Publications
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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 ...
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, ...