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Pandemic Media: Preliminary Notes toward an Inventory
With its unprecedented scale and consequences the COVID-19 pandemic has generated a variety of new configurations of media. Responding to demands for information, synchronization, regulation, and containment, these “pandemic media” reorder social interactions, spaces, and temporalities, thus contributing to a reconfiguration of media technologies and the cultures and polities with which the…
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- 9783957960092, 9783957960085
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- 380
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- Configurations of Film
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- 302.03 PAN p
Cartographies of Differences: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
This volume investigates the process of learning how to live with individual and group differences in the twenty-first century and examines the ambivalences of contemporary cosmopolitanism. Engaging with the concept of ‘critical cartography’, it emphasizes the structural impact of localities on the experiences of those living with difference, while trying to develop an account of the counte…
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- 9783035397000; 9783034318594
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- 240
- Series Title
- New Visions of the Cosmopolitan
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- 306.07 CAR c
Towards an International Code of Conduct for Private Security Providers: A Vi…
The use of private security companies (PSCs) to perform services that are traditionally associated with the state presents a challenge to regulatory and oversight frameworks. Analyzing developments leading to the International Code of Conduct for Security Providers (ICOC) and the ICOC Association, this paper argues that a multistakeholder approach to develop standards adapted for the private se…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781911529392
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- 61
- Series Title
- SSR Papers, 12
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- 320 BUZ t
Media Effects
Now in its fourth edition, Media Effects again features essays from some of the finest scholars in the field and serves as a comprehensive reference volume for scholars, teachers, and students. This edition contains both new and updated content that reflects our media-saturated environments, including chapters on social media, video games, mobile communication, and virtual technologies. In reco…
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- 9781138590182, 9781138590229
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- -
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- 306.4 MED m
Mystifying the Monarch: Studies on Discourse, Power, and History
The history of kings and queens has always appealed to popular imagery. Monarchy is also a central theme to classic surveys of political history. The present volume approaches the relation between imagery and authority of the monarchy from a cultural historical angle. The authors focus on the different discourses produced since the Middle Ages aiming at the symbolic construction of royal power …
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- 296
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- 900 MYS s
Optimization of adaptive test design methods for the determination of steady-…
This thesis deals with the development of a model-based adaptive test design strategy with a focus on steady-state combustion engine calibration. The first research topic investigates the question how to handle limits in the input domain during an adaptive test design procedure. The second area of scope aims at identifying the test design method providing the best model quality improvement in t…
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- 9783798332478, 9783798332485
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- 236
- Series Title
- Advances in Automation Engineering
- Call Number
- 621 SAN o
Resilience of Water Supply in Practice: Experiences from the Frontline
Water Resilience in Practice is co-edited by two experienced water sector professionals and reviews resilience in water supply service delivery in the form of a series of case studies from different economic contexts – ranging from low-income and fragile states to upper-income countries. It documents real experiences and reflects on the initiatives different service providers apply to strengt…
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- 9781789061611, 9781789061635
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- 210
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- -
- Call Number
- 628.1 RES r
Gender and Sustainability: Lessons from Asia and Latin America
This is one of the first books to address how gender plays a role in helping to achieve the sustainable use of natural resources. The contributions collected here deal with the struggles of women and men to negotiate such forces as global environmental change, economic development pressures, discrimination and stereotyping about the roles of women and men, and diminishing access to natural reso…
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- 9780816548439
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- -
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- -
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- 307 GEN g
Developing Heritage – Developing Countries: Ethiopian Nation-Building and t…
Seven Ethiopian heritage sites were among the first sites on the UNESCO World Heritage List – a stunning number for an African country at the time and the product of extended international technical assistance and tourism planning. This book unpacks the beginnings of World Heritage in development thinking and the significance of national heritage for developing countries in a global context d…
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- Ed. 1
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- -
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- 204
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- Africa in Global History, 1
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- 909.82 HUB d
Redesigning Life: Eugenics Biopolitics and the Challenge of the Techno-Human …
The emerging development of genetic enhancement technologies has recently become the focus of a public and philosophical debate between proponents and opponents of a liberal eugenics – that is, the use of these technologies without any overall direction or governmental control. Inspired by Foucault’s, Agamben’s and Esposito’s writings about biopower and biopolitics, the author sees both…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9783035265446
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- -
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- 100 VAN r
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