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  • Traveling in the Direction of the Shadow

    by Iana Boukova ...
    Translated by Ekaterina Petrova ...
    The fates of eight characters in the nineteenth-century Balkans intertwine in this metafictional book of strange quests and nested narratives for fans of Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges.A woman who reads the future in the faces of her lovers, a dice-player whose unfailing luck becomes a curse, a manuscript illuminator who leaves his monastery to become a most fearsome bandit. Set in the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Autobiography of Light

    by Dorian Matei ...
    This is a book about the light we see everywhere but rarely notice - the awareness in which every sight, sound, thought, or emotion quietly arrives. It began not as an argument but as attention: years of watching experience closely enough that the one watching began to loosen. What's left is less a teaching than an invitation to look at the seeing itself - how perception calls a world into ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Mid-Century Creativity Reader

    Pioneering Lectures From 1950-1975

    Edited by Gerard J. Puccio, Vlad P. Glaveanu, Jo A. Yudess, Matei Schwartz ...
    This book uncovers a transformative period in the history of creativity studies, tracing its emergence as a distinct field of inquiry during the pivotal decades from 1950 to 1970. Building on the foundation laid by The Creativity Reader (2018), which explored creativity research from 1850 to 1950, this new volume turns to the mid-20th century to recover the voices, ideas, and debates that helped ... Read more

    $78.29 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Media and Intelligence

    Edited by Florina Cristiana Matei, Carolyn Halladay ...
    This handbook examines media portrayals of intelligence institutions, cultures, and conduct in various political regimes, showing how they inflect and reflect public views of the intelligence community.Specifically, this volume assesses how popular media portrayals of intelligence agencies influence such realms as public perception, opinion, and support of intelligence; recruitment endeavours; ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Beyond Description

    Anthropologies of Explanation

    Edited by Paolo Heywood, Matei Candea ...
    Beyond Description brings anthropologists and other social scientists together to examine the problem of explanation. What is "an explanation?" What can it add? What makes it authoritative, clarifying, or misleading? Whom does it serve and how is it produced? These questions lie at the heart of recent public crises of confidence in expertise, political representation, and classic liberal visions ... Read more

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  • Reason, Carnival and Honour

    An Anthropology of Free Speech

    by Matei Candea ...
    'Richly provocative … an important book that will open shuttered minds’ TelegraphWhat does free speech really mean? How does our understanding of it differ around the world? Why does it divide us – and how can we find common ground?What free speech really means is hotly contested. Is it increasingly under attack in our democracies, or is it being weaponized by the powerful? These debates don’t ... Read more

    $24.29 USD

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  • Innovative Perspectives on Computational Intelligence and Data Science

    First International Conference, InnoComp 2025, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, October 22–24, 2025, Proceedings, Part I

    Edited by Camelia Chira, Oliviu Matei, Florin Pop, Petrică Pop-Sitar ...
    Series Book 1 - Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book constitutes the proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Innovative Perspectives on Computational Intelligence and Data Science, InnoComp 2025, held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in October 22–24, 2025. ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • The Life and Opinions of Zacharias Lichter

    by Matei Calinescu ...
    Translated by Breon Mitchell, Adriana Calinescu ...
    A new translation of the only novel by lauded Romanian literary critic Matei CălinescuAn NYRB Classics OriginalUgly, unkempt, a haunter of low dives who begs for a living and lives on the street, Zacharias Lichter exists for all that in a state of unlikely rapture. After being engulfed by a divine flame as a teenager, Zacharias has devoted his days to doing nothing at all—apart, that is, from ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Freedoms of Speech

    Anthropological Perspectives on Language, Ethics, and Power

    Edited by Matei Candea, Taras Fedirko, Paolo Heywood, Fiona Wright ...
    Series series Studies in the Anthropology of Language, Sign, and Social Life
    Bringing together leading anthropologists, this collection sheds light on the vast topic of freedoms of speech from a comparatively human perspective. Freedoms of Speech provides a sustained, empirical exploration of the variety of ways freedom of speech is lived, valued, and contested in practice; envisioned as an ideal; and mediated by various linguistic, ethical, and material forms.From Ireland ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Education and the Politics of Interruption

    Does the Right Always Win?

    Edited by Michael W. Apple, Iana Gomes De Lima, Luis Armando Gandin ...
    Education has become a crucial site of struggle in multiple nations of the world. Education and the Politics of Interruption examines how governments, schools, educators, communities, and parents have become central figures in the conflicts between authoritarian coalitions and progressive educational and social movements. In recent years, educators around the world have experienced increasingly ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Comparison in Anthropology

    The Impossible Method

    by Matei Candea ...
    Series series New Departures in Anthropology
    Why and how do social and cultural anthropologists make comparisons? What problems do they encounter in doing so, and how might these be resolved? What, if anything, makes one comparison better than another? This book answers these questions by exploring the many ways in which, from the nineteenth century to the present day, comparative methods have been conceptualised and re-invented, praised and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • From Human Attention to Computational Attention

    A Multidisciplinary Approach

    Edited by Matei Mancas, Vincent P. Ferrera, Antoine Coutrot ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The new edition of this popular book introduces the study of attention, focusing on attention modeling, and addressing such themes as saliency models, signal detection, and different types of signals, including real-life applications. The first edition was written at a moment when the Deep Learning Neural Network (DNNs) techniques were just at their beginnings in terms of attention. Deep learning ... Read more

    $188.09 USD