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In a work of history that will make headlines, NEW YORK TIMES reporter Philip Shenon investigates the investigation of 9/11 and tells the inside story of the most important federal commission since the Warren Commission. Shenon uncovers startling new information about...
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Little, Brown Book Group
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2011-09-01
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The dramatic story of five key turning points in a thousand years of Western music - discoveries that changed the course of history. Who first invented 'Doh Re Mi...'?What do we mean by "in tune"?Looking back down the corridor of a thousand years, Howard Goodall guides...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-08-31
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Die Wilden Cliquen Berlins erregten in den letzten Jahren der Weimarer Republik großes Aufsehen. Viele ihrer Zeitgenossen sahen in den provokativ auftretenden devianten Jugendgruppen eine Manifestation der sozialen, moralischen und politischen Not. Dabei stellten die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-08-25
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This book presents original research on the practical creation or use of places, homes, senses of loyalty and feelings of togetherness among Muslim minorities in Europe. The individual chapters deal with examples of Muslim «homing» or «sense-making» strategies, or the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-08-25
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Der alte Fokus inner- und zwischenstaatlicher Konflikte im Nahen Osten ist seit der Errichtung einer autonomen Region Kurdistan im Irak und den militärischen Interventionen der Türkei und des Iran gegen dort befindliche Rückzugsgebiete der Guerilla der PKK und der PJAK...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-25
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A political science approach integrates multidisciplinary case studies about culture and language from multiple perspectives. Culture and language are viewed broadly with topics ranging widely across the conflict/cooperation continuum of human activities. Case studies...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-25
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Documenting how in the course of acquiring language children become speakers and members of communities, The Handbook of Language Socialization is a unique reference work for an emerging and fast-moving field. Spans the fields of anthropology, education, applied...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-08-24
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Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
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Scrapbooks, Snapshots and Memorabilia: Hidden Archives of Performance asks the questions: What constitutes an archive? What is worthy of being archived? And who decides? Performances are ephemeral, so archival questions of selection and appraisal determine which...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-18
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The Irish National Theatre Society began its centenary in 2004 with ambitious theatrical events at home and abroad. By the end of the year, however, the company was close to financial ruin, culminating in its dissolution and subsequent reestablishment.The financial...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-08-18
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Ulster’s marching bands form perhaps the most vibrant participatory folk music tradition in contemporary Europe, and are one of the most significant and visible elements of working-class loyalist culture in the divided society of Northern Ireland. Their significance...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-08-18
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In The Halal Frontier Johan Fischer shows that halal (literally lawful or permitted) is no longer an expression of esoteric forms of production, trade and consumption, but part of an expanding globalised market. This book explores modern forms of halal understanding and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-08-16
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This book discusses narrative as an adaptive cultural mechanism among Gypsies in Serbia. As a key traditional trait of Serbian Gypsies, storytelling, conveyed along kin generations, influences the behavior of all who listen. Since their appearance in the Balkans...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-08-16
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Imaginative representations of different cultures are one of the major stumbling blocks to understanding, deepening the gap between people as they are passed from one text to another, especially in periods of historical transition. These transfers are sometimes...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-08-16
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This book presents the first comprehensive survey of being a local, in particular in Australia. As in much of the colonised, English-speaking world, in Australia the paradox is that the locals are not indigenous peoples but migrants with a specific ethnic heritage who...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-08-12
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The challenge of methodic quality has haunted scholars in the human and social sciences since the end of the nineteenth century with the explosive and public success of the natural sciences and their precision and aim of controlling nature.The discussion has been...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-08-12
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New York City plays a significant, albeit previously neglected, role in the urban narratives of Edith Wharton and Anzia Yezierska at a time when the city was as new and central to the American experience as had been the Western frontier.New York City was the epicenter...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-11
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This book contributes to our knowledge and awareness of musical instruments and sound-producing objects in the region called Oceania. The author uses principles of organology to describe a research project at the Australian Museum. He explains the classification,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-08-11
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Experiments in HolismExperiments in Holism: Theory and Practice in Contemporary Anthropology presents a series of essays that critically examine the ongoing relevance of holism and its theoretical and methodological potential in today’s world. Contributions from a...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-08-02
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Focusing on post-Vietnam America, using perspectives from psychology, anthropology, and physiology, this book demonstrates the need for criticism to unpack the confusions in language and cultural fantasy that drive the nation's fascination with the berserk style.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-08-01
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Mythen und Mythenbildung sind in den Wissenschaften der Postmoderne ein sehr aktuelles Thema. Der vorliegende Sammelband möchte als Beitrag zur kulturgeschichtlichen Arbeit am Thema des Mythos verstanden werden. Der interdisziplinär ausgerichtete Band vereint nach einer...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-07-08
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