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This book presents new translations of the earliest known studies in Social Policy. Juan-Luis Vives’s De Subventione Pauperum (On the Relief of the Poor) is an academic report on the organisation of social welfare, prepared for the senate of Bruges and published in...

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Télécharger le livre :  John McGahern and the Art of Memory
In 2005, when John McGahern published his Memoir, he revealed for the first time in explicit detail the specific nature of the autobiographical dimension of his fiction, a dimension he had hitherto either denied or mystified. Taking Memoir as a paradigmatic work of...

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Télécharger le livre :  China und China-Erfahrung in Leben und Werk von Anna Seghers
Das vorliegende Buch rekonstruiert und analysiert als erste Studie dieser Art Anna Seghers’ Begegnung mit den Chinesen, der chinesischen Kultur und Geschichte, der Politik sowie der Gesellschaft des Landes chronologisch. Durch die Darstellung und Analyse Seghers’...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Collaborative Enterprise
Competitive economics produces an enormous abundance of goods and services but at an intolerable environmental and social cost. Competition has become an end in itself, which leads to detrimental effects on nature, society and future generations. A change of paradigm is...

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Télécharger le livre :  Southern Ireland and the Liberation of France
This collection of essays sets out to correct an injustice to citizens of the Irish Free State, or Twenty-Six Counties, whose contribution to the victory against Nazi Germany in the Second World War has thus far been obscured. The historical facts reveal a divided...

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Télécharger le livre :  Enlightened Rule
The twentieth century has been called an ‘age of catastrophe’, characterized by devastating wars and a general poverty of leadership at government level. This book, written in a more optimistic vein, offers biographical essays on six twentieth century heads of...

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Télécharger le livre :  Breaking the Mould
Catholicism has played a central role in Irish society for centuries. It is sometimes perceived in a negative light, being associated with repression, antiquated morality and a warped view of sexuality. However, there are also the positive aspects thatCatholicism...

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Télécharger le livre :  No Country for Old Men
Once a country of emigration and diaspora, in the 1990s Ireland began to attract immigration from other parts of the world: a new citizenry. By the first decade of the twenty-first century, the ratio between GDP and population placed Ireland among the wealthiest nations...

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Télécharger le livre :  Irish Autobiography
Ireland has passed through numerous identity crises in the last century, keeping the meaning of Irishness in constant flux. This book explores how diverse writers have positioned their life stories within the wider narrative of the nation’s development. Examining the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Liminal Borderlands in Irish Literature and Culture
Liminality, if interpreted as a concern with borders and states of in-betweenness, is a widespread theme in Irish literature and culture, which is perhaps not surprising considering the colonial and postcolonial background of Ireland. The liminal, from the Latin word...

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Télécharger le livre :  Contests and Contexts
Despite being Ireland’s national and first official language, Irish is marginalised and threatened as a community language. The dominant discourse has long dismissed the Irish language as irrelevant or even an obstacle to Ireland’s progress. This book critiques that...

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Télécharger le livre :  New Vocabularies, Old Ideas
Advertisements are often viewed as indices of cultural change, just as the advertising industry is often imagined as innovative and transformative. Advancing from an alternative position, which borrows much from practice-based research, this book instead highlights the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Educating the Young
This collection of essays initiates a conversation about the educational interests of the young and considers the potential for pedagogical transformation. Organized into three parts, dealing with the pedagogy of care, child honouring and telling children the truth,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Chinese PhD thesis acknowledgements
While there is a comparatively rich research literature on English acknowledgement texts, research into Chinese PhD thesis acknowledgement texts, especially the social roles of the texts, has received little attention. To fill this gap, this book examines a corpus of...

Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2011-02-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Phonological Processing Abilities and Reading Competence
Phonological processing abilities specifically include three distinct but related components: phonological awareness, phonological memory, and rapid naming. The knowledge of interrelationships between phonological processing abilities and reading development has led to...

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Télécharger le livre :  Der weibliche Blick auf den Orient
Der von Edward Said angeregte Orientalismus-Diskurs über den westlichen Blick auf den Orient weist auf die überwiegend durch Stereotype und Vorurteile geprägte Betrachtungsweise des Okzidents hin. Dabei geht Said stillschweigend von einem männlichen Diskurs aus,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Remembering Viet Nam: Gustav Hasford, Ron Kovic, Tim O’Brien and the Fabrication of American Cultural Memory
How does American culture deal with its memories of the Vietnam War and what role does literature play in this process? Remembering Viet Nam is a fascinating exploration of the ways in which authors of Vietnam War literature represent American cultural memory in their...

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Télécharger le livre :  Meaning and Context
The contextual contributions to meaning are at the core of the debate about the semantics/pragmatics distinction, one of the liveliest topics in current philosophy of language and linguistics.The controversy between semantic minimalists and contextualists regarding...

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Télécharger le livre :  India in Translation through Hindi Literature
What role have translations from Hindi literary works played in shaping and transforming our knowledge about India? In this book, renowned scholars, translators and Hindi writers from India, Europe, and the United States offer their approaches to this question. Their...

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Télécharger le livre :  Variety and Variability
Research into varieties of Englishes around the world has received much attention from scholars. This book offers a new perspective from a cognitive inter and intra lexemic analysis of prepositional variations in Malaysian English and contrasts them with similar...

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