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Rationale Entscheidungen unter Unsicherheit
(2018)
People make a multitude of decisions every day, either for themselves or for others. On what basis do we actually decide? What are the bases for decisions when the data situation is uncertain because a completely new ...
Formulaic Language and New Data
(2020)
The existence of formulaic patterns has been attested to all languages of the world. However, systematic research in this field has been focused on only a few European standard languages with a rich literary tradition and ...
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 ...
Stories that Make History
(2020)
The experiences of Korean comfort girls-women are a paradigmatic example of how military sexual violence can obliterate the dignity of women and shame them into nonexistence. This book examines how the turning of their ...
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 ...
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. ...
Kannibalismus und Eucharistie
(2024)
The Eucharist and cannibalism: the cultural situatedness of these two concepts seems contrary, which made the analogies between these two concepts all the more disturbing in the sixteenth century. This volume asks whether ...
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 ...
Sixty years of Swedish computational lexicography
(2025)
This book offers an in-depth description of how traditional Swedish lexicographical research and cutting-edge language technology are synergetically combined in an e-infrastructure for computational lexicography, improving ...
Handbook of Polish, Czech, and Slovak Holocaust Fiction
(2021)
The Handbook presents literary fiction works on the Holocaust in three Slavic languages. It contains more than 120 articles including an introduction dealing with Holocaust literature in the broader context. The publication ...
Wastelands?
(2025)
How do we follow affects in places? And how do they follow us? How can rural places be described as "affective places"? Considering local and global transformations and crises, this book examines the "how" of culture in ...
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 ...
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.
Gustav Landauer als jüdischer Intellektueller?
(2025)
Gustav Landauer (1870–1919) is considered an important representative of German-speaking anarchism. This book asks whether Landauer can also be seen as a Jewish intellectual and how he fits into the Jewish cultural history ...
Argumentationen über den Klimawandel in Schweizer Medien
(2022)
This book establishes a typology of the arguments made about climate change in the German-speaking Swiss media between 2007 and 2014. By combining corpus linguistic, pragma-dialectical, and discourse analytical approaches, ...
Coming to Terms
(2024)
Terminologies present various challenges to their inventors and to their users, ranging from epistemic adequacy over linguistic concerns to matters of strategy and group construction. With respect to historical terminologies, ...
The Winds of History
(2023)
Based on extensive archival research in six countries and intensive fieldwork, the book analyzes the history of the village of Nkholongue on the eastern (Mozambican) shores of Lake Malawi from the time of its formation in ...
Esoteric Catholicism / Esoterischer Katholizismus
(2025)
Open to deviance, Catholic theology and devotional practice managed to integrate stigmata, revelations, visions, "magic," and spiritualistic contact – more so than Protestantism. At the same time, esoteric groups did not ...
The Biological Foundation of Sustainability
(2025)
The ongoing climate change, rampant biodiversity loss, omnipresent pollution and waste accumulation around the world can no longer be overlooked or denied. As a consequence, "sustainability" has become a buzzword – but ...
Cultural Perspectives on Aging
(2021)
The societal significance of old age and ageing are increasing due to demographic developments. Age(ing) is not only a biological and social fact, but also a cultural one. This book reveals the importance of cultural factors ...