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Gonçalo Cholant: Reconfigurations of the Bildungsroman

The present work deals with the representation of trauma and violence in coming-of-age stories written by African-American and Afro-Caribbean women authors in the United States. The kinds of violence …

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Michael M. Widdersheim: Circulation of Power

What is the public sphere, how is it best described, and what role does it play in modern life? These questions have attracted considerable attention within library and information science circles ov …

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Irfan Moeen Khan: Re-centering the Sufi Shrine

Recentering the Sufi Shrine　is a study of ritual, Sufi eschatology, and vernacular theopoetics of pilgrimage to Sufi shrines in the Indus region of Pakistan. The book examines the distinction between …

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Mariya Nikolova: How Whiteness Claimed the Future

Interested in the ideological workings of fiction, I study how major avant-garde tropes promote the potential of permanent renewal as white America’s property. Renewal ties to the capacities to creat …

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Estíbaliz Encarnación-Pinedo & Thomas Antonic: ruth weiss

ruth weiss, born in Berlin in 1928 to Austrian-Jewish parents, arrived in San Francisco in 1952 after hitchhiking through the United States. Crowned years later as the “Goddess of the Beat …

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Roman Z. Morawski: Technoscientific Research

From the content: Introduction Mathematical modelling Measurement Scientific explanation Context of discovery Context of justification Uncertainty of scientific knowledge Morality a …

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Engg Kamakhya Prasad Ghatak & Madhuchhanda Mitra: Nanomaterials

The work studies under different physical conditions the carrier contribution to elastic constants in heavily doped optoelectronic materials. In the presence of intense photon field the authors apply …

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Costas Tsiamis: Plague in Byzantine Times

The lack of reliable demographic data for Byzantine cities raises questions as to the actual rate of expansion and mortality of plague. This essentially leads to the question of change and progress o …

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Carole Maigné: Herbartism in Austrian Philosophy

‘Herbartism in Austrian-Hungarian philosophy’ is often an obligatory reference, but even if quoting Herbart and his school is frequent, reading them attentively is less evident. Because Herbartism re …

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Carlos Andrés Segovia: The Quranic Jesus

Is it possible to rethink the multilayered and polyvalent Christology of the Qur’ān against the intersecting of competing peripheral Christianities, anti-Jewish Christian polemics, and the making of …