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Borders and Borderlands in Contemporary Culture

Edited By: Aoileann Ní Éigeartaigh, David Getty

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This book explores borders as socio-political constructs and the formation of identity. A series of articles interrogates the border as a limitation where spatial borders become mental ones, and examines individualism as a paradoxical prison cell and fortress.

The Social Economy

Poverty Alleviation and Social Wellbeing

Edited By: Masudu Alam Choudhury, Uzir Abdul Malik

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This journal has been discontinued. Any issues are available to purchase separately.

EU and the Balkans

Policies of Integration and Disintegration

Edited By: Leila Simona Talani

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In the Balkans, integration and disintegration are the two poles of discourse. While joining the EU is seen as a solution to conflict, it may be a catalyst for further disintegration. This book assesses if EU integration fosters or discourages unity.

Proceedings from the first Bergen Workshop on Anaphora Resolution (WAR I)

Edited By: Christer Johansson

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This book presents recent research in anaphora resolution and co-reference using computational and machine-learning models. It covers novel approaches, applications like Q&A systems, and includes an extensive annotation guideline for large corpora.

Messengers of Eros

Representations of Sex in Australian Writing

By: Xavier Pons

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Messengers of Eros examines the literary strategies Australian writers use to represent sex. This compelling book offers readings of classics and modern writers in Australia's postcolonial context. Nominated as a ‘Best Book of the Year’.

Messengers of Eros examines the literary strategies Australian writers use to represent sex. This compelling book offers readings of classics and modern writers in Australia’s postcolonial context. Nominated as a ‘Best Book of the Year’.

Herbert Croly’s The Promise of American Life at Its Centenary

Edited By: John Allphin Moore

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Herbert Croly’s The Promise of American Life is an enduring classic that influenced Theodore Roosevelt, the New Deal, and the Great Society. This anthology presents essays analyzing the book's impact on the 20th century and its suitability for the 21st.

Herbert Croly’s The Promise of American Life is an enduring classic that influenced Theodore Roosevelt, the New Deal, and the Great Society. This anthology presents essays analyzing the book’s impact on the 20th century and its suitability for the 21st.

One Paradigm, Many Worlds

Conflict Resolution across the Disciplines

Edited By: Mitchell Rosenwald

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One Paradigm, Many Worlds surveys collaborative, "win-win" conflict resolution across disciplines. It challenges traditional "win-lose" paradigms, documenting the merits of this approach in fields from education and human services to international relations.

One Paradigm, Many Worlds surveys collaborative, “win-win” conflict resolution across disciplines. It challenges traditional “win-lose” paradigms, documenting the merits of this approach in fields from education and human services to international relations.

Women, Social and Cultural Change in Twentieth Century Ireland

Dissenting Voices?

Edited By: Sarah O’Connor, Christopher C. Shepard

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This book explores women, social and cultural change in twentieth-century Ireland. The interdisciplinary work gathered here challenges monolithic representations of Irish female identity, exposing women’s disparate backgrounds and varied experiences.

Assimilation and Subversion in Earlier American Literature

Edited By: Robin DeRosa

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Spanning the 17th to 19th centuries, this collection explores dominance and oppression in early American literature. Through Native Americans, Puritan outcasts, and slaves, it reveals assimilation and subversion as codependent, mutually defining forces.

Berlin Since the Wall’s End

Shaping Society and Memory in the German Metropolis since 1989

Edited By: John Alexander Williams

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Since the Wall fell, Berlin has confronted the daunting challenges of reunification. This book examines two broad concerns—society and historical memory—casting light on a metropolis scarred, but not destroyed, by the upheavals of recent history.

Contributions Towards a Glossary of the Glynne Language

Edited By: Lord Lyttelton, George William

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The Glynnese Glossary is a rare dictionary of the rich language developed by the families of Prime Minister William Gladstone and his wife, Catherine Glynne. Recorded by Lord Lyttelton, it's a spoof dictionary parodying philology while recording Glynnese.

The Glynnese Glossary is a rare dictionary of the rich language developed by the families of Prime Minister William Gladstone and his wife, Catherine Glynne. Recorded by Lord Lyttelton, it’s a spoof dictionary parodying philology while recording Glynnese.

Postcolonial Borderlands

Orality and Irish Traveller Writing

By: Christine Walsh

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This volume explores the marginalization of Irish Travellers. Focusing on two autobiographies, it reveals the seminal role of storytelling in creating a sense of nationhood and a legitimate sense of belonging for a people excluded to society’s margins.

Showing the World to the World

Political Fictions in French Cinema of the 1990s and early 2000s

By: Florian Grandena

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This book explores the socio-political themes that marked French cinema of the 1990s and 2000s. It examines how these "political fictions" contribute to a new realism through in-depth discussions of films from *La Haine* to lesser-known works.

This book explores the socio-political themes that marked French cinema of the 1990s and 2000s. It examines how these “political fictions” contribute to a new realism through in-depth discussions of films from *La Haine* to lesser-known works.

Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Common Factors in a Term Structure Model

By: Ting Ting Huang

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While many financial models are too technical for non-specialists, this study uses the empirical copula to analyze bond structures. The empirical copula is more appropriate for forecasting returns, volatility, and interdependence in risk management.

Kate Chopin in the Twenty-First Century

New Critical Essays

Edited By: Heather Ostman

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This collection of essays updates Kate Chopin scholarship for the 21st century. Breaking from familiar feminist trends, these essays explore her stories and novels through lenses of race, class, gender, and culture, offering fresh readings of The Awakening.

American Popular Culture

Historical and Pedagogical Perspectives

Edited By: Seymour Leventman

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"A varied and fascinating collection of original investigations." Scholars explore how pop culture has become our new reality, absorbing every facet of life. This book offers important insights into this maddening phenomenon's uplifting and downgrading possibilities.

“A varied and fascinating collection of original investigations.” Scholars explore how pop culture has become our new reality, absorbing every facet of life. This book offers important insights into this maddening phenomenon’s uplifting and downgrading possibilities.

Dispersion of Meaning

The Fading Out of the Doctrinaire World?

By: Matko Meštrović

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In a fractured world, how do we find shared meaning? This book breaks disciplinary barriers to connect art, technology, and economics, showing how a collective learning process becomes the heart of productivity in a new era of cognitive capitalism.

Divination and the Shamanic Story

By: Michael Berman

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This work introduces a new genre: the shamanic story. Based on or inspired by shamanic journeys, these stories are often used for healing. Within this genre exists a sub-genre dealing with divination, analyzed here to identify their shared attributes.

Geographical Dimensions of Islamicjerusalem

Edited By: Khalid El-Awaisi

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This work brings new dimensions to the relationship between Islam and the Holy region. It unveils that Islamicjerusalem (Bayt al-Maqdis) is not a single city but a large spiritual region, delving into overlooked topics and raising questions for further scholarship.

Creation and the Abrahamic Faiths

Edited By: Neil Spurway

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Why is there a ‘here’ for us to inhabit? This book’s theme is the conviction that the Universe owes its existence to a divine Creator, as formulated in the three Abrahamic faiths. Jewish, Moslem, and Christian authors reveal their common ground on Creation.