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Translating Technology in Africa. Volume 2: Technicisation
This volume revisits one of the great challenges of our time - the global circulation of technology and the resulting technicisation. Together, the introductory essay and six case studies argue that while circulation inevitably leads to the global standardisation of some forms, successful technicisation depends on local appropriation that takes place in the interstitial zones of translation. Th…
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Urban Rituals in Sacred Landscapes in Hellenistic Asia Minor
In Urban Rituals in Sacred Landscapes in Hellenistic Asia Minor, Christina G. Williamson examines the phenomenon of monumental sanctuaries in the countryside of Asia Minor that accompanied the second rise of the Greek city-state in the Hellenistic period. Moving beyond monolithic categories, Williamson provides a transdisciplinary frame of analysis that takes into account the complex local hist…
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- Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, Volume: 196
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Vagaries of Desire: A Collection of Philosophical Essays
Vagaries of Desire is a major collection of new essays by Timo Airaksinen on the philosophy of desire. The first part develops a novel account of the philosophical theory of desire, including Girard. The second part discusses Kafka’s main works, namely The Castle, The Trial, and Amerika, and Thomas Hobbes and the problems of intentionality. The text develops such linguistic tropes as metaphor…
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- Value Inquiry Book Series, Volume: 340 Value Inquiry Book Series Online, Volume: 340 Philosophy, Literature, and Politics, Volume: 340
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Treasured Oases: A Selection of Jao Tsung-i’s Dunhuang Studies
Dunhuang: China’s traditional northwest frontier and overland conduit of exchange with the Old World. Jao Tsung-i: China’s last great traditional man of letters, polymath, and pioneer of comparative humanistic inquiry during Hong Kong’s global heyday. Jao and Dunhuang had a special relationship that this book makes accessible in English for the first time. Inside, Jao proposes an entirely…
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- Collected Works of Jao Tsung-i, Volume: 2
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Value without Fetish : Uno Kōzō’s Theory of ‘Pure Capitalism’ in Ligh…
Value without Fetish presents the first in-depth English-language study of the influential Japanese economist Uno Kōzō‘s (1897-1977) theory of ‘pure capitalism’ in the light of the method and object of Marx’s Critique of Political Economy. A close analysis of the theories of value, production and reproduction, and crisis in Uno’s central texts from the 1930s to the 1970s reveals his…
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- Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume: 227
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Van schoolbioloog tot duurzame duizendpoot : Verleden, heden en toekomst van …
"Natuur- en milieueducatie kent een lange traditie. In dit boek brengen vier auteurs die traditie in beeld. Ze verhalen over verleden, heden en toekomst, en reflecteren op bestuur en beleid, inhoud en organisatie. Natuur- en milieueducatie veranderde maar is deels hetzelfde gebleven. Vroeger leerde je op school buiten spelen, rollen door het gras, kleine beestjes vangen, schooltuintjes harken, …
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Unfree Lives : Slaves at the Najahid and Rasulid Courts of Yemen
Unfree Lives illuminates Yemen’s forgotten history of slavery, as well as the transregional dimensions of slave trading in the Red Sea and wider Indian Ocean world. By analyzing Arabic narrative and administrative sources, Magdalena Moorthy Kloss reconstructs the lives of women and men who were trafficked to Yemen as children and then placed in various subaltern positions — from domestic se…
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- Studies in Global Slavery, Volume: 16
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Understanding and combatting African Swine Fever : A European perspective
The recent introduction and spread of African swine fever (ASF) into Europe and Asia has shown that an integrated, multidisciplinary effort is needed to tackle this disease and the complex challenges it poses. This book presents practical guidelines on surveillance for detection of ASF virus, how to prevent outbreaks in the domestic pig sector through biosecurity and cleaning and disinfection r…
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UN Security Council Referrals to the International Criminal Court : Legal Nat…
This book offers a unique critical analysis of the legal nature, effects and limits of UN Security Council referrals to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Alexandre Skander Galand provides, for the first time, a full picture of two competing understandings of the nature of the Security Council referrals to the ICC, and their respective normative interplay with legal barriers to the exercis…
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Un piccolo esempio. La psicagogia matematica di Platone
‘Let me give you a simple example of what I mean, and you will see the rest for yourself.’ This is how Plato usually introduces mathematical examples to illustrate important philosophical puzzles. The research presented in this book offers a systematic analysis of these examples and demonstrates their crucial psychagogical function. Providing a toolkit of paradoxical objects that challenge …
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- Brill's Plato Studies Series, Volume: 18
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