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Unexpected Subjects: Intimate Partner Violence, Testimony, and the Law
Unexpected Subjects is an ethnography of the encounter between women’s words and the demands of the law in the context of adjudications on intimate partner violence. A study of institutional devices, it focuses on women’s practices of resistance and the elicitation of intelligible subjectivities. Using Italy as an illustrative case, Alessandra Gribaldo explores the problematic encounter bet…
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High-Impact Weather Events over the SAARC Region
This book is a compilation of papers contributed by researchers and scientists from SAARC nations and deals with high-impact weather conditions, their prediction and potential consequences for populations in the SAARC region. There have been a number of recent advances in our understanding and prediction of cyclones, severe thunderstorms, squalls, heat and cold waves, droughts and heavy rainfal…
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- 978-3-319-10216-0
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- 551 HIG
The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines, Third Edition
This book describes warehouse-scale computers (WSCs), the computing platforms that power cloud computing and all the great web services we use every day. It discusses how these new systems treat the datacenter itself as one massive computer designed at warehouse scale, with hardware and software working in concert to deliver good levels of internet service performance. The book details the arch…
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Religion and Secularity Transformations and Transfers of Religious Discourse…
Religion and Secularity assembles studies on the concept of „secularity“ in various cultures, thereby tracing the entangled history of the modern re-configuration of the religious field across the Eurasion continent.; Readership: Academics interested in religious history, conceptual history, world history of (early) modern times, and regional specialists in European, Near Eastern, South Asi…
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Baltic Iron in the Atlantic World in the Eighteenth Century
This book looks at the one of the key commercial links between the Baltic and Atlantic worlds in the eighteenth century - the export of Swedish and Russian iron to Britain - and its role in the making of the modern world.; Readership: All those interested in Atlantic history, the history of the Baltic, the history of technology, the history of economic thought, and material culture in the eight…
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Probability Distributions in Risk Management Operations
This book is about the formulations, theoretical investigations, and practical applications of new stochastic models for fundamental concepts and operations of the discipline of risk management. It also examines how these models can be useful in the descriptions, measurements, evaluations, and treatments of risks threatening various modern organizations. Moreover, the book makes clear that such…
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- Series Title Intelligent Systems Reference Library
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Waterborne: Vietnamese Australians and Sydney's Georges River parks and green…
Waterborne: Vietnamese Australians and Sydney's Georges River parks and green spaces, has been created by talking with the Vietnamese Australians who live around the Georges River and who often visit its parklands. Here they explain their memories of their early homelands, which are given context with information about the histories of rivers and parks in Vietnam. The Vietnamese Australians hig…
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Muslims in Spain, 1492-1814: Living and Negotiating in the Land of the Infidel
In Muslims in Spain, 1492-1814: Living and Negotiating in the Land of the Infidel, Eloy Martín-Corrales surveys Hispano-Muslim relations from the late fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, a period of chronic hostilities. Nonetheless there were thousands of Muslims in Spain at that time: ambassadors, exiles, merchants, converts, and travelers. Their negotiating strategies, and the necessary s…
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Contemporary Irish Women Poets: Memory and Estrangement
This study examines the intersection of private and public spheres through the representation of memory in contemporary poetry by Irish women. Collins explores how memory shapes creativity in the work of well-known poets such as Eavan Boland, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Medbh McGuckian as well as in that of an exciting group of younger poets. This book analyses, for the first time, the comple…
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Women's Political and Social Thought An Anthology
Women's Political and Social Thought: An Anthology is the first collection of source readings of women's important writings in political and social theory from ancient times to the twentieth century. It fills a major gap in materials available for teaching the history of political thought and opens paths for exploring the rich and diverse contributions of women as creators of theory. Not confin…
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