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Revolutionary bodies: Chinese dance and the socialist legacy
This book examines the history of concert dance in China from 1935 to 2015, with a focus on Chinese dance and its relationship to revolutionary performance culture in PRC history. The book argues that Chinese dance, not revolutionary ballet, was the primary legacy of Maoist dance research and innovation. Showing the relationship between dance and politics, it discusses dance developments during…
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- edision 16
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780520971905
- Collation
- xv, 305p.: ill.
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- -
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- 792.80951 WIL r
Engines of truth : producing veracity in the Victorian courtroom
During the Victorian era, new laws allowed more witnesses to testify in court cases. At the same time, an emerging cultural emphasis on truth-telling drove the development of new ways of inhibiting perjury. Strikingly original and drawing on a broad array of archival research, Wendie Schneider's examination of the Victorian courtroom charts this period of experimentation and how its innovations…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780300125665
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- ix, 265p.
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- -
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- 347.009034 SCH e
A people's history of the second world war
A People's History of the Second World War unearths the fascinating history of the war as fought 'from below'. Until now, the vast majority of historical accounts have focussed on the conflict between the Allied and Axis powers for imperialist mastery. Donny Gluckstein shows that in fact between 1939 and 1945 two distinct wars were fought – one ‘from above’ and one ‘from below’. Using…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781849647205
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- Knowledge Unlatched (KU)
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- -
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War Remains; Mediations Of Suffering And Death In The Era Of The World Wars
War Remains is an interdisciplinary anthology dealing with the mediations and sense-making narratives of war deaths and suffering in the era of the world wars. In the first half of the 20th century, more than 120 million people died an untimely or violent death – on the battlefield, in concentration camps, through fierce air strikes or as casualties of the many epidemics and hardships that fo…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789187675818
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Logics Of War; Explanations For Limited And Unlimited Conflicts
Most wars between countries end quickly and at relatively low cost. The few in which high-intensity fighting continues for years bring about a disproportionate amount of death and suffering. What separates these few unusually long and intense wars from the many conflicts that are far less destructive? In Logics of War, Alex Weisiger tests three explanations for a nation’s decision to go to wa…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780801468179
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- Knowledge Unlatched (KU)
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Humanitarian Intervention In The Long Nineteenth Century
This book is a comprehensive presentation of humanitarian intervention in theory and practice during the course of the nineteenth century. Through four case studies, it sheds new light on the international law debate and the political theory on intervention, linking them to ongoing issues, and paying particular attention to the lesser known Russian dimension. The book begins by tracing the gene…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780719098598
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- Knowledge Unlatched (KU)
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- -
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Social enterprise in Central and Eastern Europe : theory, models and practice
In the last two decades, the quest for a widely accepted definition of social enterprise has been a central issue in a great number of publications. The main objective of the ICSEM Project (on which this book is based) was to show that the social enterprise field would benefit much more from linking conceptualisation efforts to the huge diversity of social enterprises than from an additional an…
- Edition
- 10
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780429324529
- Collation
- ix, 326p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 338 SOC n
Museum object lessons for the digital age
Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age explores the nature of digital objects in museums, asking us to question our assumptions about the material, social and political foundations of digital practices. Through four wide-ranging chapters, each focused on a single object – a box, pen, effigy and cloak – this short, accessible book explores the legacies of earlier museum practices of colle…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781787352810
- Collation
- XV, 141 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 069.5 GEI m
Sistem manajemen pengaduan terintegrasi dalam rangka reformasi birokrasi
Dalam rangka meningkatkan kualitas pelayanan publik serta mewujudkan tata kelola pemerintahan yang baik, instansi pemerintah terus dituntut untuk melaksanakan dan mengembangkan program reformasi birokrasi. Salah satu program yang harus dijalankan adalah pengelolaan pengaduan. Dalam Permen PAN dan RB Nomor 1 Tahun 2015 tentang Pedoman Evaluasi Kinerja Penyelenggara Pelayanan Publik, salah satu k…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789797998592
- Collation
- xviii, 175p. : 21 cm
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- -
- Call Number
- 658.812 SIK s
Cyber peace : charting a path toward a sustainable, stable, and secure cybers…
The international community is too often focused on responding to the latest cyber-attack instead of addressing the reality of pervasive and persistent cyber conflict. From ransomware against the city government of Baltimore to state-sponsored campaigns targeting electrical grids in Ukraine and the U.S., we seem to have relatively little bandwidth left over to ask what we can hope for in terms …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781108954341
- Collation
- xix, 243p. ; ill.
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- -
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- 363.325 SHA c
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