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Non-Extensive Entropy Econometrics for Low Frequency Series. National Accounts-Based Inverse Problems
(2017)
Non-extensive Entropy Econometrics for Low Frequency Series provides a new and robust power-law-based, non-extensive entropy econometrics approach to the economic modelling of ill-behaved inverse problems. Particular ...
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, ...
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 ...
Measuring Quality. Performance Measurement in Libraries. 2nd revised edition
(2007)
The first edition of this handbook appeared in 1996 and dealt with academic libraries. It gained wide acceptance and was translated into five other languages.After ten years the new edition widens the perspective to public ...
Non-locality and Possible World. A Counterfactual Perspective on Quantum Entanglement
(2006)
This book uses the formal semantics of counterfactual conditionals to analyze the problem of non-locality in quantum mechanics. Counterfactual conditionals (subjunctive conditionals) enter the analysis of quantum entangled ...
Novalis, der Romantiker
(1901)
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 ...
Men, Masculinities and the Modern Career. Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
(2020)
This book focuses on the multiple and diverse masculinities ‘at work’. Spanning both historical approaches to the rise of ‘profession’ as a marker of masculinity, and critical approaches to the current structures of ...
Ninth European Powder Diffraction Conference – Prague, September 2-5, 2004
(2006)
Zeitschrift für Kristallographie. Supplement Volume 23 presents the complete Proceedings of all contributions to the IX European Powder Diffraction Conference in Prague 2004: Method Development and Application, Instrumental, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Die Neue Linke
(1973)
Nietzsche, Religion, and Mood
(2019)
This monograph casts new light on Nietzsche’s philosophy of religion by examining the role of mood in the philosopher’s critical project. The novel approach does not only contribute to scholarship on Nietzsche it also ...
Mathematics for the Physical Sciences
(2014)
The book begins with a thorough introduction to complex analysis, which is then used to understand the properties of ordinary differential equations and their solutions. The latter are obtained in both series and integral ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Performing Interpersonal Violence. Court, Curse, and Comedy in Fourth-Century BCE Athens
(2012)
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. ...
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 ...
NICHTS NEUES SCHAFFEN. Perspektiven auf die treue Kopie 1300–1900
(2018)
Faithfulness as a genuine quality of copies
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Novel Molecular Approaches to Target Microbial Virulence
(2015)
Microbial infections still represent one of the major causes of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Irrational usage of antimicrobials has lead to increased resistance, causing clinical, social and economical disabilities. ...
Periphere Räume in der Amerikanistik
(2019)
This volume addresses the notion of the periphery as a concept in cultural studies and the discursive and narrative dimensions of peripheral spaces. Peripheral spaces are defined as those spaces that are controlled and ...
Perlokutionen
(1987)
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
New Cosmopolitanisms, Race, and Ethnicity. Cultural Perspectives
(2019)
This anthology sheds new light on cosmopolitanism and culture in the contemporary world. Drawing on postcolonial, ethnic, and critical race studies as well as recent literary and critical theory, it demonstrates that new ...
New Directions in Geometric and Applied Knot Theory
(2018)
The aim of this book is to present recent results in both theoretical and applied knot theory—which are at the same time stimulating for leading researchers in the field as well as accessible to non-experts. The ...
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 ...
Measure Theory in Non-Smooth Spaces
(2017)
Analysis in singular spaces is becoming an increasingly important area of research, with motivation coming from the calculus of variations, PDEs, geometric analysis, metric geometry and probability theory, just to mention ...
The Meaning of Space in Sign Language. Reference, Specificity and Structure in Catalan Sign Language Discourse
(2015)
Bringing together sign language linguistics and the semantics-pragmatics interface, this book focuses on the use of signing space in Catalan Sign Language (LSC). On the basis of small-scale corpus data, it provides an ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Olympische Statuten
(1972)
Menandri Sicyonius
(1965)
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Mensch und Computer 2015 – Usability Professionals
(2015)
Usability Professionals Workshop deals with the practical applications of human-machine interaction research. It is organized by the German ACM specialty section of the UPA (Usability Professionals Association). The volume ...
Mensch und Computer 2015 – Workshopband
(2015)
The Workshop Volume from the Humans and Computers Conference documents the advanced tutorials that were presented to deepen the understanding gained from the conference lectures. It presents case studies along with ...
Mensch und Computer 2015 – Tagungsband
(2015)
These conference proceedings include the specialized academic lecture and brief contributions presented at the Humans and Computers 2015 conference in Stuttgart. It provides multiple perspectives from research that ...
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 ...
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)
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 ...
Poetry and truth
(1974)
Physik und Poetik. Produktionsästhetik und Werkgenese. Autorinnen und Autoren im Dialog
(2015)
Physics and literature are two forms of knowing the world that are both complementary and contingent. Poetical-physical ways of writing and metaphors in physical theories are two sides of a coin. Interviews with Ulrike ...
Pioneers of Zionism: Hess, Pinsker, Rülf Messianism, Settlement Policy, and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
(2013)
The emerging Jewish national consciousness in Europe toward the end of the 19th century claims many spiritual fathers, some of which have been seriously underestimated so far. Zionist intellectuals such as Moses Hess, Leon ...
Planning to cope with tropical and subtropical climate change
(2016)
This book provides examples of climate change characterization and decision-making tools for subtropical and tropical adaptation planning. It is intended for local operators, physical planners, besides researchers and ...
The Purpose of the First World War. War Aims and Military Strategies
(2015)
Ten million soldiers died during the First World War. But why, and for what reason? The Great War is widely seen as a pointless carnage (Pope Benedict XV). Was there a point, at least in the eyes of the political and ...
Quantum Groups
(2017)
With applications in quantum field theory, general relativity and elementary particle physics, this two-volume work studies the invariance of differential operators under Lie algebras, quantum groups and superalgebras. ...
The Psychology of Social Networking Vol. 2. Identity and Relationships in Online Communities
(2016)
Using a novel approach to consider the available literature and research, this book focuses on the psychology of social media based on the assumption that the experience of being in a social media has an impact on both our ...
The Psychology of Social Networking Vol. 1. Personal Experience in Online Communities
(2016)
Using a novel approach to consider the available literature and research, this book focuses on the psychology of social media based on the assumption that the experience of being in a social media has an impact on both our ...
Psychology and Law: Research for practice
(2020)
Scope The Conference Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the European Association of Psychology and Law, 2019, will consist of empirical researches, meta-analytic reviews and systematic reviews of topics dealing with ...
Raum und Interieurs in Thomas Manns Erzählwerk. Materielle Kultur zwischen 'Welthäusern' und 'Urdingen'
(2018)
The 19th century was, in Walter Benjamin’s diagnosis, “addicted to dwelling.” That era’s sense of space – what August Schmarsow called its Raumgefühl – shaped the narratives of Thomas Mann. This study examines Mann’s ...
Play development in children with disabilties
(2017)
This book is the result of the first two-year work of Working Group 1 of the network “LUDI – Play for children with disabilities”. LUDI is an Action (2014-2018) financed by COST; it is a multidisciplinary network of more ...
Petrarch and Boccaccio. The Unity of Knowledge in the Pre-modern World
(2018)
The early modern and modern cultural world in the West would be unthinkable without Petrarch and Boccaccio. Despite this fact, there is still no scholarly contribution entirely devoted to analysing their intellectual ...
Philosophy of the Information Society. Proceedings of the 30th International Ludwig Wittgenstein-Symposium in Kirchberg, 2007
(2008)
This is the second of two volumes of the proceedings from the 30th International Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg, August 2007. It contains selected contributions on the Philosophy of media, Philosophy of the Internet, ...
