Today’s spectrum of research in literary studies is characterized by a sense of openness to the methods of comparative literature and cultural studies, along with a wide range of interdisciplinary crossover. The spectrum Literaturwissenschaft series is intended to be a forum for this pluralistic new model of literary studies. It presents papers that are informed by methodologically innovative, frequently comparative approaches, and whose findings are of importance well beyond the narrow boundaries of national philological horizons.

The book series 'Frühe Neuzeit' - founded in 1987 by Jörg Jochen Berns, Gotthard Frühsorge, Klaus Garber, Wilhelm Kühlmann and Jan-Dirk Müller - publishes editions, monographs and collected volumes advancing fundamental research in the field. It does not seek to produce wide-ranging overviews, premature syntheses or pretentious constructions but takes the long route of detailed work and the exploration of submerged traditions

This introduction to the Austrian tax system focuses on personal income tax, corporate income tax, VAT and Austrian procedural law. Updated with the current legislative changes and divided into ten modules, this book is designed to provide a first look at the legal principles guiding these codes, how the taxes are assessed and levied, and the ...

provides an examination of education in New Orleans and its intersections with race, resiliency, resistance, and recovery.