That the recent turn in European Constitutional Review has effectively brought about a revolution in European law has been observed before. At issue is the collapsing of the traditional boundaries bet
Xingjian inaugurates the anthology with his essay Freedom and Literature, then other contributors explore the themes of freedom and fate in his writing. Their topics include the aesthete as revolution
Some of the Dead Sea Scrolls are texts which rewrite the Hebrew Bible. They differ from the literary products of the Qumran ascetic community by missing the sectarian particular style and terminology.
Historians and social scientists explore efforts to predict catastrophes and protect people from their effects. Among their topics are the storyteller and the seismograph, the industrial accident in i
Thirteen contributions represent the proceedings of a 2008 conference titled "Sounds from the Past: Music in the Ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean Worlds," a collaboration of The Hebrew Universit
Contemporary philosophers reflect on the sources and nature of skepticism, sharing the notions that a proper appreciation of the depth of the skeptical challenge must reveal it to be deeply disquietin
This book is the result of over 50 years of research, and it represents an intellectual journey. It is maximally accessible by tabulating the data and inserting frequent cross-references. Dictionary e
Fibromyalgia is a syndrome of widespread pain characterized by symptom fluctuations. Analysing these is a basis forlearning the nature of the syndrome itself. Thebook covers development, quantitative
Grammar is said to be about defining all and only the 'good' sentences of a language, implying that there are other, 'bad' sentences - but it is hard to pin those down. A century ago, grammarians did
Feldman (Brite Divinity School, Texas) examines the exegesis of The Book of Joshua in the Hebrew Bible in six Qumran scrolls, which have been little studied before. Dated to the last two century BCE,
Embeddings of discrete metric spaces into Banach spaces has become an important tool in computer science and topology, says Ostovskii (mathematics and computer science, St. John's U., New York City),
Realism is not what it used to be. Writers who used to rely on hard-bitten reality for their inspiration and muse are now walking in the gardens of postmodernism and poststructuralism. However, there
The dynamic field of flavin and flavoprotein biochemistry has seen rapid advancement in recent years. This second book of thetwo volume set is focussing on complex flavoproteins and physical methods.
Librarians have to stay ahead of the game by educating themselves about information technology and making calls on equipment and services that seem to make sense at the time, but may be disregarded la
First in a new series about science, technology, and medicine in ancient cultures, this volume by Asper (classics, Humboldt-Universitat, Berlin) and Kanthak presents essays contributed by internationa
How far can Jewish life in the South during Reconstruction (1863–1877) indeed be described as German in a period of American Jewry traditionally referred to as ‘German Jewish’ in historiography? To wh
Classicists from around the world gathered in Thessaloniki, Greece in May 2011 for a conference on Latin literary genre. From the presentations there, 23 have been thoroughly revised for publication.
Medieval historian Kortum and evolutionary biologist Heinze (both Regensburg U., Germany) invited scholars from the natural sciences and the humanities to a September 2011 symposium to share perspecti
Knape (rhetoric, U. of Tubingen, Germany) discusses questions related to the fundamental anthropological, communicative, and cultural foundations of a terminologically consistent understanding of rhet
Bringing together papers from various subfields of theoretical linguistics, this volume gives a representative glimpse of current research of form and function in grammar. Its overarching topic is the
This volume offers a detailed philological commentary on the longest of the Homeric Hymns. The commentary is preceded by a lengthy introduction addressing the Hymn's ideas on poetry and music, its hum
Forms and Concepts is the first comprehensive study of the central role of concepts and concept acquisition in the Platonic tradition. It sets up a stimulating dialogue between Plato s innatist approa
The volume represents a state-of-the-art snapshot of the research on prosody for phoneticians, linguists and speech technologists. It covers well-known models and languages. How are prosodies linked t
The book is a unique collection of research on sign languages that have emerged in rural communities with a high incidence of, often hereditary, deafness. These "village sign languages" represent the
In a slight revision of his 2011 doctoral dissertation in linguistics at Harvard University, Ott (U. of Groningen, the Netherlands) proposes a novel analysis of the so-called split-topicalization, a n
Charting a middle course between breadth and depth, historians and literature scholars present some of the wide chronological, geographical, cultural, and institutional parameters within which chess o
The origin of the Moon remains an unsolved problem of the planetary science. Researchers engaged in celestial dynamics, geophysics, and geochemistry are still discussing various models of creation of
The projected thirty-volume Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR) is intended to serve as a comprehensive guide to the current state of knowledge on the background, origins, and developmen
Social scientists have devoted much attention to investigating the social meaning of spoken language and more recently written language in the form of corpora. Phonologists and phoneticians have grapp
This volume of the Jerusalem Talmud publishes the first twotractates of the Second Order, abbat and Eruvin. These tractates deal with discussion of all regulations regarding Shabbat, the weekly day of
Contributors identified only by name--presumably linguists--demonstrate the importance of cognitive linguistics as a methodological framework for studying terminology and specialized language. Their o
The Nordic Network of Law and Literature, established in 2005, aims to increase interdisciplinary research pertaining to law and literature, from a Nordic perspective. This book contains revised paper
This is the second volume of two containing papers from the 2009 Fall Southeastern American Mathematical Society Meeting. Coverage includes a guide to closure operations in commutative algebra, a surv
On the basis of synchronic and diachronic data analysis, the volume takes a close look at the synchronic layers of binominal size noun and type noun uses (a bunch/a load of X; a sort of X; a Y type of
Assuming only the mathematical level typical to the first year of graduate school, Hindman (Howard U.) and Strauss (Leeds U.) develop the basic background information about compact right topological s
The self-contained introduction to the theory of the operators should be accessible to advanced undergraduates and graduates with a basic understanding of the analysis of functions in several variable
South Asia is home to a large number of languages and dialects. Although linguists working on this region have made significant contributions to our understanding of language, society, and language in
This volume represents the current state of Samaritan research. The studies, which were presented at the seventh international conference of the Societe d’Etudes Samaritaines, deal with several aspect
The three-volume set discusses the foundations and methodology of semantics, introduces the major theoretical frameworks and theoretical issues, examines a wide variety of specific topics and phenomen
Contributors identified only by name examine the impact of Arabic scholar Avicenna's (980-1037) metaphysical ideas in the three Abrahamic traditions over the next few centuries. Among their topics are
