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Although truth and reconciliation commissions are supposed to generate consensus and unity in the aftermath of political violence, Abena Ampofoa Asare identifies cacophony as the most valuable and o……続きを見る

Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Ethnologie / Volkskunde, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Philosophische Fakultät), Veranstaltung: Hausarbeit zur Erlangung einer Magistra A……続きを見る

The book presents a discussion about the process of artistic creation in the diversity of its manifestations: visual arts, literature, theater, cinema, etc. The proposed reflections are supported by……続きを見る

Os artigos aqui presentes correspondem aos frutos de quase seis anos de estudos conjuntos realizados pelo grupo de pesquisa Transobjeto (http://transobjeto.wordpress.com). Durante esses anos, o grup……続きを見る

Analysis of strategic culture facilitates a comprehensive understanding of a nation’s security identity and patterns of policy conduct. Though strategic culture changes over time, why and how these ……続きを見る

First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Investigates the ways in which nurses cope with the dying patient and the acute patient who will recover. Fa……続きを見る

Interviews with Mexican Women: We Don’t Talk About Feminism Here presents a series of conversations with Mexican women representing a wide geographical range within Mexico. The interviews broach cur……続きを見る

The essays in this book look at the interaction between English and other Indian languages and focus on the pressure of languages on writers and on each other. Divided into two parts, the first part……続きを見る

This book is one of the first in-depth and systematic studies on the functioning and aspiring federations of South Asia. It examines how federal dynamics in India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka are……続きを見る

An eyewitness account of Donald Trump's clown car of lieutenants and lackeys who have polluted the corridors of power with their unprecedented awfulness. Two of Washington's most meddlesome reporter……続きを見る

Disaster management is an increasingly important subject, as effective management of both natural and manmade disasters is essential to save lives and minimize casualties. This book discusses the be……続きを見る

The notion of individual differences in health and illness stems from the unique organization of behavior that profoundly affects how each individual maintains health, expresses and experiences symp……続きを見る

Las profesiones ocupan un papel central dentro de la dinámica de la vida social y a lo largo de la historia han sido valoradas y reconocidas socialmente por el aporte que hacen a la sociedad al cont……続きを見る

As the political and economic landscape in the Asian Pacific continues to shift, the United States must re-evaluate its strategy toward the region. In his book, Martin Lasater explores U.S. interest……続きを見る

The Gulf Cooperation Council represents both a model of development and unity in the Arab world and a working example of interstate cooperation to other nations. In this volume, contributors describ……続きを見る

Race remains a potent and divisive force in our society. Whether it is the shooting of minority people by the police, the mass incarceration of people of color, or the recent KKK rallies that have b……続きを見る

Leprosy has tormented mankind since records began. For much of its long history it was without cure--a disfiguring disease that stigmatized those it affected, isolating them from society. Today ther……続きを見る

New Orleans has long been a city fixated on its own history and culture. Founded in 1718 by the French, transferred to the Spanish in the 1763 Treaty of Paris, and sold to the United States in 1803,……続きを見る

The process of creation, with the help of Peircean semiotics, can be described as a fallible movement with tendencies, sustained by the logic of uncertainty, encompassing the intervention of chance,……続きを見る

This book looks at contemporary political violence, in the form of jihadism, through the lens of a philosophical polemic between Hannah Arendt and Frantz Fanon: intellectual representatives of the g……続きを見る

¿Cuáles son los posibles rumbos de las izquierdas? ¿Cuáles son los caminos para una lucha unida internacional? En su nuevo libro, el sociólogo Boaventura de Sousa Santos realiza una revisión crítica……続きを見る

Who is today’s white-collar man? The world of work has changed radically since The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and other mid-twentieth-century investigations of corporate life and identity. Contemp……続きを見る

Compelled by the extent to which globalization has changed the nature of labor relations, Harry C. Katz, Thomas A. Kochan, and Alexander J. S. Colvin give us the first textbook to focus on the workp……続きを見る

This comprehensive textbook provides an introduction to collective bargaining and labor relations with a focus on developments in the United States. It is appropriate for students, policy analysts, ……続きを見る

The first two years of the Reagan administration saw a close correlation between improved unofficial relations between Washington and Taipei and a deterioration of strategic cooperation between Wash……続きを見る

Basado en fuentes de archivo, este trabajo examina la aplicación de las políticas de la colonización tardía en relación con el matrimonio, la moral y la intimidad en los Andes, y cómo las personas s……続きを見る

This book provides a detailed account of transnational practices undertaken by Indian ‘high-tech’ workers living in the United States. It describes the complexities and challenges of adapting to a n……続きを見る

1978’de kurulan ve 1984’ten itibaren Türkiye Cumhuriyeti devleti ve halkına karşı başlattığı terör ve şiddet eylemleriyle on binlerce Türk vatandaşının hayatını kaybetmesine neden olan terör örgütü ……続きを見る

This book is regarded as a personal manifesto, a statement through the history of partition and its aftermath, of the values which India's Muslims should cherish and of the national priorities they ……続きを見る

This study seeks to identify the determinants of Brazil's favourable export performance until the mid-1980s, especially in the field of manufactured goods. Two hypotheses figure prominently in the a……続きを見る