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Book cover of The Present Politics of the Past

The Present Politics of the Past

Indigenous Legal Activism and Resistance to (Neo)Liberal Governmentality

by Seán Patrick Eudaily
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2004

This work applies Jacques Derrida's framework of "spectropolitics" to (post)coloniality in order to investigate the emergence of indigenous peoples' movements, advances a poststructural approach to the analysis of liberal politics based upon the historical sociology of Michel Foucault, and...
Book cover of Getting into Oxford & Cambridge 2017 Entry
by Seán Buckley
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016

Do you want to study at one of the most prestigious universities in the country? To succeed in your application to Oxford or Cambridge, you need to be acing your exams and have an incredible passion for your subject, with admissions now based on your academic potential alone. Updated annually...
Book cover of The Different Facets of Love

The Different Facets of Love

That Make Us Human Beings

by Thérèse Nyetam
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013

Why speak about love in all its facets? Love is a diamondwe cannot fathom its depths. By a combination of all its facets, we hope to reach a vision of true love. I realize that all people are looking for love so they can say life is beautiful. Love appears in different forms, different versions, different...
Book cover of De weldoener
by P.F. Thomése
Language: Dutch
Release Date: August 4, 2011

In de donkere dagen voor Goede Vrijdag vindt een stadskoordirigent in een van de hem toegewezen kerken een meisje – een soort volwassen vondeling. Ze ligt voor dood. Vol overgave redt hij haar leven. Dan gebeurt er iets waar je wel in kranten over leest: hij besluit haar te verbergen, iets waar...
Book cover of Het zesde bedrijf
by P.F. Thomése
Language: Dutch
Release Date: March 2, 2010

Etta Palm, alias barones d'Aelders (1743-1799), is een vergeten heldin uit onze geschiedenis. Ze groeide op in een bescheiden milieu in Groningen, trouwde, scheidde, zocht en vond het avontuur in Parijs, waar ze carrière maakte als maîtresse in de hofkringen van Versailles. Haar momentum breekt...
Book cover of Haagse liefde & De vieze engel
by P.F. Thomése
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 31, 2009

Van Poel van Avezaath, een Haagse verzekeringsdeskundige, heeft zich zijn leven lang gewijd aan plichtsbetrachting, boordevol geloof en vertrouwen in de 'volledige dekking' van het assurantiesysteem. Maar de formulieren zijn niet zo overzichtelijk meer als vroeger, de vakjes zijn te klein geworden...
Book cover of Izak
by P.F. Thomése
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 31, 2009

Izak is een waargebeurde geschiedenis die de vorm aanneemt van een Ambonees sprookje. De kleine Ambonees Izak droomt ervan de pianomuziek zoals hij heeft meegemaakt in de grote salon van njonja Alma zelf te beheersen. Maar op een dag is de salon vernield, de vleugel weggevoerd. Izak gaat op zoek,...
Book cover of Encyclopedia of Needlework (Illustrated + Active TOC)
by Thérèse de Dillmont
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013

FEATURES:      •     Includes beautiful artworks and illustrations      •     Active Table of Contents for an easy navigation within the book      •     Manually coded...
Book cover of Land Reform in China and North Vietnam

Land Reform in China and North Vietnam

Consolidating the Revolution at the Village Level

by Edwin E. Moïse
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017

This first book to consider land reform in both countries show that reform, as the Communists have conducted it, can be justified in China and North Vietnam for both economic reasons and ideological imperatives. Moise argues that the violence associated with land reform was as much a function of the...
Book cover of Forensic Psychiatry
by Nigel Eastman, Gwen Adshead, Simone Fox
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012

Forensic Psychiatry is the first book to cover the clinical, legal and ethical issues for the treatment of mentally disordered offenders for all of the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland jurisdictions. Written by an expert interdisciplinary team from the fields of both law and psychiatry, including...
Book cover of Foundation Myths and Politics in Ancient Ionia
by Naoíse Mac Sweeney
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013

This book examines foundation myths told about the Ionian cities during the archaic and classical periods. It uses these myths to explore the complex and changing ways in which civic identity was constructed in Ionia, relating this to the wider discourses about ethnicity and cultural difference that...
Book cover of Korean Myths and Folk Legends
by Hwang Pae-gang, Han Young-hie, Kim Se-joong
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017

This book is a collection of myths and legends describing the beliefs and customs of the ancient people in the formative stage of Korean civilization, and will help the reader understand the Korean people, their traditions and their culture. The twenty eight myths and legends in this volume are selected...
Book cover of Afrique. Paroles d'écrivains
by Éloïse Brezault
Language: French
Release Date: June 9, 2014

Dix-huit romanciers déclinent le multiple visage de l’Afrique. Cette Afrique dont on discerne les contours dans l’intimité de sa littérature pour aller droit au cœur des mythes, des histoires coloniale et postcoloniale, des guerres, des génocides, des exils. Perce également, en contrepoint...
Book cover of Histoire d’une âme
by Thérèse de Lisieux
Language: French
Release Date: May 15, 2015

"C’est à vous, ma Mère chérie, à vous qui êtes deux fois ma Mère, que je viens confier l’histoire de mon âme... Le jour où vous m’avez demandé de le faire, il me semblait que cela dissiperait mon cœur en l’occupant de lui-même,...
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