Comparative History – alle Bücher und CDs, Seite 6

Benjamin H Bradlow
Urban Power

Why some cities are more effective than others at reducing inequalities in the built environmentFor the first time in history, most people live in cities. One in seven are living in slums, the most exclud…

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El-Sayed El-Aswad
Religion and the Invisible World

A broad critical history of the transformation of religious thought in Egypt from ancient to modern periodsWhen a civilization disappears, its heritage does not vanish. It survives in different potentiall…

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Shawn M Bullock, Cécile Bullock
Historical Perspectives on Multilingual Education

In a linguistic and cultural landscape that has become more diversified, it has become more and more challenging for politicians, policymakers, researchers, as well as teachers, to deal with the increasin…

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Joseph Acquisto
Thought as Experience in Bataille, Cioran, and Rosset

"Acquisto analyzes the writings of Georges Bataille, Emil Cioran, and Clâement Rosset during and shortly after the Second World War, which address the question of what it means to think and to consti…

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Sophie Heywood,
Children's Publishing in Cold War France

Exploring the history of Cold War censorship legislation and its impact on the French publishing industry for children, this open access book focuses on the publisher Hachette to detail how it dominated t…

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William Stroebel
Literature's Refuge

"For the Translation/Transnation comparative literature series, a monograph that explores the refugee and diasporic literatures that resulted from the 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turk…

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The I.B. Tauris Handbook of Sociology and the Middle East

What we understand by the 'Middle East' has changed over time and across space. While scholars agree that the geographical 'core' of the Middle East is the Arabian Peninsula, the boundaries are less clear…

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Writing from Invention to Decipherment

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and select…

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Jack Snyder
Human Rights for Pragmatists

"Human rights are among our most pressing issues today, yet rights promoters have reached an impasse in their effort to achieve rights for all. Human Rights for Pragmatists explains why: activists pr…

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Ross Perlin
Language City

From the co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, a captivating portrait of contemporary New York City through six speakers of little-known and overlooked languages, diving into the incredible his…

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Thomas C Foster
How to Read Literature Like a Professor [Third Edition]

"A thoroughly revised and expanded edition of Thomas C. Foster's classic guide-a lively and entertaining introduction to literature and literary basics, including symbols, themes and contexts, that s…

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How They See Us

From the celebrated magazine of writing from around the world, twelve sharp global perspectives on a changing United States, edited by a winner of the European Press PrizeThe 2024 U.S. presidential electi…

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How They See Us

From the celebrated magazine of writing from around the world, twelve sharp global perspectives on a changing United States, edited by a winner of the European Press PrizeThe 2024 U.S. presidential electi…

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Robyn Creswell
City of Beginnings

"City of Beginnings is an exploration of modernism in Arabic poetry, a movement that emerged in Beirut during the 1950s and became the most influential and controversial Arabic literary development o…

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Troubled Lands

A landmark book---the first complete publication of Langston Hughes's translations of thirty-three stories by eighteen Mexican and Cuban writersIn late 1934, Langston Hughes, already established as a lead…

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Peter J Kalliney
The Aesthetic Cold War

How decolonization and the cold war influenced literature from Africa, Asia, and the CaribbeanHow did superpower competition and the cold war affect writers in the decolonizing world? In The Aesthetic Col…

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Alan Dershowitz
The Preventive State

"You shall thank Alan Dershowitz for writing this [valuable] book." -- Stephen Breyer, Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court If reliable but uncertain intelligence predicted a mass casua…

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Devin O Pendas
Genocide in Comparative Perspective

Genocide in Comparative Perspective offers a concise introduction to genocide in modern world history. It emphasizes the transnational dimensions of the phenomenon, looking at the way in which victim and …

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Devin O Pendas
Genocide in Comparative Perspective

Genocide in Comparative Perspective offers a concise introduction to genocide in modern world history. It emphasizes the transnational dimensions of the phenomenon, looking at the way in which victim and …

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Neilesh Bose
Chips from a Calcutta Workshop

Chips from a Calcutta Workshop explores the development and nature of comparative religion in nineteenth-century India. It focuses on the ideas and intellectual currents behind a range of thinkers who exp…

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