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Geography and Memory(2012) JONES, OWAIN,GARDE-HANSEN, JOANNEThis collection shifts the focus from collective memory to individual memory, by incorporating new performative approaches to identity, place and becoming. Drawing upon cultural geography, the book provides an accessible framework to approach key aspectsVezava: Mehka70,86 € -
Law and Government in England during the Long Eighteenth Century(2015) LEMMINGS, D.Over the long eighteenth century English governance was transformed by large adjustments to the legal instruments and processes of power. This book documents and analyzes these shifts and focuses upon the changing relations between legal authority and theVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Narratives of Child Neglect in Romantic and Victorian Culture(2012) BENZIMAN, G.Contextualizing the topos of the neglected child within a variety of discourses, this book challenges the assumption that the early nineteenth century witnessed a clear transition from a Puritan to a liberating approach to children and demonstrates that oVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Other East and Nineteenth-Century British Literature(2012) MCLEAN, T.This book restores the significance of Eastern Europe to nineteenth-century British literature, offering new readings of Blake's Europe , Byron's Mazeppa , and Eliot's Middlemarch , and recovering influential works by Thomas Campbell and Jane Porter.Vezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Public Services and Financial Austerity(2012) LATHAM, R.,PROWLE, M.The authors suggest that some of the problems of the public sector are self-inflicted and that current policies may only deliver partial success 'at a price we cannot afford'. It proposes a radical alternative and discusses practical ways it could be implVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Forecasting, Warning and Responding to Transnational Risks(2011)Assembling a high profile group of scholars and practitioners, this book investigates the interplay of forecasting; warnings about, and responses to, known and unknown transnational risks. It challenges conventional accounts of 'failures' of warning and pVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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American Postmodernist Fiction and the Past(2011) SAVVAS, T.Through a close-reading of the work of five prominent American postmodernist writers, this book re-evaluates the role of the past in recent American fiction, outlines the development of the postmodernist historical novel and considers the waning influenceVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Middlebrow Literary Cultures(2012)The literary 'middle ground', once dismissed by academia as insignificant, is the site of powerful anxieties about cultural authority that continue to this day. In short, the middlebrow matters . These essays examine the prejudices and aspirations at workVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Advertising, Literature and Print Culture in Ireland, 1891-1922(2012) STRACHAN, J.,NALLY, C.Vezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Gender-Technology Relations(2012) CORNELIUSSEN, H.Through empirical material as well as theoretical discussions, this book explores developments in gender-technology relations from the 1980s to today. The author draws on her long-lasting research in the field, providing insight in both historical and morVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Cinematic Perspectives on Digital Culture(2012) TAYLOR, NORMANExploring research into mobile phone use as props to subjective identity, Norman Taylor employs concepts from Michelle Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and actor network theory to discuss the affect of mechanisms of make-believe, from celebrity culture to avatar-Vezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Constructing Crime(2012)Crime and criminals are a pervasive theme in all areas of our culture, including media, journalism, film and literature. This book explores how crime is constructed and culturally represented through a range of areas including Spanish, English Language anVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Reading Communities from Salons to Cyberspace(2011) SEDO, DENEL REHBERGReading is both a social process and a social formation, as this book illustrates across centuries and cultural contexts. Highlighting links evident in reading communities from literary salons to online environments, each essay reflects the rich repertoirVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Japan, China and Networked Regionalism in East Asia(2011) RATHUS, J.Viewing the rise of China from Japan's perspective, the author elucidates Japanese policy responses and their implications for regional institution building. It fills a gap in knowledge about the development of East Asian regional institutions and Sino-JaVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Experimental Irish Theatre(2012) WALSH, I.This book examines experimental Irish theatre that ran counter to the naturalistic 'peasant' drama synonymous with Irish playwriting. Focusing on four marginalised playwrights after Yeats, it charts a tradition linking the experimentation of the early IriVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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LGBT Transnational Identity and the Media(2012) PULLEN, CHRISTOPHEROffering a critical introduction into LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) transnational identity in the media, this book examines performances and representations within documentary and fiction oriented texts. An interdisciplinary approach is puVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Models as Make-Believe(2012) TOON, ADAMScientists often try to understand the world by building simplified and idealised models of it. Adam Toon develops a new approach to scientific models by comparing them to the dolls and toy trucks of children's imaginative games, and offers a unified framVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Where Have All the Senior Women Gone?(2011) WICHERT, INESEssential career guidance for corporate women with talent and ambition and advice for HR leaders on managing a diverse workforce; it sets out nine job assignments that every woman should have on her CV in order to lay the way for promotion and progressionVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Love in the Time of Cinema(2012) MCKIM, K.Kristi McKim offers close-analyses of films in which attachment and detachment, intimacy and distance, ephemera and endurance become more visible and meaningful. Films discussed include Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire , Agnès Varda's Jacquot de Nantes , DoriVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Reading Hayek in the 21st Century(2012) PAPAIOANNOU, T.Papaioannou offers a radical new reading of Hayek in the 21st century, arguing that the moral dimension of his political theory is based on the methodological implications of an epistemologically founded morality, a morality that must respect the naturalVezava: Mehka70,86 €
