De gruyter aug 2026 (318 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Rising from Ground Zero presents the story of the FDNY, a proud, long standing, and widely respected organization that suffered intense systemic shock on September 11, 2001. Using over 90 hours of never-before-published author-conducted responder interviews, mainly FDNY firefighters, this book relates the story of battling through the crisis, managing the aftermath, and constructing the future. The interviews provide a vital oral history of the experience of handling the path of the FDNY through the crisis and decades long organizational transformation, one that continues today. They also provide the basis for lessons (often starkly concrete) offered by the authors to all those, especially leaders, facing crisis or seeking fundamental organizational change. Much remains to be told about and, consequently, learned from 9/11. In the case of the FDNY, the day and its long shadow contain foundational stories of who we are as well as who we aspire to be. This book will help readers to see, learn, and apply lessons in crisis management, leading in prolonged hard times, and succeeding in organizational change. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This brief anthology of poetry seeks to capture the geographical spread and broad array of subject matter by a wide range of often-understudied female poets of the First World War. Spanning 24 countries, the 45 authors in this volume constitute an attempt (in English or English translation) to represent the cultural and linguistic diversity of poetry coming from the Allied, Central and Neutral powers during and after the War. The collection includes some famous voices like Vera Brittain and Sarojini Naidu, but most of the poets have been recently or newly translated and gesture towards the vast amount of writing by female war poets that has yet to enter our scholarship. Regardless of fame, the authors in this volume write on shared themes of grief for lost sons and lovers, reflections on patriotism, their own roles in the war effort and their responsibilities of mourning and memorial.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Founded in 1922, the BBC developed strong connections with Germany from the start, focused particularly on Berlin. The first Director-General of the BBC John Reith, wanted to broadcast 'high' culture to British radio audiences and often selected Berlin orchestral music for the early live performances of the BBC. The BBC in Berlin contributed to British attitudes towards the Third Reich. During the Second World War, the BBC developed its German Service aimed at listeners across German-speaking regions, but with much of the content derived from and focused on Berlin. And after 1945, the BBC set up in the occupied part of the city, becoming a key institution in the cultural politics of the Cold War, both westwards- facing, in transmitting news and features from West Berlin to British and world listeners (and later TV viewers); and also DDR-centred with the continuing activity of the BBC German service. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the reunification of Germany in 1990 were hugely significant moment for the BBC.As one of the few international cultural institutions that remained in situ in the city throughout the Weimar years, the Third Reich, the era of divided Germany through to reunification and the return of the capital to the city, the BBC is a potentially revealing case-study of how British-German relations changed over time. This collection of essays will create a fuller understanding of how German culture has been presented to English-speaking audiences, and how, conversely, British national identity and memory has been formed by images and stereotypes of Germany. 350 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Founded in 1922, the BBC developed strong connections with Germany from the start, focused particularly on Berlin. The first Director-General of the BBC John Reith, wanted to broadcast 'high' culture to British radio audiences and often selected Berlin orchestral music for the early live performances of the BBC. The BBC in Berlin contributed to British attitudes towards the Third Reich. During the Second World War, the BBC developed its German Service aimed at listeners across German-speaking regions, but with much of the content derived from and focused on Berlin. And after 1945, the BBC set up in the occupied part of the city, becoming a key institution in the cultural politics of the Cold War, both westwards- facing, in transmitting news and features from West Berlin to British and world listeners (and later TV viewers); and also DDR-centred with the continuing activity of the BBC German service. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the reunification of Germany in 1990 were hugely significant moment for the BBC.As one of the few international cultural institutions that remained in situ in the city throughout the Weimar years, the Third Reich, the era of divided Germany through to reunification and the return of the capital to the city, the BBC is a potentially revealing case-study of how British-German relations changed over time. This collection of essays will create a fuller understanding of how German culture has been presented to English-speaking audiences, and how, conversely, British national identity and memory has been formed by images and stereotypes of Germany. 350 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Founded in 1922, the BBC developed strong connections with Germany from the start, focused particularly on Berlin. The first Director-General of the BBC John Reith, wanted to broadcast 'high' culture to British radio audiences and often selected Berlin orchestral music for the early live performances of the BBC. The BBC in Berlin contributed to British attitudes towards the Third Reich. During the Second World War, the BBC developed its German Service aimed at listeners across German-speaking regions, but with much of the content derived from and focused on Berlin. And after 1945, the BBC set up in the occupied part of the city, becoming a key institution in the cultural politics of the Cold War, both westwards- facing, in transmitting news and features from West Berlin to British and world listeners (and later TV viewers); and also DDR-centred with the continuing activity of the BBC German service. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the reunification of Germany in 1990 were hugely significant moment for the BBC.As one of the few international cultural institutions that remained in situ in the city throughout the Weimar years, the Third Reich, the era of divided Germany through to reunification and the return of the capital to the city, the BBC is a potentially revealing case-study of how British-German relations changed over time. This collection of essays will create a fuller understanding of how German culture has been presented to English-speaking audiences, and how, conversely, British national identity and memory has been formed by images and stereotypes of Germany.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This volume brings together scholarly articles on Cicero's Academics, one of the most significant works for the history of Platonism and for reconstructing the intense Hellenistic debate between the so-called Skeptical Academy and the Stoa concerning the possibility, nature, and limits of knowledge. The contributions are written by leading specialists in classical philology and the history of philosophy.The articles address all the central aspects of the dialogue, including its characters and themes, as well as the complex philological issues related to the text. Most importantly, they trace the Academics' reception from antiquity through the medieval, modern, and contemporary periods, demonstrating the work's enduring relevance to the history of epistemological thought in the Western philosophical tradition.This is the only volume entirely devoted to the Academics and their reception in the history of philosophy. While primarily intended for scholars of ancient philosophy, it will also appeal to anyone interested in the history of Platonism, Hellenistic philosophies, Cicero as a philosopher, ancient epistemology, and its reception in later periods.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Jewish authoritative writings of the Second temple Period had to adopt to total different religious as well as political circumstances their adressees had to face. Inspired by the idea of Paul Kosmin, that the imposture of a total new imperial time regime by the Seleucid rulers provoked autochthonous reorientations in means of time and space, the contributions of this volume examine if this holds true to the writings that circulated during the contemporary Second Temple Period. The methodological approach for the examination is the concept of space-time, or chronotope, already developed by Michail Bakthin for 20th century literature. Focusing on Judaism of the Second Temple turned out to be very fruitful, as we can distinguish between distinct religious-sociologically formed Jewish groups under different spatial conditions (for example 'diaspora' vs. core land). They all produced literature in order to cope with the traumatizing experiences of the loss of sacred spaces as well as the transformation processes that, due to the loss of 'Jerusalem' as the spatial anchor point, endangered their religious and national identity. Documents of so-called Hellenistic Judaism in the form of the Septuagint as well as of Palestinian Judaism, which becomes tangible in the texts of Qumran, or in the texts of Elephantine all show signs of increased interest in temporal and spatial orientation, remembering or adopting the already known, as well as inventing new anchor points as their special 'chronotope'. In sum, by establishing their own chronotopes, Judaism in Persian and Hellenistic-Roman times gained resilience and developed strategies to redefine its own identity.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This volume brings together eleven intellectual and expert voices from Afghanistan working across different fields and contexts. The contributors examine the collapse of the Republic of Afghanistan in August 2021 from political, social, economic, and historical perspectives and treat it as a decisive rupture in the country's recent history. The chapters offer perspectives shaped by exile and diaspora, combining analytically grounded reflection with lived experience and professional engagement, and revisiting established interpretations within broader structural contexts. The book challenges dominant external narratives and contributes to more nuanced debates on state collapse, intervention, and social change. It was developed in cooperation with the Afghanistan Forum in Deutschland e.V. and the Research Center Communication for Social Change at Leipzig University and was funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Exhibition Ecologies approaches exhibitions as ecological media, shaped by infrastructures, economies, and relations of power. Bringing together art-historical essays and curatorial reflections, this volume explores how exhibitions respond to the climate crisis while showing how ecological narratives intersect with colonial legacies, extractivism, and the rhetorics of legitimation. Case studies - from museum collection displays to contemporary biennials - probe the ecological framing of exhibitions, opening debates on sustainability, decolonial justice, and institutional responsibility. Linking exhibition studies with environmental humanities, this book highlights both the risks of co-option and the transformative potential of exhibitions. With contributions by Hannah Beck-Mannagetta, Indira Béraud, Linn Burchert, Mateo Chacón Pino, Lena Fließbach, Stefanie Hessler, Elisabeth Heyne, Michael Klipphahn-Karge, Juliana Robles de la Pava, Anna Sophie Springer, Julia Tovote, Stéphane Verlet-BottéroSituates exhibitions within transdisciplinary ecological discourse Links exhibition studies and environmental humanities to reveal the material, social, and political entanglements of exhibition-making 208 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Exhibition Ecologies approaches exhibitions as ecological media, shaped by infrastructures, economies, and relations of power. Bringing together art-historical essays and curatorial reflections, this volume explores how exhibitions respond to the climate crisis while showing how ecological narratives intersect with colonial legacies, extractivism, and the rhetorics of legitimation. Case studies - from museum collection displays to contemporary biennials - probe the ecological framing of exhibitions, opening debates on sustainability, decolonial justice, and institutional responsibility. Linking exhibition studies with environmental humanities, this book highlights both the risks of co-option and the transformative potential of exhibitions. With contributions by Hannah Beck-Mannagetta, Indira Béraud, Linn Burchert, Mateo Chacón Pino, Lena Fließbach, Stefanie Hessler, Elisabeth Heyne, Michael Klipphahn-Karge, Juliana Robles de la Pava, Anna Sophie Springer, Julia Tovote, Stéphane Verlet-BottéroSituates exhibitions within transdisciplinary ecological discourse Links exhibition studies and environmental humanities to reveal the material, social, and political entanglements of exhibition-making 208 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Numerical mathematics is one of the cornerstones of the study of mathematics, engineering, physics and computer science. This two-volume textbook is designed for introductory lectures and lays a solid foundation for further learning units. The first volume covers the entire field of numerical mathematics from classical techniques such as the Gaussian algorithm and Newton's method to modern algorithms such as least squares approximation using Householder and Givens transformations and deflation techniques. The methods are described with mathematical precision, implemented in MATLAB codes and demonstrated using examples. The MATLAB codes are available for download on the publisher's website so that readers can carry out their own experiments with the numerical methods. Thanks to its didactic structure and the numerous illustrative examples and exercises, this book is ideal for reading alongside lectures and as a basis for successful self-study. At the same time, it can be used by mathematicians, scientists and engineers as a profound reference work. 370 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Founded in 1922, the BBC developed strong connections with Germany from the start, focused particularly on Berlin. The first Director-General of the BBC John Reith, wanted to broadcast 'high' culture to British radio audiences and often selected Berlin orchestral music for the early live performances of the BBC. The BBC in Berlin contributed to British attitudes towards the Third Reich. During the Second World War, the BBC developed its German Service aimed at listeners across German-speaking regions, but with much of the content derived from and focused on Berlin. And after 1945, the BBC set up in the occupied part of the city, becoming a key institution in the cultural politics of the Cold War, both westwards- facing, in transmitting news and features from West Berlin to British and world listeners (and later TV viewers); and also DDR-centred with the continuing activity of the BBC German service. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the reunification of Germany in 1990 were hugely significant moment for the BBC.As one of the few international cultural institutions that remained in situ in the city throughout the Weimar years, the Third Reich, the era of divided Germany through to reunification and the return of the capital to the city, the BBC is a potentially revealing case-study of how British-German relations changed over time. This collection of essays will create a fuller understanding of how German culture has been presented to English-speaking audiences, and how, conversely, British national identity and memory has been formed by images and stereotypes of Germany.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Numerical mathematics is one of the cornerstones of the study of mathematics, engineering, physics and computer science. This two-volume textbook is designed for introductory lectures and lays a solid foundation for further learning units. The first volume covers the entire field of numerical mathematics from classical techniques such as the Gaussian algorithm and Newton's method to modern algorithms such as least squares approximation using Householder and Givens transformations and deflation techniques. The methods are described with mathematical precision, implemented in MATLAB codes and demonstrated using examples. The MATLAB codes are available for download on the publisher's website so that readers can carry out their own experiments with the numerical methods. Thanks to its didactic structure and the numerous illustrative examples and exercises, this book is ideal for reading alongside lectures and as a basis for successful self-study. At the same time, it can be used by mathematicians, scientists and engineers as a profound reference work. 370 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Das Pommersche Wörterbuch (PWB) ist ein semasiologisches Mundartwörterbuch mit streng alphabetischer Ordnung, das den niederdeutschen Wortschatz der ehemaligen Provinz Pommern in den Grenzen von 1936 beschreibt. Als großlandschaftliches Dialektwörterbuch schließt das PWB die letzte lexikographische Lücke im Geltungsbereich niederdeutscher Mundarten. 64 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Das Pommersche Wörterbuch (PWB) ist ein semasiologisches Mundartwörterbuch mit streng alphabetischer Ordnung, das den niederdeutschen Wortschatz der ehemaligen Provinz Pommern in den Grenzen von 1936 beschreibt. Als großlandschaftliches Dialektwörterbuch schließt das PWB die letzte lexikographische Lücke im Geltungsbereich niederdeutscher Mundarten. 64 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Exhibition Ecologies versteht Ausstellungen im Sinne ökologischer Medien, die durch Infrastrukturen, Ökonomien und Machtbeziehungen geprägt sind. Der Band untersucht, wie Ausstellungen auf die Herausforderungen der Klimakrise reagieren und sich dabei ökologische Narrative mit kolonialen Kontinuitäten, Extraktivismus und Rhetoriken der Legitimation verschränken. Kunsthistorische Analysen und Praxisreflexionen thematisieren die Inszenierung von 'Ökologie' als kuratorische Rahmung. Die Fallstudien - von musealen Sammlungspräsentationen bis zu zeitgenössischen Biennalen - stoßen Debatten über Nachhaltigkeit, dekoloniale Gerechtigkeit und institutionelle Verantwortung an. Das Buch verbindet Ausstellungsstudien mit Environmental Humanities und betont Risiken der Kooptierung sowie das transformative Potenzial von Ausstellungen.Mit Beiträgen von Hannah Beck-Mannagetta, Indira Béraud, Linn Burchert, Mateo Chacón Pino, Lena Fließbach, Stefanie Hessler, Elisabeth Heyne, Michael Klipphahn-Karge, Juliana Robles de la Pava, Anna Sophie Springer, Julia Tovote, Stéphane Verlet-Bottéro - Analysiert Ausstellungen im Kontext transdisziplinärer Ökologiediskurse - Verknüpft Ausstellungsstudien und Environmental Humanities, um die ökologischen,sozialen und politischen Verflechtungen des Ausstellens sichtbar zu machen.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - As the European environment is shaped by data protection rules, sector regulation, social expectations, and increasing demands for accountability, many leaders find themselves caught between optimistic technology narratives and fragmented guidance for successful adoption. This book offers a practical and accessible guide for navigating that gap. Rather than focusing on tools or coding, it treats generative AI as a managerial and organisational challenge. It explains how these systems work at a conceptual level, then shows how they can be integrated into real business and public-sector contexts without undermining trust, legal certainty, or institutional coherence. Topics include value creation, use-case selection, lifecycle management, risk, governance, and compliance under the EU AI Act.Written for non-specialists, the book equips executives, managers, and policy-aware professionalswith clear decision frameworks and shared language. Its central message is simple: in Europe,successful generative AI adoption is not about moving faster, but about building systems that remaineffective, legitimate, and resilient over time.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Indo-German cooperation in vocational training is a timely topic, as politicians, scholars, and the media highlight problems in India's skill formation system and point to the 'German model' as inspiration. This book offers the first comprehensive historical analysis of Indo-German entanglements in this field. From the 1950s onward, projects between the Federal Republic of Germany and independent India evolved amid political, economic, and cultural considerations, as well as Cold War tensions. The dual apprenticeship model, marked as German, was seen as especially attractive for India's expanding steel and engineering industries, key pillars of the country's developmental project. The book traces vocational training policy from national and bilateral negotiations to the labour market. It examines skilling as part of postcolonial industrialization policy, Indo-German diplomacy, and business cooperation. Drawing on diverse materials and research tools, the study reflects on concepts of skill, institutional priorities, and the cooperation's impact on workers' lives and careers. It thus contributes to our understanding of India's early 'formal sector' and the structural limits of 'knowledge transfer'.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Public history has been a rising field of theory and practice for a few decades now. Its origins are debated but the current literature places its popularization in the 1970s in the United States of America. While professional and academic history merely developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, plenty of other historical practices testified of the way certain people, groups and institutions were engaging with the past in older times. This book puts public history into longer historical perspectives in Europe. Following a chronological order, the book includes chapters on historical practices involving and addressing publics from the Antiquity to the mid-twentieth century. The case studies show the richness and diversity of public historical practices as well as re-visit the question of the role of the public in interpreting the past in countries such as Greece, Britain, Ireland, France, Italy, Poland, Belgium, and Spain. In a current international context of rising public history projects, we need to be able to place the field into longer historical debates. Our objective is to contribute to and invite more research on the history of public historical practices in Europe and beyond.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The disruptive capabilities of DeepSeek have made it one of the most talked-about AI tools today. However, there is a widespread lack of knowledge on how to use it effectively. Publishing a guidebook on DeepSeek therefore holds significant social value-this is the primary driving force behind the release of this book.This book targets a broad audience, covering a wide range of application scenarios. From researchers and technical experts to the general public-anyone interested in DeepSeek or AI technology is the intended reader.It offers a hands-on, step-by-step guide for beginners to quickly master DeepSeek, providing a comprehensive, practical, and systematic user manual.Beyond presenting a mature methodology developed by the author, the book features 24 real-world scenarios-including workplace writing, education, daily life, and finance-with over 180 practical cases. Readers can easily locate the content they need, and the book includes more than 200 ready-to-use prompts that can be copied with one click to instantly generate personalized outputs.It is both a quick-start guide for beginners and a deep resource for advanced users. With its user-friendly design and strong practical value, the book helps readers rapidly enhance their AI literacy, making it a highly valuable social resource.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book explores the Latin American photography of German-born Jewish American émigré photographers Fritz Neugass (1899-1979) and Ellen Auerbach (1907-2004). It analyzes their portraits of children and dancers, and series of still lifes of objects of daily life as artistic creations of trans-cultural exploration with a camera in hand. By doing so, it helps broaden the archive of travel photography from the 1940s-1970s from Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Colombia, in addition to the United States by adding both exile artists' perspectives conceived as the shaping of engaged cultural practices. Neugass's and Auerbach's works from the Americas remain relatively unknown to this date; the reasons for this touch on their biographical realities of cultural uprooting and aesthetic values that were at times out of sync and untimely related to those of the countries they lived in. Yet they reveal less studied facets of belonging, historical inscription and self-perception, observed from marginal perspectives, link modernist with early postmodern sensibilities, based on the notion of photography as shared practice in motion, informed by the trans-disciplinary philosophy of the Bauhaus and adapted to the realities encountered. 185 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The exposition of this Book begins with essential elements of stochastic analysis, stochastic calculus, and elements of functional analysis. We then progress to detailed discussions on existence, uniqueness, and stability of solutions, as well as qualitative behaviors under varying conditions. The text also incorporates selected applications, illustrating how stochastic models naturally arise in diverse scientific and engineering problems. This work is intended for graduate students, researchers, and professionals who wish to deepen their understanding of stochastic systems. It may serve as both a book for beginner researchers and a reference for specialists pursuing further studies in the field. The presentation balances rigor with accessibility, combining mathematical depth with an emphasis on clarity. We are indebted to the contributions of many mathematicians whose pioneering work laid the foundations of this subject. Our gratitude extends to colleagues and students whose questions and insights have helped shape the material presented here.In the first two chapters, the book introduces selected topics from probability the ory: Brownian motion and the Wiener process, the stochastic integral in Hilbert spaces, and fractional Brownian motion. It explains in detail the essential properties of functional analysis, such as generalized metrics and Banach spaces, compactness criteria, measures of non-compactness (MNC), fixed point theory, some properties of set-valued maps, fixed point results, and semi-group theory. The question of the quantitative study of impulsive stochastic differential equations/ systems is treated with particular attention in Chapter 3 and Chapter 4. With fixed moments and multiple delays, the existence of solutions with fixed moments and multiple delays is addressed through the application of Schaefer and Perov fixed point theorems in generalized Banach spaces, driven by standard Brownian motion. WhereasinChapter5, sufficient conditions for the local and global existence and exponential stability of mild solutions of semi-linear systems of stochastic differential equations with infinite fractional Brownian motions and impulses are established with the Hurst index H > 1/2. In Chapter 6, we discuss some results on the existence and uniqueness of mild solutions for systems of semilinear impulsive differential equations with infinite fractional Brownian motions and Wiener processes. The approach is based on a new ver sion of the fixed point theorem due to Krasnoselskii in generalized Banach spaces. Chapter 7 deals with impulsive neutral stochastic functional differential equations driven by fBm with a noncompact semigroup. In Chapter 8, we prove some existence results based on a nonlinear alternative of the Leray-Schauder type theorem in generalized Banach spaces for the convex case; we establish a multi-valued version of Perov s fixed point theorem in a non-convex setting. In Chapter 9, we provide sufficient conditions for the existence of solutions for a class of second-order systems of stochastic impulsive differential inclusions. In Chapter 10, it is devoted to the study of a convex stochastic sweeping process with fractional Brownian motion and time delay. The approach is based on discretizing stochastic functional differential inclusions.This book is addressed to a wide audience of specialists such as mathematicians, physicists, engineers and biologists. It can be used as a textbook at the graduate level and as a reference book for several disciplines.The aim of this book is to present a clear and well-organized treatment of the concept behind the development of mathematics as well as solution techniques. The text material of this book is presented in a readable and mathematically solid format. 360 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The exposition of this Book begins with essential elements of stochastic analysis, stochastic calculus, and elements of functional analysis. We then progress to detailed discussions on existence, uniqueness, and stability of solutions, as well as qualitative behaviors under varying conditions. The text also incorporates selected applications, illustrating how stochastic models naturally arise in diverse scientific and engineering problems. This work is intended for graduate students, researchers, and professionals who wish to deepen their understanding of stochastic systems. It may serve as both a book for beginner researchers and a reference for specialists pursuing further studies in the field. The presentation balances rigor with accessibility, combining mathematical depth with an emphasis on clarity. We are indebted to the contributions of many mathematicians whose pioneering work laid the foundations of this subject. Our gratitude extends to colleagues and students whose questions and insights have helped shape the material presented here.In the first two chapters, the book introduces selected topics from probability the ory: Brownian motion and the Wiener process, the stochastic integral in Hilbert spaces, and fractional Brownian motion. It explains in detail the essential properties of functional analysis, such as generalized metrics and Banach spaces, compactness criteria, measures of non-compactness (MNC), fixed point theory, some properties of set-valued maps, fixed point results, and semi-group theory. The question of the quantitative study of impulsive stochastic differential equations/ systems is treated with particular attention in Chapter 3 and Chapter 4. With fixed moments and multiple delays, the existence of solutions with fixed moments and multiple delays is addressed through the application of Schaefer and Perov fixed point theorems in generalized Banach spaces, driven by standard Brownian motion. WhereasinChapter5, sufficient conditions for the local and global existence and exponential stability of mild solutions of semi-linear systems of stochastic differential equations with infinite fractional Brownian motions and impulses are established with the Hurst index H > 1/2. In Chapter 6, we discuss some results on the existence and uniqueness of mild solutions for systems of semilinear impulsive differential equations with infinite fractional Brownian motions and Wiener processes. The approach is based on a new ver sion of the fixed point theorem due to Krasnoselskii in generalized Banach spaces. Chapter 7 deals with impulsive neutral stochastic functional differential equations driven by fBm with a noncompact semigroup. In Chapter 8, we prove some existence results based on a nonlinear alternative of the Leray-Schauder type theorem in generalized Banach spaces for the convex case; we establish a multi-valued version of Perov s fixed point theorem in a non-convex setting. In Chapter 9, we provide sufficient conditions for the existence of solutions for a class of second-order systems of stochastic impulsive differential inclusions. In Chapter 10, it is devoted to the study of a convex stochastic sweeping process with fractional Brownian motion and time delay. The approach is based on discretizing stochastic functional differential inclusions.This book is addressed to a wide audience of specialists such as mathematicians, physicists, engineers and biologists. It can be used as a textbook at the graduate level and as a reference book for several disciplines.The aim of this book is to present a clear and well-organized treatment of the concept behind the development of mathematics as well as solution techniques. The text material of this book is presented in a readable and mathematically solid format. 360 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book explores the Latin American photography of German-born Jewish American émigré photographers Fritz Neugass (1899-1979) and Ellen Auerbach (1907-2004). It analyzes their portraits of children and dancers, and series of still lifes of objects of daily life as artistic creations of trans-cultural exploration with a camera in hand. By doing so, it helps broaden the archive of travel photography from the 1940s-1970s from Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Colombia, in addition to the United States by adding both exile artists' perspectives conceived as the shaping of engaged cultural practices. Neugass's and Auerbach's works from the Americas remain relatively unknown to this date; the reasons for this touch on their biographical realities of cultural uprooting and aesthetic values that were at times out of sync and untimely related to those of the countries they lived in. Yet they reveal less studied facets of belonging, historical inscription and self-perception, observed from marginal perspectives, link modernist with early postmodern sensibilities, based on the notion of photography as shared practice in motion, informed by the trans-disciplinary philosophy of the Bauhaus and adapted to the realities encountered. 185 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Is there such a thing as fate And if so, does it mean that our lives are inevitably predetermined Or does it mean that, because of our freedom, we can make choices that tragically lead to our misery and demise Numerous thinkers in the German tradition have grappled with these questions, and this book unpacks the attendant debates and highlights their relevance to the present. A controversy in eighteenth-century theater serves as the starting point: Are the characters on the modern stage in control of their actions or are they dictated by higher powers Building on this debate, philosophers of the nineteenth century pondered whether freedom is just another name for the insight into necessity, that is, whether the extent of our freedom is revealed only through instances of fateful adversity. This dialog with tragedy continued into the twentieth century, as disciplines such as psychoanalysis and sociology started to ask how unconscious drives and social entanglements shape our existence. Demonstrating that these cross-disciplinary debates about the vicissitudes of the tragic hero have forever changed the way we think about our capacity for happiness and hope, the book makes the conceptual history of fate resonate with readers today.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book investigates the development and impact of racialised labour policies and discourses within the International Labour Organization (ILO) from 1919 to the late 1950s. Drawing on concepts from Critical Race Theory and Postcolonial Theory, it explores how beliefs about racial difference became linked to assumptions about suitability for capitalist production and were articulated internationally by bureaucrats, colonial experts, politicians, employers and trade unionists. While colonial labour forms a central focus, the study also considers the role of independent member states with predominantly non-white populations in Asia and Africa. A detailed case study of India highlights its unique position as the ILO's only non-sovereign member and traces its transition through decolonisation into a post-colonial state. Offering new insights into the racial foundations of international labour governance, the book brings together Colonial and Global Labour History while advancing debates on racialised knowledge production in international organisations, imperial internationalism, epistemic inequality and the history of knowledge.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Founded in 1922, the BBC developed strong connections with Germany from the start, focused particularly on Berlin. The first Director-General of the BBC John Reith, wanted to broadcast 'high' culture to British radio audiences and often selected Berlin orchestral music for the early live performances of the BBC. The BBC in Berlin contributed to British attitudes towards the Third Reich. During the Second World War, the BBC developed its German Service aimed at listeners across German-speaking regions, but with much of the content derived from and focused on Berlin. And after 1945, the BBC set up in the occupied part of the city, becoming a key institution in the cultural politics of the Cold War, both westwards- facing, in transmitting news and features from West Berlin to British and world listeners (and later TV viewers); and also DDR-centred with the continuing activity of the BBC German service. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the reunification of Germany in 1990 were hugely significant moment for the BBC.As one of the few international cultural institutions that remained in situ in the city throughout the Weimar years, the Third Reich, the era of divided Germany through to reunification and the return of the capital to the city, the BBC is a potentially revealing case-study of how British-German relations changed over time. This collection of essays will create a fuller understanding of how German culture has been presented to English-speaking audiences, and how, conversely, British national identity and memory has been formed by images and stereotypes of Germany.De Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Straße 13, 10785 Berlin 350 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The Eddas and Sagas of medieval Iceland are remarkable literary achievements, reflecting both the imaginative power and the memory practices of the culture that produced them. Written in various genres and narrative styles, these texts combine learned ideas of their time with traditional storytelling methods. They provide a vivid, often realistic depiction of the previous two to three centuries, gradually moving into the legendary and mythological as stories reach further back in time or into more distant realms. Understanding these texts as rooted in traditional oral memory-alongside the influences of medieval book culture-is essential to fully appreciating their form, purpose, and significance.This book explores how Icelandic society remembered its past and environment, and how those memory practices shaped the literary culture. It examines what is unique about this literature, how the introduction of book culture transformed storytelling, and how written texts both preserved tradition and created new avenues for creativity and social prestige. The origins of Icelandic literary culture are traced to Norway, Ireland, and the British Isles, showing how intercultural exchange enriched narrative forms and themes.Key texts, including V_luspá and Njáls saga, are analyzed to reveal how authors drew on both oral tradition and learned knowledge. The corpus of the Sagas of Icelanders demonstrates how oral memory shaped storytelling, mediating ideas about the natural world, history, and social norms. Snorri Sturluson's Edda is highlighted as a sophisticated example of how writing was used to teach traditional mythology, using the sky as a mnemonic device for young poets learning the foundations of professional court poetry.The book also examines the individuals who actively transformed oral tradition into literary culture. Snorri Sturluson and his nephew Sturla Þórðarson used the art of writing to elevate their social status while reshaping how their contemporaries-and later generations-understood the past. Their work laid the foundation for a new literary genre: the Sagas of Icelanders. Through their innovations, oral tradition was preserved, transformed, and made accessible to an increasingly literate audience, blending memory, history, and myth in unprecedented ways.By combining literary analysis, historical context, and theories of memory, this book offers a fresh understanding of Icelandic medieval literature. It presents the Eddas and Sagas not merely as texts to be studied for their stories or history, but as dynamic cultural artifacts that illuminate the transition from oral to written culture, the negotiation of social power, and the creativity of individual authors working within and beyond their tradition. For scholars and general readers alike, it provides new insights into how medieval Icelanders remembered, narrated, and imagined their world. 300 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The Eddas and Sagas of medieval Iceland are remarkable literary achievements, reflecting both the imaginative power and the memory practices of the culture that produced them. Written in various genres and narrative styles, these texts combine learned ideas of their time with traditional storytelling methods. They provide a vivid, often realistic depiction of the previous two to three centuries, gradually moving into the legendary and mythological as stories reach further back in time or into more distant realms. Understanding these texts as rooted in traditional oral memory-alongside the influences of medieval book culture-is essential to fully appreciating their form, purpose, and significance.This book explores how Icelandic society remembered its past and environment, and how those memory practices shaped the literary culture. It examines what is unique about this literature, how the introduction of book culture transformed storytelling, and how written texts both preserved tradition and created new avenues for creativity and social prestige. The origins of Icelandic literary culture are traced to Norway, Ireland, and the British Isles, showing how intercultural exchange enriched narrative forms and themes.Key texts, including V_luspá and Njáls saga, are analyzed to reveal how authors drew on both oral tradition and learned knowledge. The corpus of the Sagas of Icelanders demonstrates how oral memory shaped storytelling, mediating ideas about the natural world, history, and social norms. Snorri Sturluson's Edda is highlighted as a sophisticated example of how writing was used to teach traditional mythology, using the sky as a mnemonic device for young poets learning the foundations of professional court poetry.The book also examines the individuals who actively transformed oral tradition into literary culture. Snorri Sturluson and his nephew Sturla Þórðarson used the art of writing to elevate their social status while reshaping how their contemporaries-and later generations-understood the past. Their work laid the foundation for a new literary genre: the Sagas of Icelanders. Through their innovations, oral tradition was preserved, transformed, and made accessible to an increasingly literate audience, blending memory, history, and myth in unprecedented ways.By combining literary analysis, historical context, and theories of memory, this book offers a fresh understanding of Icelandic medieval literature. It presents the Eddas and Sagas not merely as texts to be studied for their stories or history, but as dynamic cultural artifacts that illuminate the transition from oral to written culture, the negotiation of social power, and the creativity of individual authors working within and beyond their tradition. For scholars and general readers alike, it provides new insights into how medieval Icelanders remembered, narrated, and imagined their world. 300 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Forget what you think you know about national security in the age of climate change. The most powerful, yet most overlooked stabilizer of peace is not a technology, treaty or military intervention - it is gender equality. As climate acts as a threat multiplier of conflict, we must redesign our systems at the speed and scale this moment demands. Given this urgency, can we really afford to sideline the knowledge, agency and leadership of half the world's population: women At a time when it is imperative to be solution-oriented, this book offers pathways for action grounded in facts and designed to transition from tipping points toward global stability.Inspired by Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom, Garcha coins the term of the Athenian Edge, referring to the unique insights and lived experiences that equip women to play a catalytic role in building national security in light of climate change. Drawing on original data analytics, the book establishes gender equality as the greatest predictor of climate resilience and interstate peace, and explores the gender-climate-peace nexus through twelve dimensions of climate security - energy, manufacturing, transport, food, water, habitat, early warning, climate shocks, infrastructure, governance, social and economic spheres. Case studies from across continents - including Colombia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Singapore, Sweden and Yemen - showcase these dimensions operating in practice, demonstrating the remarkable progress already being made by those embracing this Edge and what becomes possible when strategic wisdom meets action.Moving from diagnosis to action, the book offers a suite of policy and capital solutions anchored in a gender-transformative approach - from carbon market regulation to national security strategies, from blended finance to orange-green bonds, and from just transition policies to transitional justice mechanisms. Ultimately, The Athenian Edge provides readers with an operationalization framework to act at the speed and scale the twin climate-conflict crisis demands, transforming gender equality into an operational strategy for sustainable peace and climate resilience. 250 pp. Englisch.…