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Pynchon and Philosophy: Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno
The writings of Thomas Pynchon have spawned more critical commentary than almost any other American author of the last fifty years. Pynchon’s texts are perhaps most famed for their ‘difficulty and apparent unfriendliness’, as works that require, as Inger H. Dalsgaard, Luc Herman and Brian McHale put it, ‘a collective enterprise of reading wherein none of us could succeed without the hel…
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- 1
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- 9781137405500
- Collation
- XIII, 229p
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- 813.5409 MAR
Romano Del Nord. Teoria e prassi del progetto di architettura
Romano Del Nord has been a point of reference for Architectural Technology and a protagonist in academic research and the realization of building programs. Meditating on his work brings out the relationship between research, cultural and social commitment and realization skills that distinguished his mindset and his way of acting. The book offers a reasoned rereading of his writings, drawn from…
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- 4
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- 9788855183192
- Collation
- 482 p
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- -
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- 720 ROB r
The informal economy revisited : examining the past, envisioning the future
Contributor(s) Chen, Martha (editor) Carré, Françoise (editor) Language English Perlihat publikasi penuh This landmark volume brings together leading scholars in the field to investigate recent conceptual shifts, research findings and policy debates on the informal economy. Researchers, practitioners and policy makers will find this book an invaluable guide to the significance of the in…
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- -
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- 9780367191511
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- ix, 326 p
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- -
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- 330 CHE
Southeast Asian anthropologies: national traditions and transnational practices
Anthropology is a flourishing discipline in Southeast Asia. This book makes visible the development of national traditions and transnational practices of anthropology across the region. The authors are practising anthropologists with decades of experience in the intellectual traditions and institutions that have taken root in the region. Three overlapping issues are addressed in these pages. Fi…
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- 9789813250093
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- xi, 335 pages ; 23 cm
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- 301.0959 SOU s
Beyond narrative : exploring narrative liminality and its cultural work
This book calls for an investigation of the ›borderlands of narrativity‹ — the complex and culturally productive area where the symbolic form of narrative meets other symbolic logics, such as data(base), play, spectacle, or ritual. It opens up a conversation about the ›beyond‹ of narrative, about the myriad constellations in which narrativity interlaces with, rubs against, or morphs i…
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- 9783839461303
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- 271 p
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- -
- Call Number
- 420 HER b
Familiar strangers : a history of Muslims in Northwest China
The Chinese-speaking Muslims have for centuries been an inseparable but anomalous part of Chinese society--Sinophone yet incomprehensible, local yet outsiders, normal but different. Long regarded by the Chinese government as prone to violence, they have challenged fundamental Chinese conceptions of "self" and "other" and denied the totally transforming power of Chinese civilization by tenacious…
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- 9780295976440
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- 318 hlm
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- -
- Call Number
- 951.00882971
Invisible search and online search engines : the ubiquity of search in everyd…
Invisible Search and Online Search Engines considers the use of search engines in contemporary everyday life and the challenges this poses for media and information literacy. Looking for mediated information is mostly done online and arbitrated by the various tools and devices that people carry with them on a daily basis. Because of this, search engines have a significant impact on the structur…
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- 9781138328617
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- -
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- 025.0425 HAI
Microscale testing in aquatic toxicology : advances, techniques, and practice
Bioassays are among the ecotoxicologist's most effective weapons in the evaluation of water quality and the assessment of ecological impacts of effluents, chemicals, discharges, and emissions on the aquatic environment. Information on these assessment aids is needed throughout the international scientific and environmental management community. This comprehensive reference provides an excellent…
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- -
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- 9781351431453
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- ix, 720 p
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- -
- Call Number
- 628.161 WEL
Kingdom of Nokia : how a nation served the needs of one company
Kingdom of Nokia tells a fascinating story of corporatism in Finland. How did the mobile phone giant Nokia make the Finnish elite willing to serve the interests of the company? Nokia became a global player in mobile communications in the 1990s, and helped establish Anglo-Saxon capitalism in Finland. Through its success and strong lobbying, the company managed to capture the attention of Finnish…
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- -
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- 9789523690318
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- x + 265 p
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- 338.76213094897 CAR k
Pandora’s box: ethnography and the comparison of medical beliefs
In this book, written between 1979 and 2020, Gilbert Lewis distills a lifetime of insights he garnered as a medical anthropologist. He asks: How do beliefs about illness in different societies influence their members’ ability to heal? Despite the advances of Western medicine, what can it learn from non-Western societies that consider sickness and curing to be as much a matter of social relati…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781912808366
- Collation
- xvii + 304 p
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- -
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- 306.641 LEW p
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