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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...

Lay confraternities, flagellation, Italian painting and manuscript illumination 14th-17th centuriesBook InformationISBN 9789462984684Author Andrew ChenFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Amsterdam University PressPublisher Amsterdam University...

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

As machine-readable data comes to play an increasingly important role in everyday life, researchers find themselves with rich resources for studying society. The novel methods and tools needed to work with such data require not only new knowledge and...

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,...

Contentious politics, violence, extreme left, 1968 years, non-violence, Direct action, Citizenship, Action Repertoires, Civil disobedienceBook InformationISBN 9789089649348Author OllitraultFormat HardbackPage Count 274Imprint Amsterdam University...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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Going Inside is about something that happens in less than the blink of an eye: a single moment of consciousness. With great clarity and stunning detail, John McCrone takes the reader inside the brain itself, to discover how it literally 'grows...

In 1993, an American biotechnology company and a French genetics lab developed a collaborative research plan to search for diabetes genes. But just as the project was to begin, the French government called it to a halt, barring the laboratory from...

The Spanish Pacific designates the space Spain colonized or aspired to rule in Asia between 1521 -- with the arrival of Ferdinand Magellan -- and 1815 -- the end of the Manila-Acapulco galleon trade route. It encompasses what we identify today as the...

Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language concentrates on the origins, developments and current directions of the discipline Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (TAFL) within the Arab world and partially outside of it during the last 60 years, namely...

Star Wars has reached more than three generations of casual and hardcore fans alike, and as a result many of the producers of franchised Star Wars texts (films, television, comics, novels, games, and more) over the past four decades have been...

Creativity; China; boredom; shanzhai; digitisationBook InformationISBN 9789462984745Author Lena ScheenFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Amsterdam University PressPublisher Amsterdam University PressWeight(grams) 0g

Ideology, Cultural Criticism, Western Marxism, Commodity, Reification, SpectacleBook InformationISBN 9789089648518Author Johan Frederik HartleFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Amsterdam University PressPublisher Amsterdam University PressWeight(grams)...

In 1763, the Dutch ship Amstelveen set sail from the Dutch East Indies for Muscat, Oman. Through a tragic combination of human error and rough seas, the ship never made it to port, sinking off the southern coast of Oman. The thirty surviving crew members...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385485845Author Dean H. HamerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Bantam Doubleday DellPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)...