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The metaphors in Hosea are rich and varied, comprising both gendered and non-gendered image fields. This book examines the use of metaphor in Hosea through the lens of masculinity studies, which provides a means to elucidate connections between the images and to analyze...

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Télécharger le livre :  Curiosity, Inquiry, and the Geographical Imagination
This book examines intellectual curiosity as the driving force in scholarly endeavor on the borderlands of geography, history, anthropology, and other disciplines. The premise is that curiosity is a salient trait of certain people past and present and that each field...

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Télécharger le livre :  Italy Meets Africa
Over the past few decades, Italian colonial cinema has proved to be a compelling area to explore artistic productions born during the colonial and fascist periods whose unique ideology shifted from propaganda to fiction. The films produced during the Italian colonial...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Matthean Beatitudes in Their Jewish Origins
The Matthean Beatitudes in Their Jewish Origins: A Literary and Speech Act Analysis examines how Matthew used Jewish concepts as paradigmatic utterances for the Matthean community. In fact, the Gospel of Matthew was the most Jewish of the Synoptic Gospels, and Matthew’s...

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Télécharger le livre :  Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean
Carel de Haseth’s novella Slave and Master (Katibu di Shon), written in the Creole language Papiamentu, dramatizes the August 17, 1795 slave revolt on the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao. The story is told through an alternating series of dramatic monologues by two...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Policies and Politics of Pope Pius XII
The Policies and Politics of Pope Pius XII delves into the diplomacy of the most controversial pope of the twentieth century: Pius XII (pontificate, 1939-1958), «Advocate of Appeasement» to some and «Apostle of Peace» to others. Disagreement prevails on his quest for...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Puberty Ritual in Sri Lanka
This book explores the perceptions and attitudes of Sinhalese Buddhists and Sinhalese Christians regarding the puberty ritual in Sri Lanka, thereby identifying a relevant Christian response to the ritual. The author utilized ANOVA and Mann-Whitney statistical tests to...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Boys Club
The Boys Club: Male Protagonists in Contemporary African American Young Adult Literature is a study of prominent issues and themes such as education, identity, and racism in contemporary (i.e., post-Civil Rights era) young adult novels written primarily for African...

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Télécharger le livre :  Cartas de esperanza
Este libro pone en duda las representaciones apocalípticas sobre la posmodernidad latinoamericana que prevalecen en los filósofos europeos y norteamericanos y por los intelectuales pro-occidentales latinoamericanos, quienes definen dicha posmodernidad como la muerte...

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Télécharger le livre :  Indigenous Christianity in Madagascar
Madagascar is a poor country with very little power on the world stage. As a former French colony, Madagascar’s wealth has often been viewed as available to others with more power to take and use as they please. This trend continues today; while its unique flora and...

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Télécharger le livre :  Baudelaire, Emerson, and the French-American Connection
This book enhances our understanding of France and the United States by focusing on their intercultural relations. Baudelaire and Emerson have at the core of their thinking the very notion of how to reconcile individual and collective experience, a theme that is...

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Télécharger le livre :  Corneille’s «Horace» and David’s «Oath of the Horatii»
This book views Jacques-Louis David’s pre-Revolutionary Oath of the Horatii as the realization of political and cultural gender struggle and goes back to antiquity and to Pierre Corneille’s seventeenth-century play Horace to trace major antecedents of David’s work. The...

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Télécharger le livre :  Anglican Church Policy, Eighteenth Century Conflict, and the American Episcopate
Anglican Church Policy, Eighteenth Century Conflict, and the American Episcopate examines how leaders in the Church of England sought to reorganize the colonial church by installing one or two resident bishops at critical moments in the late 1740s, the early 1760s, and...

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Télécharger le livre :  Elegiac Eyes
Elegiac Eyes is an in-depth examination of vision and spectacle in Roman love elegy. It approaches vision from the perspective of Roman cultural modes of viewing and locates its analysis in close textual readings of Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid. The paradoxical nature...

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Télécharger le livre :  Extinción de ‘vos’ en el español peninsular
Los recursos que aparacen en Extinción de ‘vos’ en el español peninsular esclarecen diversos reajustes sufridos por ‘vos’ en el repertorio hispano peninsular durante el Siglo de Oro. Se dilucidan, además, los portentos extra-lingüísticos y los reajustes...

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Télécharger le livre :  Augustinian Just War Theory and the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
Augustinian Just War Theory and the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq: Confessions, Contentions, and the Lust for Power details two major symposia on the topic of Christian (Augustinian) just war theory, its strengths and weaknesses, and its controversial application to the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Augustine and Catholic Christianization
A religious reformation occurred in the Roman Empire of the fourth and fifth centuries which scholars often call Christianization. Examining evidence relevant to Roman Africa of this period, this book sharpens understanding of this religious revolution. Focusing on the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Foundational Texts of World Literature
What makes a world author? How did Homer become a «cosmopolitan» author? How does a Mayan creation narrative challenge our Western logocentric ideas of foundational texts?What might world literature look like to a fourth-century Roman reader? How do past and more recent...

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Télécharger le livre :  Life Histories of Bahá’í Women in Canada
Life Histories of Bahá’í Women in Canada: Constructing Religious Identity in the Twentieth Century is an unprecedented study of the essential features of living a Bahá’í life, examining contributions and experiences of a diverse group of Canadian women and men in a new...

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Télécharger le livre :  Violencia, género y migración en el Caribe hispano
Violencia, género y migración en el Caribe hispano: Reescribiendo la nación examina la representación de la violencia y la nación en la obra de escritoras y artistas contemporáneas del Caribe hispano y su diáspora en los Estados Unidos. Usando la teoría transnacional y...

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