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Télécharger le livre :  Defending Community, Territory, and Indigenous Environmental Relations
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Defending Community, Territory, and Indigenous Environmental Relations


Cristina Coc , Levi Gahman , Filiberto Penados , Shelda-Jane Smith


This Element addresses a range of pressing challenges and crises by introducing readers to the Maya struggle for land and self-determination in Belize, a former British colony situated in the Caribbean and Central America. In addition to foregrounding environmental...

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Télécharger le livre :  Performing Female Intimacy in Japan's Takarazuka Revue
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Performing Female Intimacy in Japan's Takarazuka Revue


Nobuko Anan


Japan's Takarazuka Revue is arguably the most commercially successful all-female theatre company in the world. Renowned for its glamour-laden staging of musicals and revues, the company's signature shows are heterosexual Western romances where women play both male and...

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Télécharger le livre :  Multimodal Construction Grammar
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Multimodal Construction Grammar


Elisabeth Zima


This Element in Construction Grammar addresses one of its hottest topics and asks: is the unimodal conception of Construction Grammar as a model of linguistic knowledge at odds with the usage-based thesis and the multimodality of language use? Are constructions verbal,...

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Télécharger le livre :  God and Technology
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God and Technology


Heidi A. Campbell


This Element brings work from the philosophy of technology into conversation with media, religion, culture studies, and work in digital religion studies to explore examples of how popular media and emerging technologies are increasingly framed and understood through a...

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Télécharger le livre :  Reading Creation Myths Economically in Ancient Mesopotamia and Israel
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Reading Creation Myths Economically in Ancient Mesopotamia and Israel


Eric J. Harvey


Creation myths in the ancient Middle East served, among other things, as works of political economy, justifying and naturalizing materially intensive ritual practices and their entanglements with broader economic processes and institutions. These rituals were organized...

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Télécharger le livre :  AI and Image
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AI and Image


Anna Foka , Jan Von Bonsdorff


AI and Image illustrates the importance of critical perspectives in the study ofAI and its application to image collections in the art and heritage sector. The authors' approach is that such entanglements of image andAI are neither dystopian or utopian but may amplify,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Nonmonotonic Logic
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Nonmonotonic Logic


Christian Straßer


Nonmonotonic logics serve as formal models of defeasible reasoning, a type of reasoning where conclusions are drawn absent absolute certainty. Defeasible reasoning takes place when scientists interpret experiments, in medical diagnosis, and in practical everyday...

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Télécharger le livre :  Testimony and Historical Knowledge
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Testimony and Historical Knowledge


Jonas Ahlskog


This Element explores the relation between historiography and testimony as a question about what it means to know and understand the past historically. In contrast with the recent rapprochement between memory accounts and history in historical theory, the Element argues...

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Télécharger le livre :  Data Rights in Transition
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Data Rights in Transition


Rachelle Bosua , Damian Clifford , Jing Qian , Megan Richardson


Data Rights in Transition maps the development of data rights that formed and reformed in response to the socio-technical transformations of the postwar twentieth century. The authors situate these rights, with their early pragmatic emphasis on fair information...

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Télécharger le livre :  Sustainable Development and the Environment in Southeast Asia
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Sustainable Development and the Environment in Southeast Asia


Pamela D. Mcelwee


The rapid economic development experienced by Southeast Asia has come at the cost of considerable environmental degradation, including deforestation and land degradation, biodiversity loss, water and ocean pollution, rising greenhouse gas emissions, and increasing...

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Télécharger le livre :  Hieratic
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Hieratic


Fredrik Hagen


Hieratic was the most widely used script in ancient Egypt, but is today relatively unknown outside Egyptology. Generally written with ink and a brush, it was the script of choice for most genres of text, in contrast to hieroglyphs which was effectively a monumental...

Parution : 2025-08-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Wittgenstein and Social Epistemology
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Wittgenstein and Social Epistemology


Annalisa Coliva


The last twenty years have witnessed a 'social turn' in analytic philosophy. Social epistemology has been crucial to it. Social epistemology starts by repudiating the kind of individualistic epistemology, which, since Descartes' Meditations and through Kant's maxim...

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Télécharger le livre :  Islam and Pseudoscience
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Islam and Pseudoscience


Stefano Bigliardi


Pseudoscience includes any practice or argument that is presented as scientific but systematically violates criteria that distinguish science, particularly experimental verification. This Element discusses, in critical fashion, different ideas and approaches that...

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Télécharger le livre :  Zoroastrianism and Contemporary Philosophy
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Zoroastrianism and Contemporary Philosophy


Daniel Nolan


Zoroastrianism is a religion with a long history, but it has been comparatively neglected by contemporary philosophers. This Element aims to bring aspects of its long intellectual history into conversation with contemporary Anglo-American philosophy. Section 1 provides...

Parution : 2025-08-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Institutional Diversity and The Economic Calculation Debate
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Institutional Diversity and The Economic Calculation Debate


Adrian Miroiu , Paul Dragos Aligica


This Element brings together the problems of economic calculation, institutional diversity, and institutional feasibility, arguing that these themes are deeply interconnected and mutually reinforcing. Building on recent developments in institutional theory, political...

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Télécharger le livre :  Suzanne Dumesnil, Suzanne Beckett
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Suzanne Dumesnil, Suzanne Beckett


Emilie Morin


Little has been written about Suzanne Beckett, née Déchevaux-Dumesnil (1900–1989). As Samuel Beckett's lifelong companion, she found herself in a peculiar quandary, owing to the amounts of support required by Beckett's unease with success and with the business of...

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Télécharger le livre :  Diversification in the World of Data and AI
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Diversification in the World of Data and AI


Gianvito Lanzolla , Constantinos Markides


The datafication of digital reality and the diffusion of increasingly powerful AI systems have transformed the context within which diversification takes place, resulting in new realities for firms and necessitating new organizational capabilities. Building on their own...

Parution : 2025-06-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Climate Change on Trial
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Climate Change on Trial


César Rodríguez-Garavito


This Element tells the twenty-year socio-legal story of human rights-based climate change litigation. Based on an original database of the totality of rights-based climate change (RCC) lawsuits around the world as well as interviews with leading actors and participant...

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Télécharger le livre :  Christianity and Agroecology
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Christianity and Agroecology


Matthew Philipp Whelan


This Element draws on the transdisciplinary field of agroecology to clarify and deepen Catholic social teaching's natural law ethic. In response to the ecological crisis, social teaching has begun to appeal to ecology and the exemplarity of natural ecosystems to foster...

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Télécharger le livre :  Automobility and the Anthropocene
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Automobility and the Anthropocene


Gordon M. Sayre


The automobile has transformed Earth's habitats and humans' habits since the 1890s, when it, this Element argues, began the Anthropocene. Climate change now motivates efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, of which cars and trucks account for at least 10 percent....

Parution : 2025-06-30
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