A prize-winning novel about class, money, creativity, and motherhood, that ultimately reveals what happens when the hypocrisies we live by are exposed…

Marie Curie was a brilliant scientist who coined the term ‘radioactivity’, discovered polonium and radium, and helped develop treatments for cancer.

A window into the artistic process of an award-winning German comic artist

This is the first publication by German artist Anna Haifisch (born 1986) to explore her approach to making…

The field of electrets has developed rapidly with an increasing number of new materials, methods for investigating charge-storage phenomena, and the development of creative and exciting applications. This third edition…

Part memoir, part scholarship, and part theological conjectures, the book posits that to be a modern Jew entails constantly oscillating between seemingly disparate and contradictory polarities such as logos and…

Politische Karikaturen spielen im Kontext der Politikvermittlung durch Massenmedien eine besondere Rolle: Sie vermitteln nicht in erster Linie neue Informationen, sondern bieten eine visuelle Kommentierung von Themen und Ereignissen. Gerade…

Der Band stellt Analysen zur Entwicklung politischen Wissens in der Grundschulzeit vor. Der theoretische Hintergrund der Studie sind die naiven Theorien der Politik und das Modell der Politikkompetenz. Es zeigen…

Derivative-free optimization (DFO) has enjoyed renewed interest over the past years, mostly motivated by the ever growing need to solve optimization problems defined by functions whose values are computed by…