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Trophies of Victory: Public Building in Periklean Athens / T. Leslie Shear Jr.

Greek military victories at Marathon, Salamis, and Plataia during the Persian Wars profoundly shaped fifth-century politics ...

Two Cultures

Editor Kim Williams has assembled a group of notes where scholars contribute essays inspired by their contact with Prof David ...

Two Minds

intuition is warm and fuzzy, qualitative, not measurable. Economics, on the other hand, is quantitative, and if it is not ...

UK Child Migration to Australia, 1945-1970 A Study in Policy Failure

This book offers an unprecedented analysis of child welfare schemes, situating them in the wider context of post-war policy ...

Understanding Materials Science

This introduction to materials science for engineers examines not only the physical and engineering properties of materials, ...

Understanding Nature : Case Studies in Comparative Epistemology

This summons clearly resonates with the “archetypical image” associated with water as a basic element, discussed in Chapter ...

Understanding Willing Participants, Volume 2

This volume one of this two-volume set introduces readers to a behind the scenes account showing how during Milgram’s unpublished ...

Undocumented Migrants and their Everyday Lives The Case of Finland

This monograph provides an overview of the everyday lives of undocumented migrants, thereby focusing on housing, employment, ...

Urban Modernity in the Contemporary Gulf : Obsolescence and Opportunities / Roberto Fabbri, Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi

Offers a timely and engaging discussion on architectural production in the modernization era in the Arabian Peninsula. Focusing ...

Urban Socio-Economic Segregation and Income Inequality A Global Perspective

This book investigates the link between income inequality and socio-economic residential segregation in 24 large urban regions ...

Vegetative Powers

The volume analyzes the natural philosophical accounts and debates concerning the vegetative powers, namely nutrition, growth, ...

Vermin, Victims and Disease : British Debates over Bovine Tuberculosis and Badgers

This book provides the first critical history of the controversy over whether to cull wild badgers to control the spread ...

Virchows Eulogies : Rudolf Virchow in Tribute to his Fellow Scientists

Rudolph Virchow (1821-1902) was a leading figure in the medical, political and intellectual life of Germany in the second ...

Virtual Reality

This volume, edited by Randall Shumaker, contains papers in the thematic area of Virtual Reality, addressing the following ...

Virtual Storytelling. Using Virtual Reality Technologies for Storytelling

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Virtual Storytelling, ICVS 2007, held ...

Virtual Storytelling. Using Virtual Reality Technologies for Storytelling

The 1st International Conference on Virtual Storytelling took place on September 27-28, 2001, in Avignon (France) in the ...

Virtue, Liberty, and Toleration : Political Ideas of European Women, 1400–1800

This volume challenges the view that women have not contributed to the historical development of political ideas, and highlights ...

Visual Communication: Insights and Strategies / Janis Teruggi Page, Margaret Duffy

Teaches visual literacy, theory, scholarly critique, and practical application of visuals in professional communication careers This ...

Vite matematiche : Protagonisti del’ 900 da Hilbert a Wiles = Mathematical Lives: Twentieth-century protagonists from Hilbert to Wiles

Presenting famous mathematicians alongside others less known to the general public - from Hilbert to Gödel, from Turing ...

Wayfinding, Consumption, and Air Terminal Design / Menno Hubregtse

Investigates how international air terminals organize passenger movement and generate spending. It offers a new understanding ...

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