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Narrating Nonhuman Spaces : Form, Story, and Experience Beyond Anthropocentrism
Recent debates about the Anthropocene have prompted a re-negotiation of the relationship between human subjectivity and nonhuman matter within a wide range of disciplines. This collection builds on the assumption that our understanding of the nonhuman world is bound up with the experience of space: thinking about and with nonhuman spaces destabilizes human-scale assumptions. Literary form affor…
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- 9781000441581
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- 250 halaman
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- 800 NAR
Musical Gentrification: Popular Music, Distinction and Social Mobility
Musical Gentrification is an exploration of the role of popular music in processes of socio-cultural inclusion and exclusion in a variety of contexts. Twelve chapters by international scholars reveal how cultural objects of relatively lower status, in this case popular musics, are made objects of acquisition by subjects or institutions of higher social status, thereby playing an important role …
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- Ed. 1
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- 9780429325076, 9780367535599
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- 196
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- ISME Series in Music Education,
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- 700 MUS m
Universal Basic Income
An accessible introduction to the simple (yet radical) premise that a small cash income, sufficient for basic needs, ought to be provided regularly and unconditionally to every citizen. The growing movement for universal basic income (UBI) has been gaining attention from politics and the media with the audacious idea of a regular, unconditional cash grant for everyone as a right of citizensh…
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- 9780262376792
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The Middle Ages in Modern Culture : History and Authenticity in Contemporary …
This open access book brings together an international team of experts, The Middle Ages in Modern Culture considers the use of medieval models across a variety of contemporary media – ranging from television and film to architecture – and the significance of deploying an authentic medieval world to these representations. Rooted in this question of authenticity, this interdisciplinary study …
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- 9781788314787
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- 288 halaman
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- 300 MID
Fiber Orientation Tensors and Mean Field Homogenization: Application to Sheet…
Effective mechanical properties of fiber-reinforced composites strongly depend on the microstructure, including the fibers' orientation. Studying this dependency, we identify the variety of fiber orientation tensors up to fourth-order using irreducible tensors and material symmetry. The case of planar fiber orientation tensors, relevant for sheet molding compound, is presented completely. Conse…
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- 9783731512622
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The Changing Faces of Families Diverse Family Forms in Various Policy Contexts
With a focus on nine different national contexts, this book explores contemporary family diversity. With attention to the different welfare states and cultures of care in each setting, it problematizes the pre-eminence of research and policy centered on heteronormative families, showing the extent to which family diversity exists cross-nationally in relation to different gendered and ""family-f…
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- 9781000901498
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Memory and Identity in the Learned World : Community Formation in the Early M…
Accounts and analyses of the formation of scholarly and scientific communities in the early modern period by means of memory and collective identity.
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- 9789004507142
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Ethnic Diversity and the Control of Natural Resources in Southeast Asia
Contributor(s) Terry Rambo, A. (editor) Gillogly, Kathleen (editor) Hutterrer, Karl L. (editor) Language English Show full item record The authors consider the ways in which the high degree of ethnic diversity within the region is related to the nature of tropical Asian environments, on the one hand, and the nature of Southeast Asian political systems and the ways in which they manipulat…
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Economic evaluation of climate change impacts : development of a cross-sector…
This volume deals with the multifaceted and interdependent impacts of climate change on society from the perspective of a broad set of disciplines. The main objective of the book is to assess public and private cost of climate change as far as quantifyable, while taking into account the high degree of uncertainty. It offers new insights for the economic assessment of a broad range of climate ch…
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- 9783319124575
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- XVII, 468
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Austrian Studies Today
"This volume celebrates the study of Austria in the twentieth century by historians, political scientists and social scientists produced in the previous twenty-four volumes of Contemporary Austrian Studies. One contributor from each of the previous volumes has been asked to update the state of scholarship in the field addressed in the respective volume. The title “Austrian Studies Today,” t…
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