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Forecasting Travel in Urban America: The Socio-Technical Life of an Engineeri…
A history of urban travel demand modeling (UTDM) and its enormous influence on American life from the 1920s to the present. For better and worse, the automobile has been an integral part of the American way of life for decades. Its ascendance would have been far less spectacular, however, had engineers and planners not devised urban travel demand modeling (UTDM). This book tells the story of…
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- 780262374521
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- 620 CHA f
A Historical and Topographical Guide to the Geography of Strabo
Strabo's Geography, completed in the early first century AD, is the primary source for the history of Greek geography. This Guide provides the first English analysis of and commentary on this long and difficult text, and serves as a companion to the author's The Geography of Strabo, the first English translation of the work in many years. It thoroughly analyzes each of the seventeen books and p…
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- 9781316848203
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A Historical and Philosophical Sketch of the Discoveries and Settlements of t…
lthough he had never set foot in Africa, Scottish poet and linguist John Leyden (1775–1811) decided to publish in 1799 this compilation on 'discoveries and settlements' there, drawing from the published works of explorers. His aim was 'to exhibit the progress of discoveries at this period in North and West Africa', giving descriptions of places such as Guinea, the Gold Coast, and Sierra Leone…
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- 9781139058759
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- Cambridge Library Collection - African Studies
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On the Way to the (Un)Known?: The Ottoman Empire in Travelogues (c. 1450-1900)
Twenty-two authors from various countries analyze travelogues on the Ottoman Empire between the fifteenth and the nineteenth centuries. The volume discusses questions of perceptions of "otherness", the circulation of knowledge, intermedial relations, gender roles, and explores possibilities and limits of digital analysis.
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- 9783110698046, 9783110697605
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- 420
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- Studies on Modern Orient, 36
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- 297 ONT o
Electric Worlds / Mondes électriques: Creations, Circulations, Tensions, Tra…
What interpretation(s) do today’s historians make of electrification? Electrification is a process which began almost a hundred and fifty years ago but which more than one billion men and women still do not have access to. This book displays the social diversity of the electric worlds and of the approaches to their history. It updates the historical knowledge and shows the renewal of the hist…
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- 9782807600294;9782875743305
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- 606
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- Histoire de l’énergie/History of Energy, 8
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- 909.0223 ELE e
A Historical and Descriptive Narrative of Twenty Years' Residence in South Am…
In 1804 when W. B. Stevenson (fl. 1803–25) arrived on the small island of Mocha, just off the coast of South America, he stepped onto a continent on the brink of mass revolution. Over the next twenty years, he had an extraordinary range of experiences: as a traveller, a Spanish government official, a prisoner, and as secretary to an ex-Royal Navy admiral turned revolutionary. In this three-vo…
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- 9781139060592
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- Cambridge Library Collection - Latin American Studies
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China, Russia and Central Asian Infrastructure
This book evaluates Central Asian regionalism by analyzing the impact of Russia and China on physical infrastructure in the region. The narrative builds a picture of the nature of the two powers’ influence on the development of regional connectivity in Central Asia. The study covers the 30-year period since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, with a focus on the last decade preceding the glo…
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- 978-981-19-4254-9
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- Sejarah Sosial
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- 301.7
The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Literature
This comprehensive Handbook presents the major perspectives within philosophy and literary studies on the relations, overlaps and tensions between philosophy and literature. Drawing on recent work in philosophy and literature, literary theory, philosophical aesthetics, literature as philosophy and philosophy as literature, its twenty-nine chapters plus substantial Introduction and Afterword exa…
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- 978-1-137-54794-1
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- Literasi Filsafat
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- 379
Chinese Historical Thinking : An Intercultural Discussion
The book presents Chinese historical thinking by four articles. It is covered the ancient origin and the development to modernity and is commented by seven international experts. Presentation and comments find ›second thought‹ by three other international scholars, and at the end the whole discussion find an answer by the authors of the first presentations. The complex structure of …
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- 9789863501145
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- 254 halaman
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- Research in East Asian Civilizations－Global East Asia 4
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- 900 HUA c
Close Reading with Computers: Textual Scholarship, Computational Formalism, a…
Rather than working at the usual scales of distant reading, this book shows what happens when we bring techniques from the digital humanities to bear on a single novel for close readings.
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- 9781503609372
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- 823.914
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