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What do biologists study when they study "life" today? Drawing on tools from rhetoric and poststructuralist theory, the author argues that the ascent of molecular biology, with its emphasis on molecules such as DNA rather than organisms, was...

Singapore [-]State-civil society relations[-]Urban culture[-]Place-making[-]Human agency[-][-]Book InformationISBN 9789463729505Author Mike DouglassFormat HardbackPage Count 302Imprint Amsterdam University PressPublisher Amsterdam University...

The Building as Screen: A History, Theory, and Practice of Massive Media describes, historicizes, theorizes, and creatively deploys massive media -- a set of techno-social assemblages and practices that include large outdoor projections, programmable...

This important book presents a collection of scientific papers on recent theoretical and practical advances in nanostructures, nanomaterials, and nanotechnologies. Highlighting some of the latest developments and trends in the field, the volume presents...

Arising from the 2020 Darwin College Lectures, this book presents eight essays from prominent public intellectuals on the theme of Enigmas. Each author examines this theme through the lens of their own particular area of expertise, together constituting...

Oxide materials have been used in mainstream semiconductor technology for several decades and have served as important components, such as gate insulators or capacitors, in integrated circuits. However, in recent decades, this material class has emerged...

Migration, Body, Ethnicity, Gender, SexualityBook InformationISBN 9789462988668Author Michiel BaasFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint Amsterdam University PressPublisher Amsterdam University PressWeight(grams) 0g

In Beyond 9 to 5, Sarah Norgate investigates the psychological, social, and cultural influences that affect the way we regard and are affected by time. Using everyday examples from around the world, her intriguing analysis unravels both the mental and...

Reformed Augustinians, Reformation, Martin Luther, Low Countries, heresy, martyrsBook InformationISBN 9789463728621Author Robert ChristmanFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Amsterdam University PressPublisher Amsterdam University PressWeight(grams) 0g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524969998Author Davonya PersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.

French mercantile endeavors in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century India were marked by novel intersections of aesthetics, science, and often violent commercialism. Connecting all of these worlds were the thriving textile industries of India's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977131416Author Lisa M Bolt SimonsFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Pebble BooksPublisher Pebble BooksWeight(grams) 178g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780557096060Author Israel FriedFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

Visualization, the Street, Digital Media, Smart Cities, Visual CultureBook InformationISBN 9789462984356Author Judith NaeffFormat HardbackPage Count 254Imprint Amsterdam University PressPublisher Amsterdam University PressWeight(grams) 0g

This is the first book to offer a translation into English-as well as a critical study-of a Spanish treatise written around 1650 by Rabbi Saul Levi Morteira, whose most renowned congregant was Baruch Spinoza. Aimed at encouraging the practice of halachic...

Open up the world of science to your students, enthusing and encouraging them to become focused, questioning and successful scientists, thinkers and problem-solvers. Science and technology encompass some of the most important skills children need to...

Every age has had its rebels: socialists, peace activists, sexual reformers, fundamentalists, and more. The collections of the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam are full of them. The IISH is the world's largest documentation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197518571Author Stephen R WilkImprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA

China; Hong Kong; cross-border marriages, migration, education, mobilityBook InformationISBN 9789462986909Author Avital Binah-PollakFormat HardbackPage Count 194Imprint Amsterdam University PressPublisher Amsterdam University PressWeight(grams) 0g

Walter Benjamin is today regarded as one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century. Often captured in pensive pose, his image is now that of a serious intellectual. But Benjamin was also a fan of the comedies of Adolphe Menjou, Mickey Mouse, and...

Islamic studies; Muslim societies; Gender and Islam; Islamic law; Islamic texts.Book InformationISBN 9789089649263Author Leon BuskensFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint Amsterdam University PressPublisher Amsterdam University PressWeight(grams) 0g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781329131712Author Ph.D., Leon S. RobertsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

Arising in two separate streams high in the Rockies and flowing east across the plains to meet the Missouri near Omaha, Nebraska, the Platte River is a microcosm of the geologic, plant, animal, and human worlds. Way station for the sandhill cranes, home...

Questioning the objectivity of scientific inquiry, this volume addresses the scope of gender bias in science. The contributors examine the ways in which science is affected by and reinforces sexist biases. The essays reveal science to be a cultural...

Music, political ads, US presidential campaignsBook InformationISBN 9789462981881Author Paul ChristiansenFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint Amsterdam University PressPublisher Amsterdam University PressWeight(grams) 0g

This essay collection features innovative scholarship on women artists and patrons in the Netherlands 1500-1700. Covering painting, printmaking, and patronage, authors highlight the contributions of women art makers in the Netherlands, showing that women...

Northeast frontier of India, Indo-Tibetan borderlands, culture, politics, identityBook InformationISBN 9789462989320Author Swargajyoti GohainFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint Amsterdam University PressPublisher Amsterdam University PressWeight(grams)...

Precision farming involves soil fertility and crop growth monitoring, electronic equipment, remote sensing, global information and positioning systems, computer models, decision support systems, variable-rate technology, and accurate recordkeeping. This...

This book highlights the potential and scope of green chemistry for clean and sustainable development. Covering the basics, the book introduces readers to the need and the many applications and benefits and advantages of environmentally friendly chemical...

This comprehensive textbook covers all subjects on linear circuit theory, with the emphasis on learning the subject without an excessive amount of information. This unique approach stresses knowledge rather than computer use to start and differs from...

This important book focuses on specific topics in food analysis and preservation investigated in the Laboratory of Food Chemistry and Technology at the University Ioannina, Greece, over the past five years. The book specifically targets consumer...

Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers are seen by many as icons of Western European art. Two of these masterpieces - the first version painted in August 1888 (The National Gallery, London) and the painting made after it in January 1889 (Van Gogh Museum,...

This book challenges the accepted view of the early Royal Society of London that holds that its fellows did not seriously attempt to implement Francis Bacon's program for the methodological reform of the sciences. Instead, the book shows that Bacon's...

The New York Times's James Glanz has called Steven Weinberg "perhaps the world's most authoritative proponent of the idea that physics is hurtling toward a 'final theory,' a complete explanation of nature's particles and forces that will endure as the...

Early modern; women; Europe; genderBook InformationISBN 9789462987500Author Aidan NorrieFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint Amsterdam University PressPublisher Amsterdam University PressWeight(grams) 0g

Uncanny modernization, everyday hygiene, rural/urban divideBook InformationISBN 9789089648464Author Lili LaiFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Amsterdam University PressPublisher Amsterdam University PressWeight(grams) 0g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942401070Author Clare MonagleFormat PaperbackPage Count 103Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities PressWeight(grams) 198g

This book compiles many different treatment options and best practices for the treatment and recycling of municipal solid waste from all over the globe, factoring in cost-effectiveness, sanitation, and environmental degradation. Important to professors,...

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. Environmental chemistry is an interdisciplinary field of study that involves the science of ecology as well as chemistry. Environmental chemistry covers the basic chemistry and biochemistry that...

Using comic-book style illustration combined with accessible but authoritative text, the Introducing Graphic Guide series is a uniquely brilliant way to get your head around some of humankind's most thrilling ideas.Infinity is a profoundly...