Brill mai 2026 (92 risultati)

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Im Ersten Weltkrieg war der Panzer ein völlig neuartiges Waffensystem. Die erste große Panzeroffensive fand am 20. November 1917 südwestlich der nordfranzösischen Stadt Cambrai statt. Sieben britische Divisionen und das gesamte Tank Corps griffen einen Abschnitt der sogenannten 'Siegfried-Linie' an. Das zwar gut ausgebaute, aber eher schwach besetzte Stellungssystem wurde von den britischen Angreifern zu Beginn der Schlacht durchstoßen. Führungsfehler und der sich verstärkende deutsche Widerstand verhinderten jedoch einen vollständigen operativen Erfolg. Zehn Tage später überraschten die deutschen Divisionen im Gegenangriff den britischen Gegner und eroberten das verloren gegangene Terrain wieder zurück.Karsten Richter beschreibt in seinem Buch die Vorgeschichte, den Verlauf der Schlacht, ausgewählte Soldatenfriedhöfe als Erinnerungsorte und besondere Ereignisse, die mit dieser Operation in Verbindung stehen. Cambrai 1917 bildet den Ausgangspunkt der mechanisierten Kriegführung im 20. Jahrhundert. 268 pp. Deutsch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Im Ersten Weltkrieg war der Panzer ein völlig neuartiges Waffensystem. Die erste große Panzeroffensive fand am 20. November 1917 südwestlich der nordfranzösischen Stadt Cambrai statt. Sieben britische Divisionen und das gesamte Tank Corps griffen einen Abschnitt der sogenannten 'Siegfried-Linie' an. Das zwar gut ausgebaute, aber eher schwach besetzte Stellungssystem wurde von den britischen Angreifern zu Beginn der Schlacht durchstoßen. Führungsfehler und der sich verstärkende deutsche Widerstand verhinderten jedoch einen vollständigen operativen Erfolg. Zehn Tage später überraschten die deutschen Divisionen im Gegenangriff den britischen Gegner und eroberten das verloren gegangene Terrain wieder zurück.Karsten Richter beschreibt in seinem Buch die Vorgeschichte, den Verlauf der Schlacht, ausgewählte Soldatenfriedhöfe als Erinnerungsorte und besondere Ereignisse, die mit dieser Operation in Verbindung stehen. Cambrai 1917 bildet den Ausgangspunkt der mechanisierten Kriegführung im 20. Jahrhundert. 268 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book is the winner of the 2020 Joseph Levenson Pre-1900 Book Prize, awarded by the Association for Asian Studies. In Song Dynasty Figures of Longing and Desire, Lara Blanchard analyzes images of women in painting and poetry of China's middle imperial period, focusing on works that represent female figures as preoccupied with romance. She discusses examples of visual and literary culture in regard to their authorship and audience, examining the role of interiority in constructions of gender, exploring the rhetorical functions of romantic images, and considering connections between subjectivity and representation. The paintings in particular have sometimes been interpreted as simple representations of the daily lives of women, or as straightforward artifacts of heteroerotic desire; Blanchard proposes that such works could additionally be interpreted as political allegories, representations of the artist's or patron's interiorities, or models of idealized femininity.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Koinonia has become the standard by which any biblically founded ecclesiology is measured. It serves as the foundation upon which ecumenical dialogue concerning the nature and purpose of the Church is built. Universal communion ecclesiology has emerged as increasingly prominent within the ecumenical movement, and many now consider it the foundation of ecumenism and of ecclesiological discourse. Communion ecclesiology has proven popular not only in Faith and Order Papers on the Church, originating in the World Council of Churches, but also in a number of bilateral dialogues and among noteworthy theologians across the ecumenical spectrum. Unfortunately, Pentecostal theologians have neither readily embraced this concept of the Church nor entered into the theological discourse in meaningful ways of significant impact. Few Pentecostal theologians have entered the conversation at all. The relative lack of attention to the subject by Pentecostal theologians demonstrates the significant need for this study. This study discusses the relevance of communion ecclesiology to both the ecumenical movement and Pentecostalism. It examines the ecclesiological views of Simon Chan, Miroslav Volf, and Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, exploring how they help facilitate a more robust Pentecostal ecclesiology that has the capacity to engage in ecumenical dialogue.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - For many centuries Buddhism and Brahmanism coexisted in the Indian subcontinent. This book concentrates on the way in which the two, after an initial period of relative independence, confronted each other, both in and around the royal courts and in society at large. In this confrontation, Buddhism was strong in philosophical debate, but could not compete with Brahmanism in the services it could provide to the centres of political power, primarily ritual protection and practical advice. Buddhism evolved in both areas, providing practical advice to lay people and rulers from early Mahayana onward, and ritual protection in its Tantric developments. Some of these developments came too late, though, and could not prevent the disappearance of Buddhism from the subcontinent.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In 1961 Robert van Gulik published his pioneering overview of Sexual Life in Ancient China. This edition of the work is preceded by an elaborate Introduction by Paul Rakita Goldin assessing the value of Van Gulik's volume, the subject itself, and its author. The introduction is followed by an extensive and up-to-date Bibliography on the subject, which guides the modern reader in the literature on the field which appeared after the publication of Van Gulik's volume. One of the criticisms in 1961 regarded the Latin translations of passages deemed too explicit by Van Gulik. In this 2002 edition all Latin has for the first time been translated into unambiguous English, thus making the full text widely available to an academic audience. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book offers no less than a radically different view of the Koryo state. Until now scholarship failed to recognize the complicated historical descent, byzantine international relations and multiple incommensurable worldviews of the early Korean Koryo state (918-1170). Instead, it subjected these to reductionist categories favouring reified particulars over broader views. Asking how Koryo meaningfully dealt with its environment, Remco Breuker rejects the reduction of Koryo intellectual abundance to analytical categories, and emphasizes the functional importance of Koryo's pluralism in allowing the notion that realities were scattered, inconsistent and plural. Here is a convincing argument that Koryo's pluralism decisively contributed to the formation of a region-transcending communal identity that enabled Koryo to engage in a civilizational competition with neighbouring Chinese and Manchurian states, while maintaining a dynamic but stable society domestically.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'The reprinting in 2007 of a book originally produced nearly fifty years earlier (and based on a doctoral dissertation begun in the early 1950s) is not merely a publishing event. It constitutes a milestone in the academic study of early Chinese Buddhism that shows at once both how far the field has progressed in the past half-century as well as how fundamental the book remains.'(From the new Introduction.)At the repeated request of many scholars and students here is a new edition of E. Zürcher's groundbreaking The Buddhist Conquest of China. In his extensive introduction Stephen F. Teiser (D.T. Suzuki Professor in Buddhist Studies, Princeton University) explains why the book is still the standard in the field of early Chinese Buddhism. The introduction, newly written for this edition, analyzes the development of the field from the 1950s to the present. This edition is also updated by utilizing Pinyin (rather than the Wade-Giles system of the first two editions) for the transcription of Chinese and by including a thorough bibliography of E. Zürcher's more recent work.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Im Ersten Weltkrieg war der Panzer ein völlig neuartiges Waffensystem. Die erste große Panzeroffensive fand am 20. November 1917 südwestlich der nordfranzösischen Stadt Cambrai statt. Sieben britische Divisionen und das gesamte Tank Corps griffen einen Abschnitt der sogenannten 'Siegfried-Linie' an. Das zwar gut ausgebaute, aber eher schwach besetzte Stellungssystem wurde von den britischen Angreifern zu Beginn der Schlacht durchstoßen. Führungsfehler und der sich verstärkende deutsche Widerstand verhinderten jedoch einen vollständigen operativen Erfolg. Zehn Tage später überraschten die deutschen Divisionen im Gegenangriff den britischen Gegner und eroberten das verloren gegangene Terrain wieder zurück.Karsten Richter beschreibt in seinem Buch die Vorgeschichte, den Verlauf der Schlacht, ausgewählte Soldatenfriedhöfe als Erinnerungsorte und besondere Ereignisse, die mit dieser Operation in Verbindung stehen. Cambrai 1917 bildet den Ausgangspunkt der mechanisierten Kriegführung im 20. Jahrhundert.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This is the first book-length study of the early Quaker minister and theologian, Martha Calvert Simmons (1624-1665), regarded as one of the foremost Quaker female ministers in the mid-1650s. Most famous for her organizing role of James Nayler's entry into Bristol in October 1656 re-enacting Christ's entry into Jerusalem, this book carefully reconstructs fragmentary evidence to portray the many ways she served the early Quaker movement. This book argues that from June to December 1656, Simmons was Nayler's 'chaste lover'. It also examines her antagonism toward leading Quaker George Fox, focused on their different views of women's leadership within the Quaker movement.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In the bilingual English-Arabic work, The Oral Art of Soqo?ra: A Collection of Island Voices, Miranda Morris and ?anuf Salim Di-Kisin, in collaboration with Soqo?rans from all parts of the island, present over a thousand examples of poems and songs, prayers, lullabies, work-chants, messages in code, riddles, examples of community wisdom encapsulated in poetic couplets, and stories centred on a short poem or exchange of poems. These were documented by oral transmission directly to the authors, or through recordings collected by them. They are presented in Soqo?ri (transcribed phonetically in Roman and in Arabic script), and in English and Arabic translation. ?? ??? ??????? ???? ??????? ?? ????? ?????? ?? ????? ???????? ???????? ?????????? ????????? ???? ???????? ??????? ????? ????? ???? ???? ???? ?? ??? ????? ??????? ????? ?????? ?????? ??? ?????? ????? ???? ???? ?? ?????? ?????????? ????? ?? ????? ????? ???? ??????? ??? ????? ????? ?? ????? ????? ?? ????? ??? ?????? ?? ???? ????? ??????? ??????? ??? ???????? ?? ?? ???? ??????? ????? ?? ????? ?? ?????? ??? ?????? ???? ??? ???? ??????? ?????? ???????? (??? ?????? ??????? ????????? ???????? ??? ????? ??? ????????)? ??? ???? ????? ???????? ?????.. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Repetition, reconfiguration, or adaptation form key characteristics of the Indian literary traditions. Jain literature exemplifies this vividly, especially through its rich narrative tradition. This book studies one such narrative, known as the Dharmaparik?a ('Examination of Religion'), which has intrigued audiences for its ridiculing critique of Brahmanical beliefs and authority. This book is the first to examine six versions of the story in classical and vernacular languages and from different periods together as a tradition of adaptations. Revealing the adaptive practices Jain authors applied as literary and socio-historical contexts evolved, the book offers a diachronic perspective on Jain polemics, and on the conceptualization of adaptation and translation in South Asia.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In the bilingual English-Arabic work, The Oral Art of Soqo?ra: A Collection of Island Voices, Miranda Morris and ?anuf Salim Di-Kisin, in collaboration with Soqo?rans from all parts of the island, present over a thousand examples of poems and songs, prayers, lullabies, work-chants, messages in code, riddles, examples of community wisdom encapsulated in poetic couplets, and stories centred on a short poem or exchange of poems. These were documented by oral transmission directly to the authors, or through recordings collected by them. They are presented in Soqo?ri (transcribed phonetically in Roman and in Arabic script), and in English and Arabic translation. ?? ??? ??????? ???? ??????? ?? ????? ?????? ?? ????? ???????? ???????? ?????????? ????????? ???? ???????? ??????? ????? ????? ???? ???? ???? ?? ??? ????? ??????? ????? ?????? ?????? ??? ?????? ????? ???? ???? ?? ?????? ?????????? ????? ?? ????? ????? ???? ??????? ??? ????? ????? ?? ????? ????? ?? ????? ??? ?????? ?? ???? ????? ??????? ??????? ??? ???????? ?? ?? ???? ??????? ????? ?? ????? ?? ?????? ??? ?????? ???? ??? ???? ??????? ?????? ???????? (??? ?????? ??????? ????????? ???????? ??? ????? ??? ????????)? ??? ???? ????? ???????? ?????.. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In the bilingual English-Arabic work, The Oral Art of Soqo?ra: A Collection of Island Voices, Miranda Morris and ?anuf Salim Di-Kisin, in collaboration with Soqo?rans from all parts of the island, present over a thousand examples of poems and songs, prayers, lullabies, work-chants, messages in code, riddles, examples of community wisdom encapsulated in poetic couplets, and stories centred on a short poem or exchange of poems. These were documented by oral transmission directly to the authors, or through recordings collected by them. They are presented in Soqo?ri (transcribed phonetically in Roman and in Arabic script), and in English and Arabic translation. ?? ??? ??????? ???? ??????? ?? ????? ?????? ?? ????? ???????? ???????? ?????????? ????????? ???? ???????? ??????? ????? ????? ???? ???? ???? ?? ??? ????? ??????? ????? ?????? ?????? ??? ?????? ????? ???? ???? ?? ?????? ?????????? ????? ?? ????? ????? ???? ??????? ??? ????? ????? ?? ????? ????? ?? ????? ??? ?????? ?? ???? ????? ??????? ??????? ??? ???????? ?? ?? ???? ??????? ????? ?? ????? ?? ?????? ??? ?????? ???? ??? ???? ??????? ?????? ???????? (??? ?????? ??????? ????????? ???????? ??? ????? ??? ????????)? ??? ???? ????? ???????? ?????.. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This volume offers a compelling exploration of doctoral experiences across diverse contexts. Through deeply personal narratives, contributors reflect on the joys, challenges, and transformative nature of pursuing and supervising doctoral studies. This volume highlights the emotional and intellectual journey behind academic achievement, revealing the human side of scholarly pursuit. Readers are invited to witness moments of growth, resilience, and self-discovery, making this book a valuable resource for scholars, supervisors, and doctoral candidates alike. It's a celebration of mentorship, identity development, and the profound impact of the doctoral journey on individuals and academia. Contributors are: Johannes Buthelezi, Sai Hoe Fu, Velisiwe Gasa, Bongeka BuhlebaMashasha Hlengwa-Selepe, Lucy Khofi, Vuyiswa Letsoko, Lindelani Mnguni, Zama Mabel Mthombeni, Dimakatjo Muthelo, Precious Muzite, Zenon Ndayisenga, Buhle Stella Nhlumayo, Thabisile Nkambule, Amy Sarah Padayachee, Kereng Gilbert Pule, Jennifer Sheokarah, and Mashite Tshidi.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Eleonora Duse was one of the greatest actresses of all time, beloved by audiences all over the world and considered Sarah Bernhardt's only rival. But she was also something else: an artist who brought a new vision to the stage. Placing themes like vulnerability, suffering, and pity at the center of the theater, she transformed theatre from entertainment or artistic admiration into an intense existential experience. She was capable of using both extraordinary and low-literary value plays to evoke these deep emotions. This book casts light on Duse's scenic techniques, strategies, motivations and needs. It reconstructs her revolution and analyses the efffect she had spectators - an efffect so intense that it bordered on magic. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book was compiled as a starting point for establishing a new research field called spatio-temporal linguistics. It presents two approaches to language: traditional geohistorical linguistics (Chapter 1) and modern computational methods, such as geographic information systems (GIS) and statistics (Chapter 2). Combining these methods will provide better access to knowledge about the developmental paths of languages in the future. Genetic, contact-induced, and sporadic changes will be more accessible and presented in a more dynamic way. The book illustrates a path from data collection to realizing this new field by collecting and analyzing field data on the languages of Fiji.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Research and publications on insects for food and feed are rapidly increasing. This field is becoming increasingly interconnected with other disciplines such as genetics, microbiology, nutrition, and environmental science. However, rapid growth and rising complexity also bring challenges, including the use of diverse methodologies, difficulties in comparing results, and the inefficient use of time and financial resources. Drawing on the experience of more than one hundred researchers, the BugBook aims to provide clear guidance, practical tools, experimental procedures, and reporting standards for anyone interested in studying insects as food and feed. If you seek to conduct efficient, high-quality, and reproducible research in this field, this book is designed for you.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Why does the Gospel of John tell its story of Jesus the way that it does Informed by semiotic theory, Eric Foster-Whiddon reads the Fourth Gospel in comparison with the Greek novel Callirhoe, observing how recognition, beauty, travel, and love function in both narratives as intertextual frames that pressure the reader to infer meaning. Analysis of these intertextual frames informs a hypothetical recovery of the cultural encyclopedia from which authors and (more importantly for this study) readers in first-century western Asia Minor would draw when composing or interpreting a story like the Gospel of John or Callirhoe.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The unrivalled influence of Cicero on pre-modern Western thought is well-known, yet there remain spheres where the Roman's significance has been left unexplored. Debating Divinity recovers for the first time the essential role played by Cicero's theological dialogues - De natura deorum and De divinatione - in the religious debates of Enlightenment England. As early modern thinkers wrestled with the challenges posed to religious orthodoxy by heterodox wielding of nature, science and reason, Cicero's theological dialogues became the surprising field on which new ideas were contested. Combining evidence from both the scholarly tradition and the wider discourse, Debating Divinity reconstructs in full the fascinating place of these dialogues in English intellectual history.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Few readers know how the U.S.-Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines inflicted torture and death with impunity on millions. Citizens became desaparesidos, to use the Latin-American term. In the Philippines, the victims were 'salvaged,' kidnapped and killed. This semantic change epitomizes the experience of colonized/neocolonized subjects since the bloody pacification of the islands in the 1899-1913 Filipino-American War. The usual meaning of 'salvage,' as rescue of selected relics from history's slaughterhouse, is restored here. In this book E. San Juan, Jr. reviews the dialectical process in postmodern art and symbolic expressions of the Cold War and analyzes the contradictions of re-neoliberal globalization and the retooled 'salvaging' in the Duterte-Marcos regime today. Neocolonialism and decolonization mutually inform the discussion of Filipino indigenization with the emergence of sikolohiyang Filipino--an original construction.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This interdisciplinary Festschrift for Jan Willem van Henten contains nineteen essays that deal with literature from antiquity to the present, covering Second Temple Judaism, Early Christianity, Hellenism as well as the reception of the Bible in medieval and modern culture. The contributions to this volume address the rich imagery present in tales and texts that feature tyrants, heroes, prophets, and/or martyrs (male, female, or other), including the, often violent, interaction between them. Tyrants have enormous political power. Heroes are characterized by immense courage. Prophets stand out because of their remarkable insight into hidden things. Martyrs have an extraordinary capacity for self-sacrifice and their lives often culminate in violent endings. In discussing, investigating, and questioning these types, this book contributes to a better understanding of premodern texts, their modern cultural impact, and intellectual history.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Aristotle's Eudemus aims to present a dramatically new view of the content of Aristotle's lost Eudemus. Rather than being representative of a supposed early/Platonic phase of Aristotle's development, Van Buren-Penev shows that this dialogue developed the core of Aristotle's psychology and theology, establishing basic positions upon which Aristotle relies over the entirety of his philosophical output. This book thoroughly reassesses reports standardly included in collections of Aristotle's lost corpus and collects many new fragments. Of crucial importance is a very much overlooked period of the reception of Aristotle's dialogues, namely that of the early Fathers of the Church, who prove to be central in reconstructing the content of Aristotle's lost Eudemus.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book presents a novel interpretation of John Dewey's political thought as a form of radical liberalism. In the course of the argument, Dewey's political views are compared to similar ideas put forward by Karl Polanyi, Karl Mannheim, and Bertrand Russell. As a result, the book offers an accessible introduction to Dewey's political philosophy in a rewarding reading for both specialists and newcomers.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book tells several stories: from Alexius Meinong's life up to his university years, stories about the social, political and cultural environment where he grew up, stories that he tells in his oeuvre--the story of Arnold of Brescia, of the Jesuit order, of education in Austria and moments of Austrian history in the 19th century. This book is about history, politics, religion and education, and it is about 'that arch-plague nationalism which has poisoned the flower of our European culture' (Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday).…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book offers a groundbreaking exploration of China's Cultural Revolution through the lens of the Model Works, revealing their intricate fusion of politics, art, and ideology. From Mao's diplomatic maneuvers to the enduring legacy of revolutionary opera, it traces how artistic innovation became a vehicle for cultural transformation and global strategy. Rich in historical detail, it illuminates the creative genius of figures like Yu Huiyong, the political theater of Jiang Qing, and the post-revolution commodification of socialist culture. Both a cultural history and a meditation on revolution's unfinished mission, it challenges readers to rethink the intersections of arts and politics.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - How Plato appropriated the pilgrim's theôria into his own philosophy has been the subject of many noble and insightful studies. When Plato took up this concept, he launched an understanding that would have a very long life in classical philosophy: the idea that doing philosophy itself has an essentially contemplative character was now explicitly formulated. But this only leads us to the next question: according to Plato, what is the nature of this contemplation as a form of cognition How does philosophy, understood as theôria and as a cognitive activity, relate to other forms of cognition--perception, memory, recollection, imagination, and emotion The essays collected in this book explore the nature of theôria as cognition, while also taking into account the metaphors, dramatic settings, and cultural background that frame Plato's dialogues, showing it to be not only a 'way of life' but also a form of knowledge.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book explores the progressive development of international law in the post-Cold War period, tracing the emergence of a new understanding of external self-determination that includes remedial secession. This evolution challenges traditional interpretations of the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity. Through the prism of remedial self-determination, it analyses the development of new norms, demonstrating how secessionist acts have influenced states' perceptions on secession. By focusing on state practice in the context of post-Cold War self-determination disputes - Timor-Leste, Kosovo, and Iraqi Kurdistan - the analysis illustrates the conditions under which remedial secession has gradually emerged as a viable outcome for addressing secessionist conflicts.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Why have so many women turned to animals in their writing--and what does that reveal about our shared world Women Who Write Animals: Female Literary Representations of the More-Than-Human World brings to light the rich and often overlooked legacy of Anglophone women writers who, from the late eighteenth century to the present, have engaged powerfully and provocatively with animal life. From activists and scientists to poets and novelists, these authors have reshaped how we imagine animals--and, in turn, ourselves. Drawing on ecofeminism, animal studies, and posthumanist thought, the essays gathered here explore intimate interspecies bonds, political resistance, ethical entanglements, and alternative ways of knowing and inhabiting the world. Combining original archival research with innovative critical approaches, this collection reclaims women's central role in rethinking nature and challenges readers to envision a more compassionate, relational, and interconnected planet.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Empathy is often seen as a window into others' minds, effectively guiding our decisions and moral judgments about them. But what if this assumption is dangerously wrong This book challenges the popular view of empathy as a desirable ally in our deliberative processes, revealing the pitfalls of this phenomenon. Drawing on insights from moral philosophy, philosophy of mind, epistemology, and applied psychology, the book argues that the standard definition of empathy--combining perspective-taking, emotional sharing, and concern for others--can be profoundly inaccurate and motivate immoral actions or unfair judgments. To address these shortcomings, this work offers a novel phenomenological approach. Building on Edith Stein's account, alongside contributions from Husserl, Scheler, and contemporary phenomenologists, it redefines empathy as a quasi-perceptual, quasi-imaginative experience of others' inner states, recognizing them as persons with unique motives and values. This phenomenological approach provides a better conceptual framework for understanding empathy and its role in deliberation while avoiding the problematic consequences of popular definitions in the literature.…