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This book explores how cultural heritage and its care are translated in UK law and non-law instruments. It analyses how communities of care look after cultural heritage because they care about it...

Provides practical advice on effective identification and management of people with dementia in a primary care setting using 99 cases.Author: Gloria HY Wong, Bosco HM Ma, Maggie NY Lee, David LK...

The 1929 encounter between Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger in Davos, Switzerland is considered one of the most important intellectual debates of the twentieth century and a founding moment of...

Catullan Questions Revisited offers a new insight into the brilliant poet who loved an aristocratic girl, attacked Julius Caesar and became a satirical playwright. Insisting on scrupulous use of the...

Why does anything happen? What is the best account of natural necessity? In this book, William A. Bauer presents and defends a comprehensive account of the internal structure of causal powers that...

In 1969 Stanley Cavell's Must We Mean What We Say? revolutionized philosophy of ordinary language, aesthetics, ethics, tragedy, literature, music, art criticism, and modernism. This volume of new...

In this book, T. L. Short places the notorious difficulties of Peirce's important writings in a more productive light, arguing that he wrote philosophy as a scientist, by framing conjectures intended...

A comprehensive assessment of the contours of maritime East Asia and its importance on the world stage.Author: Kuan-Jen ChenPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublication Date: May 30, 2024Number...

Chemical-mechanical planarization (CMP) has emerged over the past few years as a key enabling technology in the relentless drive of the semiconductor industry towards smaller, faster and less...

The place of chemistry in the metaphysics of science may be viewed as peripheral compared to physics and biology. However, a metaphysics of science that disregards chemistry would be incomplete and...

The primary psychological process leading aggressive children to grow into dysfunctional adults is a defensive mindset, which encompasses a pattern of deviant social information processing steps,...

This Element examines the process of economic development of the last 50 years or so under the neoliberal model in terms of impacts on growth, inflation, income and wealth distribution and structural...

Shifting the perspective to rural populations as drivers of global change, Wang Feng reconsiders China's meteoric rise in prosperity.Author: Feng WangPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublication...

As a country rich in mineral resources, contemporary China remains surprisingly overlooked in the research about the much debated 'resource curse'. This is the first full-length study to examine the...

This Element explores the changing landscape of eBook businesses and cultures in China in the past two decades and examines how disruptive innovation and the platform economy have transformed one of...

Author: Yanxin CaiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublication Date: Apr 01, 2011Number of Pages: 186 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0521186447ISBN-13: 9780521186445

This Element examines the factors that drove the stylistic heterogeneity of Chen Yi and Zhou Long after the Cultural Revolution. Known as 'New Wave' composers, they entered the Central Conservatory...

Highlighting stylistic and rhetorical characteristics, this fully illustrated book explores the written form of Mandarin Chinese in a range of everyday settings. Taking examples from Chinese public...

In Choices in a Chaotic Campaign, Kim Fridkin and Patrick Kenney explore the dynamic nature of citizens' beliefs and behaviors in response to the historic 2020 presidential campaign. In today's...

Explores how Greek tragedy was fundamentally choral and deeply connected to the cultic and ritual contexts of its performance.Author: Claude CalamePublisher: Cambridge University PressPublication...

In this book, Nathan Howard explores gender and identity formation in fourth-century Cappadocia, where pro-Nicene bishops used a rhetoric of contest that aligned with conventions of classical Greek...

This ambitious study analyses Hitler's ideological relationship to Jesus and reconsiders the core beliefs of National Socialism.Author: Mikael NilssonPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublication...

Citizen Cowboy is a probing biography of one of America's most influential cultural figures. Will Rogers was a youth from the Cherokee Indian Territory of Oklahoma who rose to conquer nearly every...

Civil War Settlers is the first comprehensive analysis of Scandinavian Americans and their participation in the US Civil War. Based on thousands of sources in multiple languages, that have to date...

An interdisciplinary study of how notions of civility and barbarism continue to undermine the universalist underpinnings of the laws of war.Author: Matt Killingsworth, Tim McCormackPublisher:...

Claim-making - the everyday strategies through which citizens pursue rights fulfilment - is often overlooked in studies of political behavior, which tend to focus on highly visible, pivotal moments:...

The first systematic study of classical literature and arts to explain their close affinities with modern visual technologies and media.Author: Martin M. WinklerPublisher: Cambridge University...

This book charts the Hollywood studio system's genesis, international dominance, and self-understood demise by way of its influences on modernist literature in the United States. It shows how the...

China's green transition is often perceived as a lesson in authoritarian efficiency. In just a few years, the state managed to improve air quality, contain dissent, and restructure local industry...

What is activism? The answer is, typically, that it is a form of opposition, often expressed on the streets. Skoglund and B?m argue differently. They identify forms of 'insider activism' within...