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Face, Communication and Social Interaction מאת Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini It is an enduring theme of humanity that people are concerned about what others think of them. The notion of face has thus become firmly established as a means of explaining various social phenomena in a range of fields within the social sciences, including anthropology, pragmatics, sociolinguistics...

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Technomad: Global Raving Countercultures (Popular Music History) (STUDIES IN POPULAR MUSIC) מאת Graham St John A cultural history of global electronic dance music countercultures, Technomad explores the pleasurable and activist trajectories of post-rave. The book documents an emerging network of techno-tribes, exploring their pleasure principles and cultural politics. Attending to sound system culture, elect...

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In the Beginning is the Icon: A Liberative Theology of Images, Visual Arts, and Culture מאת Sigurd Bergmann In the Beginning is the Icon (translated from the Swedish edition, published by Proprius Forlag in 2003) aims to contribute to raising awareness about the intrinsic value of images and image perception among those who wish to reflect over God and over pictorial expressions of different experiences f...

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Jesus in an Age of Terror: Scholarly Projects for a New American Century (BibleWorld) מאת James G. Crossley This book will apply the work of Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman, Edward Said and several others on international politics and the supportive role of the media, intellectuals and academics to contemporary Christian origins and New Testament scholarship. Part One will look at the ways in which New Testam...

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Jazz Visions: Lennie Tristano and His Legacy (Popular Music History) מאת Peter Ind Lennie Tristano was one of jazz's most extraordinary innovators, possessing a superb piano technique and an awesome musical imagination. Unheralded by the general public, the blind pianist's work was revered by many jazz greats including the legendary Charlie Parker. Tristano's persuasive personalit...

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Derrida on Religion: Thinker of Differance (Key Thinkers in the Study of Religion) מאת Dawne McCance An exile to France from Algeria, where he was born in 1930, Jacques Derrida studied at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, then went on to teach philosophy there before becoming Director of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales. Over the years, he held teaching posts in both France and ...

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Israel's History and the History of Israel (BibleWorld) מאת Mario Liverani One of Italy's foremost experts on antiquity addresses a new issue surrounding the birth of Israel and its historic reality. Many a tale has been told of ancient Israel, but all tales are alike in their quotation of the biblical story in its narrative scheme, despite its historic unreliability. This...

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Linguistic Dating of Biblical Texts: An Introduction to Approaches and Problems (Volume 1) (BibleWorld) מאת Ian Young Volume 1 introduces the field of linguistic dating of biblical texts, particularly to intermediate and advanced students of biblical Hebrew who have a reasonable background in the language, having completed at least an introductory course at the university or divinity school level, but also to schol...

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Faith-Based War: From 9/11 to Catastrophic Success in Iraq (Religion and Violence) מאת T. Walter Herbert The Bush administration was prompted to invade Iraq by a religious vision that blinded them to the realities of the struggle against terror, and propelled them into moral and political catastrophe. The propaganda campaign that promoted the war, the choice of a self-defeating "Shock and Awe" invasion...

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Language, Identity and Study Abroad: Sociocultural Perspectives (Studies in Applied Linguistics) מאת Jane Jackson The focus of Language, Identity and Study Abroad is on issues of identity and intercultural competence in the context of students facing the challenges of study abroad, in particular students from Asia. Thoroughly grounded in recent research and, in particular, sociocultural studies in language acqu...

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English Tense and Aspect in Halliday's Systemic Functional Grammar: A Critical Appraisal and Alternative (Discussions in Functional Approaches to Language) מאת Carl Bache This book is aimed at fellow practitioners and researchers in functional linguistics. It offers a friendly but critical appraisal of a major component of the 'standard' version of SFL, i.e. the account given by Halliday and Matthiessen of tense and aspect in English. Supporting his criticisms with e...

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Derrida on Religion: Thinker of Difference (Key Thinkers in the Study of Religion) מאת Dawne McCance An exile to France from Algeria, where he was born in 1930, Jacques Derrida studied at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, then went on to teach philosophy there before becoming Director of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales. Over the years, he held teaching posts in both France and ...

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Lionel Richie: Hello (Popular Music History) מאת Sharon Davis For nearly thirty years Lionel Richie has never looked back as a performer. From fronting his group the Commodores - the premier R&B pop unit of the seventies - he became the most popular singer/songwriter in the world by the eighties. A decade later he was the ultimate star entertainer with a 'nice...

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Sex Working and the Bible (BibleWorld) מאת Avaren Ipsen Sex Working and the Bible interprets stories of biblical prostitution with activist sex workers and incorporates their social theory of prostitution to engage existing liberation and feminist readings. By reading with sex worker rights activists, unique and challenging interpretations were produced....

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Introducing Religion: Essays in Honor of Jonathan Z. Smith מאת Willi Braun To mark the contribution of one of the most influential theorists of religion, thirty-one leading scholars of religion from around the world put their minds together to work on problems of introducing "religion": as a category of human social practices, as a term that must be subject to scholarly th...

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Genre Relations: Mapping Culture (Equinox Textbooks & Surveys in Linguistics) מאת William H. Martin This book provides an introduction to genre analysis from the perspective of the 'Sydney School' of functional linguistics. Chapter 1 introduces our general orientation to genre from the perspective of system and structure, and places genre within our general model of language and social context. Ch...

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Semantic Variation: Meaning in Society and in Sociolinguistics (The Collected Works of Ruqaiya Hasan) מאת Ruqaiya Hasan The sociolinguistic turn of the 1960's has been remarkably successful: variability of language is no longer an issue open to debate. But studies of variation have by and large been restricted to the level of expression. This volume makes a contribution to a neglected area in sociolinguistics, namely...

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Levi-Strauss on Religion: The Structuring Mind (Key Thinkers in the Study of Religion) מאת Paul-Francois Tremlett Claude Levi-Strauss and the style of thinking known as 'structuralism,' with which his work is conventionally associated, is widely recognized as having made a seminal contribution to the discipline of anthropology. More generally, his writings register the turn to language in social theory in the 1...

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Bastide on Religion: The Invention of Candomble (Key Thinkers in the Study of Religion) מאת Michel Despland This intellectual biography begins by locating Roger Bastide (1898-1974) in the general context of sociology as it developed in the generation following that of Emile Durkheim, and shows how he helped broaden the original agenda by greater interest in historical factors and a closer attention to the...

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Chomskyan Linguistics and its Competitors מאת Pius Ten Hacken Noam Chomsky is not only one of the most influential, but also one of the most controversial figures in Twentieth century linguistics. In view of the polarization of opinions on Chomsky, giving a balanced account of Chomskyan linguistics is an ambitious venture. This book describes both Chomskyan l...

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Angels of Desire: Esoteric Bodies, Aesthetics and Ethics (Gnostica) מאת Jay Johnston This is the first book to examine the Subtle Body - a model of subjectivity found in esoteric, eastern and western religious and philosophical traditions - from a transdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective. It considers this radical form of self (and the aesthetic and ethical relations that em...

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Notes from the Fortune-Telling Parrot: Islam and the Struggle for Religious Pluralism in Pakistan (Comparative Islamic Studies) מאת David Pinault This book explores the richness of Pakistan's religious landscape, giving attention to a number of topics: Shia flagellation processions, Urdu-language pulp fiction, streetside rituals involving animals (pariah-kites and fortune-telling parrots), and the use of sorcery to contend with the jinns that...