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This book describes struggles of different countries and their development after World War II. The author explains why in the 1970s global and local elites began to turn away from the state, exchanging statism for the belief in the "invisible hand of the market" as a panacea for underdevelopment.

Inspired by the idea that emotion(s) and motion(s) constitute profoundly intertwined dimensions of physical and cultural embodiment reflected in language, this volume comprises nineteen contributions presenting exploratory and applicative accounts of (e)motion(s) situated across a range of topical research areas.

The volume assembles an interdisciplinary range of articles that look into the secondary transformation of knowledge in Choson Korea, i.e. processes of interpretive adaptation, of dissection, selection and re-assemblage, of reduction and amplification, as well as of blending with existing cognitive structures and material objectification.

The author offers a new overview to the Aramean history on the foundation of the researches in the last 50 years. Incorporated are two excurses about the newest palaeographic results to the second line of the Melqart or Bar-Hadad-Stela and a new transcription and translation of the Tel Dan-Stela fragments.

Searching through the works of many thinkers, from Plato, Rousseau, Buber and Bohm through de Chardin, von Balthasar, Rahner and Danielou to Tracy, Jeanrond and Moyaert, this study discovers the missing link between interreligious dialogues and its practicability in the public, and proffers solutions.

This book is a collection of papers written by researchers in the field of social sciences. It includes studies on social science textbooks, the teachers' image in newspapers, the relationship between self-efficacy and cognitive level to the role of organizational silence, as well as the academicians' loneliness in the working life.

This volume offers perspectives on the current sociolinguistic situations in former Eastern Bloc countries. Employing various methodological approaches, the authors analyse phenomena such as language choice, hierarchies and ideologies in multilingualism, language policies, minority languages, and the position of English in the region.

The cultural category of monster is the key to understanding the "Mirabilia" by Phlegon of Tralles. Applied to Phlegon's 35 marvelous stories, this category allows all his reported cases to be defined as either hybrid creatures, or as beings monstrous in terms of scale, size or multiplicity. In each case corporeality receives the greatest emphasis.

The book offers a thorough study of the literary tensions and two-world structure of the fantastic short stories by H. G. Wells (1866-1946). It exposes Trickster games in the storytelling and pinpoints his staple methods of artistic composition.

This book presents the mechanisms of institutional cooperation between the Constitutional Court and the Court of Justice of the European Union, the European Court of Human Rights, the other constitutional courts, the Venice Commission, the Parliament, the President of Romania, the Government, the Advocate of the People, the courts of law and the media.

The author argues that religious history is underestimated in its importance for World- and Global history. This book offers ten examples from a wide range of religious beliefs which show that developments in religion have far reaching consequences for general history.

This book examines industrial policies as well as STI policies in two selected East Asian economies in South Korea and Japan, comparatively. It reviews general and sectoral policies in railway, medical, aviation equipment and electronics.

"The house of art" designates the creative mode in modernity associated with an artist's residence as his own creation and product of a need to create which is not fulfilled in his "real" field. The book discusses the most important of these creations of the 18th-20th centuries, including the artist's space, broadly understood, annexed by his imagination.

The author introduces the Antarctic Treaty as well as the Antarctic Treaty System and elaborates on the Convention for the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities (CRAMRA). By comparing CRAMRA to the 1991 Protocol, she concludes that future discussions on Antarctic mineral exploration would learn from the experiences of CRAMRA.

Edward Riou was a sea officer in the British Royal Navy who served with James Cook, saved HMS Guardian and was killed in the Battle of Copenhagen while under the command of Lord Nelson. This microhistorical study analyses his notions of duty, discipline and leadership and compares them with those of his fellow officers.

This book analyzes the controversy between imperialism associated with capitalist development. The author evaluates contemporary theories concerning the essence of this relationship. On that basis, he reconstructs his own view on capitalist imperialism.

This book investigates inconsistencies in the British and American accents of advanced German learners of English. It takes a variationist approach based on extra- and intra-linguistic factors as potential explanations for variability and contributes to understanding the status of L1 transfer in language learners at "ultimate attainment".

Taking metadiscourse as their starting point, the articles in this book focus both on the interactive and cross-cultural aspects of written texts in varying genres. They compare and contrast rich data from an intriguing mixture of languages to substantially advance our understanding of the communicative nature of written texts.

The authors in this volume present a new point of view related to research methods and techniques in public relations and advertising. The book seeks to provide a research guide that covers topics including selecting and writing a research subject, data collection, and analysis selection for beginner researchers.

The volume presents fifteen essays and brings together scholars who share a common interest in transgressing borders in literatures. The book is determined to encourage border violations, and each paper tackles the issue of border crossing in different realms and territories.

This monograph demonstrates that the Gospel of Matthew is a sequentially organized reworking of the Acts of the Apostles. The strictly sequential, hypertextual dependence on Acts explains the Matthean relocations of the Marcan and Lucan material, numerous Matthean modifications thereof, and many surprising features of the Matthean Gospel.

Jonathan Swift was not alone when he published the "Drapier's Letters" in protest against a coinage patent granted to the English manufacturer William Wood. This annotated edition contains more than 100 pamphlets, public declarations, poems, and songs, which denounced the project as a threat to Ireland's financial security and economic well-being.

This volume analyses adult education and lifelong learning as international phenomena, which have a strong influence on its professionals. Based on the 2016 Wurzburg Winter School the book identifies influences on policy at local, national and international levels.

The author aims to expand the definition of Turkish American literature beyond fiction written by Americans of Turkish descent to incorporate texts that literally 'commute' between two national spheres. Her analyses include literary works of Elif Shafak, Halide Edip, Guneli Gun and Alev Lytle Croutier.

This book analyzes events and narratives from the points of view of literature, grammar, discourse, and semantics. The contributors place the event and narrative categories at the center of interest and their specific goals are pursued by applying different, both qualitative and quantitative, research methods.