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Combining historical, sociological and political as well as literary methods, the interdisciplinary study analyzes Thomas King's Truth & Bright Water (1999), Howard Frank Mosher's On Kingdom Mountain (2007), and Jim Lynch's Border Songs (2009). The novels narrate North American borderlands and gauge current developments at the Canada-U.S. border.

The figure of John Bull stereotypically personifies the best and the worst traits of the British (or English) national character. The perspectives adopted in John Bull and the Continent extend the meaning of the metaphor and take the eponymous juxtaposition as an incentive to study the variety of multi-faceted relationships between the two sides.

This volume contains a selection of 25 ethnological essays as conference proceedings. They explore the effects of the Internet on post-modern food culture. They present synchronic and diachronic research approaches to the phenomenon of food in the era of globalization and the spread of computer technology.

In the Baltic States, referendums are being activated either automatically, by public authorities or by the citizens. In each republic, however, there are several citizen-unfriendly legal obstacles that do not only restrict the use of these democratic tools but also lead to a poor performance in generating binding popular decisions.

The volume's contributors describe or analyze different strategies survivors use to find a narrative form for expressing their trauma (literature, graphic novels, visual art or journals). They offer insights not only into how the survivors dealt with the pain of these memories but also how they found hope for healing by expressing "the unspeakable".

Frederick Rolfe wanted to influence how others see him both by his behaviour and his literary output. The biography The Quest for Corvo skewed the image he wanted to project. This work analyses the impression Rolfe attempted to create of himself in his fiction and discusses the image projected by his correspondence and the biographical work on him.

This book studies the history of the Concise Oxford Dictionary from 1911 to recent times. By comparing samples from each edition of the dictionary, the study provides a detailed analysis of changes in its definition style, vocabulary selection, sense discrimination and other aspects of the dictionary structure.

The aim of the book is to present a literary genre - the commentary as a main form of scientific literature in Antiquity and Middle Ages. The collectanea of studies of specialists in Asian and European literatures and historians of philosophy show the multicultural viewpoint of this problem.

This collection from the fields of literature, theology and corpus linguistics focuses on ways in which endings are formally signaled in literature, journalism and film. It is also concerned with larger philosophical notions of closure and apocalypse. It gives examples from fairytales, Byron, Longfellow, Dillard, Barnes and South African writers.

Subjunctive and indicative interpretations in Serbian are dependent on semantic properties of the matrix verb, the aspect and tense of the embedded verb, and the selection of homophonous da: the indicative or subjunctive da. The choice of mood affects clitic placement, negation interpretation, and licensing of negative polarity items.

The structure of the book is unconventional. The issues presented are extremely contextual, subject to an ongoing discussion. From the scientific point of view, the territorial differentiation in the traditional uniform of the Nation-State is simply reconfigured and reshaped due to the new logic new logic of internal market competition.

The book looks at environmental issues calling for international cooperation, such as river management, transboundary air pollution, and climate. It analyses methods used to reduce free-riding in protecting the commons. Agreements considered successful - e.g. the Montreal Protocol - are contrasted with those - e.g. UNFCCC - that are less effective.

EPR entangled particles are ontological processes in extension-motion and measurementally in space-time. This book shows that STR permits real-valued causal superluminal communication between entangled particles. Hence, the Law of Causality reigns in the QM world, yielding a physical ontology of local-causal superluminal propagations in a spectrum of STRs and QMs.

This study focuses on the return of the narrative in contemporary literature. It discusses social commitment, postmodern irony and the conventions of the realistic novel. Cette etude porte sur le retour a la narration dans le roman contemporain et discute les themes du roman engage, de l'ironie postmoderne et des conventions du roman realiste.

This book argues that the Czech Republic's ability to translate its foreign policy preferences regarding Russia and the larger post-Soviet space into the EU's foreign policy making varies across issue areas and time. Assessed policy areas are the European Union's external energy and democratization policies and the European Neighbourhood Policy.

The papers address such topics as spatio-temporal relations, subjectivity and objectivity, virtuality, actuality and reality, iconicity, metaphor, metonymy, signed languages, force dynamics, prototype in linguistics and didactics, socio-political discourse, L2 acquisition, conceptual-linguistic creativity, and many other related problems.

This book addresses the conditions of the human cooperative activities in order to focus on their common roots and to bring them back to an unitary origin. It is profoundly animated by the task of understanding how cooperative skills are able to evolve the plurality of the cooperative activities from the spontaneous to the institutional ones and to find a common denominator for joint actions.

The Works of Richard Oschanitzky researches the German-Romanian composer and performer's output in the fields of free jazz, ethno jazz and film music. It lays particular stress on Richard Oschanitzky's attempt to find common ground between European academic music and American jazz, as exemplified in his symphonic jazz works.

The authors of this volume outline the issues of managing taxes and tax evasion, mainly with a focus on the European Union in general and Poland in particular. Tax management and tax evasion represent an intrinsic element of economic turnover, an area of interest both to the institutional and to the real spheres of national economy.

This book documents the four-day conference The Science and Religion Dialogue: Past and Future at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, October 2012. The conference was held in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Sir John Templeton and of the 25th anniversary of the establishment of his John Templeton Foundation.

This book is a first presentation of pottery samples from the Areas A, B, C, D, E, and G of el-Balu' in the northern Ard el-Kerak, the ancient Moabitis which today is Central Jordan. The forms presented here are dating from the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age down to the Persian periods of occupation of the site of el-Balu'.

The volume consists of articles, which are divided into the three main chapters: Literature, Visual and Performing Arts and Philosophy as well as Anthropology. The authors consider different methods of reception of ancient myths focusing on various cultural phenomena, e.g. literature, fine arts, theatre, cinema and pop culture.

The volume focuses on autobiographical, biographical and confessional writing, as well as on travel literature to highlight the various interdependencies and crossovers between writers' lives and their literary output.

In the first part relations between legitimization, subjective well-being, voting patterns, and the role of social cohesion in determination of political culture are shown. The second part addresses problems of validity in the interview and non-response as well as those related to understanding of questions in multi-country surveys.

This collection of essays argues for a critical questioning of the role of digital technology in education in terms of concepts, assessments and subversions. It offers conceptual tools, ideas and insights for further research and provides motivations and information to foster active participation in debates and politics.

The whole human body, the entire motor system including facial expressions and bodily gestures, is subject not just to emotions, but also abstract thought. Meaning, both emotional and cognitive, is grounded within the motor dimension. By implication, no meaningful philosophy of time can neglect the aspect of motor imagery.

This book analyses how activation reforms change the multilevel governance of social and labour market policy in Continental Europe. Implementation studies in France and Germany show the crucial role of the local level. Diverse local models of the organisation of active labour market policy, placement, social services and benefits emerge.

This study examines the German-American cultural transfer during the 18th and 19th centuries and its important part in the formation of an American national and cultural identity. The different chapters treat specific problems and criticize existing translation theories. In the concluding chapters a cohesive view of the entire process emerges.

Der Band stellt Studien zur Kompetenzmessung bei angehenden Ingenieuren im In- und Ausland vor. Instrumentenvalidierung und Ergebnisverwertung stehen dabei im Mittelpunkt. This volume presents works around competence measurement in engineers-to-be in Germany and abroad. Focus is on the validation of instruments and the utilization of the results.

The book focuses on Kazakhstan's transition path. It describes the type of market economy that has evolved in the country since 1991. The Varieties of Capitalism approach and a core - periphery analytical framework are applied to classify the model of capitalist economy in the country. The research design is based on qualitative interview study.