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Literary Cultures and Public Opinion in the Low Countries, 1450-1650
In the early modern Low Countries, literary culture functioned on several levels simultaneously: it provided learning, pleasure, and entertainment while also shaping public debate. From a ditty in Dutch sung in the streets to a funeral poem in Latin composed to be read for or by intimate friends, from a play performed for a prince to a comedy written for pupils – literary texts and performanc…
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- 978-90-04-20111-8
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- x, 324 pp.
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- Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume: 197
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Transformational Ethics of Film = Thinking the Cinemakeover in the Film-Philo…
What is ‘the good’ of the film experience? And how does the budding field of ‘film as philosophy’ answer this question? Charting new routes for film ethics, Martin P. Rossouw develops a critical account of the transformational ethics at work within the ‘film as philosophy’ debate. Whenever philosophers claim that films can do philosophy, they also persistently put forward edifying p…
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- 9789004460874
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- 334 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Value Inquiry Book Series, Volume: 365 Philosophy of Film, Volume: 365
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Key Concepts in the Study of Religions in Contact
There is no religion lest there are two religions. Therefore, it is only possible to examine the history of religions by taking the crucial situations of contact into account. Contact needs concepts. Not only scholars but also participants in situations of contact are forced to conceptualize themselves and the other. Taking its point of departure from the contact-based approach to the study of …
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- 978-90-04-71490-8
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- xiv, 598 pp.
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- Dynamics in the History of Religions, Volume: 15
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The Writing Culture of Ancient Dadān = A Description and Quantitative Analys…
This work focuses the social context of writing in ancient Western Arabia in the oasis of ancient Dadan, modern-day al-ʿUlā in the northwest of the Arabian Peninsula between the sixth to first centuries BC. It offers a description and analysis of the language of the inscriptions and the variation attested within them. It is the first work to perform a systematic study of the linguistic variat…
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- 9789004512634
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- 342hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, Volume: 110
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Discourses, Dialogue and Diversity in Biographical Research An Ecology of Li…
This book explores how narratives are deeply embodied, engaging heart, soul, as well as mind, through varying adult learner perspectives. Biographical research is not an isolated, individual, solipsistic endeavor but shaped by larger ecological interactions – in families, schools, universities, communities, societies, and networks – that can create or destroy hope. Telling or listening t…
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- 978-90-04-46590-9
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, Volume: 10
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The Economics of Big Science 2.0: Essays by Leading Scientists and Policymakers
The second volume of open access essays builds upon the success of the initial installment, "The Economics of Big Science (© 2021, 978-3-030-52390-9, Open Access book as well)," delving deeper into the tangible socio-economic value generated by fundamental science missions and elucidating the various ways in which this benefit is realized. This collection showcases contributions that stem from…
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- 978-3-031-60931-2
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- XVII, 211
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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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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
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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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Enhancing Water and Food Security Through Improved Agricultural Water Product…
This open-access edited book provides a synthesis of knowledge on Water Productivity (WP) and its role in addressing global challenges related to water and food insecurity, as well as climate change. It explores how increasing WP can contribute to achieving several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the global South, with a focus on SDG 2, 6, and 12. The volume connects WP with emerging…
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- 978-981-96-1848-4
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- XXI, 391
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Energy Citizenship Across Europe = Contexts and Conditions for an Emerging En…
This open access book is intended to provoke and progress new thinking in the field of energy research for policy makers, practitioners and scholars. By drawing on a broad range of social and innovation theory insights, this book showcases the diversity of energy citizenship and opens up the concept by including multiple ‘latent’, less visible, forms of energy citizenship that also form par…
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- 9783031701573
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- XVII, 172 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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