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Natural resources, innovation and development
In this Globelics Thematic Review, the author team presents and discusses recent research on the relationships between natural resources, innovation and development, and suggests some implications of this body of knowledge for policy makers. The Review sets out to explore three interlinked questions with a particular focus on innovation and industry dynamics. First, to what extent is it current…
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Water Rites Reimagining Water in the West
What are the challenges surrounding water in Western Canada? What are our rights to water? Does water itself have rights? Water Rites: Reimagining Water in the West documents the many ways that water flows through our lives, connecting the humans, animals, and plants that all depend on this precious and endangered resource. Essays from scholars, activists, environmentalists, and human rights ad…
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dôNrm'-lä-püsl
There have been many iterations of the Joan of Arc story: “testimonies,” books, and films have attempted to capture the drama of one of history’s most famous gender warriors.
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Die szenische Poetik Božena Němcovás
To this day, many Czech writers refer to the work Němcovás as a model for their own artistic work.
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- '9783876908151
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Dichters Op Reis
How do contemporary Dutch-language poets view their neighbouring countries, South and Central Europe and Indonesia? This collection of research articles explores modern travel poetry, a genre which to this day has hardly been paid any attention.
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Destroyer of Naivetés
Victor J. Vitanza (author of Sexual Violence in Western Thought and Writing) continues to rethink the problem of sexual violence in cinema and how rape is often represented in “chaste” ways, in the form of a Chaste Cinematics.
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Der poetische Formismus Tytus Czyżewskis
In this work an attempt is made to describe formism in terms of Tytuz Czyżewski's poetry as an independent poetic approach.
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Vulnerability and Adaptation to Drought The Canadian Prairies and South America
Although there is considerable historical literature describing the social and economic impact of drought on the prairies in the 1930s, little has been written about the challenges presented by drought in more contemporary times. The drought of 2001-02 was, for example, the most recent large-area, intense, and prolonged drought in Canada and one of Canada’s most costly natural disasters in a …
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Denken over poëzie en vertalen
This volume of Lage Landen Studies has a twofold purpose: on the one hand we want to pay attention to the scholarly work on the Dutch author Cees Nooteboom, in particular to his poetry in translation which has hardly received any academic attention yet, and on the other hand we would like to contribute to trends in Translation Studies which focus on agency, subjectivity, intention, translators …
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Reading the Entrails An Alberta Ecohistory
Before the fall of Imperial Rome, priests cast the guts of sacrificial animals on the temple floor, claiming to be able to divine the future from these entrails. By probing the remains of Alberta’s past sacrifices (reading the entrails), the author believes we might dimly see an apparition of Alberta’s future. This controversial book vividly portrays the history of land and life in Alberta …
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