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"Reine Haut"
Ein Blick durch das Werbefenster der Schweiz von 1890 bis 1950 zeigt, wie tief das Ideal der »reinen Haut« mit gesellschaftlichen Normen und Körperbildern verflochten war. Was verraten Seifenreklamen über gesellschaftliche Normen? Dieses Buch widmet sich dem Ideal der »reinen Haut« in…
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Atmospheres and Digital Media
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. From parenting and pilgrimage to activism and mourning, this thought-provoking book explores how digital connection—and disconnection—shapes the emotional texture of our lives. Using the concept of ‘affective atmospheres’, the authors…
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Lithium-Ion and Next-Generation Batteries Recycling
The progressive expansion of electromobility will lead to an increasing demand for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) in the future and thus inevitably to a drastically increased demand for raw materials for battery materials. The recycling and reuse of the individual components therefore serves as an…
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A Grammar of Gaddi
This is the first long-form descriptive grammar of the Pahari Indo-Aryan language, Gaddi (also called Bharmauri), spoken by the Gaddi people, a traditionally pastoral community now undergoing rapid occupational and lifestyle change. In 2010, the language was considered ‘definitely endangered’ by…
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Die Sortierung der Menschheit
Die Humandifferenzierung umfasst menschliche Einteilungs- und Kategorisierungsprozesse, denen wir täglich begegnen. Klaus Behnam Shad schlägt eine Rekonzeptualisierung von Schemata der Humandifferenzierung vor, die soziale Komplexität und Intersektionalität in den Mittelpunkt stellt. Dabei…
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Advances in Burn Injuries
Burn injuries trigger complex local and systemic responses requiring coordinated multidisciplinary care from acute treatment through long-term rehabilitation. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary burn science and clinical practice, bringing together current knowledge on…
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Listening in Radiophonic Spaces
Based on research in the BBC archives, this book examines the negotiation and establishment of a figure of the ideal listener and ideal listening in the context of BBC radio drama in the 1920s. Guided by the idea of itself as a public service, the BBC articulated a new space of aesthetic experience…
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Harline & Washington’s When You Wish Upon a Star
When Leigh Harline and Ned Washington penned “When You Wish Upon a Star” for Walt Disney’s 1940 film Pinocchio, the song came like a bolt out of the blue. Like Judy Garland’s rendition of “Over the Rainbow” from The Wizard of Oz one year earlier, vaudeville veteran Cliff Edwards’s recording “When…
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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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Divided Publics
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Digital media can support democracy, freedom, and social cohesion, but it can also erode them. This book explores that tension through the stories of grassroots volunteer networks in Russia, which emerged on Telegram after February 2022 to…
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Out of the Box
Gedächtnismetapher oder realer Ort, wissenschaftliche Ressource oder Herrschaftsinstrument – was bedeutet die Multidimensionalität des aktuellen Archivbegriffs für die Musikwissenschaft? Wie und warum werden „Archive“ geformt, wer errichtet sie für wen, welche Quellen enthalten sie und wie speist…
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The Game Beat
The Game Beat examines the whos, hows, and whys of the journalists and critics covering the young but growing game industry. This collection of over 80 columns covers everything from the decline of print gaming magazines to the ethics of paid junkets to the importance of review scores and much more.
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Understanding meme? Sensi del tempo memetico
Il presente lavoro intende riflettere sulle modalità di espressione, comunicazione e condivisione della “cultura memetica” come diretta espressione dell’infosfera. Nella fattispecie i contributi presenti all’interno del testo provano a delineare una definizione di meme, artefatto fluido e…
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AI-Powered Corpus Translation Studies at Work
This open access book introduces a pioneering methodology in corpus translation studies by integrating generative artificial intelligence to assist in text annotation, alignment, and interpretative analysis, with an illustrative application. It focuses on early (re)translations by Aphra Behn and…
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Climate Justice
Examines the impact of climate change on marginalized communities across the globe and the different ways of resisting these impacts. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
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Å skrive seg inn i profesjonen
Academic writing must be learned. It is a demanding genre that both students and academic staff depend on in their academic work—whether they need to understand what they read, communicate what they read, or write themselves. In this anthology, different academic traditions meet. The contributions…
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Functional Inorganic Biomaterials for Molecular Sensing and Biomedical Applications
Inorganic biomaterials encompass a wide range of materials, including metals, polymers, ceramics, and composites, and play a pivotal role in chemistry, materials science, biology, medicine, and biomedical engineering. With tunable intrinsic properties (e.g., shape, size, aspect ratio…
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Educação Especial e formação de professores: desafios e estratégias para uma prática transformadora
Educar na diversidade não significa apenas garantir que todos tenham acesso à escola. Significa assegurar que cada estudante encontre um professor preparado para reconhecer as suas potencialidades, compreender as suas necessidades e construir respostas educativas capazes de favorecer a aprendizagem…
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The Edge of Knowing
How do new ideas emerge, and how can collaboration across disciplines transform our understanding of the world? 'The Edge of Knowing' provides an insight into the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) at the University of Amsterdam – an environment where curiosity, complexity and collaboration…
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