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Avoiding the Subject : Media, Culture and the Object
What can Roger Rabbit tell us about the Second Gulf War? What can a woman married to the Berlin Wall tell us about posthumanism and inter-subjectivity? What can DJ Shadow tell us about the end of history? What can our local bus route tell us about the fortification of the West? What can Reality TV tell us about the crisis of contemporary community? And what can unauthorized pictures of Osama Bi…
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- 302.23 CLE a
The autonomous life? : Paradoxes of hierarchy and authority in the squatters …
This book is an ethnographic study of the internal dynamics of a subcultural community that defines itself as a social movement. While the majority of scholarly studies on this movement focus on its official face, on its front stage, this book concerns itself with the ideological and practical paradoxes at work within the micro-social dynamics of the backstage, an area that has so far been negl…
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- 978 1784 99756 4
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- 361.24
Automobiles and the Future : Competition, Cooperation, and Change
At the time of the U.S.-Japan auto conferences in March 1983, the hoped-for economic recovery as manifested in auto sales had revealed itself quite modestly. Three months later, the indicators were more robust and certainly long overdue for those whose livelihood depends on the health of the industry--some of whom are university professors. With Japanese import restrictions in place until Ma…
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- 9780472902088
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- Michigan papers in Japanese studies no. 10
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- 338.476 AUT
Australian native title anthropology : Strategic practice, the law and the state
"The Australian Federal Native Title Act 1993 marked a revolution in the recognition of the rights of Australia’s Indigenous peoples. The legislation established a means whereby Indigenous Australians could make application to the Federal Court for the recognition of their rights to traditional country. The fiction that Australia was terra nullius (or ‘void country’), which had prevailed …
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- 9781760461881
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Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte is widely acknowledged as the founder of the science of sociology and the 'Religion of Humanity'. In this fascinating study, the first major reassessment of Comte’s sociology for many years, Mike Gane draws on recent scholarship and presents a new reading of this remarkable figure. Comte’s contributions to the history and philosophy of science have decisively influenced positi…
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- 978–0–415–38542–8
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- 923.6 GAN a
Audiovision : Cinema and television as entr'actes in history
The production, distribution, and perception of moving images are undergoing a radical transformation. Ever-faster computers, digital technology, and microelectronic are joining forces to produce advanced audiovision -the media vanishing point of the 20th century. Very little will remain unchanged. The classic institutions for the mediation of film - cinema and television - are revealed to be n…
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- 9789053563137
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- Film culture in transition
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- 791.43 ZIE a
At the Crossroads : A Call to Christians to Act in Faith for an Alternative Z…
Zimbabwe, a country that is made up of around 80% of Christians find itself as among the worst administered countries, among the most corrupt nations and overflowing with injustice. This paradox urges to question the role of Christianity in shaping the morality of the nation and in creating a just society for all its citizens. While acknowledging the major role played by politics and politician…
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- Bible in Africa Studies Volume 21
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Asylum Determination in Europe : Ethnographic Perspectives
Drawing on new research material from ten European countries, Asylum Determination in Europe: Ethnographic Perspectives brings together a range of detailed accounts of the legal and bureaucratic processes by which asylum claims are decided.The book includes a legal overview of European asylum determination procedures, followed by sections on the diverse actors involved, the means by which they …
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- 978-3-319-94749-5
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- Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies
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- 342.082 ASY
Assessing the evidence on Indigenous socioeconomic outcomes : A focus on the…
This monograph presents the refereed, and peer-reviewed, edited proceedingsof the conference on Indigenous Socioeconomic Outcomes: Assessing RecentEvidence. The conference was organised by the Centre for Aboriginal EconomicPolicy Research and held at the Shine Dome, the Australian National University(ANU) in Canberra on 11 and 12 August 2005. The conference aimed to presentthe latest …
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- 9209426 4 5
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- Research monograph (Australian National University. Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research)
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- 362.849 915 ASS
Childhood interpersonal Trauma and Its Repercussions in Adulthood An Analysi…
Despite decades of prevention campaigns and research, childhood interpersonal trauma (i.e., psychological, physical and sexual abuse, psychological and physical neglect, witnessing interparental violence) remains an endemic problem with longstanding and deleterious negative effects on adult psycho-relational functioning. This chapter aims to present a comprehensive literature review of the repe…
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