Publications
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Microwave Based Weed Control and Soil Treatment
(2018)
Herbicide resistance has become an important constraint on modern agricultural practices. An alarming increase in weed biotypes that are resistant to herbicides has also been reported. Opportunity exists for a novel weed ...
Microwave and Radio-Frequency Technologies in Agriculture. An Introduction for Agriculturalists and Engineers
(2015)
Humanity’s ability to produce enough food is mostly due to adoption of new methods and technologies by the agricultural industries as they became available. New information, communication and high speed processing and ...
Made in Canada, Read in Spain: Essays on the Translation and Circulation of English-Canadian Literature
(2013)
Made in Canada, Read in Spain is an edited collection of essays on the impact, diffusion, and translation of English Canadian literature in Spain. Given the size of the world’s Spanish-speaking population (some 350 million ...
Large Scale Inverse Problems. Computational Methods and Applications in the Earth Sciences
(2013)
This book is thesecond volume of a three volume series recording the Radon Special Semester 2011 on Multiscale Simulation & Analysis in Energy and the Environment that took placein Linz, Austria, October 3-7, 2011. This ...
Lieschen Müller wird politisch. Geschlecht, Staat und Partizipation im 20. Jahrhundert
(2009)
Als die Frauen in Deutschland 1918 das Wahlrecht erhielten, war dies ein Meilenstein auf dem Weg zu ihrer staatsbürgerlichen Gleichberechtigung. In den folgenden Jahrzehnten gingen die Bestrebungen nach mehr politischer ...
Littérature française et savoirs biologiques au XIXe siècle. Traduction, transmission, transposition
(2020)
Par la puissance métaphorique et la force de modélisation qu’ils revêtent, les savoirs biologiques et leurs représentations suscitent au XIXe siècle la fascination des écrivains. Ceux-ci y trouvent la source d’une nouvelle ...
Loans in Colonial and Modern Nahuatl. A Contextual Dictionary
(2020)
The dictionary expands on the original idea of Karttunen and Lockhart to map the usage of loans in Nahuatl, by using a much larger and diversified corpus of sources, and by including contextual use, missing in earlier ...
Making the Medieval Relevant. How Medieval Studies Contribute to Improving our Understanding of the Present
(2020)
When scholars discuss the medieval past, the temptation is to become immersed there, to deepen our appreciation of the nuances of the medieval sources through debate about their meaning. But the past informs the present ...
Männer mit Makel. Männlichkeiten und gesellschaftlicher Wandel in der frühen Bundesrepublik
(2017)
The transformation of West German society in the long 1950s led to changes in society`s understanding of masculinity. Men who were different – disabled war veterans, the homeless, homosexuals – were under pressure ...
Judah Halevi’s Fideistic Scepticism in the Kuzari
(2020)
The book provides the first comprehensive study on Judah Halevi’s use of sceptical tactics in his wrestling with the dogmatic-rationalistic trends of the Arabic culture of his period (11th- 12th centuries).