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Theater as metaphor
The papers of the present volume investigate the potential of the metaphor of life as theater for literary, philosophical, juridical and epistemological discourses from the Middle Ages through modernity, and focusing on traditions as manifold as French, Spanish, Italian, German, Russian and Latin-American.
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- 9783110622034
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- 276 p.; 22 cm.
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- 792.01 THE t
Interface oral health science 2016 : innovative research on biosis-abiosis in…
This volume broadens understanding of dentistry and promotes interdisciplinary research across a wide range of related fields, based on the symposium entitled "Innovative Research for Biosis–Abiosis Intelligent Interface 2016". It aims to create highly functional and autonomic intelligent interface by combining highly functional interface science with the technology of an evaluation and a con…
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- 9789811015601
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- xi, 277p. : ill.
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- 617.6 INT i
Fading foundations : probability and the regress problem
This book addresses the age-old problem of infinite regresses in epistemology. How can we ever come to know something if knowing requires having good reasons, and reasons can only be good if they are backed by good reasons in turn? The problem has puzzled philosophers ever since antiquity, giving rise to what is often called Agrippa's Trilemma. The current volume approaches the old problem in a…
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- 9783319582955
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- xi, 238p. : ill.
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- 121 ATK f
Institutional reform for innovation and entrepreneurship : an agenda for Europe
The authors of this book advise the economies of the European Union to become more entrepreneurial in promoting innovation and economic growth. The authors propose a reform strategy with respect to several aspects to achieve this goal. Starting with the rule of law and the protection of property rights; the tax system; the authors deal with regulations governing savings, capital and finance, an…
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- 9783319550923
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- x, 102p. : ill.
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- 338.6 ELE i
The Old English translation of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum …
Did King Alfred the Great commission the Old English translation of Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, probably the masterpiece of medieval Anglo-Latin Literature, as part of his famous program of translation to educate the Anglo-Saxons? Was the Old English Historia, by any chance, a political and religious manifesto for the emerging ‘Kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons’? Do we deal w…
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- 978386395189
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- 411 p.
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- 274.2 LEM o
Woodstock scholarship: an interdisciplanary annotated bibliography
"Since August 1969, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair looms large when recounting the history and impact of the baby boom generation and the societal upheavals of the Sixties. Scholars study the sociological, political, musical, and artistic impact of the event and use it as a cultural touchstone when exploring alternative perspectives or seeking clarity. This interdisciplinary annotated bibliog…
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- 9781783742905
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- v, 191p.: ill.
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- 016.7816607874735 GAT w
The Arts and crafts of literacy. Islamic manuscript cultures in sub-Saharan A…
During the last two decades, the (re-)discovery of thousands of manuscripts in different regions of sub-Saharan Africa has questioned the long-standing approach of Africa as a continent only characterized by orality and legitimately assigned to the continent the status of a civilization of written literacy.However, most of the existing studies mainly aim at serving literary and historical purpo…
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- 9783110541441
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- x, 367 p.; 22 cm.
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- Studies in Manuscript Cultures; 12
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The Novel map
Focusing on Stendhal, Gérard de Nerval, George Sand, Émile Zola, and Marcel Proust, The Novel Map: Mapping the Self in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction explores the ways that these writers represent and negotiate the relationship between the self and the world as a function of space in a novel turned map. With the rise of the novel and of autobiography, the literary and cultural contexts of …
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- 9780810128668
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- 263 p.; 22 cm.
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- 843.709384 BRA n
Colonial Australian fiction : characterTypes, social formationsand the coloni…
Over the course of the 19th century a remarkable array of types appeared in Australian literature: the swagman, the larrikin, the colonial detective, the bushranger, the currency lass”, the squatter, and more. Some had a powerful influence on the colonies’ developing sense of identity; others were more ephemeral. But all had a role to play in shaping and reflecting the social and economic c…
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- 9781743324615
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The Talking heads experiment: origins of words and meanings
The Talking Heads Experiment, conducted in the years 1999-2001, was the first large-scale experiment in which open populations of situated embodied agents created for the first time ever a new shared vocabulary by playing language games about real world scenes in front of them. The agents could teleport to different physical sites in the world through the Internet. Sites, in Antwerp, Brussels, …
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- 9783944675428
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- 390 p.; 22 cm.
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- Computational Models of Language Evolutio
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- 401 STE t
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