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The International Turn in American Studies
The volume is a contribution to the ongoing debate on the internationalization of American Studies. The essays by European, American and Latin American scholars provide critical evaluations of a wide range of concepts, including trans-national and post-national, international, trans-atlantic, trans-pacific, as well as hemispheric, inter-American and comparative American studies. Combining theor…
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- 9783653036572
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- 372 p. : ill
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- 973.071 MES t
Systems thinking analyses for health policy and systems development : a Malay…
Health systems are fluid and their components are interdependent in complex ways. Policymakers, academics and students continually endeavour to understand how to manage health systems to improve the health of populations. However, previous scholarship has often failed to engage with the intersections and interactions of health with a multitude of other systems and determinants. This book ambiti…
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- 9781108954846
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- xlvii, 510 p. : ill.
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- 362.109595 MAR s
Dialogues between media
This book unites essays on the interplay of media or inter-arts studies, as well as papers with a focus on comics studies, further testimony to the fact that comics have truly arrived in mainstream academic discourse. "Adaptation" is a key term for the studies presented in this volume various articles discuss the adaptation of literary source texts in different target media - cinematic versions…
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- 9783110642056
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- 665 p. : B&W, ill.
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- XXI. Congress of the ICLA - Proceedings,
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- 809 FER d
Epidicius by plautus : an anotated latin twxt, with a prose translation
Epidicus, a light-hearted comedy by Plautus about the machinations of a trickster slave and the inadequacies of his bumbling masters, appears here in both its original Latin and a sparkling new translation by Catherine Tracy. Epidicus, the cunning slave, is charged with finding his master’s illegitimate daughter and the secret girlfriend of his master’s son, but a comedy of mistaken identit…
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- 9781800642867
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- vii, 198 p. ; ill
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- 792 TRA e
Annotations in scholarly editions and research : functions, differentiation, …
The notion of annotation is associated in the Humanities and Information Sciences with different concepts that vary in coverage, application and direction of impact, but have conceptual parallels as well. This publication reflects on different practices and associated concepts of annotation, puts them in relation to each other and attempts to systematize their commonalities and divergences in a…
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- 9783110689112
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- viii, 399 p. : ill.
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- 801.9590285 NAN a
Consumer data protection in Brazil, China and Germany
The rapid development of new information and communication technologies has changed people’s everyday life and consumption patterns significantly. The worldwide spread of those technologies provides many innovations for consumers, but it can also bear risks, such as the indiscriminate collection, storage and cross-border flow of personal data, illegal spying on Internet activities, disseminat…
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- 9783863952365
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- 222 p. ; 24 cm
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- 343.071 CON c
Ageing with smartphones in Ireland : when life becomes craft
There are not many books about how people get younger. It doesn’t happen very often. But Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland documents a radical change in the experience of ageing. Based on two ethnographies, one within Dublin and the other from the Dublin region, the book shows that people, rather than seeing themselves as old, focus on crafting a new life in retirement. Our research particip…
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- 9781787359666
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- xiii, 232 p. : color, ill.
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- 303.4834084609415 GAR a
Zombies in western culture: a twenty-first century crisis
Why has the zombie become such a pervasive figure in twenty-first-century popular culture? John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro and Filip Miscevic seek to answer this question by arguing that particular aspects of the zombie, common to a variety of media forms, reflect a crisis in modern Western culture. The authors examine the essential features of the zombie, including mindlessness, ugl…
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- 9781783743308
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- viii, 93 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
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- 398.21 VER z
Cultural perspectives on aging : a different approach to old age and aging
The societal significance of old age and ageing are increasing due to demographic developments. Age(ing) is not only a biological and social fact, but also a cultural one. This book reveals the importance of cultural factors in order to build a framework for analyzing and understanding cultural constructions of ageing, bringing together scholarly discourses from the arts and humanities as well …
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- 3
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- 9783110683042
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- 172 p. : ill.
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- 900 HUL c
Middlemarch: epigraphs and mirrors
In Middlemarch, George Eliot draws a character passionately absorbed by abstruse allusion and obscure epigraphs. Casaubon’s obsession is a cautionary tale, but Adam Roberts nonetheless sees in him an invitation to take Eliot’s use of epigraphy and allusion seriously, and this book is an attempt to do just that. Roberts considers the epigraph as a mirror that refracts the meaning of a tex…
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- 9781800641600
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- 149 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
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- 823.8 ROB m
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