In der 1968 gegründeten Reihe erscheinen Monographien aus den Gebieten der Griechischen und Lateinischen Philologie sowie der Alten Geschichte. Die Bände weisen eine große Vielzahl von Themen auf: neb
How can we develop a cultural theory starting with the basic insight that human beings are "storytelling animals"? Within literary studies, narratology is a highly developed field. However, literary
This edited book addresses the issues facing Repositories, the storage of the print archive, cooperation and collaboration strategies especially with a future perspective. It is an acknowledgment that
To mark the 500th anniversary of the conventional beginning of the Reformation, historians and scholars of Christianity examine Martin Luther (1483-1546) from the perspectives of his life, reforms
Groups and Manifolds is an introductory, yet a complete self-contained course on mathematics of symmetry: group theory and differential geometry of symmetric spaces, with a variety of examples for phy
Motivated by a plethora of phenomena from nature, this textbook introduces into the physics of wetting of surfaces. After a brief discussion of the foundations of surface tension, its implementation f
The volume explores the funerary architecture and cemeteries of the Aegean from a phenomenological perspective. On the premise that the built and unbuilt environment together form social, lived landsc
This book provides a clear, precise, and structured introduction to stochastics and probability theory. It includes many descriptive examples, such as games of chance, which help promote understanding
The intention of this book is to highlight the extent to which more rigorous measurement of grammatical effects can yield insights into grammatical structures and grammatical change. While there is so
a tool for modeling fundamental aspects of living systems and chemical processes, this book provides a constructive way of formulating dynamic processes. This monograph discusses different kinds of su
International Beauvoir scholars and renowned feminist phenomenologists from North America and Europe offer a unique look at one of the most outstanding existential-philosophical studies on age and agi
The volume analyzes the concept of the “body” in the Renaissance period and its articulations and interpretations both in the legal field and the theatre. The body emerges as a site of regulation, sha
This book investigates the emergence of the cosmopolitan idea of literature and its impact on the democratic reconfiguration of the European and non-European cultural and political spaces. The birthpl
This graduate text book provides a formal analysis of alternative, non-relational data models and storage mechanisms and gives a decent overview of non-SQL query languages. It describes a perspective
Night and day, light and darkness, shape our world: light signifies life, knowledge and all that is good, while darkness suggests death, ignorance and evil. And yet the darkness of the night allows no
This book is about the concept of “Quality of Life”. What is necessary for quality of life, and how can it be measured?The approach is a multicriterial scheme reduction which prevents as much informat
Nine papers and an interview document the 2008 Third International Lauener Symposium, held in Bern, during which Ruth Barcan Marcus (1921-2012) was awarded the Lauener Prize for an Outstanding Oeuvre
This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to chemical process engineering, linking the fundamental theory and concepts to the industrial day-to-day practice. It closes the gap between the ch
This study of Aristophanes provides the basis for a total re-assessment not only of Aristophanes as a poet and playwright, but also of our perception of politics and the role of the theatre in classic
The theory of phononic crystals, i.e., artificial periodic structures that can alter the flow of acoustic waves, as well as numerical modelling techniques are presented in this volume. It contains a c
This book is the first greater attempt to construct a dialogical theology from a Jewish point of view. It contributes to an emerging new theology that promotes the interrelatedness of religions in whi
Linguists translate six selected chapters of Paul's groundbreaking Prinzipien der Sprachgeschichte--first edition in 1880 and fifth in 1920--and comment on his contribution to number of areas in lingu
