In der modernen Öffentlichkeit wird die Stimme als das Medium einer demokratischen und sozialen Ordnung betrachtet. Sie steht im Zentrum eines umfangreichen Wortfeldes: Stimmrecht, Abstimmung, Volkes…

In the modern era, photography was discovered by writers as a medium for self-presentation - and by publishers as a vehicle for advertising. Drawing on publishing house brochures and book covers…

This volume examines how the notion of law was transformed and reformulated during the Middle Ages. It focuses on encounters between ancient and local legal traditions and the three great…

First published in 1999 within the bilingual collection Sammlung Tusculum, the Latin/German edition of Ovid’s Amores (Erotic Poems) has now been revised and updated in a way which includes…

Die vorliegende Studie erschließt erstmals umfassendden Zurechnungsbegriff in Kants praktischer Philosophie. Ein Zurechnungsurteil bringt zum Ausdruck, dass eine Handlung auf den freien Willen…

In his text 'On Prayer' Origen challenges the Gnostic tendencies that regarded prayer as useless and reprehensible. Starting from the philosophical perspective of his listeners, Origen links…

This is a basic guide to conducting ultrasound examinations and is subdivided according to pregnancy week and organ system. It includes a survey of the technical requirements, explanations of…

Um den neuen EU-Verordnungen zur Effizienz nachzukommen, müssen die Kommunen bis 2017 ihre Straßenbeleuchtung modernisieren. Das Praxishandbuch versetzt die Kommunen in die Lage, sich…

In 1920, Erwin Panofsky, one of the most influential art historians of the 20th century, submitted his habilitation thesis on Michelangelo. In following years, Panofsky developed the manuscript…

Labor law in the energy industry is governed by a special regulatory regime. The strong ties between many firms and public authorities and the exploitation of new energy sources outside of…

Frequent illness, burnout, addiction problems, and chronic low performance may be signs of structural problems that demand lasting solutions. For this purpose, executives, managers, and works…

Die neue kritische Ausgabe der Chronographia des Michael Psellos enthält mehrere hundert neue Korrekturen des äußerst korrupten Textes durch Emendationen neben den kleineren Verbesserungen,…

What are the connections between the notion of time and personal identity? This study examines three key concepts in discussions about personal identity: memory, survival, and responsibility.…

The third section of Kant’s Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals is one of the most contentiously debated texts in his practical philosophy. There has been little agreement about…

What distinguishes humans from all other animals? In this book, rationality, social learning, and cooperation - the basis of cultural evolution - are placed under the microscope from a…

The new edition has been extensively revised and enlarged. It considers the case law developed since the prior edition and the new legal situation effective as of 1 May 2014. This topically…

This guide reliably takes the surgeon through the complete procedure of laparoscopic surgical techniques. More than 70 colour pictures, important notes and rules provide guidance as well as…

The Festschrift is dedicated to the German jurist and legal philosopher Bernd Schünemann. Roland Hefendehl, Universität Freiburg; Tatjana Hörnle, Humboldt-Universität zu…

In his civil war epic, the Roman poet Lucan draws extensively on his literary forbears. This study fills a gap in the research by going beyond the boundaries of language and genre to examine his…

The 5th edition of this successful textbook has been revised both in terms of content and its teaching approach. With comprehensive but simple explanations, the work provides an optimal…

Die Lebenskultur der Spätantike war wesentlich durch das römische Spielewesen mit seinen Wagenrennen, Bühnenschauspielen und Arenakämpfen geprägt. Zum ersten Mal in der Forschung wird mit diesem…

Thomas Naogeorg is one of the most important writers of the Reformation movement; his writings reflect the societal, literary, and spiritual problems of life during the middle of the century of…

Presented for the first time in a historical-critical edition, Passion Devotions is Rist's twelfth collection of hymns and the last of his sacred works to be published during his lifetime. It is…

This book reveals the literary ways in which Ovid dealt with his exile. It develops the self-portrait of a masterful poet whose individualism seems to presage modernity, and shows how Ovid makes…

During the 18th century, hieroglyphics posed a challenge to the Enlightenment but at the same time, they were cherished material for esotericism. They were seen as puzzling remnants of a now…

The analysis of sound phenomena and their cultural functions has become a major field of research. Adopting an anthropological perspective, this book aims, among other things, to usefully…

Die Stasi spielte in Gesetzgebung, Rechtsprechung und Justizkaderpolitik eine weitaus bedeutendere Rolle als bisher angenommen. Die Arbeit beschreibt den konspirativen Teil der Untersuchungen…

What strategies do contemporary artists use in relation to the exhibition catalogue? How do they present their works and themselves, and what does the catalogue teach us about the notion of art…

In De vita Caesarum, Suetonius portrays the lives of twelve Roman emperors from Caesar to Domitian. He presents the light and dark sides of their personalities, thus offering a portrait of the…

Nearly all the surviving works of Zeno of Elea are mere paraphrases and discussions of his thoughts on the part of later authors. Nevertheless, analysis of all relevant sources does lead to…

This study focuses on Holy Scriptures as material objects. What are the contexts for the appearances and the usages of these objects? Is there a difference between Holy Scriptures and other…

The just published second partial volume on Banking Contract Law (HGB) covers the two principal aspects of commercial banking – namely, payment transactions and lending. The commentaries place…

Die Studien geben einen Überblick über Eheschlussrituale im frühen Judentum. Die erste behandelt die Rezeption der Leviratstora Dtn 25,5-10, die mit dem Abbau der Leviratsehe…

New Testament interpretation is inevitably subject to ongoing theological revision. The collected papers of Otto Merk provide insight into the history of New Testament research from the…

This book provides information about this rather uncommon technique and lists the indications, applications and advantages of vaginal palpation.

The Tria Opuscula by the Late Antique Neoplatonist Proklos are accessible in full in the translation into medieval Latin by Wilhelm von Moerbeke, as well as in fragments in the Greek texts of…

Galileo's Thinking Hand represents a fundamental revision of the earlier work Galileo, the Artist published in 2007. The sections incorrectly identifying a forgery as the work of Galileo have…

Why was the bloody struggle between the Amazons and Greeks among the most popular subjects for depiction on Roman sarcophagi? This study uses the extensive corpus of Amazon sarcophageal imagery…

The compilation publishes judicial decisions on the part of state courts in the Federal Republic of Germany with regard to the relationship of church and state and other problem areas…

Die 3. Auflage des Kommentars 'Investmentgesetze' führt das etablierte und in Fachkreisen überaus geschätzte Werk weiter und passt es an die geänderte Gesetzeslage an. Auch die…

The first edition of the Primary Course in Aesthetics was published in 1804 as Jean Paul’s personal record of his theory of art. In it, he defines his approach to aesthetics in…

The present study relies on a greatly improved re-edited text of Ibn Bagga’s (d. 1139) commentary on De anima, Kitab al-nafs. Here, the author shows that in keeping with the…

This volume is a practical guide to formulating contracts in the energy industry as well as under renewable energy law. Sample forms facilitate implementation in real-world practice. The guide…

Typically, antitrust law problems do not start out as punitive damages or merger control proceedings before antitrust authorities. Instead, they initially arise in daily business life when…

Die 3. Auflage des Kommentars 'Investmentgesetze' führt das etablierte und in Fachkreisen überaus geschätzte Werk weiter und passt es an die geänderte Gesetzeslage an. Auch die…

Using a chronological interpretation of the text as it took shape, the author demonstrates that Thomas Mann's novel 'Joseph and His Brothers' has close direct links with the years in which it…

The valency concept provides a model capable of dealing with the semantic and syntactic aspects of the relationship between typically verbal predicates and their typically nominal actants in…

Causal clauses with because, since, as and for display differing syntactic properties. The study demonstrates that these differences correspond with certain meanings of reason and cause…

This is the first systematic study of the syntax of a German dialect to combine the findings of modern syntactic theory with other linguistic areas (diachrony, morphology, semantics, discourse…