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(2025)What would be just and fair solutions in the spirit of the Washington Principles? This volume provides an answer to this question, identifying functional points of comparison via an extensive study of restitution practices ...
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(2025)Inclusive libraries provide equal access to information, education, and culture for people with and without disabilities. The prerequisite is accessibility – in architecture, media offerings, communication, and (online) ...
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(2025)The diary of Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt provides deep insights into his life, his personal contacts, and his research interests in the period 1862 to 1882. Schmidt used his diary to document visits and events in Athens ...
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(2025)The volume explores key concepts that illuminate globalisation from a dis:connective perspective. Dis:connectivity refers to a more complex understanding of globalization that encompasses both connectivity as well as ...
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(2025)How do we follow affects in places? And how do they follow us? How can rural places be described as "affective places"? Considering local and global transformations and crises, this book examines the "how" of culture in ...
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(2025)Authoritarianism is everywhere on the advance democracies seem fragile and threatened. This book responds to current political science scholarship on democratic breakdown by bringing the history back in. It primarily focuses ...
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(2025)This book re-examines Assyria’s rise to become ‘the world’s first empire’, presenting a new history of the early Neo-Assyrian period (935–746 BC) with detailed regional studies and thematic investigations. It finds that ...
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(2025)Open to deviance, Catholic theology and devotional practice managed to integrate stigmata, revelations, visions, "magic," and spiritualistic contact – more so than Protestantism. At the same time, esoteric groups did not ...
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(2025)The loss of urban biodiversity pushes us to rethink architecture. Drawing on ecomfenimist theories, "Better Together" challenges established practices of progress and permanence, offering new ways and tools to accommodate ...
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(2025)This work traces the history of the text of Aristotle's collection of treatises known as Parva naturalia, based on an exhaustive study of all surviving manuscripts and their reception in antiquity and Byzantium, in particular ...
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(2025)It has become an unflinching belief that time is plural and temporal multiplicity is the best framework to study the relationship between time and society. Through a critical reading of existing scholarship, Sinha questions ...
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(2025)This book explores the travel of historical memory from one culture to the other via the medium of literature. In contemporary Europe, many writers have migrant background and represent the experience of migration as an ...
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(2025)This book delves into the many questions pertaining to human-animal relations today, with special focus on a new understanding and fresh perspectives beyond the problematic logocentric framework of modernity. It invites ...
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(2025)This book provides an overview of the activity and the output of the first Turkish press in the Ottoman Empire. Known as the Müteferrika Press, it was founded in Istanbul and was operated most actively from 1726 until 1747. ...
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(2025)This collective volume investigates the connection between women’s holiness and the notion of time from a diachronic perspective. By looking at temporality as intertwined with the construction of social and gendered roles, ...
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(2025)Globalization, as it is conceptualized in the early twenty-first century, is undergoing significant transformations. While we continue to live in a globalized world where markets, technologies, and cultures remain deeply ...
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(2025)Das Habitat-Diorama – ein Schaukasten, in dem Tierpräparate in einer gestalteten Landschaft hinter Glas präsentiert werden – ist eines der wichtigsten Bildmedien der Naturkundemuseen im 20. Jahrhundert und bis heute prägend ...
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(2025)This book combines two closely related research interests that have not yet received sufficient recognition: The investigation of justice in the Hebrew Bible and the position of male and female slaves within it. Justice ...
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(2025)Jaina culture in Karnataka flourished from the early centuries CE, and by the eighth century had achieved a predominance which lasted nearly four centuries. Subsequently, however, the Jainas’ influence waned and they became ...
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(2025)Can medieval Christianization and European expansion be described as colonialism? Were those encounters shaped by racism? This volume discusses questions regarding the similarities between premodern and modern phenomena ...
