De Gruyter Reference

Along with Walther von der Vogelweide, the Minnesinger and poet Neidhart is regarded as one of the most original and influential song authors of the German Middle Ages. A rich lyrical oeuvre has been handed down to us under his name. This volume reviews the current state of research about the author, appraising his works from historical, literary, linguistic, musical, and art historical perspectives.

The New Discourses continue the volume published in 2011. The book brings together discourses from multiple disciplines and is therefore relevant to the history of the disciplines and scholarship. The 17 essays include such themes as the criticism of religion, polyhistory, polymathy, concepts of utopia, criticism and political anthropology, cosmography and technology, the problem of death in medicine, and the New World.

Until now, literary researchers on Walter Kempowski (1929–2007) have lacked a comprehensive reference work that considered both the life and work of Germany’s most important author of the post-war period. The Kempowski Handbook fills this gap – in the book, leading scholars elucidate Kempowski’s biography, artistic oeuvre, and the current state of research.

Preparing and staging an exhibition demands intense personal commitment and requires experience and professional expertise. The range of tasks includes planning, financing, resolving technical legal and insurance issues (especially in relation to possible loans), conservation aspects, working with cooperation partners, accompanying events, and intensive public relations work.

The Atlas evaluates around 6,000 legal texts dating from the 13^th to the 15^th centuries. An indispensable research tool for linguists, medievalists, codicologists, and historians, documenting for the first time the most important urban written languages of the Low German "Altland" and neighboring areas.

The works of J. M. R. Lenz (1751–1792) have garnered increased attention and respect during the last few decades. At the same time, because of their formal and thematic complexity, his works elude quick interpretation. This handbook takes the latest research into account. It includes articles on the author’s life and work, and about current issues in Lenz scholarship, as well as a comprehensive bibliography.

For the first time, this handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the Sturm und Drang movement. Alongside articles on individual authors, there are systematic essays that address the academic, aesthetic, musical, and poetic history of Sturm und Drang. The articles on works discuss and re-evaluate the movement’s texts. Three comprehensive indexes enable examination of highly specific themes.

Although there are many studies of certain individual ancient Italic groups (e.g. the Etruscans, Gauls and Latins), there is no work that takes a comprehensive view of each of them—the famous and the less well-known—that existed in Iron Age and Roman Italy. Moreover, many previous studies have focused only on the material evidence for these groups or on what the literary sources have to say about them.

This handbook is conceived of as a resource for archaeologists, historians, philologists and other scholars interested in finding out more about Italic groups from the earliest period they are detectable (early Iron Age, in most instances), down to the time when they begin to assimilate into the Roman state (in the late Republican or early Imperial period). As such, it will endeavor to include both archaeological and historical perspectives on each group, with contributions from the best-known or up-and-coming archaeologists and historians for these peoples and topics. The language of the volume is English, but scholars from around the world have contributed to it. This volume covers the ancient peoples of Italy more comprehensively in individual chapters, and it is also distinct because it has a thematic section.

Andreas Gryphius is among the best-studied authors of the 17^th century, yet until now, there has been no comprehensive, up-to-date presentation of his life and work. The handbook seeks to fill this gap. It includes chapters on individual texts and covers a number of interpretative approaches. It also presents an overview of the current state of research and an expanded set of references, including previously neglected textual corpora.

We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology), funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union.

"Völkisch" nationalism, whose origins date back to the 19^th century, extended its influence since the time of the German Empire and survives to this day. The new edition of this handbook addresses the vast increase in research findings and fills earlier gaps with new information and revised insights. It has a broad focus, considering everything from research programs and institutions to biographies, newspapers, and important individuals.

The Handbook of Israel: Major Debates serves as an academic compendium for people interested in major discussions and controversies over Israel. It provides innovative, updated and informative knowledge on a range of acute debates. Among other topics, the handbook discusses post-Zionism, militarism, democracy and religion, (in)equality, colonialism, today’s criticism of Israel, Israel-Diaspora relations, and peace programs. Outstanding scholars face each other with unadulterated, divergent analyses. These historical, political and sociological texts from Israel and elsewhere make up a major reference book within academia and outside academia. About seventy contributions grouped in thirteen thematic sections present controversial and provocative approaches refl ecting, from different angles, on the present-day challenges of the State of Israel.

Other Major Works by the Editors:

Eliezer Ben-Rafael
Is Israel One? Religion, Nationalism and Ethnicity Confounded, Brill (2005)
Ethnicity, Religion and Class in Israel, Cambridge University Press (paperback) (2007)

Julius H. Schoeps
Begegnungen. Menschen, die meinen Lebensweg kreuzten. Suhrkamp (2016)
Pioneers of Zionism: Hess, Pinsker, Rülf. Messianism, Settlement Policy, and the Israeli-Palestinan Conflict. De Gruyter (2013)

Yitshak Sternberg
World Religions and Multiculturalism: A Relational Dialectic. Brill (2010).
Transnationalism. Brill (2009)

Olaf Glöckner
Being Jewish in 21st Century Germany. De Gruyter (2015, with Haim Fireberg)
Deutschland, die Juden und der Staat Israel. Olms (2016, with Julius H. Schoeps)

The literary and political works of Bettina von Arnim have been rediscovered by the public. Drawing on the latest research, this handbook places her in her historical and familial context and highlights her links with intellectuals as well as her cultural politics. The contributions elucidate the entire body of her literary and socio-political work, her correspondence, her pictorial and musical works, and the reception of her person and work.

The Austrian author Robert Musil (1880–1942) was a soldier, engineer, and trained philosopher. Besides his fragmentary novel The Man Without Qualities (1930/32), his works include plays, stories, essays, reviews and an extensive legacy. This handbook offers a broad overview of Musil’s life, work and impact. It also opens multiple research perspectives on one of the most important works of German classical modernity.

This volume presents current theoretical approaches from the fields of cultural and literary theory and describes their reception and application in the area of Medieval German studies. Each chapter engages in a literary analysis of a key text from Medieval German literature. The work also provides extensive bibliographic information and a glossary of key terms.

Coffee from East Africa, wine from California, chocolate from the Ivory Coast - all those every day products are based on labour, often produced under appalling conditions, but always involving the combination of various work processes we are often not aware of.

What is the day-to-day reality for workers in various parts of the world, and how was it in the past? How do they work today, and how did they work in the past? These and many other questions comprise the field of the global history of work – a young discipline that is introduced with this handbook.

In 8 thematic chapters, this book discusses these aspects of work in a global and long term perspective, paying attention to several kinds of work. Convict labour, slave and wage labour, labour migration, and workers of the textile industry, but also workers' organisation, strikes, and motivations for work are part of this first handbook of global labour history, written by the most renowned scholars of the profession.

This handbook is the first in German to give an overview of the most important trading regions and trade routes since antiquity. It takes flows of goods and maritime and continental trade routes into account, as well as climate and geographical circumstances, central actors, and significant infrastructure. At the same time, it synthesizes international research on various major regions.

This handbook provides a systematic overview of the present state of international research in digital public history. Individual studies by internationally renowned public historians, digital humanists, and digital historians elucidate central issues in the field and present a critical account of the major public history accomplishments, research activities, and practices with the public and of their digital context. The handbook applies an international and comparative approach, looks at the historical development of the field, focuses on technical background and the use of specific digital media and tools. Furthermore, the handbook analyzes connections with local communities and different publics worldwide when engaging in digital activities with the past, indicating directions for future research, and teaching activities.

The renowned and illustrious tales of King Arthur, his knights and the Round Table pervade all European vernaculars, as well as the Latin tradition. Arthurian narrative material, which had originally been transmitted in oral culture, began to be inscribed regularly in the twelfth century, developing from (pseudo-)historical beginnings in the Latin chronicles of "historians" such as Geoffrey of Monmouth into masterful literary works like the romances of Chrétien de Troyes. Evidently a big hit, Arthur found himself being swiftly translated, adapted and integrated into the literary traditions of almost every European vernacular during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. This Handbook seeks to showcase the European character of Arthurian romance both past and present.

By working across national philological boundaries, which in the past have tended to segregate the study of Arthurian romance according to language, as well as by exploring primary texts from different vernaculars and the Latin tradition in conjunction with recent theoretical concepts and approaches, this Handbook brings together a pioneering and more complete view of the specifically European context of Arthurian romance, and promotes the more connected study of Arthurian literature across the entirety of its European context.

Considering his literary works – especially his novels – together with his writings on literature, philosophy, and politics, Hermann Broch is one of the most innovative German-language writers of the 20^th century. This handbook was created in cooperation with an international research team. It presents Broch’s life history along with all of his literary and essayistic output, analyzing and reassessing Broch’s work in its multiple contexts.

This encyclopedia examines medieval German literature in geographic contexts. It documents institutions and individuals that fostered the creation, reception, and dissemination of literature, textual culture, and literary education. It traces the history of German textual culture in Hungary and Romania from the early contacts through the Battle of Mohács.

The Handbook illustrates a new interdisciplinary conceptualization of the category “house” as evoked by current discussions in the social sciences and humanities. In addition, it offers readers a panorama of European research related to the historical dimensions of house, household, and domesticity.

Numerous research projects have studied the Nubian cultures of Sudan and Egypt over the last thirty years, leading to significant new insights. The contributions to this handbook illuminate our current understanding of the cultural history of this fascinating region, including its interconnections to the natural world.

The book surveys major culture portals in the fields of culture and science, such as the German Digital Library. It presents a range of different projects with a focus on historical, disciplinary, organizational, legal, and economic aspects. The descriptions of the portals are uniformly organized to enable a comparative assessment of the offerings, thereby providing an overview of the current landscape of online culture portals.

This work offers a basic overview of information literacy from the perspective of the library and information sciences. It includes essays on strategies for practical implementation of support for information literacy in schools, universities, and research facilities. A particular focus is placed on designing such programs to promote learning through calculated spatial and technical infrastructures and didactically effective planning.

The Practical Handbook of Library Construction deals with all aspects of building and equipping a library. It covers planning, site selection, exterior facilities, space allotment, tendering, financing, laws and standards, library facilities, technical infrastructure, transport systems, classroom spaces, and barrier-free design. The handbook includes an extensive bibliography.

Our society, focused on media, communication, and knowledge, has been paying more and more attention to topics such as reading, reading comprehension, and reading competency. Ever since the PISA study in 2000, these issues have been the focus of both political and popular discussion. This handbook is based on the latest research findings in neurophysiology, psycholinguistics, education, sociological communications theory, and book studies.

Similar to its predecessor work, The Modern Library, The Practical Handbook of Library Management is a handbook that covers all aspects of library organization. It provides an overview of library management in Germany, with special emphasis on current developments in consideration of the international context. It also offers a detailed outlook on the most important contemporary trends in library work.

Since 2008 the world’s economy has seen dramatic changes that have rippled throughout the library world. While the demand for library services has increased, the money available to build, refurbish and operate them has decreased. Many countries report a decrease in funding of libraries. On the other hand, public and student demand for study and collaborative work space, the changing nature of the content delivery and the increased need for access to computer technologies are creating an increasing need for more library space that is smart, flexible and economical to build and operate. Libraries are central to our knowledge economy. Without them, many communities would have no access to technology, study space or tutorial and literacy training.

High Quality Design on a Low Budget brings together a range of building projects from national, academic and public Libraries from different regions of the world showing how these libraries are able to continue to provide high quality library space that is affordable in these times of difficult economic circumstances.

Changing conditions are forcing university libraries to redesign how academic information is supplied to users. The Handbook of University Library Systems presents planning recommendations from the German Council of Science and Humanities and the German Research Foundation, and explores a number of delivery models using examples taken from professional practice.

There has been an unmet need for theoretical and practical strategies and models directly relevant to market-oriented and customer-oriented digital library services. This book fills this gap, describing the basic principles and major challenges of marketing digital library services, and uses best-practice examples from academic and public libraries as well as from commercial providers.

Die 2. Auflage der Audio-Enzyklopädie bietet einen aktuellen Überblick über alle Felder der Tonstudiotechnik. Behandelt werden neben elektrotechnischen und -akustischen Grundlagen vor allem moderne Verfahren der Digitaltechnik. Über 850 Abbildungen und Tabellen machen die Inhalte anschaulich. Damit ist die Audio-Enzyklopädie zugleich Nachschlagewerk für Profis, Handbuch für Praktiker und Lehrbuch für Ausbildung und Selbststudium.

Since the discovery of X-ray diffraction in 1913 over 100 000 different inorganic substances (also called compounds or phases) have been structurally characterized. The aim of this reference work is to provide the researcher with a comprehensive compilation of all up to now crystallographically identified inorganic substances in only one volume. All data have been processed and critically evaluated by the "Pauling File" editorial team using a unique software package. Each substance is represented in a single row containing the following information adapted to the number of chemical elements:
- Alphabetically sorted chemical elements
- Standardized chemical formula
- Prototype (structure type): type-defining compound, Pearson symbol, space group number
- Hermann-Mauguin symbol for the space group
- Unit cell dimensions
- Mineral name or structural family
- Color
- Density calculated from the chemical formula and unit cell dimensions
- Code indicating the level of structural studies (atom coordinates refined; no atom coordinates refined, but prototype assigned; only cell parameters determined)
- Reference number

Since the discovery of X-ray diffraction in 1913 over 100 000 different inorganic substances (also called compounds or phases) have been structurally characterized. The aim of this reference work is to provide the researcher with a comprehensive compilation of all up to now crystallographically identified inorganic substances in only one volume. All data have been processed and critically evaluated by the "Pauling File" editorial team using a unique software package. Each substance is represented in a single row containing the following information:
- Alphabetically sorted chemical elements
- Standardized chemical formula
- Prototype (structure type): type-defining compound, Pearson symbol, space group number
- Hermann-Mauguin symbol for the space group
- Unit cell dimensions
- Color
- Density calculated from the chemical formula and unit cell dimensions
- Code indicating the level of structural studies (atom coordinates refined; no atom coordinates refined, but prototype assigned; only cell parameters determined)
- Reference number

By browsing about 10 000 000 scientific articles of over 200 major journals some 200 000 publications were selected. The extracted data is part of the following material research fields: crystal structures (S), phase diagrams (C) and intrinsic physical properties (P). These research field codes as well as the chemical systems investigated in each publication were included in the present work. The aim of this Bibliography is to provide researchers with a comprehensive compilation of all up to now published scientific publications on inorganic systems in only three handy volumes.

By browsing about 10 000 000 scientific articles of over 200 major journals mainly in a ‘cover to cover approach’ some 200 000 publications were selected. The extracted data is part of the following fundamental material research fields: crystallographic structures (S), phase diagrams (also called constitution) (C) and the comprehensive field of intrinsic physical properties (P). This work has been done systematically starting with the literature going back to 1900. The above mentioned research field codes (S, C, P) as well as the chemical systems investigated in each publication were included in the present work. The aim of the Inorganic Substances Bibliography is to provide researchers with a comprehensive compilation of all up to now published scientific publications on inorganic systems in only two handy volumes.

States configure and shape migration processes, channel migratory movements, and categorize migrants. This handbook surveys the genesis of the relationship between state and migration in Germany and examines the changes in ideological and political principles, government-established rules, and administrative decision-making processes that have affected emigration and immigration.

This volume is the first handbook of regional history, which does not take on a specific regional focus but instead, explores over-arching connections and features of the discipline. It presents the history of the discipline, spatial concepts, areas of intellectual interest, forms of access, and thematic fields (all with references to specific historical regions) and shows the commonalities between individual regional histories.

We think of immigration as prototypical of our globalizing world, but migratory movement has long characterized human history. For the first time, this study seeks to examine the migrations that occurred during the medieval millennium. The volume will become an indispensable reference work for all who are interested in the Middle Ages from the perspective of the world at large.

A follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies, this new reference work turns to a different focus: medieval culture.

Medieval research has grown tremendously in depth and breadth over the last decades. Particularly our understanding of medieval culture, of the basic living conditions, and the specific value system prevalent at that time has considerably expanded, to a point where we are in danger of no longer seeing the proverbial forest for the trees. The present, innovative handbook offers compact articles on essential topics, ideals, specific knowledge, and concepts defining the medieval world as comprehensively as possible. The topics covered in this new handbook pertain to issues such as love and marriage, belief in God, hell, and the devil, education, lordship and servitude, Christianity versus Judaism and Islam, health, medicine, the rural world, the rise of the urban class, travel, roads and bridges, entertainment, games, and sport activities, numbers, measuring, the education system, the papacy, saints, the senses, death, and money.

A follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies, this new reference work turns to a different focus: medieval culture.

Medieval research has grown tremendously in depth and breadth over the last decades. Particularly our understanding of medieval culture, of the basic living conditions, and the specific value system prevalent at that time has considerably expanded, to a point where we are in danger of no longer seeing the proverbial forest for the trees. The present, innovative handbook offers compact articles on essential topics, ideals, specific knowledge, and concepts defining the medieval world as comprehensively as possible. The topics covered in this new handbook pertain to issues such as love and marriage, belief in God, hell, and the devil, education, lordship and servitude, Christianity versus Judaism and Islam, health, medicine, the rural world, the rise of the urban class, travel, roads and bridges, entertainment, games, and sport activities, numbers, measuring, the education system, the papacy, saints, the senses, death, and money.

A follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies, this new reference work turns to a different focus: medieval culture.

Medieval research has grown tremendously in depth and breadth over the last decades. Particularly our understanding of medieval culture, of the basic living conditions, and the specific value system prevalent at that time has considerably expanded, to a point where we are in danger of no longer seeing the proverbial forest for the trees. The present, innovative handbook offers compact articles on essential topics, ideals, specific knowledge, and concepts defining the medieval world as comprehensively as possible. The topics covered in this new handbook pertain to issues such as love and marriage, belief in God, hell, and the devil, education, lordship and servitude, Christianity versus Judaism and Islam, health, medicine, the rural world, the rise of the urban class, travel, roads and bridges, entertainment, games, and sport activities, numbers, measuring, the education system, the papacy, saints, the senses, death, and money.

A follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies, this new reference work turns to a different focus: medieval culture. Medieval research has grown tremendously in depth and breadth over the last decades. Particularly our understanding of medieval culture, of the basic living conditions, and the specific value system prevalent at that time has considerably expanded, to a point where we are in danger of no longer seeing the proverbial forest for the trees. The present, innovative handbook offers compact articles on essential topics, ideals, specific knowledge, and concepts defining the medieval world as comprehensively as possible. The topics covered in this new handbook pertain to issues such as love and marriage, belief in God, hell, and the devil, education, lordship and servitude, Christianity versus Judaism and Islam, health, medicine, the rural world, the rise of the urban class, travel, roads and bridges, entertainment, games, and sport activities, numbers, measuring, the education system, the papacy, saints, the senses, death, and money.

This is the first German language work that presents biographies of all the Cardinals from the papacy of Pope Pius IX in 1846 through the end of the papacy of Pope Benedict XVI in 2012. The volume is amplified by introductions to the history of the College of Cardinals, to its mission and its standing in the Roman Catholic Church, establishing it as an essential reference work.

Extensive chronicles have been handed down from the Middle Ages, preserving and interpreting stories of the past and present in literary form. Their sheer numbers pose a challenge to researchers. This handbook systematically presents the most important medieval chronicles in terms of their conception and function. It offers the reader initial access to these unjustly neglected texts.

The Handbook of Rare Earth Elements focuses on the essential role of modern instrumental analytics in the recycling, purification and analysis of rare earth elements. Due to their numerous applications, e.g. in novel magnetic materials for computer hardware, mobile phones and displays, rare earth elements have become a strategic and valuable resource. The detailed knowledge of rare earth element contents at every step of their life cycle is of great importance.

This reference work was compiled with contribution from an international team of expert authors from Academia and Industry to presend a comprehensive discussion on the state-of-the-art of rare earth element analysis for industrial and scientific purposes, recycling processes and purification of REEs from various sources.

Written with Analytical Chemists, Inorganic Chemists, Spectroscopists as well as Industry Practitioners in mind, the Handbook of Rare Earth Elements is an indispensable reference for everyone working with rare earth elements.

The Handbook offers the first systematic overview of key transformations of Modern Languages Studies (MLS) in the present century and explores how new framing concepts – ‘the transnational’, ‘the global’, ‘the world’, ‘the planetary’, ‘the local’ – modify entrenched notions of nationhood. It not only analyses new approaches to the study of humanity across body and mind, discourse and matter, the normal and the pathological but also looks at new perspectives on humanity’s subdivisions across gender, race, sexuality and disability, as well as shifting relationships with non-human ‘Others’. The Handbook maps out how specific cultural forms – literary, visual, performative, musical – govern knowledge production in MLS, while also addressing the relevance of new digital media, the growing importance of multi- and inter-mediality, and the expanding role of ‘translation’ as both practice and concept. Drawing on scholars from different language areas and specialities, it considers what (inter-)disciplinarity means in MLS and how the field intersects with other disciplines, from history and philosophy to politics and law to medicine and the neurosciences, not least through key boundary concepts, such as ‘narrative’ or ‘cognition’.

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.

Medieval book ornament is a rapidly developing field of research. In the last decade, the various materials and techniques used to decorate medieval books, their different spaces and textures, their sensory qualities and semantics, and their significance in ritual or other performative contexts have reignited the interest of all disciplines concerned with the medieval book as a material object. Nevertheless, a comprehensive overview of the entire field is lacking. The Handbook of Medieval Book Ornament, creates a reference work, for both students and specialists, discussing the most important terms, topics, and currently discussed concepts related to ornament (in the broadest Middle Latin sense of "ornatus") in medieval book cultures. The focus is on book cultures in the Latin speaking world of Europe from 700 to 1500, including perspectives on Jewish, Islamic, Byzantine and vernacular book cultures and transcultural phenomena. It consists of 200 articles arranged in general themes such as Materials and Techniques, Topology, Sensory Effects, Usage and Pragmatics, Script, and Iconicity. All articles are written by the most renowned experts in the field and include a brief research bibliography, making the handbook an indispensable reference for anyone studying medieval books.

Das vorliegende Handbuch stellt von Herodot bis Habermas die klassischen Werke der Geschichtsphilosophie vor, die von namhaften Experten kommentiert und in ihrer Bedeutung für das Verstehen der Gegenwart erschlossen werden. Berücksicht werden dabei auch historische, literarische, soziologische und theologische Werke, die die Geschichtsphilosophie mitgeprägt haben.

Alle Werke werden nach einem einheitlichen Schema interpretiert, so dass eine schnelle Orientierung möglich ist. Dieses Handbuch eignet sich besonders für Wissenschaftler*innen, Studierende, Lehrer*innen und allgemein Interessierte, die sich einen fundierten und seriösen Überblick über die Geschichte der Geschichtsphilosophie verschaffen wollen.

Inscriptions are omnipresent and Epigraphy as a discipline becomes ever more important for the study of political history as well as the understanding ofsocio-economic connections, religious ideas and other fields of interest in thehumanities. How, when and why did societies produce inscriptions and create distinct epigraphic cultures worldwide? This Handbook provides an authoritative overview across the world, from antiquity to early modern times.

The Handbook of Epigraphic Cultures includes the following volumes:

Vol. 1: East, Central, South and Southeast Asia

Vol. 2: West Asia, Africa

Vol. 3: Europe, America, Indices

The present book is part of series published on Spectrophotometric methods for determination of various chemical elements. Since rare earth elements are most important industrial chemical elements their analysis using simple and inexpensive methods is of utmost importance. The present book is an important milestone in this area. Most of the methods described are simple yet well evidenced developed by the experts of the area. The book is written in do it yourself style in lucid and comprehensive way so that analyst with no prior expertise can use it. Academia and industry sector analyst will be true beneficiaries of this book.

From the point of view of library practice, the Practical Handbook on Library Management offers an up-to-date assessment of the current situation and an overview of all aspects of the management of academic libraries in Germany. Special emphasis is placed on the presentation of current developments, taking into account the international context. On selected topics, their classification in terms of science policy is also dealt with.

Literature’s probative force travels across the realm of sense in this world to what lies beyond it. When we speak of what is beyond our grasp in this world, we think most immediately of the world of the spirit. Shakespeare famously celebrates literature’s power to explore the "forms of things unknown." How many great works of literature guide us through a familiar world to the edge of the spiritual unknown? Not only Shakespeare, but Dante, Milton, Dostoevsky, Hopkins, Eliot, O’Connor, and many others in these pages carry us there. This book follows their quest.

Literary apologetics is the study of the characteristic moves by the authors who take readers on their journey of faith with them. Most notably, that tradition begins with Latin authors, spreads across Europe in a continuous literary culture, and extends over world literature to the present day. While early apologetics is proclamation, rhetoric, philosophy, and poetry, above all it is witness to the faith manifesting itself in time. The early faith community produces a distinct literary culture as Christian witness takes all these forms and more. From then until now, this kind of literature probes ultimate questions, adumbrates numinous experience, and extrapolates ethical outcomes of Christian teachings across a wide variety of literary forms. The Handbook of Literary Apologetics provides an authoritative introduction to the scope of this tradition and its major figures.

This handbook presents contemporary knowledge about the "letter" as a text type and, through its diverse chapters from various cultural disciplines, is the first to make the dimensions of the epistolary culture that shaped antiquity tangible. The letter, as both a textual and communicative phenomenon, is extensively analyzed through systematic conceptual-history articles and source-based historical case studies.

The field of library and information science (LIS) is constantly evolving and adapting to the changing needs and expectations of users, society and technology. This book provides trends and innovations that are emerging in library and information science with a multidisciplinary approach.

This handbook reveals every facet of this author, visual artist, and public figure’s work for the first time. Grass, who has always met with controversy, is regarded as one of Germany’s most important postwar authors, especially abroad. This volume provides a current, clearly structured examination of his life’s work, its reception, and existing scholarship, offering new perspectives on the author and his oeuvre within their historical context.

This handbook offers a guide to research on religious culture during Europe’s long nineteenth century (1800–1914). Grounded in the latest theoretical approaches and in line with trends that have produced a "religious turn" in the study of modern Europe, the volume assesses the state of the field while making provocative recommendations for its enlargement. Unique and ambitious in its thematic breadth, it addresses the histories of all five of Europe’s main religious traditions – Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Protestantism, and Roman Catholicism – and brings these histories into comparative analysis. This analysis extends to a wide range of subjects, from popular belief and practice, education and modern knowledge formation, and the arts to the intersections between religion and urbanization, civil society and politics, and missions and imperialism. It also evaluates recent developments in work on religion vis-à-vis both gender and nationalism, while calling attention to newer research that proposes secularism as a form of belief in its own right. Presenting the scholarship of eighteen leaders in their respective fields, the volume explains why religion as a topic of research has moved from the periphery to the center of modern European historiography.

As part of cultural studies and within the scope of the various cultural turns that have taken place, a range of "studies" have emerged in recent decades – dynamic interdisciplinary fields of research that systematically analyze topics that had been marginalized. This handbook presents the disciplines that are currently the most important and provides a reliable overview of concepts and contexts.

The first comprehensive reference work on Brigitte Kronauer’s oeuvre explores the texts written by this award-winning contemporary author. It provides a concise overview of her idiosyncratic novels, short story collections, and reflections on her own writing. It also traces Kronauer’s dialogue with other authors and artists, providing a basis for interdisciplinary approaches and perspectives.

Bridging the technical and the economical worlds of the energy sector and establishing a solid understanding of today's energy supply as a complex system– with these missions in mind, the book at hand compactly describes the fundamentals of electrical power supply in a dialogue between technology and non-technology, between academia and practitioners, and between nations and continents.

Today, energy supply is a complex global system – it is time for a dialogue of the disciplines.

In this book, experts explain in an understandable manner the technical foundations and selected specific aspects of today's electrical power supply. Each chapter supplies a fundamental introduction in layman's terms to the topic and serves technical specialists both as a reference and as an opportunity to expand their knowledge. Practical examples and case studies complete the compendium.

Technology and economics in the energy sector work on the same questions out of different perspectives. The increasing complexity and interconnections and the epochal upheavals in the energy sector make a comprehensive understanding of the energy sector as a system an essential requirement.

This necessitates an ongoing and successful dialogue between the disciplines and between academia and practitioners. To that aim, this book serves both as a compact reference for everyone interested in the energy sector and as a true translation aid between the professional disciplines.

In recent years, the interest in GFL has continued to grow around the globe. So far, however, not enough attention has been paid to the fact that GFL is generally learned for work and with specific professional intentions. This handbook is the first to accompany the increasing interest in German as a foreign language with a special focus on communication for specialist purposes.

In spite of its enormous significance for the development of German culture and society, hardly any research has been done on the Wirtschaftswunder as an independent period. Economic recovery and political stability influenced the production and reception of art, literature, film, and other media. This handbook surveys a wide range of works – synchronously for the Wirtschaftswunder period and diachronically for the period that went after it.

The three Volumes cover commonly used methods for the spectrophotometric determination of iron, copper, nickel, cobalt, vanadium, chromium and manganese. They provide ready-to-use guides of reagents, methods and conditions, including wavelength and interferences of other ions in samples. They are ideal books for researchers in analytical chemistry, quality control and environmental monitoring, pharmaceutical and metallurgical industries.

The present book is part of series published on Spectrophotometric methods for determination of various transition metals. Since vanadium chromium and manganese are most important industrial metals their analysis using simple and inexpensive methods is of utmost importance. The present book is an important milestone in this area. Most of the methods described are simple yet well evidenced developed by the experts of the area. The book is written in do it yourself style in lucid and comprehensive way so that analyst with no prior expertise can use it. Academia, industry and Pharma sector analyst will be true beneficiaries of this book.

Sub-volume I/2 picks up where I/1 leaves off, completing the analyses of the bibliographical data, content, and transmission history of Berlin’s collection of marital instructional texts. Subsequent volumes containing pertinent material from the HAB Wolfenbüttel are in preparation.

This hand book is concerned with optical imaging – from simple pinhole cameras to complex imaging systems. It spans the range all the way from optical physics to technical optics. Based on ray- and wave-optical approaches complemented by principles of Fourier optics, the book discusses the process of imaging from the beginning until image capture where, in particular, the different topics are well integrated with each other.

Different imaging systems and sensors are reviewed as well as lenses and aberrations, image intensification and processing. The second and enlarged edition has been updated by actual developments and complemented by the topic of smart phone camera photography.

The latter plays an important role today in the field of optical imaging and represents a fully integrated optical system with potential for further new developments. For physicists, natural scientists, engineers, photographers and microscopists on one side and students of physics, natural sciences or engineering in general on the other side, the books provides an introduction into the complex field of optical imaging. For all of them with practical experience the book conveys a deeper insight into the intricacies and quality assessment of their daily used devices.

The relatively new movement of Experimental Philosophy applies different systematic experimental methods to further illuminate classical philosophical issues. This book brings together experts from the field to give the reader a compact yet extensive overview, offering a ready at hand introduction to the state of the art.

This handbook is the first to create a framework for book studies intended to guide research, providing a systematic overview of its subject matter by areas of research. It demonstrates theoretical approaches and discusses potential other approaches and their advantages. This volume sees itself as an interdisciplinary starting point for future book-related studies and a basic element in book studies education at universities.

The Horvaìth Handbook provides an initial or more in-depth introduction to the life and work of Ödön von Horváth. It begins by exploring biographical and text-critical constellations before providing precise descriptions of the various work groups. It places a special focus on the specific features of Horváth’s poetics. The volume closes by examining Horváth’s reception and providing an index of people and works.

Konrad von Würzburg was the most significant and versatile German author of the thirteenth century, possibly even the Middle Ages. His works stand out due to their stylistic quality, the diversity of their themes and genres, and the lasting impact they have made. This handbook is the first of its kind, bringing together texts written by a group of experts, and addresses a specialist German studies audience as well as students of German studies and neighboring medieval studies fields. It documents the rich, enduring international research that has been conducted on Konrad as well as new methodological approaches to his oeuvre. Alongside an introduction to the author’s biographical traces, this handbook comprises overarching chapters on aesthetics, and the reception and transmission of Konrad’s works, as well as individual chapters on Konrad’s verse, his shorter stories (Das Herzmaere,　Heinrich von Kempten,　Die halbe Birne,　Der Schwanritter) and legends (Silvester,　Alexius,　Pantaleon), his heraldic poem (Das Turnier von Nantheiz), and Konrad's innovative allegorical poems (Die Klage der Kunst, Die goldene Schmiede,　Der Welt Lohn). It also contains chapters on Konrad’s two romances (Engelhard,　Partonopier und Meliur) and his great　Trojanerkrieg fragment.

By consequence of the Karabakh War in 2020 and due to Azerbaijanian revisionism concerning the history, culture and cultural monuments of the region, the discussion on Caucasian "Albania", which is little known in the West in both academic and public circles, has been reignited. The handbook provides an overview of the current state of research on the Caucasian "Albanians" in an objective, scientifically sound manner. The contributions are not necessarily intended to reveal new scientific findings but rather to summarise approved knowledge. The volume brings together internationally renowned scholars, researchers and practitioners from various fields of studies reporting on and reviewing the state of research concerning the Caucasian "Albanians", their history and archaeology, their language and written monuments, their religion, church history and their art, including their relation to the Udi people of today. The companion is intended to neutrally introduce the readership to the subject of Caucasian Albania from various perspectives.

This two volume set of this Handbook of Colorants Chemistry provides in depth explorations of the fundamentals of dyes and pigments in Volume 1 and of paints, painting and drawing systems used by the painter and craftsman in Volume 2. Both volumes are supplemented by a comprehensive bibliography with references to standard works, monographs and original papers. The reader is provided with a unique overview of the field of color chemistry.

This volume examines new developments in the fields of premodern Jewish studies over the last thirty years.

The essays in this volume, written by leading experts, are grouped into four overarching temporal areas: the First Temple, Second Temple, Rabbinic, and Medieval periods. These time periods are analyzed through four thematic methodological lenses: the social scientific (history and society), the textual (texts and literature), the material (art, architecture, and archaeology), and the philosophical (religion and thought). Some essays offer a comprehensive look at the state of the field, while others look at specific examples illustrative of their temporal and thematic areas of inquiry.

The volume presents a snapshot of the state of the field, encompassing new perspectives, directions, and methodologies, as well as the questions that will animate the field as it develops further. It will be of interest to scholars and students in the field, as well as to educated readers looking to understand the changing face of Jewish studies as a discipline advancing human knowledge

Volume 2 of the Handbook of Colorant Chemistry focuses on paints, painting and drawing systems used by the painter and craftsman. It describes in detail structure of oil, watercolor, acrylic and ceramic paints, inks, toners, and other drawing systems. From presenting molecular compositions of common paints and inks to a historical look at color chemistry, the author offers an in-depth look at the world of color. The complementary “Volume 1: Dyes and Pigments Fundamentals” (ISBN 978-3-11-077699-7) focuses on paints, painting and drawing systems used by the painter and craftsman. The book is supplemented by a comprehensive bibliography with references to standard works, monographs, and original papers. The reader is provided with a unique overview of the fi eld of color chemistry.

Volume 1 of the Handbook of Colorants Chemistry comprehensively covers the fundamentals of color as well as the underlying scientifi c principles, via the presentation of molecular compositions of inorganic and organic pigments. The author explains the chemical and physical production of color and the infl uence of the physical-geometric pigment parameters on the color shade. This volume also deals with historical and modern pigments, dyes, and binders, as well as their mode of action. The complementary “Volume 2: in Painting, Art and Inks” (ISBN 978-3-11-077700-0) focuses on paints, painting and drawing systems used by the painter and craftsman. The book is supplemented by a comprehensive bibliography with references to standard works, monographs, and original papers. The reader is provided with a unique overview of the fi eld of color chemistry.

This book sheds light on Theodor Fontane’s multifaceted oeuvre based on recent scholarship and with a view to posthumous texts, to contemporary events and society, and to his relationships. The articles it contains discuss his work in the context of the 19^th century history of ideas, knowledge, and media.

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the principles, perspectives, and main emphases of studying processes of communicative remembering and media memory. Its chapters analyze the field of communication memory studies and link it to complementary approaches from the social sciences, the humanities, and cultural studies.

Literary theory flourished in Central and Eastern Europe throughout the twentieth century, but its relation to Western literary scholarship is complex. This book sheds light on the entangled histories of exchange and influence both within the region known as Central and Eastern Europe, and between the region and the West. The exchange of ideas between scholars in the East and West was facilitated by both personal and institutional relations, both official and informal encounters. For the longest time, however, intellectual exchange was thwarted by political tensions that led to large parts of Central and Eastern Europe being isolated from the West. A few literary theories nevertheless made it into Western scholarly discourses via exiled scholars. Some of these scholars, such as Mikhail Bakhtin, become widely known in the West and their thought was transposed onto new, Western cultural contexts; others, such as Ol’ga Freidenberg, were barely noticed outside of Russian and Poland. This volume draws attention to the schools, circles, and concepts that shaped the development of theory in Central and Eastern Europe as well as the histoire croisée – the history of translations, transformations, and migrations – that conditioned its relationship with the West.

Arno Schmidt is potentially the greatest outsider of German postwar literature. This handbook aims to provide access to his oeuvre, to arouse interest in his works, and to give Schmidt the place he deserves in literary history. It provides both information for a first encounter with Schmidt's texts and an overview of existing research for readers who are already familiar with his works.

This comprehensive book makes power supply easy to understand in a dialogue between technical and non-technical factors. Renowned experts introduce specialist principles and specific issues. Each chapter is easy for beginners to understand but also provides experts with an opportunity to consolidate their knowledge. Practical examples round off the compendium. Everybody working in the energy world needs this book on their desk!

This volume offers a thorough introduction to Jewish world literatures in Spanish and Portuguese, which not only addresses the coexistence of cultures, but also the functions of a literary and linguistic space of negotiation in this context. From the Middle Ages to present day, the compendium explores the main Jewish chapters within Spanish- and Portuguese-language world literature, whether from Europe, Latin America, or other parts of the world. No comprehensive survey of this area has been undertaken so far. Yet only a broad focus of this kind can show how diasporic Jewish literatures have been (and are ) – while closely tied to their own traditions – deeply intertwined with local and global literary developments; and how the aesthetic praxis they introduced played a decisive, formative role in the history of literature. With this epistemic claim, the volume aims at steering clear of isolationist approaches to Jewish literatures.

Staging Authority: Presentation and Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe is a comprehensive handbook on how the presentation, embodiment, and performance of authority changed in the long nineteenth century. It focuses on the diversification of authority: what new forms and expressions of authority arose in that critical century, how traditional authority figures responded and adapted to those changes, and how the public increasingly participated in constructing and validating authority. It pays particular attention to how spaces were transformed to offer new possibilities for the presentation of authority, and how the mediatization of presence affected traditional authority. The handbook’s fourteen chapters draw on innovative methodologies in cultural history and the aligned fields of the history of emotions, urban geography, persona studies, gender studies, media studies, and sound studies.

The Qur’an with Cross-References provides for nearly every verse in the Qur’an a selection of other verses which shed light upon, clarify, or explain the verse you are reading. The Qur’an in its printed edition has not yet been cross-referenced, despite the fact that　Qur’an commentators realized quite early on the central importance of　tafsīr al-Qur’ān bi’l-Qur’ān　(interpreting the Qur’an through the Qur’an itself). Even some modern Muslim exegetes claim to follow this method. However, the cross-references they provided are very limited.

Perhaps, the most extensive treatment and pioneered work on　tafsīr al-Qur’ān bi’l-Qur’ān　is that composed by Rudi Paret entitled　Der Koran: Kommentar und Konkordanz.　Paret’s work is certainly very rich, which includes – in addition to possible cross-references – interpretations of and alternate renderings for a given verse or passage. Furthermore, as the term "Konkordanz" may indicate, his　Der Koran　provides all identical or similar phraseology and usage in different places of the Qur’an, a model that will not be followed in this Qur’an cross-references project.

Instead, The Qur’an with Cross-References is based on connection between words, phrases, themes, concepts, events, and characters. One word may occur several times in the Qur’an, but the cross references will be made only where there is connection in meaning between two or more verses or passages. In preparing this cross-references project, several models and methods used for the cross-references of the Bible are consulted. As is well-known, Bible cross-references have been a long-established tradition, while the Qur’an, at least in its printed edition, has not been cross-referenced.

The Qur’an with Cross-References is the first of its kind. The field has needed something like this, because in the existing Qur’an there is nothing to indicate that certain passages can shed light upon, clarify, or explain other passages.

Practical theology has outgrown its traditional pastoral paradigm. The articles in this handbook recognize that faith, spirituality, and lived religion, within and beyond institutional communities, refer to realms of cultures, ritual practices, and symbolic orders, whose boundaries are not clearly defined and whose contents are shifting. The International Handbook of Practical Theology offers insightful transcultural conceptions of religion and religious matters gathered from various cultures and traditions of faith.

The first section presents ‘concepts of religion’. Chapters have to do with considerations of the conceptualizing of religion in the fields of ‘anthropology’, ‘community’, ‘family’, ‘institution’, ‘law’, ‘media’, and ‘politics’ among others. The second section is dedicated to case studies of ‘religious practices’ from the perspective of their actors. The third section presents major theoretical discourses that explore the globally significant diversity and multiplicity of religion.

Altogether, sixty-one authors from different parts of the world encourage a rethinking of religious practice in an expanded, transcultural, globalized, and postcolonial world.

This collection provides a systematic overview of lectures on poetics, investigating the still little-known Anglo-American origins of the genre, as well as its establishment and rise in the German-speaking world. International experts compare central poetological positions, bringing together their reception in both academic and non-academic contexts in order to describe how this genre functions in the literary field.

The reference work describes in its new edition still more up-to-date methods for the recycling and purifi cation processes of rare earth element analysis for industrial and scientific purposes alike. Due to their vast applications, from computer hardware to mobile phones and electric cars, REEs have become a valuable resource for our modern life. New topics: emission spectroscopy, analysis of environmental samples and pharmaceutical applications.

This practical handbook is the first to extensively present the principles (the internal and external perception of libraries, various political levels, the definition of lobby work versus marketing) and the practice of lobby work for libraries (goals, strategies, partners, competitors). It describes both successful and failed examples of lobby work with extensive explanations.

The second, completely revised edition of this volume reviews material copyright in relation to libraries and discusses the methods of legal case analysis and the steps that precede it. It focuses on the field of license agreement law and also takes into account the legal situations in Switzerland and Austria.

Spanning over 1100+ pages, this two-volume work offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date history of ancient Greek literature from Homer to Late Antiquity. Its clear structure and detailed presentation of Greek authors and their works as well as literary genres and phenomena makes it an indispensable reference work for all those interested in Greek Antiquity.

This book focuses on the characterization of the amorphous phase of polymers, whether they are pure amorphous or semi-crystalline ones, above Tg or below Tg, by studying the relaxation of dipoles and space charges naturally found in their structure after they have been activated by the application of a voltage field. The experimental deconvolution of the relaxation modes responsible for internal motion in the amorphous phase is coupled with a mathematical procedure (Thermal-Windowing Deconvolution-TWD) that leads to the understanding of their coupling characteristics which, it is shown, relate to the state of the material itself, for instance its non-equilibrium state or its internal stress for matter belonging to interfaces between aggregated or dispersed phases.

• Describes quantitatively the Thermal Stimulated Depolarization techniques of polymer characterization (TSD, TWD), i.e. how to decouple the relaxation modes collectively interacting (interactive coupling) and relate it to the thermodynamic properties of the amorphous phase.
• Understands the results of depolarization in terms of the new physics of polymer interactions: the Dual-Phase model, here applied to the dipoles-space charge dynamics.
• Provides a roaster of CASE STUDIES: practical applications of the TSD and TWD characterization techniques to describe coupled molecular motions in resins, medical tissues, wood, blends and block copolymers interfaces, rubbers, can coatings, internal stress in molded parts, etc

This encyclopedia comprehensively summarizes fundamental and applied chemistry of dyes and pigments. The set consists of three volumes that discuss fundamentals and techniques of colorant science (ISBN 978-3-11-058588-9), organic and inorganic pigments (ISBN 978-3-11-058684-8) as well as a detailed overview of dye chemistry (ISBN 978-3-11-058686-2).

Volume 3

From Mixed Metal Oxide Pigments to Zinc Sulfi de Pigments

With contributions on various industrially important dyes, inorganic pigments and organic pigments

• A comprehensive overview on all important dyes, inorganic and organic pigments supplemented by information on all relevant applications and color fundamentals
• The chapters are clearly structured and arranged in alphabetical order in the 3-volumes.

Volume 2

From Color Measurement to Metal Effect Pigments

With contributions on various industrially important dyes, inorganic pigments and organic pigments, on color measurement and historical pigments, dyes and binders

• A comprehensive overview on all important dyes, inorganic and organic pigments supplemented by information on all relevant applications and color fundamentals
• The chapters are clearly structured and arranged in alphabetical order in the 3-volumes.

Volume 1

From Antraquinonoid Pigments to Color Fundamentals

With contributions on various industrially important dyes, inorganic and organic pigments, on color fundamentals and colorants in various application systems (building materials, coatings, cosmetics, plastics, printing inks)

• A comprehensive overview on all important dyes, inorganic and organic pigments supplemented by information on all relevant applications and color fundamentals
• The chapters are clearly structured and arranged in alphabetical order in the 3-volumes.

This handbook places emphasis on modern/contemporary times, and offers relevant sophisticated and comprehensive overviews. It aims to emphasize the religious, economic, political, cultural and social connections between Africa and the rest of the world and features comparisons as well as an interdisciplinary approach in order to examine the place of Africa in global history.

"This book makes an important contribution to the discussion on the place of Africa in the world and of the world in Africa. An outstanding work of scholarship, it powerfully demonstrates that Africa is not marginal to global concerns. Its labor and resources have made our world, and the continent deserves our respect." – Mukhtar Umar Bunza, Professor of Social History, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, and Commissioner for Higher Education, Kebbi State, Nigeria

"This is a deep plunge into the critical place of Africa in global history. The handbook blends a rich set of important tapestries and analysis of the conceptual framework of African diaspora histories, imperialism and globalization. By foregrounding the authentic voices of African interpreters of transnational interactions and exchanges, the Handbook demonstrates a genuine commitment to the promotion of decolonized and indigenous knowledge on African continent and its peoples." – Samuel Oloruntoba, Visiting Research Professor, Institute of African Studies, Carleton University

The book covers specific and selective reagents for the determination of iron and copper by spectrophotometry. It provides methods for each group or class of reagents, including conditions, wavelength and interferences of other ions in samples. It is a unique guide for researchers in analytical chemistry from pharmaceutical to environmental monitoring laboratories working on iron and copper based products.

The Handbook of Polish, Czech, and Slovak Holocaust Fiction aims to increase the visibility and show the versatility of works from East-Central European countries. It is the first encyclopedic work to bridge the gap between the literary production of countries that are considered to be main sites of the Holocaust and their recognition in international academic and public discourse. It contains over 100 entries offering not only facts about the content and motifs but also pointing out the characteristic fictional features of each work and its meaning for academic discourse and wider reception in the country of origin and abroad.

The publication will appeal to the academic and broader public interested in the representation of the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, and World War II in literature and the arts. Besides prose, it also considers poetry and theatrical plays from 1943 through 2018. An introduction to the historical events and cultural developments in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Czech, and Slovak Republic, and their impact on the artistic output helps to contextualise the motif changes and fictional strategies that authors have been applying for decades.

The publication is the result of long-term scholarly cooperation of specialists from four countries and several dozen academic centres.

The Minnesang, or courtly love-song, is the most important type of medieval German lyric. The texts in this handbook portray the Minnesang in great depth, discussing their authors, subjects, semantics, and various research questions. At the same time, this book situates the history of German Minnesang in the context of European love poetry.

This book provides a cutting-edge research overview on the latest developments in the field of Optics and Photonics. All chapters are authored by the pioneers in their field and will cover the developments in Quantum Photonics, Optical properties of 2D Materials, Optical Sensors, Organic Opto-electronics, Nanophotonics, Metamaterials, Plasmonics, Quantum Cascade lasers, LEDs, Biophotonics and biomedical photonics and spectroscopy.

This handbook provides key information on the reception of major sujets in the European musical theater, thereby tracing characteristic cultural historical features in the transformation of medieval stage productions. The 40 paradigmatic topics and groups of materials were selected for their current existence on the opera stage and for their particular cultural historical importance.

Bibliometrics and altmetrics are increasingly becoming the focus of interest in the context of research evaluation. The Handbook Bibliometrics provides a comprehensive introduction to quantifying scientific output in addition to a historical derivation, individual indicators, institutions, application perspectives and data bases. Furthermore, application scenarios, training and qualification on bibliometrics and their implications are considered.

This handbook presents current knowledge about “letters” as a text genre. Containing diverse essays from multiple disciplines of cultural studies, it captures for the first time the full dimension of epistolary culture from early modernity to the present day. The textual and communicative phenomenon of the letter is analyzed comprehensively in systematic conceptual and historical articles and source-based case studies.

Because of its extent and diversity, the oeuvre of the Nuremberg Meistersinger, dramatist, and author of moral didactic poems Hans Sachs (1494–1576) is difficult to summarize. The first part of the handbook presents a complete chronological repertory, while the second part includes a chronologically numbered overview of all texts, their sources, their typologies, selected motifs, reception literature, and a bibliography.

This 8-volume set provides a systematic description on 8,350 active marine natural products from 3,025 various kinds of marine organisms. The diversity of structures, biological resources and pharmacological activities are discussed in detial. Molecular structural classification system with 264 structural types are developed in the book as well.

This handbook covers characteristics, processability and application areas of biodegradable polymers, with key polymer family groups discussed. It explores the role of biodegradable polymers in different waste management practices including anaerobic digestion, and considers topics such as the different types of biorefineries for renewable monomers used in producing the building blocks for biodegradable polymers.

There are many instances where interest in the materiality and design of the book links contemporary literature to art books, as they have developed since the 1960s. The five parts of this Handbook cover the themes and forms of reflection on book design, design considerations in historical book types, children’s books and picture books, central forms and concepts, along with 100 examples from literature and the art of the book.

This 8-volume set provides a systematic description on 8,350 active marine natural products from 3,025 various kinds of marine organisms. The diversity of structures, biological resources and pharmacological activities are discussed in detail. Molecular structural classification system with 264 structural types are developed as well. The 8th volume mainly illustrates the molecular formula and structures of peptides and other products.

This 8-volume set provides a systematic description on 8,350 active marine natural products from 3,025 various kinds of marine organisms. The diversity of structures, biological resources and pharmacological activities are discussed in detail. Molecular structural classification system with 264 structural types are developed as well. The 7th volume mainly illustrates the molecular formula and structures of O-heterocycles and aromatics.

This 8-volume set provides a systematic description on 8,350 active marine natural products from 3,025 various kinds of marine organisms. The diversity of structures, biological resources and pharmacological activities are discussed in detail. Molecular structural classification system with 264 structural types are developed in the book as well. The 2nd volume continuously illustrates the molecular formula and structures of terpenoids.

This 8-volume set provides a systematic description on 8,350 active marine natural products from 3,025 various kinds of marine organisms. The diversity of structures, biological resources and pharmacological activities are discussed in detail. Molecular structural classification system with 264 structural types are developed. The 4th volume continuously illustrates the molecular formula and structures of alkaloids.

This 8-volume set provides a systematic description on 8,350 active marine natural products from 3,025 various kinds of marine organisms. The diversity of structures, biological resources and pharmacological activities are discussed in detail. Molecular structural classification system with 264 structural types are developed as well. The 3rd volume mainly illustrates the molecular formula and structures of alkaloids.

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This 8-volume set provides a systematic description on 8,350 active marine natural products from 3,025 various kinds of marine organisms. The diversity of structures, biological resources and pharmacological activities are discussed in detail. Molecular structural classification system with 264 structural types are developed. The 6th volume illustrates the molecular formula and structures of aliphatic metabolites.

This 8-volume set provides a systematic description on 8,350 active marine natural products from 3,025 various kinds of marine organisms. The diversity of structures, biological resources and pharmacological activities are discussed in detail. Molecular structural classification system with 264 structural types are developed as well. The 5th volume mainly illustrates the molecular formula and structures of polyketides and steroids.

This 8-volume set provides a systematic description on 8,350 active marine natural products from 3,025 various kinds of marine organisms. The diversity of structures, biological resources and pharmacological activities are discussed in detail. Molecular structural classification system with 264 structural types are developed in the book as well. The 1st volume mainly illustrates the molecular formula and structures of terpenoids.

This practical handbook shows how to develop a comprehensive strategic management model and a system of operations management with truly informative reporting in public and academic libraries. Fully up-to-date and with many practical examples, the book gives a comprehensive and easy-to-understand account of the process from strategic planning to operational implementation.

The Handbook of Greek Sculpture aims to provide a detailed examination of current research and directions in the field. Bringing together an international cast of contributors from Greece, Italy, France, Great Britain, Germany, and the United States, the volume incorporates new areas of research, such as the sculptures of Messene and Macedonia, sculpture in Roman Greece, and the contribution of Greek sculptors in Rome, as well as important aspects of Greek sculpture like techniques and patronage. The written sources (literary and epigraphical) are explored in dedicated chapters, as are function and iconography and the reception of Greek sculpture in modern Europe. Inspired by recent exhibitions on Lysippos and Praxiteles, the book also revisits the style and the personal contributions of the great masters.

Between 1355 and 1806 the title of Poet Laureate was bestowed on around 1500 persons in the territories of the Holy Roman Empire. In some cases the title was conferred by the Emperor himself, on his own initiative or in response to a petitioner. In others the title was granted by a count palatine acting upon the Emperor's behalf, but an even larger number had the title bestowed on them by various German universities exercising this privilege under the Emperor's authority.
The lives and publications of 1340 of these poets were detailed in the four-volume Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire: A Bio-bibliographical Handbook published in 2006. This supplementary volume provides similar information about some 130 further poets who have come to light since that work was published. Furthermore, it updates, augments and - where necessary - corrects details relating to the poets covered in the previous volumes. In particular, it includes extensive new information about the two dozen women poets who were laureated in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire: A Bio-bibliographical Handbook, Volume 1–4 is still available for purchase.

Users, their requirements for knowledge generation, and the transformation of libraries into learning spaces and teaching libraries have effects on the services offered by libraries at institutions of higher education. This handbook describes the activities involved in supporting academic writing, before explaining the organizational implications and describing forms of networking with other higher education institutions (e.g. writing centers).

Developed by renowned scholars in the field, this handbook presents current research on one of the principal genres of medieval German poetry – the Sangspruch. It describes the genre’s pragmatic and media-related determinants, literary contexts, the most important thematic foci, forms, and authors, as well as the historical development of the genre.

Michael Zeuske has fully revised and substantially expanded this perennial work. For the first time, the global history of slavery is presented systematically and in historical context, including an analysis of all its forms on all continents, and its respective designations. It develops a comprehensive history of slavery on a broad empirical base, from its beginnings until the present day.