Publications
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Society, Law, and Culture in the Middle East. “Modernities” in the Making
(2015)
Society, Law, and Culture in the Middle East: “Modernities” in the Making is an edited volume that seeks to deepen and broaden our understanding of various forms of change in Middle Eastern and North African societies ...
The Sons of Scripture. The Karaites in Poland and Lithuania in the Twentieth Century
(2015)
Drawing on the variety of archival sources in the host of European and Oriental languages, the book focuses on the history, ethnography, and convoluted ethnic identity of the Polish-Lithuanian Karaites. The vanishing ...
Des Sophokles Antigone
(1843)
Southern African Liberation Movements and the Global Cold War ‘East’. Transnational Activism 1960–1990
(2019)
This volume explores connections between liberation movements in Southern Africa and between those movements and countries in the Eastern Bloc in the Cold War decades of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. The many different forms ...
Spatial analysis and social spaces. Interdisciplinary approaches to the interpretation of prehistoric and historic built environments
(2014)
In the past decade a range of formal spatial analysis methods has been developed for the study of human engagement, experience and socialisation within the built environment. Many, although not all, of these emanate from ...
Theorie der Kosten
(1963)
Successes & Failures in EU Cohesion Policy: An Introduction to EU cohesion policy in Eastern, Central, and Southern Europe
(2020)
The book offers though-provoking insights on the performance and effectiveness of EU cohesion policy in Eastern, Central, and Southern Europe by highlighting the key achievement and identifying the main shortcomings. One ...
Substance and Attribute. Western and Islamic Traditions in Dialogue
(2007)
The aim of this volume is to investigate the topic of Substance and Attribute. The way leading to this aim is a dialogue between Islamic and Western Philosophy. Our project is motivated by the observation that the historical ...
The Summa Halensis. Sources and Context
(2020)
For generations, early Franciscan thought has been widely regarded as unoriginal: a mere attempt to systematize the longstanding intellectual tradition of Augustine in the face of the rising popularity of Aristotle. This ...
Social Reform, Modernization and Technical Diplomacy. The ILO Contribution to Development (1930–1946)
(2020)
Founded in 1919 under the Treaty of Versailles as part of the League of Nations’ system, the ILO is still today the main organization responsible for the international organization of work and the improvement of working ...
Social Science Libraries. Interdisciplinary Collections, Services, Networks
(2010)
This volume focuses on practical and empirical accounts of organizational change in the social sciences and impacts upon the professional skills, collections, and services within social science libraries. Section one focuses ...
Soft Computing. Techniques in Engineering Sciences
(2020)
Soft computing is used where a complex problem is not adequately specified for the use of conventional math and computer techniques. Soft computing has numerous real-world applications in domestic, commercial and industrial ...
Sowjetische Kommandanturen und deutsche Verwaltung in der SBZ und frühen DDR. Dokumente
(2015)
The SBZ and early East German state were subject to a chaotic set of laws derived from the Soviet occupation, Nazi era, German Bundesländer, and new East German government. This source volume helps create order from the ...
Sowjetische Interessenpolitik in Deutschland 1944-1954. Dokumente
(2012)
Stalins Deutschlandpolitik ist noch immer umstritten. Jan Foitzik hat in russischen Archiven zahlreiche neue Quellen zusammengetragen, die über das ganze Panorama konkurrierender wirtschaftlicher, technologischer und ...
Der Sozialstaat in Deutschland und Europa. Berichte und Diskussionen auf der Tagung der Vereinigung der Deutschen Staatsrechtslehrer in Jena vom 6. bis 9. Oktober 2004
(2011)
The volume reproduces the reports and discussions at the conference of the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers in Jena from 6th to 9th October 2004.
Spätmittelalterliche Heroldskompendien. Referenzen adeliger Wissenskultur in Zeiten gesellschaftlichen Wandels (Frankreich und Burgund, 15. Jahrhundert)
(2011)
Die spätmittelalterlichen Heroldskompendien bieten einen wesentlichen Zugang zur Geschichte des Heroldsamtes wie insgesamt zur adeligen Kultur und Lebenswelt. Neben Traktaten zum Heroldswesen enthalten sie vor allem Texte ...
Spätmittelalter und Neuzeit
(1958)
Spherical Means for PDEs
(1997)
Theories of Informetrics and Scholarly Communication
(2016)
Scientometrics have become an essential element in the practice and evaluation of science and research, including both the evaluation of individuals and national assessment exercises. Yet, researchers and practitioners in ...
Studies on Greek and Coptic Majuscule Scripts and Books
(2019)
The volume contains a critical review of data, results and open problems concerning the principal Greek and Coptic majuscule bookhands, based on previous research of the author, revised and updated to offer an overview of ...
The study of languages
(1972)
Suger en question. Regards croisés sur Saint-Denis. Études réunis par Rolf Große
(2004)
Abt Suger nimmt einen einzigartigen Platz in der Geschichte seines Klosters ein. Um Sugers Leistung nüchterner und realistischer zu bewerten, werden im vorliegenden Band nicht nur zentrale Aspekte seines eigenen Wirkens ...
A Two-Dimensionalist Guide to Conceptual Analysis
(2013)
According to epistemic two-dimensionalism, or simply twodimensionalism, linguistic expressions are associated with two intensions, one of which represents an expression’s a priori implications. The author investigates the ...
Über Wissenschaft reden. Studien zu Sprachgebrauch, Darstellung und Adressierung in der deutschsprachigen Wissenschaftsprosa um 1800
(2019)
The volume examines the relationship between scientific self-understanding and scientific language usage in the German-speaking world around 1800. It discusses the re-founding of the university, the fraught relationship ...
Understanding Material Text Cultures. A Multidisciplinary View
(2016)
The present volume comprises 6 highly original studies on material text cultures in different nontypographic societies stretching from the 3rd millennium cuneiform textual record of Ancient Mesopotamia to 20th century ...
Teaching Political Science to Undergraduates. Active Pedagogy for the Microchip Mind
(2015)
By 2020, half of the world’s population and most university students will have a supercomputer in their pockets. This revolution will affect the way students respond to higher education. The university classroom must ...
Time and History. Proceedings of the 28. International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria 2005
(2006)
This wide-ranging collection of essays contains eighteen original articles by authors representing some of the most important recent work on Wittgenstein. It deals with questions pertaining to both the interpretation and ...
Sustainability Indicators in Practice
(2015)
The goal of sustainable development is to meet the socio-economic and environmental objectives without comprising the needs of future generations. Since the Rio Summit of 1992, the concept of sustainability has captured ...
A Typological Perspective on Latvian Grammar
(2014)
Theoretical studies of Latvian grammar have a great deal to offer to contemporary linguistics. Although traditionally Lithuanian has been the most widely studied Baltic language in diachronic and synchronic linguistics ...
Un(intended) Language Planning in a Globalising World: Multiple Levels of Players at Work
(2018)
This first book provides a comprehensive overview of the different levels of players who have been involved in both intended and unintended language planning and policy, and shows how they have impacted multilingual language ...
Umwelt und Herrschaft in der Geschichte. Environnement et pouvoir: une approche historique
(2013)
Das Verhältnis zwischen Umwelt und Herrschaft gehört zu den zentralen Strukturmerkmalen jeder menschlichen Gesellschaft. Der Band versammelt die Beiträge der ersten Tagung, die diesem Thema gewidmet war, und spannt einen ...
The Szczecin Lagoon Ecosystem. The Biotic Community of the Great Lagoon and its Food Web Model
(2013)
The Great Lagoon is a central part of the Szczecin Lagoon, a major component in the Odra River estuary system. It is also an important European natural heritage site and one of the largest resting places for migratory birds ...
Töchter der Revolte? Frauenbewegung und Feminismus der 1970er Jahre in München
(2011)
In den 1960er Jahren schlug die Stunde der Frauen - endlich. Ihr Leben veränderte sich, ihr politisches Engagement in eigener Sache gewann eine neue Qualität, ihre Forderungen nach Emanzipation und Selbstbestimmung fanden ...
Topografien des 20. Jahrhunderts. Die memoriale ‹Poetik des Stolperns› in Haroldo de Campos «Galáxias»
(2020)
Galáxias (1984), the polyphonic world poem by the Brazilian poet Haroldo de Campos, has been discussed to date mainly in the context of concrete poetry and the Latin American neo-baroque. By means of a new reading, Jasmin ...
Tous les hommes sont-ils égaux? Histoire comparée des pensées raciales 1860-1930
(2009)
Die Beiträge dieses Ateliers veranschaulichen die vielfältige wissenschaftliche und politische Verwendung des Rassenbegriffs in so unterschiedlichen Gesellschaften, wie Brasilien, Deutschland, Frankreich, Japan, Kamerun, ...
Toward a Cognitive Classical Linguistics. The Embodied Basis of Constructions in Greek and Latin
(2019)
This volume gathers a series of papers that bring the study of grammatical and syntactic constructions in Greek and Latin under the perspective of theories of embodied meaning developed in cognitive linguistics. Building ...
Tra i libri di Isacco Argiro
(2020)
This investigation sheds light on Isaac Argyrus and his scholarly work in 14th-century Constantinople on the basis of his book production: it thus fills a major desideratum of cultural-historical, paleographical, and textual ...
Tracing and Documenting Nazi Victims Past and Present
(2020)
After World War II, tracing and documenting Nazi victims emerged against the background of millions of missing persons and early compensation proceedings. This was a process in which the Allies, international aid organizations, ...
Tracing Manuscripts in Time and Space through Paratexts
(2016)
As records of the link between a manuscript and the texts it contains, paratexts document many aspects of a manuscript’s life: production, transmission, usage, and reception. Comprehensive studies of paratexts are still ...
Transatlantic Democracy in the Twentieth Century. Transfer and Transformation
(2016)
Transatlantic democracy in the 20th century - this concept goes beyond the idea of an American civilizing mission in Europe after two World Wars, and certainly beyond the notion of re-educating Germans, and making them fit ...
Translating Chinese Tradition and Teaching Tangut Culture
(2015)
This book is about Tangut translations of Chinese literary texts. Although most of the extant Tangut material comprises Buddhist texts, there are also many non-religious texts, which are mostly translations from Chinese. ...
Transport, Fluids, and Mixing
(2018)
The aim of this volume is to present the state of the art in the mathematical analysis of transport and mixing phenomena in fluids and associated problems. It supplements current literature on the subject with a unique ...
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 ...
Linear Algebra
(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 is also designed such that no other material is required for an ...
Developing Heritage – Developing Countries
(2020)
Seven Ethiopian heritage sites were among the first sites on the UNESCO World Heritage List – a stunning number for an African country at the time and the product of extended international technical assistance and tourism ...
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 ...
La Table des rois
(2023)
The Table of Kings by Ptolemy, a second-century Alexandrian astronomer, presents a continuous list of rulers from the Neo-Assyrian Empire to the Roman Empire. It is a crucial source for our chronological approach to the ...
Vernakuläre Wissenschaftskommunikation
(2018)
Der sich vom 16. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert vollziehende Übergang der weitgehend lateinbasierten europäischen Gelehrtenkultur zu einem vernakulär-mehrsprachigen „modernen“ Wissenschaftssystem ist bislang für den deutschen ...
Jewish Studies in the Digital Age
(2022)
The digitisation boom of the last two decades, and the rapid advancement of digital tools to analyse data in myriad ways, have opened up new avenues for humanities research. This volume discusses how the so-called digital ...
Empire and Politics in the Eastern and Western Civilizations
(2022)
The volume includes the proceedings of the 2nd Roma Sinica conference held in 2019 and aims to compare some features of the ancient political thought in the Western classical tradition and in the Eastern ancient thought. ...