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Icelandic folklore and the cultural memory of religious change
This book attempts to understand the origins and development of religious belief in Iceland and greater Scandinavia through the lenses of five carefully selected Icelandic folktales collected in Iceland during the nineteenth century. Each of these five stories has a story of its own: a historical and cultural context, a literary legacy, influences from beliefs of all kinds (orthodox and heterod…
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- 9781641893763
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- VII, 162 p.
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- Borderlines,
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- 398 BRY i
A political science manifesto for the age of populism : challenging growth, m…
Populism and authoritarian-populist parties have surged in the 21st century. In the United States, Donald Trump appears to have become the poster president for the surge. David M. Ricci, in this call to arms, thinks Trump is symptomatic of the changes that have caused a crisis among Americans - namely, mass economic and creative destruction: automation, outsourcing, deindustrialization, globali…
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- 9781108785440
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- x, 245p. : ill.
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- 320.473 RIC p
Global governance and the emergence of global institutions for the 21st century
Is there any hope for those who despair at the state of the world and the powerlessness of governments to find a way forward? Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century provides ambitious but reasonable proposals to give our globalized world the institutions of international governance necessary to address effectively the catastrophic risks facing humanity t…
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- 9781108569293
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- xiv, 545p. : ill.
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- 341.7 LOP g
How we read : tales, fury, Nothing, sound
What do we do when we read? Reading can be an act of consumption or an act of creation. Our “work reading” overlaps with our “pleasure reading,” and yet these two modes of reading engage with different parts of the self. It is sometimes passive, sometimes active, and can even be an embodied form. The contributors to this volume share their own histories of reading in order to reveal the…
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- 9781950192311
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- 186 p.; 22cm.
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- 028.9 HEL h
Haptics : science, technology, applications : 12th International Conference, …
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human Haptic Sensing and Touch Enabled Computer Applications, EuroHaptics 2020, held in Leiden, The Netherlands, in September 2020. The 60 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 111 submissions. The were organized in topical sections on haptic science, haptic technolo…
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- 9783030581473
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- xviii, 557p. : ill.
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- 005.437 HAP h
Majalah Literasi Indonesia : Agustus 2020
Diterbitkan berkala dan didistribusikan secara gratis oleh Media Guru Indonesia. Bacaan wajib penggiat literasi untuk memajukan gerakan menulis dan membaca di Indonesia.
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- 26565269
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- 224p. : ill.
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- 371.3 EKO m
Hope lies in the proles:George Orwell and the Left
George Orwell was one of the most significant literary figures on the left in the twentieth century. While titles such as 1984, Animal Farm and Homage to Catalonia are still rightly regarded as modern classics, his own politics are less well understood. Hope Lies in the Proles offers a sympathetic yet critical account of Orwell's political thinking and its continued significance today. John New…
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- 9781786801890
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- Northampton, England
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- 828.91209 NEW h
Atlas of challenges and opportunities in European neighbourhoods : stemming f…
This atlas provides a macro-regional overview of the areas that surround the European Union, from the Sahara to the Middle East, Western Balkans to European Russia, Turkey to the Arctic. Detailing key socio-economic data as well as developmental trends, the maps provide a comprehensive territorial analysis at a local scale and explore the potential for regional integration and cooperation. Thes…
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- 9783319285214
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- xxiii, 198p. : ill.
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- 304.2 ATL a
Musical haptics
This Open Access book offers an original interdisciplinary overview of the role of haptic feedback in musical interaction. Divided into two parts, part I examines the tactile aspects of music performance and perception, discussing how they affect user experience and performance in terms of usability, functionality and perceived quality of musical instruments. Part II presents engineering, compu…
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- 9783319583167
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- xv, 285p. : ill.
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- 004.77 MUS m
Shakespeare's history plays : rethinking historicism
Shakespeare's History Plays boldly moves criticism of Shakespeare's history plays beyond anti-humanist theoretical approaches. This important intervention in the critical and theoretical discourse of Shakespeare studies summarises, evaluates and ultimately calls time on the mode of criticism that has prevailed in Shakespeare studies over the past thirty years. It heralds a new, more dynamic way…
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- 9781474423540
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- vii, 236 p.; 22 cm.
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- 822.33 PAR s
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