Concrete and Culture: A Material History
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Almost three tons of concrete are produced each year for every person on the planet; only water is...
Finding Ourselves at the Movies: Philosophy for a New Generation
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Academic philosophy may have lost its audience, but the traditional subjects of philosophy-love,...
The Art of Life in South Africa
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From 1952 to 1981, South Africa's apartheid government ran an art school for the training of African...
Climate Change Policy in Japan: From the 1980's to 2015
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Amidst growing environmental concerns worldwide, Japan is seen as particularly vulnerable to the...
Continuity and Crisis in German Cinema, 1928-1936
Barbara F. Hales, Mihaela Petrescu and Valerie Weinstein
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Hitler's Machtergreifung, or seizure of power, on January 30, 1933, marked the end of the Weimar...
Science and Technology Policy in the United States: Open Systems in Action
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During the latter half of the twentieth century, federal funding in the United States for scientific...
Movement, Power and Place in Central Asia and Beyond: Contested Trajectories
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Central Asia is a region singularly marked by attempts to transform social life by transforming...
What is Journalism?: The Art and Politics of a Rupture: 2016
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This book argues that journalism should treat itself as an academic discipline on a par with...
What is Feminism? Why Do We Need it? and Other Big Questions
Louise Spilsbury and Bea Appleby
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What is feminism? Why do we need it? Where does it come from? Why does it exist? The word 'feminism'...
The Chivalric Biography of Boucicaut, Jean II Le Meingre
Craig Taylor and Jane H. M. Taylor
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Jean le Meingre, Marechal Boucicaut (1364-1421), was the very flower of chivalry. From his earliest...