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This volume presents a collection of essays on different aspects of Roman sarcophagi. These varied approaches will produce fresh insights into a subject which is receiving increased interest in Eng...

This book is the first volume of aseries that aims at taking stock of the status of local democracy at the beginning of a new century. Modern local govern th me nt is largely a 19 century invention...

Mats Andresen studied law at the University of Hamburg, specialising in information and communication law. After his first state examination, he completed his doctorate at Bucerius Law School in Ha...

Hypercoagulability and bleeding are problems physicians frequently encounter when treating intensive care patients. The coagulation mechanism is a tightly controlled system. Its balance is disturbe...

When the editors of this volume met in Mannheim at the European Consor tium of Political Research Local Government Workshop in 1999, they dis cussed the possibility of a North-South meeting of mind...

The book offers a collection of essays on various aspects of Leibniz's scientific thought, written by historians of science and world-leading experts on Leibniz. The essays deal with a vast array o...

Reading Paul Celan's poetry and poetics, this volume collects the contributions of an international conference at Rice University in Houston, TX on the occasion of Celan's 100th birthday and the 50...

This monograph argues for a novel approach to split topicalization and quantifier float in German, based on the premise that syntactic structure-building proceeds solely via free application of Mer...

With her multifaceted oeuvre comprising paintings, watercolors, drawings, as well as terra-cotta and bronze sculptures, Leiko Ikemura has created a diverse cultural universe that acts as an interme...

This book explores the potential for lifelong learning in dementia. A growing social issue, dementia has previously been understood as a wasteland for learning: at best, those with dementia are hel...

Where young people grow up makes a decisive difference to their life chances. Drawing on case studies from ten European cities, this book looks at how the local environment and the services availab...

This book illustrates how leisure, as with other complex ideas that hold currency in today's world, suffers at the level of common sense, due to a combination of oversimplification, moral depreciat...

Jaan Mikk, Professor of Education (since 1983) and Professor Emeritus (since 2005) at the University of Tartu; publications on school textbooks and achievement tests. Marika Veisson, Professor of E...

Complementary to scattering techniques, scanning tunnelling microscopy provides atomic-scale real space information about a material's electronic state of matter. State-of-the-art designs of a scan...

At the age of almost eleven and almost thirteen years, it's finally time for Mosquito's and Jo's first riding lesson. At the neighbouring equestrian centre, the Spanish riding teacher Joseba is tak...