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Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838) was one of the leading women poets of the second generation of English Romantic writers. Following her predecessor Walter Scott and her contemporary Lord Byron,...

P. Lévy's work on random walks with infinite moments, developed more than half a century ago, has now been fully appreciated as a foundation of probabilistic aspects of fractals and chaos as well a...

Die "Quellen und Darstellungen zur Zeitgeschichte" sind das Flagschiff der Publikationen des Instituts für Zeitgeschichte München-Berlin. In unregelmäßiger Folge erscheinen seit 1957 Editionen und ...

Almost five hundred years after his death, Don Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508) remains a legendary figure of Sephardic history, and above all of the Expulsion of 1492. There are numerous "portraits" th...

Das Lexikon der DDR-Historiker bietet erstmals einen umfassenden Überblick über die Biographien der Historiker der gesamten DDR-Zeit. Aufgenommen wurden alle Personen, die zum Zeitpunkt der Staatsg...

An Essay on the Great European Universal Scholar

This book is a workshop and novel at the same time. The workshop part by Joerg Osarek: How can we achieve something really important in our lives? How can we create a balance between power and resp...

This book investigates the legal evolution of the "free soil principle" in England, France and the Low Countries during the Early Modern period (ca. 1500-1800), which essentially stated that, as so...

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...

This is an open access book. Lewis F Richardson (1981-1953), a physicist by training, was a pioneer in meteorology and peace research and remains a towering presence in both fields. This edited vol...

Coverage combines different methodological aspects and addresses a wide field of comparative literary studies. The essays consider the question of language (as a distinctive feature of human existe...

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This is the first lexicon focusing exclusively on Argead Makedonia. Spanning from the mythical foundation of the realm to the death of the last Argead ruler, Alexander IV, 247 entries written by 44...

Life and Cases - an (unfinished) autobiography of F. A. Mann, who arrived in London as a German-Jewish émigré, forced to leave Germany on the cusp of a promising career in German academia. He retra...

Der Stoff der "Jahrestage" ist die Stellung des Individuums gegenüber der Geschichte. Er konkretisiert sich in der fiktiven Person der Gesine Cresspahl, die auf ihren Lebensweg und damit auf die de...