Economic history is well documented in Assyriology, thanks to the preservation of dozens of thousands of clay tablets recording administrative operations, contracts and acts dealing with family law. D
Contemporary philosophy of science analyzes psychology as a science with special features, because this discipline includes some specific philosophical problems – descriptive and normative, structural
Drawing on examples from various areas of physics, this textbook introduces the reader to computer-based physics using Fortran(R) and Matlab(R). It elucidates a broad palette of topics, including fund
Die Buchreihe Trends in Medieval Philology (TMP) nimmt zentrale Themen der aktuellen mediävistischen Forschungsdebatte auf und gibt wegweisenden Forschungsdiskursen einen Ort in der Fachliteratur. Sie
Economic history is well documented in Assyriology thanks to the good preservation of numerous private and official archives; however, the contribution of women has seldom been addressed. This volume
Most of the 22 contributions in this collection are based on papers presented to an interdisciplinary conference in Bielefeld, Germany from February to March 2007, but a number were added to round out
We tend to associate the act of witnessing with bystanders who have not played an active role in the events that they are watching. The present monograph considers characters from Homer’s Iliad and Gr
This book is a scientific anthology and a text mosaic on the modern interior, its origins and its historic development. In recent years, science has increasingly focused on the subject of the interior
Philosophical texts of the early modern era in which sanctions were imposed on those who entertained deviating views require a particular hermeneutical approach: According to Leo Strauss the interpret
Since the adoption of the World Heritage Convention in 1972, the notion that cultural and natural heritage need to be protected and properly utilized has gained popularity. Over time, however, such ut
A follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies, this new reference work turns to a different focus: medieval culture.Medieval research has grown tremendously in depth and breadth over the
A follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies, this new reference work turns to a different focus: medieval culture.Medieval research has grown tremendously in depth and breadth over the
This work aims to be accessible to climate managers, policymakers, scientists, and advanced students in ecology, climatology, geography, forestry, and microbiology. Contributors in agriculture and bio
The author presents case studies to illustrate how transnational referents mediate first and second world political and cultural conflicts represented in German plays and novels about Latin America. A
This volume contains five essays that consider beautiful and characteristic aspects of general relativistic physics. Astronomy, cosmology, physics, and technology researchers from Europe and the US di
Metaphors are a vital linguistic component of religious speech and serve as a cultural indicator of how groups understand themselves and the world. The essays compiled in this volume analyze the use,
Performance analysis of bispectrum-based signal processing systems largely depends on the performance of the bispectrum estimator operating in an adverse noise environment. This study combines bispect
This book explores one of the central questions that has haunted husbands and wives and lovers over the millennia of history: What kind of afterlife might they expect for their love once one or both o
The experience of interacting with the newest Virtual Reality technologies is profoundly affected by the extent to which we feel ourselves to be ‘present’ in computer-generated worlds. This edited vol
Studies of both synchronic phonetics and morpho-phonological alternations are needed to understand the forces that historically shaped and now maintain the phonemic system of Romanian. Through a serie
This collection of case studies for advanced students and scholars in archaeology, Greek archeology, and art history presents the latest fieldwork in the archaeology of ancient Greek sites. The case s
Hungarian Jewish scholarship had a lasting impact on the Wissenschaft des Judentums (“Science of Judaism”). Its unique profile was shaped by Ashkenazi Yeshiva traditions, Jewish modernization movement
This volume provides linguistic background to the ancient authors and commentary on both epigraphic and literary dialect texts. By means of dialectally and chronologically arranged texts, translated a
Gupton presents students, academics, and researchers with his research into a quantitative and qualitatively based clausal word order for the Iberian Penninsula language of Galician, drawing from his
DEFA is a German acronym for the state-owned German Film Corporation, Inc. It produced films in East Germany during the Cold War years, from the 1940s to 1990. During this period, few East German film
Legal scholars from the various jurisdictions examine such patterns of privacy as: privacy and the Fourth Amendment; the European approach towards data protection in a globalized world of data transfe
So far most scholars have studied conspiracy theories within national frameworks only. Focusing on the United States and the Middle East, two regions entangled in multiple ways, this book draws attent
Modern contact linguistics has primarily focused on contact between languages that are genetically unrelated and structurally distant. This compendium of articles looks instead at the effects of pre-e
Neumann explores the quantitative distribution of indicators that characterize language use in three perspectives. The intralingual perspective compares different registers within English and German.
In a revision of her 2012 doctoral dissertation at Harvard Divinity School, Dinkler argues that speech and silence are crucial strategies by which the Lukan narrator attempts to persuade readers to be
