Hope

This book provides a concise, interdisciplinary perspective on the emotion and practice of ‘hope'. Based on the idea that hope is a dream that we carry in different ways, the five chapters draw on the author’s original research and align it with literature on the sociology of culture and emotion, to explore the concept in relation to cultural and community practices and mental health. …

Games Without Frontiers?

This open access book focuses on how and why digital games and gambling are increasingly intertwined and asks “does this matter?” Looking at how “loot boxes” became the poster child for the convergence of gambling and gaming, Wardle traces how we got here. She argues that the intersection between gambling and gaming cultures has a long lineage, one that can be traced back throughout the…

Ludics

This book establishes play as a mode of humanistic inquiry with a profound effect on art, culture and society. Play is treated as a dynamic and relational modality where relationships of all kinds are forged and inquisitive interdisciplinary engagement is embraced. Play cultivates reflection, connection, and creativity, offering new epistemological directions for the humanities. With examples f…

Cultural Roads and Itineraries

This book provides the first synthetic review of the literature on cultural roads and itineraries, providing a template for developing typologies and clarity on existing research. It additionally develops a unique conceptual framework for understanding the social, political, ethical, and spatial dynamics behind cultural roads and itineraries. The book takes the discussion on cultural roads in t…

Science under Siege

Identifying scientism as religion’s secular counterpart, this collection studies contemporary contestations of the authority of science. These controversies suggest that what we are witnessing today is not an increase in the authority of science at the cost of religion, but a dual decline in the authorities of religion and science alike. This entails an erosion of the legitimacy of universall…

Progress in French Tourism Geographies

This book provides an overview of the recent progress in Francophone tourism geography. It focuses on the theoretical advances in social and cultural geography, whereby the symbolic dimensions of tourism and the creation of tourism worlds are key. It puts forward the tourist conceived as mobile, situated, skilled, reflexive inhabitant of places, which gives all its meaning to the expression “…

Militarization and the Global Rise of Paramilitary Culture

This edited book demonstrates a new multidimensional comprehension of the relationship between war, the military and civil society by exploring the global rise of paramilitary culture. Moving beyond binary understandings that inform the militarization of culture thesis and examining various national and cultural contexts, the collection outlines ways in which a process of paramilitarization is …

Andean Foodways

There is widespread acknowledgement among anthropologists, archaeologists, ethnobotanists, as well as researchers in related disciplines that specific foods and cuisines are linked very strongly to the formation and maintenance of cultural identity and ethnicity. Strong associations of foodways with culture are particularly characteristic of South American Andean cultures. Food and drink conve…

Hooligans, Ultras, Activists

This book is the first comprehensive attempt to identify the deeper causes that have shaped contemporary behaviour patterns and motivations among football fans in Poland. Fan culture in Poland has long been based on a distinctively grassroots, spontaneous movements that ruled out any cooperation with local authorities and sports organizations. The activity of supporter groups has regul…

Unlocking Social Theory with Popular Culture

This book demonstrates how pop culture examples can be used to demystify complex social theory. It provides tangible, metaphorical examples that shows how it is possible to "do philosophy" rather than subscribe to a theorist by showing that each theorist intersects and overlaps with others. The book is embedded in the literary theory that tapping into background knowledge is a key step in h…

A Sociology of Sound Technicians

If art, and especially music, has been framed in cultural sociology as a collective production relying on a variety of actors, technicians have been mostly framed as “support personnel” marginally impacting the meaning of a cultural production. This book analyzes sound technicians as technical intermediaries. They are autonomous actors of cultural production, and contribute in various ways …

Social Digitalisation

This book shows how many previously contingent social processes have gradually been re-organised and transformed into entangled processes of ‘discontinuance’ and ‘continuance’ through the implementation of digital logic. Together with the necessary co-evolution of our collective digital literacy, this persistent process of transformation throughout modernity is theorised here as one of …

MARINE MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS, THIRD EDITION

Edition

3rd

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-367-18356-1

Collation

xvi, 418 p. : ill. ; 28 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

577.6 Mun m

FOOD SECURITY AND NUTRITION: Utilizing Undervalued Food Plants

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-

ISBN/ISSN

978-1-032-73655-6

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xxv, 426 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

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-

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641.3 Foo f

Cultural Studies Methodology and Political Strategy

This book is an intervention into cultural studies' theoretical and methodological foundations. It addresses a crisis in conjunctural analysis: that there is no theorized method for conjunctural analysis as it pertains to recognizing a conjunctural shift or the emergence of an organic crisis. This crisis is connected to the belief that the definition of the conjuncture is ambiguous in Gramsci�…

Cultural Change in East-Central European and Eurasian Spaces

This book weaves together research on cultural change in Central Europe and Eurasia: notably, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine. Examining massive cultural shifts in erstwhile state-communist nations since 1989, the authors analyze how the region is moving in both freeing and restrictive directions. They map out these directions in such arenas as LGBTQ prot…

Domesticity on Display

This book examines postsocialist transformations reflected in urban middle-class domestic spaces and in museums dedicated to socialism in Romania. It focuses on the significance and circulation of porcelain and crystal sets and ornaments during late socialism and after 1989, following the experiences of consumers, workers in the glassware and porcelain industry, and artists. By tracing the valu…

HANDBOOK of LABORATORY MODEL SYSTEMS for MICROBIAL ECOSYSTEMS Volume II

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

0-8493-2974-4

Collation

288 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

576.072 Wim h

CRC HANDBOOK OF Mariculture: Crustacean Aquaculture, 2ND EDITION, VOLUME I

Edition

2nd

ISBN/ISSN

0-8493-0255-2

Collation

544 p. : 28 cm

Series Title

CRC handbook of mariculture -- v. 1, CRC handbook of mariculture (2nd ed.) -- v. 1.

Call Number

639.8 Crc c

PUBLICATIONS HANDBOOK & STYLE MANUAL

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

0-89118-096-6

Collation

92 p. ; 23 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

808.0666 Pub p

PUBLICATIONS HANDBOOK & STYLE MANUAL

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

0-89118-138-3

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vii, 81 p. ; 22 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

808.0666 Pub p

PUBLICATIONS HANDBOOK & STYLE MANUAL

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

-

Collation

vii, p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

630 Pub p

Aquaculture Marketing Handbook

Edition

1

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-8138-1604-3

Collation

xii, 271 hlm.; 26 cm.

Series Title

-

Call Number

664.940 688 Eng a

PLANT PROPAGATION by TISSUE CULTURE: Handbook and Directory of Commericial La…

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

0-9509325-0-7

Collation

vii, 708 p. ; 26 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

631.52 Geo p

Kreativitas, Kebudayaan dan Perkembangan Iptek

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

979-8433-06-8

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xi, 180 hlm.; 21 cm.

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-

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306 Sup k

Basics of Wildlife Health Care and Management

The book provides basic understanding of the various topics of wildlife which will be useful for biologist, zoologist, veterinarians working in forest ,zoos or at field level where they use to get wild animals for post mortem or for treatment. It also provides helpful information to the forest officers, zoo managers and protected area managers for critical care management and for doing needful …

Feline Orthopaedics

Cats are not referred to specialists as frequently as dogs, meaning the general practitioner must routinely treat cats that have been involved in road traffic accidents and other musculoskeletal trauma. This book is the first of its kind to provide a practical and user-friendly guide to feline orthopaedics. With a new author team, led by RCVS Specialist in Small Animal Surgery (Orthopaedics) an…

Institutionalized Language Planning

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

90-279-7567-1

Collation

203 p. ; 23 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

428.007 Sau i

Impact of Climate Change on Hydrological Cycle, Ecosystem, Fisheries and Food…

Climate change has emerged as the most pressing global challenge of the 21st century and it has a dramatic effect on natural ecosystems and environment. Intelligent mitigation strategies to minimise climate change impacts can result in advanced, novel technologies; healthier aquatic ecosystems and higher food security and well-being for humans. The book includes 45 Chapters by expert authors, c…

Dalbergia sissoo : Biology, Ecology and Sustainable Agroforestry

Dalbergia sissoo (Shisham) is a perennial tree species native to the Asian subcontinent. It is an economically significant tree for its value in forestry, agroforestry, and horticulture. The high-quality timber imparts this tree species a significant commercial value. Besides valuable timber, it also exhibits medicinal, industrial, and agroforestry allied attributes. This tree has been introduc…