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Open Book Publishers deposited The DARPA Model for Transformative Technologies: Perspectives on the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months ago
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has played a remarkable role in the creation new transformative technologies, revolutionizing defense with drones and precision-guided munitions, and transforming civilian life with portable GPS receivers, voice-recognition software, self-driving cars, unmanned aerial vehicles, and, most…[Read more]
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Open Book Publishers deposited Infrastructure Investment in Indonesia: A Focus on Ports on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months ago
Infrastructure Investment in Indonesia: A Focus on Ports presents an important and original collation of current material investigating the efficient facilitation of major infrastructure projects in Indonesia and Australia, with an emphasis on infrastructure investment and a focus on port planning and development.
This interdisciplinary…[Read more]
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Open Book Publishers deposited Hyperion, or the Hermit in Greece on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months ago
Friedrich Hölderlin’s only novel, Hyperion (1797–99), is a fictional epistolary autobiography that juxtaposes narration with critical reflection. Returning to Greece after German exile, following his part in the abortive uprising against the occupying Turks (1770), and his failure as both a lover and a revolutionary, Hyperion assumes a herm…[Read more]
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Open Book Publishers deposited Women and Migration: Responses in Art and History on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months ago
The essays in this book chart how women’s profound and turbulent experiences of migration have been articulated in writing, photography, art and film. As a whole, the volume gives an impression of a wide range of migratory events from women’s perspectives, covering the Caribbean Diaspora, refugees and slavery through the various lenses of pol…[Read more]
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Open Book Publishers deposited Whose Book is it Anyway? A View From Elsewhere on Publishing, Copyright and Creativity on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months ago
Whose Book is it Anyway? is a provocative collection of essays that opens out the copyright debate to questions of open access, ethics, and creativity. It includes views – such as artist’s perspectives, writer’s perspectives, feminist, and international perspectives – that are too often marginalized or elided altogether.
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Open Book Publishers deposited From Darkness to Light: Writers in Museums 1798-1898 on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months ago
From Darkness to Light explores from a variety of angles the subject of museum lighting in exhibition spaces in America, Japan, and Western Europe throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Written by an array of international experts, these collected essays gather perspectives from a diverse range of cultural sensibilities. From…[Read more]
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Open Book Publishers deposited Tennyson’s Poems: New Textual Parallels on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months ago
In Tennyson’s Poems: New Textual Parallels, R. H. Winnick identifies more than a thousand previously unknown instances in which Tennyson phrases of two or three to as many as several words are similar or identical to those occurring in prior works by other hands—discoveries aided by the proliferation of digitized texts and the related dev…[Read more]
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Open Book Publishers deposited Annunciations: Sacred Music for the Twenty-First Century on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months ago
Our contemporary culture is communicating ever-increasingly through the visual, through film, and through music. This makes it ever more urgent for theologians to explore the resources of art for enriching our understanding and experience of the Judeo-Christian tradition. Annunciations: Sacred Music for the Twenty-First Century, edited by George…[Read more]
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Open Book Publishers deposited The Pogroms in Ukraine, 1918-19: Prelude to the Holocaust on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months ago
Between 1918 and 1921 an estimated 100,000 Jewish people were killed, maimed or tortured in pogroms in Ukraine. Hundreds of Jewish communities were burned to the ground and hundreds of thousands of people were left homeless and destitute, including orphaned children. A number of groups were responsible for these brutal attacks, including the…[Read more]
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Open Book Publishers deposited The Essence of Mathematics Through Elementary Problems on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months ago
It is increasingly clear that the shapes of reality – whether of the natural world, or of the built environment – are in some profound sense mathematical. Therefore it would benefit students and educated adults to understand what makes mathematics itself ‘tick’, and to appreciate why its shapes, patterns and formulae provide us with precise…[Read more]
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Open Book Publishers deposited Social Media in Higher Education: Case Studies, Reflections and Analysis on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months ago
How does social media affect working life in Higher Education? How are universities harnessing its power to aid student learning? This innovative collection brings together academics and those working in professional services to examine these questions and more. The diverse and expert contributors analyse the many ways social media can be used to…[Read more]
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Open Book Publishers deposited What Works in Conservation 2019 on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months ago
What Works in Conservation has been created to provide practitioners with answers to these and many other questions about practical conservation. This book provides an assessment of the effectiveness of 1389 conservation interventions based on summarized scientific evidence. The 2019 edition contains new material on bat conservation. Other…[Read more]
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Open Book Publishers deposited Image, Knife, and Gluepot: Early Assemblage in Manuscript and Print on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months ago
In this ingenious study, Kathryn Rudy takes the reader on a journey to trace the birth, life and afterlife of a Netherlandish book of hours made in 1500. Image, Knife, and Gluepot painstakingly reconstructs the process by which this manuscript was created and discusses its significance as a text at the forefront of fifteenth-century book…[Read more]
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Open Book Publishers deposited Make We Merry More and Less: An Anthology of Medieval English Popular Literature on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months ago
Conceived as a companion volume to the well-received Simple Forms: Essays on Medieval English Popular Literature (2015), Make We Merry More and Less is a comprehensive anthology of popular medieval literature from the twelfth century onwards. Uniquely, the book is divided by genre, allowing readers to make connections between texts usually…[Read more]
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Open Book Publishers deposited History of International Relations: A Non-European Perspective on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months ago
Existing textbooks on international relations treat history in a cursory fashion and perpetuate a Euro-centric perspective. This textbook pioneers a new approach by historicizing the material traditionally taught in International Relations courses, and by explicitly focusing on non-European cases, debates and issues.
The volume is divided into…[Read more]
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Open Book Publishers deposited The Politics of Language Contact in the Himalaya on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months ago
This highly original and timely collection brings together case studies from salient areas of the Himalayan region to explore the politics of language contact. Promoting a linguistically and historically grounded perspective, The Politics of Language Contact in the Himalaya offers nuanced insights into language and its relation to power in this…[Read more]
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Open Book Publishers deposited Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months ago
Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa comprehensively explores the challenges and potential solutions to key conservation issues in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Easy to read, this lucid and accessible textbook includes fifteen chapters that cover a full range of conservation topics, including threats to biodiversity, environmental laws, and…[Read more]
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Open Book Publishers deposited Essays on Paula Rego: Smile When You Think about Hell on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months ago
In these powerful and stylishly written essays, Maria Manuel Lisboa dissects the work of Paula Rego, the Portuguese-born artist considered one of the greatest artists of modern times. Focusing primarily on Rego’s work since the 1980s, Lisboa explores the complex relationships between violence and nurturing, power and impotence, politics and the f…[Read more]
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Open Book Publishers deposited Engaging Researchers with Data Management: The Cookbook on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months ago
Effective Research Data Management (RDM) is a key component of research integrity and reproducible research, and its importance is increasingly emphasised by funding bodies, governments, and research institutions around the world. However, many researchers are unfamiliar with RDM best practices, and research support staff are faced with the…[Read more]
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Open Book Publishers deposited Labour and Value: Rethinking Marx’s Theory of Exploitation on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months ago
In this book Ernesto Screpanti provides a rigorous examination of Marx’s theory of exploitation, one of the cornerstones of Marxist thought. With precision and clarity, he identifies the holes in traditional readings of Marx’s theory before advancing his own original interpretation, drawing on contemporary philosophy and economic theory to pro…[Read more]
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