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Adolescents embody the best hopes of American society. Their vital role in shaping our future lends particular significance to their success in negotiating the passage from childhood to adulthood, …

geschrieben von Glen R. Elliott (Autor) und S. Shirley Feldman (Autor)

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Remembering the fallen soldier: from the classic Athenian funeral speech to the Vietnam Wall

How veterans live with physical and psychological injury

This …

1. A Twentieth Century American Odyssey 2. Listening to Theristes 3. Achilles and the Heroic Ideal 4. Clearchus' Story: The Heroic Ideal Transformed 5. Penelope and Waiting Wives and Lovers 6. War, …

geschrieben von Lawrence A. Tritle (Autor) und Tritle Lawrence (Autor)

Born in London and brought up in Christchurch, New Zealand, J. G. A. Pocock was educated at the Universities of Canterbury and Cambridge, and was for many years (1974-1994) Professor of History at The …

A major new sequence of works from one of the …

Introduction; Part I. England and Switzerland, 1737-1763: 1. Putney, Oxford and the question of English Enlightenment; 2. Lausanne and the Arminian Enlightenment; 3. The re-education of young Gibbon: …

geschrieben von J. G. A. Pocock (Autor)

Gerard McCann is a Lecturer in European Studies, St Mary's College, Queens University Belfast. He is a founder member of the Ireland-Palestine Cultural Links Project. He is author of Theory and …

"Think globally, act locally" is a phrase that is often used nowadays to describe the importance of popular activism and an awareness of the issues surrounding globalization. This book is an …

Introduction - whither development in the age of globalization. Part 1 Development issues and definitions: measuring human development, Andy Storey; the colonial legacy and the European response, …

geschrieben von Gerard McCann (Herausgeber) und Stephen McCloskey (Herausgeber)

From the author of the spiritual classic, "Notes to Myself," comes a book to dip into, pick up, put down and pick up again. "Standing on My Head" will turn readers around and shake up their lives …

geschrieben von Hugh Prather (Autor)

Ruth Barcan is Lecturer in the department of Gender …

We alternately think of nudity as a perversion and a state of innocence. Why is our response so contradictory and why is nudity treated so differently in different contexts? Drawing on popular …

* Introduction * The Nudity/Clothing Dialectic* The Metaphor of Nudity* Unnatural Nature: Mess, Savagery, …

geschrieben von Ruth Barcan (Autor)

Ingrid Ulst (LL.M. Finance) is a graduate of J.W.Goethe Frankfurt University, Institute for Law and Finance. She has previously worked in commercial banking and interned with the European Central …

Financial services industry has shown trends of increased consolidation across different types of financial institutions. This book focuses on the conglomeration of banking and insurance activities …

List of Tables; List of Graphs. Introduction; Chapter 1; Financial Conglomeration: Economic and Legal Aspects; 1.1. Nature and Features of Financial Conglomeration; 1.2. Why Financial Conglomeration?; …

geschrieben von Ingrid Ulst (Autor)

Anthony Moran traces the development of contemporary Australian society in the global age, focusing on four major themes: settler / indigenous relations; economics and culture since the 1980s and …

Introduction 1. Globalizing Australia 2. Globalization, National Belonging and National Identity 3. Multiculturalism: Threat or opportunity? 4. The Dilemmas of Settler/Indigenous Relations 5. Asylum …

geschrieben von Anthony Moran (Autor)

This concise introduction to biological (physical) anthropology discusses the core areas of the discipline within a unique framework modeled on the scientific method. Each chapter poses questions that …

geschrieben von Michael Alan Park (Autor)

"The study of the 'modern girl' exemplified by this groundbreaking collection and research project will reconfigure the ways we understand modernity, globalization, gender, and consumption. This book …

1) The Modern Girl as Heuristic Device: Collaboration, Connective Comparison, Multidirectional Citation/The Modern Girl Around the World Research Group; 2) The Modern Girl Around the World: Cosmetics …

Examines the global phenomenon of the Modern Girl …

geschrieben von Modern Girl Around the World Research Gr (Herausgeber) und The Modern Girl Around the World Researc (Herausgeber) und Alys Eveweinbaum (Herausgeber)