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The making of the humanities traces this new finding through a broad range of disciplines including literary theory, linguistics, art history, and musicologywhile it is clear that around the humanities as a discipline rose to prominence, it is less clear what the exact nature of this shift in academia waswas it a sudden revolution caused by a momentary but powerful change in the zeitgeist or the turning point of a much longer process? in this volume, the editors have selected a series of essays that look at the origins of the humanities and find that long before the concept of the humanities was already at the forethe shift around was thus mostly institutional, not theoreticalsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop newark paperback
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Oxfam books & music islington throughout discovering the humanities, third edition, author henry sayre employs a storytelling approach that helps students see context and make connections across the humanitiesby showing how cultures influence one another, and how ideas are exchanged and evolve over time, discovering the humanities helps students understand the cultural interplay that has shaped human thinking and creativity throughout our historyour copy is in a good condition with some shelf wear to coverinside is a clean copy without annotationssee oxfam website for delivery information read morenote: you are purchasing a standalone product; myartslab does not come packaged with this contentbelieving that people learn best by remembering stories rather than memorizing facts, sayre weaves a compelling narrative of multifaceted cultural experiences that will resonate with students - throughout the course and beyond
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Succeeding with your masters dissertation: a step-by-step handbook (uk higher education oup humanities & social sciences study skills)title: succeeding with your masters dissertation: a step-by-step handbook (uk higher education oup humanities & social sciences study skills)
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More than enough prep material! des o'neill gamsat - science revision course, science mcqs, humanities mcqs, 'writing better essays', mock examgriffith's gamsat review () gradmed: gamsat specification simulated gamsat for section 3 - papers 1-7 incan extensive collection of pdfs that cover every aspect of the gamsatanswers maths for science guide sample essay prompts sample essays physics revision guide physical chemistry revision guide organic chemistry revision guide biology revision guide ozimed: 1x complete simulated gamsat paper medprep exam
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Only goku, humanities last hope, can ascend to the level of legendary super saiyan god and stop beerus from destroying earth, and possibly the entire universe! read morebrand new - unwanted gift and still sealedbeerus, an ancient and powerful god of destruction, searches for goku after hearing rumours of the saiyan warrior who defeated friezarealizing the threat beerus poses to their home planet, the z-fighters must find a way to stop him before it's too late
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Since , he has been director of the arts and humanities research council centre for the study of the domestic interiorshe has curated several exhibitions relating to twentieth-century art, decorative arts, and designabout the author sarah schleuning is a curator at the wolfsonian-florida international universityjeremy aynsley heads the department of design history at the royal college of art in london
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Loeb associate professor of the humanities at harvard universityrobin kelsey is john lhow can we write the histories of photography?
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The physicist and the philosopher tells the remarkable story of how this explosive debate transformed our understanding of time and drove a rift between science and the humanities that persists todaybergson, who gained fame as a philosopher by arguing that time should not be understood exclusively through the lens of science, criticized einstein's theory of time for being a metaphysics grafted on to science, one that ignored the intuitive aspects of timeon april , in paris, albert einstein and henri bergson publicly debated the nature of timethe physicist and the philosopher is a magisterial and revealing account that shows how scientific truth was placed on trial in a divided century marked by a new sense of timesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreshe also discusses how bergson and einstein, toward the end of their lives, each reflected on his rival's legacy-bergson during the nazi occupation of paris and einstein in the context of the first hydrogen bomb explosionjimena canales introduces readers to the revolutionary ideas of einstein and bergson, describes how they dramatically collided in paris, and traces how this clash of worldviews reverberated across the twentieth centuryshe shows how it provoked responses from figures such as bertrand russell and martin heidegger, and carried repercussions for american pragmatism, logical positivism, phenomenology, and quantum mechanicseinstein considered bergson's theory of time to be a soft, psychological notion, irreconcilable with the quantitative realities of physicscanales explains how the new technologies of the period-such as wristwatches, radio, and film-helped to shape people's conceptions of time and further polarized the public debateoxfam shop kendal paperback as new
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He studied latinity at the villa de avilés and humanities at the university of oviedoin he was appointed field marshal and, in early , shortly before his death, he was promoted to lieutenant generalwith handwritten text, 8 blank sheets, 6 folded plates with prints"tratado 7º de la estática": 162 phe was director until the year of his deathmagnificent full leather binding, guards in marbled paper, red-tinted cuts and spine with a five-rib composition"tratado 8º de la arquitectura civil": 5 blank sheets, 86 pbarcelona, octoberin the two years of operation, lucuze managed to collect a total of volumes of scientific works, many of which went to the barcelona academyin , from his position as director general of artillery and engineers, he was appointed director of the royal society of mathematics (predecessor of the royal academy of exact, physical and natural sciences), founded by the count of aranda, a position he held until , when the academy disappeared after the resignation of the count of arandatwo volumes in 4to (20catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablehe died in barcelona 7 years after having written these two treatisesare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikihe belonged to several regiments, studying mathematics and the art of war on his own, and it turned out that he was admitted to the royal corps of engineers, with the rank of lieutenant and extraordinary engineer on januaryhe was born in avilés, the son of the doctor tomás de lucuze, where he spent his childhood and youthdon pedro de lucuze"with handwritten text, 14 blank sheets, 11 folded plates with printshis first destination was on the shores of granadathe author of the two manuscript treatises is pedro de lucuce y ponce, also written as lucuze (avilés, -barcelona, ); asturian scientist, military and mathematiciansame exquisite calligraphy in both volumes; clean, elegant and perfectly legiblein lucuze wrote a regulation for the academies, establishing studies of three years, in four nine-month courses: the first two dedicated to military training in general and the last two specialized for the instruction of artillery and engineering officersin he abandoned the career of theology just started, preferring the military careeron the back of the last page, the inscription "it is in accordance with the compendium of architecture, which is taught in the third class of the royal academy of barcelona"within the military ranking of the royal corps of engineers, in he was promoted to chief engineer and in to director engineeron the back of the last page the inscription "is in accordance with the compendium of static, which is taught in the 3rd class of this royal academythe plates are chalcographic engravings with architectural and geometric figures, very common in the scientific books of the time (attached to the manuscript according to the author's criteria)please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storein he was appointed assistant professor to the director of the royal military academy of barcelona until , when he was appointed head director by the minister of war josé patiño
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Bioroid's are engendered to keep society peaceful, but rebels have sabotaged the bioroid's and now it is up to deunan and briareos to find the 'appleseed' data to save the bioroids and secure humanities futurea global war has left the last bastion of humanity in the city of olympus and machines control the world see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop inverness from the mind that brought you ghost in the shell comes the anime appleseed
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The virtues of critical realism lie in its successful provision of a philosophical grounding for the social sciences and humanities and of a methodology applicable to many different fields of analysisthe last few years have seen a growing interest in critical realism as a possible, alternative way of moving forwardpublished see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe book presents the reader with a compendium of accessible essays illustrating the connection between meta-theory, theory and substantive research across sociology, philosophy, literary studies, politics, media studies, psychology and science studiesafter postmodernism brings together some of the best-known names in the field to present the first truly interdisciplinary introduction to critical realismthe flexibility of critical realism is illustrated in the range of topics discussed - ranging from quantum mechanics to cyberspace, to literary theory, nature, smoking, the future of marx, the unconscious and, of course, postmodernism and the future of theory itselfoxfam shop fulwood road what comes after 'postmodernism'? a buzzword which began as an energising, radical critique became, by the 20th century's end, a byword for fracture, eclecticism, political apathy and intellectual exhaustion
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In the process of jigsaw puzzle, they can appreciate the charm of scenery and humanities all over the worldpuzzle: fantasy starry sky (letter zoning)completing pieces of jigsaw puzzle is a challenge
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The title is graduate study for the twenty-first century: how to build an academic career in the humanitiesbelow is a more detailed summary of this specific item for sale for example: idzthe item format is a book paperback
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With this book he points the way to a new hermeneutics in the humanitiessome pages at the beginning show moisture stains that do not affect the textthe cover and dedication are missing, also the first page of the gospel of matthew, is missing, although there is a copy of it inserted at the beginning of the bible, otherwise the entire new testament, including revelation, is completegreek and roman types, wide frame, wooden covers and ornamentsparchment binding completely restoredunfortunately, missing pages do not allow for unequivocal identification of the workthis erasmo's work was the basis of most modern translations of the new testament in the following centuriesthe revolutionary idea is to study the text of the bible as a historical text and then verify it from the point of view of textual criticism, subjecting the vulgate to the original greekerasmus contacted the publisher johann froben during a visit to basel indesiderius erasmus () known as erasmus roterodamus (erasmus rotterdam) used several greek manuscripts preserved in basel, and verses from the apocalypse in the latin vulgatecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available"novum instrumentum omne" was the first new testament published in europeplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitemost likely, he would have initially planned to include the greek text, removed immediately, to demonstrate the superiority of his latin versionare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storedefined and clear papermanuscript dated on the fifth blank page
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Oxfam bookshop hampstead non-representational theory by nigel thrift this astonishing book presents a distinctive approach to the politics of everyday lifethis noteworthy book makes a significant contribution to the literature in this area and is essential reading for researchers and postgraduates in the fields of social theory, sociology, geography, anthropology and cultural studiessee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit revolves around three key functions it introduces the rather dispersed discussion of non-representational theory to a wider audience, provides the basis for an experimental rather than a representational approach to the social sciences and humanities, and begins the task of constructing a different kind of political genrein very good conditionranging across a variety of spaces in which politics and the political unfold, it questions what is meant by perception, representation and practice, with the aim of valuing the fugitive practices that exist on the margins of the knowna groundbreaking and comprehensive introduction to this key topic, thrift's outstanding work brings together further writings from a body of work that has come to be known as non-representational theory
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Some offer detailed analyses of concrete phenomena; others take a more comprehensive perspective and seek to outline and motivate the future direction of phenomenologysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit is the definitive guide to what is currently going on in phenomenologythe essays aim to articulate and develop original theoretical perspectivesit includes discussions of such diverse topics as intentionality, embodiment, perception, naturalism, temporality, self-consciousness, language, knowledge, ethics, politics, art and religion, and will make it clear that phenomenology, far from being a tradition of the past, is alive and in a position to make valuable contributions to contemporary thoughtsome of them are concerned with issues and questions typical and distinctive of phenomenological philosophy, while others address questions familiar to analytic philosophers, but do so with arguments and ideas taken from phenomenologythe handbook will be a rich source of insight and stimulation for philosophers, students of philosophy, and for people working in other disciplines of the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, who are interested in the state of phenomenology todayoxfam bookshop preston the oxford handbook of contemporary phenomenology presents twenty-eight essays by some of the leading figures in the field, and gives an authoritative overview of the type of work and range of topics found and discussed in contemporary phenomenology
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In the process of jigsaw puzzle, they can appreciate the charm of scenery and humanities all over the worldfinest quality puzzles: our goal is to bring you the absolute finest in jigsaw puzzlesthis ensures that your completed puzzle looks smooth and seamless for a result of which you can be proud
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He was appointed rector of the college of humanities in the hague inin he was reassigned to leiden to hold the chair of law and was promoted to extraordinarius professor institutionum, a position created for him until his deathadditae sunt simonis vinnii, arnvinnius attended law school at the university of leiden from and graduated ingerardus tuningius, a pupil of hugo donellus, was his main mentormade a doctor in he could not teach at this university because he had expressed negative opinions about the facultyselectarum juris quaestionum libri duoorationes duae, & alia quaedam vinnius, arnold () handwritten bookplate, definitive edition, 638 pages, on laid paper, latin text, published by sumptibus sebastiani ketteler, in decent condition arnold vilnius (january monster - september leiden) is one of the leading dutch jurists of the 18th centurya prolific author, he published numerous books such as "iurisprudentiae contractae sive partitionum iuris civilis libri iiii", the hague, ; "tractatus iv de pactis, jurisdictione, collationibus, transactionibus"; amsterdam, ); he annotated the reissue of petrus peck's comments on maritime laws, but his most famous work remains in quartet libros institutionum imperialium commentarius academicus et forensis which was reissued 54 times from its first edition in in leiden until in spaincatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storearnoldi vinnii, jc
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In the puzzle process, they can appreciate the charm of landscapes and humanities around the worldcompleting puzzle pieces is a challenge
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In his view, science is a study of laws that exist in nature, while economics is a study of the humanities with the interaction between human nature and the natural universe at its heartit concludes with an examination of society's structure as a whole, the part economic activity plays in the bigger picture, and the social and cultural influences that shape the production and distribution of wealthwith original subject matter from his economic course and introducing more recent examples and statistics from australia, canada, new zealand, the uk, and the united states, the study examines the major characteristics of the modern economy-such as banking, taxation, and international trade-and considers the role of the government in economic affairssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop victoria based on a three-year course prepared by leon maclaren for the school of economic science in london in the late s, this book reassesses the first principles of economicsleon maclaren () was a barrister, politician, philosopher, and the founder of the school of economic science
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It was drawn in after the ceremony of the prince of asturias awards, when quino won the communication and humanities awardit’s one of his last dedicationsthis is a very rare itemyou can see the beginning of the parkinson disease that he sufferedcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablethe card is 18 x 12 cm and the drawing 10 x 9 cmplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitethe card is perfectly preservedare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecard with a dedication by the master ‘quino’, joaquÃn salvador lavado
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Drawing on all the arts, the humanities and the social sciences, the author uses sources as diverse as science fiction and psychoanalysis to examine how rebellion against inherited tradition has given rise to the modern cult of preservation and pervasive nostalgiaa heritage at once nurturing and burdensome, the past allows us to make sense of the present whilst imposing powerful constraints upon the way that present developssee oxfam website for delivery information read moresome aspects of the past are celebrated, others expunged, as each generation reshapes its legacy in line with current needsprofusely illustrated, the past is a foreign country shows that although the past has ceased to be a sanction for inherited power or privilege, as a focus of personal and national identity and as a bulwark against massive and distressing change it remains as potent a force as ever in human affairsoxfam shop smithdown road in this remarkably wide-ranging book professor lowenthal analyses the ever-changing role of the past in shaping our lives
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With clear explanations, relevant examples and plenty of exercises throughout, this book helps students to develop their analytical reasoning skills and apply them to a range of tasks including reading, note-making and writingthis is an ideal companion for students of study skills, humanities, social sciences, business and arts programmes, where assessment includes essay and report writingthis text will turn even the most hesitant student into a proficient critical thinkerstella cottrell's student-centred approach demystifies critical thinking and breaks down a complex subject into manageable chunksoxfam bookshop harrogate written by internationally renowned author stella cottrell, this is an essential resource for students looking to refine their thinking, reading and writing skillsit is suitable for students of all levels see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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In the puzzle process, they can appreciate the charm of landscapes and humanities around the worldcompleting puzzle pieces is a challenge
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In the process of jigsaw puzzle, they can appreciate the charm of scenery and humanities all over the worldfinest quality puzzles: our goal is to b you the absolute finest in jigsaw puzzlesthis ensures that your completed puzzle looks smooth and seamless for a result of which you can be proud
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