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This concise brief describes how the demands of World War I, often referred to as the Chemists' War, led to the rapid emergence of a new key industry based on fixation of atmospheric nitrogen. Then...

This comparative study explores the involvement of the United States in four successful military coups in Turkey and Pakistan during the Cold War. Focusing on military-to-military relations with th...

This book investigates the nature of regional variation in the early Chinese writing system through bamboo manuscripts and inscriptions dating from the late pre-imperial China (5th-3rd centuries BC...

This book reexamines the origins and growth of the medieval inquisition which provided a framework for the large-scale operations against religious dissidents. In the last quarter of the twelfth ce...

Is the U.S. as a country still capable of finding common ground and effective policy responses in the 21st century, or are the dividing lines within U.S. society actually becoming too deep and too ...

This book is based on "the Ten Ox-Herding Pictures of Zen", a classic of Zen literature from the 12th century. It counts among the fundamental and essential works of Zen Buddhism. The book portrays...

Technology and Spectacle in the Late 19th Century

Gamma-ray astronomy began in the mid-1960s with balloon satellite, and, at very high photon energies, also with ground-based instruments. However, the most significant progress was made in the last...

Ähnlich einem Handbuch informiert die Darstellung in übersichtlich gegliederten Einzelartikeln über die wesentlichen Bindungen, die Theodor Fontane zu Zeitungen und Zeitschriften sowie zu Verlagen ...

The Impact of AI on Knowledge, Society and Consciousness in the 21st Century

This book explores a significant lacuna in British history. Between the 1790s and the 1840s, the concept of psychological androgyny or the unsexed mind emerged as a notion of psychosexual equality,...

Frontmatter -- Erklärung -- Vorrede des Herausgebers -- Erstes Buch. Teil 1 -- Erstes Buch. Teil 2 -- Erstes Buch. Teil 3 -- Zweites Buch -- Drittes Buch. Teil 1 -- Drittes Buch. Teil 2 -- Drittes ...

examines a wide range of texts to argue in favour of a thirteenth-century animal turn which not only generated a heightened scholarly awareness of animals but also had major implications for societ...

City Fissures

i-ii -- Inhalt -- Ueber die Mittel gegen die Verletzung öffentlicher Anlagen. Teil 1 -- Ueber die Mittel gegen die Verletzung öffentlicher Anlagen. Teil 2 -- Ueber Gesetzgebung und Staatenwohl -- V...