A Dark Trace: Sigmund Freud on the Sense of Guilt

Sigmund Freud, in his search for the origins of the sense of guilt in individual life and culture, regularly speaks of "reading a dark trace", thus referring to the Oedipus myth as a myth on the problem of human guilt. The sense of guilt is indeed a trace that leads deep into the individual's mental life, into his childhood life, and into the prehistory of culture and religion. In this book thi…

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A Collection in Context: Kommentierte Edition der Briefe und Dokumente Sammlu…

The first volume of the Tu?bingen Numismatic Studies series examines the collection of Karl von Scha?ffer, comprising almost 3000 numismatic objects, which came into the possession of the University of Tu?bingen in 1888, in the context of the history of science. The edition of the complete collection documentation is evaluated by contributions on the history of the university collection, a biog…

A Coat of Many Colors : Dress Culture in the Young State of Israel

A Coat of Many Colors investigates Israel's first seven years as a sovereign state through the unusual prism of dress. Clothes worn by Israelis in the 1950s reflected political ideologies, economic conditions, military priorities, social distinctions, and cultural preferences, and all played a part in consolidating a new national identity. Based on a wide range of textual and visual historical …

Editorial: A Celebration of the Ties That Bind Us: Connections between Actuar…

The articles in this volume are contributed by scholars who are not only experts in areas of Actuarial Science (AS) and Mathematical Finance (MF), but also those who present diverse perspectives from both industry and academia. Topics from multiple areas, such as Stochastic Modeling, Credit Risk, Monte Carlo Simulation, and Pension Valuation, among others, that were maybe thought to be the doma…

A Cape of Asia : Essays on European History

A Cape of Asia collects eighteen of Wesseling's finest essays on European History, clustered around three concerns: The Wider View, or the historical European perspective on globalization, migration and decolonization; Europe's Identity, reflecting the shift from Eurocentrism to Americanization and Europe's acceptance of Japan, China and India as new key players in the global economy; and Europ…

A History of Scottish Economic Thought

Modern economics has, at its foundation, scholarly contributions from many prominent Scottish thinkers. This revealing work examines the roots of this great tradition, places in perspective a selection of authors, and assesses their contribution over three centuries in the light of a distinctive Scottish approach to economics. Scottish Enlightenment is an established area of research interest, …

A History of Radionuclide Studies in the UK : 50th Anniversary of the British…

A history of UK radionuclide studies reveals pioneering work from George von Hevesy in Manchester (1911) through to modern PET/MR, with key developments including early homemade scanners (Mallard, Mayneord), GFR measurement, radioimmunoassay, SPECT/CT, and advanced brain imaging (FDG, amyloid). Driven by medical physicists and later clinicians, the field progressed from tracer studies (I-131, T…

A history of participation in museums and archives : traversing citizen scien…

Traversing disciplines, A History of Participation in Museums and Archives provides a framework for understanding how participatory modes in natural, cultural, and scientific heritage institutions intersect with practices in citizen science and citizen humanities. Drawing on perspectives in cultural history, science and technology studies, and media and communication theory, the book explore…

A History of Japan’s Government-Business Relationship : The Passenger Car I…

Despite the economic and political importance of the U.S.-Japan relationship and the extensive attention paid to automotive trade, few American scholars or policy makers are familiar with the history of Japanese government-business relations, either generally or for specific industries such as passenger cars. This book hopefully helps in a small way to fill that gap in our knowledge and, thus, …