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Book The National Union Catalogs  1963

Download or read book The National Union Catalogs 1963 written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book National Union Catalog

Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Northern Myths  Modern Identities

Download or read book Northern Myths Modern Identities written by Simon Halink and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of essays, Northern Myths, Modern Identities, explores the various ways in which ancient mythologies have been cultivated in the cultural construction of ethnic, national and supra-national identities from 1800 to the present. How were Old Norse, Finno-Ugric and Frisian myths employed as rhetorical devices in national narratives? And how did (and do) these new interpretations convey a sense of ‘northernness’? This volume approaches these issues from an interdisciplinary and international perspective, and brings together case studies from Scandinavia, the Baltic region, Friesland, Britain, the United States and even Japan. Thus, it provides a unique insight into the reception history and uses of northern myths in the present, and their role in the creation of modern identities. Contributors are: Tim van Gerven, Gylfi Gunnlaugsson, Simon Halink, Sumarliði R. Ísleifsson, Otto S. Knottnerus, Joep Leerssen, Daisy Neijmann, Han Nijdam, Robert A. Saunders, Katja Schulz, Tom Shippey, Carline Tromp, and Kendra Willson.

Book David Gorlaeus  1591 1612

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christoph Lüthy
  • Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
  • Release : 2012-04-01
  • ISBN : 9089644385
  • Pages : 227 pages

Download or read book David Gorlaeus 1591 1612 written by Christoph Lüthy and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When David Gorlaeus (1591-1612) passed away at 21 years of age, he left behind two highly innovative manuscripts. Once they were published, his work had a remarkable impact on the evolution of seventeenth-century thought. However, as his identity was unknown, divergent interpretations of their meaning quickly sprang up. Seventeenth-century readers understood him as an anti-Aristotelian thinker and as a precursor of Descartes. Twentieth-century historians depicted him as an atomist, natural scientist and even as a chemist. And yet, when Gorlaeus died, he was a beginning student in theology. His thought must in fact be placed at the intersection between philosophy, the nascent natural sciences, and theology. The aim of this book is to shed light on Gorlaeus’ family circumstances, his education at Franeker and Leiden, and on the virulent Arminian crisis which provided the context within which his work was written. It also attempts to define Gorlaeus’ place in the history of Dutch philosophy and to assess the influence that it exercised in the evolution of philosophy and science, and notably in early Cartesian circles. Christoph Lüthy is professor of the history of philosophy and science at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Book Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World

Download or read book Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World written by Philippe Van Parijs and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Europe and throughout the world, competence in English is spreading at a speed never achieved by any language in human history. This growing dominance of English is frequently perceived as being grossly unjust. This book is the first systematic treatment of the of the normative aspects of language policy and how this relates to justice.

Book The Oera Linda Book

Download or read book The Oera Linda Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dutch

    Book Details:
  • Author : Roland Willemyns
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2013-04-11
  • ISBN : 0199858713
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Dutch written by Roland Willemyns and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a well-researched and highly readable survey of the language in all its historical, geographic, and social aspects

Book Early Medieval Ireland and Europe  Chronology  Contacts  Scholarship

Download or read book Early Medieval Ireland and Europe Chronology Contacts Scholarship written by Pádraic Moran and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pivotal role of Ireland in the development of a decidedly Christian culture in early medieval Europe has long been recognized. Still, Irish scholarship on early medieval Ireland has tended not to look beyond the Irish Sea, while continental scholars try to avoid Hibernica by reference to its special Celtic background. Following the lead of the honorand of this volume, Prof. Daibhi O Croinin, this collection of 27 essays aims at contributing to a reversal of this general trend. By way of introduction to the period, the first section deals with chronological problems faced by modern scholars as well as the controversial issues relating to the reckoning of time discussed by contemporary intellectuals. The following three sections then focus on Ireland's interaction with its neighbours, namely a) Ireland in the Insular world, b) continental influences in Ireland, and c) Irish influences on the Continent. The concluding section is devoted to modern scholarship and the perception of the Middle Ages in modern literature.

Book The Pseudo Turpin

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  • Author : Hamilton Martin Smyser
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1970
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 154 pages

Download or read book The Pseudo Turpin written by Hamilton Martin Smyser and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Early Medieval Kingship

Download or read book Early Medieval Kingship written by P. H. Sawyer and published by Editors. This book was released on 1977 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Electoral Change in Advanced Industrial Democracies

Download or read book Electoral Change in Advanced Industrial Democracies written by Russell J. Dalton and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of the breakdown of traditional party loyalties and voting patterns, prominent comparativists and country specialists examine the changes now occurring in the political systems of advanced industrial democracies. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Book The Nibelungen Tradition

Download or read book The Nibelungen Tradition written by Francis G. Gentry and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book Descartes  Metaphysical Physics

Download or read book Descartes Metaphysical Physics written by Daniel Garber and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1992-05 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first book-length treatment of Descartes' important and influential natural philosophy, Daniel Garber is principally concerned with Descartes' accounts of matter and motion—the joint between Descartes' philosophical and scientific interests. These accounts constitute the point at which the metaphysical doctrines on God, the soul, and body, developed in writings like the Meditations, give rise to physical conclusions regarding atoms, vacua, and the laws that matter in motion must obey. Garber achieves a philosophically rigorous reading of Descartes that is sensitive to the historical and intellectual context in which he wrote. What emerges is a novel view of this familiar figure, at once unexpected and truer to the historical Descartes. The book begins with a discussion of Descartes' intellectual development and the larger project that frames his natural philosophy, the complete reform of all the sciences. After this introduction Garber thoroughly examines various aspects of Descartes' physics: the notion of body and its identification with extension; Descartes' rejection of the substantial forms of the scholastics; his relation to the atomistic tradition of atoms and the void; the concept of motion and the laws of motion, including Descartes' conservation principle, his laws of the persistence of motion, and his collision law; and the grounding of his laws in God.

Book From Atomos to Atom

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrew G. Van Melsen
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 2004-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780486495842
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book From Atomos to Atom written by Andrew G. Van Melsen and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic profiles the atom's progress from Grecian philosophy to physical conception in the 17th century and modern applications to quantum theory. "Fascinating." ? Philosophy. 1960 edition.

Book Cohesion and Discipline in Legislatures

Download or read book Cohesion and Discipline in Legislatures written by Reuven Y. Hazan and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book - previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Legislative Studies - asks why legislative unity is one of the distinguishing features of modern political parties.

Book Altering Party Systems

Download or read book Altering Party Systems written by Simon Hug and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2001-08-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVWhy new political parties are formed, and why some thrive while others fade away /div

Book Political Parties and Electoral Change

Download or read book Political Parties and Electoral Change written by Peter Mair and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2004-05-19 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How have Europe′s mainstream political parties responded to the long-term decline in voter loyalties? What are the consequences of this change in the electoral markets in which parties now operate? Popular disengagement, disaffection, and withdrawal on the one hand, and increasing popular support for protest parties on the other, have become the hallmarks of modern European politics. This book provides an excellent account of how political parties in Western Europe are perceiving and are responding to these contemporary challenges of electoral dealignment. Each chapter employs a common format to present and compare the changing strategies of established parties and party systems in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, and Ireland. The result is an invaluable portrait of the changing electoral environment and how parties are interacting with each another and voters today. Political Parties and Electoral Change is essential reading for anybody seeking a deeper understanding of contemporary electoral politics and of the challenges facing west European party systems. Peter Mair is Professor of Comparative Politics at Leiden University. Wolfgang C. M ller is Professor of Political Science at the University of Mannheim and previously taught at the University of Vienna. Fritz Plasser is Professor of Political Science at the University of Innsbruck.