Human thought and action is fundamentally shaped by a small set of cognitive categories, such as time, space, causality, or possession. It is not surprising, therefore, that all natural languages have
The supplementary hypothesis offered in this book suggests that the search for three or four different fragmentary documents in the Pentateuch is erroneous and that the editorial procedure was one of
Readers of the New Testament have long observed that Luke and Acts contain numerous scenes in which characters praise God. This study offers the first comprehensive analysis of this important narrativ
UNIMARC is the universal version of the MARC standard for bibliographic and similar information in machine-readable formats, which is maintained by the IFLA. The manual for authority control within th
This book represents an important part of the extension and expansion of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records. It contains an analysis of attributes of various entities that are the c
From an integrative theoretical perspective, the book looks at how families watch television news in their everyday lives. In three empirical studies, the role of short-term situations and the influen
The treatise on conic sections by the Hellenistic mathematician Apollonius from Perga is regarded as a supreme achievement of Greek mathematics and maintained its authority right up to the 18th centur
This encyclopaedia, compiled around 530 AD,is more or less the Byzantine Encyclopaedia Britannica of the ancient world. It lists some 3,600 names of places, mountains, lakes, rivers, waters and people
This volume contains the complete bibliography of the most famous European almanac of the 18th and 19th centuries, theLimping Messenger, which was published in all European countries. In addition to a
This book presents cutting-edge papers on methods in prosody research, in which experts in the field discuss the gathering, treatment, and interpretation of spoken-language data. Covering a wide range
Well-known scholars in the study of religions bring up to date and elucidate the discussion on the three most debated approaches in comparative religion, namely, the hermeneutical approach, the explan
This treatment is the first to comprehensively address the issue of where Nietzsche stands in relation to environment, and it will contribute to the 'greening' of Nietzsche. Using a philological metho
Spectral theory for linear operators has become an important part of functional analysis and operator theory. This text seeks to define a spectrum for nonlinear operators that preserves the useful pro
This volume concludes the edition, translation, and commentary of the first order of the "Jerusalem Talmud". It contains four small but important tractates.The first, Ma‘aser ?eni, d
Volume 16 of Reviews in Mineralogy inroduces to high-temperature stable isotope geochemistry and should provide an entry into the pertinent literature, as well as some understanding of the basic conce
Zealots for souls draws attention to the impact of the Observant reforms within the Order of Preachers, and ambitiously stirs up a broad scope of questions pertaining to the institutional narratives p
The goal of this monograph is to develop the theory of wavelet harmonic analysis on the sphere. By starting with orthogonal polynomials and functional Hilbert spaces on the sphere, the foundations are
"This commentary on the 6th book of the Iliad concentrates on the interpretation of two episodes which have received a great deal of scholarly attention: the encounter between Diomedes and Glaukos, wh
As a genre situated at the crossroad of rhetoric and fiction, declamatio offers the freedom to experiment with new forms of discourse. Placing the literariness of (Ps)Quintilian’s oeuvre into the spot
"This commentary on the 6th book of the Iliad concentrates on the interpretation of two episodes which have received a great deal of scholarly attention: the encounter between Diomedes and Glaukos, wh
SHARE is an international survey designed to answer the societal challenges that face us due to rapid population ageing. How do we Europeans age? How will we do economically, socially and healthwise?
Though there has been a noticeable increase in peer-reviewed literature describing cave microbiology during the past 30 years, says Engel, this is the first book-length treatment, and provides an entr
The present monograph focuses on the development of the complex closing section of the Book of Baruch (4:5–5:9) and investigates this passagein various aspects, such as structure, biblical background,
This book is devoted to analytically approximate methods in the nonlinear dynamics of a rigid body with cavities partly filled by liquid. It combines several methods and compares the results with expe
The present volume is the seventeenth and last in this series of the Jerusalem Talmud. The four tractates of theSecond Order - Ta'aniot, Megillah, Hagigah, Mo'ed Qatan (Ma?qin) - deal with different f
The aim of this edited volume is to examine how current theories and principles underlying English as a Lingua Franca studies contribute to research on present pedagogical practices in ELF contexts. T
Allenmeersch provides engineers all the information they need to convert ethylene into high density polyethylene in a slurry loop reactor, including how the reactor works and how to operate it. His to
The 12 chapters in this volume detail research on biohydrogen as an alternative energy source. Researchers from the US, Europe, and Japan discuss a cyanobacterial design cell for the production of hyd
This monograph is intended as a reference book on Detachment Constructions (DECs) in the Information Structuring of oral and spoken languages. Focusing on DECs in a textual perspective, the book is an
A team of Russian researchers describe the basic elements of current computational technologies that use the algorithmic languages C/C++, with an emphasis on GNU compilers and librarie
Amid the variety of human experiences, the comic occupies a distinctive place. It is simultaneously ubiquitous, relative, and fragile. In this book, Peter L. Berger reflects on the nature of the comic
Nine studies, revised from presentations at an April 2012 conference in Naples, explore the concept of space and related concepts as endorsed by the philosophical schools from the end of the Classical
Rabus summarizes the field he has been working in for the past decade, which involves polymer photonics, fluidics, and biology systems. He takes a systems approach that highlights the integration of t
Despite its importance as document for political life in Athens after 402 B.C.E. and the development of Attic oratory, Lysias’ 21st speech has never been the subject of an extensive scholarly commenta
Schramm analyzes the emergence of syllable structure in six Caribbean creoles, covering data from two English-based, two Dutch-based, and two French-based creoles. The selections make it possible to i
This work is concerned with the emergence of tourism in colonial Victoria, Australia, and is part of ongoing research into understanding the ‘tourism era of discovery’. It deals with the processes of
Six essays reflect Kuroda's (1934-2009) work in narrative theory, which was only one of many areas of linguistics that he addressed during his career. They cover where epistemology, style, and grammar
First English edition of “On Russia in the Reign of Aleksei Mikhailovich”, the only native source that describes the character of the seventeenth-century Russian state and society. It offers a unique
From the preface: This book contains all of the articles published in Volume 13 of Integers, a refereed electronic journal devoted to research in combinatorial number theory and related parts of mathe
This study explores the political aesthetics of miniature models depicting the destruction of German cities in WWII. Although their sizes and scales vary, most of the models were found in local museum
