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Scriptures, shrines, scapegoats, and world politics: religious sources of con…
The effect of religious factors on politics has been a key issue since the end of the Cold War and the subsequent rise of religious terrorism. However, the systematic investigations of these topics have focused primarily on the effects of religion on domestic and international conflict. Scriptures, Shrines, Scapegoats, and World Politics offers a comprehensive evaluation of the role of religion…
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- 9780472131747
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- viii, 444p. : ill.
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- 291.17 MAO s
A Gender-based approach to parliamentary discourse
Does gender condition politicians’ discourse strategies in parliament? This is the question we try to answer in A Gender-based Approach to Parliamentary Discourse: The Andalusian Parliament. This book, written by experts in the field of discourse analysis, covers key aspects of political discourse such as gender, identity and verbal and nonverbal strategies: intensification, enumerative serie…
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- 9789027266330
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- 401.43 GEN g
New perspectives on cohesion and coherence
The contributions to this volume investigate relations of cohesion and coherence as well as instantiations of discourse phenomena and their interaction with information structure in multilingual contexts. Some contributions concentrate on procedures to analyze cohesion and coherence from a corpus-linguistic perspective. Others have a particular focus on textual cohesion in parallel corpora that…
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- 9783946234722
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- 157 p.; 23 cm.
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- Translation and Multilingual Natural Language Processing
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- 401.43 KUN n
Advanced problems in mathematics: preparing for university (archived)
This book is intended to help candidates prepare for entrance examinations in mathematics and scientific subjects, including STEP (Sixth Term Examination Paper). STEP is an examination used by Cambridge colleges as the basis for conditional offers. They are also used by Warwick University, and many other mathematics departments recommend that their applicants practice on the past papers even if…
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- 9781783741441
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- 186 p.; 22 cm.
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- 510.07 SIK a
Traces of the old, uses of the new : the emergence of digital literary studies
Digital Humanities remains a contested, umbrella term covering many types of work in numerous disciplines, including literature, history, linguistics, classics, theater, performance studies, film, media studies, computer science, and information science. In Traces of the Old, Uses of the New: The Emergence of Digital Literary Studies, Amy Earhart stakes a claim for discipline-specific history…
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- 9780472072781
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- ix, 161p. : ill.
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Architecture and modern literature
Architecture and Modern Literature explores the representation and interpretation of architectural space in modern literature from the early nineteenth century to the present, with the aim of showing how literary production and architectural construction are related as cultural forms in the historical context of modernity. In addressing this subject, it also examines the larger questions of the…
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- 9780472071715
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- xiii, 285p. : ill.
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- 809.93357 SPU a
Printing and prophecy : prognostication and media change, 1450-1550
Printing and Prophecy: Prognostication and Media Change 1450-1550 examines prognostic traditions and late medieval prophetic texts in the first century of printing and their effect on the new medium of print. The many prophetic and prognostic works that followed Europe's earliest known printed book---not the Gutenberg Bible, but the Sibyl's Prophecy, printed by Gutenberg two years earlier and k…
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- 9780472117833
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- xi, 265p. : ill.
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- 261.51309409024 GRE p
The Essence of mathematics through elementary problems
"It is increasingly clear that the shapes of reality – whether of the natural world, or of the built environment – are in some profound sense mathematical. Therefore it would benefit students and educated adults to understand what makes mathematics itself ‘tick’, and to appreciate why its shapes, patterns and formulae provide us with precisely the language we need to make sense of the w…
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- 9781783747016
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- 389 p.; 23 cm.
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- OBP Series in Mathematics, vol. 3
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- 510.01 BOR e
Greening China : the benefits of trade and foreign direct investment
China has earned a reputation for lax environmental standards that allegedly attract corporations more interested in profit than in moral responsibility and, consequently, further negate incentives to raise environmental standards. Surprisingly, Ka Zeng and Joshua Eastin find that international economic integration with nation-states that have stringent environmental regulations facilitates the…
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- 9780472901197
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- 239p. : ill.
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- 333.720951 ZEN g
Wiki writing : collaborative learning in the college classroom
When most people think of wikis, the first—and usually the only—thing that comes to mind is Wikipedia. The editors of Wiki Writing: Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom, Robert E. Cummings and Matt Barton, have assembled a collection of essays that challenges this common misconception, providing an engaging and helpful array of perspectives on the many pressing theoretical and pr…
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- 9780472116713
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- xvi, 256p. : ill.
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