Publications
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Schweizerdeutsch und Sprachbewusstsein
(2019)
The German Linguistic Studies Series is a comprehensive and outstanding forum in its field. It has borne the name of its subject in its title since the foundation of the series in the eighth decade of the last century.The ...
Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies. 2019
(2020)
The Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies mirrors the annual activities of staff and visiting fellows of the Centre as well as scholars of the Institute for Jewish Philosophy and Religion at the University ...
Intention and Interpretation: A Short History
(2022)
Should we take the author’s intention into account when interpreting literature? The question has been a subject of fierce debate since the 1940s that shows no signs of abating. The notion of authorial intent, however, has ...
Play Among Books
(2021)
How does coding change the way we think about architecture? Miro Roman and his AI Alice_ch3n81 develop a playful scenario in which they propose coding as the new literacy of information. They convey knowledge in the form ...
Das römische Spielewesen in der Spätantike
(2014)
Daily life in Late Antiquity was heavily influenced by the tradition of Roman games. This is the first comprehensive study of the world of games in Late Antiquity, with special attention to specific forms of games in the ...
Ostasienwissenschaften
(2017)
The Meyer Struckmann Prize for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, awarded in 2016 for East Asian Studies, was awarded to Professor Dr Florian Coulmas. Florian Coulmas is Senior Professor of Language and Culture ...
A Basic Theory of Everything
(2022)
The book presents a theory of what the basic building blocks of the world are and argues that they can be reduced to three: a field, a set of values, and an actualizer. The theory is used to answer philosophical questions ...
Conflicts in Interreligious Education
(2022)
Whenever people from different cultural and religious backgrounds converge, it produces tension and ambivalence. This study delves into conflicts in interreligious educational processes in both theory and practice, presenting ...
The State of Law
(2017)
This book is the result of the first interdisciplinary conference in Vietnam which took place on “the Rule of Law.” Instead of beginning immediately with a highly specialized debate from the perspective of one single ...
The Nivison Annals
(2018)
In his last essay just weeks before his death at the age of 91, David S. Nivison says, "Breaking into a formal system - such as a chronology - must be like breaking into a code. If you are successful, success will show ...
Rewriting Maimonides
(2018)
Commentaries on the Guide of the Perplexed occupy a central but neglected place in the history of Jewish thought. In the first study on the subject, Igor De Souza examines this dynamic tradition in its most creative period. ...
Digitale Infrastrukturen für die germanistische Forschung
(2018)
Modern research in linguistics is increasingly reliant on digital infrastructure and information systems. This development began at the turn of the millennium and has since accelerated. The volume examines national and ...
Approaches to the Medieval Self
(2020)
The self and how it relates to its surrounding world and history is a main concern of the humanities and social sciences. This book addresses the issue by discussing various modes of studying and defining the self, based ...
Verfestigungen in der Interaktion Konstruktionen, sequenzielle Muster, kommunikative Gattungen
(2020)
The theoretically and empirically based contributions in this edited volume in honour of Susanne Günther examine different consolidations on the level of interaction. They span from relatively detailed formats such as ...
Planar Dynamical Systems
(2014-10-29)
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, ...
Topics in Complex Analysis
(2023)
Begins with an introduction to the theory of functions of a complex variable, covers complex numbers and their properties, analytic functions and the Cauchy–Riemann equations, the logarithm and other elementary functions ...
Playing American
(2023)
Tracing a practice called "playing American" through the stages of videogame development, gameplay, and reception, this book delineates how aspects of American culture are reproduced transnationally through popular open-world ...
Cultural Perspectives on Aging
(2021)
The societal significance of old age and ageing are increasing due to demographic developments. Age(ing) is not only a biological and social fact, but also a cultural one. This book reveals the importance of cultural factors ...
Handbook of Polish, Czech, and Slovak Holocaust Fiction
(2021)
The Handbook presents literary fiction works on the Holocaust in three Slavic languages. It contains more than 120 articles including an introduction dealing with Holocaust literature in the broader context. The publication ...
Die Poesie der Dinge
(2021)
Distillation flasks, sugar cane mills, and the brain – the scientific revolution created a spectacular range of themes, even in a traditional genre such as didactic poetry. In this volume, internationally renowned researchers ...