Jimmy Du’s Essential Chinese
Jimmy Du’s Natural Language Works
Master Mandarin Chinese in the shortest time possible. With this audio course, you'll pick it up naturally while relaxing or commuting. Forget classrooms, grammar, and exercises. Just listen, imitate, and put the language to use.
Master Mandarin Chinese in the shortest time possible. With this audio course, you’ll pick it up naturally while relaxing or commuting. Forget classrooms, grammar, and exercises. Just listen, imitate, and put the language to use.
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Though resented, grief and grieving occupy a significant place in culture. Culture and the Rites/Rights of Grief offers an intellectual excursion into their imposing presence at the intersection of present-day literary, cultural and political phenomena.
Though resented, grief and grieving occupy a significant place in culture. Culture and the Rites/Rights of Grief offers an intellectual excursion into their imposing presence at the intersection of present-day literary, cultural and political phenomena.
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This book is both an introductory synthesis of Modern Portugal and a collection of studies on state formation. It creates a narrative of a country struggling for modernization, making the Portuguese case a useful tool for wider debates on modernity.
This book is both an introductory synthesis of Modern Portugal and a collection of studies on state formation. It creates a narrative of a country struggling for modernization, making the Portuguese case a useful tool for wider debates on modernity.
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Gender, Agency and Violence
European Perspectives from Early Modern Times to the Present Day
This volume centres on male and female perpetrators of violence in European literature, cinema, and art from the 16th to 20th century. It explores how the arts and media respond to historical turning points that challenge the link between gender, agency and violence.
This volume centres on male and female perpetrators of violence in European literature, cinema, and art from the 16th to 20th century. It explores how the arts and media respond to historical turning points that challenge the link between gender, agency and violence.
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A Southern Nigerian Community
Case Study Ughelli
A social and cultural study of a Nigerian city where hustle and insecurity define the everyday. The book explores the struggle for progress, the dynamics of religious faith in a city of a thousand churches, and the nature of time in an undocumented culture.
A social and cultural study of a Nigerian city where hustle and insecurity define the everyday. The book explores the struggle for progress, the dynamics of religious faith in a city of a thousand churches, and the nature of time in an undocumented culture.
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This collection of scholarly critiques explores recent Indian English novels by authors such as Amitav Ghosh and Aravind Adiga. The volume focuses on emerging genres, from crime fiction and science fiction to LGBT voices and postcolonial narratives.
This collection of scholarly critiques explores recent Indian English novels by authors such as Amitav Ghosh and Aravind Adiga. The volume focuses on emerging genres, from crime fiction and science fiction to LGBT voices and postcolonial narratives.
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This collection explores risk-taking as agency in women's autobiographical narratives in French. Essays discuss courage, resilience, and freedom, examining how women challenge conventions and overcome obstacles to ameliorate their lives.
This collection explores risk-taking as agency in women’s autobiographical narratives in French. Essays discuss courage, resilience, and freedom, examining how women challenge conventions and overcome obstacles to ameliorate their lives.
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Education Loan and Inclusive Growth
India in a Comparative Perspective
This book explores education loans as a tool for financing higher education in developing countries. Using India as a case study, it reveals how the system excludes the poor and formulates an action plan to make it an inclusive financing tool.
This book explores education loans as a tool for financing higher education in developing countries. Using India as a case study, it reveals how the system excludes the poor and formulates an action plan to make it an inclusive financing tool.
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This volume brings together contributions on recent developments in dialectology, offering a panorama of case studies from Basque, Romance, Germanic, Celtic, and Slavic languages. Chapters explore quantitative methods and the growing field of dialect syntax.
This volume brings together contributions on recent developments in dialectology, offering a panorama of case studies from Basque, Romance, Germanic, Celtic, and Slavic languages. Chapters explore quantitative methods and the growing field of dialect syntax.
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Discourses That Matter
Selected Essays on English and American Studies
Confronting our age of deep instability, this collection asks how English and American Studies can intervene. The essays explore how discourses on gender, race, and power matter, demonstrating the field's capacity to foster critical thought and challenge injustice.
Confronting our age of deep instability, this collection asks how English and American Studies can intervene. The essays explore how discourses on gender, race, and power matter, demonstrating the field’s capacity to foster critical thought and challenge injustice.
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Colour in Sculpture
A Survey from Ancient Mesopotamia to the Present
This book introduces sculpture across five millennia, exploring the intentional relationship between colour and form. It suggests that whether used for cultural custom or to enhance expression, polychromy adds another dimension of encoded meaning.
This book introduces sculpture across five millennia, exploring the intentional relationship between colour and form. It suggests that whether used for cultural custom or to enhance expression, polychromy adds another dimension of encoded meaning.
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This book examines the political response to environmental concerns in the British Isles. It explores debates on climate change and nuclear energy, the link between landscape and identity, and the discrepancy between political promises and implemented policies.
This book examines the political response to environmental concerns in the British Isles. It explores debates on climate change and nuclear energy, the link between landscape and identity, and the discrepancy between political promises and implemented policies.
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Contested Boundaries
New Critical Essays on the Fiction of Toni Morrison
Contested Boundaries uses Toni Morrison’s enigmatic novel, A Mercy, as a locus to discuss her entire canon. Essays explore her re-figuration of core themes—the legacy of slavery, trauma, and love—charting a shift in her work to open up new ways of interrogating her writing.
Contested Boundaries uses Toni Morrison’s enigmatic novel, A Mercy, as a locus to discuss her entire canon. Essays explore her re-figuration of core themes—the legacy of slavery, trauma, and love—charting a shift in her work to open up new ways of interrogating her writing.
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Lexical Issues of UNL
Universal Networking Language 2012 Panel
This book explores the Universal Networking Language (UNL), an artificial language designed for machines to represent knowledge independently of human languages. It highlights UNL’s fundamental principles and shows how their materialization has evolved over time.
This book explores the Universal Networking Language (UNL), an artificial language designed for machines to represent knowledge independently of human languages. It highlights UNL’s fundamental principles and shows how their materialization has evolved over time.
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This volume examines the resurgent influence of Language Learning in Translation Studies and the contemporary ways translation is used in Language Teaching. It explores the possibilities and limitations of this interplay, raising important questions for a new era.
This volume examines the resurgent influence of Language Learning in Translation Studies and the contemporary ways translation is used in Language Teaching. It explores the possibilities and limitations of this interplay, raising important questions for a new era.
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Envisaging Death
Visual Culture and Dying
This book connects Death Studies to visual culture, arguing death is not universal. Who you are and where you live influences how your death is imaged and imagined, exploring how the distance between the living and the dead is both reinforced and disrupted.
This book connects Death Studies to visual culture, arguing death is not universal. Who you are and where you live influences how your death is imaged and imagined, exploring how the distance between the living and the dead is both reinforced and disrupted.
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Sharing Concerns
Country Case Studies in Public-Private Partnerships
This book draws together case analyses of public-private partnerships in Australia, France, Romania and Spain. The study illustrates that these partnerships are very adaptable and can take a variety of forms in different industries, regions or legal frameworks.
This book draws together case analyses of public-private partnerships in Australia, France, Romania and Spain. The study illustrates that these partnerships are very adaptable and can take a variety of forms in different industries, regions or legal frameworks.
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Mutual (In)Comprehensions
France and Britain in the Long Nineteenth Century
This collection of essays explores the complex relationship between France and Britain in the nineteenth century. With both admiration and anxiety, each nation used its “best enemy” to shape its own national identity through art, literature, and history.
This collection of essays explores the complex relationship between France and Britain in the nineteenth century. With both admiration and anxiety, each nation used its “best enemy” to shape its own national identity through art, literature, and history.
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Testimony, Witness, Authority
The Politics and Poetics of Experience
This international, interdisciplinary collection of essays examines how testimony, witness, and authority shape human experience. Scholars and artists explore how stories bear witness to experience through a web of verbal and near-verbal media.
This international, interdisciplinary collection of essays examines how testimony, witness, and authority shape human experience. Scholars and artists explore how stories bear witness to experience through a web of verbal and near-verbal media.
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Social Realism
Art, Nationhood and Politics
This book presents a radical reappraisal of British social realism, arguing it is a distinctive art cinema. Through analysis of key figures from Ken Loach and Mike Leigh to Andrea Arnold, it reassesses this most British of cinematic traditions.
This book presents a radical reappraisal of British social realism, arguing it is a distinctive art cinema. Through analysis of key figures from Ken Loach and Mike Leigh to Andrea Arnold, it reassesses this most British of cinematic traditions.
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