OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2024)European legal systems have developed a broad range of instruments aimed at limiting liability. These instruments are systematically examined within the present volume, which fills a major gap in tort law literature. The ...
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(2024)Whether in cookery books, on planes, in factories or laboratories - instructive images are omnipresent. They explain, pass on and store knowledge about bodies, materials and processes: Schematically, they visualise positioning ...
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(2024)This volume examines collections of pseudonymous letters, that is, fictitious letters that were written under the names of famous historical personalities. It therefore navigates the intersection between studies of ancient ...
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(2024)Mass violence comes not only from states, but also from people. By analyzing mass violence as social interaction through survivor accounts and other sources, this book presents understudied agents, aims and practices of ...
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(2024)As part of a digital lecture series organized at Justus Liebig University Giessen in the winter semester of 2021/22 to mark this anniversary, renowned scientists from various disciplines gave valuable lectures on the topics ...
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(2024)Public games shaped urban life in the Roman Empire up into late antiquity. This study is the first to systematically examine the legal texts pertaining to gladiator battles and animal baiting (munera), as well as athletic ...
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(2024)This is the first volume to present the history of the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) in Karlsruhe, the superior federal court for civil and criminal matters, in the period 1950 to 1968. Volume 1 deals with the ...
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(2024)In the narrative literature of the late twelfth century, dynamics of desire produce complex identity and relationship constellations. This study examines the narrative logics of heterosocial and homosocial desire in the ...
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(2024)Discourse linguistics and morphology have had little in common in previous research. Traditional discourse linguistics often only considers morphological questions marginally, and word formation, despite the shift to ...
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(2025)This book is about the underlying mechanisms of agile management that control work processes in the context of industrial tech development. It challenges commonly held beliefs in adaptability, collaboration and flattened ...
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(2024)Armoured soldiers, sexualized machine men, mechanized athletes: Between 1914 and 1926, artists of the German and French avant-garde used the mechanical body as a motif to illustrate the crises of their time and to question ...
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(2024)Medieval Studies has done away with many things once considered self-evident. It is even contentious whether it makes sense to speak of the "Middle Ages" as their own epoch. It is against this backdrop that this volume ...
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(2024)Homosexuals were mustered out of military service in the Bundeswehr until 1979, after which homosexuality alone was no longer considered grounds for unsuitability. But for homosexual soldiers, military service was an option, ...
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(2024)The principle of unjust enrichment came into fruition under English law in the last decade. It is now accepted that the four-stage-test "enrichment", "at the expense", "unjust factor" and "no defences" triggers remedies ...
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(2024)Since 1945, camps as a form of temporary mass housing have been either ignored or discussed only in the margins of architectural history. In this book, Antje Senarclens de Grancy examines for the first time the camps built ...
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(2024)By contextualizing the conducted research within a broader field of global history and new colonial history including postcolonial approaches, "Objects of Others" extends provenance research to not only examine the origin ...
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(2024)After the rediscovery of the art of stained glass in the 19th century, artists reinvested in the glass arts and infused them with modernity, breaking with historicism. This was true of artists belonging to the Groupe de ...
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(2024)This publication focuses on the impact of war experiences on non-German nationals serving in the Nazi German armed forces and labour organisations. It sheds light on the individuals and their biographies, exploring the ...
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(2024)How has the digital turn shaped the practices of doing film history in research and teaching? From digital archival practices, database-driven search and analysis of film historical collections to the visualization and ...
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(2024)This study explores the unique world map produced around 1448 in Constance by the Benedictine monk Andreas Walsperger. With reference to texts and maps of the time, the analysis focuses on their content, processes of ...
