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Rethinking the Andes-Amazonia divide : a cross disciplinary exploration
Nowhere on Earth is there an ecological transformation so swift and so extreme as between the snow-line of the high Andes and the tropical rainforest of Amazonia. The different disciplines that research the human past in South America have long tended to treat these two great subzones of the continent as self-contained enough to be taken independently of each other. Objections have repeatedly b…
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- 9781787357358
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- xxviii, 386 p. ill;
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- 980 RET A
Impermanence : exploring continuous change across cultures
Nothing lasts forever. This common experience is the source of much anxiety but also hope. The concept of impermanence or continuous change opens up a range of timely questions and discussions that speak to globally shared experiences of transformation and concerns for the future. Impermanence engages with an emergent body of social theory emphasizing flux and transformation, and brings this in…
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- 9781787358690
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- xiii, 364p. ill;
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- 294.342 IMP H
Land Use Cover Datasets and Validation Tools
This open access book represents a comprehensive review of available land-use cover data and techniques to validate and analyze this type of spatial information. The book provides the basic theory needed to understand the progress of LUCC mapping/modeling validation practice. It makes accessible to any interested user most of the research community's methods and techniques to validate LUC maps …
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- 1
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- 9783030909987
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- xiv; 462p; ill
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- -
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- 333.7313 LAN D
ALTHUSSER AND EDUCATION : reassessing critical education
Louis Althusser's thinking laid the groundwork for critical educational theory, yet it is often misunderstood in critical pedagogy, sociology of education, and related fields. In this open access book, David I. Backer reexamines Althusser’s educational theory, specifically the claim that education is the most powerful ideological state apparatus in modern capitalist societies. He then present…
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- 3
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- 9781350101500
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- ix, 228p.
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- 194 ALT b
Spatial histories of occupation : colonialism, conquest and foreign control i…
This open access book explores how different spatial geographies emerged, adapted or were transformed in various occupied and colonial settings around Asia, showing how the experiences of those living under occupation shaped and was shaped by new interpretations and typologies of ‘space’. With case studies across South, Southeast and East Asia and through a variety of disciplinary perspecti…
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- 4
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- 9781350252622
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- xii, 264p.
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- 950.4 SPA b
Towards Gender Equality in Law : An Analysis of State Failures from a Global …
This Open Access book aims to find out how and why states in various regions and of diverse cultural backgrounds fail in their gender equality laws and policies. In doing this, the book maps out states’ failures in their legal systems and unpacks the clashes between different levels and forms of law—namely domestic laws, local regulations, or the implementation of international law, individ…
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- 9783030980726
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- xix, 250 p.
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- 342.0878 TOW G
Biosocial worlds : anthropology of health environments beyond determinism
Biosocial Worlds presents state-of-the-art contributions to anthropological reflections on the porous boundaries between human and non-human life – biosocial worlds. Based on changing understandings of biology and the social, it explores what it means to be human in these worlds. Growing separation of scientific disciplines for more than a century has maintained a separation of the ‘natural…
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- 9781787358232
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- viii, 215 pp. ill;
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- 304.5 BIO A
Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2022 : Proceedings of t…
This open access book presents the proceedings of the International Federation for IT and Travel & Tourism (IFITT)’s 29th Annual International eTourism Conference, which assembles the latest research presented at the ENTER2022 conference, which will be held on January 11–14, 2022. The book provides an extensive overview of how information and communication technologies can be used to dev…
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- 4
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- 9783030947514
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- XII; 507p;
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- -
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- 338.4791 INF J
Law as Religion, Religion as Law
The conventional approach to law and religion assumes that these are competing domains, which raises questions about the freedom of, and from, religion; alternate commitments of religion and human rights; and respective jurisdictions of civil and religious courts. This volume moves beyond this competitive paradigm to consider law and religion as overlapping and interrelated frameworks that stru…
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- 9781108760997
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- vii, 404 p ; ill
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- -
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- 208.4 LAW
Citizenship, democracy and belonging in suburban Britain : making the local
A study of the conditions of being a citizen, belonging and democracy in suburban Britain, this book focuses on understanding how a community takes on the social responsibility and pressures of being a good citizen through what they call ‘stupid’ events, festivals and parades. Building a community is perceived to be an important and necessary act to enable resilience against the perceived t…
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- 9
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- 9781800080539
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- xvii, 210p.
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- -
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- 323.60941 CIT j
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