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Archaeology of Babel: The Colonial Foundation of the Humanities
For more than three decades, preeminent scholars in comparative literature and postcolonial studies have called for a return to philology as the indispensable basis of critical method in the humanities. Against such calls, this book argues that the privilege philology has always enjoyed within the modern humanities silently reinforces a colonial hierarchy. In fact, each of philology's foundatio…
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- 9781503604049
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- 281 p
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- 407 SIR a
Wanderers : literature, culture and the open road
This book introduces the idea and experience of wandering, as re-fected in cultural texts from popular songs to philosophical anal-ysis, providing both a fascinating informal history and a necessary vantage point for understanding—in our era—the emergence of new wanderers. Wanderers offers a fast-paced, wide-ranging, and compelling in-troduction to this s…
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- 9781003255307
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- xii + 143 p
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- 809.93352691 MOR w
Divining Nature: Aesthetics of Enchantment in Enlightenment France
The Enlightenment remains widely associated with the rise of scientific progress and the loss of religious faith, a dual tendency that is thought to have contributed to the disenchantment of the world. In her wide-ranging and richly illustrated book, Tili Boon Cuillé questions the accuracy of this narrative by investigating the fate of the marvelous in the age of reason. Exploring the affiniti…
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- 9781503614178
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- 700.108094409033 CUI d
Authoritarian populism and the rural world
The rise of authoritarian, nationalist forms of populism and the implications for rural actors and settings is one of the most crucial foci for critical agrarian studies today, with many consequences for political action.Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World reflects on the rural origins and consequences of the emergence of authoritarian and populist leaders across the worl…
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- 9781003162353
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- xv + 503 p
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- 307.72 AUT a
Celebrity bromances : constructing, interpreting and utilising personas
This comprehensive work presents a thorough exploration of celebrity “bromances,” interrogating how bromances are portrayed in media and consumed by audiences to examine themes of celebrity persona, performativity and authenticity. The authors examine how the performance of intimate male friendships functions within broadly “Western” celebrity culture from thr…
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- 9781003093329
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- xviii + 140 p
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- 791.430280811 LAM c
A cultural approach to populism
This book is a critical introduction of theorisations and research on contemporary political populism emphasising the cultural per-spective. It introduces the basic theories and analyses the cultural construction of populism regarding radical democratic theory and empirical studies.Applying Ernesto Laclau’s and Chantal Mouffe’s theories, the author builds …
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- 9781003267539
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- ix + 128 p
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- 320.5662 AUC j
Structural health monitoring damage detection systems for aerospace
This open access book presents established methods of structural health monitoring (SHM) and discusses their technological merit in the current aerospace environment. While the aerospace industry aims for weight reduction to improve fuel efficiency, reduce environmental impact, and to decrease maintenance time and operating costs, aircraft structures are often designed and built heavier than re…
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- 9783030721923
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- XII, 284 p
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- 624.17 MAR s
An invitation to statistics in Wasserstein space
This open access book presents the key aspects of statistics in Wasserstein spaces, i.e. statistics in the space of probability measures when endowed with the geometry of optimal transportation. Further to reviewing state-of-the-art aspects, it also provides an accessible introduction to the fundamentals of this current topic, as well as an overview that will serve as an invitation and catalyst…
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- 9783030384388
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- XIII, 147 p
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- 519.5 VIC a
The sanitation triangle : socio-culture, health and materials
This open access book deals with global sanitation, where SDG 6.2 sets a target of enabling access to sanitation services for all, but has not yet been achieved in low- and middle-income countries. The transition from the United Nations MDGs to the SDGs requires more consideration based on the socio-cultural aspects of global sanitation. In other words, equitable sanitation for those in vulnera…
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- 9789811677113
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- x + 264 p
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- 363.72 THE t
Remote sensing of plant biodiversity
This Open Access volume aims to methodologically improve our understanding of biodiversity by linking disciplines that incorporate remote sensing, and uniting data and perspectives in the fields of biology, landscape ecology, and geography. The book provides a framework for how biodiversity can be detected and evaluated—focusing particularly on plants—using proximal and remotely sensed hype…
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- 9783030331573
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- xxii + 581 p
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- 333.9530285 JEA r
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