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What do you know when you know something about history? What is important to know and how do you learn? Adolescents encounter history everywhere: at school, in the family, in media and society. But how do adolescents perceive history and in what w...

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This book explores the artistic principles of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, his concert activities, his art of piano playing, as well as his pedagogy and his attitude towards his students. The author presents the biographical data of the artist a...

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What makes a good movie? How can one analyse a film accordingly without primarily interpreting it? Dramaturgy can enrich film understanding, for those who make films, as well as for those who want to understand better why they are made how. Film D...

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What Is Dramaturgy? attempts to document, by way of articles, statements, and bibliographies, the dramaturg's profession, which began with Lessing in Germany in the second half of the eighteenth century and was instituted in the United States two ...

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This book provides a comprehensive view of the current state of affairs and possible developments in EU education law and policy. It covers the innovations brought about by the Lisbon Treaty as well as the Lisbon/EU 2020 Strategy and its implicati...

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In dieser Studie wird eine neue Definition des Begriffs 'Liedermacher' erarbeitet. Ausgangspunkt ist der Begriff 'Autoren-Lied', das sich klar von anderen Liedgattungen wie Volkslied und Kunstlied abgrenzt. Ein solches Verstandnis von 'Liedermache...

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Finland, South Africa and Bosnia-Herzegovina are each burdened by memories of a civil war, between either social classes, racial groups or ethnic communities. History wars have followed the conflicts and been fought on the arenas of popular rhetor...

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Among the many commemorations of World War I, little was made of the 100th anniversary of the secret Treaty of London between Italy and the Western War Allies in April 1915, which sealed the fate of South Tyrol for the duration of the twentieth ce...

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Winner of the award 'Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights in North America' (Gustavus Myers Center for Human Rights in North America) In Living Dangerously, Henry Giroux confronts one of the most important questions facing our education...

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In recent decades it has been increasingly recognized that the forms of the verb in ancient Greek, including that of the New Testament, do not signal time (past, present, future), but aspect (the way each activity is viewed in relation to its cont...

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The purpose of this book is to examine what kind of changes Korean society experienced as a result of the introduction of Christianity through Protestant missionaries. Since this was a formative period in the Korean Church, it will be possible to ...

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Martyrdom, Murder, and Magic: Child Saints and Their Cults in Medieval Europe is a comprehensive history of child saints and their cults from late Antiquity to the end of the fifteenth century. The child martyrs of the persecutions, including the ...

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Semiotic Psychology is a special and selective history that focuses on naturally occurring language and its meanings. A review of classic studies from the 1930s through the 1950s shows how content analysis can examine discourse as diverse as plays...

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This final volume in Turner's (anthropology, U. of Toronto) trilogy on Australian Aboriginal culture focuses on what the Aborigines of the Groote Eylandt area of northern Australia take to be the foundations of their way of life, namely musical fo...

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This collection of essays is drawn from a series of international seminars in which participants explored different methodologies for writing the social history of the classroom. Essays in the collection address questions of research methodology a...

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The author identifies major considerations in Jane Austen's novels with those of 18th century Scottish New Rhetoric. She shows how Austen uses fictional examples to argue the development of moral understanding in both sexes by educating them in rh...

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Discusses the cooperative relationship between the Irish government of the 1920s through 1960s and the Catholic Church with regard to education, with the government accepting financial responsibility for the maintenance of schools, while leaving m...

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English seems to be becoming the global language as a result of the massive socio-economic, cultural, and technological changes that have been struggled over since the 1950s. For teachers of English to speakers of other languages and for those in

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The rapid acceleration of industrialization and the transformation of market capitalism that followed the Civil War provided new opportunities for employment and wealth for many Americans. But these opportunities came at a cost: overcrowded and un...

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What is the nature of computer games, and what happens when we play them? This book describes human play as a semiotic process and computer game play as a fundamental act of human cognition, or « semiosis. Offering one of the first fully arti...

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Most ritual participants claim that their rituals have been the same since time immemorial. Citing recent research in ritual studies, this book illustrates how, on the contrary, rituals are often subject to dynamic changes. When do rituals change?...

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Pedagogy of Place focuses on the embodiment of purposefully created space resulting from the creation and enactment of its participants' cultural and social conditions. It is also about education, the purposeful creation of spaces that comprise le...

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William Booth (1829-1912) is remembered for the major role he played in founding the Salvation Army, an evangelical organization now operating in more than 120 countries. Few people, however, are aware of the fact that Booth was also a prolific au...

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Constantine R. Campbell continues the work begun in his previous volume, 'Verbal Aspect, the Indicative Mood, and Narrative: Soundings in the Greek of the New Testament.' In this book, he investigates the function of verbal aspect in non-indicativ...

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'The World Screened' is a collection of previously uncollected film criticisms by the late Stanley Kauffmann. Starting in 1958 and continuing until the end of his life, Kauffmann was the film critic for 'The New Republic.' Along with Andrew Sarris...

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Tout au sommet de l'Europe vivent 40000 Lapons ou Sames, branche extrême-orientale du rameau finno-ougrien que les contingences de la nature et de l'histoire ont fixée en Finno-Scandinavie. Ces 40000 héritiers d'une vieille culture arctique de cha...

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