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«Flying saucers come from outer space – except, as Timothy Jenkins observes in this persuasive and enjoyable volume, they also come from the pages of nineteenth-century occult texts. Jenkins ably traces the connections between Madame Blavatsky’s messages from spirit...
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This book presents the first scientific outcomes of a project aimed at scrutinizing the forms and meanings of exhibition systems from the perspective of display. Due to its inherently cross-disciplinary nature, the display device is a negotiation ground resistant to a...
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«Jenkins’ meticulously researched essay will change how you think about UFOs. The interesting question is not whether flying saucers are real or fake, but rather, in what sociotechnical world were such sightings plausible? A fascinating exploration of military...
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The most prosperous company in Mexico is not in the top 10 Aztec companies and is not even listed in the legal commercial register. It is a consortium of drug cartels that floods the world market with illicit products, from cocaine to heroin and synthetic drugs, and...
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Facing the reality of the social transformation in contemporary China, this book analyzes the structure, nature and influence of social classes in contemporary China based on the new development of the theoretical paradigm of class analysis at home and abroad, and the...
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Intercultural communication scholars have done important work tracing how the legacies of colonialism continue to structure our world. Missing from this corpus, however, is sustained attention to (North American) Indigeneity and its repression under settler colonialism...
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In Volta: An Italian-American Reckoning with Race, author Michelle Reale embarks on a brave and unflinching journey to the roots of racism as she knows it. Starting with the town she was raised in, Reale examines several cultural touchstones within the Italian-American...
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The Industrial Revolution accelerated natural resource extraction, profoundly transforming European ecosystems.The present post-industrial scenarios clearly illustrate the deep interrelation between nature and culture, producing spaces known as "Anthropogenic...
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Embark on a journey through Africa’s social innovation landscape with this groundbreaking book, which presents a comprehensive framework for transformative change. Across its five captivating parts, it intricately weaves together cultural heritage, participatory...
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This book is the first full-length study of Marguerite Yourcenar's Le Labyrinthe du monde along environmental lines. Written by the first académicienne more than twenty years after Mémoires d’Hadrien, the three-volume work was her most ambitious undertaking. Drawing...
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In The Anti-Enlightenment in Popular Culture, author George A. Gonzalez argues that the politics of greed and hate lie at the center of the long twentieth century. Using the Star Wars and Star Trek franchises, he postulates that within the Anti-Enlightenment mode of...
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Douglas Kellner’s Re-Visioning Education: Cultural Studies, Critical Media and Digital Literacies, and Democracy provides a comprehensive account of his critical theory of education that combines his work in philosophy of education, cultural studies, and media and...
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We live in an age of digital ID. Through the digitisation of our biometric and demographic selves, digital ID converts human beings into digital data, which in turn mediates access to services and rights – be they public or private, commercial or not-for-profit,...
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El futbol es más que un deporte en México, es una parte fundamental de su cultura. Juego peligroso: historias de lucha y diversidad en el futbol femenil mexicano analiza el papel del futbol femenil en México en relación con la violencia de género, la visibilidad lésbica...
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«New media determine our dystopian situation. Miguel Sebastián-Martín maps the new media hell. Read this book to understand how SF reproduces our dystopian present and to find the cracks where the light gets in.»
(J. Jesse Ramírez, Eastern Switzerland University of...
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Over the last ten years or so, it has become commonplace to hear talk of an obscurantist threat linked to a rise in irrationality, manifested mainly by a mistrust of vaccination and conventional medicine. But obscurantism can also be found where we pride ourselves on...
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It is now beyond question that Arctic Region is experiencing an unprecedented andradical transformation. Due to the impacts of global warming, physical, climatic,and environmental conditions of the Arctic Region are rapidly changing. This rapidtransformation of the icy...
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«This volume is colossal in all senses: most obviously – at over 500 pages – in its sheer physical heft, but most importantly in its ambition, scope and achievement. It brings an unparalleled range of approaches to bear on Carroll’s neglected sequel and in doing so...
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Der Band rückt die kulturelle, ethnische, geografische und soziale Vielfalt des asiatischen Kontinents in den Vordergrund. Präsentiert werden Porträts von Menschen aus verschiedenen Ländern und Regionen Asiens, um einen tiefen Einblick in ihre Lebensweisen, Traditionen...
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How is the work of social workers shaped in terms of individuals and the internal organization of the structure? And how does the relationship between knowledge and practical knowledge affect professional vision, performance and choices of action? This book helps to...
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