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Art, Ethics and Environment
A Free Inquiry Into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature
Since the 1960s, new affinities between art and nature have blurred ancient distinctions. This collection of essays explores these changing moods in art and philosophy, discussing nature as an independent source of moral and aesthetic value.
Since the 1960s, new affinities between art and nature have blurred ancient distinctions. This collection of essays explores these changing moods in art and philosophy, discussing nature as an independent source of moral and aesthetic value.
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The Hydropolitics of Africa
A Contemporary Challenge
Water is an essential resource and a source of disease and conflict in Africa, where global warming threatens survival. This volume traces the dynamics of contemporary hydropolitics through technical, institutional, and social policy analyses.
Water is an essential resource and a source of disease and conflict in Africa, where global warming threatens survival. This volume traces the dynamics of contemporary hydropolitics through technical, institutional, and social policy analyses.
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Broadening Horizons
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Landscape Study
‘Broadening Horizons’ presents multidisciplinary approaches to landscape research in the Mediterranean and the Near East. Highlighting diverse methods, it provides a significant contribution for specialists and beginning researchers alike.
‘Broadening Horizons’ presents multidisciplinary approaches to landscape research in the Mediterranean and the Near East. Highlighting diverse methods, it provides a significant contribution for specialists and beginning researchers alike.
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From Martyr to Monument
The Abbey of Cluny as Cultural Patrimony
After the great Abbey of Cluny was destroyed, its memory was resurrected. This study follows the discursive history of the site, investigating the role of memory in constructing the past and the concept of heritage in France.
After the great Abbey of Cluny was destroyed, its memory was resurrected. This study follows the discursive history of the site, investigating the role of memory in constructing the past and the concept of heritage in France.
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“What is the Earthly Paradise?”
Ecocritical Responses to the Caribbean
The Caribbean faces an ecological crisis born from natural disasters and historical degradation. This book provides a double insight, examining both the region's environmental problems in practice and the cultural responses from writers like Derek Walcott and V.S. Naipaul.
The Caribbean faces an ecological crisis born from natural disasters and historical degradation. This book provides a double insight, examining both the region’s environmental problems in practice and the cultural responses from writers like Derek Walcott and V.S. Naipaul.
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In the Place of Sound
Architecture | Music | Acoustics
This book presents thirteen essays and seven graphic works from a conference of artists, researchers, and architects. The chapters explore the fraught relationship between sound and space, presenting a provocative collection of ideas and designs.
This book presents thirteen essays and seven graphic works from a conference of artists, researchers, and architects. The chapters explore the fraught relationship between sound and space, presenting a provocative collection of ideas and designs.
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Singing for Themselves
Essays on Women in Popular Music
This collection offers new conclusions about how female artists have contributed to pop, rock, blues and punk. From Etta James and Patti Smith to Destiny's Child, these essays suggest new ways to hear music that is already part of our culture.
This collection offers new conclusions about how female artists have contributed to pop, rock, blues and punk. From Etta James and Patti Smith to Destiny’s Child, these essays suggest new ways to hear music that is already part of our culture.
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A UNESCO World Heritage site, Hōryūji includes the world's oldest wooden buildings and marked Buddhism's introduction to Japan. These interdisciplinary essays shed new light on the complex, examining new materials and incorporating computer analysis.
A UNESCO World Heritage site, Hōryūji includes the world’s oldest wooden buildings and marked Buddhism’s introduction to Japan. These interdisciplinary essays shed new light on the complex, examining new materials and incorporating computer analysis.
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The modern world's continuous use of energy suspended the natural alternation between light and dark, warmth and cold. In The Culture of Energy, historians, social scientists and architects examine this energy culture, from lighting to nuclear power.
The modern world’s continuous use of energy suspended the natural alternation between light and dark, warmth and cold. In The Culture of Energy, historians, social scientists and architects examine this energy culture, from lighting to nuclear power.
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Mathematical logic is grounded on false assumptions that have impoverished knowledge. This book's "contrastive theory of rationality" shows a better way to ground logic, resolving its foundational crisis and altering its future, with enormous implications for knowledge.
Mathematical logic is grounded on false assumptions that have impoverished knowledge. This book’s “contrastive theory of rationality” shows a better way to ground logic, resolving its foundational crisis and altering its future, with enormous implications for knowledge.
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Software Testing and Global Industry
Future Paradigms
Testing in a Global Software Development (GSD) environment is not the simple task it's perceived to be. This work demonstrates the complexities of distributed development and provides practical, industry-based solutions for all those implementing a GSD strategy.
Testing in a Global Software Development (GSD) environment is not the simple task it’s perceived to be. This work demonstrates the complexities of distributed development and provides practical, industry-based solutions for all those implementing a GSD strategy.
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The Internet generates a vast, unstructured body of ‘grass-roots’ fictions. This collection explores this uncharted territory, bringing together expertise from linguistic, literary, media and cultural studies for passionate discussions of Internet Fictions.
The Internet generates a vast, unstructured body of ‘grass-roots’ fictions. This collection explores this uncharted territory, bringing together expertise from linguistic, literary, media and cultural studies for passionate discussions of Internet Fictions.
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This interdisciplinary book explores human ecology, revealing the social and cultural processes linking us to our environment. Using global case studies on climate change, it shows how degradation affects vulnerable communities and offers sustainable alternatives.
This interdisciplinary book explores human ecology, revealing the social and cultural processes linking us to our environment. Using global case studies on climate change, it shows how degradation affects vulnerable communities and offers sustainable alternatives.
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Comparative Philosophy Today and Tomorrow
Proceedings from the 2007 Uehiro CrossCurrents Philosophy Conference
With a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, this collection of essays juxtaposes philosophical views on shared themes, stimulating fresh insight into contemporary issues from self-cultivation to global justice and the connections between East and West.
With a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, this collection of essays juxtaposes philosophical views on shared themes, stimulating fresh insight into contemporary issues from self-cultivation to global justice and the connections between East and West.
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The Future of Post-Human Organization
A Preface to a New Theory of Communication, Decision-Making, and Leadership
This book challenges the obsessive craze for organizational performance, exploring its dark sides. It provides an alternative way to understand organizations—in relation to communication, decision-making, and leadership—to radically change how we think.
This book challenges the obsessive craze for organizational performance, exploring its dark sides. It provides an alternative way to understand organizations—in relation to communication, decision-making, and leadership—to radically change how we think.
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Inside Out
Looking for Ourselves in Time and Space
This work tackles the age-old mind-body duality, demonstrating the conflict dissolves when we realize the universe is governed by physical laws. Inspired by pop music, the author explores our ties to the cosmos and forecasts our future in time and space.
This work tackles the age-old mind-body duality, demonstrating the conflict dissolves when we realize the universe is governed by physical laws. Inspired by pop music, the author explores our ties to the cosmos and forecasts our future in time and space.
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Communities in Action
Papers in Community Informatics
This volume shows how ICTs are a powerful resource for community action, including social change, learning, and development. It offers a platform for exchanging experiences, case studies, and solutions, helping readers grasp the complexities of social-technical relations.
This volume shows how ICTs are a powerful resource for community action, including social change, learning, and development. It offers a platform for exchanging experiences, case studies, and solutions, helping readers grasp the complexities of social-technical relations.
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Western European Museums and Visual Persuasion
Art, Edifice, and Social Influence
Western European Museums and Visual Persuasion assesses the visual persuasiveness of art museums. It demonstrates that museums are as capable of influence as speeches or advertisements through their architecture, collections, and exhibition designs.
Western European Museums and Visual Persuasion assesses the visual persuasiveness of art museums. It demonstrates that museums are as capable of influence as speeches or advertisements through their architecture, collections, and exhibition designs.
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The Venice Charter Revisited
Modernism, Conservation and Tradition in the 21st Century
The Venice Charter was meant to conserve traditional buildings, but has been misused to justify clashing new architecture in old places, attracting global condemnation. These essays explore how planning went wrong and how we can heal the mistakes of the past.
The Venice Charter was meant to conserve traditional buildings, but has been misused to justify clashing new architecture in old places, attracting global condemnation. These essays explore how planning went wrong and how we can heal the mistakes of the past.
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Performing Technology
User Content and the New Digital Media
This book covers design strategies for rich media environments that incorporate user-generated, locative content. Chapters cover areas such as choreography, virtual worlds, music performance, network music and computer games.
This book covers design strategies for rich media environments that incorporate user-generated, locative content. Chapters cover areas such as choreography, virtual worlds, music performance, network music and computer games.
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