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This book aims to view and to understand Alexander von Humboldt from different perspectives and in varying disciplinary contexts. His contributions addressed numerous topics in the earth but also l...

This book explores the significance of alcohol in the Middle East and Maghreb as a powerful catalyst of social and political division. It shows that the solidarities and polarities created by dispu...

This edited book examines the crucial role still played by African languages in pedagogy and literatures in the 21 century, generating insights into how they effectively serve cultural needs across...

Frontmatter -- " Chromatiques whiteheadiennes " -- Introduction -- Première partie. Logique et philosophie des mathématiques -- Le Leurre du dictionnaire parfait -- Le rôle organique des propositio...

Aldous Huxley's Short Fiction

This book examines the intersections between the ways that marriage was represented in eighteenth-century writing and art, experienced in society, and regulated by law. The interdisciplinary and co...

The Pope's Banker

Audrey Fernandes-Satar is an academic, researcher and visual artist in the School of Education at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia. Her body of work includes the investigation of the ...

Kontsevich Festschrift

Seit den 1950ern prägt Alex Katz (*1927) mit unverkennbarem Stil die Kunstwelt: Er ist bekannt für seine Darstellung des Hier und Jetzt, gefeiert für seine Porträts stilbewusster Frauen und seine i...

Um Trost in Zeiten von Trauer und Verlust zu finden, griff Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900) stets auf das Medium der Landschaftsmalerei zurück und schuf so ein unverwechselbares Oeuvre. Erstmalig ...

Computational geometry as an area of research in its own right emerged in the early seventies of this century. Right from the beginning, it was obvious that strong connections of various kinds exis...

R. W. Sharples provides a new edition, with introduction and commentary in English, of the Greek text. The Mantissa is a collection of short discussions, transmitted as a supplement to the treatise...

Czechoslovakia played an important role within the Soviet bloc, yet its history remains under-researched. This monograph blends historical analysis of the superpowers' foreign policies with an asse...