Following their invasion of Java on March 1, 1942, the Japanese began a process of Japanization of the archipelago, banning every remnant of Dutch rule. Over the next three years, more than 100, 000 Dutch citizens were shipped to Japanese internment camps and more than four million romushas, forced Indonesian laborers, were enlisted in the Japanese war effort. The Japanese occupation stimulated the development of Indonesian independence moveme...
The terrorist attacks of September 11th and more recent atrocities in Russia, Indonesia and Kenya have demonstrated that terrorism now poses the most dangerous threat to stability, democracy and prosperity around the world. This major new book examines how the world has reacted to, and been affected by, the attacks on September 11th, ensuing war in Afghanistan and President George W. Bush's declaration of a 'war on terror' as the 'first war of...
Gabriel Salzinger versucht den letzten Willen seines verstorbenen Vaters zu erfüllen: ein Grab auf dem jüdischen Friedhof der deutschen Kleinstadt Gigricht, neben seiner Frau. Doch das Begräbnis wird unterbrochen: eine Mitarbeiterin der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde hat herausgefunden, dass Gabriels Vater nach orthodox jüdischem Verständnis kein Jude gewesen ist - die Großmutter mütterlicherseits war Christin - und demnach auf dem jüdischen Fr...
Nach der Schlacht im Reich des Schwarzen Todes ordnet sich die Hölle neu. Und mehr denn je ist der Sohn des Lichts erstes Ziel der Dämonen! Noch im Krankenhaus bekommt der schwer angeschlagene John einen unheimlichen Besucher - und niemand steht dem Geisterjäger zur Seite! Die Katastrophe nimmt ihren Lauf!
Longman English Interactive is a four-level, video-based, integrated-skills program that includes more than 100 hoursof instruction per level. The program provides instructionand practice in grammar, speaking, listening, vocabulary, pronunciation, reading, and writing.
Recognizing the fundamental power of language in constructing the world we perceive, Ricoeur reveals the processes by which linguistic imagination creates and recreates meaning through metaphor.
A companion volume to "one of the most original works of recent American Cinema"* "Donnie Darko" was the surprise cult hit of 2001. Appearing nationwide on critic's year-end top-ten lists, the quirky independent film's effortless blending of science fiction, horror, adolescent angst, and social satire defied description while simultaneously providing "an unexpectedly poignant catharsis for Sept. 11 blues" (Jan Stuart, "Newsday"). Its Mobius st...
A tour de force on why our viewing habits can act as a means for good, it also comes with a warning that in meeting our voracious appetites for television, we may well be destroying liberty itself.
Few have had quite as much impact in both the academy and in the world of theatre production as Richard Schechner. For more than four decades his work has challenged conventional definitions of theatre, ritual and performance. When this seminal collection first appeared, Schechner's approach was not only novel, it was revolutionary: drama is not just something that occurs on stage, but something that happens in everyday life, full of meaning, ...
This book contains the Proceedings of the 24th International Free Electron Laser Conference and the 9th Free Electron Laser Users Workshop, which were held on September 9-13, 2002 at Argonne National Laboratory. Part I has been reprinted from Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 507 (2003), Nos. 1-2.
The comprehensive analysis of the segmental and metrical system of the Swiss German dialect of Thurgovian provides a significant contribution to both phonetic and phonological theory. Based on the author's original fieldwork and experimental investigations, it is the first in-depth study of this area, tracing it back also to its Old High German roots, particularly that of the dialect of Notker. Quantity alternations - notably word-initial long...
About fifty years ago, Stephen Ullmann wrote that polysemy is 'the pivot of semantic analysis'. Fifty years on, polysemy has become one of the hottest topics in linguistics and in the cognitive sciences at large. The book deals with the topic from a wide variety of viewpoints. The cognitive approach is supplemented and supported by diachronic, psycholinguistic, developmental, comparative, and computational perspectives. The chapters, written b...
Der Band verzeichnet erstmals s¿liche Werke und Noten aus Nietzsches pers¿nlicher Bibliothek (BN) bis Anfang Januar 1889. Er listet sowohl die Best¿e der Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek als auch die des Goethe- und Schiller-Archivs in Weimar auf. Die kritische Analyse anderer Bestandslisten ermittelte zudem zahlreiche heute nicht mehr vorhandene Titel. Ferner wurden s¿liche B¿cherrechnungen und -quittungen von Buchh¿lern und Buchbindern ausgew...
Help your students achieve real results with this motivating series that offers the right level of challenge. Pupils are encouraged to practise all four language skills from the beginning through tasks that related to their own lives and stimulate their imaginations.
Based for the most part on Ovid's Metamorphoses, epyllia retell stories of the dalliances of gods and mortals, most often concerning the transformation of beautiful youths. This short-lived genre flourished and died in England in the 1590s. It was produced mainly by and for the young men of the Inns of Court, where the ambitious came to study law and to sample the pleasures London had to offer. Jim Ellis provides detailed readings of fifteen e...
In der Reihe Arbeiten zur Neutestamentlichen Textforschung (ANTF) publiziert das Institut für Neutestamentliche Textforschung (Münster) seit 1963 grundlegende Untersuchungen und Studien zur Textkritik und Textgeschichte des griechischen Neuen Testaments. Die Reihe versteht sich als Forschungs- und Diskussionsforum und stellt Editionen und Instrumente zur Erforschung und Auswertung der neutestamentlichen Primärüberlieferung und der frühen Übers...
