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  • The Church of the Dead

    The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas

    by Jennifer Scheper Hughes ...
    Series series North American Religions
    Tells the story of the founding of American Christianity against the backdrop of devastating disease, and of the Indigenous survivors who kept the nascent faith aliveMany scholars have come to think of the European Christian mission to the Americas as an inevitable success. But in its early period it was very much on the brink of failure. In 1576, Indigenous Mexican communities suffered a ... Read more

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  • Franz Boas among the Inuit of Baffin Island, 1883-1884

    Journals and Letters

    Edited by Ludger Muller-Wille ...
    In the summer of 1883, Franz Boas, widely regarded as one of the fathers of Inuit anthropology, sailed from Germany to Baffin Island to spend a year among the Inuit of Cumberland Sound. This was his introduction to the Arctic and to anthropological fieldwork. This book presents, for the first time, his letters and journal entries from the year that he spent among the Inuit, providing not only an ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Political Executives

    Edited by Rudy B. Andeweg, Robert Elgie, Ludger Helms, Juliet Kaarbo, Ferdinand Müller-Rommel ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Political executives have been at the centre of public and scholarly attention long before the inception of modern political science. In the contemporary world, political executives have come to dominate the political stage in many democratic and autocratic regimes. The Oxford Handbook of Political Executives marks the definitive reference work in this field. Edited and written by a team of word ... Read more

    $151.99 USD

  • Violence at the Urban Margins

    Edited by Javier Auyero, Philippe Bourgois, Nancy Scheper-Hughes ...
    Series series Global and Comparative Ethnography
    In the Americas, debates around issues of citizen's public safety--from debates that erupt after highly publicized events, such as the shootings of Jordan Davis and Trayvon Martin, to those that recurrently dominate the airwaves in Latin America--are dominated by members of the middle and upper-middle classes. However, a cursory count of the victims of urban violence in the Americas reveals that ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Biography of a Mexican Crucifix

    Lived Religion and Local Faith from the Conquest to the Present

    by Jennifer Scheper Hughes ...
    In 1543, in a small village in Mexico, a group of missionary friars received from a mysterious Indian messenger an unusual carved image of Christ crucified. The friars declared it the most poignantly beautiful depiction of Christ's suffering they had ever seen. Known as the Cristo Aparecido (the "Christ Appeared"), it quickly became one of the most celebrated religious images in colonial Mexico. ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Applied Quantitative Finance

    Edited by Cathy Yi-Hsuan Chen, Wolfgang Karl Härdle, Ludger Overbeck ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This volume provides practical solutions and introduces recent theoretical developments in risk management, pricing of credit derivatives, quantification of volatility and copula modeling. This third edition is devoted to modern risk analysis based on quantitative methods and textual analytics to meet the current challenges in banking and finance. It includes 14 new contributions and presents a ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems

    21st International Conference, MobiWIS 2025, Istanbul, Türkiye, August 11–13, 2025, Proceedings

    Edited by Muhammad Younas, Irfan Awan, Ludger Martin, Huaming Wu ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems, MobiWIS 2025, held in Istanbul, Türkiye, during August 11–13, 2025.The 23 full papers and one short paper included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Mobile Web and Enterprises, ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Developing Trauma-Informed Teachers

    Intentional Partnerships to Create Classrooms That Foster Equity, Resiliency, and Asset-Based Approaches

    Edited by Ofelia Castro Schepers, Megan Brennan, Philip Bernhardt ...
    Series series Contemporary Perspectives on Developing Trauma-Informed Teachers
    WINNER of the 2026 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book AwardContinue your journey in Trauma-Informed education with the 3rd installment of our series, Contemporary Perspectives on Developing Trauma-Informed Teachers. In this volume, we delve into the heart of educational evolution: Intentional Partnerships to Create Classrooms that Foster Equity, Resiliency, and Asset-Based ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • Cyclic Deterioration of High-Performance Concrete

    Reports of the SPP 2020 Experimental-Virtual-Lab

    Edited by Nadja Oneschkow, Ludger Lohaus ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This open access book presents key findings from the German Research Foundation’s priority program SPP 2020, offering insights into the fatigue behavior of high-strength and ultra-high-strength concretes, including fibre-reinforced types. Readers will discover how advanced experimental and computational methods were used to investigate damage mechanisms under cyclic loading, with a focus on ... Read more

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  • »Faith in the World«

    Post-Secular Readings of Hannah Arendt

    by Rafael Zawisza, Ludger Hagedorn, Roger Berkowitz, Agata Bielik-Robson, Milan Hanys, Martine Leibovici, James Josefson, Vivian Liska, Marci Shore0, Christina Schües1, Sigrid Weigel2 ...
    Dieses Buch greift ein zentrales, aber wenig beachtetes Thema im Werk Hannah Arendts auf: ihr ambivalentes Verhältnis zum jüdisch-christlichen Erbe. Schon in ihrer Dissertation über den Liebesbegriff bei Augustinus entwickelte sie die Hauptmomente ihrer Lesart. Arendts starkes Konzept der »Weltlichkeit« könnte gerade heute hilfreich sein für einen Ausgleich zwischen Säkularismus und dem ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The Reality of the Mind

    St Augustine's Philosophical Arguments for the Human Soul as a Spiritual Substance

    by Ludger Hölscher ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion
    Among the various approaches to the question of the nature of the mind (or soul), Augustine’s philosophical arguments for the existence of an incorporeal and spiritual substance in man and against materialism are here thoroughly examined on their merits as a source of insight for contemporary discussion.This book, originally published in 1986, employs Augustine’s method of introspection, and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Digital Humanism

    First Interdisciplinary Science and Research Conference, DIGHUM 2025, Vienna, Austria, November 20–21, 2025, Proceedings

    Edited by Ludger Hagedorn, Ute Schmid, Susan Winter, Stefan Woltran ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This open access volume constitutes the proceedings of First Interdisciplinary Science and Research Conference on Digital Humanism, DIGHUM 2025, Vienna, Austria, during November 20–21, 2025.The 30 full papers and 12 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 98 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows:Digital Humanism Reshaping Computer ... Read more

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