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Mediating vulnerability :comparative approaches and questions of genre
Mediating Vulnerability examines vulnerability from a range of connected perspectives. It responds to the vulnerability of species, their extinction but also their transformation. This tension between extreme danger and creativity is played out in literary studies through the pressures the discipline brings to bear on its own categories, particularly those of genre. Extinction and preservation …
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- 9781800081130
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- vii, 275p.
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- 155.232 MED m
Experiments with body agent architecture. The 586-year-old Spiritello in Il R…
Experiments with Body Agent Architecture puts forward the notion of body agents: non-ideal, animate and highly specific figures integrated with design to enact particular notions of embodied subjectivity in architecture. Body agents present opportunities for architects to increase imaginative and empathic qualities in their designs, particularly amidst a posthuman condition. Beginning with n…
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- 9781800081703
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- xxix, 262 p. ill;
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- 720.103 EXP A
Electric-shock weapons, tasers and policing :myths and realities
Building on five years of research, and drawing on criminology, science and technology studies (STS), socio-legal studies and social psychology, this book is the first non-medical book written on electric-shock weapons, of which the best well known is the TASER brand. The police’s ability to use force is one of their most crucial powers, yet one that has been relatively neglected by crimin…
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- 9781003002864
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- 202p
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- 363.230284 ELE A
Picturing the invisible :exploring interdisciplinary synergies from the arts …
Picturing the Invisible presents different disciplinary approaches to articulating the invisible, that which is not known or that which is not provable. The challenge that we have seen is how to articulate these concepts, not only to those within a particular academic field but beyond, to other disciplines and society at large. As our understanding of the complexity of the world grows increment…
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- 9781800081031
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- xxiii, 264p.; ill.
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- 302.2 PIC c
Science policy under Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher was prime minister from 1979 to 1990, during which time her Conservative administration transformed the political landscape of Britain. Science Policy under Thatcher is the first book to examine systematically the interplay of science and government under her leadership. Thatcher was a working scientist before she became a professional politician, and she maintained a close…
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- 9781787353411
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- viii, 304p.; ill.
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- 509.42 SCI a
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. Collective intelligence is something we share with animals and is different from machine learning and artificial intelligence. To design and u…
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- 9781108981361
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- xviii, 448p, ill.
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- 006.3824 CUL R
Architecture and fire :a psychoanalytic approach to conservation
Architecture and Fire develops a conceptual reassessment of architectural conservation through the study of the intimate relationship between architecture and fire. Stamatis Zografos expands on the general agreement among many theorists that the primitive hut was erected around fire – locating fire as the first memory of architecture, at the very beginning of architectural evolution. Follo…
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- 9781787353701
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- xiv, 210p.; ill.
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- 720.288 ARC z
Resisting postmodern architecture :critical regionalism before globalisation
Since its first appearance in 1981, critical regionalism has enjoyed a celebrated worldwide reception. The 1990s increased its pertinence as an architectural theory that defends the cultural identity of a place resisting the homogenising onslaught of globalisation. Today, its main principles (such as acknowledging the climate, history, materials, culture and topography of a specific place) are …
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- 9781800081338
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- xxiii, 394 p. ill;
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- 724.6 RES S
The tenacity of the couple-norm :intimate citizenship regimes in a changing E…
The Tenacity of the Couple-Norm explores the ongoing strength and insidious grip of couple-normativity across changing landscapes of law, policy and everyday life in four contrasting national contexts: the UK, Bulgaria, Norway and Portugal. By investigating how the couple-norm is lived and experienced, how it has changed over time, and how it varies between places and social groups, this boo…
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- 9781787358898
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- ix, 307p.; ill.
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- 306.7094 TEN r
The law and practice of the Ireland-Northern Ireland protocol
The Ireland-Northern Ireland Protocol, part of the Withdrawal Agreement concluded between the European Union and the United Kingdom, is intended to address the difficult and complex impact of Brexit on the island of Ireland, North and South, and between Ireland and Great Britain. It has become an exceptionally important, if controversial, part of the new architecture that governs the relationsh…
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- 9781009109840
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- 204p
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- 341.37094 LAW C
Repurposing the green belt in the 21st century
The green belt has been one of the UK’s most consistent and successful planning policies. Over the past century, it has limited urban sprawl and preserved the countryside around our cities, but is it still fit for purpose in a world of unprecedented urban growth and potentially catastrophic climate change? Repurposing the Green Belt in the 21st Century examines the history of the green bel…
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- 9781787358843
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- xiv, 185p.; ill.
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- 307.120941 REP b
Renegotiating Boundaries; local politics in post-Suharto Indonesia
For decades almost the only social scientists who visited Indonesia’s provinces were anthropologists. Anybody interested in politics or economics spent most of their time in Jakarta, where the action was. Our view of the world’s fourth largest country threatened to become simplistic, lacking that essential graininess. Then, in 1998, Indonesia was plunged into a crisis that could not be unde…
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- 9789004260436
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A Good Example of Peaceful Coexistence? The Soviet Union, Austria, And Neutra…
This monograph, based on newly declassified sources from Western and Russian archives as well as on communist texts about international law and neutrality, is the first English-language account of Soviet policy towards neutral yet capitalist Austria during the Cold War. In order to make neutrality a model for the West, the Kremlin presented the unique Soviet-Austrian relationship as "a good exa…
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- Knowledge Unlatched (KU)
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Islam And Heritage in Europe:Pasts, Presents And Future Possibilities
Islam and Heritage in Europe provides a critical investigation of the role of Islam in Europe’s heritage. Focusing on Islam, heritage and Europe, it seeks to productively trouble all of these terms and throw new light on the relationships between them in various urban, national and transnational contexts. Bringing together international scholars from a range of disciplines, this collection ex…
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- 9780367491499
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The Custodians of The Gift
Emerging from more than two decades of research in the field and in the archives, the essays collected here explore the multifaceted topic of the Fijian firewalking ceremony, the vilavilairevo. The collection examines the intersection of the intertwined topics of cultural property, reproduction of tradition, and change with issues of (post)colonial representation, authenticity, and ethnic ident…
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- 9788855180870
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Diaspora, Food And Identity; Nigerian Migrants in Belgium
This book examines the connection between food and identity in the Nigerian diaspora community in Belgium. Encounters between people from different cultures do not lead to a simple adaptation of the diet, but usually give rise to some kind of fusion of new and indigenous food habits. The author questions the relationship between what Nigerian migrants in the diaspora eat, their self-perception …
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- 9782807602120
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Law and policy for the quantum age
It is often said that quantum technologies are poised to change the world as we know it, but cutting through the hype, what will quantum technologies actually mean for countries and their citizens? In Law and Policy for the Quantum Age, Chris Jay Hoofnagle and Simson L. Garfinkel explain the genesis of quantum information science (QIS) and the resulting quantum technologies that are most exciti…
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- 9781108883719
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- xxii; 578p; ill.
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- 530.12 LAW C
Television Scales
How to reckon with the staggering volume of television materials, past and present? And how to comprehend all the potential, complex scales at which to grapple with television, from its tiniest units of audiovisual content to its most massive industrial coordinates and beyond? In Television Scales, Nick Salvato demonstrates how the problem of scale in the field of television may be turned into …
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- 9781950192427
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- ScholarLed
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Jeremy Bentham and Australia :convicts, utility and empire
Jeremy Bentham and Australia is a collection of scholarship inspired by Bentham’s writings on Australia. These writings are available for the first time in authoritative form in Panopticon versus New South Wales and other writings on Australia, a volume in The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham published by UCL Press. In the present collection, a distinguished group of authors reflect on Be…
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- 9781787358188
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- xv, 425p.; ill.
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- 192 JER m
Advanced modelling with the MATLAB reservoir simulation toolbox (MRST)
Many leading experts contribute to this follow-up to An Introduction to Reservoir Simulation using MATLAB/GNU Octave: User Guide for the MATLAB Reservoir Simulation Toolbox (MRST). It introduces more advanced functionality that has been recently added to the open-source MRST software. It is however a self-contained introduction to a variety of modern numerical methods for simulating multiphase …
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- 9781009019781
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- xxiv; 596p; ill.
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- 622.3382 ADV K
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