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Buchenwald
(2022)
Andronikos Kallistos: A Byzantine Scholar and His Manuscripts in Italian Humanism
(2023)
Andronikos Kallistos, a leading personality among the Greeks who participated in Italian Humanism, was a scholar, teacher and copyist of manuscripts. This book investigates Kallistos’ scholarly and scribal activity by ...
Der Islam als akademische Praxis
(2023)
The subject Islamic theology, which was founded eleven years ago, was politically expected to train imams who promote integration. The author empirically investigates how students of Islamic theology deal with these ...
Die Praxis des Nudging
(2023)
Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature
(2024)
This book presents an innovative and imaginative reading of contemporary Australian literature in the context of unprecedented ecological crisis.
The Australian continent has seen significant, rapid changes to its ...
Vigilance and the Plague
(2024)
This collective work is devoted to the fight against the plague along the French coast between 1680 and 1760. It aims to analyze how sustained vigilance on an individual and collective level was used to the advantage of ...
Current Trends in Slavery Studies in Brazil
(2023)
Slavery Studies are one of the most consolidated fields in Brazilian historiography with various discussions on issues like slave agency, slavery and law, slavery and capitalism, slave families, demography of slavery, ...
Sprachen der Wachsamkeit
(2023)
This volume examines the linguistic dimension of vigilance in different contexts. The focus is on the social potentials, normative and regulative effects of languages as well as their use for marking dangers and orienting ...
Sakrale Schriftbilder
(2024)
Robust Argumentation Machines
(2024)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Robust Argumentation Machines, RATIO 2024, which took place in Bielefeld, Germany, during June 5-7, 2024. The 20 full papers and 1 ...
The Fight against Systemic Corruption
(2024)
This open access book examines the interplay between public and private sectors in Latin America's biggest market. It is the result of the binational research project “Organizational Crime and Systemic Corruption in Brazil” ...
Spatial Formats under the Global Condition
(2019)
Contributions to this volume summarize and discuss the theoretical foundations of the Collaborative Research Centre at Leipzig University which address the relationship between processes of (re-)spatialization on the one ...
MUSEALE RESTE
(2022)
Diabolische Vigilanz
(2022)
Watchful Lives in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
(2023)
The book shows how Chicanx, Latinx and otherwise watched and "othered" people in San Diego, close to the US-Mexico border, respond to racism and surveillance. Watchfulness goes beyond counter-surveillance, as it is understood ...
Embedded System Design
(2021)
A unique feature of this open access textbook is to provide a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental knowledge in embedded systems, with applications in cyber-physical systems and the Internet of things. It starts ...
The French Revolution as a Moment of Respatialization
(2019)
This volume examines the effects of both dimensions on the reorganization of spatial formats and spatial orders in France and in other societies. It departs from the assumption that revolutions shatter not only the political ...
Mediale Teilhabe
(2023)
Handbook of Digital 3D Reconstruction of Historical Architecture
(2024)
This open access book is a handbook for students, experts and interested parties who want to learn more about digital 3D reconstruction of historical architecture. The book provides answers to the core questions of the ...
The Author as Annotator
(2022)
What literary and social functions do self-annotations (i.e. footnotes and endnotes that authors appended to their own works) serve? Focussing on Alexander Pope’s Dunciads and a wide selection of Lord Byron’s poems, Lahrsow ...
Imaginationen
(2019)
Enklaven
(2019)
Leben machen
(2023)
Portals of Globalization
(2019)
This book investigates the planning of Mumbai's ports and free zones, focusing on periods of global and regional change: the early British Raj, independence, and economic liberalization. The port and free zone projects ...
The Notion of »holy« in Ancient Armenian Texts from the Fifth Century CE
(2022)
Religious studies have long discussed the comparative notion of »holy« beyond religious, cultural, and linguistic boundaries. In this book, Thomas Jurczyk conducts a diachronic comparison of the meaning and application of ...
The Institutions of Programmatic Action
(2022)
This open access book is the first monograph to systematically apply the Programmatic Action Framework (PAF) in a comparative analysis of public policy in two institutionally different countries. The PAF seeks to explain ...
Judah Halevi’s Fideistic Scepticism in the Kuzari
(2020)
The book provides the first comprehensive study on Judah Halevi’s use of sceptical tactics in his wrestling with the dogmatic-rationalistic trends of the Arabic culture of his period (11th- 12th centuries).
Serge Daney and Queer Cinephilia
(2024)
French critic Serge Daney was a central figure in film, television and media criticism of the second half of the twentieth century. He died of AIDS in 1992, just as the concept of queer cinema entered international film ...
Differential Geometry
(2024)
This open access book covers the main topics for a course on the differential geometry of curves and surfaces. Unlike the common approach in existing textbooks, there is a strong focus on variational problems, ranging from ...
Innovationsräume
(2019)
Tied and Bound: A Comparative View on Manuscript Binding
(2023)
Every book form – from China to West Africa, from Europe to Mesopotamia – requires a way to secure cohesion of its constituent elements and keep them together. Whereas codex binding, as it still appears in modern printed ...
Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion Volume 1, 2022
(2022)
The Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion is an annual collection of double-blind peer-reviewed articles that seeks to provide a broad international arena for an intellectual exchange of ideas between the disciplines ...
Slavery and Bondage in Asia, 1550–1850
(2022)
This book offers an Asia-centred story of bondage and coerced labour. Spanning the western Indian Ocean to Japan, and the 16th to the 19th century, it follows coercion from the regulation of sales to post-abolition labour ...
The Position of Roman Slaves
(2023)
Slavery takes many forms. This was also true in Roman antiquity, even though modern scholarship on Roman slavery paints the picture of a very homogenous institution. This volume intends to correct that perception. In it, ...
Diskurse – digital
(2022)
Knowing - Unknowing
(2024)
This book emerges at a time when critical race studies, postcolonial thought, and decolonial theory are under enormous pressure as part of a global conservative backlash. However, this is also an exciting moment, where new ...
Andere Ästhetik
(2022)
Multifunctional Ceramic Filter Systems for Metal Melt Filtration
(2024)
This open access book covers novel techniques and materials for removing inclusions in metallic melts, resulting in significant improvements to the purity, quality, and materials properties of the cast metal product. It ...
Okkultismus im Gehäuse
(2016)
Handbuch kommunikationswissenschaftliche Erinnerungsforschung
(2022)
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the principles, perspectives, and main emphases of studying processes of communicative remembering and media memory. Its chapters analyze the field of communication memory ...
Neues von der Insel
(2024)
Cultural Governance
(2021)
Verknüpfte Modernitäten
(2022)
Translating Technology in Africa. Volume 2: Technicisation
(2024)
This volume revisits one of the great challenges of our time - the global circulation of technology and the resulting technicisation. Together, the introductory essay and six case studies argue that while circulation ...
Assessing Feasibility with Value-laden Models
(2025)
In this Open-Access-book, the author investigates the value dimension of Integrated Assessment Models and their application to questions of feasibility. Integrated models provide a quantified representation of the interaction ...
Zeiten der Wachsamkeit
(2022)
Comparative and Global Framing of Enslavement
(2023)
Over the last two decades, social scientists, legal scholars, human rights activists, and historians, have sought common conceptual grounds in the study of enslavement, thus forging a new perspective that comprises historical ...
How Computers Entered the Classroom, 1960–2000
(2023)
In the history of education, the question of how computers were introduced into European classrooms has so far been largely neglected. This edited volume strives to address this gap. The contributions shed light on the ...
Scale Matters
(2022)
Scale matters. When conducting research and writing, scholars upscale and downscale. So do the subjects of their work - we scale, they scale. Although scaling is an integrant part of research, we rarely reflect on scaling ...
Central and Eastern European Literary Theory and the West
(2022)
The twentieth century saw intensive intellectual exchange between Eastern and Central Europe and the West. Yet political and linguistic obstacles meant that many important trends in East and Central European thought and ...
Auf der Suche nach Zukunft
(2023)
In the fifty years since the publication of ‘The Limits to Growth’, an inconceivably endless pool of ideas on how to respond to our ecological crisis has emerged. This book provides guidance by offering a comprehensive and ...
Nachhaltiges Privatrecht
(2023)
Nachhaltigkeit ist das Megathema unserer Zeit. Aber ist es auch ein Thema für das Privatrecht? In seiner privatrechtstheoretischen Untersuchung zeigt Jan-Erik Schirmer, wie eine Nachhaltigkeitsintegration gelingen könnte. ...
How Film Histories Were Made
(2024)
This book proposes a transnational, entangledand culturally diverse approach towards anarchaeology of film history, while paying specificattention to persons, objects, infrastructures,regions, institutional fields and ...
Education, Competence Development and Career Trajectories
(2023)
This Open Access book presents the results of an interdisciplinary research program to utilize data from the multicohort German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), which included over 100.000 participants in six ...
Die «filmende Bäckersfrau» Elisabeth Wilms
(2023)
In the early 1940s, Elisabeth Wilms (1905-1981) from Dortmund discovered her passion for filming. What began as a hobby quickly developed into a lucrative business at the interface of amateur and commercial film after the ...
Routledge International Handbook of Participatory Approaches in Ageing Research
(2024)
This Handbook presents established and innovative perspectives on involving older adults as co-creators in ageing research. It reorients research and policy toward more inclusive and adequate designs that capture the voices ...
Signaturen der Vielfalt
(2024)
Grundzüge eines EU-Strafverfassungsrechts
(2023)
Die jüngst erfolgte Gründung einer Europäischen Staatsanwaltschaft bestätigt die Entwicklung, dass Strafrecht für die Europäische Union zu einem immer wichtigeren Rechts- und Politikfeld wird. Im Kontrast zu der steigenden ...
"Weltbeziehung"
(2023)
Die Opera buffa in Europa
(2023)
Doing Memory: Medieval Saints and Heroes and Their Afterlives in the Baltic Sea Region (19th–20th centuries)
(2024)
This anthology is about the representations and uses of medieval saints, heroes, and heroic events as elements of popular, local, and national culture during the 19th and 20th centuries in the Baltic Sea region: Scandinavia, ...
Historische Grundlagen der mobilen Gesellschaft
(2023)
Modern Europeans are mobile. Cars in particular have made European societies mobile since the 1960s, but, at the same time, mobile Europeans experience their immobility every day when they get stuck in one of countless ...
The Afterlife of Avestan Manuscripts
(2024)
This study investigates the role of paratext in Zoroastrian scribal tradition, with a focus on the Avesta manuscripts. It examines how paratexts, such as colophons and marginal notes, contribute to organizing and interpreting ...
Innovations in Journalism
(2024)
This volume explores innovations in journalism: the goals and expectations associated with them, promoting and hindering framework conditions, and their social and industrial impact.
Drawing on an international research ...
Sumerisch: Eine Einführung in Sprache, Schrift und Texte
(2023)
Cultural Studies > Department of Ancient and Modern Cultures > Assyriology and Hethitology
Becoming Vigilant Subjects
(2023)
Becoming Vigilant Subjects argues that practices of vigilance are key to forming individual subjectivity. The book emerged from a multi-disciplinary working group at the Collaborative Research Center for ›Cultures of ...
Algorithmic aspects of resource allocation and multiwinner voting: theory and experiments
(2021)
This thesis is concerned with investigating elements of computational social choice in the light of real-world applications. We contribute to a better understanding of the areas of fair allocation and multiwinner voting. ...
Capricci luterani?
(2023)
Does Michelangelo’s art reflect Catholic orthodoxy or is it the work of a follower of the Reformation, forced to act in secret? The question of Michelangelo’s religious beliefs is still debated, and the positions taken ...
Materialität, Inschriftlichkeit und schrifttragende Artefakte im mittelalterlichen Rom
(2023)
Like ancient Rome, the medieval metropolis on the Tiber is also a landscape of transmission due to the diversity of its epigraphic legacy. This legacy had a lasting impact on the municipal area of the urbs and provides ...
Katechismus-Andachten (1656)
(2016)
Jeux de mots et créativité
(2018)
Isaac Orobio
(2018)
In philosophical works that circulated as clandestine manuscripts, the Amsterdam physician and polemicist Isaac Orobio de Castro (1617–1687) defended Judaism intermittently against Christianity and Spinoza’s critique of ...
Staatliche Grenzen
(2019)
Material Trajectories
(2023)
Material Trajectories: Designing With Care? turns towards material-driven design processes with the aim of relocating technoscientific trajectories. Concerned with new forms of caretaking, it combines positions from the ...
The Syntax of Colophons
(2022)
The present volume focuses on the colophons found in several pothi manuscripts from Central, South and South East Asia. Its contributions discuss the colophons’ defining features, thus exposing their ‘syntax’, focusing ...
Land, Life, and Emotional Landscapes at the Margins of Bangladesh
(2022)
Drawing on two years of ethnographic research in the north-eastern borderlands of Bangladesh, this book focuses on the everyday struggles of indigenous farmers threatened with losing their land due to such state programmes ...
