This book provides a needed overview of the scholarship on medieval public culture and popular movements such as the Peace of God, heresy, and the crusades and illustrates how a changing sense of the
This volume of Meinong Studies contains papers on the connections between intentionality and nonexistent objects, presenting historical analyses on the background of Meinong’s philosophical position u
During the last 40 years, the library profession has used different metaphors to characterise their users, e.g. the user as a citizen, a client, a customer, a guest, and a partner. The book is about t
The book is the first systematic and elaborate study of the role of the Jewish tradition in the avant-garde movement of lettrism. It rewrites the history of lettrism from the viewpoint of Judaism, and
This work concisely presents methods for integrated marketing, sales, and customer management, and is orientated to practice and implementation. It sketches a modern and forward-looking marketing appr
This volume presents a cognitive-functional analysis of binominal quantifiers in Spanish. The leitmotiv underlying the case studies is the iconicity principle, i.e. the motivated, non-arbitrary nature
Petereson presents students, academics, and researchers with an examination of the early work of twentieth-century theologist Hans Urs von Balthasar. The author has organized the main body of his text
Religious scholars explore the origin of the Holy Spirit within the Second Temple period, approximately 100 BCE to 100 CE. Among the topics are the origins of early Christian pneumatology, Luke 1:15 i
Witte analyzes the notions of cultural, social, pragmatic, communicative, emotional, and cognitive contexts of subjective first-language usage and the influence they have on second-language learning a
Drawing onhitherto neglected materials,Zohar Segev sheds new light on the policy of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) during the Holocaust. Contrary to popular belief, he can show that there was an impr
Bringing together the research fields of sign language linguistics and information structure, this book focuses on the realization of modal and focus particles in German Sign Language, Sign Language o
The book presents a case study of analysis and conservation of the collection of Cuman sculpture of the Veliko-Anadol Forest Museum. The author provides an insight into the phenomenon of anthropomorph
Classicists explore various forms and manifestations of epic place and space. Their topics include ethnography in the Illiad, Homer's social-psychological spaces and places, uncertain geographies of f
The Himalaya and surrounding regions are amongst the world's most linguistically diverse places. Of an estimated 600 languages, few are researched in depth and many virtually undocumented. This volume
Six invited expository papers explore mathematical and computational issues in subsurface flow. They are from the workshop Simulation of Flow and Transport in Porous Media and Applications in Waste Ma
In concert with Buber, Rosenzweig, Heschel, Franz Fischer and Levinas, Meir outlines a conception of a selfhood that is grounded in dialogical thought. He focuses on the shaping of identity in present
The series embraces the wide linguistic, terminological, and methodological variety within the study of European avant-garde and modernism literature and art from about 1850 to about 1950. In sections
Originating as a doctoral dissertation produced in the philosophy department of Bowling Green State U., this volume defends a Neo-Kantian account of the modern state and legal institutions against an
The book revisits New Testament and other miracle stories with regard to three dimensions: 1. It proposes to connect the interpretation of miracle stories to concepts of reality. 2. It emphasizes the
The structural and semantic properties of adverbials represent a still poorly understood area of sentential syntax and semantics in Germanic languages. The volume gives a detailed overview of the syst
Italian linguist Mattiello considers elements of English that have been generally excluded from formal grammars and theoretical morphological works. She explores morphological extra-grammaticality, an
Clinical laboratories must provide accurate test results to protect patient safety. Clinical laboratory samples frequently contain high amounts of bilirubin or lipemia. This book provides the empirica
A consultant surgeon in Wurzburg, Germany, Imhof explores the definition, incidence, causes, effects, and prevention of error in surgery. He covers principles of medical malpractice; errors, incidents
The English it-cleft is noted for its non-standard structure and for its unusual pragmatic and discourse-functional properties. This book presents a constructional account of the English it-cleft whic
Ever since the papyrus containing Alcman s Partheneion was first published in 1863, classical scholars have strived to solve its enigma. This book presents a verse-by-verse commentary to the text with
This book addresses how core notions of information structure (topic, focus and contrast) are expressed in syntax.The authorspropose that the syntactic effects of information structure come about as a
This first of two volumes reviews the genomic and proteomic organization of the peptidases, and their role in human health and disease. Among the topics are single nucleotide polymorphisms in the huma
Going beyond the macro framing typical of postclassical narratology, literature scholars demonstrate approaches more sensitive to the variety of narratives available. In sections on the boring and the
Published in honor of the 85th anniversary of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA),85 Years IFLA: A History and Chronology of Sessions 1927–2012 presents a thor
The Gujjars are Muslim, yet have developed their own distinctive brand of Islam having lived in relative isolation for a long time. Those who live in Rajaji National Park in India are known as the for
For some three decades, scholars have been studying how a lexical item or a construction transforms to serve a grammatical function. Lexicalization is the reverse process, though in some contexts the
In this work the author argues that the articulation of Jesus as Son of God in the Gospel of Matthew is significantly influenced by the Deuteronomic concept of obedient sonship. In support of the thes
This volume explores the relationships between masterworks of Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes and critical events of Athenian history, by bringing together international scholars with expertise
In a spin-off from his recent translation of the Old Avestan texts for The Hymns of Zoroaster (London 2010) West systematically examines the syntax, word order, and stylistic features in the texts, th
This study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the cultural history of the German Democratic Republic. It examines the interaction between intellectuals and Party functionaries from a literary and
This is the second volume of a subseries within the publisher's "Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science" series. The subseries is titled "Language and Space: An International Handbook of L
The exile is a central turning point in Israel’s construction of the past as it is recorded in the Hebrew Bible. The latter’s concept/s of exile are involved, among others, in constructions of patriar
Although the significance of the Old Testament for Paul’s argument in Galatians is well-established, the significance of Isaiah has not been fully appreciated. Using an intertextual approach, Harmon a
This is volume 12 in the edition of the complete Jerusalem Talmud. The common topic of the tractates in this volume is procedural civil and criminal law, and the theory of the rabbinate, in addition t
This volume collects 18 papers representative of the work of German philosopher Kuno Lorenz. Half of the papers concern themselves with philosophical logic and the philosophy of language, discussing s
