Ibidem: 334 books

Cover of Detecting and Modeling the Changes of Land Use and Land Cover for Land Use Planning in Da Nang City, Vietnam
by Hoang Khanh Linh Nguyen
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018

Da Nang City, located in the South Central Coast region of Vietnam, has developed in many aspects in the last two decades and has been known as one of the five independent municipalities of Vietnam. Today, it constitutes the Key Economic Zone in Central Vietnam. Rapid industrialization and urbanization...
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by Felix Huebner
Language: German
Release Date: October 1, 2014

Warum ist dieses Buch entstanden? Braucht es noch ein weiteres Fachbuch über Revenue-Management? Warum sollten sich Studenten, Touristiker und Praktiker der Branche für die Lektüre dieses Buches interessieren? Die Antwort ist simpel. Dieses Buch präsentiert einen innovativen Ansatz im Yield-Management:...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015

Hip-hop and rap music have been a central part of youth cultures all around the world for decades. While every country has its own scene with a specific social and cultural context, the global hip-hop phenomenon also allows young people to integrate their regional identities within an increasingly...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015

"Beckett criticism has been greatly enhanced, and sometimes chastened, by genetic scholarship, as this anthology... attests."—Andre Furlani, Modernism/Modernity "This collection of essays... represents the most comprehensive analysis of Beckett's relationship to philosophy...
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Mind Presentation in Ian McEwan's Fiction

Consciousness and the Presentation of Character in Amsterdam, Atonement, and On Chesil Beach

by Karam Nayebpour
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017

This book explores the central fictional minds in three of Ian McEwan's most popular narratives. Mind presentation constitutes the main part of characterization in the second phase of McEwan's writing, where his plot structure depends to a large degree on the presentation of the characters' mental...
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Gate of Mercy

Family Secrets and the History of Modern Israel

by Dorit Silverman
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017

What would you do if your brother turned out to be your enemy? Gate of Mercy takes its readers into the heart of the Israeli-Arab conflict, bringing the history of modern Israel to the very personal level of intertwined Israeli-Arab families. Told from the perspective of eight-year-old Avram, the...
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The Treblinka Death Camp

History, Biographies, Remembrance

by Chris Webb, Michal Chocholatý
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014

A number of books have been written on the death camp of Treblinka, but "The Treblinka Death Camp. History, Biographies, Remembrance" is unique. Webb and Chocolaty present the definitive account of one of history's most infamous factories of death where approximately 800,000 people lost their lives....
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by Anton Shekhovtsov, Roger Griffin, Janet Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015

This timely intervention exposes the euphemized language of the extreme right as a Trojan Horse of deception to re-gain greater influence on public policy. Since the end of the Second World War, the extreme right has been tactically using ‘doublespeak’, aping the language of liberal democracy....
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The Holocaust in the Central European Literatures and Cultures since 1989

Der Holocaust in den mitteleuropäischen Literaturen und Kulturen seit 1989

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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014

This insightful book assembles a great variety of contributions on the literature and culture of the Holocaust since 1989. Focusing on Poland, the Czech Republic, and Germany, what becomes apparent is that the Nazi genocide continues to be a pivotal issue in literature, theatre, and film. Including...
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Imagined Geographies

Central European Spatial Narratives between 1984 and 2014

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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018

In 1984 Czech writer Milan Kundera published his essay “The Tragedy of Central Europe” in the New York Review of Books, which established the framework for disputes about the space “between East and West” for the following thirty years. Even today, the echo of those debates is still audible...
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"Spirits that I've cited...?" Vladimír Clementis (1902–1952)

The Political Biography of a Czechoslovak Communist

by Josette Baer
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017

Baer's biography of the former Czechoslovak foreign minister Vladimír Clementis (1902–1952) is the first historical study on the Communist politician who was executed with Rudolf Slánský and other top Communist Party members after the show trial of 1952. Born in Tisovec, Central Slovakia, Clementis...
Cover of Time, History, and Philosophy in the Works of Wilson Harris
by Gianluca Delfino, Koray Melikoglu
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014

Gianluca Delfino’s study is based on the assumption that Wilson Harris’s works as a whole show a remarkable unity of thought rooted in their author’s complex imagination. As a valuable contribution to Caribbean Literature and Philosophy, Harris’s imaginative approach to reality is discussed...
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Translating Boundaries

Constraints, Limits, Opportunities

by Stefanie Barschdorf, Lucille Chevalier, Laura Leden
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018

Translation Studies have traditionally been known to be interdisciplinary. What better term to sum this up than boundaries? A term that means different things in different fields and can be applied to a multitude of topics. Political, personal, symbolic, or professional boundaries, boundaries of the...
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Extremism and Violent Extremism in Serbia

21st Century Manifestations of an Historical Challenge

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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019

This volume explores the issues of extremism and violent extremism in Serbia through research from a multitude of different interdisciplinary perspectives. The topic of violent extremism and radicalization leading to terror (VERLT) has grown as a field of policy and donor aid support, globally and...
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