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Multiword expressions
(2018-05-29)
Multiword expressions (MWEs) are a challenge for both the natural language applications and the linguistic theory because they often defy the application of the machinery developed for free combinations where the default ...
Violent Modernists
(2013-10-31)
Kai Evers’s Violent Modernists: The Aesthetics of Destruction in Twentieth-Century German Literature develops a new understanding of German modernism that moves beyond the oversimplified dichotomy of an avant-garde prone ...
Christian Martyrdom in Late Antiquity
(2012-06-14)
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 ...
Why are women entrepreneurs missing out on funding?
(2020)
The study assesses the access-to-risk-capital conditions for women-driven companies in Europe in comparison to the US and Israel to contextualise emergent cross-country and regional barriers and gaps. The study finds that ...
Islamic Reformism and Christianity
(2009-01-01)
Drawing on newly-discovered archival materials, the study offers a comprehensive and critical reading of the polemics of Sheikh Rashīd Riḍā and his associates on Christianity in al-Manār, and their fascinating encounters ...
Für Religionsfreiheit, Recht und Toleranz
(2011-09-27)
In dieser Schrift wendet sich der bedeutende spätantike Redner Libanios an den römischen Kaiser Theodosius, um seine Unterstützung für den Erhalt heidnischer Tempel zu gewinnen, die von fanatischen Christen bedroht werden. ...
Cinema of Confinement
(2019-02-15)
In this book, Thomas J. Connelly draws on a number of key psychoanalytic concepts from the works of Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Žižek, Joan Copjec, Michel Chion, and Todd McGowan to identify and describe a genre of cinema ...
The Roots of Respect
(2017-04-10)
Despite the increasing concern for the issue of respect for persons displayed over the last decades by political philosophers, human-right thinkers, social and ethical theorists, a comprehensive treatment of the problem ...
On Melancholy
(2008-11-10)
Rufus of Ephesus' (fl. ca. AD 100) On Melancholy deals with a medical condition oscillating between madness, depression, and bouts of great creativity. This collection of the Greek, Latin, and Arabic fragments makes this ...
After Confucius
(2005-01-31)
After Confucius is a collection of eight studies of Chinese philosophy from the time of Confucius to the formation of the empire in the second and third centuries B.C.E. As detailed in a masterful introduction, each essay ...
Radicalism and Terrorism in the 21st Century
(2016-12-22)
This book addresses the issues of radicalism and terrorism, which are of exceptional importance and relevance in contemporary society. Each of the two phenomena are analyzed from a multidisciplinary perspective. The book ...
Hazard or Hardship
(2013-07-15)
Today, hazardous work kills 2.3 million people each year and injures millions more. Among the most compelling yet controversial forms of legal protection for workers is the right to refuse unsafe work. The rise of ...
Medical Bondage
(2017-11-15)
Medical Bondage explores how, in the nineteenth century, experimental surgeries on enslaved and laboring women enabled the rise of American gynecology as a medical specialty, and shaped our understanding of race. Merging ...
The Novel Map
(2013-01-31)
Focusing on Stendhal, Gérard de Nerval, George Sand, Émile Zola, and Marcel Proust, The Novel Map: Mapping the Self in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction explores the ways that these writers represent and negotiate the ...
The Goalkeeper
(2010-12-01)
"The Goalkeeperis a new scholarly almanac devoted to the art of Vladimir Nabokov.
Himself an ardent goalkeeper, the author of Lolita viewed soccer as more than
a game: “I was less the keeper of a soccer goal than the keeper ...
Pioneering Conservation in Alaska
(2006-12-18)
"Designed as a companion to his "Environmental Conflict in Alaska" (2001), which presented the environmental issues of Alaska's statehood period, the newest study by Ross provides an in-depth view of the resource management ...
Tropes of Transport
(2012-02-29)
Intervening in the multidisciplinary debate on emotion, Tropes of Transport offers a fresh analysis of Hegel’s work that becomes an important resource for Pahl’s cutting-edge theory of emotionality. If it is usually assumed ...
Health, Rights and Dignity
(2010-12-09)
The idea that there is such a thing as a human right to health has become pervasive. It has not only been acknowledged by a variety of international law documents and thus entered the political realm but is also defended ...
Pyrrhonian Skepticism in Diogenes Laertius
(2015-04-14)
This volume offers the first bilingual edition of a major text in the history of epistemology, Diogenes Laertius's report on Pyrrho and Timon in his Lives of Eminent Philosophers. Leading experts contribute a philosophical ...
By Fables Alone
(2014-06-09)
Academic Studies Press is proud to present this translation of Professor Andrei Zorin’s seminal Kormya Dvuglavogo Orla. This collection of essays includes several that have never before appeared in English, including “The ...