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Mircea Eliade: From Magic to Myth addresses a series of topics that have been neglected in scholarship. First and foremost, the book looks at the early Romanian background of some of Eliade’s ideas, especially his magical universe, which took on a more mythical nature...
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Die unsichtbaren Kami sind auch im modernen Japan allgegenwärtig.Die vom Shinto verehrten Geistwesen der Natur prägen bis heute das Selbstverständnis der Japaner.Die Autorin stellt heraus, dass sich die religiösen Muster des Shinto auf das ungewöhnliche Weltbild der...
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This book provides an insider view of Haida language, history, and culture, and offers a perspective on Haida culture that comes not only from external research but also from intimate knowledge and experiences the author has had as a Haida Nation citizen. The book’s...
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Language, Nation, and Identity in the Classroom critiques the normalizing aspects of schooling and the taken-for-granted assumptions in education about culture, identity, language, and learning. The text applies theories of postmodernism, postcolonialism, and other...
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This book is written to satisfy the individual’s desire for intellectual stimulation, to sow in the mind the seed of new ideas, and involve the reader in productive debates. It covers culture, history and the future, raising questions, presenting arguments and engaging...
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The Convergence Crisis tells the story of an impending paradigm shift in advertising. Beginning in the early 1840s with the birth of the first advertising agency and momentum spurred by industrial systems, the book provides a historical overview of significant events...
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This volume is a critical introduction to the poetry of Irish writer Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill. Writing poetry exclusively in Irish but allowing and overseeing translations of her work into several languages, primarily English, Ní Dhomhnaill is the first Irish-language poet...
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Kulturen bzw. Gesellschaften in ihrer spezifischen Prägung haben systemischen Charakter und bedürfen einer ganzheitlichen Betrachtung. Im Zuge entwicklungspolitischer Maßnahmen erfolgen Wissens- und Technologietransfer untrennbar vom Kulturtransfer. Eine Nahtstelle...
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Europa und Fernsehen – wie passt das zueinander? Die zwei Begriffe werden im Alltag üblicherweise nicht zusammen gedacht. Wenn das ProjektEuropa jedoch auch zukünftig erfolgreich sein soll, werden die Bürger inEuropa mehr miteinander überEuropa kommunizieren müssen....
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The book offers an interdisciplinary but very grounded look at the question of memory politics in contemporary Poland. It describes the conflicting ways in which two groups of people – the former anti-communist activists and the former officers of the repressive regime...
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The impact agenda is set to shape the way in which social scientists prioritise the work they choose to pursue, the research methods they use and how they publish their findings over the coming decade, but how much is currently known about how social science research...
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The issue of protecting essential infrastructure against the threat of terrorist attack is one which continues to concern governments worldwide. But terrorism is not the only threat this infrastructure may face: environmental hazards, industrial accidents and sabotage...
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This book contained the autobiographical testimonials of a selected group of geographers who migrated to one side to another of the Canada-US border. As these various authors remind us, becoming a migrant is about much more than finding the right ...
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This book picks up two mega trends: On the one hand population figures demonstrate the structural transition of the majority of western industrial nations.This demographic change has manifold consequences, especially on companies and their clients. On the other hand...
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Central-Eastern Europe, in the mid-20th century, was a scene of Holocaust, mass killings, war, deportations and forced resettlements under the competing totalitarian invasions and afterwards. It was also the area where churches, politicians and citizens were engaged in...
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Der Generationenvergleich in diesem Buch stellt anhand qualitativer Interviews mit Vertretern der Geburtsjahre 1930 bis 1988 ostdeutsche Selbstwahrnehmungen dar. Dies geschieht im Hinblick auf ihre generationellen Eigenheiten in den Einstellungen zur DDR und...
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The book focuses on the presentation of some basic figures of memory that are present in the twenty-six novels by the Yiddish writer Sholem Asch. This study shows how memory is crystallized in the experience of surrounding landscapes and nature, and particularly in the...
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'The editors of the new SAGE Handbook of Regression Analysis and Causal Inference have assembled a wide-ranging, high-quality, and timely collection of articles on topics of central importance to quantitative social research, many written by leaders in the field....
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This book tries to answer some intriguing questions concerning the power of agoral gatherings. The 20th century is discussed as an age of crowds and masses. The book asks why the communist system disappeared in Europe during the last two decades of the 20th century and...
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This interdisciplinary book includes contributions from scholars from different parts of the world from the fields of political science, economy, sociology, social work, philosophy, and education. The major topics deal with contemporary challenges in social analysis,...
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