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LIT - Academic Publishing LIT Verlag has established itself as one of Germanys leading academic publishers. LIT publishing program presents a fast growing English language list. It offers original research, stimulating and innovative contributions to major academic disciplines. All titles are distributed in North America through well established American academic publishers. We kindly invite scholars to join our successful English language programme. contact: london@lit-verlag.de Distributors: Global Book Marketing Book Depository International Specialized Book Services Catalogues Academic Books Seasonal catalogues: Ethnology African Studies Asian Studies East European Studies History Religion Geography Literay and Languages Education Philosophy Political Sciences Sociology Economics Law Anthropology	New Publications Lisan Al-Arab -- Muntasir Fayez Faris Al-Hamad, Rizwan Ahmad, Hafid I. Alaoui (Eds.) Science Policies in Hungary (1867-1910) and the First Generation of Distinguished Scientists -- Pál Bödy The Migrant Crisis: European Perspectives and National Discourses -- Melani Barlai, Birte Fähnrich, Christina Griessler, Markus Rhomberg (Hg.) Negotiations with Interim Contracts -- Konstantin Barrmeyer Les espaces sexués -- Christophe Batsch, Françoise Saquer-Sabin (Eds.) avec la collaboration de Vincenza Perdichizzi et Francesco D'Antonio The Guodian Bamboo Slips Lao Zi -- Hou Cai Practicing Ubuntu -- Jaco Dreyer, Yolanda Dreyer, Edward Foley, Malan Nel (Eds.) Patterns of Dis\|Order -- Anna-Sophie Jürgens, Markus Wierschem (Eds.) Critique and Feminist Theology -- Miri Jin Paul Cries Freedom in Galatia! -- Gysbert M.H. Loubser Partnerships and Power Games -- Lapologang Magole, Alyne Delaney (Eds.) Making sense of death -- Brenda Mathijssen The Pump Keeps on Running -- Diego Augusto Menestrey Schwieger 1926-2016 Fritz Jahr's Bioethics -- Amir Muzur, Hans-Martin Sass (Eds.) "He Changes Times and Seasons" -- Marius Nel Tolerance -- Ville Päivänsalo, Taina Kalliokoski, David Huisjen, Jr. (Eds.) Ethics in the Light of Hermeneutical Philosophy -- Andrzej Przylebski Floating Architecture -- Horst Stopp, Peter Strangfeld (Eds.) Contributions to the Development of the Contemporary Paradigm of the Institutional Childhood -- Lidija Vujicic, Oliver Holz, Matjaz Duh, Melissa Michielsen (Eds.) more...	Recommendation Nazarii Gutsul, Kristina Khrul (Eds.) Multicultural Societies and their Threats Real, hybrid and media wars in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe This book compares different `frozen conflicts' in Eastern Europe: former Yugoslavia, Transnistria, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Crimea and Donbas. Most contributions are written from the perspectives of political, sociological, historical and diplomatic sciences. more...	News / Events 03.12.2014 Book launch: BEYOND URBANISM Urban(izing) Villages and the Mega-urban Landscape in the Pearl River Delta in China When: 10.12.2014; 6 pm Where: TU Berlin Institute of Architecture Room A409 Strasse des 17. Juni 152 10623 Berlin What: Welcome by Peter Herrle 30 min. video with Detlev Ipsen on Urban(izing) Villages and the Mega-urban Landscape in the Pearl River Delta Discussion: The results of a DFG-funded research project on urbanization and informal dynamics Large urban agglomerations have emerged over the past decades and, in some cases, entire rural regions were urbanized in less than a decade. These trends not only reflect an unprecedented quantitative dimension of urbanization but also the emergence of new urban forms - beyond urbanism - thus posing new challenges to regional planners, politicians and urban governance actors. The book has been published in the HABITAT - INTERNATIONAL Series. Beyond Urbanism further informations...