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Physical Activity, Exercise, Sedentary Behavior and Health
The aim of this book is to present current views about physical activity and the benefits of physical activity in preventing and ameliorating various health conditions that are of worldwide concern. This book was developed as a compilation of the accomplishments of the five-year Global COE (Center of Excellence) “Sport Sciences for the Promotion of Active Life” Program at the Faculty of Spo…
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- 1
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- 978-4-431-55333-5
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- XI, 336
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- 796 KAN p
In the Realm of the Senses: Social Aesthetics and the Sensory Dynamics of Pri…
This book charts new territory both theoretically and methodologically. Drawing on MacDougall’s notion of social aesthetics, it explores the sensory dimensions of privilege through a global ethnography of elite schools. The various contributors to the volume draw on a range of theoretical perspectives from Lefebvre, Benjamin, Bourdieu, Appadurai, Kress and van Leeuwen to both broaden and crit…
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- 1
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- 978-981-287-349-1
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- IX, 211
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- Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education
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- 791 INT
Cultural Heritage as Civilizing Mission: From Decay to Recovery
This book investigates the role of cultural heritage as a constitutive dimension of different civilizing missions from the colonial era to the present. It includes case studies of the Habsburg Empire and German colonialism in Africa, Asian case studies of (post)colonial India and the Dutch East Indies/Indonesia, China and French Indochina, and a special discussion on 20th-century Cambodia and t…
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- 1
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- 9783319136387
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- X, 355
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- Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context
- Call Number
- 726.1
Literature, the Humanities and Humanity
Literature, the Humanities and Humanity attempts to make the study of literature more than simply another school subject that students have to take. At a time when all subjects seem to be valued only for their testability, this book tries to show the value of reading and studying literature, even earlier literature. It shows students, some of whom will themselves become teachers, that literatur…
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- -
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- 9781942341031
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- -
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- 800 STE l
Open Modernisms Anthology Builder
Open Modernisms is an open, Creative-Commons-licensed online platform that allows teachers and scholars to build custom anthologies of out-of-copyright primary materials for the period 1850–1950. . It uses a custom-built Islandora module to host a library of documents from which users can select and rearrange in whatever order they like; add their own notes and introductory or contextualizing…
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- 808.801 12 ROS o
Writing History in the Digital Age
Writing History in the Digital Age began as a “what-if” experiment by posing a question: How have Internet technologies influenced how historians think, teach, author, and publish? To illustrate their answer, the contributors agreed to share the stages of their book-in-progress as it was constructed on the public web.To facilitate this innovative volume, editors Jack Dougherty and Kristen N…
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- 9780472900244
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- -
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- 809 NAW w
Joro's Youth : The first part of the Mongolian epic of Geser Khan
The epic of King Gesar of Ling is the national oral epic of Tibet, sung by itinerant bards in their land for many centuries but not recorded in print until recent times. Spreading widely beyond Tibet, there are extant versions in other languages of Central Asia. The first printed version is from Mongolia, produced on the orders of the Kangxi emperor of the Manchu Qing dynasty in the early 18th …
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- -
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- 9781760460822
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- -
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- 920 RAC j
The Craft of Poetry : Dialogues on Minimal Interpretation
This book presents an innovative format for poetry criticism that its authors call "dialogical poetics." This approach shows that readings of poems, which in academic literary criticism often look like a product of settled knowledge, are in reality a continual negotiation between readers. But Derek Attridge and Henry Staten agree to rein in their own interpretive ingenuity and "minimally interp…
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- -
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- 9781317532583
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- 174 halaman
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- -
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- 800 ATT c
Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry
The canon of Russian poetry has been reshaped since the fall of the Soviet Union.
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- -
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- 9781783740895
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- -
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- -
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- 821
Authoring the Self : Self-Representation, Authorship, and the Print Market in…
Drawing upon historicist and cultural studies approaches to literature, this book argues that the Romantic construction of the self emerged out of the growth of commercial print culture and the expansion and fragmentation of the reading public beginning in eighteenth-century Britain. Arguing for continuity between eighteenth-century literature and the rise of Romanticism, this groundbreaking bo…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780203005002
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- 404
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- -
- Call Number
- 800 HES a
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