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What is a human being according to Augustine of Hippo? The volume discusses anthropological themes in Augustine's corpus of writings. The reader will find articles on a wide spectrum of Augustine's anthropological ideas. Some contributions focus on specific texts. Others on specific theological or philosophical aspects of Augustine's anthropology.

This is the first major sociolinguistic work on Indian diasporic communities in Germany. The study shows that metalanguage allows to understand what sociolinguistic stereotypes are at stake in diasporic communities and what criteria are made use of in such discriminations.

The Games and Simulation section of this book covers the topics of game user experience, game narrative, playability heuristics, human computer interaction, and various computer simulations. The Computer Graphics section deals with 3D modeling, procedural content generation, visualization, and interaction techniques.

Digital technology that penetrates all areas of life has some impacts on human health and behavior. Some of them are due to virtual reality, and some others are due to overuse of new media. Literature reviews and original studies regarding the diseases of the digital era are included in the book for a better comprehension of today's world.

clinical research in a geography depends on factors ranging from researcher potential to infrastructure and regulatory authority to ethical approaches. This book takes a snapshot of the state of clinical research in the MENA region and aims to propose solutions to current challenges.

This volume examines different aspects of Romanian diplomacy in the 20th century, thus highlighting the activity of various diplomats, seeking to explain the changes produced within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs following political transformations in Romania.

This book examines the ways in which Cicero employed foreign examples (exempla externa) in his orations. It argues that there were many different categories of exemplum for Cicero to choose and that exempla externa were not necessarily suitable for negative lessons.

The examination of the transcendentals of truth, beauty and the good in this work stems from the perspective of Christian humanism, moral psychology and perfecting ourselves. From such a point of departure the book engages in the philosophy of culture and religion while drawing upon ritual, works of high and especially popular culture.

This volume deals with the language of the British upper class in natural face-to-face dialogue and how this is rendered in audiovisual media. Previous scholarly insights on the topic are discussed in the light of new evidence gathered from the qualitative analysis of some recorded audiovisual texts.

In each chapter, different policy recommendations are made, the practices of how to live with COVID for a while, what the state and the individual should take in the internalization of the new normal are discussed.

This book argues that perception and higher cognition are closer to each other than the Cartesian tradition maintains. The research combines results from cognitive neuroscience, the philosophy of perception and natural language syntax to demonstrate that all systems of cognition draw from a common set of computational and conceptual resources.

This book covers deep researches from different perspectives and disciplines upon Covid-19 pandemic impacts on social, legal, economic, cultural issues by successful and expert researchers in their field. In this book, rigorous analyses of all areas influenced by Covid-19 were made in order to emerging reliable sources with various dimensions.

Die digitale Transformation bringt unternehmerische und technologische Veränderungen mit sich, die sich in besonderem Maße auch auf die Arbeitnehmer auswirken. Will man sie auf die Reise in eine digitale Unternehmenswelt mitnehmen, anstatt sie nur vor vollendete Tatsachen zu stellen, ist Mitarbeiterpartizipation ein hierfür konstitutives Vorgehen. Zielsetzung war es, ein Modell zu entwickeln, welches im Stande ist die digitale Transformation von Unternehmen partizipativ zu gestalten. Basierend auf den Ergebnissen einer umfassenden systematischen Literaturrecherche und der Aufarbeitung der einwirkenden Themengebiete entwickelte die Autorin ein partizipatives Modell und nahm eine Übertragung auf die Flughafenbranche in Gestalt eines Flughafens 4.0 vor.

Global warming and the resulting climate change affecting our cities the most.For this reason, planners and designers have started to introduce different approaches to make cities more sustainable and livable. This book contains new theories, approaches and practices that scientists dealing with physical planning and design.