Around the Point
Studies in Jewish Literature and Culture in Multiple Languages
This unique collection brings together scholars to explore Jewish literature across numerous languages. A significant endeavor, this volume tackles essential questions of Jewish identity, literary history, cultural influence, and Holocaust literature.
This unique collection brings together scholars to explore Jewish literature across numerous languages. A significant endeavor, this volume tackles essential questions of Jewish identity, literary history, cultural influence, and Holocaust literature.
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Sport and the Christian Religion
A Systematic Review of Literature
This book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the sports-Christianity interface from Protestant and Catholic perspectives. It offers an important response to the ‘win-at-all-costs’ philosophy of modern sport for students, academics, and coaches.
This book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the sports-Christianity interface from Protestant and Catholic perspectives. It offers an important response to the ‘win-at-all-costs’ philosophy of modern sport for students, academics, and coaches.
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Eat History
Food and Drink in Australia and Beyond
Eat History offers fascinating new insights into gastronomic studies and cultural history. Nine leading historians explore topics from vodka to patty cakes across the globe, engaging academics and general readers keen to discover how food opens up new areas of history.
Eat History offers fascinating new insights into gastronomic studies and cultural history. Nine leading historians explore topics from vodka to patty cakes across the globe, engaging academics and general readers keen to discover how food opens up new areas of history.
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Tabish Khair
Critical Perspectives
This volume approaches Tabish Khair’s writings from numerous perspectives, analyzing his social and political concerns. It is highly enriched by Khair's unpublished play, a satirical commentary on tourism and the ability of common Indians to adapt and thrive.
This volume approaches Tabish Khair’s writings from numerous perspectives, analyzing his social and political concerns. It is highly enriched by Khair’s unpublished play, a satirical commentary on tourism and the ability of common Indians to adapt and thrive.
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African Film
Looking Back and Looking Forward
This interdisciplinary book interrogates Africa’s filmic past, analyses current productions, and projects into the future. Traversing politics, economics, and history, it explores production, marketing, gender, race, and legal issues.
This interdisciplinary book interrogates Africa’s filmic past, analyses current productions, and projects into the future. Traversing politics, economics, and history, it explores production, marketing, gender, race, and legal issues.
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I See Me, You See Me
Inferring Cognitive and Emotional Processes from Gazing Behaviour
This book showcases the state of the art in eye tracking research by bringing together work from a wide range of application areas. This peer-reviewed selection of chapters provides an overview of the latest research that will inspire and guide students and developers.
This book showcases the state of the art in eye tracking research by bringing together work from a wide range of application areas. This peer-reviewed selection of chapters provides an overview of the latest research that will inspire and guide students and developers.
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Europe as a Multiple Modernity
Multiplicity of Religious Identities and Belonging
Challenging predominant modernity theory, this book argues Europe is a multiple modernity. Essays explore the plurality of religious identities and belonging in the everyday lives of individuals, focusing on their multiple senses of identification.
Challenging predominant modernity theory, this book argues Europe is a multiple modernity. Essays explore the plurality of religious identities and belonging in the everyday lives of individuals, focusing on their multiple senses of identification.
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The European Debt Crisis
Causes, Consequences, Measures and Remedies
The global financial crisis led to a European sovereign debt crisis that threatens the future of the EU. This book provides answers from theoretical and empirical perspectives, exploring the causes, consequences, and potential solutions to the ongoing crisis.
The global financial crisis led to a European sovereign debt crisis that threatens the future of the EU. This book provides answers from theoretical and empirical perspectives, exploring the causes, consequences, and potential solutions to the ongoing crisis.
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The Fire Within
Desire in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature
Hailed as the core of human identity, desire shapes our actions and dreams. This collection of essays explores how desire is portrayed in modern Italian literature, showing it to be the secret motor of the narrative in works of the last two centuries.
Hailed as the core of human identity, desire shapes our actions and dreams. This collection of essays explores how desire is portrayed in modern Italian literature, showing it to be the secret motor of the narrative in works of the last two centuries.
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Ninety Years of the Abruzzo National Park 1922-2012
Proceedings of the Conference held in Pescasseroli, May 18-20, 2012
The Abruzzo National Park is one of the oldest protected areas in Europe. This volume reconstructs the highlights of the Park’s troubled but influential history and its connections with environmentalism and Italian society at large.
The Abruzzo National Park is one of the oldest protected areas in Europe. This volume reconstructs the highlights of the Park’s troubled but influential history and its connections with environmentalism and Italian society at large.
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Displaced Women
Multilingual Narratives of Migration in Europe
These interdisciplinary essays explore women’s narratives of displacement, transcending the idea of ‘national identity’. The contributors compel us to rethink ‘mother tongue’ and linguistic ownership, and ask how women express their ‘permanent strangeness’.
These interdisciplinary essays explore women’s narratives of displacement, transcending the idea of ‘national identity’. The contributors compel us to rethink ‘mother tongue’ and linguistic ownership, and ask how women express their ‘permanent strangeness’.
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This volume explores the ethics of National Socialism, from its ideology of racial warfare and “euthanasia” killings to the moral convictions of perpetrators who acted with a “good conscience.” It connects Nazi ideology to current ethical challenges.
This volume explores the ethics of National Socialism, from its ideology of racial warfare and “euthanasia” killings to the moral convictions of perpetrators who acted with a “good conscience.” It connects Nazi ideology to current ethical challenges.
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Social Informatics
Past, Present and Future
This state-of-the-art review of 21st century social informatics explores its past, present, and future. Emphasizing the core relationship among people, ICT, and social life, it demonstrates that this research is more necessary now than ever.
This state-of-the-art review of 21st century social informatics explores its past, present, and future. Emphasizing the core relationship among people, ICT, and social life, it demonstrates that this research is more necessary now than ever.
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Society in its Challenges
Philosophical Considerations of Living in Society
To what extent can philosophical thinking address the challenges of living in society? This book answers this question, offering an analysis of fundamental issues and providing a philosophical vision for the creative advance of society.
To what extent can philosophical thinking address the challenges of living in society? This book answers this question, offering an analysis of fundamental issues and providing a philosophical vision for the creative advance of society.
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£44.99
This book argues that UK government policy on “better parenting” promoted a middle-class model which misunderstood and devalued other approaches, reproducing social inequality and failing to support mothers who diverged from this ideal.
This book argues that UK government policy on “better parenting” promoted a middle-class model which misunderstood and devalued other approaches, reproducing social inequality and failing to support mothers who diverged from this ideal.
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This multi-faceted account reveals the complex foundations of conflicts between north and south, and recently within South Sudan itself. Hopes for a new democratic society have devolved to dysfunction as both nations face grave problems in security and stability.
This multi-faceted account reveals the complex foundations of conflicts between north and south, and recently within South Sudan itself. Hopes for a new democratic society have devolved to dysfunction as both nations face grave problems in security and stability.
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£44.99
Explore 20 interdisciplinary essays on the social factors shaping education from youth to adulthood. A vital tool for professionals and anyone passionate about lifelong learning, this collection offers fresh insights into continuous education.
Explore 20 interdisciplinary essays on the social factors shaping education from youth to adulthood. A vital tool for professionals and anyone passionate about lifelong learning, this collection offers fresh insights into continuous education.
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Literature and translation are creative acts of interpretation. This volume explores their shared identity, looking at how an expanded idea of translation illuminates intercultural communication and resists the systematizing imperatives of globalization.
Literature and translation are creative acts of interpretation. This volume explores their shared identity, looking at how an expanded idea of translation illuminates intercultural communication and resists the systematizing imperatives of globalization.
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Challenges of Discourse Processing
The Case of Technical Documents
This book shows how linguistic analysis and natural language processing can automatically recognize the discourse structures of technical documents. It presents concrete solutions which can be deployed in industrial contexts to improve document quality.
This book shows how linguistic analysis and natural language processing can automatically recognize the discourse structures of technical documents. It presents concrete solutions which can be deployed in industrial contexts to improve document quality.
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£39.99
European identity is both a problem and an opportunity. This interdisciplinary volume examines its complex facets—from cultural politics to digital media—to clarify and even create a new sense of what it means to be European.
European identity is both a problem and an opportunity. This interdisciplinary volume examines its complex facets—from cultural politics to digital media—to clarify and even create a new sense of what it means to be European.
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