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View book details for Alexandre Kojeve
A Man of Influence
This edited volume addresses Alexandre Kojeve's work from different perspectives, emphasizing the continuity between his early reception of a set of non-philosophical and philosophical influences and that which he might have sought himself to exercise in a pedagogical and practical …
Gender and Sexuality in Critical Animal Studies explores nonhuman animals experiences of gender, physiological sex, and sexuality while in nature and captivity. The contributors analyze nonhuman oppression issues such as reproductive freedom, deconstructing dichotomous thinking, and promoting animal liberation within …
Statistics for the Terrified offers a clear and concise introduction to statistics. Perfect as a brief core or supplementary text for undergraduate courses in statistics and research methods, this seventh edition is also an ideal refresher for graduate students who …
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
View book details for Becoming Bikini Bodybuilders
Challenges and Rewards of Ordinary Women Stepping on Stage
Becoming Bikini Bodybuilders: Challenges and Rewards of Ordinary Women Stepping on Stage offers an insight into the bikini category of natural female bodybuilding by revealing benefits and challenges experienced by ordinary women who decide to become bikini bodybuilders. Nina Michalikova …
View book details for Children on the Threshold in Contemporary Latin American Cinema
Nature, Gender, and Agency
Lexington Books
Children on the Threshold in Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Nature, Gender, and Agency analyzes child and adolescent protagonists in Latin American cinema. This book contends that child characters have taken on a critical representational role within Latin American cinema because …
View book details for Can There Be A Philosophy of Archaeology?
Processual Archaeology and the Philosophy of Science
Lexington Books
Can There Be a Philosophy of Archaeology? provides a historical and philosophical analysis of the rise and fall of the philosophical movement know as logical positivism, focusing on the effect of that movement on the budding science of archaeology. Significant …
View book details for Trauma and the Voice
A Guide for Singers, Teachers, and Other Practitioners
In the present era, statistics for emotional trauma are astonishing: over half of American seventeen-year-olds have experienced or witnessed it firsthand, and the next person you meet is more likely to carry nervous system trauma than to be left-handed. This …
View book details for Social Movements and Latin American Philosophy
From Ciudad Juarez to Ayotzinapa
Social Movements and Latin American Philosophy: From Ciudad Juarez to Ayotzinapa provides a historical and theoretical analysis of the Ayotzinapa social movement from the perspective of Latin American philosophy to provide a deeper understanding of the challenges that social movements …
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The Transformational Power of Faith-Based Community Organizing
Fortress Academic
In Womens Work: The Transformational Power of Faith-Based Community Organizing, Susan L. Engh draws on her own experiences and those of twenty-one other women who work in the field of faith-based community organizing to describe how women have been transformed …
Im vorliegenden Buch wird das Feld der Soziologie anhand von uber 100 Grundbegriffen beleuchtet. Neben der begrifflichen Klarung wird dabei auch ein Uberblick uber die theoretischen Grundlagen der Soziologie und eine verlassliche Orientierung und Einfuhrung geboten. Durch ein sorgfaltig erarbeitetes …
This book seeks to give readers with a preliminary but critical introduction and summary of e-commerce and big data analysis. This book introduces how to achieve data acquisition and pre-processing. Specifically, this book provides three representative and interesting scenarios to …
View book details for Perceptions of Female Offenders
How Stereotypes and Social Norms Affect Criminal Justice Responses
Female offenders are often perceived as victims who commit crimes as a self-defense mechanism or as criminal deviants whose actions strayed from typical womanly behavior. Such cultural norms for violence exist in our gendered society and there has been scholarly …
View book details for Data Science Training - Supervised Learning
Ein praktischer Einstieg ins uberwachte maschinelle Lernen
Dieses Lehrbuch erklart auf narrative und direkte Weise die wichtigen Zusammenhange zwischen Data Science, Kunstlicher Intelligenz und anderen Disziplinen und Domanen wie Datenschutz und Ethik, mit Fokus auf uberwachtes Lernen (Supervised Learning).Wir begleiten Anna und Karl wahrend ihrer Traineephase in …
View book details for Neue okonomische Theorie
Wie die Realitat unsere Theoriemodelle uberholt
Die okomische Standardtheorie hat neben vielen Vorteilen vor allem eine signifikante Schwache: Sie ist nur sehr bedingt auf die okonomische Realitat der Praxis ubertragbar. In dem Buch wird deshalb eine neue okonomische Theorie aufgestellt, die sich komplett an der Realitat …
View book details for Culture Wars and Horror Movies
Social Fears and Ideology in post-2010 Horror Cinema
In this volume, contributors explore the deep ideological polarization in US society as portrayed in horror narratives and tropes. By navigating this polarized society in their representation of social values, twenty[1]first-century horror films critically frame and engage conflicting and divisive …
View book details for Americas Water Crises
The Impact of Drought and Climate Change
This book is focused exclusively on water problems in the 48 U.S. states. The authors provide an accessible overview of the work of many federal, state and academic researchers and water system administrators whose investigations have focused on the state …
View book details for Lineare Algebra
Ein Lehrbuch uber die Theorie mit Blick auf die Praxis
Dieses Lehrbuch uber die Lineare Algebra deckt den gesamten Stoff der zweisemestrigen Grundvorlesung ab. Seine anschauliche und konsequent matrizenorientierte Herangehensweise ermoglicht Studierenden ein intuitives Verstandnis der abstrakten Objekte. Die im Buch prasentierten vielfaltigen Anwendungen und Beispiele motivieren Studierende zur intensiven …
This book examines the study of psychopathy using behavioral ecological framework. It consists of two parts. The first describes the science of human behavioral ecology, including: Basic concepts of evolutionary biology Evolutionary behavioral sciences Evolutionary ecology of family Evolutionary tradeoffs …
View book details for Geotechnical Lessons LearntBuilding and Transport Infrastructure Projects
Proceedings of the 2021 AGS Sydney Annual Symposium
This book contains accepted papers submitted and peer-reviewed for the 25th Annual Symposium organised by the Sydney Chapter of the Australian Geomechanics Society (AGS). The objective is to bring together the key stakeholders of the Australian geological and geotechnical community. …
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