Brill jun 2016 (91 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What is it like to rehabilitate sun bears in the rainforests of Malaysia Why are sloth bears trained to dance How is traditional Chinese medicine implicated in the deaths of black bears in North America Bear Necessities answers all of these questions, and many more. Through the voices of acti…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Seit 1980 findet in Venedig die Architekturbiennale statt. Nach dem Vorbild der Kunstbiennale sind seit 1991 auch Länderpavillons Bestandteil der Ausstellung - auch jener Deutschlands. Damit markiert das seit 1989 mauerlose und seit 1990 wiedervereinigte Deutschland von Anfang an den politisch-kultu…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Adorno and the Concept of Genocide examines the legacy of Critical Theory's foremost authority on life 'after Auschwitz.' As a leading member of the Frankfurt School and one of post-war Europe's most important public intellectuals, Adorno's reflections on genocide and its relation to contempo…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - On Coerced Labor focuses on those forms of labor relations that have been overshadowed by the 'extreme' categories (wage labor and chattel slavery) in the historiography. It covers types of work lying between what the law defines as 'free labor' and 'slavery.' The frame of reference is the ob…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Transboundary Offshore Aquifers: A Search for a Governance Regime, Renee Martin-Nagle explains the geologic origins of offshore freshwater aquifers and proposes a governance regime for offshore aquifers that are shared by two or more nations. While the existence of freshwater offshore aqui…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The past 50 years have witnessed achievement of a set of widely attested empirical findings on major research issues in SLA. They pertain to such matters as cross-linguistic influence; processes and sequences in interlanguage development; age effects; incidental and intentional, learning and…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Conquest and Construction Mark Dike DeLancey investigates the palace architecture of northern Cameroon, a region that was conquered in the early nineteenth century by primarily semi-nomadic, pastoralist, Muslim, Ful?e forces and incorporated as the largest emirate of the Sokoto Caliphate.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Fictional World of Javier Marías offers a fresh perspective on the narrative universe of one of Spain's most distinguished contemporary authors. In order to establish the origin and meaning of uncertainty in his fiction, this book presents interpretations of a range of issues inherent to Mari as…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The supply of new innovative precision dairy farming technologies is steadily increasing. It aims to help farmers to be more labour efficient and to support them in their daily management decisions. At the same time, since many technologies are developed from an engineering perspective, adopt…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this book Helen Paynter offers a radical re-evalution of the central section of Kings. Reading with attention to the literary devices of carnivalization and mirroring, she demonstrates that it contains a florid satire on kings, prophets and nations. Building on the work of humorists, literary cri…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The volume dedicates itself to the rather neglected field of political poetry and offers a broad perspective across the centuries from Plato until the post-war period. The first part describes the social function of poetry in Plato, his reception in Heidegger and in Ezra Pound's poetry. A contributi…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Muslim Sanzijing, Shifts and Continuities in the Definition of Islam in China (1710-2010) Roberta Tontini traces the development of Islam and Islamic law in the country, while responding to two enduring questions in China's intellectual history: How was the Muslim sharia reconciled with Confucian…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Isaiah Shembe's Hymns and the Sacred Dance in Ibandla lamaNazaretha, Nkosinathi Sithole explores the hymns of Prophet Isaiah Shembe and the sacred dance in Ibandla LamaNazaretha, and offers an emic perspective on the Church which has attracted scholars from different disciplines. Isaiah Shembe's…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Interpretation and Meaning in Philosophy and Religion synthesizes cutting-edge philosophical reflections on interpretation with their application to religion. For this, new theoretical insights on interpretation by Krausz, Lamarque, Leddy, Hagberg, and Gibson are examined. Topics cover multiplism (i…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Material Culture and Queenship in 14th-century France: The Testament of Blanche of Navarre (1331-1398) Marguerite Keane considers the object collection of the long-lived fourteenth-century French queen Blanche of Navarre, the wife of Philip VI (d. 1350). This queen's ownership of works of art (bo…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Why did premodern authors in the Arabic-Islamic culture compile literary anthologies, and why were these works remarkably popular How can an anthology that consists of reproduced material be original and creative, and serve various literary and political ends How did anthologists select their materi…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Michael Loewe calls on literary and material evidence to examine three problems that arose in administering China's early empires. Religious rites due to an emperor's predecessors must both pay the correct services to his ancestors and demonstrate his right to succeed to the throne. In practical ter…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In National Identities and the Right to Self-Determination of Peoples, Hilly Moodrick-Even Khen revisits the legal right to self-determination of peoples and suggests an integrative model for securing the cohesion of the various nationalities within multinational states. The model, set on both legal…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Multimodality in Higher Education theorizes writing practices and pedagogy from a multimodal perspective. It looks at the theoretical and methodological uptake of multimodal approaches in a range of domains in Higher Education, including art and design, architecture, composition studies, science, ma…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Beyond Empires explores the complexity of empire building from the point of view of self-organized networks, rather than from the point of view of the central state. This focus takes readers into a world of cooperative strategies worldwide that emphasises the role played by individuals, rather than…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Mongols' Middle East: Continuity and Transformation in Ilkhanid Iran offers a collection of academic articles that investigate different aspects of Mongol rule in 13th- and 14th-century Iran. Sometimes treated only as part of the larger Mongol Empire, the volume focuses on the Ilkhanate (1258-13…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Rashda: The Birth and Growth of an Egyptian Oasis Village is an interdisciplinary study from a multi-perspective, using various kinds of data and information. It offers a comprehensive description of Rashda, a village in Dakhla Oasis in Egypt from its beginning to the present. Key concepts are the u…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Patricia Crone's Collected Studies in Three Volumes brings together a number of her published, unpublished, and revised writings on Near Eastern and Islamic history, arranged around three distinct but interconnected themes. Volume 3, Islam, the Ancient Near East and Varieties of Godlessness, places…