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Hunger and Modern Writing
Hunger is a contentious theme in modernist literature, and this study addresses its relevance in the works of four major American and European writers. Taking an in-depth look at works by Melville, Kafka,Hamsun, and Wright, it argues that hunger is deeply involved with concepts of modernity and modern literature. Exploring how it is bound up with the writer’s role in modern society this study…
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Trouble
The latest Grist Anthology is an innovative blend of some of the most exciting and freshest voices in prose today. Protest is the distillation of a simple human experience - to witness a wrong being done, and to do something about it. The stories featured in Trouble celebrate protest, rebellion, disobedience and general bloody-mindedness in all of its forms. The best writing about protest shoul…
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I You He She It
The latest Grist Anthology is an innovative blend of some of the most exciting and freshest voices in prose and poetry today. It features five sections written from five distinct narrative viewpoints.
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Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination
Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination is an interdisciplinary reading of justice in literary texts and memoirs, films, and social anthropological texts in postcolonial Africa. Inspired by Nelson Mandela and South Africa’s robust achievements in human rights, this book argues that the notion of restorative justice is integral to the proper functioning of participatory democrac…
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Una finestra sul mondo del lavoro (English)
This volume’s purpose is making standards of basic employment law, accessible to everybody, even to non-lawyers. This book is part of the “Una finestra sul mondo del lavoro” project of University of Milano – Bicocca. The project is promoted by the Students’ Association of Bicocca and the Left Wing List. This book is part of the “A window on the world of work” project of University…
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Sociotechnical innovation in Mental Health Articulating Complexity
Health is a matter of fundamental importance in European societies, both as a human right in itself, and as a factor in a productive workforce and therefore a healthy economy. New health technologies promise improved quality of life for patients suffering from a range of diseases, and the potential for the prevention of incidence of disease in the future. At the same time, new health technologi…
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Jus Post Bellum Mapping The Normative Foundations
The successful transition from armed conflict to peace is one of the greatest challenges of contemporary warfare. The laws and principles governing transitions from conflict to peace (jus post bellum) have only recently gained attention in legal scholarship. This volume investigates questions concerning the core of jus post bellum: the law (“jus”), the temporal aspect (“post”), and diff…
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James Madison's Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787
Virginia politician James Madison kept detailed notes of the debates that took place in 1787 during the drafting of the Constitution of the United States. This volume reproduces them for easy reading.
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Diesseits vom Abseits - Studien zur beruflichen Benachteiligtenförderung
ugendliche mit besonderem Förderbedarf beim Übergang von der Schule in die Berufs- und Arbeitswelt gibt es seit vielen Jahren. In Deutschland sind inzwischen 15-20% eines Altersjahrgangs durch Ausgrenzung bedroht. Empirische Untersuchungen können vielfach zeigen, dass die Übergänge dieser Heranwachsenden in die berufsbildende Schule, in die Berufsausbildung oder gar in Erwerbsarbeit extrem…
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- Vol. 30
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Die Thun-Hohenstein’sche Universitätsreformen
The book gathers 14 articles on the reforms of the Austrian University system from 1848 to 1860 named after Leo Thun Hohenstein. The reforms mark a turning point in the history of the Austrian educational landscape. The book provides new perspectives on the work of Leo Thun-Hohenstein, using to date unknown sources and new approaches
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