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Franz, Hölker, ed. Scales, hierarchies and emergent properties in ecological models. Peter Lang, 2002.

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Stein, Volker. Emergentes Organisationswachstum: Eine systemtheoretische "Rationalisierung". R. Hampp, 2000.

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McCann, Gerard. Homelessness: Scales and provision : emergency accommodation needs in Belfast : a guide for hostel volunteers. [s.n.], 1998.

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International, Conference on Burns and Fire Disasters (1st 1990 Palermo Italy). The management of mass burn casualties and fire disasters. Kluwer Academic, 1992.

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Herndon, David N., Marc G. Jeschke, and Lars-Peter Kamolz. Verbrennungen: Diagnose, Therapie und Rehabilitation des thermischen Traumas. Springer, 2009.

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Ng, Kia, Atta Badii, and Pierfrancesco Bellini, eds. Axmedis 2006. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Automated Production of Cross Media Content for Multi-channel Distribution. Volume for Workshops, Tutorials, Applications and Industrial (Leeds, UK, 13-15 December 2006). Firenze University Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/88-8453-525-5.

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The AxMEDIS 2006 International Conference seeks to promote discussion and exchange of ideas amongst researchers, practitioners, developers and users of tools, technology transfer experts, and project managers. This conference series brings together a variety of participants from the academic, business and industrial worlds, to address the emergent research and technological issues as well as the engineering and commercial challenges of large-scale collaborative production and distribution of media as experienced by the associated industrial sectors in the emergent media markets. The conference

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Cvetkov, Viktor. Basics of complexity theory. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/2110856.

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The monograph reveals the basics of complexity theory and methods for assessing complexity. The concept of complexity consideration is based on the analysis of complexity as a common attribute in processes and systems. The monograph describes the main methods for assessing different types of complexity. The concept of considering complexity in this monograph is also based on the fact that complexity is a comparative characteristic. It is given on a relative scale of difficulty. Therefore, complexity must be defined on a relative scale of “simplicity-complexity.” This concept motivates the cons

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Chandrakantan, Arvind, and Mehernoor Watcha. Emergence Delirium. Edited by Erin S. Williams, Olutoyin A. Olutoye, Catherine P. Seipel, and Titilopemi A. O. Aina. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190678333.003.0065.

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Emergence agitation/emergence delirium is a self-limited, postanesthesia complication occurring in anywhere between 10% and 80% of children. It is important to recognize that emergence agitation/emergence delirium represents a continuum of increasing severity. While there are no long-term sequelae as a result of emergence delirium, the short-term consequences can be trying for parents and caregivers alike. While no uniform “treatment” exists for emergence delirium, there are various approaches in treating and preventing the condition. This chapter defines the features of emergence delirium and

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Larmon, Baxter, and Scott R. Snyder. Burns, Dynamic Lecture Series. Prentice Hall, 2007.

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Cascarini, Luke, Clare Schilling, Ben Gurney, and Peter Brennan. In the emergency department. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198767817.003.0004.

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This chapter discusses oral and maxillofacial surgery in the A&E department, including, The paediatric OMFS patient, Overview of maxillofacial trauma, Mandibular fractures, Zygomatic fractures, Orbital floor fractures, Maxillary fractures, Nose, naso-ethmoidal, and frontal bone fractures, Face and scalp soft tissue injuries, Penetrating injuries to the neck, Intra-oral injuries, Dento-alveolar trauma, Dento-alveolar infections, Post-extraction complications, Head and neck soft tissue infections, Salivary gland diseases, and Miscellaneous conditions

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Emergence of modality in late medieval song: The cases of Du Fay and Binchois. Königshausen & Neumann, 2013.

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Holker, Franz. Scales, Hierachies And Emergent Properties In Ecological Models (Theorie in Der Okologie). Peter Lang Pub Inc, 2003.

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Peoples, Columba. Security in Crisis. Oxford University PressOxford, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/9780191976292.001.0001.

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Abstract The concept of crisis is a recurrent staple in representations of modern forms of insecurity—from nuclear proliferation to cyber-security, armed conflict, the instability of political institutions, from pandemics to risks of social and financial collapse. Amidst this seeming ubiquity and ever-presence, the onset of climate and ecological emergencies as potential planetary-scale threats to the habitability of the Earth raise particularly urgent questions for how we conceive of and deal with crisis insecurity. How these forms of planetary insecurity come to be known, understood, and man

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Peters, Joris, Nadja Pöllath, and Benjamin S. Arbuckle. The emergence of livestock husbandry in Early Neolithic Anatolia. Edited by Umberto Albarella, Mauro Rizzetto, Hannah Russ, Kim Vickers, and Sarah Viner-Daniels. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199686476.013.18.

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Analysis of spatio-temporal variation in patterns of animal exploitation helps our understanding of the transition from hunting to husbandry of Ovis, Capra, Sus, and Bos in Pre-Pottery Neolithic Anatolia (c.9500–7000 bce). Despite interaction with humans since the final Pleistocene, domestication of Sus in southeastern Anatolia is only evidenced after 8500 bce. This timing coincides with efforts to exert cultural control over Ovis, Capra, and Bos. Applying a broad methodological spectrum, it is shown that in southeastern Anatolia, the Neolithic ‘package’ was in place at the end of the ninth mi

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Cliff, A. D., M. R. Smallman-Raynor, P. Haggett, D. F. Stroup, and S. B. Thacker. Infectious Diseases: A Geographical Analysis. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199244737.001.0001.

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The last four decades of human history have seen the emergence of an unprecedented number of 'new' infectious diseases: the familiar roll call includes AIDS, Ebola, H5N1 influenza, hantavirus, hepatitis E, Lassa fever, legionnaires' and Lyme diseases, Marburg fever, Rift Valley fever, SARS, and West Nile. The outbreaks range in scale from global pandemics that have brought death and misery to millions, through to self-limiting outbreaks of mainly local impact. Some outbreaks have erupted explosively but have already faded away; some grumble along or continue to devastate as now persistent feat

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Barret, Juan P., and David N. Herndon. Color Atlas of Burn Care. Saunders Ltd., 2001.

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(Editor), Franz Holker, ed. Scales, Hierachies and Emergent Properties in Ecological Models (Theorie in Der Okologie, Bd. 6). Peter Lang Publishing, 2003.

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McNeil, Bryan T. Welcome to Coal River. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036439.003.0002.

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This chapter describes the rise of mountaintop removal coal mining (MTR) and the uproar that accompanied it both in West Virginia and in Coal River. The conditions that facilitated MTR in the late 1990s included trends in industry stimulated by neoliberal corporate restructuring, labor relations, politics, government, and regulation. Manifestations of these conditions on multiple scales from federal regulations to local businesses have shaped the battle lines in Coal River. Out of these conditions, the chapter chronicles the emergence of a fresh round of activism against strip mining and the e

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ILO contribution to Lebanon emergency response in the framework of the humanitarian, development and peace nexus. ILO, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.54394/lhbg3725.

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In September 2024, Lebanon witnessed a sharp escalation in large-scale cross-border attacks, resulting in significant loss of life and severe damage to the economy. The recent violence has caused immense suffering. The ILO has developed an Emergency Response Plan to mitigate the impact of the conflict on the residents of Lebanon, in accordance with its mandate to advance social protection and ensure decent work opportunities and economic sustainability in the longer term.

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Clark, Alan D. Burns: The Medical And Forensic Model. Lawyers and Judges Publishing, 2006.

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Ramraj, Victor V., ed. Covid-19 in Asia. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197553831.001.0001.

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Covid-19 in Asia: Law and Policy Contexts is an edited collection of original essays on Asia’s legal and policy responses to the Covid-19 pandemic, which, in a matter of months, swept around the globe, infecting millions. In a matter of weeks, the unimaginable became ordinary: lockdowns of cities and entire countries, physical distancing and quarantines, travel restrictions and border controls, movement-tracking technology, mandatory closures of all but essential services, economic devastation and mass unemployment, and government assistance programs on record-breaking scales. Yet a pandemic o

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Lymberopoulou, Angeliki, ed. Hell in the Byzantine World. Cambridge University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108596831.

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The imagery of Hell, the Christian account of the permanent destinations of the human soul after death, has fascinated people over the centuries since the emergence of the Christian faith. These landmark volumes provide the first large-scale investigation of this imagery found across the Byzantine and post-Byzantine world. Particular emphasis is placed on images from churches across Venetian Crete, which are comprehensively collected and published for the first time. Crete was at the centre of artistic production in the late Byzantine world and beyond and its imagery was highly influential on

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Sterelny, Kim. The Pleistocene Social Contract. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197531389.001.0001.

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No human now gathers for himself or herself the essential resources for life: food, shelter, clothing and the like. Humans are obligate co-operators, and this has been true for tens of thousands of years; probably much longer. In this regard, humans are very unusual. In the living world more generally, cooperation outside the family is rare. Though it can be very profitable, it is also very risky, as cooperation makes an agent vulnerable to incompetence and cheating. This book presents a new picture of the emergence of cooperation in our lineage, developing through four fairly distinct phases.

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Haaland, Randi, and Gunnar Haaland. Prehistoric Figurines in Sudan. Edited by Timothy Insoll. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199675616.013.005.

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The chapter presents a descriptive account of Neolithic site inventories containing figurines in the Sudan Nile Valley. Cattle figurines indicate that animal husbandry played an important role in economic life as well as in political and ritual contexts. Female figurines can be seen as a multi-vocal symbol that may evoke a wide spectrum of meanings ranging from sexuality and fertility to basic qualities in human relations— trust, dependency, and solidarity. The mother–child relation is generally associated with such qualities. Symbolic imagery (e.g. female figurines) evoking this relation serv

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Lynn, Hyung‐Gu. Globalization and the Cold War. Edited by Richard H. Immerman and Petra Goedde. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199236961.013.0033.

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This chapter examines the role of the Cold War in the emergence of “globalization.” It argues that globalization did not succeed or supersede the Cold War but emerged from it through the rapid increase in the speed, scale, and scope of transnational linkages, fueled largely by developments in communications, transportation, and international agreements that occurred during the years 1945 to 1989. The chapter argues against the assertion that globalization is a profoundly new phenomenon and shows how Cold War innovations contributed to the three interlinked areas of globalization, which include

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Vostral, Sharra L. Toxic Shock. NYU Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479877843.001.0001.

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In 1980, young, healthy women in the United States suddenly began to get sick and even die. The unexpected link to these deaths was superabsorbent tampons. Thousands of women used them during their menstrual periods, signaling the potential for a large-scale outbreak. Toxic Shock: A Social History traces the emergence of this new illness of toxic shock syndrome (TSS) and its relationship to tampon technology. This multifaceted history engages microbiology, design and innovation, journalism and mass communication, product liability, and federal policy and regulation. The broad scope captures th

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Amaral, Fernanda. Voices from the Favelas. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798881818173.

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The mainstream media in Brazil portrays favelas (unregulated low-income neighbourhoods) in a negative light. This has been the case since their emergence over a century ago. Voices from the Favelas navigates through the contemporary representation of the favelas in the established media, discussing how this partial representation impacts issues of identity and social segregation, the legitimation of structural violence in those sites, and providing an account of the recent emergence of digital social networks as “counterpublics”. In order to understand the struggle against the characterisation

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Bosworth-Bousfield, Chrissie, and Chrissie Bosworth. Burns Trauma: Management and Nursing Care. 2nd ed. Wiley, 2001.

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Paterson, Matthew. Political Economy of the Greening of the State. Edited by Teena Gabrielson, Cheryl Hall, John M. Meyer, and David Schlosberg. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199685271.013.34.

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Two different general claims have been made about large-scale political transformations produced by responses to environmental change. One is the claim that we are witnessing the potential emergence of a “green state,” where states internalize an ecological function as a core state imperative. Another is that we are undergoing a transition to an “environmental state.” The former claim thus envisages a radical transformation and its theory of the state based on historical sociology, while the latter is more skeptical about the capacity of states to undergo radical transformation, being informed

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Roy, Tirthankar. Water and Development. Oxford University Press, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197802397.001.0001.

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Abstract From the early twentieth century, a big part of the world—the arid and semi-arid tropics—began extracting, storing, and recycling vast quantities of water to sustain population growth and economic development. The idea was not a new one in this geography. It was an intrinsic part of ancient culture, statecraft, and technology. Most ancient projects, however, were local and small in scale. The capability of water extraction on a scale large enough to transform whole regions and create new cities improved in the early twentieth century, giving rise to a sharp break in the long-term popu

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Harrison, Mark. Head and neck. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198765875.003.0005.

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This chapter describes the anatomy of the head and neck as it applies to Emergency Medicine, and in particular the Primary FRCEM examination. The chapter outlines the key details of fascial layers, tissue spaces, muscles, boundaries, relations, blood supply, nerves, and arteries of the neck, thyroid, trachea, oesophagus, face, scalp, nose, mouth, larynx, orbit and eye, ear, temporomandibular joint, and vertebral column. This chapter is laid out exactly following the RCEM syllabus, to allow easy reference and consolidation of learning.

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Stevens, Matthew Frank, and Roman Czaja, eds. Towns on the Edge in Medieval Europe. British Academy, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197267301.001.0001.

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This volume contains comparative research investigating the emergence and development of urban communities within northern European territories subjected to the processes of conquest, colonisation and expansion during the high and later Middle Ages. European history can be understood as a process whereby a European political, social and cultural ‘core’, on an axis from England to Italy, colonized a European ‘periphery’ by creating new towns and settlements. In northern Europe this periphery included Wales, Ireland and the shores of the Baltic Sea. This volume makes the case that these peripher

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Talbot, Ian, and Tahir Kamran. Epilogue. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190642938.003.0009.

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The Epilogue examines the changing international connections of Lahore following the emergence of Pakistan. Partition ended long standing commercial and cultural ties with Bombay and Delhi. These have been replaced in part by new links with Dubai and Karachi. Contemporary globalization has transformed communications and the ties between Diasporas (overseas populations) and native Lahoris. The city has continued to experience large scale migration. Its cultural and sporting life in recent years has been adversely affected by terrorism. The development of the Allama Iqbal Airport has transformed

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Soloman, Wm David. Early Virtue Ethics. Edited by Nancy E. Snow. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199385195.013.35.

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This chapter examines some of the main lines of development of virtue ethics in the early days of its revival, roughly from the mid-1950s until the mid-1980s. The emergence of virtue ethics is linked to other changes in Anglophone academic ethics during this time, including attacks on non-cognitivism, the rejection of the sharp distinction between meta-ethics and normative ethics, and the revival of large-scale normative theories. Among the figures whose contributions to the revival of virtue are discussed most fully are William Frankena, G. H. von Wright, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Alasdair MacI

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Taberlet, Pierre, Aurélie Bonin, Lucie Zinger, and Eric Coissac. DNA sequencing. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198767220.003.0007.

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The emergence of eDNA analysis is tightly linked to the development of next-generation sequencing. Chapter 7 “DNA sequencing” gives an overview of the characteristics and limitations of the main next-generation sequencing platforms. It focuses particularly on the Illumina platform, which is the only technology currently suitable for large-scale analysis with hundreds to thousands of samples. More specifically, Chapter 7 describes the Illumina library preparation process, the generation of sequencing clusters by bridge PCR on the flow cell, and the sequencing reaction itself, based on sequencin

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Majumdar, Sumit K. India’s Mixed Economy Experiments. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199641994.003.0005.

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This chapter describes the evolution of India’s industrial structure. Unlike industrialization carried out through large state-owned firms, or industrialization through a cadre of large private corporations, or industrialization through a network of small firms, many alternative organizational dynamics play simultaneously in the Indian system. The system consists of many private businesses that constitute the large-scale industrial sector. Policies were put in place to develop the molecular economy and to develop State-owned firms investing in large-scale units. These policies led to the emerg

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Burrow, Colin. The Reformation of the Household. Edited by James Simpson and Brian Cummings. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199212484.013.0025.

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One episode in Edmund Spenser’sFaerie Queeneshows a sudden transition of worlds which is paradigmatic of Protestant self-representation. From cannibalistic Catholics to pastoral piety, from a godless outdoors to the small-scale courtesies of the godly household, this shift implies that the act of violent religious Reformation abruptly gives rise to a cultural reformation that profoundly changes the scale and style of social organization. This article argues that Spenser’s Protestant mythology still shapes the understanding of households in the sixteenth century and that it is radically mislead

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Robertson, Katie, and Alastair Wilson, eds. Levels of Explanation. Oxford University PressOxford, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192862945.001.0001.

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Abstract The different sciences furnish us with a wide variety of explanations: some work at macroscopic scales, some work at microscopic scales, and some operate across different levels. How do these different explanatory levels relate to one another, and what is an explanatory level in the first place? Over the last fifty years, more and more philosophers—both reductionists and anti-reductionists—have no longer subscribed to the idea that the best explanation resides at the fundamental physical level. New challenges arise from the success of scientific explanations employing multi-level mode

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Stephenson, Barry. 2. Ritual and the origins of culture. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199943524.003.0003.

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From an ethological perspective, ritual must have been present at the beginnings of humanity and ritualization played an adaptive role in the course of both biological and cultural evolution. What was the role and function of ritual in the earliest period of cultural evolution? ‘Ritual and the origins of culture’ considers the diverse and speculative scholarly answers: shamanic trance and the emergence of advanced cognitive abilities; the construction of ritual sites as an expression of existential needs and interests, leading to the growth of large-scale, settled society and the separation of

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Barrowman, Kyle, ed. Fighting Stars. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350365780.

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Fighting Starsprovides a rich and diverse account of the emergence and legacies of Hong Kong martial arts cinema stars. Tracing the meanings and influence of stars such as Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Michelle Yeoh, Jet Li, Zhang Ziyi , and Donnie Yen against the shifting backdrops of the Hong Kong film industry, the contributors to this important volume highlight martial arts stars' cultural reach, both on a local and global scale. Each of the chapters, written by a host of renowned international scholars, focuses on an individual film star, considering issues such as martial arts practices and ph

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Burton, Paul, ed. Responding to Climate Change. CSIRO Publishing, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9780643108622.

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South East Queensland has been one of the fastest growing regions of Australia, both in terms of its rapidly growing population and an ever-expanding built environment. It is also one of the most vulnerable regions likely to suffer from the adverse impacts of climate change, especially increased flooding, storms, coastal erosion and drought. Responding to Climate Change: Lessons from an Australian Hotspot brings together the results of cutting-edge research from members of the Griffith Climate Change Response Program, showing how best to respond to anticipated changes and how to overcome

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Cardarelli, John. Ionizing and Non-ionizing Radiation. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190662677.003.0015.

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This chapter describes ionizing radiation and non-ionizing radiation, ways to measure it in the environment, describes the potential health effects from chronic and acute exposures as well as a discussion addressing pregnancy concerns. Background radiation from both sources are described in relation to occupational or public exposure limits and how these limits were derived. Among the subjects described are acute radiation syndrome, exposure assessment, radon, and assessment of radiation risk. Radiation protection and control measures are described and how their applications may change based o

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Winter, Stefan. The Age of Autonomy. Princeton University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691167787.003.0005.

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This chapter follows the rise to power of the Shamsins, the Bayt al-Shillif, and associated ʻAlawi families as Ottoman tax concessionaries. It shows that their position of local autonomy, rather than having evolved out of some domestic or “tribal” leadership structure, resulted from a paradigm shift in Ottoman provincial administration as well as from a very favorable economic context, in particular the development of commercial tobacco farming in the northern highlands around Latakia. If the eighteenth century witnessed the emergence of a veritable Ottoman–ʻAlawi landed gentry, it also saw in

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Herman, David. Coda: Toward a Bionarratology; or, Storytelling at Species Scale. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190850401.003.0009.

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The coda to the book puts forward the hypothesis that narrative, even though it is grounded in and optimally calibrated for meso-level, human-scale phenomena, furnishes routes of access to emergent structures and processes extending beyond the size limits of the lifeworld, including species transformations at the macro level of phylogenetic history. In this way, the coda suggests how the study of what can be called storytelling at species scale constitutes an important aspect of narratology beyond the human. Focusing on the heuristic potentials of “multiscale narration” across a range of ficti

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Andersson, Jenny. The Future as Moral Imperative. Foundations of Futurism. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198814337.003.0003.

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Chapter 3 traces the emergence of futurism to a range of writings by intellectuals such as Hannah Arendt, Ossip Flechtheim, and Lewis Mumford immediately after the Second World War. It explains the relevance of the idea, prevalent among key intellectuals after 1945, that the rise of totalitarianism, the invention of the atomic bomb, and the destruction of European Jewry had amounted to a severing of links between past and future that threatened all forms of human being. Humanity found itself in a state of profound moral and cultural crisis, a crisis explained as a complete loss of future. The

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Christopherson, Susan. Outside Regional Paths: Constructing an Economic Geography of Energy Transitions. Edited by Gordon L. Clark, Maryann P. Feldman, Meric S. Gertler, and Dariusz Wójcik. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198755609.013.52.

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Moving beyond theories of socio-technical adaptation, a new economic geography of energy transitions is developing that contributes to a deeper understanding of adaptation and change in energy systems. This new geography of energy transitions draws on concepts in evolutionary economic geography but moves beyond regional analysis to recognize the nation state as a critical venue for strategic action by firms. The dependence on the nation state for access to the resource; financing of exploration and production; favourable regulatory oversight; and the infrastructure to transport the commodity t

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Düring, Bleda S. Millennia in the Middle? Reconsidering the Chalcolithic of Asia Minor. Edited by Gregory McMahon and Sharon Steadman. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195376142.013.0036.

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This article focuses on how people lived in Asia Minor between about 5500 and 3000 BCE. It argues that the idea of a period dominated by small-scale, largely autarchic farming societies does not stand up to scrutiny. Although farming was of significant importance at many Chalcolithic societies in Asia Minor, the idea that wild food resources were no longer important is clearly mistaken. The Chalcolithic people were expanding their economies in multiple and often ingenious ways, and were increasingly partners in large exchange networks. Apart from farming, the exploitation of marine resources s

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Ness, Immanuel. India’s Global and Internal Labor Migration and Resistance. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036279.003.0004.

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This chapter examines the emergence of India as a labor-export economy through assessing the warped development of the country in its effort to create a mobile labor force in all segments of the economy. Though most observers have analyzed the dramatic growth of the high technology and business service guest workers on a world scale, India seeks to export workers in all skill and wage segments, from low-wage construction, trucking, and service laborers in the Arab gulf states to high technology and business services workers in advanced capitalist countries. The chapter examines two case studie

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Purcell, Jr., Edward A. Antonin Scalia and American Constitutionalism. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197508763.001.0001.

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Antonin Scalia and American Constitutionalism is a critical study of Justice Antonin Scalia’s jurisprudence, his work on the U.S. Supreme Court, and his significance for an understanding of American constitutionalism. After tracing Scalia’s emergence as a hero of the political right and his opposition to many of the decisions of the Warren Court, this book examines his general jurisprudential theory of originalism and textualism, arguing that he failed to produce either the objective method he claimed or the “correct” constitutional results he promised. Focusing on his judicial performance ove

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Stanton, Cathy. Between Pastness and Presentism. Edited by Paula Hamilton and James B. Gardner. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199766024.013.12.

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This chapter traces the separation of preserved historical farm landscapes from working agriculture over the two-century history of industrial ascendancy, the dominance of fossil fuels after World War II, and the emergence of a for-profit/nonprofit and public/private divide within the increasingly revitalized world of small-scale farming. It argues that there are several benefits to public historians of aligning their work more closely with “local food” movement activities and activism and that these new alliances can make public history a more consequential participant in the broader civic pr

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