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Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) was the most prolific novelist of social criticism in the USA of the 20th century. The essays of this volume (all of them papers submitted to an Upton Sinclair World Conf...

Transfer and Transformation

The northern dialects of Britain and Ireland have verbal agreement patterns that differ radically from those of Standard English: the children is singing vs. they are singing vs. they sing and danc...

This monograph presents urban simulation methods that help in better understanding urban dynamics. Over historical times, cities have progressively absorbed a larger part of human population and wi...

This book is a study of how transfictional and transmedia storytelling emerges in the nineteenth century and how the period's receptive practices anticipate the receptive practices of fandom and tr...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Variation and Convergence as a Topic in Diaiectology and Sociolinguistics / Auer, Peter / Di Luzio, Aldo -- On the Interpretive Analysis of Historical Recor...

Das Bedürfnis nach einem Heim ist eine der ursprünglichsten Sehnsüchte des Menschen. Wer obdachlos wird und sein Leben auf der Straße bestreitet, dem fehlt buchstäblich das Dach über dem Kopf. Dem ...

Transformation is a desired outcome of Christian spirituality. Christians pray, trust, and hope that their responsive embrace of God will transform them. Interdisciplinary study of this process, as...

Die Zürcher Maler Varlin (1900-1977) - geboren als Willy Guggenheim - und Wilfrid Moser (1914-1997) waren anarchische Wahrheitssucher. Berlin, Paris, Marseille, Malaga und Marokko vor und nach dem ...

The first part of this volume focuses on the emergence of planning education programs in the twentieth century as a way to understand the current planning education environment. Then we explore how...

Im vorliegenden Band setzen sich erziehungswissenschaftlich und (bildungs-)historisch arbeitende Forscherinnen und Forscher mit Perspektiven und Erträgen praxistheoretischer Forschung im Fragenkrei...

Vegetation, soil and climate are the most important components of ecological systems. The book represents a compact synthesis of our current knowledge about the ecology of the Earth and is thus the...

Starting in the late 1980s and accelerating around the tum of the century, Scandinavia's big cities started decentralising their political, administrative and service-provider organisations. Oslo w...

A distinctive feature of the book is that it situates the contemporary GVC revolution--that envisages fragmentation and dispersion of production processes across the world based on competitive cost...

The Republic of Venice was the only Catholic territory in which an Anabaptist community formed in the 16th century. The history of Venetian Anabaptism, hitherto little known in Reformation Studies,...