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  • Audiobook

    The Perfect Son

    Unabridged

    7 hours 58 min

    "Mrs. Cass, we were hoping your son could answer a few questions about the girl who disappeared last night . . . "Erika Cass has a perfect family and a perfect life. Until the evening when two detectives show up at her front door.A high school girl has vanished from Erika's quiet suburban neighborhood. The police suspect the worst—murder. And Erika's teenage son, Liam, was the last person to see ... Read more

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  • Victorian Automata

    Mechanism and Agency in the Nineteenth Century

    Edited by Suzy Anger, Thomas Vranken ...
    The relationship between lifelike machines and mechanistic human behaviour provoked both fascination and anxiety in Victorian culture. This collection is the first to examine the widespread cultural interest in automata – both human and mechanical – in the nineteenth century. It was in the Victorian period that industrialization first met information technology, and that theories of physical and ... Read more

    $112.39 USD

  • Politics of Scale

    New Directions in Critical Heritage Studies

    Series Book 1 - Explorations in Heritage Studies
    Critical Heritage Studies is a new and fast-growing interdisciplinary field of study seeking to explore power relations involved in the production and meaning-making of cultural heritage. Politics of Scale offers a global, multi- and interdisciplinary point of view to the scaled nature of heritage, and provides a theoretical discussion on scale as a social construct and a method in Critical ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Heritage Crime

    Progress, Prospects and Prevention

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Bringing together leading academics and practitioners from across the globe, this unique collection explores the emerging field of heritage crime studies. Moving beyond the traditional focus on illicit antiquities, the volume identifies the diversity of crimes that affect heritage and outlines various approaches to prevention. ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Competing Values in Archaeological Heritage

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Archaeological heritage legislation aims to ensure the best possible protection for the archaeological heritage, yet it remains the case that legislation can remain ineffective through other practical considerations. Some consideration may be legal or procedural, such as difficulties in enforcing legislation or in preventing crimes or damage or archaeological monuments. However other problems may ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Public Participation in Archaeology

    Across the world public archaeology, the way in which it is understood as well as the way it is practised or delivered, has many facets. In some countries it is not only unknown, but is actively discouraged; in many other places it has been embraced fully and is considered normal practice, whether this appears in the form of so-called "community archaeology", active school and college programmes, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Settling the Boom

    The Sites and Subjects of Bakken Oil

    Narrated by Suzie Althens ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 21 min

    Examines how settler colonial and sexist infrastructures and narratives order a resource boomOver the past decade, new oil plays have unsettled U.S. energy landscapes and imaginaries. Settling the Boom studies how the disruptive forces of an oil boom in the northern Great Plains are contained through the extension of settler temporalities, reassertions of heteropatriarchy, and the tethering of ... Read more

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    Current Issues and Future Prospects of Urban Governance and Planning

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book provides insights into challenges, threats and opportunities of urban development in Africa. It discusses how and why African cities need localised urban planning concepts and theories to deal with challenges and threats of rapid urbanisation and climate change. The book delivers an in-depth view of the nature and gaps of the framework on which current planning practice and ... Read more

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  • Public Archaeology

    Edited by Nick Merriman ...
    Scrutinizing, in detail, the relationship between archaeology, heritage and the public, this much-needed volume explores public interest and participation in archaeology as a subject worthy of academic attention in its own right.Examining case studies from throughout the world; from North America, Britain, Egypt and Brazil to East Africa, China and beyond, Nick Merriman focuses on two key areas: ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Cultural Resource Management in Contemporary Society

    Perspectives on Managing and Presenting the Past

    Series series One World Archaeology
    This innovative collection of essays from an international range of contributors describes various means of preserving, protecting and presenting vital cultural resources within the context of economic development, competing claims of "ownership" of particular cultural resources, modern uses of structures and space, and other aspects of late twentieth-century life. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Managing Archaeological Resources

    Global Context, National Programs, Local Actions

    In a snapshot of 21st century archaeological resource management as a global enterprise, these 25 contributors show the range of activities, issues, and solutions undertaken by contemporary managers of heritage sites around the world. They show how the linkages between global archaeology and funding organizations, national policies, practices, and ideologies, and local populations and their ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Tourism, Regional Development and Public Policy

    Edited by Nese Kumral, A Özlem Önder ...
    The tourism industry, as one of the main drivers of creative economy, gains more importance in growth policies both at national and regional levels. However traditional tourism destinations now face a more competitive environment, for an increased number of possible destinations have emerged. This environment is further deepened by an increase in the number of products and services available to ... Read more

    $82.99 USD