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Die Untersuchung mochte die auffallige Problemkonstanz in Werfels Leben aufzeigen, die als Motivkonstanz das stark vom personlichen Erleben beeinflusste Werk pragt. Diese Problemkonstanz, Resultat fruh eingeubter und entsprechend verfestigter Wahr...

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This book contends that the massacre of civilians in Beijing on June Fourth 1989 was a pivotal rupture in both Chinese and world history. If not for that day, China's socioeconomic, political and cultural landscape would not have undergone the kin...

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Die Urauffuhrungen der drei Antikendramen von Carl Orff - Antigonae (Salzburg 1949) und Oedipus der Tyrann (Stuttgart 1959) in der UEbertragung Hoelderlins sowie Prometheus im altgriechischen Original des Aischylos (Stuttgart 1968) - stellten zent...

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The European Thematic Network Acume 2 "Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities: an Interdisciplinary Approach" discussed translation theory and practice through an interdisciplinary approach at an international conference held at...

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This collection of essays offers a critical analysis of neoliberal transformation as it has unfolded in Sweden, long regarded as exemplary in terms of social welfare, equality and an inclusive multicultural democracy. The book presents a multidisc...

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Learning alliances have become an increasingly important strategic option for firms to achieve competitive advantage. Yet most alliances fail and are terminated early without their obtaining the desired common goals. Or, partners learn privately f...

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Investigating Specialized Discourse is a shortened and revised textbook edition of the monograph Specialized Discourse (2003). This book analyses the various features of specialized discourse in order to assess its degree of specificity and divers...

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High failure rates often observed in practice suggest that interorganizational collaborative relationships, e.g. strategic alliances, collaborative networks and collaborative supply chains, are still not well understood. This work contributes to t...

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The United Nations General Assembly adopted a Decade for Human Rights Education which started in 1995 and lasted until 2004. With a resolution UN member states not only assured the adoption of the relevant human rights documents, but also to start...

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Translating Audiovisuals in a Kaleidoscope of Languages addresses the challenges involved in translating multilingualism in film and TV fiction. It shows the complexity of fictional characters "speaking in tongues" in different genres an...

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The diagnostic assessment of writing is an important aspect of language testing which has often been neclected in the literature. However, it is an area which poses special challenges to practioners both in the classroom and in large-scale testing...

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This book aims to reveal communal relations in Izmir/Smyrna through the lens of Greek-Turkish relations during the age of Ottoman reforms. The primary sources used in this book, Ottoman-Turkish archival material and Greek newspapers of the period,...

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Ziel der Arbeit ist die umfassende Darstellung und Interpretation der verschiedenen, in schriftlicher Form uberlieferten Versionen des Dhuttakkhana, einer alten jinistischen Satire auf die brahmanische Mythologie. Die Texte der "Erzahlung von...

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Das 17. Jahrhundert mit der Mechanisierung des Weltbildes ist von zentralem Interesse fur die Geschichte der Naturzerstorung und der Unterdruckung der Frau. Als Teil der wissenschaftskritischen und okologisch-feministischen Diskussion zeigt die Au...

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In every process of reading there is interaction between text and reader. Religious texts speak about God; readers of religious texts have their images of God. Thus, in the process of reading religious texts we have a triangle with text, reader an...

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Roman Ingarden (1893-1970), one of Husserl's closest students and friends, ranks among the most eminent of the first generation of phenomenologists. His magisterial Controversy over the Existence of the World, written during the years of World War...

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This volume brings together two core concepts that are central to understanding the social and public significance of religions and theologies within the contemporary world and are therefore of key importance to the discipline of religious educati...

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Aus der kirchlichen Rechtsprechung des byzantinischen Ostens sind uns die Gerichtsentscheidungen und -gutachten uberliefert, die unter dem Metropoliten Johannes Apokaukos in Naupaktos und dem Erzbischof Demetrios Chomatianos in Ochrid (13. Jh.) er...

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This present work brings to light the educational project developed by the African Party for the Independence of Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGC) during the period of the armed liberation struggle against the Portuguese colonial regime in Guin...

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In The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages the American critic Harold Bloom claims that Shakespeare drew on Chaucer's Pardoner when creating the villain Iago for his Othello. This book turns Bloom's observation of influences within the...

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In this volume fifteen musicologists from five countries present new findings and observations concerning the production, distribution and use of music manuscripts and prints in seventeenth-century Europe. A special emphasis is laid on the Duben C...

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While unappreciated and controversial during most of his life, Anton Bruckner is today regarded as the greatest symphonist between Beethoven and Gustav Mahler - in terms of originality, boldness and monumentality of his music. The image of Bruckne...

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Among the many commemorations of World War I, little was made of the 100th anniversary of the secret Treaty of London between Italy and the Western War Allies in April 1915, which sealed the fate of South Tyrol for the duration of the twentieth ce...

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The essays in this collection seek to bring together current developments in ecocriticism and the pedagogical practice of teaching English at all levels, from primary schools to Higher Education. They cover theoretical and practical discussions of...

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"This book is about Modernism and Avant-Garde movements in Central and Eastern European art around the last turn of the century. It sketches a surrealistic, bewildering, irrational arena. At the same time, we are offered a differentiated view...

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This book is the result of a field research carried out by the author among a community of agriculturists in what was till recently the uttermost part of Southern Pakistani Balochistan. It deals with themes such as ways of living and representing ...

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This volume focuses on the Baltic Sea region during the Cold War. Recent research conducted in several countries has sought to revise a number of long-established assumptions about the Cold-War conflict, as they do not seem to fit into the context...

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What Is Dramaturgy? attempts to document, by way of articles, statements, and bibliographies, the dramaturg's profession, which began with Lessing in Germany in the second half of the eighteenth century and was instituted in the United States two ...

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The subject of this book is the philosophy of Stanislaw Lem. The first part contains an analysis and interpretation of one of his early works, The Dialogues. The author tries to show how Lem used the terminology of cybernetics to create a project ...

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Die Arbeit untersucht sprachlichen Ausbau, im Besonderen den Ausbau einer englischen Schriftsprache im spaten Mittelalter. Dies geschieht einerseits auf der Basis einer allgemein-theoretischen Auseinandersetzung mit dem Ausbaukonzept und daruber h...

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