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The Routledge Encyclopedia of Taoism 2-Volume Set

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Taoism 2-Volume Set

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Taoism provides comprehensive coverage of Taoist religion thought and history reflecting the current state of Taoist scholarship. It contains hundreds of entries authored by an international body of experts which cover areas such as schools and traditions texts persons and sacred sites. Terms are given in their original characters transliterated and translated. The encyclopedia is thoroughly cross-referenced and indexed and also includes a chronology and bibliography. It is invaluable for students and scholars in the fields of religious studies philosophy and religion and Asian history and culture. | The Routledge Encyclopedia of Taoism 2-Volume Set

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The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English

Today Indian writing in English is a fi eld of study that cannot be overlooked. Whereas at the turn of the 20th century writers from India who chose to write in English were either unheeded or underrated with time the literary world has been forced to recognize and accept their contribution to the corpus of world literatures in English. Showcasing the burgeoning field of Indian English writing this encyclopedia documents the poets novelists essayists and dramatists of Indian origin since the pre-independence era and their dedicated works. Written by internationally recognized scholars this comprehensive reference book explores the history and development of Indian writers their major contributions and the critical reception accorded to them. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English will be a valuable resource to students teachers and academics navigating the vast area of contemporary world literature.

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Encyclopedia of Fluid Mechanics

Encyclopedia of Fluid Mechanics

This book was developed using material from teaching courses on fluid mechanics high-speed flows aerodynamics high-enthalpy flows experimental methods aircraft design heat transfer introduction to engineering and wind engineering. It precisely presents the theoretical and application aspects of the terms associated with these courses. It explains concepts such as cyclone typhoon hurricane and tornado by highlighting the subtle difference between them. The text comprehensively introduces the subject vocabulary of fluid mechanics for use in courses in engineering and the physical sciences. This book• Presents the theoretical aspects and applications of high-speed flows aerodynamics high-enthalpy flows and aircraft design. • Provides a ready reference source for readers to learn essential concepts related to flow physics rarefied and stratified flows. • Comprehensively covers topics such as laser Doppler anemometer latent heat of fusion and latent heat of vaporisation. • Includes schematic sketches and photographic images to equip the reader with a better view of the concepts. This is ideal study material for senior undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of mechanical engineering aerospace engineering flow physics civil engineering automotive engineering and manufacturing engineering. | Encyclopedia of Fluid Mechanics

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A History of Modern France

A History of Modern France

A History of Modern France offers a framework to understand modern French history through a survey of the dramatic events that have punctuated its history from the eighteenth century to the present day. Covering events such as the French Revolution the two World Wars and the more recent election of Emmanuel Macron and the yellow vest movement the book takes a balanced approach to the competing interpretations of modern France inspired by its history. This edition has been thoroughly updated to incorporate the most recent scholarship on topics including French imperial history and the empire’s postcolonial legacy the history of women and gender and the French experience of World War I. A new section extends the narrative into mid-2019 and additional emphasis has been given to the role of historical memory in the making of French identity. Taking a chronological approach the book is approachable for students and provides a clear and understandable picture of the history of modern France. Supported by further reading that has been updated to include the most recent publications the book is the ideal introduction to the history of modern France for students of this fascinating country.

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Modern Psychoanalysis New Directions and Perspectives

Modern Psychoanalysis New Directions and Perspectives

Modern Psychoanalys is is a definitive exploration of the expanding horizons of this still controversial approach to and treatment of human behavior. In the first paperback release of a work sponsored by the American Academy of Psychoanalysis thirty-five authorities explore new approaches to psychoanalytic theory and therapy and examine the growing interaction between this field and the other social and behavioral sciences. Modern Psychoanalysis demonstrates how some of the leading figures are bringing their discipline into the mainstream of biological and social through! making use of systems theory information processing the constructs of adaptation and learning and other new tools and findings. The book is unusually free of the jargon that has separated psychoanalysis in the past from the rest of behavioral and social science. Some of the authors and their subjects are: Roy Grinker Conceptual Progress in Analysis; Jin-gen Ruesch Psychoanalysis between Two Cultures; Edward Tauber Dreaming and Modern Dream Theory; Jules Masserman The Biody-namic Roots of Psychoanalysis; Lewis H. Wolberg Short-term Psychotherapy; Stuart M. Finch and Albert Cain Psychoanalysis of Children; Morris Parloff Analytic Group Psychotherapy; Salvador Minuchin The Low Socioeconomic Population; Leonard Duhl and Robert Leopold Psychoanalysis and Social Agencies; Leo'n Edel Psychoanalysis and the Creative Arts; Arnold A. Rogow Psychiatry History and Political Science; and John R. Seeley Psychiatry: Revolution Reform and Reaction. The volume is prepared with the rigor and comprehensiveness that should make the book a standard handbook for psychiatrists psychologists and behavioral scientists. And it is written with a sense of curious readers who may simply be interested in the basic stances of this controversial field of theory and practice. It has earned sufficient plaudits to be called a classic in the field. Judd Manner's new introduction gives added weight to such claims. | Modern Psychoanalysis New Directions and Perspectives

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The Making of Modern Uganda

The Making of Modern Uganda

First published in 1958 The Making of Modern Uganda is concerned with the formation of modern Uganda in the sixty years since the 1890s when the foundations of the British administration were laid. In the first decade of the 20th century Sir Hesketh Bell Uganda’s Governor decided that Uganda should be built up by Africans under the disinterested guidance of Europeans. The book therefore traces the emergence of a territory whose material prosperity is mainly based upon peasant agriculture guided by the advice of British agricultural officers. It describes the development from an era of tribal clan and even village organisation to the system of centralised government along semi-parliamentary lines but notes the disagreement as to whether Uganda’s future should lie as a unitary or a federal state. The controversial issue of closer union with the other East African territories is studied at some length as also is the growth of the politically active minority which plays so important a part in the modern Protectorate. The author believes that the years of ‘happy Uganda’ the years before the Second World War were a period in which hard work coupled with peace and obvious progress tended to conceal for many the growth of new forces which needed an outlet and only found one in the political and constitutional developments of the post-war age. This book will be of interest to students of history African studies ethnic studies and political science.

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The Structure and Operation of Modern Economies

The Structure and Operation of Modern Economies

This book is about the economy rather than economics. It explores the structures inner workings and problems of modern economies showing how the organisations and networks that shape the structure of the economy are arranged to provide society with goods and services. At the centre of the analysis there is the economic system characterised by organisational components carrying out economic functions (production consumption distribution and establishment and control of the economic activities as well as provision of public goods and services) and by a co-evolving dynamic with the state. The economic system is thus a ‘machine’ that modern states have organised through their laws and international agreements. The book incorporates a historical approach which reveals the varieties structure and evolution of capitalism as the defining economic system of the modern age. Ultimately the book demonstrates that the economic sphere and the political sphere are the two powers ruling people’s lives: the economy is the result of their interactions. This book will be of great interest to readers in political economy economics sociology and political science. | The Structure and Operation of Modern Economies

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A History of the Modern Middle East

A History of the Modern Middle East

A History of the Modern Middle East examines the profound and often dramatic transformations of the region in the past two centuries from the Ottoman and Egyptian reforms through the challenge of Western imperialism to the impact of US foreign policies. Built around a framework of political history while also carefully integrating social cultural and economic developments this expertly crafted account provides readers with the most comprehensive balanced and penetrating analysis of the modern Middle East. The sixth edition has been revised to provide a thorough account of the major developments since 2012 including the tumultuous aftermath of the Arab uprisings the sectarian conflict in Iraq and civil war in Syria that led to the rise of ISIS the crises in Libya and Yemen and the United States' nuclear talks with Iran. With brand-new timelines in each part updated select bibliographies and expanded online instructor resources A History of the Modern Middle East remains the quintessential text for courses on Middle East history.

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The Modern Guise of the Good

The Modern Guise of the Good

This book is the first-ever collection dedicated to the guise of the good in early modern and later Western philosophy. It spans three centuries from Thomas Hobbes to Henry Sidgwick and features original contributions by some of the finest scholars. One of the staple items of Western philosophy is the idea that we can only desire or pursue something under the guise of the good: if we see nothing good about it we cannot want it. After enjoying its heydays in ancient and medieval philosophy this idea nowadays labelled “the guise of the good” might seem at first glance to recede into relative obscurity in the early modern and later periods. The contributions to this volume prove that this is not so. Each of the eight chapters shows how the guise of the good was understood revised sometimes defended sometimes attacked by philosophers such as Hobbes Spinoza Locke Leibniz Hume Kant J. S. Mill and Sidgwick. In some cases the volume features the first-ever dedicated treatment of an author’s take on the guise of the good. In other cases it offers exciting new perspectives on ongoing scholarly debates. Given the recent resurgence of interest in the guise of the good as a topic of contemporary discussion The Modern Guise of the Good will appeal not only to historians of philosophy but also to philosophers working at the intersection of ethics and philosophy of mind and action. This book was originally published as a special issue of Philosophical Explorations.

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Rule Protest Identity Aspects of Modern South Asia

Rule Protest Identity Aspects of Modern South Asia

First published in 1978 Rural Protest Identity consists of eleven essays on modern South Asia. Its concern is with the diversity of the region to suggest how its study may be enriched by the juxtaposition of various disciplines and in particular through the examination of familiar subjects from less familiar points of view. Four papers deal with the ruling of modern India. One examines the relationship between the British government and an Indian state one the legal implications of the emergency under Mrs. Gandhi and two the role of civil servants in the formation of Indian government policy. Four more papers deal with aspects of protest movements: one with British Ceylon one with a follower of Gandhi and two with Gandhi himself. Three final papers treat questions of identity from literary or linguistic standpoints. Two discuss ideas or stereotypes as expressed in famous books and the third considers a linguistic movement in Pakistan. This book will be of interest to student of South Asian studies history economics literature and political science. | Rule Protest Identity Aspects of Modern South Asia

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Demystifying Modern Slavery

Demystifying Modern Slavery

Who are the perpetrators of modern slavery? Why do they exploit others? What might be done to stop exploitation recurring? These are the questions answered in this book. Reporting on the first primary study of modern slavery offenders the book depicts the findings of in-depth interviews with people accused of and convicted for committing modern slavery offences. The different forms that modern slavery takes are explained chapter by chapter: organized crime people smuggling labour exploitation domestic servitude sham marriage the trafficking of adults for sexual exploitation and child sex trafficking. Using case studies to illuminate the perspectives of those deemed perpetrators we show that few modern slavery offenders conform to stereotypes of people traffickers. Through an interpretive analysis of offenders’ life stories we reveal the points in the past and present where interventions could have prevented victims from becoming trapped in exploitation. We show that while national governments and international bodies often appear resolute in their efforts to tackle modern slavery and people trafficking they have also obscured their own roles in compounding the plights of those at the sharp ends of globalization. In racializing the actions of sex traffickers grooming gangs and organized criminals the modern slavery agenda has mystified the roles market dynamics the absence of workers’ rights and immigration controls play in generating vulnerabilities to exploitation. This book will be of interest to a wide range of students policymakers and practitioners concerned with modern slavery human trafficking border control and immigration globalization and inequality as well as the more disciplinefocused criminological audiences concerned with why people commit crimes what should be done about them and the often paradoxical consequences of social control across borders. Given the book’s strong focus on narrative psychosocial and social network methodologies it will also appeal to audiences across the social sciences concerned with applying these novel approaches to difficult to reach populations. | Demystifying Modern Slavery

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The Intellectual Foundations of Modern Ukraine The Nineteenth Century

The Intellectual Foundations of Modern Ukraine The Nineteenth Century

This is the first synthetic book-length study in English of the Ukrainian nation-building during the long nineteenth century. The narrative follows the evolution of the Ukrainian intellectuals and their ideas from the Age of Enlightenment at the end of the eighteenth century and to the era of Positivist science and social reform at the beginning of the twentieth century. The book focuses on the intellectuals since in the case of Ukrainians—the nineteenth-century epitome of stateless and overwhelmingly plebeian people—the intellectuals played a pivotal role in defining the Ukrainian national project. The central theme is intellectuals’ engagement not only with each other but also with the people and land they represented. Views of Ukraine from the imperial and world capitals larger intellectual currents and geopolitical games are not neglected. Nevertheless its main focus is on the Ukrainian intellectuals’ visions of Ukraine’s past present and future their responses to the challenges of modernity their ideals agendas and programmes. The Intellectual Foundations of Modern Ukraine is the ideal resource for upper-level undergraduates postgraduates and scholars interested in cultural anthorpology political science political philosophy and the history of modern Ukraine. | The Intellectual Foundations of Modern Ukraine The Nineteenth Century

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The Experience of Disaster in Early Modern English Literature

The Experience of Disaster in Early Modern English Literature

This book addresses the concept of ‘disaster’ through a variety of literary texts dating back to the early modern period. While Shakespeare’s age which was an era of colonisation certainly marked a turning point in men and women’s relations with nature the present times seem to announce the advent of environmental justice in spite of the massive ecological destructions that have contributed to reshape our planet. Between then and now a whole history of climatic disasters and of their artistic depictions needs to be traced. The literary representations of eco-catastrophes in particular have consistently fashioned the English identity and led to the progress of science and the ‘advancement of learning’. They have also obliged us to adapt recycle and innovate. How could the destructive process entailed by ecological disasters be represented on the page and thereby transformed into a creative process encouraging meditation preservation and resilience in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? To this question this book offers nuanced contextualised and perceptive answers. Divided into three main sections ‘Extreme Conditions’ ‘Tempestuous Skies’ and ‘Biblical Calamities ' it deals with the major environmental issues of our time through the prism of early modern culture and literature. | The Experience of Disaster in Early Modern English Literature

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Modern Mechanobiology Convergence of Biomechanics Development and Genomics

Modern Mechanobiology Convergence of Biomechanics Development and Genomics

Modern mechanobiology converges both engineering and medicine to address personalized medicine. This book is built on the previously well-received edition Hemodynamics and Mechanobiology of Endothelium. The central theme is omic approaches to mechanosignal transduction underlying tissue development injury and repair. A cadre of investigators has contributed to the chapters enriching the interface between mechanobiology and precision medicine for personalized diagnosis and intervention. The book begins with the fundamental basis of vascular disease in response to hemodynamic shear stress and then details cardiovascular development and regeneration valvular and cardiac morphogenesis mechanosensitive microRNA and histone unfolding computational fluid dynamics and light-sheet imaging. This edition represents a paradigm shift from traditional biomechanics and signal transduction to transgenic models including novel zebrafish and chick embryos and targets a wider readership from academia to industry and government agencies in the field of mechanobiology. | Modern Mechanobiology Convergence of Biomechanics Development and Genomics

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Aspects of Modern Language Teaching in Europe

Aspects of Modern Language Teaching in Europe

From the teaching of grammar to the teaching of literature; from classroom teaching to independent learning; from role-playing to CAL - few books on teaching languages cover such a wide field. In this book teaching experience and research from practitioners in four European countries throw new light on old problems faced every day while others reveal innovative teaching methods and new insights into how teachers and learners interact. Sections include: language learning strategies and computer-assisted language learning facilitating individual progress through autonomous learning how to bring a foreign country alive in the classroom de-mythologising grammar teaching how different types of dictionaries can make valuable contributions to language teaching teaching and using idiomatic phrases. | Aspects of Modern Language Teaching in Europe

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Undertones of Insurrection Music and Cultural Politics in the Modern German Narrative

Undertones of Insurrection Music and Cultural Politics in the Modern German Narrative

A basic tenet of literary studies is that aesthetic structures are politically significant because they represent an artist's response to the political implications of cultural codes with which the recipient of the modern work is also acquainted. This tenet provides the basis for the ideological associations attending the appearance of music in the modern German narrative. With his understanding of the arts as involved in often unacknowledged ideological forces within a culture Marc Weiner's Undertones of Insurrection bridges the gap between the New Musicology's rewarding infusion of modern cultural and literary theory into the study of music politically insightful examinations of narrative structures in the modern novel and the methodologically conservative area of musical-literary relations in Germanic Studies. In other words the questions it raises are different from those pursued in most examinations of music and literature because previous works of this kind concerning the literature of German-speaking Europe have often disregarded social concerns in general and political issues in particular. Ranging from 1900 to Doctor Faustus (1947) Weiner study sets the stage by examining public debates that conflated such issues as national identity racism populism the role of the sexes and xenophobia with musical texts. In the literary analyses that follow Weiner discusses both obvious connections between music and sociopolitical issues-Hesse's equation of jazz and insurrection in Steppenwolf-and covert ones the suppression of music in Death in Venice and the use of politically charged musical subtexts in Werfel's Verdi and Schnitzler's Rhapsody. By uncovering the ideological agendas informing cultural practice in modernist Germany Undertones of Insurrection calls for a reevaluation of the function of music in the modern German narrative. | Undertones of Insurrection Music and Cultural Politics in the Modern German Narrative

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The Russia-Ukraine War of 2022 Faces of Modern Conflict

The Russia-Ukraine War of 2022 Faces of Modern Conflict

This volume examines the war in Ukraine from a range of historical military and feminist perspectives exploring aspects such as the attitude of neighboring states political leadership local government social mechanisms and the cultural and media policies of both Russia and Ukraine. The contributors explain how Ukraine shaped its identity following its separation from the USSR and how Russia built its military power and implemented its invasion plans. Considering the impact of the war not only in Ukraine but also the Baltic states chapters discuss the leadership role of President Zelensky patriotic attitudes the victimization of women and the impact on Poland as it helps and aid to huge numbers of refugees. Providing much needed context on the Russia-Ukraine war this book will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations political science gender studies international and national security and public politics. | The Russia-Ukraine War of 2022 Faces of Modern Conflict

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Modern Policing

Modern Policing

Originally published in 1981 Modern Policing provided an opportunity for members of the Police Staff College Bramshill to air their views about different aspects of modern British policing. Contributions were made by members of the directing staff – professional and academic – and by students. This book was addressed primarily to policemen themselves but also had wider appeal to those interested in policing. The editors saw within police constabularies a rapidly developing concern for management information by senior police personnel for material to better prepare officers for their difficult task by training departments for relevant analyses to help improve qualifications by policemen themselves. This was one of the first books to include views from inside the police rather than those from the outside the service.

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The Cult of the Ego The Self in Modern Literature

The Cult of the Ego The Self in Modern Literature

Goethe once remarked that every emancipation of the spirit is pernicious unless there is a corresponding growth of control. This remark may be taken as a motto for Eugene Goodheart's study of an aspect of the cultural history of the past two hundred years. In separate chapters on Rousseau Stendhal Goethe and Carlyle Dostoevsky Whitman Lawrence and Joyce Goodheart discovers a community of concern which he calls the cult of the ego. All these writers examined here in one way or another deal with the emancipation of the spirit with all its promise and danger. The characteristic attempt is to extend the boundaries of the self by going beyond the area of safety and. thereby risking even the destruction of the self. They advance the claims of the self at the same time seeking the controls that will secure these claims. The artist-hero becomes the central figure in Goodheart's volume since it is he who comes to exemplify the possibilities of the cult of the ego. Their efforts Goodheart argues have ambiguous results. The seeds of contemporary nihilism are in the failures of these writers to master the chaos of egoism which they helped engender. But their heroism was partly in the effort of resistance: moral religious aesthetic. In a large portion of modern literature resistance has been abandoned either out of exhaustion or out of fascination with the destructive tendency of modern life: in Beckett's phrase a world endlessly collapsing. In his introduction to this first paperback edition Goodheart discusses the book's origin in relation to the counter-cultural unrest of 1968 when it was first published and weighs its theme of the emancipated self against current postmodern assertions of the death of the author. The Cult of the Ego is written with admirable clarity and economy. Its interests are literary moral and political. Moving freely and knowledgeably among various national literatures Goodheart has made an original and valuable contribution to the field of comparative literature. Eugene Goodheart is Edytha Macy Gross Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Brandeis University. Among his books are Novel Practices: Classic Modern Fiction Modernism and the Critical Spirit Culture and the Radical Conscience and Confessions of a Secular Jew: A Memoir all available from Transaction. | The Cult of the Ego The Self in Modern Literature

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The Jews and Modern Capitalism

The Jews and Modern Capitalism

Since its first appearance in Germany in 1911 Jews and Modern Capitalism has provoked vehement criticism. As Samuel Z. Klausner emphasizes the lasting value of Sombart's work rests not in his results-most of which have long since been disproved-but in his point of departure. Openly acknowledging his debt to Max Weber Sombart set out to prove the double thesis of the Jewish foundation of capitalism and the capitalist foundation of Judaism. Klausner placing Sombart's work in its historical and societal context examines the weaknesses and strengths of Jews and Modern Capitalism. | The Jews and Modern Capitalism

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Modern Art And Modernism A Critical Anthology

Modern Art And Modernism A Critical Anthology

Modern Art and Modernism offers firsthand material for the study of issues central to the development of modern art its theory and criticism. The history of modern art is not simply a history of works of art it is also a history of ideas interpretations. The works of critics and theorists have not merely been influential in deciding how modern art is to be seen and understood they have also influenced the course it has taken. The nature of modern art cannot be understood without some analysis of the concept of Modernism itself. Modern Art and Modernism presents a selection of texts by the major contributors to debate on this subject from Baudelaire and Zola in the nineteenth century to Greenberg and T. J. Clark in our own times. It offers a balanced section of essays by contributors to the mainstream of Modernist criticism representative examples of writing on the themes of abstraction and expression in modern art and a number of important contributions to the discussion of aesthetics and the social role of the artist. Several of these are made available in English translation for the first time and others are brought together from a wide range of periodicals and specialized collections. This book will provide an invaluable resource for teachers and students of modern art art history and aesthetics as well as for general readers interested in the place of modern art in culture and history. | Modern Art And Modernism A Critical Anthology

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Modern Murders The Turn-of-the-Century's Backlash Against Melodramatic and Sensational Representations of Murder 1880–1914

Modern Murders The Turn-of-the-Century's Backlash Against Melodramatic and Sensational Representations of Murder 1880–1914

Modern Murders is the first comprehensive study of murder representations during the turn of the century drawing on previously neglected archival material to explore the intellectual cultural and artistic contexts of the period. Most studies view the abundance of murder representations throughout the nineteenth century as an indicator of a supposedly typical Victorian appetite for sensation and melodrama. Modern Murders however demonstrates the turn of the century's backlash against melodramatic and sensational representations of murder and reads them as an important component in the struggles for better aesthetic standards in art and entertainment and as a dominant feature in the debates on mass culture. Through a plethora of visual and written texts representations of fictional and actual real life murders and high and popular forms of writing the volume considers the importance of murder in the elite claim to cultural authority versus its perception of plebian taste in the context of the democratization of culture. This book will be of value to scholars and graduate students in a variety of research areas as well as general readers interested in the role of murder as a central trope in modern art and culture. | Modern Murders The Turn-of-the-Century's Backlash Against Melodramatic and Sensational Representations of Murder 1880–1914

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Modern German Grammar Workbook

Modern German Grammar Workbook

Modern German Grammar Workbook Third Edition is an innovative book of exercises and language tasks for intermediate and advanced learners of German. The book is divided into three sections: Section 1 provides exercises based on essential grammatical structures. Section 2 practises everyday functions (e. g. making introductions apologising expressing needs). Section 3 contains realistic role-plays in short scenes set in a range of different contexts. A comprehensive answer key at the back of the book enables you to check on your progress. Implementing feedback from users of the second edition this third edition now features: even more extensive cross-referencing to the related Modern German Grammar Third Edition spelling following the latest reform representation of the German of Switzerland and Austria. Modern German Grammar Workbook Third Edition is ideal for all learners who want to deepen their knowledge of German including intermediate and advanced students at schools in adult education and within higher education. It can be used independently or alongside Modern German Grammar Third Edition (ISBN 978-0-415-56726-8) also published by Routledge.

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