Brill jun 2010 (47 résultats)

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Die Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste ist eine Vereinigung der führenden Forscherinnen und Forscher des Landes. Sie wurde 1970 als Nachfolgeeinrichtung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen gegründet. Die Akademie ist in drei wissen…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - This volume is the product of an interdisciplinary conference held at the University of Texas at Austin. Specialists in the study of inscriptions, architecture, sculpture, coins, tombs, pottery, and texts collaborate to produce new portraits of religion and society in the ancient city of Corint…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - There has been limited research on single women in customary tenure areas. Single women's experiences have been marginalized in research that focuses on notions of property, male headed domestic units and relies on normative research methods to investigate resource access in the communal farmin…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - This edited collection has sought contributions from some of the foremost scholars of refugee and Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) studies to engage with the conceptual and practical difficulties entailed in realising how the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) can be fulfilled by states and the…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - In 2009 it was ten years since the adoption of the Second Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of an Armed Conflict. To celebrate this anniversary, a variety of contributions, focussing on the legal and cultural aspects of the Protocol are presente…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - The Third Edition of Brill's Encyclopaedia of Islam is an entirely new work, with new articles reflecting the great diversity of current scholarship. It appears in four substantial segments each year, both online and in print. The new scope includes comprehensive coverage of Islam in the twenti…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - This important contribution to the study of early modern Chinese fiction and representation of gender relations focuses on literary representations of the prostitute produced in the Ming and Qing periods. Following her heavily symbolic body, the present work maps this fictional heroine's journey from…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Presents a comprehensive view of management and leadership in language programs as situated in a complex, globalized context with rapidly changing characteristics. This book offers case studies and overviews of 'nuts and bolts' issues of administration such as financial, data, and people manage…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - The radical process of religious change in eastern Germany poses a real challenge to social researchers. Common explanations view either the socialist past or larger scale processes of modernization to be the cause of eastern German secularization, but fail to address historical contingencies and indi…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - The term 'new atheism' has been given to the recent barrage of bestselling books written by Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, Christopher Hitchens, and others. These books and their authors have had a significant media presence and have only grown in popularity over the years. This book bri…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - In 1492, Angelo Poliziano published his Lamia, a praelectio, or opening oration to a course he would teach that academic year on Aristotle's Prior Analytics at the Florentine university. Having heard murmurings that he was not philosopher enough to teach the Aristotelian text, Poliziano strikes back,…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Much of the scholarly focus on early twentieth-century Pentecostalism is dominated by the origins debates of the United States. The polarization between those who argue for Parham's theological contribution or Seymour's African American experiential contribution is well known. Beyond these debates sch…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - The question of the origins of Christianity is a theme still discussed in historical research. This book investigates the relations between the Rabbinic Judaism and the Primitive Christianity. It studies the factors of influences, the polemics in the texts and factors of mutual conceptions between two…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - The second half of the fourteenth century was a period of rapid change in the Eastern Mediterranean, principally due to the expansion into Europe of the Ottoman Turks. Demetrius Kydones was one of the key Byzantine political and intellectual figures of the time, and his writings are regarded as one of…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Relational inferences are a well-known problem for Aristotelian logic. This book charts the development of thinking about this anomaly, from the beginnings of the Arabic logical tradition in the tenth century to the end of the nineteenth. Based in large part on hitherto unstudied manuscripts and rare…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Minister of the Word, shepherd and teacher--the titles of Dutch pastors exude authority and prestige. In the course of the nineteenth century, however, their social position was slowly undermined by the separation of church and state, the emancipation of Catholics and dissenters, and the rise of all s…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - The persistence of kabbalistic groups in the twentieth century has largely been ignored or underestimated by scholars of religion. Only recently have scholars began to turn their attention to the many-facetted roles that kabbalistic doctrines and schools have played in nineteenth- and twentieth-centur…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - This book offers a comprehensive view of the morphology, syntax, and semantics of applicatives in Salish, a language family of northwestern North America. Applicative constructions, found in many polysynthetic languages, cast a semantically peripheral noun phrase as direct object. Drawing upon primary…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - This book takes a fresh look at the relationship between aspect, tense and mood in Early Vedic, the language of the Rigveda. Although numerous studies have examined the functional range of individual verbal categories in this language, this work is the first attempt to approach this problem from an ov…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Many scholars of the Second Temple period have replaced the concept of canonization by that of canonical process. Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls has been crucial for this new direction. Based on this new evidence taxonomic terms like biblical, nonbiblical or parabiblical seem anachronistic for the peri…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - This volume is in honour of Danièle Guinot (Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France), and was born out of our admiration for Danièle's immense contributions to her discipline. She has helped reawaken interest on the systematics of brachyuran decapods crustaceans, the true crabs. Furthermor…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - The Reform of Governance is a translated collection of articles providing a look at how scholars in China have been assessing their country's recent governmental history. This volume, as well as the others in the SSRC series, provides Western scholars with an accessible English-language look at the st…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - This volume is the product of an interdisciplinary conference held at the University of Texas at Austin. Specialists in the study of inscriptions, architecture, sculpture, coins, tombs, pottery, and texts collaborate to produce new portraits of religion and society in the ancient city of Corinth. The…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Winner of the 2011 SCSC Bainton Prize for Reference WorksThe 'canon' of Hispanic mysticism is expanding. No longer is our picture of this special brand of early modern devotional practice limited to a handful of venerable saints. Instead, we recognize a wide range of 'marginal' figures as practitioner…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Delving into the tangled involvement of academic institutions with the benefice system in the Early Modern Period, this book focuses on an anomaly: medieval privileges that provided academics at Louvain, the self-declared storm-troopers of Catholic and dynastic restoration in the Netherlands, with acc…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Man kann die Freiheit nur wahrnehmen, wenn man gesichert ist; aber die Bemühungen um Sicherheit gefährden die Freiheit.Die berechtigte Sorge um die Bedingungen der Möglichkeit von Freiheit lässt uns die Freiheit selbst vergessen und errichtet das soziale Gefängnis, das heute vorsorgender Sozial…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Der Erste Weltkrieg, 'Urkatastrophe' des 20. Jahrhunderts, hat rund 10 Millionen Kriegstote gefordert. In der knapp gefassten Monografie werden übersichtlich innen- und außenpolitische, militärische, sozioökonomische, psychologische, mentalitäts- und kulturgeschichtliche Aspekte dargestellt. Be…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Der spektakuläre Zusammenbruch des internationalen Finanzsystems hat mit einem Schlag die enormen Selbstzerstörungskräfte der aktuellen Wirtschaftsordnung offenbar werden lassen. In den drei Dekaden davor hatte sich - ausgehend von minoritären Positionen - eine Expansion des Neoliberalismus zum…