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Earth 2020: An Insider’s Guide to a Rapidly Changing Planet
Fifty years have passed since the first Earth Day, on 22 April 1970. This accessible, incisive and timely collection of essays brings together a diverse set of expert voices to examine how the Earth’s environment has changed over this past half century, and what lies in store for our planet over the coming fifty years. Earth 2020: An Insider’s Guide to a Rapidly Changing Planet responds to …
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- 9781783748471
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- xii, 279p.: ill
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- 550 EAR e
HIgher education in globalized world: governance, competition and performance
This book offers an improved understanding of European higher education, both from a scientific and a policy point of view.
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- 9782800414225
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- 300p.: ill
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- 378.4 LUC h
Recoding world literature: libraries, print culture, and Germany's pact with …
From the current vantage point of the transformation of books and libraries, B. Venkat Mani presents a historical account of world literature. By locating translation, publication, and circulation along routes of “bibliomigrancy,” Mani narrates how world literature is coded and recoded as literary works find new homes on faraway bookshelves. Mani argues that the proliferation of world liter…
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- First edition.
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- 9780823273409 (hardcover)
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- 348 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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- 809.3 MAN r
Conflict, security and the reshaping of society: the civilization of war
This book is an examination of the effect of contemporary wars (such as the 'War on Terror') on civil life at a global level. Contemporary literature on war is mainly devoted to recent changes in the theory and practice of warfare, particular those in which terrorists or insurgents are involved (for example, the 'revolution in military affairs', 'small wars', and so on). On the other hand, toda…
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- 9780415570343 (hardcover)
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- ix, 227 p. ; 24 cm.
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- Routledge studies in liberty and security
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- 303.66 DAL c
History and cultural memory in neo-Victorian fiction: Victorian afterimages
History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction combines innovative literary and historiographical analysis to investigate the way neo-Victorian novels conceptualise our relationship to the Victorian past, and to analyse their role in the production and communication of historical knowledge. Positioning neo-Victorian novels as dynamic participants in the contemporary historical imaginary, …
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- 978023022858
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- ix, 222 p. ; 23 cm.
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- 823.809358 MIT h
Social theory of fear: terror, torture, and death in a post-capitalist world
Fear has long served elites. They rely on fear to keep and expand their privileges and control the masses. In the current crisis of the capitalist world system, elites in the United States, along with other central countries, promote fear of crime and terrorism. They shaped these fears so that people looked to authorities for security, which permitted extension of apparatuses of coercion like p…
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- 1st ed.
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- 9780230103498 (hc : alk. paper)
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- 234 p. ; 22 cm.
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- 320.9051 SKO s
Understanding material text cultures : a multidisciplinary view
The present volume comprises 6 highly original studies on material text cultures in different nontypographic societies stretching from the 3rd millennium cuneiform textual record of Ancient Mesopotamia to 20th century Qur’anic boards of northern and central African provenience. The volume provides a multidisciplinary approach to material text cultures complementary to the interdisciplinary, s…
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- 9783110425284
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- 287 p.
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- Materiale Textkulturen
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- 302.224409 UND u
Visualizing the invisible with the human body : physiognomy and ekphrasis in …
Physiognomy and ekphrasis are two of the most important modes of description in antiquity and represent the necessary precursors of scientific description. The primary way of divining the characteristics and fate of an individual, whether inborn or acquired, was to observe the patient’s external characteristics and behaviour. This volume focuses initially on two types of descriptive literatur…
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- 9783110642698
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- VI, 501 p.
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- Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures
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- 480 JOH v
On Ancient Grammars of Space : Linguistic Research on the Expression of Spati…
This volume presents new research by the Topoi group "The Conception of Spaces in Language" on the expression of spatial relations in ancient languages. The six articles in this volume discuss static and dynamic aspects of the spatial grammars of Ancient to Medieval Greek, Akkadian, Hittite, and Hieroglyphic Ancient Egyptian, as well as field data on eight modern languages (Arabic, Hebrew, Engl…
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- 9783110311358
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- xxvi, 327 p.
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- Topoi – Berlin Studies of the Ancient World/Topoi – Berliner Studien der Alten Welt
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- 401.9 KUT o
Adaptive strategies for water heritage : past, present and future
This Open Access book, building on research initiated by scholars from the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Global Heritage and Development (CHGD) and ICOMOS Netherlands, presents multidisciplinary research that connects water to heritage. Through twenty-one chapters it explores landscapes, cities, engineering structures and buildings from around the world. It describes how people have actively …
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- 9783030002688
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- xix, 435p. : ill.
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- 363.61 ADA a
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