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Beloved
1997 || Paperback || Toni Morrison || Vintage Publishing
It is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead baby daughter, whose tombstone bears the single word, Beloved, returns as a spectre to punish her mother, but also to elicit her love.
New Age Religion and Western Culture
Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought
1997 || Paperback || Wouter J. Hanegraaff || State Univ of New York Pr
Recent years have seen a spectacular rise of the New Age movement and an ever-increasing interest in its beliefs and manifestations. This fascinating work presents the first comprehensive analysis of New Age Religion and its historical backgrounds, thus providing a means of orientation in the bewildering variety of the movement. Making extensive use of primary sources, the author thematically analyses New Age beliefs from the perspective of the study of religions. While looking at the histori...
Language Planning
From Practice to Theory
1997 || Paperback || Robert B. Kaplan e.a. || Multilingual Matters
Reviewing the field of language policy and planning, this text sets out current practice and ways of thinking about language policy and planning, looking at methodology and the key areas of education, literacy and economics. Case studies of key language planning and policy issues are included.
Mark Dion
1997 || Paperback || John Berger e.a. || Phaidon Press
Mark Dion (b.1961) is an American artist who, in making his art, metamorphoses into explorer, biochemist, detective and archaeologist. In his gallery installations around Europe and America since the 1980s, Dion has constructed the laboratories, experiments and museum caches of the great historical naturalists - following in their footsteps in his own adventurous, eco-inspired journeys to the tropics. His research and magical collections are presented in installational still lifes that combin...
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Formations of Class & Gender
Becoming Respectable
Paperback || Bev Skeggs || SAGE
'A sophisticated and passionately written account of the classed and gendered identities of a small group of working-class white women who live in the north-west of England. It is ethnography at its best, having been built on long-term, thoughtful engagements in the field' - Gender and Education
Merchants, interlopers, seamen and corsairs
the 'Flemish' community in Livorno and Genoa (1615-1635)
2017 || Paperback || M.-C. Engels || Verloren b.v., uitgeverij
The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary
Paperback || R. S. McGregor || Oxford University Press
Reflecting the many-sided development of Hindi during the 20th century, the dictionary provides over 70,000 entries with illustrative material showing words in use. Both colloquial and literary vocabulary is covered, together with some modern regional variants.
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Realistic Evaluation
2021 || Paperback || Ray Pawson e.a. || SAGE
Realistic Evaluation shows how programme evaluation needs to be, and can be, bettered. It presents a profound yet highly readable critique of current evaluation practice, and introduces a `manifesto' and `handbook' for a fresh approach.
A Guide To The Bodhisattva Way Of Life
1997 || Paperback || Santideva e.a. || Shambhala Publications Inc
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Naming the Mind
How Psychology Found Its Language
Paperback || Kurt Danziger || SAGE
In this work, the author explains how modern psychology found its language by examining the historically changing structure of psychological discourse and offering an analysis of the recent evolution of the concepts and categories on which the quality of psychological discourse depends.