Ibidem imprint: 334 books

God and the Mathematics of Infinity

What Irreducible Mathematics Says about Godhood

by H Chris Ransford
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017

Drawing on incontrovertible results from the science and mathematics of Infinity, H. Chris Ransford analyzes the traditional concept of Godhood and reaches astonishing conclusions. He addresses humankind's abiding core debate on the meaning of spirituality and God. Using mathematics to explore key...

Limits of a Post-Soviet State

How Informality Replaces, Renegotiates, and Reshapes Governance in Contemporary Ukraine

by Abel Polese
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016

Though informed by case studies conducted in Ukraine, this book transcends its country-specific scope. It explains why informality in governance is not necessarily transitory or temporary but a constant in most political systems. The book discusses self-protective mechanisms, responses to incomplete...

Variations of Suburbanism

Approaching a Global Phenomenon

by Sigrun Langner, Jan Polivka, Stefanie Bremer
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015

Considered to be sub-ordinated and sub-prime to the city, sub-urban areas receive little attention by researchers and designers. However, it's the rapidly growing areas outside the central cities that pose the biggest questions of the urban millennium: How can the scattered patchwork of urban areas...

Romania and the Holocaust

Events – Contexts – Aftermath

by Diana Dumitru, Henry Eaton, Tuvia Friling
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016

From summer 1941 onwards, Romania actively pursued at its own initiative the mass killing of Jews in the territories it controlled. 1941 saw 13,000 Jewish residents of the Romanian city of Iai killed, the extermination of thousands of Jews in Northern Bukovina and Bessarabia by Romanian armed forces...

Transregional versus National Perspectives on Contemporary Central European History

Studies on the Building of Nation-States and Their Cooperation in the 20th and 21st Century

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Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017

This volume compares different regional perspectives on the national and democracy-building aims of individual states. It confronts discourses about national states to regional perspectives on the past as well as the current political and social landscape. Why are we observing calls for national identity...

A Fateful Triangle

Essays on Contemporary Russian, German, and Polish History

by Leonid Luks
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018

The twentieth century began with a deep identity crisis of European parliamentarianism, pluralism, rationalism, individualism, and liberalism―and a following political revolt against the West’s emerging open societies and their ideological foundation. In its radicalism, this upheaval against Western...

The Auschwitz Concentration Camp

History, Biographies, Remembrance

by Chris Webb
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018

This book provides a chronological account of the Auschwitz concentration camp from the camp's beginning in 1940 right up to its liberation in January 1945, and beyond. Chris Webb manages to find a balance between detailing the sufferings of the victims and the actions, characters, and fates of the...
by Megan Armstrong, Imran Iwan, Roland Clark
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2019

2018 was a tumultuous year in global politics. Starting with the rise of the Lega Nord in Italy and ending with the election of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, it has never been such a pertinent time to study the radical right. This yearbook pulls together the best commentary and analysis from an international...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015

This special issue provides a forum for discussion of what Belarusian Studies are today and which new approaches and questions are needed to revitalize the field in the regional and international academic arena. The major aim of the issue is to go beyond the narratives of dictatorship and authoritarianism...

The Pursuit of Pleasure

Overcoming a Civilizational Challenge

by Arsen Dallan, Karlen Dallakyan
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016

This important book unveils how the pleasure principle has taken humanity hostage to the powers of branding and consumerism, steering our most basic desires. Radically re-evaluating the notion of pleasure and arguing for a deep societal change, it shows the way to a new humanist culture.

Art and Conscientization

Forum Theatre in Uganda, Rwanda, DR Congo, and South Sudan

by Claus Schrowange
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015

How can the performing arts add value to peacebuilding programs? Is it possible to use participatory theatre to reconnect and reconcile enemies? What is the trauma-healing effect for those acting in a theatre troupe? Claus Schrowange has explored these questions and the opportunities of using...

Religion and Magic in Socialist and Post-Socialist Contexts

Historic and Ethnographic Case Studies of Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy, and Alternative Spirituality

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Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017

Religion and magic have played important roles within Eastern European societies where social reality and sociopolitical balance may differ greatly from those in the West. Although often thought of as being two distinct, even antagonistic forces, religion and magic find ways to work together. By taking...

Russia and the EU in a Multipolar World

Discourses, Identities, Norms

by Andrey Makarychev, Andreas Umland
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014

This timely book offers a multifaceted analysis of EU-Russian relations, drawing on the investigation of competing models of international society. Makarychev argues that the huge variety of interest-based and normative models is best explained through the study of foreign policy and identity discourses....

Modern Dilemmas

Understanding Collective Action in the 21st Century

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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015

Collective action problems are ubiquitous in situations involving human interactions and therefore lie at the heart of economy and political science. In one of the most salient statements on this topic, Elinor Ostrom, corecipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, claims that 'the theory...
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