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Volume I begins with a basic introduction into the general topic, in order to present the handbook's scope and implications and to specify the various situations where it is applicable in practice. Then all aspects of illegal trafficking of cultural goods are discussed from a de facto and de jure perspective: cultural theft, illegal export of valuable cultural goods belonging to the respective national heritage, looted art, cultural flight assets, stolen art and 'degenerate' art, illegal nationalization of art works and colonial cultural goods transfers.

Das umfassende Nachschlagewerk fur alle Fragen im Kulturguterschutz- und Kunstrestitutionsrecht. Konzipiert fur die Praxis, bietet das Werk Antworten bei der taglichen Arbeit fur alle im Kunstmarkt Beteiligten rund um die Themen:

• Kunstdiebstahl,
  
• Schutz und Schmuggel nationalen Kulturbesitzes,
  
• illegaler Antikenhandel,
  
• wahrend der nationalsozialistischen Unrechtsherrschaft entzogene Raub- und Beutekunst sowie entartete Kunst,
  
• nach Russland und in die Staaten der ehemaligen Sowjetunion verlagerte Trophaenkunst,
  
• wahrend der...

Oh, Misha, it's terrible to be an educated woman. An educated woman with nothing to do. What am I here for? Why am I alive? They should make me a professor somewhere, or a director of something ... If I were a diplomat I'd turn the whole world upside down ... An educated woman ... And nothing to do.

Village schoolmaster Mikhail Vasilyevich has it all: wit, intelligence, a comfortable and respectable life in provincial Russia, and the attentions of four beautiful women - one of whom is his devoted wife... As summer arrives and the seasonal festivities commence, the rapidly...

During the early 1800s, inventor James Watt occupied his final years attempting to develop a mechanical system for copying sculptures of the human body. Though Watt's sculpture machine was never completed (and would, in any event, have eventually been made obsolete with the advent of photography), Watt's quest serves as an incisive metaphor for the subsequent body politics of the nineteenth century. As the modern world emerged, contemporary conceptions of physicality remained rooted in the classical tradition as they were simultaneously influenced by the technological forces of industry...

Is mankind alone in the universe? Will we ever encounter intelligent life beyond Earth? These questions have been asked for centuries. Recent advances in the fields of astrophysics, astronomy and astrobiology make it more likely than ever before, that Earth may not be the only inhabited planet, and that humanity may not the only intelligent species in the universe.

What would be the consequences of contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence? This question is at the heart of the emerging discipline of exosociology. According to the authors, first contact with an extraterrestrial...