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    • Studies in the Atharvaveda
      Leach, Robert; Hellwig, Oliver; Zehnder, Thomas (2024)
      This volume, the first of its kind in nearly two decades, comprises 16 articles on the Atharvaveda, India’s second oldest text, by the world’s leading scholars in the field, from India, Japan, Europe and North America. ...
    • Chinese Euphonics
      Tharsen, Jeffrey R. (2024)
      Supported by digital texts, modern technologies and historical linguistics, Chinese Euphonics is a dive into the types of sound patterns that occur throughout the earliest corpora of narrative texts in the Chinese canon, ...
    • The Shīʿa in Iraqi Heresiography
      Weaver, James (2024)
      The book addresses the presentation of the Shiʿa in the theological-doxographical literature of Iraq up to the early fourth century of Islam. Understanding doxographies primarily as textual products of third-century kalam ...
    • Praxishandbuch Bibliotheksmanagement
      Johannsen, Jochen; Mittermaier, Bernhard; Schäffler, Hildegard; Söllner, Konstanze (2024)
      From the point of view of library practice, the Practical Handbook on Library Management offers an up-to-date assessment of the current situation and an overview of all aspects of the management of academic libraries in ...
    • Models of Change in Medieval Textual Culture
      Pettersson, Jonatan; Blennow, Anna (2024)
      How does textual culture change? How do genres turn into new forms, how do texts and books change through use and in performance? When does variation turn into change? This book addresses different aspects of change in the ...
    • Standardization in the Middle Ages
      Cecilie Engh, Line; Aavitsland, Kristin B. (2024)
      We live in a world riven through with standards. To understand more of their deep, rich past is to understand ourselves better.These two volumes turn to the Middle Ages to give a deeper understanding of the medieval ideas ...
    • The Fragility of Responsibility
      De Grandis, Giovanni; Blanchard, Anne (2024)
      Norway has a tradition in promoting Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and Corporate social responsibility (CSR). This book consists of case studies of how social responsibility is institutionalized in Norwegian ...
    • Meeting the Inclusion Challenge in Innovation
      Bessant, John; Iakovleva, Tatiana; Oftedal, Elin M. (2024)
      Users play an important role in innovation, both as a source of new ideas and insights and as accelerators of downstream adoption and diffusion. Their potential contribution is well known, but we understand less about how ...
    • Beyond Mimicry
      Moussa Iye, Ali; Holl, Augustin F. C. (2024)
      This book addresses critical issues at the heart of both academic debate and political confrontations in African societies, facing profound crises of governance due to the failure of exogenous models adopted in the continent. ...
    • Cicero in Basel
      Scheidegger Laemmle, Cédric (2024)
      The contributions of this volume chart Cicero’s presence in the city of Basel – from the stories around the city’s foundation to humanist editions and commentaries and the politics of scholarship and education. They ...
    • Shaping Visions in U.S.-American Magazines
      Friedrichs, Annabel (2024)
      This book presents the first comprehensive study on U.S.-American female illustrators’ creative imaginations of femininity, 1890-1920. It offers insight into the multi-faceted visual-textual relations across mass and little ...
    • The Non-Religious and the State
      Tyssens, Jeffrey; De Nutte, Niels; Schröder, Stefan (2024)
      This book adds a hitherto absent historical dimension to the field of secular studies, and shows a variety of ways in which the non-religious at large – be it organizations, networks or even committed individuals – impact ...
    • Handbook on the History and Culture of the Black Sea Region
      Jobst, Kerstin S.; Troebst, Stefan; Rohdewald, Stefan; Bumann, Ninja (2024)
      This first handbook on the Black Sea region provides an overview on relevant structural features from a cultural-historical perspective and thereby examines to what extent this region constitutes a historical meso-region ...
    • Internet Lexicography
      Klosa-Kückelhaus, Annette (2024)
      The Internet has become the most important platform for lexicographic content. In this volume, lexicographers and researchers introduce the central aspects of Internet lexicography and present the current state of scientific ...
    • Moscú por venir
      García Bonillas, Rodrigo (2024)
      This volume studies the travel accounts of nine Ibero-American writers who went to Moscow and got to know the Soviet cosmos: F. de los Ríos, J. Pla, C. Vallejo, R. Alberti, M. T. Ríos, J. Revueltas, L. Cardoza y Aragón, ...
    • Contemporary Global Thinking from Latin American Women
      Mota, Aurea; Fólica, Laura; Roig-Sanz, Diana (2024)
      The book brings to the public exceptional texts of prominent Latin American women thinkers translated for the first time into English. It offers also a discussion of the contribution of the selected thinkers to show how ...
    • Preservation in Perspective
      Koordinierungsstelle für die Erhaltung des schriftlichen Kulturguts (2024)
      The ‘Preservation in Perspective’ conference, held in 2021 to mark the 10th anniversary of the Coordination Office for the Preservation of Written Cultural Heritage (KEK), provided an opportunity to discuss the present and ...
    • Lehre – Sammlung – Objekt
      Stein, Henrike (2024)
      This interdisciplinary study focuses on the eventful collection history of the Chamber of Mathematics and Physics of the former Jesuit College in Cologne from the 17th century to the present day. The collection for teaching ...
    • Das SED-Unrecht und seine strafrechtliche Verfolgung
      Bräutigam, Hansgeorg (2024)
      In this volume, Hansgeorg Bräutigam, who was the chairman of a jury chamber at the Berlin Regional Court at the time, describes his personal memories of the laborious criminal investigation of the SED's injustice after ...
    • Citation and Quotation in Early Modern Architecture
      Hopkins, Andrew (2024)
      This volume aims to tease out one of the principal threads of the over-arching theme of what might be termed ‘Lost and Found in Translation’ with regard to Early Modern Architecture. Citation of texts in relation to Early ...