"This volume explores one of the most complex, multifaceted and momentous of all western cultural transformations: the refashioning of the Roman principate under Constantine in the early fourth century AD. It does so through the kaleidoscopic lens of one of antiquity's most fasc…
Roloff/Matek Maschinenelemente Formelsammlung
by Wittel, Herbert, Jannasch, Dieter, Voßiek, Joachim
fromLehrbuch
Umwege sind die direktesten Wege zum Zentrum. Das neue Werk von Peter Sloterdijk ist ein Beleg für diese These: Außerhalb der Aktualität angesiedelt, handelt Theopoesie, auf den ersten Blick betrachtet, von den in der Bibliothek der Menschheit gespeicherten Versuchen, Gott oder …
Bringing together several decades of research findings in a single, coherent, up-to-date source, this practical guide discusses industrial, automotive, and chemical gasket types and materials from selection, installation, and testing to state-of-the-art applications and problem-…
This volume contributes to the study of early English poetics. In these essays, several related approaches and fields of study radiate outward from poetics, including stylistics, literary history, word studies, gender studies, metrics, and textual criticism. By combining and red…
Heidegger-Fragmente: eine philosophische Biographie
Martin Heidegger ist einer der wichtigsten Philosophen des 20. Jahrhunderts, aber auch einer der umstrittensten. Nachdem die Publikation der »Schwarzen Hefte« seinen Antisemitismus offengelegt hat, schien Heidegger philosophisch erledigt zu sein. Doch so einfach kommen wir von s…
The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (600s BCE) tells the story of a brief encounter between the goddess of love and the cowherd Anchises, which led to the birth of the Trojan hero Aeneas. Less than 300 lines long, it is among the shortest of the so-called 'major Homeric Hymns', but is…
This volume offers a detailed philological commentary on the longest of the Homeric Hymns. The commentary is preceded by a lengthy introduction addressing the Hymn's ideas on poetry and music, its humorous aspects, the poem's relation to the rest of archaic hexameter literature,…