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  1. Multilingual Construction of Identity

    Isil Erduyan

    Multilingual Construction of Identity

    German-Turkish Adolescents at School
    €39.90
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    298 Pages
    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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  2. Demodernization

    Yakov Rabkin, Mikhail Minakov

    Demodernization

    A Future in the Past
    €59.90
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    428 Pages
    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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  3. Higher Education in Post-Communist States

    Gary Hazeldine, A. Salem, David Morgan

    Higher Education in Post-Communist States

    Comparative and Sociological Perspectives
    €34.90
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    276 Pages
    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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  4. Democracy, Plan, and Market: Yakov Kronrod's Political Economy of Socialism
    €24.90
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    140 Pages
    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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  5. The Myth of William Wallace

    Susanne Wallner

    The Myth of William Wallace

    A study of the national hero’s impact on Scottish history, literature and modern politics
    €19.90
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    120 Pages
    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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  6. Jokes at Work

    Matthias Perner

    Jokes at Work

    Structural Semantic, Textlinguistic and Empirical Approaches towards a Joke Generator Model
    €19.90
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    164 Pages
    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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  7. The Language of Football

    Maike Krone

    The Language of Football

    A Contrastative Study of Syntactic and Semantic Specifics of Verb Usage in English and German Match Commentaries
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    302 Pages
    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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  8. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and the Modern Russo-Jewish Question
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    172 Pages
    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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  9. The 2002 Dubrovka and 2004 Beslan Hostage Crises

    John B Dunlop

    The 2002 Dubrovka and 2004 Beslan Hostage Crises

    A Critique of Russian Counter-Terrorism. With a foreword by Donald N. Jensen
    €24.90
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    166 Pages
    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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  10. Fascism Past and Present, West and East

    Roger Griffin, Werner Loh, Andreas Umland

    Fascism Past and Present, West and East

    An International Debate on Concepts and Cases in the Comparative Study of the Extreme Right
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    520 Pages
    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...
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