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Die Begründung des Rechts als historisches Problem
(2000)
Die Begründung oder Legitimation des Rechts ist eine Aufgabe, welche die Menschen verschiedener Zeitalter in unterschiedlicher Weise zu lösen versuchten. Das in diesem Band dokumentierte wissenschaftliche Kolloquium ...
Auslegung und Hermeneutik der Bibel in der Reformationszeit
(2016)
The significance of the Bible for the Reformation is undisputed. Employing various perspectives, this volume reflects on biblical interpretation and hermeneutics during the time of the Reformation. It discusses the Wittenberg ...
Barriers to Play and Recreation for Children and Young People with Disabilities. Exploring Environmental Factors
(2017)
This report reviews international research into the barriers to play for children with disabilities. The authors come from different disciplinary backgrounds, in Sociology, Social Policy, Anthropology, Occupational Health ...
Being Jewish in 21st-Century Germany
(2015)
An unexpected immigration wave of Jews from the former Soviet Union mostly in the 1990s has stabilized and enlarged Jewish life in Germany. Jewish kindergartens and schools were opened, and Jewish museums, theaters, and ...
Behold Our Moral Body. Psychiatry, Duns Scotus and Neuroscience
(2013)
For centuries, science and religion have been on the opposite sides of the debate about the moral nature of human beings. Now science is confirming what people of faith have long known: human morality is embedded in our ...
Burgund und das Reich. Spätmittelalterliche Außenpolitik am Beispiel der Regierung Karls des Kühnen (1465-1477)
(2002)
Die Regierungszeit Karls des Kühnen von Burgund (1465/67-1477) zählt zu den Wendezeiten der europäischen Geschichte. Im Dauerkonflikt mit seinen Lehnsherren, König Ludwig XI. von Frankreich und Kaiser Friedrich III., strebte ...
Ageing in Europe. Supporting Policies for an Inclusive Society
(2015)
SHARE is an international survey designed to answer the societal challenges that face us due to rapid population ageing. How do we Europeans age? How will we do economically, socially and healthwise? How are these domains ...
Biological Invasions in Changing Ecosystems. Vectors, Ecological Impacts, Management and Predictions
(2015)
When organisms are deliberately or accidentally introduced into a new ecosystem a biological invasion may take place. These so-called ‘invasive species’ may establish, spread and ecologically alter the invaded community. ...
Bird Ringing Station Manual
(2015)
In an attempt to standardize elements of the station routine, the book describes the procedures used in passerine and wader ringing stations. It offers a comparative analysis of versatile evaluation techniques such as ...
The Boundaries of Europe. From the Fall of the Ancient World to the Age of Decolonisation
(2015)
Europe`s boundaries have mainly been shaped by cultural, religious, and political conceptions rather than by geography. This volume of bilingual essays from renowned European scholars outlines the transformation of Europe`s ...
Children disengaged from armed groups in Colombia. Integration Processes in Context
(2013)
An in-depth study of the complex situation in Colombia; extensive research involving a broad range of participants. Drawing on a broad research on historical, geographical and socio-political context of the Colombian ...
Communication and Materiality. Written and Unwritten Communication in Pre-Modern Societies
(2015)
This volume reconsiders literacy and communication in pre-modern societies, focusing especially on how material form affects the way textual artefacts are understood and interpreted. By bringing together scholars from ...
La connaissance du Saint-Empire en France du baroque aux Lumières 1643-1756
(2010)
Das föderale Alte Reich gilt heute wie auch im zeitgenössischen Frankreich in Vielem als vorbildlich. Guido Braun befasst sich mit seinem Bild bei den französischen Staatsmännern, Diplomaten, Juristen, Historikern und ...
A COPD Primer
(2015)
In 2012 we received a grant from the Veterans Health Administration Office of Specialty Care entitled, “Patient-Centered Model for the Management of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.” The grant’s goals were to enhance ...
Copular Clauses and Focus Marking in Sumerian
(2014)
This work is the first comprehensive description of Sumerian constructions involving a copula. Using around 400 fully glossed examples, it gives a thorough analysis of all uses of the copula, which is one of the least ...
Cosmopolitan Responsibility. Global Injustice, Relational Equality, and Individual Agency
(2020)
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 ...
Data Loam. Sometimes Hard, Usually Soft. The Future of Knowledge Systems
(2021)
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 ...
Bilingualism and Deafness. On Language Contact in the Bilingual Acquisition of Sign Language and Written Language
(2016)
This book examines sociolinguistic, educational and psycholinguistic factors that shape the path to sign bilingualism in deaf individuals and contributes to a better understanding of the specific characteristics of a type ...
The Book of Job. Aesthetics, Ethics, Hermeneutics
(2015)
The Book of Job has held a central role in defining the project of modernity from the age of Enlightenment until today. Why has Job`s response to disaster become a touchstone for modern reflections on catastrophic events? ...
Brauchen wir ein drittes Geschlecht? Reformbedarf im deutschen (Familien-)Recht nach Einführung des § 22 Abs. 3 PStG
(2015)
In 2013, § 22, para. 3 of the Civil Status Act (PStG) made clear that the civil status of intersexual persons could be entered in birth records without an indication of gender affiliation. However, German family law is ...
Building Europe. A History of European Unification
(2015)
Relying on internal sources, Wilfried Loth analyses the birth and subsequent development of the European Union, from the launch of the Council of Europe and the Schuman Declaration until the Euro crisis and the contested ...
Contemporary Debates in Bioethics: European Perspectives
(2019)
The volume aims to capture a European gist of theoretical sensibilities, conceptual resources, and research interests, but not in an adversarial way, as opposed to American bioethics. The volume gathers contributions from ...
Biochemistry Laboratory Manual For Undergraduates. An Inquiry-Based Approach
(2014)
Biochemistry laboratory manual for undergraduates – an inquiry based approach by Gerczei and Pattison is the first textbook on the market that uses a highly relevant model, antibiotic resistance, to teach seminal topics ...
Der Briefwechsel
(2016)
The correspondence between Meinong and Kazimierz Twardowski highlights the relationship between two philosophers who influenced the history of philosophy and psychology in Austria and Poland. The two correspondents discuss, ...
Bringing Buddhism to Tibet. History and Narrative in the DBA' BZHED Manuscript
(2021)
Bringing Buddhism to Tibet is a landmark study of the Dba’ bzhed—a seminal history recounting the introduction of Buddhism to Tibet. Preserved in a single copy, the Dba’ bzhed stands at the head of a long tradition of ...
Commercial Orchids
(2015)
Orchids account for a large share of global floriculture trade both as cut flowers and as potted plants, and are estimated to comprise around 10% of international fresh cut flower trade. The average value of fresh cut ...
Confini, identit
(2020)
The studies gathered in this volume analyze, in authors from Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, and neighboring territories, the complex relation between identity and borders, namely those between languages and cultures, ...
Consciousness and Subjectivity
(2013)
Issues of subjectivity and consciousness are dealt with in very different ways in the analytic tradition and in the idealistic–phenomenological tradition central to continental philosophy. This book brings together ...
The Construct of Identity in Hellenistic Judaism. Essays on Early Jewish Literature and History
(2016)
This volume assembles twenty-three essays by Erich S. Gruen, who has written extensively on the literature and history of early Judaism and the experience of the Jews in the Greco-Roman world. Twenty-two of the articles ...
Creativity: the Actor in Performance
(2014)
Creativity: The Actor in Performance focuses on what it takes to be a creative performer. Many stage-actors succeed in rehearsals, yet under-perform where it counts—in performance. But, as actors know, performance is a ...
Crossing Experiences in Digital Epigraphy. From Practice to Discipline
(2018)
This miscellaneous volume collects contributions on nineteen projects dealing with Digital Epigraphy – they are diversified in geographic and chronological context, for script and language, and for typology of digital ...
Crossing Languages to Play with Words. Multidisciplinary Perspectives
(2016)
Wordplay involving several linguistic codes is an important modality of ludic language. This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to the topic, discussing examples from different epochs, genres, and communicative ...
Chora und Polis
(2004)
Der Schwerpunkt der althistorischen wie der archäologischen Forschung lag bis vor kurzem auf der Geschichte der Stadt das sie umgebende Land, die Chora blieb hingegen im Dunklen. Daher sind hinsichtlich des antiken Landlebens ...
Construire la Méditerranée, penser les transferts culturels. Approches historiographiques et perspectives de recherche
(2013)
Als Objekt der Forschung spielt der Mittelmeerraum in der französischen Geschichtswissenschaft schon sehr lange eine wichtige Rolle. Die deutschsprachige historische Forschung hingegen hat sich erst jüngst dem Mittelmeerraum ...
Constructivist Blended Learning Approach to Teaching English for Specific Purposes
(2012)
This monograph analyzes an innovative approach to teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP) in tertiary education. This "constructivist blended learning approach" is based on students "constructing" for themselves their ...
Bildungspraktiken der Aufklärung / Education practices of the Enlightenment. Journal für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa (JKGE) / Journal for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe
(2020)
This issue of JKGE is devoted to the specific conditions of educational processes in the pluri-cultural and multilingual regions of Eastern Europe. In the context of globally oriented research on the Enlightenment epoch, ...
Bildzensur. Löschung technischer Bilder
(2020)
Technical censorship of pictures is omnipresent and invisible at the same time. Content moderation on social media and automatic deletions by algorithms have given rise to a new union of human and non-human protagonists. ...
Bildungsbürgertum und völkische Ideologie. Konstitution und gesellschaftliche Tiefenwirkung eines Netzwerks völkischer Autoren (1919-1959)
(2016)
The moderate folk-nationalist (völkisch) authors Hans Grimm, Erwin Guido Kobenheyer, and Wilhelm Stapel found great appeal among the German social elites. The author analyzes the ideological proclivity of the Weimar educated ...
Biomedical Chemistry. Current Trends and Developments
(2016)
Biomedical Chemistry provides readers with an understanding of how fundamental chemical concepts are used to combat some diseases. The authors explain the interdisciplinary relationship of chemistry with biology, physics, ...
Brücken schlagen. Grundlagen der Konnektorensemantik
(2004)
A systematic description of the semantics of connectives is a challenge that linguists have yet to answer. In order to define semantic classes such as causal, concessive, temporal according to objectivizable criteria, to ...
Chinese Annals in the Western Observatory. An Outline of Western Studies of Chinese Unearthed Documents
(2020)
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, hundreds of thousands of documents of all sorts have been unearthed in China, opening whole new fields of study and transforming our modern understanding of ancient China. While ...
Continuing Professional Development – Preparing for New Roles in Libraries. A Voyage of Discovery. Sixth World Conference on Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning for the Library and Information Professions
(2005)
Librarians and information workers the world over are faced with the constant challenge of remaining abreast of developments in their field. Rapid changes in technology and workplace roles threaten to make their skills ...
Brand Postcolonial. ‘Third World’ Texts and the Global
(2019)
This book studies the making of the postcolonial author and text as a brand. It examines specific themes, wherein the postcolonial text acquires global visibility, even determining the nature of global debates: the ...
The British and Irish Ruling Class 1660-1945. Volume 2
(2017)
This book contains an account of the 2,352 families (close to 3,000 counting cadet lines) that had one member sit in either House of the English, British, or United Kingdom Parliament, the Irish Parliament, or the Scottish ...
The British and Irish Ruling Class 1660-1945. Volume 1
(2017)
This book contains an account of the 2,352 families (close to 3,000 counting cadet lines) that had one member sit in either House of the English, British, or United Kingdom Parliament, the Irish Parliament, or the Scottish ...
The Concept of Constitution in the History of Political Thought
(2017)
The aim of the present volume is to discuss the notion of constitution from the perspectives of history of political thought. Its scholarly intention is to go beyond the approach concentrating on the formal understanding ...
Cooperation and Conflict the Nordic Way. Work, Welfare, and Institutional Change in Scandinavia
(2015)
The Nordic model attracts attention in a mixture of applause and disbelief. Among its merits, but also a precondition to its future survival, is its capacity to modify and adapt to changing circumstances. This book scrutinizes ...
Coolies of Capitalism. Assam Tea and the Making of Coolie Labour
(2016)
Coolie labour was often proclaimed as a deliberate compromise straddling the regimes of the past (slave labour) and the future (free labour). In the late 1850s, the locals were replaced by labourers imported from outside ...
Christian Martyrdom in Late Antiquity (300-450 AD). History and Discourse, Tradition and Religious Identity
(2012)
The present volume`s focus lies on the formation of a multifaceted discourse on Christian martyrdom in Late Antiquity. While martyrdom accounts remain a central means of defining Christian identity, new literary genres ...
Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity. Studies in Text Transmission
(2016)
The role of Christian institutions, writers and saints in the active suppression and destruction of books in Late Antiquity has received surprisingly little consideration. The author argues that texts and ideas from ...
Biodiversity in Agricultural Landscapes of Southeastern Brazil
(2016)
The state of São Paulo, Brazil, is one of the most densely populated and developed areas in South America. Such development is evident both in terms of industrialization and urbanization, as well as in agriculture, which ...
The Black Death and Later Plague Epidemics in the Scandinavian Countries: Perspectives and Controversies
(2016)
This monograph represents an expansion and deepening of previous works by Ole J. Benedictow - the author of highly esteemed monographs and articles on the history of plague epidemics and historical demography. In the form ...
Borderlines: Essays on Mapping and The Logic of Place
(2019)
Borderlines innovatively explores the ways artistic interventions construct social, cultural, and mental spaces. The fifteen essays bring a broad multidisciplinary approach to the concept of borderlines and its markings ...
Botanik
(1852)
Constituent, Confederate, and Conquered Space. The Emergence of the Mittani State
(2014)
The Mittani empire is one of the most enigmatic political structures in Mesopotamian history. Reconstructing the emergence and the organisation of this state, whose territory encompassed Upper Mesopotamia touching the ...
Daten und Phänomene. Ein Beitrag zur wissenschaftstheoretischen Realismusdebatte
(2013)
Was sind naturwissenschaftliche Phänomene und inwiefern kann die Beantwortung dieser Frage zu einer besseren philosophischen Einschätzung der wissenschaftlichen Praxis beitragen? Dieses Buch untersucht die wissenschaftst ...
Datenbanksysteme
(1971)