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Olga Tufnell's 'perfect journey' : letters and photographs of an archaeologis…
Olga Tufnell (1905–85) was a British archaeologist working in Egypt, Cyprus and Palestine in the 1920s and 1930s, a period often described as a golden age of archaeological discovery. For the first time, this book presents Olga’s account of her experiences in her own words. Based largely on letters home, the text is accompanied by dozens of photographs that shed light on personal experience…
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- 9781787359062
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- xxxiv, 414 p. ill;
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CREATING THE CAPE COLONY : the political economy of settler colonisation
This open access book offers a detailed study of the foundation and expansion of the Dutch Cape Colony to ask why certain regions in the global south became European settler societies from the 16th century onwards. Examining the different factors that led to the creation of the Cape Colony, Erik Green reveals it was a gradual process, made up of ad hoc decisions, in which the agency of indigeno…
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- 4
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- 9781350258259
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- viii, 192p.
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- 916.8044 CRE g
Beyond The State; The Colonial Medical Service In British Africa
The Colonial Medical Service was the personnel section of the Colonial Service, employing the doctors who tended to the health of both the colonial staff and the local populations of the British Empire. Although the Service represented the pinnacle of an elite government agency, its reach in practice stretched far beyond the state, with the members of the African service collaborating, formally…
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The Persianate world : the frontiers of a Eurasian lingua franca
Persian is one of the great lingua francas of world history. Yet despite its recognition as a shared language across the Islamic world and beyond, its scope, impact, and mechanisms remain underexplored. A world historical inquiry into pre-modern cosmopolitanism, The Persianate World traces the reach and limits of Persian as a Eurasian language in a comprehensive survey of its geographical, lite…
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- edision 13
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- 9780520300927
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- 366 p.
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- 491.5509. THE n
Afghanistan’s Islam: From Conversion To The Taliban
This book provides the first overview of the history and development of Islam in Afghanistan. Written by leading international experts, chapters cover every era from the conversion of Afghanistan through the medieval period to the present day. Based on primary sources in Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Uzbek, and Urdu, its depth of coverage is unrivalled in providing a developmental picture of Afghani…
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How to achieve inclusive growth
Rising inequality and widespread poverty, social unrest and polarization, gender and ethnic disparities, declining social mobility, economic fragility, unbalanced growth due to technology and globalization, and existential danger from climate change are urgent global concerns of our day. These issues are intertwined. They therefore require a holistic framework to examine their interplay and bri…
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- 9780192846938
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- xxiii, 831 p. : bnw, ill.
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- 338.927 CER h
Theory and methods for sociocultural research in science and engineering educ…
Introducing original methods for integrating sociocultural and discourse studies into science and engineering education, this book provides a much-needed framework for how to conduct qualitative research in this field. The three dimensions of learning identified in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) create a need for research methods that examine the sociocultural components of scienc…
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- 9781351139915
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- xiv, 279 p.; ill
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politics of vaccination: a global history
Mass vaccination campaigns are political projects that presume to protect individuals, communities, and societies. Like other pervasive expressions of state power - taxing, policing, conscripting - mass vaccination arouses anxiety in some people but sentiments of civic duty and shared solidarity in others. This collection of essays gives a comparative overview of vaccination at different times,…
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- 9781526110916
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- xiii, 343 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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- Social histories of medicine
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- 610.9 POL p
Snow sports trauma and safety : conference proceedings of the International S…
This book covers the latest in snow sport epidemiology, snow sport injuries and treatment, and biomechanical/mechanical engineering related to snow sports injuries (mechanisms of injury, injury prevention by equipment design, injury prevention by design of resort features, and more). It brings together a collection of papers from the International Congress on Ski Trauma and Safety (the biennal …
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- 9783319527550
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- x, 206p. : ill.
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- 617.1027693 SCH s
Pandemic disease in the medieval world: rethinking the Black Death
This ground-breaking book brings together scholars from the humanities and social and physical sciences to address the question of how recent work in the genetics, zoology, and epidemiology of plague's causative organism (Yersinia pestis) can allow a rethinking of the Black Death pandemic and its larger historical significance.
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- 9781942401018
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- xx, 339 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
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- Medieval globe ; v. 1
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- 614.4 PAN p
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