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Ranaviruses : Lethal Pathogens of Ectothermic Vertebrates
This is the first book on ranaviruses. Ranaviruses are double-stranded DNA viruses that cause hemorrhagic disease in amphibians, reptiles, and fish. They have caused mass die-offs of ectothermic vertebrates in wild and captive populations around the globe. There is evidence that this pathogen is emerging and responsible for population declines in certain locations. Considering that amphibians a…
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- 978-3-319-13755-1
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- 579.165 RAN
Disavowing Disability: Richard Baxter and the Conditions of Salvation
Disavowing Disability examines the role that disability, both as a concept and an experience, played in seventeenth-century debates about salvation and religious practice. Exploring how the use and definition of the term 'disability' functioned to allocate agency and culpability, this study argues that the post-Restoration imperative to capacitate 'all men'—not just the 'elect'—entailed a c…
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- 9781108913515
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- 362.1 MCK d
Digital Constitutionalism in Europe: Reframing Rights and Powers in the Algor…
This book is about rights and powers in the digital age. It is an attempt to reframe the role of constitutional democracies in the algorithmic society. By focusing on the European constitutional framework as a lodestar, this book examines the rise and consolidation of digital constitutionalism as a reaction to digital capitalism.
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- 9781009071215
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- 321.87 GRE d
Democratic Multiplicity: Perceiving, Enacting, and Integrating Democratic Div…
This edited volume argues that democracy is broader and more diverse than the dominant state-centered, modern representative democracies to which other modes of democracy are either presumed subordinate or ignored. The contributors seek to overcome the standard opposition of democracy from below (participatory) and democracy from above (representative).
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- 9781009178372
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- 321.8 TUL d
Decoupling: Gender Injustice in China's Divorce Courts
Michelson’s analysis of almost 150,000 divorce trials reveals routine and egregious violations of China’s own laws upholding the freedom of divorce, gender equality, and the protection of women’s physical security. Using “big data” computational techniques to scrutinize cases covering 2009–2016 from all 252 basic-level courts in two Chinese provinces, Henan and Zhejiang, Michelson r…
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- 9781108768177
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- 306.89 MIC d
Debating Humanity: Towards a Philosophical Sociology
Debating Humanity explores sociological and philosophical efforts to delineate key features of humanity that identify us as members of the human species.
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- 9781316416303
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- 128 CHE d
Cyber Peace: Charting a Path Toward a Sustainable, Stable, and Secure Cyberspace
The international community is too often focused on responding to the latest cyber-attack instead of addressing the reality of pervasive and persistent cyber conflict. From ransomware against the city government of Baltimore to state-sponsored campaigns targeting electrical grids in Ukraine and the U.S., we seem to have relatively little bandwidth left over to ask what we can hope for in terms …
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- 9781108954341
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- 363.325 SHA c
Cultural-Historical Perspectives on Collective Intelligence: Patterns in Prob…
In the era of digital communication, collective problem solving is increasingly important. Large groups can now resolve issues together in completely different ways, which has transformed the arts, sciences, business, education, technology, and medicine.
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- 9781108981361
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- 006.3824 BAL c
Creating the Ancient Rhetorical Tradition
This book explores the history of rhetorical thought and examines the gradual association of different aspects of rhetorical theory with two outstanding fourth-century bce writers: Lysias and Isocrates.
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- 9781108873956
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- 824 VII c
Contraception and Modern Ireland: A Social History, c. 1922-92
Contraception was the subject of intense controversy in twentieth-century Ireland. Banned in 1935 and stigmatised by the Catholic Church, it was the focus of some of the most polarised debates before and after its legalisation in 1979. This is the first comprehensive, dedicated history of contraception in Ireland from the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922 to the 1990s.
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- 9781108979740
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- 363.9609417 KEL c
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