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Reconstructing syntax
During several decades, syntactic reconstruction has been more or less regarded as a bootless and an unsuccessful venture, not least due to the heavy criticism in the 1970s from scholars like Watkins, Jeffers, Lightfoot, etc. This fallacious view culminated in Lightfoot’s (2002: 625) conclusion: “[i]f somebody thinks that they can reconstruct grammars more successfully and in more widesprea…
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- 9789004392007
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- xii, 378p. : ill.
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- 415 REC r
power of one on one: human libraries and the challenges of antiracism work
This book provides an overview of the innovative social inclusion initiatives known as human or living libraries. It is the first comprehensive and independent analysis of Human Libraries in Australia. The book provides an overview of Human Library practices and identifies key challenges for policymakers and practitioners while contributing to scholarly debates on anti-racism work and on the be…
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- 9781863654265
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- 1 online resource (ii, 72 p.: ill.)
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- UTS Shopfront monograph series, no 7
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- 302.12 TAN p
Dickens after Dickens
"[W]e have a long way to travel before we get back to what Dickens meant… G.K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens The twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued the quest, so aptly described by G. K. Chesterton in 1906, to ‘find’ Charles Dickens and recapture the characteristically Dickensian. From research attempting to classify and categorise the nature of his popularity to a century …
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- 9781912482214
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- xi, 247p..: ill.
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- 823.8 DIC d
From scrolls to scrolling : sacred texts, materiality, and dynamic media cult…
Throughout history, the study of sacred texts has focused almost exclusively on the content and meaning of these writings. Such a focus obscures the fact that sacred texts are always embodied in particular material forms—from ancient scrolls to contemporary electronic devices. Using the digital turn as a starting point, this volume highlights material dimensions of the sacred texts of Judaism…
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- 9783110634440
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- XVII, 307 p.
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- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – Tension, Transmission, Transformation, 12
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- 297 SCR s
Data journeys in the sciences
This groundbreaking, open access volume analyses and compares data practices across several fields through the analysis of specific cases of data journeys. It brings together leading scholars in the philosophy, history and social studies of science to achieve two goals: tracking the travel of data across different spaces, times and domains of research practice; and documenting how such journeys…
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- 9783030371777
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- xvii, 412p.: ill.
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- 004 DAT d
Guidelines for supporting children with disabilities' play : methodologies, t…
Play for the sake of play, without any secondary goals, if of utmost importance for children’s wellbeing and development. In this book you’ll find guidelines to support children with disabilities’ play. Providing ready-to-use information in a lay-person language, this book is for parents, teachers, rehabilitation professionals, toy manufacturers, policy makers and all persons interested i…
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- 9783110613445
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- XX, 172 p.
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- 371.9 ENC g
Remapping knowledge : intercultural studies for a global age
The growing interdependence of the local and the global demand innovative approaches to human development. Such approaches, the author argues, ought to be based on the emerging ethics of global intelligence, defined as the ability to understand, respond to, and work toward what will benefit all human beings and will support and enrich all life on this planet. As no national or supranational aut…
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- 9781785336614
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- XVII, 209 p.
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- Making Sense of History
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- 306 SPA r
Communication and capitalism: a critical theory
‘An authoritative analysis of the role of communication in contemporary capitalism and an important contribution to debates about the forms of domination and potentials for liberation in today’s capitalist society.’ — Professor Michael Hardt, Duke University, co-author of the tetralogy Empire, Commonwealth, Multitude, and Assembly ‘A comprehensive approach to understanding and transce…
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- 9781912656714
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- 302.2 FUC c
Emerging market economies and financial globalization: argentina, brazil, chi…
In the past, foreign shocks arrived to national economies mainly through trade channels, and transmissions of such shocks took time to come into effect. However, after capital globalization, shocks spread to markets almost immediately. Despite the increasing macroeconomic dangers that the situation generated at emerging markets in the South, nobody at the North was ready to acknowledge the pro-…
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- 9781783086740
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- pages cm.
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- Anthem frontiers of global political economy
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- 330 STA e
Elicitive curricular development: a manual for scholar-practitioners developm…
The Elicitive Curricular Development Manual (ECDM) is a systematic collection of experiences and lessons identified in academic contexts around the world in Austria, Cambodia, Colombia, Brazil, Ethiopia and Iraq. The ECDM reflects core elicitive principles such as the importance of a focus on relationships, looking beyond the episode of conflict, collaboration, communication and local knowledge…
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- 9783903187795
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- 60p.: ill.
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- 378 ALV e
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