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Yearning to Breathe Free

a Charity anthology supporting the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES)

by Lyn Worthen, Sam Schreiber, Michael Brueggeman, Barbara G.Tarn, James Matthew Byers, Brooke Warra, Diana Deverell, Kate Pavelle, Chris Abela, Erica Ruppert, Dashiell Crowe, E.B. Wheeler, VCastro, S. L. Edwards, Sarah Barrett, Lauryn Christopher, Leslie Claire Walker, Fulvio Gatti, Emma Lee ...

We have all seen the pictures, heard the stories, and witnessed the crisis at the southern border of the United States. In the face of an influx of immigrants, particularly children and families, Customs and Border Patrol has housed children in wire-enclosures, providing only an aluminum blanket to sleep under and little to no access to other basic necessities. It is difficult to watch, especially ... Read more

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We have all seen the pictures, heard the stories, and witnessed the crisis at the southern border of the United States. In the face of an influx of immigrants, particularly children and families, Customs and Border Patrol has housed children in wire-enclosures, providing only an aluminum blanket to sleep under and little to no access to other basic necessities. It is difficult to watch, especially
... Read more
The Short Story in German in the Twenty-First Century

by Lyn Marven, Helmut Schmitz, Gillian Pye, Heide Kunzelmann, Elizabeth Boa, Heike Bartel, Aine McMurtry, Rafaël Newman, Caroline Wiedmer, Leonhard Herrmann0, Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger1, Andrew Plowman3, Kate Roy5, Katharina Gerstenberger6, Todd Herzog7, Emily Spiers8 ...

Since the 1990s, the short story has re-emerged in the German-speaking world as a vibrant literary genre, serving as a medium for both literary experimentation and popular forms. Authors like Judith Hermann and Peter Stamm have had a significant impact on German-language literary culture and, in translation, on literary culture in the UK and USA. This volume analyzes German-language short-story ... Read more

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Since the 1990s, the short story has re-emerged in the German-speaking world as a vibrant literary genre, serving as a medium for both literary experimentation and popular forms. Authors like Judith Hermann and Peter Stamm have had a significant impact on German-language literary culture and, in translation, on literary culture in the UK and USA. This volume analyzes German-language short-story
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Australia's Curriculum Dilemmas

State Cultures and the Big Issues

by Lyn Yates, Cherry Collins, Kate O'Connor ...

Australia's Curriculum Dilemmas tells the story of Australia's recent attempts to come to grips with the big challenges of curriculum and sets up the background to understanding the debates that continue to surface as we move for the first time towards a national approach. Detailing some of the inside stories and arguments of the last 30 years about what schools should do, as well as some of the ... Read more

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Australia's Curriculum Dilemmas tells the story of Australia's recent attempts to come to grips with the big challenges of curriculum and sets up the background to understanding the debates that continue to surface as we move for the first time towards a national approach. Detailing some of the inside stories and arguments of the last 30 years about what schools should do, as well as some of the
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Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage

by Michelle L. Stefano, D Jared Bowers, Daniella Trimboli, Elaine Müller, Ewa Bergdahl, George Abungu, Gerard Corsane, Harriet Deacon, Kate Hennessy0, Leontine Meijer Van Mensch1, Lyn Leader-Elliot2, Professor Peter Davis4, Marilena Alivizatou5, Maurizio Maggi6, Paula Assuncao dos Santos7, Peter Van Mensch8, Richard MacKinnon9, Shaher Rababeh0, Shatha Abu-Khafajah1, Susan Keitumetse2, Sylvie Grenet3, Vasant Hari Bedekar4, Alexandra Denes5, Alissandra Cummins6, Andrew Dixey7, Aron Mazel8, Christian Hottin9, Christina Kreps0 ...

Awareness of the significance of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) has recently grown, due to the promotional efforts of UNESCO and its Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003). However, the increased recognition of intangible heritage has brought to light its undervalued status within the museum and heritage sector, and raised questions about safeguarding ... Read more

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Awareness of the significance of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) has recently grown, due to the promotional efforts of UNESCO and its Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003). However, the increased recognition of intangible heritage has brought to light its undervalued status within the museum and heritage sector, and raised questions about safeguarding
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Emerging German-Language Novelists of the Twenty-First Century

by Lyn Marven, Professor Julian Preece, Kate Roy, Executive Dean Rebecca Braun, Sonja Klocke, Professor Stephen Brockmann, Stuart Taberner, Valerie Heffernan, Andrew Plowman0, Anke S. Biendarra1, Barbara Mennel2, Brigid Haines3, Emily Jeremiah4, Frauke Matthes5, Heike Bartel6 ...

After the international success in the 1990s of authors such as Bernhard Schlink, Marcel Beyer, and Thomas Brussig, an impressive number of new German-language novelists are making a significant impact. Some, like Karen Duve, Daniel Kehlmann, and Sasa Stanisic, have achieved international recognition; some, like Julia Franck, have won major prizes; others, like Clemens Meyer, Alina Bronsky, and ... Read more

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After the international success in the 1990s of authors such as Bernhard Schlink, Marcel Beyer, and Thomas Brussig, an impressive number of new German-language novelists are making a significant impact. Some, like Karen Duve, Daniel Kehlmann, and Sasa Stanisic, have achieved international recognition; some, like Julia Franck, have won major prizes; others, like Clemens Meyer, Alina Bronsky, and
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Knowledge at the Crossroads?

Physics and History in the Changing World of Schools and Universities

by Lyn Yates, Peter Woelert, Victoria Millar, Kate O'Connor ...

Series series Education (R0)
There is much discussion about what needs to change in education institutions in the 21st century, but less attention given to how core disciplinary studies should be considered within that context. This book is based on a major 4-year research study of history and physics in the changing environment of schools and universities in Australia. Are these forms of knowledge still valuable for students ... Read more

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There is much discussion about what needs to change in education institutions in the 21st century, but less attention given to how core disciplinary studies should be considered within that context. This book is based on a major 4-year research study of history and physics in the changing environment of schools and universities in Australia. Are these forms of knowledge still valuable for students
... Read more
Occupational Therapy and Dementia

Promoting Inclusion, Rights and Opportunities for People Living With Dementia

by Henry Rankin, Lorna Noble, Margaret McCallion, Anthony Schrag, Chris Roberts, Jayne Goodrick, Brendan McCormack, Anna Borthwick, Neil Fullerton, Sarah Kantartzis, Debbie Laliberte Rudman, Kate Turner, Maria O'Reilly, Ian Sherriff, Fiona Fraser, Katie Edwards, Toni Page, Hannah Bradwell, Angela Gregory, Margaret Brown, Michelle Elliot, Kimberley Crocker-White, Elizabeth McKay, Lynsey Robertson, Liz Copley, Sophia Dickinson, Alison McKean, Mary McGrath, Gill Gowran, Claire Craig, Helen Fisher, Ashleigh Gray, Kate Keefe, Cathy Piersol, Jill Cigliana, Kari Burch, Jennifer Wenborn ...

With contemporary approaches based on theory and the lived experience of dementia, Occupational Therapy and Dementia is written using an occupational justice lens. It examines how core elements of how occupational therapy may support the person living with dementia through valued activity in continuing engagement in their lives, sustaining their identity and sense of purpose. This edited ... Read more

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With contemporary approaches based on theory and the lived experience of dementia, Occupational Therapy and Dementia is written using an occupational justice lens. It examines how core elements of how occupational therapy may support the person living with dementia through valued activity in continuing engagement in their lives, sustaining their identity and sense of purpose. This edited
... Read more

Comparative Children's Literature

by Emer O'Sullivan ...

Translated by Anthea Bell ...

WINNER OF THE 2007 CHLA BOOK AWARD!Children's literature has transcended linguistic and cultural borders since books and magazines for young readers were first produced, with popular books translated throughout the world.Emer O'Sullivan traces the history of comparative children's literature studies, from the enthusiastic internationalism of the post-war period – which set out from the idea of a ... Read more

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WINNER OF THE 2007 CHLA BOOK AWARD!Children's literature has transcended linguistic and cultural borders since books and magazines for young readers were first produced, with popular books translated throughout the world.Emer O'Sullivan traces the history of comparative children's literature studies, from the enthusiastic internationalism of the post-war period – which set out from the idea of a
... Read more
Tatort Germany

The Curious Case of German-Language Crime Fiction

by Lynn M. Kutch, Magdalena Waligórska, Sascha Gerhards, Susanne C. Knittel, Todd Herzog, Traci S. O'Brien, Angelika Baier, Anita McChesney, Carol Anne Costabile-Heming0, Faye Stewart1, Heike Henderson2, Jon Sherman3, Kyle Frackman4 ...

Although George Bernard Shaw quipped that "the Germans lack talent for two things: revolution and crime novels," there is a long tradition of German crime fiction; it simply hasn't aligned itself with international trends. Duringthe 1920s, German-language writers dispensed with the detective and focused instead on criminals, a trend that did not take hold in other countries until after 1945, by ... Read more

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Although George Bernard Shaw quipped that "the Germans lack talent for two things: revolution and crime novels," there is a long tradition of German crime fiction; it simply hasn't aligned itself with international trends. Duringthe 1920s, German-language writers dispensed with the detective and focused instead on criminals, a trend that did not take hold in other countries until after 1945, by
... Read more
Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse

The Politics of Memory

by A. Fuchs ...

Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse offers an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of fundamental shifts in German cultural memory. Focusing on the resurgence of family stories in fiction, autobiography and in film, this study challenges the institutional boundaries of Germany's memory culture that have guided and arguably limited German identity debates. Essays ... Read more

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Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse offers an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of fundamental shifts in German cultural memory. Focusing on the resurgence of family stories in fiction, autobiography and in film, this study challenges the institutional boundaries of Germany's memory culture that have guided and arguably limited German identity debates. Essays
... Read more
Anxious Journeys

Twenty-First-Century Travel Writing in German

by Professor Karin Baumgartner, John Blair, Magda Tarnawska Senel, Monika Shafi, Professor Muriel Cormican, Nicole Coleman, Nicole Grewling, Sunka Simon, Andrew Wright Hurley0, Anke S. Biendarra1, Carola Daffner2, Christina Gerhardt3, Christina Kraenzle4, Gundela Hachmann5, Heather Merle Benbow6 ...

The rich contemporary literature of travel has been the focus of numerous recent publications in English that seek to understand how travel narratives, with their distinctive representations of identities, places, and cultures, respond to today's globalized, high-speed world characterized by the dual mass movements of tourism and migration. Yet a corresponding cutting-edge discussion of twenty ... Read more

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The rich contemporary literature of travel has been the focus of numerous recent publications in English that seek to understand how travel narratives, with their distinctive representations of identities, places, and cultures, respond to today's globalized, high-speed world characterized by the dual mass movements of tourism and migration. Yet a corresponding cutting-edge discussion of twenty
... Read more
An Other Kind of Home

Gender-Sexual Abjection, Subjectivity, and the Uncanny in Literature and Film

by Kyle Frackman ...

Series Book 9 - Kulturtransfer und Geschlechterforschung
In this study, the author examines works of German-language literature and film from the nineteenth and twentieth century in order to chart a certain kind of otherness. Common to all of the examined cultural products are aspects of gender, sexuality, a notion of home or belonging, and pressures of abjection. Other elements of identity include race and disease. The characters in the analyzed works ... Read more

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In this study, the author examines works of German-language literature and film from the nineteenth and twentieth century in order to chart a certain kind of otherness. Common to all of the examined cultural products are aspects of gender, sexuality, a notion of home or belonging, and pressures of abjection. Other elements of identity include race and disease. The characters in the analyzed works
... Read more

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