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Imagining Afghanistan
(2019-09-15)
What do we imagine Afghanistan to be? The Ruins of Kabul examines how the meaning of “Afghanistan” has been produced, ordered, and perpetuated through literary and visual texts that were published after the 9/11 attacks ...
Rethinking Japanese Feminisms
(2017-12-31)
''Rethinking Japanese Feminisms'' offers a broad overview of the great diversity of feminist thought and practice in Japan from the early twentieth century to the present. Drawing on methodologies and approaches from ...
The Givenness of Desire
(2017-04-30)
This book examines the human desire for God through the lens of Bernard Lonergan's 'concrete subjectivity.' With Lonergan as an integrating thread, the author engages a variety of thinkers, including Hans Urs von Balthazar, ...
The Value of Hawaiʻi 3
(2020)
“Hulihia” refers to massive upheavals that change the landscape, overturn the normal, reverse the flow, and sweep away the prevailing or assumed. We live in such days. Pandemics. Threats to ʻāina. Political dysfunction, ...
The numeral system of Proto-Niger-Congo
(2018-08-31)
This book proposes the reconstruction of the Proto-Niger-Congo numeral system. The emphasis is placed on providing an exhaustive account of the distribution of forms by families, groups, and branches. The big data bases ...
Women in the Ancient Near East
(2016-08-01)
Women in the Ancient Near East offers a lucid account of the daily life of women in Mesopotamia from the third millennium BCE until the beginning of the Hellenistic period. The book systematically presents the lives of ...
Confronting the "Good Death"
(2005-10-15)
"The scholarship devoted to the complicity of German physicians in the Holocaust is rich and detailed, but there remains, as Michael Bryant demonstrates, still more to learn. It is well established that the techniques ...
Close Encounters
(2013-03-01)
Close Encounters: Essays on Russian Literature combines discussions of ethical, esthetic, and philosophical interest raised by Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Gorky, with close analyses of their texts. ...
Aufbruch in die Öffentlichkeit?
(2018-08-15)
Die Religionspädagogik wird in zunehmendem Maße öffentlich. Damit reiht sie sich in den ¼public turn½ der Wissenschaften ein, wie er derzeit in der Soziologie, der Theologie oder den Erziehungswissenschaften zu beobachten ...
Self-Publishing and Collection Development
(2015-09-15)
The current publishing environment has experienced a drastic change in the way content is created, delivered, and acquired, particularly for libraries. With the increasing importance of digital publishing, more than half ...
Petrarch and Boccaccio
(2017-11-20)
The early modern and modern cultural world in the West would be unthinkable without Petrarch and Boccaccio. Despite this fact, there is still no scholarly contribution entirely devoted to analysing their intellectual ...
Diagnose Angstgesellschaft?
(2019-05-13)
Abstiegsängste, Furcht vor Zuwanderung und Klimawandel: Glaubt man populären Zeitdiagnosen, leben wir in einer Gesellschaft der Angst. Dieser Band trägt aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse zur Gefühlslage der Menschen in Deutschland ...
Augmented Reality
(2017-03-01)
There is at present no publication specifically dedicated to analyzing the philosophical implications of augmented reality. Applications cover diverse fields like psychopathology and education, implications concern issues ...
Creating the Empress
(2011-01-01)
"In Creating the Empress, Vera Proskurina examines the interaction between power
and poetry in creating the imperial image of Catherine the Great, providing a detailed analysis of a wide range of Russian literary works ...
Muße und Rekursivität in der antiken Briefliteratur
(2016-08-26)
Auffallend häufig finden sich in der antiken Briefliteratur Beschreibungen von Momenten der Muße, sei es als Lebensweise oder als selbstreferentielle Abbildung des Schreib- oder Rezeptionsmomentes des Briefes. Die Beiträge ...
Advances in Research Using the C-SPAN Archives
(2016-11-15)
This book is a guide to the latest research using the C-SPAN Archives. In this book, nine authors present original work using the video archives to study presidential debates, public opinion and Congress, analysis of the ...
Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace
(2008-03-30)
"This book is clearly written, admirably concise, and well situated in the secondary literature on gender and conservatism and the foreign and domestic Cold War. . . . Brennan's study offers another valuable reminder that ...
Silent Love
(2016-05-31)
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is one of Vladimir Nabokov’s most autobiographical novels and it has often been observed that Sebastian’s passionate affair with the femme fatale Nina Rechnoy is a dramatized extension of ...
Languages From the World of the Bible
(2011-12-19)
The alphabetic script is part of the lasting heritage of the ancient Near East. It unites a number of newly-emerging civilizations in ancient Syria-Palestine, which together constitute the immediate background of the Hebrew ...
Soviet Jews in World War II
(2014-04-15)
This volume discusses the participation of Jews as soldiers, journalists, and propagandists in combating the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War—as the period between June 22, 1941, and May 9, 1945, was known in the Soviet ...