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Visual Cultures of Science
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 338

Visual Cultures of Science

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: UPNE

A new collection explores the complex role of visual representation in science.

The Humanisation of Global Politics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 319

The Humanisation of Global Politics

  • Categories: Law

The book draws on International Relations Theory and International Law to study the humanisation of global politics especially within security discourses.

Emotional Choices
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 379

Emotional Choices

This book examines coercive diplomacy and presents a theory of 'emotional choice' to analyse how affect enters into decision-making.

A History of British Eugenics since 1865
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 342

A History of British Eugenics since 1865

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From Active Data Management to Event-Based Systems and More
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 350

From Active Data Management to Event-Based Systems and More

Dedicated to the vision of Prof. Alejandro Buchmann, this collection of work illuminates various facets of data management and reflects the development of the field from its early association with database systems through to today’s wide-ranging applications.

Dictionary of Museology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 703

Dictionary of Museology

  • Categories: Art

The internationally focused Dictionary of Museology reflects the diversity of cultural and disciplinary approaches to theory and practice in the museum field today. The museum world is changing rapidly, and the characteristics and social roles of the world’s approximately 100,000 existing museums are constantly evolving. In addition to their traditional functions of preservation, research and communication, museums are increasingly addressing issues related to social inclusion, human rights, sustainable development and finances, all of which are explored in this dictionary. Drawing on the support of an international editorial committee, including influential figures from the US, Canada, Br...

›Assassin’s Creed‹ in the Classroom
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

›Assassin’s Creed‹ in the Classroom

The open world role-playing Assassin’s Creed video game series is one of the most successful series of all time, praised for its in-depth use of historical characters and events, compelling graphics, and addictive gameplay. Assassin’s Creed games offer up the possibility of exploring history, mythology, and heritage immersively, graphically, and imaginatively. This collection of essays by architects archaeologists and historiansexplores the learning opportunities of playing, modifying, and extending the games in the classroom, on location, in the architectural studio, and in a museum.

Constructing Cause in International Relations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 207

Constructing Cause in International Relations

A novel approach to cause that builds on human reasons for acting and the consequences of behaviour by multiple actors.

Emotions in International Politics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 433

Emotions in International Politics

This book investigates collective emotions in international politics, with examples from 9/11 and World War II to the Rwandan genocide.

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 607

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics

Eugenic thought and practice swept the world from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in a remarkable transnational phenomenon. Eugenics informed social and scientific policy across the political spectrum, from liberal welfare measures in emerging social-democratic states to feminist ambitions for birth control, from public health campaigns to totalitarian dreams of the "perfectibility of man." This book dispels for uninitiated readers the automatic and apparently exclusive link between eugenics and the Holocaust. It is the first world history of eugenics and an indispensable core text for both teaching and research. Eugenics has accumulated generations of interest as experts at...