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Theres a continued need for overarching and profound approaches to security. The con-cept of security needs to be thoroughly considered so that issues with an ever-increas-ing complexity and interconnectivity can be understood and dealt with. The ...

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What do you know when you know something about history? What is important to know and how do you learn? Adolescents encounter history everywhere: at school, in the family, in media and society. But how do adolescents perceive history and in what w...

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While unappreciated and controversial during most of his life, Anton Bruckner is today regarded as the greatest symphonist between Beethoven and Gustav Mahler in terms of originality, boldness and monumentality of his music. The image of Bruckner ...

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Entering the Frame is the first complete study of the cinema of Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi, pioneers of archival and found-footage films that testify to war, genocide and colonialism in the twentieth century. It explores their early...

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With the terms visionary and despot, the author seeks to circumscribe the multilayered personality of Gustav Mahler. Opening up a terra incognita, he draws a comprehensive map of the various aspects of Mahlers inner biography: his unshakable belie...

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Seit jeher gilt der Gesellschaftsvertrag als eine auf dem Sinai der Aufklarung empfangene, gluckverheissende Weltgabe. Auflehnende Stimmen dawider sind langst im Dunkel verflossener Zeitalter verstummt. Indes lohnt ein Blick auf diejenigen Denker,...

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This volume brings together two core concepts that are central to understanding the social and public significance of religions and theologies within the contemporary world and are therefore of key importance to the discipline of religious educati...

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Die Organisation des elementaren Schulunterrichts in Jahrgangsklassen stellt ein umfassendes Ordnungsangebot fur die Bevoelkerung moderner Gesellschaften dar. Die allgemeine Durchsetzung dieses Organisationsprinzips wurde haufig als lineare Erfolg...

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Shared Service Organizations (SSOs) are of growing relevance in research and corporate practice since they combine a number of benefits for multinational corporations, such as cost reductions and an improved risk management. However, managers voic...

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The volume comprises adaptation studies of ten selected utopian/dystopian fictions written and filmed in Europe and America during the 20th and 21st centuries: Things to Come, Lost Horizon, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Lord of the Flies, The Andromeda Ne...

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In der philosophischen Debatte uber den Status und die Funktion von Erkenntnis und Wissen spielt Ernst Cassirers Kulturphilosophie der symbolischen Formen eine wichtige Rolle. Sprache, Mythos, Wissenschaft und Kunst zahlen zu den symbolischen Form...

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Die Russkaja Pravda ist das beruhmteste Zeugnis der Rechtsordnung der Alten Rus'. Sie erfreut sich seit mehr als zweieinhalb Jahrhunderten einer ungebrochenen Anziehungskraft unter den Forschern. Der umfangreichen Gesamtdarstellung in deutscher Sp...

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Teil 1: Der aus Graubünden stammende Neulateiner Simon Lemnius (1511-1550) ist vor allem durch seinen Konflikt mit Luther und die spätere engagierte Parteinahme Lessings für den von der Orthodoxie verfemten Dichter in die Literaturg...

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Winner of the award 'Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights in North America' (Gustavus Myers Center for Human Rights in North America) In Living Dangerously, Henry Giroux confronts one of the most important questions facing our education...

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In recent decades it has been increasingly recognized that the forms of the verb in ancient Greek, including that of the New Testament, do not signal time (past, present, future), but aspect (the way each activity is viewed in relation to its cont...

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The purpose of this book is to examine what kind of changes Korean society experienced as a result of the introduction of Christianity through Protestant missionaries. Since this was a formative period in the Korean Church, it will be possible to ...

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Martyrdom, Murder, and Magic: Child Saints and Their Cults in Medieval Europe is a comprehensive history of child saints and their cults from late Antiquity to the end of the fifteenth century. The child martyrs of the persecutions, including the ...

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Semiotic Psychology is a special and selective history that focuses on naturally occurring language and its meanings. A review of classic studies from the 1930s through the 1950s shows how content analysis can examine discourse as diverse as plays...

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This collection of essays is drawn from a series of international seminars in which participants explored different methodologies for writing the social history of the classroom. Essays in the collection address questions of research methodology a...

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The author identifies major considerations in Jane Austen's novels with those of 18th century Scottish New Rhetoric. She shows how Austen uses fictional examples to argue the development of moral understanding in both sexes by educating them in rh...

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Discusses the cooperative relationship between the Irish government of the 1920s through 1960s and the Catholic Church with regard to education, with the government accepting financial responsibility for the maintenance of schools, while leaving m...

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English seems to be becoming the global language as a result of the massive socio-economic, cultural, and technological changes that have been struggled over since the 1950s. For teachers of English to speakers of other languages and for those in

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The rapid acceleration of industrialization and the transformation of market capitalism that followed the Civil War provided new opportunities for employment and wealth for many Americans. But these opportunities came at a cost: overcrowded and un...

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What is the nature of computer games, and what happens when we play them? This book describes human play as a semiotic process and computer game play as a fundamental act of human cognition, or « semiosis. Offering one of the first fully arti...

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Most ritual participants claim that their rituals have been the same since time immemorial. Citing recent research in ritual studies, this book illustrates how, on the contrary, rituals are often subject to dynamic changes. When do rituals change?...

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Pedagogy of Place focuses on the embodiment of purposefully created space resulting from the creation and enactment of its participants' cultural and social conditions. It is also about education, the purposeful creation of spaces that comprise le...

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William Booth (1829-1912) is remembered for the major role he played in founding the Salvation Army, an evangelical organization now operating in more than 120 countries. Few people, however, are aware of the fact that Booth was also a prolific au...

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Constantine R. Campbell continues the work begun in his previous volume, 'Verbal Aspect, the Indicative Mood, and Narrative: Soundings in the Greek of the New Testament.' In this book, he investigates the function of verbal aspect in non-indicativ...

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