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A readable text for undergraduate students containing sufficient but manageable detail. The author provides a broad set of perspectives, while emphasising the Holocaust as a catastrophe emerging from an international Jewish question.
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Beyond Women's Words addresses the contributions and challenges of doing feminist oral history. Using Sherna Berger Gluck and Daphne Patai's classic 1991 text, Women's Words, as a platform, the volume reflects on how feminism has influenced, and continues to influence, the wider ...field of oral history. Sitting at the intersections of feminisms and the practices, theories and ethics of doing oral history, the collection both revisits critical questions related to feminist oral history practices and reflects on newer issues, with the aim of decolonizing and indigenizing feminist oral history. Divided thematically into five sections, the book covers reflections on Women's Words, doing feminist oral history then and now, decentering and decolonizing in feminist oral history, feminists in the field and stories in the digital world. Bringing together feminist scholars, artists and community activists who interpret the term `Beyond' in multiple ways, the collection highlights the great variety in understandings of, and approaches to, feminist oral histories, which include Indigenous modes of storytelling, cultural relational theory, feminism in the Global South, oral history as performance, digital oral history, and oral history as community-engagement. Diverse in approach and understanding, this international, multi-generational and multidisciplinary volume is ideal for students of oral history, women's and gender history, and Women's and Gender Studies.
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Growing up With Two Languages provides a highly accessible account of the stages of language development, describes and evaluates the various systems and strategies that can be adopted and looks at the problems that can occur when a child is exposed to two language and cultures. ...Combining research-informed advice and the experience of parents raising children as speakers of a wide range of languages in every populated continent in the world, this book and its associated web material will answer questions, offer tried and tested strategies to keep children speaking a minority language and give material to enlist the support of the extended family, teachers and others. The perspective of adults themselves raised speaking more than one language is included. New to this edition is a chapter focussing on families raising children as speakers of indigenous and threatened languages and chapters for teachers and for health professionals who want to know more about multilingual child language development and how they can support parents to continue speaking their language with their children. With new and updated first-hand advice, Internet resources and examples throughout, this book also includes a chapter that introduces important recent research into multilingual children and further reading guides for those who want to know more. This book is for parents who are raising or plan to raise children as speakers of more than one language, and for the teachers and healthcare workers who meet and can support them.
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A cross-genre book that uses narrative, memoir, unpublished letters, and other primary and secondary sources to tell the story of a group of Armenian men who organized Operation Nemesis, a covert operation created to assassinate the Turkish architects of the Armenian Genocide --F...rom publisher's website.
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The island of Bali has long been characterized in the West as the last paradise on earth, but there is far more to this small Indonesian province. This title presents a study of some of the most important icons for tourists and locals in Balinese culture and society and explores ...the growth of this island as an exotic vacation destination.
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Presents an analyses of the nature of capital punishment and provides perspectives on the larger issues of our approach to law-breakers and their rehabilitation. This title includes the claims of both those who want to retain capital punishment and those who want to abolish it.
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The Cuban Insurrection is an indepth study of the first stage of the Cuban Revolution from 1952 to 1959. Depicting the origins of the conflict, it details the middle years, and ends with Fidel Castro's victorious arrival in Havana on January 8, 1959. Based on a wealth of original... material including confidential military reports, letters from various leaders of the insurrection, and interview data, the book is a descriptive historical analysis of the struggle against military dictator Fulgencio Batista. Originally published in 1974, it remains unprecedented for its in-depth explanation of how Castro came to power.
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This book explores how corporations fund, devise and implement various programmes in schools as `part of the solution' to childhood obesity. Drawing on data from across the globe, it shows how children, teachers, school leaders and external providers (both public and private), un...derstand and experience `sponsored' programmes and resources that aim to improve children's health and encourage `healthy' consumption of corporate products. Challenging the idea that the corporate `war' against childhood obesity is normal, necessary, or harmless, this book exposes healthy lifestyles education as a form of mis-education that constrains what students learn about health, corporations and consumption.
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With 130 books available, this electrical engineering database resource saves hours of library research. It contains data, facts, figures, graphs, equations, illustrations, charts, and more.
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