Legacies, Logics, Logistics: Essays in the Anthropology of the Platform Economy
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Legacies, Logics, Logistics brings together a set of essays, written both before and after the...
Philanthropy in Democratic Societies: History, Institutions, Values
Rob Reich, Chiara Cordelli and Lucy Bernholz
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Philanthropy is everywhere. In 2013, in the United States alone, some $330 billion was recorded in...
Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange: A Financial History of Victorian Science
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Uncovering strange plots by early British anthropologists to use scientific status to manipulate the...
Why Birds Matter: Avian Ecological Function and Ecosystem Services
agan H. Sekercioglu, Daniel G. Wenny and Christopher J. Whelan
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For over one hundred years, ornithologists and amateur birders have jointly campaigned for the...
Artificial Darkness: An Obscure History of Modern Art and Media
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Darkness has a history and a uniquely modern form. Distinct from night, shadows, and artificial...
Dorothy and Otis: Designing the American Dream
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A lavish, gorgeously designed full-color collection that showcases the designs of Dorothy and Otis...
Mother Figured: Marian Apparitions and the Making of a Filipino Universal
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There is no female religious figure so widely known and revered as the Virgin Mary. Throughout...
Plotinus: Myth, Metaphor and Philosophical Practice
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Plotinus, the Roman philosopher (c. 204-270 CE) who is widely regarded as the founder of...
Quantifying Life: A Symbiosis of Computation, Mathematics, and Biology
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Since the time of Isaac Newton, physicists have used mathematics to describe the behavior of matter...
Foundations of Macroecology
Felisa A. Smith, John L. Gittleman, James H. Brown and Ford Ballantyne
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Macroecology is an approach to science that emphasizes the description and explanation of patterns...