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A magnificent tale of heart-stopping suspense from the highly acclaimed master of the genre. The Rocky Mountains, Winter 1873… One of the most desolate stretches of railroad in the West. Travelling along it is a crowded troop train, bound for the cholera-stricken garrison at Fort Humboldt. On board are the Governor of Nevada, the daughter of the fort’s commander and a US marshal escorting a notorious outlaw. Between them and safety are the hostile Paiute Indians – and a man who will stop at nothing, not even murder…

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Internationale Institutionen agieren und regieren mehr denn je durch Informationen und Wissen. Dabei geraten ihre Informationsbeziehungen zu Staaten und Individuen in den Fokus politischer und rechtlicher Auseinandersetzungen. Das institutionelle Völkerrecht birgt daher ein bislang nicht systematisch erfasstes Regelungs- und Forschungsfeld: das Informationsverwaltungsrecht internationaler Institutionen. Michael Riegner entfaltet dessen dogmatische Strukturen, allgemeine Prinzipien und interdisziplinäre Kontexte exemplarisch anhand des Rechts internationaler Entwicklungsinstitutionen. Er schlägt einen rechtswissenschaftlichen Zugriff auf Global Governance vor, der das internationale Verwaltungsrecht nicht nur rechtssetzungs- und gerichtsbezogen, sondern auch informationsbasiert konzeptioniert.Die Arbeit wurde mit dem Promotionspreis der Juristischen Fakultät der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Bibliotheksgesellschaft - e.V. 2017 ausgezeichnet.

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Der zweite Band mit Aufsätzen von Dorothea Wendebourg präsentiert Forschungen aus ihren Jahren an der Theologischen Fakultät der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Wegen seiner Bedeutung für die Forschungsdiskussion wurde auch ein älterer Beitrag zur Reformation aufgenommen. Kennzeichnend für die wissenschaftliche Arbeit der Verfasserin ist die Weite des zeitlichen Horizonts von der Reformation bis zur Gegenwart und die Breite der räumlichen Erstreckung von Griechenland bis England. Im Mittelpunkt steht die deutsche Kirchengeschichte, und zwar die Reformation mit ihren Folgewirkungen, insbesondere was Kirche, Gottesdienst und kirchliches Amt betrifft.

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London, a city of constant transition, transaction, translation. London does not exist; London is a language without a place and it is the aphasic city; it's the mother of all languages. Lucifer Over London is a new anthology nine narrative essays written by a host of international prize-winning authors including Chloe Aridjis, Viola di Grado, Xiaolu Guo, Joanna Walsh and Zinovy Zinik. First published in Italy by Humboldt Books, Lucifer Over London is now appearing in English for the first time. This is a version of London as seen from the immigrants of recent migrations, of deportations to come, from those who create London even as they contradict it.

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This edition presents Parts I and II complete. Cyrus Hamlin provides essential supporting material for this difficult text, and his Interpretive Notes have been expanded and reset in larger, easy-to-read type. "Comments by Contemporaries" includes short pieces by Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle, and Wilhelm von Humboldt. "Modern Criticism"--comprised of ten essays newly added to the Second Edition--presents the perspectives of Stuart Atkins, Jaroslav Pelikan, Benjamin Bennett, Franco Moretti, Friedrich A. Kittler, Neil M. Flax, Marc Shell, Jane Brown, Hans Rudolf Vaget, and Marshall Berman. A Selected Bibliography is included.

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The first book in English on the German Gothic in over thirty years, consisting of new essays investigating the internationality of the Gothic mode. The literary mode of the Gothic is well established in English Studies, and there is growing interest in its internationality. Gothic fiction is seen as transgressive, especially in the way it crosses borders, often illicitly -- for instance, in the form of plagiarized texts or pseudo-translations of nonexistent sources. In the 1790s, when the English Gothic novel was emerging, the real or ostensible source of many of these uncanny texts was Germany. Thisfirst book in English dedicated to the German Gothic in over thirty years is aimed at students and researchers in German Studies and English Studies, and redresses deficiencies in existing sources, which are outdated, piecemeal, or not sufficiently grounded in German Studies. The book examines the international reception of German Gothic since the 1790s heyday of the Gothic novel in Britain and Germany; traces a line of Gothic writing in German to thepresent day; and inquires into the extraliterary impact of German Gothic. Thus the essays do full justice to the Gothic as a site of conflict and exchange -- both between cultures and between discourses. Contributors:Peter Arnds, Silke Arnold-de Simine, Jürgen Barkhoff, Matthias Bickenbach, Andrew Cusack, Mario Grizelj, Jörg Kreienbrock, Barry Murnane, Victor Sage, Monika Schmitz-Emans, Catherine Smale, Andrew Webber Andrew Cusack is Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Institut für Kulturwissenschaft of the Humboldt-Universität Berlin. Barry Murnane is Assistant Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.

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This is a book about California. Specifically, this first volume is about Northern California, the wet part of the state, the green part, a place where redwoods reign and fog is common. From 2009-2013, Jacqueline Suskin lived in Humboldt County, on the edge of the continent, writing poetry. In this collection, we come to know her as a lover of land, a steward, and an ecstatic earth worshiper. This book is a personal narrative, a selection of formative memories, but most importantly it’s a shared compendium of terrain, an atlas of verse that offers each reader a retreat, and a pathway to access this sacred landscape that provides us with so much.

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When Dr David Hosack tilled the America’s first botanical garden in the Manhattan soil more than two hundred years ago, he didn’t just dramatically alter the New York landscape; he left a monumental legacy of advocacy for public health and wide-ranging support for the sciences. A charismatic dreamer admired by the likes of Jefferson, Madison and Humboldt, and intimate friends with both Hamilton and Burr, the Columbia professor devoted his life to inspiring Americans to pursue medicine and botany with a rigour to rival Europe’s. Though he was shoulder-to-shoulder with the founding fathers Hosack and his story remain unknown. Now, in melodic prose, Victoria Johnson eloquently chronicles Hosack’s tireless career to reveal the breadth of his impact.

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The incalculable influence of Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) on biology, botany, geology, and meteorology deservedly earned him the reputation as the world's most illustrious scientist before Charles Darwin. Humboldt's breath-taking explorations of Mexico and South America from 1799 to 1804 are akin to Europe's second "discovery" of the New World - this time, a scientific one. His Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain is a foundational document about Mexico and its cultures and is still widely consulted by anthropologists, geographers, and historians. In Humboldt's Mexico, Myron Echenberg presents a straightforward guide with historical and cultural context to Humboldt's travels in Mexico. Humboldt packed a lifetime of scientific studies into one daunting year, and soon after published a four-volume account of his findings. His adventures range widely from inspections of colonial silver mines and hikes to the summits of volcanoes to meticulous examination of secret Spanish colonial archives in Mexico City and scientific discussions of archaeological sites of pre-Hispanic Indigenous cultures. Echenberg traces Humboldt's journey, as described in his publications, his diary, and other writings, across the heartland of Mexico, while also pursuing Humboldt's life, his science, his experiences, his influence on scholars of his time and after, and the various efforts by others to honour and at times to denigrate his legacy. Part history, part travelogue, and always highly readable and informative, Humboldt's Mexico is an engaging account of a gifted scientist and visionary that ranges across topics as diverse and broad as natural history was in his era.

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This book presents an ongoing debate in cognitive linguistics about the modelling of prepositional polysemy, known as "the story of over." Additionally, it discusses a Polish counterpart - "the story of za(-)" (a preposition and a verbal prefix). Its further aim is to reveal a deep divergence of perspectives between the cognitive and hermeneutical approaches to the meaning of words. The argument could be summarised as follows: the issue of the representation of lexical senses (available out of context) presupposes the issue of distinct meanings of words in communal use, which in turn presupposes the question of the transformative power of words (in linguistics, articulated by Humboldt as energeia). In short, the book proposes to complement a post hoc static cognitive approach with a dynamic "expressive" one.

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Neil MacGregor was Director of the National Gallery, London from 1987 to 2002 and of the British Museum from 2002 to 2015, and Chair of the Steering Committee of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin from 2015 to 2018. His previous books include A History of the World in 100 Objects, Shakespeare's Restless World and Germany: Memories of a Nation, all available in Penguin and now between them translated into more than a dozen languages. In 2010, he was made a member of the Order of Merit, the UK's highest civil honour. In 2015 he was awarded the Goethe Medal and the German National Prize. In 2018 the radio series Living with the Gods received the Sandford Saint Martin Award for Religious Broadcasting.

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This is the first book to catalog comparative maps and tableaux that visualize the heights and lengths of the world’s mountains and rivers. Produced predominantly in the nineteenth century, these beautifully rendered maps emerged out of the tide of exploration and scientific developments in measuring techniques. Beginning with the work of explorer Alexander von Humboldt, these historic drawings reveal a world of artistic and imaginative difference. Many of them give way—and with visible joy—to the power of fantasy in a mesmerizing array of realistic and imaginary forms. Most of the maps are from the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection at Stanford University.

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Deutschland hat sich in einem Modell demokratisiert, das gesellschaftliche Konflikte vorrangig in Verhandlungsmustern auszugleichen versucht. Hiermit unterscheidet es sich deutlich von anderen westlichen Demokratien, vor allem den USA. Dieses verhandlungsdemokratische Modell, das sich vom Kaiserreich bis zur Bundesrepublik in mühsamen Kämpfen gegen die lange dominante autoritäre hierarchische Alternative durchsetzen musste, bestimmt nicht nur die formellen politischen Institutionen, sondern mit dem deutschen Wirtschafts- und Sozialmodell und der Religionsverfassung die gesamte Schnittstelle der Staat-Gesellschafts-Beziehungen. Dominik Rennert zeigt exemplarisch anhand des Religionsrechts, wie das Modell zunächst in Weimar scheiterte, um sich dann in Bonn zu stabilisieren, und wie das Staatsrecht der Zeit in langen Auseinandersetzungen auf seine Herausbildung reagiert hat. Die Arbeit wurde mit dem Promotionspreis der Juristischen Fakultät der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin 2023 ausgezeichnet.

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The most comprehensive listing of the known useful plants for this country. Compiled by a team of Colombian and international botanists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Humboldt Institute and numerous partner institutions, it consolidates expert-generated information linked and accessible through an online portal (ColPlantA). The checklist is accompanied by 11 chapters written by specialists, providing perspectives on the state of knowledge on the useful plants of Colombia, covering a range of topics, from taxonomic, geographic and conservation aspects, to their use in sustainable value chains and contributions to the bioeconomy, specific topics such as medicinal, edible and insecticide plants, and their representation in the Amazon region, and in Kew’s economic botany collection. The catalogue is further enriched by diverse supplementary material.

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The museum and heritage sector has been shaken by debates over how to address colonialism, migration, Islamophobia, LGBTI+ and multiple other forms of difference. This major multi-researcher ethnography of museums and heritage in Berlin provides new insight into how "diversity" is understood and put into action in museums and heritage. Exploring new initiatives and approaches, the book shows how these work - or do not - in practice. By doing so, it highlights ways forward - for research and action - for the future. The fieldwork locations on which this book is based include the Humboldt Forum, the Museum of Islamic Art, the Museum für Naturkunde, and the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, as well as Berlin streets and protests.

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The Mitte district of Berlin is marked by numerous reconstructions of buildings, one of which is the newly erected Humboldt Forum. Daniel Theiler has investigated this quarter’s cultural history and socio-cultural context, while examining the manifestations of hierarchical power politics. This has resulted in a series of works by the artist/architect on the reconstruction of the Berlin Castle, which plays a major role in this volume, entering into a dialogue with interdisciplinary essays on the current debates about reconstruction. This first comprehensive catalogue of the artist’s work compiles pieces from the last five years. Featuring a conversation between Natalie Keppler and Daniel Theiler, as well as essays by Ortrun Bargholz, Bertolt Meyer, Constanze Müller, Elke Neumann, Juliane Richter, Johannes Warda, Elisabeth Würzl, and a foreword by Anke Hannemann.

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Keeping visual journals has been popular for centuries among artist-travelers like Albrecht Dürer, J. M. W. Turner, Katsushika Hokusai, and David Hockney. Explorers like Jacques le Moyne, Alexander von Humboldt, Charles Darwin, and Marianne North also recorded their journeys in sketchbooks and diaries. Topographical drawing was essential. Knowing what destinations looked like let voyagers know they had arrived. Carrying this concept to the next level, Sketchbook Traveler expands plein air painting beyond the range of easels and backpacks, providing educators with instructional concepts. It gives professional artists many new (and old) ways to hone mobile sketching skills. Inviting readers to explore their surroundings through drawing and writing, Sketchbook Traveler is a field guide to mindful engagement with personal experience in ways that make every day an adventure.

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Seaweed is so familiar and yet its names - pepper dulse, sea lettuce, bladderwrack - are largely unknown to us. In this short, exquisitely illustrated portrait, the Dutch poet and artist Miek Zwamborn shares her discoveries of its history, culture and use, from the Neolithic people of the Orkney Islands to sushi artisans in modern Japan. Seaweed troubled Columbus on his voyages across the Atlantic, intrigued von Humboldt in the Sargasso Sea and inspired artists from Hokusai to Matisse. Covering seaweed's collection by Victorians, its adoption into fashion and dance and its potential for combating climate change, and with a fabulous series of recipes based around the 'truffles of the sea', this is a wonderful gift for every nature lover's home.

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For years following reunification, Berlin was the largest construction site in Europe, with striking new architecture proliferating throughout the city in the 1990s and early 2000s. Among the most visible and the most contested of the new projects were those designed for the national government and its related functions. Berlin Contemporary explores these buildings and plans, tracing their antecedents while also situating their iconic forms and influential designers within the spectacular world of global contemporary architecture. Close studies of these sites, including the Reichstag, the Chancellery, and the reconstruction of the Berlin Stadtschloss (now known as the Humboldt Forum), demonstrate the complexity of Berlin’s political and architectural “rebuilding”—and reveal the intricate historical negotiations that architecture was summoned to perform.

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When Dr David Hosack tilled the America’s first botanical garden in the Manhattan soil more than two hundred years ago, he didn’t just dramatically alter the New York landscape; he left a monumental legacy of advocacy for public health and wide-ranging support for the sciences. A charismatic dreamer admired by the likes of Jefferson, Madison and Humboldt, and intimate friends with both Hamilton and Burr, the Columbia professor devoted his life to inspiring Americans to pursue medicine and botany with a rigour to rival Europe’s. Though he was shoulder-to-shoulder with the founding fathers Hosack and his story remain unknown. Now, in melodic prose, Victoria Johnson eloquently chronicles Hosack’s tireless career to reveal the breadth of his impact.

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This collection of essays is partly the product of a symposium that took place at Humboldt University, Berlin in July 2010. It was supplemented by other articles which contributed further relevant aspects to the overall topic. The aim of the conference was to explore the longstanding conundrum of the rapid rise and growth of Christianity in the first three centuries CE. This well-studied question finds a special home in the city of Berlin where, at the beginning of the last century, Adolf von Harnack, Professor at Friedrich Wilhelms University (today Humboldt University) Berlin carried out what was arguably its most famous treatment. According to Harnack, early Christian history began in the missionary activity of contemporary Judaism. The movement spread as the result of a combination of deliberate syncretism with a measure of simplicity in the cultural and political unity of the Roman Empire. Over the past thirty years, scholars such as Ramsey MacMullen and Rodney Stark have questioned some of Harnack's conclusions. Arising from outside of the field of New Testament Studies (Ancient History and Sociology of Religion, respectively), both MacMullen's and Stark's approach remained at some distance from specialist understandings of, for example, complex theological and rhetorical aspects of early Christian texts. Therefore, in the wake of these important studies, a variety of new strategies have emerged taking these and other vital concerns into account. The essays in this volume represent these assorted approaches. Methodological rigor is the only unambiguous theme running throughout this otherwise diverse collection. The essays are collected under two broad sub-headings: Cultural Milieu and Texts. Topics treated include Paul, Jesus and the Gospels, other New Testament texts, the Apocryphal Acts, and the expansion of Christianity in the second and third centuries.

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Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869) - court physician to the King of Saxony - was a naturalist, amateur painter and theoretician of landscape painting whose "Nine Letters on Landscape Painting" is an important document of early German Romanticism and an appeal for the integration of art and science. Carus was inspired by and had contacts with the greatest German intellectuals of his day. He prefaced his work with a letter from his correspondence with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who was his primary mentor in both science and art. His writings also reflect, however, the influence of the German natural philosopher, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, especially Schelling's notion of a world soul, and the writings of the naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt. Carus played a role in the revolution in landscape painting taking place in Saxony around Caspar David Friedrich.

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Experimental Zone documents a remarkable experiment in spatial research at the interdisciplinary laboratory Image Knowledge Gestaltung at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Every two months, for four years, researchers reconfigured a 350-square meter workspace for forty scientists. The design-based collaborative experiment's focus was on the interrelation of space and knowledge production: What spatial qualities are required by interdisciplinary teams for their research work? With some 300 striking and straightforward graphics, Experimental Zone presents the findings of the experiment. It highlights the spatial conditions under which individual and collaborative research unfold, overlap, or merge and reveals the characteristics of an architecture that fosters interdisciplinary. The experiment's innovative interdisciplinary approach is also reflected in the book's design, with each of the five chapters and the comprehensive visual material reflecting publishing traditions in design, architecture, and the humanities.

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Jaan Valsiner has made numerous contributions to the development of psychology over the last 40 years. He is internationally recognized as a leader and innovator within both developmental psychology and cultural psychology, and has received numerous prizes for his work: the Alexander von Humboldt prize, the Hans Killian prize, and the Outstanding International Psychologist Award from the American Psychological Association. Having taught at Universities in Europe, Asia and north and south America, he is currently Niels Bohr professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. This book is the first to discuss in detail the different sides of Valsiner’s thought, including developmental science, semiotic mediation, cultural transmission, aesthetics, globalization of science, epistemology, methodology and the history of ideas. The book provides an overview, evaluation and extension of Valsiner’s key ideas for the construction of a dynamic cultural psychology, written by his former students and colleagues from around the world.

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Almuerzo en el café Gotham apareció originalmente en la antología Dark Love de 1995 (editada por Nancy A. Collins , Edward E. Kramer y Martin H. Greenberg).Un hombre llamado Steve Davis llega a casa un día y encuentra una carta de su esposa, Diane, que le dice con frialdad que ella lo ha dejado y tiene la intención de divorciarse. La partida de Diane lo impulsa a dejar los cigarrillos y comienza a sufrir abstinencia de nicotina. El abogado de Diane, William Humboldt, llama a Steve con planes de reunirse con los dos para almorzar. Se decide por el café Gotham y fija una fecha.La desesperación del protagonista por un cigarrillo y por su ex es casi insoportable, pero nada comparado con los horrores que le esperan en el moderno restaurante de Manhattan.

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Say hi to Pica Pau's sweetest friends! Meet Roberto Dachshund, Alberto Seagull, Humboldt Penguin, Horacio Polar Bear, Amalia Giraffe and many more: everyone is a happy member of the bustling Pica Pau family. They're earnest, warmhearted and gentle, and as soon as you've opened the book, you'll feel right at home. Toy maker, character designer and crochet knitter Yan Schenkel has collected the brightest amigurumi around her. In this book, she presents her expert knowledge of amigurumi crochet in 20 precious designs, and she also unveils the secrets to make her most beautiful creations. All patterns contain detailed instructions and are accompanied by step-by-step pictures and explanations of all techniques used, so both beginners and advanced crocheters can easily get acquainted with her amigurumi besties. Discover the phenomenon of Pica Pau and friends.

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Welche Bedeutung hatte der Orientalismus für die Möglichkeits- und Rezeptionsbedingungen deutschen jüdischen Schreibens? Kathrin Wittler rekonstruiert Dynamiken von Traditionsbruch und Traditionsstiftung, die sich im Zeitraum von ca. 1750 bis 1850 im Kontext kontroverser Debatten über die Emanzipation der Juden und über die hebräische Bibel ergaben. Einen weiten Bogen von Moses Mendelssohn und Naphtali Herz Wessely bis zu Heinrich Heine und Fanny Lewald spannend, erschließt Kathrin Wittler literarische Experimente mit Sprachen und Schriften sowie mit poetischen Formen und Stilen in der Umbruchszeit um 1800. Sie zeigt, dass der Orientalismus jüdischen Autorinnen und Autoren dazu diente, der europäischen Gegenwart ihres Lebens und Schreibens durch Ursprungs- und Vermittlungsfiguren einen morgenländischen Glanz zu verleihen und west-östliche Schreibpositionen zu definieren.Die dem Buch zugrundeliegende Qualifikationsschrift wurde 2017 mit dem Sonderpreis der Humboldt-Universität für eine Dissertation zum Thema "Judentum und Antisemitismus" gewürdigt und 2018 mit dem Johannes Zilkens-Promotionspreis der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes ausgezeichnet.

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Der vorliegende Band versammelt die Beiträge einer Tagung, die 2015 an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin stattfand, dem Jahr, in dem sich der Fund der Nag-Hammadi-Codices zum 70. Mal jährte. Die Perspektive des Bandes ist darauf gerichtet, die Nag-Hammadi-Schriften im Kontext der Literatur- und Theologiegeschichte des frühen Christentums zu interpretieren. Damit wird ein bislang nur wenig beachteter Aspekt in den Vordergrund gestellt. War die Diskussion über die Nag-Hammadi-Schriften bislang häufig darauf gerichtet, deren Verhältnis zur antiken Gnosis bzw. zu den Schriften des Neuen Testaments zu untersuchen, so wird hier ein anderer Ansatz verfolgt. Die Schriften werden entsprechend ihren literarischen Gattungen (etwa: Apokalypsen, theologische und philosophische Traktate oder Evangelien) in den Blick genommen. In Beiträgen international renommierter Forscher wird untersucht, in welcher Weise die Nag-Hammadi-Schriften diese Gattungen realisieren und wie sich ihre Stellung innerhalb der Literatur und Theologie des antiken Christentums beschreiben lässt.

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Seit nunmehr über 15 Jahren prägt die Frage nach der Angemessenheit der Vergütung des Urhebers die Diskussion im Urheberrecht wie kaum eine andere. Der Gesetzgeber widmete sich diesem Thema im Rahmen zweier Reformen und schuf mit den §§ 32 ff. UrhG ein neuartiges Regelungskonzept, mit dem sich die urheberrechtliche Literatur und Rechtsprechung in der Folgezeit intensiv beschäftigte. Amit Datta analysiert die tiefgreifenden Auswirkungen dieser Entwicklungen in rechtlicher und wirtschaftlicher Hinsicht mit Blick auf die gängigen Vertragsformen im Filmbereich. Hierbei zeigt er, weshalb es bisher - entgegen verhaltensökonomischer Erwartungen - noch nicht flächendeckend zu der intendierten Stärkung der vertraglichen Stellung der Urheber gekommen ist. Vor dem Hintergrund der erarbeiteten Ergebnisse hinterfragt Amit Datta das Festhalten an den vorherrschenden Vertragsstrukturen und zeigt - unter Berücksichtigung der vertraglichen Praxis in den USA - Alternativen auf.Die Arbeit wurde mit dem Karlheinz-Quack-Preis 2017 der Juristischen Fakultät der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin ausgezeichnet.

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Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europa - and. Länder - Mittelalter, Frühe Neuzeit, Note: 2,1, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Geschichtswissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Krieg und Frieden, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Person des Richard Neville, dem 16. Earl of Warwick, dem 6. Earl of Salisbury. Er ging in die Geschichte ein als der Königsmacher. Ein Name, den er sich erarbeitete, indem er die verschiedensten Könige, während der Zeit der Rosenkriege auf den Thron Englands hob. Beispielsweise mit dem Sturz Henry VI und der Einsetzung durch Edward IV, welcher sich aber auch nur als legitimer Thronfolger seines Vater Richard Plantagenet, des Duke of York, sah. Dieser war zwar nie direkt König von England, beanspruchte aber für sich den Thron, da er seiner Meinung nach dem Thron näher stand als jeder Lancaster. Das spätmittelalterliche England ist eins der Themen, die im deutschsprachigen Raum vernachlässigt werden. Zu

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Unter dem Slogan "Kein Patent auf Leben" erfährt die Patentierung von Lebewesen in der Öffentlichkeit erhebliche Kritik. Gregor Ischebeck setzt sich speziell mit der rechtlichen Zulässigkeit der Patentierung von Tieren in Deutschland und Europa auseinander. Durch die Anmeldung des so genannten "Harvard-Krebsmaus-Patentes" auf gentechnisch veränderte Versuchstiere und durch die Anmeldung des so genannten "Schweine-Patentes" auf besonders ertragreiche Schweine hat dieses Thema große Aufmerksamkeit erfahren. Im Zentrum der Untersuchung steht, welche Patentierungsmöglichkeiten das deutsche und europäische Patentrecht bei Tieren bieten, inwieweit bestehende Beschränkungen mit dem Schutz geistigen Eigentums in Einklang zu bringen sind und welche Regelungsalternativen insbesondere auf Ebene der Patentwirkungen zu einem besseren Interessenausgleich zwischen Erfindern und Nutzern patentgeschützter Tiere führen könnten.Diese Arbeit wurde mit dem Fakultätspreis 2015 des Fachbereichs Rechtswissenschaft der Universität Bonn und dem Konrad-Redeker-Preis 2015 der Juristischen Fakultät der Humboldt Universität ausgezeichnet.

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From San Francisco s most significant players to the innovation hub of Silicon Valley and the creative buzz of Hollywood, California Elegance brings you the very best of the Golden State. The changing landscapes of San Francisco, the redwood forests of Humboldt, the sands of Death Valley, the wonders of Yosemite, the slopes of Lake Tahoe, the bustle of Silicon Valley, the glamour of Hollywood and so much more are chronicled by Christine Suppes and Frederic Aranda. Through a combination of profiles and stories by Suppes, a lifelong Californian, and photographs by Aranda, the pair depict the unique personalities and natural beauty of the state, as well as its significant sites. Profiles and portraits include Governor Gavin Newsom and First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom, politicians Willie Brown and Jackie Speier, actor Kirsten Dunst, Glide Memorial Church pastor Cecil Williams, fashion designers Laura and Kate Mulleavy and Johnston Hartig, Queen Sugar author Natalie Baszile, young NASA scientists, social activists, farmers, firefighters, and award-winning astronomer Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz.

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Homeopathy was founded in 1796 by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann who ardently proposed that "like cures like," counter to the conventional treatment of prescribing drugs that have the opposite effect to symptoms. Alice A. Kuzniar critically examines the alternative medical practice of homeopathy within the Romantic culture in which it arose. In The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of Romanticism, Kuzniar argues that Hahnemann was a product of his time rather than an iconoclast and visionary. It is the first book in English to examine Hahnemann's unpublished writings, including case journals and self-testings, and links to his contemporaries such as Goethe and Alexander von Humboldt. Kuzniar's engaging writing style seamlessly weaves together medical, philosophical, semiotic, and literary concerns and reveals homeopathy as a phenomenon of its time. The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of Romanticism sheds light on issues that continue to dominate the controversy surrounding homeopathy to this very day.

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Mit der Festschrift für Christian Kirchner sollte ein außergewöhnlicher akademischer Lehrer und Forscher zu seinem 70. Geburtstag geehrt werden, der in seiner die Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften umfassenden Laufbahn, zuletzt während seiner fast 20-jährigen Tätigkeit als Professor an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, entscheidend zur Entwicklung des modernen Wirtschaftsrechts, insbesondere des Wettbewerbs- sowie des Regulierungsrechts, beigetragen hat. Er gilt als einer der führenden Vordenker der Ökonomischen Theorie des Rechts. Überraschend ist der zu Ehrende am 17. Januar 2014 verstorben. Das Werk ist daher seinem Andenken gewidmet.Für die Festschrift haben zahlreiche renommierte Autoren aus Deutschland sowie unter anderem der Schweiz, den USA und Asien als Freunde, Weggefährten, Schüler und Kollegen Beiträge verfasst, die sich mit Problemen aus den zentralen Arbeitsgebieten des zu Ehrenden wissenschaftlich auseinandersetzen. Schwerpunkte der Beiträge bilden das Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftsrecht, Kartellrecht, Recht und Ökonomie der Regulierung sowie Institutionenökonomie. Dabei wird meist ein europäischer oder internationaler Bezug hergestellt und häufig eine wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Sichtweise gewählt.

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The present volume contains the proceedings of a conference held in October 2018 at Humboldt University Berlin. The articles reflect the different categories of describing Judaism of the Second Temple Period in view of their sustainability in characterising an ancient religious community in different historical situations and discuss relevant (re)constructions of ancient Judaism in the history of scholarship. Since the Persian period, ancient Judaism existed in a world which was in constant flux regarding its political, social, and religious contexts. Consequently, Judaism was subject to permanent processes of change in its self-perception as well as its external perception. In all complexity, however, the Torah, the Temple(s) as a place where heaven meets the earth, and the 'holy' or 'promised' land as the dwelling place of God's people can be regarded as institutions to which all kinds of Judaism in the Babylonian and Egyptian dispora as well in Israel/Palestine were related in some way or another.

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From germ theory to plantation logic, this book charts the 528-year legacy of global, colonial powers in the violent search for the elusive Cinchona plant of South America, the only known natural cure for malaria in the world. Stolen by the Jesuits in the 17th century, smuggled abroad by Britain and Holland during the 18th century, mapped by German explorer Alexander von Humboldt in the 19th century, and exploited by global pharma in the 20th century, the Cinchona plant and the story of its powerful quinine extract not only lie at the base of modern civilisation but trace the deep roots of Indigenous, territorial resistance back to the Amazon and the Andes. Using the unfamiliar format of an illustrated historical timeline, the chronological organisation of images and stories presented as unique spatial evidence offer counter-narratives to the conventional bounded map of the nation state and the distancing of the past that often overshadows and obscures realities of the present-future.

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Learn about artists and writers who explored it before you! Plein air basics are unpacked with sample works by the author, and pages of high-quality art paper provide open space for creating your own journal practice. Keeping visual journals has been popular for centuries, among artist-travelers like Albrecht Durer, J. M. W. Turner, Katsushika Hokusai, and David Hockney. Explorers like Jacques le Moyne, Alexander von Humboldt, Charles Darwin, and Marianne North also recorded their journeys in sketchbooks and diaries. Topographical drawing was essential. Knowing what destinations looked like helped travelers know they had arrived. Carrying this concept to the next level, Sketchbook Traveler expands plein air painting beyond the range of easels and backpacks, providing educators with instructional concepts, and giving professional artists new (and old) ways to hone mobile sketching skills. Inviting readers to explore their surroundings through drawing and writing, Sketchbook Traveler is a field guide to mindful engagement with personal experience in ways that make every day an adventure.

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From Classical times to the 19th century, the great quest to discover and define the intoxicating diversity of the natural world attracted a host of intrepid thinkers and explorers. Aristotle and Linnaeus set out to classify nature; Joseph Banks and von Humboldt made perilous journeys to collect and record it. Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered bacteria with a homemade microscope and James Hutton revealed the immense age of the Earth. Mary Anning hunted fossils; others insects, birds and plants. Georges Cuvier pondered extinction, and Charles Darwin proclaimed the origin of species. With their radical thinking and commitment to close observation, these pioneers laid foundations for the specialist scientists of today. Here thirty-nine of them are brought vividly to life by an array of experts, with illustrations from the unmatched archive of the Natural History Museum, London.

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French naturalist and medical doctor Aimé Bonpland (1773–1858) was one of the most important scientific explorers of South America in the early nineteenth century. From 1799 to 1804, he worked alongside Alexander von Humboldt as the latter carried out his celebrated research in northern South America, but he later returned to conduct his own research farther south. A Life in Shadow accounts for the entire span of Bonpland's remarkable and diverse career in South America—in Argentina, Paraguay (where he was imprisoned for nearly a decade), Uruguay, and southernmost Brazil—based on extensive archival material. The study reconnects Bonpland's divided records in Europe and South America and delves into his studies of rural resources in interior regions of South America, including experimental cultivation techniques. This is a fascinating account of a man—a doctor, farmer, rancher, scientific explorer, and political conspirator—who interacted in many revealing ways with the evolving societies and institutions of South America.

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"Someday" Big Fred Hewett used to say in his Humboldt Saloon in Aberdeen, Washington, "these pictures will show how the boys used to do it." He knew the day would come when the Pacific Northwest's "Big Woods" would be only a fog-blurred memory and the cry "Logs! More Logs!" would no longer be heard ringing up and down the skidroads. With the superb views of timber photographer Darius Kinsey, comprising more than 200 pictures made from wet plate celluloid negatives, 11" x 14", and processed by his pioneer wife, Tabitha, author Andrews dramatically presents a panorama of lumbering's great days in these woods from 1890 to 1925. Shown in sharp detail are the first axes, 12-foot crosscut saws, the first oxen and horses, the first donkey engines and "lokeys". Then the story continues into the "highball" days, the high production period with the steel tower skidders and miles of steel rigging.

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Cees Nooteboom, un viajero incansable, visita a sus muertos amados allá donde se encuentren para entablar diálogos con ellos, para verificar sus palabras, su inmortalidad. Peregrinó a la tumba de Neruda en Chile, a las de Vallejo y Cortázar en París, a la de Antonio Machado en Collioure, a la de Stevenson en Samoa y a la de Kawabata en Japón; a las de Keats y Shelley en Roma, en el cementerio de los extranjeros, donde también reposan el hijo de Goethe y uno de los hijos de Wilhelm von Humboldt; a las de Thomas Mann, James Joyce y Elias Canetti en Zúrich; a las de Balzac, Proust y Nerval en el cementerio de Père Lachaise de París; a las de Brecht y Hegel, que están enterrados en un pequeño camposanto en Berlín.Una obra extremadamente sugerente y reveladora de una de las más destacadas figuras de la literatura contemporánea.

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Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco (1713–1785) is remembered today not only as colonial New Mexico’s preeminent religious artist, but also as the cartographer who drew some of the most important early maps of the American West. His “Plano Geographico” of the Colorado Plateau and Great Basin, revised by his hand in 1778, influenced other mapmakers for almost a century. This book places the man and the map in historical context, reminding readers of the enduring significance of Miera y Pacheco. Later Spanish cartographers, as well as Baron Alexander von Humboldt, Captain Zebulon Montgomery Pike, and Henry Schenck Tanner, projected or expanded upon the Santa Fe cartographer’s imagery. By so doing, they perpetuated Miera y Pacheco’s most notable hydrographic misinterpretations. Not until almost seventy years after Miera did John Charles Frémont take the field and see for himself whither the waters ran and whither they didn’t.

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The recent progress in analytical methods, aided by bringing in a wide range of other disciplines, opens up the study to a broader field, which means that biogeography now goes far beyond a simple description of the distribution of living species on Earth.Originating with Alexander von Humboldt, biogeography is a discipline in which ecologists and evolutionists aim to understand the way that living species are organized in connection with their environments. Today, as we face major challenges such as global warming, massive species extinction and devastating pandemics, biogeography offers hypotheses and explanations that may help to provide solutions.This book presents as wide an overview as possible of the different fields that biogeography interacts with. Sixteen authors from all over the world offer different approaches based on their specific areas of knowledge and experience; thus, we intend to illustrate the vast number of diverse aspects covered by biogeography.

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The history of the vexed relationship between clergy and warfare is traced through a careful examination of canon law. In the first millennium the Christian Church forbade its clergy from bearing arms. In the mid-eleventh century the ban was reiterated many times at the highest levels: all participants in the battle of Hastings, for example, who had drawn blood were required to do public penance. Yet over the next two hundred years the canon law of the Latin Church changed significantly: the pope and bishops came to authorize and direct wars; military-religious orders, beginning with the Templars, emerged to defend the faithful and the Faith; and individual clerics were allowed to bear arms for defensive purposes. This study examines how these changes developed, ranging widely across Europe and taking the story right up to the present day; it also considers the reasons why the original prohibition has never been restored. Lawrence G. Duggan is Professor of History at the University of Delaware and research fellowof the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

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The history of the vexed relationship between clergy and warfare is traced through a careful examination of canon law. In the first millennium the Christian Church forbade its clergy from bearing arms. In the mid-eleventh century the ban was reiterated many times at the highest levels: all participants in the battle of Hastings, for example, who had drawn blood were required to do public penance. Yet over the next two hundred years the canon law of the Latin Church changed significantly: the pope and bishops came to authorize and direct wars; military-religious orders, beginning with the Templars, emerged to defend the faithful and the Faith; and individual clerics were allowed to bear arms for defensive purposes. This study examines how these changes developed, ranging widely across Europe and taking the story right up to the present day; it also considers the reasons why the original prohibition has never been restored. LAWRENCE G. DUGGAN is Professor of History at the University of Delaware and research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

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Se publican en este volumen "De mi vida" (Aus meinem Leben), un texto que fue componiéndose en sucesivas adiciones entre 1911 y 1952, y "Desde la mesa del dibujante" (1939), además de breves fragmentos autobiográficos que aparecieron en diversas publicaciones de Kubin. Si en "De mi vida" narra con toda sinceridad una trayectoria biográfica que va desde la infancia hasta la vejez, desde las travesuras iniciales hasta los problemas físicos causados por la edad, y destaca los efectos del paso del tiempo, en "Desde la mesa del dibujante" articula los momentos biográficos con acontecimientos y reflexiones sobre su propio trabajo, sobre la condición del dibujante y del ilustrador, pero también sobre el mundo que ha creado, su naturaleza crepuscular.La presente edición, en textos traducidos directamente del alemán, ha sido preparada por Sela Bozal, profesora de la Universidad Humboldt (Berlín), que ha revisado la traducción y escrito una amplia introducción.La capacidad para crear form

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Johann Wolfgang Goethe no solo fue el máximo exponente de su época como escritor. Su obra da cuenta además de una minuciosa dedicación a la investigación de las ciencias naturales y de una vida profundamente marcada por la naturaleza.Con una enorme fuerza narrativa, Stefan Bollmann explora en esta biografía la olvidada visión goethiana del mundo natural y nos ofrece a su vez una imagen de Goethe completamente nueva. Dedicado al estudio de diversos campos, que fueron la base intelectual de su amistad con figuras como Alexander von Humboldt, la vida de este genio nos revela no solo la importancia de la experiencia al aire libre, sino la idea del entorno natural visto como una totalidad orgánica y cambiante que depende de la interconexión de todas las formas de vida en la Tierra.Un libro que no solo nos muestra lo que Goethe representó en el contexto de la época, sino cómo el conocimiento de la naturaleza puede ser una fuente para comprender nuestra humanidad.

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Cómo el arte, la literatura, la filosofía pueden llevarnos más allá de los límites de nuestro yo y hacernos descubrir quiénes somos en realidad.Como una experiencia capaz de barrer nuestra rutina, como una fractura olvidada, la aventura puede encender nuestros deseos silenciados. En un adictivo cuerpo a cuerpo con algunos textos fundamentales de la cultura occidental y las lecturas más originales de la contemporaneidad, Pietro Del Soldà pone en diálogo nuestros problemas cotidianos con las Historias de Heródoto, las intuiciones del sociólogo Georg Simmel con la Odisea de Kazantzakis, el teatro de Sartre con el Platón más autobiográfico y la sabiduría irónica de Montaigne. En un fascinante diario de viaje a través de los siglos y los continentes, el autor nos muestra cómo los griegos defendieron sus ideales de libertad en el campo de batalla de Maratón; en Sudamérica, seguimos los pasos de Alexander von Humboldt, precursor de una idea de la naturaleza que no pode

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