This volume comments on the Code of Execution of Prison Sentences. Editors and authors are experienced in the field of prisons, prison administration, crime policy and research. This standard work…

This first sub-volume of the travelogues includes Travels in England in 1782 and the associated essay “Letter from London.” Moritz describes his travels, undertaken “mainly on…

The essays in this volume examine continuities and ruptures in the legal system of the 'soldier-emperor.' What were the interactions between crisis and the law? Does political instability…

Johann Gottfried Herder's paraphrase of the Apocalypse Maran Atha (1779) and Johann Caspar Lavater's 'Messiah' epics (1780/1783-1786) provide evidence that the tradition of Christian verse did…

The cultures of medieval Europe arose in continuous interconnection and conflict between the Abrahamic religions. This volume brings together these communities and examines the different…

This book offers the first comprehensive insight into the work of the Austrian painter, draftsman, and performer Norbert Nestler (1942-2014). His work deals with utopian spaces, for Nestler held…

This commentary offers profound guidance for attorneys, supervisory board members, union representatives, shareholders, and employees. The authors aim to provide a lucid analysis and exposition…

Communication is essential in medicine. This book is an easily understandable and practical introduction to important and relevant principles of doctor-patient dialogue. After a brief…

Aesthetic knowledge consists of a complex interplay between the sensual and the intellectual, and eludes a straightforward logic of judgment. This volume investigates the associated aesthetic,…

This new edition of the Dietrich epic Rosengarten documents the marked textual variations of the heroic epic. It includes three variants of Version A of the poem; Versions D and P of Version DP…

How have computers and simulation models changed scientific practice? Johannes Lenhard examines the methodology and epistemic nature of computer simulations. The conception of mathematical…

The 2014 Banking Law Day in Frankfurt am Main was devoted to the topics of “Non-Performing Funds” and “Consumer Credit Companies.” Coordinated by Klaus Rotter and Raimund…

The present work describes how sanctions of forfeiture, confiscation, and rendering unusable directed against property have developed since 1871. It explains some persistent inadequacies of the…

In den ersten nachchristlichen Jahrhunderten kursierte eine Vielzahl von divergierenden lateinischen Übersetzungsversionen des Alten und Neuen Testamentes. Rebekka S. Schirner untersucht in…

In a series of 56 “letters” written between February 1919 and November 1922, Ernst Troeltsch commented extensively on the events of the day. He critically observed revolution, civil…

This study pertaining to the field of digital humanities takes a new approach to examine a familiar narratological phenomenon. It investigates how to identify the representation of speech, thought,…

What does it actually mean to 'imitate nature?' Framed by this question, this book traces the paradigmatic connections between aesthetic practices, image theory, and our understanding of nature…

Solid-State Physics provides extensive coverage – like no other book – of the whole spectrum of solid-state physics, from crystals and surfaces through semiconductors and…

Das Historische Wörterbuch der Rhetorik ist das einzige umfassende wissenschaftliche Nachschlagewerk des Fachs und zentrale Informationsquelle für Wissenschaftler, Studierende und Praktiker. Der…

Dieses Buch führt Studierende im 1. Semester an die Grundfragen der romanischen Sprachwissenschaft heran. Es vermittelt Kenntnisse in den drei Bereichen 1) Arbeitstechniken/Hilfsmittel, 2)…

Das ungeklärte Verhältnis zwischen Wortbildung und Lexikon ist Gegenstand einer umfassenden und lang andauernden Diskussion in der morphologischen bzw. grammatiktheoretischen Literatur. Gleiches…

Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit den verschiedenen Verwendungsweisen des Pronomens es. Grundlage der Analysen bildet ein Korpus, das Nähetexte aus dem Zeitraum zwischen 1650 und 2000 beinhaltet. Im…

Die Titelnachträge im Band 4 der 'Internationalen Bibliographie zur germanistischen Lexikographie und Wörterbuchforschung. Mit Berücksichtigung anglistischer, nordistischer, romanistischer,…

Die Kommentierung umfasst neben der Zivilprozessordnung auch die relevanten Nebengesetze (wie EGZPO, GVG, KapMuG und MediationsG) sowie das europäische und internationale Zivilprozessrecht…

Millennium transcends boundaries - between epochs and regions, and between disciplines. Like the Millennium-Jahrbuch, the journal Millennium-Studien pursues an international, interdisciplinary…

This volume looks across multiple eras to develop a comparative analysis of different monarchies with respect to the function of their political systems. It focuses on elite groups, on…

Around 1800, the 'social' world achieved a new status as a subject area in its own right. Since then, different poetics of the 'social' have made claims about ways of shaping human interaction…

Many areas of mathematics and their application in physics, economics, and computer science require a firm grasp of measure theory. This textbook provides a concise, reliable, and accurate…

This textbook is intended for students in their third and fourth semesters of study in engineering at German institutes of applied sciences. It imparts introductory knowledge on laser technology…

This study explores German literary figures' reflections on theempire from the Enlightenment to the Romantic era. It helps shed light on a central theme often overlooked in the gaps between…

Within mass media, one can rarely hear the voice of the Church. There is no lack of empirical attempts to solve the problem by means of the usual PR and advertising techniques, but they appear…

Kierkegaard understood his thinking as philosophy confronting its own end. In campaigning against the existential amnesia of the 19th century, he revived the intellectual figure of a kind of…

Old Testament polemics against other gods, mocking them as powerless images, are often viewed as lacking great theological import. Drawing on Isa: 40-48, Jer. 10, Ps. 135, EpJer and SapSal, this…

As words and word formation units are adopted from other languages, a process of naturalization begins. This study investigates the graphematic assimilation of foreign words into German during…

What does order mean - what orders meaning? These are at once elementary and complex questions for the theoretical and praxeological self-definition of the textual and visual sciences. The…

This study addresses the textual modeling of the Polish language in the works of Theodor Fontane, examining diachronic shifts as well as thematic and narrative constants. Against the backdrop of…

Published in conjunction with the Gottfried Benn Society, the Benn Forum presents essays, lectures, brief articles, and documents on Benn and literary modernism. A comprehensive, bibliography of…

This book, which examines the interrelations of language and society in German-speaking countries, is the most detailed account of German sociolinguistics to appear in English. Topics covered…