The Organization of Knowledge: Caught Between Global Structures and Local Meaning
Jack Andersen and Laura Skouvig
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This book critically examines the organization of knowledge as it is involved in matters of digital...
Astrology in Ancient Mesopotamia: The Science of Omens and the Knowledge of the Heavens
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Among the many significant discoveries excavated from Assyrian king Ashurbanipal's royal library in...
The Lure of the Key: Knowledge Aquired from Some Thirty-Five Years Collecting
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The key has been in use for many centuries, it has become such a familiar object,essential for so...
Area Studies at the Crossroads: Knowledge Production After the Mobility Turn: 2017
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In this pioneering volume, leading scholars from a diversity of backgrounds in the humanities,...
Taking Action for Looked After Children in School: A Knowledge Exchange Programme
Claire Cameron and Steve Grundy
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Promoting the Achievement of Looked After Children (PALAC) is a knowledge exchange programme that...
Knowledge Systems and Change in Climate Governance: Comparing India and South Africa
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The success of international efforts to manage climate change depends on the participation of...
Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge: Case Studies and Conflicting Interests
Tania Bubela and E. Richard Gold
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This fascinating study describes efforts to define and protect traditional knowledge and the...
Female Islamic Education Movements: The Re-Democratization of Islamic Knowledge
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Since the 1970s, movements aimed at giving Muslim women access to the serious study of Islamic texts...
The Crafting of the 10, 000 Things: Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-century China
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The last decades of the Ming dynasty, though plagued by chaos and destruction, saw major advances in...