Fields of Expertise
A Comparative History of Expert Procedures in Paris and London, 1600 to present
Fields of Expertise explores the relationship between experts and power from a historical perspective. Using case studies from Paris and London since 1600, it challenges traditional views on expertise in risk management, medicine, and economic policy.
Fields of Expertise explores the relationship between experts and power from a historical perspective. Using case studies from Paris and London since 1600, it challenges traditional views on expertise in risk management, medicine, and economic policy.
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Dispersion of Meaning
The Fading Out of the Doctrinaire World?
In a fractured world, how do we find shared meaning? This book breaks disciplinary barriers to connect art, technology, and economics, showing how a collective learning process becomes the heart of productivity in a new era of cognitive capitalism.
In a fractured world, how do we find shared meaning? This book breaks disciplinary barriers to connect art, technology, and economics, showing how a collective learning process becomes the heart of productivity in a new era of cognitive capitalism.
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How do we see and write about perception? The act of vision is profoundly impure, entangled with other senses, memory, and dreams. This volume explores the reciprocal relationship between seer and seen and the core concepts of visual perception theory.
How do we see and write about perception? The act of vision is profoundly impure, entangled with other senses, memory, and dreams. This volume explores the reciprocal relationship between seer and seen and the core concepts of visual perception theory.
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The Language of Diversity
Restoration Toward Peace and Unity
From a Christian worldview, these essays bridge gaps among racial, cultural, and religious differences. The selections examine interfaith relations and challenge readers to probe topics like education, race, and gender.
From a Christian worldview, these essays bridge gaps among racial, cultural, and religious differences. The selections examine interfaith relations and challenge readers to probe topics like education, race, and gender.
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A synthesis of symbolic logic and poetry, The Book of Change unlocks the secrets of the universe through symmetrical verse. Profound scientific and philosophical truths are simplified into images, laying out the nature of reality from physics to ethics.
A synthesis of symbolic logic and poetry, The Book of Change unlocks the secrets of the universe through symmetrical verse. Profound scientific and philosophical truths are simplified into images, laying out the nature of reality from physics to ethics.
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Voters or Consumers
Imagining the contemporary electorate
This collection asks whether the consumer, not the voter, is now central to politics. It explores political consumerism, party branding, and how consumer behaviour models can explain voting and political communication.
This collection asks whether the consumer, not the voter, is now central to politics. It explores political consumerism, party branding, and how consumer behaviour models can explain voting and political communication.
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Constructing and Sharing Memory
Community Informatics, Identity and Empowerment
Community Informatics uses information and communication technologies for positive social change, particularly with disadvantaged communities. This volume brings together valuable international perspectives on community memory, technologies, and societal good.
Community Informatics uses information and communication technologies for positive social change, particularly with disadvantaged communities. This volume brings together valuable international perspectives on community memory, technologies, and societal good.
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Singing for Themselves
Essays on Women in Popular Music
This collection offers new conclusions about how female artists have contributed to pop, rock, blues and punk. From Etta James and Patti Smith to Destiny's Child, these essays suggest new ways to hear music that is already part of our culture.
This collection offers new conclusions about how female artists have contributed to pop, rock, blues and punk. From Etta James and Patti Smith to Destiny’s Child, these essays suggest new ways to hear music that is already part of our culture.
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This book tackles Hellenism as a global entity through a comparative study of English and American literary, cultural, and artistic trends from the 18th to the 20th centuries. It proves the enduring, intercontinental appeal of Hellenism.
This book tackles Hellenism as a global entity through a comparative study of English and American literary, cultural, and artistic trends from the 18th to the 20th centuries. It proves the enduring, intercontinental appeal of Hellenism.
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Hearing Places
Sound, Place, Time and Culture
How do we hear and respond to place? 37 international artists and scholars explore this question, interrogating place as an acoustic space where sound, time, and culture collide. This book provokes us all to pay attention to how we hear the world.
How do we hear and respond to place? 37 international artists and scholars explore this question, interrogating place as an acoustic space where sound, time, and culture collide. This book provokes us all to pay attention to how we hear the world.
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Migrations
Medieval Manuscripts in New Zealand
This collection of essays by international experts and New Zealand curators opens up the little-known medieval manuscripts of New Zealand to a wider audience, placing them within the international discourse of postcolonial heritage and manuscript studies.
This collection of essays by international experts and New Zealand curators opens up the little-known medieval manuscripts of New Zealand to a wider audience, placing them within the international discourse of postcolonial heritage and manuscript studies.
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Highlighting the growing interest in consciousness studies, these essays explore the relationship between human consciousness and the arts, including theatre, literary studies, film, fine arts and music.
Highlighting the growing interest in consciousness studies, these essays explore the relationship between human consciousness and the arts, including theatre, literary studies, film, fine arts and music.
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This collection of essays on 21st-century queer culture features authors from a variety of fields investigating the ever-fluid nature of labels and definitions. Topics include queer African-Americans, same-sex marriage, and French gay culture.
This collection of essays on 21st-century queer culture features authors from a variety of fields investigating the ever-fluid nature of labels and definitions. Topics include queer African-Americans, same-sex marriage, and French gay culture.
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Children of the Sun
An Ethnographic Study of the Street Children of Latin America
An ethnographic study of street children in Mexico and Peru. Based on firsthand knowledge gained from living and working with them, this book offers an in-depth look at their subculture, drug use, crime, and the effects on their development.
An ethnographic study of street children in Mexico and Peru. Based on firsthand knowledge gained from living and working with them, this book offers an in-depth look at their subculture, drug use, crime, and the effects on their development.
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Environmental Psychology
Putting Research into Practice
This book contains research papers in environment-behaviour studies that address a recurring debate: how can research findings be put into real-world practice? It outlines current views and suggestions on how to more effectively address this ‘research-practice’ relationship.
This book contains research papers in environment-behaviour studies that address a recurring debate: how can research findings be put into real-world practice? It outlines current views and suggestions on how to more effectively address this ‘research-practice’ relationship.
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Brechtian Theatre of Contradictions
Providing Moral Strength under Conditions of Dictatorship
An opponent of the GDR's totalitarian regime, director Heinz-Uwe Haus used theatre to provide moral strength and survive dictatorship. This book collects his work to alert the present about a past too easily misrepresented, hushed up, and forgotten.
An opponent of the GDR’s totalitarian regime, director Heinz-Uwe Haus used theatre to provide moral strength and survive dictatorship. This book collects his work to alert the present about a past too easily misrepresented, hushed up, and forgotten.
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Feminism Reframed
Reflections on Art and Difference
This collection reframes the dialogue between feminism, art history, and visual culture. It revisits feminist art histories to ask urgent questions for the present and reasserts the need for continuous feminist interventions in the academy and the art world.
This collection reframes the dialogue between feminism, art history, and visual culture. It revisits feminist art histories to ask urgent questions for the present and reasserts the need for continuous feminist interventions in the academy and the art world.
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This collection of essays explores Byron’s dramas and relationship with the theatre. It covers Regency London’s squalid conditions, Alfieri's influence, and Byron as a dramatic performer. A vital book for anyone interested in this little-understood aspect of his work.
This collection of essays explores Byron’s dramas and relationship with the theatre. It covers Regency London’s squalid conditions, Alfieri’s influence, and Byron as a dramatic performer. A vital book for anyone interested in this little-understood aspect of his work.
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From Ireland to Byzantium, medievalists face constraints interpreting texts. Problems of authorship, transcription, and translation create a complex discourse. These chapters prise truths about texts, transmission, and the critical literacies needed to interpret both.
From Ireland to Byzantium, medievalists face constraints interpreting texts. Problems of authorship, transcription, and translation create a complex discourse. These chapters prise truths about texts, transmission, and the critical literacies needed to interpret both.
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This is a lively, nuanced portrayal of the struggles around identity, inequality, and domination. Ambitious in its scope, this international and interdisciplinary collection offers a powerful, hopeful picture of the pursuit of change through the lens of boundaries.
This is a lively, nuanced portrayal of the struggles around identity, inequality, and domination. Ambitious in its scope, this international and interdisciplinary collection offers a powerful, hopeful picture of the pursuit of change through the lens of boundaries.
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