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American Politics and the Jewish Community
At its broadest level, politics is the practice of making a community a better, safer, and more tolerant place to live. So it should be of no surprise that America's Jews have devoted themselves to civic engagement and the democratic process. From before the Revolutionary War to the early twenty-first century, when America saw the first Jewish vice presidential nominee of a major party and the …
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Art, Play, Labour: the Music Profession in Germany (1850–1960)
Germany is considered a lauded land of music: outstanding composers, celebrated performers and famous orchestras exert great international appeal. Since the 19th century, the foundation of this reputation has been the broad mass of musicians who sat in orchestra pits, played in ensembles for dances or provided the musical background in silent movie theatres. Martin Rempe traces their lives and …
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- 9789004542723
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American Jewry and the Holocaust
In this volume Yehudi Bauer describes the efforts made to aid European victims of World War II by the New York-based American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, American Jewry's chief representative abroad. Drawing on the mass of unpublished material in the JDC archives and other repositories, as well as on his thorough knowledge of recent and continuing research into the Holocaust, he focuse…
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- 9780814343470
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As três moedas (Trinummus)
Trinummus is another fabula palliata by Plautus. Enriched by the art of the Latin author, the result was too tedious and very elitist, compared to what usually characterized the Plautine comic. Through stock characters of fixed social types (e.g. the old, the Young, the slaves), several cultural themes are analyzed, such as friendship, morality, loyalty, money. Thus, the senex Charmides, whose …
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- 9789892608976
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- Autores Gregos e Latinos - Ensaios,
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Ambiguous Relations
The reemergence of a united Germany as a dominant power in Europe has increased even more it's importance as a major political ally and trade partner of the United States, despite the misgivings of some U.S. citizens. Ambiguous Relations addresses for the first time the complex relationships between American Jews and Germany over the fifty years following the end of World War II, and examines A…
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Artistic Cartography and Design Explorations Towards the Pluriverse
This edited volume uses an interdisciplinary approach to art and design that not only reframes but also repositions agendas and actions to address fragmented global systems. Contributors explore the pluriverse of art and design through epistemological and methodological considerations. What kinds of sustainable ways are there for knowledge transfer, supporting plural agendas, finding novel ways…
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- 9781000815900
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- Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies,
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A Research Agenda for Geographies of Slow Violence; Making Social and Environ…
Elgar Research Agendas menguraikan masa depan penelitian di bidang tertentu. Para sarjana terkemuka diberi ruang untuk mengeksplorasi subjek mereka dengan cara yang provokatif, dan memetakan arah perjalanan yang potensial. Mereka relevan tetapi juga visioner. Agenda Penelitian yang tepat waktu ini menyoroti bagaimana kekerasan lambat, tidak seperti bentuk konflik dan kekerasan fisik langsung la…
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- 9781788978026
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- 1 online resource (256 p.)
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- Agenda Penelitian Elgar
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A Prometheus on a Human Scale - Ignacy Lukasiewicz
Buku ini didedikasikan untuk kehidupan dan karya Ignacy Łukasiewicz, apoteker Polandia yang pencapaiannya yang terkenal di dunia meliputi pembangunan kilang minyak pertama di dunia dan penemuan lampu minyak tanah modern. Para penulis juga menggambarkan sejarah industri minyak Galicia dan menempatkannya dalam konteks perubahan politik, sosial, dan teknologi yang terjadi di Eropa Tengah dan Timu…
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- 9783631792919
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- 1 online resource (298 p.)
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- 665.5092 FRA p
A Precarious Game; The Illusion of Dream Jobs in the Video Game Industry
A Precarious Game adalah pemeriksaan etnografi produksi video game. Para pengembang yang diteliti Ergin Bulut selama hampir tiga tahun di sebuah studio berukuran sedang di A.S. sangat suka membuat video game yang dimainkan jutaan orang. Namun, hanya sebagian yang dapat menikmati pekerjaan impian ini, yang bisa jadi tidak pasti dan mengasingkan bagi banyak orang lain. Artinya, gairah tenaga kerj…
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- 331.7617948 BUL p
A Powerful Particulars View of Causation
Buku ini secara kritis mengkaji diskusi-diskusi terkini tentang kekuatan dan penjelasan kausalitas berbasis kekuatan. Penulis kemudian mengembangkan pandangan orisinal tentang kausalitas berbasis kekuatan yang bertujuan untuk kompatibel dengan teori dan temuan ilmu pengetahuan alam. Baru-baru ini, telah terjadi kebangkitan dramatis pendekatan realis terhadap properti dan kausalitas, yang berfok…
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- 9781003094241
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- 1 online resource (208 p.)
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