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Political Trust: Why Context Matters
Sonja Zmerli, Marc Hooghe
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• Author(s): Sonja Zmerli | Marc Hooghe • Publisher: ECPR Press • Publisher Imprint: ECPR Press • BISAC: Civics & CitizenshipFrom a European comparative perspective, the book addresses a broad range of contested issues. Can political trust be...
View full detailsFaith and Leadership: The Papacy and the Roman Catholic Church
Michael P. Riccards
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• Author(s): Michael P. Riccards • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Christian Church - AdministrationThis volume is the first major study of the papacy as a managerial structure that has evolved over two th...
View full detailsArchaeology of Religion
Kit W. Wesler
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• Author(s): Kit W. Wesler • Publisher: University Press of America • Publisher Imprint: University Press of America • BISAC: Antiquities & ArchaeologyAn Archaeology of Religion challenges traditional conventions by refusing to respect the ge...
View full detailsThe Tragic Paradox
Leonard Moss
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• Author(s): Leonard Moss • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: DramaHow do an author's techniques establish the recurring paradox raised by the tragic genre? I have called upon the valuable arguments offered ...
View full detailsCinemulacrum: A Secret History of Film / Video, 1960-2010
Aaron Sultanik
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• Author(s): Aaron Sultanik • Publisher: University Press of America • Publisher Imprint: University Press of America • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismCinemulacrum, a conflation of "cinema," the art of the Hollywood film, and simulacrum, a ...
View full detailsCollected Writings of Franz Liszt: Essays and Letters of a Traveling Bachelor of Music
Janita R. Hall-Swadley
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• Author(s): Janita R. Hall-Swadley • Publisher: Scarecrow Press • Publisher Imprint: Scarecrow Press • BISAC: History & Criticism - GeneralDuring his early years, Franz Liszt worked as a traveling piano virtuoso, his adventures highlighted b...
View full detailsThe Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The Human Rights Years, 1949-1952 Volume 2
Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida Black, Boutros Boutros-Ghali
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• Author(s): Eleanor Roosevelt | Allida Black | Boutros Boutros-Ghali • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: WomenThe 311 documents in this second volume of Eleanor Roosevelt's papers ...
View full detailsProgress in Commutative Algebra 2: Closures, Finiteness and Factorization
Christopher Francisco, Lee C. Klingler, Sean M. Sather-Wagstaff
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• Author(s): Christopher Francisco | Lee C. Klingler | Sean M. Sather-Wagstaff • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Algebra - GeneralThis is the second of two volumes of a state-of-the-art survey article collection whi...
View full detailsJewish Integration in the German Army in the First World War
David J. Fine
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• Author(s): David J. Fine • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Europe - GermanyIn Jewish Integration in the German Army in the First World War David J. Fine offers a surprising portrayal of Jewish officers in the Germ...
View full detailsNew York Abstains "Courteously": Essays on Civil Discourse and Civic Responsibility
Marie A. Conn, Thérèse McGuire, Kenneth J. Soprano
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• Author(s): Marie A. Conn | Thérèse McGuire | Kenneth J. Soprano • Publisher: University Press of America • Publisher Imprint: University Press of America • BISAC: Civics & CitizenshipThese essays touch on the very heart of what it means to ...
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Nicola Dischert
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• Author(s): Nicola Dischert • Publisher: K.G. Saur Verlag • Publisher Imprint: K.G. Saur Verlag • BISAC: Asian - GeneralDie Geschichte der chinesischen Literatur in zehn Bänden ist die bisher umfassendste Darstellung der etwa 3000-jährigen chine...
View full detailsChristian Path in a Pluralistic World and the Study of Spirituality
Diana L. Villegas
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• Author(s): Diana L. Villegas • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Christian Life - Spiritual GrowthBased on exploration of boundaries between spirituality and religion this text argues that theological stud...
View full detailsTaking Socialism Seriously
Ann Ferguson, Milton Fisk, John L. Hammond
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• Author(s): Ann Ferguson | Milton Fisk | John L. Hammond • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismCapitalism is in crisis. Is a better world possib...
View full detailsThinking about and Enacting Curriculum in "Frames of War"
Rahat Naqvi, Hans Smits
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• Author(s): Rahat Naqvi | Hans Smits • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: EpistemologyRahat Naqvi and Hans Smits' edited collection, Thinking about and Enacting Curriculum in "Frames of War" is centered on t...
View full detailsAfrican Spirituality in Black Women's Fiction: Threaded Visions of Memory, Community, Nature and Being
Elizabeth J. West
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• Author(s): Elizabeth J. West • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: AfricanAfrican Spirituality in Black Women's Fiction traces the beginnings and transformations of African spirituality in African American w...
View full detailsSalomé: A Tragedy in One Act
Oscar Wilde, Joseph Donohue, Barry Moser
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• Author(s): Oscar Wilde | Joseph Donohue | Barry Moser • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: New American Bible - GeneralUnique among his works, Oscar Wilde's play Salomé (1893) was ...
View full detailsSovereign Wealth Funds and Long-Term Investing
Patrick Bolton, Frederic Samama, Joseph E. Stiglitz
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• Author(s): Patrick Bolton | Frederic Samama | Joseph E. Stiglitz • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Investments & Securities - GeneralSovereign wealth funds (SWFs) are state-owned ...
View full detailsStore in the Hood: A Century of Ethnic Business and Conflict
Steven J. Gold
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• Author(s): Steven J. Gold • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Industries - GeneralThe Store in the Hood is a comprehensive study of conflicts between immigrant merch...
View full detailsSovereign Wealth Funds and Long-Term Investing
Patrick Bolton, Frederic Samama, Joseph E. Stiglitz
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• Author(s): Patrick Bolton | Frederic Samama | Joseph E. Stiglitz • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Investments & Securities - GeneralSovereign wealth funds (SWFs) are state-owned ...
View full detailsAnnual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics: 2011
Rajendra Singh, Ghanshyam Sharma
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• Author(s): Rajendra Singh | Ghanshyam Sharma • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsSouth Asia is home to a large number of languages and dialects. Although linguists working...
View full detailsDocumenting Endangered Languages: Achievements and Perspectives
Geoffrey Haig, Nicole Nau, Stefan Schnell
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• Author(s): Geoffrey Haig | Nicole Nau | Stefan Schnell • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe rapid decline in the world's linguistic diversity has prompted the emergence of docum...
View full detailsTort Law in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights
Attila Fenyves, Ernst Karner, Helmut Koziol
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• Author(s): Attila Fenyves | Ernst Karner | Helmut Koziol • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: TortsThe goal of this study is to provide a general overview and thorough analysis of how the European Court of Human Righ...
View full detailsRegarding the Popular: Modernism, the Avant-Garde and High and Low Culture
Sascha Bru, Laurence Nuijs, Benedikt Hjartarson
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• Author(s): Sascha Bru | Laurence Nuijs | Benedikt Hjartarson • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: GeneralRegarding the Popular charts the complex relationship between the avant-gardes and modernisms on the one hand a...
View full detailsNietzsche - Macht - Größe
Volker Caysa, Konstanze Schwarzwald
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• Author(s): Volker Caysa | Konstanze Schwarzwald • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernDie Thematik des Gro en durchzieht Nietzsches gesamtes Werk. Sowohl adjektivisch als "Gro e Vernunft"...
View full detailsAristophanes - Bacchylides
Guido Bastianini, Daniela Colomo, Michael Haslam
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• Author(s): Guido Bastianini | Daniela Colomo | Michael Haslam • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralNo detailed description available for "Aristophanes - Bacchylides".
The Arabic Versions of the Gospels: The Manuscripts and Their Families
Hikmat Kashouh
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• Author(s): Hikmat Kashouh • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Biblical Studies - New Testament - GeneralThis book is concerned with the Arabic versions of the Gospels. It is an attempt to examine a substantial numbe...
View full detailsAlterszäsuren
Thorsten Fitzon, Sandra Linden, Kathrin Liess
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• Author(s): Thorsten Fitzon | Sandra Linden | Kathrin Liess • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: European - GermanDer textwissenschaftlich ausgerichtete Sammelband stellt den Begriff der 'Alterszäsur' als heuristische...
View full detailsWissenschaft in Öffentlichkeit
Kerstin Von Der Krone
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• Author(s): Kerstin Von Der Krone • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: JewishDie Wissenschaft des Judentums hat den Blick auf die jüdische Geschichte und Kultur grundlegend verändert. Dieses Buch untersucht erstmals d...
View full detailsKant über die symbolische Erkenntnis Gottes
Sebastian Maly
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• Author(s): Sebastian Maly • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: EpistemologyIn 59 von Kants Kritik der Urteilskraft steht relativ unvermittelt und oft überlesen der Halbsatz: "so ist all unsere Erkenntnis von Gott b...
View full detailsReadings in Zoosemiotics
Timo Maran, Dario Martinelli, Aleksei Turovski
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• Author(s): Timo Maran | Dario Martinelli | Aleksei Turovski • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - GeneralThe book is the first annotated reader to focus specifically on the disc...
View full detailsVorurteile
Sir Peter Ustinov Institut, Anton Pelinka
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• Author(s): Sir Peter Ustinov Institut | Anton Pelinka • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: GeneralInternational renommierte Autoren beschreiben und analysieren die wichtigsten Gruppen von Vorurteilen: Antisemitismus,...
View full detailsKanon, Wertung und Vermittlung
Matthias Beilein, Claudia Stockinger, Simone Winko
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• Author(s): Matthias Beilein | Claudia Stockinger | Simone Winko • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: European - GermanDer vorliegende Sammelband befasst sich mit der Theorie und Praxis der Literaturvermittlung in der...
View full detailsPerinatal Programming: The State of the Art
Andreas Plagemann
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• Author(s): Andreas Plagemann • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Perinatology & NeonatologyPerinatal Programming addresses the environment-dependent setting of fundamental life functions and dispositions for dis...
View full detailsDeutsch als Zweitsprache in der Grundschule
Beate Lütke
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• Author(s): Beate Lütke • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: ElementaryThe book presents a qualitative intervention study that investigates the hypothetically inferable effects of a specific form-related...
View full detailsRise and Fall of Triumph: The History of a Radical Roman Catholic Magazine, 1966-1976
Mark D. Popowski
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• Author(s): Mark D. Popowski • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Christian Living - Social IssuesThis is a history of Triumph--a radical, post-Vatican II, Roman Catholic lay magazine--that examines its orig...
View full detailsCounterfactual Thinking - Counterfactual Writing
Dorothee Birke, Michael Butter, Tilmann Köppe
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• Author(s): Dorothee Birke | Michael Butter | Tilmann Köppe • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: American - GeneralCounterfactuality is currently a hotly debated topic. While for some disciplines such as linguistics, ...
View full detailsCivic Priests: Cult Personnel in Athens from the Hellenistic Period to Late Antiquity
Marietta Horster, Anja Klöckner
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• Author(s): Marietta Horster | Anja Klöckner • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceImages and inscriptions on monuments can show us how priests and cult personnel saw themselves and were viewed by other...
View full detailsManuscripts and Travellers: The Sino-Tibetan Documents of a Tenth-Century Buddhist Pilgrim
Sam Van Schaik, Imre Galambos
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• Author(s): Sam Van Schaik | Imre Galambos • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: EasternThis study is based on a manuscript which was carried by a Chinese monk through the monasteries of the Hexi corridor, as part of h...
View full detailsLetting the Other Speak: Proclaiming the Stories of Biblical Women
Tracy Hartman
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• Author(s): Tracy Hartman • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Sexuality & Gender StudiesLetting the Other Speak helps pastors, Christian educators, professors, and theological students bring the stories...
View full detailsAnthropologie der Goethezeit
Michael Titzmann, Wolfgang Lukas, Claus-Michael Ort
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• Author(s): Michael Titzmann | Wolfgang Lukas | Claus-Michael Ort • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: European - GermanDer Band versammelt einen Originalbeitrag und zwölf zwischen 1979 und 2008 publizierte Aufsätze v...
View full detailsJudentum in Leben und Werk von Franz Werfel
Hans Wagener, Wilhelm Hemecker
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• Author(s): Hans Wagener | Wilhelm Hemecker • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: European - GermanDer vorliegende Band resultiert aus einem Symposium, das die University of California, Los Angeles, zusammen mit dem Lu...
View full detailsLescheur - Machen
Ulrich Goebel, Robert R. Anderson
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• Author(s): Ulrich Goebel | Robert R. Anderson • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: GeneralThe Early New High German Dictionary is an alphabetically-ordered dictionary of the varieties of High German fro...
View full detailsThe Pseudo-Historical Image of the Prophet Muhammad in Medieval Latin Literature: A Repertory
Michelina Di Cesare
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• Author(s): Michelina Di Cesare • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalExploring and understanding how medieval Christians perceived and constructed the figure of the Prophet Muhammad is of capital ...
View full detailsVerantwortung für historisches Unrecht
Michael Schefczyk
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• Author(s): Michael Schefczyk • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Industries - GeneralDas Buch bietet die erste systematische Untersuchung der Frage nach der Verantwortung für historisches Unrecht seit dem Erscheinen...
View full details2011
Günter Berghaus
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• Author(s): Günter Berghaus • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: GeneralIn the past 20 years, there has been a remarkable upsurge of interest in Futurism in most countries formerly situated east of the Iron Curtain. A...
View full detailsDas Buch in der nationalsozialistischen Propagandapolitik
Ine Van Linthout
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• Author(s): Ine Van Linthout • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: GeneralDiese Studie untersucht die Buchpolitik der NS-Zeit im Kontext der modernen Massenmedien. Auf der Basis umfassender Recherchen rekonstruiert sie...
View full detailsSchopenhauer - Kierkegaard
Niels Jørgen Cappelørn, Lore Hühn, Søren R. Fauth
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• Author(s): Niels Jørgen Cappelørn | Lore Hühn | Søren R. Fauth • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: AestheticsSchopenhauer und Kierkegaard sind zwei zentrale und wirkmächtige Philosophen des Nachidealismus, deren Ver...
View full detailsCode-Switching in Early English
Herbert Schendl, Laura Wright
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• Author(s): Herbert Schendl | Laura Wright • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThe complex linguistic situation of earlier multilingual Britain has led to numerous contact-...
View full detailsWhat Makes Music European: Looking beyond Sound
Marcello Sorce Keller
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• Author(s): Marcello Sorce Keller • Publisher: Scarecrow Press • Publisher Imprint: Scarecrow Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - InternationalIn What Makes Music European, Marcello Sorce Keller addresses the little-discussed matters that are e...
View full detailsPerspectives on Translation Quality
Ilse Depraetere
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• Author(s): Ilse Depraetere • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe volume is a collection of papers that deal with the issue of translation quality from a number of perspectives. I...
View full detailsKleinüberlieferung mehrstimmiger Musik vor 1550 in deutschem Sprachgebiet, Lieferung IX
Martin Staehelin
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• Author(s): Martin Staehelin • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Genres & Styles - InternationalAs part of the G�ttingen-based research project "Klein�berlieferung mehrstimmiger Musik vor 1550 in deutschem Sprach...
View full detailsStrip-Method for Image and Signal Transformation
Leonid A. Mironovsky, Valery A. Slaev
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• Author(s): Leonid A. Mironovsky | Valery A. Slaev • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: AppliedThis work deals with the matrix methods of continuous signal and image processing according to which strip-transformation ...
View full detailsÖkonomie, Politik Und Ethik in Der Praktischen Philosophie Der Antike
Peter Seele
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• Author(s): Peter Seele • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralWar in der Antike noch der Dreiklang der praktischen Wissenschaften von Ethik, Politik und Ökonomik geläufig, so hat sich in der akademisch...
View full detailsThe Processes of Defense: Trauma, Drives, and Reality a New Synthesis
Joseph Fernando
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• Author(s): Joseph Fernando • Publisher: Jason Aronson • Publisher Imprint: Jason Aronson • BISAC: Clinical PsychologyIn this direct and scholarly book, Dr. Joseph Fernando provides the first in-depth exploration and up-to-date revision of the p...
View full detailsShakespeare and Contemporary Fiction: Theorizing Foundling and Lyric Plots
Barbara L. Estrin
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• Author(s): Barbara L. Estrin • Publisher: University of Delaware Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Delaware Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshIn the first book to use fiction as theory, Barbara L. Estrin reverses chronologica...
View full detailsAfro-Cuban Identity in Post-Revolutionary Novel and Film: Inclusion, Loss, and Cultural Resistance
Andrea Easley Morris
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• Author(s): Andrea Easley Morris • Publisher: Bucknell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Bucknell University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismAfro-Cuban identity in Post-Revolutionary Novel and Film examines the changing discours...
View full detailsBorn to Play: The Ruby Braff Discography and Directory of Performances
Thomas P. Hustad, Dan Morgenstern
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• Author(s): Thomas P. Hustad | Dan Morgenstern • Publisher: Scarecrow Press • Publisher Imprint: Scarecrow Press • BISAC: Composers & Musicians - GeneralRuby Braff's uncompromising standards, musical taste, and creative imagination informed ...
View full detailsPolitical Action in Václav Havel's Thought: The Responsibility of Resistance
Delia Popescu
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• Author(s): Delia Popescu • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: European - GeneralPolitical Action in Vaclav Havel's Thought: The Responsibility of Resistance, by Delia Popescu, explores the Czech dissident's...
View full detailsPrefiguring Peace: Israeli-Palestinian Peacebuilding Partnerships
Michelle I. Gawerc
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• Author(s): Michelle I. Gawerc • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Jewish StudiesThis work presents a longitudinal study, of greater than 10 years, of all the major peace building initiatives with an educat...
View full detailsSpanish Literary Generation of 1968: José María Guelbenzu, Lourdes Ortiz, and Ana María Moix
William M. Sherzer
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• Author(s): William M. Sherzer • Publisher: University Press of America • Publisher Imprint: University Press of America • BISAC: European - Spanish & PortugueseThis book focuses on three authors coming of age at an important moment in Spani...
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