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Ottoman Past and Today's Turkey
ISBN: 9789004115620 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first time the continuity of Ottoman culture in contemporary Turkey is discussed by a group of well-known scholars of Ottoman-Turkish history and society. This is done through a series of research essays on Ottoman culture, its organizations, its modes of thought, and its identities (and their changes). Also, they point out the confused view of republican Turks towards their Ottoman past.
The insightful essays provide not only original knowledge, but also new interpretations concerning ethnicity and state involvement in identity creation. Furthermore, they give bibliographical... This is the first time the continuity of Ottoman culture in contemporary Turkey is discussed by a group of well-known scholars of Ottoman-Turkish hist...
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The China Educational Development Yearbook, Volume 1
ISBN: 9789004171787 / Angielski / Twarda / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. China's education system has grown increasingly complex, creating the need for an annual critical review of the education system by China's top scholars. The Blue Book of Education, as it is known in Chinese, has gained a reputation for offering the most penetrating perspective in China on educational reform and development. In this important English translation combining the Blue Books published in 2007 and 2008, the issues, developments, challenges, and crises in Chinese education are comprehensively discussed and critically analyzed. This volume's incisive contributions address a...
China's education system has grown increasingly complex, creating the need for an annual critical review of the education system by China's top schola...
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The Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin: An Ethnographic Study
ISBN: 9789004221161 / Angielski / Twarda / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin offers an in-depth ethnographic account of Muslim youth's religious identity formation and their engagement with Islam in everyday life. Focusing on Muslim women in the organisation MJD in Germany, it provides a deeper understanding of processes related to immigration, transnationalism, the transformation of identifications and the reconstruction of selfhood. The book deals with the collective content of religious identity formation and processes of differentiation, engaging with the changing role of religion in an urban European...
The Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin offers an in-depth ethnographic account of Muslim youth's religious identity formation a...
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East European Faces of Law and Society: Values and Practices
ISBN: 9789004272576 / Angielski / Twarda / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume offers readers a multi-layer analysis of issues of law and society in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Ukraine. This collection of thought-provoking essays deals with a wide range of subject matter including constitutional, administrative, civil, and criminal law, as well as aspects of legal culture, corruption, corporate social responsibility, and informal practices of judiciaries. Throughout the volume, readers are given not only a comparative perspective of current practices but are also offered a historical glimpse of law and philosophy in the region. The conclusions...
This volume offers readers a multi-layer analysis of issues of law and society in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Ukraine. This collection of ...
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The World of Muslim Women in Colonial Bengal, 1876-1939
ISBN: 9789004106420 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This highly interesting book studies the cultural context of modernisation of middle-class Muslim women in late 19th- and 20th-century Bengal. Its frames of reference are the Bengal 'Awakening', the Reform Movements -- Brahmo/Hindi and Muslim -- and the Women's Question as articulated in material and ideological terms throughout the period. Tracing the emergence of the modern Muslim gentlewomen, the bhadramahilā, starting in 1876 when Nawab Faizunnesa Chaudhurani published her first book and ending with the foundation in 1939 of The Lady Brabourne College, the book gives an...
This highly interesting book studies the cultural context of modernisation of middle-class Muslim women in late 19th- and 20th-century Bengal. Its fra...
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Saints and Servants in Southern Morocco:
ISBN: 9789004114296 / Angielski / Twarda / 279 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This anthropological monograph, dealing with a persistent form of social inequality in the Maghreb, examines the affinities between ancient hierarchical categorization and the emergence of new forms to impress and contest social ranking in the modern nation-state. Point of departure is a detailed account of the ambivalent relations between descendants of the Prophet Muhammad and a social group of humble descent called Haratin in a sanctuary located on the northern fringe of the Sahara. In sections on the division of labour, fictive kinship and supernatural mediation, the book shows how...
This anthropological monograph, dealing with a persistent form of social inequality in the Maghreb, examines the affinities between ancient hierarchic...
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Dynamics of Islam in the Modern World: Essays in Honor of Jamal Malik
ISBN: 9789004512399 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Wiley Handbook of Psychology, Technology, and Society
ISBN: 9781118772027 / Angielski / Twarda / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Edited by three of the world's leading authorities on the psychology of technology, this new handbook provides a thoughtful and evidence-driven examination of contemporary technology's impact on society and human behavior.
Edited by three of the world's leading authorities on the psychology of technology, this new handbook provides a thoughtful and evidence-driven examin...
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Perspectives on Public Choice
ISBN: 9780521553773 / Angielski / Twarda / 692 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Public choice or rational politics differs from other approaches to the study of political behavior in that it builds on models in which rational individuals seek to advance their own interests. This five-part volume surveys the main ideas and contributions of the field. It contains twenty-five essays written by thirty scholars, both economists and political scientists, from North America and Europe. The contributors cover topics such as the nature and justification for the existence of government, the properties of different voting rules, and electoral politics in two-party governments.
Public choice or rational politics differs from other approaches to the study of political behavior in that it builds on models in which rational indi...
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Personal Networks: Classic Readings and New Directions in Egocentric Analysis
ISBN: 9781108839976 / Angielski / Twarda / 768 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social networks are ubiquitous. The science of networks has shaped how researchers and society understand the spread of disease, the precursors of loneliness, the rise of protest movements, the causes of social inequality, the influence of social media, and much more. Egocentric analysis conceives of each individual, or ego, as embedded in a personal network of alters, a community partially of their creation and nearly unique to them, whose composition and structure have consequences. This volume is dedicated to understanding the history, present, and future of egocentric social network...
Social networks are ubiquitous. The science of networks has shaped how researchers and society understand the spread of disease, the precursors of lon...
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Independence, Federalism and Regionalism in Latin America: An Analytical Anthology of Francisco de Miranda's Writings (1790-1811)
ISBN: 9783031969379 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Ukrainian Society During Wartime: Grassroots Resilience as a Mechanism for Social Transformation
ISBN: 9783031978401 / Angielski / 28-01-2026 Książka dostępna od: 28-01-2026 |
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Termin ukazania się książki: 28-01-2026
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The Brics Imperative: Confronting Climate Challenges and Advancing Sustainable Development
ISBN: 9783032059314 / Angielski / 30-01-2026 Książka dostępna od: 30-01-2026 |
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Termin ukazania się książki: 30-01-2026
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Migration, Diaspora and Transnationalism: South Asian Experiences
ISBN: 9789819696376 / Angielski / 22-01-2026 Książka dostępna od: 22-01-2026 |
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Termin ukazania się książki: 22-01-2026
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Making Sense of Social Theory, Second Edition
ISBN: 9781442201187 / Angielski / Twarda / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Making Sense of Social Theory is unusual in treating sociology as a real science with a body of understandable, robust, and powerful theoretical insights. These theoretical insights are formalized in twelve simple axioms and twenty-three more detailed principles readers can use to predict (1) differences among people in how they think, feel, and respond, (b) changes in the structure, culture, and effectiveness of organizations, and (c) trends in societal values, conflict, and priorities.
Making Sense of Social Theory is unusual in treating sociology as a real science with a body of understandable, robust, and powerful theoretical insig...
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The China Educational Development Yearbook, Volume 3
ISBN: 9789004182516 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The third volume of the English-language The China Educational Development Yearbook offers international scholars a glimpse into key issues in Chinese education today from the perspective of Chinese academics, practitioners, and applied researchers. This volume starts with an excellent overview of educational developments in 2009, which witnessed the formulation of the National Outline for Medium and Long Term Educational Reform and Development initiated by the Chinese government. The formulation of the Outline is a milestone event for Chinese education and has triggered...
The third volume of the English-language The China Educational Development Yearbook offers international scholars a glimpse into key issues in ...
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Présence de Samuel Beckett / Presence of Samuel Beckett: Colloque de Cerisy
ISBN: 9789042021174 / Angielski / Twarda / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Du premier au onze aout 2005 a eu lieu au Centre International de Cerisy en Normandie le Colloque Presence de Samuel Beckett dont vous trouverez ici le reflet. Depuis la mort de Samuel Beckett l'interet que suscite son /uvre n'a cesse de croitre, non seulement pour ce qui concerne les recherches litteraires, mais egalement dans les domaines du theatre, du cinema, de la musique et des etudes d'esthetique et de philosophie. Plusieurs grandes manifestations ont reuni ces quinze dernieres annees les specialistes ainsi que les amateurs de son /uvre dans des villes telles que La Haye, Berlin,...
Du premier au onze aout 2005 a eu lieu au Centre International de Cerisy en Normandie le Colloque Presence de Samuel Beckett dont vous trouverez ici l...
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Critical Practice from Voltaire to Foucault, Eagleton and Beyond: Contested Perspectives
ISBN: 9789004214279 / Angielski / Twarda / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using the historical-materialist method to unravel the promise and limits of critical practice since the Revolutionary Age, John E. O'Brien investigates the problems and prospects of cultural criticism for the 21st century through absorbing studies of the contested perspectives of Voltaire, Friedrich Schiller, Jean Baudrillard, Michel Foucault, Terry Eagleton and Hayden White. In spite of recurrent crises due to a flawed Western political-economy, why is there so much critical intellectual activity with so little effect? Framing his study with the early work by Max Horkheimer, Luc Boltanski...
Using the historical-materialist method to unravel the promise and limits of critical practice since the Revolutionary Age, John E. O'Brien investigat...
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Culture and Social Transformations: Theoretical Framework and Chinese Context
ISBN: 9789004260504 / Angielski / Twarda / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As China enters the second decade of the 21st century, it faces tremendous challenges and crisis. How did China arrive at this point of crisis? How do we understand the nature of the challenges? More than any existing study of reform-era China, this volume offers a theoretical discussion of the cultural and social roots of the reform. It does so for the purpose of further exploring whether or not it is possible to imagine alternatives. Contributors to this second volume of "Culture and Social Transformations in Reform Era China" address these questions by exploring some of the most...
As China enters the second decade of the 21st century, it faces tremendous challenges and crisis. How did China arrive at this point of crisis? How do...
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Empires and Walls: Globalization, Migration, and Colonial Domination
ISBN: 9789004236035 / Angielski / Twarda / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why do empires build walls and fences? Are they for defensive purposes only, to keep the 'barbarians' at the gate; or do they also function as complex offensive military structures to subjugate and control the colonized? Are the colonized subjects also capable of erecting barriers to shield themselves from colonial onslaughts? In Empires and Walls Mohammad A. Chaichian meticulously examines the rise and fall of the walls that are no longer around; as well as impending fate of 'neo-liberal' barriers that imperial and colonial powers have erected in the new Millennium. Based on four...
Why do empires build walls and fences? Are they for defensive purposes only, to keep the 'barbarians' at the gate; or do they also function as complex...
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