Brill jan 2003 (20 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Arabic grammatical thinking provides one of the richest and most significant contributions of medieval Islamic sciences to the history of human civilization. For the first time, this book traces down its formation during the second century of Islam (eighth century A.D.), before the age of the famous Halil b. Ahmad and his disciple Sibawayhi. Some 240 excerpts extracted from the earliest sources of the eighth and ninth centuries create a unique database, which is then analyzed critically. Consequently a clear scheme emerges of the sophisticated grammar of this pre-Halilian era. As a result, Halil's and Sibawayhi's revolt on this tradition is considered in detail.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this volume are collected all of the writings Moran devoted to the Amarna letters over more than four decades, including his doctoral dissertation, which has been one of the most widely cited unpublished works in ancient Near Eastern studies. A citation index makes Professor Moran's comments on individual texts readily accessible.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - No detailed description available for 'The Representation of Speech in Biblical Hebrew Narrative'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Precision Livestock presents the latest scientific results from worldwide research, field studies and practical application. The book contains peer-reviewed papers that were presented at the 1st European Conference on Precision Livestock Farming. The papers focus on physiological identification and monitoring of animals, on farm and in transit, and on the operation of automatic milking systems. Major objectives are secure methods of animal identification for traceability; animal welfare and hygiene. The economic and health effects of implementing precision livestock husbandry are featured in many of them. This first conference was held in parallel with the 4th European Conference on Precision Agriculture - the links between both technologies were drawn and the possible interactions between them were shown for the first time. The potential is to integrate both technologies to encompass the whole farm. Peer-reviewed papers from the Precision Agriculture conference are presented in a companion proceedings, Precision Agriculture.'.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - No detailed description available for 'Leaves from an Epigrapher's Notebook: Collected Papers in Hebrew and West Semitic Palaeography and Epigraphy'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - No detailed description available for 'Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik, Band 58 (2003)'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book explores a phase in the history of both Indonesia and Singapore that is little known. It is a narrative analysis of how the dynamics of the Indonesian revolution (1945-1949) overflowed into Singapore. In turn, Singapore was a base for the Indonesian nationalists, the British, the Dutch, and Chinese traders, with each group exploiting prevailing circumstances for their own interests. Indeed, the author argues that the success of Indonesia's struggle against the Dutch was due in no small measure to the opportunities available in Singapore to advance Indonesia's strategic aims. The Singapore connection during these years was a vital link.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The book explores, in novel form, what can happen to us, whether professor or student, as a result of the philosophical classroom. The approach is to consider the classroom as a unique happening of philosophy, different than reporting theories or doing research, through which a distinctive mode of philosophical formation can occur. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - No detailed description available for 'Mysticism'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ritual language, wild and domestic animals, and objects of material culture like houses, palaces, and works of art, are often loaded with symbolic meaning. 'Reading the landscape', or giving meaning to the natural environment, is a cultural act as well, and one must discover what mountains, coastlines, and islands mean to different groups of people. In this book, written on the occasion of Professor Reimar Schefold's retirement from the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Leiden University, colleagues and former students from the Netherlands and abroad demonstrate the variety and wealth of the field of symbolic anthropology.The regional focus of the book is Indonesia. The studies presented range from small island communities in western, northern, and eastern Indonesia to urban settlements in Java and Sumatra. All the contributions are in one way or another related to Reimar Schefold's work over the past thirty-five years, work that includes extensive studies on material culture, rituals, and the use of symbols in the expression of ethnicity among the various cultural groups of Indonesia.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The first volume to collect essays from the emergent field of cultural studies that specifically address the work of James Joyce, Cultural Studies of James Joyce includes work from both well-established Joyce scholars such as Margot Norris and Cheryl Herr and by such younger writers as Tracey Teets Schwarze and Paul Saint-Amour. Topics range over the whole field of culture, from 'Nipper' the Victrola dog to the statuary of Praxitiles, from the Tank Girl comics to studies of Irish schizophrenia, from the history of University College Dublin to the political ferment over choral singing at the turn of the century. The volume should be of interest to Joyceans, to students of literature and culture in the twentieth century, and especially to those interested in the interactions of different cultural levels between the nineteenth century and our own time. An introductory survey by R. Brandon Kershner discusses the rise of cultural studies and places the issue within modern debates in literary theory.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This group of geometrid moths (in the genera Eupithecia, Chloroclystis, Pasiphila and Gymnoscelis) comprises perhaps the most difficult of the macrolepidoptera to identify with confidence, and knowledge of them is consequently uneven. In this long-awaited, new and extensively illustrated work, the authors describe the characters and biology of all stages of the 52 species from Britain and Ireland, with individual maps showing their known distribution on a vice-county basis. Particular emphasis is placed on the identification of confusible species and work individuals. The wing-patterns are illustrated in detailed black-and-white drawings to show the main diagnostic features, as are the larvae and genitalia of every species. The adults are depicted in three sets of colour plates: two of set specimens, first, in their systematic order and then with similar species grouped together for easier comparison; the third of moths in their natural postures in a series of 60 superb colour photographs. The introductory chapters contain details of 'How to use this book'; and provide an 'Historical review of the species'; there is also a chapter on 'Breeding and rearing pugs'. Appendixes cover 'Foodplants and associated larvae'; a Table of Phenology; and a Glossary. The book concludes with a comprehensive Bibliography, and a full Index including synonymies.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume collects twenty-one original essays that discuss Michael Krausz's distinctive and provocative contribution to the theory of interpretation. At the beginning of the book Krausz offers a synoptic review of his central claims, and he concludes with a substantive essay that replies to scholars from the United States, England, Germany, India, Japan, and Australia. Krausz's philosophical work centers around a distinction that divides interpreters of cultural achievements into two groups. Singularists assume that for any object of interpretation only one single admissible interpretation can exist. Multiplists assume that for some objects of interpretation more than one interpretation is admissible. A central question concerns the ontological entanglements involved in interpretive activity. Domains of application include works of art and music, as well as literary, historical, legal and religious texts. Further topics include truth commissions, ethnocentrism and interpretations across cultures.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book is a study of the ways in which Galen sought to establish the brain as the regent part (hegemonikon) of the body, utilising a rigorous anatomical epistemology and an often sophisticated (but perforce limited) set of physiological arguments Part One surveys the medical and philosophical past in which the study of the brain occured, and looks at the materials and methods which Galen employs to legitimate his hegemonic argumentation. Part Two examines Galen's anatomical understanding of the brain, especially the ventricles. Part Three offers a critical evaluation of Galen's physiolgy of the brain. This is the first monograph to offer a detailed account of this subject, setting it within the cultural and intellectual contexts of its era, and will be of interest to those in classics, medical history, history andphilosophy of science and the history of ideas.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the days of the emperor Augustus (27 B.C.-A.D. 14) the emperor and his court had a quintessential position within the Roman Empire. It is therefore clear that when the Impact of the Roman Empire is analysed, the impact of the emperor and those surrounding him is a central issue. The study of the representation and perception of Roman imperial power is a multifaceted area of research, which greatly helps our understanding of Roman society. In its successive parts this volume focuses on 1. The representation and perception of Roman imperial power through particular media: literary texts, inscriptions, coins, monuments, ornaments, and insignia, but also nicknames and death-bed scenes. 2. The representation and perception of Roman imperial power in the city of Rome and the various provinces. 3. The representation of power by individual emperors.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book covers the political, diplomatic, and military history of the Aegean Greeks of the fourth century BC, raising new questions and delving into old disputes and controversies. It includes their power struggles, the Persian involvement in their affairs, and the ultimate Macedonian triumph over Greece. It deals with the political concept of federalism and its relations to the ideal of the polis. The volume concludes with the triumph of Macedonian monarchy over the polis.In dealing with the great public issues of fourth-century Greece, the approach to them includes a combination of sources. The usual literary and archaeological information forms the essential foundation for the topographical examination of every major site mentioned in the text. Numismatic evidence likewise finds its place here.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Même si elle a fait l'objet de nombreux commentaires déjà, un mystère plane encore sur la conversion au catholicisme de Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848-1907). L'homme, certes, se convertit, mais qu'en est-il de l'oeuvre Un grand écrivain peut-il en même temps être un bon converti En d'autres termes encore, comment gérer deux vocations, deux parcours dont le moins que l'on puisse dire est qu'ils sont difficilement compatibles A travers documents personnels et oeuvres littéraires nous essaierons de retracer le trajet particulier d'un écrivain ' décadent ' qui renoue avec Dieu. Nous aurons à nous pencher plus précisément sur ce que nous appellerons un mélange bizarre de fidélité à soi-même et de volonté de rupture, mélange qui, croyons-nous, est au coeur d'une problématique qui n'a pas eu l'attention qu'elle mérite. Lacune à laquelle nous voulons remédier ici. Peut-on brûler ce que l'on a adoré Quelque chose, semble-t-il, condamne l'écrivain à revenir toujours à ses anciennes amours. Huysmans, de ce point de vue, est l'homme qui n'a pas vraiment su faire peau neuve.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - No detailed description available for 'Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art / Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 53 (2002)'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - No detailed description available for 'Quod Vulgo Dicitur'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Kaum eine Erfahrung dürfte ein bündigeres Resümee der Befindlichkeiten der Gegenwartskultur, ihrer Verunsicherungen und Verlockungen, ihrer Erwartungen und Zweifel geben als jene des Schwindels, in der Angst und Lust nah beieinander liegen und Taumel und Täuschung zweideutig ineinander spielen.Folgt man dem Schwindel als einem Leitsymptom der kulturhistorischen Diagnose, so stößt man in den ästhetischen und wissenschaftlichen Diskursen, in denen Schwindelerfahrungen zumal in den letzten zwei Jahrhunderten thematisiert und inszeniert wurden, auf jene irritierenden Herausforderungen an den Gleichgewichtssinn moderner Subjekte, die den Weg der Modernisierung von ihren emphatischen Anfängen bis zur Enttäuschung in der Posthistoire begleitet haben.Dieser Band versammelt Annäherungen an vielfältigen Schwindelphänomene aus der Sicht der Medizin, der Kulturgeschichte, der Literatur- und Filmwissenschaft.…