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Category : Catalogs, Publishers'
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Pages : 2296

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Author: Hermann Broch
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307789160
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 657

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With his epic trilogy, The Sleepwalkers, Hermann Broch established himself as one of the great innovators of modern literature, a visionary writer-philosopher the equal of James Joyce, Thomas Mann, or Robert Musil. Even as he grounded his narratives in the intimate daily life of Germany, Broch was identifying the oceanic changes that would shortly sweep that life into the abyss. Whether he is writing about a neurotic army officer (The Romantic), a disgruntled bookkeeper and would-be assassin (The Anarchist), or an opportunistic war-deserter (The Relaist), Broch immerses himself in the twists of his characters' psyches, and at the same time soars above them, to produce a prophetic portrait of a world tormented by its loss of faith, morals, and reason.

Author: Robert W. McChesney
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1583671617
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 587

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One of the foremost media critics provides a comprehensive analysis of the economic and political powers that are being mobilized to consolidate private control of media with increasing profit--all at the expense of democracy.

Author: John R. Wagner
Publisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760462179
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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Anthropologists have written a great deal about the coastal adaptations and seafaring traditions of Pacific Islanders, but have had much less to say about the significance of rivers for Pacific island culture, livelihood and identity. The authors of this collection seek to fill that gap in the ethnographic record by drawing attention to the deep historical attachments of island communities to rivers, and the ways in which those attachments are changing in response to various forms of economic development and social change. In addition to making a unique contribution to Pacific island ethnography, the authors of this volume speak to a global set of issues of immense importance to a world in which water scarcity, conflict, pollution and the degradation of riparian environments afflict growing numbers of people. Several authors take a political ecology approach to their topic, but the emphasis here is less on hydro-politics than on the cultural meaning of rivers to the communities we describe. How has the cultural significance of rivers shifted as a result of colonisation, development and nation-building? How do people whose identities are fundamentally rooted in their relationship to a particular river renegotiate that relationship when the river is dammed to generate hydro-power or polluted by mining activities? How do blockages in the flow of rivers and underground springs interrupt the intergenerational transmission of local ecological knowledge and hence the ability of local communities to construct collective identities rooted in a sense of place?

Author: Maarten Jozef Vermaseren
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Category : Attis (God)
Languages : en
Pages : 602

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Category : European Economic Community countries
Languages : fr
Pages : 216

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Author: Mike Hill
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 9780814735459
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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An anthology of white culture

Author: Hermann Schwab
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Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 106

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Author: Michael A. Meyer
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Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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