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Men, Masculinities and the Modern Career. Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
(2020)
This book focuses on the multiple and diverse masculinities ‘at work’. Spanning both historical approaches to the rise of ‘profession’ as a marker of masculinity, and critical approaches to the current structures of ...
Linear Algebra. A Course for Physicists and Engineers
(2017)
In order not to intimidate students by a too abstract approach, this textbook on linear algebra is written to be easy to digest by non-mathematicians. It introduces the concepts of vector spaces and mappings between them ...
Lineare Gleichungen
(1963)
Lineare Algebra
(1965)
Militärsiedlungen und Territorialherrschaft in der Antike
(2010)
In a series of case studies, the contributions assess the extent to which in the Ancient World control over large territories relied on the settlement of active or retired soldiers. The central question is that of the link ...
Medicine & Philosophy. A Twenty-First Century Introduction
(2008)
This textbook introduces the reader to basic problems in the philosophy of science and ethics, mainly by means of examples from medicine. It is based on the conviction that philosophy, medical science, medical informatics, ...
Meldungen aus Norwegen 1940-1945. Die geheimen Lageberichte des Befehlshabers der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD in Norwegen
(2008)
Die geheimen Lageberichte des Befehlshabers der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (BdSudSD) in Norwegen liegen in unterschiedlichen Kumulationsstufen bzw. Berichtsserien vor. Den höchsten Kumulationsgrad repräsentieren die ...
Mensch und Computer 2015 – Usability Professionals
(2015)
Usability Professionals Workshop deals with the practical applications of human-machine interaction research. It is organized by the German ACM specialty section of the UPA (Usability Professionals Association). The volume ...
Mensch und Computer 2015 – Workshopband
(2015)
The Workshop Volume from the Humans and Computers Conference documents the advanced tutorials that were presented to deepen the understanding gained from the conference lectures. It presents case studies along with ...
Mensch und Computer 2015 – Tagungsband
(2015)
These conference proceedings include the specialized academic lecture and brief contributions presented at the Humans and Computers 2015 conference in Stuttgart. It provides multiple perspectives from research that ...
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in the Course of History: Exchange and Conflicts
(2011)
Das Verhältnis zwischen Judentum, Christentum und Islam unterlag im Laufe der Geschichte vielfältigen Veränderungen. Welche Konflikte gab es, welche Phasen und Formen von Austausch und Kooperation standen dem gegenüber? ...
Die Lehnwörter im Wortschatz der spätbyzantinischen historiographischen Literatur
(2019)
This volume examines the loanwords found in 18 late-Byzantine histories and chronicles. In order to analyze the lexical interferences in the lexicon of late-Byzantine historical literature, all words were included (except ...
Macht der Schrift. Politischer Biblizismus in Schottland und England zwischen Reformation und Bürgerkrieg (1534-1642)
(2011)
Nach der Reformation wurde in England und Schottland mit der Bibel und ihren Texten Politik gemacht. Andreas Pecar führt vor, wie der politische Biblizismus sowohl zur Legitimitätssteigerung der Monarchie Verwendung fand, ...
Die Macht der Wenigen. Aristokratische Herrschaftspraxis, Kommunikation und 'edler' Lebensstil in Antike und Früher Neuzeit
(2008)
Der Sammelband stellt das Phänomen Macht der Wenigen als verbindendes Element der politischen Kulturen der Antike heraus. Dabei gewinnt der Begriff Aristokratie im Spannungsfeld zwischen prinzipieller Offenheit und
Literary Translation, Reception, and Transfer
(2020)
The three concepts mentioned in the title of this volume imply the contact between two or more literary phenomena they are based on similarities that are related to a form of ‘travelling’ and imitation or adaptation of ...
Literarische Wissenschaftsgeschichte und Wissenschaftstheorie. Kehlmann – Del Giudice – Serres
(2021)
The book examines the work of Daniel Kehlmann, Daniele del Giudice, and Michel Serres to show how writers’ reception of science has engendered a literary epistemology and history of science in the spirit of a poetica ...
Management, Marketing and Promotion of Library Services Based on Statistics, Analyses and Evaluation
(2006)
Rapid developments in information technology and media have resulted in increasingly diverse strategies for information retrieval by readers and users. The duty to cope with this phenomenon and to master the situation forms ...
Managing Mixed Economies
(1987)
Minnereden. Auswahledition
(2017)
This edition offers a representative selection of Minnereden texts, structured along the lines of genre typology. The 56 texts – altogether approx. 10,250 verses – are edited from different reference manuscripts. A critical ...
Menandri Sicyonius
(1965)
A Lecture on Russian History
(1983)
Logik. Wiener Logikkolleg 1894/95
(2016)
This book presents the long-awaited critical edition of an unpublished manuscript of 277 pages containing Twardowski’s lecture notes on logic given in German at the University of Vienna. As to length, language and topic, ...
Logiken der Sammlung. Das Archiv zwischen Strategie und Eigendynamik
(2020)
Das Archiv und seine verschiedenen Ausformungen als Speicher des kulturellen Gedächtnisses stehen im Mittelpunkt des vierten Bandes der Reihe Literatur und Archiv. Was bedeutet es, wenn ein Archiv nur einer Bestandsbildnerin ...
Melchizedek Passages in the Bible. A Case Study for Inner-Biblical and Inter-Biblical Interpretation
(2016)
Melchizedek is a mysterious figure to many people. Adopting discourse analysis and text-linguistic approaches, Chan attempts to tackle the Melchizedek texts in Genesis 14, Psalm 110, and Hebrews 5-7. This seminal study ...
Die Leistungsfähigkeit der Wissenschaft des Öffentlichen Rechts. Berichte und Diskussionen auf der Tagung der Vereinigung der Deutschen Staatsrechtslehrer in Freiburg i.Br. vom 3. bis 6. Oktober 2007
(2008)
The volume presents the reports and discussions held at the conference of the “Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers” in Freiburg from October 3rd to October 6th, 2007.
Microwave Based Weed Control and Soil Treatment
(2018)
Herbicide resistance has become an important constraint on modern agricultural practices. An alarming increase in weed biotypes that are resistant to herbicides has also been reported. Opportunity exists for a novel weed ...
Microwave and Radio-Frequency Technologies in Agriculture. An Introduction for Agriculturalists and Engineers
(2015)
Humanity’s ability to produce enough food is mostly due to adoption of new methods and technologies by the agricultural industries as they became available. New information, communication and high speed processing and ...
Made in Canada, Read in Spain: Essays on the Translation and Circulation of English-Canadian Literature
(2013)
Made in Canada, Read in Spain is an edited collection of essays on the impact, diffusion, and translation of English Canadian literature in Spain. Given the size of the world’s Spanish-speaking population (some 350 million ...
Large Scale Inverse Problems. Computational Methods and Applications in the Earth Sciences
(2013)
This book is thesecond volume of a three volume series recording the Radon Special Semester 2011 on Multiscale Simulation & Analysis in Energy and the Environment that took placein Linz, Austria, October 3-7, 2011. This ...
Lieschen Müller wird politisch. Geschlecht, Staat und Partizipation im 20. Jahrhundert
(2009)
Als die Frauen in Deutschland 1918 das Wahlrecht erhielten, war dies ein Meilenstein auf dem Weg zu ihrer staatsbürgerlichen Gleichberechtigung. In den folgenden Jahrzehnten gingen die Bestrebungen nach mehr politischer ...
Littérature française et savoirs biologiques au XIXe siècle. Traduction, transmission, transposition
(2020)
Par la puissance métaphorique et la force de modélisation qu’ils revêtent, les savoirs biologiques et leurs représentations suscitent au XIXe siècle la fascination des écrivains. Ceux-ci y trouvent la source d’une nouvelle ...
Loans in Colonial and Modern Nahuatl. A Contextual Dictionary
(2020)
The dictionary expands on the original idea of Karttunen and Lockhart to map the usage of loans in Nahuatl, by using a much larger and diversified corpus of sources, and by including contextual use, missing in earlier ...
Making the Medieval Relevant. How Medieval Studies Contribute to Improving our Understanding of the Present
(2020)
When scholars discuss the medieval past, the temptation is to become immersed there, to deepen our appreciation of the nuances of the medieval sources through debate about their meaning. But the past informs the present ...
Männer mit Makel. Männlichkeiten und gesellschaftlicher Wandel in der frühen Bundesrepublik
(2017)
The transformation of West German society in the long 1950s led to changes in society`s understanding of masculinity. Men who were different – disabled war veterans, the homeless, homosexuals – were under pressure ...
Judah Halevi’s Fideistic Scepticism in the Kuzari
(2020)
The book provides the first comprehensive study on Judah Halevi’s use of sceptical tactics in his wrestling with the dogmatic-rationalistic trends of the Arabic culture of his period (11th- 12th centuries).
Das Londoner Schuldenabkommen. Die Regelung der deutschen Auslandsschulden nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg
(2011)
Das am 27. Februar 1953 unterzeichnete Londoner Schuldenabkommen stellte ein Novum in der Geschichte der internationalen Schuldenregelung dar. Mit ihm wurde die gigantische deutsche Auslandsverschuldung des privaten und ...
Lokale Autonomie und Ordnungsmacht in den kaiserzeitlichen Provinzen vom 1. bis 3. Jahrhundert
(1999)
Rom war groß. Das Imperium Romanum umfaßte geographisch einen Raum, dersich von Europa nach Nordafrika und den in Vorderen Orient erstreckte.Diesen Herrschaftsbereich zu regieren, das heißt nicht nur, ihnmilitärisch zu ...
Management and evolution of the European Union member states in the Big Data era. The impact of Big Data on the organization of the European market
(2020)
The inclusion of “Big Data” in financial markets accelerates the speed of decision-making and boosts stock markets. The appearance of virtual currencies is concomitant to the management of “Big Data” and secures transactions ...
Migration und Avantgarde. Paris 1917–1962
(2020)
Dieser Band widmet sich Literatur und Künsten, die im Paris der Jahre 1917–1962 entstanden sind. Ausgangspunkt ist die Überzeugung Vilém Flussers, dass Migrationserfahrung und kulturelle Innovation engzuführen sind. ...
Miniaturization in Sample Preparation
(2014)
Miniaturization is a challenge thrown down to analytical chemistry. The replacement of conventional analytical systems by miniaturized alternatives during the last years is noticeable. Specifically, the miniaturization of ...
Le lettere di Dante. Ambienti culturali, contesti storici e circolazione dei saperi
(2020)
Notwithstanding an impressive amount of secondary literature, an exhaustive study has been never devoted to the twelve letters written by Dante Alighieri after his banishment from Florence (1302–1315). This book answers ...
Language MOOCs. Providing Learning, Transcending Boundaries
(2015)
Language MOOCs (or LMOOCs) are dedicated Web-based online courses for second languages with unrestricted access and potentially unlimited participation. They are generating interest and expectation in the contexts of ...
Language in the Digital Era. Challenges and Perspectives
(2016)
This collected volume brings together the contributions of several humanities scholars who focus on the evolution of language in the digital era. The first part of the volume explores general aspects of humanities and ...
Language and World. Part Two. Signs, Minds and Actions
(2010)
This second of two volumes brings together invited papers of the 32nd International Wittgenstein Symposium (Kirchberg/W. (Austria), 2009). The collection not only contains articles related to some of Wittgenstein’s central ...
Language and World. Part One. Essays on the philosophy of Wittgenstein
(2010)
This first of two volumes brings together invited papers of the 32nd International Wittgenstein Symposium (Kirchberg/W. (Austria), 2009). The relation between language and the world was undoubtedly one if not the central ...
Levinas and Literature. New Directions
(2021)
The posthumous publication of Emmanuel Levinas’s wartime diaries, postwar lectures, and drafts for two novels afford new approaches to understanding the relationship between literature, philosophy, and religion. This volume ...
Major Trends in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics 1
(2014)
In the three volumes of Major Trends in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, the editors guide the reader through a well-selected compendium of works, presenting a fresh look at contemporary linguistics. Specialists will ...
Major Trends in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics 3
(2014)
In the three volumes of Major Trends in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, the editors guide the reader through a well-selected compendium of works, presenting a fresh look at contemporary linguistics. Specialists will ...
Major Trends in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics 2
(2014)
In the three volumes of Major Trends in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, the editors guide the reader through a well-selected compendium of works, presenting a fresh look at contemporary linguistics. Aimed at specialists ...
Managing Technologies and Automated Library Systems in Developing Countries: Open Source vs Commercial Options. Proceedings of the IFLA Pre-Conference Satellite Meeting Dakar, Sénégal, August 15-16 2007
(2008)
The theme of this meeting was the management of technologies in the context of developing countries, and in the light of recent developments concerning especially open source software and applications. Speakers from various ...