century  (9.636 Angebote unter 28.401.193 Artikeln)

The questions as to why most languages appear to have more trouble borrowing verbs than nouns, and as to the possible mechanisms and paths by which verbs can be borrowed or the obstacles for verb b...

This book traces the precise origin of the early English lexical and lexico-phonetic influences in Sranan, an English-based creole spoken in Suriname. Sranan contains "fossilised" linguistic remnan...

This is a study on Reformed theological debates during the »Long Eighteenth Century« in Britain and New England. By »Long« a period that goes beyond 1700-1799 is in view. This examination begins ju...

This short introduction to the United Nations analyzes the organization as itis today, and how it can be transformed to respond to its critics. Combiningessential information about its history and ...

The connection between the electric and magnetic fields is fundamental to our understanding of light as electromagnetic waves. The magnetic vector potential lies at the heart of this relation. The ...

Superhero phenomena exploded into 20th- and 21st-century popular culture by way of the visual medium of comic books. In an increasingly secular (yet spiritual) culture that has largely renounced "t...

"This book makes a vital contribution to the current literature on human well-being. Through a condensed but incisive analysis of a wide range of sources, from ancient philosophy to the political c...

One Woman's Odyssey Through Twentieth Century Jewish America

This book traces the history of noh and ky?gen, the first major Japanese theatrical arts. Going beyond P. G. O'Neill's of 1958, it covers the full period of noh's medieval development and includes ...

Known to many as American University's "peace legend," Abdul Aziz Said (1930-2021)led an academic career spanning nearly sixty years. Always a forward-looking thinker,Said consistently sought to be...

Ballenberg is a Swiss open-air museum. It gathers over a hundred houses and the living world of the rural population from the 14th to the 19th century. Architecture, furnishings and tools were alwa...

Eric Voegelin is famous as a philosopher of history and a as one of the most eminent political scientists of the 20th century. His most fundamental work on political theory, the "New Science of Pol...

"Seventy Five at Seventy Five" präsentiert herausragende Arbeiten des US-Fotografen Abe Frajndlich von den 1970er-Jahren bis zur Gegenwart. Der Fotoband umfasst Porträts berühmter und unbekannter M...

Frontmatter -- Alte Zeit und neue Zeit -- Personen -- Erster Aufzug -- Zweiter Aufzug -- Dritter Aufzug -- Vierter Aufzug -- Fünfter Aufzug

This book introduces in a non-traditional way the laws of physical chemistry and its history starting in the 16th century. It reveals to the reader how physical chemists try to understand chemical ...