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This book is a collection of grounded accounts by feminist popular educators reflecting critically on processes of collective learning andself- and social transformation in various geopolitical settings.The contributorsadd to the debateon the forging of feminist praxis...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-03-12
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Evidenzbasierte Medizin ist im klinischen Alltag nicht immer von Nutzen, da vor allem chronisch kranke Patienten oft komplexe Krankheitsbilder mit einer individuellen Mischung aus körperlichen, psychischen und sozialen Problemen zeigen. Wie bewältigen Patienten und ihre...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-03-09
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This book aims to bring a new way of understanding Ezra 9-10, which has become known as an intermarriage 'crisis', to the table. A number of issues, such as ethnicity, religious identity, purity, land, kinship, and migration, orbit around the central problem of...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-03-01
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'Expresses an infectious sense of wonder at the uniqueness of our species; it is hard not to be affected by his enthusiasm' Sunday TimesWhat explains the staggering diversity of cultures in the world? Why are there so many languages, even within small areas? Why do we...
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Penguin
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2012-03-01
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Through narrative analysis, Ordinary Theologies highlights the intersectionality of gender, race, and religio-spirituality. It examines the relationship of past and current religio-spiritual leadership understandings that contest the status quo in U.S. schools. The...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-03-01
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Queer Commoditiesis the first book-length analysis of same-sexuality and consumer capitalism in contemporary US fiction. Moving beyond the critical tendencies to identify gay and lesbian subcultures as either hopelessly immersed in consumer capitalism or heroically...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-02-27
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Italian children’s literature has a diverse and unusual tradition of fantasy. With the exception of Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio, however, it has remained almost entirely unknown outside of Italy. Why is it thatItalian children’s fantasy has remained such a well-kept...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-02-24
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The Griqua people are commonly misunderstood. Today, they do not figure in the South African imagination as other peoples do, nor have they for over a century. This book argues that their comparative invisibility is a result of their place in the national narrative. In...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-02-20
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This book focuses on Cuban and Cuban-American crime fiction of the 1990s and early twenty-first century. Contemporary authors, writing in both English and Spanish, have created new hybrid forms of the crime fiction genre that explore the problematic cultural interaction...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-02-20
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When you love someone, how does it feel? And when you desire someone, how is it different? In Mating in Captivity, Esther Perel looks at the story of sex in committed couples. Modern romance promises it all - a lifetime of togetherness, intimacy and erotic desire. In...
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Yellow Kite
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2012-02-16
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Research on the extreme right is rare, and the extreme right has even more rarely been analysed as a social movement. In this volume, the extreme right is compared in Italy, Germany, and the United States using concepts and methods developed in social movement studies....
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OUP Oxford
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2012-02-16
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The fear of parasites – with their power to invade, infest, and transform the self – writhes and wriggles through cultures and religions across the globe, reflecting a very human revulsion of being invaded and consumed by both internal and external forces. However, in...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-02-14
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This book enhances our understanding of France and the United States by focusing on their intercultural relations. Baudelaire and Emerson have at the core of their thinking the very notion of how to reconcile individual and collective experience, a theme that is...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-02-14
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Noha Radwan offers the first book-length study of the emergence, context, and development of modern Egyptian colloquial poetry, recently used as a vehicle for communications in the revolutionary youth movement in Egypt on January 25th 2011, and situates it among...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-02-14
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The Boys Club: Male Protagonists in Contemporary African American Young Adult Literature is a study of prominent issues and themes such as education, identity, and racism in contemporary (i.e., post-Civil Rights era) young adult novels written primarily for African...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-02-14
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Diese Festschrift ist ein lebendiges Zeugnis für die grosse Wirkung, die Dorothea Baumann als Musikpraktikerin und Musikwissenschaftlerin entfaltet hat. Über fünfzig international anerkannte Wissenschaftler und Wissenschaftlerinnen sowie Freunde und Freundinnen der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-02-08
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Narrating the Portuguese Diaspora presents a variety of perspectives on the Portuguese diaspora, from literature to identity discourse to biography and autobiography. The book is divided into three parts: reading literary identities within and without borders;...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-02-08
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In 2005, the deaths of two teenagers in Clichy-sous-Bois provoked three weeks of rioting in French banlieues. Cars were burned, buildings were damaged and young people clashed with the police in unprecedented scenes of violence. The government declared a state of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-02-01
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Britain's streets have been transformed by the construction of new property - but it's owned by private corporations, designed for profit and watched over by CCTV. Have these gleaming business districts, mega malls and gated developments led to 'regeneration', or have...
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Penguin
Parution :
2012-01-26
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From Terra Nullius to Land of Opportunities and Last Frontier, the European dream has constructed and deconstructed Australia to feed its imagination of new societies. At the same time Australia has over the last two centuries forged and re-invented its own liaisons...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-01-13
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