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  • Rethinking Chicana/o Literature through Food Rethinking Chicana/o Literature through Food
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    Rethinking Chicana/o Literature through Food

    As Food Studies has grown into a well-established field, literary scholars have not fully addressed the prevalent themes of food, eating, and consumption in Chicana/o literature. Here, contributors propose food consciousness as a paradigm to examine the...
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  • Blake's Drama Blake's Drama
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    Blake's Drama

    Blake's Drama challenges conventional views of William Blake's multimedia work by reinterpreting it as theatrical performance. Viewed in its dramatic contexts, this art form is shown to provoke an active spectatorship and to depict identity as...
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  • Contemporary African Literature in English Contemporary African Literature in English
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    Contemporary African Literature in English

    Contemporary African Literature in English explores the contours of representation in contemporary Anglophone African literature, drawing on a wide range of authors including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Aminatta Forna, Brian Chikwava, Ngug? wa Thiong'o,...
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  • Animality and Children's Literature and Film Animality and Children's Literature and Film
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    Animality and Children's Literature and Film

    Examining culturally significant works of children's culture through a posthumanist, or animality studies lens, Animality and Children's Literature and Film argues that Western philosophy's objective to establish a notion of an exclusively human...
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  • James Joyce, Urban Planning and Irish Modernism James Joyce, Urban Planning and Irish Modernism
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    James Joyce, Urban Planning and Irish Modernism

    Irish writing in the modernist era is often regarded as a largely rural affair, engaging with the city in fleeting, often disparaging ways, with Joyce cast as a defiant exception. This book shows how an urban modernist tradition, responsive to the...
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  • Partnerships, Power and Peacebuilding Partnerships, Power and Peacebuilding
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    Partnerships, Power and Peacebuilding

    By highlighting the scope and limitations of local NGO agencies, this book presents a unique perspective of the relationship between peacebuilding theory and its application in practice, outlining how well-educated, well-connected local decision makers...
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  • Writing Lives in China, 1600-2010 Writing Lives in China, 1600-2010
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    Writing Lives in China, 1600-2010

    This innovative collection explores the life stories of Chinese women and men between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries. It draws on both biographical and autobiographical narratives and on perspectives taken from life writing theory to ask how...
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  • Thomas Hardy, Time and Narrative Thomas Hardy, Time and Narrative
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    Thomas Hardy, Time and Narrative

    How is Hardy's development of thematics and characters matched by that of narrative techniques and his handling of time? This book uses narratological methods to stress the interdependence of content and expression in a key transitional writer between...
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  • Irish Gothics Irish Gothics
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    Irish Gothics

    Scholarly interest in 'the Irish Gothic' has grown at a rapid pace in recent years, but the debate over exactly what constitutes this body of literature remains far from settled. This collection of essays explores the rich complexities of the literary...
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  • Storytelling in the Digital Age Storytelling in the Digital Age
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    Storytelling in the Digital Age

    Through a professional story-teller's sometimes humorous commentary on culture and literature from The Odyssey on , the book suggests that literature is not an artifact to be studied but a living process. Often irreverent, crossing literary and scholarly...
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  • Chinese Discourse Studies Chinese Discourse Studies
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    Chinese Discourse Studies

    Chinese Discourse Studies presents an innovative and systematic approach to discourse and communication in contemporary China. Incorporating Chinese philosophy and theory, it offers not only a distinct cultural paradigm in the field, but also a...
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  • Lesbianism in Swedish Literature Lesbianism in Swedish Literature
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    Lesbianism in Swedish Literature

    Here, Björklund shows that Swedish literary discourses on lesbianism provocatively contrast with a widely accepted view that attitudes toward homosexuality have gradually become more tolerant. The lasting power of negative discourses upends the...
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  • New Formalist Criticism New Formalist Criticism
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    New Formalist Criticism

    New Formalist Criticism defines and theorizes a mode of formalist criticism that is theoretically compatible with current thinking about literature and theory. New formalism anticipates a move in literary studies back towards the text and, in so doing,...
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  • Charles Dickens and the Sciences of Childhood Charles Dickens and the Sciences of Childhood
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    Charles Dickens and the Sciences of Childhood

    This book takes a fresh look at childhood in Dickens' works and in Victorian science and culture more generally. It offers a new way of understanding Dickens' interest in childhood by showing how his fascination with new scientific ideas about childhood...
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  • Alan Hollinghurst and the Vitality of Influence Alan Hollinghurst and the Vitality of Influence
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    Alan Hollinghurst and the Vitality of Influence

    Alan Hollinghurst and the Vitality of Influence proposes a striking approach for reading the influences that interlace twentieth-century gay British writers. Focusing on the role of the textual image in literary influence, this book moves toward a new...
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  • The Responsibility to Protect and the Third Pillar The Responsibility to Protect and the Third Pillar
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    The Responsibility to Protect and the Third Pillar

    As the RtoP moves from norm to operationalization, greater analysis of action to halt crimes against humanity, war crimes, genocide and ethnic cleansing is needed. This uncovers opportunities and challenges associated with third pillar interventions by...
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  • Development Policy in Africa Development Policy in Africa
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    Development Policy in Africa

    The author investigates the agenda for transformation in contemporary African development studies: policy studies, strategic studies, international relations and economic diplomacy. With a focus on the capacity dimension, he proposes critical policy and...
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  • The Chinese Constitution of Central Asia The Chinese Constitution of Central Asia
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    The Chinese Constitution of Central Asia

    China's commitments in Central Asia illustrate how regional foreign policy works and how long-standing principles of Chinese foreign policy might be revised in the near future. China's rise has 'moved' Asia, which is why it seems that what we have...
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  • Transnational Partnerships Transnational Partnerships
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    Transnational Partnerships

    Why are some transnational public-private partnerships (PPPs) highly effective, while others are not? The contributors compare 21 transnational PPPs that seek to provide collective goods in the field of sustainable development.
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  • Multinational Corporations from Emerging Markets Multinational Corporations from Emerging Markets
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    Multinational Corporations from Emerging Markets

    The rise of multinational corporations (MNCs) from emerging markets has been a major development during the last decade. An important feature of emerging market MNCs is their close relationship with home states. The book investigates this special kind of...
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  • ASEAN's Engagement of Civil Society ASEAN's Engagement of Civil Society
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    ASEAN's Engagement of Civil Society

    This book offers an innovative framework for understanding the role of civil society in regional and global policymaking. Using political economy analysis, Gerard demonstrates that ASEAN's people-oriented agenda builds legitimacy, while sidelining its...
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  • Conflicts in the Persian Gulf Conflicts in the Persian Gulf
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    Conflicts in the Persian Gulf

    This book analyzes the origins of conflicts and wars in the Persian Gulf, assesses the common factor(s) that have been their essential fuel, determines their fallout for the political, economic, and human development of the region, and provides insight...
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  • The Korean Economic Developmental Path The Korean Economic Developmental Path
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    The Korean Economic Developmental Path

    This book defines the Korean development as the moral economy of growth derived from a synergy between strong state and strong society and argues that Confucian cultural orientation has played a critical role in the process.
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  • Business Discourse Business Discourse
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    Business Discourse

    This book will enable students, researchers and practitioners with some background in applied linguistics and/or (business) communication to engage with most of the issues raised by the multidisciplinary field of business discourse. To applied linguists...
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  • The Developmental Challenges of Mining and Oil The Developmental Challenges of Mining and Oil
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    The Developmental Challenges of Mining and Oil

    The authors explain why the discovery and development of natural resources is commonly associated with unstable and unequal development, and frequently with violence. They demonstrate the need for policies and institutions by reflecting on both successes...
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  • Q and the Anons Q and the Anons
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    Q and the Anons

    This 292-page book is filled with hundreds of graphics, news headlines, photos, and many memes. The paperback is black-and-white, the ebook is color, and the hardcover is premium color, with printing costs to match - a great gift and keepsake of this...
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  • Changing Signs of Truth Changing Signs of Truth
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    Changing Signs of Truth

    Crystal Downing brings the postmodern theory of semiotics within reach for today's evangelists. Following the idea of the sign through Scripture, church history and the academy, Downing shows you how signs work and how sensitivity to their dynamics can...
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  • Crossover Preaching Crossover Preaching
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    Crossover Preaching

    In our increasingly pluralistic and multicultural society, there is a need for preaching that is capable of crossing cultural boundaries and engaging multiple contexts. Jared Alcántara's exciting new work proposes an intercultural and improvisational...
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  • Skills for Effective Counseling Skills for Effective Counseling
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    Skills for Effective Counseling

    Effective counseling depends on mastering basic communication skills. In this integrative, classroom-ready text, Elisabeth Nesbit Sbanotto, Heather Davediuk Gingrich and Fred Gingrich break these skills into manageable microskills and connect them to...
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  • French, Cajun, Creole, Houma French, Cajun, Creole, Houma
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    French, Cajun, Creole, Houma

    In recent years, ethnographers have recognized south Louisiana as home to perhaps the most complex rural society in North America. More than a dozen French-speaking immigrant groups have been identified there, Cajuns and white Creoles being the most...
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  • Handbook of Risk and Crisis Communication Handbook of Risk and Crisis Communication
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    Handbook of Risk and Crisis Communication

    This handbook features a line of analysis that connects crisis, risk, and public policy issues into a coherent fabric. Each chapter represents the best available research in these areas with insightful notions of where current research and best practices...
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  • Narratives, Health, and Healing Narratives, Health, and Healing
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    Narratives, Health, and Healing

    This volume explores how narratives are used in the social construction of wellness and illness. It is intended for scholars and advanced students in health communication and applied health disciplines.
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  • Exploring Positive Relationships at Work Exploring Positive Relationships at Work
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    Exploring Positive Relationships at Work

    This edited volume brings together a select group of leading organizational scholars for the purpose of developing a foundation-setting book on positive relationships at work. Positive Relationships at Work (PRW) is a rich new interdisciplinary domain of...
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  • South Asia's Nuclear Security Dilemma South Asia's Nuclear Security Dilemma
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    South Asia's Nuclear Security Dilemma

    The nuclear test explosions in India and Pakistan in 1998, followed by the outbreak of hostilities over Kashmir in 1999, marked a frightening new turn in the ancient, bitter enmity between the two nations. Although the tension was eclipsed by the events...
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  • Political Systems of East Asia Political Systems of East Asia
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    Political Systems of East Asia

    This innovative, interdisciplinary introduction to East Asian politics uses a thematic approach to describe the political development of China, Japan, and Koreas since the mid-nineteenth century and analyze the social, cultural, political, and economic...
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  • Russia and Western Civilization Russia and Western Civilization
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    Russia and Western Civilization

    This volume introduces readers to an age-old question that has perplexed both Russians and Westerners. Is Russia the eastern flank of Europe? Or is it really the heartland of another civilization? In exploring this question, the authors present a...
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  • The Japanese Police System Today The Japanese Police System Today
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    The Japanese Police System Today

    What role do their respective police systems play in the very different crime rates of Japan and the United States? This study draws on direct observation of Japanese police practices combined with interviews of police officials, criminal justice...
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  • Flora Of Kuwait Flora Of Kuwait
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    Flora Of Kuwait

    First published in 1985. Building on Professor Hazim Daoud's unfinished work due to his sudden death in 1976, Dr Ali Al-Rawi assembles the relevant data to complete this study of Kuwait's desert flowers and plant life. This culmination of field notes,...
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  • Northeast Asian Regionalism Northeast Asian Regionalism
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    Northeast Asian Regionalism

    Examines both actual and potential developments in North-East Asian regionalism, from various levels and fields of analysis, considering cooperative and integrative structures and processes. Particular reference is made to the contemporary experience of...
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  • Public Relations and Online Engagement Public Relations and Online Engagement
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    Public Relations and Online Engagement

    As media continues to evolve, social media has become even more integral to public relations activities, presenting new opportunities and challenges for practitioners. Relationships between publics and organizations continue to be first and foremost, but...
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  • Securitising Singapore Securitising Singapore
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    Securitising Singapore

    Aljunied examines how the Singaporean government developed a comprehensive state-society strategic relationship by 'securitising' vital policy areas because of Singapore's vulnerability as a global city state.In the twenty-first century, the Singaporean...
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