Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and by Afsaneh Najmabadi

By Afsaneh Najmabadi

Drawing from a wealthy array of visible and literary fabric from nineteenth-century Iran, this groundbreaking ebook rereads and rewrites the background of Iranian modernity in the course of the lens of gender and sexuality. Peeling away notions of a inflexible pre-modern Islamic gender procedure, Afsaneh Najmabadi presents a compelling demonstration of the centrality of gender and sexuality to the shaping of contemporary tradition and politics in Iran and of the way adjustments in rules approximately gender and sexuality affected conceptions of good looks, love, place of birth, marriage, schooling, and citizenship. She concludes with a provocative dialogue of Iranian feminism and its function in that country's present tradition wars. as well as delivering a huge new point of view on Iranian heritage, Najmabadi skillfully demonstrates how utilizing gender as an analytic class grants perception into buildings of hierarchy and tool and hence into the association of politics and social existence.

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Online Intercultural Exchange: An Introduction for Foreign by Robert O'Dowd

By Robert O'Dowd

This quantity offers an advent to on-line intercultural trade, the job of enticing language rookies in collaborative venture paintings with companions from different cultures by using on-line conversation know-how. The chapters examine how on-line collaboration should be effectively built-in into the international language school room and the way it might probably give a contribution to the improvement of scholars' intercultural communicative competence.

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Managing Diversity in Education: Languages, Policies, by David Little, Constant Leung, Piet Van Avermaet

By David Little, Constant Leung, Piet Van Avermaet

Variety - social, cultural, linguistic and ethnic - poses a problem to all academic structures. a few professionals, faculties and lecturers glance upon it as an issue, a drawback to the fulfillment of nationwide academic objectives, whereas for others it bargains new possibilities. Successive PISA reviews have laid naked the relative loss of luck in addressing the desires of numerous college populations and supporting youngsters enhance the competences they should achieve society. The booklet is split into 3 elements that deal in flip with coverage and its implications, pedagogical perform, and responses to the problem of range that transcend the language of education. This quantity positive aspects the newest study from 8 assorted international locations, and should attract someone occupied with the tutorial integration of immigrant teenagers and teens.

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College Algebra by OpenStax

By OpenStax

University Algebra offers a complete and multi-layered exploration of algebraic ideas. The textual content is acceptable for a standard introductory Algebra path, and used to be built for use flexibly. The modular technique and the richness of content material guarantees that the ebook meets the desires of quite a few courses. collage Algebra publications and helps scholars with differing degrees of guidance and adventure with arithmetic. principles are provided as basically as attainable, and development to extra complicated understandings with significant reinforcement alongside the best way. A wealth of examples - often numerous dozen consistent with bankruptcy - provide precise, conceptual factors, which will construct in scholars a robust, cumulative beginning within the fabric prior to asking them to use what they have discovered. this can be a full-color textbook.

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Parlons boulou : Langue bantou du Cameroun by Marierose Abomomaurin

By Marierose Abomomaurin

Cette initiative permet de connaître les Boulou, des habitants de los angeles forêt du SudCameroun. Langue à ton, le boulou dévoile sa richesse linguistique, culturelle, cultuelle et sociale au travers des genres littéraires, des rites et dans l. a. dialog courante. Cette langue désigne une belief du monde à l. a. fois immanente et fonctionnelle. Le boulou s'est enrichi au touch d'autres langues et son évolution montre les altérations qu'il a subi et les pertes inhérentes à son edition en milieu urbain.

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Between Women: Biographers, Novelists, Critics, Teachers and by Carol Ascher

By Carol Ascher

First released in 1984, among ladies presents groundbreaking analyses of women's writing approximately ladies. A compilation of reports from biographers, novelists, students and artists approximately their respective artistic approaches, this new version additionally comprises an advent by way of Carolyn Heilbrun. The participants talk about how they selected their ladies matters in addition to the biases and hopes they introduced with them and the discoveries they made.

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