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Heritage Traces in the Making
The world is full of traces of the past, ranging from things as different as monuments and factories to farms, eco-museums, landscapes, mountaineering and even woven-grass bridges. These traces must be protected and passed on to future generations. Communicational analysis shows that these traces have acquired the status of heritage by becoming communicative beings imbued with a new social life. Up until the 1970s and 1980s, granting this status was the prerogative of the state. New modes then emerged, increasingly involving social actors and the publicization of knowledge. Today, the heritage recognition of these traces also depends on interpretative schemes that circulate in society, notably through the media. Heritage Traces in the Making is aimed at anyone – researchers, professionals and students – who is interested in how heritage is created and how it evolves.
Aux sources de l'esthétique
Le terme d’esthétique apparaît dans la première moitié du 18e siècle. C’est Baumgarten qui le propose en conclusion de ses Méditations philosophiques sur quelques sujets se rapportant à l’essence du poème pour rendre compte d’une «science qui dirige la faculté de connaissance inférieure». On s’est beaucoup interrogé sur le statut qu’il convient d’accorder à cette "science" prétendument nouvelle. L’ ouvrage rassemble des études originales sur Leibniz, Wolff, Georg Friedrich Meier, Baumgarten, Bodmer, Breitinger, Gottsched et Sulzer, ainsi que des extraits de textes fondateurs de l’esthétique philosophique pour la première fois accessibles en français.
Les Employés
L'étude de Siegfried Kracauer sur les employés constitua au moment de sa parution en Allemagne, en 1930, un événement, ainsi qu'en témoignent les commentaires qui lui furent consacrés, dont celui de Walter Benjamin, inclus dans le présent volume. Résultat d'un " voyage d'exploration " dans le monde des employés de la capitale allemande en 1929, l'ouvrage, par son style, restitue une image concrète, sensible et pourtant empreinte d'ironie de leur vie, en même temps qu'il donne des aperçus de Berlin à la veille de la crise qui allait précipiter la fin de la République de Weimar. Ses qualités littéraires, unanimement reconnues, sont cependant pour Kracauer indissociables d'un e...
Methods and Approaches in Forest History
A companion to Forest History: International Studies on Socioeconomic and Forest Ecosystem Change which includes over 20 papers from the same conference held in Florence in 1998. This volume focuses on the different approaches and methods adopted in the study of forest history. The interdisciplinary nature of these studies is emphasized, bringing in the different perspectives of anthropologists, botanists, ecologists, foresters, historians, geneticists and geographers. This volume demonstrates the rich diversity of approaches and methods to forest history.
Exercises and Solutions in Statistical Theory
Exercises and Solutions in Statistical Theory helps students and scientists obtain an in-depth understanding of statistical theory by working on and reviewing solutions to interesting and challenging exercises of practical importance. Unlike similar books, this text incorporates many exercises that apply to real-world settings and provides much more thorough solutions. The exercises and selected detailed solutions cover from basic probability theory through to the theory of statistical inference. Many of the exercises deal with important, real-life scenarios in areas such as medicine, epidemiology, actuarial science, social science, engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, environmental hea...
Structures and Architecture
Although the disciplines of architecture and structural engineering have both experienced their own historical development, their interaction has resulted in many fascinating and delightful structures. To take this interaction to a higher level, there is a need to stimulate the inventive and creative design of architectural structures and to persua
Transnational Intellectual Networks
The university system, both in America and abroad, has always claimed a universal significance for its research and educational models. At the same time, many universities, particularly in Europe, have also claimed another role--as custodians of national culture. Transnational Intellectual Networks explores this apparent contradiction and its resulting intellectual tensions with illuminating essays that span the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century nationalization movements in Europe through the postwar era.
The Explanatory Power of Models
This book progressively works out a method of constructing models which can bridge the gap between empirical and theoretical research in the social sciences. It aims to improve the explanatory power of models. The issue is quite novel, and has benefited from a thorough examination of statistical and mathematical models, conceptual models, diagrams and maps, machines, computer simulations, and artificial neural networks.
The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain
This Handbook provides an overview of the archaeology of the later Middle Ages in Britain between AD 1066 and 1550. Chapters cover topics ranging from later medieval objects, human remains, archaeological science, standing buildings, and sites such as castles and monasteries, to the well-preserved relict landscapes which still survive.
Social Structures and Natural Systems
Trapped between the caricatured causalities of biological determinism and the sinister abdications of sociological relativism, socio-ecological interdisciplinarity stagnates. It has lost sight of the ambition of a long-term program and no longer works to conduct applied research on the concrete prerequisites for reliable cooperation, despite an accumulation of emergencies. The difficulty lies in the general and prolonged abandonment of necessary procedures under the influence of hidden philosophical presumptions. In the end, ecology, sociology, history, economics, agronomy, etc. are seriously handicapped by the absence of a common epistemology of comparative practice, an absence maintained by the dominant epistemology itself. Social Structures and Natural Systems seeks to demonstrate, with regard to social anthropology and ecology, a scientific compatibility of research subject to methodological requirements that are deductible from the conditions of the existence of science itself. All of this boils down to one observation: this book will be a success if, and only if, it becomes a beginning.
