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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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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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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 …

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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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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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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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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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Hannes Tschürtz
Useless Music Knowledge

You can save lives by pumping to the beat of "Stayin' Alive", Fleetwood Mac once sued Fleetwood Mac and a zither melody once topped the US Billboard charts. As "useless" as all this ma…

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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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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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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…

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Harald Bathelt, Sebastian Henn
Creating Knowledge Over Distance

Creating Knowledge over Distance shows that economic knowledge creation fundamentally depends on, benefits from, and is structured by temporary geographical proximity - that is, by economic actors meeting…

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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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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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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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Jody Azzouni
Challenging Knowledge

Challenging Knowledge studies the various ways the cognitively healthy can protect themselves from prematurely denying what they take themselves to know.

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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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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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