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Silent Messengers (Book)

Sven Dupré (Editor), Christoph Lüthy (Editor)

This book speaks about a world of mute objects ranging from plant bulbs, divining rods, and archeological findings to drawn, painted or printed images. It describes the functions of these objects as ambiguous and polyvalent carriers of knowledge, and analyzes the ways in [...]

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Centres and Cycles of Accumulation in and Around the Netherlands during the Early Modern Period (Book)

Lissa Roberts (Editor)

The Netherlands housed a number of widely known, envied and emulated centres of accumulation during the early modern period. Raw and manufactured goods passed through Dutch port cities, linking the country to global cycles of accumulation and exchange. Its institutions of [...]

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Some Remarks (Book)

Neal Stephenson (Author)

In this definitive collection of Stephenson's writings, journalism and meditations, the great American polymath puts the 20th Century - mathematics, cryptography, philosophy, currency, and the history of science and technology- under his eclectic and unflinching gaze.

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The English Ghost: Spectres Through Time (Book)

Peter Ackroyd (Author)

From medieval times to today, stories have been told and apparitions seen - ghosts who avenge injustice, souls who long for peace, spooks who just want to have fun. This title is a treasury of such sightings. It includes accounts ranging from the door-slamming, shrieking [...]

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Vocabulary of Decoloniality (Book)

Das Vocabulary of Decoloniality eröffnet das Konzept der Dekolonialität als widerständige Option gegen gegenwärtige Formen der Unterdrückung durch den neo-liberalen globalen Kapitalismus, der auf einem historischen Kolonialismus basiert und imperialistische Kontinuitäten [...]

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The Psychology of Genocide (Book)

Steven K. Baum (Author)

A chilling examination of how genocide divides us into perpetrators, rescuers and bystanders.

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Park Youth in Vienna (Book)

Danila Mayer (Author)

Young urbanites in Vienna who spend most of their leisure time in public neighborhood parks come forward in this study. Their daily lives and their fragmented prospects are shown. The book develops a general view on growing up in cities into an in-depth representation of [...]

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China Cultural & Creative Industries Reports (Book)

Pat Wood (Editor), Hardy Yong Xiang (Editor)

This collection provides access to up to date, very high quality research and critical perspectives on China s CCIs on an industry by industry basis. Industries dealt with by this collection include: advertising, architecture, art and antiques, computer games, crafts, [...]

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The Swerve (Book)

Stephen Greenblatt (Author), Stephen J. Greenblatt (Author)

In this book the author transports readers to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued the Roman philosophical text On the Nature of Things from certain oblivion. In this work he has crafted both a work ofhistory and a story [...]

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Cultural Composition (Book)

Yunhe Pan (Author)

"Cultural Composition" discusses the intrinsic relationship between culture imagery and visual expression, and for the first time proposed the concepts and methods that take culture as some design elements. Recursive mathematical logic is introduced to resolve the dynamic [...]

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Mobility and Environment (Book)

Corrado Poli (Author)

The transportation revolution does not simply mean taking a bus instead of a car. It means centering the political debate on the necessity to shift dramatically from a technical to a political culture, and from an economic development oriented policy to an environment [...]

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The Social Production of Scientific Knowledge (Book)

E. Mendelsohn (Editor), P. Weingart (Editor), R. D. Whitely (Editor), R.D. Whitely (Editor)

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The Case for God: What Religion Really Means (Book)

Karen Armstrong (Author)

Tracing the history of faith from the Palaeolithic Age to the present, this title shows that meaning of words such as 'belief', 'faith', and 'mystery' has been entirely altered, so that atheists and theists alike think and speak about God - and, indeed, reason itself - in a [...]

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Menschen-Bilder (Book)

Markus Hilgert (Editor), Michael Wink (Editor)

International renommierte Autoren zeichnen in Band 54 der Heidelberger Jahrbücher Menschen-Bilder und stellen damit das Humane in der Wissenschaft dar. Dabei legen sie innovative Fragestellungen zugrunde und betrachten diese Menschen-Bilder je nach wissenschaftlicher [...]

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Drunk on Capitalism. An Interdisciplinary Reflection on Market Economy, Art and Science (Book)

Diederik Aerts (Editor), Frederik Le Roy (Editor), Christel Stalpaert (Editor), Robrecht Vanderbeeken (Editor)

This interdisciplinary collection of analyses discusses the impact of market economy on art and science in the post-wall era. The first part, Science for Sale, focuses on the new alliances of contemporary science and education with commercial funding and the commodification [...]

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