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How Things Make History: The Roman Empire and its terra sigillata Pottery
Bright red terra sigillata pots dating to the first three centuries CE can be found throughout the Western Roman provinces. The pots' widespread distribution and recognisability make them key evidence in the effort to reconstruct the Roman Empire's economy and society. Drawing on recent ideas in material culture, this book asks a radically new question: what was it about the pots themselves tha…
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- 9789048529933
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- x, 173p.: ill.
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- 938 OYE h
Agroecology now! : transformations towards more just and sustainable food sys…
This open access book develops a framework for advancing agroecology transformations focusing on power, politics and governance. It explores the potential of agroecology as a sustainable and socially just alternative to today’s dominant food regime. Agroecology is an ecological approach to farming that addresses climate change and biodiversity loss while contributing to the Sustainable Develo…
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- 9783030613150
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- xiv, 199p. : ill.
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- 630.277 AGR a
Internal crowdsourcing in companies : theoretical foundations and practical a…
This open access book examines the implications of internal crowdsourcing (IC) in companies. Presenting an employee-oriented, cross-sector reference model for good IC practice, it discusses the core theoretical foundations, and offers guidelines for process-management and blueprints for the implementation of IC. Furthermore, it examines solutions for employee training and competence development…
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- 9783030528812
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- viii, 220p. : ill.
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- 658.4058028546 INT i
Animal rights activism: a moral sociological perspective on social movements
We’re in an era of ever increasing attention to animal rights, and activism around the issue is growing more widespread and prominent. In this volume, Kerstin Jacobsson and Jonas Lindblom use the animal rights movement in Sweden to offer the first analysis of social movements through the lens of Emile Durkheim’s sociology of morality. By positing social movements as essentially a moral phen…
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- 9789089647641
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- 145p.: ill.
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- 303.484 JAC a
Social Media in an English Village
Daniel Miller spent 18 months undertaking an ethnographic study with the residents of an English village, tracking their use of the different social media platforms. Following his study, he argues that a focus on platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram does little to explain what we post on social media. Instead, the key to understanding how people in an English village use social med…
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- 9781910634448
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- xii, 209p.: ill.
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- 302.2310942 MIL s
Finance for food : towards new agricultural and rural finance
This book reflects the current state of discussion about agricultural and rural finance in developing and transition countries. It provides insight into specific themes, such as commodity value chains, farm banking, risk management in agricultural banking, structured finance, crop insurance, mobile banking, and how to increase effectiveness in rural finance. Case studies illustrate various aspe…
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- 9783642540349
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- xii, 295p. : ill
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- 630.681 FIN f
The cultural revolution : 1967 in review
The Chinese Communist system was from its very inception based on an inherent contradiction and tension, and the Cultural Revolution is the latest and most violent manifestation of that contradiction. Built into the very structure of the system was an inner conflict between the desiderata, the imperatives, and the requirements that technocratic modernization on the one hand and Maoist values an…
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- 9780472902125
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- V, 125
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- Michigan Monographs In Chinese Studies, 2
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- 306 CUL c
Sustainable land management in a European context : a co-design approach
This open access book present and discuss current issues and innovative solution approaches for land management in a European context. Manifold sustainability issues are closely interconnected with land use practices. Throughout the world, we face increasing conflict over the use of land as well as competition for land. Drawing on experience in sustainable land management gained from seven y…
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- 9783030508418
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- ix, 347p. : ill.
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- 333.73 SUS s
Language and culture in eighteenth century Russia
Victor Zhivov's Language and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Russia is one of the most important studies ever published on eighteenth-century Russia. Historians and students of Russian culture agree that the creation of a Russian literary language was key to the formation of a modern secular culture, and this title traces the growth of a vernacular language from the "hybrid Slavonic" of the late …
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- 9781618116734
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- XVII, 506 p.
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- Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History
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- 491.709033 ZHI l
The linguistic worldview : ethnolinguistics, cognition, and culture
the book is concerned with the linguistic worldview broadly understood, but it focuses on one particular variant of the idea, its sources, extensions, its critical assessment, and inspirations for related research. This approach is the ethnolinguistic linguistic worldview (LWV) program pursued in Lublin, Poland, and initiated and headed by Jerzy Bartminski. In its basic design, the volume emerg…
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- 9788376560748
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- 492 p.
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- 306.44 GLA l
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