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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

  • 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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  • 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

  • Refugees, Civil Society and the State

    European Experiences and Global Challenges

    by Ludger Pries ...
    Ludger Pries explores the important moral, social and political challenge facing Europe and the international community: the protection of refugees as one of the most vulnerable groups on the planet.Combining an in-depth analysis of current research, own empirical studies in several European countries, and a critical review of the policies of nation states as well as international and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Structured Credit Portfolio Analysis, Baskets and CDOs

    by Christian Bluhm, Ludger Overbeck ...
    Series series Chapman and Hall/CRC Financial Mathematics Series
    The financial industry is swamped by credit products whose economic performance is linked to the performance of some underlying portfolio of credit-risky instruments, like loans, bonds, swaps, or asset-backed securities. Financial institutions continuously use these products for tailor-made long and short positions in credit risks. Based on a stead ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • The Architecture of Innovative Apprenticeship

    Edited by Ludger Deitmer, Ursel Hauschildt, Felix Rauner, Helmut Zelloth ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Benefiting from the support and involvement of two major international research networks, this collection features the latest research findings in TVET. Members of INAP, the International Network on Innovative Apprenticeship, and VETNET, the Vocational Education and Training Network, have contributed key research findings to this detailed survey of the field. Featuring the inclusion of the ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Formal Causation

    Edited by Ludger Jansen, Petter Sandstad ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Metaphysics
    This is the first volume of essays devoted to Aristotelian formal causation and its relevance for contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of science. The essays trace the historical development of formal causation and demonstrate its relevance for contemporary issues, such as causation, explanation, laws of nature, functions, essence, modality, and metaphysical grounding.The introduction to the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Workers’ Participation at Plant Level

    Edited by Stefan Berger, Ludger Pries, Manfred Wannöffel ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Comprising the study, documentation, and comparison of plant-level workers’ participation around the world, this volume meets the challenge of offering a global perspective on workers’ participation, representation, and models of social partnership. Value chains, economic life, inter-cultural exchange and knowledge, as well as the mobility of persons and ideas increasingly cross the borders of ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Trade Protection in the European Community

    by Ludger Schuknecht ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: International Trade Policy
    This book, first published in 1992, provides an in-depth analysis of the EC policy-making processes elating to trade protection. It argues that the decision-making process is biased towards national policy-makers, leading to the political determination of the EC’s administered protection, with the outcome being that protection is geared towards domestic producer interests seeking relief from ... Read more

    $51.99 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