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This volume contains the texts and translations of two Arabic treatises on magic squares, which are undoubtedly the most important testimonies on the early history of that science. It is divided in...

Letters, Literature, and Representation

This volume contains the texts and translations of two Arabic treatises on magic squares, which are undoubtedly the most important testimonies on the early history of that science. It is divided in...

Marcus Furius Camillus is the dominant figure in our traditional history of the Roman Republic in the early fourth century. He has been featured in histories of Rome since the Renaissance, but curr...

Die ersten Jahrzehnte der neuen Epoche stehen ganz im Zeichen unseres eigenen erstmals messbaren Fußabdrucks auf der Erde. Umso drängender stellt sich die Frage, wie wir unser Verhalten angesichts ...

To write everything about nothing, or to write nothing about everything: this is the problem. (Anonym, circa 1996-97) The first idea to write a book on M athematical Economics, more or less ordered...

Die ATB ist die traditionsreichste Editionsreihe der germanistischen Mediävistik. Begründet 1881 von Hermann Paul, wurde sie von führenden Fachvertretern, Georg Baesecke, Hugo Kuhn, Burghart Wachin...

This book is about the modernist narrative voice and its correlation to medical, mythological, and psychoanalytic images of emasculation between 1919 and 1945. It shows how special-effects of rheto...

Conservation of biodiversity including plant genetic resources are fundamental for the future life on Earth. To safe-guard crop wild relatives, locally adapted landraces and varieties, ex situ gene...

Guy Brunet est vice-président de la Société de Démographie Historique (Paris) et professeur à l'Université Lyon 2 où il enseigne l'histoire de la famille, l'histoire des migrations et des sociétés ...

P. David Polly Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA, pdpolly@indiana.edu Only 200 years ago, extinction was a radical new idea. Fossils were known, but ...

One hundred years before Freud's striking psychoanalytic case-histories, the narrative psychological case-history emerged in the second half of the eighteenth century in Germany as an epistemic gen...

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) gilt als eine der führenden deutschsprachigen Prosaschriftstellerinnen, aber ihre schriftstellerische Tätigkeit begann sie mit der historischen Tragödie. Dies...

Tracing the history of four English case studies, this book explores how, from outward appearance to interior furnishings, the material worlds of reform institutions for 'fallen' women reflected th...