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Hansebooks The Secrets of the Self Asrar-i Khudi: A
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Hansebooks Kant's Introduction to Logic: and his Essay on
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Hansebooks Pastels in Prose
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VDM Verlag Poverty, Politics and Health
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Loss of Control and Technology Acceptance in (Digital) Transformation: Acceptance and Design Factors of a Heuristic Model
Book SynopsisIn the context of the (digital) transformation of economy and society, the technology acceptance of the population is increasingly influenced by a perceived loss of control through new technologies. Loss of control is defined in this volume as a multi-causal, multi-modal and cyclical process of transition of control and conceptually brought together in a multi-dimensional heuristic model. The results of a first quantitative-empirical analysis for Baden-Württemberg based on this model confirm that loss of control is a central factor influencing technology acceptance, but is perceived differently by different socio-demographic groups.Table of ContentsTechnology Acceptance in Germany and Baden-Württemberg: State of the Debate.- Loss of control and technology acceptance.- Empirical framework: The #techourfuture project initiative.- Evaluation of the results.
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Hansebooks Ludwig van Beethoven - Leben und Schaffen
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Hansebooks Hypnotism
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Hansebooks Erinnerungen an Johannes Brahms: in Briefen
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Hansebooks Philosophie des Unbewussten
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Hansebooks The Isle of Wight
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Hansebooks Early Roman Law: The Regal Period
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Books on Demand Seemannsdrama in Goa - Vier brennende Schiffe und
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Books on Demand Kriegsende im Isarwinkel: Eine Auswertung der
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Books on Demand Die Deutschen - eine Gebrauchsanleitung: Typisch
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Hirmer Verlag Olga Costa: Dialogues with Mexican Modernism
Book SynopsisIn her elective home country of Mexico, the artist Olga Costa (1913–1993), a native of Leipzig, has long been established as an important female voice of Mexican Modernism. This volume presents impressively her autonomous artistic work between Mexican and European Modernism, and follows the traces of her life from Germany out into the world and back again. As the daughter of a Jewish-Ukrainian musician, the autodidact Olga Costa emigrated to Mexico in the 1920s, where she explored her new surroundings in her painting. Throughout her life she was not only inspired by people’s everyday lives and the intensive colours of the landscape, but also by the dialogue with other artistic positions. It was not least Costa’s examination of questions of cultural identity and feminism as well as her broad cultural-political commitment that made her one of the most important women artists in the circle surrounding Frida Kahlo.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Social Innovation and Higher Education From
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Omniscriptum La Bible Des Couples Heureux
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LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Gross National Happiness and Social Progress
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Edition Patrick Frey Smoke
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Kipu ¿Puede el feminismo vencer al populismo?: Avances
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EI Publishing Co., Ltd Old American Culture
Book SynopsisLightning Magazine taking a deep look into the Old American Culture.
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EI Publishing Co., Ltd Clutch Garage Style
Book SynopsisThe best of garage spaces. There are countless spaces used as garages throughout the world, but for people who love cars and motorcycles, these are private spaces that express their own unique lifestyles. In addition to parking your favorite vehicles, the spaces can be designed with vintage and classical interior collections, and tools and other repair-related items for those who enjoy repairing or customizing their own vehicles. In other words, a garage is space that can express each individual's unique lifestyles. For people who often interact with vehicles, their garages shape their own interests and can serve as an escape from their everyday jobs, or spaces where they can get together with friends. Everyone has their own ideas on what their ideal garages should look like, but at the end of the day they are spaces used to store their vehicles. We traveled around the world to discover a wide range of garage styles.
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Novas Edicoes Academicas Tls: modelo para avaliação de portais eletrônicos
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International Book Market Service Ltd Au chevet des mots
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Scholars' Press Visual Social Semiotics in the Moroccan Political
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Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Adventures in the Stone Age: A New Guinea Diary
Book SynopsisWhen Leopold Pospíšil first arrived in New Guinea in 1954 to investigate the legal systems of the local tribes, he was warned about the Kapauku, who reputedly had no laws. Skeptical of the idea that any society could exist without laws, Pospíšil immediately decided to live among and study the Kapauku. Learning the language and living as a participant-observer among them, Pospíšil discovered that the supposedly primitive society possessed laws, rules, and social structures that were as sophisticated as they were logical. Drawing on his research and experiences among the Kapauku—he would stay with them five times between 1954 and 1979—Pospíšil broke new ground in the field of legal anthropology, holding a professorship at Yale, serving as the anthropology curator of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, and publishing three books of scholarship on Kapauku law. This memoir of Pospíšil’s experience is filled with charming anecdotes and thrilling stories of trials, travels, and war told with humor and humility and accompanied by a wealth of the author’s personal photos from the time.Table of ContentsI. Introduction: How I Became an Anthropologist II. Language III. Data Gathering IV. The Participant Observer V. Becoming One of Them VI. Collecting VII. Non-horticultural Food Quest VIII. Kapauku Culture and the Concept of “Primitive Society” IX. Kapauku Personality X. Kapauku Mathematics XI. Quantity Obsession XII. Economy Ceremonies XIII. Life Cycle Ceremonies XIV. Law XV. Two Kapauku Legal Cases XVI. Theft of Pigs and Embezzlement XVII. Rape and Adultery XVIII. War XIX. Magic and Religion XX. Health, Sickness and Medicine XXI. Changes Introduced by the Encroaching Western World XXII. My Research and the Dutch Administration XXIII. Departure from the Kamu XXIV. Afterword: Leopold Pospíšil, Anthropology, and the Kapauku (Jirík & Soukup)
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EEP (Environment Education Promoters) The Indian Cafe in London
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Vitasta Publishing Pvt.Ltd Gods Must Have Cursed Hindus: One Thousand Years
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Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd Women, Incarcerated:: Narratives from India
Book SynopsisIn the popular imagination, the female criminal/prisoner is a figure of curiosity and intrigue. Hidden behind male prisoners, partners in their lives and/or crimes, the female prisoner is made invisible, or she is memorialised a grotesque and demonic figure, one who has transgressed the legal, normative, and moral boundaries of social life. Women, Incarcerated pierces through this invisibilisation/memorialisation paradox to shine the spotlight squarely on the lived experiences of women prisoners. The book shows how the prison and the State act as extensions of the family and community in dealing with women seen as deviants. Through a focus on both the everyday and the extraordinary aspects of imprisoned women's lives, the chapters narrate the experiences of exclusion, marginalisation, and violence in the lives of women prisoners. The book also highlights their negotiations with and resistance to penal power. The volume also initiates, for the first time, a dialogue between researchers, practitioners, and activists to raise some critical questions: How is the prison as an organisation gendered?
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Orient BlackSwan Of Law and Life
Book SynopsisUpendra Baxi is one of India's leading legal scholars. His areas of expertise and his writings span the diverse areas of comparative constitutionalism, human rights and its futures, crises of the Indian legal system, and the sociology of Indian law and anthropogenic harm and justice. In 2008, Professor Baxi spent time in Bangalore with the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS) and the Alternative Law Forum (ALF) and spoke at length to a group of his former students, who are also among his closest interlocutors, on key issues affecting India and the world. This meeting was tape-recorded, transcribed and went on to become this monograph. Of Law and Life produces a sweeping personal account of his engagements with over six decades of our modern history.
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. UNMASKING INDIAN SECULARISM: Why We Need a New
Book SynopsisIn a bold attempt to help break the impasse in HinduMuslim relation, this book brings a much-needed perspective to a polarized debate on conflicting notions of secularism. It calls for de-hyphenating the so-called Muslim Question' (place of Muslims in a Hindu-majority India) from the wider debate on secularism and advocates a new HinduMuslim deal based around the centuries-old common cultural heritage skirting religious differences. In a refreshing break from liberal orthodoxy, the book explores the idea of a secular Hindu state which will recognize Hinduism as the official religion but guarantee equal rights to all its citizens, irrespective of their faith: a version of Britain's secular Christian state. An incisive analysis of why secularism failed and the rise of majoritarian Hindu nationalism, it underlines the urgent need for a new road map to restore communal harmony before it's too late for course correction.
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Primus Books Glass Crafts in Northern India
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HarperCollins India The Golden Years: The Many Joys of Living a Good
Book SynopsisRuskin tells us how to enjoy the advancing years some of us are blessed with, and how to make the most of the amazing gift called life.
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Edilingua Pantelis Marin L'Italia e cultura: Geografia
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LMH Publishing Only in Jamrock
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Insights On Singapore's Politics And Governance
Book SynopsisThis book presents insights on Singapore's politics and governance from leading thinkers, based on selected commentaries from Singapore Perspectives conference series co-published by Institute of Policy Studies and World Scientific. Contributed by the who's who of Singapore's government, business and academia circles, they provide diverse viewpoints over state-society relations, governing principles, electoral politics, foreign policy, among other important issues.Will consensus or contest secure Singapore's future? Should pragmatism be retained as Singapore's governing philosophy? What if the nation-state is no longer the key organisational unit of the international community? What if Singapore has to choose between China and the United States? What if Singapore becomes a two- or multi-party system? This volume explores a range of possible answers to these questions and more.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Sound at the Edge of Perception: The Aural
Book SynopsisThis book is about the tiny sounds of the world, and listening to them, the minute signals that are clues to who and where we are. A very small sound, given the context of its history, becomes hugely significant, and even an imagined sound in a picture becomes almost a voice. By speaking a name, we give a person back to the world, and a breath, a sigh, a laugh or a cry need no language. A phoneme is the start of all stories, and were we able to tune ourselves to the subtleties of the natural world, we might share the super-sensitivity of members of the bird and animal kingdom to sense the message in the apparent silence. Mind hears sound when it perceives an image; the book will appeal to sonic and radio practitioners, students of sound, those working in the visual arts, and creative writers.Trade Review“Sound at the Edge of Perception explores the ‘interrelationships between hearing and listening, looking and seeing,’ with the hope that ‘by awakening the faculty of seeing, we may enhance our ability to listen—and vice versa.’” (Ben Monks, Dymock Poets and Friends, Issue 18, 2019)Table of Contents1 Introduction: The Bell of Józef Czechowicz ¬– The Importance of Minute Sound Moments.- 2 The Notes of Human Music.- 3 Making the Moment Singable.- 4 Signals from Near and Far Shores – Voices from the Natural World.- 5 Speak My Name – the Ownership of Syllables.- 6 First and Last Sounds – Messages Beyond Language.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Rethinking Cultural Criticism: New Voices in the
Book SynopsisThis edited volume examines cultural criticism in the digital age. It provides new insights into how critical authority and expertise in a cultural context are being reconfigured in digital media and by means of digital media, as the boundaries of cultural criticism and who may perform as a cultural critic are redefined or even dissolved. The book applies cross-media and cross-disciplinary perspectives to advance cultural criticism as a wide-ranging and multi-facetted object of study in the 21st century. Presenting a broad collection of case studies, including global cases such as the Golden Globe, the Intellectual Dark Web, YouTube, Rotten Tomatoes and Artsy and particular national contexts such as Britain, the Czech Republic, Denmark and the Netherlands, the book showcases the many theoretical and methodological approaches that may serve as useful frameworks for studying new critical voices in the digital age. It will be of interest to media, communication and journalism scholars as well as scholars from a range of aesthetic disciplines.Table of Contents
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Educational Theory in the 21st Century: Science,
Book SynopsisThis open access book reviews the effects of the twenty-first century scientific-technological and social developments on the educational theory. The first part handles the subject, focusing on technology and educational philosophy. In the second part, the implications of new human and social conceptions towards the education paradigms are examined. In the chapters of the last part of the book, more practical dimensions of education are discussed. Transforming school designs, school management, learning-teaching approaches and teacher competencies are discussed in the context of broader social, cultural and technological changes. Table of ContentsPart 1. Scientific-Technological Developments and Educational Paradigms.- Chapter 1. Challenges Facing the Philosophy of Education in the 21st Century (Khosrow Bagheri Noaparast).- Chapter 2. Scientific Paradigm Shifts and Curriculum: Experiences in the Transition to Social Constructivist Education in Turkey and Singapore (Mehmet Ulukütük).- Chapter 3. The Impacts of Online Education on Ecology of Learning and Social Learning Processes (Cahit Bağcı).- Chapter 4. The Concept of Change and the Teachers’ Role on the Implementing Technological Transformation at School (María-Elena Gómez-Parra & Bashar Daiss).- Part 2. Education in The Context of New Culture and Society ConceptionsChapter 5. Shifting Cultural Paradigms in Global Education: Toward Decolonizing Knowledge (Aorun Rasiah).- Chapter 6. Does Religious Education Have a Future in 21st Century? Anthropological Analysis of The Tradition of Islamic Education in Contemporary Times (Mohammad Talib).- Chapter 7. Conceptions of Society and Education Paradigm in the 21st Century (Aynur Erdoğan Coşkun)Part 3. New Learning, School and Teacher Considerations.- Revisiting Effective Instructional Strategies for 21st Century Learners (Asil Özüdoğru).- Chapter 9. Current Trends in School Management: School Leadership in Education 4.0 (Münevver Çetin & İsmail Karsantık).- Chapter 10. New School Designs and Sustainable Development (Beatriz Amann).- Chapter 11. 21st Century Teacher Competencies and Trends in Teacher Training Arife Gümüş
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Austin Macauley Complex Knowledge for Innovation in Economic and
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Khajistan Press MASHALLAH BOHOT ZABARDAST VOL. 1 Second Edition
Book SynopsisMashallah Bohot Zabardast is a collection of words and images documented from anonymous users on dating and social apps across Pakistan.
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Dashwood Books Showboat
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Little, Brown Book Group The Seven Ages of Man
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be a man in the twenty-first century? How can today''s men lead a more fulfilling existence? Masculinity has reached a moment of crisis. From the erosion of unifying institutions such as marriage to a rise in male suicide rates, the last century and a half has been a particularly turbulent time to be a man. Increasing numbers of men are finding themselves anchorless, uprooted from the conventions and certainties of their forefathers. Today masculinity itself has come under attack, relentlessly maligned in the media. Now, more than ever, the long and perilous journey from infant to old age is fraught with strange complexities, moral dichotomies and maddening contradictions. Incisive and solution-driven, The Seven Ages of Man offers men of all ages, and the women who love them, a clear roadmap to a more meaningful life and a better future for all. Part practical guide and part call to arms, it encourages a return to decency, compassion, humiTrade ReviewBrilliant * Daily Express *Fascinating and timely * New Culture Forum *The book glances wistfully back to an era of sturdy men and sturdier moral certainties, a time when gender roles were more clearly defined -- James Bloodworth * Unherd *The Seven Ages of Man takes a compassionate approach to the challenges of contemporary masculinity * The Critic *Elegant . . . full of good advice . . . will strike a chord with many who struggle to make sense of modern masculinity . . . a sensible and inspiring way to navigate the world today * This England *
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Academic Studies Press Barcelona Prose
Book SynopsisBarcelona Prose is a collection of autobiographical essays by the gifted translator, literary scholar, and dissident, Efim Etkind. These engaging, deeply psychological vignettes capture the reality of daily life and work in the Soviet Union. Unlike other memoirists who have faced hardships, Etkind's tone is never cruel or embittered. Told through the lens of a practiced scholar, he captures the absurdity of a cultural-political experiment that destroyed his family’s life, his own career, and that of many of his colleagues. By the time of Etkind’s death, he did not rework these essays into a continuous narrative. Originally published in Russian, this first-ever English translation prepared by Etkind’s daughter presents his memoirs as a document of his time, without any changes or abridgements. The editors’ additions are limited to several notes, proofreading of quotes, and checking or inserting the full forms of the characters’ names.Table of ContentsIn Lieu of a ForewordHe Outsmarted UsFull Repair!The Marquis de Lapunaise The Russian Intelligentsia: Two GenerationsLooking through the Walls The DoubleFerenc, Count BatthyányEbensee“On the Sly”How We Lived“The Blond Hidden in a Bottle”Triumph of SpiritUp the Down StairscaseIt Turned Out OkayAbout the AxeLast MeetingPavel Antokolsky: Generation of the BlindCousin“The Other”The Cowardice of a Brave ManTwo Jewish Fates: Reading the Diaries of Victor Klemperer“Youth in a Military Blouse” of My ContemporaryAfterword: A Knight of Culture by David BetheaList of Names
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Academic Studies Press Barcelona Prose
Book SynopsisBarcelona Prose is a collection of autobiographical essays by the gifted translator, literary scholar, and dissident, Efim Etkind. These engaging, deeply psychological vignettes capture the reality of daily life and work in the Soviet Union. Unlike other memoirists who have faced hardships, Etkind's tone is never cruel or embittered. Told through the lens of a practiced scholar, he captures the absurdity of a cultural-political experiment that destroyed his family’s life, his own career, and that of many of his colleagues. By the time of Etkind’s death, he did not rework these essays into a continuous narrative. Originally published in Russian, this first-ever English translation prepared by Etkind’s daughter presents his memoirs as a document of his time, without any changes or abridgements. The editors’ additions are limited to several notes, proofreading of quotes, and checking or inserting the full forms of the characters’ names.Table of ContentsIn Lieu of a ForewordHe Outsmarted UsFull Repair!The Marquis de Lapunaise The Russian Intelligentsia: Two GenerationsLooking through the Walls The DoubleFerenc, Count BatthyányEbensee“On the Sly”How We Lived“The Blond Hidden in a Bottle”Triumph of SpiritUp the Down StairscaseIt Turned Out OkayAbout the AxeLast MeetingPavel Antokolsky: Generation of the BlindCousin“The Other”The Cowardice of a Brave ManTwo Jewish Fates: Reading the Diaries of Victor Klemperer“Youth in a Military Blouse” of My ContemporaryAfterword: A Knight of Culture by David BetheaList of Names
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Spinifex Press Surrogacy A Human Rights Violation
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Blurring Books Call Me TimothÃe The TimothÃe Chalamet LookAlike
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Note Note Editions KEEP DISTANCE
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