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Emotion, Race, and Space in Contemporary African American Literature
This open access book examines how selected African American authors—Colson Whitehead, Edward P. Jones, Toni Morrison, Brit Bennett, Percival Everett, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Sherri L. Smith, and N.K. Jemisin—narrate relationships between emotion, race, and space. On the one hand, they bear witness to the structural production of Black emotional pain at the confluence of racial and spatial d…
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- 978-3-031-85795-9
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- IX, 232
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Rock Fracture Mechanics and Fracture Criteria
For rock engineering projects, the cutting and fragmenting of rocks has attracted much attention. Exploring the fracture characteristics of rocks is helpful in achieving efficient and sustainable excavation for mining and tunneling engineering. The fracture toughness of rocks is a crucial mechanical indicator that weighs the initiation and extension of cracks during the breaking process.…
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- 9789819758227
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- X, 112
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Researching with Proximity
We are being told: ‘It is perhaps not wise to go to trekking during ‘räkkä’ time, the mass occurrence of insects—mosquitoes, blackflies, and midges— during the northern summer.’ As experienced trekkers, we already know this, but we have no option: this is the only weekend possible for us to go for a hike, and we are eager. I only wish for a miracle, to avoid having very …
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- 9783031395000
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- XIX, 215
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The Religion and Rituals of the Nomads of Pre-Islamic Arabia = A Reconstructi…
This book approaches the religion and rituals of the pre-Islamic Arabian nomads using the Safaitic inscriptions. Unlike Islamic-period literary sources, this material was produced by practitioners of traditional Arabian religion; the inscriptions are eyewitnesses to the religious life of Arabian nomads prior to the spread of Judaism and Christianity across Arabia. The author attempts to reconst…
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- 9789004504271
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- 164 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Ancient Languages and Civilizations, Volume: 1
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Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering: 28th International Conference…
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE 2025, which was held as part of the International Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2025, in Hamilton, Canada, in May 2025. The 9 full and 2 short papers included in the proceedings, together with one invited keynote paper an…
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- 978-3-031-90900-9
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- XIV, 288
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Global Challenges in Cardiovascular Prevention in Populations with Low Socioe…
Cardiovascular Prevention (CVP) has included important technological advances and determined improvements in morbidity and mortality since the last 70 and 60 years. However, in populations with socioeconomic limited resources even basic health preserving tools such as access to a primary care provider and basic drug therapy for diabetes mellitus, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol are n…
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- 978-3-031-79051-5
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- XVIII, 272
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Crises and the Roman Empire
This volume presents the proceedings of the seventh workshop of the international thematic network 'Impact of Empire', which concentrates on the history of the Roman Empire and brings together ancient historians, archaeologists, classicists and specialists on Roman law from some 30 European and North American universities. The seventh volume focuses on the impact that crises had on the developm…
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- 978-90-47-42090-3
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Impact of Empire, Volume: 7
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Creating and Sharing Legal Knowledge in the Twelfth Century
The Decretum Gratiani is the cornerstone of medieval canon law, and the manuscript St Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 673 an essential witness to its evolution. The studies in this volume focus on that manuscript, providing critical insights into its genesis, linguistic features, and use of Roman Law, while evaluating its attraction to medieval readers and modern scholars. Together, these studies of…
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- 978-90-04-51925-1
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Medieval Law and Its Practice, Volume: 35
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Remembering Marielle Franco from a Theological Perspective
This study discusses selected memories of Marielle Franco from the perspective of the concept of dangerous memory (Johann Baptist Metz). Franco was a Brazilian human-rights activist and city councilor of Rio de Janeiro who was assassinated on March 14, 2018. Today she is considered an international symbol in the fight for human, women, and LGBTQ+ rights. This work aims to show what mea…
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- 9783031653537
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- XVIII, 299
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Rechtsgemeinschaft mit Tieren
Die Missstände in der Tierhaltung führen auch in der Schweiz immer wieder zu Schlagzeilen: So wurden etwa im Frühling 2023 die Urteile in einem der grössten Tierschutzfälle der Schweiz, dem «Fall Hefenhofen», breit diskutiert,1 im Herbst 2022 machten verstörende Videos aus der Geflügelzucht Schlagzeilen2 und im Sommer 2019 erschien in verschiedenen Medien der TA-Gruppe eine gan…
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- 9783658444471
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- XXVI, 672
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