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  • Clinician’s Guide to Severe Hoarding
    Michael A. Tompkins
    The cat lady. The couple who won’t let anyone in their apartment. The old man with all that junk in his yard. Their severe hoarding puts them, and often others, at risk for injury, disease, and even death. Most deny needing help, and for this reason, professionals are desperate to find more effective ways to offer and provide assistance to them.In response to this growing publi...
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    205,63 €

  • Cynicism in British Post-War Culture
    Kieran Curran
    Cynicism is a neglected subject for investigation in post-war British cultural history, perhaps due to its apparent omnipresence. Kieran Curran aims to rectify this omission by lucidly connecting together literature, music and film as common avatars of the cynic sensibility. Transcending barriers between high and low culture, Curran maps cynicism from 1950 (the end of post-war ...
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    65,23 €

  • Digital Publics
    John Michael Roberts / John Roberts
    Some influential social theorists and some management gurus share the view that we now live in a digital information capitalism defined by networked and ’immaterial’ politics. Digital Publics traces the historical roots of this thinking, demonstrates its flaws, and shows that it leads to a rather conformist political activism in the public sphere. ...
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    254,83 €

  • Putting Terrorism in Context
    Erin Miller / Gary LaFree / Laura Dugan
    This is the first book that provides a comprehensive empirical overview of the nature and evolution of both modern transnational and domestic terrorism, based on statistical data. ...
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    254,44 €

  • Between Truth and Freedom
    Kenneth Wain
    This book engages in a broad reading of Rousseau’s writings on educational and political thought in order to explore and address the competing demands of the enculturation and individuation of the young in Western societies. Although Rousseau’s Emile has been frequently utilised in educational debate, much of his other work has been largely neglected, as too has the relationshi...
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    281,85 €

  • Early Years Second Language Education
    This book explores language learning in early years education in a wide range of geographical contexts with a focus on second language learning and bilingualism. ...
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    254,44 €

  • A Sociolinguistics of Diaspora
    This volume brings together scholars in sociolinguistics and the sociology of new media and mobile technologies who are working on different social and communicative aspects of the Latino diaspora. It explores the role of migration/diaspora in transforming linguistic practices, ideologies, and identities. ...
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    268,18 €

  • The Politics of Compulsive Education
    Karl Kitching
    Using a variety of qualitative studies and analytic approaches, The Politics of Compulsive Education details the significance of mass education(s) to the ongoing racialisation of national sovereignty. It draws on in-depth historical, policy, media and school-based research, moving from the 19th century to the present day. Chapters explore diverse themes such as student deportat...
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    281,78 €

  • International Law and Drone Strikes in Pakistan
    Sikander Ahmed Shah
    This book explores the legal and political issues surrounding the use of drones in Pakistan. The book examines international treaty law and customary international law, as well as statistical data, to analyse of whether the use of drones is in compliance with the law on the use of force and international humanitarian law. The book goes on to look at the socio-political realitie...
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    254,47 €

  • Thinking and Rethinking the University
    Ronald Barnett
    In the World Library of Educationalists, international experts themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions - so the world can read them in a single manageable volume, allowing readers to follow the themes of their work and see...
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    254,30 €

  • The Russian Orthodox Church, 1917-1948
    Daniela Kalkandjieva
    This book tells the remarkable story of the decline and revival of the Russian Orthodox Church under the Soviet Union in the first half of the twentieth century. Following 1917, the Bolsheviks’ anti-religious policies led to a significant decline in the church in the 20s and 30s. However, in 1939, Stalin gave the Patriarch of Moscow jurisdiction over orthodox congregations in P...
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    375,55 €

  • Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Terror in Literature and Culture
    Basuli Deb
    This book offers a transnational feminist response to the gender politics of torture and terror. Deb draws widely on postcolonial literature, photography, film, music, media, and activism, joining the larger conversation about human rights by addressing the pervasive public misunderstanding of terrorism conditioned by a foreign and domestic policy perspective. The volume brings...
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    254,49 €

  • Social Justice and Deep Participation
    Paula Donnelly Roark
    Knowing what deep participation is, and how it works, can make a critical difference in solving 21st century economic, political, and social problems. This book provides a new approach to hands-on change and begins formulation of a participatory social theory promising greater prosperity and justice for all. ...
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    48,07 €

  • The Social Psychology of Nonverbal Communication
    The Social Psychology of Nonverbal Communication gathers together leading scholars of nonverbal communication from around the world to offer insight into a range of issues within the discipline. The collection presents contemporary research and theorization of the nature, functions, and modalities of nonverbal behavior in an array of circumstances, with the aim of rethinking cu...
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    132,32 €

  • Social Justice and Deep Participation
    Paula Donnelly Roark
    Economic and political power alone is no longer sufficient in solving such complex 21st century problems as poverty, climate change, and securing the peace. However, Social Justice and Deep Participation offers the means to change this status quo. Deep participation allows institutions to be collectively reorganized within their own culture at both community and international l...
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    65,17 €

  • Representations of Internarrative Identity
    Lori Way
    With a foreword by Ajit Maan. Representations of Internarrative Identity is based upon Ajit Maan’s breakthrough theory of Internarrative Identity, which deals with one’s sense of self as expressed in personal narrative, connecting the formation of identity with life experiences. This book is the first extensive examination of the adaptive qualities of Maan’s work within divers...
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    65,28 €

  • Massive Open Online Courses
    Paul Kim
    Massive Open Online Courses shares insights from multiple stakeholders on what MOOCs are now and could eventually become, providing those in higher education as well as K-12, military, government, and corporate training with an authoritative source on a wide range of key issues surrounding MOOCs. ...
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    76,29 €

  • The Psychology of Power
    Jaap van Ginneken
    This book tests the disquieting hypothesis that our most powerful leaders acquire strange quirks at the top, making them take unnecessary risks. The author scrutinizes some of the best-known politicians of the largest western or G6 nations over the last half century, when they approached or reached the highest executive office, such as Berlusconi, Bush, Clinton, Kennedy, Reagan...
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    65,31 €

  • Material Cultures of Early Modern Women’s Writing
    This collection examines the diverse material cultures through which early modern women’s writing was produced, transmitted, and received. It focuses on the ways it was originally packaged and promoted, how it circulated in its contemporary contexts, and how it was read and received in its original publication and in later revisions and redactions. ...
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    48,12 €

  • Principles of Learning and Memory
    Robert G. Crowder
    In this landmark volume from 1976, Robert Crowder presents an organized review of the concepts that guide the study of learning and memory. The basic organization of the book is theoretical, rather than historical or methodological. Crowder presumes no prior knowledge of the subject matter on the part of the reader; technical terms are kept to a minimum, and he makes every effo...
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    92,19 €

  • Alphabet to Internet
    Irving Fang
    In Alphabet to Internet: Media in Our Lives, Irving Fang looks at each medium of communication through the centuries, asking not only, 'What happened?' but also, 'How did society change because of this new communication medium?' and, 'How are we different as a result?' ...
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    122,45 €

  • Attention and Emotion (Classic Edition)
    Adrian Wells / Gerald Matthews
    This classic edition of the award-winning textbook provides a critical review of the literature on attention and emotion, and presents an integrative cognitive attentional model of the development and maintenance of emotional disorders. This edition includes new section introductions, which reflect on the influence of the model and subsequent developments in the field, 20 years...
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    88,80 €

  • The Psychology of Power
    Jaap van Ginneken
    The author tests the hypothesis that hubris and the Bathsheba syndrome tend to affect all top leaders, by zooming in on the best known and very highest executives of our own day and age, and examines the psychological forces tugging at the top level of political leadership. ...
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    48,20 €

  • Representations of Internarrative Identity
    L. Way
    Based upon Ajit Maan’s groundbreaking theory of Internarrative Identity, this collection focuses upon redefining self, slave narrative, the black Caribbean diaspora, and cyberspace to explore the interconnection between identity and life experience as expressed through personal narrative. ...
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    48,19 €

  • WPA
    Council Writing Program Administrators
    WPA: WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION publishes articles and essays concerning the organization, administration, practices, and aims of college and university writing programs. Possible topics include writing faculty education, training, and professional development; writing program creation and design the development of rhetoric and writing curricula; writing assessment within p...
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    17,61 €

  • 7 49 91 Hike
    Whether you are 16,34, 43, 61, or 70, you will appreciate this 'magic of seven' book; thus I give you 7 49 91 HIKE: Nexus, Quips, Quotes, and 'Lexis to Ponder,' a compilation of thoughts and quotes from an array of individuals, some known; some unknown. Postings excite action, talking and thinking by all who encounter the pages within. 3 ...
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    6,83 €

  • Rising Up From the Blood
    Sarah Washington O / Neal Rush
    Rising up from the Blood: A Legacy Reclaimed - The Autobiography of Sarah Washington O'Neal Rush, The Great-Granddaughter of Booker T. Washington is the honest true story of an unassuming child who would learn to take poverty for granted. For years, the quietness of her lineage hindered Sarah's potential. For Sarah, there had been no hint that she had aristocratic, blue blood f...
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    16,75 €

  • The Art Album
    Dawud Knuckles
    What do Russell Simmons, Shepard Fairey, and Jay-Z, have in common, besides being some of the most respected influential people in the world? They felt the need to come together to represent their art for the sake of the book, 'The Art Album.' When you think of contemporary art, what comes to mind? Pablo Picasso? How about Kehinde Wiley and Eminem? What if the biggest names in ...
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    43,95 €

  • The Desert March to Relieve Gordon
    Alex Macdonald / Bennet Burleigh
    Two special correspondents during the war in the SudanThe profession of war correspondent has always been a perilous one. Fortunately for students of the military history of the early Victorian era, journalists were prepared to travel to inhospitable lands to tramp alongside the troops in order to report momentous events, campaigns and battles. Their well-crafted reports combin...
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    34,05 €

  • The Desert March to Relieve Gordon
    Alex Macdonald / Bennet Burleigh
    Two special correspondents during the war in the SudanThe profession of war correspondent has always been a perilous one. Fortunately for students of the military history of the early Victorian era, journalists were prepared to travel to inhospitable lands to tramp alongside the troops in order to report momentous events, campaigns and battles. Their well-crafted reports combin...
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    22,18 €


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