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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...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-08-26
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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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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-08-20
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From three-inch fang blennies to thirty-foot prehistoric crocodiles, from gaboon vipers to Neanderthals, Bite is a fascinating journey through the natural, scientific, and cultural history of something right in front of—or in—our faces: teeth. In Bite,...
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Algonquin Books
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2024-08-13
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This book discusses the meaning of smell from a socio-cultural perspective and brings important considerations of smell and olfaction beyond anatomy and physiology in an erudite, reader-friendly style. It addresses ideas about smell and odor in culturally diverse...
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Springer
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2024-08-12
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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...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-08-06
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In den Sozial-, Kultur- und Geisteswissenschaften hat sich ein Paradigmenwechsel vollzogen: Eine interdisziplinäre Forschungsgemeinschaft macht zunehmend das Mensch-Tier-Verhältnis mit unterschiedlichen Methoden zum zentralen Gegenstand ihrer Betrachtungen. Dieser...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-08-02
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This book presents the restoration of rural mobile cinema network in the Great Triangle region at the conjunction of Yunnan, Sichuan, and Tibet in China in the new century, which has added a new chapter to the long-standing complex relationship between cinema and social...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-31
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This book investigates relations between humans, waste, pollution, and marine life. It introduces the concept of Aquabiopolitics as a means to understand how humans govern life in water in order to enrich human life on land. The study focuses on the Baltic Sea and Lake...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-31
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This book argues for the pragmatist thesis of the primacy of praxis on a phenomenological basis. Demonstrating the relevance of phenomenology, it provides a systematic overview of the contemporary pragmatic landscape, taking into account not only a family of...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-07-18
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This book offers a unique look into the world of policing and the frontline of Brazil’s war on drugs. It analyzes the tensions produced by attempts to modernize Rio de Janeiro’s public security policies. Since the return of democracy in 1985, Rio's police forces have...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-18
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Bilingual education is usually framed as a tool of antiracism. In Becoming the System, author Nelson Flores challenges that framework by examining the ways that institutionalizing bilingual education in the post-Civil Rights Era in the United States has served to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-07-17
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Humans are unique among animals for the wide diversity of foods and food preparation techniques that are intertwined with regional cultural distinctions around the world. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Diet explores evidence for human diet from our earliest...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-07-12
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Aus Beiträgen der Ringvorlesung „Die Welt retten!? Ein kritisch-interdiszi-plinärer Blick auf die Nachhaltigen Entwicklungsziele der Vereinten Nationen (SDGs)“ sowie der 17. Entwicklungspolitischen Hochschulwochen „Reduce Inequalities. Global denken, nachhaltig...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-07-08
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Editeur :
Constable
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2024-06-27
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Humans are unique among animals for the wide diversity of foods and food preparation techniques that are intertwined with regional cultural distinctions around the world. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Diet explores evidence for human diet from our earliest...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-06-24
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This volume explores how different forms of Christianity shape people's visions of pasts and futures, and how the transcendent is brought into human time. Beyond conventional discussions around breaks with the past in Christian conversion and future ruptures...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-22
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The approach to images as cultural documents of collective memory and instruments of social shaping builds a central theoretical component of cultural theories since its establishment as a critical discipline. Prominent thinkers ofcultural studies and art history...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-06-21
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This is an open access book. The 4th ICHaD 2022 International Conference on Halal Development on “Halal industry as a Lifestyle in Artificial Intelligence Era” is a discussion forum organized by the Halal Center, a research and community service institution at the...
Editeur :
Atlantis Press
Parution :
2024-06-20
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This book aims at explaining romantic love between straight adults through literary texts of the western canon from the nineteenth and twentieth century. Each chapter comes with a multidisciplinary approach in which protagonists are mutilated in their quest for loving...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-06-15
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‘Insightful and breathtaking’ YUVAL NOAH HARARI, author of Sapiens‘Bold and sweeping’ PETER FRANKOPAN, author of The Silk Roads‘Profoundly thought-provoking’ KATE RAWORTH, author of Doughnut EconomicsHow has humans' evolutionary inheritance shaped global society?Why are...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2024-06-13
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