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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...

The liquid crystalline state may be identified as a distinct and unique state of matter which is characterised by properties which resembles those of both solids and liquids. It was first recognise...

Modern scholarship often discusses Roman women in terms of their difference from their male counterparts, frequently defining them as 'other'. This book shows how Roman male writers at the turn of ...

This Open Access book discusses the progress of science and the transfer of scientific knowledge to technological application. It also identifies the factors necessary to achieve this progress. Bas...

Ausgehend von neueren geschichts- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Theorien zur demokratischen Sozialform Verein gibt Dirk Hempel eingangs einen Überblick über die Entwicklung der literarischen Vereine...

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...

Welche Rolle können Architektur und Architekten im 21. Jahrhundert spielen? Welche Möglichkeiten ergeben sich, wenn wir Architektur nicht als Ansammlung von Gegenständen, sondern als Handlungskompe...

Spaces beyond the Centres

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...

Though the Epistle to the Romans repeatedly mentions the issue of evil, suffering, and oppression (Rom 5, 8, 12, etc), one rarely finds studies of its contribution to this issue. Yet the context of...

The essays in this volume offer fresh and innovative considerations both of how children interacted with the world of print, and of how childhood circulated in the literary cultures of the eighteen...

Lisboa / Lissabon Past & Present ? Photos, Text & Music Photobook + CD Lisbon, the city upon 7 hills ("sete collinas"); slightly run-down, melancholy with it's unique light, and it's relaxed atmosp...

Olaf Müller, born in 1954; MD (1986) and PhD (1990) Free University of Berlin; MPH (1993) University of Hannover; Habilitation (2004) Heidelberg University; Medical assistant (1987-1991); Researche...

Literary Cultures and Twentieth-Century Childhoods

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...