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The Best Weapon for Peace: Maria Montessori, Education, and Children's Rights (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The Italian educator and physician Maria Montessori is best known for the teaching method that bears her name. She was also a... Læs mere
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Repossessing Shanland: Myanmar, Thailand, and a Nation-State Deferred (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Based on close readings of Shan-language media and years of ethnographic research in a community of soldiers and their families, Jane Ferguson tells the story of the Shan in their own voices, showing how the Shan have forged a homeland and identity during great upheaval.
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Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Provides a starting point for teachers to illuminate this crucial event in world history. Using a vast array of source materials - from literature and film to... Læs mere
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Buried Histories: The Anticommunist Massacres of 1965–1966 in Indonesia (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In 1965-66, army-organized massacres claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of supporters of the Communist Party of Indonesia.... Læs mere
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Everyday Economic Survival in Myanmar (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Reforms in Myanmar (formerly Burma) have eased restrictions on citizens’ political activities. Yet for most Burmese, Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung shows, eking out a living from day to day leaves little time for civic engagement.
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Pushkin, the Decembrists, and Civic Sentimentalism (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Through careful readings of the literature of Pushkin and others active in the northern branch of the Decembrist movement, such as Kondraty Ryleev and Fyodor Glinka, Emily Wang traces the development of ‘emotional communities’ among the members and adjacent writers.
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The Blameless (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Unflinching, compassionate, and gripping, this bold novel evocatively examines the ambiguities wrought by both violence and redemption.
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Legacy on Ice: Blake Geoffrion and the Fastest Game on Earth (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In swift-moving prose, Sam Jefferies tells Blake Geoffrion’s story against the backdrop of modern North American hockey. Thorough research and... Læs mere
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Staging Existence: Chekhov's Tetralogy (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Anton Chekhov’s contribution to intellectual and philosophical discourse was obscured both by his contemporaries and by subsequent scholars. Svetlana Evdokimova... Læs mere
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The Great Debate: Nietzsche, Culture, and the Scandinavian Welfare Society (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Presents, for the first time in any language other than Danish, the debate over Nietzsche’s philosophy between Georg Brandes Harald Hoffding in its entirety. A critical introduction by editor and translator William Banks explores the exchange in its context.
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The Fractured Voice: Silence and Power in Imperial Roman Literature (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Confronts the trope of muteness in Imperial Roman literature, arguing that this understanding of silence is incomplete. Amy Koenig... Læs mere
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