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Confini, identit
(2020)
The studies gathered in this volume analyze, in authors from Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, and neighboring territories, the complex relation between identity and borders, namely those between languages and cultures, ...
Consciousness and Subjectivity
(2013)
Issues of subjectivity and consciousness are dealt with in very different ways in the analytic tradition and in the idealistic–phenomenological tradition central to continental philosophy. This book brings together ...
The Construct of Identity in Hellenistic Judaism. Essays on Early Jewish Literature and History
(2016)
This volume assembles twenty-three essays by Erich S. Gruen, who has written extensively on the literature and history of early Judaism and the experience of the Jews in the Greco-Roman world. Twenty-two of the articles ...
Creativity: the Actor in Performance
(2014)
Creativity: The Actor in Performance focuses on what it takes to be a creative performer. Many stage-actors succeed in rehearsals, yet under-perform where it counts—in performance. But, as actors know, performance is a ...
Crossing Experiences in Digital Epigraphy. From Practice to Discipline
(2018)
This miscellaneous volume collects contributions on nineteen projects dealing with Digital Epigraphy – they are diversified in geographic and chronological context, for script and language, and for typology of digital ...
Crossing Languages to Play with Words. Multidisciplinary Perspectives
(2016)
Wordplay involving several linguistic codes is an important modality of ludic language. This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to the topic, discussing examples from different epochs, genres, and communicative ...
Chora und Polis
(2004)
Der Schwerpunkt der althistorischen wie der archäologischen Forschung lag bis vor kurzem auf der Geschichte der Stadt das sie umgebende Land, die Chora blieb hingegen im Dunklen. Daher sind hinsichtlich des antiken Landlebens ...
Construire la Méditerranée, penser les transferts culturels. Approches historiographiques et perspectives de recherche
(2013)
Als Objekt der Forschung spielt der Mittelmeerraum in der französischen Geschichtswissenschaft schon sehr lange eine wichtige Rolle. Die deutschsprachige historische Forschung hingegen hat sich erst jüngst dem Mittelmeerraum ...
Constructivist Blended Learning Approach to Teaching English for Specific Purposes
(2012)
This monograph analyzes an innovative approach to teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP) in tertiary education. This "constructivist blended learning approach" is based on students "constructing" for themselves their ...
Bildungspraktiken der Aufklärung / Education practices of the Enlightenment. Journal für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa (JKGE) / Journal for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe
(2020)
This issue of JKGE is devoted to the specific conditions of educational processes in the pluri-cultural and multilingual regions of Eastern Europe. In the context of globally oriented research on the Enlightenment epoch, ...
Bildzensur. Löschung technischer Bilder
(2020)
Technical censorship of pictures is omnipresent and invisible at the same time. Content moderation on social media and automatic deletions by algorithms have given rise to a new union of human and non-human protagonists. ...
Bildungsbürgertum und völkische Ideologie. Konstitution und gesellschaftliche Tiefenwirkung eines Netzwerks völkischer Autoren (1919-1959)
(2016)
The moderate folk-nationalist (völkisch) authors Hans Grimm, Erwin Guido Kobenheyer, and Wilhelm Stapel found great appeal among the German social elites. The author analyzes the ideological proclivity of the Weimar educated ...
Biomedical Chemistry. Current Trends and Developments
(2016)
Biomedical Chemistry provides readers with an understanding of how fundamental chemical concepts are used to combat some diseases. The authors explain the interdisciplinary relationship of chemistry with biology, physics, ...
Brücken schlagen. Grundlagen der Konnektorensemantik
(2004)
A systematic description of the semantics of connectives is a challenge that linguists have yet to answer. In order to define semantic classes such as causal, concessive, temporal according to objectivizable criteria, to ...
Chinese Annals in the Western Observatory. An Outline of Western Studies of Chinese Unearthed Documents
(2020)
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, hundreds of thousands of documents of all sorts have been unearthed in China, opening whole new fields of study and transforming our modern understanding of ancient China. While ...
Continuing Professional Development – Preparing for New Roles in Libraries. A Voyage of Discovery. Sixth World Conference on Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning for the Library and Information Professions
(2005)
Librarians and information workers the world over are faced with the constant challenge of remaining abreast of developments in their field. Rapid changes in technology and workplace roles threaten to make their skills ...
Brand Postcolonial. ‘Third World’ Texts and the Global
(2019)
This book studies the making of the postcolonial author and text as a brand. It examines specific themes, wherein the postcolonial text acquires global visibility, even determining the nature of global debates: the ...
The British and Irish Ruling Class 1660-1945. Volume 2
(2017)
This book contains an account of the 2,352 families (close to 3,000 counting cadet lines) that had one member sit in either House of the English, British, or United Kingdom Parliament, the Irish Parliament, or the Scottish ...
The British and Irish Ruling Class 1660-1945. Volume 1
(2017)
This book contains an account of the 2,352 families (close to 3,000 counting cadet lines) that had one member sit in either House of the English, British, or United Kingdom Parliament, the Irish Parliament, or the Scottish ...
The Concept of Constitution in the History of Political Thought
(2017)
The aim of the present volume is to discuss the notion of constitution from the perspectives of history of political thought. Its scholarly intention is to go beyond the approach concentrating on the formal understanding ...
Cooperation and Conflict the Nordic Way. Work, Welfare, and Institutional Change in Scandinavia
(2015)
The Nordic model attracts attention in a mixture of applause and disbelief. Among its merits, but also a precondition to its future survival, is its capacity to modify and adapt to changing circumstances. This book scrutinizes ...
Coolies of Capitalism. Assam Tea and the Making of Coolie Labour
(2016)
Coolie labour was often proclaimed as a deliberate compromise straddling the regimes of the past (slave labour) and the future (free labour). In the late 1850s, the locals were replaced by labourers imported from outside ...
Christian Martyrdom in Late Antiquity (300-450 AD). History and Discourse, Tradition and Religious Identity
(2012)
The present volume`s focus lies on the formation of a multifaceted discourse on Christian martyrdom in Late Antiquity. While martyrdom accounts remain a central means of defining Christian identity, new literary genres ...
Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity. Studies in Text Transmission
(2016)
The role of Christian institutions, writers and saints in the active suppression and destruction of books in Late Antiquity has received surprisingly little consideration. The author argues that texts and ideas from ...
Biodiversity in Agricultural Landscapes of Southeastern Brazil
(2016)
The state of São Paulo, Brazil, is one of the most densely populated and developed areas in South America. Such development is evident both in terms of industrialization and urbanization, as well as in agriculture, which ...
The Black Death and Later Plague Epidemics in the Scandinavian Countries: Perspectives and Controversies
(2016)
This monograph represents an expansion and deepening of previous works by Ole J. Benedictow - the author of highly esteemed monographs and articles on the history of plague epidemics and historical demography. In the form ...
Borderlines: Essays on Mapping and The Logic of Place
(2019)
Borderlines innovatively explores the ways artistic interventions construct social, cultural, and mental spaces. The fifteen essays bring a broad multidisciplinary approach to the concept of borderlines and its markings ...
Botanik
(1852)
Constituent, Confederate, and Conquered Space. The Emergence of the Mittani State
(2014)
The Mittani empire is one of the most enigmatic political structures in Mesopotamian history. Reconstructing the emergence and the organisation of this state, whose territory encompassed Upper Mesopotamia touching the ...
Daten und Phänomene. Ein Beitrag zur wissenschaftstheoretischen Realismusdebatte
(2013)
Was sind naturwissenschaftliche Phänomene und inwiefern kann die Beantwortung dieser Frage zu einer besseren philosophischen Einschätzung der wissenschaftlichen Praxis beitragen? Dieses Buch untersucht die wissenschaftst ...
Datenbanksysteme
(1971)