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Dismantling the dream factory
The history of postwar German cinema has most often been told as a story of failure, a failure paradoxically epitomized by the remarkable popularity of film throughout the late 1940s and 1950s. Through the analysis of 10 representative films, Hester Baer reassesses this period, looking in parti...
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Understanding conflicts about wildlife
Conflicts about wildlife are usually portrayed as resulting from the negative impacts of wildlife on human livelihoods or property. However, deeper analysis reveals that these conflicts are often better understood as people-people conflicts. Understanding Conflicts About Wildlife unites academi...
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Social bodies
A proliferation of press headlines, social science texts and “ethical” concerns about the social implications of recent developments in human genetics and biomedicine have created a sense that, at least in European and American contexts, both the way we treat the human body and our attitudes to...
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Federalism doomed?
The conceptual uncertainty when dealing with processes of integration and disintegration in Europe is striking because traditional notions of the nation-state, constitutionalism, sovereignty, and federalism do not account for emerging realities in either Western or Eastern Europe. This volume...
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Time and history
This series aims at bridging the gap between historical theory and the study of historical memory as well as western and non-western concepts, for which this volume offers a particularly good example. It explores cultural differences in conceptualizing time and history in countries such as Chin...
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Selfhood and recognition
The disciplines of philosophy and cultural anthropology have one thing in common: human behavior. Yet surprisingly, dialogue between the two fields has remained largely silent until now. Selfhood and Recognition combines philosophical and cultural anthropological accounts of the perception of i...
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State intimacies
State Intimacies examines the mundane workings, ambiguity, and fragilities of care in post-colonial rural North India. The experience of reproductive chronicity is grounded in women’s everyday realities and experiences in sterilization camps and other healthcare settings in rural Rajasthan.
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Urban natures
Urban Natures explores the diversity, abundance, and impact of the conventional and future framings of urban natures. Recognizing a green resurgence in cities is underway, this volume applies a critical approach to examine urban greening histories, politics, discourses and ecologies
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Wolf conflicts
To our knowledge, this is the first comprehensive analysis of conflicts over large carnivores that see these controversies primarily as social conflicts embedded in deeper tensions in contemporary societies, and not so much as conflicts between animals and people. The book points out that wo...
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Voyage through the twentieth century
The book is an interesting account of being a historian in Germany in the decades after 1945 The author searches for cohesiveness among the movements of the twenties and thirties The text is unique in its examination of the generation that came of age between the two world wars
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The precarity of masculinity
This book follows young Cameroonian men who aspire to migrate abroad and play football for a living while analyzing masculinities in West Africa. The book argues that the athletic aspirations of young Cameroonians and their propensity to consult with Pentecostal Men of God offer new insights ab...
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Kinship and beyond
The genealogical model has a long-standing history in Western thought. The contributors to this volume consider the ways in which assumptions about the genealogical model—in particular, ideas concerning sequence, essence, and transmission—structure other modes of practice and knowledge-making i...
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Being a sperm donor
First book length ethnography on (Danish) sperm donors Bringing medical anthropology/sociology in dialogue with queer-feminist analyses of gender and sexuality In depth insights into the interplay between male identity and (reproductive) biomedicine
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Sanctuary
Faulkner's novel, Sanctuary exposes a system that continues to function even as it ceases to protect.
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Environment and citizenship in latin america
Alternative approach to the links between environment and citizenship, with a focus on identity, power relations, popular mobilization and social justice. Unique perspective on environmental citizenship from Latin America. Widely interdisciplinary approach, including contributors from Ant...
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Transactions, transgressions, transformation
American culture has been one of the most controversial exports of the United States: greeted with enthusiasm by some, with hostility by others. Yet, few societies escape its influence. However, not all changes should be interpreted simply as "Americanization." The shaping of the postwar world ...
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Poverty and welfare in modern german history
A long term perspective on Welfare and Poverty. Focuses on the politics of inclusion and the effects of exclusion. Relinks the historical studies of Poverty to debates on the German Welfare State Model.
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Poland daily
Polish cinema has inescapably been shaped by the nation’s succession of different economic and ideological regimes over the last century. This volume is the first to analyze the entirety of the nation’s film history—from independence in 1918 to today—through the lenses of political economy and ...
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Cultural topographies of the new berlin
Offers an interdisciplinary investigation of the New Berlin Provides culturally-focused considerations of the New Berlin in a globalizing Europe and as a pillar of the European Union. Highlights the tensions between Berlin’s Creative City identification and its urban challenges.
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Homemade men in postwar austrian cinema
Provides a detailed overview of popular films in Austria during the era of reconstruction after World War II Draws on gender, culture and memory methodologies Articulates how and why it provided powerful representation for nation re-building
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Margot and the moon landing
A universal story about speaking, listening and being heard. Margot loves space. Astronauts, the stars, and especially the moon landing. So she can’t understand why all of her attempts to communicate her passion fall on disinterested ears. Her mom is patient but distracted; her classmates would ...
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Analysing historical narratives
From ancient Greece to modern-day bestsellers, the studies gathered in Analysing Historical Narratives offer a wide-ranging look at the techniques used by historical texts, showing how in spite of the pursuit of objectivity, narrative strategies inevitably derive from historians’ contemporary c...
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The marriage of heaven and hell / hal foster
William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is placed under pressure by Hal Foster's annotations, which puncture the text’s prophetic authority with dry, surgical wit.
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Frontiers of civil society
Frontiers of Civil Society is a historical anthropological analysis of the roles of ‘civil society’ in Serbia’s postsocialist and postauthoritarian transformation, focusing mainly on a set of interventions through which various civil society forces supported neoliberalization and transnational ...
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War magic
Investigates spiritual warfare in religion, magic, sorcery and shamanism. Reveals war magic and warrior religion in contemporary and historical circumstances. Shows the broad, international appeal of symbolic and ritual violence, in the east and west. Research into embodied perfo...
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Islam and assisted reproductive technologies
The first comprehensive study of Islam in relation to assisted reproductive technologies. A comparative perspective on the Sunni and Shia practices of assisted reproductive technologies. An assessment of some of the implications of assisted reproductive technologies in Muslim countr...
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Bruno kreisky’s foreign policy
An enlightening and geographically wide-ranging reappraisal of the life and legacy of the Austrian politician, Bruno Kreisky, this volume seeks to reinstate Kreisky’s centrality to Cold War history and Austria’s postwar recovery, highlighting how profoundly he reshaped the modern, geopolitical ...
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Cultural diversity and the empowerment of minorities
Conflicts between different racial, ethnic, national and other social groups are becoming more and more salient. One of the main sources of these internal conflicts is social and economic inequality, in particular the increasing disparities between majority and minority groups. Even societies t...
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Modernizing bavaria
In 1949 Bavaria was not only the largest and best known but also the poorest, most agricultural, and most industrially backward region of Germany. It was further its most politically conservative region. The largest political party in Bavaria was the Christian Social Union (CSU), an extremely c...
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Collective and state violence in turkey
Collective and State Violence in Turkey provides a wide range of case studies and historiographical reflections on the alarming recurrence of violence in Turkish history, as atrocities against varied ethnic-religious groups from the nineteenth century to today have propelled the nation’s very s...
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Incarceration and regime change
Focus on the impact of regime change and war on practices of incarceration. Focus on multiple punitive regimes (imprisonment, internment, and detention). Broad range of European countries and examples from European colonies. Discussion on the prisoners’ experiences and agency. ...
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Louder than words
Heroic actions speak volumes in a powerful middle grade novel based on real WWII events, set in Ukraine. "[a] unique perspective on the Holocaust..."—starred review, School Libary Journal Life is becoming ever more terrifying for the Jewish community as the Second World War envelops their lives. ...
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Global fluids
Embedded in feminist communication, sociological, and anthropological scholarship, Global Fluids examines the ways in which women’s body products (such as urine, eggs, and placentas) become valuable ingredients in the fertility and cosmetics industries, and develops cultural politics of reusabi...
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Crafting co-ops in denmark
Tinkering toward Transformation provides a vivid look at the conundrums of capitalism in the contemporary Danish Welfare state. This makes the book interesting to a broad range of scholars and students concerned with the political and social history as well as the present trajectory of this ...
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Divining history
Combines a deep knowledge of theological motifs with theory of history, providing a unique exploration of how such motifs have shaped the Western view of history. Combines a deep knowledge of anti-Jewish theological motifs in the Christian tradition with extensive knowledge of contempora...
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Una corte de llamas plateadas. edición especial tapa dura / a court of silver flames (a court of thorns and roses 5)
¡LLÉVATE EL QUINTO LIBRO DE LA SAGA DE SARAH J. MAAS EN UNA ESPECTACULAR EDICIÓN CON CANTOS DECORADOS! Serie bestseller del New York Times * Bestseller USA Today * Más de 13 millones de ejemplares vendidos Un cuento de hadas nunca había sido tan sexy. ¡Déjate seducir por la saga del momento! ...
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The last shaman
The Arakmbut are an indigenous people who live in the Madre de Dios region of the southeastern Peruvian rain forest. Since their first encounters with missionaries in the 1950s,they have shown resilience and a determination to affirm their identity in the face of many difficulties. During the l...
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Power and architecture
Explores the way capital cities provide a symbol for the state and contribute to the “invention” of nation. Addresses the reciprocal relationships between identity, regime formation and political ideology in urban planning and public architecture in the Western world. Variety of auth...
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From craftsmen to capitalists
Describes how the artisan class became one of the pillars of postwar stability in Germany. Explores how skilled tradesmen recast their historical traditions and forged alliances with former antagonists to help realize German democratization and recovery.
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The last european-hebrew writer
This series focuses on the Jewish textual tradition as well as the ways it evolves in response to new intellectual, historical, social and political contexts. Fostering dialogue between literary, philosophical, political and religious perspectives, this series, which consists of original sch...
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Cinema of choice
How movies engender closed-mindedness or optional thinking in viewers. Close analysis of branching narrative movies (Sliding Doors, Rashomon, etc.) An in-depth study of cognitive-affective engagement in movies.
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Children in the holocaust and its aftermath
The interviews conducted with Holocaust child survivors and war children were done in the 80s and early 90s therefore these are the first interviews many gave The collection also includes interviews conducted immediately after liberation Various qualitative analytic methods are used ...
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The soul of the nation
Religion and politics have historically clashed in modern Spain, particularly following the crisis of 1808 when the Catholica Monarchy put the role of the Church at the heart of political cultural Debates. The Soul of the Nation seeks to unravel this complex and oppositional history between Cat...
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Taking on technocracy
Taking on Technocracy addresses changing attitudes towards nuclear energy in the age of global warming. The German decision to abandon nuclear power is placed in a historical context, including popularization of science, new social movements, media, policing, gender, and the history of emotions.
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