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Michael Moss on Archives Beyond the Four Corners of the Page

Michael Moss on Archives Beyond the Four Corners of the Page

Michael Moss on Archives brings together selected outputs from an internationally renowned archival scholar who explored the theory and practice of archives and records management. Comprising a selection of 11 of Moss’ most significant archival writings the book demonstrates the development of his thinking in archival theory and practice over the past 20 years. Michael Moss was a towering figure in modern archival writing and was able to push the boundaries of the discipline notably with his analysis of how modern governments create records and his speculations about the future of the archive in the digital world. Bringing together in one place Moss’ most significant writings alongside a comprehensive bibliography this book documents a significant contribution to British and international archival theory and practice. Each essay is preceded by a critical introduction written by a leading archival scholar assessing the piece and setting it in a wider archival or historical context while an overall introduction by the editors provides biographical information and describes the development of Michael’s archival thinking. Michael Moss on Archives will be of interest to scholars and students engaged in the study of archival science library and information science history digital humanities and media studies. It should also be of interest to professionals who work in archives and records management. | Michael Moss on Archives Beyond the Four Corners of the Page

GBP 130.00
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Failed Methods and Ideology in Canonical Interpretation of Biblical Texts Changing Perspectives 9

Failed Methods and Ideology in Canonical Interpretation of Biblical Texts Changing Perspectives 9

This volume by the late Bernd J. Diebner presents an anthology of studies previously published only in German from 1971 to 2020 on a wide range of topics in biblical studies. The 18 essays in this collection offer profound insight into the works of German scholarship which have strongly influenced biblical studies and related research in the 20th century. Being an important but lesser recognized ‘member’ of the Copenhagen school Diebner voiced serious criticism of contemporary biblical scholarship which is discussed in the first seven chapters. The remaining chapters offer challenging new perspectives on well-known themes narratives and compositions related to history ideology and archaeology on the one hand and text and canon on the other as alternatives to traditional historical–critical approaches. Now published in English for the first time this volume makes these essays available to Anglophone students and scholars of biblical and ancient Near Eastern studies. | Failed Methods and Ideology in Canonical Interpretation of Biblical Texts Changing Perspectives 9

GBP 130.00
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Governance Networks for Sustainable Cities Connecting Theory and Practice in Europe

Governance Networks for Sustainable Cities Connecting Theory and Practice in Europe

This book explores the effectiveness of governance networks on the design and implementation of sustainability strategies. European cities are actively developing sustainability strategies to address the impact of climate change. One recent approach many cities have taken is the creation of ‘governance networks’: groups of public private and third sector organisations which collaborate to support urban sustainability efforts. Drawing on two case studies in Glasgow and Copenhagen this book explores the concept of governance networks in theory and practice revealing how stakeholder collaboration leadership and innovation within these networks can help or hinder the process. It also highlights the many benefits of these networks including increased participation in the decision-making process increased levels of resources and expertise on sustainability issues as well as stakeholder buy-in for sustainability policies. This book provides recommendations for improving the efficiency of governance networks and will be of interest to academics and practitioners working in the areas of urban governance and sustainability. | Governance Networks for Sustainable Cities Connecting Theory and Practice in Europe

GBP 130.00
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Oribatid Mites Biodiversity Taxonomy and Ecology

Oribatid Mites Biodiversity Taxonomy and Ecology

Oribatid mites also called beetle or moss mites include more than 10 000 named species representing 172 families worldwide. This book provides an identification key to the 96 families 250 genera and the c. 580 described species for Canada and Alaska a fauna that encompasses more than 50% of Northern Hemisphere genera. It includes known data on the ecology of species their distribution in the Holarctic region and relevant literature. Oribatid mites are model arthropods in studies on development morphology ecology physiology and biomechanics. Growing recognition of the importance of soil systems for agriculture reclamation carbon storage and climate mitigation has spurred recent interest in the vast soil biodiversity that provide these ecosystem services. Yet the major barrier to exploring and understanding soil biodiversity is lack of comprehensive and functional taxonomic and ecological treatments of key biotic groups; groups such as the oribatid mites. Oribatid Mites is unparalleled in the comprehensive nature of the information provided. The authors two leading global experts for this group hope that readers will come to share their understanding of oribatid mites as part of the charismatic microfauna the imagery in this book conveying their unique beauty. | Oribatid Mites Biodiversity Taxonomy and Ecology

GBP 99.99
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Real Recognition What Literary Texts Reveal about Social Validation and the Politics of Identity

Real Recognition What Literary Texts Reveal about Social Validation and the Politics of Identity

Real Recognition investigates the complexities of literary and social recognition with the aim of putting a fresh cross-disciplinary spin on reader identification and social acknowledgment. Engaging with contemporary Danish and Anglophone works on racialization disability and gender Marie-Elisabeth Lei Pihl argues in favor of a close relation between aesthetic appeals to recognition and the political dimensions of literary texts. Moreover she proposes a framework bent on experience and relations as opposed to identity and status for articulating new fruitful understandings of how literary texts call for aesthetic and social recognition. Based on this she argues that literary texts can make readers get what social validation is about – and thereby help us redefine a key concept in the social sciences. Marie-Elisabeth Lei Pihl earned her PhD in literature and sociology from the University of Southern Denmark in 2020. Currently she works as a postdoctoral researcher within narrative medicine and literature-based social interventions at the University of Southern Denmark in collaboration with the National Institute of Public Health in Copenhagen. Chapter 3 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www. routledge. com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | Real Recognition What Literary Texts Reveal about Social Validation and the Politics of Identity

GBP 120.00
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An Introduction to Quantum Mechanics From Facts to Formalism

An Introduction to Quantum Mechanics From Facts to Formalism

The core content of even the most intricate intellectual edifices is often a simple fact or idea. So is it with quantum mechanics; the entire mathematical fabric of the formal description of quantum mechanics stems essentially from the fact that quantum probabilities interfere (i. e. from the superposition principle). This book is dedicated to substantiating this claim. In the process the book tries to demonstrate how the factual content of quantum mechanics can be transcribed in the formal language of vector spaces and linear transformations by disentangling the empirical content from the usual formal description. More importantly it tries to bring out what this transcription achieves. The book uses a pedagogic strategy which reverse engineers the postulates of quantum mechanics to device a schematic outline of the empirical content of quantum mechanics from which the postulates are then reconstructed step by step. This strategy is adopted to avoid the disconcerting details of actual experiments (however simplified) to spare the beginner of issues that lurk in the fragile foundations of the subject. In the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics the key idea is measurement. But measurement carries an entirely different meaning from the connotation that the term carries elsewhere in physics. This book strives to underline this as strongly as possible. The book is intended as an undergraduate text for a first course in quantum mechanics. Since the book is self contained it may also be used by enthusiastic outsiders interested to get a glimpse of the core content of the subject. Features: Demonstrates why linear algebra is the appropriate mathematical language for quantum mechanics. Uses a reconstructive approach to motivate the postulates of quantum mechanics. Builds the vocabulary of quantum mechanics by showing how the entire body of its conceptual ingredients can be constructed from the single notion of quantum measurement. | An Introduction to Quantum Mechanics From Facts to Formalism

GBP 105.00
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Gothic in the Oceanic South Maritime Marine and Aquatic Uncanny in Southern Waters

Gothic in the Oceanic South Maritime Marine and Aquatic Uncanny in Southern Waters

This dynamic multidisciplinary collection of essays examines the uncanny eerie wondrous and dreaded dimensions of oceans seas waterways and watery forms of the oceanic South a haunted global precinct stretching across the Pacific Southern and Indian Oceans and around Australasia Oceania Aotearoa New Zealand and South Africa. Presenting work from leading scholars the chapters contend with the contemporary fears and repressions associated with the return of environmental traumas colonial traumas and the spectres of the precolonial deep past that resurface in the present. The book examines the manifestations of these Gothic aesthetics and propensities across a range of watery spaces – seas oceans waterholes and swamps – in vessels ports shorelines journeys strandings and transformations in amphibious bodies and the drowned all of which promote haunted engagement with the materiality of water. This collection renews the interdisciplinary breadth of Gothic criticism and the relevance of Gothic affect and sensibility to understanding the histories and cultures of the oceanic South through an exploration of the rarely considered uncanniness of the oceans waterways and aqueous forms of the Southern Hemisphere haunted by colonial and precolonial imaginings of the Antipodes the legacies of imperialism and the “double vision” between Oceanic and settler-colonial epistemologies and the encroaching menace of climate change. Comprising diverse contributions from screen literary and cultural studies environmental humanities human geography and creative practice in ecological sound art and poetry the collection examines the uncanny and the sublime in watery fictions and authentic settings of a range of aqueous southern forms – ocean surfaces and depths haunted shallows and reefs moist mangroves moss and lichen the awesome horror of tidal apocalypse. This book will be illuminating reading for students and scholars of cultural studies postcolonial studies area studies and Indigenous studies. | Gothic in the Oceanic South Maritime Marine and Aquatic Uncanny in Southern Waters

GBP 130.00
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