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The Archaeological Survey of Sudanese Nubia, 1963-69: The Pharaonic Sites
Of the Nubian Archaeological Campaigns responding to the construction of the Aswan High Dam, the survey and excavations carried out within Sudanese Nubia represent the most substantial achievement of the larger enterprise. Many components of the larger project of the UNESCO – Sudan Antiquities Service Survey have been published, in addition to the reports of a number of other major projects a…
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- 9780000000771
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Migration in The Southern Balkans: From Ottoman Territory To Globalized Natio…
Migration; History, general; Cities, Countries, Regions; Demography
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- 9783319137186
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Political Leadership in Contemporary Japan
Those who do not read Japanese seldom have access to analytic studies of the fascinating and surprisingly diverse world of contemporary Japanese political leadership. This volume constitutes a step toward bringing to the English reader some sense of the norms, beliefs, styles, and modes of exercising power of Japanese political leaders and the organizational and political contexts which are cha…
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- 9780472901982
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Black Men Teaching in Urban Schools : Reassessing Black Masculinity
This volume follows eleven Black male teachers from an urban, predominantly Black school district to reveal a complex set of identity politics and power dynamics that complicate these teachers’ relationships with students and fellow educators. It provides new and important insights into what it means to be a Black male teacher and suggests strategies for school districts, teacher preparation …
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- 9781317448501
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The Human Will in Judaism The Mishnah's Philosophy of Intention
This volume examines the role of intention in the Mishnah. What role does intention play in fulfillment of God's commandments according to the rabbis of Late Antiquity?
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Qualities of food
This book addresses current controversial debates about food quality. What is it that makes people decide that food is of good, or alternatively of dubious, 'quality'? How food is produced, how it is prepared, how it tastes and in what circumstances it is consumed are all dimensions of its quality. Chapters address a number of intriguing questions: how do people make judgements about taste?; ho…
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Judaism as Philosophy Studies in Maimonides and the Medieval Jewish Philosop…
The studies comprising this volume, most of them appearing for the first time in English, deal with some of the main topics in Maimonides' philosophy and that of his followers in Provence. At the heart of these topics lies the issue of whether they adopted a completely naturalistic picture of the workings of the world order, or left room for the volitional activity of God in history. These topi…
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- 9781618111791
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New Horizons For a Data-Driven Economy: a Roadmap For Usage and Exploitation …
Information Storage and Retrieval; Innovation/Technology Management; Computer Applications; Computers and Society; Big data
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Cities as Palimpsests? Responses to Antiquity in Eastern Mediterranean Urbanism
The metaphor of the palimpsest has been increasingly invoked to conceptualize cities with deep, living pasts. This volume seeks to think through, and beyond, the logic of the palimpsest, asking whether this fashionable trope slyly forces us to see contradiction where local inhabitants saw (and see) none, to impose distinctions that satisfy our own assumptions about historical periodization and …
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- 9781789257700
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Arctic Madness: The Anthropology of a Delusion
The French missionary-linguist Émile Petitot (1838–1916) spent twenty years near the Arctic Circle in Canada, publishing numerous works on First Nations languages and practices. Over time, however, he descended into delirium and began to summon imaginary persecutions, pen improbable interpretations of his Indigenous hosts, and burst into schizoid fury. Delving into thousands of pages in lett…
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- 9781912808632
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