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Poéticas del postmodernismo en Hispanoamérica y España, 1907-1922
In the historiography of Spanish-language literature, the term ‘postmodernism’ is usually used to refer to the poetry of the late modernist period and the transition from modernism to the avant-garde. It was introduced by Federico de Onís in his monumental *Antología de la poesía española e…
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Sak. Prosa. Forskning. Nye blikk på sakprosa
In just a few decades, the field of non-fiction research has become an established one, with its own journals, professorships, and textbooks. Yet criticism has also grown: Has the term “non-fiction” become so all-encompassing as to lose precision? Has research done within the field become too…
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Escribir entre lenguas
This book examines how ten authors from Argentina, Mexico and Chile tackle the challenge of writing across languages, whether by prioritising one of them or by blending them. Based on an analysis of their strategies, this study proposes a typology that identifies four central dynamics…
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Reading Wars
Reading Wars explores heated, even murderous, political struggles over who gets to read and what they get to read. Those conflicts, once again in the news, stretch back centuries. In this book, Don Herzog examines the history and politics of anxieties about readers and reading, spanning both the…
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Emerging Trends in Energy and Environmental Design Integrating New Services and Tools for Smart Cities and Smart Buildings
This Reprint brings together different perspectives on sustainable energy transitions, highlighting the importance of integrating social, technological, and spatial approaches. The papers explore key themes such as user behaviour in residential energy use, renewable energy communities, smart cities…
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Advances in the Experimentation and Numerical Modeling of Material Joining Processes (Second Edition)
Nowadays, structural design is facing major challenges in the associated joining processes, such as material selection, different thermal coefficients and melting points, multi-material joining, the joining of thin-walled structures, traditional process effectiveness for new materials…
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Ökonomische versus strukturelle Rationalität im Kooperationsdilemma
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird das grundlegende Problem der Kooperation innerhalb der Rational-Choice-Theorie diskutiert. Ausgehend vom Gefangenendilemma analysiert die Autorin verschiedene theoretische Ansätze zur Erklärung rationaler Kooperation, darunter utilitaristische, evolutionäre und…
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Urban Liquefaction
From classical times until today, cities have been conceived in the western imagination as ideally confined to the fixities of the land, a space defined in opposition to the fluxes of the sea. Whereas solid land afforded a durable platform for the establishment of property and citizenship, the…
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Künstliche Intelligenz im produzierenden Mittelstand
Die Arbeitswelt erlebt eine Zeit des bedeutenden Wandels. Besonders die Diskussionen zur Zukunft der Arbeit, verstärkt durch die technologische Fortschritte, rücken immer stärker in den Mittelpunkt. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf den Potenzialen und Auswirkungen der Künstlichen Intelligenz (KI), die…
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La ville jurée
Um Vertrauen und Solidarität zu schaffen und die Bevölkerung zum Gehorsam gegenüber der Obrigkeit zu bewegen, banden die Städte von Konstanz bis Straßburg im Spätmittelalter Bürger und andere Einwohner in Eidesbeziehungen ein. Die Untersuchung der Eidesrituale zeigt zwar, dass die Stadt keine…
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Civil Society Knowledge Networks
This book examines the ways ideas gain power and momentum (and are contested, challenged, and circumvented) within global networks of development actors, institutions, and programmes. But it goes a step further: it examines the processes of development as another way in which knowledge is…
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Macau and Catholic Sacred Music Across the Sino-Western Divide
For three centuries, the former Portuguese colony of Macau served as the gateway into mainland China and the locale for the development of an Asian Catholic culture that encompassed distinctive musical practices and styles. Macau and Catholic Music Across the Sino-Western Divide draws extensively…
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Du ventre des femmes aux bras des mères
Au-delà de son ontologie, la maternité se vit différemment selon le temps, l’espace et les cultures ; en témoignent les représentations variées qui traversent la littérature, l’histoire ou les documents audiovisuels. Si elle relève d’un fait biologique qui engage le corps des femmes, la maternité…
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The Limits of Positive Obligations in Human Rights Law
This open access book is a crucial intervention in the debate concerning positive human rights obligations. There is nowadays no dispute in human rights doctrine over whether rights entail positive duties on the part of the state at the level of principle. But there has been surprisingly little…
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Post-Truth Politics, Migration and Border Security
This book argues that post-truth discourses are deeply influencing political debates on migration and border security, blurring the line between fact-based debates and post-truth storylines. Offering a nuanced analysis of discourse within parliamentary debates on migration across multiple EU…
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Constructing the Traveller: Stance and Instruction in an Early Modern English Travel Advice Text. Núm. 9
This work presents a critical edition of Profitable Instructions (1633), an Early Modern English manual of advice for travellers. It also includes a codicological and linguistic description of the 1633 printing and contextualises the text within travel writing and the prescriptive ars apodemica…
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Elementi e materiali di diritto doganale. III edizione ampliata e aggiornata
A seguito dell’attivazione del corso di “Diritto doganale e politica commerciale dell’Unione europea” nell’ambito del corso di laurea triennale in Scienze internazionali e istituzioni europee (SIE) presso l’Università degli Studi di Milano, si è ritenuto necessario procedere a una revisione del…
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Designing the Digital Euro
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share via Elgaronline, thanks to generous funding support from Tilburg University. This pioneering book examines the legal, economic, and technological foundations of the proposed…
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Queering Theology
»Queer« lässt sich nicht nur als etwas verstehen, das man ist, sondern auch als etwas das man tut: »etwas queeren«. Queere Theologie, die sich aus diesem Verständnis vom Queeren als kritischer Praxis ableitet, hat ihre Wurzeln nicht nur im Bereich der Queer Theory, sondern auch in der Tradition der…
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Curso Jesuíta Conimbricense: Comentário ao 'De Anima' de Aristóteles.
A Commentary on Aristotle's 'De Anima' as part of the Coimbra Jesuit Course (1592-1606). This volume is dedicated to the translation, edition, explanation (explanatio) and questioning (quaestio) of book III of this Aristotelian work, mostly dealing with biology, the senses, the sensible and…
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