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Detta är berättelsen om mänsklighetens största intellektuella äventyr. Den prisbelönta fysikprofessorn Lawrence Krauss berättar i episkt poetiska termer vad universum egentligen är, och vad som gömmer sig bakom det vi uppfattar som verkligheten. B...

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I år skulle det svenska rasbiologiska institutet ha fyllt hundra år. Om det hade funnits kvar. Det lades ned 1958och med tiden har en rad felaktigheter och missförstånd kommit att prägla dess eftermäle. Sverige var ett av de länder där detta tänka...

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Geo Widengren var professor i religionshistoria och religionspsykologi vid Uppsala universitet åren 1940-1973. I samtidens fascination för äldre kulturer fick Widengren ett stort inflytande som uttolkare av arkeologiska fynd och tidigare okända te...

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Självporträtt av samtida svenska historiker Denna bok innehåller en samling självporträtt av svenska historiker, verksamma under perioden från mitten av 1960-talet till och med 2010-talet. Alla har fritt fått utforma sina bidrag. En del börjar i s...

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Vetenskapens historia är mer eller mindre omöjlig att skildra i sin helhet och på ett hanterligt sätt. Ändå har historieprofessorn Christer Ericsson tagit sig an detta sisyfosuppdrag. Han berättar här om både naturvetenskap och humaniora. Syftet ä...

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Historiska aktörer är långt ifrån frånvarande i historieforskningen. Varje land och varje tidsepok har sin beskärda del av biografier över framstående vetenskapsmän, intellektuella och utbildningsreformatorer. Trots detta är det inte fel att hävda...

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Beyond Interdisciplinarity is the first book to present a conceptual framework for thinking about inter- and trans-disciplinary as well as cross-sector boundary work. The approach in this book accounts for the dynamics of communicating, collaborat...

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The history of Central Europe's print markets between Napoleon and the era of unification doubles as a political tale. It sheds important new light on political communication and how publishers exposed German-language readers to the Age of Democra...

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In 1256, the countess of Provence, Beatrice of Savoy, enlisted her personal physician to create a health handbook to share with her daughters. Written in French and known as the Rgime du corps, this health guide would become popular and influentia...

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The Jewish Encyclopedia was the first comprehensive collection of all the available material pertaining to the Jews, their history, literature, philosophy, ritual, sociology and biography. Published by Funk & Wagnalls from 1901 to 1906, its su...

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John Ferguson has long been recognised as one of the leading heraldic artists of his generation. This book celebrates his work and proclaims that generosity of spirit which has been an inspiration to his fellow artists.

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Information and knowledge were essential tools of early modern Europes global ambitions. This volume addresses a key concern that emerged as the competition for geopolitical influence increased: how could information from afar be trusted when ther...

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The International Symposium on Humanities and Social Sciences: Addressing Global Challenges-Exploring Socio-Cultural Dynamics and Sustainable Solutions in a Changing World (ISHSS 2023) unfolds as a crucial academic undertaking, centred around the ...

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Responding to widespread interest within cultural studies and social inquiry, this book addresses the question 'what is a mathematical concept?' using a variety of vanguard theories in the humanities and posthumanities. Tapping historical, philoso...

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Many of Sren Kierkegaard's most controversial and influential ideas are more relevant than ever to contemporary debates on ethics, philosophy of religion and selfhood. Kierkegaard develops an original argument according to which wholeheartedness r...

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This book makes available Ronald Knoxs hitherto unpublished lectures on Virgils Aeneid delivered at Trinity College, Oxford, as part of a lecture course on Virgil in 1912. Written with Knoxs customary incisiveness and with frequent allusions to co...

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Bringing together an exciting group of knowledge workers, scholars and activists from across fields, this book revisits a foundational question of the Enlightenment: what is the last or furthest end of knowledge? It is a book about why we do what ...

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The immortality of the soul is one of the oldest tropes in the history of philosophy and one that gained significant momentum in 16th-century Europe. But what came before Pietro Pomponazzi and his contemporaries? Through examination of four neglec...

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This book identifies and analyzes priorities, themes, projects and publications in the worlds leading communication research institutes, centers and doctoral programs. It also presents an assessment of the state and future of communication researc...

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Building Kids Citizenship Through Community Engagement offers a compelling, empirically-based argument for giving young people opportunities to grow through productive involvement with their local community. Drawing on John Deweys pragmatic frame ...

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Embodying Theory: Epistemology, Aesthetics and Resistance takes a deep dive into representational spaces of social science theory and research, positioning post-structuralist frameworks as potent tools in ongoing fights against injustice and inequ...

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Might it be possible to rearticulate the term digital in digital media, so that it refers at least as much to the deft movements or orientations of hands and fingers (of digits) as it does to the new media technologies themselves? What if digital ...

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Cities are where the majority of people in the world live. As such, it is critically important to understand cities when seeking to address quality-of-life issues. While the concentration of people in cities presents many complex issues that warra...

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What does the phrase "ubiquitous media" actually mean? Individual definitions are just as varied and ubiquitous as the media to which they refer. As a result, there is to date no large-scale theoretical framework through which we can und...

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Civility in national and international politics is under siege. In this volume, twelve distinguished sociologists and historians from North America, Europe, and China reflect on the nature and preservation of civility in and between nation states ...

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On March 11, 2004, Islamist terrorists carried out a massive bombing on Madrids largely working-class commuter trains, leaving 191 people dead and more than 1,500 others wounded. This event, known in Spain as 11-M, was the second of three highly v...

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A fortuitous urban miracle, Tommy Thompson Park is an oasis of "accidental wilderness" on Torontos lakeshore. Initially created as a landfill site on the citys rapidly developing waterfront, the Leslie Street Spit, as the park is affecti...

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This volume offers a critical yet empathic exploration of the ancient myth of Medea as immortalized by early Greek and Roman dramatists to showcase the tragic forces afoot when relational suffering remains unresolved in the lives of individuals, f...

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Since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, the discourse of human rights has expanded to include not just civil and political rights but also economic, social, cultural, and, most recently, collective rights. Given th...

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