Mercury is toxic. But it is also a component of many Asian medicines. While the United Nations is working to reduce mercury emissions, Tibetan medical practitioners are "taming" the poison. Volume 7 of Heidelberg Studies on Transculturality shows how different views of toxicity and safety are expressed transculturally in a globalizing world.

"It closes a gap in garden literature" - With this justification, the jury of the German Garden Book Prize awarded first place in the garden history category to the book published in 2020 "Marie Luise Gothein's 'Geschichte der Gartenkunst'. The Image of the Garden as Text" by Karin Seeber.  

The new lecture notes from the Lecture Notes series builds on the core courses in theoretical physics and provides the methods for understanding astrophysics theoretically. The Lecture Notes are aimed at students of STEM subjects, but also offer interested readers from other subjects clear insights into exciting STEM topics.

The current issue of the Ruperto Carola research magazine presents contributions by 24 scientists from a wide range of disciplines on the topic of "Friend & Foe". From vital proteins that can become the organism's enemy, to musically expressed enmity, to a psychological examination of a disturbed perception of friend and foe - each contribution provides fascinating insights into exciting research work at Heidelberg University.

Films tell stories - and they tell of the social and political circumstances of their creation. This can be seen particularly well in the German and Italian postwar films studied by the international group of authors of the new volume of the Online-Schriften des DHI Rom. Neue Reihe| Pubblicazioni online del DHI Roma. Nuova serie. How do the filmmakers process the Fascist and the National Socialist past? How do they portray the other?

With the title “Self-Reassurances”, this sixth issue regards the ongoing process of self-reflection as a quality feature of teacher edu­cation, which finds expression in a probing attitude towards one’s own subject, a self-reflective stance towards oneself, and in an experi­mental curiosity about communication and transfer. Following historical, theoretical, and empirical approaches, the essays collected here contribute new insights, questions, and suggestions to this discussion.