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Reading the Juggler of Notre Dame : Medieval Miracles and Modern Remakings
Jan M. Ziolkowski;Jan M. Ziolkowski
In this two-part anthology, Jan M. Ziolkowski builds on themes uncovered in his earlie...
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Reading the Juggler of Notre Dame : Medieval Miracles and Modern Remakings
2022
In this two-part anthology, Jan M. Ziolkowski builds on themes uncovered in his earlier The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity. Here he focuses particularly on the performing arts. Part one contextualises Our Lady's Tumbler, a French poem of the late 1230s, by comparing it with episodes in the Bible and miracles in a wide variety of medieval European sources. It relates this material to analogues and folklore across the ages from, among others, Persian, Jewish and Hungarian cultures. Part two scrutinizes the reception and impact of the poem with reference to modern European and American literature, including works by the Nobel prize-winner Anatole France, professor-poet Katharine Lee Bates, philosopher-historian Henry Adams and poet W.H. Auden. This innovative collection of sources introduces readers to many previously untranslated texts, and invites them to explore the journey of Our Lady's Tumbler across both sides of the Atlantic. Reading the Juggler of Notre Dame: Medieval Miracles and Modern Remakings will benefit scholars and students alike. The short introductions and numerous annotations shed light on unusual beliefs and practices of the past, making the readings accessible to anyone with an interest in the arts and an openness to the Middle Ages.
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Performing arts--United States--History--20th century - Tombeor Nostre Dame--Influence - Civilization, Medieval--InfluenceContent provider:
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Mobilising the Masses : Populist Conservative Movements in Australia and New Zealand During the Great Depression
Matthew Cunningham;Matthew Cunningham
The radical right has gained considerable ground in the twenty-first century. From Bre...
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Mobilising the Masses : Populist Conservative Movements in Australia and New Zealand During the Great Depression
2022
The radical right has gained considerable ground in the twenty-first century. From Brexit to Bolsonaro and Tea Partiers to Trump, many of these diverse manifestations of right-wing populism share a desire to co‑opt or supplant the mainstream parties that have traditionally held sway over the centre right. It is now more important than ever to understand similar moments in Australian and New Zealand history.This book concerns one such moment—the Great Depression—and the explosion of large, populist conservative groups that accompanied the crisis. These'citizens'movements', as they described themselves, sprang into being virtually overnight and amassed a combined membership in the hundreds of thousands. They staunchly opposed party politicians and political parties for their supposed inaction and infighting. Whether left or right, it did not matter. They wanted to use their vast numbers to pressure their governments into enacting proposals they believed were in the national interest: a smaller, more streamlined government where Members of Parliament were free to act according to their conscience rather than their party allegiance. At the same time, the movements prescribed antidotes for their nations'economic ill‑health that were often radical and occasionally anti-democratic.At the height of their power, they threatened to disrupt or outright replace the centre right political parties of the time—particularly in Australia. At a time when fascism and right-wing authoritarianism were on the march internationally, the future shape of conservative politics was at stake.
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Conservatism--New Zealand--History--20th century - Conservatism--Australia--History--20th centuryContent provider:
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Divine Domesticities : Christian Paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific
Hyaeweol Choi;Margaret Jolly;Hyaeweol Choi;Margaret Jolly
Divine Domesticities: Christian Paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific fills a huge lacuna ...
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Divine Domesticities : Christian Paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific
2014
Divine Domesticities: Christian Paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific fills a huge lacuna in the scholarly literature on missionaries in Asia/Pacific and is transnational history at its finest. Co-edited by two eminent scholars, this multidisciplinary volume, an outgrowth of several conferences/seminars, critically examines various encounters between western missionaries and indigenous women in the Pacific/Asia … Taken as a whole, this is a thought-provoking and an indispensable reference, not only for students of colonialism/imperialism but also for those of us who have an interest in transnational and gender history in general. The chapters are very clearly written, engaging, and remarkably accessible; the stories are compelling and the research is thorough. The illustrations are equally riveting and the bibliography is extremely useful.—Theodore Jun Yoo, History Department, University of Hawai'iThe editors of this collection of papers have done an excellent job of creating a coherent set of case studies that address the diverse impacts of missionaries and Christianity on'domesticity', and therefore on the women and children who were assumed to be the rightful inhabitants of that sphere … The introduction to the volume is beautifully written and sets up the rest of the volume in a comprehensive way. It explains the book's aim to advance theoretical and methodological issues by exploring the role of missionary encounters in the development of modern domesticities; showing the agency of indigenous women in negotiating both change and continuity; and providing a wide range of case studies to show ‘breadth and complexity'and the local and national specificities of engagements with both missionaries and modernity. My view is that all three aims are well and truly fulfilled.—Helen Lee, Head, Sociology and Anthropology, La Trobe University, Melbourne
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Missions--Asia - Indigenous women--Pacific Area - Indigenous women--Asia - Missions--Pacific Area - Indigenous womenContent provider:
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Susan Isaacs : A Life Freeing the Minds of Children
Philip Graham;Philip Graham
This revised and expanded edition of Susan Isaacs: A Life Freeing the Minds of Childre...
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Susan Isaacs : A Life Freeing the Minds of Children
2023
This revised and expanded edition of Susan Isaacs: A Life Freeing the Minds of Children by Philip Graham, provides a comprehensive biography of a highly influential educationist and psychoanalyst. The book covers Isaacs'childhood through to the end of her life, making it of great interest to historians of British education and of psychoanalysis as well as to practicing early years teachers and psychoanalysts. Graham describes the origins of the theories behind Isaacs'work while also placing her contribution into context with other contemporary educationists. He draws on a range of sources including her own published and unpublished papers, multiple archives and intimate letters. Such wealth of information and anecdotes gives an insight into her childhood, marriage, and career creating a deeper understanding of both Isaacs'personal life and her achievements. As only the second biography on Isaacs, this book is a valuable resource that shines a light on the life of a figure who has often been neglected in this field of study. It provides a shift away from the various male-dominated accounts currently prevalent within this area of research. Susan Isaacs is crucial reading to raise our awareness and appreciation of the person behind the work, while also highlighting and celebrating the impact she has made on today's education and psychoanalytic practice.
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Child psychoanalysts--Great Britain--Biography - Teachers--Great Britain--BiographyContent provider:
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The Handbook of Lexical Functional Grammar
Dalrymple, Mary;Dalrymple, Mary
Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) is a nontransformational theory oflinguistic structur...
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The Handbook of Lexical Functional Grammar
2023; Vol. 00013
Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) is a nontransformational theory oflinguistic structure, first developed in the 1970s by Joan Bresnan andRonald M. Kaplan, which assumes that language is best described andmodeled by parallel structures representing different facets oflinguistic organization and information, related by means offunctional correspondences. This volume has five parts. Part I,Overview and Introduction, provides an introduction to core syntacticconcepts and representations. Part II, Grammatical Phenomena, reviewsLFG work on a range of grammatical phenomena or constructions. PartIII, Grammatical modules and interfaces, provides an overview of LFGwork on semantics, argument structure, prosody, information structure,and morphology. Part IV, Linguistic disciplines, reviews LFG work inthe disciplines of historical linguistics, learnability,psycholinguistics, and second language learning. Part V, Formal andcomputational issues and applications, provides an overview ofcomputational and formal properties of the theory, implementations,and computational work on parsing, translation, grammar induction, andtreebanks. Part VI, Language families and regions, reviews LFG workon languages spoken in particular geographical areas or in particularlanguage families. The final section, Comparing LFG with otherlinguistic theories, discusses LFG work in relation to othertheoretical approaches.
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Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing
Andreas Neef;Chanrith Ngin;Tsegaye Moreda;Sharlene Mollett;Andreas Neef;Cha...
This handbook provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive overview of global land and resou...
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Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing
2023
This handbook provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive overview of global land and resource grabbing. Global land and resource grabbing has become an increasingly prominent topic in academic circles, among development practitioners, human rights advocates, and in policy arenas. The Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing sustains this intellectual momentum by advancing methodological, theoretical and empirical insights. It presents and discusses resource grabbing research in a holistic manner by addressing how the rush for land and other natural resources, including water, forests and minerals, is intertwined with agriculture, mining, tourism, energy, biodiversity conservation, climate change, carbon markets, and conflict. The handbook is truly global and interdisciplinary, with case studies from the Global South and Global North, and chapter contributions from practitioners, activists and academics, with emerging and Indigenous authors featuring strongly across the chapters. The handbook will be essential reading for students and scholars interested in land and resource grabbing, agrarian studies, development studies, critical human geography, global studies and natural resource governance. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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RNA, the Epicenter of Genetic Information
John Mattick;Paulo Amaral;John Mattick;Paulo Amaral
The origin story and emergence of molecular biology is muddled. The early triumphs in ...
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RNA, the Epicenter of Genetic Information
2023
The origin story and emergence of molecular biology is muddled. The early triumphs in bacterial genetics and the complexity of animal and plant genomes complicate an intricate history. This book documents the many advances, as well as the prejudices and founder fallacies. It highlights the premature relegation of RNA to simply an intermediate between gene and protein, the underestimation of the amount of information required to program the development of multicellular organisms, and the dawning realization that RNA is the cornerstone of cell biology, development, brain function and probably evolution itself. Key personalities, their hubris as well as prescient predictions are richly illustrated with quotes, archival material, photographs, diagrams and references to bring the people, ideas and discoveries to life, from the conceptual cradles of molecular biology to the current revolution in the understanding of genetic information. Key Features Documents the confused early history of DNA, RNA and proteins - a transformative history of molecular biology like no other. Integrates the influences of biochemistry and genetics on the landscape of molecular biology. Chronicles the important discoveries, preconceptions and misconceptions that retarded or misdirected progress. Highlights major pioneers and contributors to molecular biology, with a focus on RNA and noncoding DNA. Summarizes the mounting evidence for the central roles of non-protein-coding RNA in cell and developmental biology. Provides a thought-provoking retrospective and forward-looking perspective for advanced students and professional researchers. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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RNA - Molecular biology--History - GenomesContent provider:
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The News at the Ends of the Earth : The Print Culture of Polar Exploration
Hester Blum;Hester Blum
From Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 search for the Northwest Passage to early twentie...
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The News at the Ends of the Earth : The Print Culture of Polar Exploration
2019
From Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 search for the Northwest Passage to early twentieth-century sprints to the South Pole, polar expeditions produced an extravagant archive of documents that are as varied as they are engaging. As the polar ice sheets melt, fragments of this archive are newly emergent. In The News at the Ends of the Earth Hester Blum examines the rich, offbeat collection of printed ephemera created by polar explorers. Ranging from ship newspapers and messages left in bottles to menus and playbills, polar writing reveals the seamen wrestling with questions of time, space, community, and the environment. Whether chronicling weather patterns or satirically reporting on penguin mischief, this writing provided expedition members with a set of practices to help them survive the perpetual darkness and harshness of polar winters. The extreme climates these explorers experienced is continuous with climate change today. Polar exploration writing, Blum contends, offers strategies for confronting and reckoning with the extreme environment of the present.
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Survival--Psychological aspects - Explorers--Polar regions--Diaries - Human ecology--Psychological aspects - Climatic changes--Psychological aspectsContent provider:
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Manuscript and Print in the Islamic Tradition
Scott Reese;Scott Reese
This volume explores and calls into question certain commonly held assumptions about w...
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Manuscript and Print in the Islamic Tradition
2022; Vol. 00026
This volume explores and calls into question certain commonly held assumptions about writing and technological advancement in the Islamic tradition. In particular, it challenges the idea that mechanical print naturally and inevitably displaces handwritten texts as well as the notion that the so-called transition from manuscript to print is unidirectional. Indeed, rather than distinct technologies that emerge in a progressive series (one naturally following the other), they frequently co-exist in complex and complementary relationships – relationships we are only now starting to recognize and explore.The book brings together essays by internationally recognized scholars from an array of disciplines (including philology, linguistics, religious studies, history, anthropology, and typography) whose work focuses on the written word – channeled through various media – as a social and cultural phenomenon within the Islamic tradition. These essays promote systematic approaches to the study of Islamic writing cultures writ large, in an effort to further our understanding of the social, cultural and intellectual relationships between manuscripts, printed texts and the people who use and create them.
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Manuscripts--Islamic Empire - Islamic civilization--Manuscripts - Early printed books--Islamic EmpireContent provider:
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Between Constantinople, the Papacy, and the Caliphate : The Melkite Church in the Islamicate World, 634-969
Krzysztof Kościelniak;Krzysztof Kościelniak
This volume examines the Melkite church from the Arab invasion of Syria in 634 until 9...
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Between Constantinople, the Papacy, and the Caliphate : The Melkite Church in the Islamicate World, 634-969
2022
This volume examines the Melkite church from the Arab invasion of Syria in 634 until 969. The Melkite Patriarchates were established in Antioch, Jerusalem and Alexandria and, following the Arab campaigns in Syria and Egypt, they all came under the new Muslim state. Over the next decades the Melkite church underwent a process of gradual marginalization, moving from the privileged position of the state confession to becoming one of the religious minorities of the Caliphate. This transition took place in the context of theological and political interactions with the Byzantine Empire, the Patriarchate of Constantinople, the Papacy and, over time, with the reborn Roman Empire in the West. Exploring the various processes within the Melkite church this volume also examines Caliphate–Byzantine interactions, the cultural and religious influences of Constantinople, the synthesis of Greek, Arab and Syriac elements, the process of Arabization of communities, and Melkite relations with distant Rome.
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Christianity and other religions--IslamContent provider:
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Play Among Books : A Symposium on Architecture and Information Spelt in Atom-Letters
Miro Roman;Alice _ch3n81;Ludger Hovestadt;Vera Bühlmann;Miro Roman;Alice _c...
Wie verändert Codierung unser Denken über Architektur? Eine Frage, die in der Forschun...
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Play Among Books : A Symposium on Architecture and Information Spelt in Atom-Letters
2022; Vol. 00017
Wie verändert Codierung unser Denken über Architektur? Eine Frage, die in der Forschung eine wichtige Perspektive eröffnet. Miro Roman und seine KI Alice_ch3n81 entfalten in diesem Buch ein wahrhaft spielerisches Szenario, in dem sie Codierung als neue Alphabetisierung für Informationen vorschlagen. Erkenntnis vermittelt es in Form eines Projektmodells, das die Bereiche Architektur und Information durch zwei verflochtene Erzählstränge in einem „unendlichen Fluss'realer Bücher miteinander verknüpft. Mit dem Fokus auf der Schnittmenge von Informationstechnologie und architektonischer Formulierung entsteht so eine immer weiterführende intellektuelle Reflexion zu digitaler Architektur und Computerwissenschaft.
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Computer-aided design - Architecture--Data processing - Computer architectureContent provider:
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Anxious Eaters : Why We Fall for Fad Diets
Janet Chrzan;Kima Cargill;Janet Chrzan;Kima Cargill
What makes fad diets so appealing to so many people? How did there get to be so many d...
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Anxious Eaters : Why We Fall for Fad Diets
2022
What makes fad diets so appealing to so many people? How did there get to be so many different ones, often with eerily similar prescriptions? Why do people cycle on and off diets, perpetually searching for that one simple trick that will solve everything? And how did these fads become so central to conversations about food and nutrition?Anxious Eaters shows that fad diets are popular because they fulfill crucial social and psychological needs—which is also why they tend to fail. Janet Chrzan and Kima Cargill bring together anthropology, psychology, and nutrition to explore what these programs promise yet rarely fulfill for dieters. They demonstrate how fad diets help people cope with widespread anxieties and offer tantalizing glimpses of attainable self-transformation. Chrzan and Cargill emphasize the social contexts of diets, arguing that beliefs about nutrition are deeply rooted in pervasive cultural narratives. Although people choose to adopt new eating habits for individual reasons, broader forces shape why fad diets seem to make sense.Considering dietary beliefs and practices in terms of culture, nutrition, and individual psychological needs, Anxious Eaters refrains from moralizing or promoting a “right” way to eat. Instead, it offers new ways of understanding the popularity of a wide range of eating trends, including the Atkins Diet and other low- or no-carb diets; beliefs that ingredients like wheat products and sugars are toxic, allergenic, or addictive; food avoidance and “Clean Eating” practices; and paleo or primal diets. Anxious Eaters sheds new light on why people adopt such diets and why these diets remain so attractive even though they often fail.
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Reducing diets--Social aspects - Reducing diets--Psychological aspects - Diet--Social aspects - Food habits--Social aspects - Nutrition--Social aspectsContent provider:
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Suva Stories : A History of the Capital of Fiji
Nicholas Halter;Nicholas Halter
Suva Stories explores a fascinating tapestry of histories in one of the Pacific's olde...
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Suva Stories : A History of the Capital of Fiji
2022
Suva Stories explores a fascinating tapestry of histories in one of the Pacific's oldest and most culturally diverse urban centres, the capital of Fiji. Charting the trajectory of Suva from indigenous village to colonial hub to contemporary Pacific metropolis, it draws on a rich colonial archive and moving personal memoirs that bear witness to their time. The diverse contributions in this volume form a complex mosaic of urban lives and histories that contribute fresh insights into historical and ongoing debates about race, place and belonging. Suva Stories is a valuable companion to those seeking to engage with the city's pasts and present, and will prompt new conversations about history and memory in Fiji.
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Life, Re-Scaled : The Biological Imagination in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Performance
Liliane Campos;Pierre-Louis Patoine;Liliane Campos;Pierre-Louis Patoine
This edited volume explores new engagements with the life sciences in contemporary fic...
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Life, Re-Scaled : The Biological Imagination in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Performance
2022
This edited volume explores new engagements with the life sciences in contemporary fiction, poetry, comics and performance. The gathered case studies investigate how recent creative work reframes the human within microscopic or macroscopic scales, from cellular biology to systems ecology, and engages with the ethical, philosophical, and political issues raised by the twenty-first century's shifting views of life. The collection thus examines literature and performance as spaces that shape our contemporary biological imagination. Comprised of thirteen chapters by an international group of academics, Life, Re-Scaled: The Biological Imagination in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Performance engages with four main areas of biological study: ‘Invisible scales: cells, microbes and mycelium', ‘Neuro-medical imaging and diagnosis', ‘Pandemic imaginaries', and ‘Ecological scales'. The authors examine these concepts in emerging forms such as plant theatre, climate change art, ecofiction and pandemic fiction, including the work of Jeff Vandermeer, Jon McGregor, Jeff Lemire, and Extinction Rebellion's Red Rebel Brigade performances. This valuable resource moves beyond the biological paradigms that were central to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to outline the specificity of a contemporary imagination. Life, Re-Scaled is crucial reading for academics, scholars, and authors alike, as it proposes an unprecedented overview of the relationship between literature, performance and the life sciences in the twenty-first century.
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Literature and medicine - Performing arts - Life sciences--In art - Life sciences in literature - Ecology in art - Ecology in literatureContent provider:
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Uncovering Pacific Pasts : Histories of Archaeology in Oceania
Hilary Howes;Tristen Jones;Matthew Spriggs;Hilary Howes;Tristen Jones;Matth...
Objects have many stories to tell. The stories of their makers and their uses. Stories...
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Uncovering Pacific Pasts : Histories of Archaeology in Oceania
2022
Objects have many stories to tell. The stories of their makers and their uses. Stories of exchange, acquisition, display and interpretation. This book is a collection of essays highlighting some of the collections, and their object biographies, that were displayed in the Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania (UPP) exhibition. The exhibition, which opened on 1 March 2020, sought to bring together both notable and relatively unknown Pacific material culture and archival collections from around the globe, displaying them simultaneously in their home institutions and linked online at www.uncoveringpacificpasts.org. Thirty‑eight collecting institutions participated in UPP, including major collecting institutions in the United Kingdom, continental Europe and the Americas, as well as collecting institutions from across the Pacific.
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Archaeology--Oceania--HistoryContent provider:
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Roman Frontier Archaeology – in Britain and Beyond : Papers in Honour of Paul Bidwell Presented on the Occasion of the 30th Annual Conference of the Arbeia Society
Nick Hodgson;Bill Griffiths;Nick Hodgson;Bill Griffiths
Roman Frontier Archaeology – in Britain and beyond gathers contributions by some 30 le...
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Roman Frontier Archaeology – in Britain and Beyond : Papers in Honour of Paul Bidwell Presented on the Occasion of the 30th Annual Conference of the Arbeia Society
2022; Vol. 00092
Roman Frontier Archaeology – in Britain and beyond gathers contributions by some 30 leading archaeologists and historians in honour of Paul Bidwell. In a wide-ranging career Paul has been one of the leading excavators and pottery specialists of his generation, admired for his ground-breaking work both in the south-west and the military north of Roman Britain. Contributions reflect the wide range of Paul Bidwell's interests. Studies of samian pottery use, coins, carved stone pinecones, multi-piece bone dice and agricultural strategies shed light on the economy and everyday life of a Roman frontier province. For the civil southern part of the province there are studies of place-names and various aspects of the public baths of the Roman cities, as well as the impact of changing sea-levels on coastal topography. A number of contributions focus on the problems of the military north and Hadrian's Wall, including studies of the nineteenth century antiquarian pioneers and assessments of the purpose of the Wall, the possibility of destructive attacks by an enemy, the way in which Roman forts were designed, and the use of Iron Age tradition military gear by the Roman army. The papers also take us beyond Britannia to consider developments on and beyond Rome's Eastern, Danube and North African frontiers. The collection will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in either the civil or military aspects of Roman Britain, or the frontiers of the Roman empire. Paul Bidwell (1949-2022) Tragically Paul Bidwell died after a short illness in November 2022 soon after being presented with this book by his friends and colleagues. What was conceived as a gesture to honour Paul has become, in effect, a monument to one of the most respected Roman archaeologists of his generation, and a testament to the wide range of his archaeological interests and achievements.
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War at the Margins : Indigenous Experiences in World War II
Lin Poyer;Lin Poyer
War at the Margins offers a broad comparative view of the impact of World War II on In...
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War at the Margins : Indigenous Experiences in World War II
2022
War at the Margins offers a broad comparative view of the impact of World War II on Indigenous societies. Using historical and ethnographic sources, Lin Poyer examines how Indigenous communities emerged from the trauma of the wartime era with social forms and cultural ideas that laid the foundations for their twenty-first-century emergence as players on the world's political stage. With a focus on Indigenous voices and agency, a global overview reveals the enormous range of wartime activities and impacts on these groups, connecting this work with comparative history, Indigenous studies, and anthropology.The distinctiveness of Indigenous peoples offers a valuable perspective on World War II, as those on the margins of Allied and Axis empires and nation-states were drawn in as soldiers, scouts, guides, laborers, and victims. Questions of loyalty and citizenship shaped Indigenous combat roles—from integration in national armies to service in separate ethnic units to unofficial use of their special skills, where local knowledge tilted the balance in military outcomes. Front lines crossed Indigenous territory most consequentially in northern Europe, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Islands, but the impacts of war go well beyond combat. Like others around the world, Indigenous civilian men and women suffered bombing and invasion, displacement, forced labor, military occupation, and economic and social disruption. Infrastructure construction and demand for key resources affected even areas far from front lines.World War II dissolved empires and laid the foundation for the postcolonial world. Indigenous people in newly independent nations struggled for autonomy, while other veterans returned to home fronts still steeped in racism. National governments saw military service as evidence that Indigenous peoples wished to assimilate, but wartime experiences confirmed many communities'commitment to their home cultures and opened new avenues for activism. By century's end, Indigenous Rights became an international political force, offering alternative visions of how the global order might make room for greater local self-determination and cultural diversity. In examining this transformative era, War at the Margins adds an important contribution to both World War II history and to the development of global Indigenous identity.
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Indigenous peoples--Civil rights - World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Indigenous - World War, 1939-1945--Indigenous peoplesContent provider:
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City, Climate, and Architecture : A Theory of Collective Practice
Sascha Roesler;Sascha Roesler
The publication rethinks climate control – a key concern of the discipline of architec...
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City, Climate, and Architecture : A Theory of Collective Practice
2022; Vol. 00001
The publication rethinks climate control – a key concern of the discipline of architecture – through the lens of city climate phenomena over the course of the 20th century. Based on a history of climate control on urban scales, it promotes the integration of indoors and outdoors in order to reduce environmental and thermal loads in cities. Just as heating and cooling practices inside the buildings are affecting the (urban) climate outdoors, urban heat islands are influencing the energy requirements and thermal conditions inside the buildings.While the first part of the book focuses on the interwar period in Europe, the publication's second part considers examples from all over the globe, tracing the growing significance of ecological thinking for the design of urban environments.
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Urban ecology (Sociology) - Sustainable architecture - Urban ecology (Biology) - Architecture and climate - Architecture--Environmental aspects - City planning--Environmental aspectsContent provider:
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The Archaeology of Iran From the Palaeolithic to the Achaemenid Empire
Roger Matthews;Hassan Fazeli Nashli;Roger Matthews;Hassan Fazeli Nashli
The Archaeology of Iran from the Palaeolithic to the Archaemenid Empire is the first m...
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The Archaeology of Iran From the Palaeolithic to the Achaemenid Empire
2022
The Archaeology of Iran from the Palaeolithic to the Archaemenid Empire is the first modern academic study to provide a synthetic, diachronic analysis of the archaeology and early history of all of Iran from the Palaeolithic period to the end of the Achaemenid Empire at 330 BC. Drawing on the authors'deep experience and engagement in the world of Iranian archaeology, and in particular on Iran-based academic networks and collaborations, this book situates the archaeological evidence from Iran within a framework of issues and debates of relevance today. Such topics include human–environment interactions, climate change and societal fragility, the challenges of urban living, individual and social identity, gender roles and status, the development of technology and craft specialisation and the significance of early bureaucratic practices such as counting, writing and sealing within the context of evolving societal formations. Richly adorned with more than 500 illustrations, many of them in colour, and accompanied by a bibliography with more than 3000 entries, this book will be appreciated as a major research resource for anyone concerned to learn more about the role of ancient Iran in shaping the modern world.
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Archaeological expeditions--Iran--History - Excavations (Archaeology)--Iran--HistoryContent provider:
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Honouring a Nation : A History of Australia's Honours System
Karen Fox;Karen Fox
The first detailed history of imperial and national honours in Australia, Honouring a ...
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Honouring a Nation : A History of Australia's Honours System
2022
The first detailed history of imperial and national honours in Australia, Honouring a Nation tells the story of the honours system's transformation from instrument of imperial unity to national institution.From the extension of British honours to colonial Australasia in the nineteenth century, through to Tony Abbott's revival of knighthoods in the twenty-first, this book explains how the system has worked, traces the arguments of its supporters and critics, and looks both at those who received awards and those who declined them. Honouring a Nation brings to life a long history of debate over honours, including wrangles over State rights, gender imbalances in honours lists, and the emergence and hardening of the Labor/Liberal divide over British awards, illuminating issues that are still part of Australian life—and of the honours system—today. The history of the honours system is equally the history of the nation, revealing who Australians were, what they have become, what they value, and the things that have unified and divided them.
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Decorations of honor--Australia--History - Titles of honor and nobility--Australia--History - Awards--Australia--History - Medals--Australia--HistoryContent provider:
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Short-termism im Aktien- und Kapitalmarktrecht : Ideengeschichte, Rechtsvergleichung, Rechtsökonomie
Eckart Bueren;Eckart Bueren
Die Aktiengesellschaft soll private Ersparnisse in dauerhaft gebundenes, unternehmeris...
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Short-termism im Aktien- und Kapitalmarktrecht : Ideengeschichte, Rechtsvergleichung, Rechtsökonomie
2022
Die Aktiengesellschaft soll private Ersparnisse in dauerhaft gebundenes, unternehmerisches Anlagekapital transformieren. Zugleich erlaubt die Börsennotierung eine beliebig kurzfristige Anlage in unternehmenstragende Gesellschaften. Vor diesem Hintergrund bestehen in Rechtswissenschaft, Ökonomie und Politik seit langem große Sorgen, dass die moderne kapitalmarktorientierte Aktiengesellschaft unter ein schädliches Diktat kurzfristiger Einflüsse gerät. Eckart Bueren leuchtet diese wechselhafte Kontroverse um kurzfristige Orientierung und damit um den Schutz der Funktionsfähigkeit der Aktiengesellschaft erstmals gesamthaft rechts- und ideengeschichtlich, rechtsvergleichend und rechtsökonomisch aus. Er erzählt damit die Rezeptionsgeschichte eines international wirkmächtigen Regelungstopos im Gesellschafts- und Kapitalmarktrecht. Welche Entwicklung hat er durchlaufen, für welche Rechtsfragen, Regelungsanliegen und Interessen wurde er zu verschiedenen Zeiten dienstbar gemacht und wie bedeutsam ist er heute? Die Arbeit wurde mit dem Förderpreis der Stiftung Kapitalmarktforschung für den Finanzstandort Deutschland ausgezeichnet.
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Securities industry--Law and legislation - Law and economics - Capital market--Law and legislation - Corporate governance--Law and legislation - Stock exchanges--Law and legislationContent provider:
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Science and the Politics of Openness : Here Be Monsters
Brigitte Nerlich;Sarah Hartley;Sujatha Raman;Alexander Smith;Brigitte Nerli...
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) op...
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Science and the Politics of Openness : Here Be Monsters
2018
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The phrase ‘here be monsters'or ‘here be dragons'is commonly believed to have been used on ancient maps to indicate unexplored territories which might hide unknown beasts. This book maps and explores places between science and politics that have been left unexplored, sometimes hiding in plain sight - in an era when increased emphasis was put on'openness'. The book is rooted in a programme of research funded by the Leverhulme Trust entitled: ‘Making Science Public: Challenges and opportunities, which runs from 2014 to 2017. One focus of our research was to critically question the assumption that making science more open and public could solve various issues around scientific credibility, trust, and legitimacy. Chapters in this book explore the risks and benefits of this perspective with relation to transparency, responsibility, experts and faith.
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Science--Moral and ethical aspects - Science--Political aspects - Science--Social aspects - Communication in scienceContent provider:
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Die Evolution der Religion : Ein soziologischer Grundriss
Volkhard Krech;Volkhard Krech
Über uns der Ideenhimmel, in uns das Bewusstsein und dazwischen: die Religion als Best...
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Die Evolution der Religion : Ein soziologischer Grundriss
2021; Vol. 00001
Über uns der Ideenhimmel, in uns das Bewusstsein und dazwischen: die Religion als Bestandteil der soziokulturellen Wirklichkeit. Volkhard Krech entfaltet in seinem soziologischen Grundriss der religiösen Evolution das Verständnis von Religion als Kommunikation, die zwischen den Menschen entsteht und stattfindet. In seiner Analyse zur Ausdifferenzierung des Religiösen, die Bezug auf die Evolutionstheorie, Systemtheorie und eine semiotisch informierte Kommunikationstheorie nimmt, bewegt er sich in der Zirkularität von Gegenwart und Geschichte. Dabei macht er Religion als Sinnform zur Bearbeitung unbestimmbarer Kontingenz begreifbar.
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The Prose Poem As a (Non)Genre : A Polish Case Study
Agnieszka Kluba;Agnieszka Kluba
Is the prose poem revolutionary and subversive, or marginal and lyrical? What makes a ...
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The Prose Poem As a (Non)Genre : A Polish Case Study
2021; Vol. 00027
Is the prose poem revolutionary and subversive, or marginal and lyrical? What makes a piece of prose a prose poem? Is its identity vague or precisely defined? Can every poem written in prose be considered a prose poem, a form influenced by the brilliant invention of French literature and by authors such as Baudelaire or Rimbaud? Agnieszka Kluba discusses the prose poem by providing a comprehensive summary of the existing approaches to it, but also by proposing an original conception of this form of writing. Kluba does not limit herself to considerations within literary genre theory and remains close to the poetic texts she considers. Following the intricate line of the prose poem, in Polish and European literature, she carefully assigns to prose poetry a place in Modern literary history.
