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Bruno Touschek 100 Years: Memorial Symposium 2021
This open access book celebrates the contribution of Bruno Touschek to theoretical physics and particle colliders in Europe. It contains direct testimonials from his former students, collaborators, and eminent scientists, among them, two Nobel Prize winners in Physics, Giorgio Parisi and Carlo Rubbia.
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Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China
Today the term fengshui, which literally means “wind and water,” is recognized around the world. Yet few know exactly what it means, let alone its fascinating history. In Laws of the Land, Tristan Brown tells the story of the important roles—especially legal ones—played by fengshui in Chinese society during China’s last imperial dynasty, the Manchu Qing (1644–1912).
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The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China
In 1644, after close to three centuries of relative stability and prosperity, the Ming dynasty collapsed. Many historians attribute its demise to the Manchu invasion of China, but the truth is far more profound. The Price of Collapse provides an entirely new approach to the economic and social history of China, exploring how global climate crisis spelled the end of Ming rule
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Dare to Invent the Future: Knowledge in the Service of and through Problem-Solving
A rallying manifesto for the innovative problem-solving we need to build a better, more verdant, and sustainable planetary existence.
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Internationalisierung im Fokus: Innenansichten aus dem deutschen Wissenschaftssystem
Das Wissenschaftssystem in Deutschland erlebt eine Phase rasanter Internationalisierung: Globale Vernetzung gilt als Voraussetzung, Merkmal oder Garant wissenschaftlicher Spitzenforschung. Forschung ohne internationalen Einfluss und Anschluss wirkt heute undenkbar und rückständig.
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Situating Religion and Medicine in Asia: Methodological Insights and Innovations
This edited volume presents the latest research on the intersection of religion and medicine in Asia. It features chapters by internationally known scholars, who bring to bear a range of methodological and geographic expertise on this topic.
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Regeln. Eine kurze Geschichte
In ihrem reich bebilderten Buch zeichnet die Historikerin Lorraine Daston nach, wie sich Regeln in der westlichen Tradition seit der Antike entwickelt haben.
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The Gender of Things: How Epistemic and Technological Objects Become Gendered
The Gender of Things is a highly interdisciplinary book that explores the power relationship between gender and the material culture of technoscience, addressing a seemingly straightforward question: How does a thing—such as a spacesuit, a humanoid robot, or a surgical instrument—become a gendered object?
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Special Issue (Working Group Volume)
Science Diplomacy on Display: Mobile Atomic Exhibitions in the Cold War
Despite the increasing interest in science exhibitions, there has been hardly any work on mobile science exhibitions and their role within science diplomacy – a gap this thematic issue is meant to fill.
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In the Land of Tigers and Snakes: Living with Animals in Medieval Chinese Religions
Animals play crucial roles in Buddhist thought and practice. However, many symbolically or culturally significant animals found in India, where Buddhism originated, do not inhabit China, to which Buddhism spread in the medieval period.
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Between Leibniz, Newton, and Kant: Philosophy and Science in the Eighteenth Century
This extended new edition offers a multifaceted insight into a period of intellectual history in the West in which the balance between speculative theories and experiential science was reset.
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Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate
In the last 350-odd years, the international “scientific community” has come to be the bastion of consensus and concerted action, especially in the face of two global crises: disastrous climate change, and a deadly pandemic. How did “the scientific community” come into existence, and why does it work?
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Die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft im Prozess der deutschen Vereinigung 1989–2002: eine politische Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Mitchell G. Ash analysiert die Geschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft im Prozess der deutschen Vereinigung als Beispiel des Zusammenspiels von Wissenschaft und Politik als Ressourcen füreinander in politischen Umbruchzeiten.
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Milk and Honey: Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy Land
An innovative historical analysis of the intersection of religion and technology in making the modern state, focusing on bodily production and reproduction across the human-animal divide.
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Working Group Volume
Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property
A framework for knowledge ownership that challenges the mechanisms of inequality in modern society
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Geld und Gewinn: zur Erweiterung monetär-ökonomischer Logiken
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De Gennaro, IvoGeorg SchäferSchuster, Sören E.
Die etablierten Wirtschaftswissenschaften übersetzen Gewinne jeglicher Art vollkommen selbstverständlich in monetäre Renten. Dabei weitet sich der Anwendungsbereich dieses Zugangs stetig aus, wie etwa Care-Arbeit und Umweltökonomik zeigen.
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30 Jahre Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin: eine Chronik
Im April 2023 beging die Leibniz-Sozietät – gegründet 1993 als Leibniz-Sozietät e. V. und seit 2007 Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin e. V. – ihr 30-jähriges Jubiläum. Diesem Jahrestag ist die vorliegende Chronik gewidmet, denn er bietet Anlass für eine Rückschau sowie eine Zusammenstellung erbrachter Leistungen.
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Making Animal Materials in Time
This special issue, “Making Animal Materials in Time,” delves into the history of animal materials used in craft and scientific endeavors since the eighteenth century.
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Sanctorius Sanctorius and the Origins of Health Measurement
This open access book offers new insights into the Venetian physician Sanctorius Sanctorius (1561–1636) and into the origins of quantification in medicine.
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Tuning the World: The Rise of 440 Hertz in Music, Science & Politics, 1859–1955
Tuning the World tells the unknown story of how the musical pitch A 440 became the global norm.
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