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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 Order Expediting in Supply Chains -- Raik Özsen Ethno-religious Identification and Intergroup Contact Avoidance -- Menandro Sarion Abanes 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 The Sunuwar of Nepal and their Sense of Communication -- Werner M. Egli 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 Dharmakirti on the Duality of the Object -- Eli Franco, Miyako Notake Global Challenges and Local Reactions: Czech Republic and South Africa -- Hana Horáková, Stephanie Rudwick (Eds.) Racism and Sociology -- Wulf D. Hund, Alana Lentin (Eds.) The Sacred Forest -- Henry Kam Kah Translators Have Their Say? -- Abdel Wahab Khalifa (Ed.) Untold Stories -- Pedram Khosronejad (Ed.) Intercultural Encounters in Education -- Ulla Kriebernegg, Roberta Maierhofer, Hermine Penz (Eds.) Poetics of Loss -- Katharina Lempe Aldous Huxley Annual -- Bernfried Nugel, Jerome Meckier (Eds.) Eugen Ehrlich's Sociology of Law -- Knut Papendorf, Stefan Machura, Anne Hellum (Eds.) Southeast European Studies in a Globalizing World -- Christian Promitzer, Siegfried Gruber, Harald Heppner (Eds.) From Ethnic to Transnational -- Tanja Reiffenrath The Making of Ernest Hemingway -- Hans-Peter Rodenberg Heritage and Digital Humanities -- Bernadette Saou-Dufrene (Ed.) assisted by Benjamin Barbier Networks of Learning -- Sita Steckel, Niels Gaul, Michael Grünbart (Eds.) Multinational Strategic Foresight of Environmental Trends in the Automobile Industry Using Internal Resources -- Natalie Wippel more...	Recommendation Pedram Khosronejad (Ed.) Women's Rituals and Ceremonies in Shiite Iran and Muslim Communities Methodological and theoretical challenges In this volume the authors present and discuss different aspects of their field research and experience in regard to women's rituals and devotional practices. One of the main aims of this book is to broaden our understanding of women's devotional lives, as well as calling attention to its relation to general social change. 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...