Based on extensive oral history and archival research, this sheds new... Læs mere
Provides translations of essays that deal with the Austrian idea and with the distinctive position of German-speaking... Læs mere
This volume originated in a special 2009 symposium on how human-animal interaction may help fight obesity across the lifespan. It provides systematic presentation of the scientific evidence for this powerful expression of the benefits of the human-animal bond.
Addresses Jesus in the context of Judaism. By emphasising his Jewishness, the authors challenge today’s Jews to reclaim the Nazarene as a proto-rebel... Læs mere
The move towards sustainable energy production and use is one the most challenging changes taking place in the world's established... Læs mere
Scholars tend to call them 'rites of passage'. Most people prefer to speak of them as life cycle events or milestones. This volume offers fresh insights into rituals as old as the Hebrew Bible in contexts as familiar as the American Midwest and as exotic as Karaism.
A historical-textual study about transformations of the aesthetics of the sublime - the literary and aesthetic quality of greatness under duress - from early English Romanticism to the New Poetry Movement in twentieth-century China.
Berlin, Budapest, Prague, and Warsaw are cities indelibly marked by more than forty years of Soviet influence. This title explores the ways in which these major urban centres have redefined their identities over the years.