Publications
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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 ...