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This book deals with three key questions about communitarian ideas: how to distinguish what constitutes communitarian thinking; what lessons to take from the historical development of communitarian...

The series Islamkundliche Untersuchungen was founded in 1969 by the Klaus Schwarz Verlag. Since then, it has become one of the most important venues for publications in Islamic and Middle Eastern S...

Scrapie, a naturally occurring neurodegenerative disease of sheep and sometimes goats, is a prototypic disease for the whole group of the subacute spongiform virus encephalopathies. Kuru was the fi...

This book assesses the current state of the Greek economy and detects its development and growth prospects up to 2030. The analysis begins with 19th century Greece, addressing the repeated defaults...

From Ecstasy to Fundamentalism in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam in the 18th Century

The so-called "Esquiline Venus", found in 1874 in the city of Rome, is a well preserved Claudian copy sculpture whose original dates back to the first century B. C. The life-size statue shows a nak...

This is the first comparative study of literature written by writers who fled from East-Central Europe during the twentieth century. It includes not only interpretations of individual lives and lit...

Martina Winkelhofer, historian and art historian, born in Vienna. University reader, lecturer at the Universities of Vienna and Prague, specialist in subjects of court and politics in the 19th cent...

This edited volume examines what the classic text (Boyarin ed., 1993), and the diverse ethnographies of reading it helped inspire, can offer contemporary scholars interested in understanding the pl...

A uniquely international lifes work. Twentieth-century art can be understood fully only from a perspective that ignores boundaries between countries and continents. Werner Spies has always had on o...

The theory of the square of opposition has been studied for over 2,000 years and has seen a resurgence in new theories and research since the second half of the twentieth century. This volume colle...

This book examines the evolution of the Euro-Atlantic security system, from cooperation to rivalry and crisis, since the beginning of the 21st century. By highlighting the causes, manifestations an...

The Farnley Hall Service: A Unique Survivor in Nantgarw Porcelain

The Experience of Idling in Victorian Travel Texts, 1850-1901

Clara Ho-yan Chan obtained her PhD from the University of Queensland, Australia, and MA from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She has many years of work experience in news writing and translati...