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Judaism and Emotion breaks with stereotypes that, until recently, brandedJudaism as a rigid religion of laws and prohibitions. Instead, authors from different fields of research discuss the subject ofJudaism and emotion from various scholarly perspectives; they present...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-11-04
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As American literary and cultural scholars reconsider the foundations of U.S. relations with other nations, Ruins, Revolution, and Manifest Destiny: John Lloyd Stephens Creates the Maya locates in Stephens’s immensely popular nineteenth-century travel narratives (1841,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-11-04
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The volume is a collection of essays focussing on the cultural construction, perception and representation of public and private spaces in 20th and 21st century Italian culture. Through the study of a variety of spaces, this book provides an exploration of the notions...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2013-11-04
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Sovereign Stories examines contemporary Native American writers’ engagement with various forms of cultural, political, and artistic sovereignty. The author considers literature’s ability to initiate vital discussions about tribal autonomy in modern America and suggests...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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The thesis addresses the question of human consciousness in its oscillation between conditioning and transcendence: the impact of cultural worldviews on the individual’s lifeworld and their gradual transcendence as a form of spiritual practice. At the centre of...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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Human dignity as a shared heritage of humanity functions as an anthropological key to the understanding of the person. Historically it became the fundament for modern constitutions and rights. Although found almost on every lip the meaning of human dignity remains...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-04
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Each of us, waking in the morning, has to open the world we have woken into. We have to endow meaning to people, objects and tasks, have to secure a place in the chaos of time passing. When opening their eyes during the palpable reality of a dream, a person will dream...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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Speziell für Frauen haben sich die Lebens-, Arbeits- und Rahmenbedingungen im Literaturbetrieb in den letzten 60 Jahren stark verändert und der Buchmarkt ist mehr denn je von rasanten Entwicklungen bestimmt. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes untersuchen u.a. den Einfluss...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-04
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Subaltern Writings focuses on one of the most important Brazilian novelists of the first half of the twentieth century, Graciliano Ramos, and critically examines two of his novels, Caetés and Angústia. The analysis is based on the premise that the reader must bring to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-11-04
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Drawing on oral history interviews and archival materials, Summer of Rage examines the causes and consequences of urban unrest that occurred in Newark and Detroit during the summer of 1967. It seeks to give voice to those who experienced these events firsthand and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-11-04
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Problems associated with work-family conflict do not belong to individual families alone, but have a major social and economic impact on the greater community. This scenario also holds true across sub-Saharan Africa, as nations enter the global economy and rising...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-11-01
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In the long-awaited second edition of Basic Concepts of Intercultural Communication, Milton J. Bennett provides a comprehensive overview of the field from a constructivist perspective.In addition to his insightful analysis, Bennett offers a full complement of classic...
Editeur :
Intercultural Press
Parution :
2013-10-31
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In the long-awaited second edition of Basic Concepts of Intercultural Communication, Milton J. Bennett provides a comprehensive overview of the field from a constructivist perspective.In addition to his insightful analysis, Bennett offers a full complement of classic...
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Quercus
Parution :
2013-10-31
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In this compelling book, Graeme Kirkpatrick argues that computer games have fundamentally altered the relation of self and society in the digital age. Tracing the origins of gaming to the revival of play in the 1960s counter culture, Computer Games and the Social...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-10-30
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Digital Media and Society
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???This volume collects new contributions to research on mafias, organized crime, money laundering, and other forms of complex crimes, gathering some of the most authoritative and well-known scholars in the field. The chapters for this volume are original peices...
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Springer
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2013-10-30
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Twenty years ago Ulrich Beck published Risk Society, a book that called our attention to the dangers of environmental catastrophes and changed the way we think about contemporary societies. During the last two decades, the dangers highlighted by Beck have taken on new...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-10-29
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The papers in this book question the tyranny of typological thinking in archaeology through case studies from various South American countries (Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia, Argentina, and Brazil) and Antarctica. They aim to show that typologies are unavoidable (they...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-10-25
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In Future: All That Matters, Ziauddin Sardar shows that thinking and speculating about the future has always been a part of human history, but exploring the futures in a systematic and scientific way is a recent phenomenon. What is known variously as 'futures studies',...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2013-10-25
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This book revises the picture of the teacher and educator of princes, Vittorino Rambaldoni da Feltre (c. 1378, Feltre -- 1446, Mantua), taking a completely new approach to show his work and life from the individual perspectives created by his students and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-10-24
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This book provides the most current thinking on effective interventions in the lives of criminal offenders. Original articles by leading criminologists provide in-depth analyses of “turning points” in the desistance process experienced by criminal offenders. An...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-10-24
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