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Translation, power, subversion
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ISBN: 1853593508 1853593516 Year: 1996 Volume: 8 Publisher: Clevedon Multilingual Matters Ltd

Thinking in pictures : and other reports from my life with autism.
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ISBN: 0679772898 Year: 1996 Publisher: New York Vintage Books


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Umweltsoziologie
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ISBN: 3531126881 Year: 1996 Publisher: Opladen Westdeutscher Verlag


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Het laatste oordeel : meningen over nieuwe vormen van euthanasie.
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ISBN: 9026314612 Year: 1996 Publisher: Baarn Amboboeken


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Translation & taboo
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ISBN: 0875802095 087580571X 9780875805719 Year: 1996 Publisher: Illinois, Ill. Northern Illinois University Press

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From the time of the first written sacred texts in the West, taboo has proscribed the act and art of translation. So argues Robinson, who with candor verging on iconoclasm explores the age-old prohibition of translation of sacred texts and shows how similar taboos influence intercultural exchange even today. Probing concepts about language, culture, and geopolitical boundaries--both archaic and contemporary--he examines the philosophy and theory of translation and intercultural exchange. In the process, he challenges presuppositions about what cultures hold sacred.

Opera : desire, disease, death
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ISBN: 0803273185 9780803273184 Year: 1996 Publisher: Lincoln (Nebr.) : University of Nebraska press,

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"This fascinating book looks at well-known operas in which love, sexual desire, illness, and death are inextricably linked. The result is an unprecedented view of the operas themselves and the societies in which they were created." "The book focuses on operatic representations of disease and on the ways in which operas associate illness with sexuality, gender, and desire. The authors consider the frequent operatic alliance of tuberculosis with female sexuality (as in Verdi's La Traviata and Puccini's La Boheme); the relation between venereal disease and the moral transgression or failure of male heroes (as in Wagner's Parsifal and Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress); and the association of cholera and homosexual desire in Berg's Lulu and Britten's Death in Venice. A virtuosic chapter considers how assorted operas have identified smoking with sexuality and rebellion. The conclusion considers parallels between earlier operatic representations of disease and recent cultural and scientific representations of AIDS."--Jacket.

The State and the family : a comparative analysis of family policies in industrialized countries
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ISBN: 0198288042 Year: 1996 Publisher: Oxford Clarendon Press

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Demographic changes have been a major force in bringing population and family issues on to the political agenda. The decline in fertility, the increase in divorce rates and lone-parenthood, and the entry of women into the labour force have all reduced the relevance of systems of state support aimed at traditional families. Dr Gauthier examines the changes that have affected families over the past 100 years, and the various policies that have been adopted by the governments of twenty-two industrialized countries in response to these changes, assembling arguments from demography, sociology, and economics to explain population policies, their origins and aims. (OUP)

Stopping aids : HIV/AIDS education and the mass media in Europe
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ISBN: 0582292271 Year: 1996 Publisher: London Longman

Reconstructing architecture : critical discourses and social practices
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ISBN: 0816628092 Year: 1996 Publisher: Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press

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