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Communicative capacity : public encounters in participatory theory and practice
Participatory democracy has become an unshakable norm and its practice is widespread. Nowadays, public professionals and citizens regularly encounter each other in participatory practice to address shared problems. But while the frequency, pace and diversity of their public encounters has increased, communicating in participatory practice remains a challenging, fragile and demanding undertaking…
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- 9781447318507
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- X, 274 p.
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- 320.941 BAR c
Painting and publishing as cultural industries : the fabric of creativity in …
The Dutch Republic was a cultural powerhouse in the modern era, producing lasting masterpieces in painting and publishing-and in the process transforming those fields from modest trades to booming industries. This book asks the question of how such a small nation could become such a major player in those fields. Claartje Rasterhoff shows how industrial organisations played a role in shaping pat…
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- 9789089647023
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- 344 p.
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- Amsterdam Studies in the Golden Age
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- 338.47709492 RAS p
Women in the silent cinema
This magisterial book offers comprehensive accounts of the professional itineraries of three women in the silent film in the Netherlands, France and North America. Annette Förster presents a careful assessment of the long career of Dutch stage and film actress Adriënne Solser; an exploration of the stage and screen careers of French actress and filmmaker Musidora and Canadian-born actress and…
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- 9789048524518
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- 573 p.; 22 cm.
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- 791.43 FOR w
Poetics and politics
Far from teleological historiography, the pan-European perspective on Early Modern drama offered in this volume provides answers to why, how, where and when the given phenomena of theatre appear in history. Using theories of circulation and other concepts of exchange, transfer and movement, the authors analyze the development and differentiation of European secular and religious drama, within t…
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- 9783110536690
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- 280 p.; 22 cm.
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- 822 POE p
Emotional excess on the Shakespearean stage
Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. It argues that the ways in which today's popular and theatrical cultures judge how much is too much can distort our understanding of early modern drama and theatre. It argues that permitting the excesses of the early modern drama onto the contemporary stage m…
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- 9781408179680
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- 822 ESC e
How AI impacts urban living and public health : 17th International Conference…
This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on String Processing and Information Retrieval, ICOST 2019, held in New York City, NY, USA, in October 2019. The 15 full papers and 5 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. They cover topics such as: e-health technology design; well-being tech…
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- 9783030327859
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- xiii, 224p. : ill.
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- 362.6 HOW h
The beauty of geology: art of geology mapping in China over a century
This open access book contains a collection of rare geologic maps and figures made by Chinese geologists in the last century. Preserved in National Geological Archives of China, these artworks demonstrate the development and innovation of geological mapping technology in China in the past 100 years. The collections are highly scientific and artistic, with most of the hand-drawn maps featured wi…
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- 9789811337864
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- ix, 119p. : ill.
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- 551 BEU b
An anthology of asemic handwriting
An Anthology of Asemic Handwriting is the first book-length publication to collect the work of a community of writers on the edges of illegibility. Asemic writing is a galaxy-sized style of writing, which is everywhere yet remains largely unknown. For human observers, asemic writing may appear as lightning from a storm, a crack in the sidewalk, or the tail of a comet. But despite these observat…
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- 9789081709170
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- 213 p.
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- 411.09 JAC a
Enhanced living environments : algorithms, architectures, platforms, and systems
This open access book is the final publication of the COST Action IC1303 “Algorithms, Architectures and Platforms for Enhanced Living Environments (AAPELE)” project. Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is an area of research based on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), medical research, and sociological research. AAL is based on the notion that technology and science can provide im…
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- 9783030107529
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- xx, 322p. : ill.
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- 004.019 ENH e
Diseases of the Chest, Breast, Heart and Vessels 2019-2022 : Diagnostic and I…
This open access book focuses on diagnostic and interventional imaging of the chest, breast, heart, and vessels. It consists of a remarkable collection of contributions authored by internationally respected experts, featuring the most recent diagnostic developments and technological advances with a highly didactical approach. The chapters are disease-oriented and cover all the relevant imaging …
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- 9783030111496
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- viii, 238p. : ill.
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- 616.10757 DIS d
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