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Staging China : the politics of mass spectacle
In this volume Florian Schneider shows how mass media events fit into the political, economic, and cultural developments in China. Through expert interviews and empirical studies of production backgrounds and media contents, Schneider explores the communication strategies that informed the Beijing Olympics, the Shanghai Expo, and the 60th Anniversary of the PRC. The book discusses what the impl…
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- 9789400603462
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- 329p. : ill.
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- 950 SCH s
Globalisation and poverty : channels and policy responses
The consequences of globalization for the world's poor are uncertain and fierce rhetoric is dividing its supporters and detractors. The channels of effect of essentially macroeconomic shocks on the microeconomic position of individuals and households in poor countries are many and various. This book addresses three core issues: 1) what are the main channels of effect? 2) what are the lessons…
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- 9780203088333
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- xviii, 232p. : ill.
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- 339.46091724 GLO g
Touring Pacific cultures
edited by Kalissa Alexeyeff and John Taylor.
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- 9781921862441
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- xix, 457 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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- 155 ALE t
Literature and sustainability : concept, text and culture
Sustainability has become a key socio-political issue over recent years. However, whilst the literary-critical community has advanced enthusiastically on an exciting range of environmentally-based analyses (most obviously through the work of ecocriticism), its response specifically to sustainability—as an attempt to reconceptualise the way we live, as an idea with a particular history, and as…
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- 9781526107633
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- xvii, 253p. : ill
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- 823.0093553 LIT l
Empirical modelling of translation and interpreting
"Empirical research is carried out in a cyclic way: approaching a research area bottom-up, data lead to interpretations and ideally to the abstraction of laws, on the basis of which a theory can be derived. Deductive research is based on a theory, on the basis of which hypotheses can be formulated and tested against the background of empirical data. Looking at the state-of-the-art in translatio…
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- 9783961100248
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- 522 p.; 22 cm.
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- Translation and Multilingual Natural Language Processing
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- 410 EMP e
The Dutch and English East India Companies : diplomacy, trade and violence in…
A ground-breaking collection of essays that explores the place of the Dutch and English East India Companies in Asia and the nature of their interactions with Asian rulers, officials, merchants, soldiers and brokers. The Dutch and English East India Companies were formidable organizations that were gifted with expansive powers that allowed them to conduct diplomacy, raise armies and seize terri…
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- 9789462983298
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- 262p. : ill
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- 338.88 DUT d
Horizontal learning in the high middle ages: peer-to-peer knowledge transfer …
The history of medieval learning has been studied both as a vertical master-student phenomenon, and as part of a broad 'educational environment'. This volume centers on the ways in which cohabiting peers learned and taught one another in a dialectical process - how they acquired knowledge and skills, but also how they developed concepts, beliefs, and adapted their behavior to suit the group: ev…
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- 9789048532919
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- 301p. : ill
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- 370.902 HOR h
Cleanliness and culture: Indonesian histories
Recent years have shown an increase in interest in the study of cleanliness from a historical and sociological perspective. Many of such studies on bathing and washing, on keeping the body and the streets clean, and on filth and the combat of dirt, focus on Europe. In Cleanliness and culture attention shifts to the tropics, to Indonesia, in colonial times as well as in the present. Subjects ran…
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- 9789067183758
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- xii, 204 p.
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
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- 958.9 CLE c
Educational change amongst english language college teachers in China : trans…
This open access book provides anthropological insights into the arduous yet rewarding journeys involved in selected TESOL teachers’ pedagogical transition to teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP) at universities in Shanghai, the largest metropolitan area in China. Applying a unique combination of ethnography and phenomenology, the book offers innovative new perspectives on teacher…
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- 9789811530531
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- x, 149p. : ill.
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- 378.1982951 LI e
Intercultural dialogue in the european education policies : a conceptual appr…
This open access book analyses intercultural dialogue as a concept, policy and ideal in European education policy documentation. The core European transnational organizatons – the Council of Europe and the European Union – have actively promoted policies to engender inclusive societies and respond to challenges that diversification may entail. This book, in turn, offers suggestions for impr…
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- 9783030415174
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- xiv, 114p. : ill.
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- 370.117 LAH i
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