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The Gamma Paradoxes - An Analysis of the Fourth Book of Aristotle's Metaphysics - Bog af Jeremy Kirby - Hardback

In this book, Jeremy Kirby analyzes Book Gamma of Aristotle's Metaphysics and introduces the debates (or paradoxes as he refers to them) such as relativism versus the idea of a ready-made world, the possibility of true contradictions, the nature and possibility of metaphysics, the limits of thought, and logic.

DKK 971.95

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Cleaning Up Greenwash - Bog af Angus Nurse - Paperback

Cleaning up Greenwash characterizes corporate environmental crime as an inevitable consequence of neoliberal markets and contemporary consumer culture and identifies that traditional criminal justice responses may be inadequate to deal with contemporary environmental harms.

DKK 314.95

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Facing Up to Mortality - Interfaith/Interreligious Explorations - Bog - Hardback

Late anthropologist Ernest Becker outlined a theory that a major function of culture is to provide answers to the Big Questions people pose in relation to the uniquely human recognition of death and mortality. In Facing Up to Mortality, each chapter interacts with Becker's theory from the perspective of a religious tradition or academic discipline.

DKK 925.95

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Growing up in Latin America - Bog af Pilar Osorio Lora - Hardback

Growing up in Latin America is a collection of essays centered on the representation of the political and historical agency of children and youth within the sociohistorical panorama of Latin American countries during the 20th and 21st centuries. Questions of gender, migration, violence, postcoloniality, and precarity are central to this volume.

DKK 1322.95

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Cleaning Up Greenwash - Corporate Environmental Crime and the Crisis of Capitalism - Bog af Angus Nurse - Hardback

Cleaning up Greenwash characterizes corporate environmental crime as an inevitable consequence of neoliberal markets and contemporary consumer culture and identifies that traditional criminal justice responses may be inadequate to deal with contemporary environmental harms.

DKK 1256.95

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Metaphor from the Ground Up - Understanding Figurative Language in Context - Bog af Daniel C. Strack - Hardback

Cross-referencing neurobiological knowledge with the invariance hypothesis, relevance theory, and frame semantics, Metaphor from the Ground Up: Understanding Figurative Language in Context unifies metaphor theory, fundamentally rethinks \context,\ and moves linguistics into the twenty-first century.

DKK 972.95

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Metaphor from the Ground Up - Understanding Figurative Language in Context - Bog af Daniel C. Strack - Paperback

Cross-referencing neurobiological knowledge with the invariance hypothesis, relevance theory, and frame semantics, Metaphor from the Ground Up: Understanding Figurative Language in Context unifies metaphor theory, fundamentally rethinks \context,\ and moves linguistics into the twenty-first century.

DKK 347.95

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Working to Laugh - Assembling Difference in American Stand-Up Comedy Venues - Bog af James M. Thomas - Hardback

Through intensive fieldwork lasting over eighteen months, this book demonstrates that the stand-up comedy venue is a dynamic space where social actors contest and reproduce dominant understandings of race, class, and gender in ways that transcend the joke-work performed on stage.

DKK 1288.95

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Keeping Up the Kardashian Brand - Celebrity, Materialism, and Sexuality - Bog af Amanda Scheiner McClain - Hardback

The Kardashian family is a contemporary cultural touchstone, recognizable throughout the world, connoting warrantless celebrity, voluptuous beauty, and social media savviness. This book explores the Kardashians' brand and celebrity via narrative discourse analyses of the television reality series Keeping Up with the Kardashians, social media utilization, and popular press presence. This three-pronged study of Kardashian media permits insights into contemporaneous American culture, namely societal..

DKK 1349.95

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Keeping Up the Kardashian Brand - Celebrity, Materialism, and Sexuality - Bog af Amanda Scheiner McClain - Paperback

The Kardashian family is a contemporary cultural touchstone, recognizable throughout the world, connoting warrantless celebrity, voluptuous beauty, and social media savviness. This book explores the Kardashians' brand and celebrity via narrative discourse analyses of the television reality series Keeping Up with the Kardashians, social media utilization, and popular press presence. This three-pronged study of Kardashian media permits insights into contemporaneous American culture, namely societal..

DKK 665.95

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Patching Up the Cracks - A Case Study of Juvenile Court Reform - Bog af Michael D. Grimes - Hardback

In Patching Up the Cracks sociologist Michael D. Grimes conducts a case study of the dependency portion of a \troubled\ juvenile court. His study uncovers the importance of the larger institutional and social environment that surrounds the court-both its day-to-day operations and its capacity to adequately serve the needs of its clients.

DKK 1320.95

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Growing Up in Walltown, Italy - An Ethnographic Account of Early Childhood Education and Care in an Italian Town - Bog af Francesca Gobbo - Hardback

Growing up in Walltown, Italy presents an ethnographic account of the culture of early childhood education, as it is constructed in two municipal schools of an Italian town, explored through extensive participant observation and interviews of educators, teachers, school coordinators, mothers, and cooks and school staff.

DKK 925.95

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Country Teachers in City Schools - Bog af Chea Parton - Hardback

In Country Teachers in City Schools, Chea Parton uses conversations with teachers who grew up one place and ended up teaching in another to investigate the influence of place on the personal and professional identity building of teachers and their teaching practice.

DKK 1137.95

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The Many Worlds of American Communism - Bog af Joshua Morris - Hardback

This book examines the multifaceted dimensions that make up the American communist movement from its early years in the 1920s to its peak in the years leading up to World War II. The author's approach differentiates between the political-, social-, and labor-oriented motivations taken by the movement's participants.

DKK 1281.95

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The Current Collegiate Hookup Culture - Dating Apps, Hookup Scripts, and Sexual Outcomes - Bog af Aditi Paul - Hardback

The Current Collegiate Hookup Culture demonstrates how hookups differ based on how students meet their partners and identifies the emerging shifts in hook-up gender dynamics.

DKK 1133.95

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The Current Collegiate Hookup Culture - Bog af Aditi Paul - Paperback

The Current Collegiate Hookup Culture demonstrates how hookups differ based on how students meet their partners and identifies the emerging shifts in hook-up gender dynamics.

DKK 330.95

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The Art of Power - Machiavelli, Nietzsche, and the Making of Aesthetic Political Theory - Bog af Diego von Vacano - Hardback

The Art of Power offers up a challenge to traditional political theory. Diego A. von Vacano provides original interpretations of Machiavelli's oeuvre and of Nietzsche's relationship to politics.

DKK 1074.95

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The Art of Power - Machiavelli, Nietzsche, and the Making of Aesthetic Political Theory - Bog af Diego von Vacano - Paperback

The Art of Power offers up a challenge to traditional political theory. Diego A. von Vacano provides original interpretations of Machiavelli's oeuvre and of Nietzsche's relationship to politics.

DKK 501.95

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Overcoming the Magnetism of Street Life - Crime-Engaged Youth and the Programs That Transform Them - Bog af Trevor Milton - Paperback

This book is an up-to-date contributor to the discussion of juvenile justice reform. It offers detailed examples of \what works\ in community-based alternative-to-incarceration programs.

DKK 665.95

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Wild, Unforgettable Philosophy - In Early Works of Walter Benjamin - Bog af Monad Rrenban - Paperback

Through reading the early work of Walter Benjamin, up to and including \The Trauerspiel\, this book elicits a cohesive conception of the wild, unforgettable form, philosophy, as inherent in everything.

DKK 720.95

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Beyond Whitehead - Recent Advances in Process Thought - Bog - Hardback

Beyond Whitehead brings the reader up to date with the latest developments in process philosophy, concerning the study its basic concepts and their roots, and its potential extensions and revisions.

DKK 1253.95

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Missionary Families Find a Sense of Place and Identity - Two Generations on Two Continents - Bog af John S. Benson - Hardback

Missionary Families Find a Sense of Place and Identity is a community history of members of nineteen Lutheran missionary families who served in Tanzania. Based on over ninety interviews and John BensonΓÇÖs extensive knowledge of cultural geography, he compares the lives of the missionary generation who grew up in the United States and went to Tanzania as missionaries to those of their children who grew up in Africa but settled in the United States as adults. Benson blends his personal experiences..

DKK 1074.95

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Derrida and Africa - Jacques Derrida as a Figure for African Thought - Bog - Hardback

Taking up Jacques Derrida as a figure of thought in relation to Africa, this edited collection poses the questions: What is Derrida to Africa? And, its corollary, what is Africa to Derrida?

DKK 1185.95

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Derrida and Africa - Jacques Derrida as a Figure for African Thought - Bog - Paperback