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Télécharger le livre :  Civil Society on the Move
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Civil Society on the Move


Eun-Jeung Lee , Hannes B. Mosler


Following the transformation of the Soviet-controlled Eastern European system, there has been a renewal of discourses on civil society. The collection of essays discusses this complicated and controversial concept and explores the possibility of new approaches for the...

Parution : 2015-03-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Traditional Medicine Making of the 'Emu': Continuity and Change
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Traditional Medicine Making of the 'Emu': Continuity and Change


Kingsley I. Owete


As newer medical problems surface and existing ones appear to resist modern solutions, Africans are increasingly reaching for traditional healing practices and customary protective medicines. Using historical and phenomenological approaches, Traditional Medicine Making...

Parution : 2015-03-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Plotinus’ Mystical Teaching of Henosis
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Plotinus’ Mystical Teaching of Henosis


Pao-Shen Ho


Plotinus’ mysticism of henosis, unification with the One, is a highly controversial topic in Plotinian scholarship. This book presents a careful reading of the Enneads and suggests thatPlotinus’ mysticism be understood as mystical teaching that offers practical guidance...

Parution : 2015-02-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Innovations in Refugee Protection
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Innovations in Refugee Protection


Luise Druke


This compendium synthesizes innovations of the UN High Commissioners for Refugees (UNHCR) since 1951. The book bridges the gap between academic and field work and uses Joseph Nye’s concept of «soft power» as a methodological approach for understanding and solving...

Parution : 2015-02-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Kompetenz im Studium und in der Arbeitswelt- Competence in Higher Education and the Working Environment
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Kompetenz im Studium und in der Arbeitswelt- Competence in Higher Education and the Working Environment


Frank Musekamp , Georg Spöttl


Gute Lehre an Hochschulen hat in den vergangenen Jahren erheblich an Bedeutung gewonnen. Dies gilt angesichts hoher Studienabbruchquoten insbesondere in den Ingenieurswissenschaften. Um die Effekte guter Lehre auf die Lernergebnisse bei den Studierenden zu erfassen,...

Parution : 2015-02-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Anton Bruckner
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Anton Bruckner


Constantin Floros


While unappreciated and controversial during most of his life, Anton Bruckner is today regarded as the greatest symphonist between Beethoven and Gustav Mahler – in terms of originality, boldness and monumentality of his music. The image of Bruckner the man, however, is...

Parution : 2015-02-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Mahalla – Traditional Institution in Tajikistan and Civil Society in the West
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Mahalla – Traditional Institution in Tajikistan and Civil Society in the West


Saidbek Goziev


The guiding theme of the book is a traditional institution of Tajik culture: mahalla – neighborhood. For centuries it has sustained the existence of Tajik culture, and in times of the greatest religious persecution in the USSR it has helped Islam to survive. In this...

Parution : 2015-01-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Warlikowski: Extra Ecclesiam
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Warlikowski: Extra Ecclesiam


Grzegorz Niziolek


Krzysztof Warlikowski’s work stands among the most remarkable phenomena in post-1989 European theater. This book joins Warlikowski’s theater with the dynamic changes in Polish society following 1989, using strategies borrowed from psychoanalysis, theater anthropology,...

Parution : 2014-12-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Describing Who?
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Describing Who?


Joanna Auron-Gorska


«Describing Who?» reveals the significance of photographs taken in contemporary Poland by professional American, French and Israeli Jewish photographers. Writing critically from the vantage point of her Polish and Jewish background, Joanna Auron-Górska argues that while...

Parution : 2014-12-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Government Transformation and the Future of Public Employment
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Government Transformation and the Future of Public Employment


Christoph Demmke , Timo Moilanen


Public administration has traditionally been characterised with such bureaucratic features as hierarchical and formalised organisational structure, clear and rigid career paths, lifetime tenure, full-time employment, principle of seniority, advantageous pension schemes...

Parution : 2014-12-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns in English and Mandarin Chinese
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Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns in English and Mandarin Chinese


Lin Wang


The book is a study on intensifiers and reflexive pronouns between two languages (English and Mandarin Chinese) and the first one drawing a complete picture in this domain. It provides the full uses of self, zìji and benrén. In the case of benrén, here for the first...

Parution : 2014-11-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Journalism that Matters
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Journalism that Matters


Aukse Balcytiene , Michal Glowacki , Epp Lauk


This collective effort of Central and Eastern European (CEE) scholars investigates and compares journalism cultures in a selection of CEE countries. Simultaneously with dramatic societal and political changes, CEE journalisms undergo a technological revolution and the...

Parution : 2014-11-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Balancing the World
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Balancing the World


Daniel Croles Fitjar


In Balancing the World, the author illuminates what an ajq’ij, or «daykeeper», is by presenting material he collected in a series of interviews with practitioners of Maya spirituality. Frequently labeled as Maya priests, shamans, spiritual guides, or even witches, the...

Parution : 2014-09-23
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Télécharger le livre :  On the History of Rock Music
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On the History of Rock Music


Yvetta Kajanová


On the History of Rock Music follows the development of rock music from its origins up to the present time. It focuses on the relationship between the sound, improvisations and rhythms in particular styles, and gives specific attention to the development of rhythm. The...

Parution : 2014-09-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Bernhard Irrgang: Critics of Technological Lifeworld
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Bernhard Irrgang: Critics of Technological Lifeworld


Arun Kumar Tripathi


We live in a technologically mediated lifeworld and culture. Technologies either magnify or amplify human experiences. They can change the ways we live. Technology has been woven into the social and cultural fabric of different cultures. German phenomenologist...

Parution : 2014-08-06
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Télécharger le livre :  The Science and Religion Dialogue
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The Science and Religion Dialogue


Michael Welker


This book documents the conference on The Science and Religion Dialogue: Past and Future, held at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, October 25-29, 2012. The conference commemorated the 100th anniversary of the birth of Sir John Templeton and the 25th anniversary of...

Parution : 2014-07-28
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Télécharger le livre :  The Reflective Translator
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The Reflective Translator


Joanna Albin


Although university studies do not always provide translators with the necessary skills, many of them continue in their professional capacity, which is understood to be the result of self-directed learning processes. Thus, translators seem to be not only agents of their...

Parution : 2014-07-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Familial Discourses in «The Book of Margery Kempe»
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Familial Discourses in «The Book of Margery Kempe»


Raphaela Rohrhofer


The Book of Margery Kempe (ca. 1438) offers an illuminating account of late medieval female spirituality, affective devotion and subversion. This study approaches Margery Kempe’s roles in her earthly, heavenly and spiritual families from an interdisciplinary...

Parution : 2014-07-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Shrinking Cities: Effects on Urban Ecology and Challenges for Urban Development
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Shrinking Cities: Effects on Urban Ecology and Challenges for Urban Development


Wilfried Endlicher , Marcel Langner


Cities in industrialised countries have grown over time, yet shrinkage of cities occurs in many regions. This process has many impacts on urban ecology, which can be observed on urban brownfield sites in particular. The integration of these sites with sustainable urban...

Parution : 2014-07-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Beyond 9/11
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Beyond 9/11


Christian Klöckner , Simone Knewitz , Sabine Sielke


Rather than turning backward and remembering 9/11, this book sets out to reflect on how the events of September 11, 2001, have shifted our perspectives on a whole series of political, economic, social, and cultural processes. Beyond 9/11 raises the question how the...

Parution : 2014-06-24
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