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From Logic to Art. Themes from Nelson Goodman
(2009)
Nelson Goodman (1906-1998) was one of the outstanding thinkers of the 20th century. In a memorial note, Hilary Putnam considers him to be "one of the two or three greatest analytic philosophers of the post-World War II ...
Fundamentals for the Anthropocene
(2017)
This book seeks to bridge the gap between leading edge scholarship about the nature of the physical, tangible Universe and the nature of the life process on Earth on the one hand, and on the other hand challenges facing ...
Futures of the Study of Culture. Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Global Challenges
(2020)
How can we approach possible but unknown futures of the study of culture? This volume explores this question in the context of a changing global world. The contributions in this volume discuss the necessity of significant ...
Gaming und Bibliotheken
(2014)
Using a theoretical review as a foundation, this volume for the first time provides a comprehensive review of the manifold possibilities for the use of gaming in libraries. It presents new trends in gaming as well as current ...
Geistige Gefahr und Immunisierung der Gesellschaft. Antikommunismus und politische Kultur in der frühen Bundesrepublik
(2014)
Up to the early 1960s, anticommunism was an important source of identity formation in the Bonn Republic. It aimed at consolidating the still-nascent West German democracy. Renowned historians discuss different governmental ...
Gegen den Stand der Dinge. Objekte in Museen und Ausstellungen
(2016)
Challenging the Status of Things reflects on the current shift in how museums relate to material culture. Contemporary notions in material culture studies, sociology, and art theory ascribe critical power to objects. The ...
GegenErinnerung. Geschichte als politisches Argument im Transformationsprozeß Ost-, Ostmittel- und Südosteuropas
(2006)
Die Autoren des Bandes fragen nach der Rolle der Vergangenheit beim Sturz und Zerfall der sozialistischen Regime Ende der 80er Jahre sowie bei den Versuchen, die neu gewonnene Unabhängigkeit in der Zeit danach zu stabilisieren.
Geistliches Erzählen. Zur deutschsprachigen religiösen Kleinepik des Mittelalters
(2015)
Despite the richness of its facets, the short religious epic has been largely neglected by scholars until now. This study explores this literary phenomenon using a multi-perspectival descriptive model. Extensive detailed ...
An Experimental Study on Adhesive or Anti-adhesive, Bio-inspired Experimental Nanomaterials
(2013)
Adhesive abilities of insects, spiders and reptiles have inspired researchers for a long time. All these organisms show outstanding performance, particularly for force, adhesion and climbing abilities, relative to their ...
Experimentalphysik. Mechanik
(2018)
Mit seinen stetig komplexeren Erläuterungen bildet dieses Werk den steigenden Schwierigkeitsgrad ab, den Studierende während der ersten Semester erleben. Durch zahlreiche Beispiele und künstlerisch sehr ansprechendes ...
German and Dutch in Contrast. Synchronic, Diachronic and Psycholinguistic Perspectives
(2020)
Designed as a contribution to contrastive linguistics, the present volume brings up-to-date the comparison of German with its closest neighbour, Dutch, and other Germanic relatives like English, Afrikaans, and the Scandinavian ...
Fifth Size Strain Conference. Diffraction Analysis of the Microstructure of Materials
(2008)
Zeitschrift für Kristallographie. Supplement Volume 27 presents the complete Proceedings of all contributions to the V Size Strain Conference in Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2007: Lattice Defects,Residual Stresses,Texture in ...
Frieden schaffen und sich verteidigen im Spätmittelalter. Faire la paix et se défendre à la fin du Moyen Âge
(2012)
In Frankreich, Burgund, dem spätmittelalterlichen Reich, Kastilien, Katalonien und Städten wie Florenz gab es enge Verbindungen zwischen Friedenssicherung und effektiver Verteidigungsorganisation. Seit einigen Jahren stehen ...
Frieden durch Kommunikation. Das System Genscher und die Entspannungspolitik im Zweiten Kalten Krieg 1979–1982/83
(2015)
At the end of the 1970s West Germany`s foreign minister Genscher faced the challenge of defending the Social-Liberal coalition`s policy of dètente against the approaching Second Cold War.‎ The unique features of his ...
A Galileo Forgery. Unmasking the New York Sidereus Nuncius
(2014)
In this work, historians in various fields revise the results presented in the first two volumes of the series, which analyzed the New York copy of Sidereus Nuncius. While many of their findings remain valid, the subject ...
Gallipoli 1915/16. Britanniens bitterste Niederlage
(2020)
The Battle of Gallipoli was the Britain’s most bitter defeat of the First World War. This volume seeks to place the Dardanelles campaign in proper perspective. It situates Gallipoli in the larger context of the First World ...
Genealogy, Archive, Image. Interpreting Dynastic History in Western India, c.1090-2016
(2017)
‘Genealogy, Archive, Image’ addresses the ways in which history and tradition are ‘reinvented’ through text, memory and painting. It examines the making of dynastic history in the kingdom of Jhalavad, situated in Gujarat, ...
Generationalität und Lebensgeschichte im 20. Jahrhundert
(2003)
Lange war man bemüht, jegliche Subjektivität aus dem Schreiben vonGeschichte auszuschließen. Kulturhistorische und andere Neuansätze derGeschichtswissenschaft haben jedoch deutlich gemacht, dass wirletztlich immer auch vor ...
Genossenschaftswesen
(1970)
Exercises with Solutions in Radiation Physics
(2015)
The textbook begins with exercises related to radioactive sources and decay schemes. The problems covered include series decay and how to determine the frequency and energy of emitted particles in disintegrations. The next ...
Exploring Cultural Identities in Jean Rhys’ Writings
(2014)
Using a theoretical approach and a critical summary, combining the perspectives in the postcolonial theory, psychoanalysis and narratology with the tools of hermeneutics and deconstruction, this book argues that Jean Rhys’ ...
Family Life in Adolescence
(2014)
Many parents fear the time when their beautiful happy children will become unmanageable adolescents continually engaging in risky or destructive behaviour. Unfortunately, this view of adolescents is the focus of the media, ...
Geologie
(1973)
Fragmentierungen
(2018)
This volume includes lectures and discussion from the Conference of the Association of German Professors of Constitutional Law in Saarbrücken, 4–7 October 2017
Gaddafis Libyen und die Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1969 bis 1982
(2013)
Seit 1969 intensivierte die Bundesrepublik ihre wirtschaftlichen, aber auch ihre politischen Beziehungen zu Libyen unter der Herrschaft von Muammar al-Gaddafi. Tim Szatkowski analysiert das deutsch-libysche Verhältnis ...
Excavations at Paithan, Maharashtra. Transformations in Early Historic and Early Medieval India
(2020)
This book reports on excavations at Paithan in India revealed the development of two early Hindu temples from the 4th century to the 9th: the key formative phase of Hinduism. The temples started as small shrines but were ...
Farewell to Shulamit. Spatial and Social Diversity in the Song of Songs
(2017)
The Song of Songs, a lyric cycle of love scenes without a narrative plot, has often been considered as the Bible’s most beautiful and enigmatic book. The present study questions the still dominant exegetical convention ...
Der Faschismus in Europa. Wege der Forschung
(2014)
Fascism is uncontestably one of the great signature phenomena of the 20th century. Debates about the nature of fascism began as early as in the 1920s, but they persist to this day. This volume takes stock of international ...
Geschichte schreiben. Ein Quellen- und Studienhandbuch zur Historiografie (ca. 1350-1750)
(2010)
Wie schreibt man Geschichte? Welche Möglichkeiten gibt es, sich mit Geschichte zu beschäftigen, sie darzustellen und an andere zu vermitteln? Die spätmittelalterliche und frühneuzeitliche Geschichtsschreibung ist ein ...
Handbook Global History of Work
(2018)
What is the day-to-day reality for workers in various parts of the world, and how was it in the past? How do they work today, and how did they work in the past? Did workers ever protest? If so, how? These and many other ...
Heilige Kriege. Religiöse Begründungen militärischer Gewaltanwendung: Judentum, Christentum und Islam im Vergleich
(2019)
Kriege, denen Heiligkeit zugeschrieben wurde, haben eine endlose Geschichte. Bis zur Gegenwart dauert sie an. Islamische Fundamentalisten sind noch immer davon überzeugt, ihr menschenverachtender Terrorismus sei Heiliger ...
Heinrich Heine - ein deutscher Europäer im französischen Exil. Vortrag, gehalten vor der Juristischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin am 9. Dezember 2009
(2011)
The presentation on Heinrich Heine to the Berlin Legal Association summarizes the stations of his life, the path of a German European in French exile.
Histamine H4 receptor. A Novel Drug Target For Immunoregulation and Inflammation
(2013)
H4R is the newest member of the histamine receptor family, which was discovered about twelve years ago. It is considered a very promising drug target. The effort to improve the pharmacokinetic properties of the currently ...
Grenzüberschreitungen. Migration. Entterritorialisierung des
(2017)
This volume includes lectures and discussion from the Conference of the Association of German Professors of Constitutional Law in Linz, 5𔃆 October 2016
Grundlagen der Ethik
(1982)
Guidelines for Legislative Libraries. 2nd, completely updated and enlarged edition
(2009)
The scale of change in the provision of information and research services since the original edition of this guide (published 1993), in particular the development of the Internet, meant that it soon became clear that a ...
Das Haus Europa
(2012)
Die Diskussion über den Euro-Rettungsplan, die Finanzhilfen für Griechenland, Portugal und Irland, die Einführung schärferer Grenzkontrollen durch Dänemark haben einen neuen Streit über die Europäische Union entfacht. ...
Herbert Wehner in Schweden
(1995)
Graphs for Pattern Recognition. Infeasible Systems of Linear Inequalities
(2016)
Data mining and pattern recognition are areas based on the mathematical constructions discussed in this monograph. By using combinatorial and graph theoretical techniques, it is shown how to tackle infeasible systems of ...
Group Theory of Chemical Elements. Structure and Properties of Elements and Compounds
(2016)
In this monograph, group-theoretical approaches are used to build a system of hadrons and qualitatively describe the properties of chemical compounds. This serves as a complement to numerically and approximately solve the ...
Grundrechtsschutz zwischen Karlsruhe und Straßburg. Vortrag, gehalten vor der Juristischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin am 13. Juli 2011
(2012)
Protection of fundamental rights in Europe takes place in a tense balance between EU law, the Convention on Human Rights, and national constitutions. The author draws potential parallels to the relationship between the ...
The Fish Lands. German trade with Iceland, Shetland and the Faroe Islands in the late 15th and 16th Century
(2020)
The late medieval German trade with the North Atlantic islands, in the margins of the Hanseatic trade network, has received only limited scholarly attention. Merchants from predominantly Hamburg and Bremen established ...
Handwerk in Europa. Vom Spätmittelalter bis zur Frühen Neuzeit
(1999)
In diesem Sammelband werden alle Facetten aufgezeigt, die denHandwerksberuf im Spätmittelalter und der Frühen Neuzeit ausmachten:Wanderschaft und Migration, Technologie und Wissenstransfer, Gilden,Zünfte, Bruderschaften, ...
Handbuch der deutsch-jüdischen Literatur
(2016)
Research activity on German-language literature by Jewish authors has intensified, especially since the 1970s. However, until now there has been no single work to compile and evaluate this body of literary work. This ...
Häusliche Andachten
(1814)
Hermann Kurz und die 'Poesie der Wirklichkeit'. Studien zum Frühwerk, Texte aus dem Nachlass
(2017)
Hermann Kurz (1813–1873) was among the founders of German historical, realistic, and social narrative in the period before the March Revolution of 1848. The study uses innovative textual interpretation to evaluate the whole ...
Die geteilte Nation. Nationale Verluste und Identitäten im 20. Jahrhundert
(2013)
Debatten über das nation-building im 20. Jahrhundert konzentrieren sich in der Regel auf Staaten, die sich nach Kriegen oder während der Dekolonisation neu konstituierten. Die zurückbleibenden (Teil-)Staaten und Gesellschaften ...
Global Commons im 20. Jahrhundert. Entwürfe für eine globale Welt
(2014)
With its international perspective and by situating itself “beyond the market and state,” this volume promises to generate many new insights for readers. Space and territorialization, global integration and statehood, law ...
Goethe und die Geschichte
(1949)
Governance of a Distant Province in the Middle Ages. Case Study on Upper Lusatia
(2017)
Governance of outlying provinces of the early and high medieval polities was never a favorite topic for either medieval chronicles or modern medievalists. The book “Governance of a Distant Province in the Middle Ages: Case ...
Grammatiktheorie und Empirie in der germanistischen Linguistik
(2018)
Mit Fragestellungen und kritischen Diskussionen zu Paradigmen, Methoden und Zielen stellt der Sammelband eine Positionsbestimmung zur Grammatiktheorie und Empirie in der germanistischen Linguistik dar. Die Beiträge umfassen ...
The History and Cultural Heritage of Chinese Calligraphy, Printing and Library Work
(2010)
In China the tradition of a book society is longer than anywhere else in the world. Chinese paper making, calligraphy and woodblock printing date from very early ages, but have for a very long time remained almost unknown ...
Guidelines for supporting children with disabilities' play. Methodologies, tools, and contexts
(2018)
Play for the sake of play, without any secondary goals, if of utmost importance for children’s wellbeing and development. In this book you’ll find guidelines to support children with disabilities’ play. Providing ready-to-use ...
Handbuch Bibliothek 2.0
(2010)
With the term "Library 2.0" the editors mean an institution which applies the principles of the Web 2.0 such as openness, re-use, collaboration and interaction in the entire organization. Libraries are extending their ...