Publications
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Open Source Archaeology. Ethics and Practice
(2015)
This edited volume is designed to discuss important issues around open access to data and software in academic and commercial archaeology, as well as to summarise both the current state of theoretical engagement, and ...
Philosophisches Wörterbuch
(1953)
Planar Dynamical Systems. Selected Classical Problems
(2014)
This book presents in an elementary way the recent significant developments in the qualitative theory of planar dynamical systems. The subjects are covered as follows: the studies of center and isochronous center problems, ...
Population Dynamics in Prehistory and Early History. New Approaches Using Stable Isotopes and Genetics
(2012)
Migrations and population dynamics are considered very problematic topics in the fields of ancient studies. Recent scholarship in (pre)historical population has generated new impulses by using scientific approaches using ...
Quarks and Letters. Natural Sciences in Contemporary Literature and Culture
(2015)
Issues and insights from the fields of brain research, quantum mechanics, and evolutionary theory have passed into novels, and physicists and biologists often use rhetorical metaphors to communicate and even evoke their ...
Proceedings of the enviBUILD 2019. Buildings and Environment
(2020)
The enviBUILD conferences are organized annually by one of the Central European universities. They are building on the legacy of the Buildings and Environment Conferences held by the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the ...
Die Professoren der Universität Rostock im Dritten Reich. Ein biographisches Lexikon
(2007)
This encyclopaedia contains biographical portraits of the 189 professors who worked at the University of Rostock between 1932 and 1945. It represents the first complete list of professors at a German university during the ...
Rationale Entscheidungen unter Unsicherheit
(2019)
Menschen treffen täglich eine Vielzahl von Entscheidungen, entweder für sich selbst oder für andere. Auf welcher Basis entscheiden wir eigentlich? Was sind die Grundlagen für Entscheidungen, wenn die Datenlage unsicher ...
Rating EFL Written Performance
(2013)
The study focuses on the investigation of the process during which raters of EFL written performance make their decisions. It consists of a pilot and a main study, each of which concentrates on assessment of writing. The ...
Photogrammetrie
(1952)
Pierre Viénot (1897-1944). Ein Intellektueller in der Politik
(2005)
Pierre Viénot ist eine Schlüsselgestalt der deutsch-französischen Gesellschafts- und Kulturbeziehungen in den zwanziger Jahren. Gaby Sonnabend zeichnet erstmals ein Gesamtbild von Viénots Denken und Handeln von den zwanziger ...
Politische Theorien des 19. Jahrhunderts
(2002)
Der vorliegende Sammelband soll dazu anregen, sich auf den Spuren der wichtigsten politischen Theoretiker des 19. Jahrhunderts mit den Grundlagen unseres politischen Denkens zu beschäftigen und dabei hinter die Kulissen ...
Pore Scale Geochemical Processes
(2015)
This RiMG (Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry) volume includes contributions that review experimental, characterization, and modeling advances in our understanding of pore-scale geochemical processes. The volume had its ...
Prehistoric Mobility and Diet in the West Eurasian Steppes 3500 to 300 BC. An Isotopic Approach
(2015)
Questions concerning mobility and migration as well as subsistence strategies of past societies have always been of major importance in archaeological research. The West Eurasian steppes in the Eneolithic, the Early Bronze ...
A Prehistory of Hinduism
(2016)
This book is a pioneering attempt to understand the prehistory of Hinduism in South Asia. Exploring religious processes in the Deccan region between the eleventh and the nineteenth century with class relations as its point ...
Plant Life of Southwestern Australia. Adaptations for Survival
(2015)
Southwestern Australia is unique as it contains the world`s most nutrient-impoverished soils, experiences a prolonged-summer period and the vegetation is extremely fire-prone. It is also world-renowned for its relative ...
Proceedings Of International Conference Building Services And Energy Efficiency. Modernizing and increasing performance of Building Services
(2020)
The Building Services and Energy Efficiency (BSEE) Conference is an event that has become traditional in the world of civil engineering, since 1990. The main organizer is the Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi, ...
Die radikale Herausforderung. Die politische Kultur der englischen Konservativen zwischen ländlicher Tradition und industrieller Moderne (1846-1868)
(2002)
Die englischen Konservativen des mittleren 19. Jahrhunderts geben Rätsel auf. Wie kam es, dass sie 1867 eine Wahlrechtsreform durchsetzten, die sogar weiter ging als die Forderungen der Reformliberalen? Und was machte in ...
The Poetry and Prose of Wang Wie. Volume 1
(2020)
Wang Wei has traditionally been considered one of the greatest of Tang dynasty poets, together with Li Bo and Du Fu. This is the first complete translation into English of all of his poems, and also the first substantial ...
The Poetry and Prose of Wang Wie. Volume 2
(2020)
Wang Wei has traditionally been considered one of the greatest of Tang dynasty poets, together with Li Bo and Du Fu. This is the first complete translation into English of all of his poems, and also the first substantial ...
Polymer Engineering
(2017)
Polymer Engineering focuses on the preparation and application of polymers in several hot topics such as artificial photosynthesis, water purification by membrane technologies, and biodiesel production from wastewater ...
Die Praxis des Wissens. Können als Quelle der Erkenntnis
(2012)
Diese Studie bietet eine pragmatistische Deutung von Erkenntnis. Durch eine detaillierte Analyse im Kontext von Sprachphilosophie und Philosophie des Geistes legt der Autor dar, warum Wissen seinen Ursprung im Können hat. ...
Praxishandbuch Open Access
(2017)
This book introduces open access publishing from the perspective of the author and the institution. It describes workflows and important tools while also offering a classification of various business models. While the book ...
Pressekriege. Öffentlichkeit und Diplomatie in den deutsch-britischen Beziehungen (1896-1912)
(2007)
Taking German-British „newspaper wars“ as an example, this study looks at the interaction between the emerging mass press and foreign policy, traditionally conducted as secret diplomacy, in the 25 years before the First ...
Probability and Statistics. A Course for Physicists and Engineers
(2018)
This book offers an introduction to concepts of probability theory, probability distributions relevant in the applied sciences, as well as basics of sampling distributions, estimation and hypothesis testing. As a companion ...
Proceedings of Tourism Development Centre International Conference. Sustainable Tourism Development in Disaster Prone Destinations
(2020)
This proceeding contains peer-reviewed papers from the Tourism Development Centre International Conference (TDCIC), October 1st, 2019, in Bukittinggi, West Sumatra, Indonesia. This conference focused on current issues of ...
Proceedings of the International Seminar on Safety and Security of Autonomous Vessels (ISSAV) and European STAMP Workshop and Conference (ESWC) 2019
(2020)
Aalto University hosted the 2nd edition of the International Seminar on Safety and Security of Autonomous Vessels (ISSAV) together with the 7th edition of the European STAMP Workshop and Conference (ESWC). ISSAV promotes ...
Der Prozess Jesu - aus römisch-rechtlicher Perspektive
(2016)
Although it is clear that the trial of Jesus has been extensively discussed and described before, new aspects are revealed by a strict focus on the written text from the perspective of legal history. The author follows ...
Public History and School. International Perspectives
(2019)
How do schools and public history influence each other? Cases studies focusing on school and public history around the world shed light on the intricate relationships between schools, students, teachers, policy makers and ...
Opfernarrative in transnationalen Kontexten
(2020)
This edited volume examines the representation of victims beyond the categories of the “victim cult,” self-victimization, and the victim–perpetrator dichotomy. Adopting a transnational perspective, it mainly considers ...
Plug&Play Places. Lifeworlds of Multilocal Creative Knowledge Workers
(2014)
In post-industrial societies more and more people earn an income in creative knowledge work, a highly flexible labour market segment that demands a geographically mobile workforce. Creative knowledge work is based on an ...
Phenomenology as Grammar
(2008)
This volume gathers papers, which were read at the congress held at the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Toledo (Spain), in September 2007, under the general subject of phenomenology. The book is devoted to Wittgenstein’s ...
Die Politik der Sowjetischen Militäradministration in Deutschland (SMAD): Kultur, Wissenschaft und Bildung 1945-1949. Ziele, Methoden, Ergebnisse. Dokumente aus russischen Archiven
(2005)
This edition provides an introduction to the wide range of policies applied in the Soviet Occupation Zone (SBZ) with respect to the areas of culture, education and science. Carefully selected and translated documents shed ...
Praxeologie. Beiträge zur interdisziplinären Reichweite praxistheoretischer Ansätze in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften
(2014)
‘Praxeology’ as theoretical concept has obtained growing attention in recent years, at the same time there is a lack of empirical findings upon its scope in applied research. The contributions of this volume prove the ...
Proceeding of The 13th International Conference onMalaysia-Indonesia Relations (PAHMI). Contributions of Humanities and Social Sciences on the Direction of Malay Studies in the Era of Industry 4.0
(2019)
Description This conference is aimed at promoting deeper understanding and relations between Malaysia and Indonesia at an academic, inter-societal and non-state level. It also seeks to encourage cooperation between ...
Proceeding of The 4th International Seminar on Linguistics (ISOL-4). Language in Disruptive Technology
(2019)
Description The rapid development of technology has led to a borderless community which may affect social life, including language. Through the disruptive technology of the era, the issue of language use and how technology ...
Random Differential Equations in Scientific Computing
(2013)
This book is a holistic and self-contained treatment of the analysis and numerics of random differential equations from a problem-centred point of view. An interdisciplinary approach is applied by considering state-of-the-art ...
Optik. Mit 1 Ausschlagtafel
(1972)
The Oracle Bone Inscriptions from Huayuanzhuang East. Translated with an Introduction and Commentary
(2020)
The Huayuanzhuang East oracle bone inscriptions form a corpus of more than 2500 individual divination accounts, which were engraved on turtle shells and bovine scapulae in the late Shang dynasty (c. 1200 B.C.). The book ...
Primary Sources and Asian Pasts
(2021)
This conference volume unites a wide range of scholars working in the fields of history, archaeology, religion, art, and philology in an effort to explore new perspectives and methods in the study of primary sources from ...
The Problem of Relativism in the Sociology of (Scientific) Knowledge
(2011)
This volume comprises original articles by leading authors – from philosophy as well as sociology – in the debate around relativism in the sociology of (scientific) knowledge. Its aim has been to bring together several ...
Progress in Commutative Algebra 1. Combinatorics and Homology
(2012)
This is the first of two volumes of a state-of-the-art survey article collection which originates from three commutative algebra sessions at the 2009 Fall Southeastern American Mathematical Society Meeting at Florida ...
Progress in Commutative Algebra 2. Closures, Finiteness and Factorization
(2012)
This is the second of two volumes of a state-of-the-art survey article collection which originates from three commutative algebra sessions at the 2009 Fall Southeastern American Mathematical Society Meeting at Florida ...
De Pseudo-Luciani Amoribus
(1907)
Quo Vadis, Medicus? Health Behaviour Among Health Professionals and Students
(2015)
The book discusses the health condition of Polish current and future health professionals. The study was conducted on around 800 medical staff members (in-training and professional). The author analyses nutrition behaviour, ...
The Post-Human Society. Elemental Contours of the Aesthetic Economy of the United States
(2015)
The Post-Human Society is a rich, unique, path-breaking, belletristic and literary 'crie de coeur' work - a lyrical expose of all the internal infelicities (social, political, aesthetic) of the United States of America. ...
The Power of Urban Water. Studies in Premodern Urbanism
(2020)
Water is a global resource for modern societies - and water was a global resource for pre-modern societies. The many different water systems serving processes of urbanisation and urban life in ancient times and the Middle ...
Reading Cicero’s Final Years. Receptions of the Post-Caesarian Works up to the Sixteenth Century – with two Epilogues
(2020)
This volume contributes to the ongoing scholarly debate regarding the reception of Cicero. It focuses on one particular moment in Cicero’s life, the period from the death of Caesar up to Cicero’s own death. These final ...
Der Reformator Martin Luther 2017. Eine wissenschaftliche und gedenkpolitische Bestandsaufnahme
(2015)
There is broad historical awareness for Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation in Germany, Europe, and the ´West` as a whole, but given the persistent myths about the persona and work of this reformer, there is a ...
Schreiben auf statuarischen Monumenten. Aspekte materialer Textkultur in archaischer und frühklassischer Zeit
(2020)
Considering Greek statue inscriptions from the archaic and early classical periods, this book emphasizes inscription practices without losing sight of issues of semantics. The analysis focuses on the layout and graphical ...
Schön wie Venus, mutig wie Mars. Anna d'Este, Herzogin von Guise und von Nemours (1531-1607)
(2007)
Anna d'Este, Tochter des Herzogs von Ferrara, Ercole d'Este, und der Renée de France, ist eine zentrale Figur der französischen Religionskriege. Christiane Coester macht ihre Biographie nun erstmals zugänglich. Sie nimmt ...
Simplifying Complexity. Rhetoric and the Social Politics of Dealing with Ignorance
(2015)
Simplifying complexity explores how to eliminate ignorance, which in the view of the author, is the purpose of the sciences and technologies and their consequent developments. More specifically, the book deals with the ...
Society, Law, and Culture in the Middle East. “Modernities” in the Making
(2015)
Society, Law, and Culture in the Middle East: “Modernities” in the Making is an edited volume that seeks to deepen and broaden our understanding of various forms of change in Middle Eastern and North African societies ...
Southern African Liberation Movements and the Global Cold War ‘East’. Transnational Activism 1960–1990
(2019)
This volume explores connections between liberation movements in Southern Africa and between those movements and countries in the Eastern Bloc in the Cold War decades of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. The many different forms ...
Remy Belleau et l’art de guérir
(2013)
This book fills a gap in the market as it ranges over the whole of Belleau’s work, rather than concentrating solely on La Bergerie or Les Amours et nouveaux eschanges des pierres precieuses. It starts by asking why a group ...
Repräsentative Demokratie in der Krise? Referate und Diskussionen auf der Tagung der Vereinigung der Deutschen Staatsrechtslehrer in Kiel vom 3. bis 6. Oktober 2012
(2013)
This volume contains presentations and discussions from a conference of the Association of German Constitutional Law Professors held in Kiel on 3-6 October 2012.
Simulations in Medicine. Computer-aided diagnostics and therapy
(2020)
This book describes application fields of high tech in diagnostics and therapy allowing individual therapy, interpretation of large data bases in form of neuronal signals, help visualization of organs during surgery, robotic ...
Social Reform, Modernization and Technical Diplomacy. The ILO Contribution to Development (1930–1946)
(2020)
Founded in 1919 under the Treaty of Versailles as part of the League of Nations’ system, the ILO is still today the main organization responsible for the international organization of work and the improvement of working ...
Social Science Libraries. Interdisciplinary Collections, Services, Networks
(2010)
This volume focuses on practical and empirical accounts of organizational change in the social sciences and impacts upon the professional skills, collections, and services within social science libraries. Section one focuses ...
