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This book discusses the methodology of systematic Chinese Dialect classification, with particular attention to the conservative Miin and Hakka groups spoken in southern China. The primary linguistic methodology employed is the historical-comparative method, and the dialects chosen as examples of classification are those spoken in and around the township of Wann'an in western Fukien's Longyan country. The book features extensive comparative ta...

Frontmatter -- Einleitung -- I. Teil. Die liberale Theologie als Forschungsgegenstand. Vorbemerkung -- Die liberale Theologie als Forschungsgegenstand -- 1. Untersuchungsinteresse und Forschungslage -- 2. Kontinuität oder Diskontinuität? Zum historischen Ort der evangelischen Theologie nach dem ersten Weltkrieg -- 3. Liberale Theologie- Begriff und Geschichte -- Methodische Zwischenbemerkung -- 1. Zur Anlage der Untersuchung -- 2. Theologieges...

Die Heidelberger Jahrbücher wurden im Oktober 1807 von den Heidelberger Professoren unter dem Namen "Heidelbergische Jahrbücher der Literatur" gegründet und wurden binnen kurzem zu einem führenden Rezensionsorgan von Neuerscheinungen aus allen Fächern, insbesondere aber der romantischen Bewegung. Nach einer wechselvollen Geschichte, die jeweils durch die beiden Weltkriege unterbrochen wurde, erscheinen die Heidelberger Jahrbücher seit 1950 ohn...

This selection of papers from Long Range Planning-The International Journal of Strategic Management examines the evolution of competitive advantage over the past decade, setting out areas of major change and areas which have been less subject to change. It begins by examining how strategic management has been influenced by the transformation of industries and the changes in the rules for success, and the dramatic rise in the strategic importan...

For this new edition, the text has been reset in a larger typeface for ease of reading. "Backgrounds" helps readers understand Eliot's ideas on life and art with generous selections from her letters, journals, essays, and other fictional works. "Contemporary Reviews" records the impressions of Sidney Colvin, Henry James, Joseph Jacobs, and Leslie Stephen. "Recent Criticism" collects eleven essays-seven of them new to this edition-which cent...

In the last decade, we have witnessed a striking maturation of our understanding of how neurons in the spinal cord control muscular activity and movement. Paradoxically, a host of new findings have revealed an unexpected versatility in the behavior of these well-studied neural elements and circuits. In this volume, the world's leading experts review the current state of our knowledge of motor control, outline their latest results and developme...

This monograph presents a collection of results, observations, and examples related to dynamical systems described by linear and nonlinear ordinary differential and difference equations. In particular, dynamical systems that are susceptible to analysis by the Liapunov approach are considered. The naive observation that certain "diagonal-type" Liapunov functions are ubiquitous in the literature attracted the attention of the authors and led to ...

Whether one agrees with him or not, there is no avoiding the challenge of Hume for contemporary philosophy of religion. The symposia in this stimulating collection reveal why, whether the discussions concern Hume on metaphysics and religion, 'true religion', religion and ethics, religion and superstition, or miracles. For some, Hume's criticisms of religion are so devastating that religion cannot withstand them. Others disagree, and claim that...

Offers proposals for a new positive regulatory framework for international business aimed at reducing poverty and promoting sustainable developments.

Telematics in Education" provides readers with an exciting examination of the use of computer based communication technologies within education. Discussion ranges from whether new forms of teaching and learning involving telematics can replace existing methods, to how far collaborative learning can take place through telematics. The authors consider the possible implications for psychological and organisational issues in education and how an i...

The fields of entrepreneurship and strategic management deal with the fundamental processes and forces that affect the start-up, prosperity, and survival of organizations. In both fields it is argued that a company's potential long-run performance is determined by the degree to which it can develop and maintain a 'fit' between its skills and resources and environmental demands. Through the use of rigorous, in-depth case studies, this book take...

Examines the professional specialty of forensic social work, including the role of the field in a litigious society, testifying in the court room and as an expert witness, malpractice, ethics, preparing for litigation, judgment by colleagues, and case recording and written contracts. Includes a glossary, case examples, and information on legal and

History did not come to an end with the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. This book tells the story of what followed during the 1990s. Political and national conflict, social and cultural change and the economic challenge of the transition to the market are all given their due weight. The comparative approach is combined with a detailed treatment of individual countries in alternating chapters. The distinction is made here between East ...

In this important new study, Sanja Kutnjak-Ivkovic takes a comprehensive, international approach to the study of lay participation in legal decision-making. She provides an in-depth analysis of positive and negative features of the principal forms of contemporary lay participation (mixed tribunals, juries, magistrates, lay courts) as they relate to their socio-political environments.

Internet fandom, psycho-cybernetics, visionary cities and bodybuilder stardom are just some of the issues brought under the gaze of this fascinating companion to Alien Zone.

Professor C.E. Bosworth FBA is a Middle East historian of world stature. In this volume his friends and colleagues come together to honour his 70th birthday. This book ranges widely over time and space but its core is the Islamic culture of Iran and Turkey. The contributors cover topics from the Arab conquest in the seventh century to Turkish and Iranian nationalism in the twentieth century. Special attention is paid to medieval Turco-Persian ...

This fascinating collection features several stories by a master storyteller about Japan's cultural upheaval, including the classic "Rashomon, " the disturbing tale of a murder told from different perspectives.

Solitons were discovered by John Scott Russel in 1834, and have interested scientists and mathematicians ever since. They have been the subject of a large body of research in a wide variety of fields of physics and mathematics, not to mention engineering and other branches of science such as biology. This volume comprises the written versions of the talks presented at a workshop held at Queen's University in 1997, an interdisciplinary meeting ...

Frontmatter -- Introduction / Redeker, Gisela / Janssen, Theo -- Assessing the cognitive linguistic enterprise / Langacker, Ronald W. -- Some contributions of typology to cognitive linguistics and vice versa / Croft, William -- Methods and generalizations / Fauconnier, Gilles -- Compositionality and blending: semantic composition in a cognitively realistic framework / Sweetser, Eve -- Idealist and empiricist tendencies in cognitive semantics /...