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Contemporary Australian Literature : A World Not Yet Dead
Australia has been seen as a land of both punishment and refuge. Australian literature has explored these controlling alternatives, and vividly rendered the landscape on which they transpire. Twentieth-century writers left Australia to see the world; now Australia's distance no longer provides sanctuary. But today the global perspective has arrived with a vengeance. In Contemporary Australian L…
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- 9781743324363
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- 280 halaman
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- Sydney Studies in Australian Literature
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- 800 BIR c
William Blake e William Butler Yeats
Da Blake a Yeats. Sistemi simbolici e costruzioni poetiche is an investigation into the – from many aspects decisive – influence that the symbolic system and visionary poetry of the great English romantic William Blake had on the imagination of William Butler Yeats from his earliest youth.
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- 9788884539748
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- 851
The Reform of Bismarckian Pension Systems : A Comparison of Pension Politics …
Pension reform has emerged as a major political issue in most advanced welfare states. Sluggish economic growth and rising unemployment put public pension systems under increasing financial pressure. In combination with a rapidly ageing population in the decades to come, these pressures render major adjustements in pension policy design inevitable, especially in countries with costly earnings-r…
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- 9789053567401
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- 312 halaman
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- Changing Welfare States
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- 362 SCH r
W. B. Yeats e la cultura italiana
W. B. Yeats e la cultura italiana examines the "Italianism" of William Butler Yeats and the popularity of the Irish poet in Italian poetry and criticism.
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- 9788884539731
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- 851
The Complete Fables of Jean de la Fontaine
This edition of Jean de La Fontaine’s fables includes an English translation published alongside the French text. Norman Spector adapted the French text from the 1883-85 edition by Henri Regnier, adding four tales from the 1962 edition by Georges Couton. Spector’s translation is in rhymed verse, and remains faithful to the original not only in metrical patterns and rhyme schemes but also in…
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- 9780810139640
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- 504 halaman
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- 800 LAF c
Colonised by Wankers : Postcolonialism and Contemporary Scottish Fiction
"Has Scotland suffered from colonial oppression by England for the last 300 years? While historiography may give an answer in the negative, this study reveals that the contemporary Scottish novel is haunted by strong feelings, marked by perceptions of abjection and inferiorisation in response to constructing the English as dominating. Drawing from an unprecedented corpus of contemporary Scottis…
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- 9783946198284
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- 260 halaman
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- 800 HOM c
Sport Policy in Canada
The purpose of this book is to provide a comprehensive overview of current Canadian sport policy. More than ever, in order to understand the role and meaning of sport in society, it is important to recognize the inter-relations between the sport system and the state, to realize that numerous sport issues are indeed also public policy issues in which the state has a key role to play. Given the c…
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- 9780776620954
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- 435 halaman
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- 700 THI s
Southern Appalachia and the South: A Region Within a Region - Volume Three
This volume of the Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association explores the intersections between Southerners and Southern Appalachians and the theoretical and practical implication of regional identity, marginality, ethnic commonalities, and comparative perspectives during the 19th and 20th centuries.
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- 9781469636986
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- 808.84 INS s
Insight into Magnetorheological Shock Absorbers
This book deals with magnetorheological fluid theory, modeling and applications of automotive magnetorheological dampers. On the theoretical side a review of MR fluid compositions and key factors affecting the characteristics of these fluids is followed by a description of existing applications in the area of vibration isolation and flow-mode shock absorbers in particular. As a majority of exis…
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- 978-3-319-13232-7
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- XXVII, 224
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A Guide to MATLAB For Beginners and Experienced Users
This is a short, focused introduction to MATLAB, a comprehensive software system for mathematical and technical computing. It contains concise explanations of essential MATLAB commands, as well as easily understood instructions for using MATLAB's programming features, graphical capabilities, simulation models, and rich desktop interface. Written for MATLAB 7, it can also be used with earlier (a…
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- 9780511791284
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