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Jewish Secularity: The Search for Roots and the Challenges of Relevant Meaning
Zachary I. Heller, David M. Gordis
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• Author(s): Zachary I. Heller | David M. Gordis • Publisher: University Press of America • Publisher Imprint: University Press of America • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialA growing number of Jews identify themselves as secular or "so...
View full detailsAmerican Organist in Paris: The Letters of Lee Orville Erwin, 1930-1931
Michael Hix
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• Author(s): Michael Hix • Publisher: Scarecrow Press • Publisher Imprint: Scarecrow Press • BISAC: MusicAn American Organist in Paris presents Lee Orville Erwin's letters from France to his family in 1930-1931. In these letters, Erwin recounts h...
View full detailsJewish Secularity: The Search for Roots and the Challenges of Relevant Meaning
Zachary I. Heller, David M. Gordis
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• Author(s): Zachary I. Heller | David M. Gordis • Publisher: University Press of America • Publisher Imprint: University Press of America • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialA growing number of Jews identify themselves as secular or "so...
View full detailsHippolytus
Euripides
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• Author(s): Euripides • Publisher: SMK Books • Publisher Imprint: SMK Books • BISAC: ClassicsEuripides was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed ninet...
View full detailsAfrican Arabic: Approaches to Dialectology
Mena Lafkioui
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• Author(s): Mena Lafkioui • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThis present book studies from a dialectological perspective various African Arabic varieties, suc...
View full detailsJohann Georg Hamann: Religion und Gesellschaft
Manfred Beetz, Andre Rudolph
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• Author(s): Manfred Beetz | Andre Rudolph • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: European - GermanUm zu wissen, was der Mensch sei, notiert J. G. Hamann 1759 in den "Brocken", müsse man die Verhältnisse befragen, in den...
View full detailsNanoclusters and Microparticles in Gases and Vapors
Boris M. Smirnov
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• Author(s): Boris M. Smirnov • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Mechanics - GeneralResearch of processes involving Nanoclusters and Microparticleshas been developing fastin many fields of rescent research, in partic...
View full detailsPolyhistorismus und Buntschriftstellerei
Flemming Schock
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• Author(s): Flemming Schock • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: European - GermanVon der Literatur- und Wissensgeschichte bislang kaum zur Kenntnis genommen, markierte die volkssprachliche Buntschriftstellerei einen ...
View full detailsEncounters with Conlon Nancarrow
Jurgen Hocker
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• Author(s): Jurgen Hocker • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Individual Composer & MusicianEncounters with Conlon Nancarrow, by J�rgen Hocker, is the first extensive biography of the American-Mexican c...
View full detailsHandbuch Informationskompetenz
Wilfried Sühl-Strohmenger
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• Author(s): Wilfried Sühl-Strohmenger • Publisher: K.G. Saur Verlag • Publisher Imprint: K.G. Saur Verlag • BISAC: Library & Information Science - GeneralInformationskompetenz ist eine Schlüsselqualifikation in der Wissensgesellschaft des 21...
View full detailsMorley of Blackburn: A Literary and Political Biography of John Morley
Patrick Jackson
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• Author(s): Patrick Jackson • Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press • Publisher Imprint: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press • BISAC: LiteraryThis literary and political biography of John Morley, famous in the late nineteenth and earl...
View full detailsCaribbean Geography: A Scholarly Bibliography
Thomas A. Rumney
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• Author(s): Thomas A. Rumney • Publisher: Scarecrow Press • Publisher Imprint: Scarecrow Press • BISAC: Bibliographies & IndexesThe islands and seascapes gracing the Caribbean Sea have long been areas of interest and research for geographers...
View full detailsAdaptation and Cultural Appropriation
Pascal Nicklas, Oliver Lindner
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• Author(s): Pascal Nicklas | Oliver Lindner • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh"Hamlet" by Olivier, Kaurismäki or Shepard and "Pride and Prejudice" in its many adaptations show the vir...
View full detailsFremde Welten: Wege Und Räume Der Fantastik Im 21. Jahrhundert
Lars Schmeink, Hans-Harald Müller
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• Author(s): Lars Schmeink | Hans-Harald Müller • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshObwohl die Fantastik (in ihrer umfassenden Definition) immer schon ein Teil unserer Kultur und in ihre...
View full detailsLucretius and His Sources: A Study of Lucretius, de Rerum Natura I 635-920
Francesco Montarese
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• Author(s): Francesco Montarese • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralThis book discusses Lucretius' refutation of Heraclitus, Empedocles, Anaxagoras and other, unnamed thinkers in De Rerum Natura 1, 6...
View full detailsRethinking Epistemology: Volume 2
Günter Abel, James Conant
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• Author(s): Günter Abel | James Conant • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: EpistemologyDer Band umfasst Beitr�ge zur "systematischen Wissensforschung". Zugleich wird eine Erweiterung und Neuausrichtung der klassische...
View full detailsModality and Theory of Mind Elements across Languages
Werner Abraham, Elisabeth Leiss
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• Author(s): Werner Abraham | Elisabeth Leiss • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsModality is the way a speaker modifies her declaratives and other speech acts to optimally assess ...
View full detailsNavigating Power: Cross-Cultural Competence in Navajo Land
Gelaye Debebe
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• Author(s): Gelaye Debebe • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialNavigating Power: Cross-Cultural Competence in Navajoland by Gelaye Debebe uses data of an inter-organizatio...
View full detailsDarwin's Philosophical Legacy: The Good and the Not-So-Good
Gerard M. Verschuuren
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• Author(s): Gerard M. Verschuuren • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: CriticismThere is hardly any university, college, or even high school left where they do not teach Darwinism--and rightly so. Yet, most ...
View full detailsPrüf- und Bewertungsmethoden für Knieorthesen
David Hochmann
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• Author(s): David Hochmann • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Allied Health Services - Medical TechnologyDer erste Band der wissenschaftlichen Buchreihe "Forschung für die Rehabilitationstechnik" umfasst die Dissert...
View full detailsTheologies of Language in English Renaissance Literature: Reading Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton
James S. Baumlin
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• Author(s): James S. Baumlin • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshJames S. Baumlin's Theologies of Language in English Renaissance Literature offers a revisionist history of di...
View full detailsCollective Identity, Oppression, and the Right to Self-Ascription
Andrew J. Pierce
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• Author(s): Andrew J. Pierce • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: DemographyCollective Identity, Oppression, and the Right to Self-Ascription argues that groups have an irreducibly collective right to determ...
View full detailsShaping Social Justice Leadership: Insights of Women Educators Worldwide
Linda L. Lyman, Jane Strachan, Angeliki Lazaridou
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• Author(s): Linda L. Lyman | Jane Strachan | Angeliki Lazaridou • Publisher: R & L Education • Publisher Imprint: R & L Education • BISAC: Administration - GeneralShaping Social Justice Leadership: Insights of Women Educators Worldwide c...
View full detailsRe-Awakening the Learner: Creating Learner-Centric, Standards-Driven Schools
Copper Stoll, Gene Giddings, Robert J. Marzano
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• Author(s): Copper Stoll | Gene Giddings | Robert J. Marzano • Publisher: R & L Education • Publisher Imprint: R & L Education • BISAC: Teaching - GeneralTransformation of public education requires the reawakening of the sleeping giant i...
View full detailsChina's Last Imperial Frontier: Late Qing Expansion in Sichuan's Tibetan Borderlands
Xiuyu Wang
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• Author(s): Xiuyu Wang • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Asia - ChinaCombining rich documentation with rigorous analysis, China's Last Imperial Frontier illuminates the internal dynamics of regional power...
View full detailsThe Papers of Francis Bernard, Governor of Colonial Massachusetts, 1760-69, Volume 2: 1764-1765 Volume 81
Francis Bernard, Colin Nicolson
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• Author(s): Francis Bernard | Colin Nicolson • Publisher: Colonial Society of Massachusetts • Publisher Imprint: Colonial Society of Massachusetts • BISAC: GeneralThe second volume of The Papers of Francis Bernard records the reaction of the roy...
View full detailsRepertoires and Choices in African Languages
Friederike Lüpke, Anne Storch
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• Author(s): Friederike Lüpke | Anne Storch • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsMost African languages are spoken by communities as one of several languages present on a dai...
View full detailsSchreibende Frauen Um 1500: Scriptorium Und Bibliothek Des Dominikanerinnenklosters St. Katharina St. Gallen
Simone Mengis
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• Author(s): Simone Mengis • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: MedievalDie Konventualinnen des Dominikanerinnenklosters St. Katharina St. Gallen, das nie die Inkorporation in den Orden erlangte und sich in der zweiten...
View full detailsFreiheit / Freedom
Jürgen Stolzenberg, Fred Rush
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• Author(s): Jürgen Stolzenberg | Fred Rush • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernFreedom is one of the central themes of classical German philosophy. For Kant freedom is the "keystone of t...
View full detailsThe Social Work Interview: Fifth Edition
Alfred Kadushin
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• Author(s): Alfred Kadushin • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GerontologyThe only textbook to outline the skills social workers need to conduct effective client interviews, this volume...
View full detailsDas Bibelepos in der Frühen Neuzeit
Ralf Georg Czapla
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• Author(s): Ralf Georg Czapla • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: European - GermanAls Vermittler zwischen dem lateinischen Epos, wie es in Vergils "Aeneis" idealtypische Form gefunden hat, und der Bibel als dem Buch...
View full detailsAny Questions?: Identity Construction in Academic Conference Discussions
Carmen Konzett
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• Author(s): Carmen Konzett • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThis book explores how academics at conferences co-construct their own and each other's professional identiti...
View full detailsMalaysia in the World Economy (1824-2011): Capitalism, Ethnic Divisions, and "Managed" Democracy
Azlan Tajuddin
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• Author(s): Azlan Tajuddin • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaFrom colonialism to independent statehood, the extent of Malaysia's capitalist development has been dramatically limited b...
View full detailsReading and Writing in the Global Workplace: Gender, Literacy, and Outsourcing in Ghana
Beatrice Quarshie Smith
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• Author(s): Beatrice Quarshie Smith • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialReading and Writing in the Global Workplace: Gender, Literacy, and Outsourcing in Ghana by Beatric...
View full detailsAs the Spider Spins
João Constâncio, Maria João Mayer Branco
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• Author(s): João Constâncio | Maria João Mayer Branco • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: MetaphysicsNietzsche's metaphor of the spider that spins its cobweb expresses his critique of the metaphysical use of language...
View full detailsGrammatical Replication and Borrowability in Language Contact
Björn Wiemer, Bernhard Wälchli, Björn Hansen
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• Author(s): Björn Wiemer | Bernhard Wälchli | Björn Hansen • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThe volume presents new insights into two basic theoretical issue...
View full detailsDer jesuitische Heroidenbrief
Jost Eickmeyer
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• Author(s): Jost Eickmeyer • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: European - GermanZwischen 1514 und 1663 wurde die antike Gattung des Heroidenbriefes nahezu ausschlie lich von neulateinischen Dichtern gepflegt. Da der ...
View full detailsOrthography as Social Action: Scripts, Spelling, Identity and Power
Alexandra Jaffe, Jannis Androutsopoulos, Mark Sebba
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• Author(s): Alexandra Jaffe | Jannis Androutsopoulos | Mark Sebba • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe chapters in this edited volume explore the sociolinguistic implications of ...
View full detailsNarrating Desire: Eros, Sex, and Gender in the Ancient Novel
Marília P. Futre Pinheiro, Marilyn B. Skinner, Froma I. Zeitlin
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• Author(s): Marília P. Futre Pinheiro | Marilyn B. Skinner | Froma I. Zeitlin • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalRepresentation of desiring subjects in the novel is one of the most illuminating ...
View full details10 Jahre Staatswissenschaftliche Fakultät
Arno Scherzberg
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• Author(s): Arno Scherzberg • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: PublicDas 10-jährige Jubiläum der Staatswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Erfurt, im Mai 2000 mit Vertretern aus Rechts-, Sozial- und Wirtscha...
View full detailsPerspectives on the Formation of the Book of the Twelve: Methodological Foundations - Redactional Processes - Historical Insights
Rainer Albertz, James D. Nogalski, Jakob Wöhrle
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• Author(s): Rainer Albertz | James D. Nogalski | Jakob Wöhrle • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - Old TestamentThe formation of the Book of the Twelve is one of the most vigo...
View full detailsReflections on Religious Individuality: Greco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian Texts and Practices
Jörg Rüpke, Wolfgang Spickermann
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• Author(s): Jörg Rüpke | Wolfgang Spickermann • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - New TestamentThis volume will concentrate its search for religious individuality on texts an...
View full detailsCommunication on and Via Technology
Annely Rothkegel, Sonja Ruda
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• Author(s): Annely Rothkegel | Sonja Ruda • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe interdependency of technology and communication presents theoreticians as well as practitioners wit...
View full detailsPeriods in Pop Culture: Menstruation in Film and Television
Lauren Rosewarne
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• Author(s): Lauren Rosewarne • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Popular CultureMenstruation seldom gets a starring role on screen despite being experienced regularly by nearly all women for a good many dec...
View full detailsJazz Griots: Music as History in the 1960s African American Poem
Jean-Philippe Marcoux
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• Author(s): Jean-Philippe Marcoux • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Black StudiesThis book studies how four representative African American poets of the ...
View full detailsAmerican Art Song and American Poetry
Ruth C. Friedberg, Robin Fisher, Thomas Hampson
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• Author(s): Ruth C. Friedberg | Robin Fisher | Thomas Hampson • Publisher: Scarecrow Press • Publisher Imprint: Scarecrow Press • BISAC: Discography & Buyer's GuidesPublished 50 years after the last major treatment of American art song, the ...
View full detailsAfrican American Experience: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Salman Akhtar, Shawn Blue, Jennifer Bonovitz
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• Author(s): Salman Akhtar | Shawn Blue | Jennifer Bonovitz • Publisher: Jason Aronson • Publisher Imprint: Jason Aronson • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionThis book compiles the contributions of mental health professionals, and schola...
View full detailsFriendship in an Age of Economics: Resisting the Forces of Neoliberalism
Todd May
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• Author(s): Todd May • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: PoliticalThis is the first book not only to detail the relationships neoliberalism encourages us to have but also to see how friendship can provide a...
View full detailsParadoxes of Religious Toleration in Early Modern Political Thought
John Christian Laursen, Maria Jose Villaverde, Joaquín Abellán
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• Author(s): John Christian Laursen | Maria Jose Villaverde | Joaquín Abellán • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Religion, Politics & StateThe early modern theories of religious toleration that were so ...
View full detailsTheology and Public Philosophy: Four Conversations
Cecilia Rodriguez Castillo, Charles Taylor, Kenneth L. Grasso
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• Author(s): Cecilia Rodriguez Castillo | Charles Taylor | Kenneth L. Grasso • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralThis volume brings together eminent theologians, philosophers an...
View full detailsBeyond Secularism and Jihad?: A Triangular Inquiry into the Mosque, the Manger, and Modernity
Peter D. Beaulieu
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• Author(s): Peter D. Beaulieu • Publisher: University Press of America • Publisher Imprint: University Press of America • BISAC: Comparative ReligionPeter D. Beaulieu examines the challenges to secular modernity and Islam as they encounter one a...
View full detailsMoses Mendelssohns Sprachpolitik
Grit Schorch
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• Author(s): Grit Schorch • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Jewish - GeneralGrit Schorch hat die erste umfassende Untersuchung zur Sprachauffassung des jüdischen Philosophen Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) vorgelegt u...
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Die Sprache Und Das Schöne: Karl Philipp Moritz' Sprachreflexionen in Verbindung Mit Seiner Ästhetik
Die Sprache Und Das Schöne: Karl Philipp Moritz' Sprachreflexionen in Verbindung Mit Seiner Ästhetik
Adrian Aebi Farahmand
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• Author(s): Adrian Aebi Farahmand • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: GermanKarl Philipp Moritz (1756-1793) ist bekannt als Autor des Anton Reiser und als Ästhetiker der Klassik. Heute vergessen hingegen ist der Arbe...
View full detailsGiovenale, Satira IV: Introduzione, Traduzione E Commento
Biagio Santorelli
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• Author(s): Biagio Santorelli • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Ancient - RomeEin riesiger Steinbutt wird Kaiser Domitian �berreicht, der daraufhin sein Kabinett einberuft, um die beste Art, den Fisch zuzubereiten,...
View full detailsDas System der Partikelverben mit "an"
Marc Felfe
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• Author(s): Marc Felfe • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: GermanFür produktive Bildungen und für bestehende transparente sowie nicht bzw. teiltransparente Partikelverben mit "an" wird ein Analyseformat erarbeitet. K...
View full detailsArchaeology and the Biblical Record
Bernard Alpert, Fran Alpert
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• Author(s): Bernard Alpert | Fran Alpert • Publisher: Hamilton Books • Publisher Imprint: Hamilton Books • BISAC: ArchaeologyArchaeology and the Biblical Record challenges both Jewish and Christian biblical scholars to rethink basic assumptions ...
View full detailsPaths to Dark Energy: Theory and Observation
Gene Byrd, Arthur D. Chernin, Pekka Teerikorpi
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• Author(s): Gene Byrd | Arthur D. Chernin | Pekka Teerikorpi • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: AppliedThis work provides the current theory and observations behind the cosmological phenomenon of dark energy. The ap...
View full detailsEpistemic Meaning: A Crosslinguistic and Functional-Cognitive Study
Kasper Boye
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• Author(s): Kasper Boye • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThis book is intended to contribute to the clarification of the linguistic research area covered by the terms modal, ev...
View full detailsDer Berliner "jüdische Salon" um 1800
Hannah Lotte Lund
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• Author(s): Hannah Lotte Lund • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Europe - GermanyThis volume, which draws on new sources, presents the Jewish salons of Berlin around 1800 as a lively and at the same time fragile net...
View full detailsFeelings of Being Alive
Joerg Fingerhut, Sabine Marienberg
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• Author(s): Joerg Fingerhut | Sabine Marienberg • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThe question of what characterizes feelings of being alive is a puzzling and controversial one. Are we...
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