Interdisciplinary Studies

Most writing on modern China dwells on those aspects which are new to China since the Communist takeover, stressing above all politics, Marxism, ec...

Rival communities of the faithful are not in the habit of reading each others books, and when they do so, it is often to find fault and disparage. ...

We are living in times when populism, war and climate change are all sources of anxiety caused by overlapping crises. Anxiety is a phenomenon that ...

The volume examines the proliferation of inventorying models and practices as cultural techniques of knowledge organization and production during ...

While most attention is given to the booming mega-cities in China and the associated problems of over-population, the rural areas in China are bein...

Product and process design - driving sustainable innovation is the 2nd edition of a comprehensive textbook for product and process design courses a...

In 1587, Ab al-Fazl ibn Mubrak a favourite at the Mughal court and author of the Akbarnmah completed his Preface to the Persian translation of th...

Many parents fear the time when their beautiful happy children will become unmanageable adolescents continually engaging in risky or destructive be...

This work aims to distill the findings of a wide variety of scholarly disciplines into a coherent narrative of the Qurns history, from the first or...

Wenngleich die Bestimmung des medizinisch Normalen einen zentralen Aspekt wissenschaftstheoretischer und -historischer Diskussion darstellt, ist di...

Zeitungsnachrufe sind Gelegenheitstexte, die anlässlich von Sterbefällen und Todestagen entstehen. Wen würdigt der Abschieds-Journalismus mit solc...

Gerade in Krisenmomenten treten kleine Formen und Formate in stabilisierender oder mobilisierender Funktion auf. In der Zwischenkriegszeit erschein...

Promoting Islamic religious communication in German requires extremely precise knowledge of this kind of communication and language. This can stre...

Welchen Stellenwert haben Texte in verschiedenen Kulturen? Dieser Frage nähert sich der vorliegende Band von verschiedenen Seiten. Beginnend mit d...

At a time of contested realities and a renewed focus on the power of personal stories, narrative research is as relevant as ever. But while it has ...

Manuscript albums are oftentimes contradictory objects: ephemeral yet monumental, coherent yet inviting change. Collecting items made by others, ow...

Process intensifi cation aims for increasing effi ciency and sustainability of (bio-)chemical production processes. This book presents strategies f...

Territorial autonomy in Spain has reached a crossroads. After over thirty years of development, the consensus regarding its appropriateness has sta...

By consequence of the Karabakh War in 2020 and due to Azerbaijanian revisionism concerning the history, culture and cultural monuments of the regio...

Now in its sixty-fourth edition, this title continues to provide the most up-to-date geopolitical and economic information for this important world...

Die Reihe Communicatio, nun in neuer Ausrichtung, versammelt methodisch ambitionierte Forschungsbeiträge in deutscher oder englischer Sprache, die ...

The UNESCO atlas on endangered languages recognizes the Ryukyuan languages as constituting languages in their own right. This represents a dramatic...

Few cities around the world transcend their physical boundaries the way Jerusalem does. As the spiritual capital of monotheism, Jerusalem has ancie...