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Henry James's Europe : heritage and transfer
As an American author who chose to live in Europe, Henry James frequently wrote about cultural differences between the Old and New World. The plight of bewildered Americans adrift on a sea of European sophistication became a regular theme in his fiction. This collection of twenty-four papers from some of the world’s leading James scholars offers a comprehensive picture of the author’s cross…
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- 9781906924386
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- xxiv, 271p. ; ill.
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- 813.4 TRE h
City of crisis : the multiple contestation of southern European cities
The ongoing crisis in Europe has dramatic impact on the life in many Southern European cities: Unemployment, social deprivation, poverty, political instability, severe cuts in the welfare state budgets and a wide spread feeling of despair have eroded much of the social foundation of the cities. In this book, contributors from Spain, Greece, Portugal and Italy provide an insight into the complex…
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- 9783839428429
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- 249 p. : ill.
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- 337.142 ECK c
Development, social change and environmental sustainability
Nowadays, the concept of SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) is starting to replace the concept of MDGs (Millennium Developmental Goals). It is a global goal adopted by all United Nations member states. It emphasizes the idea that the development of every country can only be achieved by balancing other factors such as social, economic, and environmental sustainability. It is already clear how …
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- 9781003178163
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- xv, 186 p.; ill.
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- 303.4 DEV d
Bourdieu and literature
[...] a volume clearly focused on the specific topic of literature within Bourdieu's work is certainly timely. Speller's volume aims not only to provide an account of Bourdieu's main theories and analyses of literature, but also has the polemical aim of refuting critics who suggest that Bourdieu's view of literature, grounded as it is in an analysis of the social relations of the cultural field…
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- 9781906924447
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- 203p.
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- 801.3 SPE b
On global citizenship : james tully in dialogue
On Global Citizenship develops James Tully's distinctive and influential approach to political philosophy, first outlined in his 2008 two-volume work Public Philosophy in a New Key, and applies it to the field of citizenship. The second part of the book contains responses from influential interlocutors including Bonnie Honig and Marc Stears, David Owen and Adam Dunn, Aletta Norval, Antony Laden…
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- 9781849665162
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- xii, 369 p. ; ill
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- 323.6 TUL o
A tumblr book : platform and cultures
"This book takes an extensive look at the many different types of users and cultures that comprise the popular social media platform Tumblr. Though it does not receive nearly as much attention as other social media such as Twitter or Facebook, Tumblr and its users have been hugely influential in creating and shifting popular culture, especially progressive youth culture, with the New York Ti…
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- 9780472901296
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- 405p.
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- 302.2314 ALL a
Robotic Knitting : Re-Crafting Human-Robot Collaboration Through Careful Cobo…
As a reaction to typically dead-end debates on future human and robot collaboration that tend to be either dismissive or overly welcoming towards »cobot« technologies, this book provides a technofeminist intervention. Pat Treusch not only shows how both the fields of technofeminism and robotics can engage in a practical exchange through knitting, but also contributes a tangible example of cob…
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- 9783839452035
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- 166p.
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- Science Studies
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- 629.8924019 PAT r
Post-Truth Imaginations : New Starting Points for Critique of Politics and Te…
This book engages with post-truth as a problem of societal order and for scholarly analysis. It claims that post-truth discourse is more deeply entangled with main Western imaginations of knowledge societies than commonly recognised. Scholarly responses to post-truth have not fully addressed these entanglements, treating them either as something to be morally condemned or as accusations against…
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- 9780429053061
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- 238p.
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- History and Philosophy of Technoscience
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- 177.3 KJE p
Networked Refugees : Palestinian Reciprocity and Remittances in the Digital Age
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Almost 68.5 million refugees in the world today live in a protection gap, the chasm between protections stipulated in the Geneva Convention and the abrogation of those responsibilities by states and aid agencies. With dwindling humanitarian aid, how do refugee communities solve collective dilemmas, like rai…
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- 9780520383241
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- 127p.
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- 332.04246089927405692 NAD n
Mobile Research Methods : Opportunities and challenges of mobile research met…
Daily activity sees data constantly flowing through cameras, the internet, satellites, radio frequencies, sensors, private appliances, cars, smartphones, tablets and the like. Among all the tools currently used, mobile devices, especially mobile phones, smartphones and tablets, are the most widespread, with their use becoming prevalent in everyday life within both developed and developing count…
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- 9781909188549
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- 166p.
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- 302.231072 PAB m
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