Marta: 630 books

Current trends of globalization have influenced the social, economic, and political framework of national media worldwide. In recent years, the field of media studies has focused on globalization as a phenomenon that has greatly impacted the production and reception of media formats. By reshaping...

Un libro de divulgación para todos los públicos que muestra desde diferentes perspectivas y de manera muy completa cómo funciona el cerebro, así como los diferentes elementos que lo conforman: inteligencia, capacidad, cociente intelectual, memoria, sentidos, percepciones, emociones, habilidades,...

A Transnational History of Punk Communities in Poland is a multi-regional study of the history and contemporary condition of two Polish punk communities: the one in Warsaw and surrounding areas, and the Upper Silesian region: both rich in varied and sometimes conflicting punk traditions. The author,...

Suddenly driven from their African home by a war in Biafra, the McCall family washes up in a small town in the San Joaquin Valley. The locals assume they must be glad to be back in the "civilized world." But life in America is lonely, desolate and dull, and the children and their  fragile...

La nueva novela de los hermanos Masot consagra a sus autores como dos de los narradores jóvenes más interesantes del género de la novela histórica en nuestro país. En Las horas del silencio recrean un maravilloso fresco de la España del siglo xx, donde los destinos de unos personajes aparentemente...

Mapping the Megalopolis: Order and Disorder in Mexico City brings the humanities and the social sciences into a conversation about Mexico City in its social, political, and aesthetic manifestations. Through a shared exploration of the order and disorder that mutually constitute the city, contributing...

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2014 in the subject American Studies - Miscellaneous, grade: 5.0, Jan Kochanowski University of Humanities and Sciences in Kielce, language: English, abstract: After an early friendship which influenced, among other things, the writing of the Declaration...

Essay from the year 2015 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 5.0, , language: English, abstract: Peter Ackroyd was born in London in 1949 and educated at St. Benedict's School, Ealing. He graduated from Clare College, Cambridge and then won a research fellowship to study at Yale University...

Once upon a time, in a faraway land, there lived the tiniest fairy moth of them all. Her name was Gingledorf. Gingledorf finds herself in pickles and jams because her magic gets a bit whoopsie, and too much fairy dust sprinkling has unfortunate effects. With the help of some good friends and lots of cups of hot chocolate, she figures out how to make things just fairy perfect.

The book discusses the evolution of the urban chronotope in the selected novels by Peter Ackroyd, an acclaimed British author. The examined narratives illustrate the transformation from the postmodern tenets of historiographic metafiction into a unique urban mythopoetics by means of a semiotic analysis.

This book formally introduces synthetic differential topology, a natural extension of the theory of synthetic differential geometry which captures classical concepts of differential geometry and topology by means of the rich categorical structure of a necessarily non-Boolean topos and of the systematic...

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject Cultural Studies - European Studies, , language: English, abstract: The presence of Muslim communities in Europe dates back to the turn of the twentieth century, when such immigrants began arriving from European empires. United Kingdom...

This collection addresses key issues in the critique of Eurocentrism and racism regarding debates on the production of knowledge, historical narratives and memories in Europe and the Americas. Contributors explore the history of liberation politics as well as academic and political reaction through formulas of accommodation that re-centre the West.

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, , language: English, abstract: The Diary of a Nobody, the object of the examination of this work, is a fictitious story of a clerk living in London in the 1880's, written by George Grossmith. It is...