahrhunderts, wurden Nachrichten aus aller Welt publiziert, die ...
Humanity
(2016)
This volume investigates the development of the concepts and practices of “humanity” from the sixteenth century up to the present. By taking a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the contributers focus on Europe ...
Controversial Poetry 1400–1625
(2020)
How to deal with conflicts? Poetry played a crucial role in dealing with religious and political conflicts from 1400 until 1625. All over Europe there was a lively debate. Controversial poetry presents historical controversies ...
Severus Pius Augustus
(2011)
The Roman Emperor Septimius Severus (193-211 A.D.) originated from the North-African town of Lepcis Magna. His reign is seen as a time in which profound changes within Roman society became evident resulting in many provincials ...
International Disinformation
(2024)
Dive into the world of disinformation with this groundbreaking book. Uncover how Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) shapes modern politics and society, and how it impacts your own life. Explore answers ...
Creating and Sharing Legal Knowledge in the Twelfth Century
(2022)
The Decretum Gratiani is the cornerstone of medieval canon law, and the manuscript St Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 673 an essential witness to its evolution. The studies in this volume focus on that manuscript, providing ...
Media and Education
(2025)
In this volume, we explore critical questions about Norway's hidden history of racism and its implications today. Why has Norway largely overlooked its role in the transatlantic slave trade? How do media representations ...
Like Dust on the Silk Road
(2025)
"How did the Tocharians reach China?" "Who did they meet on the way?” are some of the most intriguing questions in Indo-European studies. This book is zooming in on a specific part of the question: on their way to China, ...
Eating Words, Food in Modern Arabic Literature
(2025)
How is food portrayed in Arabic novels? In literature, food is more than mere sustenance—it carries layered meanings. This multilingual collection brings together experts in Arabic literature to examine the complex ...
Syriac Theology: Past and Present
(2023)
This volume takes us back to the roots of Christianity and exemplifies the significance of Syriac Theology for our time. Bringing together articles by scholars from diverse disciplines, this volume aims at a deeper ...
Omani Mehri
(2018)
This book contains a comprehensive grammatical description of Mehri, an unwritten Semitic language spoken in the Dhofar region of Oman, along with a corpus of more than one hundred texts. Topics in phonology, all aspects ...
Franz Waxman: Zwischen Filmmusik und Konzertsaal
(2024)
This book examines musical careers in the 20th century, focusing on the Hollywood composer Franz Waxman (1906–1967). The perspective "between film music and the concert hall" illuminates both the composer's diverse ...
L'Académie de Lausanne entre Humanisme et Réforme (ca. 1537-1560)
(2011)
Based on a vast body of archival sources, this book examines the development and the operations of the Lausanne Academy, the first Protestant Academy of Higher Education created in a French-speaking territory, and an ...
Japan's Territory under International Law
(2024)
This volume sheds light on Japan's territorial situation from a unique perspective by analyzing the historical evolution of the concept of “territory” and the various legal theories on resolving territorial disputes. Each ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 18 (2012)
(2016)
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 ...
Jade-Carving Chisel and Luminous Ocean
(2024)
Jao Tsung-i’s scholarship illuminated the development of classical Chinese literature from antiquity through the end of the Qing dynasty. In this volume, eight interviews with and essays by Jao are translated faithfully ...
Faith in African Lived Christianity
(2019)
Faith in African Lived Christianity brings together anthropology and theology in the study of how faith shapes the understanding of social life in Africa. It offers discussions on positionality, method, and political, ...
Implementing International Watercourses Law through the WEF Nexus and SDGs
(2020)
Implementing International Watercourses Law through the WEF Nexus and SDGs: An Integrated Approach Illustrated in the Zambezi River Basin offers an innovative approach to the governance of shared watercourses and the ...
Jung, weiblich, jüdisch – deutsch?
(2020)
Eine Liebeserklärung an Deutschland der jüdischen Autorin Lena Gorelik in ihrem semi-autobiografischen Text »Lieber Mischa« wirft die Frage auf, ob der Holocaust noch immer Ausgangspunkt und zentrales Merkmal des ...
The Skandapurāṇa III
(2013)
Skandapurāṇa III presents a critical edition of the Vindhyavāsinī Cycle (Adhyāyas 34.1-61, 53-69) from the Skandapurāṇa , with an introduction and annotated English synopsis.The work is currently only available in print ...
News in Early Modern Europe
(2014)
News in Early Modern Europe presents new research on the nature, production, and dissemination of a variety of forms of news writing from across Europe during the early modern period. Readership: Postgraduate and undergraduate ...
The Politics of Multifaith
(2024)
In this book, Ryszard Bobrowicz discusses why seemingly neutral rooms, multi-faith spaces, were subject to contestations from, and clashes between, their users, their managers, and those shaping policies concerning them. ...
Wirkung im Coaching
(2018)
In der heutigen Zeit ist Coaching weit verbreitet und wird in unterschiedlichen Situationen nachgefragt. Von beruflichen Veränderungen über Lebenskrisen bis hin zu Wohnortwechseln reichen die Anlässe, die Menschen im ...
Ancient Manuscripts in Digital Culture
(2019)
Ancient Manuscripts in Digital Culture presents an overview of the digital turn in Ancient Jewish and Christian manuscripts visualisation, data mining and communication, edited by David Hamidović, Claire Clivaz and Sarah ...
Im Auftrag der Wahrheit
(2021)
What kind of arguments do 20th Century philosophers use to justify and legitimize their own discipline? By reconstructing the positioning established by the three prominent philosophical “paradigms” Phenomenology, Vienna ...
Architecture and Asceticism: Cultural interaction between Syria and Georgia in Late Antiquity
(2018)
In Architecture and Asceticism Loosley Leeming explores the links between Syria and Georgia in late antiquity. The book takes an inter-disciplinary approach and examines the question from archaeological, art historical, ...