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Reading Popular Physics: Disciplinary Skirmishes and Textual Strategies - Elizabeth Leane - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=uvnYaN8VnesC&lpg=PP1&hl=de&pg=PA95#v=onepage&f=false
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…
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Reading Popular Physics: Disciplinary Skirmishes and Textual Strategies - Elizabeth Leane - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=uvnYaN8VnesC&lpg=PP1&hl=de&pg=PA86#v=onepage&f=false
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…
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Popular Music Censorship in Africa - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=aowvjFQod9IC&printsec=frontcover&hl=de#v=onepage&q&f=false
In Africa, tension between freedom of expression and censorship in many contexts remains as contentious, if not more so, than during the period of colonial rule which permeated the twentieth century. This volume brings together the latest research on…
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Standard Languages and Language Standards: Greek, Past and Present - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=s1deoQGPLWAC&pg=PA277&lpg=PA277&dq=Effi+Gazi&source=bl&ots=KNVrMol_5v&sig=85sk80UJDghf8wwkXLNM_B
This collection brings together scholars from different disciplines to address issues of control, prescription, planning and perceptions of value over the long history of the Greek language, from the age of Homer to the present day.
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Defining the Holy: Sacred Space in Medieval and Early Modern Europe - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=jf7ttGUp_DEC&pg=PA139&lpg=PA139&dq=%22A+northern+jerusalem%22&source=bl&ots=yHwH6H89NQ&sig=_BUq
Holy sites, both public - churches, monasteries, shrines - and more private - domestic chapels, oratories - populated the landscape of medieval and early modern Europe, providing contemporaries with access to the divine. These sacred spaces thus defined…
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Architecture RePerformed: The Politics of Reconstruction - Google Books
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This book deals with the phenomenon of meticulous reconstruction in architecture. It argues that the politics of reconstruction go far beyond aesthetic considerations. Taking architecture as a major source of history and regional identity, the impact of…
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The Mystery of Chopin's Préludes - Anatole Leikin - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=ZGTVBgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Anatole+Leikin,+Chopin+Pr%C3%A9ludes&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEw
Chopin's twenty-four Préludes remain as mysterious today as when they were newly published. What prompted Franz Liszt and others to consider Chopin's Préludes to be compositions in their own right rather than introductions to other works? What did set…
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Mobility and Place: Enacting Northern European Peripheries - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=0dyWdbF_LioC&pg=PA186&dq=Arctic+Rail+express#v=onepage&q=Arctic%20Rail%20express&f=false
The Northern peripheries of Europe, which are covered by this book are associated with remoteness, the frontier, isolated communities, colonialism and resource extraction. This book examines how people live in such remote spaces in an emerging global world…
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Sounds of the Borderland: Popular Music, War and Nationalism in Croatia ... - Catherine Baker - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=T8pB1Z6F1BMC&pg=PA138&dq=mate+bulic+turbofolk&hl=de&sa=X&ei=vQ-oU4dxs8HsBtTWgfgO&ved=0CBsQ6AEwAA
This is a book-length study of how popular music became a medium for political communication and contested identification during and after Croatia's war of independence from Yugoslavia.
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Revisionism and Diversification in New Religious Movements - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=C_aAAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT103&dq=fair+game+scientology&hl=de&sa=X&ei=ayAvVPq-IdXbapyngbAF&ved=0CFUQ6AEwB
New Religious Movements tend to start their lives with a number of unequivocal statements, not only of a theological nature but also about the world and appropriate behaviours for the believer. Yet these apparently inalienable Truths and their…