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Migration, Education and Change
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 49.95The diverse contributions in this book discuss both the classical and the more recent forms of migration. Illustrating the developments in various European countries and Australia as a 'classical immigration state', they tackle these different forms of migration and investigate their divergent educational implications regarding identity, citizenship... more...
Analyzing Multimodal Interaction
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 48.95Our perception of our everyday interactions is shaped by more than what is said. From coffee with friends to interviews, meetings with colleagues and conversations with strangers, we draw on both verbal and non-verbal behaviour to judge and consider our experiences. Analyzing Multimodal Interaction is a practical guide to understanding and investigating... more...
Democracy and the Role of Associations
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 49.95Voluntary associations have been presented as a solution to political apathy and cynicism towards representative democracy. The authors collected in this volume, however, argue that these claims require more robust substantiation and seek to critically examine the crucial link between the associative sector and the health of democracy. Focusing on... more...
Complex Scheduling
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2006; US$ 99.99Presents models and algorithms for complex scheduling problems. This book discusses resource-constrained project scheduling problems with applications, as well as job-shop problems with flexible machines, transportation or limited buffers. It also describes the methods for calculating lower bounds, and illustrates the algorithms using examples. more...
Literarhistorische Filmbiographien
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 168.00The first biopics of poets were shown in cinemas in the USA in 1909 and in Germany in 1912. Since these early beginnings, a constant and rich tradition has developed of biopics of figures from literary history. This study is the first to carry out a longitudinal and lateral study of the genre. "Poet films" as they are called not only provide differing... more...
The People's Peking Man
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 27.50In the 1920s an international team of scientists and miners unearthed the richest evidence of human evolution the world had ever seen: Peking Man. After the communist revolution of 1949, Peking Man became a prominent figure in the movement to bring science to the people. In a new state with twin goals of crushing “superstition” and establishing... more...
The Snake Pit
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.00Set in medieval Norway, the books follow Olav and Ingunn, who, though raised as brother and sister, have become lovers in a world caught between the fading sphere of pagan worship and vendettas and the expansion of Christianity. more...
The Son Avenger
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.00Powerfully written and filled with magnificent vignettes of the daily life of a medieval estate, 'The Son Avenger' suggests a Greek tragedy whose vision of fate coexists with a Christian sense of suffering and forgiveness. And in the somber, twilight figure of 'Olav the Bad, ' Undset has created an antihero as moving as Oedipus or Lear. more...
In the Wilderness
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.00It is Norway in the thirteenth century, a land rent by unremitting warfare and feebly lit by Christianity. Olav Audunsson was once an outlaw; now he is a man of wealth and stature. But he is haunted by the memory of crimes for which there is no easy atonement and by losses that may never be redeemed. more...









