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Tango Lessons
(2014-01-21)
From its earliest manifestations on the street corners of nineteenth-century Buenos Aires to its ascendancy as a global cultural form, tango has continually exceeded the confines of the dance floor or the music hall. In ...
Representation and parsing of multiword expressions
(2019-07-03)
This book consists of contributions related to the definition, representation and parsing of MWEs. These reflect current trends in the representation and processing of MWEs. They cover various categories of MWEs such as ...
Print, Publicity and Radicalism in the 1790s
(2016-06-01)
Jon Mee explores the popular democratic movement that emerged in the London of the 1790s in response to the French Revolution. Central to the movement’s achievement was the creation of an idea of ‘the people’ brought into ...
Syntax with oscillators and energy levels
(2019-04-30)
This book presents a new approach to studying the syntax of human language, one which emphasizes how we think about time. Tilsen argues that many current theories are unsatisfactory because those theories conceptualize ...
The spell-out algorithm and lexicalization patterns
(2019-06-06)
The book covers the morphosyntax of verbs and categories syncretic with the declarative complementizer in Slavic, together with a comparative look at the similar categories in Latvian (Baltic) and Basaá (Bantu). In the ...
Gegen falsche Götter und falsche Bildung
(2016-04-27)
Tatians "Rede an die Griechen" (2. Jh. n. Chr.) ist die vehemente Attacke eines gebildeten Christen gegen die ganze hellenische Kultur- und Götterwelt und damit ein Vorläufer der großen Auseinandersetzungen zwischen ...
Migrants and Migration in Modern North America
(2011-09-15)
Presenting an unprecedented, integrated view of migration in North America, this interdisciplinary collection of essays illuminates the movements of people within and between Canada, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United ...
Stockholm
(2019)
Once upon a time there was a city in a cold place a long way to the north. One day the city started to tell a story about itself. As the chapters unfolded, life in the city changed, and soon it didn’t even seem so cold or ...
Perspectives on information structure in Austronesian languages
(2018-09-10)
Information structure is a relatively new field to linguistics and has only recently been studied for smaller and less described languages. This book is the first of its kind that brings together contributions on information ...
Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination
(2016-12-15)
Can Scotland be considered an English colony? Is its experience and literature comparable to that of overseas postcolonial countries? Or are such comparisons no more than victimology to mask Scottish complicity in the ...
On the daimonion of Socrates
(2010-09-28)
Plutarch's dialogue On the daimonion of Socrates is a unique combination of exciting historical romance and serious philosophical and religious discussion. The volume offers a range of essays on themes providing further ...
India and the Patent Wars
(2017-11-15)
India and the Patent Wars examines struggles over patents and access to medicine among pharmaceutical producers, activists and others under a new global intellectual property regime. In the past two decades, intellectual ...
Human Rights and the Environment
(2011-01-01)
The book examines the genesis and development of environmental rights (or the Right to Environment) in international law and discusses their philosophical, theoretical and legal underpinnings in the context of sustainable ...
Belomor
(2014-01-21)
Containing analyses of everything from prisoner poetry to album covers, Belomor: Criminality and Creativity in Stalin’s Gulag moves beyond the simplistic good/evil paradigm that often accompanies Gulag scholarship. While ...
Der Philosoph und sein Bild
(2009-09-29)
Der Band präsentiert bisher noch nie im Detail kommentierte Vortragstexte des Redners und Philosophen Dion von Prusa (um 40 - nach 111 n. Chr.), die ein Bild des Philosophen nicht als eines abstrakten Denkers, sondern als ...
Corporate Memory
(2005-05-20)
Corporate memory' is the body of information that an organization needs to keep for re-use. It is the active and historical information that an organization has that is worth sharing, managing and preserving to enable it ...
The Englishman from Lebedian'
(2013-10-01)
After Evgeny Zamiatin emigrated from the USSR in 1931, he was systematically airbrushed out of Soviet literary history, despite the central role he had played in the cultural life of Russia’s northern capital for nearly ...
Dionysos in Archaic Greece
(2006-01-01)
An interpretation of the god Dionysos as seen by Greek vase painters before the golden age of classical culture, which will help understand his wide popularity beyond wine consumption, which lasted until the end of antiquity.
Entangled Entertainers
(2019-08-01)
With a particular focus on vaudeville singers and artists, this book examines the role that Viennese Jews played in the city’s rich popular culture around 1900. Through a series of extensively researched case studies, it ...
Sicherheit als Grundsatz
(2018-12-17)
In its basic rights doctrine, security takes on various different guises. However, the understandings of security as a legitimate aim, as a positive obligation to protect, or even as a fundamental right, do not do justice ...
Die Raumzeitlichkeit der Muße
(2016-08-26)
Die Beiträge dieses Bandes erkunden das Phänomen der Muße in seiner Räumlichkeit und in seinem Verhältnis zur Zeit. Die Untersuchungen widmen sich philosophischer Reflexion sowie literatur- und kunsthistorischer Betrachtung, ...
Der Abschreckungseffekt auf die Grundrechtsausübung
(2017-12-12)
Julian Staben examines chilling effects, framed as deterrence-based lines of argument, in the jurisprudence of the Bundesverfassungsgericht (German Federal Constitutional Court) and compares them with the jurisprudence of ...
Strangers in a Strange Land
(2012-06-01)
In this text Manning examines the formation of nineteenth-century intelligentsia print publics in the former Soviet republic of Georgia both anthropologically and historically. At once somehow part of “Europe,” at least ...
Writing Beloveds
(2016-11-21)
Writing Beloveds considers the way in which a poetic convention, the 'beloved' to whom Renaissance amatory poetry was addressed, becomes influential political rhetoric, an instrument that both men and women used to shape ...
Ghosts of the African Diaspora
(2018-01-02)
The first monograph to investigate the poetics and politics of haunting in African diaspora literature, Ghosts of the African Diaspora: Re-Visioning History, Memory, and Identity examines literary works by five contemporary ...
Monumental Matters
(2011-09-07)
Built in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, India’s Mughal monuments—including majestic forts, mosques, palaces, and tombs, such as the Taj Mahal—are world renowned for their grandeur and association with the Mughals, ...
All in the Family
(2012-06-04)
Western political philosophers since Plato have used the family as a model for harmonious political and social relations. Yet, far from being an uncontentious domain for shared interests and common values, the family is ...
First Words
(2015-12-22)
Dostoevsky attached introductions to his most challenging narratives, including Notes from the House of the Dead, Notes from Underground, The Devils, The Brothers Karamazov, and “A Gentle Creature.” Despite his clever ...
Ägyptische Erzählungen oder Über die Vorsehung
(2012-10-09)
Die "Ägyptischen Erzählungen" des Synesios von Kyrene (ca. 370-413 n. Chr.) entwerfen in Form einer Allegorie, die den Osiris-Mythos mit neuplatonischen Elementen erzählt, ein lebendiges Bild der Erlebnisse, die der Autor ...
Language and Culture in Eighteenth Century Russia
(2009-06-01)
Victor Zhivov's Language and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Russia is one of the most important studies ever published on eighteenth-century Russia. Historians and students of Russian culture agree that the creation of a ...
Cultivating Femininity
(2018-03-31)
The overwhelming majority of tea practitioners in contemporary Japan are women, but there has been little discussion on their historical role in tea culture (<i>chanoyu</i>). In <i>Cultivating Femininity,</i> Rebecca Corbett ...
Zugriffe auf das Ich
(2016-08-26)
Wie beeinflussen psychoaktive Stoffe unser Bild von uns selbst? Entlang dieser Frage zeichnet Magaly Tornay die Geschichte psychoaktiver Stoffe in der Schweiz seit dem Aufkommen des LSD nach und zeigt auf, wie zwischen ...
Challenging Communion
(2017-01-01)
In this book, Jennifer Garrison examines literary representations of the central symbol of later medieval religious culture: the Eucharist. In contrast to scholarship that depicts mainstream believers as enthusiastically ...
The Unmaking of Home in Contemporary Art
(2017-04-30)
In a world where the notion of home is more traumatizing than it is comforting, artists are using this literal and figurative space to reframe human responses to trauma. Building on the scholarship of key art historians ...
Third-Generation Holocaust Representation
(2017-01-15)
Victoria Aarons and Alan L. Berger show that Holocaust literary representation has continued to flourish—gaining increased momentum even as its perspective shifts, as a third generation adds its voice to the chorus of ...
The Witching Hour and Other Plays
(2014-08-15)
Nina Sadur, the playwright, occupies a prominent place in the Soviet/Russian drama pantheon of the 1980s and 1990s, a group that has with few exceptions been generally ignored by the Western literary establishment. The ...
From Japanese Empire to American Hegemony
(2022)
When American occupiers broke up the Japanese empire in the wake of World War II, approximately 1.7 million people departed Japan for various parts of Northeast Asia. The mass exodus was spearheaded by Koreans, many of ...
Plain of Plenty
(2024)
<p>The Argive Plain in the northeastern Peloponnese, Greece, was central to the Mycenaean culture during the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1600–1200 BCE). While known for its settlements and treasures, little is understood ...
Menschenrechte im Konflikt
(2022)
Zur Regulierung von politischen und sozialen Konflikten werden Menschenrechte oft als normative Leitidee ins Spiel gebracht. Insbesondere in den letzten beiden Jahrzehnten hat sich gezeigt, wie heterogen die Aufgaben sind, ...
Understanding History in Asia
(2019)
The twentieth century has been called a century of war. Wars and colonization leave deep chasms between countries. In the case of Japan, these frictions have manifested themselves as historical issues. The history since ...