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In this fully revised and updated edition of Roman Pompeii, Dr. Laurence looks at the latest archaeological and literary evidence relating to the city of Pompeii from the viewpoint of architect, geographer and social scientist.Enhancing our general understanding of the Roman world, this new edition includes new chapters that reveal how the young learnt the culture of the city and to investigate the role of property development and real estate ...

This highly readable account provides an extensive overview of witch-hunting in Europe and North America. Explores the ingredients necessary for a witch hunt to develop as well as the reasons why no trials occurred in some regions Provides detailed case studies with identifiable places and people The history of the witch-hunts has a massive appeal

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In this fully revised and updated edition of Roman Pompeii, Dr. Laurence looks at the latest archaeological and literary evidence relating to the city of Pompeii from the viewpoint of architect, geographer and social scientist. Enhancing our general understanding of the Roman world, this new edition includes new chapters that reveal how the young learnt the culture of the city and to investigate the role of property development and real estate...

From the national maritime strike of 1890 to the violent dockside clashes of 1998, the waterfront has loomed large as a key battle site in Australian industrial relations. After Robert Menzies was swept to power on a wave of anti-communist sentiment in 1949, it emerged as the nation's own Cold War frontline.By 1950, Australia's wharves were plagued by problems, including inefficient management, backward methods and archaic equipment. As on-goi...

Explores how new concepts enter into systems along with sufficient continuity with older ideas to ensure understanding. This text highlights aspects and disciplines that present an insightful view into various theories of concepts. It examines several historically influential theories of concepts and views the general theory of conceptual change.

A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, c. 1350-c. 1500 challenges readers to think beyond a narrowly defined canon and conventional disciplinary boundaries. ∗ A ground-breaking collection of newly-commissioned essays on medieval literature and culture.

Exploring Dissociation provides a comprehensive overview of the development of this rapidly growing field, using classic psychological theories of attachment, learning and memory, attention, and intergeneration transmission of trauma to map out future directions for assessment, treatment, and research. The book's international contributors offer a mix of up-to-date research findings and innovative models, blending very different viewpoints in ...

Mit Ulysses schuf James Joyce eine neue Odysee, mit Finnegans Wake eine ganz eigene Sprache. Unbeirrbar verfolgte der gebürtige Dubliner, der seiner von britischem Staat und katholischer Kirche beherrschten Heimatinsel den Rücken kehrte, seine literarischen Ziele - ein Wortkünstler, der nachgerade mythischen Status genießt.

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This book explores the importance of cross-linguistic similarity in foreign language learning. Similarities can be perceived in the form of simplified one-to-one relationships or merely assumed. The book outlines the different roles of L1 transfer on comprehension and on production, and on close and distant target languages.

This compelling text explores the development of China and Japan through their art, religion, literature, and thought as well as through their economic, political, and social history. This author team combines strong research with extensive classroom teaching experience to offer a clear, consistent, and highly readable text that is accessible to students with no previous knowledge of the history of East Asia.

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This is the first book-length functional-typologically inspired crosslinguistic study of comitatives and related categories such as the instrumental. On the basis of data drawn from 400 languages world-wide (covering all major phyla and areas), the authors test and revise a variety of general linguistic hypotheses about the grammar and cognitive foundations of comitatives. Three types of languages are identified according to the morphological ...

Die erste ausführliche moderne Monographie zur estnischen Literatur in einer Weltsprache, die nicht aus dem Estnischen übersetzt ist und daher mit dem "Blick von außen" an diese kleine und vermeintlich junge, in ihrer mündlich tradierten Volksdichtung aber sehr alte europäische Literatur herangeht. Die Darstellung ist literatursoziologisch angelegt und behandelt neben den wichtigsten Werken auch das gesellschaftspolitische Umfeld, in begrenzte...

Die Arbeit zeigt auf, in welchem Maße die Hermeneutik des jungen Goethe von der Auseinandersetzung mit bibelexegetischen Fragen geprägt ist. Insbesondere der Pietismus bietet Goethe verstehenstheoretische Paradigmen an, auf die er in spielerischer Weise bei der Entfaltung seiner Genievorstellung zurückgreift. Der "Wiedergeborene in Christo", dem gnadenhaft Verstehen zuteil wurde und dessen Verzückung sich in normvergessener Zungenrede Bahn bri...

Urarina is an endangered isolate spoken by less than 3, 000 people in the rainforests of North-western Peru. This book aims at providing a comprehensive description of Urarina grammar covering all areas of the language. From a linguistic point of view, Urarina is particularly interesting because of a range of unusual grammatical characteristics that are rarely or not at all found in other languages. One remarkable property is the constituent ...

Active Listening, Second Edition, is grounded in the theory that learners are more successful listeners when they activate their prior knowledge of a topic.

Seit 1924 zählt dieses Jahrbuch zu den wichtigsten Periodika der Kunstgeschichte. Der jüngste Band bringt Roland Krischels Dokumentation seiner aufsehenerregenden Neuentdeckungen zu Stefan Lochner, Christian Opitz' Bericht über die erstaunliche Nutzung der Rückseiten spätmittelalterlicher Altäre, Norbert Nußbaums Überlegungen zur Geschichte der hybriden Architektur u.v.m

Jahresende 2005, Klaus Reichert entflieht der Zivilisation und verbringt die Tage über Weihnachten und Neujahr in der Sinaiwüste. Begleitet von den Beduinen Läfi und Mubarak, reitet er auf einem Kamel durch die karge Steinwüste. Die zwölftägige strapaziöse Tour wird zu einer Reise zu sich selbst, denn die Natur zwingt sich dem Wandernden geradezu auf. Kühle Tage, eiskalte Nächte, die kaum wärmende Sonne und die überwältigenden Sternennächte we...