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Pacific Climate Cultures. Living Climate Change in Oceania
(2018)
This edited volume examines the opportunities to think, do, and/or create jointly afforded by digital storytelling. The contributors discuss digital storytelling in the context of educational programs, teaching anthropology, ...
Papier im mittelalterlichen Europa. Herstellung und Gebrauch
(2015)
Researchers view the switch from parchment to paper as an essential condition for the rapid rise in literacy in Europe during the Late Middle Ages. The first part of this volume focuses on medieval paper production in the ...
Nietzsche, Religion, and Mood
(2019)
This monograph casts new light on Nietzsche’s philosophy of religion by examining the role of mood in the philosopher’s critical project. The novel approach does not only contribute to scholarship on Nietzsche it also ...
Mathematics for the Physical Sciences
(2014)
The book begins with a thorough introduction to complex analysis, which is then used to understand the properties of ordinary differential equations and their solutions. The latter are obtained in both series and integral ...
Perlokutionen
(1987)
Patient Engagement. A Consumer-Centered Model to Innovate Healthcare
(2015)
Patient engagement should be envisaged as a key priority today to innovate healthcare services delivery and to make it more effective and sustainable. The experience of engagement is a key qualifier of the exchange between ...
Philosophisches Wörterbuch
(1953)
Physik und Poetik. Produktionsästhetik und Werkgenese. Autorinnen und Autoren im Dialog
(2015)
Physics and literature are two forms of knowing the world that are both complementary and contingent. Poetical-physical ways of writing and metaphors in physical theories are two sides of a coin. Interviews with Ulrike ...
Planar Dynamical Systems. Selected Classical Problems
(2014)
This book presents in an elementary way the recent significant developments in the qualitative theory of planar dynamical systems. The subjects are covered as follows: the studies of center and isochronous center problems, ...
Planning to cope with tropical and subtropical climate change
(2016)
This book provides examples of climate change characterization and decision-making tools for subtropical and tropical adaptation planning. It is intended for local operators, physical planners, besides researchers and ...
New Directions in Geometric and Applied Knot Theory
(2018)
The aim of this book is to present recent results in both theoretical and applied knot theory—which are at the same time stimulating for leading researchers in the field as well as accessible to non-experts. The ...
The Oracle Bone Inscriptions from Huayuanzhuang East. Translated with an Introduction and Commentary
(2020)
The Huayuanzhuang East oracle bone inscriptions form a corpus of more than 2500 individual divination accounts, which were engraved on turtle shells and bovine scapulae in the late Shang dynasty (c. 1200 B.C.). The book ...
Österreich im KSZE-Prozess 1969-1983. Neutraler Vermittler in humanitärer Mission
(2013)
Austria was active in the CSCE (Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe) negotiations, primarily in the contentious areas of humanitarian issues and human rights. Despite consistent claims of neutrality, Vienna ...
Ost-westliche Erfahrungen der Modernität. Der chinesisch-deutsche Ideenaustausch und die Bewegung des 4. Mai 1919
(2021)
The union of culture and politics that is so characteristic of modern Chinese history gained its first concise expression in the May Fourth Movement of 1919. The essays in this edited volume examine the exchange of ideas ...
Paradigmas y polifuncionalidad. Estudio diacrónico de «preciso»/«precisamente», «justo»/«justamente», «exacto»/«exactamente» y «cabal»/«cabalmente»
(2020)
This study presents a corpus-based semasiologial and onomasiological analysis of the paradigm of adjectives and adverbs of accuracy. Looking specifically at justo / justamente, cabal / cabalmente, preciso / precisamente, ...
Parlamentarismus in Europa. Deutschland, England und Frankreich im Vergleich
(2004)
Im Zentrum des Tagungsbandes steht die Entwicklung des Parlamentarismusin Europa im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Ausgehend vomklassischen liberal-repräsentativen Modell werden dessenVeränderungen und Umformungen bis hin zur ...
Philosophy of the Information Society. Proceedings of the 30th International Ludwig Wittgenstein-Symposium in Kirchberg, 2007
(2008)
This is the second of two volumes of the proceedings from the 30th International Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg, August 2007. It contains selected contributions on the Philosophy of media, Philosophy of the Internet, ...
Pioneers of Zionism: Hess, Pinsker, Rülf Messianism, Settlement Policy, and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
(2013)
The emerging Jewish national consciousness in Europe toward the end of the 19th century claims many spiritual fathers, some of which have been seriously underestimated so far. Zionist intellectuals such as Moses Hess, Leon ...
Measure Theory in Non-Smooth Spaces
(2017)
Analysis in singular spaces is becoming an increasingly important area of research, with motivation coming from the calculus of variations, PDEs, geometric analysis, metric geometry and probability theory, just to mention ...
The Meaning of Space in Sign Language. Reference, Specificity and Structure in Catalan Sign Language Discourse
(2015)
Bringing together sign language linguistics and the semantics-pragmatics interface, this book focuses on the use of signing space in Catalan Sign Language (LSC). On the basis of small-scale corpus data, it provides an ...
Open Source Archaeology. Ethics and Practice
(2015)
This edited volume is designed to discuss important issues around open access to data and software in academic and commercial archaeology, as well as to summarise both the current state of theoretical engagement, and ...
Performing Interpersonal Violence. Court, Curse, and Comedy in Fourth-Century BCE Athens
(2012)
This book offers the first attempt at understanding interpersonal violence in ancient Athens. While the archaic desire for revenge persisted into the classical period, it was channeled by the civil discourse of the democracy. ...
Play development in children with disabilties
(2017)
This book is the result of the first two-year work of Working Group 1 of the network “LUDI – Play for children with disabilities”. LUDI is an Action (2014-2018) financed by COST; it is a multidisciplinary network of more ...
PAINTING THE SKY BLACK. Louis Kahn and the Architectonization of Nature
(2018)
In 1962, Louis I. Kahn described the design of the Salk Institute as having been developed “out of a respect and understanding of the nature of nature,” before adding: “I am becoming increasingly conscious of the architecture ...
New Cosmopolitanisms, Race, and Ethnicity. Cultural Perspectives
(2019)
This anthology sheds new light on cosmopolitanism and culture in the contemporary world. Drawing on postcolonial, ethnic, and critical race studies as well as recent literary and critical theory, it demonstrates that new ...
Materiality, Techniques and Society in Pottery Production The Technological Study of Archaeological Ceramics through Paste Analysis
(2014)
Daniel Albero Santacreu presents a wide overview of certain aspects of the pottery analysis and summarizes most of the methodological and theoretical information currently applied in archaeology in order to develop wide ...
Materialität und Präsenz spätantiker Inschriften. Eine Studie zum Wandel der Inschriftenkultur in den italienischen Provinzen
(2020)
That inscriptions are not only texts but also material objects of specific materiality and presence is one of the recent central insights of ancient epigraphy. This understanding is applied here for the first time ...
Materiality of Writing in Early Mesopotamia
(2016)
This volume presents recent research on the relationship between the material format of text-bearing artefacts, the texts they carry, and their genre. The essays cover a vast period, from the counting stones of the late ...
Measuring Quality. Performance Measurement in Libraries. 2nd revised edition
(2007)
The first edition of this handbook appeared in 1996 and dealt with academic libraries. It gained wide acceptance and was translated into five other languages.After ten years the new edition widens the perspective to public ...
Periphere Räume in der Amerikanistik
(2019)
This volume addresses the notion of the periphery as a concept in cultural studies and the discursive and narrative dimensions of peripheral spaces. Peripheral spaces are defined as those spaces that are controlled and ...
Ort und Zeit. Filmische Heterotopien von Hochbaum bis Tykwer
(2020)
Like any story, the story of film doesn’t just unfold in time it is also linked to the locations in which it is inscribed. The filmic poetics that governed this process at different points in the history of cinema are the ...
Orthopädie
(1953)
Our Neighbours, Ourselves. Contemporary Reflections on Survival
(2011)
Homi K. Bhabha delivered the 2010 Hegel lecture, evoking the spirit of Hegel in an attempt to understand contemporary issues of ethical witness, historical memory and the rights and representations of minorities in the ...
The Poetry and Prose of Wang Wie. Volume 1
(2020)
Wang Wei has traditionally been considered one of the greatest of Tang dynasty poets, together with Li Bo and Du Fu. This is the first complete translation into English of all of his poems, and also the first substantial ...
The Poetry and Prose of Wang Wie. Volume 2
(2020)
Wang Wei has traditionally been considered one of the greatest of Tang dynasty poets, together with Li Bo and Du Fu. This is the first complete translation into English of all of his poems, and also the first substantial ...
Ninth European Powder Diffraction Conference – Prague, September 2-5, 2004
(2006)
Zeitschrift für Kristallographie. Supplement Volume 23 presents the complete Proceedings of all contributions to the IX European Powder Diffraction Conference in Prague 2004: Method Development and Application, Instrumental, ...
Non-locality and Possible World. A Counterfactual Perspective on Quantum Entanglement
(2006)
This book uses the formal semantics of counterfactual conditionals to analyze the problem of non-locality in quantum mechanics. Counterfactual conditionals (subjunctive conditionals) enter the analysis of quantum entangled ...
Novel Molecular Approaches to Target Microbial Virulence
(2015)
Microbial infections still represent one of the major causes of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Irrational usage of antimicrobials has lead to increased resistance, causing clinical, social and economical disabilities. ...
Opfernarrative in transnationalen Kontexten
(2020)
This edited volume examines the representation of victims beyond the categories of the “victim cult,” self-victimization, and the victim–perpetrator dichotomy. Adopting a transnational perspective, it mainly considers ...
Palpation für das Beckenbodentraining
(2014)
This book provides information about this rather uncommon technique and lists the indications, applications and advantages of vaginal palpation.
Phenomenology as Grammar
(2008)
This volume gathers papers, which were read at the congress held at the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Toledo (Spain), in September 2007, under the general subject of phenomenology. The book is devoted to Wittgenstein’s ...
Pierre Viénot (1897-1944). Ein Intellektueller in der Politik
(2005)
Pierre Viénot ist eine Schlüsselgestalt der deutsch-französischen Gesellschafts- und Kulturbeziehungen in den zwanziger Jahren. Gaby Sonnabend zeichnet erstmals ein Gesamtbild von Viénots Denken und Handeln von den zwanziger ...
Nicht-Naives Erzählen. Folgen der Erzählkrise am Beispiel biografischer Schreibweisen bei Helmut Krausser
(2018)
What is “naïve narrative” and to what extent should we regard it as obsolete? This study examines the poetological effects of the modern crisis in narration on German literature at the turn of the century based on the ...
Non-Extensive Entropy Econometrics for Low Frequency Series. National Accounts-Based Inverse Problems
(2017)
Non-extensive Entropy Econometrics for Low Frequency Series provides a new and robust power-law-based, non-extensive entropy econometrics approach to the economic modelling of ill-behaved inverse problems. Particular ...
Novalis, der Romantiker
(1901)
Optik. Mit 1 Ausschlagtafel
(1972)
Perspectives and research on play for children with disabilities. Collected papers
(2020)
This book includes eight chapters reflecting various approaches towards the theme of play for children with disabilities that characterised the work of the members of the COST Action TD1309 “LUDI–Play for Children with ...
Petrarch and Boccaccio. The Unity of Knowledge in the Pre-modern World
(2018)
The early modern and modern cultural world in the West would be unthinkable without Petrarch and Boccaccio. Despite this fact, there is still no scholarly contribution entirely devoted to analysing their intellectual ...
Plug&Play Places. Lifeworlds of Multilocal Creative Knowledge Workers
(2014)
In post-industrial societies more and more people earn an income in creative knowledge work, a highly flexible labour market segment that demands a geographically mobile workforce. Creative knowledge work is based on an ...
Photogrammetrie
(1952)
Proceeding of The 13th International Conference onMalaysia-Indonesia Relations (PAHMI). Contributions of Humanities and Social Sciences on the Direction of Malay Studies in the Era of Industry 4.0
(2019)
Description This conference is aimed at promoting deeper understanding and relations between Malaysia and Indonesia at an academic, inter-societal and non-state level. It also seeks to encourage cooperation between ...
Proceeding of The 4th International Seminar on Linguistics (ISOL-4). Language in Disruptive Technology
(2019)
Description The rapid development of technology has led to a borderless community which may affect social life, including language. Through the disruptive technology of the era, the issue of language use and how technology ...
Quarks and Letters. Natural Sciences in Contemporary Literature and Culture
(2015)
Issues and insights from the fields of brain research, quantum mechanics, and evolutionary theory have passed into novels, and physicists and biologists often use rhetorical metaphors to communicate and even evoke their ...
Die Professoren der Universität Rostock im Dritten Reich. Ein biographisches Lexikon
(2007)
This encyclopaedia contains biographical portraits of the 189 professors who worked at the University of Rostock between 1932 and 1945. It represents the first complete list of professors at a German university during the ...
Psychology and Law: Research for practice
(2020)
Scope The Conference Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the European Association of Psychology and Law, 2019, will consist of empirical researches, meta-analytic reviews and systematic reviews of topics dealing with ...
Das Publikum politischer Theorie im 14. Jahrhundert
(1992)
Der Band fragt bezogen auf einen engen Zeitraum, die erste Hälfte des 14. Jahrhunderts, nach dem Publikum der politischen Theorie. Die Fächer der Beiträge sind weit gespannt, die nachweisbare Überlieferung und Herausbildung ...
Reform des deutschen Namensrechts
(2020)
Die Regelungsdichte im deutschen Namensrecht nimmt beständig zu. Anatol Dutta zeigt nicht nur die Ursachen für den Reformbedarf im Namensrecht auf. Er wirft auch einen Blick auf mögliche Grundzüge eines zeitgemäßen ...
Polymer Engineering
(2017)
Polymer Engineering focuses on the preparation and application of polymers in several hot topics such as artificial photosynthesis, water purification by membrane technologies, and biodiesel production from wastewater ...
The Post-Human Society. Elemental Contours of the Aesthetic Economy of the United States
(2015)
The Post-Human Society is a rich, unique, path-breaking, belletristic and literary 'crie de coeur' work - a lyrical expose of all the internal infelicities (social, political, aesthetic) of the United States of America. ...
Pressekriege. Öffentlichkeit und Diplomatie in den deutsch-britischen Beziehungen (1896-1912)
(2007)
Taking German-British „newspaper wars“ as an example, this study looks at the interaction between the emerging mass press and foreign policy, traditionally conducted as secret diplomacy, in the 25 years before the First ...
Probability and Statistics. A Course for Physicists and Engineers
(2018)
This book offers an introduction to concepts of probability theory, probability distributions relevant in the applied sciences, as well as basics of sampling distributions, estimation and hypothesis testing. As a companion ...
Poetry and truth
(1974)
Paulus als Erzähler? Eine narratologische Perspektive auf die Paulusbriefe
(2020)
In recent Pauline research, the critical importance of implicit narratives for understanding the apostle’s Epistles gained importance. The study examines this in a critical analysis using narrative theory and text linguistics. ...
The Purpose of the First World War. War Aims and Military Strategies
(2015)
Ten million soldiers died during the First World War. But why, and for what reason? The Great War is widely seen as a pointless carnage (Pope Benedict XV). Was there a point, at least in the eyes of the political and ...
Proceedings of the enviBUILD 2019. Buildings and Environment
(2020)
The enviBUILD conferences are organized annually by one of the Central European universities. They are building on the legacy of the Buildings and Environment Conferences held by the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the ...
De Pseudo-Luciani Amoribus
(1907)
Politische Theorien des 19. Jahrhunderts
(2002)
Der vorliegende Sammelband soll dazu anregen, sich auf den Spuren der wichtigsten politischen Theoretiker des 19. Jahrhunderts mit den Grundlagen unseres politischen Denkens zu beschäftigen und dabei hinter die Kulissen ...
Pore Scale Geochemical Processes
(2015)
This RiMG (Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry) volume includes contributions that review experimental, characterization, and modeling advances in our understanding of pore-scale geochemical processes. The volume had its ...
Die Politik der Sowjetischen Militäradministration in Deutschland (SMAD): Kultur, Wissenschaft und Bildung 1945-1949. Ziele, Methoden, Ergebnisse. Dokumente aus russischen Archiven
(2005)
This edition provides an introduction to the wide range of policies applied in the Soviet Occupation Zone (SBZ) with respect to the areas of culture, education and science. Carefully selected and translated documents shed ...
