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Stuck on the lowest branch of the Christmas tree, Lad feels like his life is completely over...until he hears that there might be someone who can help, someone named Jesus. One problem: that someone is at the very top of …
View book details for Dysfunktionales Beschwerdeverhalten
Auspragungen, Entstehung, Auswirkungen und Managementimplikationen
Katrin Plein untersucht, welche Verhaltensweisen von Kunden die betroffenen Mitarbeiter im Beschwerdemanagement als problematisch erleben. Fur die Ableitung verschiedener Auspragungen dysfunktionalen Beschwerdeverhaltens zieht sie insbesondere Schilderungen von Beschwerdebearbeitern in Internetforen heran. Mogliche Verhaltensmotive werden abgeleitet und die Entstehung des Verhaltens …
Kindler Kompakt prasentiert in handlichen Ausgaben die wichtigsten Autoren und Werke eines Jahrhunderts oder einer Gattung. Dazu gibt es eine kompakte Einleitung des Herausgebers, der die groen Linien zieht, das Wesentliche zusammenfasst. - Die Schatze aus Kindlers Literatur Lexikon in …
View book details for In the Blink of an Eye and Rainbows High: A remarkable true story
From stroke to critical, and praying for a miracle.
A true and inspirational story, this book takes you on Bob's incredible journey.When Bob collapses at work with a suspected stroke, it is expected that he would make a full recovery. However, when Bob's condition rapidly deteriorates, Sue finds her …
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2018
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION WINNER OF THE KITSCHIES GOLDEN TENTACLE AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD 2019 A SATIRICAL REIMAGINING OF MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN SET IN MODERN-DAY BAGHDAD, …
"Lauren Baratz-Logsted has mastered the real life fairy tale in her explosive and hilarious FALLING FOR PRINCE CHARLES. It's all here, lovelorn Daisy Silverman flush with cash and high hopes, Prince Charles who can't resist her, and London in all …
View book details for How to Make Friends with the Dark
From the bestselling author of TikTok sensation Girl in Pieces
The story of one girls quest for clarity and forgiveness after an awful, universe-gone-mad-mistake. From the internationally bestselling author of Girl in Pieces Breathtaking and heartbreaking, and I loved it with all my heart. Jennifer Niven I thought I was …
The premier anthology of contemporary American poetry continues with an exceptional volume edited by award-winning novelist and poet Sherman Alexie, now with a new essay by Alexie on reactions to the 2015 publication.Since its debut in 1988, The Best American …
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Winner of Best Independent Voice at the Amazon Publishing Readers' Awards, 2019
Longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, 2020 Red Snow is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Dark Pines, selected for ITV's Zoe Ball Book Club TWO BODIES One suicide. One cold-blooded murder. Are they connected? …
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Colonial Concentration Camps in Southern Africa, 19001908
Only in recent years has the history of European colonial concentration camps in Africain which thousands of prisoners died in appalling conditionsbecome widely known beyond a handful of specialists. Although they preceded the Third Reich by many decades, the camps …
View book details for Connecting Histories of Education
Transnational and Cross-Cultural Exchanges in (Post)Colonial Education
Berghahn Books
The history of education in the modern world is a history of transnational and cross-cultural influence. This collection explores those influences in (post) colonial and indigenous education across different geographical contexts. The authors emphasize how local actors constructed their own …
View book details for Mediating Europe
New Media, Mass Communications, and the European Public Sphere
Berghahn Books
The on-going constitutionalization of Europe has led to various changes in media and communications, opening up areas of debate regarding the role of traditional and new media in developing a specific European public sphere as part of the wider European …
View book details for Order and Disorder
Anthropological Perspectives
Berghahn Books
Disorder and instability are matters of continuing public concern. Terrorism, as a threat to global order, has been added to preoccupations with political unrest, deviance and crime. Such considerations have prompted the return to the classic anthropological issues of order …
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Diviners Seeking Legitimation in Contemporary China
Berghahn Books
Having long been stigmatized as an immoral and even illegal superstition, the popular practice of divination is experiencing a revival in contemporary China. Fate Calculation Experts explores how diviners attempt to achieve legitimation in a society which identifies strongly with …
View book details for In the Mind's Eye
Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Evolution of Human Cognition
Berghahn Books
The last decade has witnessed a sophistication and proliferation in the number of studies focused on the evolution of human cognition, reflecting a renewed interest in the evolution of the human mind in anthropology and in many other disciplines. The …
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Stories from the Human Past
Short stories about the deep past and those who lived through millennia of exploration, hardship, and uncertainty during the evolution of farming. Winner of the 2019 Nautilus Book Award, Multicultural and Indigenous Swigart is to be congratulated for giving us …
View book details for From Fidelity to History
Film Adaptations as Cultural Events in the Twentieth Century
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Scholarly approaches to the relationship between literature and film, ranging from the traditional focus upon fidelity to more recent issues of intertextuality, all contain a significant blind spot: a lack of theoretical and methodological attention to adaptation as an historical …
View book details for Thinking Through Sociality
An Anthropological Interrogation of Key Concepts
Berghahn Books
As issues and circumstances investigated by anthropologists are becoming ever more diverse, the need to address social affiliation in contemporary situations of mobility, urbanity, transnational connections, individuation, media, and capital flows, has never been greater. Thinking Through Sociality combines a …
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Imperial Symbolism, Popular Allegiances, and State Patriotism in the Late Habsburg Monarchy
Berghahn Books
The overwhelming majority of historical work on the late Habsburg Monarchy has focused primarily on national movements and ethnic conflicts, with the result that too little attention has been devoted to the state and ruling dynasty. This volume is the …
View book details for We the Cosmopolitans
Moral and Existential Conditions of Being Human
Berghahn Books
The provocative title of this book is deliberately and challengingly universalist, matching the theoretically experimental essays, where contributors try different ideas to answer distinct concerns regarding cosmopolitanism. Leading anthropologists explore what cosmopolitanism means in the context of everyday life, variously …
View book details for Beyond Filial Piety
Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies
Known for a tradition of Confucian filial piety, East Asian societies have some of the oldest and most rapidly aging populations on earth. Today these societies are experiencing unprecedented social challenges to the filial tradition of adult children caring for …
Berghahn Books
As the first historical study of East Germanys sepulchral culture, this book explores the complex cultural responses to death since the Second World War. Topics include the interrelated areas of the organization and municipalization of the undertaking industry; the steps …
View book details for Ecofeminism and Rhetoric
Critical Perspectives on Sex, Technology, and Discourse
Berghahn Books
By drawing on the complex interplay of ecology and feminism, ecofeminists identify links between the domination of nature and the oppression of women. This volume introduces a variety of innovative approaches for advancing ecofeminist activism, demonstrating how words exert power …
View book details for Mobile Pastoralist Households
Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives
Mobile pastoralist activities occur at different scales across the landscape, including local, regional, and supra-regional scales. Most archaeological studies of mobile pastoralist social organization have focused on the latter two scales via the extant monumental and herding landscapes. Household levels …
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Providing nuanced accounts of how the social identities of men and women, the context of displacement and the experience or manifestation of violence interact, this collection offers conceptual analyses and in-depth case studies to illustrate how gender relations are affected …
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