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The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine
This open access book studies breath and breathing in literature and culture and provides crucial insights into the history of medicine, health and the emotions, the foundations of beliefs concerning body, spirit and world, the connections between breath and creativity and the phenomenology of breath and breathlessness. Contributions span the classical, medieval, early modern, Romantic, Victori…
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- 1
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- 978-3-030-74443-4
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- Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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- XXII, 555
Empire Under the Microscope
This open access book considers science and empire, and the stories we tell ourselves about them. Using British Nobel laureate Ronald Ross (1857-1932) and his colleagues as access points to a wider professional culture, Empire Under the Microscope explores the cultural history of parasitology and its relationships with the literary and historical imagination between 1885 and 1935. Emilie Taylor…
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- 978-3-030-84717-3
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- Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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- XIII, 294
The Poetics and Politics of Alzheimer’s Disease Life-Writing
This is the first book-length exploration of the thoughts and experiences expressed by dementia patients in published narratives over the last thirty years. It contrasts third-person caregiver and first-person patient accounts from different languages and a range of media, focusing on the poetical and political questions these narratives raise: what images do narrators appropriate; what narrati…
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- 978-3-319-44388-1
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- Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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- VIII, 167
Neo-Ottomanism and the Politics of Emotions in Turkey
This open access book explores the politics of emotions under the ruling Justice and Development Party in Turkey and the leadership of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. It examines how emotional politics and, particularly, the use of a Neo-Ottomanist narrative created a new national mood and contributed to the durability of Erdoğan’s rule. The author analyses the interactions between national…
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- 978-3-031-48723-1
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- Palgrave Studies in Political Psychology
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- XIX, 184
Oxygen-Carrier-Aided Combustion Technology for Solid-Fuel Conversion in Fluid…
This open access book surveys the development of OCAC technology in the last decade for solid fuel conversion in fluidized beds. The scientific concerns, including combustion and emission characteristics, ash-related problems, OC aging, and so on, are summarized and analyzed. Beyond this, new concepts like OCAC with Oxy-PFBC, OCAC coupled with staged fuel conversion, OCAC in rotatory kilns and …
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- 978-981-19-9127-1
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- IX, 121
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Critical Issues in Head and Neck Oncology
With a wealth of exciting data emerging in this rapidly evolving field this book will review the state-of-the-art knowledge with emphasis on multidisciplinary decision and management of head and neck cancer. The book provides significant detail on a wide range of topics including: the role of new targets for treatment, immunotherapy, resistance mechanisms, standardizing molecular profiling prog…
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- 9783031231759
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Corps et capital dans le roman français du XIXe siècle
Depuis Pierre Bourdieu, nous savons que le corps forme un capital culturel et social incorporé. Il est marchandise et moyen de production, signe d’appartenance à une classe sociale, un lieu où se négocient les relations de sexe, de genre et de pouvoir ou un prétexte à des exclusions sociales et au racisme. Le corps est objet de châtiments, de sanctions et de contrôle social, support d…
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- 978-3-7329-9032-0
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- 500
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- Literaturwissenschaft
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Translation und Exil (1933-1945) II
Übersetzen funktioniert nicht im luftleeren Raum. Es als Handlung in einem strukturierten Kontext sichtbar zu machen, ist das Ziel dieses Buches. Zu diesem weit gefassten Umfeld gehören Personen und vor allem kollektive Akteure – Verleger:innen, Rezensent:innen und Mäzen:innen, Verlage, Zeitschriften, soziale und politische Organisationen. Einzeln und gemeinsam bilden sie dynamische, inter…
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- 978-3-7329-8977-5
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- 520
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- Transkulturalität – Translation – Transfer
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Multimedia Forensics
This book is open access. Media forensics has never been more relevant to societal life. Not only media content represents an ever-increasing share of the data traveling on the net and the preferred communications means for most users, it has also become integral part of most innovative applications in the digital information ecosystem that serves various sectors of society, from the entertainm…
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- 978-981-16-7621-5
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- XII, 490
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United Nations Peace Operations in a Changing Global Order
This open access book explores how UN peace operations are adapting to four transformational trends in the changing global order: (1) the rebalancing of relations between states of the global North and the global South; (2) the rise of regional organisations as providers of peace; (3) the rise of violent extremism and fundamentalist non-state actors; and (4) increasing demands from non-state ac…
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- 9783319991061
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- XXV, 334hlm; ill., lamp.,
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