Brill jan 2001 (64 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In the late colonial period (1870-1942), the Outer Islands of Indonesia formed a dynamic area. The economic development of these islands outside Java is analysed in this book by focusing on the enormous increase in trade after 1900. The Outer Islands are described individually and as a gro…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In late 1997 Indonesia's economy went into a tail-spin, culminating in social and political upheavals that saw Soeharto's resignation in May 1998, and resulting in a succession of presidents as Indonesia entered a period of democratization. These events are well known, even to casual obser…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'By focusing on the forms of religious expression which the sixth-century prophets condemn, we can begin to apprehend the diversity which characterized exilic religion. Moreover, by recognizing the polemical nature of the prophetic critiques and by resolving to read these critiques without…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Part 1 of this study is a glossary with comparative analysis of non-normative Akkadian forms, Hittite and Hurrian words, West Semitic lexemes, and words of uncertain origin, with special attention given to the West Semitic forms. Part 2 consists of grammatical observations pertaining to th…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Hebrew Bible contains varying opinions concerning which cultic items or objects used in worship were appropriate for use within YHWHism and which were not. By analyzing every passage which mentions 'high places' (bamot), sacred trees or poles (asherim), standing stones, altars, and cul…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Over the past 50 years, major changes have taken place in the distribution of aquatic plants in Europe. Many species have declined whilst other species have increased in abundance or spread, including several that were originally introduced from the New World. Despite the relative richness…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Neurasthenia, meaning nerve weakness, was 'invented' in the United States as a disorder of modernity, caused by the fast pace of urban life. Soon after, from the early 1880s onwards, this modern disease crossed the Atlantic. Neurasthenia became much less 'popular' in Britain or the Netherl…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The present volume is the first to address the interrelationship between Goethe's scientific thought and work, his ideas on art and literary oeuvre, and chaos and complexity theories. The eleven studies assembled in it treat one or more elements or aspects of this interrelationship, rangin…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This study investigates the connections between nineteenth-century pioneer women in Canada and their putative twentieth-century biographers in Anglo-Canadian women's fiction by Carol Shields (Small Ceremonies, 1976), Daphne Marlatt (Ana Historic, 1988), and Susan Swan (The Biggest Modern W…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A Guide to Negotiation and Mediation is written in a progressive, building-block fashion, moving from simple to more complex ideas. The first section covers basic negotiating strategies, concepts, and tactics; the next discusses cognitive and psychological aspects of negotiation. The book…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The first two volumes on patrimonialism in Ugarit and the ancient Near East, this book opens with a lengthy introduction on the interpretation of social action and households in the ancient world. Following this foundation, Schloen embarks on a societal and domestic study of the Late Bronz…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This is a strongly revised edition of the authors' An illustrated Key to European Sesiidae published in 1995. This book was printed in a very limited edition and was soon out of print. The Sesiidae of Europe contains comprehensive information on all European species of this Lepidoptera family of…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This literature-centered study offers an interdisciplinary approach to Romantic culture. If is pioneering in that it employs the complexity method of anthropology. Recent literary studies employ the complexity/chaos theory adapted from the natural sciences; however, here is presented for t…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Lepidoptera are without doubt the best known insect order in today's Europe. Nevertheless there is still a great lack of knowledge in some groups, such as the Geometridae. The northern and central European fauna is relatively well known, but the distribution and bionomics of a number of speci…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Mozart's Piano Concertos, especially those composed during the years 1784-'91, are still held in high esteem, two centuries later, by both amateur music-lovers and professional musicians. Strangely enough, only very few comprehensive studies exist on this remarkable section of Mozart's out…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book examines core concerns of human life. What is the relationship between a meaningful life and theism Why are some human beings radically adrift, without radical foundations, and struggling with hopelessness Is the cosmos meaningless Is human life akin to the ancient Myth of Sisyph…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Peu de cultures sont aussi marquées par les multiples représentations de l'espace que celles du Canada francophone. C'est par ces représentations, d'une étonnante richesse, que se comprennent aujourd'hui les notions d'identité, de classe, de langue, de communauté nationale et de généricité…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The list has about 280 author entries covering at least 1800 editions of more than 365 titles. Included are all architectural books known by the compilers that were written between 1460 and 1640 regardless of when they were first published. Dubious editions are identified, and 'ghosts' avo…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 2002 will mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Saint Genet. Ever since that date, Jean Genet's work has largely been read and interpreted through Sartre's analysis of the author. In this study, the author seeks to liberate Genet's fiction from the philosopher's stranglehold and…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Cinquième Colloque de Linguistique Romane/Fifth Colloquium on Romance Linguistics, which was held at Groningen University in September 1998. The theme of the colloquium was 'adverbial modification in Romance languages'.Therefore,…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - While there is overwhelming evidence that nationalism reached its peak in the later nineteenth century, views about when precisely national thinking and sentiment became strong enough to override all other forms of collective unity differ considerably. When one looks for the historical mom…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This study offers new perspectives on Wolfgang Koeppen, a writer too often consigned to the margins of post-1945 literary history. Examining the interaction of the personal and the social in Koeppen's writings, this book demonstrates that the politics of his works are inherent to their for…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This volume focuses on the relationship between time, narrative and the fixed image. As such, it highlights renewed interest in the temporality of the fixed image, probably one of the most important trends in the formal and semiotic analysis of visual media in the past decade.The various e…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book aims to show the many resources at our disposal for grappling with the Holocaust as the darkest occurrence of the twentieth century. These wide-ranging studies on philosophy, history, and literature address the way the Holocaust had led to the reconceptualization of the humanitie…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Why do so many contemporary British novels revert to the Victorian tradition in order to find a new source of inspiration What does it mean from an ideological point of view to build a modern form of art by resurrecting and recycling an art of the past From a formal point of view what are…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - These papers reflect the long and distinguished career of Professor Jane Roberts in the field of medieval English studies, and especially her pioneering work on A Thesaurus of Old English, which provides novel source material for several of the contributions to the volume. Many of the pape…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Paradigms Found is an indispensable book for students and teachers of Shakespeare, and for anyone interested in the diverse ways in which his plays are read and taught at the start of the twenty-first century. It traces the paradigm shift in Shakespeare studies which, beginning in the 1970…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Der Band Literaturvermittlung um 1900 enthält neun Fallstudien, in denen an ausgewählten Beispielen die Voraussetzungen, Prozesse und Ergebnisse der Literaturvermittlung in den deutschen Sprachraum hinein untersucht werden. Als Ausgangssprachen/-literaturen werden das Jiddische, das Skandi…