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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 ...
Chapter 6 On representing anchored parentheses in syntax
(2015)
The paper is organised as follows. In order to establish which kinds of parentheses should be considered ‘anchored’, I present a global overview in §2. This is followed by a discussion of the core properties of anchored ...
Reference, Rationality, and Phenomenology: Themes from Føllesdal
(2013)
Analytic philosophy
A Delicate Choreography
(2023)
The origins of the incest taboo have puzzled many of the most influential minds of the West, from Plutarch to St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, David Hume, Lewis Henry Morgan, Sigmund Freud, Emile Durkheim, ...
Theater im Gespräch
(2018)
Conversation in the theatrical break is traditionally associated with the ideal of a public which, inspired by the previous stage experience, rhetorically skillfully communicates about aesthetic and socio-political issues. ...
Childhood in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
(2005-07-18)
Although many researchers have taken a critical stance towards the theses on the history of childhood developed by Philippe Ariès in 1960, this volume is the first comprehensive collection of studies with a psychological ...
Chapter Die Übersetzungen des Mönchs von Salzburg als Lieder
(2019)
The volume assembles case studies on the vernacular adaptation of Latin hymns, sequences, and antiphons in the German Middle Ages. Through selected examples, it investigates the forms and purposes for which liturgical songs ...
Menschen zählen
(2015)
This book gets to the heart of discussions on big data and the digital age. It presents the 200-year history of the idea that people and societies are nothing more than the sum total of the data collected by quantitative ...
Proclus and his Legacy
(2017)
Proclus and his Legacy bridges a gap in scholarship, specifically the last great head of the Platonic Academy, Proclus, and his influence in the history of philosophy and theology. These essays offer not only a companion ...
Chapter Incomplete parenthesis
(2014)
While customarily considered ‘peripheral’ linguistic phenomena, both parenthesis and ellipsis raise interesting and far-reaching theoretical questions. It is worth bearing in mind that research in theoretical linguistics ...
A Companion to Anticlassicisms in the Cinquecento
(2023)
‘Anticlassicisms’ react to the various forms of ‘classicisms.’ This volume discusses the history and possible implications of the label in Renaissance studies and analyzes such ‘anticlassicisms.’ It distinguishes the various ...
Auf dem Weg in die Moderne
(2023)
So far, scholarship has classified the speculation crises of the eighteenth century as having had no real economic consequences. This study aims to review this theory by looking at seven speculation crises. It concludes ...
Wissenschaftsleugnung
(2024)
What should scholarship do about research denialism? Can the research community solve this problem – should it even try? Can research communication help here? Does it make sense, where are its limits, and how can it be ...
Mitteilungen der Gemeinsamen Kommission für die Erforschung der jüngeren Geschichte der deutsch-russischen Beziehungen
(2023)
This volume represents a contribution by the Commission to the commemoration of the end of the Second World War. In addition, the volume also provides information on projects that have been carried out under the supervision ...
Sovereign Justice
(2010-12-14)
Over the past years global justice has established itself as one of the new and most promising frontiers of political theory. Sovereign Justice collects valuable contributions from scholars of both continental and analytic ...
Chapter What melos for Troy? Blending of Lyric Genres in the First Stasimon of Euripides’ Trojan Women
(2018)
This volume locates ancient tragic drama within a larger map of Greek lyric activity, stressing that Athenian tragedy was a vital participant in a wider song-and-performance culture. The collected essays examine the density ...
Voces de mujeres en la Edad Media
(2018)
The contributions gathered in this volume take a fresh look at the medieval history of women. From powerful nobility as a cultural actor, to prominent and lesser-known female writers, including female protagonists of lyric ...
Bibliotheken der Schweiz: Innovation durch Kooperation
(2018)
This volume presents a representative selection of initiatives of the Swiss Academic Libraries, which show a high innovation potential as a result of successful cooperation. The focus is on science, higher education and ...
Die Schweiz – ein städtebauliches Portrait
(2005)
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, ...
Thinking Narratively
(2022)
What is the connection between philosophical enquiries and storytelling in contemporary narrative? Is it possible to outline some features of a so-called philosophical fiction in Western literature throughout the last two ...
Address in Portuguese and Spanish
(2020)
The volume provides the first systematic comparative approach to the history of forms of address in Portuguese and Spanish—two intimately related languages sharing historical, political and geographic contexts. Including ...