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Plantation Knowledge

SUNY Press Open Access

The first book to examine plantations in their global variations through the history of knowledge. Few institutions feature as prominently in contemporary notions of colonialism, racism, and environmental…

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Andrew Schonebaum
Observing the Unseen

Explores the relationship between fantastical literature and scientific inquiry What did early modern Chinese readers believe about dragons, thunder, or fate, and where did they learn it? Observing the Un…

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Kisho Tsuchiya
Emplacing East Timor

Emplacing East Timor explores the relationship between the cycle of regime change and that of knowledge production, offering an alternative framework to periodize the history from 1850s to 2010s. Kisho Ts…

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Fei Chen
China Reborn, 1895-1912

The master narrative of modern Chinese history has long framed the fall of the Qing empire and the rise of the Republic of China as the inevitable triumph of Chinese nationalism. This nationalist teleolog…

lieferbar ab 16.10.2026.

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Plantation Knowledge

SUNY Press Open Access

The first book to examine plantations in their global variations through the history of knowledge. Few institutions feature as prominently in contemporary notions of colonialism, racism, and environmental…

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Knowledge, Reading and Culture

Current Topics in Library and Information Practice

Knowledge, Reading and Culture: Studies in Information Practice is an interdisciplinary inquiry focusing on four decades of work by the South African information scientist, Emeritus Professor Archie Dick.…

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Jordan R. Katz
Delivering Knowledge

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

This book offers a new perspective on the history of early modern Jewish communities by centering the experiences of Jewish midwives. In the wake of the Thirty Years' War, as cities and towns across north…

lieferbar ab 13.5.2026.

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Jordan R. Katz
Delivering Knowledge

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

This book offers a new perspective on the history of early modern Jewish communities by centering the experiences of Jewish midwives. In the wake of the Thirty Years' War, as cities and towns across north…

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Tomaz Bratanic, Oskar Hane
Essential Graphrag

Upgrade your RAG applications with the power of knowledge graphs.Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is a great way to harness the power of generative AI for information not contained in a LLM's training…

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Marinos Sariyannis
Ottomans and the Supernatural

A comprehensive exploration of Ottoman-era magic and occult sciences that employs a unique methodology involving close readings of a very wide range of textual sources.

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Toyin Falola
Ifá Priestcraft

Born in 1947, Ifáyẹmí Ọ̀ṣúndàgbonù Ẹlẹ́buìbọn descends from a long line of Yorùbá healers, philosophers, and priests. A fervent disciple of Ifá from age four, Elebuibon grew to become both a living …

lieferbar ab 7.7.2026.

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Mark Pennington
Foucault and Liberal Political Economy

This book argues that the ideas of Michel Foucault, often considered the most influential 'post-modernist' thinker, are compatible with an important strain of liberal thought that values open markets, pol…

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David Igler
All Species of Knowledge

In 1815, the Russian vessel Rurik set off on a three-year voyage through the Pacific and Arctic oceans in a quest to find the world's most elusive geographic feature, the Northwest Passage. Financed by a …

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Hannelore Röggla
STRIVING FOR KNOWLEDGE or The Irrepressible Joy of Being

The search for knowledge, for a comprehensive understanding of reality, has a long tradition in all cultures and is nevertheless still ongoing today. Especially in our modern age with its numerous offers,…

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Maximilian Reimann
Mediating Geographic Knowledge

Amerika: Kultur - Geschichte - Politik - Band 15

Between 1888 and 1914, U.S. geographical societies became central institutions mediating the production and circulation of geographic knowledge. Anchoring his analysis in the American Geographical Society…

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Francois Gravie-Plande
Traditional Knowledge and the Challenges of the Future

Traditional activities, such as art and heritage crafts, certain agricultural and culinary professions, as well as various ancestral practices, represent major socio-economic challenges today. Ancient kno…

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David Buckingham
The End of Information

Are we really living in a post-truth age? Have ideas like information, knowledge and truth passed their sell-by date? Is 'information disorder' leading to the terminal decline of democracy? Or will fact-c…

lieferbar ab 18.5.2026.

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James W. Cortada
Beyond the Facts

This book describes tacit knowledge, what it is, how it used and its role in our current data driven world. It argues that fuzzy, hard-to describe information is greater and more, important than just hard…

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Lateasha Nicol Meyers
Black Girlhood as Visual Oppositional Knowledge

This open access book invites readers into an exploration of visual experiences, cultural narratives, and creative expressions of Black girlhood. This work weaves together photographs, storytelling, and c…

lieferbar ab 25.6.2026.

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Peter van Aelst, Luisa Gehle, Christian Schemer
News Use, Political Knowledge, and Misperceptions in 18 Countries across the Global North

The established idea that people learn about politics and relevant societal issues via the news media can be put into question because of a 'twin challenge of increased media choice.' First, there is a gr…

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