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View book details for Turn Initiating Elements in Everyday Conversations
Conversational Analysis and Radical Minimalism at the Syntax-Semantic Interface
This book focuses on conversation analysis in Czech, including the prosody-syntax-interface and online-syntax in real time that deals with turn initiating elements in everyday conversations. By combining a pragmatic formal theory with a formal syntax model, this book serves as …
The Everyday and Private Life of a Communist Ruling Class: Greed and Creed discusses the history of everyday life under state socialism and the ways in which post-1945 modernity reached the shores of Soviet Bloc societies. This book explains state …
Sociology of Death and the American Indian examines dying, death, disposal, and bereavement practices and applies those concepts to selectAmerican Indian tribes historically and currently, supplemented with oral histories. The focus is that learning about other cultures can enhance the …
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American History through Broadway Musicals
Carefully Taught looks at American history as depicted in forty Broadway musicals. Presented chronologically according to the musical timeframe, award-winning theater critic and author Cary Ginell dissects the stories, characters, and songs to not only examine how Broadway viewed historical …
Thornton Wilder is one of Americas greatest writers, and the only author to win Pulitzer Prizes in both fiction and drama. Equally well known for his plays and novels, his unique and diverse body of work also includes essays, journals, …
Scripture, Texts, and Tracings in 2 Corinthians and Philippians advances the interpretation of 2 Corinthians and Philippians by exploring how the Apostle Paul quotes, alludes to, or "echoes" the Jewish Scriptures. Identification of allusions is at the forefront, as are …
View book details for Honduras in Dangerous Times
Resistance and Resilience
Lexington Books
Honduras in Dangerous Times: Resistance and Resilience explores how the people of Honduras use cultural resources to resist and to change the conditions of their society, to critique those conditions, and to create the pieces of a better future in …
What can creative methods offer our understanding of military power and militarised cultures? What constitutes creative research in military studies? And, what are some of the challenges of this type of work? This edited volume brings together authors working at …
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Applying Local Strategies Research to Digital Media Design
Lexington Books
Communicating User Experience: Applying Local Strategies Researchto Digital Media Design examines how Local Strategies Research (LSR) helps investigate user experiences with digital media. This edited collection uses case studies to examine the way we communicate in the digital age whether …
View book details for The Brontes of Haworth Moor
How the Three Daughters of a Country Parson Became the Most Revolutionary Novelists of Their Time
"Fans of the Brontes novels will appreciate the lively portrayal of their creators, relatives, and friends in this informative, involving family biography." Booklist, Starred ReviewIn 1820, the Bronte family traveled to their new home on the edge of Haworth Moor. …
View book details for The Myth of Education in America
Students Should be Taught How to Think, Not What to Think
The Myth of Education in America contends that formal education should be how you learn not only what you learn. It emphasizes that utilization of critical thinking and analysis is a life-long journey, and everyone should be involved in the …
View book details for Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung und schlieende Statistik
Praxisorientierte Einfuhrung Mit Aufgaben und Losungen
Dieses einfuhrende Lehrbuch zeigt den gesamten Weg von der elementaren Ermittlung von Wahrscheinlichkeiten bis zur Erstellung theoretischer Wahrscheinlichkeitsverteilungen auf. Es erklart auerdem detailliert den Ablauf des statistischen Schlieens, ausgehend von der Stichprobenauswahl uber die Stichprobenauswertung bis zur Parameterschatzung und Hypothesenprufung.Im …
The Mouth of the Nile, August 9, 1798: Admiral Nelson has sent Captain Nathan Peake on a desperate journey across the Middle East to convey a grim warning to British India. Bonaparte's army is poised to deliver a fatal blow …
View book details for Making Sense Together
The Intersubjective Approach to Psychotherapy
The second edition of Making Sense Together provides a greater examination of the clinical practice of the intersubjective perspective. Listening and responding intersubjectively is concerned with attuning to affect, putting words to affective experience, and maintaining a caring relationship that …
View book details for Ripping, Cutting, Stitching
Feminist Knowledge Destruction and Creation in Global Politics
This book presents a collective mediation on writing, methods, violences, and un/becomings in global politics. It combines narratives, fictional stories, academic discussions, passionate unwindings, imagined futures, and more. The editor's intention is to offer a theoretically creative work which engages …
View book details for Rousseaus Republicanism
The Hope of the Just
Reading Rousseau as a republican thinker might seem almost too obvious a proposition. All the same, the Genevan is often struck from accounts of modern republicanism given by those associated with the revival of republican thought. At the root of …
Dieses Werk ist ein bewahrter Lehrbuch-Klassiker im Bereich der Technischen Chemie. Als vollstandige Einfuhrung in das Fachgebiet der Chemischen Reaktionstechnik unterstutzt es in idealer Weise sowohl das akademische Studium als auch die industrielle Praxis. Das vorliegende Lehrbuch ist fur Ingenieure …
View book details for Geoengineering Discourse Confronting Climate Change
The Move from Margins to Mainstream in Science, News Media, and Politics
Geoengineering, the idea of addressing climate change through large-scale technological projects, stands out among contested technologies in the degree to which its scope of possibilities and its premise are characterized by global existential risks. Despite controversy, this field has been …
Microhistory unlocked new avenues of historical investigation and methodologies and helped uncover the past of individuals, an event, or a small community. Reclamation of lost histories of individuals and colonized communities of colonial South Africa falls within this category. This …
Now in its fourth edition, the popular Occupational Safety and Health Law Handbook has been your go-to guide to the fundamentals of occupational safety and health law for over a decade. It provides an authoritative and completely up-to-date reference that …
View book details for A Career in the Arts
The Complex Learning and Career Needs of Creative Professionals
There is a gap in knowledge about artistic careers--few people fully understand the economics and sociology of the visual and performing arts. The public impression of the lives of artists are distorted because typically only the very successful get attention. …
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Empowering Youth to Make Smart Choices
Kids today are in a media-saturated environment. Even as they are first discovering who they are and learning about the greater world, they are nudged and swayed by media. To help empower children to be resilient and have more self-guidance …
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The Classic Years
Many have long found it difficult to take Rod Stewart seriously. However, once we get past the awkward stuffleopard-skin leggings, bum-wiggling stage schticks, and a hairstyle unseemly for a man of his agethere remains the undeniable fact that the "Caledonian …
The boom in corporate restructuring, accompanied by large increases in debt finance, was one of the most important developments in the U.S. economy in the 1980s. Financial and tax specialists analyze how the U.S. tax system-especially in its bias toward …
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Finding, Identifying, and Preparing Edible and Medicinal Wild Foods in Florida
Paleo-Indians lived more than 14,000 years ago in the land we now call Florida, and later came tribes of indigenous people known as the Ais, Calusa, Mayaimi, Tequesta, Timucua, and others. Still later came the Seminole and Miccosukee. These people …
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