Publications
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Natur und Gesellschaft
(2014)
Capability as a Yardstick for Flexicurity
(2014)
Flexicurity is a European policy agenda seeking to increase both flexibility and security in the labour-market. This book argues that it needs a revision: Although flexicurity is set out to change the way Europeans work ...
Wilde und verweigerte Bilder
(2014)
Ludwig Prandtl
(2014)
When Ludwig Prandtl took up the Chair of Applied Mechanics at Göttingen University in 1904, the small university town became the cradle of modern fluid mechanics and aerodynamics. Not only did Prandtl found two research ...
Das Pflegekindverhältnis
(2014)
Transkulturelle Verflechtungen
(2016)
Having elicited much attention in the humanities in recent years, transcultural phenomena will, in all probability, remain a topic of debate in the near future. Being the product of a collaborative act of writing involving ...
Hungerkrisen
(2016)
For the people in the Early Modern Age, famines were regularly recurring phenomena. So not less than eight of these crises happened in the areas of Lower Saxony between 1690 and 1750, which had a lasting impact on various ...
Gilly
(2016)
Central Asian Sources and Central Asian Research
(2016)
In October 2014 about thirty scholars from Asia and Europe came together for a conference to discuss different kinds of sources for the research on Central Asia. From museum collections and ancient manuscripts to modern ...
Reformation und Gegenwart
(2016)
The meaning of "reformatory theology" is often summarised by a number of "alone"-statements: Christ alone (solus Christus) by grace alone (sola gratia) through faith alone (sola fide) on the basis of the Scripture alone ...
Zwangsbehandlung bei Selbstgefährdung
(2016)
This book presents the lectures of the 14th Göttingen Workshop on Family Law, which took place on 13th November 2015 and was organized in cooperation with the Center for Medical Law of the University of Göttingen. It deals ...
Engagement oder Rückzug?
(2008)
Schauplätze und Themen der Umweltgeschichte
(2009)
"Scenes and Topics of the History of Ecology" is the third workshop report presenting selected places of importance for the history of ecology, that can be recommended as travel destinations. Some topics could be attributed ...
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
(2010)
This bibliography documents the printed works of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840) and makes them accessible for research purposes.
Blumenbach was Professor of Medicine and Natural History at the University of ...
"... die Kunst zu sehn"
(2013)
Convergence Culture Reconsidered
(2015)
Taking media scholar Henry Jenkins’s concept of ‘convergence culture’ and the related notions of ‘participatory culture’ and ‘transmedia storytelling’ as points of departure, the essays compiled in the present volume provide ...
Rechtsfragen beim Wechsel des Rechtsregimes
(2015)
The German reunification in 1989/90 is paradigmatic for fundamental geopolitical changes, in the context of a change of the entire legal system. Further well-known examples of the State’s national desire for reformations ...
Reflexion
(2015)
Komplexität modellieren
(2011)
The present study aims at disclosing a methodological prejudice which has misled factor analysis since its beginning. Simple structure, the guiding principle for factor rotation (Thurstone, 1935/1947), is regarded as a ...
Risiko und Chance
(2013)
Natural disasters are a challenge for human societies. The young German nation that reacted in the face of the 100-year Rhine flood (1882/83) can be characterized by the key elements of science, technology, economy, ...
Im Steilhang
(2010)
The „Flecken Adelebsen“ at the edge of the „Solling“ in southern Lower-Saxony looks back to 300 years of jewish history. In 19th century it was named “Little Jerusalem” because of the high number of jewish habitants. Today ...
Factor analysis
(2013)
Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) is a statistical tool for digging out hidden factors which give rise to the diversity of manifest objectives in psychology, medicine and other sciences. EFA had its heyday as psychologist ...
Mission im kolonialen Umfeld
(2010)
Synagogen in Göttingen
(2006)
The book "Synagogues in Göttingen: departures and ceasing of Jewish life," deals with the 700-year history of Jewish life in Göttingen and the various synagogues that have been existing since the beginning of the 14th Century.
Das Buch der Bücher
(2004)
Off-Canon pleasures
(2011)
The inclusion of works in a canonical list creates a large body of exclusions. But among these neglected works there are not a few that nevertheless are worth reading. Literary worth is not necessarily aesthetic impeccability. ...
Sex and gender in biomedicine
(2010)
Sex and gender in biomedicine are innovative research concepts of theoretical and clinical medicine that enable a better understanding of health and disease, evidence-based knowledge, effective therapies, and better health ...
Dignitas
(2006)
Contrary to the common constriction of the euthanasia-discussion on “self-determination at the end of life" Eva Schumann claims rethinking in dealing with seriously ill and dying people. To meet their needs in her view a ...
Grenzüberschreitende kommunale Zusammenarbeit
(2016)
Municipal and regional cross-border cooperation has already been common practice for a long time. This is shown by numerous existing Euroregions along the German border. The particular feature of this kind of cooperation ...
Bewegungsorientierte Gesundheitsförderung an Hochschulen
(2015)
Mehr als 3,2 Millionen Menschen lernen und arbeiten in Deutschland an Hochschulen. Die Hochschule als Organisation und Institution repräsentiert damit ein bedeutsames Setting für gesundheitsförderliche Angebote und Maßnahmen, ...
Die Großstadt als literarischer Raum in der römischen Dichtung
(2015)
Die Entstehung von Großstädten ist kein Novum der letzten drei Jahrhunderte. Auch im griechisch-römischen Kulturraum gab es bereits Millionenstädte, die in struktureller, kultureller und sozialer Hinsicht heutigen Großstädten ...
Klinische Prüfungen mit Arzneimitteln in der Schwangerschaft
(2015)
The clinical trial on medicinal products stands in the area of conflict between important scientific progress in favour of future patients on the one hand and the necessary protection of human subjects on the other hand. ...
Die königlichen Frauen der III. Dynastie von Ur
(2008)
The kings of the III. Dynasty of Ur (2112-2004 BC) were always married with several women at a time, of which only one woman took the position of a queen. Among the large number of economic documents of that period, which ...
Wendezeiten in der bulgarischen Literatur
(2013)
„Einem ausführlichen Abriss zur Geschichte der bulgarischen Literatur aus dem beginnenden 20. Jh. folgen originelle Autorenporträts, kulturanthropologische Studien und tiefgreifende Analysen von Texten aus der jüngsten ...
Ein Compendium sumerisch-akkadischer Beschwörungen
(2008)
The magic way of thinking and acting belongs to the conspicuous characteristics of the old oriental culture. Threats to mankind, especially diseases, are induced by demons. But these diseases can be avert with the help of ...
Basiskomponenten der Persönlichkeit
(2011)
Thurstone's principle of simple structure is rejected and replaced by its converse, the principle of complex structure. Varimax, the popular simple structure rotation of factors, is replaced by varimin, a novel procedure ...
Akkadische Logogramme
(2010)
Reading transliterated akkadian texts sometimes is rather difficult, if the akkadian equivalents of the logograms are not given. This first alphabetic index of akkadian logograms offers help now: it contains the akkadian ...
The corporate blog as an emerging genre of computer-mediated communication: features, constraints, discourse situation
(2010)
Digital technology is increasingly impacting how we keep informed, how we communicate professionally and privately, and how we initiate and maintain relationships with others. The function and meaning of new forms of ...
Innovation und Tradition. Herbert Bachs Beitrag zur Anthropologie und Humangenetik
(2018)
This book examines the contribution of the German biologist Herbert Bach (1926 – 1996) to physical anthropology and human genetics in Eastern Germany. It highlights his scientific achievements and publications, his work ...
Das Instrument der Direktzahlungen in der Agrarpolitik der USA und der EU - Eine Konvergenzanalyse
(2018)
Lange Zeit stellten die entkoppelten Direktzahlungen ein wichtiges Instrument zur Förderung der Landwirtschaft sowohl in den USA als auch in der EU dar. Ihre Abschaffung in den USA durch die Agrarreform von 2014 markierte ...
Analysis of Creationism in the United States from Scopes (1925) to Kitzmiller (2005) and its Effect on the Nation´s Science Education System
(2018)
Creationism is based on a fundamental belief in the inerrancy of the bible and negatively affects science education because creationist proponents insist on the inclusion of supernatural explanations for the appearance of ...
Märchenadaptionen in Romanen und Novellen von Christoph Martin Wieland zu Thomas Mann - Eine exemplarische Untersuchung
(2018)
This work deals with intertextual theories and investigates narrative texts (by Wieland, Novalis, Chamisso, Storm, Andersen and Thomas Mann) from the Enlightenment of the 18th century to Classical Modernism of the early ...
India Beyond India: Dilemmas of Belonging
(2018)
People’s transnational mobilities, their activities to build homes in their countries of residence and their connectivities have resulted in multiplicities of belonging to encountered, imagined and represented communities ...
Mensch-Technik-Interaktion in medikalisierten Alltagen
(2018)
Increasing mechanization is profoundly changing our social areas of life as well as cultural orders and knowledge systems. Concepts of health and illness are also permeated by such technology. A variety of communication ...
Visions and Revisions of Europe
(2018)
Visions and Revisions of Europe offers a multidisciplinary debate on the various political, social, and cultural issues that are at the heart of contemporary European discourse, with a focus on the relations between the ...
Opferorientierung im Strafvollzug
(2019)
The feeling of grief and other emotions victims of a crime may face are not limited to certain stages in the criminal proceeding and do not necessarily end with conviction and imprisonment of the offender. Disregarding the ...
Vertretung handlungsunfähiger volljähriger Patienten durch Angehörige
(2010)
Die moderne Medizin bringt es mit sich, dass Entscheidungen zur ärztlichen Behandlung sehr weit reichende Folgen für das Leben eines Patienten haben können. Die Patientenautonomie gebietet es daher, dass der Patient in ...
Evolutionsbiologie im Biologieunterricht der SBZ/DDR
(2018)
The scientific and public discussions over the last 200 years were shaped by findings from the field of evolutionary biology. Back in 1877, when Ernst Haeckel asked for the inclusion of evolutionary biology into class, he ...
Musikalischer Humor als ästhetische Distanz?
(2015)
Humor ist leichter definierbar über (subjektive) Reaktionen des Hörers als musikimmanent (objektiv). Soziokulturelle Vorgaben wie Zeitgeist, Bildung, Erwartungshaltung und musikalische Sozialisation sind bedingende Faktoren ...
Tradition und Moderne in Bewegung
(2018)
The articles in this volume bear witness to the productive energy of the interplay between tradition and modernity, whether in theater, literature, or popular culture. At the same time, they emphasize the importance of ...
Göttinger Kirchen des Mittelalters
(2015)
Die Stadt Göttingen beherbergt viele und wichtige mittelalterliche Kirchen. Das Panorama der Baugeschichten, der Nutzungen und der Formenvielfalt reicht vom 13. zum 16. Jahrhundert und sogar bis in die Gegenwart, da die ...