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Comparison : theories, approaches, uses
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ISBN: 1421409127 9781421409122 1421409496 9781421409498 Year: 2013 Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,

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"Comparison expands upon a special issue of the journal New Literary History, which analyzed theories and methodologies of comparison. Six new essays from senior scholars of transnational and postcolonial studies complement the original ten pieces. The work of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ella Shohat, Robert Stam, R. Radhakrishnan, Bruce Robbins, Ania Loomba, Haun Saussy, Linda Gordon, Walter D. Mignolo, Shu-mei Shih, and Pheng Cheah are included with contributions by anthropologists Caroline B. Brettell and Richard Handler. Historical periods discussed range from the early modern to the contemporary and geographical regions that encompass the globe. Ultimately, Comparison argues for the importance of greater self-reflexivity about the politics and methods of comparison in teaching and in research"--


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Anglistics in Lithuania : cross-linguistic and cross-cultural aspects of study
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ISBN: 1443853852 9781443853859 1443849928 9781443849920 1306166616 Year: 2013 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,


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Passage des frontières : études de didactique du français et de l'interculturel
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ISBN: 9782875582379 9782875582386 Year: 2013 Volume: *9 Publisher: Leuven Presses universitaires de Louvain

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Professeur de didactique du français langue étrangère et seconde à l'Université catholique de Louvain, L. Colllès s'est intéressé principalement aux pratiques enseignantes en matière d'interculturel. L'ouvrage rassemble quelques-uns de ses textes publiés dans diverses revues et ayant trait à ses recherches : littérature migrante, didactique du FLE, didactique de l'interculturel.


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World Social Science Report 2013 : Changing Global Environments
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ISBN: 9264203419 9264203400 Year: 2013 Publisher: Paris : Paris : OECD Publishing ; Unesco Publishing,

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Produced by the International Social Science Council (ISSC) and UNESCO, and published by the OECD, the 2013 World Social Science Report represents a comprehensive overview of the field gathering the thoughts and expertise of hundreds of social scientists from around the world. This edition focuses on the transformative role of the social sciences in confronting climate and broader processes of environmental change, and in addressing priority problems from energy and water, biodiversity and land use, to urbanisation, migration and education. The report includes 100 articles written by 150 authors from 41 countries all over the world. Authors represent some 24 disciplines, mainly in the social sciences. The contributions highlight the central importance of social science knowledge for environmental change research, as a means of understanding changing environments in terms of social processes and as framework for finding concrete solutions towards sustainability.


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Religion, technology, and the great and little divergences : China and Europe compared, c. 700-1800
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ISBN: 1283854708 9004236953 9789004236950 9789004233881 9004233881 Year: 2013 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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In Religion, Technology, and the Great and Little Divergences Karel Davids offers a new perspective on technological change in China and Europe before the Industrial Revolution. This book makes an innovative contribution to current debates on the origins of the 'Great Divergence' between China and Europe and the ' Little Divergence' within Europe by analysing the relationship between the evolution of technical knowledge and religious contexts. It deals with the question to what extent disparities in the evolution of technical knowledge can be explained by differences in religious environment. It takes a comparative look at the relation between technology and religion in China and Europe between c.700 and 1800 from four angles: visions on the uses of nature, the formation of human capital , the circulation of technical knowledge and technical innovation.


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Europe and the eastern other : comparative perspectives on politics, religion, and culture before the Enlightenment.
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ISBN: 1283912872 0739138057 9780739138052 9781283912877 9780739138038 0739138030 0739197339 9780739197332 Year: 2013 Publisher: Lanham Lexington books

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This book critically evaluates and supports the argument for adopting an inter-cultural or comparative approach in western political theory. The analysis of encounters between Europeans and their eastern others before the European Enlightenment illustrates that adopting an inter-cultural perspective in western political theory is necessary because West's cultural others have played a foundational role in developing a distinct western cultural self-understanding.


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Cultures in motion
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ISBN: 9780691176178 9780691159096 0691159092 1306168236 1400849896 0691176175 Year: 2013 Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press,

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In the wide-ranging and innovative essays of Cultures in Motion, a dozen distinguished historians offer new conceptual vocabularies for understanding how cultures have trespassed across geography and social space. From the transformations of the meanings and practices of charity during late antiquity and the transit of medical knowledge between early modern China and Europe, to the fusion of Irish and African dance forms in early nineteenth-century New York, these essays follow a wide array of cultural practices through the lens of motion, translation, itinerancy, and exchange, extending the insights of transnational and translocal history. Cultures in Motion challenges the premise of fixed, stable cultural systems by showing that cultural practices have always been moving, crossing borders and locations with often surprising effect. The essays offer striking examples from early to modern times of intrusion, translation, resistance, and adaptation. These are histories where nothing--dance rhythms, alchemical formulas, musical practices, feminist aspirations, sewing machines, streamlined metals, or labor networks--remains stationary. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Celia Applegate, Peter Brown, Harold Cook, April Masten, Mae Ngai, Jocelyn Olcott, Mimi Sheller, Pamela Smith, and Nira Wickramasinghe.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

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Culture --- Culture diffusion. --- Diffusion culturelle --- History. --- Histoire --- Études transculturelles --- Labor relations. --- Social & Cultural Anthropology --- Culture populaire --- Politique culturelle --- Études transculturelles. --- Culture populaire. --- Politique culturelle. --- Society. --- Kulturspridning. --- Kultur. --- Culture. --- Cultural sociology --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Cultural diffusion --- Diffusion of culture --- Social change --- Social aspects --- Cross-cultural studies. --- Civilization. --- Barbarism --- Civilisation --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- World Decade for Cultural Development, 1988-1997 --- Comparison of cultures --- Inter-cultural studies --- Intercultural studies --- Trans-cultural studies --- Transcultural studies --- Ethnology --- Social sciences --- Methodology --- African dance. --- African emigrants. --- Ah Jake. --- Alcoa. --- Andreas Cleyer. --- Betty Friedan. --- California. --- Caribbean. --- Chinese medicine. --- Chinese workers. --- Domitila Barrios de Chungara. --- Europe. --- Germany. --- International Women's Year. --- Irish dance. --- Irish emigrants. --- Lanka. --- Latin West. --- Mexico City. --- Michel Boym. --- New York City. --- Niklas Luhmann. --- North American feminism. --- Singer Sewing Machine Company. --- Singer sewing machine. --- Sir John Floyer. --- Third World feminine Leftism. --- William Wotton. --- air power. --- alchemical formula. --- aluminum. --- bauxite mining. --- blood. --- challenge dance competitions. --- challenge dance. --- charity. --- choral festivals. --- choral societies. --- civic charity. --- civilizing mission. --- collective identity. --- consumer market. --- cross-cultural relations. --- cultural exchange. --- cultural motion. --- cultural nationalism. --- cultural practices. --- cultural space. --- culture. --- cultures. --- dance. --- early modern Europe. --- empire. --- gift-giving. --- globalization. --- gold. --- immobility. --- itinerancy. --- justice. --- knowledge transmission. --- labor network. --- labor. --- language. --- lizards. --- market imaginary. --- marketing. --- matter. --- medical knowledge. --- misunderstandings. --- mo. --- mobility. --- modernity. --- murder trial. --- music. --- musical culture. --- musical itinerancy. --- nation building. --- nationalism. --- pastoral power. --- pidgin. --- place. --- poverty. --- power. --- pulse. --- race. --- red pigments. --- science. --- sewing machine. --- social imagination. --- social relations. --- society. --- taverns. --- temporality. --- tourism. --- translation. --- transnational feminism. --- traveling musicians. --- vermillion. --- wealth.


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Health care systems around the world
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ISBN: 1784025089 145227620X 1452276218 9781452276205 9781506319414 1506319416 1452203121 9781452203126 9781452276212 9781784025083 9781322307824 1322307822 Year: 2013 Publisher: Thousand Oaks, Calif.

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This concise reference provides a one-stop point of research that examines major aspects of health care systems for over 190 countries worldwide. In a consistent format, ten major health care categories are systematically examined for each country.

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Medical policy --- Medical care --- Delivery of Health Care. --- Cross-Cultural Comparison. --- Global Health. --- Health Policy. --- Health Status. --- Health care policy --- Health policy --- Medicine and state --- Policy, Medical --- Public health --- Public health policy --- State and medicine --- Science and state --- Social policy --- Level of Health --- Health Level --- Health Levels --- Status, Health --- Healthcare Policy --- National Health Policy --- Health Policies --- Health Policy, National --- Healthcare Policies --- National Health Policies --- Policy, Health --- Policy, Healthcare --- Policy, National Health --- Policy Making --- International Health --- Worldwide Health --- International Health Problems --- World Health --- Health Problem, International --- Health Problems, International --- Health, Global --- Health, International --- Health, World --- Health, Worldwide --- Healths, International --- International Health Problem --- International Healths --- Problem, International Health --- Problems, International Health --- World Health Organization --- Transcultural Studies --- Comparison, Cross-Cultural --- Comparisons, Cross-Cultural --- Cross Cultural Comparison --- Cross-Cultural Comparisons --- Studies, Transcultural --- Study, Transcultural --- Transcultural Study --- Cultural Characteristics --- Culture --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care --- Health Care Delivery --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- Government policy --- Cross-cultural comparison. --- Delivery of Health Care --- World health. --- organization & administration. --- Cross-cultural studies. --- Politique sanitaire --- Soins médicaux --- Cross-cultural studies --- Etudes transculturelles --- Health services administration --- Health administration --- Health care administration --- Health care management --- Health sciences administration --- Health services management --- Health planning --- Public health administration --- Administration --- Management

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