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Festschrift in Honor of Professor Paul Nadim Tarazi
Volume 3- Studies in Intertestamental, Extra-Canonical, and Early Christian Literature-
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
This is the third of three volumes dedicated to Professor Paul Nadim Tarazi. Volume 3 of Festschrift in Honor of Professor Paul Nadim Tarazi is a collection of articles discussing the latest findings in a variety of theological subjects related to the Bible as received and interpreted in the Orthodox...
Festschrift in Honor of Professor Paul Nadim Tarazi- Volume 2
Studies in the New Testament
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
This book, the second of three volumes dedicated to Professor Paul Nadim Tarazi, includes contemporary essays on the New Testament. The topics offer a rich array of exegetical studies related to the life and teachings of Jesus and the apostle Paul. Coming from America, the Middle East, and Eastern...
From Digital to Analog
«Agrippa» and Other Hybrids in the Beginnings of Digital Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
From Digital to Analog delves into the origins of digitization and its effects on contemporary culture. The book challenges the «common sense» assertion that digitization is just another step in the evolution of the culture of the editorial, film and recorded music industries and their enforcement...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Institutionalized through religious, moral and political discourses, the family has become an icon of Irish culture. Historically, the influence of the Church and the State fostered the ideal of a nuclear family based on principles of Catholic morality, patriarchal authority, heterosexuality and hierarchy,...
by Claire Stewart, Edward Lee Lamoureux, Steven L. Baron
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
This text is a companion to the 2nd edition of Intellectual Property Law And New Media: Free for a Fee. Moving the coverage of case analysis to this separate volume, enables the authors to focus their attention on important trial and legal procedures that apply extant law to, largely, new circumstances.
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Gourmands and Gluttons
The Rhetoric of Food Excess
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
From «supersizing it» to hoarding, we are living in an age of excess. Whether it is cars or housing, American culture is being driven by the old adage that «bigger is better». Yet, although we often overlook it, nowhere is this rhetoric of excess more on display than within our food discourses.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
This volume of essays examines the relationship between eating and crisis. The United States’ long-lasting economic and cultural hegemony raises a number of questions: Has America been – literally and metaphorically – eating, appropriating, exploiting, and molding the world in its own image,...
New Approaches to the Personhood in Law
Essays in Legal Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
The concept of personhood becomes increasingly controversial in modern legal debates. The advancements in the contemporary science and technology entail the need for reconsideration of who should count as a person in law and why. Animals, cyborgs, artificial agents and the like may pose the most important...
Life-World, Intersubjectivity and Culture
Contemporary Dilemmas
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
This volume commemorates Richard H. Grathoff’s (1934–2013) contribution to interpretative sociology. Reconsidering the legacy of social phenomenology, it demonstrates the usefulness of concepts such as life-world, milieu and symbolic transcendence in the studies of sociocultural transformations.
Supporting Transgender and Gender Creative Youth
Schools, Families, and Communities in Action
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
Supporting Transgender and Gender Creative Youth brings together cuttingedge research, social action methods, and theory on the topic of transgender youth and gender creative children. Organized in three sections covering theoretical and clinical, educational, and community perspectives, the chapters...
Emerging from out of the Margins
Essays on Haida Language, Culture, and History
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
This book provides an insider view of Haida language, history, and culture, and offers a perspective on Haida culture that comes not only from external research but also from intimate knowledge and experiences the author has had as a Haida Nation citizen. The book’s focus on language – past, present,...
Water, Towns and People
Polish Lands against a European Background until the Mid-16th Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
The book describes the functions of water in Polish towns from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the Early-Modern Era against a wide European background. It presents the issue of water supply in the context of the town as a complex social and economic organism, taking into account social relations,...
Polish Patriotism after 1989
Concepts, Debates, Identities
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
This book analyses the concept of patriotism and the contestation over its meaning in key public debates in Poland over the last twenty-five years. It focuses on the strategies used to define, re-shape and «bend» the notion of patriotism, which during this period has become a central issue in Polish...
Critique of Cosmopolitan Reason
Timing and Spacing the Concept of World Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Since the Enlightenment, the definition of terms such as humanity, citizenship and rights has fluctuated and these ideas continue to have relevance for contemporary discussions of globalization from a «cosmopolitan» perspective. This volume goes back to the conception of cosmopolitanism in Greek...