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  • Japan in the Early Modern World

    Religion, Translation, and Transnational Relations

    Edited by Katja Triplett, Yoshimi Orii, Pia Jolliffe ...
    Series series J.B. Metzler Humanities (German Language)
    Early modern transnational relations and personal encounters were influenced by interactions between Japan and the regions that had become connected to it through expanding global trade and missionary networks. Translation activities linked to Christian missionary activities, overseas trade, and political upheaval in these places all contributed to shaping these interactions. Adopting an ... Read more

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  • Practical Gas Chromatography

    A Comprehensive Reference

    Edited by Katja Dettmer-Wilde, Werner Engewald ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    Gas chromatography continues to be one of the most widely used analytical techniques, since its applications today expand into fields such as biomarker research or metabolomics. This new practical textbook enables the reader to make full use of gas chromatography. Essential fundamentals and their implications for the practical work at the instrument are provided, as well as details on the ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Autonomous Cooperation and Control in Logistics

    Contributions and Limitations - Theoretical and Practical Perspectives

    Edited by Bernd Scholz-Reiter, Michael Hülsmann, Katja Windt ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Many new technologies – like RFID, GPS, and sensor networks – that dominate innovative developments in logistics are based on the idea of autonomous cooperation and control. This self-organisational concept describes „...processes of decentralized decision-making in heterarchical structures. It presumes interacting elements in non-deterministic systems, which possess the capability and possibility ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Robust Manufacturing Control

    Proceedings of the CIRP Sponsored Conference RoMaC 2012, Bremen, Germany, 18th-20th June 2012

    Edited by Katja Windt ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This contributed volume collects research papers, presented at the CIRP Sponsored Conference Robust Manufacturing Control: Innovative and Interdisciplinary Approaches for Global Networks (RoMaC 2012, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany, June 18th-20th 2012). These research papers present the latest developments and new ideas focusing on robust manufacturing control for global networks.Today, Global ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

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  • From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico

    Religious Globalization in the Context of Empire

    Edited by David Charles Wright-Carr, Francisco Marco Simón ...
    From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico compares the Christianization of the Roman Empire with the evangelization of Mesoamerica, offering novel perspectives on the historical processes involved in the spread of Christianity. Combining concepts of empire and globalization with the notion of religion from a postcolonial perspective, the book proposes the method of analytical comparison as a point of ... Read more

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  • They Flew

    A History of the Impossible

    by Carlos M. N. Eire ...
    An award-winning historian’s examination of impossible events at the dawn of modernity and of their enduring significanceAccounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era—tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft—even as skepticism, atheism, and empirical science were starting to supplant religious belief in the paranormal. In this book, Carlos Eire explores how a ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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  • The Jesuits

    A History

    by Markus Friedrich ...
    Translated by John Noël Dillon ...
    The most comprehensive and up-to-date exploration of one of the most important religious orders in the modern worldSince its founding by Ignatius of Loyola in 1540, the Society of Jesus—more commonly known as the Jesuits—has played a critical role in the events of modern history. From the Counter-Reformation to the ascent of Francis I as the first Jesuit pope, The Jesuits presents an intimate look ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Medieval Invention of Travel

    by Shayne Aaron Legassie ...
    Over the course of the Middle Ages, the economies of Europe, Asia, and northern Africa became more closely integrated, fostering the international and intercontinental journeys of merchants, pilgrims, diplomats, missionaries, and adventurers. During a time in history when travel was often difficult, expensive, and fraught with danger, these wayfarers composed accounts of their experiences in ... Read more

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  • A Kingdom of Stargazers

    Astrology and Authority in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon

    by Michael A. Ryan ...
    Astrology in the Middle Ages was considered a branch of the magical arts, one informed by Jewish and Muslim scientific knowledge in Muslim Spain. As such it was deeply troubling to some Church authorities. Using the stars and planets to divine the future ran counter to the orthodox Christian notion that human beings have free will, and some clerical authorities argued that it almost certainly ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human

    New Worlds, Maps and Monsters

    by Surekha Davies ...
    Series Book 24 - Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories
    Giants, cannibals and other monsters were a regular feature of Renaissance illustrated maps, inhabiting the Americas alongside other indigenous peoples. In a new approach to views of distant peoples, Surekha Davies analyzes this archive alongside prints, costume books and geographical writing. Using sources from Iberia, France, the German lands, the Low Countries, Italy and England, Davies argues ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Passwords to Paradise

    How Languages Have Re-invented World Religions

    by Nicholas Ostler ...
    "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."So opens the Gospel of John, an ancient text translated into almost every language, at once a compelling and beguiling metaphor for the Christian story of the Beginning. To further complicate matters, the words we read now are in any number of languages that would have been unknown or unrecognizable at the time of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Visionary Experience In the Golden Age of Spanish Art

    by Victor I. Stoichita ...
    Series series Essays in Art and Culture
    In this original and lucid account of how Spanish painters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries dealt with mystic visions in their art, and of how they attempted to ‘represent the unrepresentable’, Victor Stoichita aims to establish a theory of visionary imagery in Western art in general, and one for the Spanish Counter-Reformation in particular. He reveals how the spirituality of the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD