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For the first time in the German language, this book presents Nicholas Rescher’s comprehensive philosophical system. It examines Rescher’s contributions to a range of theoretical and practical philoso
In his literary texts, which remained mostly unpublished, Gustav Landauer (1870-1919) anticipated the linguistically skeptical ideas of his time. In new intertextual, intermedial and muted writing sty
Museum science, museum analysis, museum history, and museum theory – all this expanding terminology underscores the growing scholarly interest in museums. A recurring assertion is that as an instituti
This section of the Handbook of Zoology is intended as a comprehensive and exhaustive account of the biology of the taxa Gastrotricha, Nematoda, Nematomorpha, Priapulida, Kinorhyncha, Loricifera, Gnat
The Funeral Orations of Michael Psellos were scattered throughout old editions or inaccessible periodicals. Moreover, most of the editions were inadequate, full of misreadings and other mistakes, whic
Author Doris Stolberg presents students, academics, and researchers with an examination of the diachronic dimension of contact-induced language change as exhibited in Pennsylvania German with its long
The Japanese title translates as The Old Testament and Philosophy: Monotheism in the Context of Contemporary Challenges. This edition also contains an additional paper surveying Old Testament studies
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Mathematicians Graef (U. of Tennessee-Chattanooga), Henderson (Baylor U.), and Ouahab (Sidi-Bel-Abbes U., Algeria) explore differential equations that account for abrupt changes, such as shocks, harve
This book presents a comprehensive study of boundary value problems for linear and semilinear second order elliptic equations with measure data,especially semilinear equations with absorption. The int
Cross-disciplinary studies in cultural history require regions with unusually favorable conditions of preservation as well as relevance to the disciplines and cultures involved. The first cataract of
Addressing theoretical questions pertaining to the dynamics of religious revival, Heimola (world culture, U. of Helsinki, Finland) builds on earlier research on the evolution of cooperation and altrui
Grammatical structures connect systems of thought and articulation, the conditions of which hardly seem to fit each other. Repairs are productive mechanisms that solve translation problems between mod
Surzhikov (mechanics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) examines the numerical modeling of gas-discharge phenomena in gas flows. Referring readers elsewhere for the physical and chemical kinetics o
This book centers on the idea that some verbs and other argument structure constructions have an inherently different propensity to realize lexically unfamiliar arguments, independently of lexical sem
The distinctive features of Germany's literary marketplace, the changed paradigms of authorship, the rise of new German pop literature, debates among older intellectuals, and recent developments in th
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The book s main focus is on the pharmacological treatment of the adolescent patient. It provides physicians and allied health professionals with pharmacological information covering all main specialit
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The Oceanic languages, a subgroup within the Austronesian language family, comprise at least 450 languages in the geographical area encompassing Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. The articles in th
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The dictionary is the only comprehensive and up-to-date record of German idiomatic expressions. The idioms are arranged alphabetically according to specific principles reflecting language intuition. A
This work includes international secondary literature on anti-Semitism published throughout the world, from the earliest times to the present. It lists books, dissertations, and articles from periodic
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Faulhaber presents a revised version of her 2009 doctoral thesis, Semantic Aspects of Verb Valency--The Relationship Between Meaning and Form for Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat, Erlangen-Nunberg. In
Sociophonetics is a sub-branch of phonetics that has attracted a great deal of attention recently. Advances in speech science and technological simulations allow increasingly sophisticated studies of
Most interpreters of 1, 2, 3 John believe that the author’s opponents (called “antichrists”, “deceivers”, and “false prophets”) advocated gnostic or progressive doctrines that denied or downplayed the
The papers in this book describe and analyze rara in individuallanguages, covering an extraordinarily broad geographic distribution,including papers about languages from all over the globe. Therange o
Bakushinskii (Institute of System Analysis, Russia), Mihail Yu. Kokurin (Mari State U., Russia) and Alexandra Smirnova (Georgia State U. US) explore iterative methods for operator equations in Hilbert
This textbook is devoted to Combinatorics and Graph Theory, which are cornerstones of Discrete Mathematics. Every section begins with simple model problems. Following their detailed analysis, the read
Today, quantum field theory (QFT)—the mathematical and conceptual framework for contemporary elementary particle physics—is the best starting point for analysing the fundamental building blocks of the
Cognitive grammar transforms insights from the cognitive sciences into grammatical descriptions and attempts to use the grammar of natural languages to understand human thinking. The presentation is c
This book compiles unique contributions on the extent and kinds of language endangerment world-wide. Besides presenting the specific situations of language endangerment at the subcontinental level, th
Twenty-nine international academics, researchers, and independent scholars contribute 30 chapters examining the structural effects of language contact on a wide variety of languages from around the wo
Confronting the assumption that cultures are systems of rules exclusively inherent to human groups, Neiva (not further identified) criticizes aspects of the tradition upon which cultural and semiotic
