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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 ...
Augmented Spaces and Maps
(2020)
With the convergence of space, media and design, not only are design practices radically changing but so are the surfaces that need to be designed: digital maps enable an interface to the physical world and allow new forms ...
Der Zweite Weltkrieg in postsozialistischen Gedenkmuseen
(2021)
This volume is the first to examine the museum landscape of all post-socialist EU member states. How do museums present the Second World War, the Holocaust, and Soviet crimes? As part of their nations’ attempts to join the ...
Die fragmentierte Stadt
(2021)
Wo Menschen eng zusammenleben, gibt es Konkurrenz und Verdrängung. Beinahe selbstverständlich nehmen wir hin, dass viele öffentliche Räume nicht mehr von allen Bevölkerungsgruppen gleichermaßen genutzt werden. Dies geschieht ...
Chapter The use of initial h- in the writing-tablets from Roman Britain
(2020)
These volumes assemble contributions presented at the XIX International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics in Munich (2017). They embrace essential topics of Latin linguistics with different theoretical and methodological ...
Stocks for All
(2021)
Public stock markets are too small. This book is an effort to rescue public stock markets in the EU and the US. There should be more companies with publicly-traded shares and more direct share ownership. Anchored in a broad ...
Geschichte der Krim
(2020)
The book surveys the history of the Crimea from ancient times to the present, reflecting both the latest research and the author’s own recent findings. In the context of recent developments in the Crimea and what most legal ...
Social Media and Social Order
(2022)
This book addresses the relationship between social media and social order at multiple scales and sites, from city neighborhoods to national politics, to how the data harvested by transnational corporations influence lives ...
Reconstructing the Future
(2023)
The built environment is a critical factor in the climate equation. Approximately 40 percent of global emissions derive from the construction, operation, and demolition of human settlements. The 21st century must be the ...
Goldgrund und Perspektive
(2023)
Monographic study of the gold ground in Italian panel painting. Analyzes the art historiographical use of the term in the 20th century. "Gold ground" and "perspective" are not thought of as oppositional. For example, Fra ...
United in Diversity
(2023)
What are the future perspectives for Jews and Jewish networks in contemporary Europe? Is there a new quality of relations between Jews and non-Jews, despite or precisely because of the Holocaust trauma? How is the memory ...
Chapter 8.1 Reaction-Diffusion Models of Pattern Formation in Developmental Biology
(2012)
In this paper we present mathematical approaches to understand a symmetry break and formation of spatially heterogenous structures during development. We focus on the models given by reaction-diffusion equations and approach ...
Chapter Predicting universal phonological contrasts
(2018)
Despite earlier work by Trubetzkoy, Jakobson and Greenberg, phonological typology is often underrepresented in typology textbooks. At the same time, most phonologists do not see a difference between phonological typology ...
Holocaust Memory and the Cold War
(2024)
The Cold War influenced how people, societies and states dealt with the Holocaust and its aftereffects. This book challenges previous perceptions that the democratic West embraced commemoration while the totalitarian East ...
Facets of Facebook
(2016)
The debate on Facebook raises questions about the use and users of this information service. This collected volume gathers a broad spectrum of social science and information science articles about Facebook.Facebook has ...
History of Intellectual Culture 2/2023
(2023)
The second issue of the yearbook History of Intellectual Culture (HIC) dedicates a thematic section to modes of publication. This volume addresses recent advances in publication studies and stresses the cultural formation ...
Performing Interpersonal Violence Court, Curse, and Comedy in Fourth-Century BCE Athens
(2012-01-16)
This book offers the first attempt at understanding interpersonal violence in ancient Athens. While the archaic desire for revenge persisted into the classical period, it was channeled by the civil discourse of the democracy. ...
IT für soziale Inklusion
(2018)
Social Inclusion is a topic of growing importance in all walks of life. Their enforcement is often not possible without information technology. The book describes the state of research. However, the focus is on tools and ...
Slavery and Bondage in Asia, 1550–1850
(2022)
This book offers an Asia-centred story of bondage and coerced labour. Spanning the western Indian Ocean to Japan, and the 16th to the 19th century, it follows coercion from the regulation of sales to post-abolition labour ...
Manual de linguística portuguesa
(2016)
Linguistics/Portuguese; Comparative Grammar; Language Variation and Change
Makrokonstruktionen
(2022)
The study investigates adverbial structures in spoken French that combine three or more discursive elements in a complex way. These structures are modeled in accordance with the terms of construction grammar as “macro ...