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Health and socio-economic status over the life course First results from SHARE Waves 6 and 7
(2019)
Health in later life is shaped by behavior and policies over the life course and reflects the differences between the societies in which we are ageing. This multidisciplinary book answers questions from all life course ...
Digital Classical Philology
(2019)
The buzzwords “Information Society” and “Age of Access” suggest that information is now universally accessible without any form of hindrance. Indeed, the German constitution calls for all citizens to have open access to ...
Digital Classical Philology
(2019)
The buzzwords “Information Society” and “Age of Access” suggest that information is now universally accessible without any form of hindrance. Indeed, the German constitution calls for all citizens to have open access to ...
Navigating Socialist Encounters
(2021)
This edited volume firmly places African history into global history by highlighting connections between African and East German actors and institutions during the Cold War. With a special focus on negotiations and African ...
Navigating Socialist Encounters
(2021)
This edited volume firmly places African history into global history by highlighting connections between African and East German actors and institutions during the Cold War. With a special focus on negotiations and African ...
System- and Data-Driven Methods and Algorithms
(2021)
An increasing complexity of models used to predict real-world systems leads to the need for algorithms to replace complex models with far simpler ones, while preserving the accuracy of the predictions. This two-volume ...
Rêves de la littérature de divertissement en Chine impériale tardive
(2023)
The book offers a cultural, historical and literary study of dream narration in Chinese literature (particularly in the literary genres of xiaoshuo 小說, "petty talk" and biji 筆記, "notebook"). It considers texts from Late ...
Rêves de la littérature de divertissement en Chine impériale tardive
(2023)
The book offers a cultural, historical and literary study of dream narration in Chinese literature (particularly in the literary genres of xiaoshuo 小說, "petty talk" and biji 筆記, "notebook"). It considers texts from Late ...
Chapter Encyclopaedias and Commentaries
(2015)
This paper looks at how empirical knowledge was assembled and interpreted in Babylonian academies and investigates two Neo-Assyrian plant lists: KADP 2 and KADP 4. These two lists are not simple collections of scholastic ...
Chapter Encyclopaedias and Commentaries
(2015)
This paper looks at how empirical knowledge was assembled and interpreted in Babylonian academies and investigates two Neo-Assyrian plant lists: KADP 2 and KADP 4. These two lists are not simple collections of scholastic ...
Mischungen beim antiken Gelage
(2024)
While ancient banquets are gaining traction in international research, they still pose a number of interpretative challenges. By concentrating on the early Greek symposium, this volume reviews previous interpretative models ...
Mischungen beim antiken Gelage
(2024)
While ancient banquets are gaining traction in international research, they still pose a number of interpretative challenges. By concentrating on the early Greek symposium, this volume reviews previous interpretative models ...
Erzählungen – Erwartungen – Erfahrungen
(2024)
Surprising experiences with performers with intellectual disabilities can raise awareness of subliminal negative perceptions and open them to critique, e.g., in professional theater productions and films. This book examines ...
Erzählungen – Erwartungen – Erfahrungen
(2024)
Surprising experiences with performers with intellectual disabilities can raise awareness of subliminal negative perceptions and open them to critique, e.g., in professional theater productions and films. This book examines ...
Zionism and Cosmopolitanism
(2022)
Franz Oppenheimer (1864-1943) was a prominent German sociologist, economist and Zionist activist. As a co-founder of academic sociology in Germany, Oppenheimer vehemently opposed the influence of antisemitism on the nascent ...
Zionism and Cosmopolitanism
(2022)
Franz Oppenheimer (1864-1943) was a prominent German sociologist, economist and Zionist activist. As a co-founder of academic sociology in Germany, Oppenheimer vehemently opposed the influence of antisemitism on the nascent ...
Centenarians’ Autobiographies
(2024)
Situated at the intersection between medical humanities, aging studies, autobiographical studies, disability studies and ethic studies, this book explores the fascination of centenarians' autobiographies for humanites ...
Gender in der deutschsprachigen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur
(2022)
This volume is the first to diachronously present the development of gender in German children's and young-adult literature from the middle ages to the present. It explores a topic of enormous societal relevance by examining ...
Gender in der deutschsprachigen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur
(2022)
This volume is the first to diachronously present the development of gender in German children's and young-adult literature from the middle ages to the present. It explores a topic of enormous societal relevance by examining ...
Playing the Text, Performing the Future: Future Narratives in Print and Digiture
(2013)
This volume examines the structure of text-based Future Narratives in the widest sense, including choose-your-own-adventure books, forking-path novels, combinatorial literature, hypertexts, interactive fiction, and alternate ...
Playing the Text, Performing the Future: Future Narratives in Print and Digiture
(2013)
This volume examines the structure of text-based Future Narratives in the widest sense, including choose-your-own-adventure books, forking-path novels, combinatorial literature, hypertexts, interactive fiction, and alternate ...
Culture-bearing Women
(2019)
The study examines the fiction of Black Women’s Renaissance. It focuses on the novels of the 1980s, which appreciated “culture-bearing” mothers as reproducers of the nation, to analyze the vexed relationship between cultural ...
Culture-bearing Women
(2019)
The study examines the fiction of Black Women’s Renaissance. It focuses on the novels of the 1980s, which appreciated “culture-bearing” mothers as reproducers of the nation, to analyze the vexed relationship between cultural ...
The Temporality of Festivals
(2024)
In this volume, scholars from different fields examine the temporality of festivals of the past. They show that we can use astronomical documents, calendars, and literary texts to recover how people in the past structured ...
The Temporality of Festivals
(2024)
In this volume, scholars from different fields examine the temporality of festivals of the past. They show that we can use astronomical documents, calendars, and literary texts to recover how people in the past structured ...
Language Activism
(2021)
Through an ethnographic account of Isthmus Zapotec language advocates in Oaxaca, Mexico, this study illuminates a repertoire of advocacy strategies that are bringing linguistic equality closer to reality.
Language Activism
(2021)
Through an ethnographic account of Isthmus Zapotec language advocates in Oaxaca, Mexico, this study illuminates a repertoire of advocacy strategies that are bringing linguistic equality closer to reality.
The Emergence of Multiple-Text Manuscripts
(2020)
Selecting and excerpting, summarizing and canonizing, arranging texts and visual signs in manuscripts appear to be universal practices. This volume analyses the fascinating vicissitudes of birth and development, growth and ...
The Emergence of Multiple-Text Manuscripts
(2020)
Selecting and excerpting, summarizing and canonizing, arranging texts and visual signs in manuscripts appear to be universal practices. This volume analyses the fascinating vicissitudes of birth and development, growth and ...
Die Ordnung der Zukunft
(2023)
The future is open: This is a basic assumption of modernity. It originated in the 18th century and still shapes our self-image today. This study uncovers another tradition: the effort to close the future again, to ‘fill ...
Die Ordnung der Zukunft
(2023)
The future is open: This is a basic assumption of modernity. It originated in the 18th century and still shapes our self-image today. This study uncovers another tradition: the effort to close the future again, to ‘fill ...
Die Basilika in Byzanz
(2013)
In Byzantium, the central structure is considered archetypical. This study shows that this assumption is only partly true. It presents the basilicas of the 7th to 15th centuries, addressing questions of typology, appointments, ...
Die Diachronie der französischen Progressivperiphrase
(2024)
This diachronous corpus study examines the grammaticalization of the French progressive verbal periphrasis être en train de + infinitive. It explores the semantic development of periphrasis and how the restrictions it is ...
Die Diachronie der französischen Progressivperiphrase
(2024)
This diachronous corpus study examines the grammaticalization of the French progressive verbal periphrasis être en train de + infinitive. It explores the semantic development of periphrasis and how the restrictions it is ...
Principles of Decoration in the Roman World
(2021)
Principles of Decoration in the Roman World explores the manner in which architectural settings and action contexts influenced the perception of decorative elements in Roman culture. By examining the relationship between ...
Principles of Decoration in the Roman World
(2021)
Principles of Decoration in the Roman World explores the manner in which architectural settings and action contexts influenced the perception of decorative elements in Roman culture. By examining the relationship between ...
Massenwahntheorie und Friedenspoetik
(2023)
The radical rupture in civilization, the future and defense of democracy, the fight against totalitarianism and mass hysteria, the commitment to human rights, and the utopian potential of literature – these were the topics ...
Massenwahntheorie und Friedenspoetik
(2023)
The radical rupture in civilization, the future and defense of democracy, the fight against totalitarianism and mass hysteria, the commitment to human rights, and the utopian potential of literature – these were the topics ...
Kellers Welten
(2023)
Gottfried Kellers Welten erscheint als dritter Band der Serie „Gottfried Kellers Moderne“. Kellers Jahrhundert ist das der Industrialisierung, des Imperialismus und des Kolonialismus. Ob Martin Salander, der sein Vermögen ...
Kellers Welten
(2023)
Gottfried Kellers Welten erscheint als dritter Band der Serie „Gottfried Kellers Moderne“. Kellers Jahrhundert ist das der Industrialisierung, des Imperialismus und des Kolonialismus. Ob Martin Salander, der sein Vermögen ...
Figures of Radical Absence
(2023)
What is there to see in invisible artworks, empty books or blank screens? How do formal absences generate meaning? Constructing an argument by way of montage, the book is an annotated inventory of textual, visual, and ...
Figures of Radical Absence
(2023)
What is there to see in invisible artworks, empty books or blank screens? How do formal absences generate meaning? Constructing an argument by way of montage, the book is an annotated inventory of textual, visual, and ...
Postfaktisches Erzählen?
(2021)
It is often claimed in contemporary public debate that we live in a “post-factual age.” This interdisciplinary volume employs the theories and methods of narrative research to investigate the relationship between the ...
Postfaktisches Erzählen?
(2021)
It is often claimed in contemporary public debate that we live in a “post-factual age.” This interdisciplinary volume employs the theories and methods of narrative research to investigate the relationship between the ...
The Politics of Dementia
(2021)
This edited volume analyses how forms of individual and societal forgetting, as envisaged in contemporary literary texts and other works of art, tie into cultural concepts of pathological memory loss how globally diverse ...
The Politics of Dementia
(2021)
This edited volume analyses how forms of individual and societal forgetting, as envisaged in contemporary literary texts and other works of art, tie into cultural concepts of pathological memory loss how globally diverse ...
Formal Perspectives on Secondary Predication
(2024)
This volume aims to look into the spectrum of secondary predication, and provide solutions from formal theoretical perspectives for the issues surrounding its syntax and semantics that are raised by secondary predication ...
Formal Perspectives on Secondary Predication
(2024)
This volume aims to look into the spectrum of secondary predication, and provide solutions from formal theoretical perspectives for the issues surrounding its syntax and semantics that are raised by secondary predication ...
Philosophy of Globalization
(2018-03-01)
The aim of the publication is both to provide the debates on globalization with a genuine philosophical perspective by working out its normative dimensions, and to scientifically ground the ethical-philosophical discourse ...
Philosophy of Globalization
(2018-03-01)
The aim of the publication is both to provide the debates on globalization with a genuine philosophical perspective by working out its normative dimensions, and to scientifically ground the ethical-philosophical discourse ...
Touch in the Time of Corona
(2021)
The COVID-19 pandemic has hooked us all into digital networks as our access to cities, work and social gatherings is restricted and reconfigured. Weaving together cultural history, aesthetics, and urban and digital studies, ...
Touch in the Time of Corona
(2021)
The COVID-19 pandemic has hooked us all into digital networks as our access to cities, work and social gatherings is restricted and reconfigured. Weaving together cultural history, aesthetics, and urban and digital studies, ...
Handschrift im Druck (ca. 1500–1800)
(2023)
This edited volume examines the forms and functions of the interaction between hand writing and print culture in the period ca. 1500 to 1800. Handwritten interventions into printed books interrupt the text fixed in print ...
Rechtsextrem: Biografien nach 1945
(2023)
Der Rechtsextremismus begleitet die Geschichte der Bundesrepublik seit ihren Anfängen. Dazu gehören u.a. Parteien, im Hintergrund arbeitende Kulturorganisationen, Jugendbünde, aber auch militante und terroristische ...
Rechtsextrem: Biografien nach 1945
(2023)
Der Rechtsextremismus begleitet die Geschichte der Bundesrepublik seit ihren Anfängen. Dazu gehören u.a. Parteien, im Hintergrund arbeitende Kulturorganisationen, Jugendbünde, aber auch militante und terroristische ...
Auf dem Weg zur Normalität
(2014)
Despite the fortuitous leadership of Giscard and Schmidt, German-French relations during the 1970s experienced a series of major conflicts. There were a number of different governmental and societal forces that sought to ...
Die Basilika in Byzanz
(2013)
In Byzantium, the central structure is considered archetypical. This study shows that this assumption is only partly true. It presents the basilicas of the 7th to 15th centuries, addressing questions of typology, appointments, ...
Chapter Sakralisierung von Zeit in Rom und Italien
(2012)
The meaning of holiness and how one can speak about it remains an active research question in religious studies and theology. The articles analyze discourses about holiness from the religious cultures of late antiquity. ...
Chapter Sakralisierung von Zeit in Rom und Italien
(2012)
The meaning of holiness and how one can speak about it remains an active research question in religious studies and theology. The articles analyze discourses about holiness from the religious cultures of late antiquity. ...
Dynameis
(2024)
This study lays out the pre-technological prehistory of contemporary virtual realities by drawing on selected discussions of virtual forces from antiquity and the Middle Ages, on meditation and spatialization procedures ...