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The book provides a critical edition of Onofrio Panvinio's Vetusti aliquot rituales libri and presents the working practices of the Augustinian friar beyond his antiquarian interests.Author: Filip...

Over the past few years, the cross-disciplinary field of research devoted to family and kinship history in Europe has seen the emergence of an important stream of studies developing wide-ranging...

Was tun Menschen bez?glich ihres Erlebens? Zunehmend wird die Bedeutung emotionaler Regulationsprozesse f?r die psychische Gesundheit erkannt. Das Erleben bestimmter Zust?nde wird oft als gegeben...

This volume consists of a collection of studies which are based on papers presented at the symposium Erl?st leben - oder sterben, um befreit zu werden? (Zurich, May 2008), organized in honour of...

In this study, the pejorative implications of the ambiguity in which Batouala and its author are identified are refuted. It is demonstrated that the work's controversial Preface-novel relationship...

Este libro re?ne contribuciones de numerosos especialistas nacionales e internacionales cuyo eje principal es la indagaci?n sobre el viaje y sus escrituras. El espacio literario y la aventura del...

This book presents a cross-cultural comparison between British and Japanese cultures focusing on requests and responses. The study is based on data elicited from a questionnaire which lists the...

This volume focuses on vocabulary size, vocabulary knowledge, affix acquisition, pronunciation, translanguaging, language learning strategies, considerations of oral participation and academic...

The book Researchers Remember: Research As an Arena of Memory Among Descendants of Holocaust Survivors, A Collection of Academic Autobiographies is composed of over 30 chapters written by prominent...

The contributions of this volume approach the genres of employee, CEO and organizational communication from different angles. They analyze how the author's position in the company influences the...

This book presents an in-depth qualitative study of second language students' genre learning actions, individual factors, and genre knowledge development in an academic writing class at a university...

Based on Discourse Information Theory, and the notions of Context Model Schema and Discourse Space, this study investigates how COI is resolved during interest appeal, interest negotiation, and...

The book explores how recent forms of resistance to European integration have affected the way in which the EU discursively represents itself to the public as a legitimate political entity. It...

The book investigates the Romantics' fascination with the character of Richard III and explores his iconic centrality from the historical, the textual and the theatrical points of view. The...

Throughout the history of human civilization, the definition of the animal and its relationship to humans have been contentious issues. This book investigates the notion of what constituted an animal...

This volume comprises selected papers of SEM IV & V (Studientag Englisches Mittelalter), held at Potsdam in 2002 & 2003, and provides a representative cross-section of topics in the field of English...

Development aid has recently become an important part of international politics in general and Norwegian foreign policy in particular. This study explores the moral discourse of contemporary...

Heiligkeit und Heiterkeit sind, so scheint es, strikt voneinander getrennt: Geh?rt das Heilige ganz dem Bereich des Statisch-Ernsthaften und Bedeutungsvollen an, so erscheint das Lachen als Ausdruck...

This collection of essays offers new connections between Austrian writer, Robert Musil (1880-1942), and the ideas and intellectual movements belonging to his past, present, and future.Author: Ralf...

La Roman?stica, una disciplina sometida a un constante proceso de autorreflexi?n, manifiesta la vitalidad y la variedad de su investigaci?n ling??stica a trav?s de los trabajos recogidos en este...

Romantic Dialectics: Culture, Gender, Theater aims to emphasize the collaborative undertaking in new exploration of neglected areas of Romanticism sharing dialectical engagement in generating and...

Angesichts der neuen Herausforderungen, denen die Geisteswissenschaften und insbesondere die Germanistik ausgesetzt sind, versteht sich dieser Kongressband als ein ?berblick ?ber die aktuellen und...

One of the most outstanding properties of Russian postmodernist fiction is its reliance on metafictional devices which foreground aspects of the writing, reading or structure, and draw attention to...

The book opens with a broad-scoped introduction exploring the book of Ruth's dating and objectives; its structure; and its attitude towards the law. The main body of the work is a close literary...

Associazione Svizzera per i Rapporti Culturali ed Economici con l'Italia, Centro Studi per la Svizzera Italiana, Associazione Italo-Svizzera di Cultura, Elvetismo, Italianit?, Mostra pittori e...

Il presente volume contiene una raccolta di saggi dedicati alla figura e all'opera di Piergiuseppe Scardigli (Altopascio 1933 - Firenze 2008), insigne docente di filologia germanica e geniale...

The idea that religion has to succeed in a market, selling salvation goods, has proved to be extremely attractive to scholars in sociology and the study of religion. Max Weber used the term salvation...

The book offers a historical and methodological update of founding historical themes and moments, and a methodological review more than ever necessary of current interpretations of the History of...

In 2006, Schoenberg, Wittgenstein, and the Vienna Circle received a Lewis Lockwood Award (Finalist) from the American Musicological Society, for outstanding new books on musicological topics. This...

This book provides insights into the education and schooling of Syrian and Palestinian Syrian children inside and outside Lebanese refugee camps from the perspectives of children, parents, teachers,...