Publications
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PAINTING THE SKY BLACK. Louis Kahn and the Architectonization of Nature
(2018)
In 1962, Louis I. Kahn described the design of the Salk Institute as having been developed “out of a respect and understanding of the nature of nature,” before adding: “I am becoming increasingly conscious of the architecture ...
New Cosmopolitanisms, Race, and Ethnicity. Cultural Perspectives
(2019)
This anthology sheds new light on cosmopolitanism and culture in the contemporary world. Drawing on postcolonial, ethnic, and critical race studies as well as recent literary and critical theory, it demonstrates that new ...
Materiality, Techniques and Society in Pottery Production The Technological Study of Archaeological Ceramics through Paste Analysis
(2014)
Daniel Albero Santacreu presents a wide overview of certain aspects of the pottery analysis and summarizes most of the methodological and theoretical information currently applied in archaeology in order to develop wide ...
Materialität und Präsenz spätantiker Inschriften. Eine Studie zum Wandel der Inschriftenkultur in den italienischen Provinzen
(2020)
That inscriptions are not only texts but also material objects of specific materiality and presence is one of the recent central insights of ancient epigraphy. This understanding is applied here for the first time ...
Materiality of Writing in Early Mesopotamia
(2016)
This volume presents recent research on the relationship between the material format of text-bearing artefacts, the texts they carry, and their genre. The essays cover a vast period, from the counting stones of the late ...
Measuring Quality. Performance Measurement in Libraries. 2nd revised edition
(2007)
The first edition of this handbook appeared in 1996 and dealt with academic libraries. It gained wide acceptance and was translated into five other languages.After ten years the new edition widens the perspective to public ...
Periphere Räume in der Amerikanistik
(2019)
This volume addresses the notion of the periphery as a concept in cultural studies and the discursive and narrative dimensions of peripheral spaces. Peripheral spaces are defined as those spaces that are controlled and ...
Ort und Zeit. Filmische Heterotopien von Hochbaum bis Tykwer
(2020)
Like any story, the story of film doesn’t just unfold in time it is also linked to the locations in which it is inscribed. The filmic poetics that governed this process at different points in the history of cinema are the ...
Orthopädie
(1953)
Our Neighbours, Ourselves. Contemporary Reflections on Survival
(2011)
Homi K. Bhabha delivered the 2010 Hegel lecture, evoking the spirit of Hegel in an attempt to understand contemporary issues of ethical witness, historical memory and the rights and representations of minorities in the ...
The Poetry and Prose of Wang Wie. Volume 1
(2020)
Wang Wei has traditionally been considered one of the greatest of Tang dynasty poets, together with Li Bo and Du Fu. This is the first complete translation into English of all of his poems, and also the first substantial ...
The Poetry and Prose of Wang Wie. Volume 2
(2020)
Wang Wei has traditionally been considered one of the greatest of Tang dynasty poets, together with Li Bo and Du Fu. This is the first complete translation into English of all of his poems, and also the first substantial ...
Ninth European Powder Diffraction Conference – Prague, September 2-5, 2004
(2006)
Zeitschrift für Kristallographie. Supplement Volume 23 presents the complete Proceedings of all contributions to the IX European Powder Diffraction Conference in Prague 2004: Method Development and Application, Instrumental, ...
Non-locality and Possible World. A Counterfactual Perspective on Quantum Entanglement
(2006)
This book uses the formal semantics of counterfactual conditionals to analyze the problem of non-locality in quantum mechanics. Counterfactual conditionals (subjunctive conditionals) enter the analysis of quantum entangled ...
Novel Molecular Approaches to Target Microbial Virulence
(2015)
Microbial infections still represent one of the major causes of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Irrational usage of antimicrobials has lead to increased resistance, causing clinical, social and economical disabilities. ...
Opfernarrative in transnationalen Kontexten
(2020)
This edited volume examines the representation of victims beyond the categories of the “victim cult,” self-victimization, and the victim–perpetrator dichotomy. Adopting a transnational perspective, it mainly considers ...
Palpation für das Beckenbodentraining
(2014)
This book provides information about this rather uncommon technique and lists the indications, applications and advantages of vaginal palpation.
Phenomenology as Grammar
(2008)
This volume gathers papers, which were read at the congress held at the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Toledo (Spain), in September 2007, under the general subject of phenomenology. The book is devoted to Wittgenstein’s ...
Pierre Viénot (1897-1944). Ein Intellektueller in der Politik
(2005)
Pierre Viénot ist eine Schlüsselgestalt der deutsch-französischen Gesellschafts- und Kulturbeziehungen in den zwanziger Jahren. Gaby Sonnabend zeichnet erstmals ein Gesamtbild von Viénots Denken und Handeln von den zwanziger ...