Search results for 'English'
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Isil Erduyan
German-Turkish Adolescents at School
Reporting on a linguistic ethnographic study, Işıl Erduyan explores multilingual identity construction of high school students with Turkish descent enrolled in a downtown high school (Gymnasium) in...
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Yakov Rabkin, Mikhail Minakov
A Future in the Past
Medical doctors driving taxis, architects selling beer on street corners, scientific institutes closed down amid rusting carcasses of industrial plants—these images became common at the turn of the 21st...
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Gary Hazeldine, A. Salem, David Morgan
Comparative and Sociological Perspectives
How far have universities in post-Communist states adopted the practices and habits of their branded and consumer-oriented equivalents in the English-speaking world? While not assuming that university...
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David Mandel, Yakov Kronrod
This is the first book in English to present a succinct overview of the influential work of Russian economist Yakov Abramovich Kronrod (1912–1984) on the political economy of socialism. Kronrod headed...
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Susanne Wallner
A study of the national hero’s impact on Scottish history, literature and modern politics
The Myth of William Wallace examines literary examples concerning William Wallace against the background of various historical sources and evaluates the construction, the changes and the relevance of this...
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Matthias Perner
Structural Semantic, Textlinguistic and Empirical Approaches towards a Joke Generator Model
The author, Matthias Perner (M.A.), was born in Hannover (Germany) and studied linguistics, politics and sociology. He focused on communicational aspects of spoken language and at the same time found himself...
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Maike Krone
A Contrastative Study of Syntactic and Semantic Specifics of Verb Usage in English and German Match Commentaries
German and English display, despite their genetic relatedness, a number of structural differences, which have their sources in the historical development of the two languages. Yet do all these differences...
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Will the Russian and Jewish nations ever achieve true reconciliation? Why is there such disparity in the interpretations of Russo-Jewish history? These questions are part of a greater whole—Russia’s...
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John B Dunlop
A Critique of Russian Counter-Terrorism. With a foreword by Donald N. Jensen
This volume contains by far the most complete reports available in English concerning two major terrorist incidents in Russia: the October 2002 seizure of a Moscow theater at Dubrovka and the September...
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Roger Griffin, Werner Loh, Andreas Umland
An International Debate on Concepts and Cases in the Comparative Study of the Extreme Right
In the opinion of some historians the era of fascism ended with the deaths of Mussolini and Hitler. Yet the debate about its nature as a historical phenomenon and its value as a term of historical analysis...