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Ciência, medicina e perícia nas tecnologias de governo
(2016)
Anthropology has been playing a central role in questioning the supposed
objective and apolitical character of scientific knowledge by underlining the socio-cultural context
and history of the constitution of any scientific ...
Playful Mapping in the Digital Age
(2016)
From Mah-Jong, to the introduction of Prussian war-games, through to the emergence of location-based play: maps and play share a long and diverse history. This monograph shows how mapping and playing unfold in the digital ...
Monsoon
(2017)
Monsoon Assemblages is a research project funded
by the European Research Council (ERC) under
the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and
innovation programme (Grant Agreement No.
697873). Monsoon [+ other] Airs is ...
Soulless Matter, Seats of Energy
(2016)
Soulless Matter, Seats of Energy: Metals, Gems and Minerals in South Asian Traditions investigates the way in which Indian culture has represented inorganic matter and geological formations such as mountains and the earth ...
Chapter The Price of Uncertainty in Present-Biased Planning
(2017)
The tendency to overestimate immediate utility is a common cognitive bias. As a result people behave inconsistently over time and fail
to reach long-term goals. Behavioral economics tries to help affected individuals
by ...
Web and Internet Economics
(2017)
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Web and Internet Economics, WINE 2017,
held in Bangalore, India, in December 2017.
The 28 full and 6 short papers presented ...
Un monastero sul mare
(2016)
The remains of the monastery of San Quirico stand on the slopes of Poggio Tondo, a hill not far from the ancient city of Populonia. They overlook the Tyrrhenian Sea, dotted with the islands of the Tuscan archipelago. Field ...
Unequal Family Lives
(2018)
Across the Americas and Europe, the family has changed and marriage is in retreat. To answer the question of what's driving these changes and how they impact social and economic inequality, progressives have typically ...
Selling & Collecting
(2018)
Based on the contributions given at a conference held at the University of Cagliari in September 2017, this collection of essays provides an insight into the distribution and acquisition of printed books in the sixteenth ...
The Many Paths of Change in International Law
(2023)
How does international law change? How does it adapt to meet global challenges in an accelerated social and political context? The question is crucial for any account of international law, but it is not very well understood. ...
The Visual Memory of Protest
(2023)
Social movements are not only remembered in personal experience, but also through cultural carriers that shape how later movements see themselves and are seen by others. The present collection zooms in on the role of ...
Chapter 18 Disability in translation
(2021)
The chapter surveys the possible intersections between the fields of translation studies and disability studies. The exploration begins with an overview of the various definitions of disability, which leads to the discussion ...
Chapter Introduction: Beyond translation and medicine
(2021)
The chapter surveys the possible intersections between the fields of translation studies and disability studies. The exploration begins with an overview of the various definitions of disability, which leads to the discussion ...
Buddhism in Central Asia II
(2022)
The ERC-funded research project BuddhistRoad aims to create a new framework to enable understanding of the complexities in the dynamics of cultural encounter and religious transfer in pre-modern Eastern Central Asia. ...
Changing Subjects, Moving Objects
(2022)
This is a book about people caught between home and abroad, crossing imperial boundaries in southeastern Europe at the beginning of the modern age. Through a series of life stories, which the author reconstructs with the ...
Industrial Artificial Intelligence Technologies and Applications
(2023)
The advances in industrial edge artificial intelligence (AI) are transforming the way industrial equipment and machines interact with the real world, with other machines and humans during manufacturing processes. These ...
Mediterranean Seafarers in Transition
(2022)
This volume discusses the effects of industrialization on maritime trade, labour and communities in the Mediterranean and Black Sea from the 1850s to the 1920s. The 17 essays are based on new evidence from multiple type ...
New Ancient Greek in a Neo-Latin World
(2023)
Did you know that many reputed Neo-Latin authors like Erasmus of Rotterdam also wrote in forms of Ancient Greek? Erasmus used this New Ancient Greek language to celebrate a royal return from Spain to Brussels, to honor ...
Muslim Subjectivity in Soviet Russia
(2022)
The world as seen by a Qur’an specialist in late imperial and early Soviet Russia. Our book tells a dramatic story of ’Abd al-Majid al-Qadiri, a Muslim individual born in the Kazakh lands and brought up in the Sufi environment ...
The New Production of Expert Knowledge
(2024)
This Open Access book offers a novel perspective on the role of quantification in the making of education utopias through an analysis of expert knowledge and its producers. Drawing on empirical findings from the European ...