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Télécharger le livre :  Social Networks
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Social Networks


Susan B. Barnes


This book won the Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction 2014 Technological changes have radically altered the ways in which people use visual images. One such impact has been the transformation of...

Parution : 2013-06-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Gendered Contexts
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Gendered Contexts


Laura Benedetti , Julia Hairston , Julia L. Hairston


The application of feminist thought to the study of Italian culture is generating some of the most innovative work in the field today. This volume presents a range of essays which focus on the construction of gender in Italian literature as well as essays in feminist...

Parution : 2012-12-14
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Télécharger le livre :  «Creatio ex nihilo» and the Theology of St. Augustine
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«Creatio ex nihilo» and the Theology of St. Augustine


N. Joseph Torchia


This study proceeds from an investigation of the significance of the Christian doctrine of creatio ex nihilo in some of the key components of St. Augustine's extended anti-Manichaean polemic. To a great extent, his devastating critique of the Manichaeans' world view,...

Parution : 2012-12-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Helping Students to Write Successful Paper Titles
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Helping Students to Write Successful Paper Titles


Ode Ogede


All who treasure great literature recognize the pivotal role played by a title. But, until now, at both the undergraduate and the graduate level, no book-length study has devoted detailed expert attention to the subject of academic paper titling. Helping Students to...

Parution : 2012-10-01
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Télécharger le livre :  New Essays in Chinese Philosophy
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New Essays in Chinese Philosophy


N.C.


New Essays in Chinese Philosophy explores various facets of Chinese thought which have received dynamic and creative scholarly attention in the recent past. It argues that Chinese culture is not «logic-less». The Confucian perception of moral sense and of reason can be...

Parution : 2012-08-29
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Télécharger le livre :  The German-Jewish Dialogue Reconsidered
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The German-Jewish Dialogue Reconsidered


Jost Hermand


Was there a German-Jewish dialogue? This seemingly innocent question was silenced by the Holocaust. Since then, it is out of the question to take comfortable refuge to a distant past when Mendelssohn and Lessing started this dialogue. Adorno/Horkheimer, Arendt, and...

Parution : 2012-08-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Culture, Politics, and National Identity in Mexican Literature and Film, 1929-1952
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Culture, Politics, and National Identity in Mexican Literature and Film, 1929-1952


Anne T. Doremus


From 1929 to 1952 Mexico underwent a period of intense nationalism as the state, newly emerging from the Mexican Revolution, sought to legitimize itself, consolidate its institutions, and promote economic growth. As a consequence, these years also witnessed a fervent...

Parution : 2012-08-29
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Télécharger le livre :  A Sceptical Theory of Morality and Law
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A Sceptical Theory of Morality and Law


James Allan


A Sceptical Theory of Morality and Law aims ultimately to cast light on some contentious issues in the philosophy of law, including the nature of rights and of judicial interpretation. The answers one gives, however, rest on the moral theory one finds most convincing....

Parution : 2012-08-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Beneath the Fiction
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Beneath the Fiction


Wiliam H. Clamurro


Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares rival Don Quijote in complexity and significance. This book analyzes all twelve novelas, seeking to illuminate the inherent tensions between the usually affirmative resolutions and lessons proposed byCervantes's narrators, on the one hand,...

Parution : 2012-08-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Translators as Storytellers
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Translators as Storytellers


John A. Beck


In the third century B.C.E., translators began retelling the stories of the Hebrew Bible in Greek. The Septuagint was born but its analysis had just begun. To date, most Septuagint translation technique analysis has focused on the linguistic sensitivity of these...

Parution : 2012-08-29
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Télécharger le livre :  The Australian Novel 1830-1980
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The Australian Novel 1830-1980


John Scheckter


This volume introduces the reader to a powerful and rewarding territory: the Australian novel. Both drawing from and rebelling against the power of Europe. Australian writers asserted from the beginning that experience «down under» demands thorough observation and...

Parution : 2012-08-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Through the Northern Gate
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Through the Northern Gate


Jacqueline Banerjee


This study challenges critical orthodoxy by showing that childhood became a focus of interest in British fiction well before the Romantic period. It also argues that children in the Victorian novel, far from being sentimental figures, are psychologically unique and...

Parution : 2012-08-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Globalisms and Power
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Globalisms and Power


Tina (Athlone C.) Besley , Cameron Mccarthy , Michael Adrian Peters , Fazal Rizvi


Globalisms and Power examines the effects neoliberal globalization is having on Spanish and Portuguese educational and curriculum policies and practices. The book dissects the nexus between globalization (or globalisms) and power under a global policy momentum, and...

Parution : 2012-07-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Aesthetics, Empathy and Education
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Aesthetics, Empathy and Education


Tracie Constantino , Boyd White


«Empathy must be part of education because knowledge without it is incomplete» (Swanger, Essays in Aesthetic Education, 1990). Aesthetics, Empathy and Education pursues Swanger’s assertion in myriad ways. The text is divided into four sections. The first addresses...

Parution : 2012-07-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Media Interventions
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Media Interventions


Kevin Howley


This collection of essays, the first book-length treatment of its kind, explicates the concept of «media interventions», which are herein defined as activities and projects that secure, exercise, challenge or acquire media power for tactical and strategic action. ...

Parution : 2012-06-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Giorgio Vasari’s «Prefaces»
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Giorgio Vasari’s «Prefaces»


Liana De Girolami Cheney


Giorgio Vasari’s Prefaces: Art and Theory provides students and scholars alike with the opportunity to study and understand the art, theory, and visual culture ofGiorgio Vasari and sixteenth century Italy. For the first time all of Vasari’s Prefaces from the Lives of...

Parution : 2012-02-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Verbal Aspect, the Indicative Mood, and Narrative
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Verbal Aspect, the Indicative Mood, and Narrative


Constantine R. Campbell


Verbal aspect in Ancient Greek has been a topic of significant debate in recent scholarship. In this book, Constantine R. Campbell investigates the function of verbal aspect within New Testament Greek narrative. He argues that the primary role of verbal aspect in...

Parution : 2012-01-03
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Télécharger le livre :  The Double, the Labyrinth and the Locked Room
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The Double, the Labyrinth and the Locked Room


Ilana Shiloh


Traditional detective fiction celebrates the victory of order and reason over the senseless violence of crime. Yet in spite of its apparent valorization of rationality, the detective genre has been associated from its inception with three paradoxical motifs – the...

Parution : 2011-06-27
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Télécharger le livre :  El español y su sintaxis
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El español y su sintaxis


Silvia Burunat , Ángel L. Estévez , Aleksín H. Ortega


Este texto está escrito para estudiantes universitarios estadounidenses que han completado dos años de estudios de lengua española. Se puede usar, tanto en clases de estudiantes monolingües, como bilingües. El español y su sintaxis, Segunda edición, como su nombre lo...

Parution : 2011-03-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Henry Chauncey
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Henry Chauncey


Norbert Elliot


A leader in twentieth-century education, Henry Chauncey (1905–2002) introduced large-scale assessment into the lives of individual Americans. This first full-length educational biography examines Chauncey’s education at Groton School, Ohio State University, and Harvard...

Parution : 2010-11-30
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