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  • - Increments of change
    av Patricia Medcalf
    407

    Analyses the influence of the Guinness brand's provenance on advertising campaigns aimed at consumers living in Ireland between 1959 and 1999, and the extent to which Guinness's advertising has influenced Irish culture and society.

  • - The South African Constabulary and the Imperial Imposition of the Modern State, 1900 1914
    av Scott C. Spencer
    1 031

    Combining traditional archival with innovative digital research, this book narrates global integration and imperial governance through individuals, from Boy Scout founder Robert Baden-Powell and imperialist Alfred Milner to Canadian Mountie Sam Steele, and, foremost, thousands of SAC men.

  • - Iconografie pirandelliane. Immagini e cultura visiva nell'opera di Luigi Pirandello
     
    851

    I saggi raccolti in Iconografie pirandelliane esplorano una fitta serie di domande relative alle molteplici sfaccettature della cultura visiva nell'opera e nell'immagine pubblica di Luigi Pirandello. Il volume offre una panoramica variegata e unica sui molteplici temi legati a Pirandello e alla cultura visiva.

  • - Engaging with the Challenge of Academisation
    av Margaret Buck
    1 151

    In light of changes to the English national educational policy context since the Academies Act 2010, this book examines the relationship between the Catholic Church and the English State with regard to the provision of education in diocesan Catholic schools

  • - Wexford as the World
     
    441

    Billy Roche - musician, actor, novelist, dramatist, screenwriter - is one of Ireland's most versatile talents. This anthology, the first comprehensive survey of Roche's work, focuses on his portrayal of one Irish town as a microcosm of human life itself, elemental and timeless.

  • - Collectivity and the Digital in French Thought and Culture
     
    731

    #NousSommes represents a moment when social media became embroiled in collective expressions of unity, solidarity and resistance. This book explores the role of the digital in the collective today, drawing on the work of important French philosophers like Nancy, Derrida and Deleuze and addressing issues such as ecology, automation and addiction.

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    771

    Makes a case for the value of trauma and memory studies as a means of casting new light on the meaning of Irish identity in a number of contemporary Irish cultural practices, and of illuminating present-day attitudes to the past.

  • - Queer-Feminist Solidarity and the East/West Divide
     
    947

    Queering Paradigms VIII brings together critical discourses on queer-feminist solidarity between Western, post-Soviet and post-socialist contexts. It highlights transnational solidarity efforts against homophobia, transphobia and misogyny. It celebrates the alliances and solidarities between activism, community building, art and culture.

  • - Un Siglo En La Gran Pantalla
    av Alba Carmona
    921

  • av Elizabeth Ford
    571

    This book explores the role of the flute in Scottish musical life, primarily in the long eighteenth century, including players, repertoire, manuscripts, and instruments. Evidence for ladies having played the flute is examined, as are possible connections between flute playing and bagpipe playing.

  • - Greek Migrant Communities in Germany and their Socio-political Integration
    av Eleni Tseligka
    1 007

    The Gastarbeiter (guest worker) agreement between Greece and Germany in 1960 sparked the biggest wave of emigration to central Europe in the history of the modern Greek state. This book examines the impact of this agreement on Greek migrants, partcularly in relation to the role that their social and cultural background played in integration.

  • - American Television Series in Hungary
    av Karoly Polcz
    947

    Speech acts - such as requests, invitations and offers - pose particular challenges for dubbing translators due to cultural differences. This volume draws on data from over 700 episodes of twenty different television series and introduces a multidimensional model for capturing dominant patterns in translating speech acts.

  • - Flows of Political Power in Media Performance
    av Pamela Krist
    1 007

    This book explores the Trevi Fountain through the prism of cultural memory to reveal the processes that make it so iconic and performative. Using a cross-disciplinary approach that includes imagery in art, literature, film, music and the e-Trevi of the internet, this volume looks at how memory travels between media.

  • - History, Ethics and Identity in the Works of Claudio Magris
    av Remko Smid
    751

    Claudio Magris is considered an authority on central European literature and culture. This book explores why he has become such a relevant figure, demonstrating how his ideas about history, ethics and identity are so fundamental for Europe's future.

  • - Transatlantic Experiences and Perspectives of Black Germans of the Post-War Generation
     
    1 151

    This volume collects the voices of descendents of African American soldiers who liberated Germany from fascist rule. Black German writers here convey their experiences through life writing, interviews and literary works as well as through research essays that illuminate this almost forgotten history of US American-German relations.

  • - Australian Essays in Honour of Ross Chambers
     
    717

    Loiterature, perhaps Ross Chambers's most famous book, prescribes slow and careful reading practices but also quick-witted analysis. This collection draws together tributes, essays and critical responses to his wide-ranging work from Romanticism to the present, all demonstrating, through practice, the generative value of "loitering".

  • av Heinrich von Siebenthal
    947

    Ancient Greek Grammar for the Study of the New Testament is a tool for theologians and others interested in interpreting the Greek New Testament. It is a reference grammar that systematically covers all areas relevant to well-founded text interpretation including text grammar. Differences between classical and non-classical usage are indicated.

  • - Music at St Patrick's College Drumcondra, 1875-2016
     
    376

    The book records and interprets key musical developments, appraises the work of major contributors, and captures the activities of all at St Patrick's College up to its incorporation into Dublin City University in 2016. It represents a major scholarly work that details the progress of music at a university college in Ireland

  • - Music at St Patrick's College Drumcondra, 1875-2016
     
    577

    The book records and interprets key musical developments, appraises the work of major contributors, and captures the activities of all at St Patrick's College up to its incorporation into Dublin City University in 2016. It represents a major scholarly work that details the progress of music at a university college in Ireland

  • - From theories of representation to an African knowledge system
    av Sylvester Odia
    731

    Within the theoretical framework of Hegel's epistemic interactivism and Esan epistemology, this book exposes the epistemic interactivism of Esan thought which unified the subject and person-object of knowledge; thus providing adequate basis for personhood and resolving the dehumanised relationship between the subject and person-object of knowledge.

  • - A History of Women's Cricket in Britain
    av Rafaelle Nicholson
    751

    This book offers the first ever academic study of women's cricket in Britain from its origins in the 18th century to the present day. Through use of interviews with many former players, the book argues that women's cricket was a site of feminism across its history and an important source of empowerment to women who participated in the sport.

  • - Martin Heidegger: In Language
    av Martin Travers
    947

    Martin Heidegger was engaged in a continual struggle to find new words for his radical form of philosophy. This book is the first study that provides a full account of Heidegger's language and writing style, revealing his ongoing self-questioning and reflectiveness about his philosophical quest.

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    817

    This edited volume showcases essays revolving around diverse translation discourses and practices in China, Korea and Japan. The contributors bring together different areas of expertise, such as the history of translation, political activism and translation, literary translation, transcreation and the translation profession.

  • - Critical Constructionist Theory in the Human Sciences
    av Alipio DeSousa Filho
    1 151

    The author argues that in the Human Sciences a common premise is apparent: the fundamental property of all human-social reality as something constructed. Through analyses and reflections of his own and others the author shows how this premise applied as critical constructionist theory constitutes the fundamental theory of the Human Sciences.

  • av Thuan Tjiauw Thuan
    587

    Since 1999, Indonesia's higher education system has entered a new stage. The government promotes legal entity reform at public colleges and universities, and plans to transform all public colleges and universities into legal entities.

  • av Sophie Heine
    717

    While anti-European forces are still raging, pro-Europeans seem impotent and deprived of a strong, clear and convincing alternative. This book is an attempt to fill that void: reacting to the anti-European wave, it also outlines a strong criticism both of the current EU and of its advocates.

  • - The Theoretical Basis
    av Key Laboratory of Big Data Strategy
    877

    Data Rights Law 1.0 proposes a new concept -"data person". It defines "data rights" as rights derived from the "data person" and "data rights system" as the order based on "data rights". "Data rights law" is the formed out of the "data rights system". The book constructs a framework of "data rights-data rights system-data rights law".

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