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The archaeology of the Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia
This volume describes the results of the first archaeological survey and excavations carried out in the fascinating and remote Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia between 1995 and 1997. The naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, who stopped here in search of the Birds of Paradise on his voyage through the Indo-Malay Archipelago in the 1850s, was the first to draw attention to the group. The results revea…
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- 9781921313042
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- v, 314p. : ill.
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- 959.801 ARC a
Accounting for culture : thinking through cultural citizenship
Many scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers in the cultural sector argue that Canadian cultural policy is at a crossroads: that the environment for cultural policy-making has evolved substantially and that traditional rationales for state intervention no longer apply.
The concept of cultural citizenship is a relative newcomer to the cultural policy landscape, and offers a potentially c…
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- 9780776605968
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- XVIII, 286 p.
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- Governance Series
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- 306.0971 AND a
Material encounters and indigenous transformations in the early colonial Amer…
Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas brings together 15 archaeological case studies that offer new perspectives on colonial period interactions in the Caribbean and surrounding areas through a specific focus on material culture and indigenous agency. Readership: Scholars in archaeology and early history, graduate students, educated public with an int…
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- 9789004273689
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- The Early Americas: History and Culture, 9
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- 303.483 MAT m
Fabricating modern societies : education, bodies, and minds in the age of steel
Fabricating Modern Societies: Education, Bodies, and Minds in the Age of Steel, edited by Karin Priem and Frederik Herman, offers new interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives on the history of industrialization and societal transformation in early twentieth-century Luxembourg. The individual chapters focus on how industrialists addressed a large array of challenges related to industrial…
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- 9789004410510
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- xviii, 246p. : ill.
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- 338.94935009041 FAB f
Remembering and disremembering the dead : posthumous punishment, harm and red…
This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and when is death, affects how we understand the possibility of posthumous harm and redemption. Whilst it is impossible to hurt the dead, it is possible to harm the wishes, beliefs and memories of persons that once lived. In this way, this book highlights the vulnerability of th…
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- 9781137538284
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- vii, 103p. : ill.
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- 306.9 TOM r
Interdisciplinary perspectives on mortality and its timings : when is death?
This volume provides a series of illuminating perspectives on the timings of death, through in-depth studies of Shakespearean tragedy, criminal execution, embalming practices, fears of premature burial, rumours of Adolf Hitler’s survival, and the legal concept of brain death. In doing so, it explores a number of questions, including: how do we know if someone is dead or not? What do people ex…
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- 9781137583284
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- xv, 167p. : ill.
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- 306.9 INT i
Security of networks and services in an all-connected world : 11th IFIP WG 6.…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th IFIP WG 6.6 International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management, and Security, AIMS 2017, held in Zurich, Switzerland, in July 2017. The 8 full papers presented together with 11 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: security ma…
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- 9783319607740
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- xx, 192p. : ill.
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- 004.6 SEC s
Informatics in the future : proceedings of the 11th European Computer Science…
This volume discusses the prospects and evolution of informatics (or computer science), which has become the operating system of our world, and is today seen as the science of the information society. Its artifacts change the world and its methods have an impact on how we think about and perceive the world. Classical computer science is built on the notion of an “abstract” machine, which ca…
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- 9783319557359
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- xi, 109p. : ill.
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- 004 INF i
Bastard culture! User participation and the extension of cultural industries
New online technologies have brought with them a great promise of freedom. The computer and particularly the Internet have been represented as enabling technologies, turning consumers into users and users into producers. Furthermore, lay people and amateurs have been enthusiastically greeted as heroes of the digital era. This thoughtful study casts a fresh light on the shaping of user participa…
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- 9789089642561
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- 250 p.
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- MediaMatters, 6
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- 303.4833 SCH b
Ancient worlds in film and television : gender and politics
This volume reinvigorates the field of Classical Reception by investigating present-day culture, society, and politics, particularly gender, gender roles, and filmic constructions of masculinity and femininity which shape and are shaped by interacting economic, political, and ideological practices. Readership: All interested in Classics, the Classical Tradition, Film Studies, Gender Studies, Am…
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- 9789004241923
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- VII, 372 p.
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- 791.43658 ANC a
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