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		Julia Walter-Herrmann, Corinne Büching (eds.) FabLab Of Machines, Makers and Inventors  NEU   Mai 2013 | 29,80 €
FabLab – the future of (another) economy? The FabLab environment and community are growing, but the number of scientific publications about fabrication laboratories is small. Hence, this publication aims at filling the gap of scientific publications about FabLabs.

		Christa Schönfelder Wounds and Words Childhood and Family Trauma in Romantic and Postmodern Fiction  NEU   Mai 2013 | 42,80 €
Trauma re-examined – at the intersections of literature and psychiatry, of Romanticism and postmodernism.

		David Picard, Sonja Buchberger (eds.) Couchsurfing Cosmopolitanisms Can Tourism Make a Better World? erscheint Mai 2013 | ca. 25,80 €
The »Couchsurfing« project: how social relations, intimacy and trust are established in the online environment.

		Ulla Kriebernegg, Roberta Maierhofer (eds.) The Ages of Life Living and Aging in Conflict?  NEU   Mai 2013 | 29,80 €
Living and aging as a productive antagonism. Aging and growing older are processes which cannot be reduced to the chronology of years but which are shaped by the individual's interaction with the changing circumstances of life.

		Barbara Thériault The Cop and the Sociologist Investigating Diversity in German Police Forces  NEU   April 2013 | 35,80 €
Investigating diversity in today's police forces: a particular »spirit« and a singular way to apprehend the individual.

		Jörg Huber, Zhao Chuan (eds.) The Body at Stake Experiments in Chinese Contemporary Art and Theatre  NEU   März 2013 | 34,80 €
In this book 19 Chinese artists, theatre practitioners and theorists put their experiences, thoughts and views up to discussion about role and treatment of the body in the visual culture of contemporary China.

		Katharina Gerund Transatlantic Cultural Exchange African American Women's Art and Activism in West Germany  NEU   März 2013 | 39,80 €
This study examines the reception and appropriation of African American women's art and activism in (West) German discourses – from the solidarity campaigns for Angela Davis to the literary stardom of Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison.

		Karin Bijsterveld (ed.) Soundscapes of the Urban Past Staged Sound as Mediated Cultural Heritage  NEU   März 2013 | 29,80 €
What's the sound of the past? This volume presents a collection of studies on the staging of urban soundscapes in historical texts, radio plays and films, with reflections on sound theory and museum practice.

		Wolfgang Muchitsch (ed.) Does War Belong in Museums? The Representation of Violence in Exhibitions Februar 2013 | 28,80 €
Does war really belong in museums? And if it does, what objectives and means are involved? Can museums avoid trivializing and aestheticising war, transforming violence, injury, death and trauma into tourist sights?

		Dorothee Wagner von Hoff Ornamenting the »Cold Roast« The Domestic Architecture and Interior Design of Upper-Class Boston Homes, 1760-1880 Februar 2013 | 45,80 €
A unique investigation of domestic architecture and interior design as seen through the exploration of three houses lining the streets of 18th and 19th century Boston.

		Christina Flotmann Ambiguity in »Star Wars« and »Harry Potter« A (Post)Structuralist Reading of Two Popular Myths Januar 2013 | 42,80 €
Popular (post-)structural myths? A comparative reading of »Star Wars« and »Harry Potter« based on their structural and ideological set-up.

		Michael Fuchs, Maria-Theresia Holub (eds.) Placing America American Culture and its Spaces Januar 2013 | 28,80 €
This collection of essays provides an extensive and insightful study of how questions of space and spatiality influence our understanding of America.

		Julia Eckel, Bernd Leiendecker, Daniela Olek, Christine Piepiorka (eds.) (Dis)Orienting Media and Narrative Mazes 2012 | 36,80 €
This book uses the ambivalent concept of (dis)orientation as a starting-point for the analysis of recent media technologies and narrations.

		Ylva Söderfeldt From Pathology to Public Sphere The German Deaf Movement 1848-1914 2012 | 35,80 €
How do deaf people communicate? A history of the German deaf movement from education by means of spoken language to the struggle for Sign Language and the consolidation of a community.

		Gabriele Brandstetter, Gabriele Klein (eds.) Dance [and] Theory 2012 | 34,80 €
The book collects substantial contributions on the relationship between dance and theory of international choreographers, dancers, dramaturges and scholars.

		Konstantin Butz Grinding California Culture and Corporeality in American Skate Punk 2012 | 33,80 €
»Grinding California« provides a comprehensive analysis of two subcultures that were highly influential during the 1980s: skateboarding and hardcore punk.

		Federico Italiano, Michael Rössner (eds.) Translation Narration, Media and the Staging of Differences 2012 | 29,80 €
Lost in translation? New insights into the relation between translation, narration and the construction of identity.

		Paul Wenzel Geissler, Richard Rottenburg, Julia Zenker (eds.) Rethinking Biomedicine and Governance in Africa Contributions from Anthropology 2012 | 34,80 €
A move forward from the cherished critique of knowledge regimes and the ubiquitous doubts against narratives of development, when people in Africa dream of modernity and their own renaissance.

		Huimin Jin Active Audience A New Materialistic Interpretation of a Key Concept of Cultural Studies 2012 | 27,80 €
Despite a number of retrospective works on cultural studies, to date no other book dedicates itself to the historical and theoretical examination of British  ... mehr

		Elisabeth Boesen, Fabienne Lentz, Michel Margue, Denis Scuto, Renée Wagener (eds.) Peripheral Memories Public and Private Forms of Experiencing and Narrating the Past 2012 | 33,80 €
This volume offers new perspectives on the link between public and private memory processes by presenting research on both major historical events and more everyday objects of memory.

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		Birgit Schwelling (ed.) Reconciliation, Civil Society, and the Politics of Memory Transnational Initiatives in the 20th and 21st Century 2012 | 36,80 €
This volume examines the role of civil society in local and transnational reconciliation initiatives in 20th-century Europe, challenging the conventional view of reconciliation as a benign state-driven process.

		Elke Zobl, Ricarda Drüeke (eds.) Feminist Media Participatory Spaces, Networks and Cultural Citizenship 2012 | 32,80 €
This book explores the processes of feminist media production in the context of participatory spaces, technology and cultural citizenship.

		Michael Heinlein, Cordula Kropp, Judith Neumer, Angelika Poferl, Regina Römhild (eds.) Futures of Modernity Challenges for Cosmopolitical Thought and Practice 2012 | 29,80 €
Today, global modernities interact on local grounds: a process calling for reflexive cosmopolitanism in both societies and social sciences. Prominent critical thinkers face the challenges of our time.

		Anna-Katharina Hornidge, Christoph Antweiler (eds.) Environmental Uncertainty and Local Knowledge Southeast Asia as a Laboratory of Global Ecological Change 2012 | 32,80 €
Southeast Asia is a laboratory showing current worldwide ecological issues. This book shows the human landscape of risk and uncertainty in a dynamic region.

		Tanja Zimmermann (ed.) Balkan Memories Media Constructions of National and Transnational History 2012 | 33,80 €
Bis in die Gegenwart hinein ist Südosteuropa geprägt durch soziale Unruhen. Dieser Band behandelt transnationale und nationale Erinnerungskulturen, ihre Übereinstimmungen und Differenzen von 19. Jahrhundert bis in die Zeit Post-Jugoslawiens.

		Dorothee Brantz, Sasha Disko, Georg Wagner-Kyora (eds.) Thick Space Approaches to Metropolitanism 2012 | 36,80 €
Could the concepts of »metropolitanism« and »thick space« aid our understanding of urban change? This collection offers new approaches to the complex dynamics of large-scale urbanization.

		Jörg Sternagel, Deborah Levitt, Dieter Mersch (eds.) Acting and Performance in Moving Image Culture Bodies, Screens, Renderings. With a Foreword by Lesley Stern 2012 | 39,80 €
Transdisziplinäre Perspektiven, klassische Ansätze und Fallstudien zur Kunst des Schauspielens im Film. Ein innovativer Band zu fundamentalen Konzepten der Medienwissenschaft.

		Sarah M. Schlachetzki Fusing Lab and Gallery Device Art in Japan and International Nano Art 2012 | 34,80 €
What is an artist's motivation to flirt with the field of science? This book critically highlights the current boom of international »art and science« cooperations.

		Nina Möllers, Karin Zachmann (eds.) Past and Present Energy Societies How Energy Connects Politics, Technologies and Cultures 2012 | 37,80 €
Abundant, salutary, problematic – energy shapes history. The volume analyzes discourses of energy and their materialization into technical systems, media and consumer practice.

		Patrick A. Desplat, Dorothea E. Schulz (eds.) Prayer in the City The Making of Muslim Sacred Places and Urban Life 2012 | 34,80 €
»Prayer in the City« explores the ways in which Muslims sense, create and experience »sacred« places in urban contexts of different Muslim societies.

		Oliver Kozlarek, Jörn Rüsen, Ernst Wolff (eds.) Shaping a Humane World Civilizations – Axial Times – Modernities – Humanisms 2012 | 33,80 €
This volume shows: The potential universal benefits of our second Axial Time can be revealed through the plurality of cultural perspectives on civilization, humanism and modernity.

		Wolfgang Funk, Florian Groß, Irmtraud Huber (eds.) The Aesthetics of Authenticity Medial Constructions of the Real 2012 | 33,80 €
This book investigates the paradoxical relationship between mediation and authenticity in various medial forms from books to TV, from computer games to music.

		Hans Peter Hahn, Kristin Kastner (eds.) Urban Life-Worlds in Motion African Perspectives 2012 | 32,80 €
This book examines the development of new lifestyles and cultural phenomena in fast growing, vibrant and creative African cities as well as the transnational networks these dynamic processes are based on.

		Barbara Korte, Sylvia Paletschek (eds.) Popular History Now and Then International Perspectives 2012 | 35,80 €
From artefacts to the archive, from poetry to photography, from music to murals, and from periodicals to popular TV series – this volume presents peaks of historical interest from around 1800 to the present.

		Renate Lorenz Queer Art A Freak Theory 2012 | 19,80 €
Art goes queer: eine »queer theory« visueller Kunst, die kunsttheoretische Debatten mit Perspektiven des Postkolonialismus und der (Dis-)ability Studies zusammen bringt.

		Julia Straub (ed.) Paradoxes of Authenticity Studies on a Critical Concept 2012 | 32,80 €
Authentizität im Zeitalter der Postmoderne? Der Sammelband zeigt fruchtbare Perspektiven für die Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft im Anschluss an das Konzept der Authentizität auf.

		Barbara Korte, Eva Ulrike Pirker Black History – White History Britain's Historical Programme between Windrush and Wilberforce 2011 | 33,80 €
Black History – White History assesses the ways in which aspects of black history have been mainstreamed in Britain's recent historical culture.

		Mascha K. Brichta »Love it or Loathe it« Audience Responses to Tabloids in the UK and Germany 2011 | 35,80 €
»BILD Dir Deine Meinung« – This book examines audience responses to two national tabloids in Britain and Germany; showing their functions for readers and indicating their social and cultural role.

		Günther Friesinger, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Thomas Ballhausen (eds.) Mind and Matter Comparative Approaches towards Complexity 2011 | 29,80 €
Geist und Körper sind untrennbar miteinander verbunden und doch besteht die Versuchung, mentale Prozesse von der körperlichen Basis getrennt zu betrachten. Netzkulturen und neue technische Praxen forden diese Dichotomien heraus und eröffnen neue Denkräume.

		Gabriele Klein, Sandra Noeth (eds.) Emerging Bodies The Performance of Worldmaking in Dance and Choreography 2011 | 31,80 €
Wie wird in Tanz und Choreografie eine eigene Welt erschaffen? Dieser transdisziplinäre Band versammelt richtungsweisende Konzepte und aktuelle Fragestellungen der internationalen Tanzforschung.

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		Peter Mörtenböck, Helge Mooshammer (eds.) Space (Re)Solutions Intervention and Research in Visual Culture 2011 | 29,80 €
Die Art, wie Menschen sich in Räumen bewegen, verändert sich grundlegend – in politischen und künstlerischen Räumen, aber auch im Alltag. Betrachtungen im Zwischenraum von Forschung und (Lebens-)Praxis.

		Jörg Rogge (ed.) Cultural History in Europe Institutions – Themes – Perspectives 2011 | 29,80 €
Wie sieht der aktuelle Forschungsstand der Kulturgeschichte in Europa aus? Gibt es Entwicklungen, die diesen Zugang zur Geschichte neu schreiben? Der Band diskutiert diese und andere fundamentalen Fragen und gibt erste Antworten.

		Kay Junge, Kirill Postoutenko (eds.) Asymmetrical Concepts after Reinhart Koselleck Historical Semantics and Beyond 2011 | 29,80 €
Asymmetrische Gegenbegriffe revisited: 35 Jahre nach Kosellecks einflussreichen Analysen unternimmt dieses Buch einen Neuanfang: mit Beiträgen zu einer allgemeinen Theorie »Asymmetrischer Konzepte«.

		Petra Eckhard Chronotopes of the Uncanny Time and Space in Postmodern New York Novels. Paul Auster's »City of Glass« and Toni Morrison's »Jazz« 2011 | 29,80 €
Wer hat Angst vor Freud? Das Unheimliche als Schlüsselthema postmoderner Großstadtliteratur.

		Sacha Kagan Art and Sustainability Connecting Patterns for a Culture of Complexity (2nd emended edition 2013) 2011 | 39,80 €
Nachhaltigkeit ist das Gebot der Gegenwart. Eine Bereicherung der aktuellen Diskussion um die kulturelle Dimension nachhaltigen Handelns und die Schlagkraft ökologischer Kunst.

		Dirk Schulz Setting the Record Queer Rethinking Oscar Wilde's »The Picture of Dorian Gray« and Virginia Woolf's »Mrs. Dalloway« 2011 | 33,80 €
Eine Studie, welche zur konstanten Beschäftigung mit literarischen Kategorien aufruft und neue Perspektiven der Rezeption für zwei Klassiker aufzeigt.

		IPSE – Identités Politiques Sociétés Espaces (ed.) Doing Identity in Luxembourg Subjective Appropriations – Institutional Attributions – Socio-Cultural Milieus 2011 | 29,80 €
»Doing Identity« unter globalisierten Bedingungen: Der Band ermittelt sozio-kulturelle Milieus im einzigartigen gesellschaftlichen Gefüge des multikulturellen Luxemburg.

		Christian Lassen Camp Comforts Reparative Gay Literature in Times of AIDS 2011 | 35,80 €
»Camp« als Strategie der Bewältigung: AIDS im Spiegel queerer Literatur.

		Kathrin Braun (ed.) Between Self-Determination and Social Technology Medicine, Biopolitics and the New Techniques of Procedural Management 2011 | 30,80 €
Dieses Buch zeigt, wie Selbstbestimmung, Partizipation, Ethik und Dialog als neue Technologien des Selbstmanagements im Feld der Medizin funktionieren.

		Ernst Wolff Political Responsibility for a Globalised World After Levinas' Humanism 2011 | 33,80 €
Verantwortung für die Welt: Das Buch diskutiert in Auseinandersetzung mit Levinas' Humanismus, wie eine Politik der Verantwortlichkeit im Zeitalter der Globalisierung aussehen kann.

		Günter Dux Historico-genetic Theory of Culture On the Processual Logic of Cultural Change 2011 | 39,80 €
In der Epoche der Lebenswissenschaften stellt sich mehr denn je die Frage nach dem Zusammenhang von Natur und Kultur. Der Band entfaltet ein neues Verständnis der Natur- und Kulturgeschichte sowie von der Entwicklung von Kognition.

		Helle Bjerg, Claudia Lenz, Erik Thorstensen (eds.) Historicizing the Uses of the Past Scandinavian Perspectives on History Culture, Historical Consciousness and Didactics of History Related to World War II 2011 | 32,80 €
Der Band analysiert neue Tendenzen der skandinavischen Erinnerungskultur über den Zweiten Weltkrieg. Daraus erschließen sich nicht zuletzt neue Perspektiven für die Geschichtsdidaktik.

		Jörg Huber, Zhao Chuan (eds.) A New Thoughtfulness in Contemporary China Critical Voices in Art and Aesthetics 2011 | 29,80 €
Besinnung auf das Eigene: Der Band versammelt kritische Stimmen aus der chinesischen Kunstszene, die den Blick – statt nach Westen – auf die einzigartige Spannung zwischen Tradition und Umbruch in China richten.

		Alexandra Ludewig Screening Nostalgia 100 Years of German Heimat Film 2011 | 39,80 €
Und ewig rufen die Wälder – der deutsche Heimatfilm erlebt jüngst eine erstaunliche Wiederauferstehung. Dieser Band schreibt eine lebendige Filmgeschichte dieses Genres von den frühen Luis-Trenker-Filmen bis zu Fatih Akins Werken der Gegenwart.

		Heiner Fangerau, Jörg M. Fegert, Thorsten Trapp (eds.) Implanted Minds The Neuroethics of Intracerebral Stem Cell Transplantation and Deep Brain Stimulation 2010 | 32,80 €
Ein zeitgemäßer Beitrag zu ethischen Fragen der modernen Medizin: Sind Verfahren wie Tiefenhirnstimulation oder Stammzellentransplantation Eingriffe in die Persönlichkeit?

		Christine Bischoff, Francesca Falk, Sylvia Kafehsy (eds.) Images of Illegalized Immigration Towards a Critical Iconology of Politics 2010 | 25,80 €
Welche Rolle spielen Bilder bei der Illegalisierung von Migration? Wer nutzt diese Mechanismen? Und welche Gewalt ist damit verbunden? Eine kritische Ikonologie des Migrationsdiskurses.

		Chun-chieh Huang Humanism in East Asian Confucian Contexts 2010 | 25,80 €
Auf dem Weg zu einer versöhnlichen Weltkultur ist es unerlässlich, die humanistischen Traditionen auch des konfuzianischen Kulturkreises herauszuarbeiten. Der Band gibt einen vitalen Einblick in den Humanismus und das Menschsein in Ostasien.

		Günther Friesinger, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Thomas Ballhausen (eds.) Urban Hacking Cultural Jamming Strategies in the Risky Spaces of Modernity 2010 | 29,80 €
Guerilla-Art und -Kommunikation: Ein Buch über die Möglichkeiten subversiver Praxen der Intervention und Wiederaneignung im umkämpften urbanen Raum.

		Reinhard Johler, Christian Marchetti, Monique Scheer (eds.) Doing Anthropology in Wartime and War Zones World War I and the Cultural Sciences in Europe 2010 | 38,80 €
Anthropologie zwischen Feldforschung und Schützengraben. Der Band untersucht die wenig beachtete Kooperation von Anthropologen mit dem Militär im Ersten Weltkrieg. Ein erhellender Blick in die dunkle Geschichte eines Fachs.

		Henry Keazor, Thorsten Wübbena (eds.) Rewind, Play, Fast Forward The Past, Present and Future of the Music Video 2010 | 29,80 €
Gestern noch killte das (Music) Video den Radio Star. Was kommt morgen? Der Sammelband wirft einen Blick in die Zukunft eines mittlerweile schon klassischen Mediums.

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		Judith Schlehe, Michiko Uike-Bormann, Carolyn Oesterle, Wolfgang Hochbruck (eds.) Staging the Past Themed Environments in Transcultural Perspectives 2010 | 30,80 €
Historische Themenparks und Live-Rollenspiele: Geschichte wird in der Populärkultur zum Event. Doch wie genau wird hier mit historischem Wissen umgegangen?

		Bart Penders The Diversification of Health Politics of Large-Scale Cooperation in Nutrition Science 2010 | 29,80 €
Gesundheit im Paralleluniversum – wie die Ernährungswissenschaft ihre Probleme löst, indem sie die Vorstellungen von Gesundheit vervielfältigt.

		Bas van Heur Creative Networks and the City Towards a Cultural Political Economy of Aesthetic Production 2010 | 29,80 €
Nach dem Hype um die Creative Industries wird es Zeit für eine echte Analyse. Der Band entfaltet eine kulturwissenschaftlich informierte politische Ökonomie städtischer Kreativnetzwerke und zeigt die Grenzen ihrer politischen Steuerbarkeit.

		Carmen Meinert (ed.) Traces of Humanism in China Tradition and Modernity 2010 | 26,80 €
Humanistische Traditionen sind in vielfältiger Weise Teil des Weltkulturerbes. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes erschließen einem breiteren Publikum bislang weitgehend unbekannte Einsichten in das humanistische Denken in China.

		Annemarie Mol, Ingunn Moser, Jeannette Pols (eds.) Care in Practice On Tinkering in Clinics, Homes and Farms 2010 | 24,80 €
»Ein Lesebuch, das für Betroffene, Professionelle oder Fragende interessant ist.« Sabine Plonz, DAS ARGUMENT, 292 (2011)

		Kirill Postoutenko (ed.) Totalitarian Communication Hierarchies, Codes and Messages 2010 | 33,80 €
Totalitarismus reviewed – der Band verbindet historische, soziologische und linguistische Ansätze zu einer zeitgemäßen Totalitarismusforschung: Totalitarismus ist eine besondere gesellschaftliche Konstellation von Hierarchien, Codes und Netzwerken.

		Ludwig Jäger, Erika Linz, Irmela Schneider (eds.) Media, Culture, and Mediality New Insights into the Current State of Research 2010 | 39,80 €
Die Medienwissenschaften organisieren sich um Konzepte wie »Medialität«, »Medienkultur« und »Mediendiskurs«. Der Band präsentiert aktuelle Positionen dazu und eröffnet so einen Einblick in den State of the Art einer lebendigen Disziplin.

		Valeria Sterzi Deconstructing Gender in Carnival A Cross Cultural Investigation of a Social Ritual 2010 | 25,80 €
Gender auf dem Karneval – diese originelle Studie enthüllt den parapolitischen Charakter von vermeintlich harmlosen Ritualen des Entertainments. Nicht weniger als die Suche nach neuen Formen sozialer Subjektivität ist dabei im Spiel.

		Jörgen Schäfer, Peter Gendolla (eds.) Beyond the Screen Transformations of Literary Structures, Interfaces and Genres 2010 | 44,80 €
Der Band nimmt das Literarische in lokativen Medien und immersiven Umgebungen in den Blick, in denen aktives Engagement und körperliche Interaktion vom Leser gefordert ist, um einen Text zu erfassen.

		Michael Kuhn, Doris Weidemann (eds.) Internationalization of the Social Sciences Asia – Latin America – Middle East – Africa – Eurasia 2010 | 36,80 €
Sozialwissenschaften für die Welt! Die Beiträge des Bandes gehen dem Prozess der Internationalisierung der Sozialwissenschaften in verschiedenen Teilen der Weltgesellschaft nach.

		Thomas Mathar, Yvonne J.F.M. Jansen (eds.) Health Promotion and Prevention Programmes in Practice How Patients' Health Practices are Rationalised, Reconceptualised and Reorganised 2010 | 29,80 €
Vorsorge statt Nachwehen – die Gesundheitspolitik hat einen fundamentalen Paradigmenwechsel zu Strategien der Prävention und Gesundheitsförderung vollzogen. Der Band nimmt die verborgenen Mikropolitiken dieses Wandels kritisch in den Blick.

		Carmen Meinert, Hans-Bernd Zöllner (eds.) Buddhist Approaches to Human Rights Dissonances and Resonances 2010 | 29,80 €
Buddhismus gilt als die sanfte Religion. Doch welche Rolle spielt die Idee der Menschenrechte in buddhistischen Ländern? Der Sammelband zeichnet ein dichtes Bild der politischen und ideellen Realität in der Hemisphäre des Buddhismus.

		Roberto Simanowski, Jörgen Schäfer, Peter Gendolla (eds.) Reading Moving Letters Digital Literature in Research and Teaching. A Handbook 2010 | 34,80 €
»Digital media« is increasingly finding its way into the discussions of the humanities classroom. But while there is a number of grand theoretical texts  ... mehr

		Bruno Arich-Gerz Mittelbau-Dora: American and German Representations of a Nazi Concentration Camp Literature, Visual Media and the Culture of Memory from 1945 to the Present 2009 | 19,80 €
Die amerikanischen Funde von NS-Technologie im KZ Mittelbau-Dora sind vielfach in Literatur und Film thematisiert worden. Die Beiträge des Bandes zeigen die unterschiedlichen Formen der Erinnerungskultur in Deutschland und in den USA.

		Jörn Rüsen, Henner Laass (eds.) Humanism in Intercultural Perspective Experiences and Expectations 2009 | 34,80 €
Der Band erschließt eine interkulturelle Perspektive auf den Humanismus in der Vielfalt seiner Traditionen. Damit wird zugleich der Weg für die Gestaltung einer transkulturellen Weltkultur im Zeitalter der Globalisierung gebahnt.

		Oliver Kozlarek (ed.) Octavio Paz Humanism and Critique 2009 | 32,80 €
Octavio Paz war eine der bedeutendsten Stimmen Lateinamerikas. Seine Kritik an der globalen Moderne wird in diesem Band erstmals systematisch für die Kulturwissenschaften erschlossen und in ihrem humanistischen Kern freigelegt.

		Stefan Werning Real Wars on Virtual Battlefields The Convergence of Programmable Media at the Military-Civilian Margin 2009 | 39,80 €
Der Krieg – ein Spiel? Der Band zeigt die verborgenen Konvergenzen und Zusammenhänge zwischen Kriegstechnologie und Unterhaltungselektronik.

		Andrea Ochsner Lad Trouble Masculinity and Identity in the British Male Confessional Novel of the 1990s 2009 | 35,80 €
In the 1990s, the male confessional novel, most prominently represented by Nick Hornby (»High Fidelity«), but also by writers such as Tim Lott (»White  ... mehr

		Charlotte Misselwitz, Cornelia Siebeck (eds.) Dissonant Memories – Fragmented Present Exchanging Young Discourses between Israel and Germany 2009 | 24,80 €
Das Verhältnis zwischen Deutschland und Israel steht vor allem unter dem Eindruck einer dialogischen Erinnerungskultur. Dieser Sammelband geht den jüngeren Entwicklungen in dieser Beziehung hin zu einer Transnationalisierung des Erinnerns nach.

		Mona Schieren, Kirsten Einfeldt (eds.) Not Berlin and Not Shanghai Art Practice on the Periphery 2009 | 16,80 €
Die internationale Kunstszene ist in Bewegung. Wo gestern noch tiefste Provinz war, wächst nun das neue Zentrum der Avantgarde heran. Der Sammelband geht dieser globalen Dynamik der Kunst nach.

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		Sigrid Baringhorst, Veronika Kneip, Johanna Niesyto (eds.) Political Campaigning on the Web 2009 | 29,80 €
Drawing upon a common conceptual framework of political webcampaigning the book offers theoretical reflections on Internet-based campaign politics. It  ... mehr

		Michael Ross, Manfred Grauer, Bernd Freisleben (eds.) Digital Tools in Media Studies Analysis and Research. An Overview 2009 | 28,80 €
Digital tools are increasingly used in media studies, opening up new perspectives for research and analysis, while creating new problems at the same time.  ... mehr

		Ladina Bezzola Lambert, Andrea Ochsner (eds.) Moment to Monument The Making and Unmaking of Cultural Significance (in collaboration with Regula Hohl Trillini, Jennifer Jermann and Markus Marti) 2008 | 26,80 €
Why do certain works of art make it into the canon while others just enjoy a brief moment of recognition, if at all? How do moments produce monuments, and  ... mehr

		Barbara Korte Represented Reporters Images of War Correspondents in Memoirs and Fiction 2008 | 26,80 €
War correspondents are prominent actors in the media world. They took hold in the cultural imaginary soon after their profession had been created in the  ... mehr

		Remus Gabriel Anghel, Eva Gerharz, Gilberto Rescher, Monika Salzbrunn (eds.) The Making of World Society Perspectives from Transnational Research 2008 | 27,80 €
Do the current changes of both geographical and symbolic boundaries lead to the emergence of a world society? How do transnational migration, communication  ... mehr

		Waltraud Kokot, Mijal Gandelsman-Trier, Kathrin Wildner, Astrid Wonneberger (eds.) Port Cities as Areas of Transition Ethnographic Perspectives 2008 | 24,80 €
In the past decades, international port cities have been strongly affected by global transformation processes, dramatically altering life and work around  ... mehr

		Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau, Dorothée King (eds.) Interface Cultures Artistic Aspects of Interaction 2008 | 34,80 €
From media art archeology to contemporary interaction design – the term interface culture is based on a vivid and ongoing discourse in the fields of interactive  ... mehr

		Julia Mahler Lived Temporalities Exploring Duration in Guatemala. Empirical and Theoretical Studies 2007 | 29,80 €
In contemporary global capitalist culture, time-consciousness becomes more important than self-consciousness. In the realm of lived time, the identity of  ... mehr

		Sabine Gehm, Pirkko Husemann, Katharina von Wilcke (eds.) Knowledge in Motion Perspectives of Artistic and Scientific Research in Dance 2007 | 14,80 €
In a globalised society, dance is gaining in importance as a means of conveying body knowledge: It is perceived as an art form in itself, is fostered  ... mehr

		Christoph Lischka, Andrea Sick (eds.) Machines as Agency Artistic Perspectives 2007 | 25,80 €
This book supports and deepens the existing interfaces between art, science, and technology – transgressing traditional principles and styles of research,  ... mehr

		Tara Forrest The Politics of Imagination Benjamin, Kracauer, Kluge 2007 | 25,80 €
This book explores Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer and Alexander Kluge's analyses of the role that a rejuvenation in the capacity for imagination  ... mehr

		Ulrike Joras Companies in Peace Processes A Guatemalan Case Study 2007 | 30,80 €
The role of private companies in violent conflicts has gained increasingly more attention in recent years. Although the private sector is often associated  ... mehr

		Sabine Sörgel Dancing Postcolonialism The National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica 2007 | 27,80 €
This book presents the first in-depth critical and historical examination of the internationally renowned National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica (NDTC)  ... mehr

		Reinhard Heil, Andreas Kaminski, Marcus Stippak, Alexander Unger, Marc Ziegler (eds.) Tensions and Convergences Technological and Aesthetic Transformations of Society 2007 | 33,80 €
This book presents results of an international conference which addressed the interaction of aesthetical and technological dimensions within the formation of  ... mehr

		Peter Gendolla, Jörgen Schäfer (eds.) The Aesthetics of Net Literature Writing, Reading and Playing in Programmable Media 2007 | 33,80 €
During recent years, literary texts in electronic and networked media have been a focal point of literary scholarship, using varying terminology. In this  ... mehr

		Richard Rottenburg, Burkhard Schnepel, Shingo Shimada (eds.) The Making and Unmaking of Differences Anthropological, Sociological and Philosophical Perspectives 2006 | 18,80 €
This book is about the making and unmaking of socio-cultural differences, seen from anthropological, sociological and philosophical perspectives. Some contributions  ... mehr

		Kurt Grünberg Love after Auschwitz The Second Generation in Germany 2006 | 29,80 €
This book addresses the personal and collective abysses that may open when, albeit many years after the Holocaust, but in the very country of the murderers,  ... mehr

		Jürgen Straub, Doris Weidemann, Carlos Kölbl, Barbara Zielke (eds.) Pursuit of Meaning Advances in Cultural and Cross-Cultural Psychology 2006 | 32,80 €
The fields of cross-cultural and cultural psychology both acknowledge the role of 'culture' for the constitution of a meaningful practice. There are notable  ... mehr

		Tarek Salloukh Theater in Lebanon Production, Reception and Confessionalism 2005 | 29,80 €
With a rich history of conflicts, a society full of contrasts, Lebanon presents a theater not less fascinating with its wide spectrum of social peculiarities.  ... mehr

		Jacqueline Knörr (ed.) Childhood and Migration From Experience to Agency 2005 | 25,80 €
This volume puts an emphasis on the question how children themselves experience and manage migration and by means of which they construct an identity  ... mehr

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		Christine Müller Local Knowledge and Gender in Ghana 2005 | 26,80 €
The emergence of global knowledge societies is recently questioning the meaning and relevance of local knowledge in the context of Southern countries.  ... mehr

		Natàlia Cantó Milà A Sociological Theory of Value Georg Simmel's Sociological Relationism 2005 | 28,80 €
In this book, Natàlia Cantó Milà elaborates on Georg Simmel's relational approach to a theory of value, pointing at the heuristic possibilities that this  ... mehr

		Georg Stauth (ed.) On Archaeology of Sainthood and Local Spirituality in Islam Past and Present Crossroads of Events and Ideas (Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam 5) 2004 | 26,80 €
Saints, their places, the rituals of their veneration – the heroes and martyrs they represent or to whom they are often connected with – and the beliefs  ... mehr

		Anja Peleikis Lebanese in Motion Gender and the Making of a Translocal Village 2003 | 29,80 €
Globalisation and transnational migration have altered people's understanding of as well as their relationship to their »dwelling places« and »places  ... mehr

		Georg Stauth Politics and Cultures of Islamization in Southeast Asia Indonesia and Malaysia in the Nineteen-nineties 2002 | 30,80 €
This book is about cultural and political figures, institutions and ideas in a period of transition in two Muslim countries in Southeast Asia, Malaysia  ... mehr

		Margaret Rausch Bodies, Boundaries and Spirit Possession Maroccan Women and the Revision of Tradition 2000 | 28,80 €
The social structures of Moroccan society have been changing in accordance with western models at an ever-growing rate. The role of Islam in sharing the  ... mehr

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		Andri Gerber, Brent Patterson (eds.) Metaphors in Architecture and Urbanism An Introduction erscheint Juni 2013 | ca. 33,80 €
This book discusses the nature of metaphors in architecture and urbanism. Through a multidisciplinary approach, it provides an overview as well as an in-depth investigation of the subject.

		Arnaud Lechevalier, Jan Wielgohs (eds.) Borders and Border Regions in Europe Changes, Challenges and Chances erscheint Juni 2013 | ca. 34,80 €
Focussing European borders: The book provides insight into a variety of changes in the nature of borders in Europe and its neighborhood from various disciplinary perspectives.

		Heike Behrend Contesting Visibility Photographic Practices on the East African Coast erscheint Juni 2013 | ca. 28,80 €
This book traces the fragmented history of photography on the East African coast and explores various social spaces of refusal in which (gendered) visibility was and is contested in various creative ways.

		Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Regine Schönenberg (eds.) Transnational Organized Crime Analyses of a Global Challenge to Democracy (Conception: Regine Schönenberg and Annette von Schönfeld) erscheint Juni 2013 | ca. 24,80 €
Transnational organized crime has become fatal for people and democracy all over the world and a feature of economic globalization. This volume gives a cross cultural and multi-disciplinary analysis of transnational organized crime.

		Matthias Bernt, Britta Grell, Andrej Holm (eds.) The Berlin Reader A Compendium on Urban Change and Activism erscheint August 2013 | ca. 29,80 €
The ultimate Berlin Reader and only book in English focused on urban development processes, for everybody interested in the latest history of the German capital.

		Thom Hecht Dancing Archives – Archive Dances Exploring Dance Histories at the Radcliffe College Archives erscheint August 2013 | ca. 32,80 €
Dancing Harvard – this book presents the first in-depth archival exploration of a lost history of dance as an extracurricular activity at Harvard University's Radcliffe College during the first half of the twentieth century.

		Martin Döring, Regine Kollek (eds.) Emerging Diseases Structure, Controversy and Change in the Scientific Constitution of Disease Patterns erscheint September 2013 | ca. 29,80 €
Hypotheses about diseases and their causes are often contested. This book displays empirical studies investigating emergence, contestation and change in disease patterns.

		Frank Peter, Sarah Dornhof, Elena Arigita (eds.) Islam and the Politics of Culture in Europe Memory, Aesthetics, Art erscheint September 2013 | ca. 32,80 €
Memory politics, cultural production and »Islamic art«: This volume examines how the presence of Islam and Muslims transform the politics of culture in Europe.

		Martina Moeller Rubble, Ruins and Romanticism Visual Style, Narration and Identity in German Post-War Cinema erscheint September 2013 | ca. 39,80 €
»Good Germans« during »bad times«? This study shows that there are also rubble films that provoke a »critical discussion« on German national identity.

		Sylvia Mieszkowski Resonant Alterities Sound, Desire and Anxiety in Non-Realist Fiction erscheint September 2013 | ca. 36,80 €
Sound is the new source of insight. This book examines how its production, reception and interpretation inform meaning making, identity and desire.

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		Grzegorz Kosc, Clara Juncker, Sharon Monteith, Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson (eds.) The Transatlantic Sixties Europe and the United States in the Counterculture Decade erscheint September 2013 | ca. 32,80 €
The 1960s from a transatlantic perspective: The book comprises critical essays on transatlantic and globalized American studies, focused on politics and culture.

		Gabriele Genge, Angela Stercken (eds.) Art History and Fetishism Abroad Global Shiftings in Media and Methods erscheint September 2013 | ca. 36,80 €
By focusing on the various modes and media of the fetishised object, the anthology shifts the debates on thingness into a new global art historical perspective.

		Susanne Wegener Restless Subjects in Rigid Systems Risk and Speculation in Millennial Fictions of the North-American Pacific Rim erscheint September 2013 | ca. 35,80 €
The study focuses on recent North-American speculative fiction that exposes neoliberal speculation and the rationality of risk as new technologies to govern social problems.

		Waltraud Ernst, Ilona Horwath (eds.) Gender in Science and Technology Interdisciplinary Approaches erscheint September 2013 | ca. 32,80 €
What role does gender play in scientific research and the development of technologies? The book provides interdisciplinary approaches and examples of how to apply gender in scientific research, technological development and teaching.

		Roman Meinhold Fashion Myths A Cultural Critique (translated by John Irons) erscheint September 2013 | ca. 24,80 €
Prestige, beauty, strength – which »meta-goods« do we buy when we buy fashion? A study on myths in our wardrobes.

		Klaus Petrus, Markus Wild (eds.) Animal Minds & Animal Ethics Connecting Two Separate Fields erscheint September 2013 | ca. 49,80 €
The next step in animal philosophy – this anthology builds bridges between the fields of animal ethics and the philosophy of animal minds and cognition.

		Heike Paul The Myths That Made America An Introduction to American Studies erscheint Oktober 2013 | ca. 22,90 €
Mythos Amerika – Mythen spielten beim amerikanischen »nation building« eine herausragende Rolle. Dieses Lehrbuch führt anhand einer kritischen Analyse zentraler amerikanischer Mythen in das Feld der American Studies ein.

		Janelle Blankenship, Tobias Nagl (eds.) European Visions Small Cinemas in Transition erscheint Oktober 2013 | ca. 35,80 €
Small European cinemas between nation and globalization – politics and aesthetics in the times of global capitalism.

		Martin Butler, Albrecht Hausmann, Anton Kirchhofer (eds.) Precarious Alliances Cultures of Participation in Print and Other Media erscheint Oktober 2013 | ca. 34,80 €
The volume probes the potential of the concept of participatory cultures for examining past and contemporary forms of collaboration in print and other media cultures.

		Beate Flath, Eva Klein (eds.) Advertising and Design Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Cultural Field erscheint Oktober 2013 | ca. 29,80 €
From annoyance and the fear of influence to notions of desire and affirmation: This publication does not only include the diversity of topics related to advertising but also develops a dialogue between these viewpoints.

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		Hans-Christian Petersen (ed.) Spaces of the Poor Perspectives of Cultural Sciences on Urban Slum Areas and Their Inhabitants erscheint Oktober 2013 | ca. 29,80 €
How far can we look behind the facade of urban poverty? The volume takes up this question and presents new research perspectives that do not stop at collective categories.

		Heike Schwarz Beware of the Other Side(s) Multiple Personality Disorder and Dissociative Identity Disorder in American Fiction erscheint Oktober 2013 | ca. 39,80 €
A critical examination of one of the most controversial psychiatric diagnoses in the United States analyzing the phenomenon and its representation in American fiction.

		Hans-Martin Zademach, Sebastian Hillebrand (eds.) Alternative Economies and Spaces New Perspectives for a Sustainable Economy erscheint Oktober 2013 | ca. 19,80 €
Economic spaces – Leading scholars discuss alternative modes of economic and social exchange, including credit unions, alternative currencies, sustainable consumption, and social enterprises.

		Günther Friesinger, Jana Herwig (eds.) The Art of Reverse Engineering Open – Dissect – Rebuild erscheint Oktober 2013 | ca. 34,80 €
This volume applies Reverse Engineering to the field of arts, sciences and politics. It reveals the procedures of culture and technology at work as well as the importance of access, knowledge and skills in reshaping our present and future.

		Maruta Herding Inventing the Muslim Cool Islamic Youth Culture in Western Europe erscheint Oktober 2013 | ca. 32,80 €
Young European Muslims have recently started to develop a subculture of their own. They are actively engaged in shaping the future of Islam in Europe in unconventional ways.

		Jeanne Riou, Mary Gallagher (eds.) Re-thinking Ressentiment On the Limits of Criticism and the Limits of its Critics erscheint November 2013 | ca. 28,80 €
Undermining credibility: These essays address the relationship between »Ressentiment«, power, and dissent in a range of historical and contemporary discourses.

		Samuel M. Behloul, Susanne Leuenberger, Andreas Tunger-Zanetti (eds.) Debating Islam Negotiating Religion, Europe, and the Self erscheint November 2013 | ca. 32,80 €
Why is Islam a topic of hot debates in most European societies? Researchers from several countries assemble elements for an answer.

		Frank Peter (ed.) Silence About Race? Reconfigurations of Racism in Contemporary Europe erscheint Dezember 2013 | ca. 32,80 €
This volume examines the difficulty of naming racism in contemporary Europe and explores the critical purchase and effectiveness of analytical concepts of racism in national contexts.

		Markus Kaiser Eurasia in the Making – Revival of the Silk Road A Study on Cross-border Trade and Markets in Contemporary Uzbekistan erscheint Dezember 2013 | ca. 26,80 €
The trade-routes connecting Europe and East Asia have fascinated scholars, traders, and adventurers throughout the centuries. Although its modern incarnation  ... mehr

		Christian Dahl, Tue Andersen Nexö, Christopher Prendergast (eds.) To Be Unfree Republican Perspectives on Political Unfreedom in History, Literature and Philosophy erscheint Januar 2014 | ca. 32,80 €
This collection of essays combines a theoretical discussion of unfreedom with analyses of how lack of freedom has been represented in literary history and political thought.

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		Eva Lia Wyss (ed.) Communication of Love Mediatized Intimacy from Love Letters to SMS. Interdisciplinary and Historical Studies erscheint Januar 2014 | ca. 35,80 €
Bringing the private into the public: intimate communication in the internet and on the mobile phone. This volume focuses on new media language usage from various perspectives.

		Anita Wohlmann Aged Young Adults Age Readings of Contemporary American Novels and Films erscheint Januar 2014 | ca. 33,80 €
Old at heart – Aged Young Adults takes an uncommon approach to age studies by applying concepts of age and aging to characters who are in their twenties and thirties.

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