As described in the introduction, "[This] book deals with the employment of war on three levels: the post-memory of conflict, the structure of enmity and its cultural construction, as well as the embe
"In the broadest sense, this volume helps trace the history of attempts to bring the theological and philosophical resources of the Christian tradition to bear on the problems of violence in a post-la
Of the 218 letters, 126 belong to correspondence with the Imperial Count Ernst Christoph von Manteuffel, a dedicated patron of the supporters of Christian Wolff and the head of the Berlin chapter of t
McWhorter (Manhattan Institute) and Good (linguistics, State U. of New York-Buffalo) present a reference on a language that is only a few centuries old, spoken by about 50,000 people mostly in rain fo
This new volume of letters to Pestalozzi covers the period between 1814 andJuly 1817. It thus encompasses the fall of Napoleon, the Congress of Vienna, and the great European economic crisis of 1816 1
The goal of this study is to provide a general overview and thorough analysis of how the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) deals with tort law issues such as damage, causation, wrongfulness, faul
The eighteenth century is an important period both in the history of science and in the history of languages. In this volume, seventeen authors explore, from a variety of angles, the construction of a
This book provides a complete grammar of the Mani language spoken in the Samu (alternate French spelling “Samou”) region of Sierra Leone and Guinea. The data come from a short pilot study conducted in
From the preface: "...the present study undoubtedly has some lacunae due to the fact that the monument in question has not been completely brought to light and because of the absence of excavation dat
The Applied Linguistics Review (ALR) is a peer reviewed annual publication. It serves as a testing ground for the articulation of original ideas and approaches in the study of real-world issues in whi
In recent decades there has been increased interest and fascination in the concept of openness as a kind of communication. Openness is in fact a communicative ideal of the modern age because this idea
Each of the 11 main papers is augmented with an invited critical commentary, and a response by the original author or authors, in order to further enliven already lively debates over exceptions in gra
A volume published in 1996 (Stress Patterns of the World: part 1) is the antecedent to this second volume on the subject. The earlier work offered theoretical and practical information on a database c
Those who read or view the plays of Aristophanes can certainly enjoy the universal humor which makes them so popular. However, the plays are rife with allusions and puns from classical Greece that are
Madurese is a major regional language of Indonesia, with some 14 million speakers, mainly on the island of Madura and adjacent parts of Java, making it the fourth largest language of Indonesia after I
In this volume of papers 19 authors demonstrate on the basis of selected examples how Virgil’s works, and above all his Aeneid, have been received by modern authors. The examples span six centuries (f
Written by renowned experts in the field, this book provides a systematic survey of the current research situation and the need for further research on the place names of the different regions of Spai
Because English language skills are regarded as requisite for success in college and careers, South Korean parents have gone as far as to have their children undergo a tongue-snipping surgery in the m
The critical edition of Schleiermacher's major work, the Glaubenslehre ["Doctrine of Faith"] (published in 2003 in two part-volumes 13/1 and 13/2 of the Critical Edition of Schleierm
The dawn of the 21st century revealed the error of thinking that language change was regulated by laws like those of Newtonian mechanics, and the 12 papers re-examine some traditional issues from the
This book is the first cross-linguistic study of clausal negation based on an extensive and systematic language sample. It examines the ways in which negation is expressed in the languages of the worl
The study examines the dialectic between a theory of interpretation as it is presented by the figures in the Dialogues and the practice of poetry interpretation as it is staged in Plato's fictitious c
Commentaries on Early Jewish Literature is a new series in English dealing with early Jewish literature between the third century BC and the middle of the second century AD; it is scheduled to encompa
Volume 5 of the Hittite Etymological Dictionary puts the total work past the mid-point of the alphabetical inventory of the Hittite language. It covers not only words with the initial L, additions and
Establishes the validity of Kirillov's orbit method of finding universal parameters for the dual D of the Lie group G and its application for the much wider class of exponential Lie groups. Topics inc
The essays deal with developments during the period from the liquidation of the Judean state to the conquests of Alexander the Great. This was a critical time in the Near East and the Mediterranean wo
How Literary Worlds Are Shaped studies a wide variety of literature across cultures and ages. The main aim is to show that literature all over the world has for millennia employed an array of related
The nucleus of his study is Greater Mesopotamia in the period 3500 to 500 BC, says Liverani, but it shades back to proto-historic and forward as far as Islamic times. Geographically it ranges from
This two-volume graduate textbook gives a comprehensive, state-of-the-art account of describing large subgroups of the unit group of the integral group ring of a finite group and, more generally, of t
This new handbook on the culture of the European Middle Ages (c. 500-1500) is designed to create an overview, both broad and detailed, coming from the fuller picture that research has provided in rece
The unexpected immigration wave from the former Soviet Union has stabilized and enlarged Jewish life in Germany up from the 1990ies. No doubt: Jews will continue to live in Germany. But what does it m
Sign Languages of the World is a one-of-a-kind handbook covering38 of the world's deaf sign languages and auxiliary sign languages. Each sign language has a dedicated chapter, written by experts for t
Plug&Play Places brings forth the idea that places have to be understood as individual items, which are configured and then plugged into the ‘system’ of the own lifeworld. They can be ‘played’
Chen, Dai, Jiang, Jin, Liu, and Zhao offer this summary of some of the past two decades’ most interesting novel discoveries in the field of condensed matter optics. Aimed at a broad audience of gradua
Part of the Handbooks of Communication series, this book responds to the fact that a generation ago, a core body of academic literature on communication did not exist anywhere except the US, and was n
“Sheafs” will not describe anything. It will not judge. There are no continuous texts, but a wide range of topics. How to read this book? Take the notions seriously. Search the Internet and they will
Panayotakis (U. of Crete) seeks to provide a comprehensive account of the different traditions that are active in the many versions of the tale, by means of a detailed discussion of the language and t
Because of the scandals surrounding his writings Isaac La Peyr re (1596 1676) has largely been interpreted either as a crypto-Jew or as an early atheist. The present study investigates him and his wor
This book contains a series of essays that explore the foundations, developments, and goals of Phase Theory. The antecedents of this framework go back to the notion of cycle, which plays a key role in
There is a half-sentence in § 59 of Kant’s Critique of Judgment that appears relatively abruptly and is often overlooked: “so all of our knowledge of God is merely symbolic”. This study attempts to un
