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Abgrund Metz. Kriegserfahrung, Belagerungsalltag und nationale Erziehung im Schatten einer Festung 1870/71
(2002)
Der Krieg um Metz und die Belagerung der Festung im Jahre 1870 gehören zu den eher vernachlässigten Ereignissen des Deutsch-Französischen Krieges. Von den symbolisch hoch aufgeladenen und in der Erinnerung tief verankerten ...
Abraham Abulafia’s Esotericism. Secrets and Doubt
(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 ...
Abschied vom Kalten Krieg? Die Sozialdemokraten und der Nachrüstungsstreit (1977-1987)
(2016)
The controversy about NATO`s Double-Track Decision unsettled West German society in the 1980s. It especially affected the Social Democrats, who were split between the policies of their Chancellor and the peace movement. ...
Absolutismus, ein unersetzliches Forschungskonzept? L'absolutisme, un concept irremplaçable? Eine deutsch-französische Bilanz. Une mise au point franco-allemande
(2014)
Die Frühe Neuzeit kannte eine Vielzahl von Diskursen, Performanzen und Repräsentationen, die auf eine Überhöhung des Monarchen abzielten, ohne sich jedoch zu einer kohärenten Gesamtheit zusammenzufügen. Ist das umfassende ...
Absorptions-Spektralanalyse
(1951)
Applications
(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 three-volume ...
Applied Ontology. An Introduction
(2013)
Ontology is the philosophical discipline which aims to understand how things in the world are divided into categories and how these categories are related together. This is exactly what information scientists aim for in ...
Apprendre la langue Rwanda
(1975)
Approaches in Tourism Modelling. Collected papers
(2019)
Tourism research has indeed become a booming and attractive agenda for data analysis oriented empirical economist thanks to modern technology. There has been a tremendous improvement over last decades in the mathematical, ...
Approaches to World Literature
(2013)
The present volume introduces new considerations on the topic of World Literature, penned by leading representatives of the discipline from the United States, India, Japan, the Middle East, England, France and Germany. The ...
Arabic Script on Christian Kings. Textile Inscriptions on Royal Garments from Norman Sicily
(2017)
Isabelle Dolezalek is the recipient of the 2018 ICMA Annual Book Prize. Roger II’s famous mantle and other royal garments from twelfth- and thirteenth-century Sicily prominently display Arabic inscriptions. While the ...
Arab Women in Algeria
(2014)
The book presents the first English edition of Hubertine Auclert's Arab Women in Algeria which offers a unique picture of Algerian society in late 19th century. Hubertine Auclert (1848-1914) was one of the foremost militants ...
Arbeit als Hoffnung. Jüdische Ghettos in Litauen 1941-1944
(2015)
In the ghettos of Lithuania an urban infrastructure developed based on the needs of Jewish conscription and forced labor for German occupation forces and the Lithuanian administration. Using the example of the ghettos in ...
Arbeit im Nationalsozialismus
(2014)
Work was a core concept in National Socialism. In pre-war concentration camps, it was a tool for converting prisoners into Volksgenossen, or members of the national community. And during the war, forced labor was crucial ...
Arbeitsorganisation 2.0 – Tools für den Arbeitsalltag in Kultur- und Bildungseinrichtungen
(2012)
This book illustrates how modern media and internet applications facilitate collaboration on the job and make work easier. After detailing the requirements of work organization, the book discusses easily implementable ...
The Archaeology of Death in Post-medieval Europe
(2015)
Historical burial grounds are an enormous archaeological resource and have the potential to inform studies not only of demography or the history of disease and mortality, but also histories of the body, of religious and ...
The Archaeology of Political Spaces. The Upper Mesopotamian Piedmont in the Second Millennium BCE
(2014)
This book, consisting of 12 contributions, amalgamates the most recent results from archaeological research in the Upper Mesopotamian piedmont. Under the growing influence of expanding territorial states which had become ...
Isaac Orobio. The Jewish Argument with Dogma and Doubt
(2019)
In this volume, six historians explore new approaches to Isaac Orobio de Castro (1617–1687), an Amsterdam physician who was the most widely-read among the early modern defenders of Judaism against Christian proselytizing. ...
Is there a Judeo-Christian Tradition? A European Perspective
(2016)
The term ´Judeo-Christian` in reference to a tradition, heritage, ethic, civilization, faith etc. has been used in a wide variety of contexts with widely diverging meanings. Contrary to popular belief, the term was not ...
Formational Units in Sign Languages
(2011)
Sign languages and spoken languages have many fascinating differences, caused primarily by the reaction of the human mind to different modalities, but also by some important social differences. This book examines the effects ...
Formulation in Action. Applying Psychological Theory to Clinical Practice
(2015)
When people seek psychological support, formulation is the theory-driven methodology used by many practitioners to guide identification of the processes, mechanisms, and patterns of behaviour that appear to be contributing ...
Fostering the Ontological Turn. Gustav Bergmann (1906-1987)
(2008)
Gustav Bergmann (1906-1987) was, arguably, one of the greatest ontologists of the twentieth century. In 2006 and 2007, after a period of relative neglect, international conferences devoted solely to Bergmann's work were ...
Image and Imaging in Philosophy, Science and the Arts. Volume 2. Proceedings of the 33rd International Ludwig Wittgenstein-Symposium in Kirchberg, 2010
(2011)
Diagrams are an essential part of the most diverse processes of communication and cognition. Indeed, today the production of all kinds of text (including this one) is mediated by diagrammatic tools to be found on computer ...
Image and Imaging in Philosophy, Science and the Arts. Volume 1. Proceedings of the 33rd International Ludwig Wittgenstein-Symposium in Kirchberg, 2010
(2011)
What is an image? How can we describe the experience of looking at images, and how do they become meaningful to us? In what sense are images like or unlike propositions? Participants of the 33rd International Wittgenstein ...
Image – Action – Space. Situating the Screen in Visual Practice
(2018)
Screen-based media, such as touch-screens, navigation systems or virtual reality applications merge images and operations and situate users in space both within and beyond the boundaries of the screen. This volume examines ...
Imaginationen
(2019)
In the 18th century, the power of the imagination, which had previously been regarded as problematic, experienced a radical upsurge in esteem. In the modern era, imagination has been viewed as an essential moment in processes ...
Jüdische Expatriates in China und Hong Kong nach 1976. Religiöse Dynamik im Zeichen der Expat-Migration
(2018)
Die Arbeit bietet die erste umfangreiche, empirisch fundierte Religionsgeschichtsschreibung der jüdischen Gemeinden in China und Hong Kong nach der Kulturrevolution. Zahlreiche Synagogen entstehen, das jüdisch-religiöse ...
Jude und Demokrat. Erinnerungen eines Münchener Rechtsanwalts 1883 bis 1939
(1998)
Der Münchener Rechtsanwalt Max Hirschberg ist von Anfang an Anhänger der Weimarer Republik. Rasch wird er zum gesuchten Strafverteidiger, besonders in politischen Fällen. Als Jude und Demokrat schon in den 20er Jahren ...
Jüdische Geschichte in hellenistisch-römischer Zeit. Wege der Forschung: Vom alten zum neuen Schürer
(1999)
Der deutsche protestantische Historiker und Theologe Emil Schürer warder erste, der sich in seiner Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes imZeitalter Jesu Christi mit dem Judentum zur Zeit des ZweitenTempels wissenschaftlich ...
Jugendarbeitslosigkeit in der Bundesrepublik. Entwicklung und Auseinandersetzung während der 1970er und 1980er Jahre
(2012)
Nach einer langen Phase weitgehender Vollbeschäftigung setzte Mitte der 1970er Jahre in der Bundesrepublik wie in vielen anderen westlichen Staaten eine unerwartete Massenarbeitslosigkeit ein. Besonderes Aufsehen in Politik ...
Justiz zwischen Diktatur und Demokratie. Wiederaufbau und Ahndung von NS-Verbrechen in Westdeutschland 1945-1949
(2013)
The firmly established view is that the German justice system utterly failed in its responsibilities after 1945. Edith Raim does not turn this interpretation on its head, but she relativizes it in many respects. Her starting ...
Kafka and the Universal
(2016)
Kafka`s work has been attributed a universal significance and is often regarded as the ultimate witness of the human condition in the twentieth century. Yet his work is also considered paradigmatic for the expression of ...
IFLA Public Library Service Guidelines
(2010)
The public library is the prime community access point designed to respond to a multitude of ever-changing information needs. These guidelines are framed to provide assistance to library and information professionals in ...
Ikonen der Nationen. Heldendarstellungen im post-sozialistischen Kroatien und Serbien
(2017)
The study examines how national myths in the former Yugoslavia were transformed in the 1990s, impacting the identity formation of ethnic groups and other collectives. Examining various visual media, it develops a comparative ...
Intellektuellen-Götter. Das religiöse Laboratorium der klassischen Moderne
(2009)
Max Weber hat in seiner Religionssoziologie den Begriff der Intellektuellenreligiosität geprägt. In neun Beiträgen wird das Verhältnis prominenter jüdischer, römisch-katholischer und protestantischer Intellektueller zur ...
International Conference on Psychology, Education and Mental Health. Education Innovation and Mental Health in Industrial Era 4.0
(2019)
Indonesian Psychology Research that primarily focuses on education and mental health, is trying to take a tremendous share to reveal the consequences of industrial development which influence psychological, educational, ...
The Internet of Everything. Advances, Challenges and Applications
(2019)
The phenomenon of Internet of Things (IoT) and the concept of Internet of Everything (IoE) respond to the need for machine to machine communication, automation, smart computing and ubiquitous access to personal devices. ...
Interpreting Philosophy. The Elements of Philosophical Hermeneutics
(2007)
Metaphilosophy is philosophy’s poor and neglected cousin. Philosophers are on the whole too busy doing philosophy to take time to stand back and consider reflectively how the project itself actually works. And they lead ...
The Interwar Depression in an International Context
(2002)
Die fundamentalen Probleme der Wirtschaftskrise in den späten 20er und frühen 30er Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts bleiben nach wie vor eine intellektuelle Herausforderung. Wie kaum ein anderes Datum der jüngsten Weltgeschichte ...
Introduction to Modern Instrumentation For Hydraulics and Environmental Sciences
(2014)
Natural hazards and anthropic activities threaten the human environment. The gathering of field data is needed so as to quantify the impact of such activities. To gather the necessary data researchers nowadays use a great ...
Introduction to Paremiology. A Comprehensive Guide to Proverb Studies
(2014)
This handbook introduces key elements of the philological research area called paremiology (the study of proverbs). It presents the main subject area as well as the current status of paremiological research. The basic ...
An Introduction to Nonlinear Optimization Theory
(2014)
The goal of this book is to present the main ideas and techniques in the field of continuous smooth and nonsmooth optimization. Starting with the case of differentiable data and the classical results on constrained ...
Inventar der Befehle des Obersten Chefs der Sowjetischen Militäradministration in Deutschland (SMAD) 1945–1949. - Offene Serie -
(1994)
For the first time the open orders of the highest chief of the SMAD arecompletely compiled in this inventory. Now one can realize the degree ofdependence of the German administration and political organizations in the SBZ ...
Innovationsräume
(2019)
This volume examines the relationships between innovation and space, illustrating a range of phenomena subsumed in the concept of innovation spaces. It presents new conceptualizations of innovation as a dynamic, territorially ...
Inside War. Understanding the Evolution of Organised Violence in the Global Era
(2015)
The post-Cold War era was characterised by both the recurrence of state wars and the spread of forms of organised violence other than wars. Asymmetric warfare between alliances led by the USA and groups of insurgents, such ...
Insight into Theoretical and Applied Informatics. Introduction to Information Technologies and Computer Science
(2015)
The book is addressed to young people interested in computer technologies and computer science. The objective of this book is to provide the reader with all the necessary elements to get him or her started in the modern ...
Institutional Change in the Public Sphere. Views on the Nordic Model
(2017)
The main focus of the book is institutional change in the Scandinavian model, with special emphasis on Norway. There are many reasons to pay closer attention to the Norwegian case when it comes to analyses of changes in ...
Inszenierte Moderne. Populäres Theater in Berlin und London, 1880-1930
(2014)
Modern popular culture came to the world from the stage. Even before film and radio had established themselves, popular theater had developed into a commercial and boundary-crossing entertainment industry that reached a ...
Interacting with Presence. HCI and the Sense of Presence in Computer-mediated Environments
(2014)
The experience of using and interacting with the newest Virtual Reality and computing technologies is profoundly affected by the extent to which we feel ourselves to be really ‘present’ in computer-generated and -mediated ...
The International Conference on ASEAN 2019
(2019)
Since the establishment of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) as a regional organization in 1967, it has played a significant role most importantly related to regional affairs and has also given notable ...
Der Kapitalismus entdeckt das Volk. Wie die deutschen Großbanken in den 1950er und 1960er Jahren zu ihrer privaten Kundschaft kamen
(2014)
For a long time, big banks had little interest in having workers or employees as their customers. Only in the aftermath of the German Economic Miracle did Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Bank, and Commerzbank begin wooing the ...
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 ...
Karolingische Klöster. Wissenstransfer und kulturelle Innovation
(2015)
Carolingian monasteries were the most important agents for the transfer of knowledge and scientific methods during the early middle ages. This publication examines contemporary vehicles and recipients that were involved ...
Kasus im Korpus. Zu Struktur und Geographie oberdeutscher Kasusmorphologie
(2021)
Die Studie stellt einen neuen methodischen Ansatz zur korpusbasierten Analyse von Kasusmarkierung in gesprochener Sprache vor und liefert erstmals quantitativ fundierte Erkenntnisse zum Aufbau eines dialektalen Kasussystems ...
Katechismus-Andachten (1656). Kritische Ausgabe und Kommentar. Kritische Edition des Notentextes
(2016)
The Catechism Devotions is comprised of 50 spiritual songs that impart all of the material in Luther’s Small Catechism in vocal form. They are regarded as an important milestone in early modern theologia catechetica that ...