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Time for mapping: cartographic temporalities
"The digital era has brought about huge transformations in the map itself, which to date have been largely conceptualised in spatial terms. Novel objects, forms, processes and approaches have emerged and pose new, pressing questions about the temporality of digital maps and contemporary mapping practices: in spite of its implicit spatiality, digital mapping is strongly grounded in time. This co…
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- 9781526122520
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- 140p: ill.
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- 526 HIN t
China's gas development strategies
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book examines how China can increase the share of natural gas in its energy system. China’s energy strategy has global ramifications and impact, and central to this strategy is the country’s transition from coal to gas. The book presents the culmination of a two-year collaboration between the Development Research Center of the State C…
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- 9783319597348
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- xlviii, 477p. : ill.
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- 553.285 CHI c
Sergei M. Eisenstein: notes for a general history of cinema
One of the iconic figures of the twentieth-century cinema, Sergei Eisenstein is best known as the director of The Battleship Potemkin, Alexander Nevskii and Ivan the Terrible. His craft as director and film editor left a distinct mark on such key figures of the Western cinema as Nicolas Roeg, Francis Ford Coppola, Sam Peckinpah and Akiro Kurosawa.This comprehensive volume of Eisenstein’s writ…
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- 9789089648440
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- Film Theory in Media History
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- 791.430233092 SER s
Going public : what writing programs learn from engagement
An important new resource for WPA preparation courses. In Going Public, Rose and Weiser moderate a discussion of the role of the writing program vis-a-vis the engagement movement, the service learning movement, and the current interest in public discourse/civic rhetoric among scholars of rhetoric and composition. While there have been a number of publications describing service-learning and com…
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- 9780874217698
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- II, 259 p.
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- 428.00712 ROS g
The unmaking of home in contemporary art
In a world where the notion of home is more traumatizing than it is comforting, artists are using this literal and figurative space to reframe human responses to trauma. Building on the scholarship of key art historians and theorists such as Judith Butler and Mieke Bal, Claudette Lauzon embarks upon a transnational analysis of contemporary artists who challenge the assumption that ‘home’ is…
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- 9781442649828
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- IX, 212 p.
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- Cultural Spaces
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- 704.9496431 LAU u
Satellite Earth observations and their impact on society and policy
The result of a workshop bringing together an international advisory board of experts in science, satellite technologies, industry innovations, and public policy, this book addresses the current and future roles of satellite Earth observations in solving large-scale environmental problems. The book showcases the results of engaging distinct communities to enhance our ability to identify emergin…
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- 9789811037139
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- xxv, 221p. : ill.
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- 550.285 SAT s
Intelligent human computer interaction : 9th International Conference, IHCI 2…
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction, IHCI 2017, held in Evry, France, in December 2017.The 15 papers presented together with three invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. The conference is forum for the presentation of technological advances and research results a…
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- 9783319720388
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- xviii, 216p. : ill.
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- 004.019 INT i
Promoting active citizenship : markets and choice in Scandinavian welfare
This book analyses the considerable variation in the shares of private provision for core services in education, health and social services, in the Scandinavian countries. The chapters compare countries, service areas, and the for-profit, non-profit and public sectors. Each focuses on different levels of change: the mix of welfare providers, national laws and regulations, governance in munic…
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- 9783319553818
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- xiv, 325p. : ill.
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- 305 PRO p
Grassroots politics and oil culture in Venezuela : the revolutionary petro-state
This book presents an ethnographic study of how grassroots activism in Venezuela during the Chávez presidency can be understood in relation to the country's history as a petro-state. Taking the contested relationship between the popular sectors and the Venezuelan state as a point of departure, Iselin Åsedotter Strønen explores how notions such as class, race, state, bureaucracy, popular poli…
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- 9783319595078
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- xxi, 357p. : ill.
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- 987.0642 STR g
Creative business in Australia : learnings from the creative industries innov…
As the largest ever Australian government investment in creative industries development, the Creative Industries Innovation Centre delivered tailored business services to more than 1500 creative businesses from 2009 to 2015 and provided industry intelligence and advice for public policy and peak sectoral activity. This collection gives an overview of the current ‘state of business’ in Austr…
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- 9780992451820
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- 260 p.
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- 338.477 CRE c
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