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Justin Russell Greene
In this book, Justin Russell Greene examines how Quentin Tarantino uses his auteur identity to further cement the masculine tropes of Hollywood and ultimately, society through language, visual aesthetics, and performative representations of masculinity in his films and media appearances. …

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How to Take Thinking Apart and What to Look for When You Do
Linda Elder, Richard Paul
The Thinkers Guide to Analytic Thinking explores the practice of analyzing problems and opportunities and provides a framework for finding common denominators, inconsistencies, biases, and underlying causes. It helps readers learn to think within the logic of subjects and professions. …
Natalie-Anne Hall
In Brexit, Facebook, and Transnational Right-Wing Populism, Natalie-Anne Hall takes Brexit as a case study for examining the critical consequences of the diffusion of transnational right-wing populist politics on social media. Through multi-method, qualitative research with avidly engaged pro-Brexit Facebook …
Pietro Toggia, Nenadi Adamu, Dina Alves, Joseph Appiahene-Gyamfi, Maame Yaa A. Barnes, Kgomotso Pearl Bosilong, Soumia Boutkhil, Marika Dawkins-Cavazos, Elisa Garcia-España, Camille Gibson, Lydia Wanja Gitau, Anita Kalunta-Crumpton, Winnie Kanana Munene, Meseret Kassahun Desta, Karatu Kiemo, Jesca Kinoti, Jephias Matunhu, Viola Matunhu, Paulin Mbecke, Ndungi wa Mungai, Ngozi Osarenren, Timi Osidipe, Udo Chikezie Osisiogu, Caterina Peroni, Indira Rampersad, Elisa Rapetti, Kanika Samuels-Wortley, Dahlia Stoddart, Anita Kalunta-Crumpton
Africa as a continent, which holds strong to its patriarchal cultural principles and practices, is known for its blatant display of violent abuse of women, including state-sanctioned violence, and its lax approach to national legislative policies and international treaties against …
Eileen Barker, David W. Kim, Lauren Dover, Catharine Dada, Fabio Scialpi, Lionel Obadia, Christopher Hartney, Nikolas Broy, Emma Leverton, Petra Tlcimuková, Jiro Sawai, Leonardo Sacco, David W. Kim
This book provides evidence that the emergence of Asian new religious movements (NRMs) was predominantly the result of anti-colonial ideology from local religious groups or individuals. The contributors argue that when traditional religions were powerless to maintain their cultural heritage, …

View book details for Tourism, Indigeneity, and the Importance of Place

Fighting for Heritage at Australias Last Frontier
Carsten Wergin
The book presents a long-term ethnographic study of arguably the largest environmental protest action in Australian history: The Walmadany / James Price Point conflict. Carsten Wergin offers a detailed account of how local community members, Indigenous custodians, heritage preservationists, environmentalists, …
Andrew Dell'Olio, Caroline J. Simon
As the perfect companion to introduction to ethics courses, Dell'Olio and Simon's reader includes the most influential ethical theories without overwhelming the beginning student. It contains a variety of readings encompassing contemporary and classic philosophers, male and female perspectives of …

View book details for Variable Pitot-Triebwerkseinlasse fur kommerzielle Uberschallflugzeuge

Konzeptstudie mittels eines Entwicklungsansatzes fur sichere Produkte
Stefan Kazula
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird gezeigt, wie kommerzielle Uberschallflugzeuge die Nachfrage nach einem schnellen, flexiblen und sicheren Transportmittel erfullen konnten, wenn sie im Vergleich zu fruheren Anwendungen eine hohere Nachhaltigkeit durch einen verringerten Kraftstoffverbrauch bieten wurden. Dazu konnte eine Luftwiderstandsreduktion ihrer …

View book details for Die politische Okonomie der Uberflussigen

Sozialokologische Konflikte und die Kampfe der Mapuche gegen die Forstindustrie in Chile
Jakob Graf
Jakob Graf wirft in diesem Open-Access-Buch die Frage auf, wie sozialokologische Konflikte am Rande der Weltwirtschaft soziologisch verstanden werden konnen. Dabei zeigt er, dass gerade in durch Rohstoffausbeutung gekennzeichneten Landern des Globalen Sudens groe Teile der Erwerbstatigen nicht mittels Lohnarbeit …
Michael Knoblauch
Das vorliegende Open-Access-Buch setzt sich mit dem bilanzrechtlichen Vermogensbegriff auseinander. Es zielt darauf ab, einen bilanztheoretisch fundierten und einheitlichen Beurteilungsmastab bei der Identifikation und der subjektiven Zurechnung von bilanziellem Vermogen zu entwickeln, um einen ubergreifenden Problemzugriff zu ermoglichen. Daher werden …
Carey Millsap-Spears
While many scholars agree the Gothic mode has been a precursor to science fiction since Mary Shelleys Frankenstein, Carey Millsap-Spears argues in this book that the made for streaming series Star Trek Discovery draws on an even older gothic formula, …
Alexandre Busko Valim, Richard Cándida Smith, Antonio Pedro Tota, Vinícius Marcondes Araújo, Fernando Atique, Adriana Mendonça Cunha, Francisco César Alves Ferraz, Alexandre Fortes, Olival Freire Junior, Maria Girardello Gatti, Luis Felipe Kojima Hirano, Simone Petraglia Kropf, Aline Vanessa Locastre, Ana Maria Mauad, Érica Gomes Daniel Monteiro, Eliza Mitiyo Morinaka, Dennison de Oliveira, Cristina Soreanu Pecequilo, Ursula Prutsch, Ana Maria Mauad, Alexandre Busko Valim
The Second World War was a watershed moment in USSouth American relations. Yet the Good Neighbor Policythe driving force behind many of the changes during this timeremains underanalyzed, especially from a South American perspective. Examining topics ranging from literary fashions …
Josiah U. Young
In Black Lives Matter and The Image of God: A Theo-Anthropological Study, the author argues that "God" mirrors humankind rather than the other way around. God for him is made in the image of man. Humankind is not created by …
Nathan Wilson, Raymond Wilson
Native Americans in the United States, similar to other indigenous people, created political, economic, and social movements to meet and adjust to major changes that impacted their cultures. For centuries, Native Americans dealt with the onslaught of non-Indian land claims, …
Eric J. Schmaltz, Jan Musekamp, Jannis Panagiotidis, Hans-Christian Petersen, J. Otto Pohl, James Casteel, Alicia Cipria, Anna Flack, Tetiana Havlin, Concha Maria Höfler, Matthias Kaltenbrunner, Anna Kozlova, Lucas Löff Machado, Jan Musekamp, Jannis Panagiotidis, Hans-Christian Petersen, Anna Flack
The history of Russian Germans (Russlanddeutsche) is one of intensive mobility across space and time. Today, the descendants of eighteenth-century German-speaking settlers in the Russian Empire live on four continents: Europe, Asia, and North and South America. In this volume, …
Gordon Hobson
The first-ever biography of an overlooked PGA star and one of the best Black golfers in history.His story is unprecedented in the world of golf. Born to a family of migrant laborers, Calvin Peete dropped out of school in the …

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Poetry, Place, and Politics
Dennis E. Skocz
On Dwelling: Poetry, Place, and Politics unfolds the meaning of dwelling as both being in the world, and being on the earth with others. Dennis E. Skocz traces a path from the places we call home, through the global market …

View book details for The Almanac of Latin American History

Political and Security Events from 1800 to the Present
Patrick Paterson, Admiral James Stavridis
This almanac compiles the most historically significant events in Latin America and the Caribbean from 1800-2020, containing vignettes of more than 700 events organized per month and specific calendar day, with a foreword from Admiral James Stavridis. It focuses on …

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His Tremendous and Troubled Life
Marko Perko, Stephen M Stahl
The enigmatic Nikola Teslastalked by his ever-present inner demonsinvents the modern world. His astonishing story is that of a new-age god, a genius, a Zeus, a wonderful Wizard, yet a deeply troubled one. He tames the mysterious force called electricity; …

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A Political Ecology Approach to Society and Nature
Casey Walsh, Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez, Alaka Wali, Diane E. Austin, Mamadou Baro, Simon Batterbury, Séverine Bouard, Anita Carrasco, Lisa L. Gezon, James B. Greenberg, Matthias Kowasch, Edward Liebow, Sarah K. Meltzhoff, Aminata Niang, Ravic Nijbroek, Thomas K. Park, Victoria Phaneuf, Angela Storey, Ylva Uggla, James B. Greenberg, Thomas K. Park
Humanitys future may rest on how we deal with climate change, environmental problems, and their impacts on society. Terrestrial Transformations: A Political Ecology Approach to Society and Nature recognizes that such problems have social, political, and cultural contexts, and that …

View book details for Raise Your Vibration (New Edition)

High-Vibe Tools to Support Your Spiritual Awakening
Kyle Gray
TAP INTO A HIGHER FREQUENCY IN THIS UPDATED EDITION - OVER 100,000 COPIES SOLD - FROM WORLD-RENOWNED ANGEL EXPERT AND BEST-SELLING AUTHOR KYLE GRAY77 TOOLS TO CONNECT WITH ANGELS LEARN HOW TO AWAKEN, GROUND, IGNITE, INTEGRATE, ACTIVATE, MANIFEST YOUR DREAMS, …

View book details for Stoneover

The Observed Lessons and Unanswered Questions of Cannabis Legalization
Clyde Wilcox, Steven White, Geoffrey Whitebread, Nikolay Anguelov, Paul Bacdayan, José Antonio Cisneros-Tirado, Catharine M. Curran, Robert Hardaway, Rebecca Ivester, Ryan Kling, Maggie Martin, Céline Mavrot, Michael P. McCarthy, Marion McNabb, Melissa R. Michelson, Jesse Mishra, Jeffrey Moyer, Paul Musgrave, Sonja Richard, Maryam Salihu, Renee Scherlen, Joe R. Tafoya, Thalia Valkanos, Nikolay Anguelov, Jeffrey Moyer
Stoneover: The Observed Lessons and Unanswered Questions of Cannabis Legalization examines the political and social entrepreneurs that champion marijuana decriminalization efforts, their constituents attitudes toward legalization, the specific successful reform measures at the state level, and the consequent market dynamics …

View book details for Evaluation der Besonderen Versorgung nach 140a SGB V

Studie zu ambulanten Operationen in Plastischer Chirurgie und Handchirurgie
Tobias Kisch
In diesem Open-Access-Buch werden die politischen Ziele der Ambulantisierung und der sektorengleichen Vergutung den aktuellen Herausforderungen in der Chirurgie gegenubergestellt. Die unzureichend an die steigenden Kosten angepasste Vergutung spiegelt sich in einem signifikanten Ruckgang des Reinertrags chirurgischer Einzelpraxen wider. Als …
James K. Beggan
The unique contribution of The Decisions to Open a Relationship: To Three or Not to Three is how James K. Beggan considers the social and psychological processes involved in how someone makes the decision to transition from a monogamous to …

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Reclaiming Shariah in the Modern Age
Khaled Abou El Fadl
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
In light of recent concern over Shariah, such as proposed laws to prohibit it in the United States and conflict over the role it should play in the new Egyptian constitution, many people are confused about the meaning of Shariah …
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