Denkschriften Der Schweizerischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Band 16

The Tunnel of Love tour again? That’s surely a sentiment some are expressing with this month’s release of New York 5/16/88, the outstanding opening night performance from the final, five-show stand on the US leg of the 1988 tour.

In dem Band wird am Beispiel der schweizerischen Lehrmittelpolitik aus governanceanalytischer und wissenssoziologischer Perspektive aufgezeigt, wie die Approbationsverfahren von Lehrmitteln organisiert sind, nach welchen Kriterien Lehrmittel beurteilt und wie Zulassungsentscheide legitimiert werden.

English summary: The study of transportation infrastructure is a key component of the historical-geographical research of the Tabula Imperii Byzantini. For the province of Caria, milestones - dating from the first to sixth centuries AD - comprise, with the Tabula Peutingeriana and certain written sources (Hierocles, diocesan lists), the best material available for the reconstruction of the road network.

Archaeology has long since identified modern-day Swat (North-West Pakistan) with ancient Uddiyana, known in the past as one of the most sacred lands of Buddhism. The landscape of Swat, indeed, still bears conspicuous traces of this. The profusion and splendour of monuments, which one can still easily imagine based on the ruins, and the luxuriant beauty of the surrounding scenery provide eloquent evidence of the fascination this land held all over the ancient Buddhist world.