Based on the author's PhD thesis, this study examines transcultural memory in Indo-English novels by writers from India and Pakistan, and how they engage with the idea and practice of memory as an ind
Cavallar presents students, academics, researchers, and general interest readers with a comprehensive examination of Kant’s practical philosophy, arguing that there is a hidden theory of cosmopolitan
Krause presents a systematic, rigorous, and self-contained treatment of positive dynamical systems based on analyzing the iteration of nonlinear self-mappings of a convex cone in some real vector spac
Author Chiara Branchini presents students, academics, and researchers with an examination of relativization strategies and clefting in Italian Sign Language (LIS). The author has organized the eight c
Existential semiotics is a new paradigm in the studies of signs, signification, and communication. This book develops its theory further, applying the notions of being, doing, and appearing to crucial
Wilden studies the processes of literary transmission for the Tamil classical corpus of the Cankam anthologies, which in its roughly two thousand years of transmission has undergone a fair number of m
This volume provides descriptive sketches of the Papuan languages scattered over the islands of Timor, Alor, and Pantar at the western perimeter of Melanesia. Timor-Alor-Pantar languages are a group o
Historians and scholars of religion in China examine how the introduction of new print technologies during the 19th century and their development during the early 20th century impacted the publication
Confined to Middle Byzantine literature, Pizzone and his contributors aim to pinpoint some historical and literary directions which may be used as a guiding thread and promote debate on the role of th
Contributors present interconnected studies of some of the most important moments and figures in the history of the comic genre and its reception from Graeco-Roman times to the present. The topics inc
This book is a revised version of the author’s doctoral dissertation for the Department of Classics at the University of Virginia. In it, the author analyzes Plato’s Euthydemus as a unified piece of l
Fuertes-Olivera and Tarp deal with various aspects of specialized lexicography: the discipline itself and its academic status; the function theory and the various arguments against it; competing theor
Originating in an international conference in Moscow in 2011, which was held in French, German, and Russian, and whose aim was to promote international discussion and basic research on art history dur
This volume brings together fifteen papers which address key issues in the field of Hellenistic studies. In using modern critical approaches, the authors discuss the genre, style, narrative and aesthe
One new and 23 reprinted articles reflect 20 years of Martin's work in the study of religion. Other than correcting typographical errors, he has not revised the reprinted essays. His topics include a
Most of the contributors to this volume are members of an international network of experts in phenomenology and feminist philosophy called "Feminist Phenomenology Group," which was founded in 2000. Tw
Designed for professionals in crop biochemistry and agricultural engineering, this book is clearly written and understandable to workers in a variety of subfields. Its subject is creating mutation in
Drylands in East Asia (DEA) are home to more than one billion people and vulnerable to natural and anthropogenic changes. In order to develop adaptation strategies one needs to know how ecosystems res
This volume aims to broaden the focus of existing loanword research, which has mainly been conducted from a systemic and structuralist perspective. The eight studies in this volume introduce onomasiol
This handbook aims at a state-of-the-art overview of earlier and recent research into older, newer and emerging non-standard varieties, transplanted varieties and daughter languages of Dutch. The disc
This volume reintroduces Peircean ideas within documentary studies. Through the work of three renowned filmmakers - Jon Jost, Johan Van der Keuken, and Rithy Panh - this book attempts to reassert huma
Elliptic partial differential equations is one of the main and most active areas in mathematics. In our book we study linear and nonlinear elliptic problems in divergence form, with the aim of providi
LP architektur has created a richly varied body of work in the ten years it has existed. The office’s breakthrough came at the Winter Oympics in Turin with the emblematic Austria House. The Salzburg o
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
This study addresses the syntactic description and evolution of Spanish argumental prepositional finite clauses introduced by que ('that'). The first chapter of the book introduces the necessary categ
Four mathematicians present some recent developments involving theories, methods, and applications of population dynamics as a branch of mathematics. Zhanyuan Hou (London Metropolitan U.) discusses pe
As parents of students, a substitute teacher, and an administrator at the Jackson Japanese Language School, Doerr and Lee have learned much about both the construction of heritage language learners an
This volume will offer the first book-length academic investigation of Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck s Oscar-winning film The Lives of Others (2006). The aim of this edited collection is twofold. O
Both Judaism and Christianity have authorized clergy, charged with fulfilling a multitude of tasks in their respective communities. They teach, provide pastoral care, and preach. They lead worship, ho
The impact of Heinrich von Kleist unfolds between precise depictions and moral extremes. Crystallized in words, his characters appear as paradigms of human fallibility. Their passions and obsessions,
These previously scattered texts by Michael Pye are landmarks in the development of the study of religions, presented here as an international enterprise with roots in both European and East Asian cul
In this anthology associated with the new interdisciplinary Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg, Jewish studies scholars Dorchain and Wonnenberg (both at Humboldt U., Berlin) compile essays t
After Classen's (emeritus, German studies, U. of Arizona) near 200-page introduction, mostly US but also some Austrian medievalists explore depictions of rural space in the European middle ages. Among
The fruit of 20 years of research, this atlas represents the dedicated research in museums and in the field undertaken by Massetti (evolutionary biology, U. of Florence, Italy). Its depth makes it of
As described in the introductory essay, scholarship on gender and sexuality is a particularly strong aspect of the burgeoning interest in ancient prose fiction. This volume presents 14 essays original
Addressing the language planning conundrum that French and Portuguese speakers in Sub-Saharan Africa face, Koffi (English, Saint Cloud State U., Minnesota) proposes solutions based on game theory that
The books of Haggai and Proto-Zechariah (Zechariah 1-8) belong to the post-exilic books of the Old Testament prophets. The topic of both books is the restitution of Judah and of the Jerusalem Temple.
The starting point for this monograph is the previously unknown connection between the Continuum Hypothesis and the saturation of the non-stationary ideal on ω1; and the principle result of
