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Mobility Design
(2022)
Climate change and the scarcity of resources, but also the steadily increasing amount of traffic, make it indispensable to develop new solutions for environmentally friendly and people-friendly mobility. With the expansion ...
How Republics Die
(2025)
Authoritarianism is everywhere on the advance democracies seem fragile and threatened. This book responds to current political science scholarship on democratic breakdown by bringing the history back in. It primarily focuses ...
Religiöse Traditionen zwischen Traditionalismus und Moderne
(2025)
The significance of religious traditions has been discovered and rediscovered in recent times. This is in contrast to the conventional assumption that we are living in a modern, "post-traditional" society. This volume ...
Theatre and Metatheatre
(2021)
In this book, experts discuss the use of ‘theatre’ and ‘metatheatre’ to describe ancient Greek dramatic activities. By examining how these two concepts are used in very different ways by scholars of various horizons, this ...
Nominale Determination im Bulgarischen und Mazedonischen
(2020)
Bulgarian and Macedonian are the only Slavic languages with definite and indefinite articles. Macedonian is among the few languages that differentiate the definite article deictically. This innovative study presents a ...
The Walking Dead at Saqqara
(2022)
Funerary rituals and mortuary cults are classics of religious studies research in ancient Egypt. Still, we know little about how the living interacted with ancestors and gods in daily life. The case study of the city of ...
Kellers Wissen
(2024)
„Kellers Wissen“ erscheint als vierter Band der Serie „Gottfried Kellers Moderne“. Kellers Texte akkumulieren, transformieren und generieren Wissen. Seine literarische Epistemologie lässt sich anhand der Dinge, die sie ...
The Political Theory of the Bhagavad-Gita
(2025)
This book is the first systematic analysis of the Bhagavad-Gita as a work of political theory. It fills a crucial gap by comprehensively exploring the classical text, and offers insights into the enduring impact of the ...
Lucrezio e il criterio di verità epicureo
(2025)
The volume examines Lucretius’ connection to Epicurus, probing whether he merely echoed Epicurus’ teachings or offered original insights. It reconstructs the Epicurean criterion of truth in De rerum natura, evaluating ...
Our Neighbours, Ourselves
(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 ...
Instruktive Bilder
(2024)
Whether in cookery books, on planes, in factories or laboratories - instructive images are omnipresent. They explain, pass on and store knowledge about bodies, materials and processes: Schematically, they visualise positioning ...
Historische Gärten und Klimawandel
(2020)
Historical gardens listed as cultural monuments are valuable evidence of our civilization. How can they be preserved under changing climatic conditions? On the basis of four historical gardens, this project analyzes the ...
La “descrizione dei tempi” all’alba dell’espansione islamica
(2014)
The 7-8th centuries are commonly believed tohave beena stagnant phase of Byzantine historiography. This book investigates the writing of history in Greek and Syriacduring this period through the study of four later chronicles ...
Extremereignis ›Kältewinter‹ im 18. Jahrhundert
(2025)
The eighteenth century can be seen as a turning point in the description and interpretation of extreme events – and not just due to the Lisbon earthquake. This volume examines the discursive and cultural consequences of ...
Ambraser Heldenbuch
(2021)
The “Ambras Book of Heroes,” commissioned by Maximilian I, is one of the most important sources of medieval German literature. In this eleven-volume complete edition, all 25 texts from the codex appear in print for the ...
Pacific Climate Cultures
(2019)
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, ...
The Fragility of Responsibility
(2024)
Norway has a tradition in promoting Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and Corporate social responsibility (CSR). This book consists of case studies of how social responsibility is institutionalized in Norwegian ...
Digital Roots
(2021)
Several of the most known and discussed concepts of the digital age predated the digitalization itself and have been previously used in the “analogue times”. Other concepts were coined for the digital society but have ...
Staatlichkeit und politisches Handeln in der römischen Kaiserzeit
(2012)
This collected volume contributes to the discussion among ancient historians of the character and form of political action in Imperial Rome. It concentrates on the East of the Imperium Romanum for the whole duration of the ...
Forschungsfeld Sprachevolution
(2021)
This book provides a comprehensive and innovative exploration of the heterogenous field of linguistic evolution. The introductory sections discuss its subject-specific and methodological foundations. The main focus is the ...
Ordinary Sudan, 1504–2019
(2023)
This book examines how ordinary people have induced the most important political shifts in the history of the Sudan, including the last 2019 Revolution but also how they have participated to the construction of consensus ...
Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von Start-ups
(2020)
Die Entwicklung zehn erfolgreicher Start-ups von der Gründung bis zur Wettbewerbsfähigkeit wird in diesem Band nachvollzogen. Dabei stehen konkrete Entscheidungen der Gründer und Faktoren, die den Erfolg der Unternehmen ...
Interfiguralität bei Phaedrus
(2017)
In the prologues and epilogues to his Fables, Phaedrus – despite the low reputation of the genre – develops a complex if at times inconsistent poetics. The ambivalences and contradictory nature of his poetics are part of ...
Facing Poetry
(2020)
What is Literature? According to Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, Literature is perfect sensate discourse. Based on this insight Baumgarten offers the first modern theory of literature. His uniquely holistic approach encompasses ...
From Windhoek to Auschwitz?
(2024)
Forty years before the war of annihilation in eastern Europe and the Holocaust, German colonial troops in German South West Africa perpetrated the first genocide of the twentieth century. From Windhoek to Auschwitz? ...
Chapter Uses and Written Practices in Aljamiado Manuscripts
(2019)
Crossing disciplinary and regional boundaries, this book takes a comparative perspective on standardisation tendencies in Arabic-based writing systems across three continents. 12 distinct manuscript traditions are presented ...
Das Emanzipationsedikt von 1812 in Preußen
(2013)
Two-hundred years after the issuance of the "Edict concerning the civil rights of Jews in the Prussian state," the thirteen essays in this volume examine the Prussian emancipation model with the benefit of previously ...
Wood. Rethinking Material
(2021)
Als organisches Baumaterial erfährt Holz in Zeiten der Klimakrise eine besondere Wertschätzung. Eingebunden in umweltschonende Ressourcenkreisläufe zeigt sich seine Innovationskraft, wenn es als Material Bestandteil neuer ...
Cosmopolitan Responsibility
(2019-03-01)
The world we live in is unjust. Preventable deprivation and suffering shape the lives of many people, while others enjoy advantages and privileges aplenty. Cosmopolitan responsibility addresses the moral responsibilities ...
Linguistik und Medizin
(2021)
Linguistics and medicine is a growing branch of research in the medical humanities. The interdisciplinary contributions in this volume address current, socially relevant issues in doctor-patient communication, public ...
SOS: Medien des Überlebens
(2023)
SOS signals, knocks, flares, or messages in a bottle: when people find themselves in distress, they must use all possible means to draw attention to themselves. They have to send distress signals in order to stay alive. ...
Die Welt ist Gottes
(2023)
Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise 2024 Karl Barths Theologie wird gemeinhin – und zurecht – als Widerspruch gegen die Säkularisierung der Kirche in der Neuzeit gelesen. Inwiefern sie zugleich den Versuch ...
Diversity Dimensions in Mathematics and Language Learning
(2021)
Extensive research is available on language acquisition and the acquisition of mathematical skills in early childhood. But more recently, research has turned to the question of the influence of specific language aspects ...
Writing the Reader
(2016)
The history of the novel is also a history of shifting views of the value of novel reading. This study investigates how novels themselves participate in this development by featuring reading as a multidimensional cultural ...
Konstruktionssemantik
(2022)
Construction semantics combines usage-based construction grammar and frame semantics, as set out in the FrameNet project. This volume models the semantic properties of grammatical constructions and their instances by ...
Soziale Elite und Christentum
(2015)
The notion that early Christianity was a "lower class religion" is surely outdated. Yet the extent to which members of the social elites turned to the new faith remains a matter of intense scholarly dispute. Many researchers ...
Children and Youth at Risk in Times of Transition
(2024)
Children and youth belong to one of the most vulnerable groups in societies. This was the case even before the current humanitarian crises around the world which led millions of people and families to flee from wars, terror, ...
Poetische Gerechtigkeit
(2023)
The discussions on an ethics of literature and a specifically aesthetic form of justice make it clear: the question of the aesthetic and ethical valuation and evaluation of literature has recently moved back into the centre ...
Morphosyntactic Variation in Medieval Celtic Languages
(2020)
This book showcases the state of the art in corpus-based linguistic analysis of Celtic languages (specifically, Old/Middle Irish, Middle Welsh, and Cornish). It explores corpus approaches to morphosyntactic variation in ...
The European Experience in Slavery, 1650–1850
(2024)
The European Experience in Slavery assembles experts on the repercussions of the transatlantic as well as Mediterranean slave trade in different countries of early modern Europe for the first time, demonstrating that human ...