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  • Fighting for the Dream
    Victoria Moy
    Fighting for the Dream is a collection of oral histories of 40 Chinese American men and women-ages 24 to 94-who served in wars from World War II to conflicts in Afghanistan. These individuals defied boundaries, went against their cultural grain, and changed history. Through their personal stories, we see a greater tapestry that is the story of America in the last hundred years....
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    24,71 €

  • The Criminalisation of Migration in Europe
    Valsamis Mitsilegas
    This is the first monograph providing a comprehensive legal analysis of the criminalisation of migration in Europe. The book puts forward a definition of the criminalisation of migration as the three-fold process whereby migration management takes place via the adoption of substantive criminal law, via recourse to traditional criminal law enforcement mechanisms including survei...
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    73,23 €

  • The Social Psychology of Nonverbal Communication
    The Social Psychology of Nonverbal Communication gathers together leading nonverbal communication scholars from around the world to offer insight into a range of issues within the nonverbal literature with the aim to rethink current approaches to the subject. ...
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    47,60 €

  • 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 €

  • Tell It Like It Isn’t
    Dr. Lori L. Badura / DrLori LBadura
    The average person tells at least six lies a day – is it any wonder we struggle to sort fact from fiction in the modern world? Thanks to remarkable increases in the speed and ease of information sharing, the ability to critically judge the integrity of information around us is more necessary now than ever before. Luckily, it is possible for any individual to evaluate informatio...
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    43,54 €

  • Tell It Like It Isn’t
    Dr. Lori L. Badura / DrLori LBadura
    The average person tells at least six lies a day – is it any wonder we struggle to sort fact from fiction in the modern world? Thanks to remarkable increases in the speed and ease of information sharing, the ability to critically judge the integrity of information around us is more necessary now than ever before. Luckily, it is possible for any individual to evaluate informatio...
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    23,04 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 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 €

  • Making of an African King
    Anthony Ephirim-Donkor
    The Making of an African King examines the source of the kingship struggle in Winneba, Ghana as seen by colonial administrators, and the final court ruling in June 2013 between the patrilineal Otuano Royal Family against the non-royal Acquah faction that favors matrilineal system of succession practiced by the Akan. ...
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    58,17 €

  • Stories from Quechan Oral Literature
    A.M. Halpern / A.MHalpern / Amy Miller
    The Quechan are a Yuman people who have traditionally lived along the lower part of the Colorado River in California and Arizona. They are well known as warriors, artists, and traders, and they also have a rich oral tradition. The stories in this volume were told by tribal elders in the 1970s and early 1980s. The eleven narratives in this volume take place at the beginning of t...
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    65,29 €

  • Spaces of Governmentality
    Martina Tazzioli
    This book explores migrants’ movements and struggles taking place in the aftermath of the Arab Revolutions and examines how they impact the European space. ...
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    58,60 €

  • 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 €

  • Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy 6
    Andre Heck
    When I wasa child, growing up in South America,I often went camping in the wild and hence had direct access to the wondrous Southern sky; the Southern Cross was all mine at the time. Little did I know then that the study of the sky would take such a huge importance in my life, and that in the end astronomy and astrophysics would in many ways become my country and my religion. I...
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    210,27 €

  • Stories from Quechan Oral Literature
    A.M. Halpern / A.MHalpern / Amy Miller
    The Quechan are a Yuman people who have traditionally lived along the lower part of the Colorado River in California and Arizona. They are well known as warriors, artists, and traders, and they also have a rich oral tradition. The stories in this volume were told by tribal elders in the 1970s and early 1980s. The eleven narratives in this volume take place at the beginning of t...
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    36,60 €

  • The Evolution of Bid Whist
    Ronald L. Allen
    The Evolution of Bid Whist: 150 Years in the Growth of an African American Tradition, is an authoritative book that contains the most comprehensive information ever published on the subject of Bid Whist. It covers every aspect of the game from its origin and growth period to its American expansion into international popularity in the 21st century. '...the definitive book on Bi...
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    20,51 €

  • Unpredictable Passion
    Faith F
    An innocent love thing had turn into an affair forbidden by trans and gay society. One by one Secrets of Bison unfolds that consistently breaks Katrina’s fragile heart. It turned out Bison has a wife and leading more than one life. He’s addicted to the night life and drugs, while she yearns for his love and affections. In the end both of them had deadly skeletons in their clo...
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    22,06 €

  • Growing Up In Cameroon, Africa
    Azira Ndjassue
    Azira Ndjassue now resides in America where she founded and ran a cleaning service for twenty-eight years. She is currently going back to school to pursue a degree in international business law. She also has plans to write more books in the future, the content of which will be African folk tales inspired by legends that her mother used to educate Cameroonian people. ...
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    19,88 €

  • Teaching Adaptations
    This volume looks at the ways in which adaptations can and have been taught by leading academics in the field of Adaptation Studies from all over the world. While aware that Shakespeare and canonical literature remain the mainstay of adaptation study in English, Teaching Adaptations addresses the challenges and appeal of teaching popular fiction and culture, video games and new...
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    120,67 €

  • Innocence Broken
    C Renea
    Innocence Broken sheds light on an issue that is common but not easily talked about or brought up as an important issue. Innocence Broken speaks words for victims all men, women, young adults, adolescents, teens, and toddlers who have experienced or is experiencing physical, mental, verbal, emotional abuse and neglect. All victims feel as though no one will or can understand th...
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    7,07 €

  • Teaching Adaptations
    This volume looks at the ways in which adaptations can and have been taught by leading academics in the field of Adaptation Studies from all over the world. While aware that Shakespeare and canonical literature remain the mainstay of adaptation study in English, Teaching Adaptations addresses the challenges and appeal of teaching popular fiction and culture, video games and new...
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    66,70 €

  • Security and Sovereignty in the North Atlantic
    Lassi Heininen
    The North Atlantic continues to be an area of international strategic significance regionally and globally. This study explores the strong processes of sovereignty, as well as new independent states and micro-proto-states that are forming in the region. ...
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    65,74 €

  • Indian Writing in English and the Global Literary Market
    Indian Writing in English and the Global Literary Market delves into the influences and pressures of the marketplace on this genre, which this volume contends has been both gatekeeper as well as a significant force in shaping the production and consumption of this literature. ...
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    48,12 €

  • You Wake Me Each Morning
    Connie Lawn
    You Wake Me Each Morning That is what listeners around the world have said to Connie for years, as they heard her radio broadcasts in this country and around the world. The first time she heard the phrase was from Sam Lewis, America’s long - time Ambassador to Israel.Some listeners have called the voice sexy, authoritative, funny, snobby, or sophisticated. Connie tries to incor...
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    18,89 €

  • Software Theory
    Federica Frabetti
    This book engages directly in close readings of technical texts and computer code in order to show how software works. It offers an analysis of the cultural, political, and philosophical implications of software technologies that demonstrates the significance of software for the relationship between technology, philosophy, culture, and society. ...
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    154,10 €

  • Globalization
    Meshack M. Sagini / Meshack MSagini
    The globalization movement is shaped by economic, political, technological, and cultural forces that transform human collectivities. Instability and related concomitant issues such as disease, energy security, and terrorism challenge the reconstructive role of internal and external factors in foreign policy decision-making. This book urges nations to implement effective govern...
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    140,91 €

  • Folk Practices in North Mexico
    Isabel Kelly
    The Mexican folkways described in this monograph, of scientific interest to anthropologists, will fascinate laypeople as well. Isabel Kelly collected these notes in the 1950s, as a diversion when official field work was not feasible, in the vicinity of Torreón and particularly in the nearby village of El Cuije, in northern Mexico. She recounts folk customs and habits, focusing ...
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    26,93 €


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