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    A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa

    by Michael Gomez ...
    A groundbreaking history that puts early and medieval West Africa in a global contextPick up almost any book on early and medieval world history and empire, and where do you find West Africa? On the periphery. This pioneering book, the first on this period of the region’s history in a generation, tells a different story. Interweaving political and social history and drawing on a rich array of ... Read more

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  • Reversing Sail

    A History of the African Diaspora

    Series series Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora
    Beginning with antiquity, Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora captures the essential political, cultural, social, and economic developments that shaped the black experience. In this second edition, Michael A. Gomez updates the text to include the most recent research on the African Diaspora. Continuing to pay particular attention to the lives of the working classes, the second ... Read more

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  • Methusalem Seminars at Ghent Analysis and PDE Center

    Extended Abstracts 2023/2024

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This volume presents contributions of modern developments in analysis, PDEs and geometric analysis by leading experts, as well as distinguished junior and senior researchers.The book includes contributions from speakers at the Methusalem Colloquium, Methusalem Junior Seminar, and Geometric Analysis Seminar, all of which were held at the Department of Mathematics, Ghent University from 2023 to 2024 ... Read more

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  • Chinese Business in Southeast Asia

    Presents empirical findings from different South-East Asian countries to demonstrate that Chinese businessmen employ a variety of strategies in their networking, entrepreneurship and organisational and firm development; and concludes that much more research is needed in order to provide a full understanding of Chinese business success. ... Read more

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  • Diasporic Africa

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    Edited by Michael A. Gomez ...
    Diasporic Africa presents the most recent research on the history and experiences of people of African descent outside of the African continent. By incorporating Europe and North Africa as well as North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean, this reader shifts the discourse on the African diaspora away from its focus solely on the Americas, underscoring the fact that much of the movement of ... Read more

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  • Lipid Signaling in Human Diseases

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Lipids are an integral part of cell membrane architecture, are intermediaries in cell metabolism, and are involved in transmitting cell signals from hormones, growth factors and nutrients. A number of lipases and phospholipases, lipid kinases, lipid phosphatases, sphingosine kinases, and their reaction products have been implicated in fundamental cellular processes including cell proliferation, ... Read more

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  • Rhetorics of Democracy in the Americas

    Series series Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation
    Democracy is venerated in US political culture, in part because it is our democracy. As a result, we assume that the government and institutions of the United States represent the true and right form of democracy, needed by all. This volume challenges this commonplace belief by putting US politics in the context of the Americas more broadly.Seeking to cultivate conversations among and between the ... Read more

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  • The Discursive Construction of Economic Inequality

    CADS Approaches to the British Media

    Series series Corpus and Discourse
    This book analyses diverse public discourses to investigate how wealth inequality has been portrayed in the British media from the time of the Second World War to the present day. Using a variety of corpus-assisted methods of discourse analysis, chapters present an historicized perspective on how the mass media have helped to make sharply increased wealth inequality seem perfectly normal. Print, ... Read more

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  • Chinese Enterprise, Transnationalism and Identity

    Series series Chinese Worlds
    First Published in 2004. Chinese Enterprise, Transnationalism, and Identity focuses on one ethnic community – the Chinese – and examines the variety of issues surrounding enterprise development from national and transnational perspectives, starting with the role played by Chinese entrepreneurs in the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Using empirical evidence and theoretical debate, the contributors ... Read more

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  • Exchanging Our Country Marks

    The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South

    The transatlantic slave trade brought individuals from diverse African regions and cultures to a common destiny in the American South. In this comprehensive study, Michael Gomez establishes tangible links between the African American community and its African origins and traces the process by which African populations exchanged their distinct ethnic identities for onedefined primarily by the ... Read more

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  • Growing Local

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    Series series Our Sustainable Future
    In an increasingly commercialized world, the demand for better quality, healthier food has given rise to one of the fastest growing segments of the U.S. food system: locally grown food. Many believe that “relocalization” of the food system will provide a range of public benefits, including lower carbon emissions, increased local economic activity, and closer connections between consumers, farmers, ... Read more

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  • Euro-Par 2015: Parallel Processing Workshops

    Euro-Par 2015 International Workshops, Vienna, Austria, August 24-25, 2015, Revised Selected Papers

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of 12 workshops held at the 21st International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Euro-Par 2015, in Vienna, Austria, in August 2015.The 67 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 121 submissions. The volume includes papers from the following workshops: BigDataCloud: 4th Workshop ... Read more

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