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This groundbreaking anthology examines the phenomenon of crime and our historical understanding – and misunderstanding – of the criminal mind through the lens of the humanities, unpacking foundational concepts in criminology and criminal investigative analysis through...
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Within the context of the Lutheran Church in Nigeria, Gongola Diocese, this book examines the issues of the interpretation, transmission, and appropriation of the doctrine of justification by faith alone. Using contextualization as the main tool in this exploration,...
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About 9,000 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany settled in Australia between 1933 and 1945, a small fraction of the hundreds of thousands who fled. Although initially greeted with a mixed reception as «enemy aliens», some of these refugees remained and made a significant...
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Die Monografie umreißt die polonistische Textsortenforschung in ihren wichtigsten Strömungen und Entwicklungslinien. Teil I führt in den theoretischen Kontext ein und stellt das Begriffsinstrumentarium der Forschungsdisziplin vor. Es wird dabei eine integrative...
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Die Monographie bietet einen Überblick über verschiedene Raumkonzepte der modernen Literaturforschung. Es werden Orte und Unorte, historische und gegenwärtige Regionen, mentale Räume der Kultur und Bildung, der Natur und Landschaften, die sich mit den Phänomenen der...
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Charles Dickens, celebrated novelist and journalist, believed that his greatest ability as a writer was to make people laugh. Yet, to date, humor has been strangely marginalized in journalism, communication and media studies. This innovative book draws together the work...
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Providing you with a wide-ranging introduction to key international issues in crime and its control, this book covers all essential theories, and clearly explains their relevance to the world today. Going beyond just looking at organized crime, the book covers a range...
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The author studies ethnic stereotypes in the history of English from the perspective of Cognitive Linguistics. He views an ethnic stereotype as an idealised cognitive model (ICM) which consists of a cluster of metonymic submodels (such as BODY, CUISINE, NAME, etc.)....
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This collection of essays on popular culture and politics in the Americas presents the study of ethnographic and historical data from different countries: Canada, United States, Mexico, Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina. Each chapter brings to light a distinct focus on the...
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Protecting children from abuse and neglect is a serious and complex area of social work practice and understanding the critical skills of communicating with and listening to children's voices, and those of their advocates and survivors, is essential. In this new edition...
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History and Education is a text that engages the history of the global class war, from the United States to the former Soviet Union, from the People’s Republic of China to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, in order to contribute to the development of communist...
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Der Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkrieges wurde von der überwiegenden Zahl der deutschen Intellektuellen und Schriftsteller emphatisch begrüßt – auch von den deutschen Juden, die im Kampf fürs Vaterland eine Möglichkeit sahen, ihren Patriotismus und ihre gelungene...
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Prostitution ist scheinbar genauso alt wie die Menschheit selbst und gilt nicht von ungefähr als das «älteste Gewerbe» überhaupt. Dieser Band versteht sich als interdisziplinäre, chronologisch sowie global umfassende Analyse des Phänomens und bietet dem Fachpublikum und...
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The term «house of art» designates the cultural phenomenon and creative mode in modernity associated with an artist’s residence as his own creation and as his product of a need to create which is unfulfilled in the painter’s, writer’s or composer’s actual field. This...
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The contributions in this volume reflect discussions and controversies during the Princeton University Conference on Polish-Jewish Studies (April 18–19, 2015).The debates examined the politics of history in Poland, as well as the scholarly and pedagogical need to move...
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This encyclopedia aims to provide a ready reference to various aspects of American culture. The time frame is from the colonial period to the end of the 20th century. The areas covered are fine arts (painting, sculpture, photography); performing arts (music, ballet,...
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Hate Narratives examines the limits of free speech and focuses on the role of language in creating images of reality, and on language’s power to build social relationships based on hatred. The study provides an analysis of language used in totalitarian systems, along...
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Die akademische Personalentwicklung muss strategisch konzipiert sein, um die Personalpraxis an Hochschulen zukunftsfähig, effektiv, divers und fair zu gestalten und um Exzellenz des Personals in Lehre und Forschung zu erreichen. Konzeptionelle und praxisbezogene...
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Der erste Band der Wiener Konferenz (2013) anlässlich des 90. Geburtstages von Nikita Il’ic Tolstoj († 1996) zur traditionellen Volkskultur und zur Sprachgeschichte der Slavia Orthodoxa, den beiden Hauptsträngen der Forschungsarbeit des bedeutenden Moskauer Philologen,...
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Die Autoren untersuchen den Wandel des Bildes des Zweiten Weltkrieges, der sich in der Erinnerungskultur in den letzten 25 Jahren in Polen und in Deutschland vollzogen hat. Ihre Perspektive öffnet den Blick auf das Zusammenspiel der Veränderungen, die sich aus dem...
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