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A Companion to Ancient Education presents a series of essays from leading specialists in the field that represent the most up-to-date scholarship relating to the rise and spread of educational practices and theories in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Reflects the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2015-06-23
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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The contributions in this volume focus on the Bayesian interpretation of natural languages, which is widely used in areas of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and computational linguistics. This is the first volume to take up topics in Bayesian Natural...
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Springer
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2015-06-19
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‘You come away from Murphy’s book with a renewed amazement at what Lee was able to achieve with a single perfect novel’ Entertainment WeeklyFirst published in 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird is not only a beloved classic, but also a touchstone in literary and social...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2015-06-18
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In Shakespeare's Tragedies: All That Matters, Michael Scott explores and explains the secrets that have made Shakespeare's tragedies so enduring that they continue to be performed, watched and studied by millions of people every year. Professor Scott concentrates on the...
Editeur :
John Murray
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2015-06-18
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All That Matters
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Politics and Political Culture in the Court Masque considers the interconnections of the masque and political culture. It examines how masques responded to political forces and voices beyond the court, and how masques explored the limits of political speech in the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-06-17
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Samuel Pepys was a great collector of books, news, and gossip. This study uses his surviving papers to examine reading practices, collecting, and the exchange of information in the late seventeenth century. Offering the first extensive history of reading during the...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-06-12
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This book takes the work of three contemporary poets John Burnside, John Kinsella and Alice Oswald to reveal how an environmental poetics of place is of significant relevance for the Anthropocene: a geological marker asking us to think radically of the human as one part...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-06-11
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Over the course of a literary career that extended from the lingering Malthusian controversies of the late eighteenth century to the brink of the Reform Act of 1832, William Hazlitt produced a remarkable body of committed radical journalism. Against the view that...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-06-11
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The new media have long become an essential part of the foreign language classroom, and computer enhanced language pedagogy is now becoming a standard in schools. What follows is a growing interest in the research into the effectiveness of such a practice as well as...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-06-09
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Tracing material and metaphoric waste through the Western canon, ranging from Beowulf to Samuel Beckett, Susan Signe Morrison disrupts traditional perceptions of waste to better understand how we theorize, manage, and are implicated in what is discarded and seen as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-06-03
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When it comes to James Joyce's landmark work, Ulysses , the influence of three literary giants, Homer, Shakespeare, and Dante, cannot be overlooked. Examining Joyce in terms of Homeric narrative, Dantesque structure, and Shakespearean plot, Weir rediscovers Joyce's...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-06-03
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Adored by many, appalling to some, baffling still to others, few authors defy any single critical narrative to the confounding extent that James Baldwin manages. Was he a black or queer writer? Was he a religious or secular writer? Was he a spokesman for the civil...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-06-02
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Im Gegensatz zu Westfalen können sich die meisten unter Ostfalen kaum etwas vorstellen. Hier will dieses Werk Abhilfe schaffen. Es stellt den norddeutschen Kulturraum an der Grenze zu Mitteldeutschland umfassend vor. In fünf Großkapiteln äußern sich zehn Sachkenner zu...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-05-31
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Die Studie untersucht die Rezeption der Paradies- und Sündenfallerzählung des Buches Genesis, welche zu den wirkmächtigsten Texten des Alten Testaments zählt. In der christlichen Literatur hat diese eine eindrucksvolle Rezeptionsgeschichte erfahren.Die Autorin nimmt...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-05-31
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This book analyzes the ideology-based reception of Adam Mickiewicz in Communist Poland and of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in East Germany, the dynamics of that process and the strategies used to exploit the iconic status of the poets for the purpose of reaffirming the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-05-31
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Come tutta la stampa «di regime» anche Legioni e Falangi. Rivista d’Italia e di Spagna / Legiones y Falanges. Revista mensual de Italia y de España (1940–1943), pubblicata tra Roma e Madrid, può leggersi come una narrazione univoca degli avvenimenti di quegli anni...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-05-31
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The division between North and South in Europe represents a geographical as well as a cultural boundary that has influenced the way many European nations think about their history and identity. This divide is particularly prominent in the cultural dialogue between...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-05-31
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Was sind verbale Indirektheiten und wie geht die DolmetscherIn mit ihnen um? Auf Grundlage a) theoretisch hergeleiteter Definitionskriterien für eine translationswissenschaftlich/-praktisch orientierte Definition und b) authentischer Daten des Sprachenpaars...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-05-31
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The book offers a view of national self-identification in the literary culture of twentieth century Romania with a special focus on the postcolonial paradigm. Romanian identity narratives downplay the colonial setup of the country’s past and the colonial past goes...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-05-31
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Das Ende als eine anthropologische Kategorie und Anschauungsform prägte schon immer die kulturellen Diskurse. Der Band versammelt Beiträge über die verschiedensten Imaginationen des Endes, begonnen mit den Untergangsvisionen der altorientalischen Welt und der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-05-31
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