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Nasheli Jiménez del Val is Researcher and Lecturer in Visual Studies at Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), where she is working on the research project « Violent Death: Images of Intimidation, Sensationalism, and Denunciation in Mexico (1994-2012) ». She has previously been Beatriu de Pinós-Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow within the Art, Globalization, Interculturality research group at the University of Barcelona, Postdoctoral Fellow at Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, UNAM, and Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Stirling, UK. She received her PhD in Cultural Studies from Cardiff University, UK, and her MA and undergraduate degrees from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Her research currently centres on the relationship between power and images in a Mexican context.




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None & Majid PhD Amini: The Greatest Meeting
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Dagmar Keatinge & Joerg-U. Kessler: Research in Second Language Acquisition
Research in Second Language Acquisition: Empirical Evidence Across Languages provides an overview of current research within the Processability Theory framework (Pienemann 1998; 2005). The articles i …
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Nestor Herran & Tayra Lanuza-Navarro: Beyond Borders
How does scientific knowledge circulate? Does scientific communication shape the making of science? Is the making of science a national endeavour or does it have an international or transnational dim …
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Sadia Zulfiqar: African Women Writers and the Politics of Gender
This work examines the work of a group of African women writers who have emerged over the last forty years. While figures such as Chinua Achebe, Ben Okri and Wole Soyinka are likely to be the chief f …
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Jane Chick & Richard Maguire: Approaching Cyprus
Does the sea separate or connect? Are islands isolated or are they the stepping stones of connectivity? The Mediterranean is an all-but closed sea of seas, of marine locales around which ‘its inhabit …
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Meriem Pages & Robert G. Sullivan: Imagining the Self, Constructing the Past
Imagining the Self, Constructing the Past celebrates the various ways in which the Middle Ages and the Renaissance are adapted, recollected, and represented in our own day and age. Most of the chapte …
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Shahd Alshammari: Literary Madness in British, Postcolonial, and Bedouin Women’s Writing
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Megha Jacob & Jacob John: Local Governments and the Public Health Delivery System in Kerala
This book discusses the significance of local governments in public healthcare systems in developing countries, particularly India. It considers a new model of public health delivery system in the In …
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Grzegorz Maziarczyk & Joanna Klara Teske: Novelistic Inquiries into the Mind
Novelistic Inquiries into the Mind traces the multiple relations between the mind and the contemporary novel. The contributors here examine various types of narrative fiction, ranging from the postmo …
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Marina Denischik: On Time
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Anand Shanker Singh: Role of Media in Nation Building
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John Mc Donagh: Art of the Caveman
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Zdenek Beran & Irena Grubica: Fantastic of the Fin de Siecle
This volume explores various facets of the relationship between the fantastic and the fin de siecle. The essays included here examine how the fin de siecle reflects the fantastic and its relation to …
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Chris Murray & Elizabeth Rogers: Golden Age
This volume investigates the diverse applications and conceptions of the term ‘The Golden Age’. The phrase resonates with the theme of nostalgia, which is popularly understood as a wistful longing fo …
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Imen Ayari Cozzo: Two Questers in the Twentieth-century North Africa
This book offers a unique exploration of the work of Paul Bowles and Ibrahim Alkoni, and reveals timely insights into the relationship between the West and the Orient, showing that they both challeng …
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Godfrey Naanlang Danaan & David Jowitt: Understanding the Newspaper Business in Nigeria
This book brings together a selection of articles on newspaper writing and reporting. It represents a resource book intended to sensitize would-be journalists to the arts of reporting and writing, an …
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Leo Loveday & Emilia Parpala: Ways of Being in Literary and Cultural Spaces
In accordance with the notion that "identity" is absolutely central to ontological and discursive practices, this volume explores a multiplicity of "ways of being", including the …
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Goodluck Charles: International Marketing
This volume offers an excellent understanding of international marketing theory and practice within a constantly-changing and increasingly-complex global environment, with greater emphasis on develop …
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Tadhg Moloney: Limerick Constitutional Nationalism, 1898-1918
This book analyses local politics in Limerick from 1898 to 1918, reaching back to the Parnellite split and forward to the post-independence era. It explores at local level the relevance of the commem …
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Agnieszka Piskorska: Relevance Theory
The present volume covers a variety of topics which are at the centre of interest in pragmatic research: understanding and believing, reference, politeness, communication problems, stylistics, metaph …
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Rob Roggema: Agriculture in an Urbanizing Society Volume Two
In two volumes, selected papers presented at the sixth AESOP conference on Sustainable Food Planning are brought together, representing the academic work of worldwide experts in the fields of food pl …
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Lokanath Mishra: Educating for Peace
We know that peace education helps individuals transform conflict in their own lives, understand and respect other cultures and ways of living, and treasure the Earth. Teachers of peace education enc …
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Anna Belladelli & Roberto Cagliero: American English(es)
American English(es) focuses on the manifold nature of a macro-regional variety of English which is better described in the plural form, thus enhancing the endless contribution of most diverse ethnic …
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Marie-Sophie Armstrong & Riikka Rossi: Re-Reading Zola and Worldwide Naturalism
Re-Reading Zola and Worldwide Naturalism continues the discussion of Emile Zola and French naturalism with examinations of unexplored areas of the founding father’s project and legacy. In addition to …
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Marin Cilea & Maria-Ana Tupan: Relativism-Relativity
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Malgorzata Luczynska-Holdys: Soft-Shed Kisses
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Gabriel Faimau: Socio-Cultural Construction of Recognition
In recent years, extensive scholarly studies have been conducted on the representation of Islam and Muslims in the media. Despite the growing attention paid to the representations of Islam in the med …
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Sumit Chakrabarti & Krystyna Kujawinska Courtney: Post-Marked World
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Xiaojing (Queeny) Wang: Grammatical Development of Chinese among Non-native Speakers
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Paul S. Varner: New Wests and Post-Wests
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Yu Huang & Thomas Kang: Structural Investigation for Reinforcing Congestion Alleviation in Concrete Members and Connections
In this book, three potential solutions to the issue of steel congestion in reinforced concrete (RC) structures are researched. The first method examines RC mixed with steel fibers. The use of steel …
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K. Mohammed Basheer: Quality Enhancement in Madrasa Education
This unique empirical study focuses on the different quality dimensions of the Madrasa education system in Kerala, southwestern India. Madrasa education is one of the largest networks of non-governme …
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Chris Ashford & Alan Reed: Legal Perspectives on State Power
The issue of consent and criminal law commonly focuses on consent in sports, sexual activity, and medical treatment. The notion of consent and the influence of state control in this context, however, …
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Renata Gregova: Generative and the Structuralist Approach to the Syllable
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Guri Barstad & Karen P. Knutsen: States of Decadence
States of Decadence is a two volume anthology that focuses on the literary and cultural phenomenon of decadence. Particular attention is given to literature from the end of the 1800s, the fin de siec …
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Kaustav Chakraborty: De-stereotyping Indian Body and Desire
Stereotypes result in deceptive generalizations about groups and are held in a manner that renders them as derogatory. As such, this volume advocates an active, goal-oriented effort in order to reduc …
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Corina Rotar & Marius Rotar: Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe
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Ziyue Chen: Application of Airborne Lidar Data in the Modelling of 3D Urban Landscape Ecology
Compared with traditional remote sensing technologies, airborne Lidar data can provide researchers with additional 3D positional information, which is a key factor for advanced urban research, and pa …
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Laura Winther Balling & Michael Carl: Post-editing of Machine Translation
Post-editing is possibly the oldest form of human-machine cooperation for translation. It has been a common practice for just about as long as operational machine translation systems have existed. Re …
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Klaus Karttunen & Sirpa Tenhunen: Contentious Connections
Combining history, cultural studies, sociology, international politics, and anthropology, this multidisciplinary volume analyzes transnational connections in India and South Asia. The articles explor …
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Martina Bajcic & Katja Dobric Basaneze: Towards the Professionalization of Legal Translators and Court Interpreters in the EU
The profession of legal translators and interpreters has been unjustly neglected despite its relevant role in international and multilingual legal settings. In order to bridge this gap, this volume b …
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Paolo Scotton & Enrico Zucchi: Tracing the Path of Tolerance
In the globalized, postmodern world, the production of encounters and crashes between dissimilar cultures, ways of life, and systems of values has drastically increased in number. More and more frequ …
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Precious McKenzie: Women Rewriting Boundaries
Women Rewriting Boundaries expands the work of gender and literary scholars by offering fresh insights on how to read travel writing by women. It analyzes the connections between class, gender, physi …
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Hein van Dongen & Hans Gerding: Wild Beasts of the Philosophical Desert
Scientists rarely take ‘paranormal experiences’ seriously. Furthermore, in the recent past the concept of the ‘paranormal’ did not even exist in philosophy. William James, who extensively studied med …
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Nadejda Greidina: Communicating through the Universe
This collection presents studies of communication in the many forms it takes around the world. The book represents humanistic and social scientific scholarly approaches to communication which include …
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€98.98
Gerald Cipriani: Culture and Dialogue Vol.3, No. 2 (2013) Issue on "Identity and Dialogue"
Volume 3 Number 2 of Culture and Dialogue focuses on the theme of "identity and dialogue." All the essays gathered in this volume address issues of identity with concrete examples and from …
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€45.75
Valentina Polcini: Dino Buzzati and Anglo-American Culture
This book investigates the relationship between Dino Buzzati’s fiction and Anglo-American culture by focusing on his re-use of visual texts (Arthur Rackham’s illustrations), narrative sources (Joseph …
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€83.44
Dori-Michelle Beeler: Ethnographic Account of Reiki Practice in Britain
An Ethnographic Account of Reiki Practice in Britain is the result of 14 months of ethnographic research. This study, while filling a gap in the qualitative literature on Reiki practice, contributes …
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€115.69
Jessica David & Matej Klemencic: Artists and Migration 1400-1850
This volume offers a thematic exploration of the migrant artist’s experience in Europe and its colonies from the early modern period through to the Industrial Revolution. The influence of the transie …
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€97.83
Sanjeev Kumar: Abhinavagupta’s Comments on Aesthetics in AbhinavabharatA and Locana
Abhinavagupta was a Kashmiri practitioner of the Sanskrit tradition, well-known to those very few researchers who follow theories on Indian aesthetics. His contribution to the tradition of aesthetic …
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€85.12
Emma Gardner & Amir Qamar: Dissident Voices in Europe? Past, Present and Future
This volume brings together nine papers written by researchers from all over Europe working within the realms of political science, the humanities, theology and religion, as well as business, economi …
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€85.42
Heinz-Uwe Haus & David W. Lovell: Goethe’s Faust I
In March 2014, the University of Delaware’s Resident Ensemble Players staged the first Part of Goethe’s Faust, adapted and directed by Heinz-Uwe Haus, which forms the centrepiece and raison d’etre of …
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€86.18
Loredana Di Martino & Pasquale Verdicchio: Encounters with the Real in Contemporary Italian Literature and Cinema
This volume explores the Italian contribution to the current global phenomenon of a "return to reality" by examining the country’s rich cultural production in literature and cinema. The foc …
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Pamela R. Cook: Guide to Early Childhood Education
Guide to Early Childhood Education: Development – Design – Diversity is a textbook of articles and essays exclusively written to provide a resource for educationalists working in the field of Early C …
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Dawid Bunikowski: Historical and Philosophical Foundations of European Legal Culture
This ambitious book examines the historical, theoretical, and axiological foundations of European legal culture, and explores their practical impacts on current European law and legal ways of thinkin …
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Peter Gaal-Szabo: Intertextuality, Intersubjectivity, and Narrative Identity
Intertextuality, Intersubjectivity, and Narrative Identity presents recent findings and opens new vistas for research by mapping the potential interconnections of intertextuality and intersubjectivit …
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Lavinia Stan & Lucian Turcescu: Justice, Memory and Redress in Romania
Are there any lessons Romania can teach transitional justice scholars and practitioners? This book argues that important insights emerge when analyzing a country with a moderate record of coming to t …
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Jan Fazlagic: Images of Intellectual Capital
Intellectual capital (IC) became a hot topic in economic discussion at the turn of this century, believed to offer new principles which could help build the new intangible economy after the collapse …
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Forcim Kola: Measuring the Impact of Microcredit Programs in Albania
This book highlights a range of perspectives concerning the economic and social impact of microfinance products (especially microcredit) on their clients’ lives, scientifically analysing four distinc …
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Robert Hanna & Rafael V. Orden Jimenez: Kant’s Shorter Writings
This collection highlights the importance of Kant’s shorter writings, which span the entire intellectual career of this seminal thinker. It contrasts with other philosophical studies of Kant’s work, …
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€119.38
Giuliana Elena Garzone & Dermot Heaney: Language for Specific Purposes
This volume brings together work by both well-known scholars and emerging researchers in the various areas of Language for Specific Purposes (LSP), such as political, legal, medical, and business dis …
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€136.96
Ron D. Petitte: Civilization at Risk
While distinguished academies of higher learning, governments, politicians, and the media struggle to find solutions to the imminent dangers posed to the Middle East and the world at large, a devasta …
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Michael Young: People and Places in Project Management Research
This book is the second in a series of volumes focused on publishing the latest thinking and findings in the field of project management research. It focuses on people and places and their role in pr …
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€114.13
Anna Ewa Wieczorek: Clusivity
Dealing with the concepts of inclusion and exclusion encoded linguistically, both implicitly and explicitly, this book develops an original framework for the analysis of these phenomena in political …
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Giovanni Ottone: New Cinema in Turkey
New Cinema in Turkey: Filmmakers and Identities between Urban and Rural Space focuses, with a very precise overview, on Turkish cinema that, since the mid-’90s, has seen the emergence and consolidati …
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€86.21
Anna Kwiatkowska: Old Masters in New Interpretations
The volume offers a variety of new interpretations of a selection of well-known and culturally established works of verbal and visual culture. It demonstrates how the two spheres of literature and br …
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Jana Rivers Norton: Demeter-Persephone Myth as Writing Ritual in the Lives of Literary Women
This volume explores the life stories of Elizabeth Bishop, Virginia Woolf, Alice James, and Edith Wharton, whose individuation process mirrored Demeter/Persephone’s mythic journey from abduction and …
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€99.04
Mircea Ion Buzdugan & Manuel Perez Donsion: Power Quality
Power quality is a very broad subject, covering all stages of power systems engineering, from the generation, transmission, and distribution levels to the end-users. This book contains a selection of …
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€116.21
Michael Elm & Kobi Kabalek: Horrors of Trauma in Cinema
This volume explores the multifaceted depiction and staging of historical and social traumata as the result of extreme violence within national contexts. It focuses on Israeli-Palestinian, German and …
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Evy Johanne Haland: Rituals of Death and Dying in Modern and Ancient Greece
*Winner of the AFS Elli Koengaes-Maranda Prize 2016*Multidisciplinary or post-disciplinary research is what is needed when dealing with such complex subjects as ritual behaviour. This research, there …
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Peter Billingham: Spirituality and Desire in Leonard Cohen’s Songs and Poems
This volume represents the first ever collection of essays on Leonard Cohen to be published in the UK and one of the very first to be produced internationally. The essays range from unique insights o …
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Pier Paolo Battistelli & Andrew Sangster: Myths, Amnesia and Reality in Military Conflicts, 1935-1945
Stalin fabricated the myth that the Germans carried out the Katyn massacre and the West accepted it while always suspecting the reality. In the same way, each country tried to forget the more painful …
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€108.07
Ondrej Daniel & Tomas Kavka: Popular Culture and Subcultures of Czech Post-Socialism
This book draws on wide range of inspirations to provide a well-balanced picture of the popular culture and subcultures of Czech post-socialism. What were the continuities and discontinuities of the …
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Aleksandra Loewenau: Proceedings of the 21st Annual History of Medicine Days Conference 2012
The Proceedings of the Calgary History of Medicine Days can be seen as a Series in the History of Medicine and Health Care that publishes the work of young and emerging researchers in the field, henc …
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Frederic Will: Modernist Impulse and a Contemporary Opus
This volume represents a study in the formation of a personal literary opus, and in some of the theoretical reflections involved in understanding how parts of that opus are constructed. The opus in q …
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Andrea Bosco: Round Table Movement and the Fall of the ‘Second’ British Empire (1909-1919)
In spite of the general phobia of federalism, there is a strong federalist trend within British political culture. In three very different historical contexts, federalism inspired the action of polit …
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Joanna Marszalek-Kawa & Joanna Piechowiak-Lamparska: Politics of Memory in Post-Authoritarian Transitions, Volume One
History is a powerful tool in the hands of politicians, and can be a destructive weapon since power over the past is the power to decide who is a hero and who is a traitor. Tradition, the memory of a …
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Nicoleta Corbu & Dana Popescu-Jourdy: Identity and Intercultural Communication
The search for identity is a continuous challenge in the global world: from personal identity to social, national, European or professional identities, each person experiences nowadays a multi-dimens …
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Ian McLean: Double Desire
Double Desire challenges the tendency by critics to perpetuate an aesthetic apartheid between Indigenous and Western art. The double desire explored in this book is that of the divided but also ampli …
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Khushbakht Hina: USAID Pre-Service Teacher Education Program and Teacher Professionalization in Pakistan
Since the establishment of Pakistan in 1947, the country has announced more than 15 education policy regimes directing the improvement of education. Each policy has been ambitious in its aims and cri …
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Katherine Dashper: Rural Tourism
Rural regions are experiencing fundamental challenges to their ways of life and social fabric, as traditional land-based occupations are in decline and younger and better-educated rural residents mig …
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€107.06
Silvia Vinao Manzanera & Miguel Sancho: New Human Impulse for Social Relations and Cultural Development
The second volume of the New Horizon Series, this book offers an overview of a wide range of contemporary issues in education and society, including narrative explorations, various models of educatio …
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€108.37
Metin Kozak & Nazmi Kozak: Directory of Scholarly Journals in Turkey
Scholarly journals are the capillaries of the scientific world, ensuring the circulation of knowledge. Moreover, scholarly journals guide and indicate the scientific development in an academic field …
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€130.86
Rosanna Masiola: Advertising Culture and Translation
This book is the first comprehensive study combining and integrating advertising, culture and translation within the framework of colonial, Commonwealth, and postcolonial studies, and globalization. …
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€107.52
Gabriele Proglio: Decolonising the Mediterranean
Decolonising the Mediterranean means, first and foremost, investigating how the legacy of colonial rule over bodies and land has been used by other entities and powers to impose new forms of hegemony …
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€85.42
Marek Krawiec: Foreign Language Education and its Cross-Curricular Links
This volume focuses on a variety of aspects of foreign language learning and teaching. From a theoretical perspective, it explores the multidimensional character of language classes and delineates wa …
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€123.30
Anna Barcz: Animal Narratives and Culture
The term "vulnerable realism" can imply two different understandings: one presenting weak realism as incomplete, and mixed with other literary styles; the other bringing realistic vulnerabl …
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John Tracy Greene: Essays on Moses from Buenos Aires
Essays on Moses from Buenos Aires: Moses in Three Traditions and in Literature brings together papers presented at the International Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature’s Seminar in …
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Kenneth Y T Lim: Landscapes of Participatory Making, Modding and Hacking
This book describes maker culture as it is manifested in particular socio-cultural contexts, and describes some of the underlying narratives behind the emergence of such cultures and hackerspaces. Wi …
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Alan Maley & Hitomi Masuhara: Practice and Theory for Materials Development in L2 Learning
This volume represents a unique addition to the growing body of empirical literature on materials development, adopting a reverse approach to the topic. Rather than applying ‘theory to practice’, pra …
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Laura Finley & Nickesia Gordon: Reflections on Gender from a Communication Point-of-View
This volume documents the experiences of, and reflections on, gender from undergraduate students in the field of Communication. It is the product of conversations, queries and discoveries that emerge …
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Stephen C. Bruner: Late Nineteenth-Century Italy in Africa
"Civilizing Africa" – bringing European institutions and society to Africa – was a common rationale for nineteenth-century European expansions into that continent. However, in March 1891 a …
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€86.12
Marta Ordon & Piotr Stanisz: Presence of the Cross in Public Spaces
The judgments of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Lautsi vs. Italy (3 November 2009 and 18 March 2011) served as a catalyst for the debate on the presence of the cross in the public …
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€98.16
Michael Dobson & Estelle Rivier-Arnaud: Rewriting Shakespeare’s Plays For and By the Contemporary Stage
Why have contemporary playwrights been obsessed by Shakespeare’s plays to such an extent that most of the canon has been rewritten by one rising dramatist or another over the last half century? Among …
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€108.46
Michael Flood & Richard Howson: Engaging Men in Building Gender Equality
Men’s roles in building gender equality are currently on the public agenda. Across the globe, there are growing efforts to engage men and boys in building more equitable relations with women and girl …
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€99.04
Stefka Ritchie: Reformist Ideas of Samuel Johnson
This book explores what remains an under-studied aspect of Samuel Johnson’s profile as a person and writer – namely, his attitude to social improvement. The interpretive framework provided here is cr …
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Marjorie M. Snipes: Intertwining of Culture and Music
This volume explores various kinds of love and the way music reflects them. It is about romantic love, ethnic pride and love, love and the media, and various other loves we have, especially love for …
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€86.20
Karoline Szatek-Tudor: Uniting Regions and Nations through the Looking Glass of Literature
This volume of essays emphasizes the common theme that bodies of water may segregate, but, ironically, also unite nations and their readers through the literature that authors from various countries …
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€86.21
Paola Faini: Terminological Approaches in the European Context
This volume provides a picture of state-of-the-art studies on terminology at the European level. Addressing a range of linguistic and cultural topics, it illustrates the diversity of terminological a …
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€138.92
Umberto Rossi & Paolo Simonetti: Dream Tonight of Peacock Tails
Dream Tonight of Peacock Tails marks the first in-depth examination of Pynchon’s debut novel, which was immediately recognized as a breakthrough masterpiece. The eight essays collected in the volume …
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€89.60
Elise Hugueny-Leger & Caroline Verdier: Solitaires, Solidaires
Solitaires, Solidaires stems from the 2013 Women in French conference, which celebrated twenty-five years since the creation of the network of the same name, and brought together the Women in French …
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David Henderson: Psychoanalysis
This volume offers a rich tapestry of psychoanalytic thought. The authors demonstrate bold creativity in their use of psychoanalytic concepts to think about a wide range of problems in philosophy, ar …
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Juan Jose Gomez Gutierrez: PCI Artists
This book examines the artistic policies of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) during the early post-war years (1944-1951), after the defeat of Fascism in Europe and the outbreak of the Cold War. It b …
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Linda M. Ambrosie: Sun & Sea Tourism
Cruise ship passengers and all-inclusive hotel-guests are increasing exponentially as these floating and fixed properties proliferate in size and number. This is especially true for developing econom …
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€98.16
Mary C. Rawlinson & Caleb Ward: Global Food, Global Justice
As Brillant-Savarin remarked in 1825 in his classic text Physiologie du Go At, "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are." Philosophers and political theorists have only recent …
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Geoff Lee & Helene Whittaker: Ancient Warfare
This volume provides chapters on current research into ancient warfare. It is a collection with a wide-range, covering a long chronological spread, with many historical themes, including some that ha …
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€97.64
Peter Cochran: Byron, Napoleon, J.C. Hobhouse, and the Hundred Days
Napoleon was, after his defeat at Leipzig, "granted" the island of Elba to rule. He soon found this unsatisfactory, and, early in 1815, left for the south of France, and marched on Paris to …
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€97.83
Frederic Will: Historia
Historia is a series of interlocked observations on the nature of temporality, the human practice of writing its history, and the histories all things accumulate around themselves, as does the author …
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€78.30
Stefano Marino: Aesthetics, Metaphysics, Language
Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer undoubtedly belong among the most important representatives of twentieth-century phenomenological hermeneutics, which represents, in turn, one of the major tra …
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€77.77
Harold B. Segel: Sketches from My Boyhood by Justinus Kerner
The Swabian German Romantic poet, medical doctor, scientist, and investigator of parapsychological phenomena Justinus Kerner (1786-1862) has long been celebrated as one of the leading intellectuals o …
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€90.05
Anna Branach-Kallas & Nelly Strehlau: Re-Imagining the First World War
In the Preface to his ground-breaking The Great War and Modern Memory (1975), Paul Fussell claimed that "the dynamics and iconography of the Great War have proved crucial political, rhetorical, …
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€107.85
Sonia Halimi & Said M. Shiyab: Writing Business Letters Across Languages
This book discusses the most widespread and acceptable approaches to writing business letters in a readily understandable fashion, exploring rules and conventions based on actual contemporary practic …
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€78.47
Zdenka Badovinac & Bartomeu Mari: Museums beyond the Crises
There are a number of different crises, in various guises, in today’s world. The most prominent of these is the global economic crisis, but this is not felt as keenly across the globe: there are also …
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€78.45
Angel Nicolaou Konnari & Chris Schabel: Lemesos
This volume is the first scholarly work in English examining the history of the town and district of Limassol in Cyprus from antiquity to the 1570/1 Ottoman conquest of the island. Based on original …
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€136.53
Monica Olivares Leyva: Graham Greene’s Narrative in Spain
This volume provides a detailed description of the literary contact between Graham Greene and Franco’s Spain. Part I describes the most significant political events that affected the Spanish book ind …
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€77.53
Magali Compan: Visualizing Violence in Francophone Cultures
Visualizing Violence in Francophone Cultures brings together two complex and powerful loci of meaning: violence and the visual. As such, it offers a comprehensive overview from which one can gain a b …
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€89.85
Jamie L. Callahan & Clare Rigg: Realising Critical HRD
This book contends that the project of Critical Human Resource Development (CHRD) is to effect change/transformation, and that, as such, critical scholars must expose the injustices and inequities as …
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€98.65
Serene Huleileh & Herman Bashiron Mendolicchio: Challenges of Mobility
We work, travel, learn, seek, reflect, take part in dialogues, meet, discuss, and try to create a convivial atmosphere: this is the life story of the Arab Education Forum, and this is also how the st …
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€88.93
Pius ten Hacken & Renata Panocova: Word Formation and Transparency in Medical English
As a side effect of the rapid progress in medical research and of the emergence of new medical conditions, medicine is a domain where new concepts have to be named more frequently than in many other …
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€89.98
Jesus Romero-Barranco: Late Middle English Version of Constantinus Africanus’ Venerabilis Anatomia in London, Wellcome Library, MS 290 (ff. 1r-41v)
Constantinus Africanus (c. 1015-1087), likely born in modern Tunis or Sicily, was responsible for the translation of Arabic medical texts into Latin, which constituted a substantial contribution to c …
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€78.10
Mariam John Meynert: Conceptualizations of Childhood, Pedagogy and Educational Research in the Postmodern
In the last fifty years, a debate between modernism and postmodernism has surfaced within the social sciences. Epistemologically, there has been a shift away from the concept of a "found" w …
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€78.08
Claudia Elena Stoian: Discourse of Tourism and National Heritage
The Discourse of Tourism and National Heritage: A Contrastive Study from a Cultural Perspective presents an in-depth research study in the field of online tourism promotion. It focuses on the nationa …
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€107.18
Stephen Miller: Word made Visible in the Painted Image
This book explores the areas of perspective, proportion, witness and theological threshold in the devotional art of the Italian Renaissance, with particular reference to the painted image of Christ. …
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€78.47
Thomai Alexiou & Christina Gitsaki: Current Issues in Second/Foreign Language Teaching and Teacher Development
Current Issues in Second/Foreign Language Teaching and Teacher Development: Research and Practice represents a collection of selected papers from the 17th World Congress of the International Associat …
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€98.16
Andrea Zittlau: Curious Exotica (Ink on Paper)
Ethnographic museums have been fundamentally reshaped during recent decades, acknowledging contemporary cultural practices, recognising aesthetic expressions and encouraging the active involvement of …
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€77.75
Emmanuelle Peraldo: Literature and Geography
In a period marked by the Spatial Turn, time is not the main category of analysis any longer. Space is. It is now considered as a central metaphor and topos in literature, and literary criticism has …
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€107.63
Peter Mesenhoeller & Annemarie Stauffer: Made in Oceania
Both anthropologists and conservation scientists are fascinated by Oceanic barkcloth, or tapa, as it is known by its generic Polynesian term. Historic tapa designs are often living cultural heritage, …
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€77.50
Zhengming Du: Traditional Chinese Rites and Rituals
Traditional Chinese Rites and Rituals provides a comprehensive overview of the social practices of Chinese people on various occasions of cultural importance. While explaining how these rites and rit …
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€78.48
Godfrey Ashby: Stonemason of Saint-Point by Alphonse de Lamartine
Alphonse de Lamartine had a varied career. The son of a minor provincial noble family, he was born at Macon, surviving both the Revolution and Napoleon. He served as a diplomat and, later, as elected …
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€78.06
Constantinos Athanasopoulos: Triune God
The 13th and 14th centuries represented the most productive and influential period in the history of philosophy and theology in the West. A parallel and less influential (for the West) proliferation …
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€97.87
Theodore Sabo: Christians and Platonists
The Christians, Gnostics, and Platonists of late antiquity all shared that era’s dislike of matter and the body. The first part of this book looks at key words like ethos, ai An, and saeculum. The se …
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€78.29
Jack Boss & Heather Holmquest: Form and Process in Music, 1300-2014
Form and Process in Music, 1300-2014: An Analytic Sampler draws together papers delivered at the 2014 meeting of the West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis. The conference spanned an unus …
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€98.85
Aris Petasis: Intractable Dilemmas in the Energy-Rich Eastern Mediterranean
The Eastern Mediterranean is once again in turmoil; in addition to proxy wars (in Syria and Iraq) and the occupation of Cyprus, there is no president or functioning government in Lebanon, which is al …
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€98.33
Francisco Alonso Almeida & Ivalla Ortega Barrera: Input a Word, Analyze the World
Input a Word, Analyze the World represents current perspectives on Corpus Linguistics (CL) from a variety of linguistic subdisciplines. Corpus Linguistics has proven itself an excellent methodology f …
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€116.12
Larisa Ilynska & Marina Platonova: Meaning in Translation
Meaning in Translation: Illusion of Precision represents a collection of papers on fundamental and applied research on a wide range of linguistic topics, including terminology standardisation and har …
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€107.09
Maciej Waclawik & Maciej Waclawik: Land of Fertility I
In the south-east Mediterranean region, the so-called ‘Fertile Crescent’, the modern world began its development at the very beginning of human civilisation. People living there were among the first …
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€78.48
Mariana Rita Alberto Rosado Correia: Conservation in Earthen Heritage
Worldwide, there is a vast but fragile earthen heritage that is barely surviving due to serious damage of the fabric. It is generally believed that natural agents are the overall cause for the decay …
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€108.04
Katarina Schough & Mekonnen Tesfahuney: Privileged Mobilities
Privileged Mobilities contributes to a growing school of critical studies of tourism. Mobility is about power and space. In this anthology, a series of questions are raised regarding privileged mobil …
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€78.47
Simone Cagno & Andrea Macchia: YOCOCU 2014
This volume is a collection of contributions presented at the 4th YOCOCU Youth in Conservation of Cultural Heritage Conference, held in Agsu, Azerbaijan, in May 2014. The driving force behind YOCOCU …
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€107.83
Manuel Perez Donsion & Manuel Perez-Donsion: Renewable Energy
From a scientific point of view, several challenges to renewable energy come from the intermittent nature of energy sources such as wind, solar photovoltaic and solar thermal. These problems are curr …
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€137.67
Sharmilla Beezmohun: Continental Shifts, Shifts in Perception
Continental Shifts, Shifts in Perception: Black Cultures and Identities in Europe presents some of the papers presented at the fourth Afro Europe@ns conference held in London in October 2013. An inte …
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€78.29
Nicola Seu: Relationship between the Italian Leftist Parties and the Conflict in the Middle East
Israel went from being a symbol of the success of the labour movement to the personification of Western imperialism almost overnight. How was this possible? How could such a radical change occur in s …
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€78.48
Muhammed Hueseyin Mercan: Transformation of the Muslim World in the 21st Century
In addition to the important breaking points of the last century – such as the abolition of the Caliphate, the World Wars, the Cold War, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Iranian Revolution and t …
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€77.53
Leslie Bash & David Coulby: Establishing a Culture of Intercultural Education
Given the current era of global turmoil and strained relations between peoples of diverse national and cultural origins, there has never been a greater need for intercultural education than there is …
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€78.06
Mary Munro-Hill: Aristide of Le Figaro
Is it true that French people enjoy reading grammar articles over their coffee and croissants? Can matters of language really be so interesting and absorbing?For thirty years, Aristide composed his U …
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€115.54
David Oluwadare Adetoro: Competition Policy and Resource Utilization
This book examines the extent to which competition law and policy could be employed to promote the efficient allocation of resources in resource-dependent developing economies. Its background inquiry …
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€98.65
Irena Zovko Dinkovic & Tihana Klepac: English Studies from Archives to Prospects
When we think about what it is we do in academic literary studies, we do so taking account of time – the time of the institution in which this disciplinary practice takes place, and the history of th …
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€88.93
Katja Rinne-Koski & Sulevi Riukulehto: House Made to Be a Home
In recent years, society has focused more and more attention on the period between active working age and old age (or the "Third Age"). This book reports the results of an experiential home …
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€77.53
Richard Beamish & Alexei Orlov: Jawless Fishes of the World
Hagfishes and lampreys, both examples of jawless fishes, are elongated, eel-like animals lacking paired fins, and are the only living representatives of ancient creatures that gave rise to current sp …
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€99.06
Petar Penda: Whirlwind of Passion
The Whirlwind of Passion: New Critical Perspectives on William Shakespeare is a combination of critical, linguistic, stylistic, translation and performance interpretations, providing a fresh insight …
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€99.06
Ezra Chitando & Munyaradzi Nyakudya: Resilience Under Siege
This volume explores the challenges and solutions experienced within Zimbabwe’s economic and social spheres, with particular reference to the "crisis years" (2000-2008) and the "promis …
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€77.53
Paula Baldwin Lind: Telling and Re-telling Stories
What is the relationship between literature and film? What is meant when speaking about "adapting" a literary work to the screen? Is it possible to adapt? And if so, how? Are there films th …
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€89.60
Klaus Bosselmann & Paulo Magalhaes: Safe Operating Space Treaty
It is clear that international law is not yet equipped to handle the "ecological goods and services" that exist simultaneously within and outside of all states. The global commons have alwa …
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€98.16
Davor Dzalto: Religion and Realism
This volume revisits the concepts of reality and realism with regard to their relation to religion and the religious real. Religion remains one of the most significant social forces and cultural cons …
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€78.06
Ingrid Johnston: Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters
What would you do if a category five monster cyclone was headed your way? Drive as far as you could, as quickly as you could in the opposite direction? What if there were no cars? What if there were …
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€88.93
Harry Eiss: Joker
To prepare for the role of the Joker, Heath Ledger locked himself in a London hotel room, trying to understand and become a character he saw as "an absolute sociopath, a cold-blooded, mass-murde …
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€116.97
Sanjeev Kumar: Taxation and Revenue Collection in Ancient India
This is the first book to study taxation and revenue collection through a detailed analysis of public finance and financial administration in four major Indian texts, namely Mahabharata, Manusmriti, …
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€78.47
Stephen Howe: Cracks in the Foundation
The Controversies of Modern Christianity:Where Do You Stand?Cracks in the Foundation: Controversies in Christianity presents fresh insight on the hottest topics in modern religious debate, such as Bi …
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€77.50
Justyna Pilarska & Alicja Szerlag: Atomization or Integration? Transborder Aspects of Multipedagogy
This volume represents the result of cooperation between representatives of different academic disciplines, particularly researchers dealing with multiculturalism, cross-cultural education, civil edu …
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€108.08
Ron D. Petitte: Civilization at Risk
The evil that permeates sex trafficking is not going to stop; but, it can be discouraged and abated and people’s lives spared the incalculable damage such evil inflicts. Regardless, the scourge will …
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€77.75
Sandra Pereira & Clara Pinto: Coordination and Subordination
Recent studies on the syntax and semantics of complex sentences have dealt with several challenges to the traditional boundaries between coordination and subordination. Some constructions belong to o …
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€88.93
Rima Hooja & Shikha Jain: Conserving Fortified Heritage
This book is a compilation of papers presented at the first international conference on ‘Challenges Faced in Interpretation and Site Management in Fortifications and World Heritage’, organised jointl …
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€89.98
Oezlem Gueclue: Female Silences, Turkey’s Crises
In the mid-1990s Turkish cinema experienced a remarkable revival. However, what is particularly unusual about this revival is the emergence of a new representational form: silent, inaudible character …
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€88.93
Akinloye Ojo & Mobolanle Sotunsa: Expressions of Indigenous and Local Knowledge in Africa and its Diaspora
Expressions of Indigenous and Local Knowledge in Africa and its Diaspora provides critical discourses on Africa and the various configurations of its reflections in folklore, literature, music, langu …
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€89.58
Thierry-Marie Courau & Fabien Vandermarcq: Libraries at the Heart of Dialogue of Cultures and Religions
From antiquity until the present, libraries have served to witness cultural and religious exchanges between civilizations. A number of famous libraries have often acted as the cornerstones of the his …
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€78.41
Massimiliano Cricco & Leila El Houssi: North African Societies after the Arab Spring
No attempt to define the Mediterranean as a region can overlook the multiplicity of political, religious and social forces at work along its shores. Responding to changes in the global and regional e …
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€90.05
Kaptan Singh: Women in Exile and Alienation
Since World War II, exile and alienation have become two of the most prominent themes in world literature. Canadian and Indian literatures are no exception. Modern human civilisation is passing throu …
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€86.67
Gyula Klima & Stephen Ogden: Metaphysics of Personal Identity
One of the most debated topics in medieval philosophy was the metaphysics of identity-that is, what accounts for the distinctness (non-identity) of different individuals of the same, specific kind an …
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€78.50
Susan Ni Chuileann: Who’s Talking? The Effect of Personalised Voice on Speech Generating Devices for the Child with Autism
A significant number of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) never gain functional speech across their lifespan. For many of these individuals, Speech Generating Devices (SGDs) have provid …
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€89.85
Halina Mielicka-Pawlowska: Contemporary Homo Ludens
Play allows the fulfilment of one’s dreams, yet also teaches subjugation to the norms governing daily life. Furthermore, traditional forms of play, transmitted from one generation to another, guarant …
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€108.07
Damir K. Bekyashev & Dmitry V. Ivanov: Environmental Migration in International Law
This book brings together research on various aspects of environmental migration in the context of international law, with a particular focus on the emergence and development of regulation in the fie …
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€78.06
Alexandra Perry: Paper Cranes and Mushroom Clouds
Bernard Williams begins his skeptical look at the history of ethical theory with a reminder of where it began, with Socrates’ question, "how should one live?" If ethics aims to address the …
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€78.06
Vanessa Hawes & Lauren Redhead: Music and/as Process
Music and/as Process brings together ideas about music and the notion of process from different sub-fields within musicology and from related fields in the creative arts as a whole. These can be loos …
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€89.69
Zhengming Du: Jimmy Du’s Essential Chinese
As the first self-teaching course in Jimmy Du’s Natural Language Works, Jimmy Du’s Essential Chinese is an audio-companion book specially designed to help you master Mandarin Chinese in the shortest …
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€37.11
Pauline Rooney & Nicola Whitton: Game-Based Learning and the Power of Play
In recent years, there has been growing interest in the use of games to enhance learning across multiple educational levels, and extensive research has shown that games have considerable potential fo …
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€89.98
Moataz El Fegiery: Islamic Law and Human Rights
This book explores the development of the Muslim Brotherhood’s thinking on Islamic law and human rights, and argues that the Muslim Brotherhood has exacerbated, rather than solved, tensions between t …
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€99.06
Gerhard Besier: Jehovah’s Witnesses in Europe
The religious association of Jehovah’s Witnesses has existed for about 150 years in Europe. How Jehovah’s Witnesses found their way in these countries has depended upon the way this missionary associ …
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€97.83
Ferne Louanne Regis: Trinidad Dougla
In their search for personal identity, Trinidad’s Douglas, the offspring of Indo-African unions, find themselves in a complex social, cultural and linguistic situation. This is reflected as much in t …
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€89.98
Petra Ragnerstam: Voicing the Text
Why is voice so important to us? How does the concept of voice encompass such disparate practices as vocal sound, marks on a page, identity production and the execution of power? With these questions …
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€88.93
Alexander N. Yakoupov: Theory of Musical Communication
This book provides an overview of the communicative processes that encompass the creation, interpretation, perception, and evaluation of the various phenomena constituting musical art. The numerous i …
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€98.84
Loveness Mapuva: Dilemma of Children’s Right to Education in the Era of the Fast Track Land Reform Programme in Zimbabwe Re-Visited
This book offers a critical analysis of the impact of the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) in Zimbabwe, looking at the extent to which the politicization of the land question degenerated into …
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€78.06
Stacey Blackman & Babalola J. Ogunkola: Transforming Learning
Transforming Learning: International Perspectives is a must-read for all educators who want to impact the lives of the students who attend their classrooms. It presents indigenous frameworks applied …
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€98.16
Maarit Piipponen & Markku Salmel: Topographies of Popular Culture
Topographies of Popular Culture departs from the deceptively simple notion that popular culture always takes place somewhere. By studying the spatial and topographic imaginations at work in popular c …
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€89.69
Lori Maguire: Cold War and Entertainment Television
An essential dimension of the Cold War took place in the realm of ideas and culture. While much work exists on cinema, relatively little research has been conducted on this subject in relation to tel …
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€89.69
Mahmoud Masaeli & Rico Sneller: Globality, Unequal Development, and Ethics of Duty
Do we have a duty to end poverty? Is this duty to alleviate poverty, or it is for healing of disempowerment? Based on what moral reasoning is this duty grounded? Must this reasoning be based on value …
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€107.97
Frederic Will: Essays on the Condition of Inwardness
Inwardness is the condition of being inside. However, this can mean many things: one can be inside himself – dealing with his emotions, his projections, his fantasies – or with other people who becom …
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€85.76
John Murungi: Elemental Sensuous
Under the guidance of phenomenological insights, this book presents the sensuous in its elemental sense. The elemental is not to be confused here with the classical notion of the atom, which is viewe …
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€85.12
Santiago Sia: Christian Message as Vision and Mission
With all the messages that come our way through social media and in sophisticated gadgets, does the Christian message of love, hope and redemption still have an importance and relevance? What does it …
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€115.78
Poonam Bala: Medicine and Colonial Engagements in India and Sub-Saharan Africa
This volume examines the various modalities of imperial engagements with the colonized peoples in the former British colonies of India and in sub-Saharan Africa. Articulated through race, gender and …
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€114.13
Olayiwola Abegunrin & Sabella Abidde: African Intellectuals and the State of the Continent
This festschrift is composed in honor of a distinguished scholar and Pan-Africanist, Professor Sulayman S. Nyang, whose career and intellectual pursuits spans more than 45 years-much of it at Howard …
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€119.84
Keekok Lee: Classical Chinese Medicine
This volume completes a trilogy (Lee, 2012, 2017) on the philosophy of medicine, Western and Chinese. Its immediate prequel (Lee, 2017) sets out in general outline the philosophical and methodologica …
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€142.85
Katherine Skaris: Affective Labour in British and American Women’s Fiction, 1848-1915
This volume is a comprehensive and transatlantic literary study of women’s nineteenth-and-twentieth-century fiction. Firstly, it introduces and explores the concept of women’s affective labour, and e …
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€109.35
Prasannajit de Silva: Colonial Self-Fashioning in British India, c. 1785-1845
A stereotypical view of the nineteenth-century British in India, which might be characterised as one of deliberate isolation and segregation from their surroundings, has recently been complemented by …
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€115.81
Alen Ontl: Comparative Analysis of the Great American and Arab Novel
This book represents the first comparative reading of the Great Novel of American and Arabic literature to date. The Great American Novel, that most elusive and frustrating of concepts, ever-present …
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€108.04
Pradeep Sahay: Competing on Talent in Today’s Business World
It is currently an exciting time for organizations with regard to the recruitment of talent. The business and organizational pressures for finding and hiring the best people could not be greater. Rec …
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€115.54
Bartolome Sabater: Calculus in Plant Science
The book addresses the compelling demand for quantitative training in plant biology, including comparisons of the rate of processes, the size of structures and interactions among different processes, …
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€108.54
M. Erica Couto-Ferreira & Lorenzo Verderame: Cultural Constructions of the Uterus in Pre-modern Societies, Past and Present
This volume addresses a set of historical questions that explore the multiple aspects associated with the uterus through the dissection of both learned and popular sources, material evidence, daily p …
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€108.81
Roberto Cantu: Border Folk Balladeers
Americo Paredes distinguished himself as a journalist, novelist, short story writer, poet, folklorist, and as Professor of English and Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. Admired as on …
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€114.13
J. Oloka-Onyango & Bridget Bwalya Umar: Contemporary Customary Land Issues in Africa
This book examines current trends in customary land issues in Africa, focusing on the practice of converting customary land into leasehold tenure, particularly in Zambia. Since the enactment of the 1 …
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€115.31
John Tracy Greene: Angels, a Messenger by Any Other Name in the Judeo-Christian and Islamic Traditions
What were/are angels and what was/were their purpose(s) still agitates many readers of the many documents in which they are mentioned. This topic proved to both interest and challenge the presenters …
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€108.81
Abdullah Ince: Overview of Technology, Guidance and Leadership in Terms of Education
Education is a necessary process for all age groups, with people having an intimate relationship with it from birth to death. Nowadays, with the development of technology, people are able to access m …
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€109.11
Luetfiye Oezalemdar: Educational Studies in Science and Mathematics
This volume, bringing together a number of experts in their respective fields, represents an important contribution to the topic of science and mathematics education. The contributions deal with vari …
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€108.04
Simon Altmann: Einstein’s Quantum Error
What is it to be rational? This is the fundamental subject of this book as long as we concern ourselves to thinking about the physical world. It used to be thought by philosophers that rational think …
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€108.37
Franklim Morais & Jorge Vieira Vaz: Formal Methods in Architecture and Urbanism
The book promotes the use of formal methods in the creation of new explicit languages for problem solving in architecture and urbanism. Formal methods bring advantages to human actions and involve th …
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€125.79
Mario Bunge: From a Scientific Point of View
This book deals with the scientific viewpoint, which is illustrated here through a number of topical cases in modern science, from gravitational waves to mental disorders to social policies. The scie …
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€109.26
Florin-Teodor Boldeanu: Factors of EU Economic Growth
This book will appeal to scholars and policymakers who deal with and/or are conducting research on the factors of economic growth. At present, there is no unified growth model that is feasible for ev …
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€114.39
Martin Camps: Dialogues on the Delta
This collection of essays examines the city of Stockton, California from an interdisciplinary perspective. Stockton is in the heart of the Central Valley, an agricultural region that comprises a dive …
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€115.31
Gang Chen & Mary Reisel: International Journal of Business Anthropology, Volume 7 (2)
This journal has been discontinued. Any issues are available to purchase separately. …
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€108.90
Claudia Costin: Folkloric Aspects of the Romanian Imaginary and Myth
This volume explores a selection of significant and topical elements from the vast amount of Romanian folkloric and mythological material. It sheds light on the mythical-ritualistic aspects of three …
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€108.90
Uwe Zagratzki: Disrespected Neighbo(u)rs
Neighbourly relations frequently position a "self" against an "Other". This is the case for both individuals and nations, and, indeed, within the various cultural groups of a nati …
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€115.21
Paniel Reyes-Cardenas: Ideas in Development
This book is a collection of different studies in the history and development of powerful philosophical ideas, though it is not confined to a particular stage in this history. It highlights to the re …
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€108.90
Lisa Wenger Bro & Mary Ann Gareis: Monsters of Film, Fiction, and Fable
Monsters are a part of every society, and ours is no exception. They are deeply embedded in our history, our mythos, and our culture. However, treating them as simply a facet of children’s stories or …
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€126.05
Ilana Ronen: Misconceptions in Science Education
How do we make sense of our world? How does giving an immediate, intuitive response impact its quality, what are its features, and how is this related to misconceptions?Who is afraid of misconception …
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€114.34
Elena Digiovanni & Francesca Raffi: Languaging Diversity Volume 3
Languages, diversity and power: these are the concepts running through all chapters in this volume. Rooted in linguistics, translation studies and literary studies, often informed by cultural and pol …
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€115.31
Md. Munir Hossain Talukder: Nature and Life
This volume explores some recent thoughts and trends in environmental philosophy and applied ethics. The topics selected here are contemporary and offered in academic programs across the globe. This …
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€115.21
Katarzyna Ozanska-Ponikwia: Personality and Emotional Intelligence in Second Language Learning
This book addresses a particularly important area of second language acquisition research, specifically the factors that mediate learning outcomes in learning a second or foreign language. It provide …
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€108.54
Michael Briant: Psychotherapy, Ethics, and Society
Ethical issues are the stuff of psychotherapy, and in fact Freud envisaged the process as one in which an unexamined, irrational and oppressive conscience gives way to one more benignly rooted in rea …
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€108.00
Jonathan L. Friedmann: Musical Aesthetics
This book contains six chapters covering key areas of musical aesthetics, including aesthetics of emotions; aesthetics of listening; aesthetics of performance; aesthetics of composition; aesthetics o …
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€107.78
Mark Gant & Anneliese Hatton: New Journeys in Iberian Studies
The research collected in this volume consists of 18 chapters which explore a number of key areas of investigation in contemporary Iberian studies. As the title suggests, there is a strong emphasis o …
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€115.21
Alexander S. Bulatov & Natalia A. Piskulova: New Challenges in Sustainable Development for Russia and the World
This volume offers profound analyses of the main theoretical and practical aspects of the concept of sustainable development: namely, current environmental problems; the building of green economies; …
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€115.54
K.C. Baiju & Shibu Sivaraman: Multidimensional Poverty among Social Groups in Kerala
This book narrates the living conditions and incidence of poverty among households belonging to the different social groups in Kerala, India. Using a micro-level study, it investigates the inter-grou …
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€108.04
Garry Wade McGiboney: Leadership Theories and Case Studies
Effective leadership does not occur by chance. Leaders must be trained and groomed for the daunting responsibility of leading organizations. Research shows that half of the people currently in leader …
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€128.00
Huelya Tafli Duezguen: Texts and Territories
The writing of a literary text is as a retrospective explanation of what is happening in the present, including social, cultural, religious, and political events, and is a deliberate re-creation in a …
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€109.11
Mehmet Serdar ErciAY & Yusuf Soeylemez: Skill Approach in Education
Today, information and technological developments grow at a rapid pace. Social and political life becomes more and more complicated and, in this process, active citizenship becomes more essential. Kn …
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€132.49
John Martin & Robert Spillane: What Went Wrong with Psychology? Myths, Metaphors and Madness
In a fascinating analysis of the great psychological and sociological thinkers-including Freud, Maslow, Mc Clelland, Durkheim, Skinner, Lewin and Mead-this erudite text challenges the models, myths a …
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€115.31
Mark Guscin: Murder of Asunta Yong Fang
In September 2013, the body of 12-year-old Asunta Basterra (born in China and adopted while still a baby) was found abandoned at the side of a woodland path near Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Some …
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€114.13
Amina Alyal & Susan Anderson: Victorian Cultures of Liminality
This volume is unique in its focus on cross-fertilisation in the arts, on very specific exploration of liminal spaces, and on the representation of marginal figures in writing. The essays here grew o …
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€114.34
Nassima Sahraoui & Caroline Sauter: Thinking in Constellations
With his powerful thought image of the constellation, Walter Benjamin provides a method for the core practices of the Humanities: reading, writing, and thinking. This collection of provocative essays …
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€115.31
Love Ekenberg & Harald Kjellin: You Are Your Decisions
There are basically two categories of books on decision-making. One tells stories of how intuition guides decision-making. The other delineates a formal approach, based on decision-trees or matrices, …
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€109.35
Anu Maend & Nils Holger Petersen: Symbolic Identity and the Cultural Memory of Saints
This volume examines the relationship between medieval cults of saints and regional and national identity formation in Europe both during and, to some extent, beyond the Middle Ages. It studies how c …
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€120.84
None: Autocriticism of Chiang Kai-shek (A Set of Three Volumes)
Chiang Kai-shek’s manuscripts collected in Autocriticism are at his age of 26 to 45 years old.During this period, Chiang Kai-shek followed with Sun Yat-sen to throw himself into the Revolution of 191 …
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€57.27
Sue Townsend: Adrian Mole and The Weapons of Mass Destruction
‘The funniest person in the world’ Caitlin Moran’My comfort read. The best diaries ever written – with apologies to Samuel Pepys, Bridget Jones and me’ ADAM KAYThe hilarious SEVENTH BOOK in Sue Towns …
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€8.99
Bhagavad Gita
The Bhagavad Gita is an intensely spiritual work that forms the cornerstone of the Hindu faith, and is also one of the masterpieces of Sanskrit poetry. It describes how, at the beginning of a mighty …
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€9.49
Krishna: The Beautiful Legend of God
The Purana is one of the two most important and popular Hindu texts, the other being the Ramayana. It is part of the popular tradition, rather than a literary classic like the Upanishads or the Gita. …
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€11.99
From There to Here
We asked people from any background to send us their true personal accounts of immigration to Britain. The response was significant, and the range of entries overwhelming. Six judges – including Sham …
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€8.49
Alicia Brodersen: Primeval: Fight for Survival
Experience the thrill of the chase, the terror of the unknown, the brilliance of Cutter and his team in these fantastic novelisations from Puffin. Hugely collectable these books will be tracked down …
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€7.99
Primeval: A Rip in Time
Experience the thrill of the chase, the terror of the unknown, the brilliance of Cutter and his team in these fantastic novelisations from Puffin. Hugely collectable these books will be tracked down …
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€7.99
John Lewis-Stempel: England: The Autobiography
DISCOVER 2, 000 YEARS OF ENGLISH HISTORY TOLD BY THOSE WHO LIVED IT – FROM BOUDICCA’S REVOLT TO THE ASHES WIN OF 2005. Featuring writing from Julius Caesar, Guy Fawkes, Isaac Newton, Charlotte Bront …
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€10.99
Sue Townsend: Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years
The sensational final instalment in comic legend Sue Townsend’s hilarious and iconic Adrian Mole series’Effortlessly hilarious. Brilliant satire and tragedy’ Times’My comfort read. The best diaries e …
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€8.99
Harry Sidebottom: Warrior of Rome VI: The Amber Road
Warrior of Rome: The Amber Road is the sixth book in Harry Sidebottom’s Warrior of Rome series. AD 264 – The Roman Empire is torn in two. The western provinces – Gaul, Spain and Britain – have been s …
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€8.99
Earliest English Poems
Anglo-Saxon poetry was produced between 700 and 1000 AD for an audience that delighted in technical accomplishment, and the durable works of Old English verse spring from the source of the English la …
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€5.49
Nick Roberts: Short Stories in Italian
This is an all new version of the popular PARALLEL TEXT series, containing eight pieces of contemporary fiction in the original Italian and in English translation. Including stories by Calvino, Benni …
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€8.49
Richard Newnham: Parallel Text: German Short Stories
Much maligned in pre-war Germany, the short story enjoyed a creative rebirth in 1945. Initially imported by the Allies, the form also matched perfectly the prevailing mood of irony, objectivity and m …
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€8.49
David Constantine: Parallel Text: German Short Stories
The eight stories in this volume offer a varied and representative collection of twentieth century German authors from a range of political and cultural backgrounds. Styles include the non-fictional …
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€9.49
Gudie Lawaetz: Spanish Short Stories
This second volume of short stories contains more diverse and lively writing from the Spanish-speaking world. Again much of it is from Latin America, Carlos Fuentes being Mexican, Norberto Fuentes Cu …
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€9.49
Ernst Zillekens: Short Stories in German
This new volume of eight short stories offers students of German at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature in the original, with the aid of parallel translations. …
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€8.49
Seven Viking Romances
Combining traditional myth, oral history and re-worked European legend to depict an ancient realm of heroism and wonder, the seven tales collected here are among the most fantastical of all the Norse …
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€10.99
Sue Townsend: Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4
‘My comfort read. The best diaries ever written’ ADAM KAY, GUARDIAN’Every child in the country should receive a copy on their thirteenth birthday’ CAITLIN MORAN’One of literature’s most endearing fig …
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€8.99
Air Ministry Survival Guide
THE ULTIMATE SURVIVAL GUIDE for anyone who thinks they’d survive the world’s most hostile environments – or at least imagine they could do.—————————–First issued to British airmen …
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€10.99
Monika Class & Terry F. Robinson: Transnational England
The rise of the modern English nation coincided with England’s increased encounters with other peoples, both at home and abroad. Their cultures and ideas-artistic, religious, political, and philosoph …
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€74.75
Riza Oeztuerk: Evolutionary Aesthetics of Human Ethics in Hardy’s Tragic Narratives
Treatment of Hardy’s tragic narratives under the objective lens of evolutionary literary theory has led to three basic findings: First, within the scope of the analysis of the five major tragic narra …
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€65.73
Frederic Will: Time, Accounts, Surplus Meaning
This book harvests the author’s work, over several decades, on narrative and time, the place of imagination in conceptual thinking, and the underlying nature of historical accounts. …
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€83.77
Lorelle Burton: Language, Culture and Social Connectedness
Diverse interest in language, pedagogy, identity and community has found expression through online interaction, networking and connectedness in the discourses captured in this book, Language, Culture …
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€65.46
Tony O’Connor: Nietzsche and Phenomenology
This collection brings together original essays on a wide variety of topics in the broad area of ‘Nietzsche and Phenomenology’. Some of these papers take a thematic approach, thinking through key iss …
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€73.68
Jan Chovanec & Isabel Ermida: Language and Humour in the Media
Language and Humour in the Media provides new insights into the interface between humour studies and media discourse analysis, connecting two areas of scholarly interest that have not been studied ex …
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€74.92
Alix Mazuet: Imaginary Spaces of Power in Sub-Saharan Literatures and Films
This collection of essays is unlike others in the field of African studies, for it is based on three very precisely delineated focal points: a particular geographical region, the sub-Sahara; specific …
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€65.01
Deniz Ortactepe: Development of Conceptual Socialization in International Students
The relationship between language and culture has been the focus of attention in the fields of anthropology, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics and sociology, especially in regard to the acquisiti …
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€82.84
Lucis Fernandez Amaya & Maria de la O Hernandez Lopez: New Perspectives on (Im)Politeness and Interpersonal Communication
New Perspectives on (Im)Politeness and Interpersonal Communication gathers eleven studies by prominent scholars, which explore issues related to (im)politeness in human communication. The study of li …
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€83.60
Gerald Cipriani: Culture and Dialogue
Vol.3, No.1 of Culture and Dialogue is a Special Issue in many ways.This issue marks the takeover by a new publisher. Because of contractual constraints and practical reasons the decision was made to …
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€73.93
Adrian Agachi: Neo-Palamite Synthesis of Father Dumitru Staniloae
This book presents the contribution of Father Dumitru Staniloae, the most renowned Romanian Orthodox theologian and one of the leading figures of the Modern Orthodox Theologians, to the interpretatio …
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€82.61
Louise O’Reilly: Impact of Vatican II on Women Religious
This book opens up a new area of research in the history of the institution of the Irish Presentation Sisters and the impact of Vatican II, 1962-1965 on women religious life in Ireland. The challenge …
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€83.63
Donna Murphy: Marlowe-Shakespeare Continuum
In The Marlowe-Shakespeare Continuum, Donna N. Murphy demonstrates how Christopher Marlowe, sometimes in co-authorship with humorist Thomas Nashe, appears to have "become" Shakespeare on a …
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€92.44
Elliot D. Cohen: Theory and Practice of Logic-Based Therapy
Logic-Based Therapy (LBT) is a dynamic, philosophical, logical, and eclectic form of cognitive-behavior therapy that is closely aligned with the theory known as Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy (REB …
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€73.94
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber Le Concert a la cour, ou La Debutante Opera-comique en un acte Paroles de Eugene-Augustin Scribe et Melesville
Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber (1782-1871), the most amiable French composer of the 19th century, came to his abilities late in life. After a stalled commercial career, he studied with Cherubini. His f …
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€83.96
Alex Hall & Gyula Klima: Metaphysical Themes, Medieval and Modern (Volume 11
Metaphysical Themes, Medieval and Modern presents three sets of essays that engage the metaphysics of substance through a study of thought on this theme over the last eight centuries, shedding light …
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€74.75
Frederic Will: Platonism for the Iron Age
The present book is a study of Platonic idealism as it can play out in daily life. It buttresses its defense of the Platonic through reference both to Classical Greek and eighteenth-century thought, …
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€74.64
Alejandro Coroleu: Printing and Reading Italian Latin Humanism in Renaissance Europe (ca. 1470-ca. 1540)
With the advent of the printing press throughout Europe in the last quarter of the fifteenth century, the key Latin texts of Italian humanism began to be published outside Italy, most of them by a sm …
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€83.77
Kathrin Kiehl & Anita Kirmer: Guidelines for Native Seed Production and Grassland Restoration
World-wide, the degradation and destruction of both natural and traditionally used semi-natural ecosystems is drastically increasing. Unfortunately, commercial seed mixtures, consisting of non-native …
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€92.43
Thomas Donaghy: Horse Breeds and Breeding in the Greco-Persian World
Although there are many publications which discuss the history of the ancient horse, few focus their attention on the origin and development of the various breeds. Most publications examine the horse …
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€83.64
Sudip Bhattacharya: Unseen Enemy
Europeans in early colonial Bengal fell prey to new diseases that their limited pharmacopeia, based on an imperfect knowledge of physiology, often failed to treat. This book looks at clinical observa …
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€89.22
Lavinia Bracci & Nevin C. Brown: Intercultural Horizons Volume II
This volume features a collection of papers from the second annual Intercultural Horizons conference held in October 2012 in New York City (USA). The 2012 conference was the second in what is becomin …
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€82.84
Keith Gregor: Shakespeare and Tyranny
This book brings together a selection of essays on the reception and dissemination of Shakespeare’s plays in England and beyond from the 17th century to the present. Written from the perspective of a …
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€90.22
Dan Dombrowski & Brianne Donaldson: Beyond the Bifurcation of Nature
Environmental destruction, animal abuse, and widespread indifference toward plants and elemental systems demand that a human-centric view of the world be permanently dismantled. But once it is, what …
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€83.43
Terence Palmer: Science of Spirit Possession (2nd Edition)
Spirit possession, attachment, poltergeist activity and the negative impact of obsession, infestation and harassment on psychological health, together with the methods of dealing with it, are contemp …
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€99.08
Marianna Muravyeva & Natalia Novikova: Women’s History in Russia
This collection of essays, all by Russian scholars, is the first of its kind to address a broad English-speaking audience. It presents the theories and methodologies employed by Russian national hist …
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€83.63
Rahma Al-Mahrooqi & Christopher Denman: Issues in English Education in the Arab World
Though diverse, the Arab world boasts a unique culture and native language, both of which are unlike those found in English-speaking countries. Perhaps due to the nature of these differences, Arab-We …
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€99.24
Rikke Platz Cortsen & Erin La Cour: Comics and Power
Many introductions to comics scholarship books begin with an anecdote recounting the author’s childhood experiences reading comics, thereby testifying to the power of comics to engage and impact yout …
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€99.31
Vanessa Guignery: B. S. Johnson – Zulfikar Ghose Correspondence
From 1959 to 1973, the writers B. S. Johnson and Zulfikar Ghose regularly wrote letters to each other in which they discussed their own work and literary preoccupations. They exchanged early drafts o …
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€107.18
Giuseppe Balirano: Languaging Diversity
Languaging Diversity: Identities, Genres, Discourses is a suggestive title for ‘another’ book in the field of linguistics, but what does it actually mean? By choosing to speak of Languaging Diversity …
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€98.58
Ahmed Ankit & Said Faiq: Agency and Patronage in Eastern Translatology
It is axiomatic that translation studies has been largely dominated by Western discourses on language, cultural and communication studies. Non-Western traditions and discourses of translation have ge …
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€89.31
James Cowan: Hamlet’s Ghost
Occasionally a man emerges from history without us knowing him. Duke Vespasiano Gonzaga (1531-91) of Sabbioneta escaped the net of sixteenth century Italy, its history of wars and conflicts, to fashi …
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€90.22
Bryan Kirschen: Judeo-Spanish and the Making of a Community
Judeo-Spanish and the Making of a Community brings together scholars and activists from around the world, all of whom have participated in and presented original research at the annual uc LADINO Jude …
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€90.22
Andras Patay-Horvath: New Approaches to the Temple of Zeus at Olympia
This volume brings together the proceedings of an international and interdisciplinary symposium held at Budapest between 8th and 10th May 2014. It was the first event dealing exclusively with the tem …
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€98.87
Jose Manuel Losada & Jose Manuel Losada: Myths in Crisis
This trilingual volume examines the extent to which myths are affected by the crises of the 20th and 21st centuries. It brings together four theoretical studies which analyse both the crisis of struc …
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€108.26
Kumiko Tanabe: Gerard Manley Hopkins and His Poetics of Fancy
This book explores the poetics of "fancy" in the works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, a term often paired with imagination in well-known Romantic poetics. It sheds new light on this concept, whi …
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€90.43
Micheal O’Haodha: Migrants and Cultural Memory
This volume explores the discourses and representations that have circumvented the image that is the Traveller, the Roma (Gypsy) and migrant "Other". It is generally acknowledged that the g …
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€65.34
Luis H. Castaneda & Javier Gonzalez: Alternative Communities in Hispanic Literature and Culture
What are Hispanic alternative communities and how are they represented in literature, film, and popular music? This book studies the fictional representation of circles of artists and intellectuals, …
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€97.87
Nasheli Jimenez del Val: Body between Materiality and Power
This volume situates and problematizes the points of tension implicated in diverse historical and theoretical conceptualizations of the body through a visual studies framework. By proposing materiali …
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€89.31
Darlei Dall’Agnol: Care and Respect in Bioethics
This book discusses the philosophical foundations of bioethics, with a particular focus on the tensions and potential dilemmas generated by the intuitionist meta-ethical commitments of the predominan …
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€102.89
Ewa Domagala-Zysk & Edit H. Kontra: English as a Foreign Language for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Persons
Deaf and hard-of-hearing students form a specific group of foreign language learners. They need to use foreign languages just like their hearing peers if they want to enjoy the same benefits of globa …
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€89.98
Paolo L. Bernardini: Episodes in Early Modern and Modern Christian-Jewish Relations
The history of the Christian-Jewish relations is full of curious, intense, and occasionally tragic episodes. In the dialectical development of the Western monotheistic religions, Judaism plays the ro …
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€98.80
Costin-Valentin Oancea: Gender-Related Variation in the Speech of English and Romanian Adolescents
This book represents a synchronic sociolinguistic analysis of gender-related variation in the speech of English and Romanian adolescents. It is motivated by the belief that variation is a characteris …
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€98.86
Thor Kerr & John Stephens: Indian Ocean Futures
Rapid change in trade, demographics, culture and environment around the Indian Ocean demands a revaluation of how communities, sustainability and security are constituted in this globally strategical …
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€98.16
Aristita I. Albacan: Intermediality and Spectatorship in the Theatre Work of Robert Lepage
Robert Lepage has imposed himself in the past three decades as a Wunderkind of contemporary theatre, with eagerly awaited and widely acclaimed productions at the most prestigious theatre festivals an …
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€107.27
Greg Maillet: Learning to See the Theological Vision of Shakespeare’s King Lear
This book follows the recent ‘turn to religion’ that has been so important to English Studies in the 21st century, and builds on many of the recent biographies of Shakespeare that have explored the p …
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€86.41
Katarzyna Mojska & Monika Szkarlat: New Technologies as a Factor of International Relations
This book provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of the multidimensional influences of technological development on contemporary international relations. The contributions here are drawn from …
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€107.83
Rositta Joseph Valiyamattam: Personal and National Destinies in Independent India
Personal and National Destinies in Independent India is an innovative analysis of the interface between individual lives and national history, between citizen and state in modern India, as reflected …
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€108.26
Jarmo Valkola: Pictorialism in Cinema
This book explores the unique phenomenon of pictorialism and its connection with other arts in film and media studies. Pictorialism is motivated by the commitment to develop and increase the function …
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€119.05
Kirsten Boenker & Sven Grampp: Television Beyond and Across the Iron Curtain
From the mid-1950s onwards, the rise of television as a mass medium took place in many East and West European countries. As the most influential mass medium of the Cold War, television triggered new …
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€107.18
Khalifa A. Alfadhel: Failure of the Arab Spring
A concise guide on how and why the Arab Spring failed, this book presents a detailed narrative of events in the Arab World, from the moment Mohammed Bouazizi lit himself – and the region – on fire. I …
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€86.03
Erwin Warkentin: History of U.S. Information Control in Post-War Germany
In May of 1945, the American army, along with those of its Allies, occupied the cities and towns of Hitler’s Third Reich. While most American soldiers wondered how Germany’s citizens were going to fe …
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€107.86
Mark Byrne: Outback Within
What is it about the Australian outback? For nearly two centuries, narratives of outback journeys have been suffused with the aura of death. Why? It is not just that the desert is big, dry, hot and a …
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€98.86
Margaret Tally: Rise of the Anti-Heroine in TV’s Third Golden Age
This volume offers a stimulating perspective on the status of representations of a new kind of female character who emerged on the scene on US television in the mid-2000s, that of the anti-heroine. T …
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€86.41
Adam Lovasz: System of Absentology in Ontological Philosophy
This volume deals primarily with absentology, an ontological and social-scientific epistemological mode, dedicated to the analysis of absence. The book is drawn by manifestations of absence wherever …
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€99.47
Davide Mazzi: Theoretical Background and Practical Implications of Argumentation in Ireland
While the association between the words "Ireland" and "argumentation" may not necessarily look particularly straightforward, this book shows that they are, in fact, closely connec …
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€101.99
Ploysri Porananond: Tourism and Monarchy in Southeast Asia
Monarchies around the world play a significant role in tourism development and the tourist experience. Debates about the level of finance required to support monarchies often refer to the positive to …
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€98.25
Sanjeev Kumar: Understanding MA maa’ sa
This book is devoted to the task of explaining the extended meaning known as Vakyartha according to the Prabhakara school of Purva Mimamsa, the ancient Indian theory of meaning. It is based on the Va …
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€85.84
Pamela Odih: Adsensory Financialisation
Adsensory technology presupposes a neoliberal entrepreneurial self as an integral feature of its biopolitical financialisation of healthcare regimes. According to Michel Foucault, neoliberalism is in …
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€99.31
Eugene Broderick: Intellectuals and the Ideological Hijacking of Fine Gael, 1932-1938
This book covers a unique, yet virtually ignored episode in Irish history-the efforts by intellectuals to influence and shape in a radical way the policies and direction of a major political party. B …
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€65.73
Akepogu Jammanna & Pasala Sudhakar: Dalits’ Struggle for Social Justice in Andhra Pradesh (1956-2008)
The complete alienation of Dalits from resources like land, water, and agricultural implements has led to the collective demand for an equal share in productivity. This book discusses the range of so …
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€97.87
Begona Crespo & Isabel Moskowich: Queering Women’s and Gender Studies
This volume brings together approaches to, and perspectives on, English, Spanish, and Galician language, literature, and culture from the fields of women’s, gender, and queer studies. As its title re …
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€97.83
Wiebke Gronemeyer & Isabel Wuensche: Practices of Abstract Art
Recent decades have seen a renewed interest in the phenomenon of abstract art, particularly regarding its ability to speak to the political, social, and cultural conditions of our times. This collect …
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€108.26
Can Candan & Suncem Kocer: Kurdish Documentary Cinema in Turkey
Without a doubt, this decade’s most discussed and developed documentary productions in Turkey come from Kurdistan, a name that provokes nationalist panic in Turkey, yet delineates distinct cultural, …
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€97.83
Ashok Kumar: Public Participation in Planning in India
Mirroring the complexities of cities and neighborhoods, this volume makes a conscious departure from consensus-oriented public participation to conflict-resolving public participation. In India, plan …
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€107.27
Gabriella Gimigliano: Money, Payment Systems and the European Union
When the term "governance" is associated with money, the mind goes directly to the traditional regulatory paradigm, i.e. the nation State-Central Banking-Currency. However, over time, there …
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€125.31
Farrin Chwalkowski: Symbols in Arts, Religion and Culture
We are a product of nature. Every single cell of our body is made of, and depends, on nature. Our inner soul is heavily influenced by nature. We feel sad if the sun is not shining for a few days, and …
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€150.21
Marta Degani & Paolo Frassi: Languages of Politics/La politique et ses langages Volume 2
The Languages of Politics/La politique et ses langages provides a multifaceted view of major approaches to the study of political discourse from an interdisciplinary perspective. To date, most contri …
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€115.54
Linda Daniela & IrA&na Zogla: Selected Papers of the Association for Teacher Education in Europe Spring Conference 2015
The Association for Teacher Education in Europe (ATEE) is a non-profit European organisation, with the aim of enhancing the quality of teacher education in Europe and supporting the professional deve …
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€119.38
Jan Roubal: Towards a Research Tradition in Gestalt Therapy
Gestalt therapy is well-grounded in its daily practice, but is a field which is still in the process of developing a research tradition to support this practice. Gestalt practitioner researchers devo …
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€107.83
Shawn Edrei & Danielle Gurevitch: Science Fiction beyond Borders
Since the turn of the previous century, science fiction and its native tropes have been used by authors, artists, filmmakers and critics in order to challenge boundaries – whether these be conceptual …
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€95.02
Charles Reuben Lyngdoh: Revisiting Traditional Institutions in the Khasi-Jaintia Hills
Traditional institutions in the Khasi-Jaintia society are "living organisms" which have existed for centuries and internally evolved from one phase to another. Despite having come into cont …
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€99.07
Marta Degani & Paolo Frassi: Languages of Politics/La politique et ses langages Volume 1
The Languages of Politics/La politique et ses langages provides a multifaceted view of major approaches to the study of political discourse from an interdisciplinary perspective. To date, most contri …
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€128.31
Zarko Cvejic & Ana Petrov: Crisis in the Humanities
This volume will appeal to the reader interested in the so-called "long crisis in the humanities" and transdisciplinary approaches as a possible way out of this. It comprises a selection of …
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€85.48
Guri Barstad & Karen P. Knutsen: States of Decadence
States of Decadence is a two volume anthology that focuses on the literary and cultural phenomenon of decadence. Particular attention is given to literature from the end of the 1800s, the fin de siec …
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€108.51
Andrea Raimondi: Many Voices of Contemporary Piedmontese Writers
What do Cesare Pavese, Beppe Fenoglio and Primo Levi have in common? Apart from their obvious Piedmontese origins, they and other writers coming from this Italian region share a certain tendency towa …
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€115.21
Douglas George Hope: Thomas Arthur Leonard and the Co-operative Holidays Association
This book focuses on Thomas Arthur Leonard, a Congregational minister in Colne, Lancashire in the 1890s, and the Co-operative Holidays Association, which he founded in 1893. The Co-operative Holidays …
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€98.59
Kala Seetharam Sridhar & Anil Kumar Vaddiraju: Urban Governance in Karnataka and Bengaluru
This book deals with varied aspects of urban governance in the Indian state of Karnataka in general and its capital, Bengaluru, in particular. Given the growing significance of urbanisation for the e …
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€115.57
Kasia Papaja & Katarzyna Papaja: Language in Focus
Applied Linguistics is a field of academic enquiry that deals with the theoretical and empirical investigation of real issues which focus on language. These issues include aspects of linguistics, fir …
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€153.49
Tadhg Moloney: Impact of World War One on Limerick
This book examines the impact of World War One on the people of Limerick. It traces how recruitment, which was weak at the commencement of the war, increased locally after the leader of the Irish Par …
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€83.40
Ildiko Limpar: Displacing the Anxieties of Our World
Monster studies, dystopian literature and film studies have become central to research on the now-proliferating works that give voice to culture-specific anxieties. This new development in scholarshi …
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€99.24
Valentina Marinescu: Exploring Political and Gender Relations
The present volume offers a contemporary, multicultural approach to the controversial relationship between politics, media and society. The contributors here analyse such links from a variety of diff …
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€98.87
Katia Savrami: Ancient Dramatic Chorus through the Eyes of a Modern Choreographer
This book critically analyses the work of Zouzou Nikoloudi, a major Greek choreographer (1917-2004), and the way she presented, with her company Chorica, the choral odes of ancient Greek drama, espec …
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€86.02
Stephen Theron: Hegel’s Apotheosis of Logic
This book presents what Hegel calls "the vital spirit of the actual world", the truth, namely, of logic’s form and content as one concrete whole. Axiomatic here is that thinking is necessar …
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€107.78
Patricia Vilches: Blest Gana via Machiavelli and Cervantes
This book analyzes the work of iconic Chilean author Alberto Blest Gana (1830-1920) through the lens of Machiavelli and Cervantes. Transatlantic in scope, it uses literary studies and cultural histor …
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€107.27
Benjamin Arbour & John R. Gilhooly: Evil and a Selection of its Theological Problems
Recent formulations of the inductive, continual problem of evil require us to consider new responses to the charge that there is something irrational about believing in God, given the type and amount …
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€86.03
Zvjezdana Antos: Museums and Innovations
This volume presents sixteen thoughtful essays which address innovative ways to present cultural heritage primarily in ethnographic and social history museums through recent permanent, temporary, and …
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€99.09
Anna Gonerko-Frej & Joanna Witkowska: Ideological Battlegrounds – Constructions of Us and Them Before and After 9/11
Volume 2 of Ideological Battlegrounds – Constructions of Us and Them Before and After 9/11 continues and complements the discussion of the event undertaken in the first part of the two-volume publica …
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€128.39
Shadi Adnan Alshdaifat: International Law and the Use of Force against Terrorism
As shown in the case of Attila the Hun, and his thirst for power, property, and personal prestige, nation states throughout the world, particularly in Asia and Europe, have, since ancient times, been …
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€138.68
Anna Novakov: Imagined Utopias in the Built Environment
Beginning with the early history of London’s Vauxhall pleasure gardens, this volume surveys visionary architecture and urban planning from the 18th century to the present. The recurrence of themes of …
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€86.01
Veronica Bonsignori & Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli: Multimodality across Communicative Settings, Discourse Domains and Genres
This volume focuses on multimodality in various communicative settings, with special attention to how non-verbal elements reinforce and add meaning to verbal expressions. The first part of the book e …
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€115.55
Carl Grant & Agostino Portera: Intercultural Education and Competences
This book primarily analyses the current situation in intercultural education and intercultural competences, and addresses the challenges to, and possible ways of dealing with, different perspectives …
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€99.24
Angela Kikue Davenport & Yui Nakatsuma: London and Literature, 1603-1901
London and Literature, 1603-1901 brings together papers by scholars and researchers interested in British literature of the period covered. It will be of value to the many students and colleagues of …
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€86.55
Dualta Roughneen: Humanitarian Subsidiarity
Subsidiarity is not a new idea, having been discussed either implicitly or explicitly for centuries. From Aristotle to the International Criminal Court, subsidiarity has been considered a means of fr …
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€85.16
Anne Goujon & Max Haller: Higher Education in Africa
The idea that developing all sectors of the educational palette is influential for socio-economic development was adopted later in Sub-Saharan Africa than in other world regions. Most efforts went pr …
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€108.26
Sharon Worley: Love Letters and the Romantic Novel during the Napoleonic Wars
Love letters during the Napoleonic wars were largely framed by concepts of love which were promoted through novels and philosophy. The standard texts, so to speak, which were written by major authors …
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€85.78
Eleni Staraki: Modality in Modern Greek
This book provides a formal analysis of both main and embedded modality in the modern Greek language. By reassessing the main arguments of the classical semantic and syntactic literature related to m …
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€115.55
Asier Altuna-Garcia de Salazar: Ireland and Dysfunction
This collection of critical essays finds itself at the intersection of cultural, literary and film studies, and explores the various ways in which dysfunction is expressed in Irish studies. Dysfuncti …
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€99.24
Frederic Will: Seventy Moral (and Immoral) Polarities of the Everyday Volume II
Like its companion Seventy Moral (and Immoral) Polarities of the Everyday (2016), this volume is a set of seventy mini-meditations on opposite states of the moral or emotional life – goodness and bad …
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€85.48
Robert H. Jackson: Pames, Jonaces, and Franciscans in the Sierra Gorda
In the mid-sixteenth century, the Spanish faced a prolonged conflict in Mexico known as the Chichimeca War (1550-1600) beyond the porous cultural frontier between the sedentary indigenous populations …
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€98.80
Sarada Thallam: Rajam Krishnan and Indian Feminist Hermeneutics
This book interprets the feminist theories of Rajam Krishnan, a doyen of Tamil literature, who has been a forerunner of many contemporary ideologies. The text provides the much-needed tools for the v …
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€98.86
Agnes Zsofia Kovacs & Laszlo B. Sari: Space, Gender, and the Gaze in Literature and Art
This volume explores how the concepts of space and gaze are tied in with social constructions of gender relations. It discusses the gendered body, the queer gaze, the relationship between body and me …
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€99.24
Giacomo Fronzi: Philosophical Considerations on Contemporary Music
The musical universe of the 20th and 21st centuries is a force-field in which styles, instruments, personalities and stories can be found that are ascribable to conceptual frameworks that may differ …
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€99.24
Maria-Luiza Caraivan: Nadine Gordimer and the Rhetoric of Otherness in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Nadine Gordimer and the Rhetoric of Otherness in Post-Apartheid South Africa observes and examines several issues that are central to the South African writer’s works: the uniqueness of terror in a d …
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€85.42
Annette M. Magid: Quintessential Wilde
This volume presents interpretive essays utilizing a variety of approaches to honor the 160th anniversary of Oscar Wilde’s birth, celebrating the writer’s genius. This unique collection of scholarshi …
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€116.85
Becky McLaughlin: Putting Theory into Practice in the Contemporary Classroom
This collection of fourteen essays by scholars from Canada, Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States emerges from a growing interest in the ways postmodern theory can illuminate not just the …
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€107.27
Anna Harumova: Economic Function of Deferred Taxes
Deferred tax is an accounting category that forms part of tax expense and affects the reported amounts of profit after tax for businesses. This book explores the issue of deferred taxes at both the t …
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€101.96
Mahmoud Masaeli & Rico Sneller: Root Causes of Terrorism
Fifteen years after the tragic events of 9/11, bombs are still exploding and innocent people are being killed by terrorist groups in both western and Islamic societies. Most of these sinisterly threa …
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€118.57
Ilse Feinauer & Kobus Marais: Translation Studies beyond the Postcolony
This edited volume explores the role of (postcolonial) translation studies in addressing issues of the postcolony. It investigates the retention of the notion of postcolonial translation studies and …
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€127.46
Kiarash Aramesh & Gerard Magill: Urgency of Climate Change
The Urgency of Climate Change addresses a pivotal challenge for the sustainability of our planet. This topic was selected for the inaugural conference in 2015 of an annual series on the Integrity of …
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€128.39
Wafa Abu Hatab: Translation across Time and Space
This book investigates several aspects of translation, including literary, political, legal, and machine translation, and it covers a diversity of languages, including Arabic, English, French and Gre …
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€111.00
Annalisa Bonomo: World English(es) and the Multilingual Turn
The recent multilingual turn involves various different implicit and explicit language policies, urging pressure and resistance with regard to the spread of English and its dominant relationships wit …
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€102.93
Priya Parrotta: Politics of Coexistence in the Atlantic World
The Atlantic World continues to live with the burdens of its own past. Patriarchy, colonialism, and the degradation of people and land persist, and they have strained our attempts at living together. …
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€86.41
K. Meira Goldberg & Antoni PizA: Global Reach of the Fandango in Music, Song and Dance
The fandango, emerging in the early-eighteenth century Black Atlantic as a dance and music craze across Spain and the Americas, came to comprise genres as diverse as Mexican son jarocho, the salon an …
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€151.15
Heather Brunskell-Evans: Sexualized Body and the Medical Authority of Pornography
This edited collection examines pornography as a material practice that eroticises gender inequality and sexual violence towards women. It addresses the complex relationship between pornography and m …
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€86.35
Clara Sarmento: Imagery of Writing in the Early Works of Paul Auster
The early works of Paul Auster convey the loneliness of the individual fully committed to the work of writing, as if he were confined within the book that dominates his life. All through Auster’s poe …
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€85.48
Marinela Burada: 13th Conference on British and American Studies
This volume brings together a selection of papers in linguistics presented at the 13th edition of the Conference on British and American Studies. Structured into three chapters, the studies included …
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€127.60
Monty Adkins & Michael Russ: Essays on Roberto Gerhard
For much of the mid-twentieth century, Roberto Gerhard found himself an outsider. He was airbrushed from much writing on contemporary music in Spain during the Franco regime, and was known in England …
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€98.87
Germana D’Acquisto: Linguistic Analysis of Diplomatic Discourse
This book explores the language used by the United Nations Resolutions on the Question of Palestine. The corpus used in this analysis includes sixty-six Security Council Resolutions (2965 words) and …
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€109.13
Viviane Serfaty: Donato Manduzio’s Diary, from Church to Synagogue
Donato Manduzio was an illiterate Southern Italian peasant who only learned how to read and write at the age of thirty-two, while convalescing from a wound during the First World War. His subsequent …
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€97.87
Sanjeev Kumar: Student’s Handbook of Indian Aesthetics
Art and life in India have been inextricably intertwined from ancient times to the present day. Art as a way of life, as ritual, as decoration and as unity with the Sublime bore testament to the soci …
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€109.36
Karolina Drabikowska & Marietta Izdebska: Form, Meaning and Function in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
The book is a collection of 10 papers on theoretical and applied linguistics, and is divided into two sections. Part I, devoted to Theoretical Linguistics, addresses a range of issues pertaining to p …
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€115.17
Zhu Shoutong: New Literature in Chinese
This book systematically discusses the academic connotations of the concept of "Modern Chinese Literature", as well as its basic categories. The discipline founded upon this concept is infl …
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€99.24
Milan Hlavacka & Vaclava Horcakova: Poverty, Charity and Social Welfare in Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Social policy, as executed in western civilization, is apparently at a crossroads, with "forgotten" contradictions between the rich and the poor having once again become topical. The curren …
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€120.14
Simon Bell: Formations of Terror
There are a host of books about fear but, as yet, there has been little attempt to methodically and systemically assess how fear emerges and is targeted. This highly readable yet rigorous book sets a …
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€114.93
Cornelius Crowley & Geetha Ganapathy-Dore: Heritage and Ruptures in Indian Literature, Culture and Cinema
This book investigates the millennial history of the Indian subcontinent. Through the various methods adopted, the objects and moments examined, it questions various linguistic, literary and artistic …
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€115.49
Panayiota Chrysochou: Performing Identity and Gender in Literature, Theatre and the Visual Arts
This volume presents a compelling melange of chapters focusing on the myriad ways in which performance and gender are inextricably bound to identity. It shows how gender, performance and identity pla …
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€85.48
Mickey Abel: Medieval Urban Planning
Broadly defined, urban planning today is a process one might describe as half design and half social engineering. It considers not only the aesthetic and visual product, but also the economic, politi …
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€99.09
Abbas Poya & Farid Suleiman: Unity and Diversity in Contemporary Muslim Thought
This volume brings together ten articles on contemporary Muslim thought written by authors from Europe and the Middle East, who are specialized in the fields of Islamic theology, Islamic studies and …
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€99.09
Craig Hovey & Myles Werntz: Sports and Violence
Sports and Violence is an edited collection arising out of the 2016 Sports and Violence Conference, hosted at the Ashland Center for Nonviolence at Ashland University, Ohio, USA. This volume contains …
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€85.40
Hortensia Parlog: What’s in a Balcony Scene? A Study on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and its Adaptations
As reflected in its title, the central question that drives this book is "what’s in a balcony scene?", particularly that which appears in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Exploring its repre …
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€85.78
Oleg Bazaluk: Theory of War and Peace
This book explores the ontology of war and peace. Using the results of empirical and theoretical research in the field of geophilosophy, as well as neuroscience, psychology, social philosophy and mil …
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€109.12
Alain L. Fymat & Joachim Kapalanga: Science Research and Education in Africa
For various economic and political reasons, many African countries lag behind the rest of the industrialised world in scientific and medical research and development. However, the presence of intelle …
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€129.18
Jose Manuel Martins & Christine Reeh: Thinking Reality and Time through Film
Over the last few decades, film has increasingly become an issue of philosophical reflection from an ontological and epistemological perspective, and the claim "doing philosophy through film&quo …
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€107.06
Stanley Weintraub: Recovery of Palestine, 1917
By mid-1917, with the world war going badly on all fronts, and casualties burgeoning, Prime Minister David Lloyd George met with General Edmund Allenby, fresh from France. Lloyd George wanted "J …
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€86.55
Cindy Gabrielle: Unharnessed World
Though New Zealand author Janet Frame (1924-2004) lived at a time of growing dissatisfaction with European cultural models, and though her (auto-)biography, fiction and letters all testify to the fac …
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€89.69
Faith Eidse: Disciple and Sorcery
Ben F. Eidse is Shakambangu, a messenger who announces the truth, so-named by the Lunda-Chokwe who appreciate his commitment to learning their heart language, proverbs and culture. He often began his …
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€90.29
Michel Feith & Claudine Raynaud: Troubled Legacies
What is being passed on? The questions of heritage and inheritance are crucial to American minority literatures. Some inheritances are claimed; some are imposed and become stifling; others still are …
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€89.87
Michael J. K. Walsh: City of Empires
Despite its undoubted importance, there has never been a volume dedicated entirely to studies of the historic city of Famagusta in the years which followed the siege of 1571. City of Empires: Ottoman …
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€107.63
Alex Goody & Anna Hewitt: Mapping the Self
As the title indicates, three themes of perpetual interest in contemporary cultural studies – place, identity, and nationality – converge in this critical essay collection. While proffering varied an …
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€78.68
Brian Lowrey & Fabienne Toupin: Studies in Linguistic Variation and Change
This book comprises a series of studies by a number of scholars working on what might broadly be termed the "medieval" period of the history of English, focusing on Old English, Middle Engl …
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€90.22
Hilary Cooper & Jon Nichol: Identity, Trauma, Sensitive and Controversial Issues in the Teaching of History
History Education is a politically contested subject. It can be used to both promote xenophobia and to develop critical thinking, multiple perspectives, and tolerance. Accordingly, this book critical …
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€116.59
Milena Kalicanin & Sona Snircova: Growing Up a Woman
This book explores contemporary transformations of the female Bildungsroman, showing that the intersection of the genre and gender brought to critical attention in the context of second wave feminism …
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€98.87
Fernando J. Garrigos-Simon & Ignacio Gil-Pechuan: Strategies for Teaching in the XXI Century
This book presents a range of teaching methodologies and skills assessments conceived as fundamental tools for teaching and learning in the 21st century. In addition, it explores how novel teaching p …
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€89.24
Zhengming Du: Chinese Language Demystified
The Chinese Language Demystified offers a detailed exploration of the features that have made Mandarin Chinese so unique among the major languages of the world, particularly English and other Europea …
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€78.79
Margaret J-M Soenmez: Defoe and the Dutch
The novels of Daniel Defoe are set in years during which two Anglo-Dutch wars were fought, a Dutch king took over the English throne, and the primacy of the Dutch in Northern European commerce was in …
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€107.78
W. Creighton Peden: From Evolution to Humanism in 19th and 20th Century America
This book provides a background to the development of Humanism. It considers a range of important figures in the movement in the 19th century, including R. W. Emerson, F. E. Abbot, William J. Potter, …
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€90.03
Priscilla Roberts: Power of Culture
China and the United States, two massive economic and military powers, cannot avoid engaging with each other. Enjoying what is often termed "the most important bilateral relationship in the worl …
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€116.12
Wolfgang Fiel: Emancipating the Many
This book begins from the assumption that we have entered an era where the concept of political representation is seriously compromised. Eschewing the flawed promise of acting for the ‘common good’, …
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€90.29
Robert Guang Tian & Lynne Zhang: Journal of China Marketing Volume 6 (1)
This journal has been discontinued. Any issues are available to purchase separately. …
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€56.47
Vesna Bratic & Radmila Nastic: Highlights in Anglo-American Drama
This volume represents perspectives on a number of aspects of modern Anglo-American drama and dramatists written by scholars from ex-Yugoslav republics, resulting from long years of common interest a …
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€90.22
David Owen & Lesley Peterson: Home and Away
Home and Away: The Place of the Child Writer is an important contribution to the fast-growing and rapidly evolving field of literary juvenilia studies. This collection of essays by fifteen scholars i …
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€89.24
Liana De Girolami Cheney: Radiance and Symbolism in Modern Stained Glass
This book focuses on the aesthetic, symbolic, and cultural concepts of radiance and beauty in stained glass in modern art; global exchanges between stained-glass artists in Europe and the Americas; a …
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€107.78
Asbjorn Gronstad & Mark Ledbetter: Seeing Whole
Seeing Whole: Toward an Ethics and Ecology of Sight explores the ways in which seeing as an embodied process is always a multivalent, ambiguous, and holistic undertaking. Looking at an image entails …
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€98.87
Lucia Abbamonte: Mediterranean Heritage in Transit
It is mainly within and around Mediterranean itineraries that the European Union seeks its in/tangible cultural heritage, an important component of both individual and collective identities. This vol …
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€90.03
Oleg Konovalov: Organisational Anatomy
This book offers a discussion of a new management concept, "Organisational Anatomy", which views organisational processes and functions from a biological perspective. This approach naturall …
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€78.32
Geraldo Magela Caffaro: House, the World, and the Theatre
The House, the World, and the Theatre departs from three ideologically resonant spatial metaphors to explore key aspects of nineteenth-century literature and culture. At the centre of the discussion …
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€78.68
Manuel Perez Donsion & Manuel Perez-Donsion: Renewable Energy
From a scientific point of view, several challenges to renewable energy come from the intermittent nature of energy sources such as wind, solar photovoltaic and solar thermal. These problems are curr …
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€116.51
Elena Polyudova: Soviet War Songs in the Context of Russian Culture
This volume presents a unique study of war songs created during and after World War II, known in Russia as the "Great Patriotic War". The most popular war songs, such as "Katyusha&quot …
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€90.43
Louisa MacKay Demerjian: Age of Dystopia
This book examines the recent popularity of the dystopian genre in literature and film, as well as connecting contemporary manifestations of dystopia to cultural trends and the implications of techno …
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€78.68
Peter O’Connor: Possibilities of Creativity
This volume brings together internationally renowned academics, arts practitioners and thinkers to take a multi-disciplinary look at the nature of the creative process and examine its possibilities f …
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€78.68
Bootheina Majoul: Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing is a writer for all times; she is a historiographer and a transnational translational mediator between the East and the West. This volume provides a collection of articles analysing Dor …
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€77.83
Su Lyn Corcoran & Dimitrina Kaneva: Being "On the Margins"
This book is a collection of the proceedings from the Symposium of the Street, a one-day conference convened at the University of Manchester in June 2014 and funded by the North West Doctoral Trainin …
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€89.86
Carrie Prentice & Miglena Sternadori: Gender and Work
Recent years have witnessed growing scholarly interest in efforts to advance women’s work and in exploring the implicit obstacles to gender equity – such as the "glass floor, " "glass …
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€89.87
Kate Rose: China From Where We Stand
What is Comparative Sinology? China from Where We Stand brings together powerful, diverse voices to define the boundaries and possibilities of this new field, providing a range of perspectives – insi …
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€89.86
Natalie Boldt & Jens Zimmermann: Christian Humanism and Moral Formation in "A World Come of Age"
Since its inception in ancient Greco-Roman culture, the main goal of humanism has been moral formation through education for the attainment of true humanity. Literature and religion have always playe …
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€90.22
Jina Moon: Domestic Violence in Victorian and Edwardian Fiction
This book opens the curtain on the crucial role played by Victorian and Edwardian novelists in changing views of domestic violence. Examining the mechanisms of domestic violence through the historica …
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€89.31
Weronika Laszkiewicz & Zbigniew Maszewski: Dwelling in Days Foregone
This volume brings together papers that examine American literary texts and cultural phenomena as manifestations and/or expressions of nostalgia. Inspired by Svetlana Boym’s seminal study The Future …
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€90.06
Laurence Petit & Pascale Tollance: Point, Dot, Period… The Dynamics of Punctuation in Text and Image
Point, Dot, Period… The Dynamics of Punctuation in Text and Image is a collection of twelve previously unpublished essays which explore the fundamental role played by punctuation in the two semioti …
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€89.22
Serena Fusco: Incorporations of Chineseness
Divided into two parts – the first a combination of historical introduction and theoretical analysis, the second consisting of comprehensive, in-depth, detailed close readings of representative liter …
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€89.86
Lydia Sciriha: International Perspectives on Bilingualism
The seventeen chapters brought together in this volume represent a selection of papers presented at the International Conference on Bilingualism held in March 2015 at the University of Malta’s Vallet …
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€99.06
Mario Kozah: Jawdat Haydar’s Poetic Legacy
Jawdat R. Haydar (1905-2006) was a prominent Lebanese poet from Baalbek, who contributed to world literature in the English language, and was the author of several books of poetry, including Voices ( …
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€78.14
Petra Ahrweiler & Andreas Pyka: Joining Complexity Science and Social Simulation for Innovation Policy
This book explores how complexity science and social simulation can be used to improve and inform policy-making in both research and innovation. Beginning with an introduction to conceptual definitio …
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€107.18
Joon H. Chung: Global Justice and Consecutive Constructivism
Consecutive constructivism is a moral and political theory which mitigates structural injustice by securing individuals’ perception of private morality – that is, inventing procedural devices to make …
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€78.68
Bernd Steinbach: Problems and New Solutions in the Boolean Domain
The Internet of Things is a great new challenge for the development of digital systems. In addition to the increasing number of classical unconnected digital systems, more people are regularly using …
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€107.85
Sanjay Sharma: Governing Environment
This book comparatively analyses the federal policies and financing of India and Canada. It examines whether federalism as a system of governance is better suited to deal with environmental questions …
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€90.03
Sameerah Tawfeeq Saeed: Space and Events
This book presents a study of the internal syntax and semantics of spatial PPs, as well as their role and contribution in motion events when combined with different motion verbs. It offers a new pers …
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€98.87
J.B. Bennington & Zenia Sacks DaSilva: 1930s
In 2010, Hofstra University celebrated its 75th anniversary, inviting scholars to the campus to discuss the world as it was in the year Hofstra was founded. The conference "1935: The Reality and …
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€107.06
Nizar Zouidi: Questions of Authority
This book studies the questions of authority and authorship in William Shakespeare’s problematic masterpiece Hamlet. It argues that the Bard seeks to eternalize himself through his play, that Hamlet …
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€78.31
Lasisi Ajayi & Tamara Collins-Parks: Teaching Literacy across Content Areas
This book is written primarily for pre-service and in-service teachers of Literacy/English Language Arts, school administrators, literacy graduate education students, and literacy education researche …
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€99.24
Elisabeth Kapferer & Andreas Koch: Appreciating Local Knowledge
In the light of the globalization, (post-)modernization, social fragmentation, and economization of many of today’s living contexts, local knowledge is receiving increasing attention in various scien …
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€98.86
Azamat Akbarov: Current Research on Language Learning and Teaching
This volume represents the first collection of essays on research dedicated to the work of scholars and experts from Bosnia and Herzegovina. It provides programmatic state-of-the-art overviews of cur …
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€98.14
H.G. Callaway: Edmund Burke, the Imperatives of Empire and the American Revolution
Edmund Burke (1730-1797) was a friend and advocate of America during the political crisis of the 1760s and the 1770s, and he spoke out eloquently and forcefully in defense of the rights of the coloni …
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€98.98
Roberto Cantu: Equestrian Rebels
Mariano Azuela (Mexico, 1873-1952) was a medical doctor by profession, recipient of Mexico’s Premio Nacional de Literatura (1949), a distinguished member of El Colegio Nacional and, by mid-century, o …
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€98.85
Sean O Nuallain: Dualism, Platonism and Voluntarism
The Foundations of Mind conference proceedings brings together a host of contemporary thinkers in the area, from Ed Vul and Robert Campbell on the cognitive side through Stuart Kauffmann to Henry Sta …
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€89.87
Azeez Jasim Mohammed: Contemporary Shavian Manifesto
A Contemporary Shavian Manifesto presents an appraisal of George Bernard Shaw’s position on women in his plays. The dramatist’s unconventional approach itself is praiseworthy as he creates unwomanly …
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€78.15
Anna Baczkowska & Anna Drogosz: Perspectives on Translation
This volume offers a selection of issues currently encountered by scholars working within the broadly understood discipline of Translation Studies. The contributions here discuss topical and recurren …
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€98.87
Christopher Hopkinson & Renata Tomaskova: Professional Genres from an Interpersonal Perspective
This volume brings together contributions focused on, and shaped by, two areas of linguistic research: genre analysis and the interpersonal component of language and discourse. It explores the interp …
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€90.22
Bjoern Bosserhoff: Radical Contra-Diction
Samuel Taylor Coleridge is chiefly remembered as the Romantic poet who wrote "The Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan", as Wordsworth’s collaborator on the Lyrical Ballads, as the my …
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€98.14
T.N. Litvinova & I.A. Morozova: Role of Clustering in Provision of Economic Growth
Under current economic conditions, society’s business structure once again faces the phenomenon of stagnating markets. This recessive state, often discussed in a variety of scientific works, explains …
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€78.68
Aiping Zhang & Zhenwu Zhu: Dan Brown Craze
Since the Chinese translation of The Da Vinci Code was released in China in 2004, the "Dan Brown Craze" has swept across the country. All of Brown’s novels have subsequently been translated …
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€99.09
Carol Shansky: Hebrew Orphan Asylum Band of New York City, 1874-1941
The Hebrew Orphan Asylum Band of New York City, 1874-1941 is at the same time the story of a boys’ band and a story of New York City. The band was not only an important educational component of one o …
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€78.27
Bruno Mascitelli & Sonia Mycak: European Diaspora in Australia
This volume provides a contemporary reflection on the journey of many former European communities that migrated to Australia in the post-war period and their stories of settlement, assimilation and i …
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€89.22
Yusef Saee: Slivers of Life
No matter if you are broken-hearted or happy in life and no matter where you are, the lessons taught in this book offer a unique taste of contentment, solace and joy. Slivers of Life pieces together …
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€99.47
Liz Bacon & Edmond Prakash: ICT Age
The world is at the cusp of yet another new era of computing as the physical and digital infrastructures of the world converge as we continue to infuse intelligence into more and more connected thing …
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€98.85
Marie Jeanne McNaughton & Peter J. Mitchell: Storyline
This book is based on the premise that story making and storytelling are fundamental human activities, shared by all cultures. The power and potential of stories in learning has been recognised by pr …
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€98.87
Nancy Amendt-Lyon & Philip Brownell: Timeless Experience
For years, psychotherapists have known that Laura Perls was actively involved in the development of what today is known as Gestalt therapy, although her husband, Frederick Perls, officially authored …
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€99.24
Marilia dos Santos Lopes: Writing New Worlds
Writing New Worlds analyses the different ways in which travel literature constituted a fundamental pillar in the production of knowledge in the modern era. The impressive frequency of publication an …
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€99.47
Luciana Bordoni & Francesco Mele: Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage
Artificial Intelligence and Cultural Heritage represent a combination that for several years has interested both scientific and cultural institutions regarding the potential of possible interactions …
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€78.68
Nicholas Campion & Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum: Astrology in Time and Place
Astrology is the practice of relating the heavenly bodies to lives and events on earth, and the tradition that has thus been generated. Many cultures worldwide have practised it in some form. In some …
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€99.24
Dina Tsagari: Classroom-based Assessment in L2 Contexts
This edited volume addresses issues that promote the notion of Classroom-based Language Assessment (CBLA) for the academic community and beyond. The book explores recent thinking and research on CBLA …
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€107.85
Claudio Bendazzoli & Claudia Monacelli: Addressing Methodological Challenges in Interpreting Studies Research
Using interaction as a fundamental springboard, Addressing Methodological Challenges in Interpreting Studies Research showcases the major breakthrough in interpreting studies made by investigating co …
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€90.29
Susan Driver & Melanie Patenaude: Engaging Affects, Thinking Feelings
The thought-provoking essays brought together in Engaging Affects, Thinking Feelings: Social, Political and Artistic Practices balance critical thinking with creative opportunities to imagine new pos …
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€78.14
Stephen H. Kaisler: Birthing the Computer
Birthing the Computer: From Relays to Vacuum Tubes is the first in a multi-volume series on historical computing machines. This series will span the development of computer systems from the Zuse mach …
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€128.69
Filippo Arfini & Maria Cecilia Mancini: Intellectual Property Rights for Geographical Indications
Regulations on Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and Geographical Indications (GIs) have a long history, leading back to two separate organizations devoted to dealing with them: the World Trade Org …
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€90.22
Imad El-Anis & Natasha Underhill: Regional Integration and National Disintegration in the Post-Arab Spring Middle East
This edited collection explores the processes of change currently shaping the Middle East in the post-Arab Spring context. The national and transnational challenges that have emerged since the uprisi …
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€98.87
J. Jeremy Wisnewski: Review Journal of Political Philosophy Vol. 12
This journal has been discontinued. Any issues are available to purchase separately. …
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€85.48
Andrea Bosco: June 1940, Great Britain and the First Attempt to Build a European Union
June 2016 represents a significant moment in British history. The decision to leave the European Union at the most critical period since its existence could bring unpredictable and far-reaching conse …
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€99.47
Ana-Cristina Halichias & Maria-Luiza Dumitru Oancea: Expressions of Fear from Antiquity to the Contemporary World
The volume offers a timely discussion of the feeling of fear, adopting a diachronic and complex perspective, taking into account its various forms, including its literary, mythological, anthropologic …
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€89.22
Simone Fari & Massimo Moraglio: Peripheral Flows
The main purpose of the eleven contributions to this volume is to reconsider and re-assess the role of cores and peripheries in shaping modern socio-technical systems. From this perspective they expl …
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€89.22
Helen Thomas: Malady and Mortality
This ground-breaking study examines visual and literary responses to, and representations of, illness, dying and death from the perspective of the chronically ill, their families and carers, medics, …
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€98.85
Ahmed Abushouk & Mahjoob Zweiri: Interdisciplinarity in World History
This book represents selected papers of an international conference convened by the Department of Humanities at Qatar University, Doha, in March 2013. Its theme was "Interdisciplinarity in Histo …
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€89.24
Garry Wade McGiboney: Psychology of School Climate
Many people have become impatient with school reform and school improvement efforts that fail to include school climate. The importance of a positive school climate is emerging in current research, n …
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€89.22
Andrew Sangster: Agony of France
The Agony of France is written in three parts in a thematic style to enable easy referencing both for the student of history and the general reader. The first part deals with the Defeat of France in …
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€116.43
Sanjit Chakraborty: Understanding Meaning and World
This book explores the internalism/externalism debate inherent in ontology and semantics from the point of view of phenomenology. The debate centres around whether or not the world bears a constituti …
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€87.06
Tim Weir: Rise and Fall of Wessex Asset Management and the 2008 Crash
What caused the Global Financial Crisis of 2008? What lessons should be learnt from it? Could it happen again? Taking his own career in the City of London as a starting point, the author tackles thes …
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€90.06
Lina Unali: Beautiful China
This volume discusses the centuries-old familiarity between Europe and China. It explores the European nations’ admiration for the distant Asian country, and their attempt at capturing the meaning of …
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€78.15
Martin Germ & Martina Malesic: Art and its Responses to Changes in Society
Art and its Responses to Changes in Society brings together studies of young researchers dealing with the topics of decline, transformation, and rebirth from various points of view, characteristic of …
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€99.24
Laurel Brett: Disquiet on the Western Front
This groundbreaking study looks at the evolution of the war novel, tracing the movement from the modernist novel that followed World War I to the postmodernist novel that followed World War II.The bo …
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€85.40
Marcela Mala & Zuzana Saffkova: ELT Revisited
This volume brings together selected papers presented during the 9th International Conference of the Association of Czech Teachers of English, titled "Teaching for Tomorrow" and hosted by t …
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€78.50
Monika Lodej: Dyslexia in First and Foreign Language Learning
According to International Educational Statistics (2008), there are total of 654.9 million school-age children in the world. If dyslexia affects 10-15% of these youth (Fletcher et al. 2007), this tra …
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€78.68
Oleg Bazaluk: Corruption in Ukraine
Using the methodology of geophilosophy, this book expands the understanding of Ukraine as a limitrophe state, as a frontier between two world cultures, the East and the West. It explains the relation …
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€98.25
Jonathan Brindle & Geda Paulsen: Color Language and Color Categorization
This volume represents a unique collection of chapters on the way in which color is categorized and named in a number of languages. Although color research has been a topic of focus for researchers f …
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€107.18
Rob Roggema: Agriculture in an Urbanizing Society Volume One
In two volumes, selected papers presented at the sixth AESOP conference on Sustainable Food Planning are brought together, representing the academic work of worldwide experts in the fields of food pl …
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€115.40
Ufuk Oezen Baykent: Introductory Course to Philosophy of Language
Language is what we all share and is our common concern. What is the nature of language? How is language related to the world? How is communication possible via language? What is the impact of langua …
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€102.93
Nicholas Gayle: Byron and the Best of Poets
Byron was a man of many passions, always fiercely held and defended, but his intense devotion to the poetry of Alexander Pope seemed to characterise a man standing a little to the left of the Romanti …
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€99.07
Teresa Fernandez Ulloa: Images of Women in Hispanic Culture
This book studies the ways traditional polarized images of women have been used and challenged in the Hispanic world, especially during the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century by write …
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€98.80
Charles Quist-Adade & Wendy Royal: Re-engaging the African Diasporas
Re-engaging the African Diasporas: Pan-Africanism in the Age of Globalization is the second volume in the Kwame Nkrumah International Conference series, and brings together twenty selected papers pre …
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€108.26
Edel Lemus: Resistance to Changes in Financial Reporting Standards
This book investigates current resistance to the ongoing change from US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). 138 countries have, thus …
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€101.96
Carla Fernandes: Multimodality and Performance
The chapters in this book are the product of an international conference organised in Lisbon to mark the closure of the TKB project "A Transmedia Knowledge-Base for Performing Arts". Under …
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€90.29
Gaia Caramellino: Europe Meets America
An analysis of the New York professional milieu between the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the aftermath of WWII reveals an unexpected scenario, in which diverse branches of technical culture and prof …
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€89.87
Natasa Bakic-Miric & Davronzhon Erkinovich Gaipov: Going Forward
This volume represents a collection of papers from active researchers and practitioners from around the world who came together in their shared interest to discuss recent developments in higher educa …
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€90.06
Rafal Boryslawski & Justyna Jajszczok: Histories of Laughter and Laughter in History
Laughter is often no laughing matter, and, as such, it deserves continued scholarly attention as a social, cultural and historical phenomenon. This collection of essays is a meeting ground for schola …
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€98.14
Oana Panaite: Reading Communities
This volume is the product of a long-term collaboration between French and American scholars who share a common preoccupation with reading canonical and contemporary works of literature and cinema in …
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€89.24
Lukas Bleichenbacher & Ruth Frehner: Teacher Education in the 21st Century
How can teacher education prepare future teachers for their work in increasingly diverse classrooms? How does the concept of plurilingualism inform language educational policy in different countries? …
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€90.22
Gazela Pudar Drasko & Predrag Krstic: Why Still Education?
Why Still Education? will appeal to researchers of education – scholars and students alike – in the fields of philosophy, sociology, pedagogy, andragogy, psychology, political theory, anthropology, a …
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€78.22
Pauline Winsome Beard: Oracle of the "tiny finger snap of time"
Many poets, playwrights, and novelists have grappled with the concept of time. Even more scholars have analyzed how novelists have used time for structuring, organizing, plotting and philosophizing. …
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€78.10
Panos Karagiorgos: Greek Poet Cavafy and History
This book presents a survey and evaluation of Cavafy’s poetical work with an emphasis on his historical and didactic poems. The poet prefers to describe events while they are still in progress. We, t …
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€86.02
Elizabeth McNamer: Case for Bethsaida after Twenty Years of Digging
Bethsaida, located on the Sea of Galilee, is mentioned more frequently than any other town in the New Testament except for Jerusalem and Capernaum. It was the home of Jesus’ closest friends, possibly …
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€78.10
Stefan Baumgarten & Chantal Gagnon: Translating the European House
This anthology of papers, written by Christina Schaeffner, brings together a selection of articles on the theme of translation and politics. Written from the perspective of translation studies and cr …
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€98.98
Jan W.J. Burgers & Tim Crawford: Lute in the Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century
The lute played a central role in the rich musical culture of the seventeenth-century ‘Golden Age’ of the Dutch Republic. Like the piano in the nineteenth century, the lute was not just a popular ins …
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€99.24
Abbes Maazaoui: Arts of Memory and the Poetics of Remembering
This collection of essays explores the dynamics of representation, transmission and circulation of memory, as well as the role of personal and collective memory in shaping meanings, values, attitudes …
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€86.00
Roberta Iannone: Social Sense of the Human Experience
Why should we wonder about man and the human sense? What are the questions and answers we are seeking? Why should we read the work of Werner Sombart? Or rather, why should we re-read "this" …
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€78.06
Diego De Brasi & Marko J. Fuchs: Sophistes
Heidegger’s philosophy has an extraordinarily complex relationship to Plato. Heidegger sees Plato as the founder of that Western metaphysics which he claims should be overcome. However, his interpret …
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€78.14
Tendai Mangena & Oliver Nyambi: Postcolonial Condition of Names and Naming Practices in Southern Africa
The Postcolonial Condition of Names and Naming Practices in Southern Africa represents a milestone in southern African onomastic studies. The contributors here are all members of, and speakers of, th …
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€128.89
Christian C. Anieke & Mary Gloria C. Njoku: Stories of Peace Volume II
This volume represents a collection of stories and essays that highlight the importance of creating and sustaining peace. Put together, the contributions here propose that peace can be created and su …
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€78.68
Laura Westra: Common Good and Environmental Governance for the Support of Life
The ongoing environmental crisis has given rise to grave concerns everywhere, and a number of authors have approached this topic from various disciplines and points of view, proposing different strat …
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€89.31
Kerri Cissna-Heath & Margaret J. Weber: Women in Leadership and Work-Family Integration Volume Two
Today, women are assuming greater roles within the workplace and men are assuming greater roles within the home. Both spheres have to be seen as a place where males and females are competent. Gersick …
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€78.50
Peter Stupples & Jane Venis: Art and Book
Art has been as significant as text in the history of book design and production. This collection of papers examines the place of illustration and innovation, both conceptual and technical, in the re …
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€85.48
Ivan Sammut: Constructing Modern European Private Law
The Europeanisation of European Private Law (EPL) is an ongoing process that has gained momentum with the communautarisation of judicial cooperation in civil and commercial matters with the Amsterdam …
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€128.39
Robert DiNapoli: Far Light
This book presents the complete Old English text of Beowulf, the most celebrated poem of the Anglo-Saxon era, in short sections followed by verse translations and extensive commentaries. Above all, i …
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€119.40
Roland Theuas DS. Pada: Axel Honneth’s Social Philosophy of Recognition
This book presents a reconstruction of the trajectories of freedom in Axel Honneth’s recognition theory in the context of the conflict between autonomy and social cohesion. Honneth’s re-appropriation …
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€115.81
John Thomas: One Hundred Years of Solitude, Struggle, and Violence along the US/Mexico Border
This book features oral histories, mainly of members of the ranching families who have lived in the Mexican State of Sonora and the corresponding territory in the US that stretches from Tijuana on th …
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€115.41
Prasanna Gautam: Reflections on Contemporary Values, Beliefs and Behaviours
This book is a unique presentation of common but highly important issues that affect us all deeply. These are illustrated with personal anecdotes to which the readers can relate and compare with thei …
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€108.37
Thede Kahl & Iliana Krapova: Balkan and South Slavic Enclaves in Italy
This volume is a collection of new writings dealing with some of the Balkan linguistic varieties spoken in north-eastern, central and southern Italy. It brings together twenty-two papers, some of whi …
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€128.89
Dalila Cerejo & Manuel Lisboa: Complexity Sciences
Recent world events have forced us to develop new scientific approaches to address social dynamics currently on the verge of rupture. Social problems and drastic changes like the refugee crisis, Brex …
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€116.00
de Teel Patterson Tiller & Richard D. Wagner: Creating Historic Preservation in the 21st Century
A must-read for professionals and advocates of historic preservation who are concerned about preservation’s future, this volume is a compendium of powerful essays by thought leaders in the field firs …
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€109.40
Hasan Arslan: Introduction to Education
This volume offers a set of strategies and materials in education, developed to assist teachers in guiding their classroom and students in understanding fundamental subjects of teaching. It serves to …
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€109.14
Mary Munro-Hill: Claude Duneton, Chroniqueur at Le Figaro
Claude Duneton was a French literary figure of note (1935-2012) and a versatile and prolific writer, whose Parler croquant (1973) first brought him public acclaim. He enjoyed most of all the weekly l …
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€109.13
Rosemary O’Neill & James P. Werner: Art as Adventure
This volume represents a collection of six essays written by artists and art historians about journeys to places and methods of practice that challenge perceived taxonomies. The artist as traveler ha …
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€108.46
Sungdai Cho: Curriculum Development and Assessment Guidelines for the National Standards Project
This book is designed to make public the detailed work that has been developed for the Korean National Standards Project in two areas, namely curriculum development and assessment guideline. The firs …
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€120.91
Bob East: 21st Century Philippines Piracy
In the second decade of the 21st century, the Philippine terrorist organisation the Abu Sayyaf, predominately domiciled in the southern Philippines, added a new dimension to their kidnap-for ransom e …
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€108.34
Paolo E. Balboni: Theoretical Framework for Language Education and Teaching
Educational linguistics is transcultural, with research in the field adopting an international scope. Educational systems, on the contrary, are culture-bound. As a consequence, actual teaching differ …
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€109.07
Sebastien Lefait & Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris: Combining Aesthetic and Psychological Approaches to TV Series Addiction
This book establishes, and then analyses, the interrelation between series and dependence by focusing on two aspects of their connection: the overconsumption of TV series, and the production devices …
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€119.81
Fausto Ciompi & Roberta Ferrari: Interconnecting Music and the Literary Word
Dealing with the interconnections between music and the written word, this volume brings into focus an updated range of analytical and interpretative approaches which transcend the domain of formalis …
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€116.00
Stephen Theron: Hegel’s Theology or Revelation Thematised
This book highlights Hegel’s application of Absolute Idealism’s logical truth, the basis of all mystical insight, to Christian orthodox confession. The systematic interpretation thus yielded illumina …
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€119.84
Marcienne Martin: Dictionary of Digital Pictograms and Glossary for Internet Use and Portable Telephones
This book explores the new language of the Internet which offers a middle ground between expressiveness and speed. It also reports on innovative lexicographic practices. Internet users want their wri …
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€109.13
Laura LaurusaitA-: Imagology Profiles
This volume highlights the importance of imagology, one of the most popular areas of research in contemporary comparative studies. It proposes new means of academic analysis to create critical attitu …
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€115.54
Yahya R. Kamalipour: Global Discourse in Fractured Times
Communication and information, facilitated by the internet and social media, play a highly influential role in the daily lives of peoples around the world. Drawing attention to many contemporary issu …
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€120.95
Federica Pau & Luca Vargiu: Following Forms, Following Functions
This volume of collected essays is devoted to the analysis of the relationship between form and function, two concepts that have played, and continue to play, an important role in several disciplines …
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€109.07
Periyasamy Pitchaipillai: Enhanced On-Demand Multipath Routing for Wireless Networks
The Ad-hoc On-demand Multipath Distance Vector (AOMDV) routing protocol is widely used in highly dynamic ad-hoc networks because of its generic features. The transmission of reliable energy efficient …
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€108.37
Dessislav Valkanov: Essays on Power
This fascinating book brings together philosophical and historical essays on the European experience of empire. Its main thesis is that at the heart of political experience stands a metaphysical one, …
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€109.40
Boris Abersek: Problem-Based Learning and Proprioception
Contemporary teaching and learning methods based on cognitive neuroscience deal with such questions as "How do we think?" and "How do we learn?" or "How does the human memory …
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€114.83
Rafael Cubarsi: Kinematics and Dynamics of Galactic Stellar Populations
Stellar dynamics is an interdisciplinary field where mathematics, statistics, physics, and astronomy overlap. The approaches to studying a stellar system include dealing with the collisionless Boltzm …
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€115.54
Chen Bo & Manas Chatterji: International Journal of Peace Economics and Peace Science Vol.1, No.2
This journal has been discontinued. Any issues are available to purchase separately. …
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€108.46
Emin Atasoy & Recep Efe: Recent Researches in Education
The book brings together 49 chapters related to the field of education. The main topics explored here include teacher-student interactions; pre-service teachers; children and play; early childhood ed …
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€150.13
Gianpiero Vincenzo: New Ritual Society
Consumerism has established itself as a dominant lifestyle, but the reasons behind this are often unclear. This study revisits a large amount of diverse research, and argues that consumerism is a pow …
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€109.13
Katy Blatt: Leonardo da Vinci and The Virgin of the Rocks
This is the first book dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci’s commission for The Virgin of the Rocks. Leonardo completed fewer than twenty paintings in his lifetime, yet he returned twice to this same myst …
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€108.90
Goekce Bayindir Goularas & IAYil Zeynep Turkan Ipek: International Migration in the 21st Century
This collection tackles the problems surrounding international migration, raising the question of the reasons for, and consequences of, being a migrant in the 21st century. Some of the issues it focu …
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€114.93
Alan Graham & Scott Hamilton: Samuel Beckett and the ‘State’ of Ireland
Reflecting the rich critical debate at the ‘Beckett and the State of Ireland’ conferences held in Dublin between 2011 and 2013, this volume brings together a selection of essays which explore and res …
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€116.08
Oezguer Uenal EriAY & Ahmet Salih Ikiz: Political Economy of Muslim Countries
The book looks in detail at the economic conditions of Muslim countries specifically, offering a thorough political analysis at the same time. It focuses on a broad range of economic factors and take …
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€115.55
Cristina Paravano & Margaret Rose: Shakespeare, Our Personal Trainer
This collection of essays is multidisciplinary and wide-ranging. The authors, literary and theatre specialists, scientists from various fields, and a psychiatrist, present Shakespeare’s works from ve …
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€114.71
Enes Emre BaAYar & Aysel ErciAY: Virtual World and Marketing
This collection of essays is dedicated to reviewing, exploring, and reporting state-of-the-art virtual world and marketing issues in the broadest sense. It provides a readable, non-technical publicat …
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€115.83
David M. Battles: Yea, Alabama! A Rare Glimpse into the Personal Diary of the University of Alabama (Volume 2 – 1871 through 1901 Second Edition)
The University of Alabama (UA) is one of the most prominent and fascinating universities in the United States. Volume One of this series explored UA’s 1819 birth, its formative years, its burning by …
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€83.20
Gordon Burt: Values, World Society and Modelling Yearbook 2017
World events in 2017 have revealed the fundamental features of social systems and their trajectories. Is the world becoming a better place in terms of wellbeing, wealth, health, peace and the environ …
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€115.54
Madhavi Kesari & Hari Ponnamma Rani: Women in Higher Education in India
Bridging the gender gap in higher education is fundamental throughout India. Education is the yardstick by which the growth and development of a country are delineated, and it helps to discipline the …
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€116.27
Humaira Irfan: Testing Creative Writing in Pakistan
This book investigates the impact of creative writing tests on classroom practice in Pakistan. All National Education Policies in Pakistan since 1959 have expressed grave concern at the deteriorating …
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€115.57
Magdi Youssef: Contemporary Arab Contribution to World Culture
This book comprises a selection of papers delivered at a research meeting of the International Association of Intercultural Studies (IAIS) which took place in Paris in March, 2009. As suggested by it …
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€115.83
Miriam Criado-Pena: Early Modern English Version of Elizabeth Jacob’s Physicall and Chyrurgical Receipts
This book offers a semi-diplomatic transcription of Elizabeth Jacob’s Physicall and chyrurgicall receipts (MS Wellcome 3009 (ff. 17r-90r)), an Early Modern English remedy-book housed in the Wellcome …
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€115.55
Sharon R. Steadman: Archaeology of Anatolia Volume II
This second volume in the Archaeology of Anatolia series offers reports on the most recent discoveries from across the Anatolian peninsula. Periods covered span the Epipalaeolithic to the Islamic, an …
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€126.40
Mohammad Makki & Nadine Sinno: Effects and Consequences of Migration and Immigration on the Lebanese Economy and Tourism Sector
This book tackles several important and timely topics with regards to Lebanon, especially after the Syrian conflict. The contributions here analyse the situation of the internal and external Lebanese …
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€114.71
Marion Gymnich & Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz: Orphan in Fiction and Comics since the 19th Century
The orphan has turned out to be an extraordinarily versatile literary figure. By juxtaposing diverse fictional representations of orphans, this volume sheds light on the development of cultural conce …
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€120.91
Daniela Richter: German Historical Novel since the Eighteenth Century
The historical novel is a genre which has enjoyed widespread popularity in Germany from its beginnings in the eighteenth century. At that time, increased literacy among the middle and lower classes h …
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€97.64
Edward Herring: Patterns in the Production of Apulian Red-Figure Pottery
Most of the previous scholarship on Apulian red-figure pottery has focused on the cataloguing of collections, the attribution of vases to painters and workshops, iconographic and stylistic matters, a …
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€109.56
Vorya Dastyar: Dictionary of Education and Assessment in Translation and Interpreting Studies (TIS)
This book is the first and only dictionary on education and assessment in the context of translator and interpreter training. It offers the reader in-depth and up-to-date knowledge regarding key issu …
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€120.69
Ani Avagyan & Nick Winterbotham: Museums and Written Communication
This volume brings together 30 museum experts (26 in English and 4 in French) to lift the lid on museum print and texts. Contributions were originally presented at the UNESCO World Book Capital of 20 …
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€116.27
Yaw Agawu-Kakraba & Komla F. Aggor: African, Lusophone, and Afro-Hispanic Cultural Dialogue
African, Lusophone, and Afro-Hispanic Cultural Dialogue is a collection of essays of broad historical and geographic scope that advances analytical perspectives regarding a highly transcultural and c …
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€109.39
John Adamson & Vuyisile Mathew Ngoqo: Investigating the Role of Language in the Identity Construction of Scholars
Many people across the globe are today experiencing an era characterised by increasingly dynamic population mobility. It is, consequently, a time where previously held assumptions about individual an …
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€90.08
Vlado Kotnik: Opera as Anthropology
This book contemplates the relationship between opera and anthropology. It rests on the following central arguments: on the one hand, opera is quite a new and "exotic" topic for anthropolog …
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€108.09
Maria-Ana Tupan: Kantian Legacy of Late Modernity
By drawing some parallels between the history of ideas and literary discourses of late modernity, this book traces the influence exerted by Immanuel Kant, either directly or through the mediation of …
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€86.10
Victor Kennedy: Symphony and Song
Symphony and Song takes its title from Coleridge’s poem "Kubla Khan, " and explores the relation between words and music from a variety of critical and practical perspectives. The contribut …
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€107.95
Alena Kacmarova: Challenges of Anglophone Language(s), Literatures and Cultures
This book explores scholarly challenges within the fields of Anglophone language, literature, and culture. The section focusing on language details issues falling within two areas: namely, language c …
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€128.70
Andrea Duranti & Matteo Tuveri: Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the Simone de Beauvoir Society
On April 14, 1986, Simone de Beauvoir died in Paris. She was the "prettiest Existentialist", who during her long and intense life had observed, described, analytically deconstructed and eff …
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€107.61
Maria-Paz Peirano & Aida Vallejo: Film Festivals and Anthropology
This collection explores the intersections between anthropology and film festival studies. Film and anthropology scholars map ethnographic film festivals and ethnographic approaches to festivals worl …
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€108.09
Robert D. Denham: Helen Kemp Frye’s Writings on Art
Helen Kemp Frye (1910-1986) was an accomplished artist and musician, and she was also the wife of the distinguished Canadian literary critic, Northrop Frye. During the 1940s and 1950s, she played an …
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€86.21
Anna Anselmo: Poetics of Uncontrollability in Keats’s Endymion
Endymion is the trait d’union between Keats’s juvenilia and his better known, and conventionally more mature, works. By its nature, it is a transitional work, and thus gives the scholar special insig …
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€86.21
Catherine Armstrong & John Hinks: Text and Image in the City
The essays in this collection discuss how the city is ‘textualized’, and address many aspects of how texts and images are written and produced in, and about, cities. They demonstrate how urban texts …
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€86.10
Borut Juvanec & Amir Pasic: Importance of Place
How do we value historic urban landscape in order to intervene within it as designers? This is the central question posed in this volume, and is tackled by its 16 essays which investigate different f …
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€90.08
Duygu Ersoy & Juelide Karakoc: New Actors and Issues in the Post-Arab Uprisings Period
The Arab uprisings that emerged in reaction to unemployment, high inflation, corruption, and the lack of liberty under authoritarian rule in the Middle East and North Africa paved the way for social …
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€78.39
Wolfgang Brezinka: Education in a Society uncertain of its Values
In recent decades the life circumstances of most people around the world have changed enormously. We are again expecting scarcity and economic crisis, the danger of war, terrorism and environmental d …
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€90.08
Maria Joao Carneiro & Celeste Eusebio: Meeting Challenges for Rural Tourism through Co-Creation of Sustainable Tourist Experiences
Rural tourism is not a new phenomenon in many parts of the world, but it has only recently received increased attention from researchers, politicians and managers as a result of new market trends, th …
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€108.09
Gerhard Besier: Jehovah’s Witnesses in Europe
The religious association of Jehovah’s Witnesses has existed for about 150 years in Europe. How Jehovah’s Witnesses found their way in these countries has depended upon the way this missionary associ …
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€107.95
Frank A. Salamone & Marjorie M. Snipes: Passing the Torch
Passing the Torch explores the mentor-student relationship and the way in which anthropology has been passed from one generation to the next. There are many ways in which this process has been follow …
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€78.39
Laurence Wong: Where Theory and Practice Meet
Where Theory and Practice Meet is a collection of nineteen papers in translation studies. Unlike many similar books published in recent decades, which are mostly non-translation-oriented, veering to …
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€137.52
Regina RudaitytA-: History, Memory and Nostalgia in Literature and Culture
The advent of the new age has alerted us to the conflicted nature of historical memory which defined the 20th century while simultaneously assaulting us with new historical upheavals that demand resp …
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€120.97
Deniz Guergen Atalay: Historiography of World War II in Contemporary American Cinema
The sensual experience generated by the diegetic film allows the comprehension of the narrated event to frame the representation practiced in film. In a similar vein, the historiography of the histor …
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€115.67
Olisa Muojama: Nigerian Cocoa Industry and the International Economy in the 1930s
Periodic cycles and waves are characteristics of global capitalism. The contraction in world trade during the Great Depression of the 1930s stands out as the strongest adverse shock to international …
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€109.24
Joseph Lamperez & Ali McGhee: Urban Monstrosities
Sign of sublime excess and transgression, guardian of the threshold and uncanny creature par excellence, the monster of late has also become a mainstay of urban narratives – even while its presence i …
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€109.24
Emilia Parpala: Signs of Identity
This volume conceives of identity constructs in a broader semiotic way, specifically within a communicational and comparative perspective. This implies a rethinking of "identity" in terms o …
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€115.30
Christos Gortsos: Stricto Sensu Investor Protection under MiFID II
This study analyses Articles 24-30 of Directive 2014/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 "on markets in financial instruments" (Mi FID II), which govern, as o …
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€115.30
Nancy von Rosk: Looking Back at the Jazz Age
From Britain’s Downton Abbey and Dancing on the Edge to Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris and Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby, the Jazz Age’s presence in recent popular culture has been striking and pe …
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€89.39
M. Carmen Fonseca-Mora & Mark Gant: Melodies, Rhythm and Cognition in Foreign Language Learning
Melodies, Rhythm and Cognition in Foreign Language Learning is a collection of essays reflecting on the relationship between language and music, two unique, innate human capacities. This book provide …
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€115.22
Phil Daughtry: Spirituality for Youth-Work
This book addresses a systemic gap in existing studies on human services and youth work. While the notion of spirituality does make rare appearances in such literature, it is often vaguely defined an …
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€89.82
Alain Musset & Laurent Vidal: Waiting Territories in the Americas
Mobility and displacement are major characteristics of contemporary societies. These population shifts are far from fluid, homogeneous or linear, but are, instead, interspersed with a range of longer …
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€98.33
Horacio Sierra: Sanctified Subversives
As chaste women devoted to God, nuns are viewed as the purest of the pure. Yet, as females who reject courtship, sex, marriage, child bearing, and materialism, they have been the anathema of how soci …
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€89.82
Charmaine A. Nelson: Ebony Roots, Northern Soil
Ebony Roots, Northern Soil is a powerful and timely collection of critical essays exploring the experiences, histories and cultural engagements of black Canadians. Drawing from postcolonial, critical …
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€83.53
Micheal O’hAodha: Willow’s Whisper
The Willow’s Whisper brings the voices of 35 poets from the Irish and Native American communities together in one compilation. This collection of poems provides an aesthetic commentary on the potenti …
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€74.42
Christine Beal & Kerry Mullan: Cross-culturally Speaking, Speaking Cross-culturally
Did you know that, to get a job in Australia, it is important to use the right balance of informal and formal language during the interview? Did you know that student advising in Wu Chinese (spoken a …
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€83.22
Sylvia Horton & Wendy Sims-Schouten: Rethinking Social Issues in Education for the 21st Century
This book revisits key social issues and controversies in education. There are many social issues currently on political and governmental agendas, both in the UK and other countries – from safeguardi …
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€99.08
E. Ike Udogu: Leadership and the Problem of Electoral Democracy in Africa
This volume explores the notion that African leaders are fundamentally responsible for electoral malfeasance throughout the continent. The quagmire of fixing elections in order to stay in power ad-in …
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€98.87
Anupam Vatsyayan: Re-visiting and Re-staging
This volume offers a novel approach to the world of adaptations through an intense cross-cultural study. The concept of ‘adaptation’ is extensively discussed here, exploring its meaning and relevance …
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€89.95
David Buley & Jan Buley: Art of Noticing Deeply
The theme of deeply noticing the world of teaching and learning around us unifies the collected commentaries celebrated in this book. The contributing storytellers, teachers, researchers, poets, phot …
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€98.87
Konrad A»ysko: Cognitive Linguistics Account of Wordplay
Even though the ability to create witty puns seems to be an inherent skill of humankind, an apt explanation of their linguistic nature has evaded many academic descriptions.This monograph offers a no …
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€102.65
Neil Diamond & Marija Knezevic: Images of Montenegro in Anglo-American Creative Writing and Film
This book observes images of Montenegro in Anglo-American creative writing and films from the late eighteenth century until 2016. Like the Balkans as a whole, Montenegro usually reappeared in the Wes …
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€107.55
Bronwen Hughes: Investigating Format
This volume focuses on the transferral of a televised format from the country in which it was originally produced into a wholly different cultural and linguistic ambit. It specifically examines the B …
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€127.70
Jotham Momba: Zambia Social Science Journal Vol. 2, No. 2 (November 2011)
This journal has been discontinued. Any issues are available to purchase separately. …
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€36.77
Scott Graybow: Progressive Psychoanalysis as a Social Justice Movement
This edited volume challenges our negative and incorrect definitions of psychoanalysis by focusing on the notion that psychoanalysis once was, and can once again be, a movement for social justice. Ta …
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€97.64
Vefa Kurban: Russian-Turkish Relations from the First World War to the Present
This book addresses the treaties, crises and other issues that seem to be turning points in Russian-Turkish relations, reflecting on Russian and Turkish archival documents and resources. Over six cha …
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€119.34
Federica Santini: Politics of Poetics
Through a series of original analyses of poetic works belonging to the Italian canon or purposely posing themselves at the margins of it, this book seeks to highlight poetry as an art form which has …
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€83.00
Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna & Levente Selaf: Poetics of Multilingualism – La Poetique du plurilinguisme
Poetica et Metrica 2.One of the most fascinating aspects of the poetics of multilingualism is that it reveals national literatures to be an outcome of transcultural reflection. This kind of reflectio …
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€127.12
Marcia Lemos: Exchanges between Literature and Science from the 1800s to the 2000s
This collection of essays responds to the intense interest that the relations between the discourses of literature (and other cultural practices) and those of science have obtained throughout various …
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€115.24
Rita Lizzi Testa: Late Antiquity in Contemporary Debate
Late Antiquity, once known only as the period of protracted decline in the ancient world (Bas-Empire), has now become a major research area. In recent years, a wide-ranging historiographic debate on …
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€97.64
Natela Doghonadze: Teaching EFL Reading and Writing in Georgia
Reading and writing are skills which can be easily practiced in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) environment, and are particularly important for academic improvement and life-long learning.The …
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€102.65
Zeljka Babic & Tatjana Bijelic: Rethinking Tradition in English Language and Literary Studies
This volume deals with contemporary issues in the field of English studies in order to exchange ideas and experiences across the fields of English language and literary studies, with particular empha …
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€107.55
Aleksander Kobylarek: Polish Humboldtian University in the Face of Paradigmatic Change
The Polish university is based on the Humboldt model, and can serve as a typical example of liberal education throughout Central and Eastern Europe. This book portrays an institution resistant to cha …
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€115.15
Eric McLuhan: Cynic Satire
A Menippean – Cynic – satire is a device for producing a specific kind of effect on the reader. Menippean satire is an active form, not a passive one: any work that produces the effect of a Menippean …
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€89.39
Helen de Silva Joyce: Language at Work
Over recent decades, linguists have used various theoretical frameworks to investigate the language of the workplace and public institutions, and this work continues to expand into new social context …
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€88.97
Javier Martin-Parraga & Juan de Dios Torralbo-Caballero: New Medievalisms
The current renewed interest in Medieval culture, literature and society is evident in recent fictional works such as Game of Thrones or the cinematographic adaptions of Tolkien’s pseudo-medieval uni …
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€98.74
Ioan Horga & Maria Manuela Tavares Ribeiro: Culture and Paradiplomatic Identity
The beginning of the millennium has been influenced by a visible acceleration of the globalisation process. A complex and dynamic phenomenon, it has generated a series of consequences at the politica …
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€99.08
Mansoor Bin Tahnoon Al Nehayan: Karachi in the Twenty-First Century
The forces of globalisation are indiscriminate – they enable those who pursue good and those who pursue evil. The changes brought about by globalisation affect all segments of society, all walks of l …
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€88.97
Francis Etheredge: From Truth and truth
The final book of this trilogy explores reason at work in the nature of faith (cf. Fides et Ratio, 43); indeed, although faith is, of its nature, different from reason, faith cannot exist except thro …
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€89.82
Margherita Dore: Achieving Consilience
At Master’s level, students in Translation Studies may choose to complete their course by compiling a dissertation by commentary. Such projects involve detailed discussions of the strategies and proc …
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€88.97
Marina Santi & Eleonora Zorzi: Education as Jazz
The result of an international event celebrating the second UNESCO International Jazz Day held on April 30 2013 at the University of Padova, Italy, this book represents the development of a project b …
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€88.77
Lynda Chouiten: Commanding Words
In a twenty-first century which celebrates freedom and equality while also beginning to question the lax attitudes and methods which have triumphed since the late Sixties, reflecting on the concept o …
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€98.59
Veronica Skrimsjoe: ‘I, Me, Mine?’
Currently, there is very little academic literature dealing with the topic of record collecting, and, when the topic is broached, it appears to be done so with some level of suspicion towards the rec …
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€89.82
Zueleyha Cetiner-Oektem: Mythmaking across Boundaries
This volume explores the dynamics of myths throughout time and space, along with the mythmaking processes in various cultures, literatures and languages, in a wide range of fields, ranging from cultu …
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€99.08
Georgios Arabatzis & Sotiris Mitralexis: Problem of Modern Greek Identity
The question of Modern Greek identity is certainly timely. The political events of the previous years have once more brought up such questions as: What does it actually mean to be a Greek today? What …
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€89.95
Zarko Paic & Zarko Paic: Theorizing Images
This book uncovers an underlying dispute over the role images play in contemporary society and, consequently, over their values and purposes. Two decades after the concepts of the pictorial and the i …
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€89.95
Damian Atkinson: Selected Letters of Katharine Tynan
A farmer’s daughter, a convent girl, a lover of the Irish countryside, a poet, novelist and short story writer, a journalist, a friend of the English during war and peace, a fighter for justice, a Ca …
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€136.98
Gerd Groezinger & Wenzel Matiaske: Developments in German Industrial Relations
This book presents a review of the last twenty years of research in German industrial relations. Divided into three parts, it begins by exploring the major developments in this field of research. It …
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€88.77
Albert Garcia-Piquer & Assumpcio Vila-MitjA: Beyond War
The long-standing debate over the origins of violence has resurfaced over the last two decades. There has been a proliferation of studies on violence, from both cross-cultural and ethnographic and pr …
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€89.95
Azman Azwan Azmawati & Rachel E. Khan: Social Media in Asia
As part of the advocacy of the Asian Congress for Media and Communication (ACMC) to promote regional studies in global academic discourse, this book contributes to a better understanding of social me …
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€99.08
Laura Gonzalez: Make Me Yours
What makes a work of art seductive? This book is concerned with the relational and psychodynamic aspects of the encounter between the work of the art and the viewer; one that, when seduction operates …
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€88.77
Susann Fischer & Tanja Kupisch: Definiteness Effects
This volume explores in detail the empirical and conceptual content of the definiteness effect in grammar. It brings together a variety of relevant observations from a typological, diachronic and a b …
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€107.54
Dorottya Cserzo & Argyro Kantara: Downscaling Culture
In the current era of globalisation, big-C Culture loses analytical purchase. However, research, as well as intercultural training and education, continues to take for granted a more or less fixed id …
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€97.64
Bianca Maria Pirani & Thomas Spence Smith: Embodiment and Cultural Differences
Embodiment and Cultural Differences focuses on the body as the equilibrium limit between the memory of time already passed and the dynamic where of unexpected happenings. The body’s ecology is fulfil …
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€89.39
Cyril Orji: Christianity and Culture Collision
Drawn from the Conference on World Christianity, this provocatively titled book, invoking images of "culture collision, " "particularity, " and the "global South", promp …
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€98.33
Lars Kaaber: Murdering Ministers
"Murdering Ministers" integrates everything worth knowing about Shakespeare’s "Macbeth" from four centuries of criticism and performances, stage as well as film, in a scene-by-sce …
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€97.64
Graham Edward Geddes: Keyboard Warriors
The far-right English Defence League (EDL) is a strange product of global and local dynamics, most prominently the ‘War on Terror’. While the EDL has become well known for its high-profile Islamophob …
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€97.64
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Bible as Revelatory Word
Whether one approaches the Bible from a perspective of faith, culture or literature, the power of the writing, the human situations, language and genres that make up the Scriptures speak potently acr …
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€98.59
Gisa Jaehnichen & Chinthaka Prageeth Meddegoda: Hindustani Traces in Malay Ghazal
‘A song, so old and yet still famous’ is a Malay expression of admiration for an exotic singing style, a musical contemplation on the beauty of nature, God, and love. The ghazal exists in manifold cu …
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€119.34
Nicholas Gayle: Byron and the Sea-Green Isle
This study of Byron’s last complete long poem, the comparatively neglected The Island, is the first to devote a whole book to the examination, contextualization and motivation of both the poetry and …
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€119.20
Vaijayanta Anand & Geeta Balakrishnan: Community Practices in India
As the seat of the origin of social work profession, the global North has dominated the production of social work knowledge while the global South has remained primarily the consumer of knowledge. Th …
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€115.22
Vesna Kondric Horvat & Victor Kennedy: Engendering Difference
Constructing difference where there should be none is the main subject of this collection of essays about gender and its cultural manifestations and representations. From the pronouns we use, through …
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€120.04
Vayos Liapis & Maria Pavlou: Debating with the Eumenides
Modern Greek national and cultural identities consist, to a considerable extent, of clusters of cultural memory, shaped by an ongoing dialogue with the classical past. Within this dialogue between mo …
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€115.22
Turgut Bayramoglu & A. Alkan Celik: Selected Studies on Economics and Finance
Due to increased capital movements and the development of information technologies, economics and finance have recently become an area of interest for everyone. This book provides information on sele …
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€128.69
Horea Avram: Moving Images, Mobile Bodies
The book comprises a series of contributions by international scholars and practitioners from different backgrounds researching in the fields of contemporary visual culture and performance studies. T …
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€115.22
Rachel Gould: Two Directions Formulating a Crisis in Primary Catholic School Leadership
Since the year 2000, there has been a statistically high proportion of head teachers leaving the profession. While there have been studies conducted to predict when this exodus would conclude, the ac …
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€115.22
Janis OzoliAs & Karlis VA&rdiAs: Queer Stories of Europe
This is the first volume on the studies of queer identities in Europe to adopt a strong focus on the history of the Baltic region among other countries in Central and East Europe. It unites work by r …
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€98.64
Peter Jones & Steven King: Land Agent in Britain
Despite the fact that their archives survive in volume and depth across the country, relatively little is known about the fascinating and complex role of the land agent across time. For the very firs …
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€98.64
Boyd H. Davis & Jacqueline Guendouzi: Pragmatics in Dementia Discourse
Alison Wray notes that "Alzheimer’s Disease affects language in many different ways. Directly, language processing is undermined by damage to the language areas of the brain. Indirectly, languag …
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€83.27
William Gray & Peter Winnington: Miracle Enough
To mark the centenary of Mervyn Peake’s birth, the Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy (University of Chichester) organized an international conference in July 2011 entitled "Mer …
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€83.27
Saemi Ludwig: American Multiculturalism in Context
In March 2015, a group of experts from four continents and a wide range of disciplines met with the leading African American writer Ishmael Reed in Mulhouse, France, and Basel, Switzerland. Guided by …
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€128.11
Simonetta de Filippis: D. H. Lawrence
In recent decades, critical and theoretical debate in the field of culture and literature has called into question many literary categories, has re-discussed the literary canon, and has totally renov …
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€98.64
Joseph A. Alvarez: Mark Twain’s Geographical Imagination
As early as the 1850s, when Samuel L. Clemens (before he became Mark Twain), as a teenager, traveled from his hometown of Hannibal, Missouri, to the east (Philadelphia, Washington, DC, and New York C …
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€64.67
Kenneth Harrow & Kizitus Mpoche: Language, Literature and Education in Multicultural Societies
This book presents a vivid overview of linguistic, literary and educational issues in a multicultural context from various perspectives. These range from large-scale surveys to specific analyses on a …
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€74.30
Carmen Lujan Garcia: English Language and Anglo-American Culture
The English Language and Anglo-American Culture: Its Impact on Spanish Language and Society explores the effects of globalisation on Spanish language and society. It analyses the impact of the Englis …
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€74.30
Richard Davis: British Decolonisation, 1918-1984
Few subjects have aroused more controversy in recent years than that of empire, and that of the British Empire in particular. Few other subjects are of greater importance to today’s world. How the Br …
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€74.63
Abdullahi Arabo: User-Centred and Context-Aware Identity Management in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
The emergent notion of ubiquitous computing makes it possible for mobile devices to communicate and provide services via networks connected in an ad-hoc manner. These have resulted in the proliferati …
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€74.30
Noora Kotilainen & Tuomas Kuronen: Regime Changes in 20th Century Europe
In retrospect, historical change often appears to be both logical and inevitable. Yet, as a process, as a series of moments, it is by nature open-ended. The protagonists are unaware of the potential …
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€119.08
Dorothy Kwagala-Igaga: Tax Reform in Uganda
In 1997, Uganda undertook extensive reforms in tax legislation. This had been preceded by the structural reforms in tax administration that saw the creation of the Uganda Revenue Authority in 1991. T …
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€90.07
Susan Bracken: Art, History and Architecture of Florentine Churches
Churches and palaces in Florence have been the subject matter of book-length, often multi-volume studies over the centuries. This book is a compendium of the main churches in Florence and has been wr …
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€119.52
Zsuzsanna Fagyal & H Adlai Murdoch: Francophone Cultures and Geographies of Identity
This collection of original essays challenges French-centered conceptions of francophonie as the shaping force of the production and study of the French language, literature, culture, film, and art b …
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€102.94
Anne Bandry-Scubbi & Peter de Voogd: Hilarion’s Asse
The humour of Tristram Shandy has often been acknowledged, but it is not easy to find scholarly articles on Laurence Sterne which suggest that their authors laughed as they wrote. Nine authors have b …
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€74.63
Adris Demir: Turkey’s Foreign Policy Towards the Middle East
This book investigates the effects of the Arab Spring on Turkish foreign policy using a multidimensional approach that draws on a wide range of disciplines from international relations to sociology a …
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€111.46
Jennifer Good & Brigitte Lardinois: Mythologizing the Vietnam War
The Vietnam War is evolving from contemporary memory into history. Fifty years on, it still serves as a benchmark in the history of war reporting and in the representation of conflict in popular cult …
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€74.54
Paola Di Gennaro: Wandering through Guilt
The first comprehensive study on the pattern of guilt and wandering in literature, this book examines the relationship between the two complex concepts as they appear in twentieth-century novels, pos …
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€89.68
Lena Holmquist & Oksana Minaeva: Scandinavia and the Balkans
This book brings together articles based on papers given at the "Scandinavia and the Balkans: Cultural Interactions with Byzantium and Eastern Europe in the First Millennium" conference, he …
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€89.76
Angela Ralli: Contact Morphology in Modern Greek Dialects
This volume bridges contemporary morphological theory with the less-studied aspects of language interference and contact-induced variation and change, and will serve to increase the reader’s understa …
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€89.88
Eugene Steele: Interdisciplinarity, Multidisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity in Humanities
The domination of single subjects in academic programmes and institutions has recently been called into question. Literary studies are currently opening themselves up to the epistemological renewal t …
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€89.62
Christina Smylitopoulos: Agents of Space
In the last twenty-five years, the concept of space has emerged as a productive lens through which historians of the long eighteenth century can examine the varied and mutable issues at play in the c …
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€89.76
James A. Wise: New Theory of Mind
This book presents a unique and intuitively compelling way of understanding how humans think. It argues that narratives are the natural mode of thinking, that the "urge" to think narrativel …
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€89.76
Floyd Martin & Eileen Yanoviak: Formations of Identity
The physical landscape has been appropriated by artists throughout temporal and spatial history to represent (or present) political, social, and national identities. Artists have long imbued the land …
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€90.07
Stephen C. Craig & Dale C. Smith: Glimpsing Modernity
Glimpsing Modernity is a collection of papers presented at the US Army Medical Museum-sponsored conference on medical aspects of the First World War held in San Antonio, Texas, in February 2012. It c …
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€89.68
Kathleen Starck: Of Treason, God and Testicles
Gender in general, and masculinity in particular, might not be the first associations the mind produces when presented with the subject matter of the Cold War. More likely contenders would be the arm …
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€90.07
Abolfazl Zarnikhi: Towards a Systemic Model for Terminology Planning
Previous work on terminology planning can be, more or less, divided into general guidelines, local planning, and translation-based activities. This book, however, by avoiding this line of research an …
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€89.62
Richard L. Light: Children, Young People and Sport
This book redresses a pressing need for us to understand the motivations of children and young people in playing sport, what it means to them, and how it fits into their everyday lives. It is researc …
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€89.88
Donna M. Kabalen de Bichara & Blanca Lopez de Mariscal: Print Culture through the Ages
Print Culture Through the Ages: Essays on Latin American Book History, is a compendium of specialized essays by renowned scholars from Mexico, the United States, Argentina, Uruguay, France, and Colom …
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€89.62
Tullia Catalan & Marco Dogo: Jews and the Nation-States of Southeastern Europe from the 19th Century to the Great Depression
In the second half of the 19th century, Southeastern Europe was home to a vast and heterogeneous constellation of Jewish communities, mainly Sephardic to the south (Bulgaria, Greece) and Ashkenazi to …
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€89.88
Melissa Barkat-Defradas & Elisabeth Motte-Florac: Words for Odours
While the human sense of smell has long been considered underdeveloped, there is, nonetheless, a growing body of literature to attest to its remarkable importance in human behaviour. However, there h …
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€90.07
Faruk Bajraktarevic & Ksenija Kondali: Critical and Comparative Perspectives on American Studies
This volume explores the convergences and divergences of American Studies today, and, more specifically, investigates how this discipline might be approached. Drawing on a wide range of perspectives, …
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€89.88
Amanda Burton & Kimberly Hart: International Indigenous Voices in Social Work
In 2013, the International Indigenous Voices in Social Work Conference was held in Winnipeg, Canada, with Indigenous and non-Indigenous participants from all over the world. This book is a collaborat …
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€90.07
Michael Bell & Scott Freer: Religion and Myth in T.S. Eliot’s Poetry
T.S. Eliot was arguably the most important poet of the twentieth century. Nonetheless, there remains much scope for reconsidering the content, form and expressive nature of Eliot’s religious poetry, …
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€89.88
Robert Ignatius Letellier: Bible as Revelatory Word
Whether one approaches the Bible from a perspective of faith, culture or literature, the power of the writing, the human situations, language and genres that make up the Scriptures speak potently acr …
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€89.88
Mark R. Horowitz: Daring Dynasty
He founded perhaps the most famous dynasty in history: the Tudors. Yet, in 1485 when Henry Tudor defeated Richard III to become King Henry VII, he possessed the most anemic claim to the throne since …
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€120.71
Marian Apostol: Magnetic and Electric Resonance
This book is devoted to a quasi-classical treatment of quantum transitions, with an emphasis on nuclear magnetic resonance, nuclear quadrupole resonance and electric dipolar resonance. The method des …
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€120.35
Julia Kinzler: Representing Royalty
Since the early days of cinema, filmmakers have been intrigued by the lives and loves of British monarchs. The most recent productions by ITV and Netflix show that the fascination with British royalt …
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€120.71
Barry J. Scherr: Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Lawrence Agonistes
This book is the first to examine the influence of Shakespeare-particularly Hamlet-on D. H. Lawrence. Using the Bloomian theory of the "anxiety of influence" to probe the startling depths o …
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€120.71
Maxwell Gordon Lay: Harnessing of Power
This book examines how the 19th century’s transport legacy of bicycles, trains, ocean-going steamers, trucks, trams, buses and cars arose, creating numerous new technologies and markets. Nothing like …
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€120.35
Pierre McDonagh & Fiona Murphy: Envisioning Sustainabilities
This volume is a collection of essays considering the relationship between the social sciences and sustainability studies. Contributions are drawn from a range of disciplines, such as sociology, anth …
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€98.58
Anuradha Chatterjee: Surface and Deep Histories
Surface in architecture has had a deeper and a more pervasive presence in the practice and theory of the discipline than is commonly supposed. Orientations to the surface emerge, collapse, and reappe …
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€83.16
Zsolt Gyori & Gabriella Moise: Travelling around Cultures
Culture has always relied on art, just as artists have been dependent on culture as a problem field to draw inspiration from and as a store of social, ideological, and political practices to endorse …
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€98.58
Aleksandra Nikcevic-Batricevic: Re-Entering Old Spaces
This book is a product of the XI International Conference on English Language and Literary Studies held in Montenegro in 2014. The "old spaces" were taken as a metaphorical tool for reintro …
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€98.58
Noel Chellan: Capital
The 2008 financial crisis has come to be known as the Great Crisis. Just when the world thought that, with the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Marxism would die and be buried, the Great Crisis of the first …
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€98.51
Urszula Chowaniec: Mapping Experience in Polish and Russian Women’s Writing
The volume encompasses eleven articles which discuss the critical views that Polish and Russian women writers have articulated with regard to the notion of experience and constructions of femininity …
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€74.20
David M. Battles: Yea, Alabama! A Rare Glimpse into the Personal Diary of the University of Alabama (Volume 2 – 1871 through 1901)
The University of Alabama (UA) is one of the most prominent and fascinating universities in the United States. Volume One of this series explored UA’s 1819 birth, its formative years, its burning by …
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€111.39
Penelope McElwee: Non-Representation of the Agricultural Labourers in 18th and 19th Century English Paintings
The life of the poor rural worker appears to have been one of unmitigated toil within an unequal society, a reality seldom endorsed in paintings of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.The c …
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€89.61
Juan Carlos Fernandez & J. Martin Ramirez: Security in Infrastructures
This volume offers an interdisciplinary and global perspective on aspects of security and defence, with a special focus on the protection of social infrastructures in the face of various forms of vio …
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€89.56
Neil Spurway: Forty Years of Science and Religion
This book celebrates the fortieth anniversary of the UK’s Science and Religion Forum by bringing together leading scientific and theological thinkers to reflect on the last four decades of the scienc …
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€65.25
Tiebing Shi & Robert Guang Tian: Journal of China Marketing Volume 6 (2)
This journal has been discontinued. Any issues are available to purchase separately. …
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€65.29
John Van Houdt & Arthur Kok: Reconsidering the Origins of Recognition
This volume brings together for the first time a group of young researchers who can be seen as representative of a new generation of researchers working on German idealism. Over the past few decades, …
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€89.88
Samantha Van Schalkwyk: Reflexive Inquiry into Gender Research
Questions that concern gender and violence against women have been placed firmly on the agenda of interdisciplinary research within the humanities in recent years. Gender-based violence against women …
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€89.88
Janet Mellor: Bible and Art
This book explores the revelation of God’s love in the mystery of the covenant, and shows how this potent theological concept has inspired artists through the ages to reflect on the nature of divine …
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€89.88
Aleksander Rzyman: Intertextuality of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld as a Major Challenge for the Translator
For the translator, intertexts are among chief problems posed by the source text. Often unmarked typographically, direct or altered, not necessarily well-known and sometimes intersemiotic, quotations …
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€101.45
Irma Ratiani: Literature in Exile
This book brings together papers presented at an international conference held in Tbilisi, Georgia, in 2013, and organised by the Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature and the Georgian Com …
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€119.42
Peter Prazmowski: Stabilisation
Economic crises arising from exchange rate volatility and high inflation have affected countries around the world, particularly those with developing economies. The usual response of countries during …
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€74.47
Jernej Belak & Mojca Duh: Ethics, Social Responsibility and Innovation in Corporate Governance
The misconduct of various companies directs both practitioners and academics towards the necessity for a requisitely holistic approach to governance and management. As such, there is a current focus …
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€102.59
Chen Bo & Manas Chatterji: International Journal of Peace Economics and Peace Science, Vol. 1, No. 1
This journal has been discontinued. Any issues are available to purchase separately. …
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€55.90
Ginni Manning & Lalu Mokuku: Dipalo
Dipuo has always respected her Aunt Mmaletsatsi, a reputable human rights lawyer. Now an investigation by Mmaletsatsi leads her to Theko, the protege of the powerful and dangerous Pastor Sam. Consume …
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€9.63
Adidas Wilson: Social Media Marketing
Cosa si intende quando si parla di coinvolgimento sui Social Media? La risposta è semplice: è il numero di condivisioni, Mi piace e commenti. Sicuramente, avere un grande seguito è fantastico, ma bis …
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€3.62
None & Unknown: Random Words From an Average Guy During Troublesome Times With Women
These are confusing thoughts during confusing times with women, but might not all seem so. I had a long time girlfriend and a marriage. Neither has worked out. Those times have made my head think and …
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€6.20
Richard Arsenty: Meyerbeer Libretti
Giacomo Meyerbeer, one of the most important and influential opera composers of the nineteenth century, enjoyed a fame during his lifetime hardly rivalled by any of his contemporaries. This ten volum …
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€19.29
Zeitgeist: Ultimate Riddle Game for Kids
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€12.81