The two-volume handbook (of which this is Vol. 1) reviews the current understanding of flavoproteins, which play a role in catalyzing oxidation-reduction reactions and in other biological activities,
Popov (Chernivtsi National U., Ukraine) and Randrianantoanina (both Miami U., Ohio, US) look at operators defined on function spaces that are small as signs, that is, at {-1, 0, 1}-valued functions. T
"The volume "Visualizing Law and Authority. Essays on Legal Aesthetics" brings together revised papers from the international conference "Law and the Image", held in Stockholm, 24-25 September, 2010.
This volume is based on presentations at the First Graduate Conference in Culture Studies, held at the Catholic University of Portugal (October 2010), where the three editors are affiliated. The intro
Max Pechstein (1881-1955) is one of the most prominent German artists of the twentieth century, not least because of his crucial role in the breakthrough of German Expressionism. This long overdue bio
"Learner characteristics have been at the center of second language acquisition and foreign language education research in response to the puzzling questions: Why are there often large differences in
The concept of Heimat with its seemingly pre- or anti-modern connotations of rootedness in a place of origin is central to a critical understanding of German history and culture. This anthology is the
"This book is intended to contribute to the clarification of the linguistic research area covered by the terms modal, evidential and epistemic. It sets out to demonstrate that on cross-linguistic grou
Based on her PhD dissertation at the Institut fur Philosophie, U. of Graz, Austria, this work by Zellentin takes off from questions posed by perceived challenges of Muslim integration in Germany and o
In John McWhorter s Defining Creole anthology of 2005, his collected articles conveyed the following theme: His hypothesis that creole languages are definable not just in the sociohistorical sense, bu
Scholars of literature and culture, with the odd social scientist, provide a bridge between the social dynamics of cultural memory and the dynamics specific to the ongoing emergence of new media pract
This book, which emerges in the context of the European research network LINEE (Languages in a Network of European Excellence), is concerned with European multilingualism both as a political concept a
Kant is commonly regarded as a deontologist, and duty, rather than the good, is placed at the center of his ethics. By a comprehensive examination of Kant's views of the good, freedom and the will, th
At the September 2009 annual meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, in Lisbon, Portugal, Abraham and Leiss organized and convened a workshop on patterns of overt modality, and the 12 essays her
Legion are the scholarly and popular accounts of the ancient Persian city, destroyed by Alexander the Great, but Mousavi focuses not on the original city nor on the discovery and excavation of the rui
A companion to the author's Papers on Roman Elegy, this volume contains roughly 30 articles and book excerpts on Catullus and Horace published during the years 1969-2010, in the UK, the US, and variou
The present volumes is the result of an international collaboration of researchers who are excellent within their respective fields: interpretation of texts, studies of rites, archaeology, architectur
Classen (German studies, U. of Arizona) endeavors to "examine how violence and rape have been dealt with in the past, especially by medieval German and their contemporary European poets." He explains
The papers in this volume began at a workshop on "Nominalizations across Languages" held at Stuttgart University in 2007. Alexiadou (theoretical and English linguistics, Stuttgart University) and Rath
This is the first half of a collection of papers presented at a 2007 workshop at Stuttgart University. The second book deals with the syntax of nominalizations. Rathert (linguistics, Wuppertal Univers
The present collection is the very first contribution of this type in the field of sparse recovery. Compressed sensing is one of the important facets of the broader concept presented in the book, whic
This is a revised version of Crouch's doctoral thesis at the U. of Oxford, UK. In the study, he compares actions of warfare in the ancient Near East in order to test the hypothesis that ancient Israel
Van Dijk (Mathematical Institute of Leiden U., the Netherlands) presents an introduction to harmonic analysis that focuses on his favorite topic, generalized Gelfand pairs. He proceeds from the elemen
The development of the calculus during the 17th century was successful in mathematical practice, but raised questions about the nature of infinitesimals: were they real or rather fictitious? This coll
Seventeen European academics contribute 14 chapters exploring ways that cognitive linguistics (CL) insights into the non-arbitrary nature of language can facilitate the teaching and learning of words
Grown from those presented at a March 2006 conference on intercultural pragmatics held in Landau, Germany, these 15 papers use linguistic, socio-cultural and cognitive approaches to promote language c
The book deals with the relation between identity, ethics, and ethos in the New Testament. The focus falls on the way in which the commandments or guidelines presented in the New Testament writings in
Gene W. Heck explores the role of Islam in precipitating Europe’s twelfth century commercial renaissance. Determining that Europe’s medieval feudal interregnum was largely caused by indigenous governm
This, the first volume of a five-volume edition of the third order of the Jerusalem Talmud, deals with Jewish marital law and related topics. The volume is concerned with levirate marriage, considerin
A textbook for a senior undergraduate and graduate students in applied mathematics that summarizes recent results on dynamics of delay differential equations arising from neural networks. Wu has devel
The series serves to propagate investigations into language usage, especially with respect to computational support. This includes all forms of text handling activity, not only interlingual translatio
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with
The peer-reviewed series seeks to provide an international platform for new approaches to the study of modern Jewish history. Covering the period from the Enlightenment to the 21st century, the series
