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A first of its kind, The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature provides an overview of Comparative North American Literature, a cutting-edge discipline. Contributors make important interventions into multiculturalism in North America and into...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-08-07
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Filmic constructions of war heroism have a profound impact on public perceptions of conflicts. Here, contributors examine the ways motifs of gender and heroism in war films are used to justify ideological positions, shape the understanding of the military conflicts,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-08-07
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Despite pioneering studies, the term 'romance novel' itself has not been subjected to scrutiny. This book examines mass-market romance fiction in the U.K., Canada, and the U.S. through four categories: capitalism, war, heterosexuality, and white Protestantism and casts...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-08-07
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This study explores the rapidly expanding world of online illicit drug trading. Since the fall of the infamous Silk Road, a new generation of cryptomarkets can be found thriving on the dark net. Martin explores how these websites defy powerful law enforcement agencies...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2014-08-07
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Considering new perspectives on writers such as Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, and Louise Erdrich, Confronting Visuality in Multi-ethnic Women's Writing traces a cross-cultural tradition in which contemporary female writers situate images of women within larger...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-08-07
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Black Masculinity in the Obama Era provides an in-depth examination of the current state of black males and identifies the impact of living in the Obama era. In the era of the first black president, Barack H. Obama, this book gauges the status of black masculinity and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-08-07
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This book presents an integrated review and critical analysis of the recent research in the positive psychology of religion, with focus on the positive psychology of religion across different cultures and religions. The book provides a review of the literature on...
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Springer
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2014-08-07
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This cutting-edge volume is the first to address the burgeoning interest in drugs and Africa among scholars, policymakers, and the general public. It brings together an interdisciplinary group of leading academics and practitioners to explore the use, trade, production,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-08-07
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Homeless Lives in American Cities explores how the American discourse on homelessness arose from Victorian social and political anxieties about the impacts of immigration and urbanization on the middle class family. It demonstrates how contemporary social work and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-08-07
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In diesem Buch wird die Anlage des DFG-Projektes „Einflüsse der Aggregierung von Personen-, Themen- und Zeitangaben auf die Ergebnisse von Agenda-Setting-Studien“ vorgestellt. Es handelt sich um eine Sekundäranalyse von werktäglichen Befragungsdaten und täglichen...
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Springer VS
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2014-08-06
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Representing a detailed analysis of footballers' wives and their role in contemporary British culture, this books explores how the generic and stereotypical 'Wag' has been created by newspaper and magazine coverage, auto/biographies and influential television...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-08-06
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African-American Males and the US Justice System of Marginalization provides an overview of the economic and social status ofAfrican-American males in America, which continues to deteriorate at an alarming rate. Weatherspoon posits that in every American institutional...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2014-08-06
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Pointing the way toward a revitalized future for the study of literature, Reconstruction in Literary Studies draws on philosophical pragmatism to justify the academic study of literature. In turn, Vescio connects the changing field to its social function as an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-08-06
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This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Asian studies, cultural industries, economic geography, and related areas of study. It discusses the results of a microscopic survey focusing on topics such as how animation studios form business relationships...
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Springer
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2014-08-06
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The last three decades have seen dramatic changes in Chinese cities. While many tend to read these changes as the result of institutional reforms, macro planning, and top-down development, the author of this study focuses on the undercurrent at the bottom, from the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-08-06
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Disabusing Women in the Old French Fabliaux provides a much-needed reevaluation of the role of women in the fabliaux. Spanning the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the fabliaux are short, ribald tales written in verse by mostly anonymous male authors. Their varied...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2014-08-06
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The objective of Hispanic (LGT) Masculinities in Transition is to investigate the cultural representations/intersections of masculinity and sexual minorities (lesbians, gays, and transgenders) in Spain between the passing of the Law of Social Dangerousness and Social...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2014-08-06
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This book analyses the depiction and function of politically active women in novels by six female authors from the margins of the democratic revolution of 1848 and the first German women’s movement: Louise Aston, Malwida von Meysenbug, Mathilde Franziska Anneke, Fanny...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-08-06
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In dieser Studie werden Eliten in Ostmitteleuropa unter vergleichenden Gesichtspunkten untersucht. Das Spektrum der Eliten reicht von den kommunistischen Führungsgruppen bis zu neuen Machteliten und Gegeneliten, der Untersuchungszeitraum von 1968 bis 2013. Auf breiter...
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Springer VS
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2014-08-05
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During the era of the French revolution, patriots across Europe tried to introduce a national uniform. This book, the first comparative study of national uniform schemes, discusses case studies from Austria, Bulgaria, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-05
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