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(2024)Unlike most writing on Arab-Iran relations, which looks at specific episodes and specific countries, this book, taking a long term view, assesses the overall dynamics of the relationship, discussing in particular how far ...
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(2024)Unlike most writing on Arab-Iran relations, which looks at specific episodes and specific countries, this book, taking a long term view, assesses the overall dynamics of the relationship, discussing in particular how far ...
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(2024)In The Digital, a Continent?, the author argues in favor of a way of thinking about digital technology that draws on the new materialism. She uses photosynthesis and nuclear fission as examples of processes that are as ...
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(2024)In his 1979 essay The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge philosopher Jean-François Lyotard noted that the advent of the computer opened up a stage of progress in which knowledge has become a commodity. Modernity ...
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(2024)This book offers a systematic account of the process of designing in architecture. Design thinking can be regarded as a fundamentally different way of knowing the world and a particular form of addressing creative problems. ...
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(2024)Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta uses the story of mud to answer a deceptively simple question: How can a place uniquely vulnerable to sea level rise be one of the nation’s most promiscuous producers and ...
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(2024)In Ways of Seeking, Emily Drumsta traces the influence of detective fiction on the twentieth-century Arabic novel. Theorizing a “poetics of investigation,” she shows how these novels, far from staging awe-inspiring feats ...
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(2024)The cemetery with 208 cremations and 49 inhumations was in use from the end of the 1st Century AD until the beginning of the 5th Century AD and provides an insight into burial customs and burial rites in a rural necropolis ...
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(2024)Interaction with dynamic image content is challenging for user perception, cognition and motor action. This dissertation identifies appropriate gaze-based interaction techniques for moving object selection in image sequences ...
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(2024)In 1965 the UK enacted the Race Relations Act while the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) opened for signature and ratification. In the US, the changes that brought ...
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(2024)A 16th Century French Version of Virgil’s Aeneid In 1541, the author and translator known under the name Hélisenne de Crenne published her fourth and last work, a prose adaptation of the first four books of Virgil’s epos ...
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(2019)In 1698 a treatise called The Eternal Gospel of the Universal Return of All Creatures appeared anonymously in Germany. Its contents were in a certain way quite radical and problematic. The text supported the idea of universal ...
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(2019)The present article explores Le Clerc’s relationship with Cambridge Platonism, in particular with the thought of Ralph Cudworth (1617–1688), as presented in the Bibliothèques.
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(2019)The relation between body and spirit is a central topic in Lady Anne Conway’s (1631–1679) treatise The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy:
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(2019)Since late antiquity the debate about Origen and Origenism has focused on preexistence and apokatastasis. Within Origen’s Christian philosophy, however, these themes were side issues. They were neither at the core of his ...
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(2020)Die allgegenwärtige Präsenz dieses Gadgets und die damit ermöglichte permanente Onlineanbindung führte inzwischen zu einer kaum mehr trennscharf zu unterscheidenden Differenzierung zwischen realer und virtueller Lebenswelt. ...
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(2020)Immer wieder wird vorgeschlagen, auf den Naturbegriff zu verzichten. Der Astronom und Naturforscher Johann Christoph Sturm erklärt in seiner Philosophia eclectica, die 1698 erschien, es gebe praktisch keinen unklareren ...
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(2020)Anthropozän bezeichnet ein Zeitalter, in dem der Mensch mit seiner natürlichen Intelligenz zu einem der wichtigsten Einflussfaktoren auf die biologischen, geologischen und atmosphärischen Prozesse auf der Erde geworden ...
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(2020)Der in diesem Band vorausgehende Beitrag des Verf. legt es nahe, das Anthropozän als eine geistige Umweltkrise zu verstehen. Demnach fühlt es sich auf eine bestimmte Weise an, in einer technisch überformten Umwelt zu leben, ...
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(2020)Dieser Beitrag bietet eine Deutung dessen, worum es sich beim Anthropozän handelt: nämlich um eine geistige Umweltkrise. Zu diesem Zweck wird das Anthropozän zunächst in gebotener Kürze als Umweltkrise dargestellt. Darauf ...
