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  • World Hunting

    Volume 01

    by Distil ...
    Series Book 1 - 111
    Jinju Wan, an amnesiac A-rank demon hunter presumed dead, needs to battle cosmic horrors and navigate rivaling factions with guild politics in order to uncover the truth behind his disappearance and reclaim his life.Waking up in a high-tech room with half of his memories missing, he must escape and find out the truth about what exactly happened. The world is continuously threatened and terrorized ... Read more

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  • Advances in Psychological Assessment in South Africa

    Advances in Psychological Assessment in South Africa provides a detailed, practical and critical appraisal of the evolution of psychological testing since the publication of Psychological Assessment in South Africa: Research and Applications (2013). Editors Laher and Cockcroft once again bring together practitioners and researchers to explore new tools and methods used to evaluate mental processes ... Read more

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  • Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

    An explanation of the unique role of the book and book collecting in South Africa due to the apartheidThis book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives- historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. The essays collected here, by leading international scholars, address a range of topics as ... Read more

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  • Fixing Gender

    Lesbian Mothers and the Oedipus Complex

    Fixing Gender uses psychoanalysis to explore the theoretical implications for the gendering of the human subject that arise from the situation of lesbians raising children from birth. In the face of the powerful evidence of the ways gender operates, and in the deep structural ways the logic of gender perpetuates, both made visible by psychoanalysis, this book asks: Is gender always fixed? Can the ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare and the Coconuts

    On post-apartheid South African culture

    A unique look at Shakespeare's works' influence on South African writingIn this book Natasha Distiller explores historic and contemporary uses of Shakespeare in South African society which illustrate the complexities of colonial and post-colonial realities as they relate to iconic Englishness. Beginning with Solomon Plaatje, the author looks at the development of an elite group educated in English ... Read more

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  • So you have Diabetes!

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Diabetes is one of the oldest diseases known to mankind. It was first mentioned in the Ebers Payrus (Egypt 1500 BC) and 'honey urine' was noted by Sushrutha in India in 400 BC. By the first century of the Christian era the disease was well known, both in Roman writings and in Chinese and Japanese writings. The word 'diabetes' was first coined by the Greeks. It means a passing-through of water. ... Read more

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  • Complicities

    A theory for subjectivity in the psychological humanities

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This Open Access book offers a model of the human subject as complicit in the systems that structure human society and the human psyche which draws together clinical research with theory from both psychology and the humanities to advance a more social just theory and practice. Beginning from the premise that we cannot separate ourselves from the systems that precede and formulate us as subjects, ... Read more

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    Michael Cronin looks at how translation has played a crucial role in shaping debates about identity, language and cultural survival in the past and in the present. He explores how everything from the impact of migration on the curricula for national literature courses, to the way in which nations wage war in the modern era is bound up with urgent questions of translation and identity. Examining ... Read more

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    Acknowledged as one of the classics of twentieth-century Marxism, Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks contains a rich and nuanced theorization of class that provides insights that extend far beyond economic inequality. In Gramsci's Common Sense Kate Crehan offers new ways to understand the many forms that structural inequality can take, including in regards to race, gender, sexual orientation, and ... Read more

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  • Good Education in an Age of Measurement

    Ethics, Politics, Democracy

    The widespread use of the measurement of educational outcomes in order to compare the performance of education within and across countries seems to express a real concern for the quality of education. This book argues that the focus on the measurement of educational outcomes has actually displaced questions about educational purpose. Biesta explores why the question as to what constitutes good ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare

    Edited by Arthur F Kinney ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Situated within the Oxford Handbooks to Literature series, the group of Oxford Handbooks to Shakespeare are designed to record past and present investigations and renewed and revised judgments by both familiar and younger Shakespearean specialists. Each of these volumes is edited by one or more internationally distinguished Shakespeareans; together, they comprehensively survey the entire field. An ... Read more

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