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Second Chance : My Life in Things

Second Chance : My Life in Things

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Abstract: In this intimate memoir, Ruth Rosengarten explores the subject of evocative objects through a series of interconnected essays. Evocative objects reflect our attitudes to our own lives and how we seek to display ourselves to ourselves. They are therefor...

At Home in Exile : A Memoir

At Home in Exile : A Memoir

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Abstract: This is a story of a girl's construction of her identity, and of her family's search for a place in the world, for the Heimat that is so resonant for those of German background. We follow Helga through an adventurous childhood in Iran, whose vast open ...

The Triumph of Uncertainty : Science and Self in the Postmodern Age

The Triumph of Uncertainty : Science and Self in the Postmodern Age

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Abstract: Tauber, a leading figure in history and philosophy of science, offers a unique autobiographical overview of how science as a discipline of thought has been characterized by philosophers and historians over the past century. He frames his account throug...

ARTE EN LA CIENCIA: ANÁLISIS SOCIOSEMIÓTICO DE DOS DIBUJOS HISTOLÓGICOS DE SANTIAGO RAMÓN Y CAJAL.

Publication Type: Periodical

Source(s): Signa. 2023, Issue 32, p543-571. 29p.

Abstract: Analizamos dos dibujos histológicos de un texto multimodal de Ramón y Cajal de 1888. Pese al interés despertado por sus cualidades estéticas, hasta la fecha no han sido objeto de análisis semióticos. Nuestro marco teórico es la sociosemiótica funcional...

Mary Warnock : Ethics, Education and Public Policy in Post-War Britain

Mary Warnock : Ethics, Education and Public Policy in Post-War Britain

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Abstract: This biography illuminates the life and thought of Baroness Mary Warnock, whose active years spanned the second half of the twentieth century, a period during which opportunities for middle-class women rapidly and vastly improved. Warnock was described...

A Victorian Curate : A Study of the Life and Career of the Rev. Dr John Hunt

A Victorian Curate : A Study of the Life and Career of the Rev. Dr John Hunt

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Abstract: The Rev. Dr John Hunt (1827-1907) was not a typical clergyman in the Victorian Church of England. He was Scottish, of lowly birth, and lacking both social connections and private means. He was also a witty and fluent intellectual, whose publications st...

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جاتبئىتعنكزاوه.

Publication Type: Academic Journal

Source(s): Daryaft. Dec2022, Vol. 14 Issue 2, p81-94. 14p.

Abstract: Dr Shahida Sardar is a renowned poetess of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Hafeez Taib is renowned Naat writer. He has a unique natiya consciousness among modern poets. He described the Holy Prophet's(S.A.W) love in various poetry genres like Ghazal, Free verse, s...

Oliveira Lima e as longas durações da historiografia da Independência.

Publication Type: Academic Journal

Source(s): Antíteses. 2022 Special Issue, Vol. 15, p211-232. 22p.

Abstract: Este artigo analisa a contribuição de Manuel de Oliveira Lima para a historiografia da Independência do Brasil a partir de um problema específico: como algumas de suas interpretações deram continuidade a outras anteriores já presentes na cultura de his...

GOFFMAN ON GOFFMAN: A 1975 LETTER.

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Source(s): Przeglad Socjologiczny. 2022, Vol. 71 Issue 4, p9-22. 14p.

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Abstract: Pośmiertna publikacja „prezydenckiego przesłania” (Presidential Address), które Goffman przygotował jako przewodniczący Amerykańskiego Towarzystwa Socjologicznego (ASA) [Goffman 1983] zapewniła, że jego spuścizna będzie rozpoznawana jako socjologia ład...

Claiming Home : Migration Biographies and Everyday Lives of Queer Migrant Women in Switzerland

Claiming Home : Migration Biographies and Everyday Lives of Queer Migrant Women in Switzerland

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Abstract: Through biographical narratives, Claiming Home traces how queer migrant women living in Switzerland navigate often contradictory perspectives on sexuality, gender, and nation. Situated between heteronormative and racialized stereotypes of migrant women...

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