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The book refers to the UNESCO’s ESD for 2030 education program. Libraries, especially green and sustainable libraries, deserve prominent recognition as learning institutions and active driving partners for Education for Sustainable Development and which support their governments’ sustainability efforts. In line with the Berlin Declaration on ESD and the UNESCO program, the book focuses on innovative approaches and informal education projects, created and provided by green and sustainable libraries.

During his first term in office, Donald Trump failed to implement his revolutionary foreign policy agenda. To provide a plausible explanation for the multifaceted nature of Trump’s foreign policy achievements and shortcomings, this book brings together leadership trait analysis and bureaucratic politics to develop a model that frames their interactions and mutual influence.

Der Band eröffnet problemorientierte Perspektiven auf Umbrüche in der Geschichte und der Geschichtswissenschaft. Zum einen geht es dabei um den epochalen Wandel in der Geschichte: Dabei liegt in Anlehnung an die Forschungen von Christine Rolle ein Fokus auf der europäischen Frühen Neuzeit, es werden aber auch Deutungen und Bewältigungsstrategien von Akteur_innen in Antike, Mittelalter, Moderne und Zeitgeschichte in den Blick genommen. Zum anderen wird hinterfragt, wie Historiker_innen den Wechsel von Themen, Methoden und Paradigmen ihres Fachs bewältigten. Der Band soll so zu einem reflektierteren und produktiveren Umgang mit beiderlei „Zeitenwechseln" beitragen.

The series European-Jewish Studies reflects the international network and competence of the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European Jewish studies (MMZ). Thanks to the highly interdisciplinary character of the series, which is edited in collaboration with the Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg, particular emphasis is placed on the way in which history, the humanities and cultural sciences approach the subject, as well as on fundamental intellectual, political and religious questions that inspire Jewish life and thinking today, and have influenced it in the past.

This book gives a holistic picture on the application and resulting issues of plastics, that last a long time but at the same time remain a long time in the environment. It is intended to combine chemical fundamentals with value chain and regulatory aspects as well as risks. The text aims to provide inspiration for future material developments and concepts for material usage in the future that is more sustainable.

This volume presents, for the first time, a critical edition of a highly unusual Byzantine text: the Metaphrase – or intralingual translation – of the early 13th-century History (Chronike Diegesis) of Niketas Choniates. The original History of Choniates has always been considered a monument of Byzantine historical and rhetorical discourse. Its highly learned, Atticizing style of Greek, however, frequently made it obscure to readers, even in the Byzantine period. As a result, in the second quarter of the 14th century, probably in Constantinople, an individual or group of individuals undertook to transpose the entire work into a simpler register of Greek, closer to the everyday language of the period. Accordingly, the text as published here brings to light a major body of primary linguistic material, enabling scholars in the field to judge for themselves the nature and extent of the linguistic and stylistic enterprise represented by the Metaphrase. The introductory matter and accompanying analysis provide background information on the manuscript tradition of the Metaphrase, as well as an assessment of its linguistic and cultural context and genesis.

Die im Jahre 1905 von Gustav Gröber ins Leben gerufene Reihe der Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie zählt zu den renommiertesten Fachpublikationen der Romanistik. Die Beihefte pflegen ein gesamtromanisches Profil, das neben den Nationalsprachen auch die weniger im Fokus stehenden romanischen Sprachen mit einschließt.

Zur Begutachtung können eingereicht werden: Monographien und Sammelbände zur Sprachwissenschaft in ihrer ganzen Breite, zur mediävistischen Literaturwissenschaft und zur Editionsphilologie.

Mögliche Publikationssprachen sind Französisch, Spanisch, Portugiesisch, Italienisch und Rumänisch sowie Deutsch und Englisch. Sammelbände sollten thematisch und sprachlich in sich möglichst einheitlich gehalten sein.

This Handbook of Poetic Forms aims to offer historically informed approaches to a wide variety of poetic forms. A particular emphasis will be on considering poetic form in dialogue with the cultural context in which it is being used, as well as within the literary tradition of each form, and to explore the stable as well as the historically variable affordances of each form in such contexts. Hereby, the focus lies on prescriptive forms, that is, on poetic forms which are defined by or at least associated with specific metrical, stanzaic or overall structures (or the absence of such), rather than poetic genres that are primarily characterised by similarities in subject matter (like the elegy or the ode). While this Handbook should be accessible to students, its aim is not to offer basic introductions, but rather to broaden a historical and functional understanding of the poetic forms it covers, and to engage with poetic forms not as givens, but as historically-contingent processes of formation. Above all, this Handbook’s formalism is new formalist in emphasising historical awareness and contextualisation.

Form, space and construction are inextricably linked as a triad. For wulf architekten, based in Stuttgart, Berlin and Basel, the creative impulse plays a particularly important role. It makes it possible to interpret supporting structures in a space-defining way and to develop an atmospheric effect of the architecture. The concept of structure and type underpins the principles and objectives of this approach. This can be seen in forward-looking projects in the fields of education, research, culture and security. In their new book, wulf architekten present 17 buildings completed between 2014 and today. In a dialog with the renowned architecture critic Hubertus Adam, wulf architekten discuss questions that determine the current discourse on building culture.

• Identity through search - architecture in balance
• Helmholtz Pioneer Campus, Bosch Customer Center, Straubenhardt Fire Station
• Continuation of the monograph Rhythm and Melody published in 2014
• Also available in German language

Herzstück der vielfältigen jüdischen Kulturen sind heilige Texte, durch deren regelmäßige Lesung sich Jüdinnen und Juden auf der ganzen Welt ihrer Gemeinschaft versichern und einen Ort kultureller Identität jenseits des Profanen konstruieren. Der heilige Text definiert nicht nur Glaubensinhalte, sondern repräsentiert auch den sinnlichen Ausdruck der göttlichen Offenbarung. Anhand ausgesuchter Manuskripte aus dem Bestand der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin beleuchtet der Band den Ursprung und die Materialität der Hebräischen Bibel, die Poesie und den musikalischen Vortrag der jüdischen liturgischen Texte, die strengen rabbinischen Regeln zur Herstellung von Torarollen und die Kunst der Megillot und Pessach Haggadot. Ergänzt werden die reich illustrierten Beiträge durch Erläuterungen zur christlichen und muslimischen Schrifttradition.

• Ausstellung, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, 16. Oktober 2025 bis 26. Februar 2026
• Umfassende Einführung in die jüdische Schriftkultur
• Interdisziplinäre Forschung zur Materialität von liturgischen Schriften und Gebetsbüchern
• Reich illustriert mit Beispielen aus der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz

Holy texts are at the heart of the diverse Jewish cultures; by regular reading of them, Jews all over the world reassure themselves of their community and construct a place of cultural identity beyond the profane. The sacred text not only defines beliefs; it also represents the sensory expression of divine revelation. Using selected manuscripts from the holdings of the Staatsbibliothek Berlin, this volume sheds light on the origin and materiality of the Hebrew Bible, the poetry and musical performance of Jewish liturgical texts, strict rabbinical rules for producing Torah scrolls, and the art of Megillot and Passover Haggadot. The richly illustrated contributions are complemented by explanations of Christian and Muslim scriptural traditions.

The art of making things fit for use again goes back to the beginnings of human construction. In modernism's focus on progress and new constructions, this tradition was at best only marginally considered. Since then, the guiding principles for construction have undergone another radical shift. Sustainability, preservation and upgrading have become key concepts of the construction sector's retrofit turn, and the built heritage of the high modern era itself now requires structural and energy efficiency upgrades. From a variety of perspectives, this volume explores the specific challenges this poses for conservation and explores the sophisticated strategies and methods now available for close-to-reality assessment and retrofitting measures appropriate for the built heritage from the high modern times.

Seit der Charta von Venedig dient die Wahrung der Authentizität als zentrales Leitbild denkmalpflegerischen Handelns. Der ursprünglich fast alleinige Bezug auf die materielle Substanz hat in jüngerer Zeit eine Weitung auf auch immaterielle Werte als Ausdruck der "cultural significance" erfahren. Nach wie vor aber ist der Begriff alles andere als klar: Authentizität ist ein fragiles, immer neu auszuhandelndes Konstrukt. Fokussiert auf die Hochmoderne, fragt der Band nach der Authentizität speziell des Technischen im Denkmal. Welche ganz eigenen Träger kultureller Bedeutung sind hier zu wahren und was bedeutet dies für den Umgang mit Tragwerk, Hülle und Haustechnik? Und sind nicht selbst die zeittypischen Mängel oder ein ausgeklügeltes statisches System schützenswerter Ausdruck der Ingenieurbaukunst ihrer Zeit?

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From devotional practices and the commercialization of sacred imagery to the scientific cataloging of religious traditions, this thought-provoking publication explores the multifaceted role of photography in constructing and preserving religious identities and beliefs in past and present. The contributions explore the theological reception of photography, its use in artistic and festive contexts, and photographs’ material qualities as objects of devotion and cultural artifacts. Richly illustrated and featuring interdisciplinary insights from art history, religious studies, anthropology, and media studies, Photographic Practices and the Making of Religion provides an essential resource for scholars and readers interested in understanding the intersections of religion, visual culture, and modernity.

Welche Rolle spielt die Fotografie für die Konstruktion und die Bewahrung religiöser Identitäten und Glaubensvorstellungen? Aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive gehen die Beiträge des Buches dieser Frage nach und befassen sich mit der theologischen Rezeption von Fotografie, ihrem Einsatz in künstlerischen und in feierlichen Kontexten sowie der materiellen Beschaffenheit von Fotografien als Objekte der Andacht oder als kulturelle Artefakte. Das Themenspektrum reicht dabei von devotionalen Praktiken über die Kommerzialisierung sakraler Bilder bis hin zur wissenschaftlichen Erfassung religiöser Traditionen. An der Schnittstelle von Religion, visueller Kultur und Moderne angesiedelt, eröffnet das Buch neue Perspektiven auf die transformative Rolle der Fotografie in religiösen Kontexten vom 19. Jahrhundert bis heute.

What is architecture when computers redefine it? Two books explore the nature and potential of architecture in the age of artificial intelligence. Inspired by architect Fritz Haller (1924-2012), a virtual persona asks him about the architecture of the future. The first book uses artificial intelligence to network the Internet of Things into a new architecture. The second presents six works by Fritz Haller in the multidisciplinary light of the 2020s and shows them like icons that already contain what was only thought of later.

The two volumes are neither historical nor analytical - they are visionary and projective and, in some respects, represent an experiment in themselves. They show an architecture that does rethink and does not evaluate.

• An experiment on the 100th birthday of Fritz Haller, the pioneer of integral planning
• What would Fritz Haller say today about the architecture of the future?
• Volume 24 of the Applied Virtualiy Book Series (only available together)

Spectacular religious buildings, elegant townhouses, long-span bridges or early industrial plants still have the power to amaze us. We stand in awe before the Pantheon in Rome, built around 125 AD, before the cathedral in Trier, Germany’s oldest, or the Doge’s Palace in Venice, which dates to the ninth century. Judged by the norms and standards of today, most of these buildings should no longer be standing.

This book documents traditional building methods, analyzes historic load-bearing systems, and provides an overview of empirical joining techniques and contemporary materials. In separate chapters devoted respectively to construction methods in timber, masonry, steel, and concrete, international examples are analyzed with the help of photos and schematic drawings. Expert technical articles explain why these buildings continue to fascinate and inspire us.

• Profound relevance for the repair and restoration of historic buildings
• Exciting case studies
• A journey through European architectural history

Als Vorläuferinstitution der heutigen EKD war die Eisenacher Konferenz im 19. Jahrhundert das einzige rechtliche Band zwischen den neu entstandenen deutschen evangelischen Landeskirchen. Da sie die theologische Aussöhnung der getrennten evangelischen Bekenntnisse nicht in Angriff nahm und ein engerer rechtlicher Zusammenschluss der beteiligten Landeskirchen bis zum Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts nicht gelang, gilt die Eisenacher Konferenz bis auf Annäherungen in Fragen wie der Vereinheitlichung des Kirchenbaus oder der Predigttexte allgemein als gescheitert und ist theologisch bisher unerforscht. Ihr Wirken wird in diesem Buch aufgrund der Quellen erstmals umfassend und anhand ihrer Strukturen, Akteure und Themen untersucht und in einem umfangreichen Anhang übersichtlich dokumentiert. Dabei wird deutlich, dass die Arbeitsweisen der Eisenacher Konferenz ihr auf den verschiedensten Feldern des kirchlichen Lebens in direkter und indirekter Auseinandersetzung mit den zeitgenössischen Entwicklungen auf staatlichem Gebiet für ihre Zeit wichtige Weichenstellungen auf dem Weg zur modernen Volkskirche ermöglichten.

„Raum-Fragen“ prägen internationale Beziehungen in vielfältiger Weise: sie sind Gegenstand politischer Verhandlungen und bestimmen zugleich Formen und Wege von Handel, Kommunikation und Verkehr; sie sind gegenwärtig in Prozessen der Grenzziehung, aber auch grenzüberschreitender Mobilitäten und bilden als Imaginationsräume zentrale Bezugspunkte des Denkens historischer Akteure. Wie aber verändert sich unser Verständnis von Räumen, wenn wir sie durch das Prisma der Internationalen Geschichte betrachten? Wie lassen sich Erkenntnisinteressen der Internationalen Geschichte mit den heterogenen Ansätzen aus anderen Feldern und Disziplinen in Beziehung setzen? Und welche neuen Fragen ergeben sich für die Internationale Geschichte, wenn sie systematisch auf die Dimensionen des Räumlichen Bezug nimmt?

Der vorliegende Sammelband versammelt ein breites Panorama an Beiträgen von der Alten Geschichte bis zur Zeitgeschichte, die in exemplarischer Weise verschiedene methodische und konzeptionelle Zugänge erproben. Zusammen umreißen sie so die Möglichkeiten einer Internationalen Geschichte, die ‚Raum-Fragen‘ zum Ausgangspunkt ihrer Überlegungen macht.

Holocaust monuments in Central Europe, especially in today’s Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, and Germany, have received surprisingly little academic attention. Yet these sites of memory offer deep insight into the individual, collective and cultural memory of the tragedy of the Holocaust.

The first Holocaust monuments were created shortly after the end of the Second World War. At first, they were monuments and memorials commemorating Jewish victims, but later, stone reminders of the Roma victims of the Holocaust were added. After the fall of the Iron Curtain, a second wave of Holocaust monuments and memorials took place in Central Europe, continuing to this day. The aim of this publication is to present both the historical and artistic circumstances of the creation of these Holocaust monuments and memorials, as well as their subsequent reception. In a broader social and cultural context, the emphasis is placed on the formation of Jewish and Roma identity in Central Europe.

Against highly current debates on multilingual literary production, this original study of the acclaimed contemporary poet-translator Uljana Wolf considers how lyric verse is being creatively revitalised through experimental practices across languages, genres and media. Based in Berlin and New York, Wolf is concerned to explore and contest political and linguistic borders through poetry and translation as a poetic practice. Despite considerable critical acclaim, Wolf’s writing has not yet formed the subject of any book-length study, likely due to its radical form and resistance to straightforward categorisations. This English-language volume will form the first published collection dedicated to Wolf’s oeuvre and ensure that her work is made accessible to the increasing numbers of scholars and students working on multilingual literature. Original contributions by Wolf and her translators will consolidate the volume’s status as a landmark intervention concerned to trace the aesthetics and politics of Wolf’s linguistic and formal experiments. Responding to urgent questions driving comparative literature studies today, our contributors will focus on Wolf’s multilingual works, her translational networks and radical textual politics.

Historical thinking has a politics that shapes its ends. While at least two generations of scholars have been guided into their working lives with this axiom as central to their profession, it is somewhat of a paradox that historiography is so often nowadays seen as a matter of intellectual choices operating outside the imperatives of quotidian politics, even if the higher realms of ideological inclinations or historiographical traditions can be seen to have played a role. The politics of historical thinking, if acknowledged at all, is seen to belong to the realms of nonprofessional ways of the instrumentalisation of the past.

This series seeks to centre the politics inherent in historical thinking, professional and non-professional, promoted by states, political organisations, ‘nationalities’ or interest groups, and to explore the links between political (re-)education, historiography and mobilisation or (sectarian?) identity formation. We hope to bring into focus the politics inherent in historical thinking, professional, public or amateur, across the world today.

Advisory Board:

Amar Baadj, American University Cairo

Berber Bevernage, University of Ghent

Federico Finchelstein, New School for Social Research, New York

Kavita Philip, University of British Columbia

Dhruv Raina, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Indra Sengupta, German Historical Institute, London

Jakob Tanner, University of Zurich

Am Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges befanden sich rund 11 Millionen deutscher Soldaten in Kriegsgefangenschaft, mehr als 700.000 von ihnen in Frankreich. Fabien Théofilakis entwirft eine umfassende Geschichte dieser „besiegten Sieger", die zugleich eine Analyse des Übergangs zwischen Krieg und Frieden ist. Er beleuchtet die Kriegsgefangenschaft mit ihren Folgen für das Individuum, die Bedeutung der deutschen Kriegsgefangenen beim Wiederaufbau der französischen Nachkriegswirtschaft, ihre Rolle als Verhandlungsmasse auf dem internationalen diplomatischen Parkett sowie den Umgang der französischen Besatzungsbehörden mit der Frage der Kriegsgefangenen in ihrer deutschen Besatzungszone. Théofilakis stützt sich auf umfassendes Quellenmaterial aus internationalen Archiven und hat über 60 ehemalige Kriegsgefangene persönlich befragt.

How does shintō has taken part into the Japanese conquest of the Manchurian frontier?
Modern shintō is often seen as a unified ritual system based on shrines which are considered either as places embodying “State shintō”, or as popular places of worship. This point of view is even more emphasized in the case of “overseas shrines” erected during the Japanese expansion in Asia. The first purpose of this book is to show that these two dimensions are complementary and take part in the imperial movement in Manchuria during the first half of the 20th century. Contrarily to previous studies (for example Shimizu 2022 and Nakajima 2010) that usually focus on shrines, it focuses on the cases of three shintō leaders involved in the building process of Japanese Manchuria: Matsuyama Teizō (1878-1947), Deguchi Onisaburō (1871-1948) and Kakei Katsuhiko (1872-1961). These three cases allow us to shed light on three different ways of appropriating Manchurian space, enabling us to understand how such leaders are in the meantime driven by, and driving forces behind, the diffusion of shintō in particular, but also the imperial process in general, in these territories stretching from the Liaodong peninsula to Inner Mongolia.

Welfare Work Without Welfare argues that women activists, wage workers, and homemakers in the Romanian capital Bucharest ensured others’ well-being in the interwar period through their "austerity welfare work".

Revealing links and tensions between the performers of different types of underpaid or unpaid austerity welfare work, each empirical chapter focuses on a key domain:
• knowledge production about social problems by "women welfare activists" (professional social workers, lay experts, left wing militants);
• municipal-level social assistance policy, with emphasis on a pioneering generation of women local politicians in shaping welfare practices;
• paid household work by underpaid servants;
• unpaid household work by homemakers or precariously employed women in working class communities.

The book offers a novel interpretation of state-society relations after the First World War, showing that unpaid labor and gender relations were crucial in responding to economic crisis in an Eastern European urban setting and beyond. At once a local and transnational history of women’s work, Welfare Work Without Welfare contributes to the historicization of social reproduction work and to the rethinking of the history of welfare states.

The first decades of the 21^st century have presented numerous challenges for European Jewry: far-right movements and a rise of antisemitism, a global pandemic, and a war on European soil. At the same time, heritage sites commemorating the Jewish past and the use of digital platforms to create new forms of communication and cultural co-construction are growing. Using a variety of spaces – heritage sites, museums, digital practices, urban topography, and communal activities – as case studies, this collective volume analyses whether they might serve as a reminder that despite moments of crisis, Jewish life in Europe persists.

Der Löwe-Rosenberg steht für eine grundlegende und umfassende Kommentierung des deutschen Strafverfahrensrechts. Er hilft Nutzerinnen und Nutzern bei der Beantwortung häufig auftauchender wie auch entlegener Sachfragen. Gegenstand der Erläuterungen sind die StPO, das EGStPO, das GVG, das EGGVG sowie die strafprozessualen Vorschriften der EMRK und des IPBPR.

Der gegenwärtige Erkenntnisstand und der Stand der rechtlichen Kontroversen sind vollständig wiedergegeben. Bei der Darstellung und Gewichtung legt der Großkommentar viel Wert auf Praxisbezug und Praxistauglichkeit. Für die Neuauflage konnte wieder ein äußerst fachkundiges Herausgeber- und Autorenteam aus Wissenschaft und Praxis gewonnen werden.

Der Löwe-Rosenberg wurde 1879 von Ewald Löwe begründet und sodann fortgeführt von Werner Rosenberg. Er ist der älteste juristische Kommentar in deutscher Sprache.

Der Löwe-Rosenberg steht für eine grundlegende und umfassende Kommentierung des deutschen Strafverfahrensrechts. Er hilft Nutzerinnen und Nutzern bei der Beantwortung häufig auftauchender wie auch entlegener Sachfragen. Gegenstand der Erläuterungen sind die StPO, das EGStPO, das GVG, das EGGVG sowie die strafprozessualen Vorschriften der EMRK und des IPBPR.

Der gegenwärtige Erkenntnisstand und der Stand der rechtlichen Kontroversen sind vollständig wiedergegeben. Bei der Darstellung und Gewichtung legt der Großkommentar viel Wert auf Praxisbezug und Praxistauglichkeit. Für die Neuauflage konnte wieder ein äußerst fachkundiges Herausgeber- und Autorenteam aus Wissenschaft und Praxis gewonnen werden.

Der Löwe-Rosenberg wurde 1879 von Ewald Löwe begründet und sodann fortgeführt von Werner Rosenberg. Er ist der älteste juristische Kommentar in deutscher Sprache.

Im vorliegenden Text wird die Frage untersucht, ob Pflichten gegen sich selbst moralische Relevanz haben oder, so Habermas, nur als pragmatische Pflichten gelten, da sie lediglich das Interesse der Subjekte betreffen. Die Analyse von Kants Pflichten gegen sich selbst verläuft anhand seiner Moralphilosophie sowie einer Rekonstruktion des naturrechtlichen Ursprungs dieser Pflichten und ihrer Verbindung mit den subjektiven Rechten. Zuletzt wird die Aktualität dieser Pflichten für die zeitgenössische Ethik behandelt. Dafür ist die Interpretation von Adorno, der diese Pflichten und Kants Moral als Ausdruck des Widerstandes des Subjektes gegenüber der Gesellschaft liest, wesentlich. Durch Adornos Interpretation erfasst die Autorin die Pflichten gegen sich selbst als Teil der persönlichen Integrität und des Widerstandes gegenüber der von der Gesellschaft erzwungenen Heteronomie. Dadurch erhalten diese Pflichten nicht nur für die Moral, sondern auch für die Politik Relevanz. Einerseits bezeichnen diese Pflichten in Kants Philosophie die grundlegende Tätigkeit des autonomen Subjektes bei der Entstehung von Moral. Andererseits schützen diese Pflichten die Interessen der Subjekte, die nicht immer mit denen der Kollektivität identisch sind.

This book brings together research papers by authors from different regions of the world who have studied the acquisition processes of adult migrants learning to read and write in a new language. The collection includes ethnographic investigations of everyday language and literacy practices, classroom studies on the effectiveness of teaching practices, and research on high-stakes test taking and formative multilingual assessment methods

Darf eine Überflußgesellschaft Gesundheit rationieren, gleichzeitig aber auf ein Recht auf ein Wunschkind bestehen? Darf man im Namen des Klimaschutzes gegen geltendes Recht verstoßen? Diese und viele andere hochbrisante, zugleich heftig umstrittene Fragen behandelt Otfried Höffe in dieser Aufsatzsammlung, und zwar sowohl aus der Perspektive des Moralphilosophen als auch aus jener eines gewöhnlichen Bürgers.

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Denkmäler sind Orte kollektiver Erinnerung – und zunehmend Orte von Kontroversen. Ihr Bestand wird in aktuellen Debatten hinterfragt, manche Monumente werden umgestaltet oder sogar umgestürzt und verschwinden so aus der Wahrnehmung. Der Kampf um die visuelle Präsenz, die Denkmäler verbürgen, hat allerdings stets schon eine Rolle gespielt. Mit Blick auf die Geschichte lässt sich etwa fragen: Wer wurde nie erinnert, wer blieb ausgeschlossen, was wurde geplant, aber nie gebaut? Der Sammelband vereint unterschiedliche methodische Ansätze und disziplininäre Perspektiven, um die komplexen Dynamiken von Denkmalsetzungen, -kritiken und -transformationen zu analysieren. Er untersucht dabei auch die Tragweite ikonologischer, imagologischer, semiotischer oder metapherntheoretischer Perspektiven. Historische Entwicklungen, etwa die bürgerliche Denkmaltradition oder die Instrumentalisierung von Monumenten für nationale Identitätsbildung, werden ebenso thematisiert wie aktuelle, etwa kolonialismuskritische Denkmaldebatten. Beiträge u.a. aus der Kunst- und Literaturwissenschaft bieten neue methodische Zugänge und zeigen, dass Denkmalforschung immer auch Gesellschaftsanalyse ist.

• Neue Forschung zu Denkmalsetzung, -kritik und -transformation
• Interdisziplinäre Perspektive auf Denkmäler als Erinnerungsorte

Monuments are sites of collective memory – and increasingly, the subject of controversy. Their existence is questioned, individual monuments are being remodelled or toppled, and the meaning attributed to them often changes along with the context. This volume combines different methodological approaches and disciplinary perspectives to analyse the complex dynamics of monument settings, critique and transformations. It examines the setting and toppling of monuments as symbolic acts reflecting power relations, and analyses the scope of iconological, semiotic or metaphor-theoretical perspectives. Historical developments are addressed, such as the instrumentalisation of monuments in the creation of national identity, as are current debates on monuments, e.g. those critical of colonialism.

• New research on the setting, criticism and transformation of monuments
• Interdisciplinary perspective on monuments as places of memory.

Büdchen, Bühnen und Büros – vor 25 Jahren gründeten Konstantin Jaspert, Frederik Jaspert, Jürgen Steffens, Rolf Watrin und Olaf Drehsen in Köln das Architekturbüro JSWD. Zeit für eine Bestandsaufnahme: In 25 Kapiteln stellt die Autorin Uta Winterhager das renommierte Büro vor und lässt dabei viele zu Wort kommen, die zu seinem Erfolg beitragen. Im Fokus stehen die Projekte selbst. In einer Reihe protokollierter Ortsgespräche besucht sie mit den Partnern, mit Projektleiter*innen und jüngeren Mitarbeitenden realisierte Projekte und zukünftige Baustellen. Gespräche mit Bauherren, Kooperationspartner*innen und internen Fachleuten zu den Themen Arbeit, Health Care, Ressourcen und Revitalisierung, Architektur und Landschaft sowie zum Wettbewerbswesen erweitern den Blick und schaffen einen Zugang zum vielschichtigen Wirken von JSWD.

• Nach JSWD – Ensembles die zweite große Büromonografie
• Lebendiges Porträt des umtriebigen Architekturbüros mit Kölner Wurzeln

While the Cobordism Hypothesis provides a translation between topological and categorical structures, the subject of fusion categories arising from representations of finite groups has shown the need for a robust theory of duality in monoidal 2-categories. This book intertwines 3-dimensional category theory with enriched and symmetric monoidal 2-categories to present a comprehensive foundation for duals in dimension two. This framework is presented using wire diagrams, a typographical tool that combines the geometric appeal of ordinary string diagrams with the clarity of standard commutative diagrams in category theory. Chapters on enriched 2-categories, closed 2-categories, and compact closed 2-categories build the theory from the ground up and in full detail. Shorter appendices on technical topics from higher category theory such as icons, strictification theorems, and computads provide readers with concise explanations of key results, as well as references for researchers interested in more depth. The book concludes with a chapter of examples from algebra and topology, including a detailed construction for the example of cobordisms.

Exilé aux Etats-Unis pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, le linguiste Roman Jakobson (1896–1982) intègre une école française créée par des savants exilés : l’École libre des hautes études. Il y donne une série de cours, auxquels assiste notamment Claude Lévi-Strauss. Cet enseignement a eu un impact majeur sur les sciences humaines contemporaines, puisqu’il est une des sources capitales du « structuralisme généralisé » d’après-guerre. Le présent ouvrage constitue une exploration de ce moment crucial de l’histoire des sciences au XX^e siècle.

La première partie du livre reconstitue, à partir de sources inédites, le programme et le contexte social, politique et institutionnel de cet enseignement. Elle contient une analyse épistémologique des cours conservés dans les archives et offre des clefs d’interprétation pour les situer dans l’histoire de la linguistique et, plus largement, des sciences humaines. La seconde partie propose une édition critique de quatre cours inédits de Jakobson donnés en 1942 et 1943.

L’ouvrage donne ainsi accès à des documents inédits sur ce moment crucial des sciences humaines – qui a vu la rencontre à New York de Roman Jakobson et Claude Lévi-Strauss –, et il en renouvelle l’interprétation.

Abraham Israel Jacobson's biography (1888–1955) spans a transformative period in Jewish history, from Ottoman Palestine to post-Holocaust Europe. Following his Yeshiva studies in Eretz Israel, Jacobson arrived in Sweden in 1911, beginning four and a half decades of leadership in Scandinavia, from the start performing the duties of teacher, chazan, shochet, and mohel. The biography draws on his 12,000-item private archive documenting Jewish life in Sweden, where he served as teacher and community leader in Landskrona and Sundsvall, later in Trondheim, Norway, finally settling during World War II in Stockholm. There, he became the Rabbi of the Jeschurun Synagogue, which miraculously escaped the fires and destruction of Kristallnacht. A multifaceted religious leader, he faced the unique challenges of Nordic Jewish life.

The biography offers insight into critical matters such as the restrictive legislation against sh’chita (the ritual slaughter of animals according to the laws of kashrut), the rescue of Jews from the Holocaust, and the local support of survivors in cooperation with the Jewish communities, Vaad Hahazalah, the World Jewish Congress, and the Joint. His involvement included energetic efforts to free thousands of agunot, Jewish women whose husbands were murdered in the war. His story unveils a picture of vibrant Orthodox life in 1940s Stockholm and the challenges faced by those seeking to maintain a Jewish way of life in modern Scandinavia. For scholars and students of modern Jewish history and Judaism, the book offers unique insights into Jewish leadership in a crucial era for Western Europe and world Jewry. Read it to find out how one rabbi managed to navigate and influence events during the turbulent times surrounding World War II and the birth of Israel as a modern nation.

Machine Learning for Medical Applications – Volume I provides an in-depth look into the frontier of artificial intelligence in healthcare, bringing together contributions from leading researchers and innovators. This volume focuses on three critical areas: computational drug discovery, advanced bioimaging techniques, and the development of smart biomaterials for medical use. Readers will discover how machine learning is revolutionizing personalized medicine, improving diagnostic accuracy, and enabling the design of AI-driven biomedical sensors and therapeutic systems. With practical insights into algorithmic modeling, drug toxicity prediction, and materials screening, this book bridges the gap between data science and clinical applications. Ideal for professionals, academics, and students in biomedical engineering, computer science, and medical informatics, this book highlights the synergistic potential of machine learning and modern medicine in shaping the future of healthcare.

The method of dialectic occupies an ambiguous yet central position in Islamic philosophy and the sciences. This study examines Aristotle's treatise dedicated to dialectic, his Topics, in the works of two influential thinkers of Arabic philosophy: al-Fārābī (d. 950-951 CE) and Avicenna (d. 1037 CE). The study aims to show the systematic place of dialectic (jadal in Arabic) in their works and its relationship to the method of scientific proof, ethics and political philosophy. As this study shows, both thinkers develop their key concepts and theories of dialectic in response to the Greek commentary tradition, in particular Alexander of Aphrodisias (c. 200 CE) and Themistius (d. c. 387 CE). In addition to the Greek commentators, theories of dialectical argumentation within the Islamic sciences also exerted a great influence on the authors studied. Philosophical dialectic was not least a rival project to the dialectic of theologians and legal scholars. This book is intended not only for those interested in Ancient and Arabic philosophy, but also in Islamic theology and jurisprudence.

Dieser Band befasst sich mit Formen und Funktionen der Krise in Michel Houellebecqs Erzählprosa. Trotz der Omnipräsenz sowohl individueller als auch kollektiver Krisen im Werk des Gegenwartsschriftstellers wurde der herausragenden Relevanz des Krisenbegriffs für Houellebecqs Romane bislang kaum Beachtung geschenkt.

Die vorliegende Studie schließt diese Forschungslücke, indem sie die Krise bei Houellebecq nicht lediglich als ein inhaltliches Motiv identifiziert, sondern darüber hinaus zwei grundlegende Funktionen der Krise herausarbeitet: Erstens entwickelt sie ein krisennarratologisches Analysemodell, mit dem sich die Krise als ein auch strukturell in Houellebecqs Romanen verankertes Erzählmuster darstellen lässt. Darauf basierend wird die Krise zweitens als eine spezifische Form von Zeitdiagnose untersucht, mit der Houellebecq an dekadente Krisendiskurse des ausgehenden 19. Jahrhunderts anknüpft und diese zur depressionistischen Zeitdiagnose einer Postmodernen Dekadenz radikalisiert.

Anhand des Krisenbegriffs lassen sich folglich Aussagen über Houellebecqs ambivalente Stellung zwischen Moderne und Postmoderne treffen und zugleich Rückschlüsse auf mögliche Gründe der oftmals kontroversen Rezeption von Houellebecqs Romanen ziehen.

Seit es Kriege gibt, gibt es auch Veteranen. Nach einem Krieg respektive einem Militäreinsatz stehen Veteranen und Veteraninnen vor der Aufgabe, im zivilen Alltag (wieder) Fuß zu fassen, beruflich wie privat. Dabei geht es sowohl um Fürsorge und Versorgung in materieller Hinsicht, aber ebenso um Anerkennung und Würdigung. Doch ist der „Dank des Vaterlandes" (James M. Diehl) für den soldatischen Dienst nicht selbstverständlich. Nicht selten mussten (und müssen) Veteranen und Veteraninnen ihre Ansprüche auf Umwegen und gegen Widerstände durchsetzen. Sie treten so nicht nur als Objekte staatlicher Politik, sondern auch als eigenständig politisch handelnde Akteure in Erscheinung, die sich organisieren und ihre Interessen durchzusetzen suchen. Die Fallstudien zeigen ein breites Spektrum dieser Veteranenpolitik im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert auf. Sie illustrieren zudem die spezifischen Bindungen von Soldaten und Soldatinnen über ihren Militärdienst hinaus, auch auf internationaler Ebene.

As a multifaceted and intermedial phenomenon, poetry in the digital age not only demands a rethinking and expansion of the traditional paradigms of literary studies but also attracts increasing attention from other humanities. This interdisciplinary handbook is thus addressed both to literary scholars and to the broadest academic audience interested in contemporary poetry research. It offers 50 contributions by an international collective of authors that highlight the diversity of contemporary poetry, examining it from a wide variety of complementing theoretical and methodological angles.

The handbook focuses on contemporary modes of poetry presentation that are often located beyond the book, e.g., on stages, in public spaces, as multi- as well as transmedia publications, or on digital platforms. Such intermedial poetic practices, which may supplement poetic language with elements borrowed from music, visual art, cinema, or theater and performance, are transforming the forms and functions of poetry. It four parts thus (1) adapt established concepts and parameters of poetry research to the digital age, (2) explore established genres and emerging formats, (3) introduce interdisciplinary perspectives and new research fields, and (4) engage in current debates.

Despite the assumption that we live today in a rather rationalist and mechanized world, there remain many aspects that neither medicine nor physics can fully explain. The Catholic Church continues to pronounce individuals as saints because scientifically confirmed miracles are associated with them. If we want to gain a solid understanding of the pre-modern history of mentality, emotions, and everyday culture, it proves to be highly revealing to examine what miracles and wonders had meant at that time, both in the theological and medical field, in the visual arts and literature. As a matter of fact, people both in the East and in the West have consistently flocked to pilgrimage sites all over the world in the hope that a miracle might happen and solve issues for them. The contributors to this volume, based on a symposium at the University of Arizona, May 2024, approach this critically important topic from many different perspectives, taking us from the early Middle Ages to the early modern age, examining hagiographical, medical, literary, and alchemical texts, discussing both miracles and wonders as relevant themes in the public discourses. Both the passage through Inferno and Purgatorio as the crucial pathway toward Paradiso and the experience of women’s miraculous conception are identified as deeply impactful for the pre-modern world, and this both in Christian and Muslim cultures. Studying miracles and wonders through a kaleidoscope of different materials and concepts makes it possible to gain a closer understanding of people’s mindsets, power structures, and the debate between medicine and religion. These topics were also greatly important in other cultures, as several papers on Arabic medieval literature indicate. Further, pursuing this global issue, we recognize easily that the separation line between the Middle Ages and the early modern period is only a modern construct and often not that helpful because the discourse on miracles and wonders has continued and influences even us today.

Foreign Policies of Illiberal States examines how the Russian war on Ukraine affects the functioning of different models of international society. Focusing on the two spheres of governance and security, it analyses the effects of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which has significantly reframed many issues of global politics, including the feasibility of multilateralism under war conditions.

The academic debate around the issue as it pertains to the two countries is shaped by a number of arguments. Indonesia’s position is one of logic and the effective functioning of global organisations, symbolised by President Widodo’s peacemaking efforts in visits to Kyiv and Moscow. Russia's approach is overwhelmingly defined by security considerations, framing the military intervention against Ukraine as part of a broader confrontation with the Euro-Atlantic West. The hyper-securitisation of Ukraine by Russia was paralleled by efforts to de-securitise relations with the global South by shifting their fulcrum from the war to generalised and routinised socio-economic issues. Based on these positions, it could be said that a multi-order world is taking shape, where multilateralism is unlikely to be controlled only by the major powers.

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Come cogliere una poetica implicita come quella di Giovan Battista Marino con opportune categorie formali? Tesa in modo ambivalente tra una base di sviluppo mai del tutto ripudiata, la passata tradizione letteraria, e un’autocelebrativa pretesa di modernità, la poetica mariniana è irriducibile a nette contrapposizioni semplicistiche, quali frattura vs. continuità. Per rendere conto di un rapporto assai più complesso occorre evidenziare le aree di convergenza, scarto e ibridamento tra passato e presente letterario, dimostrando così come anche una poetica apparentemente rivoluzionaria come la mariniana vada sempre ricostruita e intesa alla luce del proprio contesto storico.

Il vaglio di tre sfere di dibattito critico estremamente produttive nel Cinquecento italiano, quali la riflessione retorico-stilistica in ambito profano e sacro e la polemica sulla tragicommedia, ha consentito di individuare una comune condizione strutturale favorevole: la sistematica ricezione ed esegesi dei trattati retorici di Demetrio Falereo e di Ermogene di Tarso, in particolare dei precetti relativi alla sonorità, ha avuto un ruolo centrale per lo sviluppo della poetica mariniana, contribuendo a spiegarne il funzionamento e suggerendo nuove prospettive di ricerca.

The youngest volume of the renowned series of European Commentaries edited by Ulrich Magnus and Peter Mankowski covers the European Insolvency Regulation. This Regulation in its recast version of 2015 is of great practical importance. It primarily regulates when courts in the EU are competent to deal with insolvency proceedings which have transborder effects, which law is applicable in such proceedings, the conditions under which insolvency proceedings are to be recognized in other EU States and how courts and insolvency practitioners should cooperate in transborder situations. The Commentary provides an in-depth presentation and discussion of each article and pays particular attention to the insolvency decisions of the European Court of Justice but also to national case law. The team of authors is as well truly European. It is formed of outstanding experts from all over Europe.

This volume explores the concepts of wonder and the marvelous in literary and philosophical texts from the fourth and third centuries BCE.

It argues that wonder—an emotion whose distinct cognitive significance was recognized early in Greek culture—is depicted by Hellenistic writers as the defining emotion of knowledge acquired through literature. In this context, these authors use wonder as a means of engaging allusively with the relationship between knowledge, literature, and philosophy, in close dialogue with Plato’s and Aristotle’s theories of wonder—the earliest theoretical conceptualization of this emotion in Western culture and a key element in these philosophers’ critique of literature’s cognitive value.

By examining the works of Theopompus, Callimachus, Aratus, and Apollonius of Rhodes—while also considering important figures such as Xenophon, Chrysippus, and the Historians of Alexander—this book reconstructs this important cultural debate. It demonstrates how wonder functions as a literary tool to reaffirm literature’s capacity to convey cognitively and ethically meaningful content, bridging a gap in modern studies on wonder – a crucial topic for understanding the history of Western civilization.

Kann der Einsatz Digitaler Spiele historisches Lernen ermöglichen?

Die Studie legt den Fokus auf Entstehung, Angebot und potenzielle Lerneffekte einer neuen Form Digitaler Spiele, die sich explizit der Vermittlung historischer Inhalte verschreibt. Was bewegt einen der weltweit führenden Publisher, sein Erfolgsmodell um einen Modus zu erweitern, der explizit der Vermittlung historischer Inhalte dient? Anhand von Ubisofts Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece, das sich der Spielwelt aus Assassin’s Creed bedient, werden die einzelnen Produktionsschritte rekonstruiert, um die Hintergründe der Entwicklung nachvollziehen zu können. Sie zeugen von einem kooperativen Prozess der Geschichtsschreibung, der im Spannungsfeld von wirtschaftlichen, technischen und fachlichen Interessen stattfand. Simulationsstil, Raum, Zeit, Narrativ und Angebotscharakter des Digitalen Spiels werden als zentrale Elemente der vergangenheitsbezogenen Darstellung verstanden und systematisch analysiert.

Den Schwerpunkt der Studie bildet die praktische Anwendung von Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece. In der empirischen Untersuchung wird überprüft, ob durch den Einsatz von Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece Lerneffekte festgestellt werden können, die sich an historischem Wissen messen lassen. Die medienvergleichende Versuchsanordnung zeigt zudem, inwiefern das Digitale Spiel die historischen Inhalte effektiver vermittelt als die im Geschichtsunterricht bereits etablierten Medien.

Die Studie liefert somit exemplarisch Aufschlüsse über eine mögliche Zukunft spezifischer Lernspiele in der historischen Bildung.

Plato's philosophy represents the first theoretical reflection in Western history on the status of the iconic, while also serving as a realm where the image becomes a metaphor and a theoretical habitus through which to interpret reality and human practices. This book addresses the issue of images in Plato's dialogues from this dual perspective: What is an image, and what is the status of the iconic for Plato? What is the significance of the iconic metaphor within the context of Platonic metaphysics? On one hand, Plato questions the reality and unreality of images, thereby establishing their association with the domain of the false, illusion, and deception. On the other hand, imagery is used as a persistent metaphor to conceive the relationships between sensible and intelligible realities. In this context, the book argues that it is through a parallel reading of the Sophist and the Timaeus that one can trace in Plato an early explicit reflection on the status of the medium, as well as the notion of paradigm and its normative role related to the poetic-artisanal practice. The book thus explores the presence of these metaphors and their significance not only for the theory of forms and participation but also for Platonic cosmology.

Intentional communities combine complex economic organizations with member-run governance. As in any human organization, conflicts arise—whether between members, officials, or external entities. These communities seek to manage disputes locally, often avoiding formal mechanisms like state courts. Many rely on bylaws and committees, adjusting their conflict-resolution strategies over time. Strategic decisions often require broad consensus, pushing members to refine their approaches to agreement.

This volume explores how various intentional communities—such as kibbutzim, eco-villages, and cooperative housing—navigate internal and external conflicts. The book contains both theoretical analysis and research articles written specifically for this volume, alongside innovative practical methods developed and tested to resolve conflicts that arise in intentional communities.

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The two East Baltic languages Lithuanian and Latvian feature a secondary mood of potentiality, known as the subjunctive that ultimately goes back to the supine, an infinitival form. Setting out with a general discussion of the historical relation between the two East Baltic languages, this book seeks to explain why, when and how the supine developed into the subjunctive. In doing so, it provides the first exhaustive account of the evolution of the morphosyntactic paradigm of the subjunctive and all its attested forms in the East Baltic dialects. It thereby contributes to our understanding of the emergence of morphosyntactic structures and the typology of infinitive-based verbal formations.

The book investigates the present and past verb forms in the Friulian dialect spoken in Tualis. It provides both a detailed empirical description and a theoretical account of thirteen inflection classes in the Friulian verb system within the framework of Nanosyntax. The analysis also employs two recent innovations in the nanosyntactic paradigm: the consistent application of the subextracting Spellout Algorithm and Complex Left Branch trees. This approach captures the correct root-suffix pairing, root suppletion, syncretism, including ABA patterns.

This study shows that widely used history textbooks in Lebanon are more standardized and censored than in most liberal democratic countries, and relatively similar in form and content to textbooks from Syria and Iraq. A diversity of historical narratives has progressively converged into one dominant narrative which entails a standard definition of the »self«. In contrast, the »other« is defined through the exclusion of religious groups considered exogenous and ethnicities considered inferior. In addition, women are marginalized.

Surprisingly, the textbooks affiliated with Hezbollah, a Shiite militia financed by the Iranian regime, depart to a certain extent from this definition.

While most previous research on Lebanese history textbooks has focused on the diverging narratives of religious communities, this study views these textbooks as the outcome of a tension between two major forces: educational traditions, on the one hand, and contemporary politics, on the other.

By zooming in on African Studies in Germany, this book deals with questions around knowledge production on Africa and its diaspora; the workings of epistemic and geographic locations in "knowing" Africa; anti-Black structures in German academia; the making and sustaining of a canon and the role of the university as a gate-keeper of certain knowledges; and renderings of universalism and African history. It also engages with the specific German unease and delay to remember its colonial past and the attached problematique of discussing race and Blackness in Germany. As such, the collection interrogates the history, politics and affects of these developments within the project and politics of knowledge production on Africa. It features chapters written by students of African Studies based in different Universities in Germany from the B.A. to the Ph.D. level. The volume highlights their fresh insights on and theorizations of African Studies from their historically grounded epistemic and geographic locations. The chapters also problematize the disconnect between African Studies and African(a) Studies, critiquing how the fetishization of the "local" and the "micro" informs and shapes Africanist scholarship.

Auf der Gratwanderung zwischen den Beitrittswünschen mitteleuropäischer Staaten und der Rücksichtnahme auf Russland fiel 1994 die Entscheidung für eine NATO-Osterweiterung. Während sich im Konflikt um Bosnien-Herzegowina die militärische Lage durch Angriffe auf UN-Schutzzonen verschärfte, gelangen in der EU wichtige Weichenstellungen in der gemeinsamen Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik sowie bei der Vorbereitung der Wirtschafts- und Währungsunion.

What role does water imagery play in the Book of Jeremiah (MT)?

Water imagery, with its complex manifestations—presence of water, drought, and tears—plays a central role in the Book of Jeremiah (JerMT). It provides unity and structure to this Book. This monograph conducts a close reading of all direct and indirect occurrences of water imagery to demonstrate its literary function. It also adopts B. Harshav’s theory of metaphor and frames of reference as a fundamental methodological tool. Harshav’s approach allows for an analysis of water imagery in both its metaphorical and literal meanings. This perspective enables the study to interpret the related images in light of Israel’s real-life experience of atmospheric phenomena, including rain, wind, and drought. It reveals how images within the text interact, evolve, transform, and sometimes contrast with one another. The interplay between the water frame and the covenant frame illustrates how JerMT reinterprets Israel’s history—from the crisis and break of the covenant to its promised restoration.

In addition to the detailed examination of the literary function of water imagery, this study also highlights the social, ecological, and theological messages of JerMT.

From 1999-2004, David Embick and the late Morris Halle developed a compelling analysis of the Latin conjugation using the framework of Distributed Morphology. Though not finished during Halle’s lifetime, it remains remarkably relevant to ongoing research. Aspects of the Latin Conjugation makes this work available for the first time, and includes a preface and supplementary material putting the volume in its historical and theoretical context.

This book explores the role of the British press during the Second World War. Whilst the Second World War is a well-research period of British history, the role of the British press in it has been strangely neglected. This book seeks to fill that lacuna by exploring the political role of the press and its relationship with the British Government. In so doing, this monograph explores the different aspects of the press’ political coverage, namely; the national press’ reporting of wartime government, including cabinet administrations, political personalities and parliamentary procedures; coverage of extra-parliamentary politics and grass-roots movements, such as the People’s Convention and the 1941 Committee/Common Wealth Party; and the popular press coverage of the 1945 general election. It also explores how the two spheres, journalism and politics, intersected during the war by examining politically active journalists and politicians who regularly appeared in print. By examining these different aspects, this monograph aims to provide a greater understanding of the press’ contribution to British political culture during the Second World War and seeks to explore how the British popular press justified the paradox of a social democracy going to war. In essence, this book examines how the fourth estate performed its functions under wartime conditions.

The triliteral Arabic root ẓ-l-m occurs on almost every single page of the printed Qurʾān. Despite this central and consistent usage, it has not yet been studied within the field of Western Qurʾānic Studies. In its most basic sense, ẓ-l-m means ‘putting something in the wrong place’ but is often translated as ‘to do wrong’, ‘to act unjustly’, ‘injustice’, ‘evildoing’, or finally, ‘oppression’. As such, a study of ẓ-l-m elucidates significant ethico-religious dynamics and power relations that obtain within the qurʾānic text. While the present book does not contain a grand thesis on the origin or canonization of the Qurʾān nor claim to answer questions pertaining to the ultimate origins and formation of this multifaceted religious and historical text, it will contribute a systematic philological and semantic study of one root and its relations to other roots in the Qurʾān through a synthesis of three methodologies: Synchronic/diachronic analysis, semantic field analysis, and formulaic analysis.

This book is intended for a technical audience with advanced learning and in-depth analysis of the latest real-world developments in the field of quantum computing. The book is focused on modeling emerging drone-based applications. The methods of developing faster drive with the new trending technology of quantum genetic heuristics, artificial intelligence, and machine-based applications are discussed. Researchers will find novel ways to secure the data and Quantum drone networks. The book examines the most promising exploratory quantum-computed drone that optimizes, secures, and dynamically analyses various sectors, including healthcare, the educational industry, finance, transportation, and manufacturing.