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Da A Practical Guide to Russian Grammar

This fully revised second edition of Da! A Practical Guide to Russian Grammar is a concise and contemporary reference grammar and workbook for intermediate-level students. The book contains clear explanations of the core areas of Russian grammar. Each point is illustrated with examples of contemporary language usage showing you how grammar works in practice while at the same time enhancing your vocabulary and cultural knowledge. Every chapter ends with a variety of exercises to test your progress and consolidate your understanding. Now revised with more exercises and enhanced e-resources. Suitable for intermediate-level students Da! A Practical Guide to Russian Grammar is an invaluable resource for both classroom and self-study. | Da A Practical Guide to Russian Grammar

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Manual de fonética e fonologia da língua portuguesa

Escrito inteiramente em português o Manual de fonética e fonologia da língua portuguesa é uma obra que abrange todos os aspectos fonéticos e fonológicos desse idioma inclusive as questões de fonética acústica e auditiva fonotática e traços suprassegmentais que a maioria dos livros didáticos não aborda. Neste livro o estudante encontrará uma introdução detalhada e exata mas acessível à fonética e à fonologia da língua portuguesa. Inclui capítulos introdutórios que contextualizam essas disciplinas no campo geral da linguística e salientam o papel dos sons e sua representação na comunicação humana. Principais características: ● Escrito por fonetistas qualificados e versados nas questões atuais da ciência fonética. ● Não é preciso já saber linguística pois o livro expõe todos os termos e conceitos linguísticos necessários. ● Cada capítulo conta com um resumo uma lista de conceitos e termos perguntas de revisão e exercícios de pronúncia relevantes destinados à prática dos conselhos e sugestões específicos do capítulo. ● Os capítulos que abordam a produção física dos sons contêm seções de Dicas Pedagógicas Conselhos Práticos e Exercícios de Pronúncia que ligam a teoria aos aspectos práticos da boa pronúncia. ● Uma característica exclusiva deste livro é a exposição da fonética e fonologia das três principais normas cultas da língua portuguesa: a de São Paulo e do Rio de Janeiro para o português brasileiro (PB) e a de Lisboa para o português europeu (PE). ● Numerosas imagens gráficos e tabelas para ilustrar claramente cada conceito. ● Recursos eletrônicos disponíveis online nos materiais de eResource com a pronúncia dos sons frases e exercícios do livro. O Manual de fonética e fonologia da língua portuguesa é uma introdução abrangente a esses campos escrita de modo a ser clara e acessível aos estudantes de português em nível avançado para ajudá-los a entender como melhorar a própria pronúncia. O livro é excelente também tanto para alunos de pós-graduação como para professores linguistas e profissionais de letras. Written entirely in Portuguese Manual de fonética e fonologia da língua portuguesa presents an accurate yet accessible introduction to Portuguese phonetics and phonology. The book covers all phonetic and phonological aspects of the language including those often missing from other textbooks such as acoustic and auditory phonetics phonotactics and suprasegmentals. The book maintains a careful balance between the theoretical and practical aspects of the topic and is designed to help learners improve their pronunciation through an understanding of the linguistic principles of phonetics and phonology combined with the application of these principles through exercises and practice. Additional pronunciation resources are available online at www. routledge. com/9780367179915. Written in a clear and accessible manner the book is ideal for advanced students of Portuguese with no prior knowledge of linguistics.

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The Viola da Gamba

The viola da gamba was a central instrument in European music from the late 15th century well into the late 18th. In this comprehensive study Bettina Hoffmann offers both an introduction to the instrument - its construction technique and history - for the non-specialist interweaving this information with a wealth of original archival scholarship that experts will relish. The book begins with a description of the instrument and here Hoffmann grapples with the complexity of various names applied to this and related instruments. Following two chapters on the instrument's construction and ancestry the core of the book is given to a historical and geographical survey of the instrument from its origins into the classical period. The book closes with a look at the revival of interest in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Brazil after Bolsonaro The Comeback of Lula da Silva

Brazil after Bolsonaro captures and presents the voices of a wide range of stakeholders including academics and journalists in Brazil and abroad to produce the first systematic engagement with Lula’s latest presidency. Providing fair and balanced perspectives on Lula the authors examine the legacy of Lula’s previous presidency; what happened in the interim in the eras of Rousseff Temer and Bolsonaro; and what are the challenges facing a new Lula administration. This book is divided into three main sections (Background to change Context and issues and Foreign policy) and chapters detail the political social and economic dimensions of change in Brazil and its wider repercussions. A fourth section sees Luís Guillermo Solís Rivera President of Costa Rica from 2014 to 2018 offer reflections on Lula from the perspective of a fellow president. Assuming no prior knowledge and written in an accessible style this book is ideal for those seeking to further their understanding of contemporary politics in Brazil and to learn the context and consequences of the transfer of power from Jair Bolsonaro to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. | Brazil after Bolsonaro The Comeback of Lula da Silva

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The Portuguese in India and Other Studies 1500-1700

The studies brought together in this volume were published over the last thirty years and are concerned directly or indirectly with the Portuguese presence in India between about 1500 and 1650. They have been arranged into four groups of which the first 'The Portuguese in India' includes pieces on the changing character of the empire in India Goa in the 17th century the Portuguese India Company of 1628-33 smugglers the great famine of the early 1630s and the ceremonial induction process for new viceroys. A second group focuses on the life career and background of the count of Linhares before during and after his term as viceroy at Goa. The third group consists of studies on travel and communications between India and Portugal both by sea and by land. The collection concludes with studies under the heading of 'historiography and problems of interpretation' on Charles Boxer as a biographer and on Vasco da Gama's reputation for violence. | The Portuguese in India and Other Studies 1500-1700

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Attacks on Linking Revisited A New Look at Bion's Classic Work

This book aims at providing further contributions inspired by Bion's paper Attacks on Linking (1959) by a distinguinshed group of scholars who have focused on different aspects of his propositions. Contributors: Christine Anzieu-Premmereur Rachel B. Blass Ronald Britton Catalina Bronstein Elias Mallet da Rocha Barros Elizabeth Lima da Rocha Barros Antonino Ferro Jay Greenberg Monica Horovitz Clara Nemas Edna O'Shaughnessy Rudi Vermote | Attacks on Linking Revisited A New Look at Bion's Classic Work

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Ecological Epistemologies and Spiritualities in Brazilian Ecovillages In the Labyrinth of an Environmental Anthropology

This book brings together ethnographic field research on four permacultural ecovillages in Brazil to highlight the importance of spirituality and ecological epistemologies as key analytical tools. It demonstrates that ecological spirituality can and should be understood beyond the dichotomy of personal and political between people and nature in the field of environmental anthropology. The book uses a broad philosophical methodology based on the phenomenological theories of Maurice Merleau-Ponty Tim Ingold and Alfred Schutz combined with post-structuralist conceptions of the relationship between person and world individual and society. The field research consisted of ethnographic travel observation and recorded dialogue with individuals based in each ecovillage: Arca Verde situated in Campos de Cima da Serra; Vrinda Bhumi a Vaishnava ecovillage in Baependi-MG; Goura Vrindavana a Vaishnava ecovillage in Paraty-RJ; and Muriqui Assu Ecovillage Project a secular ecovillage in Niterói-RJ. Throughout the book ethnographic research is woven together with poetic interludes images personal narrative experience and phenomenological theory bringing a new understanding and approach to environmental anthropology as a discipline. Including a Preface written by Tim Ingold it will appeal to academics researchers and upper-level students in phenomenology environmental philosophy environmental anthropology religious studies and social sciences more broadly. | Ecological Epistemologies and Spiritualities in Brazilian Ecovillages In the Labyrinth of an Environmental Anthropology

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State Versus Ethnic Claims African Policy Dilemmas

The idea for this book can be traced to an informal brainstorming session among four very good friends - Ali Mazrui Victor Olorunsola Donald Rothchild and Dunstan Wai. In a real sense then as editors we owe a lot to Dunstan and Ali for their intellectual stimulation and for encouraging us to pursue a follow-up to ~. f. 2l. i::. lla . Qt Cultyral ~Natignalism . in A. . f'. da | State Versus Ethnic Claims African Policy Dilemmas

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Travellers and Cosmographers Studies in the History of Early Modern Travel and Ethnology

Joan-Pau Rubiés brings together here eleven studies published between 1991 and 2005 that illuminate the impact of travel writing on the transformation of early modern European culture. The new worlds that European navigation opened up at the turn of the 16th century elicited a great deal of curiosity and were the subject of a vast range of writings much of them with an empirical basis albeit often subtly fictionalized. In the context of intense literary and intellectual activity that characterized the Renaissance the encounters generated by European colonial activities in fact produced a remarkable variety of images of human diversity. Some of these images were conditioned by the actual dynamics of cross-cultural encounters overseas but many others were elaborated in Europe by cosmographers historians and philosophers pursuing their own moral and political agendas. As the studies included here show the combined effect was in the long term dramatic: interacting with the impact of humanism and of insurmountable religious divisions travel writing decisively contributed to the transformation of European culture towards the concerns of the Enlightenment. The essays illuminate this process through a combination of general discussions and the contextual analysis of particular texts and debates ranging form the earliest ethnographies produced by merchants travelling to Asia with Vasco da Gama to the writings of Jesuit missionaries researching idolatry in India and China or thinkers like Hugo Grotius seeking to explain the origin of the American Indians. | Travellers and Cosmographers Studies in the History of Early Modern Travel and Ethnology

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The Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni

The Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni offers an original reading of Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s opera Don Giovanni using as a lens the portrayal of the title role by its creator the baritone Luigi Bassi (1766–1825). Although Bassi was coached in the role by the composer himself his portrayal has never been studied in depth before and this book presents a large number of new sources (first- and second-hand accounts) which allows us to reconstruct his performance scene by scene. The book confronts Bassi’s portrayal with a study of the opera’s early German reception and performance history demonstrating how Don Giovanni as we know it today was not only created by Mozart Da Ponte and Luigi Bassi but also by the early German adapters translators critics and performers who turned the title character into the arrogant and violent villain we still encounter in most of today’s stage productions. Incorporating discussion of dramaturgical thinking of the late Enlightenment and the difficult moral problems that the opera raises this is an important study for scholars and researchers from opera studies theatre and performance studies music history as well as conductors directors and singers.

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Television in Transition in East Asia

This book examines the development of television broadcasting in Japan Hong Kong and South Korea. It explores the policy regimes guiding the development of television broadcasting as a powerful institution and the extent to which new forms of television have become part of each country’s contemporary media mix. It analyses the interests involved in key policy decisions the institutional dynamics promoting or inhibiting new media markets and the relative importance in the different countries of cable satellite digital broadcasting and the use of the Internet for purposes associated with television broadcasting. The nature of television regimes in each of the three countries is very different and the contrasting situations provide great insights into how television is developing and how it could develop further both in East Asia and worldwide. | Television in Transition in East Asia

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Made in Yugoslavia Studies in Popular Music

Made in Yugoslavia: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history sociology and musicology of popular music in Yugoslavia and the post-Yugoslav region across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book consists of chapters by leading scholars and covers the major figures styles and social contexts of music in the region that for most of the past century was known as Yugoslavia. Exploring the role played by music in Yugoslav art culture social movements and discourses of statehood this book offers a gateway into scholarly explanation of a key region in Eastern Europe. An introduction provides an overview and background on popular music in Yugoslavia followed by chapters in four thematic sections: Zabavna-Pop; Rock Punk and New Wave; Narodna (Folk) and Neofolk Music; and the Politics of Popular Music Under Socialism. | Made in Yugoslavia Studies in Popular Music

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Made in Nusantara Studies in Popular Music

Made in Nusantara serves as a comprehensive introduction to the history sociology ethnography and musicology of historical and contemporary popular music in maritime Southeast Asia. Each essay covers major figures styles and social contexts of genres of a popular nature in the Nusantara region including Malaysia Indonesia Brunei Singapore and the Philippines. Through a critical investigation of specific genres and their spaces of performance production and consumption the volume is organised into four thematic areas: 1) issues in Nusantara popular music; 2) history; 3) artists and genres; and 4) national vs. local industries. Written by scholars working in the region Made in Nusantara brings local perspectives to the history and analysis of popular music and critically considers conceptualisations developed in the West rendering it an intriguing read for students and scholars of popular and global music. | Made in Nusantara Studies in Popular Music

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Milestones in Dance in the USA

Embracing dramatic similarities glaring disjunctions and striking innovations this book explores the history and context of dance on the land we know today as the United States of America. Designed for weekly use in dance history courses it traces dance in the USA as it broke traditional forms crossed genres provoked social and political change and drove cultural exchange and collision. The authors put a particular focus on those whose voices have been silenced unacknowledged and/or uncredited – exploring racial prejudice and injustice intersectional feminism protest movements and economic conditions as well as demonstrating how socio-political issues and movements affect and are affected by dance. In looking at concert dance vernacular dance ritual dance and the convergence of these forms the chapters acknowledge the richness of dance in today’s USA and the strong foundations on which it stands. Milestones are a range of accessible textbooks breaking down the need-to-know moments in the social cultural political and artistic development of foundational subject areas. This book is ideal for undergraduate courses that embrace culturally responsive pedagogy and seek to shift the direction of the lens from western theatrical dance towards the wealth of dance forms in the United States. | Milestones in Dance in the USA

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Shamanism in Siberia Sound and Turbulence in Cursing Practices in Tuva

The focus of this book is on the phenomenon of cursing in shamanic practice and everyday life in Tuva a former Soviet republic in Siberia. Based on extensive anthropological fieldwork where the author interacted with a wide range of people involved in cursing practices the book examines Tuvans’ lived experience of cursing and shamanism thereby providing deep insights into Tuvans’ intimate and social worlds. It highlights especially the centrality of sound: how interactions between humans and non-humans are brought about through an array of sonic phenomena such as musical sounds sounds within words and non-linguistic vocalisations and how such sonic phenomena are a key part of dramatic cursing events and wider shamanic performance and ritual involving humans and spirits alike. Overall the book reveals a great deal about occult practices and about social change in post-Soviet Tuva. Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | Shamanism in Siberia Sound and Turbulence in Cursing Practices in Tuva

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Temporalities in/of Crises in Anglophone Literatures

Literary works play a crucial role in modelling and conceptualising temporalities. This becomes particularly apparent in times of crises which put conventionalised temporal patterns and routines under pressure. During crises past present and future appear to collapse into each other and give way to temporal disjunction and rupture. Offering pluralised and context-sensitive approaches to temporalities in and of crises this volume explores how literature’s engagement with crises suggests both the need for and possibility of rethinking ‘time’. The volume is committed to examining the affordances of specific genres and their potential in pointing beyond temporalities of crises to facilitate a sense of futurity. Individual essays are grounded in recent theories of temporality and literary form which are related to novel advancements in ecocriticism queer studies affect theory and postcolonial studies. The chapters cover a broad range of examples from different literary genres to reveal the knowledge of literature about temporalities in and of crises. | Temporalities in/of Crises in Anglophone Literatures

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Made in Scotland Studies in Popular Music

Made in Scotland: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history politics culture and musicology of twentieth- and twenty-first-century popular music in Scotland. The volume consists of essays by local experts and leading scholars in Scottish music and culture and covers the major figures styles and social contexts of popular music in Scotland. Each essay provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance. The book includes a general introduction to Scottish popular music followed by essays organized into three thematic sections: Histories Politics and Policies and Futures and Imaginings. Examining music as cultural expression in a country that is both a nation and a region within a larger state this volume uses popular music to analyse Scottishness independence and diversity and offers new insights into the complexity of cultural identity the power of historical imagination and the effects of power structures in music. It is a vital read for scholars and students interested in how popular music interacts with and shapes such issues both within and beyond the borders of Scotland. | Made in Scotland Studies in Popular Music

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The Spectacle of Clouds 1439–1650 Italian Art and Theatre

The studies in which history of art and theatre are considered together are few and none to date investigate the evolution of the representation of clouds from the early Renaissance to the Baroque period. This book reconsiders the origin of Italian Renaissance and Baroque cloud compositions while including the theatrical tradition as one of their most important sources. By examining visual sources such as paintings frescos and stage designs together with letters guild-ledgers descriptions of performances and relevant treatises a new methodology to approach the development of this early modern visuality is offered. The result is an historical reconstruction where multiple factors are seen as facets of a single process which led to the development of Italy’s visual culture. The book also offers new insights into Leonardo da Vinci’s theatrical works Raphael’s Disputa Vasari’s Lives and Pietro da Cortona’s fresco paintings. The Spectacle of Clouds 1439-1650 examines the different ways Heaven has been conceived imagined and represented from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century crossing over into the fields of history religion and philosophy. | The Spectacle of Clouds 1439–1650 Italian Art and Theatre

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Made in Ireland Studies in Popular Music

Made in Ireland: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history sociology and musicology of 20th- and 21st-century Irish popular music. The volume consists of essays by leading scholars in the field and covers the major figures styles and social contexts of popular music in Ireland. Each essay provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance to Irish popular music. The book is organized into three thematic sections: Music Industries and Historiographies Roots and Routes and Scenes and Networks. The volume also includes a coda by Gerry Smyth one of the most published authors on Irish popular music. | Made in Ireland Studies in Popular Music

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Qualitative Research in Criminology Advances in Criminological Theory

This volume investigates the significant role qualitative research plays in expanding and refining our understandings of crime and justice. It features seventeen original essays that discuss the relationship between methodology and theory. The result is a theoretically engaged volume that explores the approaches of qualitative scholars in the collection and treatment of data in criminological scholarship. Among the key issues addressed in the volume are methodological rigor in qualitative research; movement between method theory building theoretical refinement and expansion; diversity of qualitative methodologies from classic field research to contemporary innovations; and considerations of the future of qualitative criminological research. Qualitative research use has expanded rapidly in the last twenty years. This latest volume of Advances in Criminological Theory presents a cogent appraisal of qualitative criminology and the ways in which rigorous qualitative research contributes to theorizing about crime and justice. | Qualitative Research in Criminology Advances in Criminological Theory

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Social Work in Health Settings Practice in Context

This fully revised and expanded fifth edition of Social Work in Health Settings: Practice in Context maintains its use of the Practice-in-Context (PiC) decision-making framework to explore a wide range of social work services in healthcare settings. The PiC is updated in this edition to attend to social determinants of health and structural conditions. The PiC framework is applied in over 30 case chapters to reflect varied health and social care settings with multiple populations. Fully updated to reflect the landscape of healthcare provision in the US since the Affordable Care Act was reaffirmed in 2020 the cases are grounded by primer chapters to illustrate the necessary decisional and foundational skills for best practices in social work in health settings. The cases cover micro through macro level work with individuals families groups and communities across the life course. The PiC framework helps maintain focus on each of the practice decisions a social worker must make when working with a variety of clients (including military veterans refugees LGBTQ+ clients). The ideal textbook for social work in healthcare and clinical social work classes this thought-provoking volume thoroughly integrates social work theory and practice and provides an excellent opportunity for understanding particular techniques and interventions. | Social Work in Health Settings Practice in Context

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Climate Change Law in China in Global Context

In Climate Change Law in China in Global Context seven climate change law scholars explain how the country’s legal system is gradually being mobilized to support the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in China and achieve adaptation to climate change. There has been little English scholarship on the legal regime for climate change in China. This volume addresses this gap in the literature and focuses on recent attempts by the country to build defences against the impacts of climate change and to meet the country’s international obligations on mitigation. The authors are not only interested in China’s laws on paper; rather the book explains how these laws are implemented and integrated in practice and sheds light on China’s current laws laws in preparation the changing standing of law relative to policy and the further reforms that will be necessary in response to the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change. This comprehensive and critical account of the Chinese legal system’s response to the pressures of climate change will be an important resource for scholars of international law environmental law and Chinese law.

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Participation in Industry

This book first published in 1973 analyses and sets in context one of the major issues in the growth of the European economy. Workers’ participation played an increasingly vital role in industrial relations. This book looks at the background and development of different types of participation in Britain ranging from workers’ attempts at co-operative production through the schemes in the nationalised industries of mining and steel to the Fairfields Experiment and the Upper Clyde ‘work-in’ in shipbuilding. This book concludes with an account of the developments in worker councils and worker directors in nine other European countries. | Participation in Industry

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Language in Society in Bangladesh and Beyond Voices of the Unheard in the Global South

This collection presents a holistic picture of the sociolinguistic landscape in Bangladesh offering a critical understanding of language ideologies and social inequalities in the country as they connect more widely to dynamics in the Global South. The book seeks to untangle the voices embedded in the language practices of a range of communities and professions in the region which have been little studied in the literature and encourage a rethinking of the relationships between language and nationality class ethnicity race and gender. Highlighting perspectives from established and emerging researchers and drawing on a wide range of theoretical approaches and methodologies the volume is organized around such key themes as bilingualism and diglossia; language variation across domains; language and identity in literature; and the interconnectedness of language identity and globalization. Taken together the collection calls attention to the socially and spatially situated nature of language practices in Bangladesh and in turn the ways in which scholars in the Global South make sense of the sociolinguistic landscape at both the local and global levels. This book will appeal to scholars working in sociolinguistics particularly those working on language policy language and identity language variation and in or about the Global South. | Language in Society in Bangladesh and Beyond Voices of the Unheard in the Global South

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LatinX Voices Hispanics in Media in the U.S

LatinX Voices is the first undergraduate textbook that includes an overview of Hispanic/LatinX Media in the U. S. and gives readers an understanding of how media in the United States has transformed around this audience. Based on the authors’ professional and research experience and teaching broadcast media courses in the classroom this text covers the evolving industry and offers perspective on topics related to Latin-American areas of interest. With professional testimonials from those who have left their mark in print radio television film and new media this collection of chapters brings together expert voices in Hispanic/LatinX media from across the U. S. and explains the impact of this population on the media industry today. | LatinX Voices Hispanics in Media in the U. S

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Da A Practical Guide to Russian Grammar

Manual de fonética e fonologia da língua portuguesa

The Viola da Gamba

Brazil after Bolsonaro The Comeback of Lula da Silva

The Portuguese in India and Other Studies 1500-1700

Attacks on Linking Revisited A New Look at Bion's Classic Work

Ecological Epistemologies and Spiritualities in Brazilian Ecovillages In the Labyrinth of an Environmental Anthropology

State Versus Ethnic Claims African Policy Dilemmas

Travellers and Cosmographers Studies in the History of Early Modern Travel and Ethnology

The Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni

Television in Transition in East Asia

Made in Yugoslavia Studies in Popular Music

Made in Nusantara Studies in Popular Music

Milestones in Dance in the USA

Shamanism in Siberia Sound and Turbulence in Cursing Practices in Tuva

Temporalities in/of Crises in Anglophone Literatures

Made in Scotland Studies in Popular Music

The Spectacle of Clouds 1439–1650 Italian Art and Theatre

Made in Ireland Studies in Popular Music

Qualitative Research in Criminology Advances in Criminological Theory

Social Work in Health Settings Practice in Context

Climate Change Law in China in Global Context

Participation in Industry

Language in Society in Bangladesh and Beyond Voices of the Unheard in the Global South

LatinX Voices Hispanics in Media in the U.S