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The Cosmographia of Sebastian ...Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia was an immensely influential book that attem... Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia was an immensely influential book that attempted to describe the entire world across all of human history and analyse its constituent elements of geography, history, ethnography, zoology and botany. First publishe more
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Describing Construction: Indus...This third book from editors Rick Best and Jim Meikle brings together and pres... This third book from editors Rick Best and Jim Meikle brings together and presents insights into a number of key concepts in the study of construction firms, projects and the group of activities that loosely define the construction industry. The v more
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Describing Prescriptivism: Usa...Describing Prescriptivism provides a topical and thought-provoking analysis of... Describing Prescriptivism provides a topical and thought-provoking analysis of linguistic prescriptivism in British and American English, from a historical as well as present-day perspective. Focusing on usage guides and usage problems, t more
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The Remaking of Archival Value...The Remaking of Archival Values posits that archival theory and practice are f... The Remaking of Archival Values posits that archival theory and practice are fields in flux, and that recent critical archival discourse that addresses neoliberalism, racism, and the legacies of colonialism and patriarchy represents a dis more
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The Archive Project: Archival ...Recent scholarship on archival research has raised questions concerning the ch... Recent scholarship on archival research has raised questions concerning the character and impact of 'the archive' on how the traces of the past are researched, the use and analysis of different kinds of archived data, methodological approaches to more
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A History of Archival PracticeThis revised translation of the classic 1998 Une histoire de l'archivistique p... This revised translation of the classic 1998 Une histoire de l'archivistique provides a wide-ranging international survey of developments in archival practices and management, from the ancient world to the present day.The volume h more
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Material Powers: Cultural Stud...This edited collection is a major contribution to the current development of a... This edited collection is a major contribution to the current development of a 'material turn' in the social sciences and humanities. It does so by exploring new understandings of how power is made up and exercised by examining the role of materia more
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Material Matters: Architecture...Bringing together texts and work by theorists and practitioners who are making... Bringing together texts and work by theorists and practitioners who are making material central to their work, this book reflects the diverse areas of inquiry which are expanding current material discourse. Focusing on the cultural, political, eco more
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The Criminalisation of Fantasy...This book addresses the criminalisation of sexually explicit material depictin... This book addresses the criminalisation of sexually explicit material depicting or describing fictitious characters who appear to be children. It is the first book of its kind to specifically examine the expansion of the law to include fictional r more
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Redrawing Anthropology: Materi...Why should anthropologists draw? The answer proposed in this groundbreaking vo... Why should anthropologists draw? The answer proposed in this groundbreaking volume is that drawing uniquely brings together ways of making, observing and describing. In twelve chapters, a team of authors from the UK, Europe, North America and Aust more
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The Material Subject: Rethinki...The Material Subject emphasises how bodily and material cultures combine to ma... The Material Subject emphasises how bodily and material cultures combine to make and transform subjects dynamically. The book is based on the French Matière à Penser (Ma P) school of thought, which draws upon the ideas of Mauss, S more
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Children and Material CultureThis is the first book to focus entirely on children and material culture. The... This is the first book to focus entirely on children and material culture. The contributors ask:* what is the relationship between children and the material world?* how does the material culture of children vary across time and space more
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The Archaeology of Art: Materi...How can archaeologists interpret ancient art and images if they do not treat t... How can archaeologists interpret ancient art and images if they do not treat them as symbols or signifiers of identity?Traditional approaches to the archaeology of art have borrowed from the history of art and the anthropology of art by fo more
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The Routledge Handbook of Mate...The Routledge Handbook of Materials Development for Language Teaching is the d... The Routledge Handbook of Materials Development for Language Teaching is the definitive resource for all working in this area of language and English language teaching. With 34 chapters authored by leading figures from around the world, t more
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Collecting Colonialism: Materi...Colonialism has shaped the world we live in today and has often been studied a... Colonialism has shaped the world we live in today and has often been studied at a global level, but there is less understanding of how colonial relations operated locally. This book takes twentieth-century Papua New Guinea as its focus, and charts more
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Cases and Materials on the Law...In less than 100 years, international organizations have evolved from curiosit... In less than 100 years, international organizations have evolved from curiosities into keystones of international law. What began long ago as an unremarkable effort to coordinate a limited number of technical issues has grown into a global, multil more
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Archaeology After Interpretati...A new generation of archaeologists has thrown down a challenge to post-process... A new generation of archaeologists has thrown down a challenge to post-processual theory, arguing that characterizing material symbols as arbitrary overlooks the material character and significance of artifacts. This volume showcases the significa more
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Social Change in a Material Wo...Social Change in a Material World offers a new, practice theoretical account o... Social Change in a Material World offers a new, practice theoretical account of social change and its explanation. Extending the author's earlier account of social life, and drawing on general ideas about events, processes, and change, th more
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The Baseball Glove: History, M...The baseball glove is a ubiquitous item, a crucial piece of equipment in the g... The baseball glove is a ubiquitous item, a crucial piece of equipment in the game of baseball, and it offers the opportunity to examine the production of material culture and social practice at numerous levels. Where and how is a glove made, and h more
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An Archaeology of Temperature:...This work investigates the material culture of public temperatures in New York... This work investigates the material culture of public temperatures in New York City. Numbers like temperature, while ubiquitous and indispensable to capitalized social relations, are often hidden away within urban infrastructures evading attention more
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