Publications
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Verfassung als Ordnungskonzept
(2016)
This volume includes lectures and discussions from the Conference of the Association of German Constitutional Lawyers in Speyer from 7 to 10 October 2015.
Models, Simulations, and the Reduction of Complexity
(2013)
Modern science is a model-building activity. But how are models contructed? How are they related to theories and data? How do they explain complex scientific phenomena, and which role do computer simulations play? To address ...
›Mos uetustissimus‹ – Tito Livio e la percezione della clemenza
(2023)
Clemency plays an important role in Livy and his value system. Clemency is invoked, exercised or denied in three areas: family, justice and army. What emerges is a complex understanding of this value concept, which relates ...
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 ...
Okkultismus im Gehäuse
(2016)
Where was the locus of parapsychology – the academic involvement with the occult – during the 20th century? In this first attempt at an international comparison, the authors examine various institutional venues, including ...
Tertullian the African
(2011)
This work is largely a social history of Tertullian, a Christian from Carthage (c.160� CE), and his ancient African context, which is viewed through a postcolonial lens.Theories from the discipline of social/cultural ...
Writing Systems and Their Use
(2022)
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of grapholinguistics, treating questions concerning both the structure and use of writing systems by complementing the linguistic main perspective ...
Neighbourhoods and City Quarters in Antiquity
(2023)
This volume focuses on the socio-spatial organisation of ancient cities, and more specifically on Late Republican and Imperial Italy. Referring to a praxeological and phenomenological perspective, it looks at neighbourhoods ...
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 ...
HORACE’s SERMONES BOOK 1
(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 ...
Was ist Gesundheit?
(2021)
Obwohl Gesundheit für alle Menschen essentiell ist, unterliegt das Verständnis des Begriffs »Gesundheit« jeweils historisch, regional und kulturell unterschiedlichen Einflüssen. Mit verschiedenen Festlegungen von »Gesundheit ...
Probability and Statistics
(2017)
This textbook 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 ...
Sometimes Hard, Usually Soft
(2020)
As an urgent response to the continually growing flood of information to which libraries, search engines, and cultural institutions are exposed, Data Loam combines radical approaches and strategies from the international ...
Digital Finance in Europe: Law, Regulation, and Governance
(2021)
This special volume collects contributions from leading scholars who scrutinize the challenges digital finance presents for the EU internal market and financial market regulation from multiple public policy perspectives. ...
Multimodale Konstruktionen im „Alltagskonsumkosmos“
(2024)
To which extent is the notational iconicity of text (layout, emphasis, etc.) grammatically significant? This volume provides an answer by taking an expanded cognitive-grammatical approach to examine a corpus of food packaging ...
Von der Dämonologie zum Unbewussten
(2014)
As the science of man, anthropology was among the most exciting disciplines during the period of intense change from the early modern era to modernity. Where demons had once wielded their power, after 1800, it was now the ...
Topografien des 20. Jahrhunderts
(2020)
The polyphonic world poem Galáxias (1984) by Brazilian poet Haroldo de Campos has, to date, mainly been discussed in the broader context of concrete poetry and the Latin American neo-baroque. This book offers a completely ...
An Alchemist in Chains
(2024)
In 1717–1719, a court case against the pietist and alchemist Johann Konrad Dippel in Altona led to the burning of his writings and his banishment to Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. This book investigates the details of the ...
Zeichentragende Artefakte im sakralen Raum
(2018)
Sign-bearing artifacts are immanent elements of sacred spaces in many cultures. Often, one encounters a phenomenon there that might be described as deliberate “invisibility,” the conscious “concealment” of artefacts and ...
Competing Knowledges - Wissen im Widerstreit
(2020)
Whatever societies accept as ‘knowledge’ is embedded in epistemological, institutional, political, and economic power relations. How is knowledge produced under such circumstances? What is the difference between general ...