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Competition and cooperation in economics and business
Asia and the Pacific have become the growth engine of the world economy with the contribution of two-third of the global growth. The book discusses current issues in economics, business, and accounting in which economic agents, as individuals, entrepreneurs and professionals, as well as countries in the Asia and Pacific regions compete and collaborate with each other and with the rest of the gl…
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- 9781315225227
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- XII, 504 p.
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- 382.091823 COM c
People, texts and artefacts: cultural transmission in the medieval Norman worlds
This volume is based on two international conferences held in 2013 and 2014 at Ariano Irpino, and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. It contains essays by leading scholars in the field. Like the conferences, the volume seeks to enhance interdisciplinary and international dialogue between those who work on the Normans and their conquests in northern and southern Europe in an original way. This coll…
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- 9781909646568
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- xvii, 284 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
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- 940.146 PEO p
World literature, cosmopolitanism, globality : beyond, against, post, otherwise
In view of the current crisis of globalization, this book aims to interrogate one of its key concepts in the past decades: World Literature. In a historical moment where the established focus on transnational identities, linguistic intersections, and other cosmopolitan cultural configurations is being challenged, the contributions of this volume explore possible adjustments, critiques, reconcep…
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- 9783110641134
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- VI, 240 p.
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- 809 WOR w
The EU and China in African authoritarian regimes : domestic politics and gov…
This open access book analyses the domestic politics of African dominant party regimes, most notably African governments’ survival strategies, to explain their variance of opinions and responses towards the reforming policies of the EU. The author discredits the widespread assumption that the growing presence of China in Africa has made the EU’s task of supporting governance reforms difficu…
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- 9783319635910
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- xvi, 261p. : ill.
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- 341.2422096 HAC e
Asian century... on a knife-edge : a 360 degree analysis of Asia's recent eco…
This book delves into the widely held belief that the 21st century will be the "Asian Century" by examining the Asia's rapid economic development in the post-war era and the challenges it faces in forging ahead of world leaders in the West. The impact of the current turbulent global political climate on Asia is critically analyzed, employing a holistic and multidisciplinary approach, combini…
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- 9789811071829
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- xi, 335p. : ill.
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- 320.95 WES a
The quest for an appropriate past inliterature, art and architecture
This volume explores the various strategies of construing appropriate pasts in scholarship, literature, art, architecture and literature, in order to create “national”, regional or local identities, in late medieval and early modern Europe. Readership: All those interested in the reception of Antiquity and high medieval history (true and false) in early modern in literature, architecture an…
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- 9789004378216
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- XXXIII, 784 p.
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- 904.7 ENE q
Ancient worlds in film and television : gender and politics
This volume reinvigorates the field of Classical Reception by investigating present-day culture, society, and politics, particularly gender, gender roles, and filmic constructions of masculinity and femininity which shape and are shaped by interacting economic, political, and ideological practices. Readership: All interested in Classics, the Classical Tradition, Film Studies, Gender Studies, Am…
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- 9789004241923
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- VII, 372 p.
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- 791.43658 ANC a
The Flamingo bay dialect of the Asmat language
Indonesia
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- 9789004286108
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- 380 p.; 22 cm.
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde; 46
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- 909 VOO f
People passing rude: British responses to Russian culture
Described by the sixteenth-century English poet George Turbervile as "a people passing rude, to vices vile inclin’d", the Russians waited some three centuries before their subsequent cultural achievements—in music, art and particularly literature—achieved widespread recognition in Britain. The essays in this stimulating collection attest to the scope and variety of Russia’s influence on…
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- 9781909254121
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 330 pages) : illustrations (some color)
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- 303.48241047
Shaping natural history and settler society : Mary Elizabeth Barber and the n…
This book explores the life and work of Mary Elizabeth Barber, a British-born settler scientist who lived in the Cape during the nineteenth century. It provides a lens into a range of subjects within the history of knowledge and science, gender and social history, postcolonial, critical heritage and archival studies. The book examines the international importance of a marginalized scientist, th…
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- 9783030226398
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- xxiv, 360p. : ill.
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- 968.703092 HAM s
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