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Building Meaning : An Architecture Studio Primer on Design, Theory, and History / Tamara Metz

Introduction to the complex relationship between form making, historical analysis, and conceptual explorations. This book ...

Business Ethics from the 19th Century to Today : An Economist's View / David George Surdam

Combines elements of economic and business history to study business ethics from the nineteenth century to today. It concentrates ...

Capital Punishment and the Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740–1834

This book provides the most in-depth study of capital punishment in Scotland between the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth ...

Chasing the Chinese Dream Four Decades of Following China’s War on Poverty

This book explores the historical, cultural and philosophical contexts that have made anti-poverty the core of Chinese society ...

Cinematic Histospheres On the Theory and Practice of Historical Films

In this book, film scholar Rasmus Greiner develops a theoretical model for the concept of the histosphere to refer to the ...

Civilian Lunatic Asylums During the First World War A Study of Austerity on London's Fringe

This book explores the history of asylums and their civilian patients during the First World War, focusing on the effects ...

Clashes of Knowledge : Orthodoxies and Heterodoxies in Science and Religion

"Clashes of Knowledge" is the first volume of a series called "Knowledge and Space" dealing with spatial disparities ...

Co-Creativity and Engaged Scholarship : Transformative Methods in Social Sustainability Research

This book explores creative and collaborative research methods within the social sustainability sciences. The term co-creativity ...

Cold War Civil Defence in Western Europe Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Survival and Preparedness

This edited collection brings together established and new perspectives on Cold War civil defence in Western Europe within ...

Coming to Terms with Superdiversity

This book discusses Rotterdam as clear example of a superdiverse city that is only reluctantly coming to terms with this ...

Common Interests, Uncommon Goals : Histories of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies and its Members

This book presents histories of the WCCES and its member societies. It shows ways in which the field has changed over the ...

Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law : Essays in Comparative Legal History from the Twelfth to the Twentieth Centuries

This volume is a selection of essays taken from the excellent range of papers presented at the British Legal History Conference ...

Computation and the Humanities : Towards an Oral History of Digital Humanities

This book addresses the application of computing to cultural heritage and the discipline of Digital Humanities that formed ...

Conflicts Between Generalization, Rigor, and Intuition

Conflicts Between Generalization, Rigor, and Intuition undertakes a historical analysis of the development of two mathematical ...

Consciousness

Consciousness: From Perception to Reflection in the History of Philosophy shows that the concept of consciousness was explicated ...

Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England : Ravenous Natures

Cancer is perhaps the modern world's most feared disease. Yet, we know relatively little about this malady's history before ...

Covid-19 and Capitalism : Success and Failure of the Legal Methods for Dealing with a Pandemic

The book focuses on the situation in a number of Western regions (notably the USA, the UK, and the EU and its Member States). ...

Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy 1678-1865

This book, Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy: 1678-1865, examines literary and visual representations ...

Cultural Convergence The Dublin Gate Theatre, 1928–1960

Based on extensive archival research, this book examines the poetics and politics of the Dublin Gate Theatre (est. 1928) ...

Cultural Heritage and Human Rights

The volume addresses a deeply political aspect of heritage preservation and management as it relates to human rights. Social ...

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