Praeger, 2010. — 304 p. This modern study of the Iran-Iraq War utilizes newly available primary materials to analyze American policy towards the war and question the veracity of the United States' claims of strict neutrality. The Iran-Iraq War lasted from September 1980 to August 1988, dominating the landscape of the Middle East and polarizing many of the world's nations for...
Kohlhammer, 2017. — 252 p. Heruler, Rugier und Gepiden hatten in der Geschichtsschreibung meist nur eine Nebenrolle im Schatten der Goten und Hunnen inne. Zu Unrecht, denn diese drei Völker spielten zwischen dem 3. und dem 6. Jahrhundert auf großen Bühnen: Die drei barbarischen Verbände kämpften mit und gegen die Römer, zogen mit den Hunnen und versuchten schließlich, an der...
Il Mulino, 2010. — 205 p. Un ritratto ironico e leggero della grammatica e del vocabolario della disunione italiana, a cominciare dalle aggressive formule usate da italiani contro altri italiani. Che non risparmiano neppure il nome del paese, apertamente deriso attraverso parole come "Italietta", "italioti", "italico", "italiesco" o locuzioni come "Italia alle vongole" e...
Kohlhammer, 2021. — 287 p. Die Auseinandersetzung mit der römischen Republik eröffnet faszinierende Einblicke in die Formierung politischer Gemeinschaft, Staatenbildung und Herrschaftssicherung. Rom stellt ein beeindruckendes Beispiel für einen aristokratischen Staat dar, der zur Weltmacht expandierte, dabei fremde Völker aufnahm, schließlich aber in eine tiefe Krise geriet und...
Kohlhammer, 2011. — 154 p. Theodora war die Tochter eines Bärendompteurs am Zirkus in Konstantinopel und wurde Dank ihrer Schönheit und Klugheit die Mätresse einflussreicher Männer des byzantinischen Hofes. Bald verliebte sich Kaiser Justinian, der mächtigste Mann zwischen Gibraltar und Persien, in sie, heiratete sie - nachdem er zuvor entsprechende Gesetze geändert hatte - und...
Kohlhammer, 2017. — 252 p. Heruler, Rugier und Gepiden hatten in der Geschichtsschreibung meist nur eine Nebenrolle im Schatten der Goten und Hunnen inne. Zu Unrecht, denn diese drei Völker spielten zwischen dem 3. und dem 6. Jahrhundert auf großen Bühnen: Die drei barbarischen Verbände kämpften mit und gegen die Römer, zogen mit den Hunnen und versuchten schließlich, an der...
Kohlhammer, 2020. — 275 p. Marcus Aurelius, einer der bekanntesten römischen Kaiser (161-180), wird häufig als "Philosophenkaiser" eingestuft. Diese Bezeichnung beschränkt sein Wirken aber auf das private Leben, zu dem auch seine Familie zählte. Die öffentliche Tätigkeit war jedoch anders ausgerichtet, denn sie konzentrierte sich einerseits auf das Rechtswesen, andererseits auf...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 304 p. Greco-Roman mythology and its reception are at the heart of the European Renaissance, and mythographies-texts that collected and explained ancient myths-were considered indispensable companions to any reader of literature. Despite the importance of this genre, English mythographies have not gained sustained critical attention, largely...
Charles River Editors, 2019. — 78 p. The mystical floating city of Venice has inspired awe for generations, and it continues to be one of the most visited European cities for good reason. Tourists are drawn to the stunning blend of classical, Gothic, and Renaissance-inspired architecture across the picturesque towns and villages, the charming open-air markets, the mouthwatering...
Routledge, 2021. — 224 p. Elite Confederate Women in the American Civil War is a wide-ranging primary source collection that offers a compelling selection of upper-class, white Confederate women's voices from archives across the South. From the prison diary of Mary Terry to Elizabeth Baker Crozier's eyewitness account of the siege of Knoxville, this volume introduces...
Savas Publishing, 2016. — 307 p. The storied Iron Brigade carved out a unique reputation during the Civil War. Its men fought on many hard fields, but they performed their most legendary exploits just outside a small Pennsylvania town called Gettysburg on the first day of July in 1863. There were many heroic actions that morning and afternoon, but the fight along an unfinished...
Stackpole Books, 2021. — 552 p. A figure of legendary, almost mythic proportions, Robert Rogers is widely considered the father of U.S. Army Rangers. He gained his fame during the French and Indian War, fighting in the American and Canadian wilderness for the British colonies and the English Empire against the French and Indians, but a decade later, during the Revolution, he...
Illustrator: Laurier Jim. — Osprey Publishing, 2021. — 96 p. In the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the Imperial Japanese Navy's First Diversion Strike Force took part in two major actions during the course of the battle: the intense air attacks from US Navy carriers on October 24 (the Battle of the Sibuyan Sea, which accounted for superbattleship Musashi), and the compelling action off...
The History Press, 2018. — 224 p. Can air power alone win a war? That has been the question since the Second World War. Air attacks failed miserably in Vietnam; Operation Linebacker had little effect, while bombing Hanoi just increased hatred for America – yet air strikes in both Iraq and Libya helped bring about regime changes. No-fly zones may have worked in the Balkans, but...
Savas Beatie, 2015. — 192 p. Despite its fascinating cast of characters, host of combats large and small, and its impact on the course of the Civil War, surprisingly little ink has been spilled on the conflict s final months in the Carolinas. Resisting Sherman: A Confederate Surgeon s Journal and the Civil War in the Carolinas, 1865, by Francis Marion Robertson (edited by...
The History Press, 2022. — 208 p. In 1953, Ian Fleming's literary sensation James Bond emerged onto the world's stage. Nearly seven decades later, he has become a multi-billion-pound film franchise, now equipped with all the gizmos of the modern world. Yet Fleming's creation, who battled his way through the fourteen novels from 1953 to 1966, was a maverick – a man out of place....
Pen and Sword Books, 2004. — 224 p. Previous studies of the Royalist high command have concentrated largely upon a handful of notable individuals such as King Charles himself and Prince Rupert. In this ground-breaking study, John Barratt re-examines these key figures, but he also explores the careers and characters of some of the lesser-known, but equally able Royalist...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015. — 464 p. — (IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature 9). This volume offers a variety of perspectives on two of the main topics situated at the crossroads between lexical semantics and syntax, namely: (a) aspect and its correspondence with syntactic structure; and (b) the delimitation of syntactic structures from verb classes....
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015. — 354 p. — (Argumentation in Context 9). Scrutinizing Argumentation in Practice contains a selection of papers reflecting upon the use of argumentation in real life contexts. The first five sections are devoted to argumentation in a specific institutional context: scientific controversies, argumentation in politics, argumentation in a...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016. — 212 p. — (Task-Based Language Teaching 9). The book examines how task-based language teaching (TBLT) can be carried out with young beginner learners in a foreign language context. It addresses how TBLT can be introduced and implemented in a difficult instructional context where traditional teaching approaches are entrenched. The book...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016. — 152 p. — (Benjamins Current Topics 84). In the fast-growing fields of happiness studies and pain research, which have attracted scholars from diverse disciplines including psychology, philosophy, medicine, and economics, this volume provides a much-needed cross-linguistic perspective. It centres on the question of how much ways of...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016. — 239 p. — (Studies in Narrative 22). This book is intended for researchers in the field of narrative from post-graduate level onwards. It analyzes the audio-recordings of the narratives of former slaves from the American South which are now publically available on the Library of Congress website: Voices from the days of slavery. More...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016. — 350 p. — (Human Cognitive Processing 52). As time cannot be observed directly, it must be analyzed in terms of mental categories, which manifest themselves on various linguistic levels. In this interdisciplinary volume, novel approaches to time are proposed that consider temporality without time, on the one hand, and the coding of time...
Amsterdam University Press, 2023. — 192 p. This book reconstructs the factional-ideological conflicts surrounding socialist transformation and political reform in China that were played out through ‘factional model-making’, a norm-bound mechanism for elites of the Chinese Communist Party to contest the party line publicly. Dazhai, Anhui, Nanjie, Shekou, Shenzhen, Guangdong and...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016. — 228 p. — (Benjamins Current Topics 88). Especially in functional-typological linguistics, semantic roles have been studied thoroughly, because they constitute a good starting point for any study on argument marking due to their semantically defined nature. However, the very concept of semantic roles is far from being without problems,...
Second Edition. — Palgrave MacMillan, 2023. — 290 p. This is a revised and updated edition of a seminal text in the field of Cognitive Linguistics, written in an engaging and accessible style for a new generation of scholars and students. The author surveys and incorporates a wealth of more recent studies conducted in different areas since the book's original publication in...
Second Edition. — Palgrave MacMillan, 2023. — 290 p. This is a revised and updated edition of a seminal text in the field of Cognitive Linguistics, written in an engaging and accessible style for a new generation of scholars and students. The author surveys and incorporates a wealth of more recent studies conducted in different areas since the book's original publication in...
Second Edition. — Aviation Supplies and Academics, 2023. — 187 p. The incredible advancements in the field of uncrewed aircraft over the last decade have made it possible for almost anyone to build and operate their own drone, creating exciting business opportunities in numerous fields ranging from video production to agriculture. However, many beginners and even more...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016. — 264 p. — (Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching 5). This edited volume brings together the work of a number of researchers working in the framework of Processability Theory (PT), a psycholinguistic theory of second language acquisition (SLA) (Pienemann 1998; 2005). The aim of the volume is two-fold: It...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016. — 167 p. — (Benjamins Current Topics 86). Exploring Language Aggression against Women presents a collection of systematic studies that delve into the critical role of language in constructing violence, creating inequality, and justifying discrimination against women. Drawing on a range of discourse analytic methods, this volume subjects...
Princeton University Press, 2023. — 352 p. The shocking untold story of how the FBI partnered with white evangelicals to champion a vision of America as a white Christian nation. On a Sunday morning in 1966, a group of white evangelicals dedicated a stained glass window to J. Edgar Hoover. The FBI director was not an evangelical, but his Christian admirers anointed him as their...
Informa Law, 2008. — 197 p. Future Challenges for the Port and Shipping Sector discusses the issues that most influence the future of the maritime and port industries. Important topics covered in this book include: Maritime trade, future trade flows, evolutions in international trade, shipping capacity and demand Developments in ship construction and their economic consequences...
Laterza, 2023. — 288 p. Dovevo fare i conti prima o poi con Nerone. Lo avevo già affrontato di lato, semplificandolo nel male, similmente a come si tende sempre più a fare semplificandolo nel bene», confessa Andrea Carandini. Chi si è occupato di Roma antica non può evitare di confrontarsi con quell’uragano che è stato Nerone. Per interpretare una personalità del passato romano...
Sixth Edition. — Informa Law from Routledge, 2014. — 577 p. Now in its sixth edition, this key text provides a comprehensive analysis of the international carriage of goods by road under the provisions of the CMR Convention. The author offers unparalleled coverage of both English and European case law in a text that is praised for its accessible, user-friendly style. This new...
WBG, 2015. — 159 p. Ausgangspunkt der Darstellung ist ein Überblick über die gesellschaftlichen Mechanismen der römischen Republik und deren Veränderungen im Laufe des 2. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. Mit den Reformversuchen der Gracchen beginnt die Zeit der sogenannten Krise der Römischen Republik. Vielfältige Ereignisse und politische Problemstellungen prägen diese turbulenten Jahre,...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015. — 171 p. — (Benjamins Current Topics 87). This volume contributes to filling a gap in corpus-based research by investigating the ways in which linguistic features vary across genres/registers cross-linguistically. It brings together insightful chapters by leading scholars in the field, fruitfully exploiting genre- or register-controlled...
Воронеж: Издательский дом ВГУ, 2023. — 357 с. Коллективная монография приурочена к юбилею основателя Воронежской ассоциации экспертов-лингвистов (ВАЭЛ) и отражает основные результаты научных исследований членов ВАЭЛ. В монографию вошли статьи членов Ассоциации, опубликованные в научных журналах, научных сборниках, трудах конференций, а также статьи, не опубликованные ранее. Для...
Учебное пособие. — Под общ. ред. А.Г. Бездудной. — 2-е изд., доп. и перераб. — СПб.: Санкт-Петербургский государственный экономический университет (СПбГЭУ), 2023. — 265 с. — ISBN 978-5-7310-6100-1. В учебном пособии рассмотрены основные понятия инновационного менеджмента, содержание и структура инновационного процесса, различные аспекты управления инновациями. Проанализированы...
Учебное пособие. — СПб.: Санкт-Петербургский государственный экономический университет (СПбГЭУ), 2023. — 128 с. — ISBN 978-5-7310-6059-2. Учебное пособие содержит теоретические аспекты, практические кейсы и ситуации, в том числе модели и методы управления знаниями в реальной деятельности компании. Большое внимание уделено вопросам как накопления, трансляции и оценки новых...
Практикум. — СПб.: Изд-во СПбГЭУ, 2023. — 104 с. В практикуме рассмотрены основные разделы дисциплины «Технологии корпоративного управления», приведены проектные задания, деловые игры, задачи, практические задания по учебному курсу, упражнения и кейс-задания для проведения практических занятий и лабораторных работ. Данный практикум будет актуальным для преподавателей и...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 220 р. In this pioneering study, a world-renowned generative syntactician explores the impact of phenomena known as 'third factors' on syntactic change. Generative syntax has in recent times incorporated third factors – factors not specific to the language faculty – into its framework, including minimal search, labelling, determinacy and...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 232 р. A princess born to the Thuringian royal house. A captive in war, forced to marry the Frankish king who killed her family. A queen, who renounced her position, received consecration as a deaconess, and took monastic vows. A religious leader, who acquired a fragment of the Cross of the Crucifixion for her convent of Holy Cross in Poitiers....
Учебное пособие. — СПб.: Изд-во СПбГЭУ, 2023. — 119 с. В учебном пособии освещены теоретические и методические аспекты, необходимые при изучении учебной дисциплины «Управленческие решения и тимбилдинг». Рассмотрены основные направления принятия, разработки и реализации управленческих решений, а также аспекты создания и функционирования команд, предназначенных для такого вида...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 336 р. Superior Women examines the claims of abbesses of the abbey of Sainte-Croix in medieval Poitiers to authority from the abbey's foundation to its 1520 reform. These women claimed to hold authority over their own community, over dependent chapters of male canons, and over extensive properties in Poitou; male officials such as the king of...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 88 р. — (Elements in the Global Middle Ages). In premodern China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, just as in the far less culturally cohesive countries composing the West of the Middle Ages, enslavement was an assumed condition of servitude warranting little examination, as the power and profits it afforded to the slaver made it a convention...
Fayard, 2011. — 272 р. Concu comme une promenade a travers les langues et les diverses questions qu'on se pose a leur sujet (quelle est l'origine des langues et est-elle unique ? Comment evoluent-elles et disparaissent-elles ? Comment se forment de nouvelles langues ?), ce livre est une petite encyclopedie des langues. Sans appareil critique qui l'alourdirait, il est un...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 74 р. There is debate about how coarticulation is represented in speakers' mental grammar, as well as the role that coarticulation plays in explaining synchronic and diachronic sound patterns across languages. This Element takes an individual-differences approach in examining nasal coarticulation in production and perception in order to...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 107 р. This Element has two main purposes. Firstly, it discusses purposes, advantages, and disadvantages as well as the challenges of different formats of language assessment, concluding with a focus on educator-administered language assessment in early childhood and education programs. It addresses the selection of assessment domains, the...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 82 р. This Element uses data from the Springville Project to explore how the functions of the inherited forms invariant be (from English sources) and zero (from creolization) have transformed during the twentieth century. Originally just alternative present tense copula/auxiliary forms, both features developed into aspectual markers –...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 95 р. This Element synthesizes the current state of research on organizational social networks from its early foundations to contemporary debates. It highlights the characteristics that make the social network perspective distinctive in the organizational research landscape, including its emphasis on structure and outcomes. It covers the main...