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The book deals with the concept of the person present in the personalism of Karol Wojtyla. It advances some main topics necessary to understand the theory of the person developed within European continental philosophy, especially in a specific connection of Thomism and phenomenology.

The book discusses the political dramas of Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard regarding their employment of the two critical terms used in its title. It provides a new look at the output of the artists in reference to the employment of the grotesque, justifying their classification together with the East European absurdist playwrights.

The monograph demonstrates that the books of Samuel-Kings are a result of highly creative reworking of Deuteronomy. This reworking consists of almost 2000 strictly sequentially organized, conceptual, and at times, also linguistic correspondences between Samuel-Kings and Deuteronomy. They explain numerous surprising features of Samuel-Kings.

Reformulation studies offer a recent debate on reformulation and its semasiological-onomasiological treatment.

The book will contribute to the development of health sciences and the quality of patient care, with a total of 14 scientific original research articles of which eight are on physiotherapy and rehabilitation, five on nursing, and one on health management.

The prospective release addresses the relation between faith and reason. Whereas faith goes with organised religion (the church with ist dogmas), reason goes with philosohy in the first place. In my undestanding, history is inventively illustrated in so far it is treated as a field where faith and reason contest one another.

In September 2019, the Institute for Energy and Regulatory Law Berlin and the Hellenic Energy Regulation Institute hosted in Athens a congress on Energy Arbitration and Judicial Dispute Settlement. The contributions in this book reflect the subjects dealt with, especially the Achmea judgment and the CETA-Opinion of the European Court of Justice.

This book provides two main contributions to the literature on the history of welfare policies and social rights in the 20th century: first, it compares the two countries from an historical prospective; second, it focuses on an under-researched area of public policies interventions, which is, however, crucial for fostering social inclusion.

A collection of seven chapters on Lorenzo Da Ponte's Memorie and his librettos L'arbore di Diana (for Vicente Martin y Soler) and Don Giovanni (for Mozart), the texts are studied as radical works of the Late Enlightenment inspired by Rousseau's socio-political thinking.

This analysis covers the concepts of MediaPolis, MediaEgo and evolution of the political communication paradigm. Evolution of the public sphere and the media requires consideration of the causes of ongoing changes and of the forecast transformations they initiate. Thus, the research focused on public, political, meta-political and media discourses.

This volume speaks to the inter-disciplinary issues related to divergence and convergence processes and situations in contact regions, offering fresh and innovative insights from the crucial Central-Eastern European area where conflict and coexistence potentials seem to best represent the "unity in diversity" managing dilemma on the continent.

Der Band beleuchtet das Thema Erlebnisse und Tourismus aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven etwa von Touristen, Destinationen oder Reiseveranstaltern. Dabei werden Modelle der Erlebnisgenese und -bewertung vorgestellt, empirische Befunde zum Destinationserlebnis prasentiert sowie Aspekte zum Erlebnismarketing behandelt.