This book proposes an integrated approach to patent risk and capital budgeting in pharmaceutical research and development (R and D), developing an option-based view (OBV) of imperfect patent protection, which draws upon contingent-claims analysis, stochastic game theory, as well as novel numerical m[...]

Few painters are as strongly linked to the historical events and political catastrophes of twentieth-century Germany as Otto Dix (1891-1969). Born to a working-class family at the turn of the twentieth century, he hurled himself into the art world of the prewar era, and fought and drew on the front [...]

Carl Philipp Fohr. 1795-1818. The Perfection of the Incomplete. Monograph and Critical Catalogue Raisonne Carl Philipp Fohr (1795-1818), who drowned in the Tiber at the young age of 22, is nowadays remembered mainly as a precociously talented Romantic who died before his time, his life incomplete. H[...]

This book traces the origins of the artistic impulses to use the earth as a medium and to locate works in remote sites, far from familiar art contexts. In doing so, Ends of the Earth will challenge the ideas that Land art was primarily a North American phenomenon, that it was foremost a sculptural p[...]

English summary: Some of the earliest depictions of the Buddha in the world come from Gandhara. The catalogue shows more than 300 unique objects ranging from the 1st to the 6th centuries AD. In March 2001, when the Taliban destroyed the largest rock-hewn Buddha statues in the world in Bamiyan, an al[...]

English summary: "In letters matters of the utmost importance are negotiated" wrote 17-year-old Philipp Melanchthon, and he remained a passionate letter writer for the whole of his life. The almost 10,000 surviving items from his correspondence not only provide essential information on the life of t[...]

An assistant for life, a book for any occasion, for any person at any age. On every page you will discover a taste of philosophy, a pinch of psychology and a twist of insight.

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There are three reasons why most people, although they have tried, won't keep a diary:

In a world where products are out as soon as they are in, where communicating without wires doesn't come without strings, where even our accessories require accessories, we need simple tools. Keel's Simple Diary helps us look inside even when we are overloaded outside. The book offers structure for[...]