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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 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 Monument and Memory -- Jonna Bornemark, Mattias Martinson, Jayne Svenungsson (Eds.) Philosophical Paths in the Public Sphere -- Gaetano Chiurazzi, Davide Sisto, Søren Tinning (Eds.) Households' Food Insecurity and Coping Strategies in the Face of Vulnerability -- Mesay Kebede Duguma Challenges of Health Care Workers Vis-a-vis Evangelical Mission of Jesus Christ in Igboland, Nigeria -- Benjamin Nzenekwesi Eze Nikolai Bernstein - from Reflex to the Model of the Future -- Josef M. Feigenberg Eternally Yours - Challenge and Response -- Regina Künne Militarization in Post-1986 Uganda -- Jude Kagoro The Sacred Forest -- Henry Kam Kah Translators Have Their Say? -- Abdel Wahab Khalifa (Ed.) Women's Rituals and Ceremonies in Shiite Iran and Muslim Communities -- Pedram Khosronejad (Ed.) Untold Stories -- Pedram Khosronejad (Ed.) Intercultural Encounters in Education -- Ulla Kriebernegg, Roberta Maierhofer, Hermine Penz (Eds.) Immigration Societies -- Astrid Lipinsky (Ed.) Narrating (Hi)stories in West Africa -- Bea Lundt, Ulrich Marzolph (Eds.) Cause, Knowledge and Responsability -- António Manuel Martins (Ed.) Emblematic Strategies in Contemporary Art -- Hanna Pahl (Ed.) Changing Paradigms -- Klaus Roth (Ed.) Welfare Regimes in South-Eastern Europe -- Michael Sauer Networks of Learning -- Sita Steckel, Niels Gaul, Michael Grünbart (Eds.) Mind and Memory in Discourse -- Marija Wakounig, Markus Peter Beham (Eds.) more...	Recommendation Hans-H. Münkner (Ed.) Making Co-operative Promoters - 40 Years ICDC Report on the degree course in Co-operative Economics and the Institute for Co-operation in Developing Countries (ICDC), University of Marburg / Germany The book offers a description, documentation and analysis of a four-years, interdisciplinary degree course in co-operative economics at the University of Marburg (1994 to 2002) for students from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe. 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...