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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 ...
The Surplus Woman
(2009)
The first German women’s movement embraced the belief in a demographic surplus of unwed women, known as the Frauenüberschuß, as a central leitmotif in the campaign for reform. Proponents of the female surplus held that the ...
Trusting the Police
(2017)
The police can be seen as a governmental institution or as an organizational body, where especially the work – effectiveness, or fairness in encounters – is valued. Through the combination of these approaches and the ...
What We Now Know About Race and Ethnicity
(2015)
Attempts of nineteenth-century writers to establish “race” as a biological concept failed after Charles Darwin opened the door to a new world of knowledge. Yet this word already had a place in the organization of everyday ...
Why Be Moral?
(2015)
What reasons do we have to be moral, and are these reasons more compelling than the reasons we have to pursue non-moral projects? Ever since the Sophists first raised this question, it has been a focal point of debate. Why ...
We Are Not Amused. Failed Humor in Interaction
(2015)
Placing failed humor within the broader category of miscommunication and drawing on a range of conversational data, this text represents the first comprehensive study of failed humor. It provides a framework for classifying ...
The Myth of Piers Plowman
(2014)
Addressing the history of the production and reception of the great medieval poem, Piers Plowman, Lawrence Warner reveals the many ways in which scholars, editors and critics over the centuries created their own speculative ...
Aufstieg durch Bildung?
(2020)
Der Band beleuchtet auf theoretischer Grundlage und in praktischer Umsetzung zwei Themenfelder der wissenschaftlichen Weiterbildung. Zunächst wird der Frage nachgegangen, welche Bedeutung die Region für die wissenschaftliche ...
Zukunftsmodell
(2020)
Der Sammelband präsentiert Ergebnisse eines transdisziplinären Forschungsprojekts an der Universität Oldenburg, die in wissenschaftlichen Beiträgen sowie in Reflexionen aus Unternehmen, Politik und Verwaltung diskutiert ...
Herstory
(2021)
Women’s networks – their relations with other women, men, objects and place – were a source of power in various European and neighbouring regions throughout the Middle Ages. This interdisciplinary volume considers how ...
Bürgerwehren in Deutschland
(2021)
Von scheinbar unpolitischen Nachbarschaftswachen bis zu organisierten rechtsextremen Patrouillen - immer häufiger inszenieren sich Bürger*innen als alternative Ordnungsmacht. Nina Marie Bust-Bartels hat Bürgerwehren auf ...
Deutschland ist eins
(2021)
Friedliche Revolution und deutsche Einheit jährten sich 2019 und 2020 zum dreißigsten Mal. Was ist seit 1990 im Osten Deutschlands im Rahmen des Transformations- und Vereinigungsprozesses passiert? Wie wirken die Umbrüche ...
Kausale Mechanismen und Process Tracing
(2021)
Kausale Mechanismen und Process Tracing stehen im Zentrum der Methodendiskussion in der Politikwissenschaft. Die beiden Begriffe werden jedoch häufig nur als Schlagworte verwendet. Dieses Buch zeigt, wie Politikforschung ...
Beute und Conquista
(2020)
Der welthistorische Vorgang der Eroberung Amerikas fasziniert heute noch. Wie er organisiert war und welchen Dynamiken er folgte, wurde aber bislang nicht hinreichend erforscht. Vitus Huber nimmt die Verflechtung politischer ...
Das Sicherheitsdispositiv der Resilienz
(2020)
In einer Welt, in der alte Gewissheiten prekär werden, ist Sicherheit zu einer zentralen Wertvorstellung geworden. Terroranschläge, Naturgefahren, Pandemien, Ausfälle vitaler Infrastrukturen und technische Störfälle führen ...
Engelhardt, Das Geschäftsmodell-Toolbook für digitale Ökosysteme
(2019)
Richtig planen für den digitalen Markt - so einfach kann es seinDie Bedeutung digitaler Plattformen nimmt in allen Bereichen der Wirtschaft rapide zu. Nur wer es schafft, dazu passende Geschäftsmodelle zu entwickeln, wird ...
Dusdal, Welche Organisationsformen produzieren Wissenschaft?
(2020)
Wie haben die Institutionen des deutschen Hochschul- und Wissenschaftssystems die Entwicklung wissenschaftlicher Produktivität beeinflusst? Jennifer Dusdal zeigt, welche Organisationsformen Wissenschaft produzieren und wie ...
Privileged Precarities
(2021)
How are the working and living environments of young UN employees shaped in times of post-Fordism? Based on the perspective of young employees at the UN offices in Geneva and Vienna, the book deals with increasing flexibility ...
Gesellschaft im Exzess
(2020)
Völlerei, Sexualität, das Sezieren von Leichen oder verschwenderisches Zurschaustellen des eigenen Reichtums: Im Exzess wurde - so die These des Buches - gesellschaftliche Ordnung gestaltet. Wie produktiv das Agieren im ...
Aspects of the Performative in Medieval Culture
(2010)
The volume assesses performative structures within a variety of medieval forms of textuality, from vernacular literature to records of parliamentary proceedings, from prayer books to musical composition. Three issues are ...
Discourse, Politics and Media in Contemporary China
(2014)
After three and a half decades of economic reforms, radical changes have occurred in all aspects of life in China. In an authoritarian society, these changes are mediated significantly through the power of language, carefully ...
Enhancing Autonomy in Language Education. A Case-Based Approach to Teacher and Learner Development
(2015)
The enhancement of autonomy in language education relies heavily on teachers` empowerment and agency as critical intellectuals and reflective practitioners. However, most teacher education programmes are still based on ...
Faking, Forging, Counterfeiting
(2017)
Forgeries are an omnipresent part of our culture. They are closely related to historically and culturally informed ideas of authenticity, legality, authorship, creativity, tradition and innovation. Based on the concept of ...
Judging 'Privileged' Jews : Holocaust Ethics, Representation, and the 'Grey Zone'
(2013)
The Nazis’ persecution of the Jews during the Holocaust included the creation of prisoner hierarchies that forced victims to cooperate with their persecutors. Many in the camps and ghettos came to hold so-called “privileged” ...
Impedance Spectroscopy. Advanced Applications: Battery Research, Bioimpedance, System Design
(2019)
This book covers new advances in the field of impedance spectroscopy including fundamentals, methods and applications. It releases selected extended and peer reviewed scientific contributions from the International Workshop ...
Großerzählungen des Extremen
(2018)
Was macht radikale Weltbilder so attraktiv? Und wie lässt sich die Renaissance des Extremismus kultur- und sozialwissenschaftlich erklären? Sprach man bis vor Kurzem noch davon, dass Großerzählungen auf dem Schrottplatz ...
Large Scale Inverse Problems. Computational Methods and Applications in the Earth Sciences
(2013)
This book is thesecond volume of a three volume series recording the Radon Special Semester 2011 on Multiscale Simulation & Analysis in Energy and the Environment that took placein Linz, Austria, October 3-7, 2011. This ...
Writing the Yugoslav Wars
(2017-01-09)
In Writing the Yugoslav Wars, Dragana Obradović analyses how the Yugoslav wars of secession helped shape the region’s literary culture. Obradović argues that the crisis of the country’s disintegration posed an ethical ...
Awesome Families
(2005-11-01)
In Awesome Families, Kathleen Jenkins draws on four years of ethnographic research to explain how and why so many individuals-primarily from middle- to upper-middle-class backgrounds-were attracted to this religious group ...
Anthropology Without Informants
(2009-05-31)
"It is my sincere hope that this volume will be much read and reflected upon by new generations of American students of prehistoric archaeologists. Freeman's career is a model for long-term international collaboration, ...
Muße und Erzählen: ein poetologischer Zusammenhang
(2016-08-26)
Gibt es einen poetologischen Zusammenhang zwischen Muße und Erzählen? Thomas Klinkert untersucht dies anhand literarischer Texte in italienischer, französischer, spanischer und deutscher Sprache vom Mittelalter bis zur ...
Go East, Young Man
(2011-10-20)
"[Francaviglia's] book is of great value, particularly in its illuminating showcasing of the degree to which the American West was consistently compared to aspects of the Middle East, from desert sands and rock formations ...
Life in Cyberspace (Volume 5)
(2019)
Internet is a real place. Every time we switch on our computers, use a program or an application, or log in to a social media site, we enter a virtual space made up of worlds, domains, forums and rooms. But we behave ...
Creation in Crisis
(2014)
Are Christians fulfilling the stewardship commandment of Genesis to care for God's household? When we speak of the "environmental crisis" facing the planet, we reduce the coming catastrophe to a physical problem. In ...
Paradise Blues
(2024)
Paradise Blues is an unconventional history of the United States of America, an unusual travel guide that follows and renders visible the country’s paths of nature, history and civilisation. Christof Mauch is a leading ...
Bible and Ecology
(2010)
In this well-argued and timely book, Bauckham considers the relationship of humans to the rest of creation.He argues that there is much more to the Bible’s understanding of this relationship than the mandate of human ...
Making Things Happen
(2022)
Drawing on the Pakistan Earthquake Reconstruction and Recovery Project (PERRP), this volume explores the sociocultural side of post-disaster infrastructure reconstruction. As the latter is often fraught with delays and ...
Sovereign Justice
(2010-12-14)
Over the past years global justice has established itself as one of the new and most promising frontiers of political theory. Sovereign Justice collects valuable contributions from scholars of both continental and analytic ...
Performing Interpersonal Violence Court, Curse, and Comedy in Fourth-Century BCE Athens
(2012-01-16)
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. ...