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The foreigner’s guide to german universities
Figuring out the many new terms confronting international students at German-language universities can be difficult. Even if the degree program is in English, most administrative work has to be done in German, and the bureaucratic university jargon is a language in and of itself. This guide aims ...
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Borders and margins
The theory and concept of multi-level governance (MLG) is a fairly recent one, emerging from the deepening integration of the European Union in the early 1990s and the development of free trade agreements around the world. MLG enlarges the traditional approaches, namely those of neo-institutional...
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Hungarian jews during the holocaust and after the second world war, 1939-1949
While most studies of the Holocaust stop in 1945, the year of the liberation and the official end of the Holocaust, Tamás Stark follows the fate of the Hungarian Jews until the Communist takeover in the late 1940s. The basic problem confronting quantitative experts in Holocaust studies is the dif...
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About canada: disability rights
In the second edition of About Canada: Disability Rights, Deborah Steinstra explores the historical and current experiences of people with disabilities in Canada, as well as the policy and advocacy responses to these experiences.
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Overcoming the deficit view of the migrant other
What contribution can a humanistic pedagogy make in the context of a migration society? This book illustrates the deficit-oriented pressure to assimilate that foreigners are often subjected to and develops proposals for a universalistic alternative to the prevailing particularistic approaches in ...
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Common boundaries
How do we – and how should we – engage with the natural environment through the concepts of rights and responsibilities? Michael Cox develops a theory and practice of environmental property rights, moving beyond simplistic assumptions that do not reflect the diversity of arrangements we see in th...
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Alterity and transcendence
Internationally renowned as one of the great French philosophers of the twentieth century, the late Emmanuel Levinas remains a pivotal figure across the humanistic disciplines for his insistence—against the grain of Western philosophical tradition—on the primacy of ethics in philosophical investi...
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Latino pentecostal identity
Of the thirty-seven million Latinos living in the United States, nearly five million declare themselves to be either Pentecostal or Charismatic, and more convert every day. Latino Pentecostal Identity examines the historical and contemporary rise of Pentecostalism among Latinos, their conversion ...
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Frontier taiwan
Taiwan has evolved dramatically from a little-known island to an internationally acclaimed economic miracle and thriving democracy. The history of modern Taiwanese poetry parallels and tells the story of this transformation from periphery to frontier. Containing translations of nearly 400 poems f...
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O my friends, there is no friend
The porous renditions of being-together animated by friendship can spark a repoliticization of the political to surpass the foreclosures of the state, speak to a freedom of movement, and find renovated relationships with the more-than-human.
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Rites of return
The first decade of the twenty-first century witnessed a passionate engagement with the losses of the past. Rites of Return examines the effects of this legacy of historical injustice and documented suffering on the politics of the present. Twenty-four writers, historians, literary and cultural c...
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The role of law in social work practice and administration
The strong nexus between law and social work is beyond dispute: the law informs day-to-day social work practice and administration, and social workers are employed by the courts. Moreover, they work collaboratively with attorneys in legal aid offices, public defenders'offices, and other law enfor...
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Virginia woolf
Winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt award for biography, this remarkable portrait sheds new light on Virginia Woolf’s relationships with her family and friends and how they shaped her work. Forrester weaves a colorful, intense drama that forces readers to rethink their understanding of Woolf,...
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Grist
Shortlisted for the 2015 Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction“This is the story of how you were loved,” Penelope MacLaughlin whispers to her granddaughter.Penelope MacLaughlin marries a miller and gradually discovers he is not as she imagined. Nonetheless she remains determined to make th...
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Under swiss protection
This volume retraces Carl Lutz's wartime rescue efforts in Budapest based on interviews with Holocaust survivors and Jewish eyewitness testimonies. Lutz led an extensive rescue operation that issued more than 50,000 lifesaving letters of protection. This volume shines a light on the extraordinary...
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Unrecognized war
This essay collection argues that what is at stake in Ukraine is not just territory, but the historic trajectory for the world’s democracies.
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Inside data science
Inside Data Science examines how data scientists defined their professional role and identity, offering an empirically rich and theoretically grounded account of the emergence of a new field.
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Women, men, and spiritual power
In Women, Men, and Spiritual Power, John Coakley explores male-authored narratives of the lives of Catherine of Siena, Hildegard of Bingen, Angela of Foligno, and six other female prophets or mystics of the late Middle Ages. His readings reveal the complex personal and literary relationships betw...
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Understanding contemporary ukrainian and russian nationalism
This monograph explores the causes and conditions of postcommunist nationalist revivals focusing on the reemergence of Cossack movements in Russia and Ukraine since the late 1980s. The study explores how different theories of nationalism underpinned different national policies and, ultimately, th...
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Energy and environment in india
Johannes Urpelainen provides an expert guide to India’s energy and environmental issues that incorporates both domestic and global perspectives. He details how unequal economic development and rapid population growth have brought the country to its current state.
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The remains of being
In Basic Concepts, Heidegger claims that "Being is the most worn-out" and yet also that Being "remains constantly available." Santiago Zabala radicalizes the consequences of these little known but significant affirmations. Revisiting the work of Jacques Derrida, Reiner Schürmann, Jean-Luc Nancy, ...
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Chimeras of form
Aarthi Vadde shows why modernist literary form is essential to understanding the aspirational and analytical force of internationalism in and beyond Europe. She explains how major writers use modernist strategies to reshape how readers think about the cohesion and interrelation of political commu...
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Russia before the full-scale war vol. ii
This collection illustrates some of the factors in Russia's preparation for its tragic escalation in Ukraine.
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Negotiating religion in modern china
Shuk-wah Poon traces the history of the Chinese state's relationship with religion from 1900 to 1937. The revolutionary regime failed condemned religious practice in the early twentieth century, suppressing "superstitious" belief in favor of a secular, more enlightened society. Drawing on newspap...
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Kuhn's legacy
Bojana Mladenović offers a novel analysis of Thomas Kuhn’s central philosophical project. Kuhn’s Legacy demonstrates the vitality of Kuhn’s philosophical project and its importance for the study of the philosophy and history of science today.
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Proximity
Robert C. Wolcott and Kaihan Krippendorff provide an indispensable guide to the Proximity revolution, showing how it’s transforming every industry—and our lives.
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Prose edda
The Prose Edda is part cosmic origin story, part poetic handbook, and part mythic encyclopedia.
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Reweaving the economy
Information technology (IT) affects every aspect of modern society from daily communication to business models and politics. Developments in IT are especially important to business organizations. They not only alter the internal structure of departments and divisions but also the relationships am...
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Community practice skills
Dorothy N. Gamble and Marie Weil differentiate among a range of intervention methods to provide a comprehensive and effective guide to working with communities. Presenting eight distinct models grounded in current practice and targeted toward specific goals, Gamble and Weil take an unusually inc...
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Mind your writing
In order to write and publish successfully, academic writers must be aware of their skills and their role as writers. They need to be able to answer fundamental questions about their writing, enabling them to make conscious and strategic decisions. Only in that way they will become writing profes...
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Lead us into temptation
Coke adds life. Just do it. Yo quiero Taco Bell. We live in a commercial age, awash in a sea of brand names, logos, and advertising jingles—not to mention commodities themselves. Are shoppers merely the unwitting stooges of the greedy producers who will stop at nothing to sell their wares? Are th...
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Uptown conversation
Jackson Pollock dancing to the music as he painted; Romare Bearden's stage and costume designs for Alvin Ailey and Dianne McIntyre; Stanley Crouch stirring his high-powered essays in a room where a drumkit stands at the center: from the perspective of the new jazz studies, jazz is not only a musi...
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Reflections on the future of the left
What is the future for progressive politics in advanced capitalism? With its political fortunes so low, how might the Left move forward?These essays from leading left intellectuals – Dean Baker, Fred Block, David Coates, Hilary Wainwright, Colin Crouch, Wolfgang Streeck, Leo Panitch, Sam Gindin a...
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De silva, negotiating the borders of the gender regime
Adrian de Silva traces how sexology, the law, federal politics, and the trans movement interacted to generate or challenge concepts of trans(sexuality) from the mid-1960s to 2014 in Germany. The interdisciplinary study draws upon and contributes to debates in (trans)gender and queer studies, soci...
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Decolonising the future academy in africa and beyond
Decolonising academia in Africa? Inspiration from the development of anthropology at African universities and international collaboration on par.
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Societies, religion, and history
Scholars often equate a Swahili presence with the moment history began on the Tanzanian central coast. In this book, Rhonda M. Gonzales proposes an altogether different and more comprehensive narrative. Societies, Religion, and History is the first study to apply historical linguistic methods to ...
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The secret financial life of food
One morning while reading Barron's, Kara Newman took note of a casual bit of advice offered by famed commodities trader Jim Rogers. "Buy breakfast," he told investors, referring to the increasing value of pork belly and frozen orange juice futures. The statement inspired Newman to take a closer l...
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A new eastern question?
This book explores the intersection of international politics in the post-Yugoslav states with a focus on the influence and impact of the European Union, the United States, Russia, China, and Turkey. The implications of external actors’ policy in the region for its Euro-Atlantic integration, its ...
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Warrior life
Pamela Palmater addresses a range of Indigenous issues and makes their complex political and legal implications accessible. Warrior Life is an unflinching critique of the colonial project that is Canada and a rallying cry for Indigenous peoples and allies alike to forge a path toward a decolonial...
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Stress, trauma, and decision-making for social workers
Cheryl Regehr explores the intersection between workplace stress, trauma exposure, and professional decision-making in social workers. She weaves together practice experience, research on the impact of stress and trauma on performance in other high-risk professions, and the empirical study of com...
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Ethnic entrepreneurs unmasked
Based on an institutional approach to ethnic conflict, Petar Cholakov highlights the idiosyncrasies of, and the challenges to, interethnic relations in Bulgaria. He traces the emergence of the currently implemented Bulgarian ethnic model in its interconnection with the party system, and especiall...
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Sex among allies
This study examines and illuminates how the lives of Korean prostitutes in the 1970s served as the invisible underpinnings to US-Korean military policies at the highest level.
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Payments in lieu of taxes
Payments in lieu of taxes (PILOT) programs for nonprofits provide crucial revenue for many municipalities, but they are not perfect. Through case studies and research, this report provides guidelines for when municipalities should consider PILOTs, highlights the importance of municipal–nonprofit ...
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Medicinal resources of the tropical forest
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A constitution of the people and how to achieve it
Britain does not have a written constitution. By contrast, Bosnia’s constitution was written overnight in Dayton to conclude a devastating war. What might these seemingly unrelated countries be able to teach each other? Not just about Bosnia and Britain, this book sets out examples for other plur...
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Statistics by prescription
This manual presents the guide-like introduction to statistical techniques particulary oriented on medicine. The exercises present in the book make possible the self-education based on the international program SAS.
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Digital culture & society (dcs)
This issue discusses how computer art from the pioneering days is now being reframed as digital, post-digital or algorithmic art under the prevailing conditions of big data, smart AI, an almost all-encompassing surveillance technology and a political state of neo-liberalism.
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The people’s money
The People's Money introduces readers to China's monetary system, mapping its evolution over the past century and, particularly, its transformation since Deng Xiaoping took power in 1978. Paola Subacchi shows that the key to understanding China's economic predicament lies in past and future strat...
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Update liberalism
The essays in this book show that liberalism as a school of thought is not dead and they present new liberal concepts to cope with the great challenges of our time.
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Transpacific attachments
Lily Wong studies the transpacific mobility and mobilization of the sex worker figure, illuminating the intersectional politics of racial, sexual, and class structures. Transpacific Attachments examines shifting depictions of Chinese sex workers in popular media from the early twentieth century t...
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