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The big reset : war on gold and the financial endgame
A system reset seems imminent. The world's financial system will need to find a new anchor before the year 2020. Since the beginning of the credit crisis, the US realized the dollar will lose its role as the world's reserve currency, and has been planning for a monetary reset. According to Willem Middelkoop, this reset will be designed to keep the US in the driver's seat, allowing the new monet…
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- 9789462980273
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- 330p. : ill.
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- 332.4222 MID b
Cosmopolitan archaeologies
This book delves into the politics of contemporary archaeology in an increasingly complex international environment. Describing various forms of cosmopolitan engagement, the contributors explore the implications of applying the cosmopolitan ideals of obligation to others and respect for cultural difference to archaeological practice, showing that those ethics increasingly demand the rethinking …
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- 9780822344322
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- 296p. : ill.
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- 930.1 COS c
Literacy skills as local intangible capital : the history of a rural lending …
"This book studies the ”grey area” of the success story of rural lending libraries in the Nordic countries through the activities of people’s libraries in one area of Central Finland. The study explores the influence of social, cultural, geographical and economic phenomena, such as the spread of revivalist movements, on the reading habits of the local population and reveals interesting re…
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- 9789522227966
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- 364p. : ill.
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- 020 KOT l
The datafied society : studying culture through data
As more and more aspects of everyday life are turned into machine-readable data, researchers are provided with rich resources for researching society. The novel methods and innovative tools to work with this data not only require new knowledge and skills, but also raise issues concerning the practices of investigation and publication. This book critically reflects on the role of data in academi…
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- 9789048531011
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- 267p. : ill.
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- 302.2 DAT d
Disabled bodies in early modern Spanish literature: prostitutes, aging women …
Encarnacion Juarez-Almendros.
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- 9781786940780
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- viii, 201 pages ; 24 cm.
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Close reading with computers : textual scholarship, computational formalism, …
Rather than working at the usual scales of distant reading, this book shows what happens when we bring techniques from the digital humanities to bear on a single novel for close readings.
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- 9781503609372
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- xv, 251p. : ill.
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- 823.914 EVE c
Narrative concepts in the study of eighteenth-century literature
This collection of essays studies the encounter between allegedly ahistorical concepts of narratology and eighteenth-century literature. It questions whether the general concepts of narratology are as such applicable to historically specific fields, or whether they need further specification. Furthermore, at issue is the question whether the theoretical concepts actually are, despite their appe…
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- 9789048527380
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- 314p. : ill.
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- 820.9005 NAR n
Taste, power, tradition: geographical indications as cultural property
The idea of origin in terms of space and culture as a special indicator of quality is one of the most influential strands in contemporary food. It impacts on politics, economics and everyday life – and it connects these fields with complex relations of power and culture. With geographical indications, the EU offers an instrument which allows for the declaration of specialties, qualified by…
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- 9783863952082
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- 132 page : ill.; 24 cm.
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- Gottinger Studien zu Cultural Property ; 10
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- 641 TAS t
From media hype to Twitter storm : the dynamics of self reinforcing processes…
The word media hype is often used as rhetorical argument to dismiss waves of media attention as overblown, disproportional and exaggerated. But these explosive news waves, as well as - nowadays - the twitter storms, are object of scientific research, because they are an important phenomenon in the public area. Sometimes it is indeed ‘much ado about nothing’ but in many cases these media sto…
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- 9789048532100
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- 401p. : ill.
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- 070.4 FRO f
The psychology of Silicon Valley : ethical threats and emotional unintelligen…
This open access book explores the conscious and unconscious norms, values, and characteristics that drive behaviors within the high-tech capital of the world, Silicon Valley, and the sector it represents. In an era where the reach and influence of a single industry has the potential to define the future of our world, it has become apparent just how little we know about the organizations drivin…
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- 9783030273644
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- viii, 314p. : ill.
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- 302.35 COO p
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