brill jul 2011 (53 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - No detailed description available for 'Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on the Assessment of Animal Welfare at the Farm and Group Level'.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - No detailed description available for 'Scientific evaluation of behavior, welfare and enrichment'.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - During recent decades much has been written about early modern book distribution, but until now Norway has been absent from the discussion. Drawing on book listings, this study seeks to fill this lacuna by exploring the market for books in early modern Norway. Its approach is multifaceted: consideration of the types of books accessed by different elements of Norwegian society is set alongside developments within the book market itself, such as the extended life of popular books, the gradual replacement of Latin by the vernacular and the rise in the eighteenth century in the number of books available on the market. The study demonstrates the internationality of the Norwegian book market while acknowledging specific patterns that determine its Norwegian character.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In the study of Indian art prior to the Mughal period, portraiture has so far been much neglected, when its existence has not simply been denied. This book is an attempt to reassess this issue, by showing that portraits have existed in great number in early India, since probably the first artistic achievements. Through a close scrutiny of sculpted and (more rarely) painted images brought together with textual and epigraphical references, it aims at highlighting the specificities of Indian portraiture, its relationship with divine images and, consequently, at understanding the development of Indian imagery. It questions also the social and religious implications related to this issue.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Views culturally responsive teaching as a contextual and situational process for both teachers and students-the students-including those who are from a diversity of languages, cultures, racial/ethnic backgrounds, religions, economic resources, interests, abilities, and life experiences.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Scholarship on ancient Pyrrhonism has made tremendous advances over the past three decades, thanks especially to the careful reexamination of Sextus Empiricus' extant corpus. Building on this momentum, the authors of the eight essays collected here examine some of the most vexed and intriguing exegetical and philosophical questions posed by Sextus' presentation of this form of skepticism. The essays explore in a new light the skeptical interpretation of Plato, the differences between Pyrrhonism and Cyrenaicism, the Pyrrhonist's stance on ordinary life, religion, language, and ethics, Sextus' discussion of our access to our own mental states, and the relationship between Pyrrhonism and epistemic internalism and externalism. These new essays represent a substantial contribution to the advancement of scholarship on Pyrrhonian skepticism.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Monsters of the Market investigates modern capitalism through the prism of the body panics it arouses. Examining Frankenstein, Marx's Capital and zombie fables from sub-Saharan Africa, it offers a novel account of the cultural and corporeal economy of global capitalism.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This volume addresses the conjoint problem of history and sociology. History has seen religion hold varied places within the timeline of the sociology of religion.The increase in world fundamentalisms, religious movements, private spiritualities and other indicators in the millennial age have today brought a renaissance to the field.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This collection of essays analyzes the role of demons and the devil in ancient and medieval Christianity. Proceeding from a variety of scholarly perspectives--historical, philosophical and theological, as well as philological, liturgical and theoretical--the volume's diverse approach matches the complexity of its chosen theme.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Life at the Bottom of Babylonian Society is a study of the population dynamics, family structure, and legal status of publicly-controlled servile workers in Kassite Babylonia. It compares some of the demographic aspects proper to this group with other intensively studied past populations, such as Roman Egypt, Medieval Tuscany, and American slave plantations. It suggests that families, especially those headed by single mothers, acted as a counter measure against population reduction (flight and death) and as a means for the state to control this labor force. The work marks a step forward in the use of quantitative measures in conjunction with cuneiform sources to achieve a better understanding of the social and economic forces that affected ancient Near Eastern populations.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book makes visible an important but neglected aspect of Christian missions: its transnational character. Missionaries considered themselves global actors, yet they operated within a variety of nation-states. The volume demonstrates how processes on a national level are closely linked to larger transnational processes.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Scholars often explain Hebrews' relative silence regarding Jesus' resurrection by emphasizing the author's appeal to Yom Kippur's two key moments--the sacrificial slaughter and the high priest's presentation of blood in the holy of holies--in his distinctive portrayal of Jesus' death and heavenly exaltation. The writer's depiction of Jesus as the high priest whose blood effected ultimate atonement appears to be modeled upon these two moments. Such a typology discourages discrete reflection on Jesus' resurrection. Drawing on contemporary studies of Jewish sacrifice (which note that blood represents life, not death), parallels in Jewish apocalyptic literature, and fresh exegetical insights, this volume demonstrates that Jesus' embodied, resurrected life is crucial for the high-priestly Christology and sacrificial soteriology developed in Hebrews.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion publishes empirical and theoretical studies of religion from a wide range of disciplines and from all parts of the globe. A special section is devoted to the issue of psychological type and religion and especially how psychological type can increase our understanding of Christian ministry. Alongside this section are papers presenting studies on subjects such as civic participation, suffering with God, and spirituality. Together these papers represent important contributions that advance theory and evidence in a number of different fields of contemporary relevance to the study of religion. Contributors to the present volume include: William L. Smith, Pidi Zhang, G, Michael Leffel, Keith M. Wilson, Ronan Bernas, Liza Benovenli, Elizabeth Fuller, Ja Sinnott, Sarah Waterman, Andrew Village, Leslie J. Francis, Mandy Robbins, Keith Wulff, Christopher F.J. Ross, Michael Whinney, Lewis Burton, Bruce G. Fawcett, David Tilley, Susan H. Jones, and Andrew Ryland.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The contributions in this volume represent an inflection point in the delimitation and understanding of the notion of procedural meaning and open new paths for future research.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This collection of essays honours Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) as a Platonic philosopher. Ficino was not the first translator of Plato in the Renaissance, but he was the first to translate the entire corpus of Platonic works, and to emphasise their relevance for contemporary readers. The present work is divided into two sections: the first explores aspects of Ficino's own thought and the sources which he used. The second section follows aspects of his influence in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The papers presented here deepen and enrich our understanding of Ficino, and of the philosophical tradition in which he was working, and they offer a new platform for future studies on Ficino and his legacy in Renaissance philosophy. Contributors include: Unn Irene Aasdalen, Constance Blackwell, Paul Richard Blum, Stephen Clucas, Ruth Clydesdale, Brian Copenhaver, John Dillon, Peter J. Forshaw, James Hankins, Hiro Hirai, Sarah Klitenic Wear, David Leech, Letizia Panizza, Valery Rees, and Stéphane Toussaint.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This first full-length biography of Dr. Martin Lister (1639-1712), vice-president of the Royal Society, Royal Physician, and the first arachnologist and conchologist, provides an unprecedented picture of a seventeenth-century virtuoso. Lister is recognized for his discovery of ballooning spiders and as the father of conchology, but it is less well known that he invented the histogram, provided Newton with alloys, and donated the first significant natural history collections to the Ashmolean Museum. Just as Lister was the first to make a systematic study of spiders and their webs, this biography is the first to analyze the significant webs of knowledge, patronage, and familial and gender relationships that governed his life as a scientist and physician.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Whether States, coalitions of States or inter-governmental organizations can engage in humanitarian intervention lawfully without the UN Security Council¿s authorization has been debated at length. Following NATO¿s intervention in Kosovo in 1999, the international lawgiver had to act. The result was the concept of the responsibility to protect. But the fundamental question of the legality of humanitarian intervention remained. This book takes a new approach by combining legal theory and international law. Legal theory enables the concept of legal validity to be better understood and permits the question to be evaluated thoroughly in international law. The outcome is that the international lawgiver has to confront the hard problem whether or not there is enough interest for human rights protection.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - International crimes such as genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes as well as other gross human rights violations are manifestations of collective violence which endanger international peace and security. and warrant our full attention. It however takes a multi- and interdisciplinary approach to understand the true nature and causes of this type of criminality. The aim of this book is to take such an approach and to provide university students, scholars, professionals and practitioners within the field with the knowledge they need. The legal background and particularities of international crimes; the social context in which these crimes are committed as well as the perpetrators and bystanders thereof are studied. Within the book many case studies are presented as illustrations.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The legend of Alexander has history of more than two thousand years, and its incredibly diverse medieval linguistic traditions have never been drawn together in a single volume: readers have to deal with a myriad of articles scattered over journals and theme collections concerning both western and non-western recensions, which outpace the ability of editors, literary historians, and bibliographers to digest and catalogue them. The last collection of essays is Ross s 1985 Studies in the Alexander Romance. A new book would also follow on from the Companion to Alexander the Great commissioned for our classics list. The chapters would offer: a critical overview of current research in the major linguistic traditions, written by 14 experts in the field.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Presenting a large body of evidence for the first time, this book offers a comprehensive treatment of Nubian architecture, sculpture, and minor arts in the period between 300 BC-AD 250. It focuses primarily on the Nubian response to the traditional pharaonic, Hellenistic/Roman, Hellenizing, and 'hybrid' elements of Ptolemaic and Roman Egyptian culture. The author begins with a history of Nubian art and a critical survey of the literature on Ptolemaic and Roman Egyptian art. Special chapters are then devoted to the discussion of the Egyptian-Greek interaction in the arts of Ptolemaic Egypt, the place of Egyptian Hellenistic and Hellenizing art within the oikumene, the pluralistic visual world of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt, as well as on the specific genre of terracotta sculpture. Utilizing examples from Meroe City and Musawwarat es Sufra, the author argues that cultural transfer from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt to Nubia resulted in an inward-focused adaptation. Therefore, the resulting Nubian art from this period expresses only those aspects of Egyptian and Greek art that are compatible with indigenous Nubian goals.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Until 1898, Chinese and foreign scholars agreed that China had never known, needed, or desired a field of study similar in scope and purpose to European logic. Less than a decade later, Chinese literati claimed that the discipline had been part of the empire's learned heritage for more than two millennia. This book analyzes the conceptual, ideological, and institutional transformations that made this drastic change of opinion possible and acceptable. Reconstructing the discovery of Chinese logic as a paradigmatic case of the epistemic shifts that continue to shape interpretations of China's intellectual history, it offers a fresh view of the formation of modern academic discourses in East Asia and adds a neglected chapter to the global histories of science and philosophy.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Explicitly acknowledging its status as a stri-sudra-veda (a Veda for women and the downtrodden), the Mahabharata articulates a promise to bring knowledge of right conduct, fundamental ethical, philosophical, and soteriological teachings, and its own grand narrative to all classes of people and all beings. Hiltebeitel shows how the Mahabharata has more than lived up to this promise at least on the ground in Indian folk traditions. In this three-part volume, he journeys over the overlapping terrains of the south Indian cults of Draupadi (part I) and Kutta??avar (part II), to explore how the Mahabharata continues to be such a vital source of meaning, and, in part III, then connects this vital tradition to wider reflections on prehistory, sacrifice, myth, oral epic, and modern theatre.This two volume edition collects nearly three decades of Alf Hiltebeitel's researches into the Indian epic and religious tradition. The two volumes document Hiltebeitel's longstanding fascination with the Sanskrit epics: volume 1 presents a series of appreciative readings of the Mahabharata (and to a lesser extent, the Ramaya?a), while volume 2 focuses on what Hiltebeitel has called 'the underground Mahabharata,' i.e., the Mahabharata as it is still alive in folk and vernacular traditions. Recently re-edited and with a new set of articles completing a trajectory Hiltebeitel established over 30 years ago, this work constitutes a definitive statement from this major scholar. Comprehensive indices, cross-referencing, and an exhaustive bibliography make it an essential reference work. For more information on the first volume please click here.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The volume brings together important essays on syntax and semantics by Aikhenvald and Dixon, highlighting their expertise in various fields of linguistics. The first part focusses on linguistic typology, covering case markers used on verbs, argument-determined constructions, unusual meanings of causatives, the semantic basis for a typology, word-class-changing derivations, speech reports and semi-direct speech. The second part concentrates on documentation and analysis of previously undescribed languages, from South America and Indigenous Australia. The third part addresses a variety of issues in grammar and lexicography of English. This includes pronouns with transferred reference, comparative constructions, features of the noun phrase, and the discussion of 'twice'. The treatment of Australian Aboriginal words in dictionaries is discussed in the final chapter.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Bringing together Hiltebeitel's major essays on the the Mahabharata, the Ramaya?a, and the south Indian cults of Draupadi and Kutta??avar along with new articles written especially for this collection, this two volume work offers a comprehensive re-reading of the Indian epic tradition by the foremost scholar in Indian epic studies today.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - These proceedings present the results of the 11th International Colloquium on Gregory of Nyssa held in Tübingen in 2008. The Trinitarian thought of Gregory deserves special attention because of its importance for the ending of the Trinitarian controversy in the late fourth century, paving the way for the widely accepted Trinitarian theology in the fifth century. This volume (which does not include Contra Eunomium) offers a contribution to the research on Gregory's Trinitarian theology as it is present notably in his so-called minor treatises. It provides a German translation of Ad Eustathium, Ad Graecos, Ad Ablabium, Ad Simplicium, Adversus Macedonianos, and De deitate filii. Detailed analysis of each treatise is accompanied by supporting studies on related theological and philosophical themes, followed by contributions which take into consideration the link between Gregory's Trinitarian thought and the christological question (In illud tunc et ipse filius, the anti-Apollinarist works).

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This volume is the combined effort of over thirty scholars. They analyize Callimachus, the 3rd-century Alexandrian poet, from literary and technical perspectives, reception and influence. It is designed to facilitate the work of scholars and teachers in the classroom.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Dieses Buch bietet Ärzten, Psychologen, Therapeuten und Betreuungs- bzw. Pflegepersonen eine umfassende interdisziplinäre Darstellung zum Thema Sexualität im Alter. Autoren aus den unterschiedlichsten Fachrichtungen behandeln die psychischen, physischen und sozialen Veränderungen, die sich im Laufe des Alterungsprozesses ergeben. Sexualität wird in ihrer facettenreichen Gesamtheit im menschlichen Leben betrachtet. Themen wie Schamgefühl, Intimität und Sprache werden sowohl theoretisch behandelt als auch mit Anregungen für den Berufsalltag angereichert. Formen körperlicher Nähe von in Institutionen lebenden Menschen - untereinander bzw. zum Betreuenden - werden diskutiert. Schließlich wird das Thema Sexualität und Alter um historische, ethische, kulturelle und religiöse Aspekte erweitert.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Among the hundred or so tombs of post-Alexander date excavated by Roman Ghirshman between 1947 and 1952 on the mound of the 'Ville des Artisans' at Susa, six are remarkable for their construction and burial contents. Shortly before his death in 1979, Ghirshman, director of the French 'Mission de Suse' from 1946 until 1968, had started to write up his final report. Based on his notes, the authors have engaged to publish these tombs, together with the original plans, drawings and photographs of the burial goods. The grave contents consisted mainly of pottery, but also included glass vessels, figurines, metal objects and other small finds. The study of the material from these large vaulted subterranean structures indicates that they were most likely intended as family tombs, thus remaining in use for several decades and should be dated in the first or second century AD. Similar tombs are known at other sites in the region of Susa, and even in Mesopotamia, e.g. at Seleucia on the Tigris. A synthesis of the evolution in tomb architecture and typology, as well as the burial practices, for the whole site of Susa between the Seleucid and early Sasanian periods (third century BC to third century AD), is also presented, based on the short reports and unpublished excavation notes of Ghirshman, in addition to unpublished reports by his predecessors at the site.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Am 11. September 2001 erschütterten die Terroranschläge von New York und Washington die Welt. Das Buch unternimmt einen Rückblick auf dieses Ereignis, das sich auch auf Europa in vielfacher Weise ausgewirkt hat. Wie hat man in Europa auf die Terroranschläge reagiert, wie wurden sie wahrgenommen und gedeutet und welche politischen Konsequenzen haben sich daraus ergeben Diesen Fragen gehen die Autorinnen und Autoren in ihren Beiträgen über Deutschland, Großbritannien, Frankreich, Polen und das neutrale Österreich exemplarisch nach. Die europaweiten Debatten über den Irakkrieg und das damit einhergehende brüchige Verhältnis zwischen Europa und den USA werden ebenso beleuchtet wie 9/11 als Medienereignis. Thematisiert werden auch die Kontroversen über Amerikakritik und Antiamerikanismus einerseits sowie über Terror, Sicherheit und Islam(feindlichkeit) andererseits.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Was ist der Hintergrund des Aufruhrs in der arabischen Welt Woher kommt der Zorn der jungen Männer Auf der Suche nach Erklärungen für dieses Phänomen vergleicht Heiner Mühlmann die arabische mit der europäischen Kultur und kommt zu eindeutigen Ergebnissen: Es ist die Übermacht der Männer im Alter von 15 bis 29 Jahren, deren Aggressionspotential durch die generationenübergreifende arabische Sexualmoral angefacht wird. Dieses Aggressionspotential scheint messbar, seine Folgen determiniert zu sein. Der Vergleich führt aber auch zu interessanten Erkenntnissen über die europäische Kultur. Gerade weil die Europäer sich selbst für aggressionslos halten, ist ihre Aggressivität heimtückischer. Besonders auffällig ist, dass die arabisch-islamische Aggressivität die Erscheinung der individuellen Tugend hat, dass dagegen die europäische Aggressivität institutionell funktioniert. Sie steckt nicht in den Europäern selbst, sondern in der Struktur ihrer Staatseinrichtungen.