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Researching with Proximity
This open access book presents a series of speculative, experimental modes of inquiry in the present times of environmental damage that have come to be known as the age of the Anthropocene. Throughout the book authors develop more nuanced ways of engaging with the environmentally vulnerable Arctic. They counter distancing, exoticising, and even apocalyptic imaginaries of the Arctic by staying p…
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- 978-3-031-39500-0
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- XIX, 215
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At Risk of Deprivation
This open access book examines how and why various forms of climate (im)mobilities can impact people's objective and subjective well-being. Worsening climate impacts are forcing subsistence farmers worldwide to decide between staying or leaving their homes. This mixed methods study analyzes cases of climate-related migration, displacement, relocation, and immobility in Peru's coastal, highland,…
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- 978-3-658-42298-1
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- XXXII, 449
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Territory and Democratic Politics
The book provides a comprehensive and updated introduction to concept of territory in the study of democratic politics. Territory plays a rather marginal role in the traditional conceptions of democracy that in many ways still prevail today. Democratic politics is often analysed from the point of view of its institutions, citizens and voters, while little is said about the territory through whi…
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- 978-3-031-35672-8
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- XI, 138
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Gesundheit – Teilhabechancen – Diskriminierungsrisiken
Dies ist ein Open-Access-Buch. Das Recht auf Gesundheit und Wohlergehen steht allen Menschen zu, unabhängig von Alter, Geschlecht, Beeinträchtigung oder anderen Vielfaltsmerkmalen. Auf die enge Verknüpfung von gesellschaftlicher Teilhabe und bestmöglicher Gesundheit macht das Gemeinschaftswerk aufmerksam. Es weist auf Exklusions- und Isolationsrisiken hin, zeigt Erfahrungen aus der Coron…
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- 978-3-658-40760-5
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- XVII, 208
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A City Cannot Be a Work of Art
This open access book connects Jane Jacobs's celebrated urban analysis to her ideas on economics and social theory. While Jacobs is a legend in the field of urbanism and famous for challenging and profoundly influencing urban planning and design, her theoretical contributions – although central to her criticisms of and proposals for public policy – are frequently overlooked even by her most…
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- 978-981-99-5362-2
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- XXV, 400
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Disclosing the world :on the phenomenology of language
A phenomenological conception of language, drawing on Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Wittgenstein, with implications for both the philosophy of language and current cognitive science.In this book, Andrew Inkpin considers the disclosive function of language--what language does in revealing or disclosing the world. His approach to this question is a phenomenological one, centering on the need to a…
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- 9780262333955
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- 1 online resource
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Photo forensics
The first comprehensive and detailed presentation of techniques for authenticating digital images. Photographs have been doctored since photography was invented. Dictators have erased people from photographs and from history. Politicians have manipulated photos for short-term political gain. Altering photographs in the predigital era required time-consuming darkroom work. Today, powerful and lo…
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- 9780262355452
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- 1 online resource (336 pages).
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The subject's matter :self-consciousness and the body
The body may be the object we know the best. It is the only object from which we constantly receive a flow of information through sight and touch; and it is the only object we can experience from the inside, through our proprioceptive, vestibular, and visceral senses. Yet there have been very few books that have attempted to consolidate our understanding of the body as it figures in our experie…
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- 9780262342599
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 402 pages) :illustrations.
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Technologies of vision :the war between data and images
An investigation of the computational turn in visual culture, centered on the entangled politics and pleasures of data and images.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262343336
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- 1 online resource.
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Neuroplasticity
The real story of how our brains and nervous systems change throughout our lifetimes -- with or without ""brain training."""Fifty years ago, neuroscientists thought that a mature brain was fixed like a fly in amber, unable to change. Today, we know that our brains and nervous systems change throughout our lifetimes. This concept of neuroplasticity has captured the imagination of a public eager …
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- 9780262337069
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- 1 online resource (x, 181 pages).
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