Publications
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From Logic to Art. Themes from Nelson Goodman
(2009)
Nelson Goodman (1906-1998) was one of the outstanding thinkers of the 20th century. In a memorial note, Hilary Putnam considers him to be "one of the two or three greatest analytic philosophers of the post-World War II ...
Fundamentals for the Anthropocene
(2017)
This book seeks to bridge the gap between leading edge scholarship about the nature of the physical, tangible Universe and the nature of the life process on Earth on the one hand, and on the other hand challenges facing ...
Futures of the Study of Culture. Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Global Challenges
(2020)
How can we approach possible but unknown futures of the study of culture? This volume explores this question in the context of a changing global world. The contributions in this volume discuss the necessity of significant ...
Gaming und Bibliotheken
(2014)
Using a theoretical review as a foundation, this volume for the first time provides a comprehensive review of the manifold possibilities for the use of gaming in libraries. It presents new trends in gaming as well as current ...
Geistige Gefahr und Immunisierung der Gesellschaft. Antikommunismus und politische Kultur in der frühen Bundesrepublik
(2014)
Up to the early 1960s, anticommunism was an important source of identity formation in the Bonn Republic. It aimed at consolidating the still-nascent West German democracy. Renowned historians discuss different governmental ...
Gegen den Stand der Dinge. Objekte in Museen und Ausstellungen
(2016)
Challenging the Status of Things reflects on the current shift in how museums relate to material culture. Contemporary notions in material culture studies, sociology, and art theory ascribe critical power to objects. The ...
GegenErinnerung. Geschichte als politisches Argument im Transformationsprozeß Ost-, Ostmittel- und Südosteuropas
(2006)
Die Autoren des Bandes fragen nach der Rolle der Vergangenheit beim Sturz und Zerfall der sozialistischen Regime Ende der 80er Jahre sowie bei den Versuchen, die neu gewonnene Unabhängigkeit in der Zeit danach zu stabilisieren.
Geistliches Erzählen. Zur deutschsprachigen religiösen Kleinepik des Mittelalters
(2015)
Despite the richness of its facets, the short religious epic has been largely neglected by scholars until now. This study explores this literary phenomenon using a multi-perspectival descriptive model. Extensive detailed ...
An Experimental Study on Adhesive or Anti-adhesive, Bio-inspired Experimental Nanomaterials
(2013)
Adhesive abilities of insects, spiders and reptiles have inspired researchers for a long time. All these organisms show outstanding performance, particularly for force, adhesion and climbing abilities, relative to their ...
Experimentalphysik. Mechanik
(2018)
Mit seinen stetig komplexeren Erläuterungen bildet dieses Werk den steigenden Schwierigkeitsgrad ab, den Studierende während der ersten Semester erleben. Durch zahlreiche Beispiele und künstlerisch sehr ansprechendes ...
German and Dutch in Contrast. Synchronic, Diachronic and Psycholinguistic Perspectives
(2020)
Designed as a contribution to contrastive linguistics, the present volume brings up-to-date the comparison of German with its closest neighbour, Dutch, and other Germanic relatives like English, Afrikaans, and the Scandinavian ...
Fifth Size Strain Conference. Diffraction Analysis of the Microstructure of Materials
(2008)
Zeitschrift für Kristallographie. Supplement Volume 27 presents the complete Proceedings of all contributions to the V Size Strain Conference in Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2007: Lattice Defects,Residual Stresses,Texture in ...
Frieden schaffen und sich verteidigen im Spätmittelalter. Faire la paix et se défendre à la fin du Moyen Âge
(2012)
In Frankreich, Burgund, dem spätmittelalterlichen Reich, Kastilien, Katalonien und Städten wie Florenz gab es enge Verbindungen zwischen Friedenssicherung und effektiver Verteidigungsorganisation. Seit einigen Jahren stehen ...
Frieden durch Kommunikation. Das System Genscher und die Entspannungspolitik im Zweiten Kalten Krieg 1979–1982/83
(2015)
At the end of the 1970s West Germany`s foreign minister Genscher faced the challenge of defending the Social-Liberal coalition`s policy of dètente against the approaching Second Cold War.‎ The unique features of his ...
