First-ever translation of Essai sur la fin d'une civilisation originally published in 1949.

Our contemporary civilization is in distress. Society is unraveling, with rampant individualism, moral dissipation, identity crises, unchecked…

This powerful and breathtakingly beautiful Book of Hours was designed in the fifteenth century by one of the greatest masters of expressionism in France at the time, and executed by…

Thirty years after German reunification, we still know little about what division meant to Germans who lived far from divided Berlin or the inner-German border. This work uses oral history…

This book presents a methodological framework, developed from the field of biosemiotics, for studying semiotic phenomena as modeling processes.

No one can tell you what Nerdor is … Regelwerkversteckende Osterhasen, groessenwahnsinnige Schurken, durchgedrehte Antihelden und ein mehrfarbiger Himmel. Wurfel, die immer kritische Erfolge angeben, epische Schlachten auf Quadrat- und…

In kurzer, }bersichtlicher Form wird der aktuelle Stellen- wert verschiedener Techniken der maschinellen Beatmung in der medizintechnischen Praxis dargestellt. Besondere Ber}ck- sichtigung findet die Behandlung der schweren respirato- rischen Insuffizienz…

This volume, the second in the Springer series Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective, contains selected papers from the workshops organised by the ESF Research Networking Programme PSE (The…

The first comprehensive examination of the Catholic Church's role in the genocide against the Tutsi and its attempts at reconciliation

From April to July 1994, more than a million people…