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The Practice of Texts: Education and Healing in South India (Edition 1)
The Practice of Texts examines the uses of the Sanskrit medical classics in two educational institutions of India’s classical life science, Ayurveda: the college and the gurukula. In this interdisciplinary study, Anthony Cerulli probes late- and postcolonial reforms in ayurvedic education, the development of the ayurvedic college, and the impacts of the college curriculum on ways that ayurved…
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- 9780520383555, 9780520383555
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- 294.5 CER p
Human Bondage in the Cultural Contact Zone: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on…
Slavery – the subjection of some human beings to a state of bondage by other, more powerful, people – has been an accepted social institution since ancient times. It is less well known that slavery has also produced cultural contact zones in forcing members of different cultures into sharing the same places – whether in private households, on plantations, in mines and quarries, or indeed …
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- 9783830973751
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- 326 HUM h
Annual Report 2020 on EIB Activity in Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific, and…
The European Investment Bank is helping African, Caribbean and Pacific countries in parts of society that are sometimes forgotten — young people, women and girls, small companies, rural villages. We are creating opportunities for everyone. In this report, you can meet the people who are making a difference for themselves and for others. There are stories on the COVID-19 pandemic as well as a …
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- 9789286149511, 9789286149511
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- 657.48 EUR a
From Social Butterfly to Engaged Citizen: Urban Informatics, Social Media, Ub…
Studies from around the world show how the social media tools of Web 2.0 are shaping engagement with cities, communities, and spaces. Web 2.0 tools, including blogs, wikis, and photo sharing and social networking sites, have made possible a more participatory Internet experience. Much of this technology is available for mobile phones, where it can be integrated with such device-specific feat…
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- 9780262298445
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Metabolism of the Anthroposphere: Analysis, Evaluation, Design (Second Edition)
An overview of the cultural evolution of material flows and stocks with an emphasis on the design of metabolic processes in urban systems. Over the last several thousand years of human life on Earth, agricultural settlements became urban cores, and these regional settlements became tightly connected through infrastructures transporting people, materials, and information. This global network of…
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- 9780262301329
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The Troika of Adult Learners, Lifelong Learning, and Mathematics
Mathematics Education; Learning; Teaching
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- Ed. 1
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- 9783319328089
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- 41
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- ICME-13 Topical Surveys
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- 370 SAF t
American Urban Form: A Representative History
An illustrated history of the American city's evolution from sparsely populated village to regional metropolis. American Urban Form—the spaces, places, and boundaries that define city life—has been evolving since the first settlements of colonial days. The changing patterns of houses, buildings, streets, parks, pipes and wires, wharves, railroads, highways, and airports reflect changing …
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- 9780262301671
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Toward A Minor Architecture
A major proposal for a minor architecture, and for the making of spaces out of the already built. Architecture can no longer limit itself to the art of making buildings; it must also invent the politics of taking them apart. This is Jill Stoner's premise for a minor architecture. Her architect's eye tracks differently from most, drawn not to the lauded and iconic but to what she calls “the l…
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- 9780262300278
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City Cycling
A guide to today's urban cycling renaissance, with information on cycling's health benefits, safety, bikes and bike equipment, bike lanes, bike sharing, and other topics. Bicycling in cities is booming, for many reasons: health and environmental benefits, time and cost savings, more and better bike lanes and paths, innovative bike sharing programs, and the sheer fun of riding. City Cycling o…
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- 9780262305914
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Changing Lanes: Visions and Histories of Urban Freeways
The story of the evolution of the urban freeway, the competing visions that informed it, and the emerging alternatives for more sustainable urban transportation. Urban freeways often cut through the heart of a city, destroying neighborhoods, displacing residents, and reconfiguring street maps. These massive infrastructure projects, costing billions of dollars in transportation funds, have be…
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- 9780262312387
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