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  • The Zoroastrian Flame

    Exploring Religion, History and Tradition

    For many centuries, from the birth of the religion late in the second millennium BC to its influence on the Achaemenids and later adoption in the third century AD as the state religion of the Sasanian Empire, it enjoyed imperial patronage and profoundly shaped the culture of antiquity. The Magi of the New Testament most probably were Zoroastrian priests from the Iranian world, while the enigmatic ... Read more

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  • Digital Hermeneutics II: Sources, Analysis, Interpretation, Annotation, and Curation

    Third International Workshop, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, November 23–24, 2023, Revised Selected Papers

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the results of the Third International Workshop of the research cluster digital_culture at the FernUniversität in Hagen, Digital Hermeneutics 2023, which took place in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, during November 23-24, 2023.The 11 regular contributions focus on the development of the IVIS4DH research framework to support the interaction between humanities and computer science ... Read more

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  • Celibate and Childless Men in Power

    Ruling Eunuchs and Bishops in the Pre-Modern World

    This book explores a striking common feature of pre-modern ruling systems on a global scale: the participation of childless and celibate men as integral parts of the elites. In bringing court eunuchs and bishops together, this collection shows that the integration of men who were normatively or physically excluded from biological fatherhood offered pre-modern dynasties the potential to use ... Read more

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  • Transformation Towards Sustainability

    A Novel Interdisciplinary Framework from RWTH Aachen University

    Series series Education (R0)
    The global environmental crisis, technological developments, the COVID-19 pandemic, and ongoing economic and political globalization are just a few of the developments that are massively increasing the pressure for transformation on regions, companies and society as a whole. In addition, the digital age is accelerating transformation processes that are already underway. This contributed book ... Read more

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  • Bound to Cooperate - Europe and the Middle East II

    The Middle East is a region of crises, conflicts and wars as much as it is a region of great potential and opportunity. However, the European Union and its member states have not yet found a viable strategic approach to meet both the challenges and opportunities in their immediate neighbourhood. The Europeans have not yet developed sufficient foreign and security policy mechanisms to pursue their ... Read more

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  • Patterns of Dynamics

    Berlin, July 2016

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    Theoretical advances in dynamical-systems theory and their applications to pattern-forming processes in the sciences and engineering are discussed in this volume that resulted from the conference Patterns in Dynamics held in honor of Bernold Fiedler, in Berlin, July 25-29, 2016.The contributions build and develop mathematical techniques, and use mathematical approaches for prediction and control ... Read more

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  • Coastal Landscapes of the Mesolithic

    Human Engagement with the Coast from the Atlantic to the Baltic Sea

    Edited by Almut Schülke ...
    Coastal Landscapes of the Mesolithic: Human Engagement with the Coast from the Atlantic to the Baltic Sea explores the character and significance of coastal landscapes in the Mesolithic – on different scales and with various theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches.Mesolithic people were strongly connected to the sea, with coastal areas vital for subsistence and communication across ... Read more

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  • Cortical Areas

    Unity and Diversity

    Edited by Almut Schuez, Robert Miller ...
    Series series Conceptual Advances in Brain Research
    The study of areas in the cerebral cortex has a long history, bringing empirical data into close relation with fundamental conceptual issues about the cortex. The subject is currently being revitalized with the advent of new experimental methods and this book brings a modern perspective to the study of these areas. Cortical Areas: Unity and Diversi ... Read more

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  • Lyrical Deep Dive

    Gedichte einer Selbstsuche

    Lyrical Deep Dive versammelt Gedichte, die über einen Zeitraum von fünfzehn Jahren entstanden sind. Die Texte bewegen sich zwischen Deutsch und Englisch, zwischen unmittelbarer Erfahrung und Rollenlyrik. Manche sprechen aus dem Ich, andere aus geliehenen Stimmen. Perspektiven wechseln, Haltungen verschieben sich. Kein Gedicht gleicht dem anderen und doch verbindet sie etwas. Im Zentrum stehen Nähe ... Read more

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  • Realities and Fantasies of German Female Leadership

    From Maria Antonia of Saxony to Angela Merkel

    The Western tradition of excluding women from leadership and disparaging their ability to lead has persisted for centuries, not least in Germany. Even today, resistance to women holding power is embedded in literary, cultural, andhistorical values that presume a fundamental opposition between the adjective "female" and the substantive "leader." Women who do achieve positions of leadership are ... Read more

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  • The Language of Work

    by Almut Koester ...
    Series series Intertext
    The Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies. Working with Texts: A Core Introduction to Language Analysis (second edition 2001) is the foundation text, which is complemented by a range of 'satellite' titles. These provide students with hands-on practical experience of textual analysis through special topics, and can be used ... Read more

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  • Oedipus and the Sphinx

    The Threshold Myth from Sophocles through Freud to Cocteau

    When Oedipus met the Sphinx on the road to Thebes, he did more than answer a riddle—he spawned a myth that, told and retold, would become one of Western culture's central narratives about self-understanding. Identifying the story as a threshold myth—in which the hero crosses over into an unknown and dangerous realm where rules and limits are not known— Oedipus and the Sphinx offers a fresh account ... Read more

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