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Graduate and professional TESOL students will welcome this research methods textbook for undertaking qualitative, naturalistic and action research projects.
This book investigates the perceptions of political actors towards the... Læs mere
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In the first of his annual series of lectures at the Collège de France, Foucault develops a vigorous Nietzschean history of the will to know through an analysis of changing procedures of truth, legal forms, and class struggles in ancient Greece.
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In this book, contributors argue that the Black Church must begin to address the significance of sexuality if it is to actually present liberation... Læs mere