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Find out about your Rottweiler' s special needs Get the lowdown on keeping your Rottweiler healthy and content Known for its strength and protectiveness, the Rottweiler is a good-natured, playful family pet. This fun and friendly book provides insights into this big dog' s temperament, sensible advice on taking care of and training your Rottweiler, tips on participating in a variety of dog competitions, and much more. Discover how to: Choose t...

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The Culture Cult is an acerbic critique of that longing widespread in society today to "retreat from civilization." From Rousseau and the Noble Savage to modern defenders of ethnicity such as Isaiah

Trances, Dances and Vociferations provides a compelling feminist analysis of gender politics in the works of four major Africana women writers: Toni Morrison, Michelle Cliff, Assia Djebar, and Paule Marshall. Nada Elia explores the way in which black women characters use conjuring, double entendre, and song to empower, liberate and determine their own female insurgency. She also explains how African and Afrodiasporic women have been forced to ...

Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book analyzes the relationship between higher education, the economy, and government in the development of a democratic and market economy society in select emerging market countries.

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This book offers a comprehensive overview of recent developments in American crime fiction, exploring America's dynamic, fragmented multicultural landscape and how this changing landscape has, in the process, transformed the codes and conventions of the crime novel.

At an excavation of the Great Aztec Temple in Mexico City, amid carvings of skulls and a dismembered warrior goddess, David Carrasco stood before a container filled with the decorated bones of infants and children. It was the site of a massive human sacrifice, and for Carrasco the center of fiercely provocative questions: If ritual violence against humans was a profound necessity for the Aztecs in their capital city, is it central to the const...

These sections represent the clearest rendition yet of these subjects, with difficult concepts introduced in a digestible form for the neophytic (or not so neophytic) researcher. Whilst in a book this size not every argument can be presented, there is ample extra material to be found to encourage further engagement... At the end of each chapter, there is a very useful Further Reading section provided by the authors, which gives useful guidelin...

Identity provides an essential resource of key statements drawn from cultural studies, sociology, and psychoanalytic theory, and includes three editorial essays, which place the readings in their theoretical and historical context. Divided into three parts: Language, Ideology and Discourse, Psychoanalysis and Psycho-Social Relations, and Identity, Sociology and History, this book invites readers to compare and contrast cultural studies appro...

This second edition, which has also been edited by Samson Katz, utilizes around half of the original text, of which a significant portions has been revised and updated. The remainder comprises new material reflecting both the changes in attitudes generally towards death and dying, and also designed to meet the needs of students undertaking the revised curriculum of the K260. This book will stimulate thinking and challenge the personal views of...

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The evolution of religious diversity and complexity in the United States is explained clearly in this richly illustrated historical work.

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Die "Steinepigramme aus dem griechischen Osten" enthalten das Material aus Kleinasien und dem Orient und bieten die auf Stein überlieferten Texte in einer Edition mit Übersetzung, kritischem Apparat, Kommentar und Bibliographie. In den Bänden 1-4 sind 2.122 auf Stein überlieferte griechische und lateinische Texte aus Kleinasien und dem Orient aus der Zeit bis zum 7. Jahrhundert nach Christus abgedruckt, übersetzt, kommentiert und illustriert (...

Frontmatter -- Introduction / Simonsen, Hanne Gram / Endresen, Rolf Theil -- Section I: Basic issues -- Topic, subject, and possessor / Langacker, Ronald W. -- Language as a cognitive network / Hudson, Richard A. -- Section II: Morphological aspects of the verb -- The Norwegian verb / Endresen, Rolf Theil / Simonsen, Hanne Gram -- Building blocks or network relations: Problems of morphological segmentation / Gundersen, Helge -- Past tense acqu...

`An excellent book. The authors have the rare capacity to handle popular culture and case studies in a theoretically informed manner. Original and well researched' - Mike Featherstone, Nottingham Trent University Understandings of globalization have been little explored in relation to gender or related concerns such as identity, subjectivity and the body. This book contrasts `the natural' and `the global' as interpretive strategies, using app...

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This collection provides a complete introduction to new ways of thinking about economic development. Emphasizing economic theory, each article has been selected for its theoretical completeness, accessibility and clarity as well as its value as a contribution to the field. A thorough introductory essay summarizes the state of the field for those new to the field and explains the importance of the articles selected.

This collection provides a complete introduction to new ways of thinking about economic development. Emphasizing economic theory, each article has been selected for its theoretical completeness, accessibility and clarity as well as its value as a contribution to the field. A thorough introductory essay summarizes the state of the field for those new to the field and explains the importance of the articles selected.