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Die Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler des MPIWG veröffentlichen zahlreiche Bücher, darunter Monografien, Gruppenarbeiten und Sammelbände. Unsere Arbeitsgruppenbücher, eine institutsspezifische Publikationsform, sind von zwei oder mehr Autorinnen und Autoren verfasste Bände, die aus einer intensiven Zusammenarbeit entstehen.
Energy history is an approach to understanding the past that takes changes in the human exploitation of Earth's energies as its object of inquiry.
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This open access book takes a fresh look at the nature and place of experience in premodern Islamic science. It seeks to answer two questions: What kind of experience constituted premodern Islamic science? And in what ways did that experience constitute science?
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A sweeping intellectual biography that restores the Enlightenment polymath to the intellectual, scientific, and courtly worlds that shaped his early life and thought
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What type of exchanges occurred between West and East Asia in the first millennium CE? What sort of connections existed between Persia and China? What did the Chinese know of early Islam?
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Die sozialhistorische Studie untersucht die veränderten Bedingungen wissenschaftlicher Arbeit und die Transformationen beruflicher Kooperationsbeziehungen in der Grundlagenforschung am Beispiel der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts.
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A fascinating story that revises our assumptions about land and ocean alike, Sea Level calls for a more nuanced understanding of this baseline, one that allows for new methods and interpretations as we navigate an era of unstable seas.
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The Max Planck Society (MPG), one of the most successful research institutions worldwide, serves as a prime example of the German science system, in which hierarchies and relations of dependency play a major role.
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Part manifesto, part manual, this book offers historians of all levels both subject and approach. The subject is work. In every place-time people made and sold objects – and struggled with annoying customers or government regulation.
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This book offers a richly illustrated kaleidoscope of astral knowledge in Eurasia to experts and lay people alike.
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The Atlas of Petromodernity is many things in one: historical and geographical non-fiction, cultural theory essay, and picture book. In forty-four short essays, inspired by an equal amount of pictorial findings, Klose and Steininger develop a technical, geographical, political, and speculative panorama of the declining era of petroleum modernity.
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Explores the crucial role of Arabic sources in shaping Albert the Great’s work and their impact on his larger scientific programme and thus on the thirteenth-century Latin world.
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Following the centenary of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, this volume features contributions from leading science historians from around the world on the changing roles of the institution in international affairs from its foundation in 1922 to the present.
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This is the first critical edition and study of a unique and important Muslim polemic against Christians and Jews. The Book of Disputation was written in Arabic by a Mudejar and offers new insight into the cultural and intellectual life of this Muslim minority.
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明初南京城的营建，以“墙”的建筑形态，诠释了都城作为“国之中土”的法统秩序，反映了朱元璋追求“宅中图大”的思想历程，以实现其大明开国都城传统意义上的“居于中心，谋划四方”。本书从理念、规划、建制、修筑等层面，对明初定都、建都诸问题作了系统梳理，尤其对两京制与中都的立废、城市布局与建筑等级、南京两次城建与“国之中土”的关系作了细致阐释；并通过释读南京城墙砖文，不仅明确了城墙营建的相关史实，且揭示出明初劳役组织形式以及基层社会的运行状态。
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Biological Motion studies the foundational relationship between motion and life. To answer the question, “What is Life?,” prize-winning historian of science Janina Wellmann engages in a transdisciplinary investigation of motion as the most profound definition of living existence.
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The Planning Moment elaborates the myriad ways that plans and planning practices pervade recent global history.
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Every hundred years, as the story goes, two angels wonder out loud whether the bees are still swarming. For as long as the bees are swarming, the angels are reassured, the world holds together. Still, the tale suggests, the angels live in anxious anticipation of the End. Local beekeepers in Bosnia and Herzegovina retell the old tale with growing unease, as their honeybees weather the ground effects of climate change.
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This is the first book-length study of the roles played by the Manchu language at the center of the Qing empire at the height of its power in the eighteenth century.
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Quelle que soit l’époque ou la culture, les humains se sont référés à la nature pour justifier les normes. Ainsi, depuis l’Antiquité, une action jugée contre-nature est, de ce fait, condamnée moralement.
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