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A comparative history of litanic verse in various European regions. The verse reflects the religious, social and political history of Europe. The articles address poetry from medieval to modern times, focusing on the literatures of Protestant countries (Great Britain, Denmark, Germany, Norway) and Austrian poetry.

What's the role played by the invisible in our lives? At what level can it be perceived when explored in the theatre? Having as its focus the acting processes carried out by Peter Brook and his actors, the author tries to reveal the invisible that permeates their work in its dynamic manifestation.

Structure and coordination of the Hanse's network trade system are analysed in an institutional economics framework. Simplicity and flexibility of this medieval network organisation enabled Hansards to bridge existing gaps in the econcomic development of northern Europe, but also contributed to the later decline of Hanseatic trade after 1500.

For Luther, a proper distinction between Law and Gospel is crucial to Christians as they seek to live out their callings in everyday life. This book reveals Luther's instructions to his students on being pastors, heads of households, and citizens as they face all of the complex relations in sixteenth-century society.

The book summarizes knowledge on albeit uncommon, but serious aortic diseases and demonstrates the importance for a publication with a cross-specialty reach. A chapter on aneurysm etiology presents an overview of all etiological groups, allowing the reader to become versed in the topic, while pointing out the less known aneurysm causes.

This book is an account of protests organized in Poland by trade unions from the late socialism to 21st century. It uses protest event analysis and mass surveys to examine the impact of trade unions on institutions before and after systemic change. Trade unions were crucial for transformation, but their impact subsequently declined.

The author examines social mobility in the enlarged EU by analysing the work sequences of 1865 movers and stayers in Poland. Using indicators of upward and downward social mobility, she explores the role of migration in occupational careers and reveals agency and reflexivity as drivers of non-financial sense-making of migration.

After the American Revolution, U.S. American literature and culture were shaped by transatlantic and inter-American relations. Issues such as the Haitian Revolution, Spanish American independence, slave economies and colonialism influenced the ways Americans defined themselves as a nation and as individuals.

The author analyzes the radicalization of political culture from a critical theoretical point of view. Firstly a qualitative case study introduces the parallel emergence of radicalism and indifference in Hungary. Secondly these patterns are analyzed on a European survey.

This book examines how terrorism as a theme has been represented in Australian post-9/11 novels. It elaborates a distinctively Australian approach in this regard as the novels taken into consideration focus on the terrorism discourse and its inherent strategies of fictionalisation rather than the actual violence of a terrorist attack.

The author examines the dynamics of participation in and welfare impact of integrated aquaculture-agriculture (IAA) value chain by using three-year panel data. Education and household size, access to extensions and market information, community-based organisations (CBO) membership are positively associated with IAA participation.

The book is about the nature of multilateralism in global governance. It presents a third generation scholarly research in inter-disciplinary fashion by analysing normative dimensions, issue-areas, such as migration and international trade, as well as the limits of multilateralism in contemporary global governance.

This publication is a collection of articles which summarise results of investigations into archival materials concerning wartime stories of various nations involved in the Great War. The objective of the authors was to analyse the wartime experience of individuals and local communities as well as whole nations.

This collection of essays compares media diversity law (including cartel law) in Australia and Germany. While there are important differences in the legal background of the two countries, this book reveals that notwithstanding these differences, both countries have evolved broadly similar legislative regimes.

The book reviews the democratization dilemma in the Middle East, describes the unique role that technology played in the pursuit of democracy, and analyses the contributions and impact of expat communities on that process. It is based on over 60 in-depth interviews with dissidents, expat leaders, journalist, and researchers.

Analyzes the growing influence of China in Angola. The author answers the question how and in what extent China has gained influence over the economic development of Angola since the end of the civil war in 2002. She also discusses a process of gradual change of the relations of two rival powers - China and the USA - with Angola.

This study explores issues of biomass energy use in relation to household welfare and it assesses Ethiopia's future energy security with a focus on the energy sector model and institutional arrangements required for decentralized energy initiatives.

Underlying the songs of the Finnish Roma are historical depth and cultural and situational signification. Songs as tradition are in a state of continuous change and it is from this perspective that the features, nature and functions of music must be considered, chronologically and locally as part of the surrounding culture and its plurality.

The study situates Norman Mailer in the tradition of Modernism, showing how he imbibed the worldview of a coterie of male modernist writers who imposed their notions of art and literature and politics on the movement. Mailer followed a specific ideological path, moving from a rejection of liberalism, technocracy and mass culture to a Gnostic vision.

The book focuses on the nexus between constitutions adopted by post-socialist countries of Europe and Asia after 1989 and economic transition in the region. It takes the perspective of Constitutional Political Economy and uses the novel synthetic control method in empirical analyses to emphasize the role of factual constitutional court independence.

This book enables academics and practitioners to gain an insight into the various political, socio-economic and business aspects of Turkish-German relations and contributes significantly to shape the future relations between Turkey and Germany.

On the basis of the literary work and life of one of the Charta 77 signatories, Dominik Tatarka, this work addresses the topic of dissident literature. By the use of the comparative method Slovak literature is analysed alongside other literatures of Central Europe, as well as French.

Paternalism interferes with a person's liberty or autonomy to promote the person's good or to protect him from self-harm. The aim of this book is to critically evaluate the conceptual and justificatory models related to paternalism in the context of moral philosophy. Analysis of selected legal cases complements the theoretical investigation.

This commentary demonstrates that the Gospel of Luke is a result of twofold, strictly sequential, hypertextual reworking of the Letter to the Galatians. The ideas of this letter were illustrated with the use of literary motifs taken from other NT works, classical Greek works, the Septuagint, the Damascus Document, and the works of Flavius Josephus.

This volume contains studies by distinguished international scholars on the transmission of major classical Latin texts, including the writings of Plautus, Terence, Cicero, Caesar and Virgil. It offers fresh insights into the protohistory of the text, the phase of its history that precedes the earliest surviving textual witnesses.

The book takes differences in multimodality research as a starting point to discuss old and new theoretical, methodological as well as analytical ideas for building bridges between various disciplines and approaches.

This book examines unreliable narration in novels by Kazuo Ishiguro and Max Frisch. It offers new perspectives on the two authors' oeuvre and on narrative unreliability as a narratological concept. It demarcates unreliable narration from related phenomena, such as unnatural narration, and points out similarities in Ishiguro's and Frisch's work.