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The Great Acceleration
The Earth has entered a new age—the Anthropocene—in which humans are the most powerful influence on global ecology. Since the mid-twentieth century, the accelerating pace of energy …
Renoir, Monet, Gauguin: Images of a Floating World (Bilingual edition)
From Renoir to Monet to Gauguin – French Impressionism was not only appreciated by Western collectors at the beginning of the 20th century – it also found an early following in …
Mass Communication and American Social Thought
This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on mass communication and society and how this …
Health, Disease, and Illness
In the 1850s, "Drapetomania" was the medical term for a disease found among black slaves in the United States. The main symptom was a strange desire to run away from their masters. …
Politics and Aesthetics
In this book the influential philosopher Jacques Rancière, in discussion with Peter Engelmann, explores the enduring connection between politics and aesthetics, arguing that …
Crisis in Global Ethics and the Future of Global Governance
Origami Odyssey
Renowned origami artist Peter Engel first astounded origami enthusiasts and the lay person alike with his popular Origami from Angelfish to Zen. Since that book, published in 1989, …
Don't Take It Seriously
'Don't take it seriously' is a quote from the 'Erasmus Mundus song', written by Roger Van den Bergh at the occasion of the Erasmus Mundus recognition of the European Master in Law …
Democracy and Community
The concept of community is tainted by the events of the twentieth century, frequently appropriated by totalitarian regimes for the purposes of exclusion and oppression. In this …
Montageplanung - Effizient Und Marktgerecht
Estimating Spoken Dialog System Quality with User Models
Spoken dialog systems have the potential to offer highly intuitive user interfaces, as they allow systems to be controlled using natural language. However, the complexity inherent …