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Libraries, Archives and Museums as Democratic Spaces in a Digital Age
(2020)
Libraries, archives and museums have traditionally been a part of the public sphere's infrastructure. They have been so by providing public access to culture and knowledge, by being agents for enlightenment and by being ...
Library Statistics for the Twenty-First Century World. Proceedings of the conference held in Montreal on 18-19 August 2008 reporting on the Global Library Statistics Project
(2009)
An international collaboration between IFLA, the UNESCO Institute of Statistics and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has developed standards for new library indicators for the twenty-first century. ...
Libraries and Information Services towards the Attainment of the UN Millennium Development Goals
(2008)
The United Nations Millennium declarations of 2002 set eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to be achieved by 2015. The papers presented in this publication endeavour to address how libraries and information professionals ...
Libraries Driving Access to Knowledge
(2012)
This book is a must for librarians with international interest in access to knowledge. It includes a collection of 15 chapters written by authors from all over the world and covers different approaches to the vital role ...
Literature and Politics in the Later Foucault
(2021)
This study proposes a revised interpretation of Foucault’s views on literature. It has been argued that the philosopher’s interest in literature was limited to the 1960s and of a mostly depoliticized nature. However, ...
Literaturgeschichte
(1901)
Menschenrechte im Schatten kolonialer Gewalt. Die Dekolonisierungskriege in Kenia und Algerien 1945-1962
(2009)
Die Studie untersucht vor dem Hintergrund der Menschenrechtsfrage die Gewaltpolitik der Kolonialmächte Großbritannien und Frankreich während des Mau-Mau-Kriegs in Kenia (1952 bis 1959) und des Algerienkrieges (1954 bis ...
Movable Inn. The Rural Jewish Population of Minsk Guberniya in 1793-1914
(2018)
The book presents the results of a systematic survey, the first of its kind, on the rural Jews in the Minsk Guberniya, from its establishment as a major administrative unit within the Russian Empire in 1793, to the outbreak ...
On Ancient Grammars of Space. Linguistic Research on the Expression of Spatial Relations and Motion in Ancient Languages
(2013)
This volume presents new research by the Topoi group "The Conception of Spaces in Language" on the expression of spatial relations in ancient languages. The six articles in this volume discuss static and dynamic aspects ...
Der Munizipalsozialismus in Europa /Le socialisme municipal en Europe
(2001)
Im ausgehenden 19. Jahrhundert standen alle Städte vor dem Problem, eine rasch wachsende Bevölkerung mit öffentlichen Dienstleistungen zu versorgen. Diese Aufgabe ging weit über den bisherigen Tätigkeitsbereich der Gemeinden ...
Die Münchner NSDAP 1925–1933. Eine Untersuchung zur inneren Struktur der NSDAP in der Weimarer Republik
(2002)
München und der Nationalsozialismus - eine Beziehung, die nicht nur für Thomas Mann oder Oskar Maria Graf ein offenes Rätsel war. Mathias Rösch geht ihm aus einer neuen Perspektive nach: Er stellt die Parteibasis der NSDAP ...
Mutation Breeding in Chickpea: Perspectives and Prospects for Food Security
(2014)
The book by M. Imran Kozgar aims to cover the problems of mutation breeding in pulse crops in the light of issues related to food insecurity and malnutrition, which according to FAO are the major threats at the present ...
Nah am Boden. Privater Hausbau zwischen Wohnungsnot und Landkonflikt im Samarkand der 50er- und 60er-Jahre
(2021)
This study examines private homebuilding as a specific conflict-laden form of urbanization in post-Second World War Soviet Central Asia, based on the example of Samarkand. It elucidates the neglected role of private ...
Der mögliche Frieden. Die Modernisierung der Außenpolitik und die deutsch-französischen Beziehungen 1923-1929
(2008)
Der vorliegende Band beschreibt die deutsch-französischen Beziehungen in der zweiten Hälfte der 1920er Jahre, als sich zwischen beiden Ländern eine gewisse Annäherung abzeichnete, die in den Verträgen von Locarno, der ...
Neues Leistungsstörungs- und Kaufrecht. Eine Zwischenbilanz. Vortrag, gehalten vor der Juristischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin am 14. Januar 2004
(2004)
[New Default and Purchasing Law. An Interim Review]The written version of a lecture given to the Berlin Legal Society. The author makes an initial assessment of the new Default and Purchasing Act two years after the Law ...
Neues und Fremdes im deutschen Wortschatz. Aktueller lexikalischer Wandel
(2001)
Present-day language change manifests itself primarily inlexical change. The papers in the present volume describe anddiscuss recent developments in German lexis, with its changes,continuities and discontinuities. Topics ...
OMGUS-Handbuch. Die amerikanische Militärregierung in Deutschland 1945-1949
(1996)
Von 1945 bis 1949 war das Office of Military Government for Germany, United States (OMGUS) die oberste politische Instanz im amerikanisch besetzten Teil Deutschlands und stellte – gemeinsam mit den drei Militärregierungen ...
Olympische Statuten
(1972)
Moderate Fundamentalists. Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at in the Lens of Cognitive Science of Religion
(2017)
n the mid 1950s, a British taxi driver named George King claimed that Budha, Jesus, and Lao Tzu had been alien “cosmic masters” who had come to earth to teach mankind the right way to live. Sun Myung Moon claimed that ...
Neue Richtungen in der hoch- und spätmittelalterlichen Bibelexegese
(1996)
Das Bibelstudium war für Gelehrte des Mittelalters eine Angelegenheitvon zentraler Bedeutung - es war die Königin der Disziplinen. Wenn dasInteresse an mittelalterlicher Exegese im Bereich der heutigen Geistes-und ...
Die Neue Linke
(1973)
Markt und intellektuelles Kräftefeld. Literaturkritik im Feuilleton von Pariser Tageblatt und Pariser Tageszeitung (1933–1940)
(1997)
The "Pariser Tageblatt", later to become the "Pariser Tageszeitung" (1933-1940), occupies a very special place in the history of the European press in that it was the only daily newspaper by and for German exiles. With ...
Die Natur der Farben
(2009)
Farben sind für uns sowohl objektive, als auch phänomenale Eigenschaften. In seinem Buch argumentiert Fabian Dorsch, daß keine ontologische Theorie der Farben diesen beiden Seiten unseres Farbbegriffes gerecht werden kann. ...
Numerative und Numerativkonstruktionen im Deutschen und im Chinesischen. Eine kontrastiv-typologische Untersuchung
(1996)
This is a study in contrastive typology with reference to German and Chinese nouns and noun constructions. The comparison proceeds from the differences displayed by the two languages in connection with numeralization ...
Menschen zählen. Wissensproduktion durch britische Volkszählungen und Umfragen vom 19. Jahrhundert bis ins digitale Zeitalter
(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 ...
Moskaus Spuren in Ostdeutschland 1945 bis 1949. Aktenerschließung und Forschungspläne
(2015)
As research conditions in Russian archives began to improve in the mid-1990s, empirical studies were undertaken in Germany on Soviet occupation policy in Germany and on the Soviet military administration. This volume ...
Nationale Identität und transnationale Einflüsse. Amerikanisierung, Europäisierung und Globalisierung in Frankreich nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg
(2007)
"Amerikanisierung/Westernisierung", "Europäisierung" und "Globalisierung" sind seit einigen Jahren bevorzugte Interpretationsansätze zur Erforschung eines ideellen und materiellen Transfers sowie kultureller, politischer ...
Modal and Focus Particles in Sign Languages. A Cross-Linguistic Study
(2014)
Bringing together the research fields of sign language linguistics and information structure, this bookfocuses onthe realization of modal particles and focus particles in three European sign languages: German Sign Language, ...
Mobility and Biography
(2015)
The subject of transnational lives has only recently gained importance in historical research. With its transnational approach to “mobility and biography,” this volume brings together research on aspects of mobility and ...
Monastische Kultur als transkonfessionelles Phänomen. Beiträge einer deutsch-russischen interdisziplinären Tagung in Vladimir und Suzdal’
(2016)
A comparison between Western European Catholic monasteries and Russian Orthodox monasteries during the late Middle Ages and Early Modern period reveals their common roots in the Western and Eastern monastic traditions as ...
On the Nature of Philosophy and Other Philosophical Essays
(2012)
This book continues Rescher’s longstanding practice of publishing groups of philosophical essays. Notwithstanding their thematic diversity, these discussions exhibit a uniformity of method in addressing philosophical issues ...
On Relativization and Clefting. An Analysis of Italian Sign Language
(2015)
This work is a contribution to our understanding of relativization strategies and clefting in Italian Sign Language, and more broadly, to our understanding of these constructions in world languages by setting the discussion ...
Maria in Hymnus und Sequenz. Interdisziplinäre mediävistische Perspektiven
(2017)
Marian hymns and sequences occupy a central place in the history of sacred song. Alongside Latin poetry, starting from the early Middle Ages, there were also vernacular translations, which adapted, modified, and transformed ...
Mythen und Grundbegriffe des europäischen Selbstverständnisses
(2012)
Driften die europäischen Staaten nach 60 Jahren der immer intensiveren und weiträumigeren Integration wieder auseinander? Geht uns der Sinn für die europäischen Gemeinsamkeiten verloren? Die Europäischen Erinnerungsorte ...
Monarchische Herrschaft im Altertum
(2017)
Monarchical rule was omnipresent in the ancient world, but until now, there has been no comparative study of the phenomenon across epochs and cultures. The volume fills this gap, examining autarchy in the ancient Near East, ...
Marine Propulsion Simulation. Methods and Results
(2015)
The propulsion system behaviour is a key aspect for the overall dynamics of a ship. However, despite its great importance, numerical methodologies for detailed investigations on marine propulsion dynamics are not yet widely ...
Mastering Russian Spaces. Raum und Raumbewältigung als Probleme der russischen Geschichte
(2011)
Die Rede vom „russischen Raum bezieht sich nicht nur auf ein Stereotyp, sondern auf eine empirische Erfahrung, der die Weite und Größe Russlands – ob nun als Russisches Reich, Sowjetunion oder Russländische Förderation ...
Material Aspects of Reading in Ancient and Medieval Cultures. Materiality, Presence and Performance
(2020)
This publication seeks to endeavour the relationship between material artefacts and reading practices in ancient and medieval cultures.While the acts of reception of written artefacts in former times are irretrievably lost, ...
Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World. c. 500 BC – c. AD 300
(2018)
Letter writing was widespread in the Graeco-Roman world, as indicated by the large number of surviving letters and their extensive coverage of all social categories. Despite a large amount of work that has been done on the ...
The Necessary Structure of the All-pervading Aether
(2012)
In this book I investigate the necessary structure of the aether – the stuff that fills the whole universe. Some of my conclusions are. 1. There is an enormous variety of structures that the aether might, for all we know, ...
Öl und Souveränität. Petroknowledge und Energiepolitik in den USA und Westeuropa in den 1970er Jahren
(2014)
The importance of oil for modern economic and political regimes increased during the economic boom of the post-war decades. Yet in 1973-1974, rising oil prices and reduced production raised the specter of an uncertain ...
Mouth Actions in Sign Languages. An Empirical Study of Irish Sign Language
(2014)
Mouth actions in sign languages have been controversially discussed but the sociolinguistic factors determining their form and functions remain uncertain. This first empirical analysis of mouth actions in Irish Sign Language ...
Multidimensional Inverse and Ill-Posed Problems for Differential Equations
(1995)
This monograph is devoted to statements of multidimensional inverse problems, in particular to methods of their investigation. Questions of the uniqueness of solution, solvability and stability are studied. Methods to ...
Mobilität und Wissenstransfer in diachroner und interdisziplinärer Perspektive
(2013)
What effect do spatial mobility and migrations have on the diffusion of knowledge? In this volume, papers dealing with the topic have been collected from various culture-historical and theoretical disciplines. Chronologically ...
Nationalsozialistische Judenverfolgung in Ostgalizien 1941-1944. Organisation und Durchführung eines staatlichen Massenverbrechens
(1997)
Trotz eines halben Jahrhunderts Holocaust-Forschung ist das Geschehen an den konkreten Tatorten des Massenmordes in Polen und in der Sowjetunion immer noch wenig erforscht. Die Juden in Ostgalizien sind vor allem durch ...
Material Culture in Modern Diplomacy from the 15th to the 20th Century
(2016)
The present volume aims at outlining a new field of research with regard to the history of diplomacy: the material culture of diplomatic interaction in early modern and modern times. The material culture of diplomacy ...
Okkultismus im Gehäuse. Institutionalisierungen der Parapsychologie im 20. Jahrhundert im internationalen Vergleich
(2016)
Where was the locus of parapsychology – the academic involvement with the occult – during the 20th century? In this first attempt at an international comparison, the authors examine various institutional venues, ...
Mesopotamian Eye Disease Texts. The Nineveh Treatise
(2020)
There is to date no comprehensive treatment of eye disease texts from ancient Mesopotamia, and no English translation of this material is available. This volume is the first complete edition and commentary on Mesopotamian ...
Metatexte. Erzählungen von schrifttragenden Artefakten in der alttestamentlichen und mittelalterlichen Literatur
(2016)
Texts of the Old Testament and the literature of the European Middle Ages feature a number of narratives about objects on which something is written. In this volume, scholars from the fields of Old Testament studies, Jewish ...
Metaphysik des Mittelalters
(1934)
Moving to Sustainable Buildings: Paths to adopt green innovations in developed countries
(2013)
In his Moving to Sustainable Buildings. Paths to Adopt Green Innovations in Developed Countries, Umberto Berardi explores the transition of the construction sector to sustainable building through the adoption of green ...
Muslims and Christians in the Bulgarian Rhodopes – Studies on Religious (Anti) Syncretism
(2015)
The book by Magdalena Lubanska examines the role of religious syncretism in the social and religious life of Muslim-Christian communities in the Western Rhodopes. The author is interested mainly in the origins and motivations ...
Musket, Map and Money: How Military Technology Shaped Geopolitics and Economics
(2013)
Waves of military technological changes have swept through the Eurasian land mass since the dawn of civilization. Military technological changes decisively shaped geopolitics and the fortunes of states, empires and ...
Mythische Sphärenwechsel. Methodisch neue Zugänge zu antiken Mythen in Orient und Okzident
(2020)
Journeys to the realm of the dead, voyages to the island of souls, ascents to heaven – this book analyzes and reconstructs sphere change myth material using an innovative theoretical and methodological approach. The research ...
The Masorah of Elijah ha-Naqdan
(2015)
Following Levita’s statement, the Masorah transmitted by medieval illuminated manuscripts was generally considered as less significant for the study of the biblical and masoretical knowledge in the Jewish world. The biblical ...
Öffnung der öffentlich-rechtlichen Methode durch Internationalität und Interdisziplinarität. Dritte Gewalt im Wandel. Gestaltung des demographischen Wandels als Verwaltungsaufgabe. Sicherung grund- und menschenrechtlicher Standards. Referate und Diskussionen auf der Tagung der Vereinigung der Deutschen Staatsrechtslehrer in Düsseldorf vom 1. bis 4. Oktober 2014
(2015)
This volume contains presentations and discussions from the Conference of the Association of German Constitutional Lawyers, which was held in Düsseldorf from 1 to 4 October 2014.
One Hundred Years at the Intersection of Chemistry and Physics. The Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society 1911-2011
(2011)
This volume, occasioned by the centenary of the Fritz Haber Institute, formerly the Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, covers the institute's scientific and institutional history from its founding until ...
Monumental Polovtsian Statues in Eastern Europe. The Archaeology, Conservation and Protection
(2013)
Stone statues, indigenous to the early Turks, appeared in the vast territory of the Asian steppes, from Southern Siberia to Central Asia and across the foothills of the Ural Mountains. The custom originated among Cumans ...
Nach Achtundsechzig. Krisen und Krisenbewusstsein in Deutschland und Frankreich in den 1970er Jahren
(2013)
On both sides of the Rhine, the 1970s were characterized by intense social upheaval, economic shocks, and domestic and foreign policy uncertainties. This volume examines perceptions and consequences of the 1968 protest ...
Mitstreiter im Volkstumskampf. Deutsche Justiz in den eingegliederten Ostgebieten 1939-1945
(2014)
In Poland during the Second World War, the German judicial system was part of the National Socialist occupation machine from the outset and became a key element in the policy of Germanization, Germany`s principal objective ...
Naturrecht und Staat. Politische Funktionen des europäischen Naturrechts (17.-19. Jahrhundert)
(2006)
Der Sammelband stellt die Frage nach dem Verhältnis von Naturrecht und Staat in Europa. Die Beiträge werfen in mehrfacher Hinsicht neues Licht auf die Geschichte der naturrechtlichen Staatslehre: In zeitlicher Hinsicht ...
Öffentliche Geheimnisse. Skandale, Politik und Medien in Deutschland und Großbritannien 1880-1914
(2009)
Im ausgehenden 19. Jahrhundert traten in ganz Westeuropa zahllose spektakuläre Skandale auf. Es kam zu Enthüllungen über Korruption, Ehebrüche und koloniale Gewalt, die zu politischen Krisen und grenzübergreifender Empörung ...
Of Gods and Books. Ritual and Knowledge Transmission in the Manuscript Cultures of Premodern India
(2016)
India has been the homeland of diverse manuscript traditions that do not cease to impress scholars for their imposing size and complexity. Nevertheless, many topics concerning the study of Indian manuscript cultures still ...
NICHTS NEUES SCHAFFEN. Perspektiven auf die treue Kopie 1300–1900
(2018)
Faithfulness as a genuine quality of copies
Nonlinear Evolution Equations
(2020)
Nonlinear Evolution Equation presents state-of-the-art theories and results on nonlinear evolution equation, showing related mathematical methods and applications. The basic concepts and research methods of infinite ...
Materiale Textkulturen. Konzepte-Materialien-Praktiken
(2015)
How does one define and explore the “material presence of the written in non-typographical cultures?” The interdisciplinary and collaborative essays in this handbook present theoretical principles, describe text-bearing ...
A Matter of Complexity. Subordination in Sign Languages
(2016)
Since natural languages exist in two different modalities – the visual-gestural modality of sign languages and the auditory-oral modality of spoken languages – it is obvious that all fields of research in modern ...
Ontological Investigations. An Inquiry into the Categories of Nature, Man and Society
(2004)
This volume is devoted to problems within analytic metaphysics. It defends an ontology and theory of categories inspired by Aristotle, but revised in such a way as to be compatible with modern science. The ontology of both ...
Organized Secularism in the United States. New Directions in Research
(2017)
There has been a dramatic increase in the percentage of the US population that is not religious. However, there is, to date, very little research on the social movement that is organizing to serve the needs of and advocate ...