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We Are All Survivors: Verbal, Ritual, and Material Ways of Narrating Disaster and RecoveryWhat is the role of folklore in the discussion of catastrophe and trauma? How do disaster survivors use language, ritual, and the material world to articulate their experiences? What insights and tools can the field of folkloristics offer survivors for navigating and narrating disaster...
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Unlocking the Medinan Qur'anThe Medinan layer of the Qur'an occupies a key position in the formative period of Islam yet poses substantial interpretive challenges. This volume exemplifies a rich array of scholarly approaches to the Medinan Qur'an's distinctive textual, literary, and theological features.Author: Nicolai SinaiPublisher: BrillPublished: 03/18/2022Pages:...
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Freemasonry and Its EtiquetteHandy guide for Masons everywhere. This complete reference gives a concise history of Freemasonry plus its rules, regulations, ceremonies, rituals, duties, etc. Author: William Campbell-EverdenPublisher: Lushena BooksPublished: 06/19/2001Pages: 444Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90dISBN: 9781639231515This title is not returnable
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Ronayne's Handbook of FreemasonryThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...
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Mixed/Other: Explorations of Multiraciality in Modern BritainHow does it feel when your heritage isn't listed as an option on an identification form?What is it like to grow up as the only person in your family who looks like you?Where do you belong if you are simultaneously seen as being 'too...
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Fractured: How We Learn to Live Together'An urgent manifesto for collective healing.' David Lammy MPThis landmark book tackles a deceptively simple idea: the more we spend time with people unlike ourselves, doing things together, the more understanding, tolerant, and even friendly we become.Combining fresh analysis with a wealth of fascinating...
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La PolíticaLa política concierne a todo el mundo, incluyendo a los niños. Es lo que nos permite acordar las reglas para convivir de manera equilibrada. Cómo se convierten en políticos los hombres y las mujeres? Qué hacen los gobernantes? Qué es una ley? Descubramos la...
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The Misuse, Misrepresentation, and Politicization of Statistics in American SocietyThe Misuse, Misrepresentation, and Politicization of Statistics in American Society critically examines the early measurement efforts of several government agencies responsible for some of the most widely watched social indicators on unemployment, life expectancy, crime, and population. It argues that official statistics are dubious...
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Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in IndiaRevealing inequalities and sensory hierarchies embedded in the latest medical technologies and global biotechnical marketsWhat happens when cochlear implants, heralded as the first successful bionic technologies, make their way around the globe and are provided by both states and growing private markets? As Sensory...
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Lenses on Blindness: Essays on Vision Loss in Media, Culture, Religion and ExperienceBlindness, or vision loss, is a major medical concern that has also drawn the attention of artists, writers, musicians, mythologists, filmmakers, religions, philosophers and others. Covering everything from pop culture to high culture, this text is an illuminating anthology of essays examining various representations...
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The Critical Study of Non-Religion: Discourse, Identification and LocalityThis book acts as a bridge between the critical study of 'religion' and empirical studies of 'religion in the real world'. Chris Cotter presents a concise and up-to-date critical survey of research on non-religion in the UK and beyond, before presenting the results of...
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Changing Theory: Concepts from the Global SouthThis book is an original, systematic, and radical attempt at decolonizing critical theory. Drawing on linguistic concepts from 16 languages from Asia, Africa, the Arab world, and South America, the essays in the volume explore the entailments of words while discussing their conceptual implications...
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Intersecting Lives: How Place Shapes ReentryFew would disagree that neighborhood and place are important dimensions of reentry from prison, but we have a less clear sense of why or how they matter--and we rarely get a view of the lived social-interactional dynamics between people returning from incarceration and receiving...
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The Routledge International Handbook of Children, Adolescents, and MediaThis second, thoroughly updated edition of The Routledge International Handbook of Children, Adolescents, and Media analyzes a broad range of complementary areas of study, including children as media consumers, children as active participants in media making, and representations of children in the media. The...
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A Canadian Shame: The Indian Act and Residential SchoolsWhat is the Indian Act? What were residential schools? A Canadian Shame is a disturbing collection of information that forces every reader to meditate on the atrocities of government and institutions. Grimes's heritage and personal experience make him the perfect author for this book,...
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Understanding Success and Failure in Adult ESL: Superación Vs Dropout of Adult English Learners in the UsThis book explores the reasons why adult ESL learners drop out of their language classes and suggests explicit strategies for keeping students engaged. The most effective strategies may be personal rather than technical or curricular. Based on a study of a group of Mexican...
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Mercy's Heroes: The Fight for Human Dignity in the Bangkok SlumsIn Mercy's Heroes, a Vietnam veteran battling with PTSD turns from the business world to life as a volunteer, helping to rescue and protect street kids in Bangkok's biggest slum.Here Tom Crowley details the children's efforts to survive abuse and the struggle for dignity...
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Voices of the Renaissance: Contemporary Accounts of Daily LifeVoices of the Renaissance: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life contains excerpts from 52 different documents relating to the period of European history known as the Renaissance. In the 14th century, the rise of humanism, a philosophy based on the study of the languages, literature,...
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English Nationalism and its Ghost TownsIn order to understand today's nationalism, we need to address the historical decline of working-class communities, the sense of loss brought by deindustrialisation and how working-class people have been denied a voice in society and politics. Discontent has manifested strongly in these deprived post-industrial...
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Revised International Manual of Braille Music Notation 1956: Based on Decisions Reached at the International Conference on Braille Music, Paris, 1954:This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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