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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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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…

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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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Looking for the Political in Africa

How should we make sense of the political dynamics in Africa today? Which point of view should we adopt to grasp the diversity of what is happening on the ground and in the day-to-day reality of power rel…

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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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Gerardo L Munck
Progress in the Social Sciences

Progress in the Social Sciences examines the degree to which social scientists have made progress in their understanding of democracy and democratic transitions. It provides a framework to assess social s…

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Gerardo L Munck
Progress in the Social Sciences

Progress in the Social Sciences examines the degree to which social scientists have made progress in their understanding of democracy and democratic transitions. It provides a framework to assess social s…

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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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Matthew W. Mosca
The Khan and the Unicorn

Harvard East Asian Monographs

The Mongol Empire changed the world, but early chronicles of its conquests, written from regional perspectives and widely dispersed, could not convey its far-reaching significance. The Khan and the Unicor…

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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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Torkel Klingberg, Asa Wikforss
Why Learn?

Neuroscience, psychology, and history blend together to form a simple and compelling argument for why cultivating one's own mind is the key to navigating the age of artificial intelligence.Whether you emb…

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Siobhan Talbott
Knowledge, Information, and Business Education in the British Atlantic World, 1620-1760

This book explores how merchants and other commercial agents learned about business in the early modern British Atlantic World, considering how they gathered knowledge and then dispersed, stored, and used…

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Eugenia Pacitti
The Body Collected in Australia

Offering insight into nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical school dissecting rooms and anatomy museums, this book explores how collected human remains have shaped Western biomedical knowledge a…

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Jordan R Katz
Delivering Knowledge

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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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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Martin Mulsow,
Knowledge Lost

A compelling alternative account of the history of knowledge from the Renaissance to the EnlightenmentUntil now the history of knowledge has largely been about formal and documented accumulation, concentr…

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Magda Boutros
The Police, Activists, and Knowledge

Over the past fifteen years in France, police brutality, racial profiling, and police impunity have become salient issues of the public and political debate. In this book, Magda Boutros examines the socia…

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Rebekah Higgitt, Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin, Noah Moxham
Metropolitan Science

Exploring distinctive practices in the artisanal, mercantile, and governmental sites of London, Metropolitan Science offers a new perspective on the development of a scientific culture between the years 1…

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Norma M. Riccucci
Public Administration

This updated classic on public administration highlights advances in the fieldSince the publication of the first edition of Public Administration in 2010, this field has seen numerous advances in and augm…

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