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This book attempts to show the context of the clash of the fundamental values "democracy" and "solidarity" which serve as the leading political principles of European integration. Therefore several further concepts and problems have been discussed such as the issue of identity, the concept of citizenship and the problem of nationalism.

The book examines ways in which Germans struggle with the Nazi past. It is a reflection upon the reasons why German reckoning with the past became a process of contradictions and shows the specific character of German collective memory in relation to the helplessness and moral condition of a nation defending itself in the face of unimaginable evil.

The book deals with the history of Russian philosophy and ideas from the Enlightenment to the religious-philosophical renaissance of the first decade of the 20th century. It provides readers with an exhaustive account of relationships between various Russian thinkers and an examination of how those thinkers relate to a number of figures and trends.

This book analyzes the black market history in Poland up to the 1940s and the development of black-market phenomena in post-war Poland. The author evaluates the interrelation between the black-market phenomena and historical and geographical conditions.

This international festschrift volume contains sixty-six essays in six languages contributed by seventy-one friends and colleagues, acknowledged experts from various fields of research. It is representative of the scope and breadth of Wolfgang Mieder's impressive scholarship in paremiology, folklore, language, and literature.

The first part of the book centers on questions of biography, art and music theory, the psychology of creation and general aesthetics and concerns basic traits of Ligeti's personality and work. The more extensive second part comprises discussions of his most representative works, with special emphasis on the processes of creation.

This book provides case studies on extracurricular activities and informal schooling processes among pupils in historical European educational contexts. It also provides the reader with empirical, methodological and theoretical input to facilitate future research on this as yet neglected area in the field of educational history.

The book opens dimensions of justice and redemption. It compares Cankar's works with those of Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Ibsen, Hauptmann and the Bible. Compassion and love, especially for the weak, are greater than exigencies of justice. In his last works he offers a vision of redemption for all suffering people during the First World War.

Post- and Transhumanism are being introduced with respect to foundational questions, utopian issues, normative and evaluative elements, ontological perspectives and arts. The topics are divided up into five sections with the following titles: Confessions, Lands of Cockaygne, Neo-Socratic Reflections, Ontologies of Becoming and Paragone of the Arts.

El libro presenta una reflexion integral de la poesia ovidiana de amor, tenerorum lusor amorum. Examina todos los niveles del texto literario. Metamorfosis discursiva designa procedimientos artisticos de conciliacion, transformacion y cambios. La hermeneutica gadameriana considera las creaciones culturales como un lenguaje a comprender.

In order to comprehend China's current perspective on sovereignty, the author connects Chinese historical ideas with the current international society. She locates misunderstandings of China's past and present which could cause misjudgment of China's perspective of sovereignty.

Big data are changing the way we work. This book conveys a theoretical understanding of big data and the related interactions on a socio-technological level as well as on the organizational level. Big data challenge the human resource department to take a new role. An organization's new competitive advantage is its employees augmented by big data.

Wind drives in combination with weather routing can lower the fuel consumption of cargo ships significantly. For this reason, the author describes a mathematical method based on quantile regression for a probabilistic estimate of the wind propulsion force on a ship route.

The book uses scientific discipline of chemistry to inform a Natural Theology. The author refers to the perception of beauty to provide a conceptual framework linking aspects of Epistemology, Theology and Chemistry. He presents definitions of Natural Theology and Beauty that bridge the conceptual gaps between the humanities and the hard sciences.

The rationalisation of the world is answered in Germany by an Aesthetic Revolution (Winckelmann, the romantic movement). It culminates in Nietzsche, and becomes a conservative revolution in the 1920s. After 1945, Beckmann and M. Walser embody the necessity of the aesthetic perspective.

The volume focuses on translation in the first half of the 20th century, a period of political and social changes. The collection concentrates mainly, though not exclusively, on the Iberian Peninsula. It addresses issues such as censorship, power, war and the women's role in society, shedding light on translation concepts and practices of the time.

This book investigates the contemporary conceptions of the Jewish figure on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage. Taking on what has been said about Shakespeare's Shylock and Marlowe's Barabas in the last centuries, seven other, largely ignored plays are analysed to enhance the image we have today of the early modern stage-Jew.

Universities are increasingly shifting to English-medium instruction. This book offers perpectives on how universities have coped with changing the language of instruction and provides research on teaching and learning through an additional language, the professional development for teachers, programme and course development, and quality assurance.

This book examines the role of parody in the English poetry and prose of the eighteenth century. It focuses on polyphony, intertextuality and deconstruction in parodic genres, in Alexander Pope's satires and John Gay's mock-pastoral poems. It examines the key role of parody in the novels by Henry Fielding and Laurence Sterne.

The book examines diverse aspects of Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The contributors analyze the improvement of the position of EU and US in the world economy, as well as in politics and international organisations. They analyse new regulatory standards and the impact on Polish and EU merchandise and services trade.

This book presents empirical research of grammatical collocations of the type: verb and the prepositions "of" and "to". It is based on comparisons of English and Czech sentences containing verbs and prepositions that are followed by the object.

The book deals with the Brazilian method of research and creation in dance and theater, called Bailarino-Pesquisador-Interprete (Dancer-Researcher-Performer BPI), which enables to develop the body identity of the individual. Through field research of ritual and Brazilian popular manifestations the author formulates a proposal for body work.

This study is an intertextual-thematological investigation of the Narcissus theme at the turn of the century around 1900 in French, German, and English language literature, sexology and psychoanalysis.

The volume examines imperial rule in the Middle Ages. It asks for the characteristics of imperial leadership as well as the reasons why some rulers strove for imperial titles such as emperor whereas others voluntarily shrank from them. Thus, the authors adopt a transcultural perspective, covering Europe, Byzantium and the Islamic Middle East.

The proceedings of two international conferences contain 11 contributions to three topics. The main focus is on economic sustainability with institutional, financial, behavioral, environmental and technical aspects. Moreover, general economic approaches and developments are discussed. Health and education are analyzed as aspects of public welfare.

The book presents the issue of impoliteness in media discourse found in television debates, films and computer-mediated communication. The research perspectives adopted in the book include prosody studies, corpus linguistics, neo-Gricean pragmatics, media studies and audiovisual translation.