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Social Spatialization in a Turkish Squatter Settlement
This book aims to expose an alternative local historical reading of the formation of a gecekondu space, a settlement of irregularly self-constructed habitats built by former …
Strategic Attention in Language Testing
This book approaches the empirical validation of a popular method of assessing lexical knowledge – the yes/no vocabulary test or lexical decision task – from an interdisciplinary …
«Hectic, hippic» and «hygienic» : Adjectives in Victorian Fiction
This linguistic study is an attempt at investigating the use of adjectives in Victorian fiction. The focus of the investigation is on semantic peculiarities of this particular word …
Turning Wind into Power
Renewable energy has an important role to play as they provide solutions to pressing environmental and developmental challenges particularly in developing countries. Taking spatial …
Female genital cutting and gender relations in Kurya society
This book deals with reasons for the persistence of the practice of female genital cutting (FGC) among the Kurya in Tanzania. The author identifies contradictory understandings of …
The Impact of Socio-Economic Development and Climate Change on Livestock Management in Benin
This thesis analyses the impact of the major driving forces on livestock husbandry in Benin. The study aims to deepen the understanding of livestock management and its possible …
Familial Discourses in «The Book of Margery Kempe»
The Book of Margery Kempe (ca. 1438) offers an illuminating account of late medieval female spirituality, affective devotion and subversion. This study approaches Margery Kempe’s …
Depraved Borderlands
Nowhere has Western public distrust towards Islam been as strong as in the Netherlands. This book provides a thorough discussion of Dutch multicultural society seen through the …
Essays in Arabic Dialectology
This volume brings together a number of previously published papers, which reflect a middle-of-the-road approach in Linguistic Analysis. The first part contains articles dealing …
Conflict of National Identity in Sudan
This study addresses the contemporary conflict of national identity in Sudan between the adherents of Islamic nationalism and those of customary secularism. The former urge the …
The Eucharist as Orik?ns?
In this book the author, relying on the research he carried out in Igboland, Nigeria, leads us to see the action of God’s grace already active in the Igbo religious culture called …
Alleviating Poverty in Nigeria through the Improvement of the Labour Conditions in the Informal Economy
«Just wage and just working conditions have always occupied a central position in Catholic social ethics. The social teaching of the Catholic Church has however preoccupied itself …