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This book draws a comparison between two of the most prominent Jewish artists in the twentieth-century: Polish-born magician story-teller Isaac Bashevis-Singer (1904-1991) and Russian-born creator of visual magic Marc Chagall (1887-1985). In addition to their East European Jewish background both were exposed to Western culture. Chagall absorbed such turn-of-the-century avant-garde styles as Expressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Abstract Art, Surreal...

The volume addresses the hybridisation of knowledge production in space-related research. In contrast with interdisciplinary knowledge, which is primarily located in scholarly environments, transdisciplinary knowledge production entails a fusion of academic and non-academic knowledge, theory and practice, discipline and profession. Architecture (and urbanism), operating as both a discipline and a profession, seems to form a particularly recept...

The concept of virtual worlds is strongly related to the current innovations of new media communication. As such, it is increasingly imperative to understand the criteria for creating virtual worlds as well as the evolution in system architecture, information visualization and human interaction. Meta-plasticity in Virtual Worlds: Aesthetics and Semantics Concepts provides in-depth coverage of the state-of-the-art among the best international r...

The Isma'ili Muslims, a major sect of Shi'i Islam, form a community intriguing in its deterritorialized social organization. Informed by the richness of Isma'ili history, theories of transnationalism and globalization, and firsthand ethnographic fieldwork in the Himalayan regions of Tajikistan and Pakistan as well as in Europe, Steinberg investigates Isma'ili Muslims and the development of their remarkable and expansive twenty-first-century gl...

Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2001.

Provides the first extensive examination of the dynamic interplay between text and image in Alexei Remizov's albums, revealing their coequal roles in his oneiric and synaesthetic brand of storytelling. This long-overdue examination of Remizov's visual art addresses modernism's key theoretical questions surrounding the relationships between image and text.

Sperry's exhaustive research reveals the economic costs of high-risk subprime mortgages and a host of other dangerous multicultural trends that have derailed the American economy.

This book on methods of cut-elimination contains a thorough and rigorous analysis of reductive cut-elimination methods and an in-depth presentation of the recent method CERES developed by the authors. It includes a detailed complexity analysis and comparison of CERES and of reductive methods. It presents several applications of CERES—to interpolation, fast cut-elimination, generalization of proofs and to the analysis of mathematical proofs. Fi...

With labour markets across the world and even in social democratic Europe in a state of unprecedented flux, the problem of how to balance job-market demands, personal career interests and private life becomes a central issue for millions of employees. So how do modern work and employment arrangements restructure individual careers and what is required of individuals in order to manage career transitions successfully over time? This is one of v...

This month's cover feature, and the second of Hector's Journeys, in which Hector, our intrepid psychiatrist, sets off on a new globetrotting mission, and this time he's looking for love. One of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies has employed him to track down their brilliant scientist, Professor Cormorant, who has disappeared abroad with the secret of a modern day love potion. Hector's adventure takes him to the Far East and into the...

HEALTH & FITNESS / Pregnancy & Childbirth

A supportive and practical guide to coping with adultery - and saving your relationship

Classic / British English Raskolnikoff, a young student, has been forced to give up his university studies because of lack of money. He withdraws from society and, poor and lonely, he develops a plan to murder a greedy old moneylender. Surely the murder of one worthless old woman would be excused, even approved of, if it made possible a thousand good deeds? But this crime is just the beginning of the story...

Die alte Hansestadt Lübeck ist traditionell das Bindeglied zwischen Nord- und Ostsee. Und so facettenreich wie die Geschichte der Stadt, so sind auch ihre Bewohner: Hanseatische Kaufleute treffen auf Dorschfischer, Marzipanbäcker gesellen sich zu den Rotweinhändlern und Segler flanieren mit den höheren Töchtern auf der Travemünder Uferpromenade. Der Autor Dieter Bührig führt den Leser an seine Lieblingsplätze in und um Lübeck, an denen sich Ei...