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Demonic History : From Goethe to the Present
In this ambitious book, Kirk Wetters traces the genealogy of the demonic in German literature from its imbrications in Goethe to its varying legacies in the work of essential authors, both canonical and less well known, such as Gundolf, Spengler, Benjamin, Lukács, and Doderer. Wetters focuses especially on the philological and metaphorological resonances of the demonic from its core formatio…
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- 9780810129764
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- 800 WET d
Denis Diderot 'Rameau’s Nephew' – 'Le Neveu de Rameau' : A Multi-Media Bi…
In a famous Parisian chess café, a down-and-out, HIM, accosts a former acquaintance, ME, who has made good, more or less. They talk about chess, about genius, about good and evil, about music, they gossip about the society in which they move, one of extreme inequality, of corruption, of envy, and about the circle of hangers-on in which the down-and-out abides. The down-and-out from time to tim…
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- 9781909254923
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- 262 halaman
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- Open Book Classics
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- 800 DID d
Diaspora, Law and Literature
The well-known challenges of international migration have triggered new departures in academic approaches, with 'diaspora studies' evolving as an interdisciplinary and even transdisciplinary field of study. Its emerging methodology shares concerns with another interdisciplinary field, the study of the relations between law and literature, which focuses on the ways in which the two cultural prac…
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- 9783110485417
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- 359 halaman
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- 800 DIA
Dialogues on Poetry : Mediatization and New Sensibilities
This book’s inquiry into contemporary poetry takes two directions. The first direction leads to several close examinations of digital, multi-modal and performative poetry, and how perspectives or perhaps just an awareness of a new media landscape recondition our understanding of an old literary genre. The second direction expands into considerations of contextual theories of affect and atmosp…
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- 9788771126501
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- 370 halaman
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- Studies in Contemporary Poetry
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- 800 DIA
Development of Writing Skills in Individuals with Learning Difficulties : Und…
This volume highlights writing development and its relation to other cognitive domains, such as language and reading, for individuals who struggle to acquire writing proficiency, including those with specific learning disorders (SLD; e.g., dyslexia, dysgraphia, and specific language impairment) which affect writing skills (e.g., handwriting, composition). Writing and writing development are pre…
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- 9789004345812
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- Studies in Writing Volume: 35
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- 800 MIL d
Buddhist Foundations of Mindfulness
This book explores a wide range of mindfulness and meditative practices and traditions across Buddhism. It deepens contemporary understanding of mindfulness by examining its relationship with key Buddhist teachings, such as the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eight-Fold Path. In addition, the volume explores how traditional mindfulness can be more meaningfully incorporated into current psycholo…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-18590-3
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- XVI, 365
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- Mindfulness in Behavioral Health
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- 150
The Conquest of Cancer: A distant goal Paperback
Based on 30 years of clinical and research experience, backed by a careful assessment of four decades of published data, Dr. Faguet documented in The War on Cancer (Springer 2005), early advances in cancer treatment and patient survival that soon stalled. Ten years later and after an exhaustive analysis of evidence-based data available through 2013 that incorporates 755 references, he reveals t…
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- 978-9402403879
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- 264
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- The Conquest of Cancer: A distant goal Paperback
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- 15.49 x 1.6 x 23.5 cm
Roy & Me This Is Not a Memoir
Maurice Yacowar challenges genre and form in Roy & Me, a cross between memoir and fiction, truth and distortion. It is the exploration of Yacowar’s relationship with Roy Farran—soldier, politician, author, mentor—and his conflict with Farran’s anti-Semitic past. Best known for his service with the British Special Air Service during World War II, Roy Farran served as a politician in the …
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- 9781926836102.01
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- 148
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- Mingling Voices
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- 148 pages
Building Autonomous Learners : Perspectives from Research and Practice using …
This edited work presents a collection of papers on motivation research in education around the globe. Pursuing a uniquely international approach, it also features selected research studies conducted in Singapore under the auspices of the Motivation in Educational Research Lab, National Institute of Education, Singapore. A total of 15 chapters include some of the latest findings on theory an…
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- 978-981-287-630-0
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- XVII, 302
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- 150.7
Hypoxia: Translation in Progress
The latest in a series of books from the International Hypoxia Symposia, this volume spans reviews on key topics in hypoxia, and abstracts from poster and oral presentations. The biannual International Hypoxia Symposia are dedicated to hosting the best basic scientific and clinical minds to focus on the integrative and translational biology of hypoxia. Long before ‘translational medicine’ w…
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- 978-1-4899-7676-5
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- XIII, 772
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- Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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- 150 HYP
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