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Women and politeness in eighteenth-century England: bodies, identities, and p…
ABSTRACT This first in-depth study of women’s politeness examines the complex relationship individuals had with the discursive ideals of polite femininity. Contextualising women’s autobiographical writings (journals and letters) with a wide range of eighteenth-century printed didactic material, it analyses the tensions between politeness discourse which aimed to regulate acceptable feminin…
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- 9780429454431
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- 310 p
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Regional Government Competition
ABSTRACT This monograph provides a coherent and systematic explanation of China’s regional economic development from the perspective of regional government competition. It gives an almost unknown exposition of the mechanisms of China's regional economic development, with numerous supporting cases drawn from both China and elsewhere. This book is an invaluable resource for anyone interested t…
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- 9780429453014
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- 250 p
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Post-truth, philosophy and law
ABSTRACT In the wake of Brexit and Trump, the debate surrounding post-truth fills the newspapers and is at the center of the public debate. Democratic institutions and the rule of law have always been constructed and legitimized by discourses of truth. And so the issue of "post-truth" or "fake truth" can be regarded as a contemporary degeneration of that legitimacy. But what, precisely, is pos…
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- 9780429450778
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- 188 p
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Contemporary Co-housing in Europe : Towards Sustainable Cities?
ABSTRACT This book investigates co-housing as an alternative housing form in relation to sustainable urban development. Co-housing is often lauded as a more sustainable way of living. The primary aim of this book is to critically explore co-housing in the context of wider social, economic, political and environmental developments. This volume fills a gap in the literature by contextualising…
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- 9780429450174
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- 228 p
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Invisible search and online search engines: the ubiquity of search in everyda…
ABSTRACT Invisible Search and Online Search Engines considers the use of search engines in contemporary everyday life and the challenges this poses for media and information literacy. Looking for mediated information is mostly done online and arbitrated by the various tools and devices that people carry with them on a daily basis. Because of this, search engines have a significant impact on th…
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- 9780429448546
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- 160 p
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Memories of utopia: the revision of histories and landscapes in Late Antiquity
ABSTRACT These essays examine how various communities remembered and commemorated their shared past through the lens of utopia and its corollary, dystopia, providing a framework for the reinterpretation of rapidly changing religious, cultural, and political realities of the turbulent period from 300 to 750 CE. The common theme of the chapters is the utopian ideals of religious groups, wheth…
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- 9780429448508
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- 300 p
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Keywords in Western literary criticism and contemporary China Vol. 2
Sejak reformasi dan keterbukaan Tiongkok pada tahun 1978, kritik sastra Barat mulai berkembang pesat dan semakin populer di kalangan komunitas sastra akademis negara tersebut. Kedua jilid ini dengan cermat memilih dan meneliti sembilan kata kunci paling berpengaruh dari teori sastra Barat sambil mengidentifikasi sumber sejarah yang rumit dari istilah-istilah ini dan menganalisis relevansinya de…
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- 9781003044468
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- 1 online resource.(182 pages)
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- 809.1 YAM k
Legal Feminisms: Theory and Practice
ABSTRACT First published in 1998, this book explores the links between theories of feminism and the practice of law, and does so through an examination of a number of contemporary themes in feminist legal studies. From an interdisciplinary perspective, this book examines, as one of its overarching themes, the existence of a distinctively female legal voice, or voices. In arguing for a recognit…
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- 9780429445620
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- 233 p
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Rebuilding the Local Landscape: Environmental Management in Burkina Faso
ABSTRACT First published in 1999, this volume emerged in the context of a recent willingness to understand what Africa’s peasant farmers are designing and building in their local landscapes, in contrast to the meta-narratives which were relatively distant from the lives and livelihoods of Africans. Based on author Chris Howorth’s fieldwork as a UNAIS technical assistant, this book combines…
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- 9780429445040
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- 178 p
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Policing Rape: The Way Forward
ABSTRACT The policing of rape is in permacrisis. This book addresses the question of why police investigations continue to fail most rape victim-survivors and puts forward a framework for what policing can do to change this. Low conviction rates and poor victim-survivor experiences are the hallmarks of the rape justice gap. Three decades of research, policy, and legal changes have tweaked rape…
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- 9780429444869
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- 196 p
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