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Gunpowder, Explosives and the State: A Technological History - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=7n6Cg9znFrUC&pg=PA373
Gunpowder studies are still in their infancy despite the long-standing civil and military importance of this explosive since its discovery in China in the mid-ninth century AD. In this second volume by contributors who meet regularly at symposia of the…
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Holocaust Images and Picturing Catastrophe: The Cultural Politics of Seeing - Angi Buettner - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=LKJWZgUXukEC&pg=PA27
Holocaust Images and Picturing Catastrophe explores the phenomenon of Holocaust transfer, analysing the widespread practice of using the Holocaust and its imagery for the representation and recording of other historical events in various media sites.…
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Mediation in Family Disputes: Principles of Practice - Marian Roberts - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=Yiyw-q2nki0C&pg=PA158
This is the authoritative textbook on family mediation for practitioners and scholars in social work and law. Drawing on a wide cross-disciplinary theoretical literature and on the author's extensive and continuing practice experience, it encompasses…
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Women Religious Leaders in Japan's Christian Century, 1549-1650 - Haruko Nawata Ward - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=saX0gHc91fkC&pg=PA63#v=onepage
Meticulously researched & drawing on original source materials written in eight different languages, this study fills a lacuna in the historiography of Christianity in Japan, which up to now has paid little or no attention to the experience of women.
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Protest Music in France: Production, Identity and Audiences - Barbara Lebrun - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=16FUJKUCDa4C&pg=PA15#v=onepage
Barbara Lebrun traces the evolution of 'protest' music in France since 1981, exploring the contradictions that emerge when artists who take their musical production and political commitment 'seriously', cross over to the mainstream,…
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The Language of Mediums and Psychics: The Social Organization of Everyday ... - Robin Wooffitt - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=vvRx38mUeEwC&dq=The+Language+of+Mediums+and+Psychics:+The+Social+Organization+of+Everyday+Miracl
Communication is crucial to the performance of psychic powers in a range of settings. Using conversation analysis, Robin Wooffitt examines the structure of the interaction between psychic practitioners and their clients, focusing on the ways in which the…
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Ancient Taboos and Gender Prejudice: Challenges for Orthodox Women and the ... - Dr Leonie B Liveris - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=Hrmy9a0J_BUC&pg=PT19&dq=Sophie+Deicha
This book explores the struggling genesis of a women's movement in the Orthodox Church through the ecumenical movement of the twentieth century at a time when militant conservatism is emerging in Orthodox countries and fundamentalism in the…
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Carl Nielsen Studies - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=RnMGtn2K6h8C&pg=PA84&dq=thorvald+aagaard&hl=de&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=thorvald%20aagaard&
These volumes provide a forum for the spectrum of historical, analytical and aesthetic approaches to the study of Nielsen's music from an international line-up of contributors. In addition, each volume features reviews and reports on current Nielsen…
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Patrons of History: Nobility, Capital and Political Transitions in Poland - Dr Longina Jakubowska - Google Ksi±¿ki
http://books.google.de/books?id=9qGi18q-VjwC&pg=PT195&dq=%22Stanis%C5%82aw+Szeptycki%22,+fredro&hl=pl&sa=X&ei=oAG-UZHeLsSWtAaf0I
This book explores resilience, social capital and relationships of power in an examination of the manner in which capital can be converted from one form to another. Through a study of the survival of the Polish gentry, in spite of the communist regime's…
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Reading Popular Physics: Disciplinary Skirmishes and Textual Strategies - Elizabeth Leane - Google Books
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Elizabeth Leane's Reading Popular Physics is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the nature and implications of physics popularizations. A literary critic trained in science, Leane treats popular science writing as a distinct and…