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Finland, South Africa and Bosnia-Herzegovina are each burdened by memories of a civil war, between either social classes, racial groups or ethnic communities. History wars have followed the conflicts and been fought on the arenas of popular rhetor...

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Dieses Buch beschreibt den facettenreichen Begriff Armut zunachst allgemein, dann bei den Waldensern. Diese Bewegung versuchte eindrucksvoll, die Armut in den Mittelpunkt einer Reformation zu stellen. Armut kann in ihren krassen Formen die Mensche...

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What do you know when you know something about history? What is important to know and how do you learn? Adolescents encounter history everywhere: at school, in the family, in media and society. But how do adolescents perceive history and in what w...

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Gaston Bachelard wendet sich in seinen spaten Werken immer mehr der poetischen Imagination zu. Er will die Bilder der Dichter lesen, um auf diese Weise selbst zu einem imaginierenden Bewusstsein zu gelangen. Als traumender Leser ladt er jeden dazu...

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This monograph is an authoritative study of the uvre of one of the most important composers of our time. For the first time, Ligetis key works are presented in the context of their drafts and sketches. His personal and artistic development is set ...

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In der philosophischen Debatte uber den Status und die Funktion von Erkenntnis und Wissen spielt Ernst Cassirers Kulturphilosophie der symbolischen Formen eine wichtige Rolle. Sprache, Mythos, Wissenschaft und Kunst zahlen zu den symbolischen Form...

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From the images carved and painted to the buildings edified, from liturgical objects to reliquaries and tombs, from books to personal objects of piety, this volume reflects the many domains where the relation between materiality and devotion can b...

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This book expands the notion of sexual fantasies from the field of psychology into the realms of cultural studies, anthropology, philosophy, and sociology. So far, much research on sexual fantasies has dealt with issues of gender differences, the ...

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In der Nachfolge von Vergils 'Aeneis', des roemischen Nationalepos der Augusteischen Zeit, schreibt Valerius Flaccus seine 'Argonautica', das zweite Fatum-Epos der roemischen Literatur, im Dienst der Rom-Idee und Herrschaftsideologie der Flavische...

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In the second half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, nearly one-third of the population of todays Slovenia permanently settled in countries around the world. Many more were traveling back and forth, searching for work to ensure t...

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Pedagogy of Place focuses on the embodiment of purposefully created space resulting from the creation and enactment of its participants' cultural and social conditions. It is also about education, the purposeful creation of spaces that comprise le...

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Teil 1: Der aus Graubünden stammende Neulateiner Simon Lemnius (1511-1550) ist vor allem durch seinen Konflikt mit Luther und die spätere engagierte Parteinahme Lessings für den von der Orthodoxie verfemten Dichter in die Literaturg...

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The Queens' Encounter is the first scholarly work to examine the anachronistic meeting between Mary Stuart and Elizabeth Tudor in a coherent, international manner. First showing the encounter in the exchange of correspondence between the two queen...

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Winner of the award 'Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights in North America' (Gustavus Myers Center for Human Rights in North America) In Living Dangerously, Henry Giroux confronts one of the most important questions facing our education...

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In recent decades it has been increasingly recognized that the forms of the verb in ancient Greek, including that of the New Testament, do not signal time (past, present, future), but aspect (the way each activity is viewed in relation to its cont...

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The purpose of this book is to examine what kind of changes Korean society experienced as a result of the introduction of Christianity through Protestant missionaries. Since this was a formative period in the Korean Church, it will be possible to ...

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Martyrdom, Murder, and Magic: Child Saints and Their Cults in Medieval Europe is a comprehensive history of child saints and their cults from late Antiquity to the end of the fifteenth century. The child martyrs of the persecutions, including the ...

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Studies in the Greek New Testament: Theory and Practice is a collection of essays illustrating the relevance of Greek for understanding the New Testament. The essays, combining theory and practice, grow out of the author's abiding concern for the ...

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Semiotic Psychology is a special and selective history that focuses on naturally occurring language and its meanings. A review of classic studies from the 1930s through the 1950s shows how content analysis can examine discourse as diverse as plays...

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This collection of essays is drawn from a series of international seminars in which participants explored different methodologies for writing the social history of the classroom. Essays in the collection address questions of research methodology a...

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Discusses the cooperative relationship between the Irish government of the 1920s through 1960s and the Catholic Church with regard to education, with the government accepting financial responsibility for the maintenance of schools, while leaving m...

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By showing that Joseph Heller was heavily influenced by the New Criticism and myth criticism that he studied in graduate school, this book discloses that Catch-22 is a faithful and inclusive retelling of the ancient epic of Gilgamesh, much as Joyc...

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English seems to be becoming the global language as a result of the massive socio-economic, cultural, and technological changes that have been struggled over since the 1950s. For teachers of English to speakers of other languages and for those in

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The rapid acceleration of industrialization and the transformation of market capitalism that followed the Civil War provided new opportunities for employment and wealth for many Americans. But these opportunities came at a cost: overcrowded and un...

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What is the nature of computer games, and what happens when we play them? This book describes human play as a semiotic process and computer game play as a fundamental act of human cognition, or « semiosis. Offering one of the first fully arti...

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Most ritual participants claim that their rituals have been the same since time immemorial. Citing recent research in ritual studies, this book illustrates how, on the contrary, rituals are often subject to dynamic changes. When do rituals change?...

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LPL is a new and efficient, structured modeling language to build, modify and document small as well as large, real live LP models. The model building process, surprisingly neglected up to now, is an iterative process and, therefore, the most time...

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