Mostly European scholars of philosophy probe, scrutinize, and sometimes reject the arguments and conclusion of Michael S. Moore's (law and philosophy, U. of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign) Causation and Re
Markantonatos firmly believes that the time has come for a narratological study of a Greek tragic play in light of new developments in the field of modern narrative studies. He integrates narratologic
The studies collected in this volume explore the sociocultural, conceptual and structural dimensions of variation and change within pluricentric languages, with specific emphasis on the relationship b
Africa is one of the hotspots of linguistic diversity, and most African languages are spoken by multilingual communities. The persistence of multilingualism and the linguistic creativity are striking,
Revising his unpublished lecture notes, Oshima (U. of Erlangen-Nurnberg) extends results for symmetric Dirichlet forms to lower bounded semi-Dirichlet forms and to time-dependent semi-Dirichlet forms.
Quabeck, who is not further identified, applies just war theory to the depiction of war in William Shakespeare's plays as an alternative approach to scholars who contend that he did or did not support
European and US scholars of linguists, particular languages, anthropology, and philosophy take the study of language use--pragmatics--beyond the actual words spoken to look at strategies both speakers
Although Greek authors treat philosophy and theology in the closest contiguity, most scholarship still reflects the 19th century prejudice according to which philosophy is a rational enterprise, while
This work presents current approaches in geophysical research of earthquakes. A global authorship from top institutions presents case studies to model, measure, andmonitor earthquakes.Among others afu
For second-year mathematics students and for scientists and computer scientists who not only will apply stochastics but also want to understand its mathematical dimension, Georgii (mathematics, Ludwig
A research project at the University of Nottingham between 2004 and 2007 collected nearly four thousand references to oaths and swearing in Greek texts of all kinds from the introduction of alphabetic
Contributing to the current discussion of how the grammar of spoken language use can be theorized, the present volume focuses on the following questions: Should prosodic and visual resources such as g
Traditional grammars have stated that clitics are subject or object pronouns whose distributional features make them different from personal pronouns. This book focuses on the acquisition of personal
Steinhauser (high-speed dynamics, Ernst-Mach-Institute, EMI, Freiburg, Germany) presents a textbook for senior undergraduate majors in physics, engineering, or computer science, or for graduate studen
The auxiliary material preserved in New Testament manuscripts has been neglected by scholars. The present study treats the Euthalian paraphrases and the biblical text of Acts and the Letters together,
Mycologists from around the world compile recent research findings into selected aspects of fungi in oceans, mangroves, and estuarine habitats, creatures usually given little or no attention in marine
The transport systems involved in hepatobiliary transport have been cloned and characterized at the molecular level and it is becoming clear that mutations and polymorphisms of individual transporter
Bringing together material developed over 10 years of research and teaching, Gerdts (Universitat der Bundeswehr Munchen, Germany; he has also taught at universities in the US and the UK) presents theo
During the past few decades, the venerable practice of documenting languages has acquired such academic trappings as scholarly publications, university departments, funding initiatives, a repertoire o
The book addresses controversies around the conscious vs automatic processing of contextual information and the distinction between literal and nonliteral meaning. It sheds new light on the relation o
The Languages and Linguistics of Europe: A Comprehensive Guideis part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of the continents of the world. The book supplies profiles of
The past pervades Greek tragedy, says Kyriakou (Greek, Aristotle U. of Thessaloniki, Greece), because with few exceptions the stories and characters were already ancient then and had been treated many
Physicist-turned manager Ross offers simulations that teachers of mathematics and physics can use to teach mathematical foundations at the high school or early college level. He includes numbers, func
Japanese mathematicians Fukushima (Osaka U.), Yoichi Oshima (Kumamato U.), and Masayoshi Takeda (Tohoku U.) begin with an introductory and comprehensive account of the theory of (symmetric) Dirichlet
The volume reflects the current state of research on the Samaritans. It presents a wide spectrum of approaches, including historical'questions, the political, religious and social context of the Samar
This book is an attempt to demonstrate that the basic principles of phonological organization boil down to the interaction between the strength of nuclei as licensers of phonological structure and var
Believing that classical Rome and Greece are the heritage of everyone in the West, Herrero has revised and translated his 2006 PhD dissertation for Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Tradicion orfica
All languages of the world provide their speakers with linguistic means to express causal relations in discourse. The book discusses parameters of categorization that shape the use of causal connectiv
The 22 selected papers, 10 of them in German, explore how ancient Greek and Roman thinkers dealt with the relationship between material and immaterial aspects of human beings. Among the topics are the
This book deals with algorithms for the solution of linear systems of algebraic equations with large-scale sparse matrices, with a focus on problems that are obtained after discretization of partial d
This is one of nine volumes in a handbook series on applied linguistics. Edited by Auer (German linguistics, U. of Freiburg, Germany) and Li (applied linguistics, U. of London, UK), this volume is con
This volume presents strongly empirical, corpus-based studies of a range of English modal auxiliaries and modal constructions in specific uses. It also approaches some of the classic issues in the fie
The papers in this volume introduce and elaborate upon the concept of sociocultural situatedness, understood broadly as the way in which minds and cognitive processes are shaped, both individually and
Valency can be understood at a theoretical or lexicological level, but some prefer to think of the term as a new way of describing complementation phenomena. The essays here work at the theological le
The Donation of Constantine is the largest and most powerful forgery in world history. Disputed until modern times, this document was the fuel of religious war, used by both the reformation, as well a
Forty contributions from academics and practitioners from around the world discuss the marketing of library and information services. Editor Gupta (library and information science, Vardhaman Mahaveer
This volume, the second of a five-volume edition of the third order of the Jerusalem Talmud, deals in part I (So?ah) with the ordeal of the wife suspected of adultery (Num 5) and the role of Hebrew in
Jacques Waardenburg writes about relations between Muslims and adherents of other religions. After illuminating various aspects of Islam from an outside point of view in his volume "Islam&
This book presents some twenty essays on different aspects of Islam in history and the present. These essays are grouped into eight larger sections. The first, "The Beginnings", deals with t
Volume 38 of Reviews in Mineralogy provides detailed reviews of various aspects of the mineralogy and geochemistry of uranium. We have attempted to produce a volume that incorporates most important as
