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UNINA9910227343003321 |
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Titolo |
Stad en migratie in de literatuur |
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Gent, : Academia Press, 2016 |
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United Kingdom, Great Britain |
c 1800 to c 1900 |
20th century |
Literature: history & criticism |
Literary theory |
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers |
Poverty & unemployment |
Housing & homelessness |
Migration, immigration & emigration |
Urban communities |
Jewish studies |
Belgium |
France |
Germany |
USA |
Argentina |
Chile |
English |
Dutch |
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Monografia |
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Urbanity and migration are considered to be two basic components in definitions of modernity. They force us to reflect on how the |
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boundaries between the local and the global are determined and surpassed. Often this results in politically charged discussions about transnationality and national identity, monolingualism and multilingualism, inclusion and exclusion. The contributions to this issue of CLW demonstrate that literature can play a significant role in this debate. The authors highlight the representation of city and migration in a wide variety of novels published in Dutch, English, German, Spanish and French with a particular interest in political commitment. |
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UNINA9910798247903321 |
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Autore |
Nolt Steven M. <1968-> |
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The Amish : a concise introduction / / Steven M. Nolt |
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Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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1 online resource (153 p.) |
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Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies |
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Amish - United States - Social life and customs |
Amish - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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1. Meet the Amish -- 2. Amish roots -- 3. Living the old order -- 4. Community and church -- 5. Rumspringa : Amish gone wild? -- 6. Family and schooling -- 7. Work and technology -- 8. The Amish and their neighbors -- 9. Amish images in modern America -- Appendix A. Amish spirituality -- Appendix B. Related groups. |
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There seems to be no end to our fascination with the Amish, a religious minority that has both placed itself outside the mainstream of American culture and flourished within it. Yet most people know very little about the nuanced relationship the Amish have with society or their own communities. Drawing on more than twenty years of fieldwork and collaborative research, Steven M. Nolt's The Amish: A |
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Concise Introduction is a compact but richly detailed portrait of Amish life. In fewer than 150 pages, readers will come away with a clear understanding of the complexities of these simple people. Writing in engaging and accessible language, Nolt explains how the Amish at once operate within modern America and stand very much apart from the world. Arguing that Amish life is shaped equally by internal and external social, political, and economic contexts, Nolt explores Amish identity as emerging from a complex cultural negotiation with modernity. He takes on much-hyped topics such as Rumspringa and reveals the distinctive Amish approach to technology. He also explains how Amish principles stand in contrast to contemporary American values, including rational efficiency, large-scale organization, and Western notions of individuality. Authoritative, informative, and illustrated, this guide provides a vivid introduction to a way of life many find fascinating but few truly understand. |
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UNINA9910141918003321 |
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Autore |
Alonso-Gutierrez David |
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Approaching the Kannan-Lovász-Simonovits and Variance Conjectures / / by David Alonso-Gutiérrez, Jesús Bastero |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
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[1st ed. 2015.] |
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1 online resource (X, 148 p.) |
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Lecture Notes in Mathematics, , 0075-8434 ; ; 2131 |
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Functional analysis |
Convex geometry |
Discrete geometry |
Probabilities |
Functional Analysis |
Convex and Discrete Geometry |
Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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The Conjectures -- Main Examples -- Relating the Conjectures -- Appendix -- Index. |
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Focusing on two central conjectures from the field of Asymptotic Geometric Analysis, the Kannan-Lovász-Simonovits spectral gap conjecture and the variance conjecture, these Lecture Notes present the theory in an accessible way, so that interested readers, even those who are not experts in the field, will be able to appreciate the topics treated. Employing a style suitable for professionals with little background in analysis, geometry or probability, the work goes directly to the connection between isoperimetric-type inequalities and functional inequalities, allowing readers to quickly access the core of these conjectures. In addition, four recent and important results concerning this theory are presented. The first two are theorems attributed to Eldan-Klartag and Ball-Nguyen, which relate the variance and the KLS conjectures, respectively, to the hyperplane conjecture. The remaining two present in detail the main ideas needed to prove the best known estimate for the thin-shell width given by Guédon-Milman, and an approach to Eldan’s work on the connection between the thin-shell width and the KLS conjecture. |
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