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The Social Structure of the First Crusade
This books provides a detailed analysis of the social structure of the First Crusade (1096 – 1099) along with an original assessment of the sociology of its contemporary or near contemporary sources.
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- 9789047445029
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- The Medieval Mediterranean
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- 909.82 KOS s
Entertaining the Idea: Shakespeare, Performance, and Philosophy
To entertain an idea is to take it in, pay attention to it, give it breathing room, dwell with it for a time. The practice of entertaining ideas suggests rumination and meditation, inviting us to think of philosophy as a form of hospitality and a kind of mental theatre. In this collection, organized around key words shared by philosophy and performance, the editors suggest that Shakespeare’s …
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- 9781487536237
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Magnesium in the Central Nervous System
Our understanding of the physiology and biochemistry of the brain has improved dramatically in the last two decades. In particular, the critical role of cations, including magnesium, has become evident, even if incompletely understood at a mechanistic level. The exact role and regulation of magnesium in particular remains elusive, largely because intracelluar levls are so difficult to routinely…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9780987073051
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- 356
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- 616.8 MAG m
Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy: Volume 1
"Vertical Readings in Danteâ s Comedy is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thirty-four scholars. Each vertical reading analyses three same-numbered cantos from the three canticles: Inferno i, Purgatorio i and Paradiso i; Inferno ii, Purgatorio ii and Paradiso ii; etc. Although scholars have suggested before that there are correspondences between same-numbered cantos that be…
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- 9781783741724
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Sustainable Human Development Across the Life Course: Evidence from Longitudi…
"EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. It is critical that the wellbeing of society is systematically tracked by indicators that not only give an accurate picture of human life today, but also provide a window into the future for all of us. This important book presents impactful findings from twelve international longitudinal studies that responded to the Agenda 2030 commi…
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- 9781529204827
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Journalism in Turkey: Practices, Challenges, Opportunities
Journalism in Turkey has an ambivalent characteristic. On the one hand, the social demand for genuine journalism has increased, and on the other hand, news has turned into a tool within the polluted political polarization atmosphere. In the age of fake news and post-truth, practices of journalism in Turkey both contain significantly striking examples of how media professionals overcome the barr…
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- 9783631831328
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A Rhetoric of Literate Action : Literate Action Volume 1
The first in a two-volume set, A Rhetoric of Literate Action is written for "the experienced writer with a substantial repertoire of skills, [who] now would find it useful to think in more fundamental strategic terms about what they want their texts to accomplish, what form the texts might take, how to develop specific contents, and how to arrange the work of writing." The reader is offered a f…
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- 370 BAZ r
Innovative tools and design strategies: The case of Eclectic Architecture in …
The research deals with a question about Architecture and its design strategies, combining historical information and digital tools. Design strategies are historically defined, they rely on geometry, context, building technologies and other factors. The study of Architecture´s own history, particularly in the verge of technological advancements, like the introduction of new materials or tools …
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- 9783731512615
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The Christmas drama of the household of St John’s College, Oxford
This chapter considers early modern academic drama performed at St John’s College, Oxford. Dutton begins by describing the college household materials on which such performances drew, adopting a productively broad definition of this category that includes the people working, studying, and teaching at St John’s, as well as their immediate neighbours in town; the college’s domestic furnishi…
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Letters of Blood and Other Works in English
This collection brings together for the first time select works in English by the major Swedish modernist poet and critic Göran Printz-Påhlson. It was Printz-Påhlson who introduced poetic modernism to Scandinavia, and his essays and poems delve deeply into English, American, and continental modernist traditions. As well as Letters of Blood, the collection includes the full text of "The Words…
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