This book is the result of the collaboration between academics and industry professionals and therefore sheds new light on translation quality in the real world: it addresses human translation and mac
Intended as a detailed yet accessible reference for students and researchers in semantics and overlapping disciplines such as psychology and philosophy, this is the second volume of a three-volume set
This book is the2nd improved and expanded edition of "Clinical Enzymology" (Lott/Wolf, 1987). It includes case studies and guidelines for specialists of laboratory medicine and clini
This work explores the theological and social dimensions of generosity in the book of Sirach and contextualizes them within the culture and thought of Second Temple Judaism. Ben Sira’s understanding o
Huhn and his colleagues have put together a handbook of the relatively new study of narratology, or the "logic, principles and practices of narrative representation". (p.329) this includes fiction and
This book is a translation of the third edition of the well accepted German textbook 'Stochastik', which presents the fundamental ideas and results of both probability theory and statistics, and compr
This book covers the essentials of modality and offers both foundational ideas and cutting edge advances. The book consists of what are essentially tutorials on modality and modal notions, covering de
Neeman shares his research into proofs of determinacy for games of countable length, for readers with a knowledge of basic set theory, and some familiarity with Silver indiscernibles and extenders and
“This remains the fundamental base for studies of multilingual communities and language shift. Weinreich laid out the concepts, principles and issues that govern empirical work in this field, and it h
Prostitution in the ancient Greek world was widespread, legal, and acceptable as a fact of life and an unavoidable necessity. The state regulated the industry and treated prostitution as any other tra
This book is a contribution to the study of translation as a contact variety, and - more generally - to language comparison and language contact with a focus on English and German. Methodologically, t
Vath (Freie U. Berlin) introduces topology, functional analysis, and analysis for advanced readers who have taken a first course in analysis and are adept in basic calculus and linear algebra. He also
Mathematicians Enochs (U. of Kentucky) and Jenda (Auburn U. Alabama) have revised and expanded their introduction for graduate students to a type of algebra that emerged in 1965, and now includes more
The volume contains 21 documentary and 2 literary texts from the Vienna papyrus collection; private and business letters, lists, orders, a lease, a receipt, contracts, the testimony of a witness and t
This study examines marital elements in the Book of Tobit in light of the mores and beliefs of Ancient Israel and neighboring civilizations. After surveying key Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern
The papers collected in this volume discuss descriptive methods and present conclusions relevant for the history of the book production and reception. Books printed in Europe in the 15th and 16th cent
The hermeneutics employed in this work is partly referred to as hindsight hermeneutics, and upholds the resonance and dissonance between the Epilogue of the Book of Job and the preceding sections. Wit
Since its founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of
Scholars of literature and the social sciences explore issues of memory in the era of globalization. Among their topics are a dialogue on the ethics and politics of transcultural memory, a German and
Kant’s view of the imagination is surrounded by one of the most salient and obscure discussions onhis critical philosophy. Due to revisions and emendations and a seeming change in doctrine from the fi
The procedure was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in 1988 as the first cellular immunotherapy for cancer, and since then has been investigated for preventing and treating a variety of
This book is based on a symposium held in New York, co-sponsored by New York University, the Zentrum fur Literatur- and Kulturforschung Berlin), and the German Center for Research and Innovation (New
It has long been appreciated that ancient medicine, and above all Hippocrates and Galen, played a significant role in the development of medicine until the Age of Enlightenment, and the last forty yea
Just a few decades ago, children born with significant congenital anomalies or genetic and metabolic diseases perished at an early age and very few survived into their teens and even less into adultho
Leibniz and Kant are two of the most important founders of modern philosophy, and their thought continues to be relevant to philosophy and intellectual culture even today. This volume deals with the c
2 Maccabees is a Jewish work composed during the 2nd century BCE and preserved by the Church. Written in Hellenistic Greek and told from a Jewish-Hellenistic perspective,2 Maccabees narrates and inter
This textbook deals with the basics and methods of photogrammetry and laser scanning which are used to determine the form and location of objects, with measurements provided by sensors placed in air p
This volume brings together the current approaches to the definition and measurement of the sense of humor and its components. It provides both an overview of historic approaches and a compendium of c
Water is a vital resource and is widely acknowledged as such. Thus it often serves as an ideological and linguistic symbol that stands for and evokes concepts central within a community. This volume e
Music is said to be the most autonomous and least representative of all the arts. However, it reflects in many ways the realities around it and influences its social and cultural environments. Music i
Atmospheric acoustics is one of the most ancient and most important branches in acoustics, but a very abnormal and irrational fact is: there is no monograph or book devoted to such an important and pe
Self-reference and self-knowledge are constitutive for being a person and presuppose the use of the first-person pronoun. The book gives an extensive account of the various uses of this word and argue
Hermas wrote the Shepherd in Greek during the first half of the second century AD, and it has become one of the most interesting textual and historical sources of early Christian life and theology. Fr
The main purpose of this book is to sum up the vital and highly topical research issue of knowledge representation on the Web and to discuss novel solutions by combining benefits of folksonomies and W
Thomas Mann and Lion Feuchtwanger used it, as did Paul Celan and Hermann Kasack: Dornseiff. Peter Hacks wrote, "When two authors got together, they had two rooms, two desks and two copies of
Texts like Genesis 16, 22 and 31 mention an enigmatic figure, "the messenger/angel of the Lord". The identity of God and this angel is merged. The angel is anonymous and speaks with divine authority a
This collection comprises essays from various interdisciplinary perspectives – e.g. literary scholarship, intermediality, art history, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and medicine – to analyze and interpr
Emulsions provides a general introduction, the role of emulsifiers and addresses different problems such as creaming/sedimentation, flocculation, Ostwald ripening, coalescence and phase inversion. The
Considering a wide range of languages, sociolinguists discuss the shift from spoken vernacular to written form; standardization versus regionalization and de-standardization; and idiosyncrasy, scribal
Dasgupta (pathology and laboratory medicine, U. of Texas-Houston) shows laboratory professionals, physicians, and other health care professionals how herbal supplements affect laboratory test results,
