This full-length book on Virgil’s style aims to clarify an important aspect of poetry; namely, the relationship between word order and expressiveness. Through offering a detailed analysis of selected
Systems with mechanical degrees of freedom containing unstable objects are analysed in this monograph and algorithms for their control are developed, discussed, and numerically tested. This is achieve
This volume is the first systematic scholarly study that analyses the complex relationship between history and religion. It considers religious groups as both producers of historical narratives and to
This volume offers a fresh view on quoting in old and new texts. In showing timeless similarities and key differences, its authors adopt both synchronic and diachronic perspectives to pinpoint the for
Interest in Kant’s ethical theory has intensified in recent analytic philosophy. Yet, much of this work has mixed its enthusiasm with strong criticisms. This book investigates these recent engagements
This standard guide lists more than 225,000 publications available from approx. 260 publishers and distributors around the world. It includes online titles and digitally-scanned research material, suc
This volume assesses Friedrich Schleiermacher’s contribution to the theory and practice of translation two hundred years after his classic text "On the Different Methods of Translating&qu
Editors Hilpert, Ostman, Mertzlufft, Riesler, and Duke present students, academics, and researchers with a collection of academic papers and scholarly articles selected from research presented at the
Editors Stell and Yakpo present students, academics, and researchers with a collection of academic papers and scholarly articles focused on various linguistic, sociolinguistic, and psycholinguistics p
Editors Kiss and Alexiadou present students, academics, and researchers with the first volume of a three-volume collection of academic essays and scholarly articles focused on the theory and applicati
The handbook offers an overview of syntactic theory and analysis, in terms of different theories, different languages, and different methods. The Handbook presents the state of art in syntactic analys
The handbook offers an overview of syntactic theory and analysis, in terms of different theories, different languages, and different methods. The Handbook presents the state of art in syntactic analys
The question of the (photographic) construction and representation of national identity is not limited to the ‘long 19th century’, but is a current issue in the post-colonial, post-global, digital wor
Linguists from a number of sub-disciplines explore the nature of referential hierarchies, their empirical foundation and validity, and the ways in which they can be incorporated into theoretical accou
This text is a research monograph that explores second-order (degenerate) elliptic differential operators whose leading coefficients are generated by a positive operator, by means of which it is possi
This volume complements the 1988 Spectroscopic Methods in Mineralogy and Geology and updates many of the techniques. The topics include insights from X-ray Raman scattering at high pressure into probi
Chemists, materials scientists, and mechanical engineers explore metals that are reinforced with non-metal material in forms of fibers, whiskers, and particles. Their topics include metal matrix compo
Back provides students, academics, researchers, and mathematicians with a systematic account of the development of convex analysis and optimizations in Hadamard spaces. His text is o
This volume presents a broad array of contributions on Byzantine literature and culture, in which well-known Byzantinists approach topics of ceremonial, education, historiography, hagiography, homilet
This work is the first comprehensive description of Sumerian constructions involving a copula. Applying the terminology of modern descriptive linguistics, it is accessible to both linguists and sumero
Arising from a series of workshops and discussions, this volume deals with a range of languages that vary as much as the varieties of English, Mandarin, Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian, Italian, and Fre
in recent years, there has been a growing interest in the legal aspects of mass torts in Europe. Both academics, legislatures, courts and policymakers throughout the whole of Europe have been struggli
"This book presents an archaeological study of Crete in transition from the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age (c. 4000 to 3000 BC) within the broader South Aegean context. The study, based on the auth
This book presents both general issues in pragmatic theories and specific arguments for an inferential approach to lexical and non-lexical meaning. The volume aims to defend a new post-Gricean approac
The Modernist fascination with the visual is not only palpable in the development of media and the visual arts, but it becomes a central concern in literature. Modernist texts, particularly the works
For readers with some background knowledge of Lie algebras and the theory of compact Riemann surfaces, Schlichenmaier presents the theory of the Kirchever-Novikov type algebras--examples of infinite d
Scholars of literature, film, and music examine two current manifestations in the study of narrative. Their topics include the selection and concretization of elements in verbal and filmic narration,
This book provides an edition and study of the Ugaritic and Akkadian incantation and anti-witchcraft texts from Ugarit. All texts have been newly collated and are edited here alongside translations, h
The topic of this bookis located at the intersection of complex analysis, operator theory and partial differential equations. First we investigate the canonical solution operator to d-bar restricted t
In seven papers from a May 2011 symposium in Berlin, scholars of religion and other humanities and social sciences ponder the fate of religion in the political and intellectual milieu of the 21st cent
Schneerson, Dolotenko, and Krinosheev outline the current concepts of the technologies used to generate strong (over 10 T) and superstrong (over 100 R) pulsed magnetic fields and describe the physical
Using data from a wide range of printed resources complemented by naturalistic corpora and work with native speaker consultants, David constructs a grammar of the Iranian language spoken in Pakistan a
Nietzsche s thought has been of renewed interest to philosophers in the Anglo-American philosophical community as well as to philosophers of a more phenomenological and hermeneutic background. The vol
The volume is named for a working group within the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg in which scientists from various disciplines such as economics, engineering science, mathematics, medic
Mathematicians Jarnicki (Jagiellonian U., Krakow, Poland) and Pflug (Carl von Ossietzky U. Oldenburg, Germany) present a systematic study of invariant pseudo-distances and their infinitesimal counterp
This monograph gives a systematic presentation of classical and recent results obtained in the last couple of years. It comprehensively describes the methods concerning the topological structure of fi
Precup (mathematics, Babes-Bolyai U. of Cluj Napoca, Romania) provides a multi-level textbook introducing partial differential equations. The first part, on classical theory, can be used for a first s
Goppel (philosophy, U. of Zurich, Switzerland) analyzes the arguments made by the governments of Israel and the US to defend what they call targeted killings, and arguments condemning it by those who
Scheffler (linguistics, U. of Pennsylvania) investigates the possibility that two sentence constructions that superficially mean the same thing actually have deep and subtle differences, and that thes
This volume presents the theory of culture of the Russian-born German Jewish social philosopher David Koigen (1879 1933). Heir to Hermann Cohen s neo-Kantian interpretation of Judaism as a religion of
