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Traditional activities, such as art and heritage crafts, certain agricultural and culinary professions, as well as various ancestral practices, represent major socio–economic challenges today. Ancient knowledge, faced with the rapid transformation of economic and...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2025-10-14
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ISTE Invoiced
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Religion in India is a constantly evolving and transformative entity that cannot be engaged with in isolation from other dimensions of life. This short introduction moves beyond traditional text- and scripture-based academic approaches to provide an overview of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-07-15
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Religion in India is a constantly evolving and transformative entity that cannot be engaged with in isolation from other dimensions of life. This short introduction moves beyond traditional text- and scripture-based academic approaches to provide an overview of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-05-07
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Filled with terrifying tales of ghosts and ghouls, poltergeists and other unexplained encounters, this bone-chilling compendium of paranormal phenomena is sure to haunt you long after you have turned the final pageDid you hear about the ghost who solved her own murder?...
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Summersdale
Parution :
2025-04-10
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Revealing a world of secret messages contained within a single petal.Floriography – the language of flowers – is the ancient art of encoding hidden messages in the type, colour and arrangement of plants, allowing individuals to express emotions and sentiments that they...
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OH
Parution :
2024-06-15
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Beginning with the 1990s, the subject of caste has seen a profound increase in interest among scholars. What was until then approached as a fossilized tradition of the ritual-obsessed Hindus refusing to see the progressive spirits of the emerging world and studied as a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-10-31
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Beginning with the 1990s, the subject of caste has seen a profound increase in interest among scholars. What was until then approached as a fossilized tradition of the ritual-obsessed Hindus refusing to see the progressive spirits of the emerging world and studied as a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-10-16
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A charming and witty history of the quirky - but surprisingly widespread - craft of embroidering kneeler cushions. The perfect gift book this Christmas, for those who love kneelers and those who don't!'A lovely look at a not-quite-vanishing craft that lies, literally,...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2023-05-04
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When the World Turned Upside Down is a collection of 66 essays and opinion columns written between 2019 and 2022, a period of momentous—some unimaginable—developments in the United States and across the world. This book stands at the intersection of opinion journalism,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-02-03
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During the decades around 1900, Koreans experienced a world falling apart and the need to quickly build a new one. Intellectuals naturally took centre stage in this era of epistemic paradigm change. This book is devoted to the study of the life and ideas of some of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-01-05
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The main purpose of the book is to create a model of the presidential election campaign in South Korea.The research questions included both those regarding the content of the campaign itself and, more broadly, its organization.The collected materials, posted on Facebook...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-02-14
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Witches, fairies, unicorns, giants, dwarves, gnomes, and talking animals. Folk tales feature many magical creatures and larger or smaller than life entities and are great for pastime activities. What if such enchanted beings are replaced by familiar figures of kings,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-06-28
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Der Sammelband, der Siebenbürgen und Hermannstadt aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven erfasst, eröffnet die Publikationsreihe des Zentrums für linguistische, literarische und kulturelle Forschung (ZLLKF) an der Lucian-Blaga-Universität. Thematisch greift der Band einige...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-02-09
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The Edwardian era is often romanticised as a tranquil period of garden parties and golden afternoons in which everyone knew their place and nobody questioned the order of things.The reality, however, was quite different.The years between 1901 and 1914 were a highly...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-10-13
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In the course of their investigations into Leonardo da Vinci and the Turin Shroud, Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince found clues in the work of the great Renaissance artist that pointed to the existence of a secret underground religion. More clues were found in a...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2020-05-21
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With his trademark eloquence and humour, Robert Dessaix, one of Australia's eminent writers, tackles humbug in the modern world-the tide of mumbo jumbo where words fall short of what they mean and motivations are not always what they appear.
Editeur :
Hachette Australia
Parution :
2020-03-31
Collection :
On Series
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This volume explores the writing practices and book collections of a range of individuals in early modern Kent including monks, a mariner and an apothecary as well as members of the gentry and clergy and urban administrators. In a county with ready access to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-02-14
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This book analyses the ways of conceptualising and interpreting the interaction between physical and metaphysical worlds in Polish folklore. A linguistic and anthropological analysis offered in this study focuses primarily on myth, ritual and symbol as reflected in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-11-25
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This book looks at various effects, symptoms and consequences of the period in Irish culture known as the Celtic Tiger. It will trace the critical pathway from boom to bust – and up to the current beginnings of a similar, smaller boom – through events, personalities and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-10-16
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Dan Ben-Amos famously ushered in the performance turn in folklore studies in the 1970s with his paradigm-changing definition of folklore as "artistic communication in small groups." He went on to make profound contributions to issues of folktale, folk speech, genre,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-08-06
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