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In 1986, three visionaries - John Lasseter, Ed Catmull, and Steve Jobs - united to form Pixar Animation Studios. The tiny studio created "Toy Story" and single-handedly changed the course of animation forever. This work contains over 400 pieces of concept art, storyboard sketches, and photographs that testify to Pixar's wild creativity.

Prosodic Phonology by Marina Nespor and Irene Vogel is now available again. "Nespor & Vogel 1986" is a citation classic - even after twenty years, it is still recognized as the standard resource on Prosodic Phonology. This groundbreaking work introduces all of the prosodic constituents (syllable, foot, word, clitic group, phonological phrase, intonational phrase and utterance) and provides evidence for each one from numerous languages. Prosod...

The approximately 250 languages of the Tibeto-Burman family are spoken by 65 million speakers in ten different countries including Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Burma and China/Tibet. They are characterized by a fascinating linguistic, historical and cultural diversity. The languages spoken in the Himalayas, on their southern slopes and on the high Tibetan plateau in the north constitute the core of this diversity. Thus, the 21 papers mainly...

The HittiteEtymological Dictionary is a comprehensive compendium of the vocabulary of Hittite, one of the great languages of the Ancient Near East, and of paramount importance for comparative Indo-European studies. Since the start of publication, as evidenced by frequency of reference and quotation, this work has become an important tool for study and research in Hittite, Ancient Anatolian, and Indo-European linguistics.

Lao is the national language of Laos, and is also spoken widely in Thailand and Cambodia. It is a tone language of the Tai-Kadai family (Southwestern Tai branch). Lao is an extreme example of the isolating, analytic language type. This book is the most comprehensive grammatical description of Lao to date. It describes and analyses the important structures of the language, including classifiers, sentence-final particles, and serial verb constru...

Zu den besonders wichtigen Handschriftenfunden in jüngster Zeit gehört der sogenannte Codex Tchacos aus dem 4. Jh. Er enthält vier Schriften in koptischer Sprache, wovon zwei ("Der Brief des Petrus an Philippus" und "Die [erste Apokalypse] des Jakobus") bereits aus dem Nag-Hammadi-Fund bekannt sind. Die beiden anderen Schriften bieten bisher unbekannte "gnostische" Texte ("Das Judas-Evangelium" und einen Text, der in der Forschung den Namen "A...

Martina Kumlehn rekonstruiert erstmals die wechselvolle Rezeption des Johannesevangeliums in religionspädagogischen Konzeptionen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Fünf Studien orientieren sich an den großen Entwicklungslinien der Disziplin von der liberalen Religionspädagogik bis zur Symboldidaktik, zeigen jedoch anhand dieses besonderen Fokus, wie komplex sich die Disziplingeschichte darstellt, wenn theologiegeschichtliche Kontexte differenziert wahrgeno...

The book addresses a controversial current topic in language acquisition studies: the impact of frequency on linguistic structure in child language. A major strength of the book is that the role of input frequency in the acquisition process is evaluated in a large variety of languages, topics and the two major theoretical frameworks: UG-based and usage-based accounts. While most papers report a clear frequency effect, different factors that ma...

Though the Epistle to the Romans repeatedly mentions the issue of evil, suffering, and oppression (Rom 5, 8, 12, etc), one rarely finds studies of its contribution to this issue. Yet the context of Hab 2:4 deals with suffering, oppression, and a promise of deliverance (Hab 1.1-4). This quote starts Paul's demonstration of the Gospel, the fulfillment of the Old Testament promises (1:2). For Paul the Scripture's function in Romans is to give hop...

The study deals with a difficult and much-debated text in Paul's Letter to the Romans, 9:30-10:21. The study in particular analyses Paul'suse and interpretation of Deuteronomy 30:12-14 in Romans 10:4-17. Scholars have characterized Paul's exegesis here as idiosyncratic, fanciful, baffling, and arbitrary. By a comparison with Jewish writings near Paul in time, such as the writings of Philo of Alexandria and Baruch, the thesis is argued that Pau...

Das Buch untersucht die unter der Bezeichnung "Konfessionen Jeremias" bekannten Gebete (Jer 11, 18-12, 6, 15, 10-21, 17, 14-18, 18, 18-23, 20, 7-18) aus redaktionskritischer Perspektive. Anstatt direkt auf die Einzeltexte zuzugreifen und in einem zweiten Schritt nach ihrem Weg ins Jeremiabuch zu fragen, wird der umgekehrte Weg gewählt. Ausgangspunkt der Exegese ist daher das Jeremiabuch in seinen verschiedenen Endgestalten (MT und LXX). Es wir...

Die erste gedruckte deutsche Rätselsammlung, das sog. »Straßburger Rätselbuch«, gehört mit 39 erhaltenen Ausgaben und einer 280 Jahre währenden Druckgeschichte (um 1510-1789) zu den besonders erfolgreichen volkssprachlichen weltlichen Büchern der Frühen Neuzeit. Die in der Sammlung enthaltenen Rätsel und Scherzfragen, die verschiedenen Titelholzschnitte sowie die sonstige Mitüberlieferung geben Auskunft über die vor allem in Bürgertum und Adel...

Globalization, Development and the Mass Media gives a comprehensive and critical account of the theoretical changes in communication studies from the early theories of development communication through to the contemporary critiques of globalization. It examines two main currents of thought. Firstly, the ways in which the media can be used to effect change and development. It traces the evolution of thinking from attempts to spread 'modernity' ...

This timely work is a balanced overview of end-of-life issues related to euthanasia and assisted suicide.

Considers how Japan encountered the West and learned about and adopted their arts, culture, and science, and how the West discovered Japanese arts and culture. This book also features works of art from the Kobe City Museum, whose collection focuses on Western-style Japanese art created between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.

For over 200 years, the Catskill Mountains have been repeatedly and dramatically transformed by New York City. Stradling shows that the process was collaborative, as local and urban hands, capital, and ideas have come together to reshape the mountains and the communities therein. The painters of the Hudson River School, the "Borscht Belt" resorts, the great reservoir and acqueduct system that supplies the city with 90% of its water are among t...

Examines how political rule in Arab countries is effectuated, organized, and executed, and how authoritarianism works in practice and how it can be grasped conceptually.

Der deutsche Bibelkodex in der Bibliothek des Franziskanerklosters Freiburg i. Ue. stellt den Endpunkt einer Reihe von Kompilationsvorgängen dar, die sich von 1300 bis in die Mitte des 15. Jahrhunderts erstrecken. Die Monographie untersucht die Bibelübersetzungen der , Freiburger Perikopen' im Kontext der Text- und Bildüberlieferung einiger der ersten deutschen Bibeldrucke (Plenarien)im Zusammenhang des deutschsprachigen Schrifttums der Stadt ...

A new interpretation of English history and religion in the eighteenth century.

Kyoko's been asked to act in the year's most anticipated drama. But Ren is the leading man and the character Kyoko is supposed to play is damaged and scary. Can she overcome her fears, or will this chance of a lifetime slip through her fingers?