Search Results - "Myth"

Reform in Europe breaking the barriers in government /

Table of Contents: “…The myths of reform / Duco Bannink & Sandra Resodihardjo -- The 1984 reform of the European dairy policy : financial crisis, French leadership, and the reappraisal of the EC's core values / Gerard Breeman -- The rewards of policy legacy : why Dutch social housing did not follow the British path / Taco Brandsen & Jan-Kees Helderman -- The introduction of national quality policies : a comparison of Denmark and the Netherlands / Mirjan Oude Vrielink ... …”
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What's law got to do with it? what judges do, why they do it, and what's at stake /

Table of Contents: “…Streb -- On the cataclysm of judicial elections and other popular anti-democratic myths / Melinda Gann Hall -- Are judicial elections democracy-enhancing? …”
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Energy metropolis : an environmental history of Houston and the Gulf Coast /

Table of Contents: “…Bullard -- The gunfighters of Northwood Manor : how history debunks myths of the environmental justice movement -- Elizabeth D. …”
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What's law got to do with it? what judges do, why they do it, and what's at stake /

Table of Contents: “…Streb -- On the cataclysm of judicial elections and other popular anti-democratic myths / Melinda Gann Hall -- Are judicial elections democracy-enhancing? …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Energy metropolis : an environmental history of Houston and the Gulf Coast /

Table of Contents: “…Bullard -- The gunfighters of Northwood Manor : how history debunks myths of the environmental justice movement -- Elizabeth D. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Reform in Europe breaking the barriers in government /

Table of Contents: “…The myths of reform / Duco Bannink & Sandra Resodihardjo -- The 1984 reform of the European dairy policy : financial crisis, French leadership, and the reappraisal of the EC's core values / Gerard Breeman -- The rewards of policy legacy : why Dutch social housing did not follow the British path / Taco Brandsen & Jan-Kees Helderman -- The introduction of national quality policies : a comparison of Denmark and the Netherlands / Mirjan Oude Vrielink ... …”
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Histories and stories from Chiapas border identities in Southern Mexico / by Hernández Castillo, Rosalva Aída

Table of Contents: “…The Postrevolutionary National Project -- and the Mexicanization of the Mam People 18 -- Forced Integration into the Nation 21 Mam Women and the Myth of -- Mestizaje 26 Federal and Local Indigenismos 30 From the Finca -- to the Ejido: Economic Integration 33 Presbyterianism and a New Mam -- Identity 42 -- 2. …”
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Contemporary Ukraine on the cultural map of Europe

Table of Contents: “…Mapping the nation : history, politics, and religion -- The Western dimension of the making of modern Ukraine / Roman Szporluk -- Cultural faultlines and political cleavages / Mykola Riabchuk -- Ukraine's road to Europe : a still controversial issue / Giulia Lami -- Finis Europae : contemporary Ukraine's conflicting inheritances from the humanistic "West" and the Byzantine "East" (A Triptych) / Oxana Pachlovska -- The status of religion in Ukraine and European standards / Andrew Sorokowski -- Missionaries and pluralism : how the law changed the religious landscape in Ukraine / Catherine Wanner -- The future of Ukraine, if values determine the course : what opinion polls disclose about public attitudes on political and economic issues / Elehie Skoczylas -- Prosecuting Soviet crimes : the case of Ukraine and the European practice / Myroslava Antonovych -- Collective memory as a device for constructing a new gender myth / Marian Rubchak -- Reflecting identities : the literary paradigm -- Mirrors, windows, and maps : the typology of cultural identification in contemporary Ukrainian literature / Maria Zubrytska -- Cultural perceptions, mirror images, and western identification in new Ukrainian drama / Larissa M.L. …”
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Asian American studies now a critical reader /

Table of Contents: “…Chinese exclusion and the origins of American gatekeeping / Erika Lee -- Public health and the mapping of Chinatown / Nayan Shah -- The secret Munson Report / Michi Nishiura Weglyn -- Asian American struggles for civil, political, economic, and social rights / Sucheng Chan -- Out of the shadows: camptown women, military brides, and Korean (American) communities / Ji-Yeon Yuh -- The Cold War origins of the model minority myth / Robert G. Lee -- Why China? Identifying histories of transnational adoption / Sara Dorow -- The "four prisons" and the movements of liberation: Asian American activism from the 1960s to the 1990s / Glenn Omatsu -- Youth culture, citizenship, and globalization: South Asian Muslim youth in the United States after September 11th / Sunaina Maira -- Asian immigrant women and global restructuring, 1970s-1990s / Rhacel Salazar Parreñas -- Medical, racist, and colonial constructions of power in Anne Fadiman's The spirit catches you and you fall down / Monica Chiu -- Searching for community: Filipino gay men in New York City / Martin F. …”
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Ultimate freedom-- no choice the culture of authoritarianism in Latvia, 1934-1940 / by Hanovs, Deniss

Table of Contents: “…Genesis of a political myth : an official turns into Vadonis -- Chapter three. …”
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Contemporary Ukraine on the cultural map of Europe

Table of Contents: “…Mapping the nation : history, politics, and religion -- The Western dimension of the making of modern Ukraine / Roman Szporluk -- Cultural faultlines and political cleavages / Mykola Riabchuk -- Ukraine's road to Europe : a still controversial issue / Giulia Lami -- Finis Europae : contemporary Ukraine's conflicting inheritances from the humanistic "West" and the Byzantine "East" (A Triptych) / Oxana Pachlovska -- The status of religion in Ukraine and European standards / Andrew Sorokowski -- Missionaries and pluralism : how the law changed the religious landscape in Ukraine / Catherine Wanner -- The future of Ukraine, if values determine the course : what opinion polls disclose about public attitudes on political and economic issues / Elehie Skoczylas -- Prosecuting Soviet crimes : the case of Ukraine and the European practice / Myroslava Antonovych -- Collective memory as a device for constructing a new gender myth / Marian Rubchak -- Reflecting identities : the literary paradigm -- Mirrors, windows, and maps : the typology of cultural identification in contemporary Ukrainian literature / Maria Zubrytska -- Cultural perceptions, mirror images, and western identification in new Ukrainian drama / Larissa M.L. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Asian American studies now a critical reader /

Table of Contents: “…Chinese exclusion and the origins of American gatekeeping / Erika Lee -- Public health and the mapping of Chinatown / Nayan Shah -- The secret Munson Report / Michi Nishiura Weglyn -- Asian American struggles for civil, political, economic, and social rights / Sucheng Chan -- Out of the shadows: camptown women, military brides, and Korean (American) communities / Ji-Yeon Yuh -- The Cold War origins of the model minority myth / Robert G. Lee -- Why China? Identifying histories of transnational adoption / Sara Dorow -- The "four prisons" and the movements of liberation: Asian American activism from the 1960s to the 1990s / Glenn Omatsu -- Youth culture, citizenship, and globalization: South Asian Muslim youth in the United States after September 11th / Sunaina Maira -- Asian immigrant women and global restructuring, 1970s-1990s / Rhacel Salazar Parreñas -- Medical, racist, and colonial constructions of power in Anne Fadiman's The spirit catches you and you fall down / Monica Chiu -- Searching for community: Filipino gay men in New York City / Martin F. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Ultimate freedom-- no choice the culture of authoritarianism in Latvia, 1934-1940 / by Hanovs, Deniss

Table of Contents: “…Genesis of a political myth : an official turns into Vadonis -- Chapter three. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany : Toward a Public Discourse on the Holocaust / by Boos, Sonja, 1972-

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Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics /

Table of Contents: “…Odysseus' changed soul: a contemporary reading of the myth of Er / Catherine Malabou -- 4. Plato's Protagoras: the authority of beginning an education / Daniel Price -- 5. …”
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Histories and stories from Chiapas border identities in Southern Mexico / by Hernández Castillo, Rosalva Aída

Table of Contents: “…The Postrevolutionary National Project -- and the Mexicanization of the Mam People 18 -- Forced Integration into the Nation 21 Mam Women and the Myth of -- Mestizaje 26 Federal and Local Indigenismos 30 From the Finca -- to the Ejido: Economic Integration 33 Presbyterianism and a New Mam -- Identity 42 -- 2. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany : Toward a Public Discourse on the Holocaust / by Boos, Sonja, 1972-

Full text available:

Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics /

Table of Contents: “…Odysseus' changed soul: a contemporary reading of the myth of Er / Catherine Malabou -- 4. Plato's Protagoras: the authority of beginning an education / Daniel Price -- 5. …”
Full text available:

Jews in the East European borderlands essays in honor of John D. Klier /

Table of Contents: “…Karlip -- Soviet Holocaust photography and landscapes of emptiness / David Shneer -- Transformed myths in verse: Boris Slutsky's three Holocaust poems and the question of violence / Marat Grinberg.…”
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Jews in the East European borderlands essays in honor of John D. Klier /

Table of Contents: “…Karlip -- Soviet Holocaust photography and landscapes of emptiness / David Shneer -- Transformed myths in verse: Boris Slutsky's three Holocaust poems and the question of violence / Marat Grinberg.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view