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Warlike and peaceful societies : the interaction of genes and culture
Read Agner Fog's introductory post on our blog [...] it presents a valuable overview of the extensive literature on the societal correlates of modern warfare and makes a convincing, and timely, case for the deceptive use of the threat of war by populists or budding dictators. — Carel P. van Schaik, University of Zurich, Adaptive Behaviour (May 2018) https://doi.org/10.1177/105971231877197…
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- 9781783744053
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- 364p.: colour, ill.
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- 303.4 WAR f
Mothers on mothers : maternal readings of popular television
From Supernanny to Gilmore Girls, from Katie Price to Holly Willoughby, a wide range of examples of mothers and motherhood appear on television today. Drawing on questionnaires completed by mothers across the UK, this book sheds new light on the diverse ways in which mothers make sense of popular representations of motherhood on television.
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- 9783035307917
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- ix, 265 p.
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- 302.23082 FEA m
Thinking of Space Relationally : Critical Realism Beyond Relativism - A Manif…
Since the relational turn, scholars have combated methodological universalism, nationalism, and individualism in researching social-spatial transformations. Yet, when leaving the gaps between the traveling and local epistemic assumptions unattended, engaging relational spatial theories in empirical research may still reproduce established theoretical claims. Following the sociology of knowledge…
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- 8
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- 9783839455876
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- 282 p, ill.
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- 709.5115 GAO t
A fleet street in every town: the provincial press in England, 1855-1900
At the heart of Victorian culture was the local weekly newspaper. More popular than books, more widely read than the London papers, the local press was a national phenomenon. This book redraws the Victorian cultural map, shifting our focus away from one centre, London, and towards the many centres of the provinces. It offers a new paradigm in which place, and a sense of place, are vital to the …
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- 9781783745616
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- 455 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
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- 941.081 HOB a
From darkness to light: writers in museums 1798-1898
Written by an array of international experts, these collected essays gather perspectives from a diverse range of cultural sensibilities. From sensitive discussions of Tintoretto’s unique approach to the play of light and darkness as exhibited in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice, to the development of museum lighting as part of Japanese artistic self-fashioning, via the story of an epi…
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- 9781783745517
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- xviii, 371 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
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- 729.28 FRO f
Essays on Paula Rego: smile when you think about hell
In these powerful and stylishly written essays, Maria Manuel Lisboa dissects the work of Paula Rego, the Portuguese-born artist considered one of the greatest artists of modern times. Focusing primarily on Rego’s work since the 1980s, Lisboa explores the complex relationships between violence and nurturing, power and impotence, politics and the family that run through Rego’s art. Taking …
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- 9781783747580
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- xv, 492 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
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- 759.421 LIS e
AI art : machine visions and warped dreams
Can computers be creative? Is algorithmic art just a form of Candy Crush? Cutting through the smoke and mirrors surrounding computation, robotics and artificial intelligence, Joanna Zylinska argues that, to understand the promise of AI for the creative fields, we must not confine ourselves solely to the realm of aesthetics. Instead, we need to address the role and position of the human in the c…
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- 9781785420856
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- 181 p. : color, ill.
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- 111.85 ZYL a
Living earth community: multiple ways of being and knowing
Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing is a celebration of the diversity of ways in which humans can relate to the world around them, and an invitation to its readers to partake in planetary coexistence. Innovative, informative, and highly accessible, this interdisciplinary anthology of essays brings together scholars, writers and educators across the sciences and humanities…
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- 9781783748051
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- xxxviii, 243 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
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- 304.2 LIV l
GeomInt-mechanical integrity of host rocks
This open access book summarizes the results of the collaborative project “GeomInt: Geomechanical integrity of host and barrier rocks - experiment, modeling and analysis of discontinuities” within the Program: Geo Research for Sustainability (GEO: N) of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The use of geosystems as a source of resources, a storage space, for installing unde…
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- 9783030619091
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- xvi, 277p. : ill.
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- 624.151 GEO g
Community empowerment through research, innovation and Open Access : proceedi…
ICHSS is an international seminar that is held every two years organized by the Research and Community Service Institute of the State University of Malang. The meeting aims to discuss the theoretical and practical developments of Social Sciences and Humanities in Indonesia and other countries with a view to build academic networks by gathering academics from various research institutes and univ…
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- 9781003189206
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- XV, 163 p.
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- 307.14 COM c
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