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As cultural studies has grown from its origins on the margins of literary studies, it has tended to discard both literature and sociology in favor of the semiotics of popular culture." Literature, Culture and Society" makes a determined attempt to re-establish the connections between literary studies, cultural studies and sociology. Arguing against both literary humanism and sociological relativism, it provides a critical overview of theoretic...

In this two-volume handbook, the editors Norbert Krause and A. Stephen K. Hashmi present all the important aspects and facts related to this hot topic. The treatment covers the whole range from the synthesis and classification via reactions right up to possible applications in the synthesis of natural products and drugs. With their excellent contributions an international team of outstanding authors highlight the multifarious uses and classes ...

The world has been starving for something profound & spiritual for a long time...not since the prophets of the past has anyone said something so beautiful, so full of passion & meaning, that it lit the world on fire with conviction & fascination! These words are full of love, & wonder, & beauty, & dreams...they are words from the Great Mystery ITSELF. It has been my greatest honor to write them, & an even deeper joy to be able to share them wi...

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Der im Jahr 2001 vom Institut für Medizinische Prüfungsfragen (IMPP) verabschiedete neue Gegenstandskatalog sowie die im Jahr 2003 verabschiedete neue Ärztliche Approbationsordnung durch den Gesetzgeber haben die ärztliche Ausbildung grundlegend reformiert. Der Stellenwert der Fächer Medizinische Psychologie und Medizinische Soziologie im medizinischen Curriculum wurde verstärkt. Angehenden Ärztinnen und Ärzten soll das notwendige Grundlagenwi...

Envision the love that you have dreamed of, the kind that you only heard about. The type that you believed all your life only existed in fairy tales. Is it possible for men to really love they way you imagined? These twins have put on paper how they perceive love and how these men feel about the women they are passionate about. These are true and personal words that tug at your heartstrings, touches the true being of man and how he truly loves...

This book is a history of the conflict-ridden privatization of communal land in the "pueblo" of Papantla, a Mexican Indian village transformed by the fast growth of vanilla production and exports in the second half of the 19th century.

This book reveals how France reinvented itself in the aftermath of World War Two. After foreign military interventions, the French political and intellectual elites embraced regime change and launched an urgent programme of nation building. They rebuilt French national identity with whatever material was available, and created a vibrant new cultural and intellectual life. The cost to subordinated groups, however, especially women, still casts ...

Scientist, David Billings', life changed in an instant, as his car careened off the expressway and into a Chicago ditch. An emergency phone call forces Heather Reed to decide, will she honor a promise made long ago, or continue with her busy life? How much trouble can a scientist get into on a normal day in Chicago? That is the question to which FBI agent, Nick Billings, must find the answer. Before he can find the answer, bodies start showing...

By January 1944 the US Marine Corps had grown to a total of 405, 169 personnel, comprising 28, 193 officers, 10, 723 officer candidates, and 366, 353 enlisted men. The Fleet Marine Force now had two amphibious corps, four divisions, a separate infantry regiment, 19 defense battalions, and numerous support and service units. Following on from Battle Orders 1: USMC in the Pacific Theater of Operations 1941-43, this book examines the continuing d...

A powerful look at the risks inherent in the trend toward making higher education a market rather than a regulated public sector, "The Future of Higher Education" reveals the findings of an extensive four-year investigation into the major forces that are transforming our American system of higher education. The book explores the challenges of intensified competition among institutions, globalization of colleges and universities, the expansion ...

Rethinking Aggression and Violence in Sport explores the psychological aspects of these two intrinsic elements of competitive sport. This book critically examines the important issues associated with aggression and violence in sport, including: * a review of current theory in the psychology of aggression * exploration of how players become acclimatised to physical violence* discussion of the psychological benefits of sanctioned and unsanctio...

This is the first text to examine women and sport in Italy during the period 1861-1945. To qualify and quantify the impact of fascism on Italian women's sport, the author first examines the pre-fascist period in terms of female physical culture. The text then describes how during the fascist era, women moved strictly within a framework designed by medicine and eugenics, religious, and traditional education. The country aspired to emancipation,...

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Das Allgemeine Künstlerlexikon (AKL) ist Nachfolger der traditionsreichen kunsthistorischen Standardwerke Thieme-Becker und Vollmer und erscheint seit 1991. Selbst längst ein Standardwerk, beschränkt es sich bewusst nicht auf die großen Meister: bildende Künstler aus aller Welt und aus allen Zeiten, von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, werden aufgenommen. Enthalten sind nicht nur Maler, Bildhauer oder Graphiker, sondern auch Architekten, Designer...

Das Allgemeine Künstlerlexikon (AKL) ist Nachfolger der traditionsreichen kunsthistorischen Standardwerke Thieme-Becker und Vollmer und erscheint seit 1991. Selbst längst ein Standardwerk, beschränkt es sich bewusst nicht auf die großen Meister: bildende Künstler aus aller Welt und aus allen Zeiten, von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, werden aufgenommen. Enthalten sind nicht nur Maler, Bildhauer oder Graphiker, sondern auch Architekten, Designer...

Emilio Kour is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Katz Center for Mexican Studies at the University of Chicago.

This new and expanded edition explains a distinctive method for analyzing and evaluating arguments. It features many examples, ranging from newspaper articles to extracts from classic texts, and from easy passages to much more difficult ones. It will enable students to think critically about sustained, theoretical arguments commonly encountered in the course of their studies, including arguments about the natural world, society, policy, and ph...

From The War of the Worlds, Mars Attacks!, Mission to Mars and Independence Day, Neil Badmington explores our relationship with aliens and how thinkers such as Descartes, Barthes, Freud, Lyotard and Derrida have conceptualised what it means to be human (and post-human).

Writing at the height of the Cold War, Merton issued this passionate challenge to the idea that unthinkable violence can be squared with the Gospel of Christ. Censors of Merton's order blocked publication of "Peace in the Post-Christian Era, " but 40 years later, the message remains eerily topical.