Publications
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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, ...
