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Archetype and Character
Power, Eros, Spirit, and Matter Personality Types
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Introducing a new typology based on Power, Eros, Matter and Spirit as the motivations that define human attitudes and behaviour, the book outlines eight personality types based on the extraverted and introverted deployment of the four drives and applies these typological categories to Freud, Adler and Jung.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
This edited collection argues that trauma in literature must be read through a theoretical pluralism that allows for an understanding of trauma's variable representations that include yet move beyond the concept of trauma as pathological and unspeakable.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
How Can You Represent Those People? is the first-ever collection of essays offering a response to the 'Cocktail Party Question' asked of every criminal lawyer. A must-read for anyone interested in race, poverty, crime, punishment, and what makes lawyers tick.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
This book brings together the newest and the most innovative scholarship on Nigerian children—one of the least researched groups in African colonial history. It engages the changing conceptions of childhood, relating it to the broader themes about modernity, power, agency, and social transformation under imperial rule.
by Philip Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2003
It is now 80 years since Mussolini's Fascism came to power in Italy, but the political heirs of the original Fascism are part of government in today's Italy. The resurgence of neo-fascist and neo-Nazi extremism all over Europe are a reminder of the continuing place of fascism in contemporary European...
Congress, the Supreme Court, and Religious Liberty
The Case of City of Boerne v. Flores
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
In the case City of Boerne v. Flores, the Supreme Court struck down the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993. Waltman offers the first book-length analysis of the act to show how this case contributes to an intense legal debate still ongoing today: Can and should the Supreme Court be the exclusive interpreter of the Constitution?
by R. Stockmann, W. Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
By explaining the role of evaluation in modern societies and its historical development in the USA and Europe this book highlights the scientific roots of Evaluation and offers an overview of its fundamental theories and concepts. The process of collecting, analyzing and interpreting is explored giving an insight into the course of an evaluation.
The Science of Beauty
Culture and Cosmetics in Modern Germany, 1750–1930
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
What did the cosmetic practices of middle-class women in the nineteenth century have in common with the repair of men's bodies mutilated in war? What did the New Woman of the Weimar years have to do with the field of social medicine that emerged in the same period? They were all part of a conversation...
Remembering the German Democratic Republic
Divided Memory in a United Germany
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Memories of and attitudes to the German Democratic Republic (GDR), or East Germany, within contemporary Germany are characterized by their variety and complexity, whilst the debate over how to remember the GDR tells us a lot about how Germans see themselves and their future. This volume provides a range of international perspectives.
Holocaust as Fiction
Bernhard Schlink’s “Nazi” Novels and Their Films
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Holocaust as Fiction seeks to explain and critically evaluate the extraordinary success of Schlink's internationally acclaimed novel, The Reader , the widely read "Selb" detective trilogy, and two popular films based closely on his work.
Rethinking Readiness in Early Childhood Education
Implications for Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
This book challenges traditional conceptions of readiness in early childhood education by sharing concrete examples of practice, policy and histories that rethink readiness. This book seeks to reimagine possible new educational worlds for young children.
Exploring Literacies
Theory, Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
This book is a guide to current research and debate in the field of literacies practice and education. It provides both an historical and lifespan view of the field as well as an overview of research methodologies with first-hand examples from a range of researchers involved in literacy research.
Teacher Development in Action
Understanding Language Teachers' Conceptual Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Bringing together multiple sources of data and combining existing theories across language teacher cognition, teacher education, second language motivation and psychology, this empirically-grounded analysis of teacher development in action offers new insights into the complex and dynamic nature of language teachers' conceptual change.
Discovering Language
The Structure of Modern English
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2006
Discovering language provides students with the basic knowledge they need for advanced study. Organized thematically, it can be used as a course text or help with specific aspects of language. Each section includes an introduction, worked examples, 'in context' sections relating the topic to real examples and suggestions for further reading.