Sheeran, L.K.
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CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. August, 2019, Vol. 56 Issue 12, p1487, 1 p.
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Sivaraman, M.R.
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International Journal of Environmental Studies. Dec2019, Vol. 76 Issue 6, p1050-1054. 5p.
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The Worldwatch Institute;The Worldwatch Institute
From the thinning of the Arctic sea ice to the invasion of the mosquito-borne West Nil...
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2015
From the thinning of the Arctic sea ice to the invasion of the mosquito-borne West Nile virus, State of the World 2001 shows how the economic boom of the last decade has damaged natural systems. The increasingly visible evidence of environmental deterioration is only the tip of a much more dangerous problem: the growing inequities in wealth and income between countries and within countries, inequities that will generate enormous social unrest and pressure for change.
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Conservation of natural resources - Economic development--Environmental aspects - Sustainable developmentContent provider:
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Great Apes and Biodiversity Offset Projects in Africa: The Case for National Offset Strategies
Kormos, Rebecca;Kormos, Cyril F.;Humle, Tatyana;Lanjouw, Annette;Rainer, He...
Fleagle, John
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Quarterly Review of Biology. Jun2022, Vol. 97 Issue 2, p152-153. 2p.
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Quarterly Review of Biology. Jun2022, Vol. 97 Issue 2, p152-153. 2p.
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STATE of the Apes: Killing, Capture, Trade & Ape Conservation (Book) - APESContent provider:
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Foreign Aid and Its Unintended Consequences
Dirk-Jan Koch;Dirk-Jan Koch
Foreign aid and international development frequently bring with it a range of unintend...
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Foreign Aid and Its Unintended Consequences
2024
Foreign aid and international development frequently bring with it a range of unintended consequences, both negative and positive. This book delves into these consequences, providing a fresh and comprehensive guide to understanding and addressing them. The book starts by laying out a theoretical framework based on complexity thinking, before going on to explore the ten most prevalent kinds of unintended effects of foreign aid: backlash effects, conflict effects, migration and resettlement effects, price effects, marginalization effects, behavioural effects, negative spillover effects, governance effects, environmental effects, and ripple effects. Each chapter revolves around a set of concrete case studies, analysing the mechanisms underpinning the unintended effects and proposing ways in which policymakers, practitioners, and evaluators can tackle negative side effects and maximize positive side effects. The book also includes personal testimonies, a succinct overview of unintended effects, and suggestions for further reading. Providing a clear overview of what side effects to anticipate when planning, executing, and evaluating aid, this book will be an important resource for students, development practitioners, and policymakers alike.
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Economic development - Economic assistance - Policy sciencesContent provider:
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Winter in America : A Cultural History of Neoliberalism, From the Sixties to the Reagan Revolution
Daniel Robert McClure;Daniel Robert McClure
Neoliberalism took shape in the 1930s and 1940s as a transnational political philosoph...
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Winter in America : A Cultural History of Neoliberalism, From the Sixties to the Reagan Revolution
2021
Neoliberalism took shape in the 1930s and 1940s as a transnational political philosophy and system of economic, political, and cultural relations. Resting on the fundamental premise that the free market should be unfettered by government intrusion, neoliberal policies have primarily redirected the state's prerogatives away from the postwar Keynesian welfare system and toward the insulation of finance and corporate America from democratic pressure. As neoliberal ideas gained political currency in the 1960s and 1970s, a&8239;reactionary cultural turn&8239;catalyzed their ascension. The cinema, music, magazine culture, and current events discourse of the 1970s provided the space of negotiation permitting these ideas to take hold and be challenged.Daniel Robert McClure's book follows the interaction between culture and economics during the transition from Keynesianism in the mid-1960s to&8239;the&8239;triumph of&8239;neoliberalism at the dawn of the 1980s. From the 1965 debate between William F. Buckley and James Baldwin, through the pages&8239;of BusinessWeek and Playboy, to the rise of exploitation cinema in the 1970s, McClure tracks the increasingly shared perception by white males that they had'lost'their long-standing rights and that a great neoliberal reckoning might restore America's repressive racial, sexual, gendered, and classed foundations in the wake of&8239;the 1960s.
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Privatization--United States--History--20th century - Male domination (Social structure)--History - Male domination (Social structure)--United States--History - Neoliberalism--United States--History--20th century - White nationalism--United States--HistoryContent provider:
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The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance
Stephen Boucher;Carina Antonia Hallin;Lex Paulson;Stephen Boucher;Carina An...
The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance explore...
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The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance
2023
The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance explores the concepts, methodologies, and implications of collective intelligence for democratic governance, in the first comprehensive survey of this field. Illustrated by a collection of inspiring case studies and edited by three pioneers in collective intelligence, this handbook serves as a unique primer on the science of collective intelligence applied to public challenges and will inspire public actors, academics, students, and activists across the world to apply collective intelligence in policymaking and administration to explore its potential, both to foster policy innovations and reinvent democracy. The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance is essential reading and an authoritative reference for scholars, students, researchers and practitioners of public policy, public administration, governance, public management, information technology and systems, innovation and democracy as well as more broadly for political science, psychology, management studies, public organizations and individual policy practitioners, public authorities, civil society activists and service providers.
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Democracy--Handbooks, manuals, etc - Democracy--Philosophy - Political participationContent provider:
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Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia, 1780–1940
Gregory D. Smithers;Gregory D. Smithers
Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia, 1780–1940, Revised Ed...
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Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia, 1780–1940
2017
Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia, 1780–1940, Revised Edition is a sociohistorical tour de force that examines the entwined formation of racial theory and sexual constructs within settler colonialism in the United States and Australia from the Age of Revolution to the Great Depression. Gregory D. Smithers historicizes the dissemination and application of scientific and social-scientific ideas within the process of nation building in two countries with large Indigenous populations and shows how intellectual constructs of race and sexuality were mobilized to subdue Aboriginal peoples. Building on the comparative settler-colonial and imperial histories that appeared after the book's original publication, this completely revised edition includes two new chapters. In this singular contribution to the study of transnational and comparative settler colonialism, Smithers expands on recent scholarship to illuminate both the subject of the scientific study of race and sexuality and the national and interrelated histories of the United States and Australia.
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Sex--Social aspects--Australia--History--19th century - Science--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century - Sex--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century - Frontier and pioneer life--United States - White people--Race identity--United States--History--19th century - Science--Social aspects--Australia--History--19th century - Frontier and pioneer life--Australia - White people--Race identity--Australia--History--19th centuryContent provider:
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Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States
George Thomas Kurian;Mark A. Lamport;George Thomas Kurian;Mark A. Lamport
From the Founding Fathers through the present, Christianity has exercised powerful inf...
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Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States
2016
From the Founding Fathers through the present, Christianity has exercised powerful influence in the United States —from its role in shaping politics and social institutions to its hand in inspiring art and culture. The Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States outlines the myriad roles Christianity has played and continues to play. This masterful five-volume reference work includes biographies of major figures in the Christian church in the United States , influential religious documents and Supreme Court decisions, and information on theology and theologians, denominations, faith-based organizations, immigration, art—from decorative arts and film to music and literature—evangelism and crusades, the significant role of women, racial issues, civil religion, and more.The first volume opens with introductory essays that provide snapshots of Christianity in the U.S. from pre-colonial times to the present, as well as a statistical profile and a timeline of key dates and events. Entries are organized from A to Z. The final volume closes with essays exploring impressions of Christianity in the United States from other faiths and other parts of the world, as well as a select yet comprehensive bibliography. Appendices help readers locate entries by thematic section and author, and a comprehensive index further aids navigation.
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Christianity--United States--EncyclopediasContent provider:
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Interplay of Things : Religion, Art, and Presence Together
Anthony B. Pinn;Anthony B. Pinn
In Interplay of Things Anthony B. Pinn theorizes religion as a technology for interrog...
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Interplay of Things : Religion, Art, and Presence Together
2021
In Interplay of Things Anthony B. Pinn theorizes religion as a technology for interrogating human experiences and the boundaries between people and other things. Rather than considering religion in terms of institutions, doctrines, and creeds, Pinn shows how religion exposes the openness and porousness of all things and how they are always involved in processes of exchange and interplay. Pinn examines work by Nella Larsen and Richard Wright that illustrates an openness between things, and he traces how pop art and readymades point to the multidirectional nature of influence. He also shows how Ron Athey's and Clifford Owens's performance art draws out inherent interconnectedness to various cultural codes in ways that reveal the symbiotic relationship between art and religion as a technology. Theorizing that antiblack racism and gender- and class-based hostility constitute efforts to close off the porous nature of certain bodies, Pinn shows how many artists have rebelled against these attempts to counter openness. His analyses offer a means by which to understand the porous, unbounded, and open nature of humans and things.
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Religion and culture--United States - Art and religion--United States - African American art--Social aspects - Performance art--Social aspects--United States - Art and raceContent provider:
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On Active Grounds : Agency and Time in the Environmental Humanities
Robert Boschman;Mario Trono;Robert Boschman;Mario Trono
On Active Grounds considers the themes of agency and time through the burgeoning, inte...
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On Active Grounds : Agency and Time in the Environmental Humanities
2019
On Active Grounds considers the themes of agency and time through the burgeoning, interdisciplinary field of the environmental humanities. Fourteen essays and a photo album cover topics such as environmental practices and history, temporal literacy, graphic novels, ecocinema, ecomusicology, animal studies, Indigeneity, wolf reintroduction, environmental history, green conservatism, and social-ecological systems change. The book also speaks to the growing concern regarding environmental issues in the aftermath of the 2015 Paris Climate Conference (COP21) and the election of Donald Trump in the United States . This collection is organized as a written and visual appeal to issues such as time (how much is left?) and agency (who is active? what can be done? what does and does not work?). It describes problems and suggests solutions. On Active Grounds is unique in its explicit and twinned emphasis on time and agency in the context of the Environmental Humanities and a requisite interdisciplinarity.
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Environmental sciences--Philosophy - Humanities--PhilosophyContent provider:
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Public Library Core Collection : Nonfiction. A Selection Guide to Reference Books and Adult Nonfiction
Toth, Gabriela;Spires, Kendal;Wyatt, Neal;Toth, Gabriela;Spires, Kendal;Wya...
Wilson's Public Library Core Collection: Nonfiction (15th Edition, 2015) recommends re...
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Public Library Core Collection : Nonfiction. A Selection Guide to Reference Books and Adult Nonfiction
2015
Wilson's Public Library Core Collection: Nonfiction (15th Edition, 2015) recommends reference and non-fiction books for the general adult audience. It is a guide to over 9,000, plus review sources and other professional aids for librarians and media specialists.
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Public libraries--United States--Book listsContent provider:
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The Register of Graduates and Former Cadets of the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York
Barrett, Elizabeth A.;United States Military Academy;Barrett, Elizabeth A.;...
Bizarre Bioethics : Ghosts, Monsters, and Pilgrims
Henk A.M.J. ten Have;Henk A.M.J. ten Have
The focus of bioethical debates on exceptional cases neglects the underlying values—li...
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Bizarre Bioethics : Ghosts, Monsters, and Pilgrims
2022
The focus of bioethical debates on exceptional cases neglects the underlying values—like justice and community—that would lend to a broader, more well-rounded understanding of today's world.Discussions of ethical problems in health care too often concentrate on exceptional cases. Bioethical controversies triggered by experimental drugs, gene-edited babies, or life extension are understandably fascinating: they showcase the power of medical science and technology while addressing anxieties concerning health, disease, suffering, and death. However, the focus on rare individual cases in the media spotlight turns attention away from more pressing ethical issues that impact global populations, such as access to health care, safe food and water, and the prevention of emerging infectious diseases. In Bizarre Bioethics, Henk A.M.J. ten Have argues that this focus on bizarre cases leads to bizarre bioethics with a narrow agenda for ethical debate. In other words, although these extreme cases are undeniably real, they present a limited and skewed view of everyday moral reality. This focus also assumes that individuals are rational decision-makers, so that the role of feelings and emotions can be downgraded. Larger questions related to justice, solidarity, community, meaning, and ambiguity are not appreciated. Such questions used to be posed by philosophical and theological traditions, but they have been exorcised and marginalized in the development of bioethics. Science, ten Have writes, is not a value-free endeavor that provides facts and evidence: it is driven by underlying value perspectives that are often based on metaphors and world views from philosophical and theological traditions. Drawing on a rich analysis of the literature, ten Have explains how bioethical discussion can be enriched by these metaphors and develops a broader approach that critically delves into the imaginative world views that determine understanding of the world and human existence. Examining the roles of the metaphors of ghosts, monsters, pilgrims, prophets, and relics, ten Have illustrates how science and medicine are animated by imaginations that fuel the search for hope, salvation, healing, and a predictable future. Bizarre Bioethics invites students, researchers, policymakers and teachers interested in ethics and health care to think about the value perspectives on health and disease today.
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Bioethics - MetaphorContent provider:
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Decolonizing Colonial Heritage : New Agendas, Actors and Practices in and Beyond Europe
Britta Timm Knudsen;John Oldfield;Elizabeth Buettner;Elvan Zabunyan;Britta ...
Decolonizing Colonial Heritage explores how different agents practice the decolonizati...
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Decolonizing Colonial Heritage : New Agendas, Actors and Practices in and Beyond Europe
2022
Decolonizing Colonial Heritage explores how different agents practice the decolonization of European colonial heritage at European and extra-European locations. Assessing the impact of these practices, the book also explores what a new vision of Europe in the postcolonial present could look like. Including contributions from academics, artists and heritage practitioners, the volume explores decolonial heritage practices in politics, contemporary history, diplomacy, museum practice, the visual arts and self-generated memorial expressions in public spaces. The comparative focus of the chapters includes examples of internal colonization in Europe and extends to former European colonies, among them Shanghai, Cape Town and Rio de Janeiro. Examining practices in a range of different contexts, the book pays particular attention to sub-national actors whose work is opening up new futures through their engagement with decolonial heritage practices in the present. The volume also considers the challenges posed by applying decolonial thinking to existing understandings of colonial heritage. Decolonizing Colonial Heritage examines the role of colonial heritage in European memory politics and heritage diplomacy. It will be of interest to academics and students working in the fields of heritage and memory studies, colonial and imperial history, European studies, sociology, cultural studies, development studies, museum studies, and contemporary art. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylor francis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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Imperialism--Historiography - Historic sites--Social aspects - Museums--Social aspects - Collective memory - Postcolonialism - DecolonizationContent provider:
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Researching Animal Research : What the Humanities and Social Sciences Can Contribute to Laboratory Animal Science and Welfare
Gail Davies;Beth Greenhough;Pru Hobson-West;Robert G. W. Kirk;Alexandra Pal...
Every year around 80 million scientific procedures are carried out on animals globally...
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Researching Animal Research : What the Humanities and Social Sciences Can Contribute to Laboratory Animal Science and Welfare
2024
Every year around 80 million scientific procedures are carried out on animals globally. These experiments have the potential to generate new understandings of biology and clinical treatments. They also give rise to ongoing societal debate. This book demonstrates how the humanities and social sciences can contribute to understanding what is created through animal procedures – including constitutional forms of research governance, different institutional cultures of care, the professional careers of scientists and veterinarians, collaborations with patients and publics, and research animals, specially bred for experiments or surplus to requirements. Developing the idea of the animal research nexus, this book explores how connections and disconnections are made between these different elements, how these have reshaped each other historically, and how they configure the current practice and policy of UK animal research.
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Laboratory animals - Animal experimentation - Animal models in research--Great Britain - Animal models in research--Moral and ethical aspects--Great Britain - Laboratory animals--Moral and ethical aspects--Great Britain - Animal experimentation--Moral and ethical aspects--Great Britain - Laboratory animals--Great Britain - Animal experimentation--Great Britain - Animal welfare--Great BritainContent provider:
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The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophers in America : From 1600 to the Present
John R. Shook;John R. Shook
For scholars working on almost any aspect of American thought, The Bloomsbury Encyclop...
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The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophers in America : From 1600 to the Present
2016
For scholars working on almost any aspect of American thought, The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia to Philosophers in America presents an indispensable reference work. Selecting over 700 figures from the Dictionary of Early American Philosophers and the Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, this condensed edition includes key contributors to philosophical thought. From 1600 to the present day, entries cover psychology, pedagogy, sociology, anthropology, education, theology and political science, before these disciplines came to be considered distinct from philosophy. Clear and accessible, each entry contains a short biography of the writer, an exposition and analysis of his or her doctrines and ideas, a bibliography of writings and suggestions for further reading. Featuring a new preface by the editor and a comprehensive introduction, The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia to Philosophers in America includes 30 new entries on twenty-first century thinkers including Martha Nussbaum and Patricia Churchland.With in-depth overviews of Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Noah Porter, Frederick Rauch, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson, this is an invaluable one-stop research volume to understanding leading figures in American thought and the development of American intellectual history.
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Philosophy, Canadian--Encyclopedias - Philosophers--United States--Biography--Encyclopedias - Philosophers--Canada--Biography--Encyclopedias - Philosophy, American--EncyclopediasContent provider:
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Groovy Science : Knowledge, Innovation, and American Counterculture
David Kaiser;W. Patrick McCray;David Kaiser;W. Patrick McCray
In his 1969 book The Making of a Counterculture, Theodore Roszak described the youth o...
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Groovy Science : Knowledge, Innovation, and American Counterculture
2016
In his 1969 book The Making of a Counterculture, Theodore Roszak described the youth of the late 1960s as fleeing science “as if from a place inhabited by plague,” and even seeking “subversion of the scientific worldview” itself. Roszak's view has come to be our own: when we think of the youth movement of the 1960s and early 1970s, we think of a movement that was explicitly anti-scientific in its embrace of alternative spiritualities and communal living. Such a view is far too simple, ignoring the diverse ways in which the era's countercultures expressed enthusiasm for and involved themselves in science—of a certain type. Rejecting hulking, militarized technical projects like Cold War missiles and mainframes, Boomers and hippies sought a science that was both small-scale and big-picture, as exemplified by the annual workshops on quantum physics at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, or Timothy Leary's championing of space exploration as the ultimate “high.” Groovy Science explores the experimentation and eclecticism that marked countercultural science and technology during one of the most colorful periods of American history.
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Counterculture--United States--History--20th century - Science--Social aspects--United StatesContent provider:
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Rockets and Revolution : A Cultural History of Early Spaceflight
Michael G. Smith;Michael G. Smith
Rockets and Revolution offers a multifaceted study of the race toward space in the fir...
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Rockets and Revolution : A Cultural History of Early Spaceflight
2014
Rockets and Revolution offers a multifaceted study of the race toward space in the first half of the twentieth century, examining how the Russian, European, and American pioneers competed against one another in the early years to acquire the fundamentals of rocket science, engineer simple rockets, and ultimately prepare the path for human spaceflight.Between 1903 and 1953, Russia matured in radical and dramatic ways as the tensions and expectations of the Russian revolution drew it both westward and spaceward. European and American industrial capacities became the models to imitate and to surpass. The burden was always on Soviet Russia to catch up—enough to achieve a number of remarkable “firsts” in these years, from the first national rocket society to the first comprehensive surveys of spaceflight. Russia rose to the challenges of its Western rivals time and again, transcending the arenas of science and technology and adapting rocket science to popular culture, science fiction, political ideology, and military programs. While that race seemed well on its way to achieving the goal of space travel and exploring life on other planets, during the second half of the twentieth century these scientific advances turned back on humankind with the development of the intercontinental ballistic missile and the coming of the Cold War.
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Astronautics and state - Astronautics--History - Astronautics--Social aspectsContent provider:
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The Topos of Music III: Gestures : Musical Multiverse Ontologies
Guerino Mazzola;René Guitart;Jocelyn Ho;Alex Lubet;Maria Mannone;Matt Rahai...
This is the third volume of the second edition of the now classic book “The Topos of M...
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The Topos of Music III: Gestures : Musical Multiverse Ontologies
2018; Vol. III
This is the third volume of the second edition of the now classic book “The Topos of Music”. The authors present gesture theory, including a gesture philosophy for music, the mathematics of gestures, concept architectures and software for musical gesture theory, the multiverse perspective which reveals the relationship between gesture theory and the string theory in theoretical physics, and applications of gesture theory to a number of musical themes, including counterpoint, modulation theory, free jazz, Hindustani music, and vocal gestures.
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Music--Philosophy and aesthetics - Music theory--MathematicsContent provider:
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Great Lives From History : American Women
Trigg, Mary K.;Trigg, Mary K.
Great Lives from History: American Women covers prominent individuals from colonial ti...
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Great Lives From History : American Women
2016
Great Lives from History: American Women covers prominent individuals from colonial times through the present offering a fascinating perspective on important women from U.S. history.
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Women--United States--BiographyContent provider:
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Decades of Reconstruction : Postwar Societies, State -Building, and International Relations From the Seven Years' War to the Cold War
Ute Planert;James Retallack;Ute Planert;James Retallack
As wars and other conflicts increase on a worldwide scale, the alleged'new wars'of the...
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Decades of Reconstruction : Postwar Societies, State -Building, and International Relations From the Seven Years' War to the Cold War
2017
As wars and other conflicts increase on a worldwide scale, the alleged'new wars'of the present day have taught that military victory does not necessarily result in a sustained state of peace. Rather, societies in conflict experience a'status mixtus'- a transformative period that includes substantial changes in economy, politics, society and culture. Focusing on these decades of reconstruction in Europe and North America, this book examines the transformation of state systems, international relations, and normative principles in international comparison. By putting the postwar decade after 1945 into a long-term historical perspective, the chapters illuminate new patterns of transition between war and peace from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Experts in the field show that states and societies are never restituted from a'zero hour'. They also demonstrate that foreign and domestic policy are intermixed before and after peace breaks out.
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Curating (Post-)Socialist Environments
Philipp Schorch;Daniel Habit;Philipp Schorch;Daniel Habit
In which ways are environments (post-)socialist and how do they come about? How is the...
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Curating (Post-)Socialist Environments
2021; Vol. 00007
In which ways are environments (post-)socialist and how do they come about? How is the relationship between the built environment, memory, and debates on identity enacted? What are the spatial, material, visual, and aesthetic dimensions of these (post-)socialist enactments or interventions? And how do such (post-)socialist interventions in environments become (re)curated? By addressing these questions, this volume releases ›curation‹ from its usual museological framing and carries it into urban environments and private life-worlds, from predominantly state -sponsored institutional settings with often normative orientations into spheres of subjectification, social creativity, and material commemorative culture.
