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Jürgen Schilling (* 1954 in Offenbach am Main) zeichnet seit 40 Jahren die Landschaft Südfrankreichs. Seinen Werdegang hat der Kunsthistoriker Wilhelm Schlink als Freund und Mitdenker von Beginn an...

This book highlights the multiplicity of American women's writing related to liminality and hybridity from its beginnings to the contemporary moment. Often informed by notions of crossing, intersec...

This book brings together interdisciplinary scholars from history, theology, folklore, ethnology and meteorology to examine how David Cranz's (1765) resonated in various disciplines, periods and co...

Jetzt als unlimitierte Ausgabe: die TASCHEN-Monografie über Julian Schnabel entstand in enger Zusammenarbeit mit dem Künstler und zeigt sein Schaffen in allen Medien - Gemälde, Skulpturen, Filme. D...

In his work Limit Experiences, Jacek Leociak addresses questions that are fundamental to the twentieth-century experience: How can we represent such traumatic events as the Holocaust? Was Lyotard c...

This book deals with aspects of legal education and legal traditions. Part I includes chapters on teaching Law of the Sea, legal ethics and educating lawyers as 'transaction cost engineers' as well...

Anhand der Schlacht am Morgarten (1315) sowie der Schlachten von Gammelsdorf (1313), Mühldorf (1322) und Sempach (1389) untersucht Helen Wiedmaier exemplarisch, wie in der spätmittelalterlichen His...

How does a country find itself 'at war' over spelling? This book focuses on a crucial juncture in the post-communist history of the Czech Republic, when an orthographic commission with a moderate r...

In Ludwig Mies van der Rohes Villen wie Haus Lange in Krefeld wirken Plastiken von Lehmbruck und Kolbe zugleich als eigenständige Skulpturen wie auch als Elemente eines Organismus aus Raum, Licht, ...

Coffee was a major commodity and a precious consumer good in the 20th century. The anthology examines connections and contradictions along the global commodity chain from production to trade and co...

Litanic verse is based on different syntactic and rhetorical devices, such as enumeration, parallelism, anaphora, and epiphora. Its Italian variants are not to be seen as a mere convention of versi...

Der andere Diskurs der Moderne

Kafka's work has been attributed a universal significance and is often regarded as the ultimate witness of the human condition in the twentieth century. Yet his work is also considered paradigmatic...

Spaces beyond the Centres

The book offers a collection of essays on various aspects of Leibniz's scientific thought, written by historians of science and world-leading experts on Leibniz. The essays deal with a vast array o...