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We Are Not Amused. Failed Humor in Interaction
(2015)
Placing failed humor within the broader category of miscommunication and drawing on a range of conversational data, this text represents the first comprehensive study of failed humor. It provides a framework for classifying ...
We Were All in Adam. The Unity of Mankind in Adam in the Teaching of the Church Fathers
(2018)
Contrary to a common conviction, original sin is one of the fundamental Patristic issues, because it is the starting point of Patristic anthropology and sets the stage for the need for salvation.The Church Fathers before ...
Weißbuch Konservative Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie
(2017)
Millionen Menschen in Deutschland leiden an Rückenschmerz, Arthrose oder Osteoporose. Bei den meisten Betroffenen ist ein operativer Eingriff nicht angezeigt – stattdessen kommen konservative Verfahren wie Medikamente, ...
Das Wertfreiheitsideal in der sozialen Erkenntnistheorie. Objektivität, Pluralismus und das Beispiel Frauengesundheitsforschung
(2013)
Die Wertfreiheit der Wissenschaft gilt als Bedingung ihrer Objektivität. Eine Analyse des entsprechenden Wertfreiheitsideals zeigt jedoch, dass dieses auf einer Reihe von Voraussetzungen beruht – wie der Trennbarkeit ...
Die Werkstatt des Dichters. Imaginationsräume literarischer Produktion
(2017)
The "poet’s workshop" is a central imaginary space of literature. What do we imagine when we think about the workspaces of major writers? Does it make sense to speak about the fantasia of the archive, analogous to how ...
Willensfreiheit
(2017)
This book surveys recent debates on freedom of will, incorporating the implications of modern brain research. The author develops an original, capability-based conception of freedom of will. Geert Keil proposes that the ...
Wissenschaftliches Publizieren. Zwischen Digitalisierung, Leistungsmessung, Ökonomisierung und medialer Beobachtung
(2016)
Academic publishing has been changing dramatically. The key aspects of this transformation are digitalization, economization, the concentration of the publishing industry, the introduction of performance indicators, and ...
Tenth European Powder Diffraction Conference – Geneva, September 1-4, 2006
(2007)
Zeitschrift für Kristallographie. Supplement Volume 26 presents the complete Proceedings of all contributions to the X European Powder Diffraction Conference in Geneva 2006: Method Development and Application, Instrumental ...
Terrorismus und Freiheitskampf. Gewalt, Propaganda und politische Strategie im Irischen Bürgerkrieg 1922/23
(2003)
Anders als die bisher überwiegend an militärischen Fakten interessierte Forschung verfolgt Nikolaus Braun einen primär legitimatorischen Konflikt, einen politischen Glaubenskrieg, in dem die symbolische Ebene genauso ...
Terrorismusbekämpfung in Westeuropa. Demokratie und Sicherheit in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren
(2015)
Researchers in contemporary history have only recently turned their attention to government activities to combat ´old` terrorism and its socio-cultural implications. This compendium takes a much-needed next step by comparing ...
Terrorizing Images. Trauma and Ekphrasis in Contemporary Literature
(2020)
This book combines two focal points: trauma and ekphrasis. It responds to the recognition of how terrorizing images permeate the public sphere in connection with traumatic experiences and conflicts and emphasizes the ways ...
Der Teufel und seine poietische Macht in literarischen Texten vom Mittelalter zur Moderne
(2021)
Die versammelten Beiträge widmen sich literarischen Darstellungen des Teufels der Vormoderne im Hinblick auf ihre in der Forschung wenig beachteten produktiven Potentiale: Was kann der Teufel – trotz oder vielleicht gerade ...
Textbook of Cortical Brain Stimulation
(2014)
Developed over the past 25 years, Cortical Brain Stimulation has emerged as a brand new, cutting-edge option for the treatment of intractable neurological and psychiatric disorders. Devoid of the mortality and disabling ...
Text und Kontext. Fallstudien und theoretische Begründungen einer kulturwissenschaftlich angeleiteten Mediävistik
(2007)
An charakteristischen Einzelfällen erörtern die Beiträge grundsätzliche Fragen einer kulturwissenschaftlichen Ausrichtung der Mediävistik (Philologien, Geschichtswissenschaften und Kunstgeschichte). Das Spektrum reicht von ...
Text - Verstehen. Grammatik und darüber hinaus
(2006)
This volume examines the question: What happens when texts are comprehended? Written by academics from a variety of countries renowned in the field, the nineteen principal essays investigate the grammatical, psychological, ...
Thatchers konservative Revolution. Der Richtungswandel der britischen Tories (1975-1979)
(2002)
An Margaret Thatcher scheiden sich die Geister bis heute. Ihre Bewunderer vergleichen sie mit Charles de Gaulle und Winston Churchill oder halten sie schlicht für die größte Politikerin des 20. Jahrhunderts. Ihre Gegner ...
Theaternarratologie. Ein erzähltheoretisches Analyseverfahren für Theaterinszenierungen
(2018)
How does theater narrate? Theater narratology thinks narrativity and performativity together. On the basis of narratology and theater studies it develops for the first time an heuristic, analytic model of performative ...
Theodor Heuss, Bürger der Weimarer Republik
(2008)
Theodor Heuss was an extraordinarily versatile citizen and committed democrat who defended the Weimar Republic through all its crises. From 1918 onwards he worked as an editor and official in the Guild of German Writers. ...
Theodor Heuss, Erzieher zur Demokratie
(2007)
Theodor Heuss is one of the most significant founders of German politics' new political beginning in Germany. As a liberal party politician and leader of the Württemberg-Baden Kultministerium (ministry of culture) he gained ...
Theodor Heuss, Aufbruch im Kaiserreich
(2009)
The years leading up to World War I were very influential for Theodor Heuss' development. As a school pupil in Heilbronn, a student in Munich and Berlin, and an editor in Berlin and Heilbronn, he made experiences that were ...
Theodor Fontane als Kunstkritiker
(2017)
This monograph is the first comprehensive appraisal of Theodor Fontane`s complete works of art criticism in all its relevant contexts. It situates Fontane`s writings on art between the realms of the Berlin School`s fully ...
Theodor Heuss, In der Defensive
(2009)
Under the National Socialist regime, Theodor Heuss was rapidly forced onto the defensive. He lost nearly all his public offices and posts, yet as a publicist Heuss continued to defend his liberal convictions. We encounter ...
Tractates Ma'aser Seni, Hallah, 'Orlah, and Bikkurim
(2003)
This volume concludes the edition, translation, and commentary of the first order of the "Jerusalem Talmud". It contains four small but important tractates. The first, Ma‘aser Šeni, deals with Second Tithe (Deut. 14:22-27) ...
Tractates Ta'aniot, Megillah, Hagigah and Mo'ed Qatan (Mašqin)
(2015)
The present volume is the seventeenth and last in this series of the Jerusalem Talmud. The four tractates of theSecond Order - Ta'aniot, Megillah, Hagigah, Mo'ed Qatan (Mašqin) - deal with different fasts and holidays as ...
Tractates Šeqalim, Sukkah, Roš Haššanah, and Yom Tov (Besah)
(2014)
This volume of the Jerusalem Talmud publishes four tractates of the Second Order, Šeqalim, Sukkah, Roš Haššanah, and Yom Tov. These tractates deal with financial issues concerning the Temple service, with the festival of ...
Tractates Sanhedrin, Makkot, and Horaiot
(2010)
Volume 12 in the edition of the complete Jerusalem Talmud. Tractates Sanhedrin and Makkot belong together as one tractate, covering procedural law for panels of arbitration, communal rabbinic courts (in bare outline) and ...
Tractates Pesahim and Yoma
(2013)
This volume of the Jerusalem Talmud comprises the fourth and fifth tractates of the Second Order. Pesahim introduces the prescriptions regarding Passover; Yoma covers regulations related to Yom Kippur, especially the role ...
Tractates Peah and Demay
(2000)
Tractate Peah and Demay is the second volume in the edition of the Jerusalem Talmud, a basic work in Jewish Patristic. It presents basic Jewish texts on the organization of private and public charity, and on the modalities ...
Tractates Ševu'ot and 'Avodah Zarah
(2011)
This is volume 13 of the edition of the complete Jerusalem Talmud. Within the Fourth Order Neziqin (“damages”), these two tractates deal with various types of oaths and their consequences (Ševu‛ot) and laws pertaining to ...
Tractates Šabbat and ‘Eruvin
(2012)
This volume of the Jerusalem Talmud publishes the first two tractates of the Second Order, Šabbat and ‘Eruvin. These tractates deal with discussion of all regulations regarding Shabbat, the weekly day of rest, including ...
Tractates Sotah and Nedarim
(2005)
This volume, the second of a five-volume edition of the third order of the Jerusalem Talmud, deals in part I (Soṭah) with the ordeal of the wife suspected of adultery (Num 5) and the role of Hebrew in the Jewish ritual. ...
Diaspora and Disaster
(2016)
On March 11, 2011 the North-East of Japan was hit by a massive magnitude 9 earthquake. The earthquake was followed by a tsunami that destroyed farmland, cities, factories and the infrastructure of the coastal regions and ...
Demographic Change in Japan and the EU
(2010)
This volume contains selected papers of the 2008 annual conference of the German Association for Social Science Research on Japan (Vereinigung für sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung e.V. – VSJF). The academic meeting ...
Explorations of the Syntax-Semantics Interface
(2021)
The articles in this volume present original research on the encoding of meaning in a variety of constructions and languages. Many of the contributions take the framework of Role and Reference Grammar as a point of reference, ...
Degree Gradation of Verbs
(2021)
Gradation is usually considered to be a property of adjectives. Examples like 'The boy loves his mother very much' and 'The boy has grown a lot' reveal that gradation is not limited to adjectives but verbs are gradable ...
Der digitale Pranger
(2018)
Enklaven
(2020)
Tractates Terumot and Ma'serot
(2002)
Tractates Terumot and Ma'serot is the forth volume in the edition of the Jerusalem Talmud, a basic work in Jewish Patristics. The volume presents the fundamental Jewish texts on obligatory gift to priests, and tithes to ...
Meaning, Frames, and Conceptual Representation
(2021)
The articles in this volume present contemporary and original research on linguistic meaning, concept formation and conceptual analysis. A central theme across the articles is the question of how concepts are structured, ...
Modernization of Public Spaces in Lithuanian Cities
(2021)
The monograph presents the complex analysis and evaluation of the changes of the social-spatial genotype of the large Lithuanian cities (Kaunas, Klaipėda and Vilnius) determined by the modernist urbanization of the Soviet ...
Ostasienwissenschaften
(2017)
Medienwissenschaften
(2016)
Assessment of General Practitioners' Performance in Daily Practice
(2014)
The EURACT Performance Agenda (EUPA) of the European Academy of Teachers in General Practice/Family Medicine (EURACT) is the third paper in a row following the European Definition of General Practice/Family Medicine (WONCA ...
Art and Research – Contemporary Challenges
(2020)
In the artistic / vocational academic education field, a phrase like “scientific research” generates several controversies; however, they can be the roots of interdisciplinary approaches, through which to build bridges ...
Definiteness in a Language without Articles – A Study on Polish
(2021)
The aim of this book is to investigate how definiteness is expressed in Polish, a language which is claimed to have no definite and in-definite articles. The central question is how the difference in definiteness is indicated ...
Bridging Formal and Conceptual Semantics
(2017)
The articles in this volume are the outcome of the successful BRIDGE Workshop held in Düsseldorf in 2014. The workshop gathered a number of distinguished researchers from formal semantics and conceptual semantics and aimed ...
Constructions in Use
(2021)
Semantics is one of the core disciplines of philosophy of language. There are basically two strands of established theories: use-based and truth-conditional, with the latter being the dominant variety. This dominance has ...
Tractates Gittin and Nazir
(2007)
The ninth volume of this edition, translation, and commentary of the Jerusalem Talmud contains two Tractates. The first Tractate, “Documents”, treats divorce law and principles of agency when written documents are required. ...
Tractates Kilaim and Seviit
(2001)
Tractates Kilaim and Ševiït ist der dritte Band in der Edition des Jerusalemer Talmuds und ein grundlegendes Werk der Jüdischen Patristik. Der Band präsentiert grundlegende jüdische Texte aus dem Bereich der Landwirtschaft: ...
Tractates Bava Qamma, Bava Mesi'a, and Bava Batra
(2008)
The present volume is the eleventh in the series of the Jerusalem Talmud, the first in a three volume edition, translation, and commentary of the Fourth Order Neziqin. The thirty chapters of Neziqin that deal with most ...
Tractate Ketubot
(2006)
The Tractate Ketubot ("marriage contracts") discusses inter alia the sum specified at the time of marriage to be paid in the event of divorce or the husband's death, together with the mutual obligations of man and wife, ...
Tracing the Jerusalem Code
(2021)
With the aim to write the history of Christianity in Scandinavia with Jerusalem as a lens, this book investigates the image – or rather the imagination – of Jerusalem in the religious, political, and artistic cultures of ...
Tractate Yebamot
(2004)
This, the first volume of a five-volume edition of the third order of the Jerusalem Talmud, deals with Jewish marital law and related topics. The volume is concerned with levirate marriage, considering other Jewish sects ...
Tractate Qiddušin
(2008)
This volume concludes the edition, translation, and commentary of the third order of the Jerusalem Talmud. The pentateuchal expression lqkh 'ššh “to take as wife” is more correctly translated either as “to acquire as wife” ...
Tractate Berakhot
(2000)
Tractate Berakhot: Edition, Translation, and Commentary
Instruments and Related Concepts at the Syntax-Semantics Interface
(2018)
Instruments constitute a classic member of the thematic role inventory, yet they are usually analyzed only peripherally, taking a back seat to the more studied members such as Agent and Patient. This dissertation investigates ...
Klassische Archäologie
(2015)
Innovative Models to Revive the Global Economy
(2020)
This conference provides an opportunity for all those interested in Economics and Social Sciences to discuss and exchange research ideas. We welcome both empirical and theoretical work that is broadly consistent with the ...
Meaning and Grammar of Nouns and Verbs
(2021)
The papers collected in this book cover contemporary and original research on semantic and grammatical issues of nouns and noun phrases, verbs and sentences, and aspects of the combination of nouns and verbs, in a great ...
Frames interdisziplinär: Modelle, Anwendungsfelder, Methoden
(2018)
Das Frame-Konzept als kognitives Repräsentationsformat ist seit seiner Einführung durch Minsky und Fillmore vielfach rezipiert und modifiziert worden. Dieser interdisziplinär ausgerichtete Band vereint Beiträge aus so ...
The State of Law
(2017)
This book is the result of the first interdisciplinary conference in Vietnam which took place on “the Rule of Law.” Instead of beginning immediately with a highly specialized debate from the perspective of one single ...
The Hirsch Institute of Tropical Medicine
(2019)
In 2013, the Hirsch Institute of Tropical Medicine (HITM) was officially inaugurated as a branch of the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Infectious Diseases at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf under the ...
Tracing the Jerusalem Code
(2021)
With the aim to write the history of Christianity in Scandinavia with Jerusalem as a lens, this book investigates the image – or rather the imagination – of Jerusalem in the religious, political, and artistic cultures of ...
Sequence Comparison in Historical Linguistics
(2021)
The comparison of sound sequences (words, morphemes) constitutes the core of many techniques and methods in historical linguistics. With the help of these techniques, corresponding sounds can be determined, historically ...
The 4th ICSSED, International Conference of Social Science and Education
(2020)
The ICSSED is an academic conference that is centered on social science and education, is open and welcoming to contributions from the many disciplines and approaches that meet at the crossroads that is communication ...
Secular Schooling in the Long Twentieth Century?
(2024)
The book investigates the role of Christianity in the 20th- and 21st-century modernization process with the focus on one of the main pillars of the welfare state projects: schools and education. The book has a comparative ...
Archivos Abiertos
(2024)
The digital era is transforming the way we preserve, publish and research our cultural heritage: archives and libraries are being reorganized, heritage collections are being resurrected in new forms. This volume presents ...
Das französische Ancien Régime als Eigentümergesellschaft?
(2024)
Bernard Derouet was a highly specialized researcher who regularly published articles about rural French society in Europe’s most renowned social and economy history journal, the Annales ESC / Annales HSS. This translation ...
Migrierende Subjekte in romanischen Literaturen der Welt
(2024)
This study analyzes the socioeconomic perspective of subjects migrating from the Global South in contemporary narrative works in Romance languages. It inquires into the status of the subaltern characters and their role as ...
Virtual Museums – A Plea
(2024)
Digital technologies have opened up new possibilities for the cultural sector. Many museums are represented on the internet with various materials. Augmented reality and virtual reality offer immersion experiences even for ...
Prokop und der soziale Kosmos der Historiographie
(2024)
Procopius of Caesarea was one of the last authors of classical antique historiography. His major volume on Justinian’s wars is the most important historical source on the sixth century. This new interpretation of, above ...
Doing Genre
(2024)
Literary genres don't just exist, they are made. The volume therefore takes a praxeological perspective on genres and their changing dynamics: The focus is on the question in which way - through which concrete practices - ...
Byzantinische Rechtsgeschichte im internationalen Kontext
(2024)
In twenty papers from a joint conference held by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia and the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and the Humanities, this volume provides an overview of the latest issues in Byzantine legal ...
Praxishandbuch Medien an den Rändern
(2024)
Libraries are caught in an ethical balancing act with their acquisition decisions: on the one hand, they must uphold freedom of expression and information, and use their collections to reflect the plurality of society. On ...
Wissenschaftsleugnung
(2024)
What should scholarship do about research denialism? Can the research community solve this problem – should it even try? Can research communication help here? Does it make sense, where are its limits, and how can it be ...