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Across the variety of material examined and the social contexts explored, the series of articles gathered here share a concern with the social power of systems of specialised knowledge. They demonstrate the engagement of anthropologists in the contradictions of the contemporary political order.

Motivating students to explore and understand other cultures, this two-level integrated-skills course will help your learners understand the lifestyles, attitudes and opinions from around the world.

Now in its third edition, this cookbook contains 225 recipes from two dozen cuisines that provide a wide variety of low-carb options. The recipes are designed for the entire family to enjoy and cover salads, soups, and a wide variety of seafood, chicken, beef, pork, and vegetable choices. Illustrations.

Collecting glass animal figures is a widespread hobby for people of all ages. This important reference book features over 950 beautiful color photographs of American glass animals, fish, birds, mammals, and people figurines dating from 1876 to the present. Major manufacturers shown include Cambridge, Fenton, Heisey, Imperial, Paden City, New Martinsville, Westmoreland, and others. A wide spectrum of colors and shapes are displayed. The informa...

The Hot Wheels*r 1/64th scale die-cast cars produced by Mattel from 1995 to 2001 are fully described and beautifully displayed in 560 color photographs. Included among the images of these fast moving, highly-sought vehicles are models from the Segment Series*TM, the elusive Treasure Hunt Series*TM, First Editions*TM, and Final Run Series*TM, Virtual Collection*TM, Legends*TM, 1/64th Scale Collectibles*TM, 100% Hot Wheels*TM, and convention car...

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Powder and Propellants is the story of the U.S. Navy's premier facility for research, development, testing, and evaluation of "energetic materials, " the chemical compounds used in gun and rocket propellants as well as in aircraft cockpit ejection seats.Initially charged to improve the penetrating power of warheads against steel armor, Indian Head became the proving grounds for testing guns, propellant powder, shells, mounts, and armor, notabl...

This book focuses on a particular type of formulaic expressions called Situation-Bound Utterances (SBUs). Since the meaning of these pragmatic units is shaped by the interplay of linguistic and extralinguistic factors they can be best accounted for in a theoretical framework which represents a knowledge-for-use conception. A unique feature of the book is that it examines the development and use of a particular type of formulae from new perspec...

This work is a cultural history of five thousand years of time capsules and other related information transfers across time. It examines both the formal and the popular culture aspects of the time capsule, from its roots in ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian building-foundation deposits to the present utilization of spacecraft probes and other extreme locations. The deposits of 3000 BCE had no definite date and time to be opened, in 1876 CE cam...

People who achieve extraordinary success in life are just like you. Through self-knowledge they have learnt to fight without weapons and always win. Based upon the hidden and mysterious qualities that lie deep within every individual, Use of Negative Force reveals the path to self-discovery that can lead to ascendancy in life. Difficulties become transcendent vehicles that enlighten and reinforce the vitality of life in a ground breaking wo...

The Millennium Dome, Braveheart and Rolls Royce cars. How do cultural icons reproduce and transform a sense of national identity? How does national identity vary across time and space, how is it contested, and what has been the impact of globalization upon national identity and culture? This book examines how national identity is represented, performed, spatialized and materialized through popular culture and in everyday life. National identit...

This revised and expanded edition of the first comprehensive study of Occidentalism in post-Mao China includes a new preface, foreword, and chapter on Chinese diaspora writings in the Chinese language. Presenting an original model of comparative literary and cultural studies, Xiaomei Chen goes beyond Edward Said's construction in Orientalism of crosscultural appropriations as a defining facet of Western imperialism. Instead, she argues that th...

Ray Hill was a cook and machine gunner who survived the sinking of a PT boat by a kamikaze attack. German forces in the middle of the Siegfried defensive line captured Robert Corbin, a forward officer, after he was shot. Arthur Ensley, a strafer bomber, flew into the Brenner Pass and entered combat territory. His plane caught fire, his pilot was shot and killed, and he had to bail out.Editor and fellow World War II veteran Robert G. Thobaben g...

The end of the Cold War, the "third wave" of democratization, and economic globalization have presented the newly industrialized countries of East Asia and the liberal democracies of Latin America with increasingly similar international opportunities and constraints. During the 1980s, Latin America made great strides in democratization, while East Asia led the world in economic growth. Are the two regions now converging toward a model that com...

The Inheritable Modification Matrix is the culmination of Marilyn Coors' examination of ethics, religion and science in the context of human genetic modification. It aims to guide moral deliberations concerning the benefits and harms involved, and proposes an ethical boundary for this technology.

DVD 1: 1. Lets Dance 2. Nothing To Fear 3. On The Beach 4. Josephine 5. Road To Hell 6. Lets Dance Final DVD 1: -75 minute documentary -20 min exclusive concert footage from cologne and interviews -Plus Chris Reas gallery of paintings DVD 2: 1. Changing Times 2. Dancing The Blues Away 3. Stony Road 4. My Peace Will Come 5. The Hustler DVD 2: -23 minute exclusive concert footage from Chris Rea at the Montreux Jazz ...

Jean Améry zählt zu den bedeutendsten europäischen Schriftstellern und Intellektuellen. Seine bahnbrechenden Essays sind in ihrer Bedeutung wohl nur mit den Schriften Hannah Ahrendts und Theodor W. Adornos zu vergleichen. Améry hat wie kein anderer die deutsche Öffentlichkeit mit französischen Dichtern und Denkern wie Proust und Flaubert, Sartre und Simone de Beauvoir bekannt gemacht, bereits Mitte der sechziger Jahre setzte er sich mit dem fr...

In der Debatte über den moralischen Status menschlicher Embryonen ist nicht immer klar, über welche Argumente genau eigentlich gestritten wird. Dieses Studienbuch bietet Studierenden und Forschenden, aber auch dem an der aktuellen Debatte interessierten Laien die Möglichkeit, sich über den gegenwärtigen Diskussionsstand gezielt zu informieren und die wichtigsten Argumente in klarer und knapper Form kennenzulernen. Sie besagen folgendes: Da Emb...