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Essay from the year 1998 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1 (A), University of Aberdeen (English Department), course: Tristram Shandy, 4 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Metafiction, according to Patricia Waugh, consists of 'the construction...

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Heidelberg (Anglistisches Seminar ), course: Hauptseminar Cognitive Linguistics, 9 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Language is versatile. Language...

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,3, University of Rostock (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: St. Kilda: Perceptions and Construction of the Scottish Island through Time, language: English,...

I am a man standing on a speeding train. You are standing on the platform. If I reach out my hand to you, at least one of us is going to get hurt. This book, and my ‘911:five minutes to midnight’ are my attempt to ‘bring you up to speed’. Until you have read this book, your mind will be closed...

Lucid dreaming is the state in which you can control what happens to you in your dreams. You can become a 'dream-producer', and produce any manner of experiences. Anything you can imagine, you can lucid dream. Imagine the possibilities! But lucid dreaming also raises many questions which Carlos Castaneda,...

It took 3000 years, and this strategy, for one cult, to rule this word. Rule number one: Real power must always remain unobtrusive, invisible, unseen. Control enough of the means of mass communication that you can get to define ‘social reality’ for people, by determining what they see, hear, read,...

All about the perils of high protein diets, fructose, meat, eggs, and milk. This book will surprise you, as the researching for it surprised me. The good news is that it is much simpler to gain the optimal nutrition than we have been mislead to believe. No more worries about 'am I getting enough protein'.  This...

Convergences between my own ideas as expressed in TROONATNOOR volume one, and the thoughts and arguments of the greatest minds who ever dared express their ideas.  This book reveals the many convergences between my own ideas and those of the most brilliant thinkers of the last few thousand...

The looming depletion of non-renewable resources has increased the global land grab in the past decade. So far however, the question of how and when people can influence economic outcomes has received little attention in the study of social movements. Based on in-depth ethnographic field research...

This book examines Thomas De Quincey's notion of the unconscious in the light of modern cognitive science and nineteenth-century science. It challenges Freudian theories as the default methodology in order to understand De Quincey's oeuvre and the unconscious in literature more generally.

The 1930s to 1950s witnessed the rise and dominance of a political culture across much of North India which combined unprecedented levels of mobilization and organization with an effective de-politicization of politics. On the one hand obsessed with world events, people also came to understand politics...

Durante buena parte de los años de la crisis, los graves problemas económicos en Grecia, Irlanda, España, Italia y otros países hicieron que la existencia del euro pareciera inmanejable. Y, de hecho, muchos pensaron que éste no iba a sobrevivir como moneda única, al menos no en toda la eurozona....

Judgment, Decision-Making and Success in Sport presents a thorough overview and assessment of the study of Judgment and Decision-Making (JDM) in sports psychology, and represents an important source of information for those interested in the possible causes and reasons for success and failure in sport. The...

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,3, Dresden Technical University (Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Seminar 'Britain in Europe - Europe in Britain', language: English, abstract: When the first bricks and...