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Petrochemical Planet: Multiscalar Battles of Industrial Transformation
Drawing on research from high-level industry meetings, petrochemical plant tours, and polluted communities in the United States, China, Europe, Alice Mah examines the changing nature of the petrochemical industry as it faces the existential threats of climate change and environmental activism.
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781478025122, 9781478020141
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- 241
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- -
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- 301 MAH p
Novel Translations: The European Novel and the German Book, 1680–1730
Many early novels were cosmopolitan books, read from London to Leipzig and beyond, available in nearly simultaneous translations into French, English, German, and other European languages. In Novel Translations, Bethany Wiggin charts just one of the paths by which newness—in its avatars as fashion, novelties, and the novel—entered the European world in the decades around 1700. As readers ac…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9780801460074, 9780801476983
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- 264
- Series Title
- Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
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- 809 WIG n
Second Report on the Excavations of the Roman Fort at Richborough, Kent
This is the second account of the excavations of the Roman fort at Richborough (Rutupiae), Kent, in southern England, which took place in 1924. Included are descriptions of artefacts such as pottery, coins, buildings and metalwork, together with an account of the methodology used to unearth these.
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- Ed. 1
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- -
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- 288
- Series Title
- Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London, VII
- Call Number
- 930.1 BUS s
Women of the Washington Press: Politics, Prejudice, and Persistence
Winner, 2012 Frank Luther Mott-Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award. Women of the Washington Press argues that for nearly two centuries women journalists have persisted in their efforts to cover politics in the nation’s capital in spite of blatant prejudice and restrictive societal attitudes. They have been held back by the difficulties of combining two competing roles – those of women and journa…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9780810166141, 9780810125711
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- -
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- 305 BEA w
Soldiers' Stories: Military Women in Cinema and Television since World War II
From Skirts Ahoy! to M*A*S*H, Private Benjamin, G.I. Jane, and JAG, films and television shows have grappled with the notion that military women are contradictory figures, unable to be both effective soldiers and appropriately feminine. In Soldiers’ Stories, Yvonne Tasker traces this perceived paradox across genres including musicals, screwball comedies, and action thrillers. She explains how…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9780822393351
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- -
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- -
- Call Number
- 025.4 TAS s
Refuge in a Moving World: Tracing refugee and migrant journeys across discipl…
"Refuge in a Moving World draws together more than thirty contributions written from multiple disciplines and fields of research and practice to discuss different ways of engaging with, and responding to, migration and displacement. The volume combines critical reflections on the complexities of conceptualizing processes and experiences of (forced) migration, with detailed analyses of these exp…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781787353183
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- -
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Technology’s Refuge: The use of technology by asylum seekers and refugees
An investigation into the use of information communication technologies by refugees during flight, displacement and in settlement, this book examines the impact of Australia’s official policy of mandatory detention on how asylum seekers and refugees maintain links to diasporas and networks of support. Given the restricted contact with the world outside of the immigration detention centre, the…
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- Ed. 1
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- -
- Collation
- 54
- Series Title
- UTS Shopfront Series, 5
- Call Number
- 001.51 LIN t
Kalevipoeg Studies : The Creation and Reception of An Epic
"The poem Kalevipoeg, over 19,000 lines in length, was composed by Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald (1803–1882) on the basis on folklore material. It was published in an Estonian-German bilingual edition in six instalments between 1857 and 1861; it went on to become the Estonian national epic. This first English-language monograph on the Kalevipoeg sheds light on various aspects of the emergence…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789522227119
- Collation
- 148 halaman
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 800 HAS k
Kafka and Wittgenstein : The Case for an Analytic Modernism
In Kafka and Wittgenstein, Rebecca Schuman undertakes the first ever book-length scholarly examination of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language alongside Franz Kafka’s prose fiction. In groundbreaking readings, she argues that although many readers of Kafka are searching for what his texts mean, in this search we are sorely mistaken. Instead, the problems and illusions we portend to …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780810131507
- Collation
- 272 halaman
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 800 SCH k
Student Politics in Africa : Representation and Activism
The second volume of the African Higher Education Dynamics Series brings together the research of an international network of higher education scholars with interest in higher education and student politics in Africa. Most authors are early career academics who teach and conduct research in universities across the continent, and who came together for a research project and related workshops and…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781928331223
- Collation
- 280 halaman
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 370 STU
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