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Das verschwundene Schloss erzahlt von einem Schweden, der in Ostpreussen Spuren seiner versunkenen Geschichte sucht. Am Anfang steht die Beobachtung deutscher Heimwehtouristen im heutigen Kaliningrad; es folgen Kapitel uber Pillau als letzten Fluc...

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This book expands the notion of sexual fantasies from the field of psychology into the realms of cultural studies, anthropology, philosophy, and sociology. So far, much research on sexual fantasies has dealt with issues of gender differences, the ...

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The Queens' Encounter is the first scholarly work to examine the anachronistic meeting between Mary Stuart and Elizabeth Tudor in a coherent, international manner. First showing the encounter in the exchange of correspondence between the two queen...

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Dieses Buch beschreibt den facettenreichen Begriff Armut zunachst allgemein, dann bei den Waldensern. Diese Bewegung versuchte eindrucksvoll, die Armut in den Mittelpunkt einer Reformation zu stellen. Armut kann in ihren krassen Formen die Mensche...

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Finland, South Africa and Bosnia-Herzegovina are each burdened by memories of a civil war, between either social classes, racial groups or ethnic communities. History wars have followed the conflicts and been fought on the arenas of popular rhetor...

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This monograph is an authoritative study of the uvre of one of the most important composers of our time. For the first time, Ligetis key works are presented in the context of their drafts and sketches. His personal and artistic development is set ...

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In der philosophischen Debatte uber den Status und die Funktion von Erkenntnis und Wissen spielt Ernst Cassirers Kulturphilosophie der symbolischen Formen eine wichtige Rolle. Sprache, Mythos, Wissenschaft und Kunst zahlen zu den symbolischen Form...

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Teil 1: Der aus Graubünden stammende Neulateiner Simon Lemnius (1511-1550) ist vor allem durch seinen Konflikt mit Luther und die spätere engagierte Parteinahme Lessings für den von der Orthodoxie verfemten Dichter in die Literaturg...

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Winner of the award 'Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights in North America' (Gustavus Myers Center for Human Rights in North America) In Living Dangerously, Henry Giroux confronts one of the most important questions facing our education...

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In recent decades it has been increasingly recognized that the forms of the verb in ancient Greek, including that of the New Testament, do not signal time (past, present, future), but aspect (the way each activity is viewed in relation to its cont...

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The purpose of this book is to examine what kind of changes Korean society experienced as a result of the introduction of Christianity through Protestant missionaries. Since this was a formative period in the Korean Church, it will be possible to ...

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Martyrdom, Murder, and Magic: Child Saints and Their Cults in Medieval Europe is a comprehensive history of child saints and their cults from late Antiquity to the end of the fifteenth century. The child martyrs of the persecutions, including the ...

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Studies in the Greek New Testament: Theory and Practice is a collection of essays illustrating the relevance of Greek for understanding the New Testament. The essays, combining theory and practice, grow out of the author's abiding concern for the ...

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Semiotic Psychology is a special and selective history that focuses on naturally occurring language and its meanings. A review of classic studies from the 1930s through the 1950s shows how content analysis can examine discourse as diverse as plays...

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This collection of essays is drawn from a series of international seminars in which participants explored different methodologies for writing the social history of the classroom. Essays in the collection address questions of research methodology a...

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Discusses the cooperative relationship between the Irish government of the 1920s through 1960s and the Catholic Church with regard to education, with the government accepting financial responsibility for the maintenance of schools, while leaving m...

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The rapid acceleration of industrialization and the transformation of market capitalism that followed the Civil War provided new opportunities for employment and wealth for many Americans. But these opportunities came at a cost: overcrowded and un...

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What is the nature of computer games, and what happens when we play them? This book describes human play as a semiotic process and computer game play as a fundamental act of human cognition, or « semiosis. Offering one of the first fully arti...

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Pedagogy of Place focuses on the embodiment of purposefully created space resulting from the creation and enactment of its participants' cultural and social conditions. It is also about education, the purposeful creation of spaces that comprise le...

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LPL is a new and efficient, structured modeling language to build, modify and document small as well as large, real live LP models. The model building process, surprisingly neglected up to now, is an iterative process and, therefore, the most time...

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Tout au sommet de l'Europe vivent 40000 Lapons ou Sames, branche extrême-orientale du rameau finno-ougrien que les contingences de la nature et de l'histoire ont fixée en Finno-Scandinavie. Ces 40000 héritiers d'une vieille culture arctique de cha...

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Les premiers pas du nouveau president de la Republique, Georges Pompidou, sont marques par l'ouverture dans le domaine de la politique europeenne avec au premier chef le deblocage de la question de l'adhesion du Royaume-Uni a la CEE. La propositio...

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This book examines the innovative and supportive role that the Council of European Municipalities and Regions has played in the process of European integration, focusing on the idea of a federal state centred on municipalities, the basis of Wester...

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Le second semestre de 1923 est domine par les repercussions de l'occupation de la Ruhr. Face a la Grande-Bretagne qui propose une evaluation de la capacite de paiement de l'Allemagne par un organisme international impartial et l'evacuation de la R...

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Typical food is an in-vogue topic, embodying issues such as current trends in food globalization and European Union policies on agriculture and trade. It is, however, striking how little is known about its history. This book, inspired by the confe...

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This book provides an in-depth analysis of the way that Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) define their roles within multilateral institutions, both at the global level and, more specifically, within the European Union framework. The author argues...

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Robert Schuman a ete un serviteur attentif et efficace de la Moselle, notamment en tant que conseiller general de Cattenom. Cet ouvrage livre une approche originale du mandat le moins connu du Pere de l'Europe que celui-ci occupe a une periode cha...

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