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Martin Heidegger. Theorist of space. Schatzki, Theodore R. Sozialgeographische Bibliothek Band 6. Explaining Heidegger’s ideas on spatial phenomena simply and succinctly, this book will be provocative and invaluable to anyone interested in space and spatial theory. The author gives incisive, informative, and compelling analyses of Heidegger’s overall philosophy and of his changing ideas about space, spatiality, the clearing, places, sites, and dwelling. This study also charts the legacy of these ideas in philosophy, geography, architecture, and anthropology and includes a bibliography of select works that examine or are influenced by Heidegger’s ideas on space. 1st Edition 2007. 129 p. soft cover. ISBN 978-3-515-08956-2. $39.00

Hettner-Lecture Series:

The prestigious ‘Hettner-Lecture’ is an annual lecture series at the Department of Geography, University of Heidelberg. It is devoted to the discussion of current theoretical developments in the crossover fields of geography, economics, the social sciences, and the humanities. During their ten-day stay, the invited guest-speaker presents two public lectures, one of which is transmitted via tele-teaching on the Internet. In addition, several seminars give graduate students and young researchers the opportunity to meet and converse with an internationally acclaimed scholar. Such an experience at an early stage in the academic career opens up new perspectives for research and encourages critical reflections on contemporary theoretical debates and geographical practice. In short, the Hettner-Lecture aims both to further the exchange across disciplinary and national boundaries, and to transmit the relevance of geographical thought to a wider audience. The lecture series is named after Alfred Hettner, Professor of Geography in Heidelberg from 1899 to 1928 and one of the most reputable German geographers of his day, who – not least because of his position as editor of the Geographische Zeitschrift – exerted a profound influence on the development of the discipline in Germany.

Institutions, incentives and communication in economic geography. Storper, Michael (Hrsg.). 2004. Hettner-Lecture 2003. In Institutions, incentives and communication in economic geography, delivered as the prestigious Hettner Lectures at the University of Heidelberg in 2003, Michael Storper presents a challenging perspective on two key issues within contemporary economic and geographical debate. In his first lecture, Storper reconsiders some of the foundations of comparative economics and institutionalism in an analysis of the “societal” and “communitarian” bases of social and economic development. Arguing that the interaction between society and community defines critical incentives for actors, Storper suggests a context-sensitive sociological framework for the institutional analysis of economic development. The second lecture focuses on urban economics and argues that existing models of urban concentrations are incomplete unless grounded in a more precise understanding of the most fundamental aspect of proximity, face-to-face contact. Finally, a biographical interview revisits key geographical sites and theoretical concepts in Storper’s development as one of the world’s leading economic geographers. ISBN 3-515-08453-3. $30.00
 

Struggles over geography: Violence, freedom and development at the millenium. Watts, Michael.  2000. ISBN 3-515-08408-8. $30.00

Reinventing geopolitics: Geographies of modern statehood. Agnew, John A. 2001. ISBN 3-515-08409-6. $30.00

 Science, space and hermeneutics. Livingstone, David N. 2002. ISBN 3-515-08410-X. $30.00

Geography, gender, and the workaday world. 2002. Susan Hanson, 2003.
In her Hettner-Lecture, Hanson talked about the role of women in the U.S. labor market. Based on the observation that women tend to work in different types of jobs and occupations and earn less money, Hanson shows how the geography of everyday life can contribute to an understanding of these gender-related differences. Therefore a geographic perspective is essential to creating urban labor markets in which opportunity is not arrayed by gender.  Hanson furthermore focuses on recent debates on entrepreneurship by carefully examining the geographic contexts within which people launch businesses. She argues that a feminist and geographical analysis helps to understand that entrepreneur-ship is much more than just the engine of economic growth. Paperback, 76 pp., 10 B&W plates.
ISBN 3 515 08369 3  $30.00

Rituals in Ink. A Conference on Religion and Literary Production in Ancient Rome held at Stanford University in February 2002. Barchiesi, Alessandro (Ed.) / Rüpke, Jörg (Ed.) / Stephens, Susan (Ed.). Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge Band 10. 2004. Ancient rituals are frequently known through descriptions in highly literary texts only. Religious and ritual studies have used such texts rather uncritically as “sources” for a reconstruction of ritual action, literary critics have tended to neglect such longish and technically laden passages. Focussing on Rome, the contributors combine literary and ritual interest in a fresh reading of central passages of Latin elegy, epic and historiography, thus offering new perspectives on literary strategies and illustrating the importance of religion in Roman culture and literature.

From the Contents

D. Feeney: Interpreting sacrificial ritual in Roman poetry
J. Rüpke: Relations of Script and Performance
E. Sciarrino: A Temple for the Professional Muse
F. Hickson Hahn: Gratitude to the Gods
J. Hawkins: Venus the Healer in Virgil’s Aeneid
Y. Syed: Ovid’s Use of the Hymnic Genre in the Methamorphoses
M. Beard: The Triumph of Ovid
T. Murphy: Soranus and the Secret Name of Rome
Index locorum. 184 pp. paperback. ISBN 3-515-08526-2. $69.00

Commerce and Monetary Systems in the Ancient World: Means of Transmission and Cultural Interaction. Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Symposium of the Assyrian and Babylonian Intellectual Heritage Project. Held in Innsbruck, Austria, October 3rd–8th 2002. Rollinger, Robert (Ed.) / Ulf, Christoph (Ed.) / Schnegg, Kordula (Mitarb.) 2004. Series: Oriens et Occidens. 6. 561 pp. some figures. ISBN 3-515-08379-0. $90.00

Law, Morality, and Legal Positivism. Proceedings of the 21st World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR); Lund, Sweden, 12–18 August 2003. Himma, Kenneth Einar (Ed.). 2004.

Contents

P. Capps: Positivism in Law and International Law
D. von Daniels: Is Positivism a State Centered Theory?
K. E. Himma: Legal Positivism’s Conventionality Thesis and the Methodology of Conceptual Analysis
R. Nunan: A Modest Rehabilitation of the Separability Thesis
A. Oladosu: Choosing Legal Theory on Cultural Grounds: An African Case for Legal Positivism
C. Orrego: Hart’s Last Legal Positivism: Morality Might Be Objective; Legality Certainly is Not
M. Pavcnik: Die (Un)Produktivität der Positivistischen Jurisprudenz
M. Haase: The Hegelianism in Kelsen's Pure Theory of Law
S. Papaefthymiou: The House Kelsen Built
U. J. Pak: Legal Practitioners’ Need of Reflective Application of Legal Philosophy in Korea
U. Schmill: Jurisprudence and the Concept of Revolution
D. Venema: Judicial Discretion: a Necessary Evil?
J. Baker: Rights, Obligations, and Duties, and the Intersection of Law, Conventions and Morals
S. Bertea: Legal Systems’ Claim to Normativity and the Concept of Law
J. Dalberg-Larsen: On the Relevance of Habermas and Theories of Legal Pluralism for the Study of Environmental Law
A. Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos: A Connection of No-Connection in Luhmann and Derrida

183 pp. ISBN 3-515-08513-0. $57.00

Law and Legal Culture in Comparative Perspective. Introduction by Alice Erh-Soon Tay. Doeker-Mach, Guenther (Ed.) / Ziegert, Klaus A. (Ed.). 2004. Comparative legal studies are at last commanding the thoughts of contemporary jurists” Alice ES Tay. Drawing on an impressive ancestry in comparative law, the 22 contributions in this volume by authors from Asia, Australia and Europe go further in their complex conception of law and culture. They look at the new principles and concepts of a transnational, global law in new, multiple contexts and in diverse juxtapositions with new institutions and authorities. In an unplanned but cohesive pattern the individual contributions together open a fresh vision of the use and value of comparative legal studies for the assessment of the function and limitations of the law of a global society. 1. Auflage 2004. 444 pp. ISBN 3-515-08560-2. $66.00

Law, Legal Culture and Politics in the Twenty First Century. Doeker-Mach, Guenther (Ed.) / Ziegert, Klaus A. (Ed.) 2004. This is a collection of essays on general and specific topics of comparative private and comparative public law by distinguished legal scholars from every part of the world in honour to the work of Alice Ehr-Soon Tay.
The essays demonstrate the changing approach to common law in legal culture and present a body of texts on comparative law problems arching from Asia to Europe to Australia. The volume furthermore indicates that there is no area where comparative law has proved more dominant and useful than in regard to human rights and comparative constitutional analysis. Finally, this book is an outstanding cross-cultural contribution to comparative private law and comparative constitutional law in terms of understanding legal culture and law. It will be invaluable to all those who practise, teach or judge law. Articles by: Kim Santow, Saul Fridman, W. M. C. Gummow, J. A. Jolowicz, Hiroshi Matsuo, Ivan Shearer, Christopher Birch, Tom Campbell, Roland Drago, Jennifer Hill, Michael Kirby, Karin Lemercier, Aleksander Peczenik, Robert S. Summers, Albert H.Y. Chen, Jianfu Chen, Edward McWhinney, Eric Smithburn, Klaus A. Ziegert, Margaret Allars, Han Depei, Guenther Doeker-Mach, Hoang Van Hao, Tommy Koh, Adam Lopatka, Gabriel A. Moens, Cao Duc Thai, Wang Gungwu, Peter Wesley-Smith, Murray Gleeson, Julia Horne, List of Publications of Alice Erh-Soon-Tay. 527 pp. hardcover.  ISBN 3-515-08317-0. $120.00

Facets of Human Geography in Germany.  Schamp, Eike W. (Bandhrsg.) Geographische Zeitschrift Special issue 2004. 2004. The Geographische Zeitschrift is an important forum for the ongoing theoretical and methodological debates in human geography. On the occasion of the IGU Congress 2004 in Glasgow, the editors have assembled a selection of articles which have appeared in the Geographische Zeitschrift in recent years. To make them available to a wider public they are now translated into English. In the selection of the contributions for this volume, the guiding principle was of variety as far as theoretical grounding, the objects of research and branches of human geography were concerned. Thus, it reflects the self-perception of the Geographische Zeitschrift and allows an insight into the ideas and innovative debates in German geography. Contents: Eike W. Schamp: Editorial – Helmut Klüter: Space and Compatibility – Rolf Sternberg: Entrepreneurship research. The relevance of the region and tasks facing economic geography – Marc Boeckler: Culture, geography and the diacritical practice of Oriental entrepreneurs – Martina Neuburger: Smallholder vulnerability in degraded areas. The political ecology of pioneer frontier processes in Brazil.  72 pp. paperback. ISBN 3-515-08584-X. $42.00

Pluralism and Law. Proceedings of the 20th IVR World Congress Amsterdam, 2001. Volume 4: Legal Reasoning. Soeteman, Arend (Ed.). 2004.

Contents

R. Martin: Dworkin's Jurisprudence
R. Bontekoe: Judicial Discretion and Right Answers
W. van der Burg: The Role of Ideals in Legal Dynamics
V. Champeil-Desplats: Axio-Teleological Conflicts of Norms
D. Francavilla: Legal Reasoning in the Hindu Tradition
R. V. Guarinoni: Juridical Norms and the Unity of Practical Reasoning
M. Szabó: Law as Translation
E. T. Feteris: Rational reconstruction of legal argumentation and the role of arguments from consequences
G. Kreuzbauer: Teaching Legal Argumentation
B. Matwijkiw: The Liar in Constitutional Law
H. Hamner Hill: Self-Reference, Self-Amendment, Self-Empowerment and the Validity of Basic Norms
P.-H. Wang: Anderson’s Reduction and Kelsen’s Normativism
F. Toepel: The Problem of Res Judicata
S. Bertea: Contemporary Legal Theory towards a Non-Objectualist Paradigm
A. Peczenik: Law, Justice and System
N. Intzessiloglou: The principle of justice and its LIC function in the globalization era
R. A. Guibourg: On the Certainty of Criteria
D. W. P. Ruiter: Tradeable Public Rights, Institutional Legal Theory and Neoinstitutionalist Economics
B. Pokol: The Concept of the Multi-Layered Legal System
A. Boshoff: Constitutional interpretation: Between past and future
M. Mahlmann: Aspects of a mentalist theory of ethics and law – the example of human rights

1. Auflage 2004. 195 pp. ISBN 3-515-08503-3. $66.00 (volumes 1-3 also available, please inquire

Twentieth Century Ethics of Human Subjects Research. Historical Perspectives on Values, Practices, and Regulations. Roelcke, Volker (Ed.) / Maio, Giovanni (Ed.). 2004. Debates on the ethics of human subjects research meet with an increasing interest both within the medical profession and the broader public. Frequently, historical arguments are used to propagate or attack certain positions within these debates. However, there is a tendency to oversimplify the complexities of the past for present day purposes, and at the same time a lack of awareness of the historical dimension implicit in today’s value preferences. Twentieth Century Ethics of Human Subjects Research brings together leading historians of medicine to reconstruct and analyse the history of actual experimental practices, the debates on human subjects research, and the attempts to regulate such research during the twentieth century. The volume addresses cases of medical research in France, Britain, Israel, the United States, and Germany, including the Nazi period; the major developments of ethical debates in these and further national contexts, such as the Soviet Union, the Czech Republic, and Japan. It also explores religious views (Catholic, Jewish) on human experimentation, and the origins and contexts of international codes and declarations. 361 pp. paperback. ISBN 3-515-08455-X. $96.00

The Age of Cinna.
Crucible of Late Republican Rome.
Michael Lovano. 2002.
The years 91-82 B.C. witnessed the reforms, factional competition, and civil strife that sowed the seeds of the Republic’s eventual destruction. This book investigates that crucial decade in the social and political development of Rome by re-examining the career of L. Cornelius Cinna, one of the most enigmatic, tragic, yet fascinating, figures in all of Roman history; his regime "dominated" Rome from 87 to 82 B.C. This study attempts to explain how, why, and how successfully Cinna and his faction, as champions of Rome’s discontented and obstacle of Rome’s conservatives, dealt with those pressing problems that then plagued Rome. Paperback, 188 pp.
ISBN 3 515 07948 3  $55.00

Agon, Logos, Polis.
The Greek Achievement and Its Aftermath.
Edited by Johann P. Arnason & Peter Murphy. 2001.
Contents: Acknowledgements • Introduction • Oswyn Murray: Gnosis and Tradition • Louis A. Ruprecht: Why the Greeks? • Christian Meier: The Greeks: The Political Revolution in World History • Kurt A. Raaflaub: Political Thought, Civic Responsibility, and the Greek Polis • Jean-Pierre Vernant: Forms of Belief and Rationality in Greece • Pierre Vidal-Naquet: Beasts, Humans and Gods: The Greek View • Cornelius Castoriades: Aeschylean Anthropogony and Sophoclean Self-Creation of Anthropos • Johann P. Arnason: Autonomy and Axiality: Comparative Perspectives on the Greek Breakthrough • Peter Murphy: Architectonics • Vassilis Lambropoulos: On the Notion of the Tragedy of Culture. Paperback, 256 pp.
ISBN 3 515 07747 2  $62.00

American Progressives and German Social Reform 1875-1920.
Social Ethics, Moral Control, & The Regulatory State In A Transatlantic Context. Vol. 12.
Axel R. Schaefer. 2000.
This study recreates the intellectual climate and transatlantic setting of turn-of-the-century American reform. It examines the influence and meaning of German social thought and reform in the American Reform Movement prior to World War I. The American Progressives used the German theories in order to develop and establish new concepts of reform and to base democracy on principles other than possessive individualism, utilitarian ethics, and market ideology that liberalism held in stock. However, due to the war these reforms lost their radical character. In the end, the progressive quest for a broader sphere of public control, participatory models of reform, and social ethics yielded to the liberal model of regulation, business cooperation, and administrative efficiency, and to the moralistic agenda of prohibition and immigration control. Paperback, 252 pp.
ISBN 3 515 07461 9  $52.00

Applied Ethics at the Turn of the Millennium.
Proceedings of the 19th World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR) New York, June 24-30, 1999.
Edited by Elspeth Attwooll & Annette Brockmöller. 2001.
Contents: Burton M. Leiser: Preface • Elspeth Attwooll & Annette Brockmöller: Preface • Rafael Encinas de Munagorri: Les Problèmes de preuve posés par l’évolution des sciences et des technologies • Richard A. L. Gambitta / Gary S. Kitchen: Genetic Engineering and the Law • Mariachiara Tallacchini: The Patentability of Human Biological Materials • Joan C. Callahan: Liberalism, Reproductive Technologies, and Feminist Skepticism • Gerry Maher: Future Trends in Computer-Generated Pornography - Ethical Principle and Legal Regulation of "Bespoke" Pornography • Fernando Galindo: La puesta en práctica de la regulación de Internet por la Filosofía del Derecho comunicativa • Richard T. De George: Business Ethics and The International Legal Coordination Problem • Takao Katsuragi: On Multi-Value Structure or Market Ethics • François Ost / Mark van Hoecke: From contract to transmission • Robert Isaak: Philosophical Bases of "Green Logic." Paperback, 122 pp.
ISBN 3 515 07903 3  $41.00

Army and Power in the Ancient World.
From the series Heidelberger Althistorische Beiträge und Epigraphische Studien, Vol. 37.
Edited by Angelos Chaniotis & Pierre Ducrey. 10/2002.
These 12 essays, written by leading specialists in the fields of social and military history, explore the direct and indirect influence exercised by the armed forces on government, society, and politics in Assyria, India, Persia, Greece, and in the Roman Empire. Central themes of the volume are the role played by the army in political takeovers, in maintaining political power, in social hierarchy and mobility, and in the domination and control of occupied territories. Paperback, 204 pp.
ISBN 3 515 08197 6  $62.00

The Ciphers of the Monks.
A Forgotten Number-Notation of the Middle Ages.
David A. King. 2001.
This is the first comprehensive study of an ingenious number-notation from the Middle Ages that was devised by monks and mainly used in monasteries. A simple notation for representing any number up to 99 by a single cipher, somehow related to an ancient Greek shorthand, first appeared in early-13th-Century England, brought from Athens by an English monk. A second, more useful version, due to Cistercian monks, is first attested in the late 13th Century in what is today the border country between Belgium and France: with this any number up to 9999 can be represented by a single cipher. The ciphers were used in scriptoria – for the foliation of manuscripts, for writing year-numbers, preparing indexes and concordances, numbering sermons and the like, and outside the scriptoria – for marking the scales on an astronomical instrument, writing year-numbers in astronomical tables, and for incising volumes on wine barrels. Related notations were used in medieval and Renaissance shorthands and coded scripts. This richly illustrated book surveys the medieval manuscripts and Renaissance books in which the ciphers occur, and takes a close look at an intriguing astrolabe from 14th-Century Picardy marked with ciphers. With indices. Hardcover, 506 pp.
ISBN 3 515 07640 9  $143.00

A Commentary on Pindar Olympian Nine.
From the series Hermes-Einzelschriften Vol. 87.
Douglas Gerber. 2002.
Although one of Pindar’s longer odes, it has received less scholarly attention than others of comparable size. The present commentary fills this gap. A significant portion of the ode is devoted to Epharmostus’ previous victories and an appendix analyses how victory catalogues are treated elsewhere by Pindar as well as by Bacchylides and agonistic epigrams. Paperback, 94 pp.
ISBN 3 515 08092 9  $44.00

The Cult of the Goddess Kubjika.
A Preliminary Comparative Textual and Anthropological Survey of a Secret Newar Goddess.
Mark Dyczkowski. 2001.
This essay is about the goddess Kubjika. The cult of this obscure goddess compared with that of the much better known goddess Kali, and references are occasionally provided to the goddess Tripura. The latter, like Kubjika, figures prominently right from the start of her history in the Sakta Kaula Tantras, while the former emerges initially in the Bhairava Tantras but soon becomes a member of the Kaula pantheon. For those interested in Nepalese studies, an important common feature of these three goddesses and their ectypes is the central position they have held for several centuries in the esoteric Tantrism of high-caste Hindu Newars as their lineage (kula) deities. Thus the aim of this paper is two-fold. One is to present a general overview of some salient features of the typology of these forms of the sacred. The other is to present a brief introduction to Newar Saktism as the context in which the goddess Kubjika has been worshipped for most of her history. Paperback, 88 pp., 7 figs.
ISBN 3 515 08106 2  $35.00

Deutsche Kolonisten im Heilogen Land.
Die Familie John Steinbeck in Briefen aus Palästina und USA.
Jakob Eisler. A Hirzel Verlag publication.
In German. This book contains letters Johann, Friedrich and Katharina Steinbeck (Johann being the grandfather of John Steinbeck) wrote back to their family after emigrating from Duesseldorf, Germany, to Palestina in 1849. In 1859, after a great misfortune happened to them, Johann and his sister-in-law with her children move to the U.S. The letters were found by Jakob Eisler of the University of Haifa. They give the reader an insight of everyday life in Palestine and US in the 19th century. Hardcover, 229 pp., 20 B&W photos.
ISBN 3 7776 1086 0  $66.00 

The Diary of Karl Süssheim (1878-1947).
Orientalist Between Munich & Istanbul.
Barbara Flemming & Jan Schmidt. 2002.
This orientalist kept his diary in Turkish, and later in Arabic, from his early years in the Ottoman Empire through the Young Turk Revolution of 1908 and after his return to Germany, through the war, revolution, and the horrors of Nazi rule. This book covers the years 1908 to 1940. Hardcover, 342 pp.
ISBN 3 515 07573 9  $84.00

Discrepancies in Olympiad Dating and Chronological Problems of Archaic Peloponnesian History. Vol. 166.
Pamela-Jane Shaw. 2002.
Paperback, 140 pp.
ISBN 3 515 08174 7  $40.00

Elections and Electioneering in Rome.
A Study in the Political System of the Late Republic.
Alexander Yakobson. 1999.
The books analyses the Roman electoral system under the late Republic and its impact on the Republican political system as a whole. The political system of the Republic is often described as narrowly oligarchic; all forms of popular participation had little real impact on how the Republic was run. Though this view has been challenged in recent years, the Republican electoral system is still widely regarded as controlled and manipulated by the narrow circle of Roman nobility (among other things, through patronage). This book offers a very different picture: a wide popular electorate, free to choose between upper-class candidates who fiercely competed for the votes of the populace and had to make great efforts in order to win popularity with the common people. Competitive popular elections influenced the whole balance of power between the common people and the elite. The books refers, by way of comparison, to modern electoral systems and their impact on the relations between the people and the social and political elite. Contents: The election of Marius • Popular participation in the centuriate assembly • The social dimension of elections: personal ties and public support • Clientelism and elections: modern theories and Roman reality • Freeing the electoral market: the impact of the secret ballot • Roman elections and politics • Nobility, popularity and power • Register. Paperback, 251 pp.
ISBN 3 515 07481 3  $70.00

Empire of the Owl.
Athenian Imperial Finance.
From the series Historia Einzelschriften, Vol. 142.
Loren J. Samons II. 2000.
Focusing on the period 478–404 B.C., the work traces the changing ways in which the Athenians collected, managed, and spent their imperial revenues. The author assumes that early in the fifth Century the treasury of Athena probably held most of the Athenian reserves. The treasury of the Delian League was transferred to Athens in 454-3. By the 440s, the Athenians had begun to fund military operations through loans from the treasury of Athena, which at that time was augmented with imperial tribute. But the long Archidamian War depleted this fund. After 421, the Athenians retained increasing funds in the treasury of the Hellenotamiai, and the resulting "non-sacral" purse then became the Athenian war chest. In the final years of the Peloponnesian War they fell back on their gods’ wealth, melting down sacred dedications to provide for the war effort. Throughout, the author, Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Boston University, challenges standard opinions, especially those of the Athenian Tribute Lists, and contributes many important original insights. The documentation is extremely thorough and the subject is of the first importance. Paperback, 358 pp.
ISBN 3 515 07664 4  $119.00

Enjoinder and Argument in Ovid’s Remedia Amoris.
David Jones. 1997.
Ovid promises a cure for a disease which in the terms of Roman amatory poetry is incurable and this monograph provides the first in-depth analysis of the rhetorical context within which Ovid’s poetic games playing is situated. Paperback, 291 pp.
ISBN 3 515 07078 8  $38.00

Even More Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis. Nielsen.
From the series Historia Einzelschriften, Vol. 162.
Edited by Thomas Heine. 2000.
A series of new Papers from the Copenhagen Polis Centre. Among other things, these important papers discuss the role and function of theatres in the Greek world, the nature of early Cretan laws, how Greeks and indigenous peoples interacted on Sicily and in Magna Graecia, and whether or not the modern concept of ’the stateless society‘ applies to the ancient Greek polis. Contents: Mogens Herman Hansen: The Game Called Polis • Mogens Herman Hansen: Was the Polis a State or a Stateless Society? • Thomas Heine Nielsen: Phrourion. A Note on the Term in Classical Sources and in Diodorus Siculus • Rune Frederiksen: The Greek Theatre. A Typical Building in the Urban Centre of the Polis? • Tobias Fischer-Hansen: Reflections on Native Settlements in the Dominions of Gela and Akragas – as Seen from the Perspective of the Copenhagen Polis Centre • Paula Perlman: Gortyn. The First Seven Hundred Years. Part II. The Laws from the Temple of Apollo Pythios • James Roy: The Pattern of Settlement in Pisatis: the ‘Eight Poleis’ • James Roy: The Synoikism of Elis • Index of Sources (Literary Texts, Inscriptions and Papyri) • General Index. Paperback, 19 figs, 294 pp.
ISBN 3 515 08102 X  $75.00

The First Democracies.
Early popular Government outside Athens.
From the series Historia Einzelschriften, Vol. 107.
Eric W. Robinson. 1997.
Paperback, 144 pp.
ISBN 3 515 06951 8  $45.00

First Person Futures in Pindar.
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer. 1999.
This book offers a detailed examination of all the relevant passages in Pindar, as well as a generous amount of examples from other authors. It takes a firm stand against the communis opinio that first person futures in Pindar merely express a present intention: the so-called ‘encomiastic’ or ‘performative’ future. Paperback, 105 pp.
ISBN 3 515 07564 X  $45.00

The Framing of Socrates.
The Literary Interpretation of Xenophone‘s Memorabilia.
Vivienne J. Gray. 1998.
Xenophon’s argument about Socrates is examined here in its entirety for the first time in English as a product of his personal knowledge of Socrates, his use of rhetoric to persuade his audience, and of literary traditions which had already set in place the ‘frame’ for the acceptable image of the wise man. Paperback, vi + 202 pp.
ISBN 3 515 07313 2  $54.00

From China to Paris.
2000 Years Transmission of Mathematical Ideas.
Yvonne Dold-Samplonius, Joseph W. Dauben, Menso Folkerts & Benno van Dalen. 2002.
Contents: K. Vogel: A Surveying Problem Travels from China to Paris • J. Hoyrup: Seleucid Innovations in the Babylonian "Algebraic" Tradition and their Kin Abroad • J.L. Berggren: Some Ancient and Medieval Approximations to Irrational Numbers and their Transmission • J. Sesiano: A Reconstruction of Greek Multiplication Tables for Integers • A. Breard: Problems of Pursuit–Recreational Mathematics or Astronomy? • K. Chemla/A. Keller: The Sanskrit karanis and the Chinese mian • S.R. Sarma: Rule of Three and its Variations in India • L. Dun: A Homecoming Stranger–Transmission of the Method of Double False Position and the Story of Hiero’s Crown • K. Plofker: Use and Transmission of Iterative Approximations in India and the Islamic World • J.P. Hogendijk: Anthyphairetic Ratio Theory in Medieval Islamic Mathematics • U. Rebstock: An Early Link of the Arabic Tradition of Practical Arithmetic–The Kitab al-Thadhkira bi-usul al-hisab wa ‘l-fara’id wa-’awliha wa-tashihiha • A. Djebbar: La circulation des mathematiques entre l’Orient et l’Occident musulmans–Interrogations anciennes et elements nouveaux • C. Burnett: Indian Numerals in the Mediterranean Basin in the Twelfth Century, with Special Reference to the "Eastern Forms" • R. Franci: Jealous Husbands Crossing the River–A Problem from Alcuin to Tartaglia • T. Levy: De l’arabe a l’hebreu–la constitution de la litterature mathematique hebraique (XIIe-XVI3 siecle) • B. van Dalen: Islamic and Chinese Astronomy under the Mongols–A Little-Known Case of Transmission • M. Bagheri: A New Treatise by al-Kashi on the Depression of the Visible Horizon • A. Volkov: On the Origins of the Toan phap dai thanh (Great Compendium of Mathematical Methods) • M. Folkerts: Regiomontanus’ Role in the Transmission of Mathematical Problems • D. Pingree: Philipee de la Hire’s Planetary Theories in Sanskrit. Paperback, 479 pp.
ISBN 3 515 08223 9  $96.00

From Political Architecture to Stephanus Byzantius.
Sources for the Ancient Greek Polis.
Edited by David Whitehead. 1994.
What was a polis? The Copenhagen Polis Centre (core-funded by the Danish National Research Foundation) has recently begun a broad series of investigations into the origins, nature and development of the ancient Greek city-states (poleis). This empirical project will be grounded in a comprehensive inventory of all attested poleis of the late archaic and classical periods (ca. 600 - ca. 323 B.C.); and that in turn necessitates an attempt to establish working principles, in source-criticism and historical methodology generally, for the differentiation of poleis from communities of other types. The present volume is a collection of papers, from members of the Centre, which seek to make preliminary contributions to the clarification of such principles. Paperback, 124 pp., 11 figs.
ISBN 3 515 06572 5  $36.00

Further Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis.
Edited by Pernille Flensted-Jensen. 2000.
Contents: Albert Schachter: Greek Deities: Local and Panhellenic Identities • Frank W. Walbank: Hellenes and Achaians: "Greek Nationality" Revisited • Björn Forsén: Population and Political Strength of Some Southeastern Arkadian Poleis • Alan M. Greaves: The Shifting Focus of Settlement at Miletos • Jonathan M. Hall: Sparta, Lakedaimon and the Nature of Perioikic Dependency • Thomas Heine Nielsen: Epiknemidian, Hypoknemidian, and Opountian Lokrians. Reflections on the Political Organisation of East Lokris in the Classical Period • Pernille Flensted-Jensen: The Chalkidic Peninsula and Its Regions • Thomas Heine Nielsen: Xenophon’s Use of the Word Polis in the Anabasis • Mogens Herman Hansen / Thomas Heine Nielsen: The Use of the Word Polis in the Fragments of Some Historians • Mogens Herman Hansen: The Use of the Word Polis in the Attic Orators • Pernille Flensted-Jensen / Mogens Herman Hansen / Thomas Heine Nielsen: The Use of the Word Polis in Inscriptions • Mogens Herman Hansen: A Survey of the Use of the Word Polis in Archaic and Classical Sources • Indices. Paperback, 256 pp., 5 maps.
ISBN 3 515 07607 7  $60.00

Geoecological Research vol. 8. Schmidt-Vogt, Dietrich . Swidden Farming and Fallow Vegetation in Northern Thailand. 1999. 373 pp. 51 figs. 40 Tab. paperback. ISBN 3-515-07077-X. $95.00

The Greek Colonisation of the Black Sea Area.
Historical Interpretation of Archaeology.
Edited by Gocha R. Tsetskhladze. 1998.
Contents: G. R. Tsetskhladze: Greek Colonisation of the Black Sea Area: Stages, Models, and Native Population • M. Vassileva: Greek Ideas of the North and the East: Mastering the Black Sea Area • A. Fol: Pontic Interactions: the Cult of Sabazios • M. Lazarov: Notizen zur griechischen Kolonisation am westlichen Schwarzen Meer. Schriftquellen und archäologische Denkmäler • K. Panayotova: Apollonia Pontica: Recent Discoveries in the Necropolis • A. Avram: P. Vinicius und Kallatis. Zum Beginn der römischen Kontrolle der griechischen Städte an der Westküste des Pontos Euxeinos • J. Hind: Megarian Colonisation in the Western Half of the Black Sea (Sister- and Daughter-Cities of Herakleia) • Y. Vinogradov: The Greek Colonisation of the Black Sea Region in the Light of Private Lead Letters • M. Treister: Ionia and the North Pontic Area. Archaic Metal-Working: Tradition and Innovation • J. Boardman: Olbia and Berezan: the Early Pottery • S. Solovev: Archaic Berezan: Historical-Archaeological Essay • S. Y. Saprykin: The Foundation of Tauric Chersonesus • G. A. Koshelenko / V. D. Kuznetsov: Greek Colonisation of the Bosporus • D. Asheri: The Achaeans and the Heniochi: Reflections on the Origins and History of a Greek Rhetorical Topos • D. Braund: Writing and Re-Inventing Colonial Origins: Problems from Colchis and the Bosporus • A. I. Ivantchik: Die Gründung von Sinope und die Probleme der Anfangsphase der griechischen Kolonisation des Schwarzmeergebietes. Paperback, 336 pp., 44 ills.
ISBN 3 515 07302 7  $105.00

The Haram of Jerusalem (324-1099).
Temple, Friday Mosque, Area of Spiritual Power.
Andreas Kaplony. 2002.
From the Muslims’ to the Crusaders’ conquest, Jerusalem is among the world’s best known cities. Its most outstanding and constant feature is its shared holiness by three major confessions (Muslim, Jewish and Christian). Covering the Marwanid, the Abbasid, and the Faimid phase, this study describes not only the emergence of conceptions with which the three major confessions share this city, but also their interactions as well as the political circumstances and religious axioms which give each conception its specific shape. Looking for these conceptions of the holy area of the city the Haram has been chosen. This area of the former temple was highly significant to all three confessions. The analysis is based on a careful description of the Haram (focusing on topics like names and traditions, architecture, rituals and customs, visions and dreams), and on the establishment of as many parallels as possible. Paperback, 806 pp., 103 figs.
ISBN 3 515 07901 7  $140.00

Ehlers, Eckart (Hrsg.) / Kreutzmann, Herrmann (Hrsg.). High Mountain Pastoralism in Northern Pakistan. 2000.

"The strength of the book lies in this differentiated analysis which is based on extensive empirical research. Several chapters challenge conventional modernization theories, and the authors’ intimate connection to their data makes for an unusually stimulating and pleasurable read. The reader gains a vivid picture of the variability, the diversity and the flexibility of how people adapt to social and political developments." Erdkunde

contents
Eckart Ehlers / Hermann Kreutzmann: High mountain ecology and economy: potential and constraints
Georg Stöber / Hiltrud Herbers: Animal husbandry in domestic economies: organization, legal aspects and present changes of mixed mountain agriculture in Yasin
Reinhard Fischer: Coming down from the mountain pastures: decline of high pasturing and changing patterns of pastoralism in Punial
Eckart Ehlers: Pastoralism in the Bagrot: Spatial organization and economic diversity
Hermann Kreutzmann: Livestock economy in Hunza: societal transformation and pastoral practices
Matthias Schmidt: Pastoral systems in Shigar/Baltistan: communal herding management and pasturage rights
Jürgen Clemens / Marcus Nüsser: Pastoral management strategies in transition: indicators from the Nanga Parbat region (NW-Himalaya)
Hilturd Herbers: Why are mountain farmers vegetarians? Nutritional and non-nutritional dimensions of animal husbandry in High Asia

 211 S. 36 Abb. ISBN 3-515-07662-X. $66.00

Human Rights, Minority Rights, Women’s Rights.
The 19th World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law & Social Philosophy (IVR), New York, June 24–30, 1999.
Edited by Alexander Brostl/Marijan Pavcnik. 2001.
Contents: Anindita N. Balslev: Reflections on Women’s Rights & Cultural Norms • Paloma Duran: Development and social rights: Economy and solidarity • María José Falcón y Tella: Legal Justification for Civil Disobedience: A Right to No Law? • Hyun Sub Yun: The Logical Nexus of Two Categories of Human Rights: A Theory on the Transcendental and the Empirical Human Rights • Kevin T. Jackson: Normative Systemization for Integrating Human Rights into International Business Ethics • Juan Carlos Morales Manzur: Los derechos humanos de las minorías indígenas en las zonas fronterizas Latinoamericanas: Integración o desintegración • Koji Nakamura: Human Rights and Self-determination • Juliana Neuenschwander Magalhães: Women and Human Rights • Elena Pariotti: Nationality and Fundamental Rights between Cultural and Political Identity • Shaireen Rasheed: Gendered Ethical Discourse and the "Impartiality of Justice" • Agustin Squella: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Swimming Against the Tide? • Carl Wellman: The Universal Declaration: Ambiguous or Amphibious? • Louis E. Wolcher: Thinking Critically About Human Rights. Paperback, 180 pp.
ISBN 3 515 07861 4  $54.00

The Impact of Seleucid Decline on the Eastern Iranian Plateau.
The Foundations of Arsacid Parthia and Graeco-bactria.
Jeffrey D. Lerner. 1999.
Due to the patchiness of the known sources the study deals with a difficult area. In order to determine a more coherent picture of this relatively obscure and largely misunderstood history, Lerner disentangles from the various literary traditions from the individuals and events to which they relate. Numismatic evidence is also taken into consideration, for instance in the discussion of Euthydemus’ Sogdian coinage. Contents: The Emergence of Arsacid Parthia and Graeco-Bactria • Seleucus II’s Failed Anabasis in the Further East • The Far Eastern Anabasis of Antiochus III • A Graeco-Sogdian Mint of Euthydemus • Coins of the Diodoti • The Case Against Euthydemus II • Chronology of Major Events • Bibliography • Indices. Paperback, 139 pp., 2 plates.
ISBN 3 515 07417 1  $48.00

Law, Justice & Culture.
Proceedings of the 17th World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophie (IVR), Bologna, June 16–21, 1995 . Vol. 1–4.
Edited by André-Jean Arnaud & Peter Koller. 1998.
Contents: Law and Morality: D.B. Boersema: Rights and Moral Compromise • A. W. Musschenga: Incommensurable Views on the Existence of Ultimate Moral Disagreements • G. Pincione: On the Relative Stringency of Negative and Positive Moral Duties • W. L. Robison: Hard Cases and Natural Law • C.L. Sheng: Law and Morality: Their Main Differences and Degeneration • A. Verza: Law, Morality and Tolerance: Hart and After • R. Wacks: Law’s Umpire: Judges, Truth, and Moral Accountability • D. Wood: The Moral and Power Dimensions of Law: Justice • K. L. Avio: Discourse Ethics, Constitutional Contract and the Problem of Implementation: Application to Aboriginal Rights • R. E. Mackay: Restorative Justice: Natural Law, Community and Ideal Speech • A. M. Macleod: Efficiency and Justice • M. C. Pievatolo: An Interpretation of Kant: the Political Neutrality of Justice and the Value of Liberty: Culture • F. Galindo: Cultural Environment and the Concept of Law • M. Kopperi: Social Fragmentation and Political Culture • N. M. Martínez Yáñez: Linguistic Flaws of the Spanish Debate on the Obligation to Obey the Law • H. Ólafsson: Anthropology and the Possibility of Productive Social Dialogue • P. Riekkinen: The Power of the Supreme Court and the Death Sentence: "The Mystical Foundation of the Authority" • R. Rosales: Culture, Community and Gender in the Formation of Agency • P. van Aerschot: Juridification from the Point of View of Modernization. Paperback, 200 pp.
ISBN 3 515 07072 9  $62.00

Law in a Changing World.
Asian Alternatives. Proceedings of the Fourth Kobe Lectures being the First Asia Symposium in Jurisprudence Tokyo & Kyoto. 10/1996.
Edited by Yasutomo Morigiwa. 1998. 
Contents: Morigiwa Yasutomo: Values, Systems, and Jurisprudence in Asia • Kim Chang-rok: Where is the Korean Legal System Going? • Choi Chongko: Comments • Guo Daohui: The Democratization of Law: Rights in Contemporary Chinese • Daniel A. Bell: A Confucian Democracy for the Twenty-First Century • Nobuyuki Yasuda: Comments • Inoue Tatsuo: Liberal Democracy and "Asian Values" • Yang Seungdoo: Comments • Mizoguchi Yuzo: Confucian Ethics (li-jiao) and Revolutionary China • Terada Hiroaki: Comments • Adijaya Yusuf: Integrating the Country through Legal Reform: The Indonesian Experience • Tomothy C. Lindsey: Comments • Liang Zhiping: State and Society: From a Perspective of Chinese Legal History • Zhang Wenxian: Comments • Chaibong Hahm: The Post-Confucian State and Economic Development • Paperback, 164 pp.
ISBN 3 515 07262 4  $52.00

Legal Philosophy: General Aspects Concepts, Rights & Doctrines.
Proceedings of the 19th World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR) New York, June 24-30, 1999. From the series Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie – Beihefte.
Michel Troper & Annalisa Verza. 2002.
Contents: Burton M. Leiser: Preface • M.l Troper / A. Verza: Introduction • M. Strasser: The Image of Man • S. Kirste: The Temporality of Law and the Plurality of Social Times - The Problem of Synchronizing Different Time Concepts through Law • V. Luizzi: Law as Acts of Citizens • A. Visegrady: Zur Effektivität des Rechts • K. Campbell: Custom as a Source of Law • M. Pavcnik: Traps of the Nature of Law - Some Theoretical Responses to the Fall of the Berlin Wall • N. Struchiner: The Meaning of Justice: the Need of a New Paradigm for Law • L. F. Coelho: A Contribution to a Critical Theory of Law • A. Verza: Neutrality Toward Microdifferences, Toleration Toward Macrodifferences • C. Bellon: Rights and Autonomy: A Critical Assessment of Their ‘Necessary’ Relation • R. Martin: On Hohfeldian Liberties • L. Moral Soriano: Balancing Reasons at the European Court of Justice • W. Ott: Did East German Border Guards Along the Berlin Wall Act Illegally? Comments on the Decision of the German Federal Constitutional Court of 24 October 1996 • P. Warren: Self-Ownership, Talent Pooling and Reciprocity: Some Dilemmas for Socialist Egalitarians –O. Astorga: La imaginación juridíca: una revisión del contractualismo hobbesiano • R. A. Grover: Thomas Hobbes and the Global State of Nature • W. E. Conklin: The Place of the People in John Austin’s Structuralism • V. Karam De Chueiri: The Chain of Law: How is Law Like Literature? Paperback, 208 pp.
ISBN 3 515 08026 0  $56.00

Legal Systems & Legal Science.
Proceedings of the 17th World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophie (IVR), Bologna, June 16–21, 1995 . Vol. 1–4.
Edited by Marijan Pavcnik and Gianfrancesco Zanetti. 1997.
Contents: Enrico Pattaro: Preface • Hendrik Ph. Visser’t Hooft: Introduction, Legal Positivism and Natural Law • Vittorio Villa: A Definition of Legal Positivism • Dimitar Radev: Das Natürliche und das Positive Recht • Machiel Karskens: Law and Ground • Joaquin R. Toubes Muñiz: Is soft Positivism a Positivism? • Adejare Oladosu: Normative Positivism and its Modern Critics • Some Examples of Different Theories • Wang Zhiyong: Le Positivisme Juridique dans la Chine Anci]enne • Mario Luberto: Rationalistic Doctrine of Natural Law in Protestant Reform: the Thought of Philip Melanchton • Iain Stewart: Positivist Natural Law in Spencer’s Social Darwinism • Christopher Berry Gray: Legal Formalism and Metaphysical Form: State, Law and Political System • Giorgio Bongiovanni: Rechtsstaat and Grundnorm in the Kelsenian Theory • John P. McCormick: The Dilemmas of Dictatorship: Carl Schmitt and Constitutional Emergency Powers • William E. Scheuerman: The Unholy Alliance of Carl Schmitt and Friedrich A. Hayek • Marianne Constable: Beyond Legal Positivism: "Where the State Ends": Social and Legal Science • Kaarlo Tuori: Legal Science as/and Social Science • Olsen A. Ghirardi: Un Problema Epistemologico: La Distinction entre Derecho y Ciencia del Derecho • Hannu Tolonen: Rechtswissenschaft und rechtliche Theorien: ein Beispiel • Sophie Papaefthymiou: Law, Power and Social Interaction: Towards an Operational Social Theory. Paperback, 149 pp.
ISBN 3 515 07074 5  $48.00

Legions and Veterans.
Roman Army Papers 1971–2000.
Mavors Roman Army Researches, Vol. 12.
Lawrence Keppie. 2000.
It was Rome’s army which conquered first Italy, then a wide geographical area centered on the Mediterranean basin. Transition and change are important themes in this collection of papers, transition not only from the short-service army of the Roman Republic to a long-serving army of professionals, but also from an army of Romans to an army defending Rome, a city the soldiers were pledged to defend but which few would ever visit. The legions came increasingly to be recruited from the provinces in which they were stationed. On retirement, they often received land, initially in Italy but later in the provinces, which formed the basis for an upward move in society. A wide variety of archaeological, epigraphic, sculptural, numismatic and literary evidence is deployed. The book includes a series of 21 papers, three of which are published here for the first time, that deal with topics such as the legions of Julius Caesar, Mark Antony and Augustus, the origins of the Praetorian Guard, the histories of individual legions under the Empire including the II Augusta, VIII Augusta, IX Hispana and XXII Deiotariana, and the colonies in which time-served veterans were settled by the emperors. With indices. Hardcover, 23 illustrations, 16 maps, 6 tables, 339 pp.
ISBN 3 515 07744 8  $117.00

Litigation and Cooperation.
Supporting Speakers in the Courts of Classical Athens.
From the series Historia Einzelschriften, Vol. 147.
Lene Rubinstein. 2000.
It is normally assumed that, in the courts of classical Athens, litigants were expected to plead their own cases in person, and that supporting speakers (synegoroi) were allowed only exceptionally. This assumption is challenged by the present book. Having demonstrated that about a third of the speeches in our corpus of forensic oratory were written for delivery by synegoroi rather than main parties, the author investigates the way in which synegoroi and main parties divided the argumentation between them in individual cases. She shows that trials of major political importance were conducted by teams of pleaders, and she concludes that such legal actions are best understood as team-based contests rather than rhetorical confrontations between individual members of the Athenian élite. The implications of this for our overall understanding of the Athenian democracy and the political part played by the courts are discussed, and it is suggested as a possibility that team-based public actions offered a wider scope for participation by ordinary citizens than is normally allowed by modern historians. The book provides a comprehensive survey of the evidence for supporting speakers in the 93 surviving speeches delivered in the ordinary courts and will be an important work of reference. Paperback, 296 pp.
ISBN 3 515 07757 X  $89.00

Livy and Early Rome.
A Study in Historical Method & Judgment.
Gary Forsythe. 1999.
The book contains a database of all passages in Livy’s first ten books which include personal remarks, author citations, anonymous attributions, variant accounts, etc. This material is analyzed quantitatively and thematically to study how Livy approached and viewed the quasi-historical traditions of early Rome. After assembling and explaining the data in Chapter 1, the next six chapters treat Livy’s basic caution toward early Roman traditions, his methods of resolving discrepancies encountered in his sources, the conflict between his historical judgment and his patriotic and moralizing portrait of early Rome, his use of the historical speech, his view of the divine in the historical process, and his use of digressions. Chapter 8 surveys various trends in the different books of the first decade and compares them with similar data occurring in books 24 and 39 in order to show how the first decade stands apart from Livy’s later books in terms of his cautious historical judgment. Chapter 9 offers some final assessments in light of the foregoing analysis. By quantitative and thematic analysis of a carefully defined set of data this book examines Livy’s caution toward the quasi-historical traditions of early Rome recorded in his first ten books, the limitations of his historical judgment, and how he tried to resolve conflicts in his sources. It also treats his religious outlook and his use of digressions and historical speeches. Contents: Livy’s Caution Toward the Historical Traditions of Early Rome • Livy’s Use of Historical Probability • Historicity vs. Morality and Patriotism • Historical Speech • The Divine • Digressions in the First Decade • Patterns in Individual Books of the First Decade • Index. Paperback, 147 pp.
ISBN 3 515 07495 3  $62.00

The Manuscripts and the Transmission of the Paleologan Scholia on the Euripidean Triad.
From the series Hermes Einzelschriften, Vol. 68.
Hans-Christian Günther. 1995.
Contents: Planudes and the Commentary of Moschopulos • Thomas Magister and Demetrius Triclinius • The Parma-Modena-Scholia • The Mss. Cant. Nn. 3. 14.2 and Ups. gr. 15 and the Origins of the Thoman and Moschopulean Glosses • The Late Byzantine Dyad • Appendices and Plates. Paperback, 331 pp., 8 plates.
ISBN 3 515 06591 1  $86.00

A Master of his Own.
The Calligraphy of the Chan Abbot Zhongfeng Mingben (1262–1323).
Uta Lauer. 2002.
The Chinese Chan (jap. Zen) abbot Zhongfeng Mingben of the Yuan Dynasty forged a synthesis of buddhist sutra writing and draft-cursive (zhang cao) script in his calligraphy. This highly idiosyncratic, new style of calligraphy prompted innovative trends in Ming Dynasty China and transmitted current Chinese artistic developments to Japan where it had a major impact on Zen-and-tea circles. 164 pp.
ISBN 3 515 07932 7  $63.00

Merchant´s Books and Mercantile Pratiche from the Late Middle Ages to the Beginning of the 20th Century.
From the series Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte - Beihefte.
Edited by Markus A. Denzel, Jean Claude Hocquet & Harald Witthöft. 2002.
Contents: M. A. Denzel: Handelspraktiken als wirtschaftshistorische Quellengattung • P. Spufford: Late Medieval Merchant’s Notebooks • K. Weissen: The Commercial Site Analysis in Italian Merchant Handbooks and Notebooks from the 14th and 15th Centuries • J. Dotson: Fourteenth Century Merchant Manuals and Merchant Culture • J. C. Hocquet: Weights and Measures of Trading in Byzantium in the Later Middle Ages. Comments on Giacomo Badoer’s Account Book • M. Steinbrink: Das Geschäftsbuch des Ulrich Meltinger. Ein Werkstattbericht • M. A. Denzel: Eine Handelspraktik aus dem Hause Fugger. Ein Werkstattbericht • G. Imboden: Die Handels- und Rechnungsbücher Kaspar Stockalpers vom Thurm 1609-1691 • H. Witthöft: Nelkenbrecher’s Taschenbuch on Coin, Measure and Weight (1762-1890) – Merchants’ Arithmetic and Handbooks as Sources for a Material Economy of Long Duration • H. Witthöft: Resümee und Perspektiven. Paperback, 219 pp., 6 figs., 10 tables.
ISBN 3 515 08187 9  $54.00

Mining, Metallurgy & Minting In The Middle Ages.
>Vol. I. Asiatic Supremacy, 425–1125.
Ian Blanchard. 2001.
The first of four volumes, which examine non-ferrous precious and base metal mining, metallurgy and minting in the Middle Ages, encompasses the history of these activities during the years 425–1125. It describes the shift in the focus of world precious metal production from the Western Roman Empire (-350), to the Sassanid and Byzantine Empires (350–650) and Central Asia (480–930). Central Asia dominated for almost half a millennium world precious and base metal production, before output collapsed and an industrial diaspora caused the foci of silver and gold production to shift to Europe and sub-Saharan Africa respectively (930–1125). Mining activity in Central Asia, 480–930 is examined in depth, as is also its impact on local society and the distribution of precious metals from there to China, India and South-east Asia, Asia Minor and, via the Trans-Pontine steppes, to Europe. It also explores the impact of this flow of Sa\ssa\nid-Islamic silver and gold on European mining and monetary systems, when that trade was at its height (560–930) and the response of the Europeans to the great "Silver Famine" occasioned by the collapse of Central Asian production (930–1125). This book will be of interest for mining historians, ancient and medieval historians, Islamic historians, climatic and environmental historians, numismatists and monetary historians. Hardcover, xiv + 550 pp.
ISBN 3 515 07958 0  $140.00

>Vol. 2. Afro-European Supremacy, 1125–1225.
African Gold Production and the First European Silver Production Long-Cycle.
Ian Blanchard. 2001.
The second volume examines the rise to world dominance of silver and gold production, during the first great output long-cycle (1125–1225), in new locations in Europe and sub-Saharan Africa. It explores the organization of the industry at this time, the reversal of the contemporary specie flow and the distribution of these precious metals throughout Europe and to lands beyond the bounds of that continent. It also describes the beginnings of autonomous European base metal – lead, copper, tin and mercury- production, the organization of the "new" industry, its levels of output and the distribution of these metals to new groups of European consumers. Hardcover, numerous maps, tables, xxxv + 369 pp.
ISBN 3 515 07967 X  $124.00

Oligarchia.
The Development of a Constitutional Form in Ancient Greece.
From the series Historia Einzelschriften, Vol. 144.
Martin Ostwald. 2000.
This book presents a history of how oligarchy, as a political form, was perceived and evaluated by the Greeks down through the time of Aristotle. It grapples above all with the testimony of Plato and Aristotle, but at no point loses the historical aspect of his study. The monograph is remarkably comprehensive and well documented. It is the first major discussion specifically directed toward the subject in a long time. M. Ostwald, Professor Emeritus at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, is a major scholar in the fields of Ancient Greek history, literature, philosophy, and political theory and author of several important books and many articles. Contents: Introduction • Constitutions: Early Classifications • The Rule of a Few and Ideology • Philosophical Revaluation: Plato • Theory and Practice: Aristotle • The Oligarchical Citizen in Aristotle • Bibliography of Works Cited • Indices. Paperback, 96 pp.
ISBN 3 515 07680 8  $40.00

On the Opuscula of Theophrastus.
Akten Der 3. Tagung Der Karl-und Gertrud-abel-stiftung Vom 19-23. Juli 1999 In Trier.
From the series: Philosophie der Antike.
William W. Fortenbaugh & Georg Wöhrle. 2002.
Contents: Stephen White: Opuscula and Opera in the Catalogue of Theophrastus’ Works • Han Baltussen: Theophrastean Echoes? The De Sensibus in the Platonic and Aristotelian Tradition • Pamela M. Huby: Arabic Evidence about Theophrastus’ De Sensibus • Todd Ganson: A Puzzle Concerning the Aristotelian Notion of a Medium of Sense-Perception • István M. Bodnár: Theophrastus’ De igne, Orthodoxy, Reform and Readjustment in the Doctrine of Elements • Georg Wöhrle: Ps-Aristoteles De Coloribus, A Theophrastean Opusculum? • David Sider: On On Signs • R.A.H. King: Nutrition and Fatigue • Amneris Roselli: Greek Medical Theories of Fatigue • Sabine Vogt: Theophrast, De Vertigine • Armelle Debru: La sueur des corps, le De sudore de Théophraste face à la tradition médicale • John Dillon: Theophrastus’ Critique of the Old Academy in the Metaphysics • H. Takahashi: Syriac Fragments of Theophrastean Meteorology and Mineralogy • Index, Contributors and Editors. Paperback, 245 pp., 4 figs., 1 tab.
ISBN 3 515 07888 6  $68.00

Phasis.
The River & City In Colchis.
From the series Geographica Historica, Vol. 15.
Otar Lordkipanidze. 2000.
The books deals with Phasis in Colchis – the river which flows from the Caucasus to the Black Sea and which was regarded as the border between Europe and Asia in the ancient world. But Phasis is also a city – described in literary sources, but not yet found. According to most scholars, it was situated at the mouth of the river. Lordkipanidze is an expert on the Caucasian region who has published numerous articles on ancient Colchis. In this book, he gives us a thorough historic-geographical description of the river as well as discussing the literary sources which describe the ancient city. Additionally, religious life in the Phasis region is given a special emphasis. This book is a landmark in the study of ancient Colchis. Paperback, 147 pp.
ISBN 3 515 07271 3  $48.00

The Platonic Theages.
An Introduction, Commentary & Critical Edition.
Mark Joyal. 2000.
This is the first comprehensive study of the Theages, a dialogue whose Platonic authorship was not questioned in antiquity but has been doubted by most modern scholars. The book’s introductory chapters confront such problems as the dialogue’s purpose and meaning, its authenticity and date of composition, its depiction of Socrates’ divine sign, and its relation to other Platonic and Socratic literature. The commentary deals in detail with a wide range of philosophical, philological and literary questions. A new text is also offered here, the first to be founded upon a complete knowledge of the manuscript tradition. Hardcover, 335 pp.
ISBN 3 515 07230 6  $105.00

Phonetics and its Applications.
Festschrift for Jens-Peter Koster on the Occasion of his 60th birthday.
Edited by Angelika Braun and Herbert R. Masthoff. 2002.
600 pp.
ISBN 3 515 08094 5  $168.00

The Proportions in Aristotle´s Phys. 7.5.
From the series Palingenesia, Vol. 76.
Theokritos Kouremenos. 2002.
In Phys. 8.10 and Cael. 1.7, 3.2 Aristotle establishes theses central to his physical theory by relying on proportions he sets out in Phys. 7.5 without, though, giving any clue as to their character or even their role in the argument he develops in Phys. 7. The author seeks to determine the nature of the problematic Phys. 7.5 proportions, which have been traditionally understood out of any context as Aristotle’s flawed mathematical laws of motion, in the light of their applications in Phys. 8.10 and Cael. 1.7, 3.2. He argues that Aristotle conceived these proportions as purely mathematical assumptions which, though, do not compromise the arguments in Phys. 8.10 and Cael. 1.7, 3.2, for there is strong evidence that for Aristotle these arguments do not turn on any proportionality assumption. This is the first comprehensive study of the important arguments in which Aristotle makes use of the Phys. 7.5 proportions and sheds light on a rather neglected side of his physics. Hardcover, 132 pp.
ISBN 3 515 08178 X  $40.00

Reimverzeichnis zum Nibelungenlied.
From the series Zeitschrift für Deutsches Altertum und Deutsche Literatur, Beihefte.
Tanja Weiss. 2002. A Hirzel Verlag publication.
Rhyme index to the Song of the Nibelungs. The rhyme language of the Song of the Nibelungs is significantly different from all the other courtly rhyme poetry dating from the same time. This rhyme index makes it possible to study the characteristic rhyme technique of the Song. It is the first rhyme dictionary ever that refers to the three main 13th-Century manuscripts A, B and C, and also offers lots of additional information that is helpful to researchers. Paperback, 76 pp.
ISBN 3 7776 1187 5  $40.00

The Religious Life of Palmyra.
A Study of the Social Patterns of Worship in the Roman Period.
From the series Oriens et Occidens, Vol. 4.
Ted Kaizer. 2002.
This study of the social patterns of worship in Palmyra (Syria) investigates how aspects of the city’s religious life contributed to the way in which its society was built up and worked. The validity of the model of ‘civic’ vs ‘tribal’ forms of worship (wrongly based upon a sociopolitical model from the Roman period) is reconsidered, and a revised classification of the divine world of Palmyra is proposed and made visible in a detailed analysis of the city’s sanctuaries and cults. In addition, a fresh and methodical re-evaluation of the relevant sources provides new insights into the complexities of both the ritual activities in Palmyra and of the way in which the various groups of worshippers, priests and benefactors served as markers in Palmyrene society. Hardcover, 307 pp.
ISBN 3 515 08027 9  $75.00

Revolution and Society in Greek Sicily and Southern Italy.
From the series Historia Einschriften, Vol. 71.
Shlomo Berger. 1992.
Paperback, 128 pp.
ISBN 3 515 05959 8  $41.00

Rights.
Proceedings of the 17th World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophie (IVR), Bologna, June 16–21, 1995 . Vol. 1–4.
Edited by Rex Martin & Gerhard Sprenger. 1997.
Contents: K. Campbell: The Variety of Rights • J. R. Sieckmann: Basic Rights in the Model of Principles • U. Penski: Partikularität des Rechts und Universalisierung von Rechten • G. Holmström-Hintikka: Rights and Responsibilities • C. C. Gould: Group Rights and Social Ontology • M. Pavcnik: Abuse of a Right • H. Matsuo: Historical and Theoretical Intimacy Between the Concepts of Rights and Property • R. Alexy: Discourse Theory and Human Rights • G. Peces-Barba Martínez: Los Derechos Humanos ante Problemas Clasicos de la Filosofia del Derecho • C. Velarde Queipo de Llano: The Case of Dworkin and his Critics • M. Tallachini: Human Right to the Environment or Rights of Nature? • D. Galloway: Constitutions, Civil Rights and Outsiders • J. I. Ugartemendia / J. Bengoetxea: A Right to Disobey? • T. D. Campbell: Communication Rights: Defaming Free Speech • B. Crum: Legal Deliberation about the Right to Free Speech • F. Peonidis: Remarks on a Philosophical Defence of the Right to Freedom of Expression • R. A. Shiner / M. Stephens: Advertising, Free Expression, and Public Goods • E. A. Christodoulidis: What Re-discovery of the Polis? • W. L. McBride: The Rights of ‘Aliens’ and of Other Others • L. H. Meyer: Can Actual Future People Have a Right to Non-Existence? • W. Lang: The Concepts of Rights and the Rights of the Unborn • B.S.T. Mallén: Belonging to a Sect as a Possible Limit to the Right of Choosing the Education of One’s Children • M. Corrado: Self-Defense, Punishment, and the State’s Right to Detain. Paperback, 248 pp.
ISBN 3 515 07071 0  $69.00

Roman Augural Lore in Greek Historiography.
A Study of the Theory & Terminology.
From the series Historia Einzelschriften, Vol. 156.
Jyri Vaahtera. 2001.
The augurs, the official Roman diviners, had a significant role in the public life of the Roman Republic. However, to recover the facts concerning their rites and doctrine is a difficult task because of the defectiveness and the fragmentary nature of our sources. This book offers the first thorough examination of the ways in which the augural doctrine has been treated by the Greek historians who have written about Rome. The bulk of its material derives from four prominent writers of the Roman period: Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Plutarch, Appian and Cassius Dio. Analyzing the Greek sources from the point of view of language, style, bilingualism, and cultural context, the author not only sheds light on disputed matters of augural doctrine and Roman constitution, but also offers a good deal of new material that in various ways clarifies the meeting of the two cultures. Contents: Greek historiography and Roman institutions • The Hellenistic period • The Roman Period • Greek Names for Roman institutions • The Augurs and their Disciplina • The Rituals • The Augurs • The ius augurale publicum • The Public Auspices • The Tribunician Auspices • Indices. Paperback, 194 pp.
ISBN 3 515 07946 7 $55.00

Sources of Law & Legislation.
Proceedings of the 17th World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophie (IVR), Bologna, June 16–21, 1995 . Vol. 1–4.
Edited by Elspeth Attwooll and Paolo Comanducci. 1998.
Contents: R. J. Allen: The Structure of Juridical Proof • A. Brockmöller: The Current Relevance of Savigny’s Theory of Sources of Law • S. C. Hicks: Sources of Law, Towards a New Middle Ages of Law • A. E. Karkoub / M. Heather: Custom as a Source of International Law • F. H. Llano Alonso: Law and Jurisprudence Within a Plural Conception of Sources • A. Lopatka: Rules of Conduct Established by Physical Creations • M. Paroussis: Legal Standards and the Normativity of Expectations • F. Toepel: Legal Proof and Scientific Explanation • R. Tuomela / M. Bonnevier-Tuomela: Norms and Agreement • B. R. Dorbeck-Jung: Comparative Legislative Studies • R. S. Summers: The Formal Character of Law • E. Virgala Foruria: The Delegated Legislation in Europe • J. M. Adeato: Inconsistency Strategies in Peripheral Judicial Systems • V. Iturralde: The Judicial Decisions as a Source of Law in Civil Law: The Spanish Case • M. Karlsson: Criminal Law and Judge-Made Law • D. Kim: A Reconstruction of Rawls’s Political Conception of Justice • D. N. MacCormick: Precedent As a Source of Law • C. A. Mota de Souza: Judicial, Jurisprudential and Summular Law • J. M. van Dunné: Coherence in Legal Decision Making • C. Varga: The Judicial Process • F. Quintana Bravo: Interpretation and Sources of Law • J. Raz: Why Interpret? • J. P. Rooney: J. Wróblewsky on Judicial Interpretation • R. Sarkowicz: "Objective Interpretation" • G. Wihl: The Aesthetic Element in Legal Interpretation. Paperback, 250 pp.
ISBN 3 515 07073 7  $69.00

Studies in Eusebian and Post-Eusebian Chronography 1.
The Chronicicanones of Eusebius of Caesarea: Structure, Content, & Chronology, AD 282–325 & 2. The Continuatio Antiochiensis Eusebii: A Chronicle of Antioch & the Roman Near East during the Reigns of Constantine and Constantius II, AD 325–350.
Richard W. Burgess & Witold Witakowski. 1999.
Two detailed studies based upon the reconstructed Greek texts of the last portion of the chronicle of Eusebius of Caesarea and a lost continuation of Eusebius written in Antioch in 350. The commentary of the former concentrates on Eusebius and the writing of the chronicle, that of the latter on a detailed analysis of the events narrated by the chronicler from 325 to 350. The first study in this volume provides a Greek text and translation of the final 42 years of Eusebius’ chronicle, the first such attempt at reconstruction since 1606, while the second presents the first ever Greek text and translation of an important lost continuation of Eusebius’ chronicle, written in Antioch in 350. Both texts are reconstructed from surviving Greek, Latin, Syrian, Armenian, and Arabic witnesses, and are provided with introductions that establish the basis for the reconstruction of the text and chronology, and detailed commentaries that present, in the former study, the first detailed comparison of Eusebius’ original Greek with Jerome’s translation and, in the latter, detailed analyses of the contemporary historical account provided by the Antiochene continuation. These studies will greatly increase our understanding of these first Christian chronicles and of the Eastern Empire and frontier in the important period of 325-350, the years immediately before the beginning of the narrative of Ammianus Marcellinus. Contents: Study 1: Introduction • Regnal Years and Other Chronological Systems • Errors and Corrections • The Episcopal Lists • Reconstruction and Translation • Commentary • Appendices • Study 2: Introduction • Reconstruction and Translation • Appendix • Commentary • Appendices • Indices. Paperback, 358 pp.
ISBN 3 515 07530 5  $103.00

Studies in Odyssey 11.
From the series Hermes Einzelschrift, Vol. 82.
Odysseus Tsagarakis. 2000.
This monograph deals with the main problems of the Eleventh Book of the Odyssey (the Nekyia) in the light of recent research. The journey to the underworld is not only troublesome in its composition but also important for its place in the poem, perhaps the most important of the hero’s adventures. After a brief introduction, which surveys the present state of research and outlines methodology, the book examines in four chapters: 1. The question of the sources (borrowings, influences etc.) from the Epic of Gilgamesh to the Greek catabaseis (those of Heracles, Orpheus, Theseus and Peirithous) and cult practices at the Oracles of the Dead (the Thesprotian Oracle and that of Trophonius in Lebadeia). 2. The relation of our Nekyia to the poem and especially to the apologoi, as it is part of a larger composition, and its themes (journey to the land of the dead, catabasis, nekyomanteia). 3. The problematic parts of the Book and the question of their authenticity, Catalogue of Heroines, Intermezzo and Review of Hades. 4. The concepts of the Afterlife with the two contrasting views about the fate of psyche. There follows a conclusion, which gives a summary of the results reached in the discussion of individual topics, select bibliography and the indexes (a Greek index, an index of passages and a general index). Paperback, 144 pp.
ISBN 3 515 07463 5  $45.00

Thrasybulus and the Athenian Democracy.
The Life of an Athenian Statesman.
Robert J. Buck. 1998.
Although Thrasybulus of Steiria was a major player in some of the most important events of Athenian history, he has been largely neglected by ancient commentators and modern scholars alike. By way of giving Thrasybulus the attention his deeds warrant, Buck provides in his brief study a Thrasybulus-centered history of the period from 411–389. The reader will find a concise, clearly-written, and well-argued discussion of the events of the period. Contents: Sources and Scholarship • Thrasybulus: His Early Life and Career • Arginusae and the Thirty • The Overthrow of the Thirty and the Restoration of Democracy • The First Two Years of the Corinthian War: Thrasybulus and Conon • The Corinthian War: Thrasybulus and the New Athenian Empire • Thrasybulus and Athens • Chronology • Bibliography. Paperback, 141 pp.
ISBN 3 515 07221 7  $40.00

Universal Minority Rights? A Transnational Approach. Proceedings of the Fifth Kobe Lectures Tokyo and Kyoto December 1998.  Morigiwa, Yasutomo (Hrsg.) / Ishiyama, Fumihiko (Ed.) / Sakurai, Tetsu (Ed.). 2004. Contents:

Y. Morigiwa: Preface
F. Ishiyama: Introduction
W. Kymlicka: Universal Minority Rights? The Prospects for Consensus

Commentaries:
M. Fukada: Comments and Questions to Professor W. Kymlicka
F. Ishiyama: A ‘Distinctively Liberal’ Theory of Minority Rights?
T. Katsuragi: Comments on Kymlicka’s Multicultural Citizenship
R. Hirai: When Kymlicka Takes on Asia
Y. Inada: A Kind of Strategic Essentialism? A Commentary on Kymlicka
S. Morimura: In Defense of Liberal Imperialism
I. Ozaki: Who Saves Whom? A Short Comment on Multicultural Citizenship
K. Hasegawa: Comments on Will Kymlicka’s Thinking about the Rights of Indigenous People
Y. Mouri: Towards a Liberal Extension of Multiculturalism: Focusing Attention on the Present Conditions of the Korean Minority in Japan
W. Kymlicka: Replies to Commentaries   

ISBN 3-515-08504-1. $36.00

Vademecum for History Sciences.
Associations, Organisations, Societies, Clubs, Institutes, Seminaries, Professorships, Libraries, Archives, Museums, Departments, Publishers, Journals & Historians In Germany, Austria & Switzerland.
Edited by Franz Steiner Verlag. 2002.
In agreement with the German Association of Historians, the Association of Austrian Historians and History Societies and the General History Society of Switzerland. Paperback, 670 pp.
ISBN 3 515 07978 5  $45.00

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