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Télécharger le livre :  Heritage and Transformation of an African Popular Music
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Heritage and Transformation of an African Popular Music


Aghi Bahi


Modern popular music is closely linked to the 'traditional' heritage – intangible and material – of which artist-musicians have, in a way, usufruct. This Element examines the relationship between (cultural) heritage and the transformation of popular music in Côte...

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Télécharger le livre :  Female Anger in Crime Fiction
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Female Anger in Crime Fiction


Caroline Reitz


Feminist anger is having a moment, but the double meaning of 'mad' as angry and crazy has shaped the representation of women in popular crime fiction since Lady Audley burned down the house over 150 years ago. But when is anger just, when is it revenge, and when is it...

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Télécharger le livre :  Popular Music in Brazil
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Popular Music in Brazil


Leonardo De Marchi , Renato Pereira Torres Borges , Martha Tupinambá De Ulhôa


This Element outlines an overview of popular music made in Brazil, from the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Initially addressing the definition of the 'popular' category, discussion then follows on the ways a Brazilian music identity...

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Télécharger le livre :  Ethical Global Citizenship Education
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Ethical Global Citizenship Education


Emiliano T. Bosio


Global Citizenship Education (GCE) plays a central role within UNESCO's education sector, focusing on cultivating the values and knowledge essential for students to evolve into well-informed and responsible global citizens. This Element conceptualises an ethical GCE...

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Télécharger le livre :  Children in New Religious Movements
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Children in New Religious Movements


Sanja Nilsson


New Religious Movements have arisen not only in the present but have also developed in the past. While they differ in ideology and practice, they generally seem to live in high tension with mainstream society, especially when it comes to child-rearing. This Element...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Sacred Force of Star Wars Jedi
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The Sacred Force of Star Wars Jedi


William Sims Bainbridge


As secularization threatens the stability of traditional religions, Star Wars provides a case study of how key functions of religion may transfer to innovative organizations and subcultures that challenge conventional definitions of faith, sacredness, and revival. This...

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Télécharger le livre :  Heidegger's Concept of Science
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Heidegger's Concept of Science


Paul Goldberg


This Element argues that Heidegger's concept of science has two core features. Heidegger critiques a security-oriented concept of science, which he associates with the dominance of physics in modern science and metaphysics and with a progressive resistance among...

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Télécharger le livre :  Cleavage Formation in the 21st Century
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Cleavage Formation in the 21st Century


Collectif


Western Europe is experiencing growing levels of political polarization between parties of the New Left and the Far Right. The authors argue that this antagonism reflects the emergence of a social cleavage between universalism and particularism. To understand cleavage...

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Télécharger le livre :  Contemporary Body Horror
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Contemporary Body Horror


Xavier Aldana Reyes


'Body horror', a horror subgenre concerned with transformation, loss of control and the human body's susceptibility to disease, infection and external harm, has moved into the mainstream to become one of the greatest repositories of biopolitical discourse. Put simply,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Adult Patient with Intraventricular, Paraventricular and Pineal Region Lesions
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Adult Patient with Intraventricular, Paraventricular and Pineal Region Lesions


Mohamed Dablouk , Mahmoud Kamel


Intraventricular lesions are uncommon, and they can arise from numerous structures around the ventricular system, including the ependyma, septum pellucidum and choroid plexus. Pineal region lesions may arise from the pineal gland parenchymal/supporting cells or glial...

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Télécharger le livre :  Storefront Campaigning
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Storefront Campaigning


Joshua P. Darr , Sean Whyard


Since Barack Obama's historic and unprecedented field operations in 2008 and 2012, campaigns have centralized their voter contact operations within field offices: storefronts rented in strategically chosen communities. That model was upended in 2020: Joe Biden won the...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Transformation of Boeing from Technological Leadership to Financial Engineering and Decline
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The Transformation of Boeing from Technological Leadership to Financial Engineering and Decline


Charles Mcmillan


Organizations rise or fall based on misreading of external signals as well as internal factors – strong or weak management, leadership and governance, proactive or reactive benchmarks of innovation and performance. This Element addresses the commercial aerospace sector...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Politics of Bathroom Access and Exclusion in the United States
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The Politics of Bathroom Access and Exclusion in the United States


Sara Chatfield


The past twenty years have seen an explosion of state laws focused on bathroom access, including laws that both restrict and expand the ability of people to access basic needs in public. Through an analysis of several distinct state-level policies that regulate...

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Télécharger le livre :  Meritocracy or Patronage?
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Meritocracy or Patronage?


Fubing Su , Ran Tao


This study interrogates the theoretical and empirical validities of two dominant theories about Chinese state in the post-Mao period. The authors argue that the meritocratic view has under-theorized the innate contradiction between officials' personal competence and...

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Télécharger le livre :  Feminism, Corpus-assisted Research and Language Inclusivity
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Feminism, Corpus-assisted Research and Language Inclusivity


Federica Formato


This Element presents an investigation into the use of the gender inclusive strategy schwa in a corpus of tweets; the schwa is employed in Italian to overcome grammatical (feminine and masculine) morphological inflections, having at its core linguistic and social...

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Télécharger le livre :  Angry and Wrong
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Angry and Wrong


Brian Weeks


Use of partisan media is often associated with political misperceptions but little research has investigated whether partisan media can change beliefs and, if so, the mechanism through which that process occurs. This Element argues that political anger provides one key...

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Télécharger le livre :  Peace Leadership
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Peace Leadership


Stan Amaladas


Peace dwelling is formulated as a reciprocal relationship among four interrelated ways of 'Being': Being a Guardian, Being a Curator, Being a Welcoming Presence, and Being a Neighbour. These ways of 'Being' are connected to a systemic reconstruction of Burns'...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Fading Light of Democratic Capitalism
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The Fading Light of Democratic Capitalism


Malcolm S. Salter


This Element discusses how pervasive cronyism and restricted suffrage are destroying democratic capitalism as a national ideal and offers suggestions on how the promise of US-style democratic capitalism can be restored. To this end, the author draws on the work of...

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Télécharger le livre :  Globalizing Urban Environmental History
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Globalizing Urban Environmental History


Matthew Vitz


'Globalizing Urban Environmental History' melds the methodological prescriptions of global urban history, the innovative methods of environmental history, and the interdisciplinary field of urban political ecology to trace the contours of a global urban environmental...

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Télécharger le livre :  Temperament and Child Development in Context
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Temperament and Child Development in Context


Collectif


Children's temperament is a central individual characteristic that has significant implications, directly and indirectly, for their social, emotional, behavioral, cognitive, and health outcomes, through its evocative and moderating effects on other social and contextual...

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