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Carbon-Based Smart Materials
(2020)
Presents technologies and key concepts to produce suitable smart materials and intelligent structures for sensing, information and communication technology, biomedical applications (drug delivery, hyperthermia therapy), ...
Die Sprache des erlittenen Krieges (1914–1938)
(2025)
This volume focuses on poems by French frontline soldiers that address the suffering resulting from the experience of war. They bear witness, accuse, and function as a medium for coping with traumatic experiences. In ...
Der Fall Roms und seine Wiederauferstehungen in Antike und Mittelalter
(2013)
This collection of essays analyzes the construction of the "fall" of Rome from a range of perspectives native to different disciplines. Subjects addressed include comparable discourses dating from the earlier history of ...
Barbar – König – Tyrann
(2009)
Theodoric the Great is one of the most fascinating characters among the rulers from the time of the migrations of the Germanic peoples. Like no other Germanic king, this East Goth polarised the world of his time and made ...
›On Avoiding Distress‹ and ›On My Own Opinions‹
(2023)
This volume provides a new critical edition of Galen’s On Avoiding Distress and On My Own Opinions, which represents an improvement on earlier editions by offering more accurate readings of the main witness Vlatadon 14, ...
Time for the Ancients
(2022)
The book offers an overview of experiences, theories and conceptions of time in the Graeco-Roman world. It presents the results of new research on neglected medical texts, relating to time management, aging and times of ...
Microwave Based Weed Control and Soil Treatment
(2018)
The Yearbook mirrors the annual activities of staff and visiting fellows of the Maimonides Centre and reports on symposia, workshops, and lectures taking place at the Centre. Although aimed at a wider audience, the yearbook ...
The British and Irish Ruling Class 1660-1945 Vol. 2
(2021)
The book provides a comprehensive reference source for the governing class of Great Britain and Ireland from Oliver Cromwell to Winston Churchill, and offers a deep pool of data to support analysis of social, political, ...
Die Interaktion zwischen Dirigent:in und Musiker:innen in Orchesterproben
(2023)
This study examines the multilingual and multimodal practices employed by conductors and musicians to communicate and interact with each other during rehearsals of French and Italian symphony orchestras.
Active Materials
(2021)
What is an active material? This book aims to redefine perceptions of the materials that respond to their environment. Through the theory of the structure and functionality of materials found in nature a scientific approach ...
The Construct of Identity in Hellenistic Judaism
(2016-09-12)
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 ...
Koloniale Straßennamen
(2021)
This study examines colonially motivated street naming processes during the German Reich. It collects and analyses name structures and discursive functions in terms of the colonizing certainties that they verbalised. By ...
European Monarchies from 1814 to 1906
(2017)
The year 2014 saw the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's downfall - and the restauration of the French monarchy under the house of Bourbon. With this as a starting point, Volker Sellin shows how the European monarchies restored ...
Bildungs- und Kulturzentren als kommunale Lernwelten
(2023)
Die Förderung des Lebenslangen Lernens ist zu einer zentralen gesellschaftlichen Herausforderung geworden. Bildungs- und Kulturinstitutionen liefern einen wichtigen Beitrag bei der Unterstützung. Vor allem Bildungs- und ...
Kunstmarkt und Kunstbetrieb in Rom (1750–1850)
(2019)
Between 1750 and 1850, Rome represented a unique crystallization point for the European art market. These conference proceedings examine key players and places and the diverse manifestations of the Roman art market. Discussed ...
Narratologie und vormoderne japanische Literatur
(2022)
The fundamental characteristics of Japanese narrative texts written between the tenth and the fourteenth centuries can be defined using the categories voice, perspective, and distance. This volume critically reviews existing ...
Jeux de mots et créativité
(2018)
This volume seeks to shed light on the interdependencies between wordplay and language creativity. Contributions explore the most diverse genres and discourses throughout History —anagrams, medieval fatrasies, the works ...
Peoples of the Apocalypse
(2016)
This volume addresses Jewish, Christian and Muslim future visions on the end of the world, focusing on the respective allies and antagonists for each religious society. Spanning late Antiquity to the early modern period, ...
Cicero in Basel
(2024)
The contributions of this volume chart Cicero’s presence in the city of Basel – from the stories around the city’s foundation to humanist editions and commentaries and the politics of scholarship and education. They ...
Das SED-Unrecht und seine strafrechtliche Verfolgung
(2024)
In this volume, Hansgeorg Bräutigam, who was the chairman of a jury chamber at the Berlin Regional Court at the time, describes his personal memories of the laborious criminal investigation of the SED's injustice after ...
Shaping Visions in U.S.-American Magazines
(2024)
This book presents the first comprehensive study on U.S.-American female illustrators’ creative imaginations of femininity, 1890-1920. It offers insight into the multi-faceted visual-textual relations across mass and little ...
Infrastructure Aesthetics
(2024)
In recent years, more artists have been integrating institutions, funding structures, critics, and distribution circuits into the works themselves, putting pressure on the long-standing analytical division in art studies ...
Studies in the Atharvaveda
(2024)
This volume, the first of its kind in nearly two decades, comprises 16 articles on the Atharvaveda, India’s second oldest text, by the world’s leading scholars in the field, from India, Japan, Europe and North America. ...
Doing Digital Film History
(2024)
How has the digital turn shaped the practices of doing film history in research and teaching? From digital archival practices, database-driven search and analysis of film historical collections to the visualization and ...
Justiz im Umbruch
(2024)
This is the first volume to present the history of the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) in Karlsruhe, the superior federal court for civil and criminal matters, in the period 1950 to 1968. Volume 1 deals with the ...
Counting on Computers
(2024)
Counting on Computers is a compelling exploration of socialist ambitions for a computerised future in the German Democratic Republic. It examines the authoritarian leadership's positive vision of socialist computerisation ...
The Book of Leviticus from the Gözleve Bible
(2024)
This volume offers a linguistic analysis of the Book of Leviticus from the so-called Gözleve Bible (1841), a printed Crimean Karaim Bible translation penned in Hebrew script. Crimean Karaim, and thus the language of this ...
Ethnicity as Desire
(2024)
Ethnicity as Desire provides an in-depth study of the political and ideological meanings of gay pornography shaped over the last 40 years. Focusing on the analysis of ethnic representation, it offers innovative research ...
Herausforderung Digitalisierung
(2024)
As part of a digital lecture series organized at Justus Liebig University Giessen in the winter semester of 2021/22 to mark this anniversary, renowned scientists from various disciplines gave valuable lectures on the topics ...
Models of Change in Medieval Textual Culture
(2024)
How does textual culture change? How do genres turn into new forms, how do texts and books change through use and in performance? When does variation turn into change? This book addresses different aspects of change in the ...
Producing Buddhist Sutras in Ninth-Century Tibet
(2024)
In Dunhuang in the 820s, scribes, editors, and administrators produced thousands of Tibetan and Chinese copies of the Sutra of Limitless Life. Drawing on the 1,500 such Tibetan copies now kept at the British Library, this ...
Normas y diferencias
(2024)
This volume offers an innovative contribution to the field of Cultural Studies. It addresses the intersection between disability and scenic, literary and audiovisual creation and examines the role that 'functional diversity' ...
Ancient Greek Purism
(2024)
This volume investigates the cultural, linguistic, and historical roots of Atticism: the purist movement that in the Imperial age promoted 5th-century Attic as a literary linguistic standard. The status-building of Attic ...
Widerstände
(2024)
This volume addresses definitions, forms, and motifs of the resistance against National Socialist. Its explorations focus on individual choices to resist politically organized struggles and defiance deserters and queer ...
Idylle als Denkraum im 19. Jahrhundert
(2024)
This volume brings together chapters on the conspicuous rise of idyllic genre parameters in the various literatures, illustrated media, and visual arts of the long nineteenth century. The theory behind the resurgence of ...
Beyond Mimicry
(2024)
This book addresses critical issues at the heart of both academic debate and political confrontations in African societies, facing profound crises of governance due to the failure of exogenous models adopted in the continent. ...
Digital Papyrology III
(2024)
The volume collects contributions about the most recent developments of the theoretical and practical concept of digital critical edition applied to Greek Papyrology, redacted by outstanding scholars involved in ground-breaking ...
The Fragility of Responsibility
(2024)
Norway has a tradition in promoting Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and Corporate social responsibility (CSR). This book consists of case studies of how social responsibility is institutionalized in Norwegian ...
Conditions of Violence
(2024)
Mass violence comes not only from states, but also from people. By analyzing mass violence as social interaction through survivor accounts and other sources, this book presents understudied agents, aims and practices of ...
»Schizophrenie« in der Alltagssprache
(2024)
Since it was coined in 1908, the term schizophrenia has undergone a remarkable transformation. As well as being a medical diagnosis, the term is now also used to describe contradictory situations and as an everyday insult. ...
Religion und Politik in Christentum und Islam
(2024)
Why do Christianity and Islam approach their relationship to politics in distinct ways? Because they each have their own "grammar." Their canonical scriptures have different contents their early experiences of politics ...
Time in Diaries of Court and Bakufu Officials in the late 13th Century
(2024)
This monograph portrays temporality as it emerges from diaries produced by government officials during the late thirteenth century in Japan, thereby highlighting the complex and plural approaches to ‘time’ that these sources ...
Machiavelli und Dantes „Commedia“
(2024)
Machiavelli is considered to have been an "admirer" of Dante, but his Asino is also read as satire on Dante. So what is the position of the Commedia in Machiavelli’s poetry? This volume provides a nuanced answer that ...
The Middle East and North Africa
(2024)
This volume gathers reflections on secularity from the Ottoman Empire, modern Arab states, the Turkish Republic, Iran, and Jewish perspectives from Europe and Israel, many translated into English for the first time. While ...
Medieval Art, Modern Politics
(2024)
This innovative volume of twelve essays by international scholars examines the political uses and misuses of medieval images, objects, and sites in modern times (16th to 20th centuries). In case studies that range from ...
Fremdes Begehren: Spiele der Identitäten und Differenzen im späten 12. Jahrhundert
(2024)
In the narrative literature of the late twelfth century, dynamics of desire produce complex identity and relationship constellations. This study examines the narrative logics of heterosocial and homosocial desire in the ...
Munera und Agone in der Gesetzgebung der Spätantike
(2024)
Public games shaped urban life in the Roman Empire up into late antiquity. This study is the first to systematically examine the legal texts pertaining to gladiator battles and animal baiting (munera), as well as athletic ...
Réinventer l’art sacré
(2024)
During the first half of the 20th century, artists all over Europe investigated religious art and tried to renew its forms of expression. In Switzerland, an artistic society known as the "Groupe de Saint-Luc" was particularly ...
Latin America’s Contested Pasts in Telenovelas and TV Series
(2024)
This interdisciplinary volume analyzes the historical culture of Latin American society embodied in telenovelas and series from the 1960s to the present. Bringing together regional case studies on the representation of ...
La langue du peuple dans la littérature
(2024)
From the classical age to contemporary Francophonie, French-language literature features numerous instances of popular speech, whose mimetic or conventional character remains open to debate. This book brings together ...
Navigating the News
(2024)
Based on an extensive ethnography of news practices and perceptions among a broad range of youth in Sweden, this book discusses how the digitisation of news has shaped young people’s understanding of what news is, and how ...
Yahwism under the Achaemenid Empire
(2024)
This book is dedicated to the study of the touchpoints between Yahwistic communities throughout the Achaemenid empire and the Iranian attributes of the empire that ruled over them for about two centuries. Its approach is ...
Lager als Architektur
(2024)
Since 1945, camps as a form of temporary mass housing have been either ignored or discussed only in the margins of architectural history. In this book, Antje Senarclens de Grancy examines for the first time the camps built ...
Educational Secularization within Europe and Beyond
(2024)
Secularization as a political and ideological project has been part of transforming and giving new life to religion, not least through reforms in the education system and in public enlightenment efforts. The volume provides ...
Recognitions
(2024)
The volume explores the interpretive potential of the polysemic idea of recognition as it intersects with phenomena of transcodification, transmediality, and transculturality. Focusing on translation, adaptation, ...
Luxus-Praktiken in der Literatur der Aufklärung
(2024)
Modern human identity has been shaped by consumer practices. Contemporary discourses about consumption between addiction and self-determination have their origins in the eighteenth-century luxury debate. This volume is the ...
Die Sprache des erlittenen Krieges (1914–1938)
(2024)
This book focuses on poems by French frontline soldiers that address the sufferings of war. They bear witness, bring charges, and function as a medium for coping with traumatic experiences. Some of the texts examined pertain ...
Genealogical Manuscripts in Cross-Cultural Perspective
(2024)
Writing one’s genealogy by hand is a common practice across cultures, both past and present. This volume explores how lineages were expressed in handwritten form within different social, cultural, and religious contexts ...
Imágenes de la vejez
(2024)
Age studies add the perspective of aging to the issues of inclusion and diversity, which intersect with other axes (gender, race, class, functional diversity, etc.). This volume delves into the scenic, literary and audiovisual ...
A Show of Hands
(2024)
In contrast to the divide between conception and execution advocated by Anglo-American artists in the second half of the 1960s, this book reappraises conceptual art by examining it from the perspective of craft. Furthermore, ...