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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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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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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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"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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Historical content, historical methods and historical orientation are three aspects that may be taught in history education. This study examines the emphases which are included in formal curricula texts and those which are included in teacher-made...

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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 increasing use of mobile devices in work contexts has the potential to alter our work and learning practices. This is particularly true for knowledge workers. In addressing the implications of this transformation the book offers a multi-facete...

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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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Wie lasst sich die Versprachlichung eines Abstraktums wie Herrschaft in der deutschen Sprache fassen? Insbesondere in einer Zeit, die noch stark vom Lateinischen gepragt ist? Die Untersuchung des Wortgebrauchs von rike innerhalb der ersten deutsch...

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Karl Ludwig von Bruck (1798-1860), Grunder des "OEsterreichischen Lloyd", hoechst effizienter Handelsminister der ersten AEra Kaiser Franz Josephs I., spater Internuntius in Konstantinopel, wurde schliesslich im Marz 1855 Finanzminister,...

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Die europaischen Kriege im Zeitalter Napoleons brachten mit ihren Armeen und Schlachten auch das Problem der Kriegsgefangenschaft mit sich. In den Jahren von 1805 bis 1815 gerieten hunderttausende von Soldaten und Nichtkombattanten in die Hand des...

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This volume examines the use of French in European language communities outside France from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. The phenomenon of French language usage is explored in a wide variety of communities, namely Bohemian, Dutch, med...

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After the EU-accession of Eastern and Central European countries, the nations and ethnicities in this region face a re-definition of their cultural, social and political roles. Ethnic Minorities of Central and Eastern Europe in the Internet Space ...

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This book is a philosophical analysis of knowledge in practices, focused on knowing how, tacit knowledge and expert knowledge. Knowing in action is the key concept. It covers understanding, well-functioning routines as well as successful learning ...

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Research is directed by normative standards which need to be transparent in order to secure the quality of the scholarly discussion. The aim of this book is to contribute to such transparency in relation to research on religion and theology repres...

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Gleichzeitig mit zunehmenden grenzuberschreitenden Aktivitaten innerhalb der EG steigt auch die Zahl gerichtlicher Auseinandersetzungen, die Bezuge zu verschiedenen Mitgliedstaaten der EG aufweisen. In Prozessen uber privatrechtliche Anspruche und...

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The New Principles of Management is a textbook meant for European students of principles of management. Developed basing mainly on international cases as well as drawing from international examples of managerial practices, it attempts to address t...

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Classrooms are emotional places, filled at different times with enjoyment, excitement, anger, hurt and boredom. The teacher's skill in working with emotional information and in regulating their own and their pupils' emotion impacts upon what and h...

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This volume presents contributions of the Catholic-Lutheran International Conference held at the Pontifical Athenaeum of St. Anselm in Rome in 2016. The scholars were invited to reflect together on the questions of forgiveness, conversion and pena...

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The writing of mathematical histories has a long history, one which has seldom received scholarly attention. Mathematical history, and mathematical biography, raise distinctive issues of method and approach to which different periods have responde...

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This book describes the imaginative space in which the novels of Louis-Ferdinand Céline take place. There is the labyrinth of conscious space and the hellish underground of subconscious space, with the passage between the two described as a fall. ...

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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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Valentin Rasputin is, by popular and critical acclaim, one of the most thought-provoking writers in the Soviet Union today. The Novellas of Valentin Rasputin is the first comprehensive analysis of the prose style of this major Russian author. This...

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A second edition of the 1960 study detailing the ideologies and daily life of the Satmar, an Orthodox Hasidic group in Williamsburg, New York. Rubin (sociology, Cleveland State U.) updates changes in leadership since the initial study, although th...

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This book is a comparative analysis of the poetry of Su Dongpo (1036-1101) and William Wordsworth. It focuses on the two poets' concepts of nature and the self with particular emphasis on their gradual change of thought from this worldliness to ot...

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Based on original anthropological fieldwork and extensive archival research, this timely book describes in detail the development of an irrigation project in Turkana District, Kenya, a semi-desert area where serious drought and famine have been co...

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Christian Philosophy concerns the perennial paradox of reason/revelation and philosophy/theology by reflecting on: whether philosophy has ever been 'pure' i.e., free of beliefs; how Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus helped prepare for Christian philosoph...

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