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The Future Wear High Heels

Why Superwomen Rule the Emirates

by Dr. Birgit Maria Kemphues ...

Narrated by Louisa Lin ...

Unabridged

1 hour

Funny, smart, and just a little dangerous.This is not another leadership audiobook decorated with empowerment slogans and predictable success stories.The Future Wears High Heels enters the world of Emirati women who do not ask for a place at the table. They change the table, the conversation, and occasionally the entire direction of the room.These women do not need to become louder to be heard. ... Read more

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Funny, smart, and just a little dangerous.This is not another leadership audiobook decorated with empowerment slogans and predictable success stories.The Future Wears High Heels enters the world of Emirati women who do not ask for a place at the table. They change the table, the conversation, and occasionally the entire direction of the room.These women do not need to become louder to be heard.
... Read more
Madrid

A New Biography

by Luke Stegemann ...

The miraculous story of Madrid—how a village became a great world cityFor centuries Madrid was an insignificant settlement on the central Iberian plateau. Under its Muslim rulers the town was fortified and enlarged, but even after the Reconquista it remained secondary to nearby Toledo. But Madrid’s fortunes dramatically shifted in the sixteenth century, becoming the centre of a vast global empire ... Read more

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The miraculous story of Madrid—how a village became a great world cityFor centuries Madrid was an insignificant settlement on the central Iberian plateau. Under its Muslim rulers the town was fortified and enlarged, but even after the Reconquista it remained secondary to nearby Toledo. But Madrid’s fortunes dramatically shifted in the sixteenth century, becoming the centre of a vast global empire
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Tracing the Indo-Europeans

New evidence from archaeology and historical linguistics

Edited by Thomas Olander, Kristian Kristiansen, Birgit Anette Olsen ...

Recent developments in aDNA has reshaped our understanding of later European prehistory, and at the same time also opened up for more fruitful collaborations between archaeologists and historical linguists. Two revolutionary genetic studies, published independently in Nature, 2015, showed that prehistoric Europe underwent two successive waves of migration, one from Anatolia consistent with the ... Read more

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Recent developments in aDNA has reshaped our understanding of later European prehistory, and at the same time also opened up for more fruitful collaborations between archaeologists and historical linguists. Two revolutionary genetic studies, published independently in Nature, 2015, showed that prehistoric Europe underwent two successive waves of migration, one from Anatolia consistent with the
... Read more
Warrior of two Kings

A captivating historical coming-of-age adventure set during the Norman Conquest

by Birgit Constant ...

Series Book 1 - The Northumbria Trilogy
Entangled in shifting alliances, a young English warrior fights for love, honour and survival in blood-soaked Northumbria.England, 1066. In a remote Northumbrian village, young Oswulf is to become an elite warrior for the English king.But as English, Norse and Norman forces wage war against each other to secure control over Northumbria, Oswulf is caught in a perilous web of fickle loyalities and ... Read more

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Entangled in shifting alliances, a young English warrior fights for love, honour and survival in blood-soaked Northumbria.England, 1066. In a remote Northumbrian village, young Oswulf is to become an elite warrior for the English king.But as English, Norse and Norman forces wage war against each other to secure control over Northumbria, Oswulf is caught in a perilous web of fickle loyalities and
... Read more
CBRN Protection

Managing the Threat of Chemical, Biological, Radioactive and Nuclear Weapons

Edited by Andre Richardt, Bernd Niemeyer, Frank Sabath, Birgit Hülseweh ...

Originating in the armed forces of the early 20th century, weapons based on chemical, biological or nuclear agents have become an everpresent threat that has not vanished after the end of the cold war. Since the technology to produce these agents is nowadays available to many countries and organizations, including those with terrorist aims, civil authorities across the world need to prepare ... Read more

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Originating in the armed forces of the early 20th century, weapons based on chemical, biological or nuclear agents have become an everpresent threat that has not vanished after the end of the cold war. Since the technology to produce these agents is nowadays available to many countries and organizations, including those with terrorist aims, civil authorities across the world need to prepare
... Read more
The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness

Edited by Birgit Brander Rasmussen, Eric Klinenberg, Irene J. Nexica, Matt Wray ...

Bringing together new articles and essays from the controversial Berkeley conference of the same name, The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness presents a fascinating range of inquiry into the nature of whiteness. Representing academics, independent scholars, community organizers, and antiracist activists, the contributors are all leaders in the “second wave” of whiteness studies who collectively aim ... Read more

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Bringing together new articles and essays from the controversial Berkeley conference of the same name, The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness presents a fascinating range of inquiry into the nature of whiteness. Representing academics, independent scholars, community organizers, and antiracist activists, the contributors are all leaders in the “second wave” of whiteness studies who collectively aim
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Bewitching Birgit

Magic New Mexico / Zolon Warriors

by Tianna Xander ...

Series series Magic New Mexico / Zolon Warriors
Birgitta Anderson, or Birgit, as she is known has three problems in her life: a lousy sense of direction, a broken-down car, and a strange mechanic named Reno. The first problem she was born with; the second a good junkyard could take care of, but the last might be a little more difficult to deal with—especially when it comes with three matchmaking brothers.Reno Brewerigeron has his hands full ... Read more

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Birgitta Anderson, or Birgit, as she is known has three problems in her life: a lousy sense of direction, a broken-down car, and a strange mechanic named Reno. The first problem she was born with; the second a good junkyard could take care of, but the last might be a little more difficult to deal with—especially when it comes with three matchmaking brothers.Reno Brewerigeron has his hands full
... Read more
Ruptures and Continuities in Soviet/Russian Cinema

Styles, characters and genres before and after the collapse of the USSR

Edited by Birgit Beumers, Eugenie Zvonkine ...

Series series Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
This book, based on extensive original research, examines how far the collapse of the Soviet Union represented a threshold that initiated change or whether there are continuities which gradually reshaped cinema in the new Russia. The book considers a wide range of films and film-makers and explores their attitudes to genre, character and aesthetic style. The individual chapters demonstrate that, ... Read more

$62.99 USD

This book, based on extensive original research, examines how far the collapse of the Soviet Union represented a threshold that initiated change or whether there are continuities which gradually reshaped cinema in the new Russia. The book considers a wide range of films and film-makers and explores their attitudes to genre, character and aesthetic style. The individual chapters demonstrate that,
... Read more
Politics, Religion and Gender

Framing and Regulating the Veil

Edited by Sieglinde Rosenberger, Birgit Sauer ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics
Heated debates about Muslim women's veiling practices have regularly attracted the attention of European policymakers over the last decade. The headscarf has been both vehemently contested by national and/or regional governments, political parties and public intellectuals and passionately defended by veil wearing women and their supporters. Systematically applying a comparative perspective, this ... Read more

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Heated debates about Muslim women's veiling practices have regularly attracted the attention of European policymakers over the last decade. The headscarf has been both vehemently contested by national and/or regional governments, political parties and public intellectuals and passionately defended by veil wearing women and their supporters. Systematically applying a comparative perspective, this
... Read more
You Would Have Missed Me

by Birgit Vanderbeke ...

Translated by Jamie Bulloch ...

'I can't remember what it was like being born, but from what they used to tell me it seemed almost as if everything had been fine up to that point.'Standing in her family's two-bedroom flat in the Promised Land, a little girl realizes that once again she won't be getting a cat for her birthday. She's been wanting one ever since she was five – all the way back to when they were living in the ... Read more

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'I can't remember what it was like being born, but from what they used to tell me it seemed almost as if everything had been fine up to that point.'Standing in her family's two-bedroom flat in the Promised Land, a little girl realizes that once again she won't be getting a cat for her birthday. She's been wanting one ever since she was five – all the way back to when they were living in the
... Read more
The Philosophy of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi

On the Contradiction between System and Freedom

by Birgit Sandkaulen ...

Translated by Matt Erlin ...

Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Modern German Philosophy
The contemporaries of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743-1819) openly acknowledged his towering importance. Both Fichte and Hegel praised him in the same breath with Kant as having launched the philosophical revolution they sought to complete. Yet for more than a century, misrepresentations of Jacobi's thought have stood in the way of a proper appreciation of his insights. In her study of this long ... Read more

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The contemporaries of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743-1819) openly acknowledged his towering importance. Both Fichte and Hegel praised him in the same breath with Kant as having launched the philosophical revolution they sought to complete. Yet for more than a century, misrepresentations of Jacobi's thought have stood in the way of a proper appreciation of his insights. In her study of this long
... Read more
Doing Fach.Didaktik

Wissen. Lehren. Verbinden

Edited by Birgit Mertz-Baumgartner, Wolfgang Stadler ...

"Doing Fach.Didaktik" beleuchtet das Zusammenspiel von Fachwissenschaft und Fachdidaktik, wie es in der Ringvorlesung an der Universität Innsbruck initiiert wurde. Der Sammelband bietet spannende Einblicke in aktuelle Forschung und Praxis, von inter- und transkulturellem Lernen über innovative Medien wie Instapoetry bis hin zur Aufgabenorientierung im Sprachunterricht. Die Autor:innen vereinen ... Read more

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"Doing Fach.Didaktik" beleuchtet das Zusammenspiel von Fachwissenschaft und Fachdidaktik, wie es in der Ringvorlesung an der Universität Innsbruck initiiert wurde. Der Sammelband bietet spannende Einblicke in aktuelle Forschung und Praxis, von inter- und transkulturellem Lernen über innovative Medien wie Instapoetry bis hin zur Aufgabenorientierung im Sprachunterricht. Die Autor:innen vereinen
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