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The conflict in Ukraine has deep domestic roots. A third of the population, primarily in the East and South, regards its own Russian cultural identity as entirely compatible with a Ukrainian civic identity. The states reluctance to recognize this ...

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Finalist in the Leadership - Think Differently category of the Goody Business Book Awards 2024 The pandemic, climate change, rising populism, geo-political unrest just a few of the issues causing turbulence in todays world. We are living and worki...

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As Scandinavian societies experience increased ethno-religious diversity, their Christian-Lutheran heritage and strong traditions of welfare and solidarity are being challenged and contested. This book explores conflicts related to religion as the...

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Scenario planning is a long and well-established approach to help leaders create novel insights and challenge what they know of the world to influence future action. But as the world becomes increasingly unpredictable, leaders must question the tr...

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Die Sammlungsgeschichte der Frhen Neuzeit ist von einer zunehmenden Differenzierung der Sammlungsinteressen, von einer Internationalisierung des Kunstmarktes und einer Professionalisierung der beteiligten Akteure gekennzeichnet. Im Zentrum der Bei...

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Ranging from Antiquity to contemporary analytic philosophy, it provides a concise but thorough analysis of the arguments developed by some of the most outstanding philosophers of all times. Besides the aesthetics of music proper, the volume touche...

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Im Jahr 2030 jhrt sich zum 500. Mal die Verlesung und berreichung der "Confessio Augustana", der wichtigsten Bekenntnisschrift der evangelischen, Wittenberger Bewegung, an Kaiser Karl V. Von Melanchthon als letzter Versuch verfasst, die ...

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This class-tested textbook gives an overview of the structure and functions of proteins and explains how amino acids form a defined structural entity with specific properties. The authors also introduce modern methods for purification and separati...

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Recent years has seen a tremendous growth in interest for solid state batteries based on polymer electrolytes, with advantages of higher safety, energy density, and ease of processing. The book explains which polymer properties guide the performan...

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Slavery is attested throughout ancient Greek history and all over the Greek world. Unsurprisingly, then, scholarship on Greek slavery has proliferated in the past twenty-five or so years, making a holistic synthesis of such work especially desirab...

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It is no exaggeration to say that of the early 20th century German philosophers who claimed to establish a new ontology, former neo-Kantian turned realist Nicolai Hartmann is the only one to have actually followed through. "Ontology: Laying t...

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When describing the transition from Old Norse religion to Christianity in recent studies, the concept of "Christianization" is often applied. To a large extent this historiography focuses on the outcome of the encounter, namely the descr...

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This book offers an introduction to concepts of probability theory, probability distributions relevant in the applied sciences, as well as basics of sampling distributions, estimation and hypothesis testing. As a companion for classes for engineer...

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This book is an early warning to public officials, policymakers, and procurement practitioners on the impact of AI on the public sector. Many governments have established national AI strategies and set ambitious goals to incorporate AI into the pu...

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In John McWhorters Defining Creole anthology of 2005, his collected articles conveyed the following theme: His hypothesis that creole languages are definable not just in the sociohistorical sense, but in the grammatical sense. His publications sin...

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The magister equitum, a subordinate to the Roman dictator during the Roman Republic, has been little studied to-date, in part due to the scattered and antiquarian nature of the evidence. This book addresses this gap by providing a definitive descr...

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This history of early Christian creeds contains an up-to-date account of their origin and development from the credal texts in the New Testament to the fully fledged classical formulae of the 4th century. It includes the creeds use and alteration ...

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The future has become a problem for the present. Almost every critical issue is now understood and experienced through the prism of the future since this is the primary focus for the playing out of crises. Senses of the Future offers a wide-rangin...

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This book is the first of two volumes that aim to produce something not previously attempted: a synthetic history of Muslim responses to the Bible, stretching from the rise of Islam to the present day. It combines scholarship with a genuine narrat...

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What constitutes the field of religious studies? The 29 chapters in this introductory text offer an incisive look at the key approaches, methods, problems, and subjects that define contemporary academic research in the field of religious studies a...

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Typisch Frau, typisch Mann was heit das eigentlich? Weiblichkeit und Mnnlichkeit werden nicht allein durch den anatomisch-biologischen Diskurs (Sex) definiert, sondern auch durch Rollenangebote wie z.B. Kleidercodes und Verhaltensnormen. Die Gende...

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This is the third, newly revised and extended edition of this successful book (that has already been translated into three languages). Like the previous editions, it is entirely based on the programming language and environment R and is still thor...

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Our understanding of CS Peirce, and his semiotics, is largely influenced by a twentieth century perspective that prioritizes the sign as a cultural artifact, or as one that that 'distorts', in some way, our understanding of the empirical...

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The book provides students of European company law courses, scholars and practitioners with an overview. Although company law remains mainly regulated at the level of national laws, it has become important to obtain a systematic view of the main d...

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This book is a standard work for modern narrative theory. It provides a terminological and theoretical system of reference for future research. The author explains and discusses in detail problems of communication structure and entities of a narra...

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The fifth edition of this textbook has been completely revised and significantly extended in order to reflect the revolution of geodetic technologies, methods and applications during the last decade. The Global Geodetic Observing System establishe...

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The Challenge to Academic Freedom in Hungary: A Case Study in Culture War, Authoritarianism and Resistance presents a case study as to how an authoritarian regime like the one in Hungary seeks to tame academic freedom. Andrew Ryder probes the reas...

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Common scale-up methods are conventional where the blindpiloting is essential.This imposes huge investment and leads to failures mostly in solid processing.However, the limitations of resources, current shortcomings, short time-to-market demand ar...

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This study reconstructs Hypatias existential and intellectual life and her modern Nachleben through a reception-oriented and interdisciplinary approach. Unlike previous publications on the subject, Hypatia explores all available ancient and mediev...

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Initially known for its beautiful images of the faces of babies, 3D ultrasound has, however, become an important tool in prenatal diagnosis for its ability to image fetal organs in normal and abnormal conditions. This book is a state-of-the-art wo...

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