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Landscape and Memory
1996 || Paperback || Simon Schama
The forest primeval, the river of life, the sacred mount – read ‘Landscape and Memory’ to have these explained… ‘Landscape and Memory’ is a history book unlike any other. In a series of journeys through space and time, it examines our relationship with the landscape around us – rivers, mountains, forests – the impact each of them has had on our culture and imaginations, and the way in which we, in turn, have shaped them to answer our needs. This is not a conventional history b...
Writing for Advanced Learners of English
1996 || Paperback || Francoise Grellet || Cambridge University Press
'Writing for Advanced Learners of English' is for advanced learners of English language and literature. The four sections guide students from aspects of accuracy and writing within given frameworks to open-ended, creative activities.
Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation / 1st edition
Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe
1996 || Paperback || Juan J. Linz e.a. || Johns Hopkins University Press
Since their classic volume The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes was published in 1978, Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan have increasingly focused on the questions of how, in the modern world, nondemocratic regimes can be eroded and democratic regimes crafted. In Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation, they break new ground in numerous areas.
They reconceptualize the major types of modern nondemocratic regimes and point out for each type the available paths to democratic transition a...
Monster Theory
Reading Culture
1996 || paperback || Jeffrey Jerome Cohen || University Of Minnesota Press
Monsters provide a key to understanding the culture that spawned them. So argues the essays in this wide-ranging collection that asks the question, what happens when critical theorists take the study of monsters seriously as a means of examining our culture?
Private domain, public inquiry
families and life-styles in the Netherlands and Europe, 1550 to the present
2017 || Paperback || Verloren b.v., uitgeverij
Critical Geopolitics
The Politics of Writing Global Space
1996 || Paperback || GearoidOTuathail || Univ Of Minnesota Pr
In this text, the author uses concepts of mapping and space to challenge traditional geo-political assumptions. He delivers a deconstructive critique of various 20th-century attempts to impose grand geo-political visions on the spinning surface of global affairs.
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Peace by Peaceful Means
Peace and Conflict, Development and Civilization
1996 || Paperback || Johan Galtung || SAGE
This theory-based introduction to peace studies provides coverage of theories relevant to peace studies: peace; conflict; development; civilizations; and economics. It provides an analogy between peace studies and health studies, and makes a strong case for a transdisciplinary approach.
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Representing Reality
Discourse, Rhetoric and Social Construction
1996 || Paperback || Jonathan Potter || SAGE
How is reality manufactured? The idea of social construction has become a commonplace of much social research, yet precisely what is constructed, and how, and even what constructionism means, is often unclear or taken for granted. This work offers a tour of the central themes raised by these questions.
Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose
Learning About Language
1996 || Paperback || Mick Short || Taylor & Francis
Examines how readers interact with literary works, how they understand and are moved by them. Mick Short considers how meanings and effects are generated in the three major literary genres, carrying out stylistic analysis of poetry, drama and prose fiction in turn. He analyses a wide range of extracts from English literature.
Introduction to Organic Spectroscopy
1996 || Paperback || Laurence M. Harwood || Oxford University Press
An understanding of spectroscopic techniques in the analysis of chemical structures is essential to all chemistry degree courses. This new addition to the Oxford Chemistry Primers series provides the essential material needed by undergraduates, in a compact form. It will be beneficial to postgraduates in organic chemistry as reference material in their daily research.