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Bonds of Blood
Gender, Lifecycle, and Sacrifice in Aztec Culture
Av Kenneth A. Loparo, Caroline Dodds Pennock m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
680 kr
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The history of the Aztecs has been haunted by the spectre of human sacrifice. Reinvesting the Aztecs with a humanity frequently denied to them, and exploring their spectacular religious violence as a comprehensible element of life, this book integrates a fresh interpretation of gender with an …
Introduction to Buddhist Psychology
Av Kenneth A. Loparo, Padmasiri De Silva m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
551 kr
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An Introduction to Buddhist Psychology is a lucid, intelligible and authentic introduction to the foundations of Buddhist psychology. It provides comprehensive coverage of the basic concepts and issues in the psychology of Buddhism and thus it deals with the nature of psychological inquiry, …
Reclaiming Social Policy
Globalization, Social Exclusion and New Poverty Reduction Strategies
Av Kenneth A. Loparo, Arjan de Haan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
1095 kr
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This book re-evaluates the importance of social policies in shaping well-being and combating exclusion, and enhances understanding of how these policies are formed in a globalizing world. It emphasises the context- and path-dependence of patterns and policies of inclusion and exclusion, and …
Knowledge Creation Processes
Theory and Empirical Evidence from Knowledge Intensive Firms
Av Gregorio Martin de Castro, Pedro Lopez Saez m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
1128 kr
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The capability to create and apply new knowledge is one of the main sources of sustained competitive advantage, yet there are few empirical studies of this. This book develops an improved and extended theoretical model about knowledge creation and transfer within organizations, testing it …
Language and the City
Av Diarmait Mac Giolla Chriost, Kenneth A. Loparo m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
1204 kr
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This book shows the effects of globalization on language in social context, identifying the city as the key site for the realization of these effects. It challenges assumptions that hold sustainable linguistic diversity to be inherently non-urban while regarding the city as an unproblematic site …
Managing Diversity in the Global Organization
Creating New Business Values
Av Kenneth A. Loparo, Celia de Anca m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
1128 kr
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Global diversity is a key issue facing all companies and organizations. This innovative new book embraces diversity and shows how it can, if carefully understood and developed, provide the tools needed to attain the values and characteristics increasingly demanded by business corporations and …
Theology of Pope Benedict XVI
The Christocentric Shift
Av Emery de Gaal, Kenneth A. Loparo m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
551 kr
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Many refer to Pope Benedict XVI as "the Mozart of Theology." Who are the thinkers who have informed his theology? What events, and which religious devotions, have shaped his personality? This study attempts to shed light on the unifying melody of the policies and positions of a pontificate charged …
Meanings of Violence in Contemporary Latin America
Av Kenneth A. Loparo, Gabriela Polit Dueñas m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
551 kr
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This volume includes contributions of scholars from various fields - the social sciences, journalism, the humanities and the arts - whose work offers insightful and innovative ways to understand the devastating and unprecedented forms of violence currently experienced in Latin America. As an …
Power, Crisis, and Education for Liberation
Rethinking Critical Pedagogy
Av Noah De Lissovoy, Kenneth A. Loparo m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
492 kr
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Progressive educational approaches are currently in crisis in the face of globalization and conservative retrenchment. This book proposes a new framework for critical pedagogy that develops strategies for responding to the proceduralization of schooling and public life in general.
East Asian Cinema and Cultural Heritage
From China, Hong Kong, Taiwan to Japan and South Korea
Av Kenneth A. Loparo, Kinnia Shuk-Ting Yau m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1163 kr
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How do East Asian cultural heritages in shape film? How are these legacies being revived, or even re-created, by contemporary filmmakers? This collection examines the dynamic interactions between East Asian culture heritages and cinemas in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea.
Theatre, Youth, and Culture
A Critical and Historical Exploration
Av Kenneth A. Loparo, Manon van de Water m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
1035 kr
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There is a complex relationship between performance, youth, and the shifting material circumstances (social, cultural, economic, ideological, and political) under which theatre for children and youth is generated and perceived. This book explores different aspect of theatre for young audiences …
Geocritical Explorations
Space, Place, and Mapping in Literary and Cultural Studies
Av Kenneth A. Loparo, Jr. Tally, Robert T. m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
822 kr
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In recent years the spatial turn in literary and cultural studies has opened up new ways of looking at the interactions among writers, readers, texts, and places. Geocriticism offers a timely new approach, and this book presents an array of concrete examples or readings, which also reveal the broad …
Securitizing Immigration
The Politics of Risk in the EU
Av Kenneth A. Loparo, Rens van Munster
Inbunden, 2009
551 kr
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Securitizing Immigration deals with the growing concern for immigration as a matter of security at the EU level. It combines an analysis of the way bureaucratic and political processes have interacted in the integration process with an analysis of how these practices are located in a context shaped …
Brand Avatar
Translating Virtual World Branding into Real World Success
Av Kenneth A. Loparo, Alycia De Mesa m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
512 kr
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Virtual worlds such as Second Life, have millions of users worldwide. Virtual world "residents" wield huge purchasing power, and use real money in the online economies. Companies as diverse as Adidas, Jean-Paul Gaultier, and MTV have plunged into these unchartered waters to give their brands a …
Narratives of Place, Belonging and Language
An Intercultural Perspective
Av Kenneth A. Loparo, Máiréad Nic Craith m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
634 kr
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Examining identity in relation to globalization and migration, this book uses narratives and memoirs from contemporary authors who have lived 'in-between' two or more languages. It explores the human desire to find one's 'own place' in new cultural contexts, and looks at the role of language in …
Telegraphic Imperialism
Crisis and Panic in the Indian Empire, c.1830-1920
Av Kenneth A. Loparo, Deep Kanta Lahiri Choudhury m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
568 kr
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The first electronic communication network transformed language, distance, and time. This book researches the telegraph system of the British Indian Empire, c.1850 to 1920, exploring one of the most significant transnational phenomena of the imperial world, and the link between communication, …
Creative Accounting Exposed
Av Ignacio de la Torre, Kenneth A. Loparo m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
1128 kr
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Worldcom, Enron, Parmalat...a succession of financial scandals has made front page news throughout the world in recent times. In this book the author investigates the origin of creative accounting and explains how and why some companies use these shortcuts to cover different needs. Written in a …
Critical Identities in Contemporary Anglophone Diasporic Literature
Av Francoise Kral, Kenneth A. Loparo m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
634 kr
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The figure of the migrant has been celebrated by some as an icon of postmodernity, an emblematic figure in a world increasingly characterized by transnationalism, globalization and mass migrations. Král takes issue with this view of the migrant experience through in-depth analyses of writers …
Félix Guattari
Thought, Friendship, and Visionary Cartography
Av Franco Berardi Bifo, Kenneth A. Loparo m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
585 kr
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Félix Guattari: Thought, Friendship, and Visionary Cartography, by Franco Berardi 'Bifo', originates in the author's close personal acquaintance with Félix Guattari's writings and political engagement in the context of Berardi Bifo's activism in Italian autonomist politics and his ongoing …
Power at Play
The Relationships between Play, Work and Governance
Av Kenneth A. Loparo, Niels Akerstrom Andersen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
1128 kr
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More and more adults participate as employees in games at work and in public and voluntary organizations. Power at play covers the intricate linkages between pedagogy, play and power. It shows how power today suspends itself through play and analyzes organized play as a symptom of more radical …
Storytelling in Organizations
From Theory to Empirical Research
Av Kenneth A. Loparo, Anna Linda Musacchio Adorisio m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
1128 kr
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Storytelling in organizations is a notion that encompasses both the stories that the organization produces and the ones told by its members. It provides both an in-depth treatment of the literature on narratives, stories and storytelling and an extensive empirical case from an American banking …
Development of Byron's Philosophy of Knowledge
Certain in Uncertainty
Av Kenneth A. Loparo, Emily A. Bernhard Jackson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
634 kr
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Taking a fresh approach to Byron, this book argues that he should be understood as a poet whose major works develop a carefully reasoned philosophy. Situating him with reference to the thought of the period, it argues for Byron as an active thinker, whose final philosophical stance - reader-centred …
Ibsen and the Irish Revival
Av Kenneth A. Loparo, Irina Ruppo Malone m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
634 kr
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Ibsen and the Irish Revival examines Henrik Ibsen's influence on the Irish Revival and the reception of his plays in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Dublin. It highlights the international dimension of the Irish Literary Revival and offers new perspectives on W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge, Lennox Robinson, …
Gender Perspectives on Vocabulary in Foreign and Second Languages
Av Kenneth A. Loparo, Rosa Mª Jiménez Catalán
Inbunden, 2010
1128 kr
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A collection of empirical studies on gender and the acquisition, development, meaning and use of vocabulary by female and male adult, adolescent, and young learners of English and Spanish as a second or foreign language. Up-to-date research identifies relationships between gender and vocabulary in …
Logistics and Politics of the British Campaigns in the Middle East, 1914-22
Av Kenneth A. Loparo, Kristian Coates Ulrichsen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
568 kr
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An examination of how the logistical demands of the British military campaigns in Palestine and Mesopotamia led to a more intrusive and authoritarian form of imperial control in 1917-18. This early example of Western military intervention in the Middle East provoked a localized backlash in 1919-20 …
Social Movements, Public Spheres and the European Politics of the Environment
Green Power Europe?
Av Kenneth A. Loparo, Hein-Anton van der Heijden m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
551 kr
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This book analyzes how the European environmental movement has influenced the problem definitions and solution strategies of European policy issues, examining biodiversity, GMOs, Trans-European Transport Networks, and climate change.
Rethinking Coaching
Critical Theory and the Economic Crisis
Av Kenneth A. Loparo, Anglique Du Toit m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
568 kr
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Coaching is being proposed as the best method to encourage a change in the ideologies that have brought about the credit crunch. The authors' concern is to show how coaching can widen its intellectual range to become a progressively more effective technique within organizational life.
Relating Rape and Murder
Narratives of Sex, Death and Gender
Av Kenneth A. Loparo, Jane Monckton Smith m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
1095 kr
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This book is about relating the concepts of rape and murder in both senses of the term; that is the way rape and murder are linked and related and also how stories of rape and murder are related or told.
Importance of Neglect in Policy-Making
Av Michiel S. de Vries, Kenneth A. Loparo m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
1313 kr
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De Vries argues that it is possible to explain when and in what direction policy change is likely to occur. He argues that what is neglected at present is likely to become dominant in policies of the near future. With the birth of a new policy generation a convergence towards meeting the dominant …
On Hegel
The Sway of the Negative
Av Kenneth A. Loparo, Karin de Boer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
551 kr
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Focusing on the Science of Logic , this wide-ranging and innovative reading exposes the force as well as the limit of Hegel's philosophy. Drawing on Hegel's early account of tragic conflicts, De Boer brings into play a form of negativity that challenges the optimism inherent in modernity and …
