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Forged in Genocide
(2024)
In the shadow of war, genocide and its aftermath, thousands of migrants would play a central role as auxiliaries in the German military and laborers in the Namibian economy. This is a history of colonial capitalism centered ...
Virtuelle Museen – Ein Plädoyer
(2024)
Digital technologies have opened up new possibilities for the cultural sector. Many museums are represented on the internet with various materials. Augmented reality and virtual reality offer immersion experiences even for ...
Cultural Techniques
(2020)
Addressing cultural techniques from different disciplinary perspectives, this volume elaborates upon a concept originally developed in media studies. In a series of case studies, it reconstructs the basic operations of ...
Cognitive Pragmatics
(2012)
Applied Linguistics; Pragmatics; Cognitive Linguistics
Living the End of Antiquity
(2020)
This volume covers the transition period stretching from the reign of Justinian I to the end of the 8th century, focusing on the experience of individuals who lived through the last decades of Byzantine rule in Egypt before ...
Snapshots of Evolving Traditions: Jewish and Christian Manuscript Culture, Textual Fluidity, and New Philology
(2017)
Eschewing the search for the hypothetical original, this volume of essays places manuscripts and manuscript culture center stage and provides new readings of texts from various Christian and Jewish traditions in their ...
City of Caesar, City of God
(2022)
This volume explores the entangled history of Constantinople and Jerusalem in Late Antiquity. The two cities were powerful symbols of Empire and Church, interconnected and interdependent in multiple ways. Covering the ...
Divination on stage
(2021)
Magicians, necromancers and astrologers are assiduous characters in the European golden age theatre. This book deals with dramatic characters who act as physiognomists or palm readers in the fictional world and analyses ...
Damascius' Philosophy of Time
(2023)
The late Platonist philosopher Damascius both resumed and rejuvenated the long Greek thinking about time. In distinguishing between different takes on time, he offered novel perspectives, which can be seen as anticipating ...
Kant on Love
(2018)
What did Immanuel Kant really think about love? This book is the first in-depth study of the concept of love in Kant`s philosophy. It argues that love is much more important to Kant than previously thought, and that ...
Archive für Literatur
(2018)
The series "Literature and Archive" establishes a common field of conversation between literary and edition science, archive theory, archival and cultural studies as well as the practice of today's archives.
Existence and Perception in Medieval Vedānta
(2024)
This monograph analyses metaphysics and epistemology in the medieval Mādhva tradition of Vedānta. It focuses primarily on the ideas of the sixteenth-century philosopher Vyāsatīrtha. The volume explores Vyāsatīrtha’s defence ...
Das erweiterte Museum
(2019)
Today, museums use various media to convey and communicate content. The spectrum ranges from print media to multimedia productions, hands-on and media stations to interactive, software and web-based offers. These change ...
Über Wissenschaft reden
(2019)
The volume examines the relationship between scientific self-understanding and scientific language usage in the German-speaking world around 1800. It discusses the re-founding of the university, the fraught relationship ...
Video Games as Art
(2022)
Video games are a relative late arrival on the cultural stage. While the academic discipline of game studies has evolved quickly since the nineties of the last century, it is still only beginning to grasp the intellectual, ...
Speech and Automata in Health Care
(2014)
speech processing; speech automata; assistive robots; robot companions; human-robot interaction
Chapter Measures of Pseudorandomness
(2013)
In the second half of the 1990s Christian Mauduit and András Sárközy [86] introduced a new quantitative theory of pseudorandomness of binary sequences. Since then numerous papers have been written on this subject and the ...
Lascivia mascherata
(2022)
How do Torquato Tasso and Giovan Battista Marino react to the vigilant and normative context between the 16th and 17th centuries? Two evasive tactics designed to safeguard lewdness and enchantment in the poems are considered, ...
Johann Christoph Gottscheds Briefwechsel - Historisch-kritische Ausgabe
(2011)
In the years 1738/39, Gottsched was mostly concerned with two events: his departure from the “Deutsche Gesellschaft” which he had been heading and the resulting developments, and the continuation of his disputes on the ...
Cultures and Traditions of Wordplay and Wordplay Research
(2018)
This volume focuses on realisations of wordplay in different cultures and social and historical contexts, and brings together various research traditions of approaching wordplay. Together with the volume DWP 7, it assembles ...
Cultural Sovereignty beyond the Modern State
(2021)
In the past 25 years or more, political observers have diagnosed a crisis of the sovereign nation state and the erosion of state sovereignty through supranational institutions and the global mobility of capital, goods, ...
Switzerland – an Urban Portrait
(2013)
The classic volume Switzerland. An Urban Portrait was published in three languages by Birkhäuser Verlag in 2005 and has lost none of its relevance to this day. The result of several years of research by ETH Studio Basel, ...
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
(2024)
Delve into an exploration of dynamic entrepreneurial ecosystems in lesser-known regions around the world. Anchored in robust theoretical frameworks, this work unveils the intricate interplay of policy, culture, and innovation ...
Johann Christoph Gottscheds Briefwechsel - Historisch-kritische Ausgabe
(2011)
In the years 1738/39, Gottsched was mostly concerned with two events: his departure from the “Deutsche Gesellschaft” which he had been heading and the resulting developments, and the continuation of his disputes on the ...
Galeni in Hippocratis Epidemiarum librum II commentariorum I-VI versio Arabica. Volume II: Commentaria IV-VI
(2016)
This two-volume monograph offers the first critical edition of the medieval Arabic translation of Galen's Commentary on Book 2 of the Hippocratic Epidemics produced by Hunayn ibn Ishaq (d. ca. 870). The edition is based ...
Life, Death and Representation
(2010)
The volume presents essays on different aspects of Roman sarcophagi. These varied approaches produce freshinsights into a subject which has received increased interest in English-language scholarship, with a new awareness ...
Life, Death and Representation
(2010)
The volume presents essays on different aspects of Roman sarcophagi. These varied approaches produce freshinsights into a subject which has received increased interest in English-language scholarship, with a new awareness ...
The World Jewish Congress During The Holocaust - Between Activism and Restraint
(2014)
Drawing on hitherto neglected archival materials, Zohar Segev sheds new light on the policy of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) during the Holocaust. Contrary to popular belief, he can show that there was an impressive ...
Making Black History
(2021)
This study proposes that Afropolitanism may be best approached as a distinct cultural moment or historical constellation that allows us to glimpse the shifting and multiple silhouettes which Africa – as signifier, as real ...
Making Black History
(2021)
This study proposes that Afropolitanism may be best approached as a distinct cultural moment or historical constellation that allows us to glimpse the shifting and multiple silhouettes which Africa – as signifier, as real ...
Cultural Techniques
(2020)
Addressing cultural techniques from different disciplinary perspectives, this volume elaborates upon a concept originally developed in media studies. In a series of case studies, it reconstructs the basic operations of ...
Rhapsodic Objects
(2021)
Circulation and imitation of cultural products are key factors in shaping the material world.The contributions explore how technical knowledge, immaterial desires, and political agendas impacted the production and consumption ...
Cultural Sovereignty beyond the Modern State
(2021)
In the past 25 years or more, political observers have diagnosed a crisis of the sovereign nation state and the erosion of state sovereignty through supranational institutions and the global mobility of capital, goods, ...
Model Order Reduction
(2020)
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 ...
Highlights in Mineralogical Crystallography
(2015)
Crystallography; Mineralogy; Quasicrystal; Ringwoodite; Nanocrystal
Verb-second as a reconstruction phenomenon
(2021)
This investigation of V2-movement addresses the question which role the lexical content of the moved element plays during sentence processing. It draws on original theoretical arguments, empirical data and results from ...
Forged in Genocide
(2024)
In the shadow of war, genocide and its aftermath, thousands of migrants would play a central role as auxiliaries in the German military and laborers in the Namibian economy. This is a history of colonial capitalism centered ...
Imaginando el fin de los tiempos
(2024)
Providing an overview of the symbolism of different civilisational collapsing experiences, the book explores the complexity of the Mexican cultural context and analyses the different ways in which narratives of the end of ...
On the Social History of Persecution
(2023)
This multi-disciplinary volume is about social change in various cases of mass violence. In life under persecution, social relations and social structures were not absent or replaced by an ethno-racial order. The studies ...
Johann Christoph Gottscheds Briefwechsel - Historisch-kritische Ausgabe
(2015)
This edition, containing approx. 6,000 letters written to and by Johann Christoph Gottsched (and his wife Luise Adelgune Viktoria Gottsched), documents for the first time the correspondence of one of the most significant ...
Peoples of the Apocalypse
(2016)
End time visions
Poetologie und Geschichte literarischer Mehrsprachigkeit
(2024)
The study is the first to comprehensively examine the significance of literary multilingualism in German-language literature of the 20th and 21st centuries. In analyzes of works by Franz Kafka, Dada, Mascha Kaléko, Paul ...
Religiöse Toleranz: 1700 Jahre nach dem Edikt von Mailand
(2016)
Late Antiquity; toleration; Constantine
Cold War Europe
(2024)
This edited volume examines the emergence and circulation of European ideas between the East and the West during the Cold War. The twelve essays collected here discuss the official and unofficial channels through which ...
Plurale Autorschaft
(2023)
The contributions in this volume examine the aesthetics of plural authorship from the disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives of literary studies, art history, and musicology. The volume aims to analyze plural ...
Secular Schooling in the Long Twentieth Century?
(2024)
The book investigates the role of Christianity in the 20th- and 21st-century modernization process with the focus on one of the main pillars of the welfare state projects: schools and education. The book has a comparative ...
Chapter Disentangling geography from genealogy
(2013)
In this paper I will not seek to settle this question for individual cases of shared characteristics between two specific languages (e.g. why do French and German have no distance contrast in demonstratives?; see Diessel ...
Syntactic Complexity across Interfaces
(2015)
Syntactic Complexity; Grammar Theory; Interface Syntax; Clausal Embedding
Glass in Architecture from the Pre- to the Post-industrial Era
(2024)
Glass is one of the most fascinating and versatile building materials in architectural history. The new insights into glass in architecture brought together here are the result of research at the intersection of glass ...
Von der Freiheit, Schmerz zu spüren
(2017)
We can make our pain more bearable through our will. But how and where does my self (my mind) affect my body? In this books, medical doctors, neurophysiologists, physicists, and psychologists show that the dualism of body ...
The Poetry of Du Fu
(2015)
The Complete Poetry of Du Fu presents a complete scholarly translation of Chinese literature alongside the original text in a critical edition. The English translation is more scholarly than vernacular Chinese translations, ...
Chapter A corpus-based approach to manual simultaneity
(2013)
The purpose of this paper is to describe a corpus-based approach to the study of manual simultaneity (in particular manual holds) and our first attempt at implementing it for the Sign Language of the Netherlands (Nederlandse ...
Migrierende Subjekte in romanischen Literaturen der Welt
(2024)
This study analyzes the socioeconomic perspective of subjects migrating from the Global South in contemporary narrative works in Romance languages. It inquires into the status of the subaltern characters and their role as ...
Health, Rights and Dignity
(2010-12-09)
The idea that there is such a thing as a human right to health has become pervasive. It has not only been acknowledged by a variety of international law documents and thus entered the political realm but is also defended ...
Sprache – Bewegung – Instruktion
(2023)
We often acquire new movement patterns under expert guidance. This book discusses how this task is accomplished through multimodal means (linguistic, physical, visual levels). The Pilates method serves as the situational ...
Polnische Bürgermeister und der Holocaust
(2024)
This is the first study on the role played by Polish mayors in the German-occupied General Government. How did they work with the occupiers? How did they behave in relation to the persecution of the Jews? And how did they ...
Chapter A corpus-based approach to manual simultaneity
(2013)
The purpose of this paper is to describe a corpus-based approach to the study of manual simultaneity (in particular manual holds) and our first attempt at implementing it for the Sign Language of the Netherlands (Nederlandse ...
Postcolonial Semantics
(2024)
English has become central to global knowledge production. But what does the reliance of English mean for the world? The monograph challenges the monopoly of English as metalanguage and proposes instead a "Postcolonial ...
Schreiben auf statuarischen Monumenten
(2020)
The series Material Text Cultures is the publication organ of the Collaborative Research Center 933 of the same name at Heidelberg University, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The series publishes collections ...
Schreiben auf statuarischen Monumenten
(2020)
The series Material Text Cultures is the publication organ of the Collaborative Research Center 933 of the same name at Heidelberg University, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The series publishes collections ...