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Competitive ballroom is much more than a style of dance. This book explores the intersection of dance cultures, dress and the body. It shows how dancing influences mind and body alike. It provides an ethnographic picture of how dancers and others live their lives both on and off the dance floor.

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Explores the intersection of dance cultures, dress, and the body. Presenting the author's experiences at an international range of dance events from Europe, the US and UK, as well as featuring the views of individual dancers, this book shows how dancing influences mind and body alike.

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This study offers a theological response to the problem of anxiety from the point of view of Hans Urs von Balthasar.

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Offers a theological response to the problem of anxiety from the point of view of Hans Urs von Balthasar. This book presents an analysis and development of Balthasar's original theology of anxiety found in his only work on the subject, "Der Christ und die Angst".

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A generation of Anglican theologians explore the significance of von Balthasar's theology for Christian thought at the end of modernity.

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Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988) is one of the most significant and challenging of 20th century theologians. This guide shows how his reworking of theology around the transcendentals of being, the beautiful, the good and the true, is influenced not just by classical philosophy and theology but also by his involvement with contemporary figures.

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Balthasar's thought, if it is anything, is perplexing, and it is perplexing for a number of reasons. This book introduces the reader to the man and his unique method of doing theology. It also explains the basic structure and nature of the triology: the aesthetics, dramatics and logic.

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"Magat explores both the traditional and popular culture contexts of eating balut. Balut--fertilized duck or chicken eggs that have developed into fully formed embryos with feathers and beaks--is a delicacy which elicits passionate responses. Hailed as an aphrodisiac in Filipino culture, balut is often seen and used as an object of revulsion in Western popular culture"--Publisher marketing.

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An illuminating account of the life and demise of German Jewry.

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Based upon nearly 20 years of research and theoretical analysis of selected rural and urban communities in the Philippines, this work describes and critiques a variety of justice-related issues, including terrorism, vigilante activity, corruption, and juvenile deliquency.

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A translation of Raimund Hoghe's original rehearsal diary that documented the Tanztheater Wuppertal's work on Bandoneon (1981), illustrated with photos of the production by Ulli Weiss, and personal images and notes from the dancers.

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This book places banishment in the early Atlantic world in its legal, political and social context.

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This book places banishment in the early Atlantic world in its legal, political and social context.

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A wide-ranging analysis of why banks failed, or nearly failed, in the G-10 countries during the volatile years since 1980, and what governments need to do now to solve the ever-growing problem.

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This work evaluates existing bank merger policy and offers workable proposals for new legislative actions that would enhance the benefits of bank mergers without exacerbating the weaknesses. The authors review the historical role of governments in protecting banks from competition.

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This study provides an analysis of nationwide banking, the advantages and the significant disadvantages. It overviews other consolidated banking systems, such as in Canada, UK and Germany, and identifies the causes of this movement, reviewing the laws passed in 1990, permitting such banks to exist.

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This book covers the legal aspects of international trade in financial services comparing the relevant legal foundations at the EU and GATS level.

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The authors of this descriptive yet practical, applications-oriented book examine the sources and management of traditional and nontraditional banking risks, then the conventional on-balance sheet and the modern off-balance sheet risk management methods.

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This important book provides a timely, original and critical examination of the role of the law in regulating banks in the interests of the consumer.