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  • Heritage in the Context of Globalization

    Europe and the Americas

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This brief is the proceedings of two roundtables and forums organized by Eszter Bánffy, Peter Biehl, Douglas Comer, and Christopher Prescott and sponsored by the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) and the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) held at the 76th SAA annual conference in Sacramento in April 2011, and the 17th EAA annual conference in Oslo in September 2011. The book is ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Becoming European

    The transformation of third millennium Northern and Western Europe

    It can be argued that elements of European heritage can be identified not only as a national strategy of the present but also as a process in prehistory - the cultural and political transformations of the third millennium BC in European prehistory sparking off this process. These transformations initiated the processes and mechanisms that led up to the complex political, social and cultural ... Read more

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  • Trinacria, 'An Island Outside Time'

    International Archaeology in Sicily

    Trinacria, the ancient name for Sicily extending back to Homeric Greek, has understandably been the focus of decades of archaeological research. Recognizing Sicily’s rich prehistory and pivotal role in the history of the Mediterranean, Sebastiano Tusa - professor, head of heritage agencies and councillor for Cultural Heritage for the Sicilian Region - promoted the exploration of the island’s ... Read more

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    Stories From The Shadows – Gothic

    Embrace the darkness

    Unabridged

    9 hours 24 min

    An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into ... Read more

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    Moonstone Mass, The

    A gothic Arctic story written 58 years before the first North polar expedition

    Unabridged

    36 min

    The American Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford was born in 1835.Her talents extended across novels, poems and detective stories and she was very widely published. Her career was to eventually span 6 decades.She died in 1921. ... Read more

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    The Psychology of Artificial Intelligence

    by Tony Prescott ...
    Narrated by Christopher Tester ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 30 min

    What is Artificial Intelligence? How will AI impact society? Is AI more powerful than human intelligence?The Psychology of AI explores all aspects of the psychology—AI relationship, asking how closely AI can resemble humans, and whether this means they could have some form of self-awareness. It considers how AI systems have been modelled on human intelligence and the similarities between brains ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Identity and Heritage

    Contemporary Challenges in a Globalized World

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book will suggest new agendas for identity and heritage studies by means of presenting contentious issues facing archaeology and heritage management in a globalized world. The book is not only present the variability of heritage objectives and experiences in the New and Old World, and opens a discussion, in a shrinking world, to look beyond national and regional contexts. If the heritage ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Heritage

    Critical Approaches

    Historic sites, memorials, national parks, museums…we live in an age in which heritage is ever-present. But what does it mean to live amongst the spectral traces of the past, the heterogeneous piling up of historic materials in the present? How did heritage grow from the concern of a handful of enthusiasts and specialists in one part of the world to something which is considered to be universally ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Media and Participation

    A Site of Ideological-Democratic Struggle

    Media and Participation looks at participation as a structurally unstable concept and as the object of a political-ideological struggle that makes it oscillate between minimalist and maximalist versions. This struggle is analysed in theoretical reflections in five fields (democracy, arts, development, spatial planning and media) and in eight different cases of media practice. These case studies ... Read more

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  • Culture and Development in a Globalizing World

    Geographies, Actors and Paradigms

    Edited by Sarah Radcliffe ...
    Using recent research on development projects around the world, this book argues that culture has become an explicit tool and framework for development discourse and practice. Providing a theoretical and empirically informed critique, this informative book includes conceptual overviews and case studies on topics such as:development for indigenous peoplenatural resource managementsocial capital and ... Read more

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  • The Historic Urban Landscape

    Managing Heritage in an Urban Century

    This book offers a comprehensive overview of the intellectual developments in urban conservation. The authors offer unique insights from UNESCO's World Heritage Centre and the book is richly illustrated with colour photographs. Examples are drawn from urban heritage sites worldwide from Timbuktu to Liverpool to demonstrate key issues and best practice in urban conservation today. The book offers ... Read more

    $62.00 USD

  • Siculo-Norman Art: Islamic Culture in Medieval Sicily

    Sicily was won from the Aghlabids in 827 and passed to the Fatimids in 948. The Norman Conquest of 1061 finally ousted the Muslims from the Island. Organised into three administrative valla Val di Mazara, Val di Noto, Val Demone Islamic Sicily produced singularly imaginative crafts and many religious and civic buildings, resurrecting some Byzantine canons, at times still heavily tainted with a ... Read more

    $14.85 USD or Free with Kobo Plus