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«Beyond the narrow application to the pop-cultural zombie, Simon Bacon’s editorial definition of the concept of being «undead» generates discussions in each chapter that creatively engage with the full agenda of critical debates in studies of horror and the gothic. With...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-11-07
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To Be Real: Truth and Racial Authenticity in African American Standup Comedy examines Black standup comedy over the past decade as a stage for understanding why notions of racial authenticity--in essence, appeals to "realness" and "real Blackness"--emerge as a cultural...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-11-04
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Drawing from decades of research, Setha Low shows how public space contributes to a flourishing society through promoting social justice and democratic practices. Thriving public spaces also enhance creativity, health, urban resilience, and environmental sustainability....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-11-02
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Woran wird der Wert der Konversation gemessen? Gibt es wertvollere und minderwertige Typen der Konversation? Welche Rolle kommt den Inhalten, den Personen und den Umständen zu? Prägen Zeiten und Epochen die je ihnen eigenen Konversationen? Konversationsnormen aus...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-10-31
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Looking at the past from an anthropological perspective, this book deploys and analyses a variety of anthropological concepts to understand the history of Cocos Malay society. Around 400 Cocos Malays reside on their remote Indian Ocean atoll, the Cocos Islands....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-25
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This book details a significant and largely untold history of the demand for cheap, fashionable clothing for young working-class women.This is an interdisciplinary fashion and business history analysis that investigates the design, manufacture, retailing and consumption...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-17
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This study addresses the corporate cultural practices of German companies in the host country Indonesia from the perspective of Indonesian employees, managers and German expatriates. The focus is on the intercultural challenges that arise in the practice of daily...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2022-10-13
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This book makes an analysis of prostitution in Cambridge in the Victorian period based on different social and cultural discourses as well as on archival materials concerning institutions devoted to the control and regulation of promiscuity and venereal disease. Among...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-10-13
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Trotz zahlreicher Hinweise darauf, dass verschiedene Messarten sozialer Herkunft zu Unterschieden bei der Erfassung herkunftsspezifischer Disparitäten der Bildungsbeteiligung führen, werden soziale Ungleichheiten in der Bildungsforschung überwiegend eindimensional...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2022-10-01
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Pre-order now: the new book from the bestselling authors and hosts of the wildy popular 'The Skeptics Guide to the Universe'__________Our predictions of the future are a wild fantasy, inextricably linked to our present hopes and fears, biases and ignorance. Whether they...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2022-09-27
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Von Hegel zu Nietzsche ist Löwiths bekanntestes Buch, das ihm weltweiten Ruf eingetragen hat – es wurde ins Französische, Englische, Japanische und Italienische übersetzt und ist deutschsprachig bisher in neun Auflagen erschienen. Löwith hatVon Hegel zu Nietzsche im...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-09-22
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Karl Löwith gilt als eine der herausragenden Persönlichkeiten der deutschen Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts. Er studierte bei Edmund Husserl in Freiburg und folgte nach der Promotion in München 1923 seinem Lehrer Martin Heidegger nach Marburg, bei dem er sich 1928 mit...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-09-22
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The book deals diachronically with Irish crime fiction, from the picaresque of the 17th century up to the late 1990s when the «Emerald Noir» boom began. Irish writers, often without due recognition, have been instrumental in the development of the genre on an...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-09-20
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The book sets out to examine the concept of 'chav', providing a review of its origins, its characterological figures, the process of enregisterment whereby it has come to be recognized in public discourse, and the traits associated with it in traditional media...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-15
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Unashamedly a book for the bookish, yet accessible and frequently entertaining, this is the first book devoted to how libraries are depicted in imaginative writing. Covering fiction, poetry, and drama from the late Middle Ages to the present, it runs the gamut of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-09-15
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In spite of recession, austerity and pandemics, Ireland has demonstrated an extraordinary degree of resilience, becoming one of the most successful economies in Europe and developing into a society remarkably at ease with itself. This book argues that the seeds of this...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-09-08
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Unashamedly a book for the bookish, yet accessible and frequently entertaining, this is the first book devoted to how libraries are depicted in imaginative writing. Covering fiction, poetry, and drama from the late Middle Ages to the present, it runs the gamut of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-09-01
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This book documents the practice-led research of painting as a peripatetic art practice through travel and transient life in Australia, India, and Pakistan. Crossing disciplines of Art, Applied Anthropology, and Cultural Geography, painting is explored as a way of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-08-10
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Die Beiträge des Bandes bestimmen mit interphilologischem Blick Formen der Literarisierung und A¨sthetisierung des Vogels seit 1800 im Kontext aktueller naturpolitischer Diskurse und kulturwissenschaftlicher Theoriebildung. Über Epochen- und Gattungsgrenzen hinweg...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-08-01
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In Friedrich Nietzsches Buch Morgenröthe korrespondieren Titel, Inhalt und Form. So verbreitet das Werk Aufbruchstimmung. Als Buch des heraufziehenden neuen Morgens vertreibt es mit seinem heiteren, nüchternen Ton die Nachtgespenster einer vergangenen schweren Zeit: Für...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-08-01
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