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The title constitutes an innovative research about the language of colour in the Bible, particularly about the colour terms related to green. It applies a specific methodology that emerges from the study of the concept of colour in the biblical texts and from the tools provided by cognitive linguistics; it offers a deep semantic analysis of terms by bringing together relevant information provided by semantics and other linguistic disciplines.

This book focuses on the characterization of the amorphous phase of polymers, whether they are pure amorphous or semi-crystalline ones, above Tg or below Tg, by studying the relaxation of dipoles and space charges naturally found in their structure after they have been activated by the application of a voltage field. The experimental deconvolution of the relaxation modes responsible for internal motion in the amorphous phase is coupled with a mathematical procedure (Thermal-Windowing Deconvolution-TWD) that leads to the understanding of their coupling characteristics which, it is shown, relate to the state of the material itself, for instance its non-equilibrium state or its internal stress for matter belonging to interfaces between aggregated or dispersed phases. Describes quantitatively the Thermal Stimulated Depolarization techniques of polymer characterization (TSD, TWD), i.e. how to decouple the relaxation modes collectively interacting (interactive coupling) and relate it to the thermodynamic properties of the amorphous phase. Understands the results of depolarization in terms of the new physics of polymer interactions: the Dual-Phase model, here applied to the dipoles-space charge dynamics. Provides a roaster of CASE STUDIES: practical applications of the TSD and TWD characterization techniques to describe coupled molecular motions in resins, medical tissues, wood, blends and block copolymers interfaces, rubbers, can coatings, internal stress in molded parts, etc

The book provides a detailed empirical approach to constructing grammatical analysis and theory, in particular the analysis of English verbs. It develops an integrated formal description of the English verbal system and offers several theoretical advances in the treatment of verbs that have escaped formulation until now.

Der zweite Band der Briefe an Pestalozzi umfasst die Jahre 1805 bis 1809 und enthält knapp 400 Briefe. Im napoleonischen Europa avancierte "Volkserziehung" zu einem wichtigen Punkt auf der nationalen Agenda, so dass die Methode Pestalozzis praktische Relevanz bekam. Darüberhinaus zeigen die Briefe, auf welche Gegenargumente die Bewunderer Pestalozzis stießen und wie es zu ersten Konflikten in seinem Institut auf Schloss Yverdon kam. In der Schweiz kann der Titel über die Neue Zürcher Zeitung bezogen werden.

Der fünfte Band der Briefe an Pestalozzi umfasst die Zeit von August 1817 bis 1820: eine Zeit, die vongrassierender Armut geprägt war, aber auch vom Durchbruch der Restauration vor allem in Preussen. Diese wirtschaftlich, politisch und persönlich turbulenten Ereignisse spiegeln sich auch in der Korrespondenz Pestalozzis wider. Nach vielen erfolglosen Versuchen konnte Pestalozzi wieder eine Armenanstalt - in Yverdons Vorort Clindy - eröffnen, und es begann eine intensive Rezeption seiner Methode in England und Irland.

Die neue kritische Ausgabe ersetzt die Edition von A. Meineke (1849). Das umfangreiche kulturgeographische Lexikon aus justinianischer Zeit verzeichnet Orts-, Berg-, Gewaesser- und Voelkemamen der antiken Welt, erzaehlt Gruendungsmythen, gibt die Namensetymologien und erklaert die Ableitung der Ethnika. Die annotierte Uebersetzung in eine modeme Sprache erschliesst zum ersten Mal das Werk auch einem breiteren Kreis von Altertumswissenschaftlem.

This volume builds on recent scholarship on contemporary poetry in relation to medieval literature, focusing on postmodern poets who work with the medieval in a variety of ways. Such recent projects invert or "queer" the usual transactional nature of engagements with older forms of literature, in which readers are asked to exchange some small measure of bewilderment at archaic language or forms for a sense of having experienced a medieval text. The poets under consideration in this volume demand that readers grapple with the ways in which we are still "medieval" - in other words, the ways in which the questions posed by their medieval source material still reverberate and hold relevance for today's world. They do so by challenging the primacy of present over past, toppling the categories of old and new, and suggesting new interpretive frameworks for contemporary and medieval poetry alike.

This book contains the papers delivered at sessions organised by the Genealogy and Local History Section at the annual conferences of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) between 2001 and 2005; many of these are updated versions of the original presentations. A wide range of significant issues and trends in historical and family research is covered. The authors, all experts in their own fields, address those engaged in delivering genealogy and local history services in libraries, archives and museums across the world. Moreover, they focus on the growing army of enthusiasts directly engaged in tracing their own ancestral and local history. Several papers give useful hints on how various resources can be used to further personal research. These include the exciting opportunities offered by the digitisation of primary resources and by the impact of the powerful new technology, among other things now on offer through DNA profiling.

Commentaries on Aristotle's writings have been produced since the 2nd century AD. This edition contains Greek commentaries on his work from the 3rd to the 8th centuries AD by, among others, Alexander of Aphrodiensias, Themistios, Joh. Philoponus, Simplicius in Greek.

Commentaries on Aristotle's writings have been produced since the 2nd century AD. This edition contains Greek commentaries on his work from the 3rd to the 8th centuries AD by, among others, Alexander of Aphrodiensias, Themistios, Joh. Philoponus, Simplicius in Greek.