Brill sep 2016 (79 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Kephalaia of the Teacher is the most detailed account available to modern scholarship of the teachings of Mani, and of the universal religion that he founded as the final successor to Buddha, Zarathushtra and Jesus. This volume provides the first complete English translation of the Coptic…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume offers insights into the major Jewish migration movements and rebuilding of European Jewish communities in the mid-twentieth century. Its chapters illustrate many facets of the Jews' often traumatic post-war experiences. People had to find their way when returning to their countri…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Jewish Youth around the World 1990-2010: Social Identity and Values, Erik Cohen offers a rich and multi-faceted picture of Jewish adolescents and young adults today. Based on numerous empirical studies conducted by the author over the course of two decades among various populations in Isra…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Within Christian theology, debates on the theology of religions have intensified over the last thirty or so years. This volume surveys the field and maps future directions in this expanding and important area of research. Both established experts and new voices address typological debates, co…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Media, Modernity and Dynamic Plants, Janet Janzen traces the motif of the 'dynamic plant' through film and literature in early 20th century German culture. Often discussed solely as symbols or metaphors of the human experience, plants become here the primary focus and their role in literat…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The problem of the limits of science is twofold. First, there is the problem of demarcation, i.e., the boundaries or 'barriers' between what is science and what is not science. Second, there is the problem of the ceiling of scientific activity, which leads to the 'confines' of this human enterprise.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Recent narrative fiction and film increasingly exploit, explore and thematize the embodied mind, revealing the tenacity of a certain brand of humanism. The presence of narratively based concepts of personal identity even in texts which explore posthuman possibilities is strong proof that our basic u…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Jacques Réda: Being There, Almost, Aaron Prevots studies the work of this major contemporary French writer since the 1950s--poetry, novels, literary essays, short prose, jazz histories. He particularly examines Réda's explorations of place, including how the 'world's energy' becomes the ideal dan…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Radical Planes 9/11 and Patterns of Continuity, edited by Dunja M. Mohr and Birgit Däwes, explores the intersections between narrative disruption and continuity in post-9/11 narratives from an interdisciplinary transnational perspective, foregrounding the transatlantic cultural memory of 9/11. Conte…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From a Darwinian perspective, language is rooted in our neurobiology, and the process whereby interpretation is reached - in the case of argumentative sequences - is not dissimilar to that underlying action selection in response to environmental change: indeed, it arguably involves the same type of…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The volume presents a selection of research projects in Digital Humanities applied to the 'Biblical Studies' in the widest sense and context, including Early Jewish and Christian studies, hence the title 'Ancient Worlds'. Taken as a whole, the volume explores the emergent Digital Culture at the begi…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book traces the artistic trajectories of Djuna Barnes and Jane Bowles, examining their literary representations of the nomadic ethic pervading the twentieth-century expatriate movements in and out of America. The book argues that these authors contribute to the nomadic aesthetic of American mod…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In exploring the shifting realities of missionary experience during the course of imperialist ventures and the Catholic Reformation, The Frontiers of Mission: Perspectives on Early Modern Missionary Catholicism provides a fresh assessment of the challenges that the Catholic church encountered at the…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Food is at the centre of human existence. We eat every day, not only to satisfy our physical needs but also as part of cultural and social interaction. Food choices and markets shape the agricultural landscape and the cities we live in. Whereas what we choose to eat and feed our family is par…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Family Law in Britain and America in the New Century: Essays in Honor of Sanford N. Katz nineteen leading family law scholars in the US and Britain pay tribute to Sanford Katz, Darald and Juliet Libby Millennium Professor Emeritus and Professor of Law, Boston College Law School by giving a critic…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Rituals and Symbolic Communication in Medieval Hungary under the Árpád Dynasty (1000 - 1301) Dusan Zupka examines rituals as means of political and symbolic communication in medieval Central Europe, with a special emphasis on the rulers of the Árpád dynasty in the Kingdom of Hungary.Particular at…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Matthew crowds more Old Testament quotations and allusions into the prologue than anywhere else in his gospel. In this volume, Nicholas G. Piotrowski demonstrates the narratological and rhetorical effects of such frontloading. Particularly, seven formula-quotations constellate to establish a redempt…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In The Encoded Cirebon Mask: Materiality, Flow, and Meaning along Java's Islamic Northwest Coast, Laurie Margot Ross situates masks and masked dancing in the Cirebon region of Java (Indonesia) as an original expression of Islam. This is a different view from that of many scholars, who argue that can…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Picaresque Fiction Today Luigi Gussago examines the development of the picaresque in contemporary Anglophone and Italian fiction. Far from being an extinct narrative form, confined to the pages of its original Spanish sources or their later British imitators, the tale of roguery has been revisite…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This collection of essays discusses the marketing of scientific and medical instruments from the eighteenth century to the First World War. The evidence presented here is derived from sources as diverse as contemporary trade literature, through newspaper advertisements, to rarely-surviving inventori…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book involves a new historiographical study of the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia that defines its relationship with fifth- and fourth-century historical works as well as its role as a source of Diodorus' Bibliotheke. The traditional and common approach taken by those who studied the HO is primarily his…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Nathaniel Wallace's Scanning the Hypnoglyph chronicles a contemporary genre that exploits sleep's evocative dimensions. While dreams, sleeping nudes, and other facets of the dormant state were popular with artists of the early twentieth century (and long before), sleep experiences have given rise to…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Many scholars have recently shown great interest in a diachronic re-examination of Antonio Gramsci's main theoretical-political categories in the Prison Not Elektronisches Buch. This method would uncover the origins and development of Gramsci's concepts using the same method that Gramsci himself bel…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book analyzes the historical significance of rivaling concepts of world order in 20th century East Asia. Since the arrival of European imperialism in 19th century - coupled with its different schools of political philosophy and international law - China has struggled to combine ideas on nationa…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The so-called eighth Stromateus ('liber logicus') by Clement of Alexandria (d. before 221 C.E.) is an understudied source for ancient philosophy, particularly the tradition of the Aristotelian methodology of science, scepticism, and the theories of causation. A series of capitula dealing with inquir…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Color has recently become the focus of scholarly discussion in many fields, but the categories of art, craft, science and technology, unreflectively defined according to modern disciplines, have not been helpful in understanding color in the early modern period. 'Color worlds', consisting of practic…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The studies collected in this volume were written in honour of Johann Cook, emeritus professor of the Department of Ancient Studies at Stellenbosch University. They cover a variety of subjects including the translation of Hebrew expressions into Greek, the reception of LXX texts in various contexts,…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An Intellectual Biography of N.A. Rozhkov is the first English language study to follow Russia's most gifted and important historian to emerge from the school of V.O. Kliuchevskii through the transformative decades that bridged the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Rozhkov's early philosophical in…