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Religion and Governance in England’s Emerging Colonial Empire, 1601–1698
This open access book explores the role of religion in England's overseas companies and the formation of English governmental identity abroad in the seventeenth century. Drawing on research into the Virginia, East India, Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, New England and Levant Companies, it offers a comparative global assessment of the inextricable links between the formation of English overseas gov…
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- 9783030701314
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- xi, 292 p.
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- 909.097124106 REL H
The Nation Form in the Global Age
These incisive essays explore nationalist violence and ethno-religious purification in Europe, South Africa, the Middle East, India, and China. Readers will encounter the extreme precarity of Islamic minorities and migrants, as well as inspiring explorations of alternative imaginaries beyond the nation form. Kenneth Dean, Professor, National University of Singapore. This excellent edited …
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- 9783030855802
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- xix; 386p; ill
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- 320.54 NAT I
Politics, Policy, and Public Options
A public option is a government-provided social good that exists alongside a similar privately provided good. While the public option is typically identified with health care policy, public options have been a longstanding feature of American life in a variety of sectors, ranging from libraries to swimming pools. Public schools, for example, coexist alongside private schools. However, there is …
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- 9781108767552
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- ix, 186 p ; ill
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- 344.730316 POL G
Exploring Materiality and connectivity in anthropology and beyond
Exploring Materiality and Connectivity in Anthropology and Beyond provides a new look at the old anthropological concern with materiality and connectivity. It understands materiality not as defined property of some-thing, nor does it take connectivity as merely a relation between discrete entities. Somewhat akin to Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, it sees materiality and connectivity as tw…
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- 9781787357488
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- xvii, 259 p. ill;
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- 306 EXP P
Time For The Ancients; Measurement, Theory, Experience
The book offers an overview of experiences, theories and conceptions of time in the Graeco-Roman world. It presents the results of new research on neglected medical texts, relating to time management, aging and times of life, and the importance of the accurate time assessment. At the same time it draws together the most important findings of much recent classical scholarship on ancient attitude…
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- 9783110752397
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Ethnographic experiments with artists, designers and boundary objects :exhibi…
Ethnographic Experiments with Artists, Designers and Boundary Objects is a lively investigation into anthropological practice. Richly illustrated, it invites the reader to reflect on the skills of collaboration and experimentation in fieldwork and in gallery curation, thereby expanding our modes of knowledge production. At the heart of this study are the possibilities for transdisciplinary coll…
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- 9781800081086
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- xiii, 201 p. ill;
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- 708 ETH F
Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa :Social and …
Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa offers new and critical perspectives on the causes and consequences of recent epidemiological changes in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly on the increasing incidence of so-called ‘non-communicable’ and chronic conditions. Historians, social anthropologists, public health experts and social epidemiologists present important ins…
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- 9781787357044
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- xiii, 350p. ill;
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- 614.096 EPI M
Jeremy Bentham on police :the unknown story and what it means for criminology
Jeremy Bentham’s ideas on punishment are famous. Every criminology student learns about Bentham, and every criminologist contends with him, as advocate or opponent. This discourse concerns his ideas about punishment, namely with respect to legislation and the panopticon. Yet, scholars and students are generally ignorant of Bentham’s ideas on police. Hitherto, these ideas have been largely u…
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- 9781787356177
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- xv, 259 p.
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- 192 JER S
Towards Resilient Organizations and Societies :A Cross-Sectoral and Multi-Dis…
This open access book brings together scholars in the fields of management, public policy, regional studies, and organization theory around the concept of resilience. The aim is to provide a more holistic understanding of the complex phenomenon of resilience from a multi-sectorial, cross-national, and multidisciplinary perspective. The book facilitates a conversation across diverse disciplinary…
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- 9783030820725
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- xxix; 336p; ill
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- 658.4012 TOW R
Rethinking the Andes-Amazonia divide :a cross disciplinary exploration
Nowhere on Earth is there an ecological transformation so swift and so extreme as between the snow-line of the high Andes and the tropical rainforest of Amazonia. The different disciplines that research the human past in South America have long tended to treat these two great subzones of the continent as self-contained enough to be taken independently of each other. Objections have repeatedly b…
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- 9781787357358
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- xxviii, 386 p. ill;
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- 980 RET A
Bioethics And The Holocaust
This open access book offers a framework for understanding how the Holocaust has shaped and continues to shape medical ethics, health policy, and questions related to human rights around the world. The field of bioethics continues to face questions of social and medical controversy that have their roots in the lessons of the Holocaust, such as debates over beginning-of-life and medical genetics…
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- 9783031019876
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- Public health & preventive medicine
What is Europe?
This authoritative yet accessible introduction to understanding Europe today moves beyond accounts of European integration to provide a wide-ranging and nuanced study of contemporary Europe and its historical development. This fully updated edition adds material on recent developments, such as Brexit and the migrant and Eurozone crises. The concept of Europe is instilled with a plethora of s…
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- 9781003278375
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- 278 p.
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- 940.56 WHA A
Things that travelled :Mediterranean glass in the first millennium CE
Recent research has demonstrated that, in the Roman, Late Antique, Early Islamic and Medieval worlds, glass was traded over long distances, from the Eastern Mediterranean, mainly Egypt and Israel, to Northern Africa, the Western Mediterranean and Northern Europe. Things that Travelled, a collaboration between the UCL Early Glass Technology Research Network, the Association for the History of Gl…
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- 9781787351172
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- xviii, 362 p. ill;
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- 748.20937 THI D
Modern industrial services :a cookbook for design, delivery, and management
This open access book is an outcome of several years of research, practice, and teaching experience of the authors on the challenges that underpin the successful switch to services for manufacturing firms. Ideal for a student as well as a practitioner, the book describes the industrial services ecosystem, the barriers and challenges, and a roadmap for building service excellence. Curated cases …
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- 9783030805111
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- xix; 202p; ill
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- 658 MOD S
Algorithms and Autonomy :The Ethics of Automated Decision Systems
Algorithms influence every facet of modern life: criminal justice, education, housing, entertainment, elections, social media, news feeds, work… the list goes on. Delegating important decisions to machines, however, gives rise to deep moral concerns about responsibility, transparency, freedom, fairness, and democracy. Algorithms and Autonomy connects these concerns to the core human value of …
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- 9781108895057
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- viii, 218 p ; ill
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- 174.90063 ALG A
Museum object lessons for the digital age
Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age explores the nature of digital objects in museums, asking us to question our assumptions about the material, social and political foundations of digital practices. Through four wide-ranging chapters, each focused on a single object – a box, pen, effigy and cloak – this short, accessible book explores the legacies of earlier museum practices of colle…
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- 9781787352810
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- xv, 139 p. ill;
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- 069.5 MUS H
MATERIAL CULTURE AND (FORCED) MIGRATION :materializing the transient
Material Culture and (Forced) Migration argues that materiality is a fundamental dimension of migration. During journeys of migration, people take things with them, or they lose, find and engage things along the way. Movements themselves are framed by objects such as borders, passports, tents, camp infrastructures, boats and mobile phones. This volume brings together chapters that are based on …
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- 9781800081604
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- xvii, 372 p. ill;
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- 304.8 MAT F
The Cambridge Handbook of Health Research Regulation
The first ever interdisciplinary handbook in the field, this vital resource offers wide-ranging analysis of health research regulation. The chapters confront gaps between documented law and research in practice, and draw on legal, ethical and social theories about what counts as robust research regulation to make recommendations for future directions. The Handbook provides an account and analys…
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- 9781108620024
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- xix, 444 p ; ill
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- 344.04196 CAM G
Writing The Digital History Of Nazi Germany
This book will consider how the outcomes of “doing history digitally” include different kind of sources and data, as well as new ways of researching historical questions, and innovative forms of presenting history. All contributions focus on aspects related to the history of National Socialism, World War II and the Holocaust.
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- 9783110714692
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- Berlin/Boston
Smart Cities in Asia:regulations, problems, and development
This open access book examines different aspects of smart cities, including technology, urban development, sustainable development, finance, and privacy and data protection. It also covers a wide range of jurisdictions in Asia-Pacific: Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. The book consists of two main parts. The first part includes general chapters that conceptualiz…
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- 9789811917011
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- ix; 124p; ill.
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- 307.12160951 SMA T
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