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The globalization of knowledge in history :based on the 97th Dahlem Workshop
Today scientific, technological and cultural knowledge is shared worldwide. The extent to which globalized knowledge also existed in the past is an open question and, moreover, a question that is important for understanding present processes of globalization. This book, the first volume of the series "Studies" of the "Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge," th…
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- 9783844222388
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- 866p. : ill.
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- 001.01 GLO g
Interlocal Adaptations to Climate Change in East and Southeast Asia:Sharing L…
This Open Access book’s main focus is agriculture and natural resource management, disaster risk reduction, and human resource development in the countries of East and Southeast Asia and Japan. Asia is one of the regions which is the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. More than sixty percent of the world’s people live in the region, making it the growth center of the world. A…
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- 9783030812072
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- v, 164 p
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- 363.73874095
Cultural expertise, law, and rights:a comprehensive guide
Cultural Expertise, Law and Rights introduces readers to the theory and practice of cultural expertise in the resolution of conflicts and the claim of rights in diverse societies. Combining theory and case-studies of the use of cultural expertise in real situations, and in a great variety of fields, this is the first book to offer a comprehensive examination of the field of cultural expertise: …
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- 9781003167075
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- xiv, 360 pages; illustration
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- 340.115 HOL c
Transforming food systems under climate change through innovation
Our food systems have performed well in the past, but they are failing us in the face of climate change and other challenges. This book tells the story of why food system transformation is needed, how it can be achieved, and how research can be a catalyst for change. Written by a global interdisciplinary team of researchers, it brings together perspectives from multiple areas including climate,…
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- 9781009227216
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- 254 p
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- 338.1 CAM t
Oxygen Isotopes of Inorganic Phosphate in Environmental Samples
This open access book distinguished itself from other publications by offering step-by-step instructions on how to extract, purify, provide modifications, and major issues to be encountered during the process. For the δ18OP method to progress, further fundamental research as well as field and laboratory studies need to be conducted for a better understanding of P cycling in the environment. Ch…
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- 9783030974978
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- 333.7 OXY J
The global encyclopaedia of informality :understanding social and cultural co…
Alena Ledeneva invites you on a voyage of discovery, to explore society’s open secrets, unwritten rules and know-how practices. Broadly defined as ‘ways of getting things done’, these invisible yet powerful informal practices tend to escape articulation in official discourse. They include emotion-driven exchanges of gifts or favours and tributes for services, interest-driven know-how (fro…
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- 9781911307907
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- xxix, 400 p.
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- 306 GLO A
No Truth Without Beauty :God, the Qur’an, and Women's Rights
In this comprehensive open access book, written for readers from any or no religious background, Leena El-Ali does something remarkable. Never before has anyone taken on every last claim relating to Islam and women and countered it not just with Qur’anic evidence to the contrary, but with easy-to-use tools available to all. How can a woman’s testimony be worth half of a man’s? How can men…
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- 9783030835828
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- xxxiii, 306 p.
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- 297.082 NOT L
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
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
Oxygen Isotopes of Inorganic Phosphate in Environmental Samples :Purification…
This open access book distinguished itself from other publications by offering step-by-step instructions on how to extract, purify, provide modifications, and major issues to be encountered during the process. For the δ18OP method to progress, further fundamental research as well as field and laboratory studies need to be conducted for a better understanding of P cycling in the environment. Ch…
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- 9783030974978
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- vii, 64 p.
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- 577.14 OXY J
Remains of the Soviet past in Estonia :an anthropology of forgetting, repair …
What happens to legacies that do not find any continuation? In Estonia, a new generation that does not remember the socialist era and is open to global influences has grown up. As a result, the impact of the Soviet memory in people’s conventional values is losing its effective power, opening new opportunities for repair and revaluation of the past. Francisco Martinez brings together a numb…
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- 9781787353534
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- xix, 255 p. ill;
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- 974.98 REM F
Diasporic Hallyu :The Korean Wave in Korean Canadian Youth Culture
This open access book examines the lived experiences of diasporic Korean youth in light of the transnational flows of South Korean popular culture, known as the Korean Wave, or Hallyu. Drawing on an ethnographic study of Korean Canadian youth and their engagement with the Korean Wave, the book proposes a critical understanding of the interactions between diasporic youth audiences and popular cu…
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- 9783030949648
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- xii, 152 p.
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- 306.095 DIA K
Agricultural Value Chains in India Ensuring Competitiveness, Inclusiveness, …
This open access book provides a clear holistic conceptual framework of CISS-F (competitiveness, inclusiveness, sustainability, scalability and access to finance) to analyse the efficiency of value chains of high value agricultural commodities in India. It is based on the understanding that agriculture is an integrated system that connects farming with logistics, processing and marketing. Farme…
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- 9789813342682
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- XXXV, 298 p ; ill
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- 338.10954 AGR A
Context in literary and cultural studies
Context in Literary and Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary volume that deals with the challenges of studying works of art and literature in their historical context today. The relationship between artworks and context has long been a central concern for aesthetic and cultural disciplines, and the question of context has been asked anew in all eras. Developments in contemporary culture and…
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- 9781787356245
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- xv, 210 p. ill;
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- 809 CON J
Developing a sense of place :the role of the arts in regenerating communities
How do cultural planners and policymakers work through the arts to create communities? What do artists need to build a sense of place in their community? To discuss these issues, Developing a Sense of Place brings together new models and case studies, each drawn from a specific geographical or socio-cultural context. Selected for their lasting effect in their local community, the case studie…
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- 9781787357655
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- xxi, 325p.
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- 700.103 DEV a
The Public Value of the Social Sciences :An Interpretive Essay
What is the purpose of social science? How can social science make itself relevant to the intractable problems facing humanity in the twenty-first century? The social sciences are under threat from two main sources. One is external, reflected in a global university crisis that imposes the marketization of higher education on the ancient practice of scholarship. The other, internal threat is soc…
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- 9781780931784
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- xii, 240p : ill
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- 300.1 JHO p
Marginal people in deviant places:ethnography, diffference, and the challenge…
Marginal People in Deviant Places revisits early- to mid-twentieth-century ethnographic studies, arguing that their focus on marginal subcultures—ranging from American hobos, to men who have sex with other men in St. Louis bathrooms, to hippies, to taxi dancers in Chicago, to elderly Jews in Venice, California—helped produce new ways of thinking about social difference more broadly in the U…
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- 9780472055388
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- 348 p. : ill
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- 305.568 JAN m
Honey bee colony health
This book summarizes the current progress of bee researchers investigating the status of honey bees and possible reasons for their decline, providing a basis for establishing management methods that maintain colony health. Integrating discussion of Colony Collapse Disorder, the chapters provide information on the new microsporidian Nosema ceranae pathogens, the current status of the parasitic b…
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- 9781439879412
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- 320 p. :ill
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- 638.1 DIA h
The development of the agricultural sector of Colombia into the 1960s
For various reasons it was not revised and edited for publication at that time. In view of the important events currently transpiring in and around the agricultural sector of Colombia and the possible usefulness of additional historical material, it is now being published essentially as it was left in the late 1960s. I have not reviewed the available material in detail recently, so their may be…
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- 978958738741
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- 1134 p. :ill
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- 338.109861 DEV a
Intelligent and efficient transport systems :design, modelling, control and s…
The aim of this book is to present a number of digital and technology solutions to real-world problems across transportation sectors and infrastructures. Nine chapters have been well prepared and organized with the core topics as follows: -A guideline to evaluate the energy efficiency of a vehicle -A guideline to design and evaluate an electric propulsion system -Potential opportunities for int…
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- 9781838805111
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- xiv; 214 pg; ill.
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- 711.7 INT i
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