Die "Aria mit verschiedenen Veränderungen vors Clavicimbal" erhielt nach Johann Nikolaus Forkel, der sich wiederum auf Berichte der älteren Bach-Söhne stützte, ihren gebräuchlichen Titel "Goldberg-Variationen", weil es sich um ein Auftragswerk des russischen Gesandten am Dresdner Hof für dessen Hauscembalisten, Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, gehandelt habe. Diese Darstellung wurde jedoch vielfach angefochten, da Goldberg - seit ca. 1737 Schüler J.S...
Universes" discusses the alleged evidence of fine tuning, mechanisms by which a varied set of Universes might be generated, and whether belief in God could be preferable to accepting universes in vast numbers.
An anthology of writings on exhibition practice from artists, critics, curators and art historians which address the contradictions posed by museum and gallery staged exhibitions, and the challenge of staging art presentations and displays.
This work provides a feminist analytical pespective on the forms of resistance, organization and negotiation used by women in Third World states, including regions as diverse as Latin America, China and the Middle East.
In legal theory, legal positivism is generally taken to be the view that the concept of law can be elucidated without reference to morality. It is the thesis of this book that such a belief in the amoralism (and certainly the immoralism) of legal positivism is mistaken.
This disk/manual package contains statistical and documentary material on Welsh culture and economy between 1945 and 1990. Approximately 8000 bibliographical references cover material such as: books, journals, unpublished theses, government publications, newspaper/magazine articles, and pamphlets.
This volume aims to guide the student through the fundamentals of the realist novel genre. Focusing on two aspects, the formal and historical, it shows how writers such as Jane Austen and Charles Dickens used the realist novel to tell profoundly moral tales in a popular way.
Covering five centuries--from the rise of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in the 15th century and the early Portuguese missionaries right through to the Church and its key role in Africa today--this major new volume is the first complete history of the Christian Church in Africa. Written by a leading authority on Church history who has spent many years in Africa, it looks at all aspects of Christianity in Africa, including its relationship to tr...
Colonial living is characterized by division of labor and finely coordinated organization, however, many events within a colony are the result of conflicts between individuals seeking to maximize their own interests. This interplay of cooperation and conflict has raised many questions in evolutionary biology, especially how cooperative behavior is maintained in the absence of direct reproduction by workers. How, then, is this behavior passed o...
Auf Grund der zeit- und kulturübergreifenden ethnologisch-anthropologischen Bedeutung der Tiere, die der Verfasser durch einen Vergleich zweier Märchen aus verschiedenen Kulturen exemplizieren kann, werden die Tierfiguren bei Pu Songling (1640-1715) als Repräsentanten der chinesischen Literatur und bei Franz Kafka (1883-1924) als dem der deutschsprachigen Literatur vergleichend untersucht. Die Grundzüge der literarischen Tiergestalten bei beid...
Shows how modern political theory can be enriched through an engagement with works of literature. Uses the resources of literature to explore issues such as nationalism, liberal philosophy, utopianism, narrative and the role of theory.