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Del este de Europa al sur de América : migraciones soviéticas y postsoviéticas a la ciudad de Bucaramanga, Santander
(2015)
El objetivo principal de esta obra es reconstruir los procesos migratorios que llevaron a los migrantes de la ex Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas, a residir en Bucaramanga (Colombia). Así mismo, se indaga sobre ...
Aspects of the Performative in Medieval Culture
(2010)
The volume assesses performative structures within a variety of medieval forms of textuality, from vernacular literature to records of parliamentary proceedings, from prayer books to musical composition. Three issues are ...
Discourse, Politics and Media in Contemporary China
(2014)
After three and a half decades of economic reforms, radical changes have occurred in all aspects of life in China. In an authoritarian society, these changes are mediated significantly through the power of language, carefully ...
Enhancing Autonomy in Language Education. A Case-Based Approach to Teacher and Learner Development
(2015)
The enhancement of autonomy in language education relies heavily on teachers` empowerment and agency as critical intellectuals and reflective practitioners. However, most teacher education programmes are still based on ...
Faking, Forging, Counterfeiting
(2017)
Forgeries are an omnipresent part of our culture. They are closely related to historically and culturally informed ideas of authenticity, legality, authorship, creativity, tradition and innovation. Based on the concept of ...
Judging 'Privileged' Jews : Holocaust Ethics, Representation, and the 'Grey Zone'
(2013)
The Nazis’ persecution of the Jews during the Holocaust included the creation of prisoner hierarchies that forced victims to cooperate with their persecutors. Many in the camps and ghettos came to hold so-called “privileged” ...
Impedance Spectroscopy. Advanced Applications: Battery Research, Bioimpedance, System Design
(2019)
This book covers new advances in the field of impedance spectroscopy including fundamentals, methods and applications. It releases selected extended and peer reviewed scientific contributions from the International Workshop ...
Großerzählungen des Extremen
(2018)
Was macht radikale Weltbilder so attraktiv? Und wie lässt sich die Renaissance des Extremismus kultur- und sozialwissenschaftlich erklären? Sprach man bis vor Kurzem noch davon, dass Großerzählungen auf dem Schrottplatz ...
Large Scale Inverse Problems. Computational Methods and Applications in the Earth Sciences
(2013)
This book is thesecond volume of a three volume series recording the Radon Special Semester 2011 on Multiscale Simulation & Analysis in Energy and the Environment that took placein Linz, Austria, October 3-7, 2011. This ...
Writing the Yugoslav Wars
(2017-01-09)
In Writing the Yugoslav Wars, Dragana Obradović analyses how the Yugoslav wars of secession helped shape the region’s literary culture. Obradović argues that the crisis of the country’s disintegration posed an ethical ...
Awesome Families
(2005-11-01)
In Awesome Families, Kathleen Jenkins draws on four years of ethnographic research to explain how and why so many individuals-primarily from middle- to upper-middle-class backgrounds-were attracted to this religious group ...
Anthropology Without Informants
(2009-05-31)
"It is my sincere hope that this volume will be much read and reflected upon by new generations of American students of prehistoric archaeologists. Freeman's career is a model for long-term international collaboration, ...
Muße und Erzählen: ein poetologischer Zusammenhang
(2016-08-26)
Gibt es einen poetologischen Zusammenhang zwischen Muße und Erzählen? Thomas Klinkert untersucht dies anhand literarischer Texte in italienischer, französischer, spanischer und deutscher Sprache vom Mittelalter bis zur ...
Go East, Young Man
(2011-10-20)
"[Francaviglia's] book is of great value, particularly in its illuminating showcasing of the degree to which the American West was consistently compared to aspects of the Middle East, from desert sands and rock formations ...
Life in Cyberspace (Volume 5)
(2019)
Internet is a real place. Every time we switch on our computers, use a program or an application, or log in to a social media site, we enter a virtual space made up of worlds, domains, forums and rooms. But we behave ...
Creation in Crisis
(2014)
Are Christians fulfilling the stewardship commandment of Genesis to care for God's household? When we speak of the "environmental crisis" facing the planet, we reduce the coming catastrophe to a physical problem. In ...
Paradise Blues
(2024)
Paradise Blues is an unconventional history of the United States of America, an unusual travel guide that follows and renders visible the country’s paths of nature, history and civilisation. Christof Mauch is a leading ...
Bible and Ecology
(2010)
In this well-argued and timely book, Bauckham considers the relationship of humans to the rest of creation.He argues that there is much more to the Bible’s understanding of this relationship than the mandate of human ...
Making Things Happen
(2022)
Drawing on the Pakistan Earthquake Reconstruction and Recovery Project (PERRP), this volume explores the sociocultural side of post-disaster infrastructure reconstruction. As the latter is often fraught with delays and ...
Sovereign Justice
(2010-12-14)
Over the past years global justice has established itself as one of the new and most promising frontiers of political theory. Sovereign Justice collects valuable contributions from scholars of both continental and analytic ...