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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The Funk Era and Beyond is the first scholarly collection to discuss the significance of funk music in America. Contributors employ a multitude of methodologies to examine this unique musical genre's relationship to African American culture and to music, literature, and visual art as a whole. 262 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 0230602665 ISBN 13: 9780230602663
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This book studies ten dissident democratic leaders in Asia to show their vital role in democratic transformations. These explorationsof their political struggles reveal the powerful challenges and dangers that dissidents face, especially in learning to manage and negotiate the ambiguities and tensions of democratic leadership itself.
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ISBN 10: 1403979936 ISBN 13: 9781403979933
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. The U.S movement toward massive expansion of early childhood education and development has evolved into individual state-by-state initiatives. This volume sets forth the evidence that will encourage states to take up this cause, provide advocates with the information they will need to make their case, and guide states and advocates in building a public and political will for change.
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ISBN 10: 9031351962 ISBN 13: 9789031351961
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Assistenten in de gezondheidszorg hebben dagelijks te maken met mensen met verschillende achtergronden. Dit vereist inzicht in maatschappelijke vraagstukken. Maar ook inzicht in de eigen identiteit in de snel veranderende samenleving.Het basiswerk Assistent en maatschappij haakt hierop in. In tien hoofdstukken geven de auteurs een uitgebreid overzicht van de belangrijkste maatschappelijke kwesties en verschijnselen. Aan bod komen onder andere de samenleving, werk en sociale zekerheid, politiek, culturele verscheidenheid, globalisering en technologie, levensbeschouwing en ethiek. Hoe werkt onze democratie Welke verschillende culturen en religies zijn er Hoe zit het socialezekerheidsstelsel in elkaar Welke invloed hebben de media op ons leven De verschillende onderwerpen worden uitgelegd aan de hand van illustratieve voorbeelden uit de beroepspraktijk van assistenten.Assistent en maatschappij is de geheel herziene versie van het Kompas¿boek Voetstappen in de samenleving. De kwalificaties Leren, Loopbaan en Burgerschap lopen als een rode draad door het boek. Om het boek nog beter toe te snijden op de lespraktijk is er aan het begin van het boek een hoofdstuk toegevoegd met leertips en ¿technieken. Daarnaast zijn er hoofdstukken toegevoegd over actuele kwesties als Identiteit en Consument & Media.
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ISBN 10: 1402083114 ISBN 13: 9781402083112
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - What Is the Dual-Use Dilemma The so-called 'dual-use dilemma' arises in the context of research in the biological and other sciences as a consequence of the fact that one and the same piece of sci- tific research sometimes has the potential to be used for harm as well as for good. A dual-use dilemma is an ethical dilemma, and an ethical dilemma for the researcher (and for those who have the power or authority to assist or impede the researcher's work, e. g. , governments). It is an ethical dilemma since it is about promoting good in the context of the potential for also causing harm, e. g. , the p- motion of health in the context of providing the wherewithal for the killing of in- cents. It is an ethical dilemma for the researcher not because he or she is aiming at anything other than a good outcome; typically, the researcher intends no harm, but only good. Rather, the dilemma arises for the researcher because of the potential actions of others. Malevolent non-researchers might steal dangerous biological agents produced by the researcher; alternatively, other researchers-or at least their governments or leadership-might use the results of the original researcher's work for malevolent purposes. The malevolent purposes in question include bioterrorism, biowarfare and blackmail for financial gain.
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ISBN 10: 0230609619 ISBN 13: 9780230609617
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Asserting that hip hop culture has become another locus of postmodernity, Osumare explores the intricacies of this phenomenon from the beginning of the Twenty-First century, tracing the aesthetic and socio-political path of the currency of hip hop across the globe.
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ISBN 10: 0230361498 ISBN 13: 9780230361492
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This book offers a new history of the fairy tale, revealing the creative role of periodical publication in shaping this popular genre. Sumpter explores the fairy tale's reinvention for (and by) diverse readerships in unexpected contexts, including debates over evolution, colonialism, socialism, gender and sexuality and decadence.
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ISBN 10: 023060238X ISBN 13: 9780230602380
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The Irish Novel at the End of the Twentieth Century: Gender, Bodies and Power interprets a wide variety of the most interesting Irish novels of the last ten years of the century from a perspective that focuses on the regulated sexual and constructed gendered body. The demarcating line of identity-the perennial Irish problem-can be gauged at the basic level of sexual and gender identity in contrast to or in alliance with political, social, religious or cultural norms. All mechanisms that have gone into controlling the body-gender regulation, violence, desire, religious taboos-can all be reinterpreted through the body in motion.
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ISBN 10: 140397196X ISBN 13: 9781403971968
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This book explores how Medieval and Early Modern writers reconstructed, and also how readers read, the contradictory meanings of 'Lady' Wisdom.
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ISBN 10: 0230602398 ISBN 13: 9780230602397
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Turning Turk looks at contact between the English and other cultures in the early modern Mediterranean, and analyzes the representation of that experience on the London stage. Vitkus's book demonstrates that the English encounter with exotic alterity, and the theatrical representations inspired by that encounter, helped to form the emergent identity of an English nation that was eagerly fantasizing about having an empire, but was still in the preliminary phase of its colonizing drive. Vitkus' research shows how plays about the multi-cultural Mediterranean participated in this process of identity formation, and how anxieties about religious conversion, foreign trade and miscegenation were crucial factors in the formation of that identity.
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ISBN 10: 1403975558 ISBN 13: 9781403975553
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - At the crossroads of Northeast Asia, South Korea provides a critical vantage point for viewing changes in the region. This comprehensive review of the past quarter century covers its strategic thinking in regard to China, Japan, Russia, regionalism, and reunification.
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ISBN 10: 0230604714 ISBN 13: 9780230604711
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Comedy Matters traces the long tradition of the expansive comic embrace of cultural difference and diversity that manages to survive even in some of mankind s darkest moments. Demastes argues that comedy has a hard-nosed, pragmatic dimension that can be mobilized against belligerent cultural forces. Drawing from the works of Shakespeare, Stoppard, and a number of other comic masters, Comedy Matters demonstrates how comedy continues to work against cultural regimentation by striving to re-calibrate our decision-making processes and challenging the stultifying rigidity of human economy in the broadest sense of the term.
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ISBN 10: 0230600395 ISBN 13: 9780230600393
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The end of the cold war has paved the way for a series of moral claims that force institutions such as States, International Organizations of Multinationals to justify themselves. What is the effect of this phenomenon on the international relations of the 1990s and beyond.
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ISBN 10: 0230605958 ISBN 13: 9780230605954
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Through an in-depth analysis of the Chilean labour market, social welfare, and state reforms, this book reveals the manner in which neoliberal reform in Chile has undermined the urban poor's incentives and ability to hold public officials accountable, negatively affecting the quality of Chilean democracy.
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ISBN 10: 038776531X ISBN 13: 9780387765310
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Ever since I was a graduate student at the University of Chicago in October 1962, I have been interested in challenges at the global scale that could affect the future of humanity. The Cuban Missile Crisis brought home to me how vulnerable we are. Indeed it brought home that we could be dead from causes thousands of miles away with a warning of a maximum of thirty minutes. It was obvious the world was becoming smaller. As I looked out the window from my apartment in Chicago, I could see ch- dren of school age at play in the alley - despite it being a weekday. They weren't in school. One rarely saw adult men with them - only women. What con- quences would that bring Not far away was the headquarters of a strange group calling themselves the Black Moslems. There was a palpable anger that radiated from there. Where would this lead Was there not a breaking point in how much difference in wealth and general well-being could be tolerated I became increasingly interested in international politics, in particular about how we governed ourselves through international institutions and international law. Hans Morgenthau emphasized to us the importance of national interests. It became clear to me that governments needed interests as an incentive to act, c- tainly if there were important consequences in acting. Values were important but were not a sufficient condition.
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ISBN 10: 0230277004 ISBN 13: 9780230277007
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Western Europe, stagnant since the fall of Rome, showed signs of economic resurgence in the mid-18th century. Adam Smith was excited by the potential of this new era, and he was inspired to study the changes in Britain's evolving political institutions, the decline in the old verities of the church, the strengthening of the eternal verities of human sympathy, the ever-widening knowledge of his age, the momentous implications of the division of labour, the power of exchange, and faster growth through capital accumulation and an expanding labour force.This book presents the authentic Adam Smith and explores his underlying approach and radical thinking, aiming to re-establish his original intentions as articulated in his works and correspondence, which have been distorted by modern interpretations, assumptions and attributions. The book provides a crucial reminder of how relevant Adam Smith was in his own time, and how relevant he remains today in this era of globalisation.
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ISBN 10: 0230605427 ISBN 13: 9780230605428
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This book argues that popular feminist fiction provided a key means by which American culture narrated and negotiated the perceived breakdown of American progress after the 1960s. It explores the intersection of two key features of late twentieth-century American culture.
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ISBN 10: 1403983879 ISBN 13: 9781403983879
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - White southern writers are frequently associated with the racism of blackface minstrelsy in their representations of African American characters, however, this book makes visible the ways in which southern novelists repeatedly imagine their white characters as in some sense fundamentally black.
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ISBN 10: 1403981957 ISBN 13: 9781403981950
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Twice unsuccessful Democratic candidate for President of the United States, Adlai Stevenson played a key role in American politics throughout much of the middle of the Twentieth Century. This collection of essays from Senator Eugene McCarthy, Arthur Schlesinger, and others, looks at Stevenson's past and current societal significance.
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ISBN 10: 0230600603 ISBN 13: 9780230600607
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This book examines the lost voices of returning World War II veterans in the immediate postwar years and shows how the developing Cold War silenced or altered dissenting opinions that many vets expressed upon their return.
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ISBN 10: 0230606555 ISBN 13: 9780230606555
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This book demonstrates how human rights instruments and values have brought different movements together in the struggle against free trade. Estévez employs a specifically Latin American definition of human rights, thus challenging Eurocentric and Western discourses.
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ISBN 10: 0230605435 ISBN 13: 9780230605435
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This study offers a reading that avoids both literalism and sociological reductionism through a study of the Bible's intricate patterns of imagery. It will appeal to thoughtful people dissatisfied with the religious status quo and looking for a new intellectual starting point.
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ISBN 10: 0230202691 ISBN 13: 9780230202696
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - An in depth analysis of the key determinants of successful direct investment strategy by foreign firms in India, providing important cues to multinational companies in India and other developing countries on how to strategically invest in these host countries for the benefit of both the company and the country involved.
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ISBN 10: 1403984158 ISBN 13: 9781403984159
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The Bush-Clinton families' hold on the American presidency is a danger to the presidency itself and to American democracy. This book will highlight the problems and the consequences of combining the most powerful political office in the world with family legacies.
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ISBN 10: 1403984794 ISBN 13: 9781403984791
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This book is a consideration of major contemporary Black and Jewish understanding of God, examining how profound faith in a just God is sustained, and even strengthened, in the face of particularly horrific and long-standing evil and suffering in a community.
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ISBN 10: 0230603254 ISBN 13: 9780230603257
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This book investigates the operations of memory over time through three case studies: the famous anthology by Richard Hakluyt memorializing the feats of Elizabethan voyagers, the eccentric autobiography of Captain John Smith, and the little known history of early modern Newfoundland.
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ISBN 10: 0230607829 ISBN 13: 9780230607828
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The book deals with the role of Jerusalem as a central religious-political symbol, and with the processes by which symbols of faith and sanctity are being employed in a political struggle. It examines the current Islamic ethos towards Jerusalem and the affinity between this religious ethos and the political aspirations of the Palestinians and other Arab and Islamic groups. It also compares current Jewish and Muslim narratives and processes of denial and de-legitimizing the affiliation of the other to the holy city and its sacred shrines and addresses the question whether religious outlook forms a major barrier for achieving peace in the Israeli-Arab arena.
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ISBN 10: 0312294913 ISBN 13: 9780312294915
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This volume develops a set of provocative themes: globalization is not new; it is neither legally inevitable nor irreversible; and international legal systems and institutions can assert only a special and limited influence on globalizing developments.
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ISBN 10: 0230210295 ISBN 13: 9780230210295
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Where does the book belong Does it enshrine the soul of a nation, or is it a means by which nations talk to one another, sharing ideas, technologies, texts This book, the first in a two-volume set of original essays, responds to these questions with archive-based case studies of print culture in a number of countries around the world.
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ISBN 10: 0230551327 ISBN 13: 9780230551329
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Drawing on behavioral finance theory and contemporary experience, this book explores how bubbles form and subsequently burst. The author introduces a new concept of swings in market temperature defined by the extent of heterogeneity of opinion and soft irrationality, and examines the importance of these swings in the credit markets.