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Decentralised Energy
(2020-01-01)
As the contribution of renewable energy increases to meet climate change objectives, so does the extent to which electricity is generated by individuals and communities, moving a centralised system to a more decentralised ...
The Roma Struggle for Compensation in Post-War Germany
(2011-06-01)
Thirty years passed before it was accepted, in West Germany and elsewhere, that the Roma (Germany's Gypsies) had been Holocaust victims. And, similarly, it took thirty years for the West German state to admit that the ...
Decentralised Energy
(2020-01-01)
As the contribution of renewable energy increases to meet climate change objectives, so does the extent to which electricity is generated by individuals and communities, moving a centralised system to a more decentralised ...
Alternative Water Supply Systems
(2014)
Owing to climate change related uncertainties and anticipated population growth, different parts of the world (particularly urban areas) are experiencing water shortages or flooding and security of fit-for-purpose supplies ...
The numeral system of Proto-Niger-Congo
(2018-08-31)
This book proposes the reconstruction of the Proto-Niger-Congo numeral system. The emphasis is placed on providing an exhaustive account of the distribution of forms by families, groups, and branches. The big data bases ...
The numeral system of Proto-Niger-Congo
(2018-08-31)
This book proposes the reconstruction of the Proto-Niger-Congo numeral system. The emphasis is placed on providing an exhaustive account of the distribution of forms by families, groups, and branches. The big data bases ...
Internationale Nachwuchswissenschaftler in Deutschland
(2016-03-24)
"What motivates international scientists to research and teach at German Universities? How successful is their professional and social integration? What are their long-term career objectives?
The MIND study at GATE-Germany ...
Ruling Capital
(2014-11-20)
In Ruling Capital, Kevin P. Gallagher demonstrates how several emerging market and developing countries (EMDs) managed to reregulate cross-border financial flows in the wake of the global financial crisis, despite the ...
Climate risks for Latin America and the Caribbean
(2023)
Latin America and the Caribbean are increasingly experiencing the effects of climate change. Over the past two decades, the countries in the region have experienced as many as 1 350 natural disasters attributable to the ...
Black Gold and Blackmail
(2020)
Black Gold and Blackmail seeks to explain why great powers adopt such different strategies to protect their oil access from politically motivated disruptions. In extreme cases, such as Imperial Japan in 1941, great powers ...
Black Gold and Blackmail
(2020)
Black Gold and Blackmail seeks to explain why great powers adopt such different strategies to protect their oil access from politically motivated disruptions. In extreme cases, such as Imperial Japan in 1941, great powers ...
Climate risks for Latin America and the Caribbean
(2023)
Latin America and the Caribbean are increasingly experiencing the effects of climate change. Over the past two decades, the countries in the region have experienced as many as 1 350 natural disasters attributable to the ...
Christian Monuments of Cyrenaica
(2024)
Christian Monuments of Cyrenaica publishes archaeological studies undertaken between 1953 and 1971 by the late J. B. Ward-Perkins (d. 1981) and the late R. G. Goodchild (d. 1968). It presents Ward-Perkins accounts (mostly ...
Crowds
(2020)
What exactly is a crowd? How do crowds differ from other large gatherings of people? And how do they transform emotions, politics, or faith? In Crowds, contributors draw on their experiences and expertise to reflect on ...
Einführung in die grammatische Beschreibung des Deutschen
(2018-10-17)
Einführung in die grammatische Beschreibung des Deutschen ist eine Einführung in die Grammatik des gegenwärtigen Deutschen in den Bereichen Phonetik, Phonologie, Morphologie, Syntax und Graphematik. Das Buch ist für alle ...
Landmarks Revisited
(2013-12-16)
The symposium entitled Vekhi, or Landmarks, is one of the most famous publications in Russian intellectual and political history. Its fame rests on the critique it offers of the phenomenon of the Russian intelligentsia. ...
Rechtsdurchsetzung durch Technologie
(2023)
Automatisierte Systeme zur Filterung rechtsverletzender Inhalte im Internet sind insbesondere zum Schutz des Urheberrechts bekannt. Doch seit der Verabschiedung der DSM-Richtlinie hat das Thema eine weitere Dimension ...
Einführung in die grammatische Beschreibung des Deutschen
(2018-10-17)
Einführung in die grammatische Beschreibung des Deutschen ist eine Einführung in die Grammatik des gegenwärtigen Deutschen in den Bereichen Phonetik, Phonologie, Morphologie, Syntax und Graphematik. Das Buch ist für alle ...
EIB Working Papers 2019/11 - Macro-based asset allocation
(2020)
Macro-based asset allocation is based on the identification of turning points in macro-financial cycles. This paper suggests that macro-based asset allocation informed by trends in continuous business and financial cycle ...
Alternative Pathways to Complexity
(2016-12-15)
"[T]he volume represents an important contribution to the examination of issues for which Blanton has furthered scholarship, organized as three sections with cases from Mesoamerica, the Old World, and cross-cultural studies." ...
Who Killed Jules Crevaux?
(2024)
The first book to explore the deaths of explorer Jules Crevaux and his crew from an Indigenous perspective.In 1882, the celebrated French explorer Jules Crevaux and his crew were killed by Indigenous people in the Bolivian ...
Crowds
(2020)
What exactly is a crowd? How do crowds differ from other large gatherings of people? And how do they transform emotions, politics, or faith? In Crowds, contributors draw on their experiences and expertise to reflect on ...
Who Killed Jules Crevaux?
(2024)
The first book to explore the deaths of explorer Jules Crevaux and his crew from an Indigenous perspective.In 1882, the celebrated French explorer Jules Crevaux and his crew were killed by Indigenous people in the Bolivian ...
Landmarks Revisited
(2013-12-16)
The symposium entitled Vekhi, or Landmarks, is one of the most famous publications in Russian intellectual and political history. Its fame rests on the critique it offers of the phenomenon of the Russian intelligentsia. ...
Ten years of the Vienna Initiative
(2019)
Amidst the global financial crisis, international institutions, national authorities and international commercial banks collaborated closely to prevent contagion spreading to Central, East and south east Europe. They built ...
The Girl in the Pandemic
(2023)
As seen in previous pandemics, girls and young women are particularly vulnerable as social issues such as homelessness, mental healthcare, access to education, and child labor are often exacerbated. The Girl in the Pandemic ...
Kryptoaktien
(2024)
Der Sammelband enthält die Schriftfassung der Vorträge zur Tagung "Elektronische Aktien", die am 15. Mai 2023 in der Hessischen Landesvertretung in Berlin stattfand. Die Tagung wurde gemeinsam von der Projektgruppe ...
Bringing the World Home
(2005-03-31)
Bringing the World Home sheds new light on China’s vibrant cultural life between 1895 and 1919—a crucial period that marks a watershed between the conservative old regime and the ostensibly iconoclastic New Culture of the ...
Jihad and Islam in World War I
(2016)
This books investigates the background and nature of the Ottoman Jihad proclamation, but also its effects in the wider Middle East. It looks at the German hopes and British fears of a worldwide rising of Muslims in the ...
Youth in Post-Apartheid South Africa
(2024)
This book investigates the life experiences of youth in South Africa, considering whether contemporary youth have benefitted from the socioeconomic reconstruction of post-apartheid society.
Student protests against ...
The Horn of Africa
(2013)
The Horn of Africa, comprising Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan and Somalia, is the most conflict-ridden region in Africa. This book explores the origins and impact of these conflicts at both an intra-state and inter-state ...
Das lange Leben der Avantgarde
(2024)
Historische Konstellationen und aktuelle Entwicklungen der Avantgarde-Theorien – von Dada bis zum KunstAktivismus der Gegenwart Dadaismus, Surrealismus, Konstruktivismus – die Avantgarden sind auch nach über hundert Jahren ...
Small is Necessary
(2018-01-20)
Does small mean less? Not necessarily. In an era of housing crises, environmental unsustainability and social fragmentation, the need for more sociable, affordable and sustainable housing is vital. The answer? Shared living ...
Citizenship in Question
(2017-01-03)
Citizenship is often assumed to be a clear-cut issue - either one has it or one does not. However, as the contributors to Citizenship in Question demonstrate, citizenship is not self-evident; it emerges from often obscure ...
Anthropology Without Informants
(2009-05-31)
"It is my sincere hope that this volume will be much read and reflected upon by new generations of American students of prehistoric archaeologists. Freeman's career is a model for long-term international collaboration, ...
Bodies as Evidence
(2018-11-01)
From biometrics to predictive policing, contemporary security relies on sophisticated scientific evidence-gathering and knowledge-making focused on the human body. Bringing together new anthropological perspectives on the ...
Orthographies in Early Modern Europe
(2012)
This volume provides, for the first time, a pan-European view of the development of written languages at a key time in their history: that of the 16th century. The major cultural and intellectual upheavals that affected ...
The Consequences of Humiliation
(2020)
The Consequences of Humiliation explores the nature of national humiliation and its impact on foreign policy. Joslyn Barnhart demonstrates that Germany's catastrophic reaction to humiliation at the end of World War I is ...
Thinking Literature across Continents
(2016-12-02)
'Thinking Literature across Continents' finds Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller—two thinkers from different continents, cultures, training, and critical perspectives—debating and reflecting upon what literature is and why ...
Beastly Journeys
(2013-11-01)
A critical exploration of travel, animals and shape-changing in fin de siècle literature. Bats, beetles, wolves, butterflies, bulls, panthers, apes, leopards and spiders are among the countless creatures that crowd the ...
On Inequality (Big Ideas)
(2021)
Does Europe have an inequality problem? Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many Europeans are certainly struggling. The rise of populist movements is another signal that something is awry. Many Europeans no longer see their economy ...
Juden im öffentlichen Leben Deutschlands
(2024)
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Writing the Yugoslav Wars
(2017-01-09)
In Writing the Yugoslav Wars, Dragana Obradović analyses how the Yugoslav wars of secession helped shape the region’s literary culture. Obradović argues that the crisis of the country’s disintegration posed an ethical ...
THE POLITICS OF PANDEMICS
(2021)
The Covid-19 pandemic could not have come at a worse time, as many countries in the MENA region remain engulfed in vicious internal conflicts or must cope with structural socio-economic distress and popular dissent. In ...
New Topics in Emerging Markets
(2024)
Unlock the future of global economics and business with New Topics in Emerging Markets. This captivating edited volume is your gateway to understanding the dynamic forces shaping economies on the rise. Delve into critical ...
Shakespeare's History Plays
(2012-03-21)
Shakespeare's History Plays boldly moves criticism of Shakespeare's history plays beyond anti-humanist theoretical approaches.
This important intervention in the critical and theoretical discourse of Shakespeare studies ...
The African-Jamaican Aesthetic
(2017)
The African-Jamaican Aesthetic explores the ways in which diasporic African-Jamaican writers employ cultural referents aesthetically in their literary works to challenge dominant European literary discourses; articulate ...
Decolonizing Native Histories
(2011)
Decolonizing Native Histories is an interdisciplinary collection that grapples with the racial and ethnic politics of knowledge production and indigenous activism in the Americas. It analyzes the relationship of language ...
Die journalistische Form der Theorie
(2024)
Die »alternative« als fortlaufender Versuch, mit den Mitteln einer Zeitschrift auf die Verhältnisse ihrer Zeit einzuwirken. In den Jahren um 1968 entwickelte sich aus einem kleinen literarischen Magazin eine der meistgelesenen ...
Mammographies
(2013-06-10)
While breast cancer continues to affect the lives of millions, contemporary writers and artists have responded to the ravages of the disease in creative expression. Mary K. DeShazer’s book looks specifically at breast ...
Das Wahlverhalten der jüdischen Bevölkerung
(2024)
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Australia
(2017-11-01)
Australia: A Cultural History, first published in 1988, is still the only short history of Australia from a cultural perspective. It has acquired a unique reputation as an introduction to the development of Australian ...
Übergangsverläufe am Ende der Sekundarstufe I
(2020)
Wem gelingt am Ende der allgemeinbildenden Sekundarstufe I ein nahtloser Übergang in eine vollqualifizierende Berufsausbildung, und wer beschreitet anderweitige (Bildungs-)Wege? Anhand der Startkohorte 4 des Nationalen ...
Die Kosten der Freiheit
(2015)
Wenn in den Finanzen die "Realität" der Verfassungsordnung (Klaus Vogel) aufscheint, wie viel müssen wir uns dann den Schutz der Freiheitsrechte im Verfassungsstaat kosten lassen? In Zeiten knapper Kassen wird sichtbar, ...
A Theory of ISIS
(2017-11-20)
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has been the subject of intense scrutiny in the West. Considered by many to be the most dangerous terrorist organisation in the world, it has become shrouded in numerous myths and ...
Jahrbuch des Freien Deutschen Hochstifts 2012
(2023)
Das »Jahrbuch des Freien Deutschen Hochstifts« ist ein literatur- und kunstwissenschaftliches Periodikum zur deutschsprachigen Literatur und zu den Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Dichtung und Kunst. Die Schwerpunkte liegen ...
Der Aufbruch der Frauen in der SPD
(2019-03-25)
Die SPD vollzog in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren einen beachtlichen frauenpolitischen Wandel: Sie richtete ihre Frauen- und Familienpolitik neu aus, übernahm feministische Ziele in das Grundsatzprogramm und führte eine ...
Dinge – Nutzer – Netze
(2018)
Museums have always been virtual places – so why do these institutions find it so difficult to use digital media? And what does a museum have to offer to a knowledge-based society whose act of remembering increasingly takes ...
Achtzehntes Jahrhundert digital
(2019)
Digitale Technologien und Methoden haben in den vergangenen Jahren immer mehr Einfluss auf die geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung gewonnen. Dies gilt nicht minder fur das achtzehnte Jahrhundert: In allen einschlagigen ...
Gender Inequality
(2024)
Gender Inequality - Issues, Challenges and New Perspectives brings together advancements and empirical studies on gender studies from different parts of the world. Focusing on issues, challenges, and new perspectives on ...
Albrecht der Bär und Konrad von Wettin
(2020)
Der Vergleich der Markgrafen wirft ein neues Licht auf die Persönlichkeiten Albrechts des Bären und Konrads von Wettin, ihre politischen Entscheidungen und ihr Wirken.
Albrecht der Bär und Konrad von Wettin sind ...
Der Briefwechsel zwischen August Sauer und Bernhard Seuffert 1880 bis 1926
(2019)
Die Herausbildung der Neugermanistik in Österreich und Deutschland in Briefen: Zwei entscheidende Akteure, August Sauer (Prag) und Bernhard Seuffert (Graz), berichten über ihre Pläne, Laufbahn, Vernetzung mit einflussreichen ...
Bürgerwehren in Deutschland
(2021)
Von scheinbar unpolitischen Nachbarschaftswachen bis zu organisierten rechtsextremen Patrouillen - immer häufiger inszenieren sich Bürger*innen als alternative Ordnungsmacht. Nina Marie Bust-Bartels hat Bürgerwehren auf ...
Burning Up
(2018-10-20)
Coal, gas and oil have been capitalism's main fuels since the industrial revolution. And yet, of all the fossil fuels ever consumed, more than half were burned in the last 50 years. Most alarming of all, fossil fuel ...
Russia and China
(2017-10-23)
This book depicts the sophisticated relationship between Russia and China as a pragmatic one, a political marriage of convenience. Yet at the same time the relationship is stable, and will remain so. After all, bilateral ...
African linguistics on the prairie
(2018-06-30)
African Linguistics on the Prairie features select revised peer-reviewed papers from the 45th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, held at the University of Kansas. The articles in this volume reflect the enormous ...
A grammar of Yauyos Quechua
(2017)
This book presents a synchronic grammar of the southern dialects of Yauyos, an extremely endangered Quechuan language spoken in the Peruvian Andes. As the language is highly synthetic, the grammar focuses principally on ...
Empathisierer und Systematisierer im Vorschulalter
(2019)
Motivation wird als ein entscheidender Faktor für erfolgreiches Lernen betrachtet. Laut der Empathisierer-Systematisierer-Theorie hat jeder Mensch einen so genannten Brain Type, der sich aus unterschiedlich starken Anteilen ...
Pursuing Whiteness in the Colonies
(2018)
Pursuing Whiteness in the Colonies offers a new comprehension of colonial history from below by taking remnants of individual agencies from a whiteness studies perspective. It highlights the experiences and perceptions of ...
From Accelerated Accumulation to the Socialist Market Economy
(2017-03-15)
The book is based on the hypothesis that a systematic analysis of the Chinese economic discourse is necessary in order to understand the underlying logic of Chinese economic development. The majority of works on the subject ...
Enquêter, former, publier au coeur de la cité
(2018-10-15)
Le travail social est un domaine de recherche relativement récent (années 60) qui produit des recherches fondamentales tournées vers l’application. A la Haute école de travail social de Genève, les recherches se concentrent ...
Thinking About Dementia
(2006-01-01)
Bringing together essays by nineteen respected scholars, this volume approaches dementia from a variety of angles, exploring its historical, psychological, and philosophical implications. The authors employ a cross-cultural ...
Composing the Party Line
(2013)
Examines the exercise of power in the Stalinist music world as well as the ways in which composers and ordinary people responded to it. A comparative inquiry into the relationship between music and politics in the German ...
Imagining Earth
(2017-07-15)
While concepts of Earth have a rich tradition, more recent examples show a distinct quality: Though ideas of wholeness might still be related to mythical, religious, or utopian visions of the past, ''Earth'' itself has ...
Geschichte der verfassten Ärzteschaft auf dem Gebiet des heutigen Bundeslandes Baden-Württemberg von 1920 bis 1960
(2024)
Die Gründung der baden-württembergischen Landesärztekammer im Jahr 1955 bildete den vorläufigen Höhepunkt einer Jahrzehnte dauernden turbulenten Entwicklung. Aaron Pfaff arbeitet die Geschichte der ärztlichen Standesvereinigungen ...
The Un-Americans
(2009)
In a bold rethinking of the Hollywood blacklist and McCarthyite America, Joseph Litvak reveals a political regime that did not end with the 1950s or even with the Cold War: a regime of compulsory sycophancy, in which the ...
The freedom of scientific research
(2020)
Never have the scope and limits of scientific freedom been more important or more under attack. New science, from artificial intelligence to genomic manipulation, creates unique opportunities to make the world a better ...
Women and Inequality in a Changing World
(2024)
Women and Inequality in a Changing World explores the obstacles women continue to face to their equal participation in all areas of daily life—political, social, and eco- nomic—which persist despite the growth in the ...
Human Capital versus Basic Income
(2022)
Latin America underwent two major transformations during the 2000s: the widespread election of left-leaning presidents (the so-called left turn) and the diffusion of conditional cash transfer programs (CCTs)—innovative ...
The evolution of grounded spatial language
(2016)
This book presents groundbreaking robotic experiments on how and why spatial language evolves. It provides detailed explanations of the origins of spatial conceptualization strategies, spatial categories, landmark systems ...
Die Altmark
(2018)
Die Altmark schlägt die Brücke vom westelbischen Sachsen zum ostelbischen Landesausbaugebiet auf dem Boden slawischer Stämme und Völker, politisch, wirtschaftlich, ethnisch und kulturell. Bis zum Ende des 12. Jahrhunderts ...
Does War Belong in Museums?
(2013-02-15)
Presentations of war and violence in museums generally oscillate between the fascination of terror and its instruments and the didactic urge to explain violence and, by analysing it, make it easier to handle and prevent. ...
Judaism as Philosophy
(2015-10-22)
The studies comprising this volume, most of them appearing for the first time in English, deal with some of the main topics in Maimonides’ philosophy and that of his followers in Provence. At the heart of these topics lies ...
Grundlagenwissen zu Künstlicher Intelligenz von angehenden Lehrkräften
(2024)
In der Dissertation von Frau Dr.in Schmidt wird ausgehend von der zunehmenden Relevanz von Kunstlicher Intelligenz (KI) im Rahmen digitaler Transformationsprozesse ein Strukturmodell fur KI-bezogene Kompetenzfacetten ...
Entwicklung und experimentelle Validierung eines Ansatzes für die Modellierung des Anstreifverhaltens von Labyrinthdichtungen mit Honigwabeneinlaufbelägen
(2016)
Die Optimierung dynamischer Dichtsysteme ist eine kostengünstige Methode zur Erhöhung der Wirkungsgrade, Lebensdauer und Betriebssicherheit von Turbomaschinen. Zuverlässige und effiziente Dichtsysteme lassen sich nur ...
Digital Humanities in der internationalen Schulbuchforschung
(2018)
Der Einzug digitaler Techniken in die geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung bringt neue Chancen, aber auch Herausforderungen mit sich. Dieser Band beleuchtet, welche Projekte das Georg-Eckert-Institut entwickelt, um die ...
Selbstoptimierung
(2018-12-18)
Lebenskunst hat Konjunktur: Offenbar ist der Traum, das Leben als Gesamtkunstwerk einzurichten, zur ethischen Maxime geworden. Beteiligt ist dabei seit der Antike das Motiv von Selbsterforschung bzw. Selbstbesserung, das ...
Filtration Materials for Groundwater
(2016)
Ground water is a source for drinking and industrial water supply and pollution created by active industrial sites which often cause social, health, and environmental problems. This groundwater eventually drains into ...
Transactions with the World
(2016)
In their bold experimentation and bracing engagement with culture and politics, the “New Hollywood” films of the late 1960s and early 1970s are justly celebrated contributions to American cinematic history. Relatively ...
Stoffschutz
(2020)
Ralf Uhrich widmet sich einer der zentralen Fragestellungen des Patentrechts: dem Schutz chemischer Stoffe und dessen Ausgestaltung. Nach einer grundlegenden Auseinandersetzung mit der Geschichte des Stoffschutzes sowie ...
A Foreign Affair
(2008-04-01)
With six Academy Awards, four entries on the American Film Institute’s list of 100 greatest American movies, and more titles on the National Historic Register of classic films deemed worthy of preservation than any other ...
Juden im Deutschen Wirtschaftsleben
(2024)
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Juifs d'Europe
(2017-09-07)
Les manières de vivre le judaïsme à l'époque contemporaine sont multiples. Comment explorer cette diversité, ses éléments constitutifs religieux, culturels ou nationaux et les liens qu'ils nourrissent entre eux ? En explorant ...
Bundesbericht Wissenschaftlicher Nachwuchs 2017
(2017-02-16)
This report provides the reader with empirical findings on junior researchers in Germany. The reconciliation of family and an academic career constitutes the central issue of the report. Other topics are work and employment ...
RUSSIA’S FOREIGN POLICY
(2021)
"Who decides what in Moscow? The answer is not always “Vladimir Putin”. However, when explaining Russia’s foreign policy, the consolidation of Putin’s autocratic tendencies and his apparent stability despite many economic ...
Mimetic Lives
(2021)
What makes some characters seem so real? Mimetic Lives explores this unprecedented question on the rich ground of Tolstoy’s and Dostoevsky’s fiction. Each author discovered techniques for intensifying the aesthetic illusion ...
Cooperatives, Grassroots Development, and Social Change
(2017)
"Cooperatives, Grassroots Development, and Social Change" presents examples from Paraguay, Brazil, and Colombia, examining what is necessary for smallholder agricultural cooperatives to support holistic community-based ...
Das Personal in der Weiterbildung
(2016-12-31)
Who is employed in further education programmes? What are their qualifications? Under which conditions do they work and how satisfied are they with their work? It is the first study to provide representative data on the ...
Die Musik war unsere Rettung!
(1998)
Im Mittelpunkt dieser Gruppenbiographie stehen die deutschsprachigen Gründungsmitglieder des Palestine Orchestra, des heutigen Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, das von dem Violinisten Bronislaw gegründet wurde: anhand von ...
Smart Contracts
(2019-06-12)
How smart are smart contracts? Do they live up to their promise of a more effective rights enforcement? Nine pioneers from both academia and legal practice discuss the technological and legal foundations of smart contracts, ...