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Science as a Quest for Truth
The Interpretation Lab
Challenging the myth of science vs. religion, this book argues that modern science is intertwined with the history of the university. It proposes a way to transcend the false alternatives of objectivistic certitude (“the Truth”) and relativistic resignation (“post-truth”).
Challenging the myth of science vs. religion, this book argues that modern science is intertwined with the history of the university. It proposes a way to transcend the false alternatives of objectivistic certitude (“the Truth”) and relativistic resignation (“post-truth”).
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The Scientific Revolution decentered humanity, but modern physics reveals the observer’s central role in actualizing reality. This book explores a return of science to natural philosophy, offering a new pathway to understanding our place in the Universe.
The Scientific Revolution decentered humanity, but modern physics reveals the observer’s central role in actualizing reality. This book explores a return of science to natural philosophy, offering a new pathway to understanding our place in the Universe.
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Science Research and Education in Africa
Proceedings of a Conference on Science Advancement
This conference proceedings discusses how Africa may be about to undergo a profound change in scientific and medical development. Its themes include health research improvement and disease surveillance education, and deadly epidemic diseases.
This conference proceedings discusses how Africa may be about to undergo a profound change in scientific and medical development. Its themes include health research improvement and disease surveillance education, and deadly epidemic diseases.
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Indonesia’s early public health successes gave way to an era of bold plans but unfulfilled aspirations. This book reveals the inner tensions between a biomedical approach to disease eradication and a holistic vision linking public health to nation-building.
Indonesia’s early public health successes gave way to an era of bold plans but unfulfilled aspirations. This book reveals the inner tensions between a biomedical approach to disease eradication and a holistic vision linking public health to nation-building.
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Scouting Frontiers
Youth and the Scout Movement’s First Century
Scouting Frontiers is the first book to discuss the history of the Boy Scout and Girl Guide movements on an international scale. It examines how the world's greatest youth movement transformed as it faced frontiers of nation, empire, religion, and gender.
Scouting Frontiers is the first book to discuss the history of the Boy Scout and Girl Guide movements on an international scale. It examines how the world’s greatest youth movement transformed as it faced frontiers of nation, empire, religion, and gender.
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Searching for the Limits of Human Physical Performance
The Fatigue Chronicles
What limits how fast we can run or how long we can row, cycle, or swim without tiring? Exercise fatigue is a common feeling, but its cause remains a mystery. This book examines the historical quest to understand it through the researchers who led the search for answers.
What limits how fast we can run or how long we can row, cycle, or swim without tiring? Exercise fatigue is a common feeling, but its cause remains a mystery. This book examines the historical quest to understand it through the researchers who led the search for answers.
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Selahattin Ülkümen, a Turkish diplomat, is the only Muslim designated “Righteous among the Nations” for saving 42 Jews from the Nazis at his own risk. The remarkable story of this hero is an important but little-known aspect of Holocaust history. This book fills that void.
Selahattin Ülkümen, a Turkish diplomat, is the only Muslim designated “Righteous among the Nations” for saving 42 Jews from the Nazis at his own risk. The remarkable story of this hero is an important but little-known aspect of Holocaust history. This book fills that void.
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This volume examines how self-presentation can facilitate our understanding of how individuals present their identities. Topics covered include identities shaped through the self-presentation of authors in Latin literature, and explorations on epigraphy and historical analyses.
This volume examines how self-presentation can facilitate our understanding of how individuals present their identities. Topics covered include identities shaped through the self-presentation of authors in Latin literature, and explorations on epigraphy and historical analyses.
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Sensual and Sensory Experiences in the Middle Ages
On Pleasure, Fear, Desire and Pain
This volume explores the sensory experiences of medieval people, showing how pleasure, pain, desire, and fear appear in conflicting combinations—from the private monastic cell to the bustling market—as conveyed through documents, literary accounts, and religious practices.
This volume explores the sensory experiences of medieval people, showing how pleasure, pain, desire, and fear appear in conflicting combinations—from the private monastic cell to the bustling market—as conveyed through documents, literary accounts, and religious practices.
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Shifting Viewpoints
Cervantes in Twentieth-Century and Early Twenty-First-Century Literature Written in German
To understand a turbulent century, German writers turned to Cervantes. Don Quixote, recast as either fool or hero, became a powerful lens for grappling with fascism, war, and a divided world.
To understand a turbulent century, German writers turned to Cervantes. Don Quixote, recast as either fool or hero, became a powerful lens for grappling with fascism, war, and a divided world.
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Shining Humanity
Life Stories of Women in Bosnia and Herzegovina
This collection tells the tale of eleven ordinary Bosnian women peace builders who bore witness to horror but chose to live in hope. In the darkness of war, they showed genuine humanity and dared to imagine a life beyond violence and fear.
This collection tells the tale of eleven ordinary Bosnian women peace builders who bore witness to horror but chose to live in hope. In the darkness of war, they showed genuine humanity and dared to imagine a life beyond violence and fear.
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This book recovers the once-eminent but now forgotten Sir Arthur Helps. A prominent Victorian social activist, he was a confidant to Queen Victoria and played a decisive role in refashioning the monarchy’s public image.
This book recovers the once-eminent but now forgotten Sir Arthur Helps. A prominent Victorian social activist, he was a confidant to Queen Victoria and played a decisive role in refashioning the monarchy’s public image.
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Sir Jerome Horsey’s (d. 1626) animated account of his experiences in Russia and other countries is a travel-book, an adventure story and an autobiography of a controversial and significant figure. It is here given with a full introduction and extensive explanatory notes.
Sir Jerome Horsey’s (d. 1626) animated account of his experiences in Russia and other countries is a travel-book, an adventure story and an autobiography of a controversial and significant figure. It is here given with a full introduction and extensive explanatory notes.
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Sir Stanley Rous and the Growth of World Football
An Englishman Abroad
This book takes the life of FIFA president Stanley Rous (1895-1986) as a lens to understand football's global rise. It charts his ascent from a Suffolk village to the top of world football, through two World Wars, the 1948 Olympics, and volatile post-colonial diplomacy.
This book takes the life of FIFA president Stanley Rous (1895-1986) as a lens to understand football’s global rise. It charts his ascent from a Suffolk village to the top of world football, through two World Wars, the 1948 Olympics, and volatile post-colonial diplomacy.
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William Rooke Creswell argued that, as an island continent, Australia could not defend itself without a navy. He saw no point in a large army if one enemy battleship could destroy its cities. He was the one constant advocate for an Australian navy.
William Rooke Creswell argued that, as an island continent, Australia could not defend itself without a navy. He saw no point in a large army if one enemy battleship could destroy its cities. He was the one constant advocate for an Australian navy.
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Slaves were not passive victims. They used religion with ingenuity to create new cultures, identities, and even resistance. This volume juxtaposes slave religious strategies in Graeco-Roman antiquity and modern Brazil, shedding new light on ancient slaves.
Slaves were not passive victims. They used religion with ingenuity to create new cultures, identities, and even resistance. This volume juxtaposes slave religious strategies in Graeco-Roman antiquity and modern Brazil, shedding new light on ancient slaves.
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Data is a new production factor—data capital—creating a new social class and threatening social cohesion. To ensure society functions properly, this book argues for a regulatory framework that allows the state to become an active economic player, creating wealth for communities.
Data is a new production factor—data capital—creating a new social class and threatening social cohesion. To ensure society functions properly, this book argues for a regulatory framework that allows the state to become an active economic player, creating wealth for communities.
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Social History, Local History, and Historiography
Collected Essays
These wide-ranging essays on early modern English history explore social change, the Revolution, Puritanism, and historical writing. Stressing the inter-connectedness of social and local history, this rewarding volume will interest specialists and non-specialists.
These wide-ranging essays on early modern English history explore social change, the Revolution, Puritanism, and historical writing. Stressing the inter-connectedness of social and local history, this rewarding volume will interest specialists and non-specialists.
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Societies Emerging from Conflict
The Aftermath of Atrocity
This collection of essays, written by scholars with ties to Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Canada, Ghana, Indonesia, Iraq, and the USA, argues that a new post-atrocity framework is taking root, suggesting promising alternatives to retributive criminal proceedings.
This collection of essays, written by scholars with ties to Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Canada, Ghana, Indonesia, Iraq, and the USA, argues that a new post-atrocity framework is taking root, suggesting promising alternatives to retributive criminal proceedings.
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As global conditions shift, we must redefine the nation. It promises solidarity and forges identity, but its power is built upon the indispensable structures of civil society.
As global conditions shift, we must redefine the nation. It promises solidarity and forges identity, but its power is built upon the indispensable structures of civil society.
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