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Infrastrukturen
(2019)
Why reflect on infrastructures? Today, we are experiencing a breathtaking expansion and intensification of infrastructural interconnections around the globe. At the same time, infrastructures have also become the explicit ...
Homo absconditus. Helmuth Plessners Philosophische Anthropologie im Vergleich
(2020)
This volume examines the specifics of Plessner's philosophy in comparison with the conceptions of Dewey, Freud, Habermas, Heidegger, Jaspers, Kant, Nietzsche, v. Uexküll and today's brain, cognition and behavioral research. ...
Hugenotten und deutsche Territorialstaaten. Immigrationspolitik und Integrationsprozesse / Les États allemands et les huguenots. Politique d’immigration et processus d’intégration
(2007)
Der vorliegende Sammelband analysiert in komparatistischer und transnationaler Perspektive die Immigration und Integration von Hugenotten in unterschiedlichen deutschen Territorien. Er zeigt, wie deutsche Landesherren auf ...
Human Computer Confluence. Transforming Human Experience Through Symbiotic Technologies
(2016)
Human-computer confluence refers to an invisible, implicit, embodied or even implanted interaction between humans and system components. New classes of user interfaces are emerging that make use of several sensors and are ...
Humanidades Digitales. Miradas hacia la Edad Media
(2019)
The contributions gathered in this volume show how digital technologies can be applied to Medieval Studies (Philology, Art, and History) in order to improve our understanding of medieval societies and cultures.
An Historical Geography of Tourism in Victoria, Australia Case Studies
(2014)
A Historical Geography of Tourism in Victoria, Australia – Case studies is concerned with the emergence of tourism in colonial Victoria, Australia. It explores a fundamental set of questions: how does a tourist site come ...
Imagining Human Rights
(2015)
Why is it that human rights are considered inviolable norms of justice at local and global scales although the number of their violations has steadily increased in modern history? On the surface, this paradox seems to be ...
IMDIS. A Teaching Tool for Air Pollution Dispersion Modelling
(2020)
This book intends to give both course instructors and undergraduate students a tool to follow-up on a better comprehension of APM with the aid of hands-on user-friendly software, highlighting the main advantages of using ...
Information and Communications Technology in the 21st Century Classroom
(2014)
Are you a student who wants to become an effective teacher in the 21st century? Maybe you are a teacher already? Would you like to learn how to take advantage of educational technologies in order to achieve your pedagogic ...
Initiation into the Mysteries of the Ancient World
(2014)
The ancient Mysteries have long attracted the interest of scholars, an interest that goes back at least to the time of the Reformation. After a period of interest around the turn of the twentieth century, recent decades ...
Inhaltskontrolle von Arbeitsverträgen. Vortrag, gehalten vor der Juristischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin am 13. September 2006
(2007)
Before the reform of law of contract the law on protection from inequitable standard business conditions was not applicable to contracts of employment. One objective of the modernization of contract law was to raise the ...
Innovation Technology. A Dictionary
(2017)
Innovation from A to Z presents a glossary, including: Terms, older terms whose meanings have changed, acronyms, synonyms, famous names, selected abbreviations, and cross-references. A highly interdisciplinary approach ...
Historyblogosphere. Bloggen in den Geschichtswissenschaften
(2013)
For the first time in the German language historical disciplines, a book has been subject to open peer review as it was developed. All contributions were discussed online with comments. The ‘history blogosphere’ has thereby ...
Horace’s Sermones Book 1. Credentials for Maecenas
(2019)
This monograph interprets Sermones book 1 as a collection of Horace's credentials for Maecenas and traces his efforts in getting accepted as an associate of the latter after his miscalculation in joining Brutus. Although ...
Housing Capital
(2017)
Throughout history, houses have been an economic resource as much as a means of social, political and cultural agency. From the early modern period to the 20th century, the multifaceted capital of houses linked individuals, ...
Abgrund Metz. Kriegserfahrung, Belagerungsalltag und nationale Erziehung im Schatten einer Festung 1870/71
(2002)
Der Krieg um Metz und die Belagerung der Festung im Jahre 1870 gehören zu den eher vernachlässigten Ereignissen des Deutsch-Französischen Krieges. Von den symbolisch hoch aufgeladenen und in der Erinnerung tief verankerten ...
Abraham Abulafia’s Esotericism. Secrets and Doubt
(2020)
This book focuses on Abraham Abulafia's esoteric thought in relation to Maimonides, Maimonideans, and Islamic thought in the line of Leo Strauss' theory of the history of philosophy. A survey of Abulafia's sources leads ...
Abschied vom Kalten Krieg? Die Sozialdemokraten und der Nachrüstungsstreit (1977-1987)
(2016)
The controversy about NATO`s Double-Track Decision unsettled West German society in the 1980s. It especially affected the Social Democrats, who were split between the policies of their Chancellor and the peace movement. ...
Absolutismus, ein unersetzliches Forschungskonzept? L'absolutisme, un concept irremplaçable? Eine deutsch-französische Bilanz. Une mise au point franco-allemande
(2014)
Die Frühe Neuzeit kannte eine Vielzahl von Diskursen, Performanzen und Repräsentationen, die auf eine Überhöhung des Monarchen abzielten, ohne sich jedoch zu einer kohärenten Gesamtheit zusammenzufügen. Ist das umfassende ...
Absorptions-Spektralanalyse
(1951)
Applications
(2021)
An increasing complexity of models used to predict real-world systems leads to the need for algorithms to replace complex models with far simpler ones, while preserving the accuracy of the predictions. This three-volume ...
Applied Ontology. An Introduction
(2013)
Ontology is the philosophical discipline which aims to understand how things in the world are divided into categories and how these categories are related together. This is exactly what information scientists aim for in ...
Apprendre la langue Rwanda
(1975)
Approaches in Tourism Modelling. Collected papers
(2019)
Tourism research has indeed become a booming and attractive agenda for data analysis oriented empirical economist thanks to modern technology. There has been a tremendous improvement over last decades in the mathematical, ...
Approaches to World Literature
(2013)
The present volume introduces new considerations on the topic of World Literature, penned by leading representatives of the discipline from the United States, India, Japan, the Middle East, England, France and Germany. The ...
Arabic Script on Christian Kings. Textile Inscriptions on Royal Garments from Norman Sicily
(2017)
Isabelle Dolezalek is the recipient of the 2018 ICMA Annual Book Prize. Roger II’s famous mantle and other royal garments from twelfth- and thirteenth-century Sicily prominently display Arabic inscriptions. While the ...
Arab Women in Algeria
(2014)
The book presents the first English edition of Hubertine Auclert's Arab Women in Algeria which offers a unique picture of Algerian society in late 19th century. Hubertine Auclert (1848-1914) was one of the foremost militants ...
Arbeit als Hoffnung. Jüdische Ghettos in Litauen 1941-1944
(2015)
In the ghettos of Lithuania an urban infrastructure developed based on the needs of Jewish conscription and forced labor for German occupation forces and the Lithuanian administration. Using the example of the ghettos in ...
Arbeit im Nationalsozialismus
(2014)
Work was a core concept in National Socialism. In pre-war concentration camps, it was a tool for converting prisoners into Volksgenossen, or members of the national community. And during the war, forced labor was crucial ...
Arbeitsorganisation 2.0 – Tools für den Arbeitsalltag in Kultur- und Bildungseinrichtungen
(2012)
This book illustrates how modern media and internet applications facilitate collaboration on the job and make work easier. After detailing the requirements of work organization, the book discusses easily implementable ...
The Archaeology of Death in Post-medieval Europe
(2015)
Historical burial grounds are an enormous archaeological resource and have the potential to inform studies not only of demography or the history of disease and mortality, but also histories of the body, of religious and ...
The Archaeology of Political Spaces. The Upper Mesopotamian Piedmont in the Second Millennium BCE
(2014)
This book, consisting of 12 contributions, amalgamates the most recent results from archaeological research in the Upper Mesopotamian piedmont. Under the growing influence of expanding territorial states which had become ...
Isaac Orobio. The Jewish Argument with Dogma and Doubt
(2019)
In this volume, six historians explore new approaches to Isaac Orobio de Castro (1617–1687), an Amsterdam physician who was the most widely-read among the early modern defenders of Judaism against Christian proselytizing. ...
Is there a Judeo-Christian Tradition? A European Perspective
(2016)
The term ´Judeo-Christian` in reference to a tradition, heritage, ethic, civilization, faith etc. has been used in a wide variety of contexts with widely diverging meanings. Contrary to popular belief, the term was not ...
Formational Units in Sign Languages
(2011)
Sign languages and spoken languages have many fascinating differences, caused primarily by the reaction of the human mind to different modalities, but also by some important social differences. This book examines the effects ...
Formulation in Action. Applying Psychological Theory to Clinical Practice
(2015)
When people seek psychological support, formulation is the theory-driven methodology used by many practitioners to guide identification of the processes, mechanisms, and patterns of behaviour that appear to be contributing ...
Fostering the Ontological Turn. Gustav Bergmann (1906-1987)
(2008)
Gustav Bergmann (1906-1987) was, arguably, one of the greatest ontologists of the twentieth century. In 2006 and 2007, after a period of relative neglect, international conferences devoted solely to Bergmann's work were ...
Image and Imaging in Philosophy, Science and the Arts. Volume 2. Proceedings of the 33rd International Ludwig Wittgenstein-Symposium in Kirchberg, 2010
(2011)
Diagrams are an essential part of the most diverse processes of communication and cognition. Indeed, today the production of all kinds of text (including this one) is mediated by diagrammatic tools to be found on computer ...
Image and Imaging in Philosophy, Science and the Arts. Volume 1. Proceedings of the 33rd International Ludwig Wittgenstein-Symposium in Kirchberg, 2010
(2011)
What is an image? How can we describe the experience of looking at images, and how do they become meaningful to us? In what sense are images like or unlike propositions? Participants of the 33rd International Wittgenstein ...
Image – Action – Space. Situating the Screen in Visual Practice
(2018)
Screen-based media, such as touch-screens, navigation systems or virtual reality applications merge images and operations and situate users in space both within and beyond the boundaries of the screen. This volume examines ...
Imaginationen
(2019)
In the 18th century, the power of the imagination, which had previously been regarded as problematic, experienced a radical upsurge in esteem. In the modern era, imagination has been viewed as an essential moment in processes ...
Jüdische Expatriates in China und Hong Kong nach 1976. Religiöse Dynamik im Zeichen der Expat-Migration
(2018)
Die Arbeit bietet die erste umfangreiche, empirisch fundierte Religionsgeschichtsschreibung der jüdischen Gemeinden in China und Hong Kong nach der Kulturrevolution. Zahlreiche Synagogen entstehen, das jüdisch-religiöse ...
Jude und Demokrat. Erinnerungen eines Münchener Rechtsanwalts 1883 bis 1939
(1998)
Der Münchener Rechtsanwalt Max Hirschberg ist von Anfang an Anhänger der Weimarer Republik. Rasch wird er zum gesuchten Strafverteidiger, besonders in politischen Fällen. Als Jude und Demokrat schon in den 20er Jahren ...
Jüdische Geschichte in hellenistisch-römischer Zeit. Wege der Forschung: Vom alten zum neuen Schürer
(1999)
Der deutsche protestantische Historiker und Theologe Emil Schürer warder erste, der sich in seiner Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes imZeitalter Jesu Christi mit dem Judentum zur Zeit des ZweitenTempels wissenschaftlich ...
Jugendarbeitslosigkeit in der Bundesrepublik. Entwicklung und Auseinandersetzung während der 1970er und 1980er Jahre
(2012)
Nach einer langen Phase weitgehender Vollbeschäftigung setzte Mitte der 1970er Jahre in der Bundesrepublik wie in vielen anderen westlichen Staaten eine unerwartete Massenarbeitslosigkeit ein. Besonderes Aufsehen in Politik ...
Justiz zwischen Diktatur und Demokratie. Wiederaufbau und Ahndung von NS-Verbrechen in Westdeutschland 1945-1949
(2013)
The firmly established view is that the German justice system utterly failed in its responsibilities after 1945. Edith Raim does not turn this interpretation on its head, but she relativizes it in many respects. Her starting ...
