Publications
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Die Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe
(1973)
Barriers to Play and Recreation for Children and Young People with Disabilities. Exploring Environmental Factors
(2017)
This report reviews international research into the barriers to play for children with disabilities. The authors come from different disciplinary backgrounds, in Sociology, Social Policy, Anthropology, Occupational Health ...
Bedeutung, Gebrauch und sprachliche Handlung. Ansätze und Probleme einer handlungstheoretischen Semantik aus linguistischer Sicht
(1996)
The meaning of expressions in a language is equivalent to the way they are used in a given language community. Views of this nature are central to the assumptions underlying 'usage theories of meaning' and 'action-theoretical ...
Being Jewish in 21st-Century Germany
(2015)
An unexpected immigration wave of Jews from the former Soviet Union mostly in the 1990s has stabilized and enlarged Jewish life in Germany. Jewish kindergartens and schools were opened, and Jewish museums, theaters, and ...
Die Berliner Universität im Kontext der deutschen Universitätslandschaft nach 1800, um 1860 und um 1910
(2010)
Die Berliner Humboldt Universität feiert 2010 ihr 200. Jubiläum. Aus diesem Anlass widmet sich der vorliegende Band der Geschichte der Universität im Zusammenhang einer deutschen Bildungs- und Institutionengeschichte. Immer ...
Das Berliner TransitionsProgramm. Sektorübergreifendes Strukturprogramm zur Transition in die Erwachsenenmedizin
(2016)
The Berlin Transitions Program (BTP) is an interdisciplinary structural program that offers professional case management to help young people with chronic diseases make the transition from pediatric to adult medicine. It ...
Bildungspraktiken der Aufklärung / Education practices of the Enlightenment. Journal für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa (JKGE) / Journal for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe
(2020)
This issue of JKGE is devoted to the specific conditions of educational processes in the pluri-cultural and multilingual regions of Eastern Europe. In the context of globally oriented research on the Enlightenment epoch, ...
Bildungsbürgertum und völkische Ideologie. Konstitution und gesellschaftliche Tiefenwirkung eines Netzwerks völkischer Autoren (1919-1959)
(2016)
The moderate folk-nationalist (völkisch) authors Hans Grimm, Erwin Guido Kobenheyer, and Wilhelm Stapel found great appeal among the German social elites. The author analyzes the ideological proclivity of the Weimar educated ...
The Black Death and Later Plague Epidemics in the Scandinavian Countries: Perspectives and Controversies
(2016)
This monograph represents an expansion and deepening of previous works by Ole J. Benedictow - the author of highly esteemed monographs and articles on the history of plague epidemics and historical demography. In the form ...
Bird Ringing Station Manual
(2015)
In an attempt to standardize elements of the station routine, the book describes the procedures used in passerine and wader ringing stations. It offers a comparative analysis of versatile evaluation techniques such as ...
Body Law and the Body of Law. A Comparative Study of Social Norm Inclusion in Norwegian and American Laws
(2015)
For some legal philosophers, if a law is procedurally correct, enacted in ways constitutionally recognised and agreed upon, then the content is of no significance. It is a “good” law, no matter what it does or justifies. ...
Borderlines: Essays on Mapping and The Logic of Place
(2019)
Borderlines innovatively explores the ways artistic interventions construct social, cultural, and mental spaces. The fifteen essays bring a broad multidisciplinary approach to the concept of borderlines and its markings ...
Auf dem Weg zur Normalität. Konflikt und Verständigung in den deutsch-französischen Beziehungen der 1970er Jahre
(2014)
Despite the fortuitous leadership of Giscard and Schmidt, German-French relations during the 1970s experienced a series of major conflicts. There were a number of different governmental and societal forces that sought to ...
Auf der Suche nach einem anderen Deutschland. Das Verhältnis Frankreichs zur DDR im Spannungsfeld von Perzeption und Diplomatie
(2014)
In France, the notion of the other Germany was at once myth and model. How else do we explain France's intensive contact with East Germany? Using a broad range of sources, Christian Wenkel examines the basic specifics of ...
Das Auswärtige Amt in der NS-Diktatur
(2014)
This volume reviews research conducted surrounding the German Foreign Office and its past. What do we actually know about the function of the Foreign Office during the Nazi era, what gaps exist in the research, what is ...
Autorität und Wahrheit. Kirchliche Vorstellungen, Normen und Verfahren (13. bis 15. Jahrhundert)
(2012)
Die Beiträge dieses Bandes sind an der Schnittstelle zwischen Kirchen- und Geistesgeschichte anzusiedeln. Während sich im hohen und späten Mittelalter autoritative Instanzen vervielfachen, mit den magistri an den Universitäten ...
Before the Museums Came. The Fine Arts in the Twin Cities
(2012)
Before the Museums Came: A Social History of the Fine Arts in the Twin Cities gives an engaging portrayal of the fine arts scene of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota in the United States, spanning from the appearance of ...
Big Data Security
(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 ...
Bilingualism and Deafness. On Language Contact in the Bilingual Acquisition of Sign Language and Written Language
(2016)
This book examines sociolinguistic, educational and psycholinguistic factors that shape the path to sign bilingualism in deaf individuals and contributes to a better understanding of the specific characteristics of a type ...
Bildzensur. Löschung technischer Bilder
(2020)
Technical censorship of pictures is omnipresent and invisible at the same time. Content moderation on social media and automatic deletions by algorithms have given rise to a new union of human and non-human protagonists. ...
Biological Invasions in Changing Ecosystems. Vectors, Ecological Impacts, Management and Predictions
(2015)
When organisms are deliberately or accidentally introduced into a new ecosystem a biological invasion may take place. These so-called ‘invasive species’ may establish, spread and ecologically alter the invaded community. ...
Botanik
(1852)
Brücken schlagen. Grundlagen der Konnektorensemantik
(2004)
A systematic description of the semantics of connectives is a challenge that linguists have yet to answer. In order to define semantic classes such as causal, concessive, temporal according to objectivizable criteria, to ...
Building Europe. A History of European Unification
(2015)
Relying on internal sources, Wilfried Loth analyses the birth and subsequent development of the European Union, from the launch of the Council of Europe and the Schuman Declaration until the Euro crisis and the contested ...
Burgund und das Reich. Spätmittelalterliche Außenpolitik am Beispiel der Regierung Karls des Kühnen (1465-1477)
(2002)
Die Regierungszeit Karls des Kühnen von Burgund (1465/67-1477) zählt zu den Wendezeiten der europäischen Geschichte. Im Dauerkonflikt mit seinen Lehnsherren, König Ludwig XI. von Frankreich und Kaiser Friedrich III., strebte ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Der Briefwechsel
(2016)
The correspondence between Meinong and Kazimierz Twardowski highlights the relationship between two philosophers who influenced the history of philosophy and psychology in Austria and Poland. The two correspondents discuss, ...
Der Bundespräsident. Briefe 1954–1959
(2014)
Theodor Heuss assumed his second term of office as President of Germany in September 1954 under propitious circumstances: He was re-elected by an overwhelming majority in the Federal Assembly, and enjoyed surprisingly broad ...
Der Bundespräsident. Briefe 1949–1954
(2012)
Already in his first term of office Theodor Heuss laid the foundation for a new tradition in German history. In his person, a positive attitude towards democracy was uniquely united with extensive historical experience and ...
Apprendre la langue Rwanda
(1975)
The British and Irish Ruling Class 1660-1945. Volume 2
(2017)
This book contains an account of the 2,352 families (close to 3,000 counting cadet lines) that had one member sit in either House of the English, British, or United Kingdom Parliament, the Irish Parliament, or the Scottish ...
The British and Irish Ruling Class 1660-1945. Volume 1
(2017)
This book contains an account of the 2,352 families (close to 3,000 counting cadet lines) that had one member sit in either House of the English, British, or United Kingdom Parliament, the Irish Parliament, or the Scottish ...
Bringing Buddhism to Tibet. History and Narrative in the DBA' BZHED Manuscript
(2021)
Bringing Buddhism to Tibet is a landmark study of the Dba’ bzhed—a seminal history recounting the introduction of Buddhism to Tibet. Preserved in a single copy, the Dba’ bzhed stands at the head of a long tradition of ...
Bundesstaat und Europäische Union zwischen Konflikt und Kooperation. Berichte und Diskussionen auf der Tagung der Vereinigung der Deutschen Staatsrechtslehrer in Rostock vom 4. bis 7. Oktober 2006
(2011)
The volume presents the reports and discussions held at the conference of the “Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers” in Rostock from October, 4th to October 7th, 2006.
Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland und die Türkei 1978 bis 1983
(2016)
Based on German Foreign Office records, Tim Szatkowski shows the interests pursued by the German federal government in its policy toward Turkey between 1978 and 1983. The study reveals that after the military coup in Ankara, ...
Die Bundesrepublik im KSZE-Prozess 1975-1983. Die Umkehrung der Diplomatie
(2015)
West Germany`s policy toward the CSCE following the Helsinki conference was shaped by the subsequent meetings in Belgrade (1977�) and Madrid (1980�) as well as further Expert Meetings. The study shows how ...
Canones: The Art of Harmony. The Canon Tables of the Four Gospels
(2020)
The so-called ‘Canon Tables’ of the Christian Gospels are an absolutely remarkable feature of the early, late antique, and medieval Christian manuscript cultures of East and West, the invention of which is commonly attributed ...
The Challenge of Minority Integration. Politics and Policies in the Nordic Nations
(2015)
How is solidarity achieved in highly diverse societies - particularly those that have been until recently characterized by rather homogeneous populations? What are the implications of growing levels of diversity on existing ...
Changing Roles of NGOs in the Creation, Storage and Dissemination of Information in Developing Countries
(2006)
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are growing exponentially. In 1993, the Yearbook of International Organizations listed 16,000 internationally recognized NGOs. By 2004, this number was 63,000. With this increase comes ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Children disengaged from armed groups in Colombia. Integration Processes in Context
(2013)
An in-depth study of the complex situation in Colombia; extensive research involving a broad range of participants. Drawing on a broad research on historical, geographical and socio-political context of the Colombian ...
Chinese Annals in the Western Observatory. An Outline of Western Studies of Chinese Unearthed Documents
(2020)
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, hundreds of thousands of documents of all sorts have been unearthed in China, opening whole new fields of study and transforming our modern understanding of ancient China. While ...
Chora und Polis
(2004)
Der Schwerpunkt der althistorischen wie der archäologischen Forschung lag bis vor kurzem auf der Geschichte der Stadt das sie umgebende Land, die Chora blieb hingegen im Dunklen. Daher sind hinsichtlich des antiken Landlebens ...
Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity. Studies in Text Transmission
(2016)
The role of Christian institutions, writers and saints in the active suppression and destruction of books in Late Antiquity has received surprisingly little consideration. The author argues that texts and ideas from ...
The Civilising Offensive. Social and educational reform in 19th century Belgium
(2019)
Around 1850 Belgium was continental Europe`s most heavily industrialised state. From the mid-century until the Belle Époque many international social reform associations were based in Belgium. This book will stimulate the ...
Christian Martyrdom in Late Antiquity (300-450 AD). History and Discourse, Tradition and Religious Identity
(2012)
The present volume`s focus lies on the formation of a multifaceted discourse on Christian martyrdom in Late Antiquity. While martyrdom accounts remain a central means of defining Christian identity, new literary genres ...
Codename TREVI. Terrorismusbekämpfung und die Anfänge einer europäischen Innenpolitik in den 1970er Jahren
(2016)
Terrorism became an international problem in the 1970s, forcing the nine states in the European Community to cooperate in the realm of domestic security. The so-called TREVI meeting set the direction for the development ...
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 ...
Architectural Journal 1960-1975
(2015)
How does one become a recognized architect? Where does the inspiration come from and how is it transformed into buildings, streets and cities? With his Architectural Journal Rob Krier takes the readers on a fascinating ...
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 ...
Nicht-Naives Erzählen. Folgen der Erzählkrise am Beispiel biografischer Schreibweisen bei Helmut Krausser
(2018)
What is “naïve narrative” and to what extent should we regard it as obsolete? This study examines the poetological effects of the modern crisis in narration on German literature at the turn of the century based on the ...
Perspectives and research on play for children with disabilities. Collected papers
(2020)
This book includes eight chapters reflecting various approaches towards the theme of play for children with disabilities that characterised the work of the members of the COST Action TD1309 “LUDI–Play for Children with ...
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 ...
Materiality, Techniques and Society in Pottery Production The Technological Study of Archaeological Ceramics through Paste Analysis
(2014)
Daniel Albero Santacreu presents a wide overview of certain aspects of the pottery analysis and summarizes most of the methodological and theoretical information currently applied in archaeology in order to develop wide ...
Materialität und Präsenz spätantiker Inschriften. Eine Studie zum Wandel der Inschriftenkultur in den italienischen Provinzen
(2020)
That inscriptions are not only texts but also material objects of specific materiality and presence is one of the recent central insights of ancient epigraphy. This understanding is applied here for the first time ...
Materiality of Writing in Early Mesopotamia
(2016)
This volume presents recent research on the relationship between the material format of text-bearing artefacts, the texts they carry, and their genre. The essays cover a vast period, from the counting stones of the late ...