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    • Burger, Oskar; Lee, Ronald; Sear, Rebecca (2024)
      Human evolutionary demography is an emerging field blending natural science with social science. This edited volume provides a much-needed, interdisciplinary introduction to the field and highlights cutting-edge research ...
    • Bogunovic, Blanka; Timmers, Renee; Nikolić, Sanela (2024)
      Psychology of Music is a flourishing area of research in the Western Balkans. However, much of its findings and insights have remained relatively unknown outside the region. Psychological Perspectives on Musical Experiences ...
    • Fischer, Christian; Tänzer, Sandra (2021)
      Local history lessons in the GDR were intended to make a significant contribution to the political and natural history education of children in the first four years of school. But what didactic approaches and what areas ...
    • Jacob, Frank (2024)
      Rosa Luxemburg was a critical thinker and author of many political and social reflections which to readers of today seem quite up to date. Particularly in the Global South, there seems to exist a stronger interest in ...
    • Cleaver, Laura; Magnusson, Danielle; Morcos, Hannah; Rais, Angéline (2024)
      This collection brings together current research into the development of the market for pre-modern manuscripts. Between 1890 and 1945 thousands of manuscripts made in Europe before 1600 appeared on the market. Many entered ...
    • Dwyre, Diana; Kolodny, Robin (2024)
      Before the U.S. campaign finance system can be fixed, we first have to understand why it has developed into the system as it exists today. The nature of democracy itself, the American capitalist economic system, the content ...
    • Shim, Jaemin (2024)
      How can we explain policy preference mismatch between voters and their representatives?
    • Kotowski, Sven; Plag, Ingo (2023)
      This volume comprises eight cutting-edge research articles on the meaning of complex words. The contributions apply a range of innovative methodological approaches to under-researched problems in derivational semantics. ...
    • Diener, Roger; Herzog, Jacques; Meili, Marcel; de Meuron, Pierre; Schmid, Christian; Studio Basel - Contemporary City Institute, ETH (2013)
      The classic volume Switzerland. An Urban Portrait was published in three languages by Birkhäuser Verlag in 2005 and has lost none of its relevance to this day. The result of several years of research by ETH Studio Basel, ...
    • Zirker, Angelika; Pawlak, Anna; Gropper, Stefanie; Wolkenhauer, Anja (2023)
      The contributions in this volume examine the aesthetics of plural authorship from the disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives of literary studies, art history, and musicology. The volume aims to analyze plural ...
    • Schrott, Angela; Wolf, Johanna; Pflüger, Christine (2023)
      Text comprehension is a dynamic process in which readers enter into a dialog with the text and interact with it: one’s own knowledge is activated and the text is interpreted in its cultural, social context. The study of ...
    • Diener, Roger; Herzog, Jacques; Meili, Marcel; de Meuron, Pierre; Schmid, Christian; Studio Basel - Institut Stadt der Gegenwart, ETH (2005)
      The classic volume Switzerland. An Urban Portrait was published in three languages by Birkhäuser Verlag in 2005 and has lost none of its relevance to this day. The result of several years of research by ETH Studio Basel, ...
    • Meili, Marcel; Schmid, Christian; Herzog, Jacques; Diener, Roger; de Meuron, Pierre; Studio Basel - Institut pour la Ville Contemporaine, ETH (2005)
      The classic volume Switzerland. An Urban Portrait was published in three languages by Birkhäuser Verlag in 2005 and has lost none of its relevance to this day. The result of several years of research by ETH Studio Basel, ...
    • Alberts, Wanda; Junginger, Horst; Neef, Katharina; Wöstemeyer, Christina (2023)
      The Handbook of Religious Education analyzes non-confessional, religion-related teaching in schools from the perspective of religious studies. It provides an introductory description of the religious education perspective ...
    • Bosman, Frank G.; van Wieringen, Archibald L.H.M. (2022)
      Video games are a relative late arrival on the cultural stage. While the academic discipline of game studies has evolved quickly since the nineties of the last century, it is still only beginning to grasp the intellectual, ...
    • Čuček Trifkovič, Klavdija; Lorber, Mateja; Mlinar Reljić, Nataša; Štiglic, Gregor (2023)
      Higher life expectancy on a global level requires complex nursing care as poor education and a lack of knowledge can lead to mistakes. There is a need for nurses who can provide high quality and advanced nursing practice. ...
    • Gwozdz, Patricia A. (2023)
      Figures emerge from movement. We live and think in figures. This monograph pursues the literary, theological, and philosophical traces of the concept in comparative constellations from antiquity to modernity and develops ...
    • Aurnhammer, Achim; Anselm Steiger, Johann (2020)
      Historians have not adequately researched the subject of Christ as hero – imitatio Christi heroica. The studies in this volume attempt to fill this gap for the Early Modern Period. A particular focus is on specific spiritual ...
    • Gerlach, Christian (2023)
      This multi-disciplinary volume is about social change in various cases of mass violence. In life under persecution, social relations and social structures were not absent or replaced by an ethno-racial order. The studies ...
    • Amsler, Monika (2023)
      In recent years, the focus in historical studies has moved away from asking what knowledge ancient people produced to asking how and why it was produced. The present volume follows up with these developments, positioning ...