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Für naturwissenschaftliche Theorien gilt, daß ihr empirischer Charakter nicht angezweifelt und ihre axiomatische Form als Ideal angesehen wird. Für Grammatiken als Theorien über Sprachen gilt, daß ihr empirischer Charakter immer wieder angezweifelt und daß ihre axiomatische Form kaum in Erwägung gezogen wird. Die vorliegende Arbeit behandelt die Idee und die Möglichkeit(en), wissenschaftliche Grammatiken natürlicher Sprachen (z.B. des Deutsche...

Moonlight, Magnolias, & Madness' is a social history of the perceptions and treatment of the mentally ill in South Carolina over two centuries. Examining insanity in both an institutional and a community context, Peter McCandless show how policies and attitudes changed dramatically from the colonial era to the early twentieth century.

Der Band dokumentiert ein Kolloquium, das unter der Leitung der Herausgeber an der Universität Augsburg stattgefunden hat. Die Beiträge liefern erstmals eine zusammenhängende Grundlegung für eine Literaturgeschichte der Stadt Augsburg im ausgehenden Spätmittelalter. Dabei wird über die Darstellung signifikanter Gattungsbereiche hinaus auch nach den institutionellen und organisatorischen Aspekten des literarischen Lebens gefragt. Die Fülle der ...

For more than 25 years the Peabody Museum has been publishing "The Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions" under the editorial and artistic direction of Mayanist Ian Graham. The goal of this unique series of folio volumes is to document in photographs and detailed line drawings all known Maya inscriptions and their associated figurative art. When complete, the "Corpus" will have published the inscriptions from over 200 sites and 2, 000 monum...

For more than 25 years the Peabody Museum has been publishing "The Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions" under the editorial and artistic direction of Mayanist Ian Graham. The goal of this unique series of folio volumes is to document in photographs and detailed line drawings all known Maya inscriptions and their associated figurative art. When complete, the "Corpus" will have published the inscriptions from over 200 sites and 2, 000 monum...

Das Interesse der Studie gilt der sogenannten "Aventure Ajar", einem von Romain Gary (1914-1980) im Zeitraum von 1974-1980 inszenierten Pseudonymenspiel, dessen Aufdeckung im Jahre 1981 im französischen Literaturbetrieb für große Überraschung sorgte: Emile Ajar, jener junge Autor, dessen mysteriöse Identität lange Zeit die Medien beschäftigt und in den man vielfach große Hoffnungen gesetzt hatte, erwies sich als der literarische Einzelgänger R...

Explore the rich cultural heritage of the 23 countries that comprise Western Europe, including both members of the European Union, and countries which are not EU members, such as Switzerland. Dornberg provides the necessary background information for comprehending the actions and attitudes of European nations, and in the process creates a valuable companion volume to "Central and Eastern Europe." Accompanied by photographs and current and hist...

This funny, yet extremely practical book offers up 50 creative thoughts, tips, and ideas for teaching Sunday school at any age level in any church.

From one of America's most acclaimed directors comes a book that is both a professional memoir and a definitive guide to the art, craft, and business of the motion picture. Drawing on 40 years of experience on movies ranging from Long Day's Journey Into Night to The Verdict, Lumet explains the painstaking labor that results in two hours of screen magic.

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEWhat sort of "person" is God? What is his "life story"? Is it possible to approach him not as an object of religious reverence, but as the protagonist of the world's greatest book-as a character who possesses all the depths, contradictions, and abiguities of a Hamlet? This is the task that Jack Miles-a former Jesuit trained in religious studies and Near Eastern languages-accomplishes with such brilliance and origina...

Gracyk addresses a difficult and too-long-overlooked subject--that is, defining a comprehensible rock aesthetic--with consistent intelligence, depth, and insight. His knowledge of aesthetics, musicology, and the history of rock & roll is up to the ambitious task he sets himself."--Anthony DeCurtis, author of "Rocking My Life Away

How much TV is too much TV? Welcome to Triple Creek, where the townspeople watch TV day and night. They watch it when they're eating, working, playing, and sleeping. They even use TVs to teach the kids at school. But when Eli's eccentric Aunt Chip (who refuses to own a TV) discovers that her nephew and her neighbors don't remember how to read, she pulls the plug on the whole town, using books that have been piled high to build a dam to spread ...

Four time Caldecott Honor winner Leo Lionni's beloved tale about three young frogs learning to work together.Three selfish frogs live together on an island in the middle of Rainbow Pond. All day long they bicker: It's mine! It's mine! It's mine! But a bad storm and a big brown toad help them realize that sharing is much more fun. With characteristic clarity, simplicity and exuberance, Leo Lionni makes it possible for kids to see themselves thr...

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient comes a visionary novel about an icon of American violence. William Bonney killed his first man when he was twelve. By the time he was twenty-one he had, by his own reckoning, slain nineteen more. In the intervening years he had become "Billy the Kid", bloodthirsty ogre and outlaw saint, a boy with buck teeth and a pleasant face who could shoot a stranger calmly in the heart and walk ...

Booker Prize-winning author John Berger gives a novel both tragic and joyous, intelligent and erotic. In To the Wedding, a blind Greek peddler tells the story of the wedding between a fellow peddler and his bride in a remarkable series of vivid and telling vignettes. As the book cinematically moves from one character's perspective to another, events and characters move toward the convergence of the wedding--and a haunting dance of love and death.

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER. The definitive insider's account of American policy making in Vietnam."Can anyone remember a public official with the courage to confess error and explain where he and his country went wrong? This is what Robert McNamara does in this brave, honest, honorable, and altogether compelling book."-Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.Written twenty years after the end of the Vietnam War, former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's contro...

This unique work concentrates on Soviet Communism as a religious phenomenon. The author argues that communism is a religion which was undermined by a crisis of faith.

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This book discusses attitudes of Arkansas public school superintendents toward education in light of two opposing viewpoints: essentialism and progressivism. The study provides a comparative analysis of the essentialist and progressive schooling process and the role of the administrator. It also looks at the implications for working with adminstrators for educational change.

This book uses an incidence approach to look at the economic repercussions of birth defects. The authors investigate eighteen of the most clinically significant birth defects affecting 35, 000 newborns each year in our country. Their assessments suggest that the annual cost of these eighteen birth defects, together, is more than eight billion dollars (in 1992 dollars). The authors describe in detail their methodology and data sources while pro...