In his synthetic stage art known as “stage composition” Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) revealed his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk. This formed the foundation of his world view which…

The updated and extended edition of this established textbook provides Bachelor students of German philology with the central concepts, processes and working techniques of literary studies.…

Worüber sich viele Studenten nach Absolvieren des schriftlichen Examens keine ausreichenden Gedanken machen, ist die veränderte Prüfungssituation im mündlichen Abschnitt.…

A comprehensive collection of exercises in medical physics with numerous illustrations- ideally suited for teaching and learning. Introductory sections summarize contents and learning targets of…

This standard work on analytical chemistry deals with the fundamentals of volumetric analysis. It covers all areas from theory and important apparatus to practical laboratory applications. An…

What constitutes the field of religious studies? The 29 chapters in this introductory text offer an incisive look at the key approaches, methods, problems, and subjects that define contemporary…

Until recently, scholars were hesitant to take the fantastic seriously. But since the 1990s, the increasing presence of the fantastic in mass media has spurred growing academic interest in the…

The Grammar is intended as a textbook to support Hebrew classes which gives the teachers the maximum latitude for the selection and application of different teaching methods and for the students…

In the second part of Wechselseitige Wahrnehmung, the Göttingen Academy presents additional conference papers on the ways that Islam and Christianity perceived one another and on the…

To know the nature of a man, noted J. G. Hamann in 1759 in his “Morsels, Crumbs, and Fragments,” you must inquire about the conditions of his life. The 24 essays in the present…

In the first, programmatic volume of the series Medienkonvergenz/Media Convergence leading scholars present this field of transdisciplinary research in which, among other disciplines, journalism…

'Ideology - that is so passé': This widely prevalent underestimation of ideology is unjustified. The cognitive theory of ideology presented in this looks at ideologies in three dimensions: in…

Although dance is one of the world's oldest art forms, choreography was first included in the laws of Germany, France and the USA as a separate category of copyrightable works during the course…

Are the protests against the construction of mosques in German towns comparable with the cries of “Jews out!” during the German Empire? Following a heated public debate, comparisons…

Between 1514 and 1663 the genre known as Heroides, coined by Ovid, was maintained almost entirely by modern Latin poets. This book considers the period, which has up to now remained almost…

Compact, up-to-date information on the latest knowledge and technology relating to transvaginal sonography (TVS) with over 100 high quality color illustrations. Suitable for both newcomers and…

Gerhard Dannecker, Universität Heidelberg; Peter Hommelhoff, KPMG, Deutsche Treuhand-Gesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main; Rainer Hüttemann, Universität Bonn; et al.

For a number of years, there has been concernin Germany about the “decline of language”. From a linguistic perspective, this hypothesis cannot be substantiated. Public debate,…

For the first time, this Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the object, the history, the theoretical academic prerequisites and the present state of research into chancery language. The…

How do we internalize literary characters and their fictional consciousness when we are reading? How does multi-perspectivity function? Drawing on modern cognitive research, this study addresses…

In diverse ways, Arcadian utopias led the way toward modernity in European literature. Support for this notion is provided by the studies in this volume, written by Klaus Garber. They provide…

Justice has multiple facets. This volume examines retributive justice as well as transactional justice, and places special emphasis on distributive justice. The author establishes that an…

Karl Philipp Moritz is best known as the author of the novel Anton Reiser, and as a scholar of classical aesthetics. However, there is another area of his work that was extremely important…

'linguistic history as a history of mentalities', 'linguistic hermeneutics', and 'affective lexis' - these are examples of the interdisciplinary concepts that Fritz Hermanns introduced to…

Nicolai Hartmann wrote about epistemology, ontology, ethics, the philosophy of mind, and natural philosophy. This volume takes the broad view that Hartmann’s work in all of these fields…

Protection of fundamental rights in Europe takes place in a tense balance between EU law, the Convention on Human Rights, and national constitutions. The author draws potential parallels to the…

Salvation is a dramatic event. What form of thought is appropriate for the relationship between God and Man: analogy, dialectics, or paradox?Paul Tillich and Walter Kasper may be regarded as the…

The author uses metrical funerary inscriptions to reconstruct the beliefs about immortality held by ancient Greeks. In her analysis, she illuminates not only their ideas about the afterlife and…

The book develops a corpus-induced approach to lexical semantics. Within the scope of an examination of the core claims of previous collocation studies,it embeds the notion of the 'combinatory…

The cipher “1968” evokes a remembrance that has a strong impact on the collective memory, especially through its language. After forty years the time has come for an interim status…

The vocabulary provided in this seventh and revised edition includes numerous additions from various texts, in particular from the oldest Williram translations. Necessary corrections and…

The literary oeuvre of Joseph Roth (1884–1939) presents and focuses on the disastrous political changes of the first half of the 20th century like few others. The present volume compiles…

The term “negative causality” denotes a highly controversial problem in metaphysics: Can negative entities such as the absence or the non-occurrence of certain events be causes or…

The written genre of the religious pamphlet stands out as a deeply characteristic form of public communication in the early modern period, not least on account of its inseparable combination of…

This book provides a commentary on Kant‘s „Postulates of Empirical Thought in General“. It investigates Kant‘s entire theory of modal concepts from the mid-1750s up to…

This concise reference work for pathologists and orthopedists contains many illustrations and also, for the first time, an ICD scoring system in book form for joint disorders. Veit Krenn,…

This introduction is an excellent basis for teaching and as course-related literature. Furthermore, this book is aimed toward anyone who wants a neutral consideration of what Marx really had to…

This practical handbook deals with all questions regarding the German register of vessels. It explains the organization and management of the vessel register, including the register for seagoing…

This textbook specifically aims to meet the requirements with regard to dermatology as an examination subject on medical courses and of general medical practice. Thomas Wiesner,…

This volume casts a new light on Byzantium as a geographical and cultural intersection. For nearly a millennium, Byzantium was an important crossroads where cultures, people, and institutions…

This volume presents the results of the ceramic survey in the Roman town of Diokaisareia in Rugged Cilicia (southern Turkey). At the end of the Hellenistic/beginning of the Roman period a…

This work provides a comprehensive analysis of the Tort Law of the People`s Republic of China. It examines the status quo of the discourse in the literature and provides specific…

Mit der Vorstellung vom Kirchengebäude als heiligem Raum untersucht die vorliegende Studie eine zentrale Denkfigur mittelalterlicher Gesellschaftsdeutung, die 'ecclesia'. Anhand auf das…

Wilhelm Dilthey and Hans-Georg Gadamer were probably the last great scholars who had taken Philipp Melanchthon seriously as a philosopher. In the 20th century interest was almost exclusively…

Mit den beiden Stücken Eine Unbekannte aus der Seine (1933) und Hin und her (1934) lotet Horváth in politisch prekären Zeiten die Möglichkeiten der Komödienform nach zwei Richtungen aus. Eine…

The Athenian discovery of the human body and its roles in images from the 8th and 7th cent. BCE furnishes a central discursive perspective for understanding Athenian society. This work begins by…

Paul’s statements in Romans 9–11 are considered the fundamental texts in the New Testament underlying theological discourse about the possibilities of salvation for Jews who did not…

The examination systematically addresses the typical areas of conflict with regard to a closed corporation. In do so, legally-based comparative experience and findings from business economics…

This volume contains essays by Keiichi Yamanaka on the history of penology in Japan and the current legal doctrines of Japanese criminal law. The themes of these essays also relate to Japan's…