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View book details for Ulrike Draesner
A Companion
Ulrike Draesner is a prize-winning writer of novels, short stories, critical essays and poetry, and one of the foremost authors in Germany today. While a number of volumes have been published in German on her work, the current Companion offers …
De Gruyter
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) gehort zu den groten Geistern, die je auf Erden gelebt haben. Seine tiefgrundigen Gedanken uber Recht, Macht und Gerechtigkeit sind von den Juristen eher vereinzelt zitiert, nicht immer hinreichend von denen Montaignes abgegrenzt, selten im Zusammenhang durchdrungen …
View book details for The Pragmatic Turn in Law
Inference and Interpretation in Legal Discourse
De Gruyter
In legal interpretation, where does meaning come from? Law is made from language, yet law, unlike other language-related disciplines, has not so far experienced its "pragmatic turn" towards inference and the construction of meaning. This book investigates to what extent …
View book details for Human Ecodynamics in the North Atlantic
A Collaborative Model of Humans and Nature through Space and Time
Lexington Books
In Human Ecodynamics in the North Atlantic: A Collaborative Model of Humans and Nature through Space and Time, Ramona Harrison and Ruth A. Maherhave compiled a series of separate research projects conducted across the North Atlantic region that each contribute …
View book details for Marriage in the Bible
What Do the Texts Say?
Marriage in the Bible: What Do the Texts Say? is an honest engagement with the relevant passages in the two primary Testaments of the Christian Bible. Rather than making the Bible confirm a specific stance on marriage, the author invites …
Lesothos history has long been defined by its enclave status within South Africa, but it is a hard-fought and hard-won status that helps unite Basotho through the shared history of struggle against colonial rule in the region. Since the end …
View book details for American Boarding School Fiction, 19812021
Inclusion and Scandal
American Boarding School Fiction, 19812021: Inclusion and Scandal is a study of contemporary American boarding-school narratives. Before the 1980s, writers of American boarding-school fiction tended to concentrate on mournful teenagers. When teachers, parents, and other adults appeared, they were usually …
View book details for Nondualism
An Interreligious Exploration
The time has come for nondualism. As a fundamentally unifying concept, nondualism may seem out of place in an age of rising nationalism and bitter deglobalization, but our current debates over tribalism and universalism all grant nondualism an informative relevance. …
View book details for Tourism and Cultural Change in Costa Rica
Pitfalls and Possibilities
Lexington Books
This book examines the consequencespositive, negative, and otherwiseof tourism in Costa Rica. Based on ethnographic research and interviews with tourists, tour operators, tourists-turned-settlers, and locals living in tourist destinations, this book brings together these varied perspectives with the aim of …
It is often said that the special bond between Britain and the USA was forged in war between Roosevelt and Churchill. But the closer link in many ways was that between Churchill and Eisenhower, since it existed both in wartime …
View book details for Hiking Maine's Baxter State Park
A Guide to the Park's Greatest Hiking Adventures Including Mount Katahdin
From Grand Pitch on remote Webster Stream to the blueberry covered summit of The Sentinel to dozens of waterfalls and swimming holes on Howe Brook, this revised edition of Hiking Maines Baxter State Park is your source for detailed hike …
View book details for Criminal Careers and Communities in the United States
An Identity Network Perspective
Gender, race, and community, and space all provide important filters for a persons contact with the criminal justice system. Cynthia Baiqing Zhang and Meredith L. Ille analyze current and former inmates through interviews, focus group discussions, and surveys to better …
View book details for Sacred Disobedience
A Jungian Analysis of the Saga of Pan and the Devil
Sacred Disobedience: A Jungian Analysis of the Saga of Pan and the Devil traces the ancient Greek God Pan, who became distorted into the image of the Devil in early Christianity. When Pan was demonized, the powerful qualities he represented …
View book details for Rockhounding Texas
A Guide to the State's Best Rockhounding Sites
Rockhounding Texas is a complete guide to finding, collecting, and preparing Texas' gems & minerals. With this book anyone can learn where to find unusual mineral displays, fossils, jasper, agate, and petrified woodnot to mention more obsidian than one rockhound …
View book details for Understanding Deviance, Crime, Social Control, and Mass Media
The Construction of Social Order
In Understanding Deviance, Crime, Social Control, and Mass Media: The Construction of Social Order Sebahattin Ziyanak examines parental responsibility for their childrens development. Contributors to the volume summarize the functionalist perspective of deviance, the function of crimes, and how these …
Confucian and Stoic Perspectives on Forgiveness explores the absence of forgiveness in classical Confucianism and Roman Stoicism as well as the alternatives to forgiveness that these rich philosophical traditions offer. After discussing forgiveness as it is understood in contemporary philosophy, …
In Visions of Democracy and Peace in Occupied Japan, Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti examines American occupation of Japan during World War II and the evolution of Japans political parties to highlight the countrys struggles for a democratic and peaceful Japanese Japan. …
View book details for Slavery, Religion, and Race in Antebellum Missouri
Freedom from Slavery and Freedom from Sin
Antebellum Missouris location at the intersection of North, South, and West makes it a location that allows one to examine regionalism in the United States in one location since Missouri contained characteristics of each region. Missouri also provides a view …
View book details for The Rohingya Crisis
Analyses, Responses, and Peacebuilding Avenues
Myanmars security forces have conducted clearance operations in the Rakhine State since August 2017, driving a mass exodus of ethnic Rohingyas to neighboring Bangladesh. In The Rohingya Crisis: Analyses, Responses, and Peacebuilding Avenues, Kawser Ahmed and Helal Mohiuddin address core …
View book details for Weak Elements, Weak Flesh
Reading Galatians in Conversation with Philo and Greek Medical Discourse
In Weak Elements, Weak Flesh, Ernest Clark reinvigorates an ancient interpretation overlooked since the fourth century. Clark argues that when Paul writes we too were enslaved under the elements of the world, he means that the elements that compose the …
Scarecrow Press
The medieval period of Indian history is difficult to define clearly. It may be perceived as the long phase of India's transition from the ancient to the immediately pre-colonial times. The latter period would naturally be imagined commencing from Vasco …
View book details for Bob Dylan FAQ
All That's Left to Know About the Song and Dance Man
In October 2016, the Swedish Academy finally conceded to a quarter-century's worth of clamorous petitions and sustained lobbying enacted by a chorus of poets, novelists, songwriters, and academics. At long last, Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, …
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Big-League Farewells of Baseball's Greats
Most sports fans know that Ted Williams ended his major league career with style, swatting a home run in his final at bat. But what about Babe Ruth? Ty Cobb? Joe DiMaggio? Willie Mays? How did some of baseball's greatest …
When the body of an ex-Harvard rower is found floating in the Charles River, Boston state trooper Sean Delaney is put on the case to determine whether the drowning is purely accidental. Is it really the result of a college …
View book details for The Vikings
Wolves of War
This concise and balanced history traces the 300-year saga of the pirates and warlords who poured out of Scandinavia between the eighth and eleventh centuries, terrorizing, conquering, and ultimately settling vast tracts of land throughout Europe. Undaunted by the might …
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