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The School of Salamanca: A Case of Global Knowledge Production
Over the past few decades, a growing number of studies have highlighted the importance of the ‘School of Salamanca’ for the emergence of colonial normative regimes and the formation of a language of normativity on a global scale. According to this influential account, American and Asian actors usually appear as passive recipients of normative knowledge produced in Europe. This book proposes…
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- 9789004516441
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- 296 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Thomas Duve, José Luis Egío, and Christiane Birr
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Expert Consensus in Science
This Open Access book shows how expert consensus pervades all areas of science. It explores, in particular, the role of consensus in establishing scientific truth, in guiding professional practice and policy and agreeing on what are acceptable scientific methodologies. For some scientific issues, a consensus forms spontaneously among scientists working on a topic, while for others, where the is…
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- 9789819792221
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- XVII, 231 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Environmental Humanities in India
This open access book offers an introduction to the field of the environmental humanities in India. The environmental humanities, often referred to as ‘EH’, are a multifaceted, relatively new, and swiftly evolving field of scholarship that integrates the theories and approaches of various disciplines - from anthropology, art, communications, cultural studies, philosophy and ecology to histo…
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- 978-981-97-3933-2
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- X, 234
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- Asia in Transition
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Gender, Power and Politics in Agriculture: Revisiting Theory and Practice
This is a open access book. In the agriculture sector, the language of gender integration often ignores the politics and the power dynamics that are central to critical, and feminist, analysis of gender relations. This volume explores largely neglected topics such as power dynamics, masculinities, gendered social norms, feminist research practice, intersectionality, critical analysis of tools a…
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- 9783031609862
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- XIV, 231
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The Principal Pauline Epistles: A Collation of Old Latin Witnesses
The earliest Latin versions of the writings of the New Testament offer important insights into the oldest forms of the biblical text, the use of language in the ancient Church and the foundations from which Christian theology developed in the West. This volume presents a collation of Old Latin evidence for the four principal Pauline Epistles (Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians and Galatians). The sou…
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- 9789004390492
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- 456 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- New Testament Tools, Studies and Documents, Volume: 59
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Global Maritime Military Strategy, 1980–2023
This open access book is an ambitious study about how to use comparative methods to analyze contemporary military strategy in the maritime domain. Based on the three strategic concepts of area denial, sea control and power projection, this book analyzes the intensive conventional capabilities of six major powers’ military strategies. These include the United States, the United Kingdom and Jap…
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- 978-981-96-2399-0
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- XXII, 218
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The Poetics of Anti-Colonialism in the Arabic Qaṣīdah
Representing the most sustained investigation of the aesthetics of Anti-Colonialism in modern Arabic poetry, this book chronicles the evolution of a distinct poetics that sought to maintain the integrity of the qaṣīdah without circumventing its historical moment. It painstakingly analyses a selection of odes by four leading twentieth-century poets, Aḥmad Shawqī, Maʿrūf al-Ruṣāfī, Ba…
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- 9789047404408
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- 304 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures, Volume: 29
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Die Akte/n
Was in der Welt gelten oder als Tatbestand verbürgt sein soll, muss aktenkundig sein, denn die Behörden der ›verwalteten Welt‹ entscheiden über unsere Wirklichkeit, Identität und Handlungsmacht im ›Medium‹ der Akten. Diese stiften also zuletzt Zusammenhänge zwischen Amt und Welt, zunächst aber zwischen unterschiedlichsten Schriftstücken – egal, ob in Gestalt von Kästchen und K…
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- 978-3-662-70242-0
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- XVII, 511
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The Newest Sappho: P. Sapph. Obbink and P. GC inv. 105, Frs. 1-4 = Studies in…
Retraction Notice: Postscript (March, 2021): The Publisher notifies the readers that Chapter 2 of this volume (Dirk Obbink, “Ten Poems of Sappho: Provenance, Authenticity, and Text of the New Sappho Papyri”) has been retracted. For more information please view the statement by the editors in the Retraction Notice in the front matter of this volume and on page 9 of the Introduction. The reas…
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- 9789004314832
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- 560 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Mnemosyne, Supplements, Volume: 392
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Delivering Universal Health Care to People with Major Limb Loss or Damage in …
This Open Access book addresses the need for rehabilitation services for people impacted by Major Limb Loss in Low and Middle Income Countries. It focuses on a Complex Intervention study in Uganda supporting the provision of affordable and accessible prosthetic services in a public referral hospital. The book demonstrates the impact that overwhelming dependency on overseas support has had on se…
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- 978-3-031-85423-1
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- XX, 229
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