Filter by
Gender in the Vampire Narrative
Gender in the Vampire Narrative addresses issues of masculinity and femininity, unpacking cultural norms of gender. This collection demonstrates the way that representations of gender in the vampire narrative traverse a large scope of expectations and tropes. The text offers classroom ready original essays that outline contemporary debates about sexual objectification and gender norms using the…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-94-6300-714-6
- Collation
- X, 196
- Series Title
- Teaching Gender
- Call Number
- 177.5
Gender-Based Violence: Perspectives from Africa, the Middle East, and India
This book offers new perspectives on gender-based violence in three regions where the subject has been taboo in everyday discourse often due to patriarchal cultural norms that limit women’s autonomy. The contributions to this book provide rare insight into not only the levels and the socio-demographic determinants of domestic violence, but topics ranging from men’s attitudes toward wife bea…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-16669-8
- Collation
- XIX, 243
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 177.5
Comparative Perspectives on Gender Equality in Japan and Norway; Same but Dif…
This book compares perspectives on gender equality in Norway and Japan, focusing on family, education, media, and sexuality and reproduction as seen through a gendered lens.
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 1000528405, 9781000528404
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 155.33 KUN c
My Decade at Old Sun, My Lifetime of Hell
He returned to Gleichen late in life—to the home left to him by his mother—and it was there that he began to reconnect with Blackfoot language and culture and to write his story. Although the terrific adversity Bear Chief faced in his childhood made an indelible mark on his life, his unyielding spirit is evident throughout his story.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781771991759.01
- Collation
- 194
- Series Title
- Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
- Call Number
- 194 pages
Pogrom Cries – Essays on Polish-Jewish History, 1939–1946 2nd Revised Ed…
This book focuses on the fate of Polish Jews and Polish-Jewish relations during the Holocaust and its aftermath, in the ill-recognized era of Eastern-European pogroms after the WW2. It is based on the author’s own ethnographic research in those areas of Poland where the Holocaust machinery operated. The results comprise the anthropological interviews with the members of the generation of Holo…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- -
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Impact of Visual Simulations in Statistics: The Role of Interactive Visualiza…
Glena Iten investigates the impact of interactive visual simulations on conceptual understanding of statistical principles. Overall, all students were able to increase their knowledge by working with visual simulations, whereas students who could manipulate statistical graphs in the simulation on their own were significantly faster. Currently, interactive learning tools explaining statistical c…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-658-08334-2
- Collation
- IX, 48
- Series Title
- BestMasters
- Call Number
- 150 ITE i
Creative Intelligence in the 21st Century: Grappling with Enormous Problems a…
How can creative individuals and societies adapt to complex 21st-century conditions? Will civilizations thrive or collapse in the decades to come if they are not creative enough, or if they are too creative? Interest in these questions is growing; however, until now there has been inadequate understanding of the socioeconomic and cultural trends and issues that influence creativity. This book p…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789463005067
- Collation
- X, 276
- Series Title
- Advances in Creativity and Giftedness
- Call Number
- 153.53
Making Muslim Women European: Voluntary Associations, Gender, and Islam in Po…
This social, cultural, and political history of Slavic Muslim women of the Yugoslav region in the first decades of the post-Ottoman era is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of the issues confronting these women. It is based on a study of voluntary associations (philanthropic, cultural, Islamic-traditionalist, and feminist) of the period. It is broadly held that Muslim women were sil…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789633863695
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 297.092 GIO m
Living on the Land Indigenous Women's Understanding of Place
An extensive body of literature on Indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing has been written since the 1980s. This research has for the most part been conducted by scholars operating within Western epistemological frameworks that tend not only to deny the subjectivity of knowledge but also to privilege masculine authority. As a result, the information gathered predominantly reflects the types o…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781771990417.01
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 228 pages
Crop systems biology : narrowing the gaps between crop modelling and genetics
The Work is an interdisciplinary research approach, combining modern genetics and genomics, traditional physiology and biochemistry, and advanced bioinformatics and crop modelling. It is a rapidly developing field and this book is testimony to its dynamic evolution. It provides examples of how gene regulatory and metabolic networks are included, in a spatially and temporally specific manner, in…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783319205625
- Collation
- XI, 233
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 630
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography