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Honey bee biology
The most comprehensive and up-to-date general reference book on honey bee biologyHoney bees are marvelously charismatic organisms with a long history of interaction with humans. They are vital to agriculture and serve as a model system for many basic questions in biology. This authoritative book ...
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Queer god de amor
Queer God de Amor explores the mystery of God and the relationship between divine and human persons. It does so by turning to the sixteenth-century writings of John of the Cross on mystical union with God and the metaphor of sexual relationship that he uses to describe this union. Juan’s mystical...
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Negative capability
First published in 1939, Walter Jackson Bate’s seminal study of John Keats’s “negative capability” remains the definitive account of one of the central ideas of Romantic poetics.
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Practical psychology for policing
As contemporary policing becomes ever more complex, so knowledge of practical psychology becomes ever more important in everyday policing encounters, situations and contexts. This book suggests how new ways of applying psychological knowledge and research can be of benefit in a range of policing ...
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Lotty rosenfeld
Lotty Rosenfeld: Disobedient Spaces is a companion publication to the eponymous, first US retrospective of Chilean artist Lotty Rosenfeld
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Andererseits - yearbook of transatlantic german studies
andererseits provides a forum for research, commentary, and creative work on topics related to the German-speaking world and the field of German Studies. Publishing a diverse array of materials to demonstrate the extraordinary value of the humanities in general, and German Studies in particular, ...
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Dialogues
A collection of Valéry’s dialogues, which are among his most important works of the imagination in proseDialogues came naturally to Paul Valéry, providing the common ground between imagination and philosophy that he was always seeking. He called the dialogue “the most supple of the forms of expre...
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Why socialism?
Albert Einstein argues that competition distorts democracy, corrodes education, and leaves human life precarious and small. Against it, he proposes something unfashionable: a society organized for cooperation rather than profit.
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Doctors by nature
The astonishing story of how animals use medicine and what it can teach us about healing ourselvesAges before the dawn of modern medicine, wild animals were harnessing the power of nature’s pharmacy to heal themselves. Doctors by Nature reveals what researchers are now learning about the medical ...
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Still shaking the table
Still Shaking the Table: Activism, Unity, and Supporting Students is the second volume in the Shaking the Table series, which centers the voices of identity center practitioners navigating increasingly complex, politicized, and constrained higher education environments.
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Flowering plants of the sierra nevada
The most extensive guide to identifying the flowering plants in California's richly diverse Sierra Nevada mountains.This photographic guide to the wildflowers of the Sierra Nevada has been over twenty-five years in the making, drawing together spectacular images by Stephen Sharnoff, the photograp...
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Public space in transition
Dahae Lee shows that in such a transitional context, the public sector alone is incapable to provide and manage public space. Hence, it engages private sector entities in the form of privately owned public space/s (POPS).Based on the results this study offers a nmber of policy recommendations for...
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The muqaddimah
Volume one of the classic Islamic history of the world, now available to a new generation of readers in a fully unabridged editionWritten by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldûn, The Muqaddimah, or “Introduction,” is the earliest critical study of history. Though intended as the ...
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Vasyl stus
Vasyl Stus’s son and literary scholar Dmytro Stus masterfully combines a cultural and biographical study with private recollections and observations of his father. The book offers a sometimes-paradoxical merger of genres mixing academic analysis with novelistic narration. It shows Vasyl Stus thro...
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If destruction be our lot
Written in the shadow of mob violence, this early speech is a chilling meditation on how republics decay: not by invasion, but by contempt for institutions, by complecancy, by the rise of reckless ambition, by the people themselves.
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Data-driven hollywood
The rise of Hollywood’s data and algorithm specialists and their growing influence on creative decisionsIn Hollywood today, thousands of data specialists work for streaming video platforms, playing a role not just in distribution and marketing but also in decisions about content and production. I...
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For a just republic
In this magisterial account of Indian politics over the past seventy-five years, the renowned scholar Partha Chatterjee challenges common notions of “state” and “nation,” arguing for a more capacious understanding of “the people.”
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To the stars and other stories
This book brings together remarkable short stories by the Russian Symbolist Fyodor Sologub that explore the lengths to which people will go to transcend the mundane. Renowned as one of late imperial Russia’s finest stylists, Sologub bridges the great nineteenth-century novel and the fin-de-siècle...
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What world is this?
Judith Butler shows how COVID-19 and all its consequences—political, social, ecological, economic—challenge us to develop a new account of interdependency. Butler argues for a radical social equality and advocates modes of resistance that seek to establish new conditions of livability and a new s...
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Transdisciplinary impulses towards socio-ecological transformation
In this volume, academic interdisciplinary contributions from philosophy, social sciences and education are complemented by transdisciplinary contributions from practical fields. They provide impulses for reflection and open up spaces for thinking in order to do justice to the complexity of the t...
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Eternity by the stars
At once lucid and vertiginous, scientific and hallucinatory, Blanqui’s text stands as one of the strangest cosmological speculations of the nineteenth century—and one of its most haunting.
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Transitional territories
Ayse Güngör investigates art practices between art and anthropology in Turkey, as well as the implications of contemporary art for those disciplines.
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Imaging the scenes of war
In American visual culture, the 1930s and 1940s were a key transitional period shaped by the era of modernism and the global confrontation of World War II. Christof Decker demonstrates that the war and its iconography of destruction challenged visual artists to find new ways of representing its c...
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The future of seeing
Daniel K. Sodickson—a physicist and biomedical imaging innovator—explores the rich history and surprising future of vision, from the evolution of eyes to emerging high-tech devices.
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Dante's divine comedy
The life and times of Dante’s soaring poetic allegory of the soul’s redemptive journey toward GodWritten during his exile from Florence in the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy describes the poet’s travels through hell, purgatory, and paradise, exploring the state of the human soul aft...
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The way around
Now in Paperback!“Smart, funny, wise of mind and vast of heart.”—Robert Macfarlane, author of Is A River Alive?“The Way Around is the kind of book my soul perpetually yearns for. It reshaped how I see the world.”—Robert Moor, author of On Trails: An ExplorationGrowing up in northern California, i...
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A cosmopolitan model for peacebuilding
In this book, Marc Raphael Dietrich sheds light on a critical yet politically practicable notion of cosmopolitanism which centers on the individual and is framed by a set of universal principles, thus providing valuable alternative insights on the Crimea and Donbas conflict.
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Reckoning with racial capitalism
This book develops a critical theory of racial capitalism and argues that it is indispensable to understanding and contesting the neoliberal present.
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States beyond borders
In her monograph, Isabel Rosales Sandoval focuses on the factors that influence the implementation of the policies that sending states have adopted to reach out to their citizens abroad. Specifically, she investigates why and how sending states implement transnational emigrant policies.
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Navigating the local
How is peace built at the local level? Covering three Lebanese municipalities with striking sectarian diversity, Saida, Bourj Hammoud and Tyre, this book investigates the ways in which local service delivery, local interactions and vertical relationships matter in building peace. Using the stori...
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The boxer
In The Boxer, Gabriele Tinti returns to the ancient bronze known as the Boxer at Rest, a figure seated, battered, unvanquished, and draws from it a sequence of poems as spare and unrelenting as the object itself.
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Internment refugee camps
The contributors facilitate an extensive engagement with the organized, state led, and forced placement of refugees in the past and present. They show the parallels and differences between the practices and types of internment in different countries - while considering the specific historical con...
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Course projections
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.What does a liberatory film pedagogy look like? In situated speculations from around the world, this volume explores the teaching...
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Perplexing plots
David Bordwell reveals how crime fiction, plays, and films made unconventional narrative mainstream. A sweeping, kaleidoscopic account written in a lively, conversational style, Perplexing Plots offers an ambitious new understanding of how popular culture has evolved over the past century.
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Nature's greatest success
The 15,000-year story of how grass seduced humanity into being its unwitting labor force—and the science behind it. Domesticated crops were not human creations, and agriculture was not simply invented. As Robert N. Spengler shows, domestication was the result of an evolutionary process in which...
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Social consequences of labour market marginalisation in germany
The book examines the social consequences of labor market marginalization for close social relations and social participation in Germany.
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The study
A study of the study—and what happens when we read too muchWith the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe’s cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics. Andrew Hui tells the remarkable story of the Renaissance studiolo—a “little studio”—and re...
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Today's comprehensive plan
A new model of comprehensive planning as a living process rather than a static documentHow does your community map out a long-term vision for the built environment? Most US cities and counties have long used the comprehensive plan for this purpose. While the plan was conceived to meet the existen...
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Evidence-based policy making in the social sciences
Drawing on the insights of some of the world’s leading authorities in public policy analysis, this important book offers a distinct and critical showcase of emerging forms of discovery for policy-making. Chapter by chapter this expert group of social scientists showcase their chosen method or app...
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Cancelled futures
How race, class, gender, and place shape the ways working-class young people in Britain envision their transition from education to workHow do the effects of deindustrialisation and neoliberalism influence young people’s perceptions of work and education? In Cancelled Futures, Amit Singh examines...
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Strange glow
The fascinating science and history of radiationMore than ever before, radiation is a part of our modern daily lives. We own radiation-emitting phones, regularly get diagnostic x-rays, such as mammograms, and submit to full-body security scans at airports. We worry and debate about the proliferat...
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Critical praxis of college men and masculinities
Critical Praxis of College Men and Masculinities: Experiences at the Intersections challenges long-standing assumptions about college men by moving beyond the dominant narrative that treats them as a monolithic group.
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Gastronativism
Fabio Parasecoli identifies and defines the phenomenon of “gastronativism,” the ideological use of food to advance ideas about who belongs to a community and who does not. Featuring a wide array of examples from all over the world, this book is a timely, incisive, and lively analysis of how and w...
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Living with gandhi
Living with Gandhi: Experiments in Utopia tells the story of everyday life at four of Gandhi’s communities in India and South Africa.
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Voices from the silent cradles
In 1990, disturbing television footage emerged showing the inhumane conditions in which children in Romanian institutions were living. Viewers were shocked that the babies were silent. The so-called ‘Romanian orphans’ became subjects of several international research studies. In parallel, Romania...
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Anti-oppressive social work ethics
Departing from traditional approaches, this book presents an anti-oppressive model to help social workers make ethical decisions that adhere to professional mandates while pursuing systemic social change.
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International theory at the margins
This book brings together thirteen essays from the celebrated international theorist Nicholas Greenwood Onuf. They address topics that Onuf has puzzled over for decades, prompting him to develop a distinctive perspective on international theory as social theory. Among these topics are the problem...
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Decentralization and multilevel elections in ukraine
Romanova's innovative monograph provides an important contribution to the comparative exploration of party system change over time and constitutes a case study of more general patterns of interaction bet-ween municipal decentralisation and electoral competition in democratising states.
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Plays
Valéry’s complete writings for the theaterThis volume gathers all of Paul Valéry’s writings for the theater. It includes My Faust, Valéry’s last major work, which is composed of two unfinished Faust plays, Luste, or the Crystal Girl and The Only One. Plays also presents three allegorical verse pl...
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Global domestic workers
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Drawing from the EU-funded DomEQUAL research project across 9 countries in Europe, South America and Asia, this comparative study explores the conditions of domestic workers around the world and the campaigns they are conducting to impro...
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