This book examines the confrontational war pictures of Otto Dix 1891 1969 and explores their role in shaping the memory of World War I in Germany from 1914 to 1936. Dix s thirty-eight months on the World War I battlefields profoundly influenced his post-war artistic c... Lees meer.

Unsettling traditional understandings of housing reform as focused on the nuclear family with dependent children Single People and Mass Housing in Germany 1850-1930 is the first complete study of single-person mass housing in Germany and the pivotal role this class- a... Lees meer.

One of the hottest concepts in international academic social-science research social capital refers to the ways in which people make use of social networks in getting ahead . This book presents the latest contributions and advances in theory and method in this impor... Lees meer.

Among the topics featured. Intergroup relationship and empathy for others pain. a social neuroscience approach. The neuroscience of bilingualism. cross-linguistic influences and cognitive effects. Cross-cultural reading the mind in the eyes and its consequences fo... Lees meer.

This archaeological study analyses the clothing remains and material culture from church cemeteries across Hungary to determine the various factors which influenced the use and meaning of clothing items during a period which saw the Ottoman conquest of a significant pr... Lees meer.

This publication constitutes essential reading for academics teachers and language policy makers wanting to understand plan and implement an educational language program involving learner mobility. The book provides data and analyses from a long-term program of resea... Lees meer.

Markets in Historical Contexts is the result of a dialogue between historians and social scientists thinking about markets in modern society. How should we approach markets after the collapse of Marxism. What alternative ways of thinking about markets can we recover fr... Lees meer.

Herbert Bayer was one of the most extraordinary artists associated with the Bauhaus school. A true multimedia artist he united graphic design art and architecture in a unique style that came to represent the bold aesthetic approach of the movement. A teacher with the... Lees meer.

This book explores new phenomenological research on the structural disruptions of spatiality temporality and understanding in the context of anxiety and depressive disorders. It offers critiques of mainstream psychopathology taking a transdisciplinary approach to the... Lees meer.

One of the most fascinating sub-divisions within the rapidly growing field of psychology and law is the area of deception detection. Traditionally this area has been characterised by a number of approaches which have analysed different aspects of deception such as verba... Lees meer.

The popular German streaming series Babylon Berlin a neo-noir thriller set in the final years of the Weimar Republic builds on the fascination with 1920s Berlin as a centre of political and economic upheaval hedonistic nightlife and vibrant artistic experimentation. E... Lees meer.

This volume presents studies on pronouns in embedded contexts and offers fundamental insights into this central area of research. Much of the recent research on pronouns has shown that embedded environments such as clausal complements of attitude predicates provide a... Lees meer.

The book contains published papers of the conference Textiles Identity in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean. Paradigms of Contexts and Cross-Cultural Exchanges of the British School at Athens held at the Benaki Museum of Islamic Art in 2016 as well as... Lees meer.

This multicultural reader includes forty non-fiction selections by American minority writers on themes such as identity family assimilation justice and equality. The selections have been chosen to appeal both to minority students as well as those from the majority c... Lees meer.

The period between the Fall of Rome and the rise of the Carolingians saw a major shift in knowledge production. Learning became monopolised by a Christian intellectual elite in a rapidly developing monastic landscape. This transition and transformation was only fully ac... Lees meer.