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Télécharger le livre :  Mountain of Paradise
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Mountain of Paradise


Josef Chytry


Mountain of Paradise challenges conventional taxonomies of world civilizations by introducing a new and formidable candidate: the civilization of Greater California presently incubating as the evolution of California into a veritable «nation-state» or «world...

Parution : 2025-07-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Artificial intelligence and foreign affairs
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Artificial intelligence and foreign affairs


Mario Torres Jarrín


AI is one of the most disruptive technologies of our era, significantly transforming nearly every aspect of human life. This book examines the impact ofAI on international affairs from interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral, and interregional perspectives, focusing on both...

Parution : 2025-01-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Construire l'Autre
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Construire l'Autre


Thierry Waser


Cette publication réunit des travaux de chercheurs et chercheuses francophones et Anglophones travaillant sur les productions de missionnaires chrétiens entre 1830 et 1970 en diverses régions du monde (Asie, Afrique et Océanie). Dans une perspective d’anthropologie...

Parution : 2025-01-03
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Télécharger le livre :  The Market of the Gods
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The Market of the Gods


Dominique Desjeux


2,000 years ago, Judaism was becoming an attractive product in the market of Mediterraneanreligions. Yet it was Christianity that won the day. Innovation anthropologistDominique Desjeux offers an unexpected solution to this oft-revisited enigma.In the year 70, the...

Parution : 2024-11-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Knowledge and practical knowledge
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Knowledge and practical knowledge


Silvia Carbone


How is the work of social workers shaped in terms of individuals and the internal organization of the structure? And how does the relationship between knowledge and practical knowledge affect professional vision, performance and choices of action? This book helps to...

Parution : 2024-08-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Riddles and Wonders: Defining Humanity in Anglo-Saxon England
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Riddles and Wonders: Defining Humanity in Anglo-Saxon England


Jasmine Bria


Throughout the history of human civilization, the definition of the animal and its relationship to humans have been contentious issues. This book investigates the notion of what constituted an animal in Early Medieval English culture as well as how the animal-human...

Parution : 2023-10-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Philosophy, Death and Education
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Philosophy, Death and Education


John Quay , Peter Roberts , R. Scott Webster


Often regarded as one of life’s few certainties, death is both instantly familiar to us and deeply mysterious. Death is everywhere, yet few of us take the time to consider its significance in shaping human lives. This book addresses the difficult, complex, sensitive...

Parution : 2023-04-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Exploring Verbal Cues to Deception: Testing Quantitative Linguistic Methods on English and Spanish
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Exploring Verbal Cues to Deception: Testing Quantitative Linguistic Methods on English and Spanish


Ángela Almela Sánchez-Lafuente


In this research monograph, two empirical studies are presented, whose aim is to explore the linguistic cues to deception in written English and Spanish using computational tools like ALIAS WISER and LIWC. The tools have been tested on ground-truth data. After the...

Parution : 2023-04-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Béla Bartók’s 1907 Violin Concerto
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Béla Bartók’s 1907 Violin Concerto


Alicja Usarek-Topper


The genesis and genius of Bartók’s Concerto was mingled with his love for Stefi Geyer. As Hungarian Tristan pursuing his Isolde, he sounds allusions to Wagner’s paean of unfulfilled love. In transposing the ideal into the real, Bartók enlists folk sources voicing...

Parution : 2020-11-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Collapse and Rebirth of Cultural Heritage
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Collapse and Rebirth of Cultural Heritage


Lorenzo Kamel


Cultural heritage and illicit trafficking in the Middle East are two key topics of our time. The book sheds light on both aspects, and identifies the need to democratize cultural heritage, by giving greater control to local communities. It also...

Parution : 2020-06-12
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Télécharger le livre :  The Myth of the Orient
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The Myth of the Orient


Francine Giese , Ariane Varela Braga


This volume commemorates the 160th anniversary of the Selamlik of Oberhofen Castle near Thun – one of the most significant Swiss Orientalist interiors, designed by the Bernese architect Theodor Zeerleder (1820–1868) – by presenting the latest research on the spectacular...

Parution : 2017-10-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Gendered Masks of Liminality and Race
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Gendered Masks of Liminality and Race


Yomna Saber


Shape shifters, purveyors of chaos, rules’ breakers, crude creatures and absurd figures, tricksters can be traced as recurrently transgressive figures that do not wither away with time. Tricksters rove and ramble in the pages of literature; the canon is replete with...

Parution : 2017-02-07
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Télécharger le livre :  The European Democratic Deficit
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The European Democratic Deficit


Cesáreo Rodríguez-Aguilera De Prat


The «never-ending crisis» that started in 2008 and the technocratic and fiscal measures demanded by the «Troika» have aggravated the EU’s so-called «democratic deficit» more than ever before. In this essay the principal theoretical and practical dimensions of this...

Parution : 2016-06-03
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Télécharger le livre :  The Glass Veil: Seven Adventures in Wonderland
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The Glass Veil: Seven Adventures in Wonderland


Suzanne Anker , Sabine Flach


In this collaborative work between artist and theorist Suzanne Anker and art historian Sabine Flach, the study of image production unveils the reality of pictures beyond their function as mere representations of the world. The visuals range from firsthand accounts of...

Parution : 2015-03-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Locating Hybridity
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Locating Hybridity


Ashwiny O. Kistnareddy


Despite its inherent negative implications as a purveyor of essentialism, the concept of hybridity holds a great deal of critical purchase in the postcolonial world. Hybridity allows identities and cultures to be conceptualized as different and manifold, allowing for...

Parution : 2014-12-09
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Télécharger le livre :  «A Slashing Man of Action»
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«A Slashing Man of Action»


Elaine Mcfarland


Hailed by General Sir Ian Hamilton as «a slashing man of action», Aylmer Hunter-Weston began the Great War as one of the British Army’s rising stars. By its close, his reputation was very different. Branded by some contemporaries as a «butcher» and a «mountebank», he...

Parution : 2014-10-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Shockwaves of Possibility
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Shockwaves of Possibility


Phillip E. Wegner


Shockwaves of Possibility explores the deep utopianism of one of the most significant modern cultural practices: science fiction. The author contends that utopianism is not simply a motif in SF, but rather is fundamental to its narrative dynamics. Drawing upon a rich...

Parution : 2014-09-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Embracing Democracy
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Embracing Democracy


Donald L. Wallace


Hermann Broch wrote two of the most significant novels of German modernism, The Sleepwalkers and The Death of Virgil, which established his importance to German literature. His writings on democracy, mass delusion and internationalism are more obscure. Embracing...

Parution : 2014-09-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Romanticism, Culture and Migration
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Romanticism, Culture and Migration


Kathrine Reynolds


This work provides an understanding of the large worldwide migrations of the German-speaking people from the seventeenth to twenty-first century. By examining cultural aspects of the German-speaking diaspora such as art, music, literature, and work practices, a complex...

Parution : 2013-02-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Magic Stones and Flying Snakes
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Magic Stones and Flying Snakes


Ana Margarida Martins


This monograph is the first to identify an important theoretical overlap between Anglo-Saxon and Lusophone postcolonial theories: the systematic neglect of gender and sexual variables in the analysis of the marketing of cultural difference in the post colonial era....

Parution : 2012-09-21
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