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Cloning, embryo research and genetic modification are three of the most controversial issues of our time. Is it ethical to use cloning as a means of reproduction? Are embryos people? Is there a...

The focus of this volume is on the business letter genre, a seminal and widely used genre in business communication. Since the introduction of the Internet, interest in this genre has increased once...

Das an Universit?ten des frankophonen Westafrikas geltende LMD-System l?sst sich als Anpassung des Bologna-Prozesses an die subregionalen Verh?ltnisse betrachten. Es geht auf eine Reform zur?ck, die...

Gesamts?tze, ihre Strukturen und Funktionen wurden in der historischen Syntax des Deutschen bisher vernachl?ssigt. Ihre Behandlung ist das Ziel der neun Beitr?ge dieses Sammelbandes. Alle Arbeiten...

Der Band kombiniert literatur- und sprachwissenschaftliche Beitr?ge zu sprachlichen Konstruktionen von Geschichte. Die literaturwissenschaftlichen Beitr?ge analysieren und interpretieren Texte vom...

In occasione del centenario della nascita di Giorgio Bassani, il convegno Giorgio Bassani, scrittore europeo, organizzato dall'Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Bruxelles, ha indagato una dimensione...

Le vicende storiche dall'ascesa di Mussolini al potere fino allo scoppio e termine della Seconda Guerra Mondiale con i primi anni della ricostruzione postbellica fanno da macrosfondo al rapporto...

With increasingly globalised markets, changing consumer preferences and the steady development of technologies influencing food trade flows, safety and quality concerns have triggered the development...

This volume explores how ELF (English as a Lingua Franca) and BELF (Business English as a Lingua Franca) are adopted and adapted by users from different lingua-cultural backgrounds. Drawing on...

The recent wave of globalization has a profound impact on labour. Consequently, research in the field of labour and working-class history has become less Eurocentric and more global over the last...

Inefficient ports can stall a country's trade growth and also increase the costs of transportation. Rising inefficiencies in ports have therefore forced the governments all over the world to...

This dissertation examines the transmission of Sino-Judaic cultural identity in Kaifeng in its historical and contemporary forms. Validating the Kaifeng Jews' authenticity claims, it suggests that...

This book explores both a contribution of telecollaboration to the democratic education, solidarity and social justice in the globalized world as well as the complexities and challenges that arise...

The book is composed of 18 autobiographical essays written by American-Jewish women who made aliyah between 1967 and 2017. Each essay traces the author's path to making that choice, and describes and...

The papers in this volume are devoted to new in-depth treatments of distinctive aspects of Chinese and Japanese syntax, semantics and pragmatics, informed by influential theoretical concepts of the...

Grimmelshausens Grandezza besteht zweifellos darin, als Erster den Gro en Krieg der fr?hen Neuzeit kritisch thematisiert zu haben, ohne die Anbeter von Mars als Helden zu ehren. Author: Italo...

Die Beitr?ge zu diesem Band gehen auf die von der Grimmelshausen-Gesellschaft im M?rz 2009 in Oberkirch veranstaltete Tagung Grimmelshausen als Kalenderschriftsteller und die zeitgen?ssische...

La obra presenta los resultados de varios a?os de an?lisis sobre c?mo se describe el fen?meno designado como jopara. Se examina el contexto social e hist?rico en que aparece el t?rmino, y se explora...

Cette ?tude porte sur les pol?miques dont C?line a fait et continue de faire l'objet, ainsi que sur les accusations port?es contre lui. L'essence de ce livre consiste en une analyse d?taill?e des...

Las definiciones que la Po?tica tradicional y la Teor?a Literaria han propuesto para el concepto de ficci?n nos han conducido a entender cualquier forma de narraci?n art?stica como un discurso que...

This handbook traces the evolution of teaching practices in professional translation and interpretation and critically assesses the effectiveness of current methodologies. With contributions from...

In these moments of health crisis, happiness management and social marketing are not teaching that it is possible to build a more committed, innovative and productive society. To achieve this end,...

Die Studie setzt voraus, dass Versprechen funktionslogisch heikel sind. Und sie fragt also, mit welchen Mitteln die Literatur den Sprechakt versichert. Indem sie das Versprechen in sechs...

Der Sammelband enth?lt eine Auswahl der Beitr?ge, die auf der vierten internationalen Konferenz ?ber Heimat in der deutschsprachigen Literatur an der Universit?t des Baskenlandes vorgestellt wurden...

Dieses Buch gibt einen einmaligen ?berblick ?ber das gesamte Schaffen Heinz Holligers (geb. 1939) - von den Jugendwerken bis zu Kompositionen neuesten Datums. Der gew?hlte Schwerpunkt Sprache, Atem,...

Henry E. Sigerist (1891-1957) is known as the most influential medical historian in the first half of the 20th century. More than that he was a scholar of an unusually broad spectrum of activities...

Hermeneutics, defined as the theory of understanding and interpretation, has become a major concern for literary criticism in recent years. This study attempts to illustrate the natural connection of...

The book aims to answer the question Did Hilary of Poitiers compromise the Nicene faith when he tried to bring together the homouseans and the homoeouseans? It argues that he merely affirmed the...

Neuf auteur.e.s sp?cialistes de l'histoire du fran?ais en Espagne analysent dans cet ouvrage l'enseignement de la prononciation du fran?ais aux Espagnols ? partir du XVIe si?cle, date de publication...

This volume unifies contributions from outstanding scholars devoted to study the cultural, historical, political and social cohesion and continuity of Catalonia. From different perspectives...