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Serving the Common Good: A Postcolonical African Perspective on Higher Education
ISBN: 9780820476261 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Serving the Common Good combines critical analysis and interpretation of theory and practice for higher education in Africa and in the West. It demonstrates the current urgent need to articulate an educational ideal relevant to the cultural, economic, political, and social problems of the twenty-first century. Utilizing Julius K. Nyerere s vision of education for the common good a pragmatically balanced articulation of a postcolonial African perspective on higher education Kiluba L. Nkulu emphasizes a human-centered approach to community and national development. Serving the Common...
Serving the Common Good combines critical analysis and interpretation of theory and practice for higher education in Africa and in the West. It...
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426,31 zł |
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New Perspectives on the Sierra Leone Krio
ISBN: 9780820479378 / Angielski / Twarda / 347 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The ex-slave, Krio population of Freetown, Sierra Leone an amalgam of ethnicities drawn from several parts of the African continent is a fascinating study in hybridity, creolization, European cultural penetration, the retention of African cultural values, and the interface between New World returnees and autochthonous populations of West Africa. Although its Nigerian connections are often acknowledged, insufficient attention has been paid to the indigenous Sierra Leonean roots of this community. This anthology addresses this problem, while celebrating the complexities of Krio identity and...
The ex-slave, Krio population of Freetown, Sierra Leone an amalgam of ethnicities drawn from several parts of the African continent is a fascinating s...
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554,20 zł |
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In Search of Moral Authority; The Discourse on Poverty, Poor Relief, and Charity in French Colonial Vietnam
ISBN: 9781433102158 / Angielski / Twarda / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Search of Moral Authority: The Discourse on Poverty, Poor Relief, and Charity in French Colonial Vietnam is a pioneering exploration of the discourses on poverty and poor-relief activities in early twentieth-century Northern Vietnam. Treating poverty as a socially constructed idea, Van Nguyen-Marshall argues that poor relief was a domain where both French colonialists and Vietnamese intellectuals vied for moral authority. For the French colonial officials, poor relief fell within the purview of the French -civilizing- mission, the official justification for imperialism. However, the...
In Search of Moral Authority: The Discourse on Poverty, Poor Relief, and Charity in French Colonial Vietnam is a pioneering exploration of the ...
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468,94 zł |
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Haram in the Harem; Domestic Narratives in India and Algeria
ISBN: 9781433107122 / Angielski / Twarda / 119 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Haram in the Harem focuses on the differences in nationalist discourse regarding women and the way female writers conceptualized the experience of women in three contexts: the middle-class Muslim reform movement, the Algerian Revolution, and the Partition of India. During each of these periods the subject of women, their behavior, bodies, and dress were discussed by male scholars, politicians, and revolutionaries. The resonating theme amongst these disparate events is that women were believed to be best protected when they were ensconced within their homes and governed by their...
Haram in the Harem focuses on the differences in nationalist discourse regarding women and the way female writers conceptualized the experience...
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433,37 zł |
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Trauma, Resistance, Reconstruction in Post-1994 South African Writing
ISBN: 9781433107009 / Angielski / Twarda / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The re-conceptualization of South Africa as a democracy in 1994 has influenced the production and reception of texts in this nation and around the globe. The literature emerging after 1994 provides a vision for reconciling the fragmented past produced by the brutality of apartheid policies and consequently shifting social relations from a traumatized past to a reconstructed future. The purpose of the essays in this anthology is to explore, within the literary imagination and cultural production of a post-apartheid nation and its people, how the trauma and violence of the past are reconciled...
The re-conceptualization of South Africa as a democracy in 1994 has influenced the production and reception of texts in this nation and around the glo...
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497,19 zł |
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Contemporary Asian Modernities: Transnationality, Interculturality and Hybridity
ISBN: 9783034300933 / Angielski / Twarda / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a collection of selected essays presented at the International Symposium on Contemporary Asian Modernities: Transnationality, Interculturality and Hybridity hosted by the Humanities Programme of Hong Kong Baptist University in September 2006. As modernity has been used to describe the cultural, economic and socio-political conditions in the Western worlds, the time in which we now live and the Asian countries where capitalistic transformation is extensively carried out are already articulating their own descriptions. The essays collected here discuss the notions of contemporary,...
This book is a collection of selected essays presented at the International Symposium on Contemporary Asian Modernities: Transnationality, Intercultur...
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589,76 zł |
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'My Mother Was the Earth. My Father Was the Sky.': Myth and Memory in Maori Novels in English
ISBN: 9783034302241 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study brings together three closely related aspects of Maori literature myth, memory and identity. It examines selected novels by Witi Ihimaera and Patricia Grace in order to trace an ever-developing Maori identity that has changed considerably over three decades of the Maori novel. This book demonstrates that an investigation of the construction of identity in literature benefits from a close look at the importance of Maori mythology as well as associated cultural and individual memories.
Indicating that Maori fiction has become what Homi Bhabha terms a third space, this book... This study brings together three closely related aspects of Maori literature myth, memory and identity. It examines selected novels by Witi Ihimaera a...
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390,48 zł |
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Islands and Cities in Medieval Myth, Literature, and History: Papers Delivered at the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, in 2005, 2
ISBN: 9783631611654 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The spatial turn in recent discussions about the relevance of space and place in medieval literature inspired the editors to transcend the boundaries of Europe and extend their investigation to Pre-Columbian America and the Far East. The results are surprising. Since cultures across the world associated both islands and walled cities with notions of paradise, the investigations reveal striking commonalities, e.g., between Dante s Island of the Purgatorio and the island of Japan. In addition, several contributions outline visitor s reactions to and influence on medieval cities with similar...
The spatial turn in recent discussions about the relevance of space and place in medieval literature inspired the editors to transcend the boundaries ...
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333,73 zł |
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Rorty's Deconstruction of Philosophy and the Challenge of African Philosophy
ISBN: 9783631594926 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The major problem of philosophy is that of its nature. Is it a universal discourse or a cultural phenomenon? This question, in Western philosophy, has been approached from two dimensions. The universalists and the pragmatists. Most analytical philosophers think that philosophy is universal. The pragmatists oppose them and posit that every philosophy has a cultural origin and is ethnocentric. In African Philosophy the debate about the nature of philosophy is between the universalists and the traditionalists. The universalists conceive philosophy as a theoretical discipline with universal...
The major problem of philosophy is that of its nature. Is it a universal discourse or a cultural phenomenon? This question, in Western philosophy, has...
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376,36 zł |
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Nordic Prosody: Proceedings of the Xth Conference, Helsinki 2008
ISBN: 9783631595527 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume contains the revised texts of talks and posters given at the Nordic Prosody X conference, held at the University of Helsinki, in August 2008. The contributions by Scandinavian and other researchers cover a wide range of prosody-related topics from various theoretical and methodological points of view. Although the history of the conference series is Nordic and Scandinavian, the current volume presents studies that are of mainly Baltic origin in the sense that of the eight languages presented in the proceedings only English is not natively spoken around the Baltic Sea. Research...
This volume contains the revised texts of talks and posters given at the Nordic Prosody X conference, held at the University of Helsinki, in August 20...
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461,87 zł |
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Arbitri Nugae: Petronius' Short Poems in the Satyrica
ISBN: 9783631605837 / Angielski / Twarda / 433 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book aims to provide a comprehensive inquiry into the short metrical intermezzos inserted in the prose narrative of Petronius Satyrica. The text of each poem has been thoroughly investigated; in addition, special attention has been devoted to their function in the context and to the aspects connecting Petronius with the literature and culture of his time. Numerous contacts with other ancient authors have been pointed out to illustrate Petronius attitude to the cultural and literary heritage on the one hand, and the character of his own work on the other."
This book aims to provide a comprehensive inquiry into the short metrical intermezzos inserted in the prose narrative of Petronius Satyrica. Th...
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497,19 zł |
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Departures from Post-Colonial Authoritarianism: Analysis of System Change with a Focus on Tanzania
ISBN: 9783631574676 / Angielski / Miękka / 636 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study sends the reader on an exciting journey into social and political life in Africa. It gives space to the voices of Tanzanian villagers, rural associations, branches of political parties and local government officers and their views of socio-economic and political change during the 1990s. This authentic picture is combined with a thorough sociological and political economy analysis showing the dynamics in the relations between state components and social forces in the context of neo-liberal globalization. The book is not only attractive as a country case study. It contains a deep...
This study sends the reader on an exciting journey into social and political life in Africa. It gives space to the voices of Tanzanian villagers, rura...
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625,33 zł |
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The Way of Thinking in Chinese Medicine: Theory, Methodology and Structure of Chinese Medicine
ISBN: 9783631611968 / Angielski / Twarda / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chinese Medicine is an outstanding scientific proposition system with its own structural, methodological and theoretical prerequisites flowing into the specific practices that make Chinese Medicine popular in the Western world. However, we should be aware of the fact that Chinese Medicine is challenged in its existence because it is widely unknown. Fostering the understanding of Chinese Medicine in various aspects is, hence, the main aim of this book that gives interesting insights into the discussions on current developments in Chinese Medicine research.
Chinese Medicine is an outstanding scientific proposition system with its own structural, methodological and theoretical prerequisites flowing into th...
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248,47 zł |
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The Persian Divan by Ahmad Khatem Aqovalizade
ISBN: 9783631615614 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers an analysis model providing a descriptive selection of linguistic features from a stylistic aspect, as well as an interpretation from a semantic aspect, i.e. the system of decoding a poetic text of the unique discourse, like tasawwuf poetry. It enables researchers in literary criticism of texts in Divan poetry to evaluate stylistic values of its linguistic forms. The book provides the basis for evaluative description of the literary-aesthetic forms of Khatem s poetry in Persian language and its literary and historical position in the frame of time and space in which that poet...
This book offers an analysis model providing a descriptive selection of linguistic features from a stylistic aspect, as well as an interpretation from...
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547,13 zł |
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Contrasting Meaning in Languages of the East and West
ISBN: 9783039118861 / Angielski / Miękka / 618 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a collection of papers that resulted from the Third International Conference on Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics that was held at Shanghai International Studies University in September 2005. Their common focus lies in aspects of the contrastive semantics and pragmatics in a wide variety of languages. These aspects include several themes that arise from Gricean and neo-Gricean considerations of contrastive pragmatics; from cognitive semantics and pragmatics, including metaphor and issues that relate to the logical structure of quantification, modality and demonstration; and from...
This is a collection of papers that resulted from the Third International Conference on Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics that was held at Shanghai...
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597,08 zł |
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The Europeanization of Modern Written Chinese: The Case Study of the Changing Third Person Pronouns in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
ISBN: 9783039116577 / Angielski / Miękka / 345 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This research focuses on the historical study of the third person pronouns ta and tamen in the past 100 years history of Modern Written Chinese. Since the replacement of wenyan (classical literary Chinese) by baihua (written vernacular Chinese) as the basis of Modern Written Chinese after the May Fourth Movement in 1919, it has been widely claimed that Modern Written Chinese has undergone enormous changes, and that a major influence of such changes has been foreign languages. The evolution of the generic ta () into the masculine ta () and tamen...
This research focuses on the historical study of the third person pronouns ta and tamen in the past 100 years history of Modern Written ...
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539,82 zł |
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Peter Matthiessen and Ecological Imagination
ISBN: 9781433109911 / Angielski / Twarda / 133 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Peter Matthiessen and Ecological Imagination offers an ecocritical reading of the Watson Trilogy Killing Mister Watson (1990), Lost Man s River (1997), and Bone By Bone (1999) which draws together themes Matthiessen has been exploring both in his fiction and nonfiction. While this study argues that his ecological imagination comes from his unique experience as a novelist, naturalist, environmentalist, social activist, and a student of Zen, it also illustrates that for Matthiessen, economic, political, social, racial, psychological, epistemological, and ecological...
Peter Matthiessen and Ecological Imagination offers an ecocritical reading of the Watson Trilogy Killing Mister Watson (1990), Lost M...
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483,06 zł |
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Miracles in Korea: Translated by Dal-Yong Kim
ISBN: 9781433109652 / Angielski / Twarda / 143 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Miracles in Korea is a collection of thirty-eight stories about Korean mountain wizards, Taoist hermits with supernatural powers, divine Taoists, and divine beings, who enjoy perennial youth, longevity, and immortality, and sometimes ascend to heaven. Its author, Hong Manjong (1643-1725), drew upon A Survey of the Geography of Korea and several unauthorized chronicles and compiled the stories in chronological order from the Ancient Joseon Age (2333 B.C.-346) to the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910). Jeong Dugyeong drew up the -Preface- to this collection, Song Siyeol wrote the...
Miracles in Korea is a collection of thirty-eight stories about Korean mountain wizards, Taoist hermits with supernatural powers, divine Taoist...
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355,17 zł |
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Widespread Idioms in Europe and Beyond; Toward a Lexicon of Common Figurative Units
ISBN: 9781433105791 / Angielski / Twarda / 591 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This groundbreaking book in theoretical and empirical phraseology research looks at Europe s linguistic situation as a whole, including 74 European and 17 non-European languages. The occurrence of idioms that actually share the same lexical and semantic structure across a large number of languages has never been demonstrated so clearly before Widespread Idioms in Europe and Beyond. This book answers significant questions regarding hitherto vague ideas about the phraseological similarities between European languages and their cultural foundation, ranging from intertextuality, aspects of...
This groundbreaking book in theoretical and empirical phraseology research looks at Europe s linguistic situation as a whole, including 74 European an...
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632,39 zł |
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Eschatological Sanctuary in Exodus 15:17 and Related Texts
ISBN: 9781433120831 / Angielski / Twarda / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After crossing the Reed Sea, Moses and the Israelites celebrate Yahweh s victory over the Egyptians in the -Song of the Sea- (Exod. 15:1-18). Much of the song rejoices over their recent deliverance, but its latter portion anticipates what Yahweh would do for his people in the future. Specifically, he will lead them past enemy nations and -plant- them on a mountain. Also included in this context is a reference to -the sanctuary, O Lord, which your hands have established- (v. 17). Commentators throughout the history of interpretation have understood this -sanctuary- as a reference to Solomon s...
After crossing the Reed Sea, Moses and the Israelites celebrate Yahweh s victory over the Egyptians in the -Song of the Sea- (Exod. 15:1-18). Much of ...
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433,37 zł |
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