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The cult of St Demetrius is of considerable age but it peaked with the emergence of his city, Thessalonica, as a prominent political and cultural centre in late Byzantium. This book examines the intensification of his popularity and veneration in the late Middle Ages...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-05-27
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This book provides an excellent orientation to, and a logical development of, the major trends and issues that have dominated discussions in African philosophy since the publication of Placide Tempels’ Bantu Philosophy in 1945. Views of some of the best-known African...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-03-03
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This volume contains the revised texts of talks and posters given at the Nordic Prosody X conference, held at the University of Helsinki, in August 2008. The contributions by Scandinavian and other researchers cover a wide range of prosody-related topics from various...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-12-21
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Mehmed Nergisi, der in der osmanisch-türkischen Literatur für seinen schwülstigen Stil bekannt war, beschrieb in einem seiner Werke, dem sogenannten «Wesirspiegel», die Person des türkischen Statthalters von Ofen, Murteza Pascha. Unter Führung von Murteza Pascha hatten...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-12-21
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Die Relevanz des übersetzungsmethodologisch fundierten Vorgehens beim Übersetzen wird in diesem Buch auf der Grundlage des Sprachenpaares Deutsch-Türkisch vor Augen geführt. Hierbei liegt der Fokus auf der Darlegung der bei der sprachlichen und kulturellen Interaktion...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-11-23
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Führt die stetig fortschreitende Globalisierung zu einer weltweiten Annäherung der Konsumentenbedürfnisse und -wünsche? Können Unterschiede im länderübergreifenden Konsumverhalten durch die kulturellen Hintergründe, die sich in den Hofstedeschen Dimensionen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-11-23
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Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit Grundzügen des mythologischen und philosophischen Denkens im alten Amerika. Die Aktualität dieser Thematik ergibt sich aus der sich seit Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts vollziehenden indigenen Emanzipationsbewegung, die auf eine lange...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-11-23
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Ancient cultures, such as that of the Hebrews, commonly associated wisdom with advanced years. In A Biblical Theology of Gerassapience the author investigates the validity of this correlation through an eclectic approach – including linguistic semantic,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2010-11-01
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Lucky Per, written at the turn from the nineteenth to the twentieth century (1898-1904), has never before been translated into English, although its author, Henrik Pontoppidan, won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1917 together with his Danish countryman Karl Adolph...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2010-10-06
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Eastwards is a collection of essays each of whom focuses on a special aspect or on an episode within the cross-cultural narrative that imposes on our minds the terms «West» and «East». The volume assembles seventeen essays by eighteen authors divided into three...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-10-06
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Chinese Medicine is an outstanding scientific proposition system with its own structural, methodological and theoretical prerequisites flowing into the specific practices that makeChinese Medicine popular in the Western world. However, we should be aware of the fact...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-10-05
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Haram in the Harem focuses on the differences in nationalist discourse regarding women and the way female writers conceptualized the experience of women in three contexts: the middle-class Muslim reform movement, the Algerian Revolution, and the Partition of India....
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2009-07-15
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Dutch is spoken by 23 million people, mainly in the Netherlands and Belgium, and is an official EU language. For English speakers, writtenDutch can be fairly straightforward to pick up, although the pronunciation can be more of a challenge. This simple guidebook and its...
Editeur :
For Dummies
Parution :
2008-04-30
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One of the central metaphors in the Book of Hosea is the metaphor of illness and healing, which is explicitly or implicitly mentioned with frequency throughout the text. This book focuses on the social connotations of the metaphor of illness and healing in Hosea 5:8-6:3...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2006-06-15
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