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Using a local land reclamation project of the later eighth century, this book explores the interaction between a local culture of the southeast coast and the Sinitic culture of the north.

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The book discusses so-called real socialism and offers an alternative conceptualization of it as authoritarian collectivism, making use of an analytical methodology. It concentrates on the principles of 'real socialism' in its golden age but also assesses its present embrace of capitalism.

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'Bauman, Elias and Latour on Modernity and Its Alternatives' summarizes and compares the sociological works of three contemporary authors insofar as they deal with the themes of modernity and its alternatives. These alternatives are either deemed to be possible or actually experienced, whether historically or in the present.

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California has always represented new beginnings and opportunities in a golden land. In constructing the California Dream, much has been omitted or repressed. This study explores the dark side of the dream, as revealed in the states rich tradition of Gothic literature and film.

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This book considers the essential attributes of excellence in teaching as well as the main current factors both internally and externally that are driving higher educational institutes to raise their quality of teaching. It looks at the latest teaching methodologies that promotes deep learning and enables students to ultimately become independent learners.

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This monograph explores and clarifies the specific features of the collective complaints procedure, established by the treaty system of the European Social Charter as an instrument for the protection of social rights, in the light of its evolutive application by the European Committee of Social Rights.

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This book builds on Le Bons classic, The Crowd, to evaluate the role of crowds in American culture, society and politics.

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Defining Hybrid Heroes: The Leadership Spectrum from Scoundrel to Saint defines the hero (and his or her journey) from a hybrid perspective, exploring the spectrum from scoundrel to saint. It utilizes a more dynamic and situational outlook, regarding heroism not only as a personal characteristic, but also as a series of heroic acts within a given situation.

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Eisenhower and the Art of Collaborative Leadership is a study of the leadership style of Dwight Eisenhower with an emphasis on collaboration, team-building and empathy.

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Four Augustan Science Poets: Abraham Cowley, James Thomson, Henry Brooke, Erasmus Darwin is a concise study focusing on four poets who because of their distinctive profiles illustrate especially well the opportunities and pitfalls of writing science poetry during the long eighteenth century.

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Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna and Princess Isabel were key players in the political struggle ending servile labour in the empires of Russia and Brazil. This book chronicles the political activity of the two royal women to end servile labour in their respective countries.

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The book provides an introduction to key concepts of multicriteria analysis, and a series of case studies that illustrate its application to a variety of environmental decision-making problems, ranging from protected area zoning to landfill siting, and from forest restoration to environmental impact assessment of tourism infrastructures.

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Notions of Otherness is a collection of literary essays that approaches the idea of alterity politically, aesthetically, ethically, culturally and sexually in a diachronic manner.

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The devotee occupations serve as full-time or part-time livelihoods for people fortunate enough to have found them. Such work has so far been observed to exist in four sectors of the economy: the liberal professions, consulting occupations, skilled trades, and small business proprietors. Devotee work roots in serious leisure.

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Peruvian Foreign Policy in the Modern Era is a chronological treatment of Peruvian foreign policy from 1990 to the present. It focuses on the impact of domestic politics, economic interests, security concerns, and alliance diplomacy on contemporary Peruvian foreign policy.

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Arthur Asa Bergers Shakespeares Comedy of Errors uses semiotics along with a psychoanalytic approach to offer a granular analysis of one of Shakespeares funniest and most interesting comedies.

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This book is about the presence of music in novels. More specifically, about music in the early modern novel, with an emphasis on seventeenth-century prose from The Netherlands. The essay provides a concise and an accessible introduction into the subject and presents an overview of this compelling new research area.

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The monograph gives an overview of the development and characteristic features of Swedish Gothic from the Romantic age until today.

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Tennessee Williams, T-shirt Modernism and the Refashionings of Theater engages the Williams we thought we knew, as he grew, developed, reconfigured himself into a playwright we didn't.

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The Domains of Identity defines sixteen coherent yet comprehensive categories of interactions which cause personally identifiable information to be stored in databases. Discussions of identity management are often confusing; enumerating these domains and describing their characteristics clarifies which problems arise and how they can be solved within each domain.