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The book focuses on the heroism of Jews throughout Europe who risked their lives to save their coreligionists under Nazi rule.The contributors discuss and analyze the actions of Jews who rescued other Jews from the hands of the Nazis. These actions took place, to...
In these moments of health crisis, happiness management and social marketing are not teaching that it is possible to build a more committed, innovative and productive society. To achieve this end, countries and organizations must undertake a wave of human resource...
The class of verbs of Desire comprises verbs whose syntax and semantics have undergone important changes in the course of their histories. Their argument structure involves a Desirer and a Desired, and in earlier English they could be used impersonally in constructions...
This book explores discourse mainly through corpus linguistics methods. Indeed, Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies has become a widely used approach for the critical (or non-critical) analysis of discourses in recent times. The book focuses on the analysis of different...
Die interdisziplinäre Studie beleuchtet die Rezeption der Glasmalerei in der Schweiz im Kontext der Nationenbildung im langen 19. Jahrhundert. Im Zentrum steht das kleinformatige Glasbild aus der frühen Neuzeit, das von der Kunstforschung als nationales Kunstdenkmal...
Vocational education has been opened up and extends to various directions: Higher education tends to take on vocational education models. Vice versa, vocational education development partially follows the structures of higher education. In addition, informal learning...
This conference proceeding (Sessions on "Otherness in Space and Architecture", International Medieval Conference, Leeds, 2017 and 2018) is a compilation of articles written by both young and senior scholars, who are working on the question of the ‘self’ and the ‘other’...
Cet ouvrage réunit une série de travaux portant sur la préhistoire et la protohis-toire de la Grèce et des régions avoisinantes. Présentés le temps d’une journée à l’Université de Genève, ils ont pour but d’illustrer toute la diversité des études égéennes, que ce soit...
This book presents original research work by leading scholars in the field of metaphor studies. Its innovative focus on the intrinsically conflictual nature of the metaphor fills an important gap in the existing field of metaphor studies. The notion of conflict is...
The genesis and genius of Bartók’s Concerto was mingled with his love for Stefi Geyer. As Hungarian Tristan pursuing his Isolde, he sounds allusions to Wagner’s paean of unfulfilled love. In transposing the ideal into the real, Bartók enlists folk sources voicing...
Dans les arts visuels de la période moderne, décor et architecture ne sont pas appréhendés séparément mais se complètent, voire se recoupent. L’ambition de ce recueil consiste, par des études inédites, à interroger les liens qu’entretiennent ces deux champs dans...
The book presents the Triple-Decker Model that describes the interactive mechanism among key constituents of English for Specific Purposes Ability (ESPA): language knowledge, strategic competence and background knowledge (nursing knowledge). First, the model reveals...
Die internationale Tagung, die 2017 in Bologna stattfand, widmete sich unter dem Titel Tierwelten und Textwelten Themen, die sich der Forschungsrichtung der Human-Animal-Studies zuschlagen lassen, allerdings aus der Sicht der klassischen Literaturwissenschaften, wo...
Like all empires, the Soviet Empire was also based on the distinction centre–periphery. Although the Soviet Empire no longer exists, relationships between centres and peripheries still shape realities in the region. The book analyses the relevance of this distinction...
The two-way immersion program Filière Bilingue (FiBi) is a choice-based educational alternative in a public school in Biel/Bienne. It integrates French-speaking, German-speaking and allophone students and strives to promote bilingualism and biliteracy in addition to...
Das Unheimliche (oder auch das Verdrängte, nach Freud) fördert eine tiefere Einsicht in die uns umgebende Realität und somit eine Reflexion, die der herrschenden Akzeleration des Alltags, der Oberflächlichkeit, dem Narzissmus und Hedonismus unserer Gesellschaft...
What is life? is a query that never dies… Most modern-day approaches to this enduring question attempt to define what life is, from the standpoint of science, philosophy, religion, medicine, etc. In this book, the conception of life in Western culture is explored...
The growing interest in the visual dimension of musical performance practice and the use of film as a medium of presentation and research in Ethnomusicology is related to the increasingly wide use of visual ethnographic methods of research and representation and to the...
Cultural heritage and illicit trafficking in the Middle East are two key topics of our time. The book sheds light on both aspects, and identifies the need to democratize cultural heritage, by giving greater control to local communities. It also...
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