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Based on years of teaching experience, this explains basic statistical concepts and procedures in a straightforward, digestible way. Using familiar examples that highlight the relevance of the subject to everyday life, David Asquith provides clear guidelines for defining statistical problems and choosing the right tools for solving them. The result is a student-friendly text that explains how to do statistics, and how to understand the results.

Political participation in authoritarian regimes is usually considered insignificant, or important only insofar as it promotes democracy. Turning this common wisdom on its head, this title demonstrates the vitality, variety, and significance of political activism across the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region.

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This classic, written by two young instructors who became giants in their field, has shaped the understanding of modern algebra for generations of mathematicians and remains a valuable reference and text for self study and college courses.

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Animation for Russian Conversation draws on the best known Russian works of animation --Cheburashka, Karlson, the Hedgehog, and Vinni Pukh. Intended for Russian students of the Novice High to Intermediate Mid levels according to ACTFL guidelines, this book offers high interest to anyone learning Russian through authentic, but accessible Russian materials. Exercises cover vocabulary and grammar, with advanced exercises to challenge students fur...

Are political parties an essential element of democracy? Or can a no-party system constitute a viable democratic alternative? This book examines the politics of Museveni's Uganda to illustrate the achievements, contradictions, and limitations of participatory politics in the absence of partisan organizations.

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Haunted Images takes a close look at a range of treatments of the Holocaust in film, using sustained textual analysis to radically rethink film as a witness to history. Questioning the legitimacy of persistent claims that the Holocaust remains 'unrepresentable', this volume seeks to redefine the singular challenges this event presents to filmmakers, suggesting that filmic representations address the Holocaust as much through what they leave un...

The Arcadian Library manuscript, which is the subject of this book, provides a snapshot of the intercultural dialogue that was taking place in medieval Spain where Muslims, Jews, and Christians were all involved in studying and disseminating medical knowledge. The manuscript itself is of the master work of the early twelfth-century Jewish physician, Ibn Baklarish and was written in A.D. 1130. It provides unique information about the state of m...

This volume examines the relations between nature, culture, and power as they shape our lives and the world we inhabit.

This concise introduction to the literature of an exciting and influential period opens with an overview of the historical and cultural context in which English Renaissance literature was produced, and a discussion of its contemporary and subsequent critical reception. The following chapters survey the major Renaissance genres of poetry, drama, and prose. Each chapter provides illustrative case studies of canonical and non-canonical key texts ...

This book identifies two key themes: (i) that contemporary global politics has rendered many of the world's democracies susceptible to the rhetoric and policy of majoritarianism, and (ii) that majoritarianism plays on popular anxieties that invariably gravitate towards cultural identity.Britain and India are used as case studies to assess the role of political actors and intellectuals opposed to majoritarianism, examining how support for ident...

This is the first history in over a century of what is arguably Oxford's oldest College. As one of the few organizations in the UK whose history goes back so far, this is an account of the College from its origins over seven and a half centuries ago to the present day.

Drawing on the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Lyotard and Deleuze on the one hand and on media theory on the other, this title develops a phenomenology of aesthetic reflection, visuality and visual art, in order to rethink art's ethical and political relevance in digital-media culture.

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Covers a comprehensive range of health topics, including access to medicines, mental health, water and sanitation, nutrition, and war and conflict. This book also draws attention to the politics of global health and the policies and actions of key actors.

Die Angst vor der eigenen Geschichte, einer Geschichte von Verfolgung und Gefahr, die Macht und alles umwälzende Kraft des Begehrens, das ernste Spiel zwischen Männern und Frauen, die Botschaften des Todes, der nimmt und befreit, und die Plötzlichkeit des Spirituellen, die Radikalität der Literatur, die das Leben verändert - das sind die Themen, die nicht nur seit langem und immer drängender das Werk des Dichters und Schriftstellers SAID durch...