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Based on original research, this book explores East German political culture and its role in the revolution of 1989 and in reunification. Specifically the book shows how a set of common values stabilised the communist regime until the 1980s, how the undermining of these values motivated revolutionary mobilization, and how the partial survival of this specific culture and its conflict with West German culture have contributed to the post-unific...

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This is part of a two-level kindergarten course for young learners of English. The course uses illustrations, songs, stories and active learning, and introduces the child to reading and handwriting, progressing from alphabet shapes to complete words.

This is part of a two-level kindergarten course for young learners of English. The course uses illustrations, songs, stories and active learning, and introduces the child to reading and handwriting, progressing from alphabet shapes to complete words.

This is part of a two-level kindergarten course for young learners of English. The course uses illustrations, songs, stories and active learning, and introduces the child to reading and handwriting, progressing from alphabet shapes to complete words.

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This is part of a two-level kindergarten course for young learners of English. The course uses illustrations, songs, stories and active learning, and introduces the child to reading and handwriting, progressing from alphabet shapes to complete words.

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Focusing on the testing and assessment of English as an international language, this book contains four main parts which cover theoretical considerations, reading tests, literacy assessment and policy implications.

War, Chaos, and History considers the implications of the emerging field of research in chaos-complexity-non-linearity for the study of war. This study examines the special dependence of military professionals on history in their shaping of doctrines, style, and attitudes in spite of the wide gap between the portrayal of war in military history and the far greater intricacy of its reality. Special foci in the analysis include: the fragility of...

China is engaged in a major evolutionary economic change. Foreign direct investment (FDI) participation has been and will continue to be the driving force behind this change well into the next century. This book presents to Western business and legal communities a comprehensive picture of the prevailing Chinese foreign investment climate. More important, it provides keen insight into the ways China must move to improve its laws and policies.

This collection of essays provides students of literary critical theory with an introduction to Freudian methods of interpretation, and shows how those methods have been transformed by recent developments in French psychoanalysis, particularly by the influence of Jacques Lacan. It explains how classical Freudian criticism tended to focus on the thematic content of the literary text, whereas Lacanian criticism focuses on its linguistic structur...

Brought together by tragedy, they find comfort in attacking their adopted country, ridiculing its crude ways and lack of standards. Humour and irony as well as the sense of loss and longing permeate this story of exiles unable to address a world that is passing by.

This study demythologizes and reinterprets the history of a Chicana/o performance ensemble.

Forcefully, often elegantly written, "Class Fictions" is an important addition both to the literature on specific working-class writers and to the more general accounts of how cultural studies has framed the representation of class, and class and gender, in the first half of the twentieth century. This book encourages rather than closes down a debate about the deep ambivalence of class both as a lived and represented meaning. There is nothing ...

Assesses the nature of international terrorism in recent years and the possible effect of anti-terrorist policies and counter-measures upon democratic processes and civil liberties in Britain, Germany, Israel, Italy, France and the US. The findings challenge current notions about terrorism.

Although born Giuseppe Guttovergi to a poor, immigrant Italian family, it was as Paul Creston that Giuseppe rose to prominence, becoming one of the most widely performed American composers. Rhythm was a continued subject of research for this composer, and by 1945 he had established a terminology of rhythmic structures, which he observed both in his music and the music of other composers, even writing two books on the subject. This volume prese...

Active Assessment for Active Science meets the needs of teachers faced with the task of assessing hands-on science.

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