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Staatsorganisationsrecht
(2022)
This textbook, written by university researchers, contains basic knowledge about German state organization law (Staatsorganisationsrecht). It presents exam-relevant material specifically for students. It also contains ...
Powers of Protection
(2021)
This volume explores the most extensive tradition of Buddhist dharani literature and provides access to the earliest available materials for the first time. The Dhāraṇīsaṃgraha collections have been present in South Asia, ...
Complex Lexical Units Compounds and Multi-Word Expressions
(2019)
The volume explores compounds and multi-word expressions and their interrelation regarding their status in lexicon and grammar in a variety of European languages, including a contrastive overview with a focus on German. ...
Gefängnis als Schwellenraum in der byzantinischen Hagiographie
(2021)
This volume investigates the literary depiction of prison as a liminal space in early and middle Byzantine martyrs’ Passions. Prison proves to be a transitional space where both the formation of corporeal endurance and the ...
AI in Business and Economics
(2024)
Rapid advances in AI technologies have generated intense interest and debate about their potential to reshape industries and societies. This book compiles academic papers from "The Economic Perspective of Artificial ...
Mathematics and Life Sciences
(2012)
Mathematical Method; Statistical Method; Modeling Method; Life Sciences Application
Visualizing the invisible with the human body
(2020)
Physiognomy and ekphrasis are two of the most important modes of description in antiquity and represent the necessary precursors of scientific description. The primary way of divining the characteristics and fate of an ...
Stile extremistischer Tatschreiben
(2024)
This volume examines the stylistic characteristics of threatening and abusive letters by right-wing extremists as well as left-wing extremist position papers and claims to responsibility. It applies qualitative and ...
Sprachenpolitik in Österreich
(2024)
This volume is the third publication on language policy in Austria after those of 2001 and 2011, documenting the period 2011 to 2021. In over 20 chapters, experts carry out reviews of various areas of language policy, in ...
Architectures of Colonialism
(2024)
The question of what heritage is and how we deal with it is not a neutral one. Recent events such as the Black Lives Matter movement and the toppling of monuments have made evident how much the colonial past is inscribed ...
Reflektierte algorithmische Textanalyse. Interdisziplinäre(s) Arbeiten in der CRETA-Werkstatt
(2020)
The Center for Reflected Text Analytics (CRETA) develops interdisciplinary mixed methods for text analytics in the research fields of the digital humanities. This volume is a collection of text analyses from specialty ...
Chapter 8 Voice-enabled assistive robots for handling autism spectrum conditions
(2014)
Autism spectrum conditions (ASC) are neurodevelopmental conditions, characterized by impairments in social interaction, communication (i.e., verbal and non-verbal language), and by restricted interests and repetitive ...
SCHNITZLER:REIGEN (2BD.E) E-BOOK OA Historisch-kritische Ausgabe
(2019)
La Ronde is one of Arthur Schnitzler’s most controversial works. The historical-critical edition provides an introduction to its history, reconstructs the provenance of the manuscript, and presents a facsimile of the ...
Datenmärkte, Datenintermediäre und der Data Governance Act
(2024)
Mit dem Data Governance Act (DGA) hat sich der europäische Gesetzgeber für eine strenge Regulierung von Datenvermittlungsdiensten entschieden. Anbieter von Datenvermittlungsdiensten werden durch Art. 10-15 DGA verpflichtet, ...
Chapter 52 Experimental methods in co-speech gesture research
(2013)
This chapter provides an introductory overview of some of the basic experimental paradigms traditionally employed in the field of gesture studies to investigate both comprehension and production in adult and child populations. ...
Byzantinische Rechtsgeschichte im internationalen Kontext
(2024)
In twenty papers from a joint conference held by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia and the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and the Humanities, this volume provides an overview of the latest issues in Byzantine legal ...
Les musiques du français parlé
(2016-01-01)
This volume presents a series of critical essays on the accentuation, rhythm, and intonation of contemporary French which offer new insight into the formal and functional characteristics of French prosody from three different ...
Sri Ksetra Museum Collection Inventory
(2022)
The Sri Ksetra Museum Inventory is the most comprehensive single source of Myanmar's Pyu material culture. With artifacts dating from the early centuries of the first millennium, the inventory includes material retrieved ...
Tracing the Jerusalem Code
(2021)
With the aim to write the history of Christianity in Scandinavia with Jerusalem as a lens, this book investigates the image – or rather the imagination – of Jerusalem in the religious, political, and artistic cultures of ...
Hochdeutsch
(2024)
This study examines discourses surrounding historical attitudes to language and language standardization from the 16th to the 18th century and shows what knowledge or accompanying beliefs scholars of the time associated ...
Expanding the Lexicon
(2018)
The book series is dedicated to the study of the multifaceted dynamics of wordplay as an interface phenomenon. The contributions aim to bring together approaches from various disciplines and present case studies on different ...
Das Temeswarer Banat
(2022)
As a region, the Banat has many unique features owing to its specific geographical location, its multi- and intercultural composition, and the cultural diversity of the people who live there. The goal of this volume is to ...
Whiteface
(2022)
This study originates in the observation that improv comedy or improvised theater has such a vast majority of white people practicing it, while other improvisational or comedic art forms (jazz, freestyle rap, stand up) are ...
Selbstversklavung im klassischen römischen Recht
(2024)
Aside from being born as a slave or being enslaved during war, classical legal sources recognize other cases in which it was no longer possible to regain at least freedom. One of these cases was sale for the purpose of ...
Vedānta, Bhakti, and Their Early Modern Sources
(2024)
This volume considers the Prabodhacandrodaya Nāṭaka (c. 1760 CE), an allegorical drama composed by Brajvāsīdās in Brajbhāṣā. It contributes to the study of vernacular nāṭakas with its first complete English translation. ...
Producing and Debating History
(2024)
This book explores how historical knowledge is produced in one of the most central digital communities of knowledge, Wikipedia. By placing Wikipedia editors at the center of inquiry and by shedding light on the debates ...
Materiality in Roman Art and Architecture
(2021)
Material is the substance of the world of things. Literary sources suggest that materiality was part of aesthetic perception, loaded with meaning and bound to function even in antiquity. To date, this complex reading of ...
Precarity in European Film
(2022)
This volume explores how contemporary European cinema engages with the increasing precarization of life and work on the continent. It compares how the filmic traditions of different countries reflect the socioeconomic ...
Religion from the Inside
(2024)
Within some religions, the inside view is engaged mainly with questions of theology: the contemplation of the divine and all things in relation thereto. Within others, it is preoccupied with the conforming of human action ...
Bourdieu in der Germanistik
(2022)
This volume brings into dialogue current research interests in literary studies and linguistics that work with Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts and theory. In light of the twentieth anniversary of the death of the French sociologist ...
Sprachkontakt generativ
(2023)
This book makes a theoretical contribution to research on the dynamics and processes of structural language contact and language change resulting from contact. It also provides insights into the syntax of Cimbrian, one of ...
Schule im deutschen Spielfilm
(2024)
Darstellungen von Schule in deutschen Spielfilmen scheinen immer wieder auf ähnliche Bilder und Semantiken von Bildung, Erziehung und sozialer Selektion zurückzukehren, selbst bei Filmen, die zeitlich weit voneinander ...
Vernacular Chinese-Character Manuscripts from East and Southeast Asia
(2024)
This collection brings together studies on vernacular manuscripts in regional Chinese dialects such as Cantonese and Hokkien, those of non-Han peoples in China and Southeast Asia, and one in Vietnamese. Coverage includes ...
Integrated Chemical Processes in Liquid Multiphase Systems
(2022)
The essential principles of green chemistry are the use of renewable raw materials, highly efficient catalysts and green solvents linked with energy efficiency and process optimization in real-time. Experts from different ...
›Humanitas‹ in the Imperial Age
(2024)
One of the most polysemic Latin words, humanitas was a core concept in Roman society and has become very influential in Western culture. Notwithstanding, some periods in the long history of humanitas have been little ...
The Qur'an Seminar Commentary
(2016-11-11)
The Qur'an Seminar Commentary is an unprecedented work of collaboration in the field of Qur'anic Studies, involving the insights of 25 scholars on 50 Qur'anic passages. These scholars represent a diverse range of disciplinary ...
The Lost Libraries of Tunis
(2024)
The libraries of Tunis are considered lost since the sack of the city by European armies in 1535. This study reconstructs the original holdings of Tunis’ medieval libraries by bringing together dispersed manuscripts from ...
Authorship and Text-making in Early China
(2018)
Der vorliegende Band berichtet über die bisherigen Aktivitäten des Instituts, seine Historie und Perspektiven und erlaubt darüber hinaus auch einen Blick hinter die Kulissen des Aufbaus eines Instituts in Afrika und auf ...
Geschichtspolitik als Unternehmenskommunikation
(2023)
There is hardly any other German company that was so polarizing in the twentieth century as Krupp. Publicly, "Krupp haters" and "Krupp fans" exchanged high-profile punches. Roelevink delves into this conflict, inquiring ...
The Cultural Net
(2018)
I developed the basic theoretical approach here outlined, which consists in a network theory of cultural (specifically literary) production. The main area of exemplification for the theoretical assumptions, early modern ...
Stealing the Club from Hercules
(2017-04-30)
In this book, conceived as a sort of Prolegomena to his two Teubner editions, Conte gives account of his choices in editing his Virgilian text. Engaging in a passionate debate with his predecessors and critics, he guides ...
Big Data Security (Volume 3)
(2019)
After a short description of the key concepts of big data the book explores on the secrecy and security threats posed especially by cloud based data storage. It delivers conceptual frameworks and models along with case ...
Large Scale Inverse Problems
(2013-08-29)
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. ...
Abraham Abulafia’s Esotericism Secrets and Doubts
(2020)
This book focuses on Abraham Abulafia’s esoteric thought in relation to Maimonides, Maimonideans, and Islamic thought in the line of Leo Strauss’ theory of the history of philosophy. A survey of Abulafia’s sources leads ...
Histoire, société et études islamiques au 21e siècle
(2024)
This edited volume challenges the simplistic view of Islam as a monolith. Its diverse contributions underscore the plurality of Islam in the context of yesterday, today, and tomorrow by addressing issues related to otherness ...
Practicing Interdisciplinarity
(2024)
A representation of the experiences and yields of the interdisciplinary work of a humanities and social science research training group with disciplinary breadth as well as historical depth. The disciplines range among ...
Theatron
(2012)
This volume presents 22 studies on aspects of rhetorical culture from Late Antiquity to the last years of the Byzantine Empire. Many of them concentrate on the effects and social relevance of the art of public speaking, ...
Public and Private in Ancient Mediterranean Law and Religion
(2015)
The public/private distinction is fundamental to modern theories of the family, religion and religious freedom, and state power, yet it has different salience, and is understood differently, from place to place and time ...
Ancient Jewish Historians and the German Reich
(2024)
These seven studies analyze interpretations of ancient Jewish history by prominent Jewish scholars in the German world in the 19th and 20th centuries. Although focusing on diverse figures and episodes, they all argue that ...
Assessing the Overheating Risk of Buildings
(2024)
The book presents the current state of the art for assessing the overheating risk of buildings. This includes the main effects and correlations related to site climate (including meso- and microclimate), comfort assessment, ...
Hate Speech
(2023)
Hate speech creates environments that are conducive to hate crimes and broad-scale conflict. This book discusses the mechanics of hate speech and its expression from a linguistic perspective. The author addresses the ...
Chapter 3 Challenges and opportunities for optochemical genetics
(2013)
The transmembrane proteins that underlie neural processing are now known at a level of detail that has greatly increased our understanding of these sophisticated molecular machines. Starting with MacKinnon’s seminal structure ...
Code-switching Between Structural and Sociolinguistic Perspectives
(2015)
This volume brings together linguistic, psycholinguistic, and sociolinguistic perspectives on code-switching. Featuring new data from five continents and languages with a large range of linguistic affiliations, the ...
Figuren der Endlichkeit in der Europäischen Romantik
(2024)
The volume examines figures of finitude in European Romanticism. The starting point is the observation that figures of the last - last people (J.-B Grainville: Le dernier homme (1805); M. Shelley: The Last Man (1826)), ...
Berkeley’s Doctrine of Signs
(2024)
Throughout his philosophical works, George Berkeley (1685–1753) emphasises the role that sign-usage, particularly in language, plays in human life, connecting it to our relationship with God—a central issue in his thought. ...
Contesting Religion
(2018)
As Scandinavian societies experience increased ethno-religious diversity, their Christian-Lutheran heritage and strong traditions of welfare and solidarity are being challenged and contested. This book explores conflicts ...
Hazardous Future: Disaster, Representation and the Assessment
(2015)
Disaster; catastrophe; risk future
Dialekte machen
(2020)
This empirical study examines the importance of dialect and dialect use in Switzerland. Based on interdisciplinary approaches, it explores the extent to which linguistic perception and assessment on the part of laypersons ...
Saša Stanišić: Poetologie und Werkpolitik
(2023)
Saša Stanišić is one of the most important voices in contemporary German literature. This volume reveals new perspectives on Stanišić’s work and his authorial persona. It focuses on previously neglected aspects, such as ...
La ricezione dell’ultimo Alessandro
(2024)
This volume focusses on the reception of Alexander the Great from a broad and multifocal perspective, ranging from the description of the mirabilia associated with the late Eastern campaign to the contrasting characterisation ...
Praxishandbuch Medien an den Rändern
(2024)
Libraries are caught in an ethical balancing act with their acquisition decisions: on the one hand, they must uphold freedom of expression and information, and use their collections to reflect the plurality of society. On ...
Bloße Streite um Worte
(2024)
Philosophical discourses can fail in different ways and for different reasons. If disputants are involved in a mere dispute over words, their dispute is not based on disagreement. Due to a linguistic misunderstanding, they ...
Chapter Some Remarks on Babylonian Pharmacology
(2017)
This volume brings together contributions covering different periods of the history of ancient pharmacology and medical writing, from Greek, Byzantine, and Syriac medicine to the Rabbinic-Talmudic medical discourses. It ...
Inszenierte Geschichte = Staging History
(2021)
Anniversaries and jubilees play a central role in the "doing" of history. They qualitatively and quantitatively expand the group of people who consume and produce "history," while different history media correspond and ...
Handbuch kommunikationswissenschaftliche Erinnerungsforschung
(2022)
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the principles, perspectives, and main emphases of studying processes of communicative remembering and media memory. Its chapters analyze the field of communication memory ...
Notions of Temporalities in Artistic Practice
(2022)
This publication focuses on the ideas of temporality in artistic practices. The analysis and reflection of various approaches enable the reader to delve into situation-specific settings and to contextualize and examine the ...
Empires and Gods
(2024)
This volume focuses on the thorny relations between empires and religions. All empires employed religious semantics and religious rituals in their practice of rulership, and many invested substantial human and material ...
Race and Gender in Modern Western Warfare
(2018)
This book fills a gap in the historiographical and theoretical fields of race, gender, and war. In brief, Race and Gender in Modern Western Warfare (RGMWW) offers an introduction into how cultural constructions of identity ...
Contemporary Jewish Reality in Germany and Its Reflection in Film
(2012-12-06)
The notion of "self" and "other" and its representation in artwork and literature is an important theme in current cultural sciences as well as in our everyday life in contemporary Western societies. Moreover, the concept ...
Assessment of General Practitioners' Performance in Daily Practice
(2014)
The EURACT Performance Agenda (EUPA) of the European Academy of Teachers in General Practice/Family Medicine (EURACT) is the third paper in a row following the European Definition of General Practice/Family Medicine (WONCA ...
Lucius Cornelius Sulla in der antiken Erinnerung
(2016)
Lucius Cornelius Sulla led his army against Rome, devastated Athens, and, as dictator, took bloody revenge on his enemies after his victory in the Civil War. His iconoclasm was infused in the collective memory of Greeks ...
Ecce figura
(2023)
Figures emerge from movement. We live and think in figures. This monograph pursues the literary, theological, and philosophical traces of the concept in comparative constellations from antiquity to modernity and develops ...
Von Kant zu Schelling
(2018)
The classic work on German idealism is now presented in the translation by Hans-Dieter Gondek. Miklós Vető’s text provides an analysis of the four principal philosophers of German idealism, with an emphasis on the issues ...
Chapter Labeling (Romance) causatives
(2017)
Classical analyses of Romance causatives of the Italian/French type illustrated in examples like (2) and (3) below for Italian, proposed that an overt process of VP-preposing occurs in the derivation of these structures ...
Subaltern Sovereigns
(2023)
Through an ethnographic and comparative study of rituals in a "tribal" region of Odisha, this book, in its core, deals with indigenous conceptualizations of sovereignty. The local proverb that connects the ritual of the ...
Chapter Die ‚Privaturkunde‘ im persisch-islamischen Kultur- und Rechtsbereich. Herausforderungen einer komparatistischen Diplomatik
(2019)
The European Middle Ages are generally considered to be the “age of the charter,” but there are also charters of various types handed down from other pre-modern cultures. These documents are now no longer seen as mere ...
Universality after Universalism
(2023)
The idea of universalism inherited from the French Revolution has been strongly discredited by its colonial history; today, it is also the target of nationalist attacks. What remains of it? Now available in English, Markus ...
Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie. Bd 14/Lieferung 7/8. Ut(a)-napiši(m) – Waša/ezzil(i)
(2016)
Assyriology; Mesopotamia; Ancient Near East
Beyond Instrumentalised Politics
(2024)
Typically, innovation in public governance is limited to reforming existing institutions. Beyond Instrumentalised Politics characterises a novel political system. It articulates the evaluative principles required for ...
Chapter Person by other means
(2013)
As Anna Siewierska notes (2004: 8) ‘the universality of person as a grammatical category is sometimes called into question.’ And indeed, in some languages, an interesting minority, it is not obvious whether there is a ...