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In the wake of the Cold War and perestroika, the New Russia is finding its place in the global world. No longer a superpower, but still a nation with great influence, Russia remains an enigmatic and mysterious land. Like earlier editions, the new fourth edition of From...
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Quercus
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2011-01-11
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While Japan has been on center stage of the world economy for decades, interactions between the Japanese and Westerners continue to be on the rise. Daily communication in both business and social settings is commonplace, and connections through the Internet and mobile...
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John Murray Business
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2011-01-11
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Be the best you can be' urge self-help books and makeover TV shows, but what kind of self is imagined as needing a makeover and what kind of self is imagined as the happy result? Drawing on recent sociology and psychology, this book explores the function of slummy...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-01-05
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This book paints a vivid picture of Zambia's experience riding the copper price rollercoaster. It brings together the best of recent research on Zambia's mining industry from eminent scholars in history, geography, anthropology, politics, sociology and economics. The...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-12-20
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China is in the midst of unprecedented economic and cultural growth. In the last decade alone,China joined the World Trade Organization, hosted the 2008 Olympics and experienced a remarkable, record-high increase in its foreign currency reserves. As these changes...
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Quercus
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2010-12-15
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The French are famously enigmatic: fiercely independent yet deeply romantic,conservative yet avant-garde, rational yet emotional. What is it, exactly, that makes the French so . . . French? Written for anyone interacting with the French-tourists, businesspeople,...
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Quercus
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2010-12-15
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This book debunks one of the greatest myths ever told in Caribbean history: that the indigenous peoples who encountered a very lost Christopher Columbus are 'extinct.' Through the uncovering of recent ethnographical data, the author reveals extensive narratives of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-12-14
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This is an eclectic collection of essays which successfully demonstrate how the Sociology of Language and Religion as a disciplinary paradigm responds to change, conflict and accommodation. The multiple religious coverage in the essays (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-12-08
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Literary Nationalism in German and Japanese Germanistik traces the convergence of German and Japanese metaphors for national literary spirit through the academic study of the German language and literature in Germanistik. Early notions of a spiritual link to the...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2010-11-23
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Fears and Fantasies: Modernity, Gender, and the Rural-Urban Divide explores the ways in which fantasies about returning to, or revitalising, rural life helped to define Western modernity in the early twentieth century. Scholarship addressing responses to modernity has...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2010-11-23
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FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION - WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHORHere is the Naked Ape at his most primal - in love, at work, at war. Meet man as he really is: relative to the apes, stripped of his veneer as we see him courting, making love, sleeping, socialising,...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-11-16
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The re-conceptualization of South Africa as a democracy in 1994 has influenced the production and reception of texts in this nation and around the globe.The literature emerging after 1994 provides a vision for reconciling the fragmented past produced by the brutality of...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2010-11-01
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Mark R. Woodward’s Islam in Java: Normative Piety and Mysticism in the Sultanate of Yogyakarta (1989) was one of the most important work on Indonesian Islam of the era. This new volume, Java, Indonesia, and Islam, builds on the earlier study, but also goes beyond it in...
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Springer
Parution :
2010-10-28
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Tlostanova examines Central Asia and the Caucasus to trace the genealogy of feminism in those regions following the dissolution of the USSR. The forms it takes resist interpretation through the lenses of Western feminist theory and woman of color feminism, hence...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-10-25
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This book puts to the test the prominent claim that social class has declined in importance in an era of affluence, choice and the waning of tradition. Arguing against this view, this study vividly uncovers the multiple ways in which class stubbornly persists.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-10-13
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Modern Privacies addresses emergent transformations of privacy in western societies from a multidisciplinary and international perspective. It examines social and cultural trends in new media, feminism, law, work and intimacy which indicate that our perceptions,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-10-06
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This book is a major source for scholars of the latest American poetry. These exciting essays comprise energy and documented discussions on experimentalism, multiculturalism, hyperspace, and gender. Anthologies and little magazines form the matrix for this exploration...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-10-06
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Although Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2004) was the first African American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize, she occupies a curious position in the larger black canon. Despite her importance, with the exception of very few critical accounts of her work, she has been usually...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2010-10-06
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Examining the increasingly powerful role of standards in the governing of economic, political and social life, this book draws upon governmentality and actor network theory to explore how standards and standardizing projects are articulated and rendered workable in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-09-29
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This book summarizes and explains the main approaches to age estimation in the living, defining when a parameter may be of use and raising awareness of its limitations.This text ensures that practitioners recognize when an assessment is beyond their area of expertise or...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2010-09-09
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